- St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 20172017
Published: 20172017
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 2, 2023
Toward the light
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Most of us no longer celebrate the ancient festivals, but many of us - countless thousands - have been asserting our own desire and determination to create light in the darkness by going out into the streets and making our voices heard. This issue of Other Voices looks at challenges we face, asks questions about what we should do, and looks to the past, as well as what is happening now, for ideas about how to move forward.
- Second Nakba; Same Israeli Lies; Same Western Narrative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing inside Gaza and yet, just as during the first 'Nakba,' Israel's lies and deceptions dominate the West's media and political narrative.
- Deep Throat Does LA: 50 Years of Sex, Cinema, Politics & Controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- IDF Knew Real Hamas HQ While Lying About al-Shifa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
While telling the world that Hamas HQ was under al-Shifa Hospital, the IDF had already found the actual command center 8.5km away.
- Israel's War on Hospitals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel is carrying out a campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. This campaign includes destroying all of Gaza's hospitals. The message Israel is sending is clear. Nowhere is safe. If you stay you die. Israel is not attacking hospitals in Gaza because they are 'Hamas command centers.' Israel is systematically and deliberately destroying Gaza's medical infrastructure as part of a scorched earth campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable and escalate a humanitarian crisis. It intends to force 2.3 million Palestinians over the border into Egypt where they will never return.
- Doctor suspended from U of O residency after pro-Palestinian social media posts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A petition is calling for the reinstatement of a doctor who says he was suspended from his medical residency at the University of Ottawa after posting pro-Palestinian messages on social media that were also critical of Israel. Dr. Yipeng Ge has posted multiple times on social media supporting the Palestinian cause, including by criticizing what he calls "apartheid upon Palestinian people" and "settler colonialism."
- Israel and its allies are repurposing the goals and lies of 1948 -- in Gaza in 2023
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- US Shared Location of Aid Groups With Israel. Israel Bombed Them Anyway.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
POLITICO reports that the US has been sharing with Israel the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza in an attempt to prevent strikes on the sites. But Israel has been bombing them anyway.
- Why does Israel target Palestinian hospitals?
Targeting hospitals is psychological warfare Israel can get away with with the US's tacit approval, say analysts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Six weeks into its war on Gaza, Israel's attacks on hospitals have emerged almost as a motif of the conflict, even though refugee camps, schools and churches have not been spared either. At least 21 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals -- including the strip's solo cancer centre -- are completely out of service, and others have been damaged and are short of medicines and essential supplies.
- No Room at the Inn for Roger Waters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The rocker's Buenos Aires and Montevideo hotel rooms were canceled because he opposes genocide in Gaza, so he must fly in from Brazil each night for his concerts.
- From Gaza With Rage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
I have always signed my letters to supporters and friends from around the world with these words, "From Gaza with Love." But today I'm writing with a rage that no mother should know, a rage of desperation and disbelief about what is being allowed to happen. I still feel love for everyone in Palestine, and people who have stood in support and solidarity of our shared struggle. But please, take action. And then do more. We must stop this genocide.
- The War Machine Wants You to Condemn Hamas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The act of condemnation has been cynically weaponised, writes Jonathan Cook. The aim is not to show solidarity with Israelis. It's to fan the flames of hatred to rationalise crimes against Palestinians.
- Activating the Genocide Convention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
There is no doubt that Israel's actions amount to genocide. Numerous international law experts have said so and genocidal intent has been directly expressed by numerous Israeli ministers, generals and public officials. I can see no room to doubt whatsoever that Israel's current campaign of bombing of civilians and of the deprivation of food, water and other necessities of life to Palestinians amounts to genocide.
- ADL Data on the rise of anti-semitism doesn't add up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A new, highly publicized report from the Anti-Defamation League claims that anti-Semitic incidents across the United States have skyrocketed by more than 400%. But these ADL numbers do not add up -- unless one equates opposition to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza with hatred of Jews.
- Karriere mit links
Warum die Krise der Linkspartei auch eine Krise des Parteiensystems ist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Canada is a wholly owned subsidiary of Benjamin Netanyahu and company
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
It is clear that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his diplomats care more about satisfying Israel's requests than attending to the dire circumstances of hundreds of Canadian citizens in Gaza.
- Israeli Minister: Nuking Gaza Is An Option
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel's far-right Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said on November 5, 2023 that one of Israel's options against the Hamas Movement was to drop a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip.
- Gaza 2023: Dehumanization and humanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A hyper-militarized state, with a 75-year track record of ethnic cleansing, extreme violence, and violating international law with total impunity, is now crossing the final red line. We are witnessing genocide.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 4, 2023
Gaza: Dehumanization and humanity
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
On Israel's genocidal attack on Gaza, October-November 2023.
- A Dangerous Conflation
An open letter from Jewish writers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A group of Jewish writers drafted this letter after seeing an old argument gain new power: the claim that critiquing Israel is antisemitic. The writers share this letter in solidarity with those who continue to speak out in support of Palestinian freedom.
- What the BBC fails to tell you about October 7 [2023]
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be repeating so credulously the Israeli military's account of that day.
- No Country Has a "Right to Exist"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
No country has a 'right to exist.' After all, what is a country -- or, in more precise terminology, a state -- other than a political arrangement? And why would any political arrangement be deemed as having 'rights,' much less a supposed right to never be altered or cancelled?
- The Genocidal Language Behind Israel's Intent in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Long before October 7, 2023, the Zionist-Israeli discourse was always that of racism, dehumanization, erasure and, at times, outright genocide.
- October 7 testimonies reveal Israel's military 'shelling' Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel's military received orders to shell Israeli homes and even their own bases as they were overwhelmed by Hamas militants on October 7. How many Israeli citizens said to have been 'burned alive' were actually killed by friendly fire?
- Brief History of Israel-Palestine Conflict
Teach-In on Gaza, Israel, and Hamas
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- From the Gazan Laboratory to the World's Borders
A Conversation with Jeff Halper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The acclaimed Israeli author and anthropologist explains how Israel has become an enforcer for fortress Global North, selling systems of control first developed in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
- Germany's Ban on Public Solidarity With Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
While other European countries are witnessing mass protests in solidarity with Palestine, Germany has been policing such scenes off its streets.
- The fall of Scientific American
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
When its articles touch on questions of gender and biological sex, Scientific American seems to have abandoned objective facts entirely, in favour of trans-activist pseudoscience.
- Israel is caught lying time and again. And yet we never learn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Disinformation over the blast at Gaza's al-Ahli hospital worked as planned, taking the focus off the victims and lifting pressure on Israel to stop its rampage.
- Ontario NDP kicks Hamilton MPP Sarah Jama from caucus after controversial Gaza comments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Ontario New Democrats have kicked Hamilton Centre MPP Sarah Jama out of caucus, nearly two weeks after she posted a controversial statement in support of Palestinians. NDP Leader Marit Stiles said in a statement Monday that while the caucus allows different viewpoints, some of Jama's actions since making her comments "have contributed to unsafe work environments for staff."
- Israel's ambassador pushes to shut down pro-Palestinian activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel wants Canada to criminalize growing displays of solidarity with Palestinians.
- The Maidan Massacre, Censorship & Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Natylie Baldwin interviews Ivan Katchanovski, a Canadian-Ukrainian professor whose research focuses on the Ukraine coup of 2014 and the killing that year of protesters in Kiev.
- Ontario doctor suspended, his address published after pro-Palestinian social media posts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
An Ontario doctor has been suspended from his job, threatened and had his address shared online after he posted pro-Palestinian views on social media.
- A Reading List for the Delhi Police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
When they raided the Tricontinental Research Services' office in early October, investigators took, among other things, 12 dossiers featured here. Vijay Prashad recommends they study them all.
- Israel's Culture of Deceit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.
- Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The Electronic Intifada is now able to publish the entire interview with Yasmin Porat, the Kibbutz Be'eri survivor who told Israeli radio that Israeli security forces 'undoubtedly' killed a large number of their own civilians following the Hamas assault on 7 October 2023.
- Western media's parroting of official lies is paving way to genocide in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Disinformation campaigns are one of the chief battlefields in any war - something any serious journalist is only too aware of. And western powers and their allies have an appalling track record of lying to their own medias.
- Canada's complicity with crimes against humanity in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Melanie Joly traveled to Israel to support its genocidal policies in Gaza. The trip will go down as one of the more shameful moments in Canada's odious anti-Palestinian history.
- Letter From the Gazan Prison
Gaza Is a Prison Under Siege. This Is My Letter to the World Outside.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Ahmed Abu Artema, a founder of the Great March of Return, on facing Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza.
- List of war crimes and crimes qualifying as genocide committed by Israel in Gaza since 7th October 2023
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Defenders of Israel's bombing and invasion of Gaza have challenged me to offer a 'chapter-and-verse' list of war crimes that Israel has committed since the Hamas Offensive of 7th October. Here is an indicative, but not exhaustive, list.
- What the media forgets to tell you about Israel and Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Ignore the fake news. Israel isn't defending itself. It's enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
- On Western media and the erasure of Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The Palestinian struggle brings to the forefront the colonial relations that underpin today's world, and that the West, and its media, work tirelessly to hide.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 14, 2023
Fading to Silence?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Fading to silence, as well as the more active and deliberate silencing of dissenting views, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
- A bookstore moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
When the world seems too much to handle, as it does these days, I sometimes seek solace in a bookstore.
- Fascism in the West to Enable Genocide in Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The UK and the US are both sending military assistance to Israel to commit a calculated and deliberate act of genocide, which is already underway.
- History of the Gaza Strip
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Maha Nassar provides historical context to the current violence in the densely populated and besieged enclave.
- Lawless in Gaza: Why the West Backs Israel No Matter What
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
As Western politicians line up to cheer on Israel as it starves and bombs Gaza's civilians, it's important to understand how we reached this point -- and what it means for the future.
- The Blood of Gaza Is on the West's Hands as Much as Israel's
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel is on the rampage again and Gaza's population is facing a quiet, slow path to erasure. The ones funding it and enabling it are the US and its European allies.
- West lets Israel get away with genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
As the world stands aside, preparing to applaud genocide, the entire structure of the so-called post-World War II rules-based order is being reduced to rubble.
- Why isn't cheering Israel's bombing of civilians a hate crime?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
During its decade and a half siege, Israel's military has killed more than 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Over the past four days the nuclear armed state has killed over 2,500 Palestinians, including 260 children. Alongside its onslaught on Gaza, Israel has also bombed Lebanon, Syria and Egypt over the past 48 hours. Yet it's those who have been rallying against Canada's contribution to the racist, colonial enterprise who are being declared criminals by crazed politicians and supporters of the apartheid state.
- The Gaza Ghetto Uprising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
From the Warsaw Ghetto uprising to the Gaza Ghetto uprising, the basic situation is the same: If half-starving people with no clean water or the ability to travel outside of their ghetto launch any kind of uprising, the obvious context is the fact that they were under siege, living in a walled ghetto, prevented from importing the things they need to survive and prevented from traveling. This is the obvious reason for any people living in such conditions to rise up against their occupying power. But instead, we are fed a narrative that begins with the ghetto uprising, without any explanation for the basic nature of the situation, that is, that an occupying army is forcing people to live and starve in a walled ghetto.
- Now We Have Your Attention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
There have been decades of photos of dead Palestinian women and children, and kids being beaten, humilated and imprisoned by Israeli soldiers. The historic killing rate in this 'conflict' has been fairly consistent at about 40:1.
- Palestinians Speak Israel's Language
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Israel follows the colonial playbook. Death for death. Atrocity for atrocity. But it is always the occupier who initiates this macabre dance and trades piles of corpses for higher piles of corpses.
- We're facing unprecedented horror. Why is Biden adding fuel to the fire?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
With the climate in Israel-Palestine reviving the fears of May 2021, the U.S. should be preventing further massacres, not allowing Israel to take revenge.
- Woke and war-crazed: Why Western liberals support Ukraine's atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Being compelled to believe untruths, and indeed obvious untruths which you know in your heart are untrue, and then living your life as if these untruths are true, can have a morally corrosive effect and prime you to conform with terrible crimes.
- Our job is to oppose the U.S.-NATO Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The U.S.-NATO empire is the main enemy for those of us who live in that empire. That empire is far and away the main enemy of peace, and of working people, in the world today.
- Resistance to Ukraine occupation good, Palestine bad: politicians
Jewish suffering matters to Canadian politicians. Palestinian suffering doesn't.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Soon after the resistance broke through their cage in Gaza, the leaders of Canada's four main federal parties condemned the Palestinians. The same politicians who cheer on resistance to Russia's invasion of Ukraine denounce Palestinian fighters who captured Israeli tanks, soldiers and bases, all instruments of an illegal ongoing occupation of United Nations recognized Palestinian territory and the colonial blockade of Gaza.
- War as an 'Investment': The Bizarre Business-Speak of Mass Killing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Did you know the Russia-Ukraine War is a great 'investment' for the United States? A terrific opportunity to kill lots of Russians and to destroy lots of their military equipment at a relatively cheap cost to us? War as an 'investment' truly symbolizes the moral bankruptcy of conventional discourse in the U.S. political mainstream. Instead of war being a calamity, a catastrophe, a realm of death and destruction, dare I say even a mortal sin of grievous evil, we're told that instead it's an investment that's paying dividends, especially in that growth stock known as Ukraine.
- Define 'Nazi': Western media muddies history to cover up Canada's SS scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
"Fighting against the USSR didn't necessarily make you a Nazi," Politico says. Maybe. But Yaroslav Hunka definitely was one.
- The Many Lessons of Ukraine War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Combatting Russia to the last Ukrainian was always an odious strategy.
- Why Mass Movements Fail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The wave of global popular protests that erupted in 2010 and lasted a decade were extinguished, meaning new tactics and strategies are required, as Vincent Bevins explains in his book If We Burn.
- No 'End of History' in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Francis Fukuyama's triumphalist post-Cold War vision of liberal democracy - published in 1989 - had a major blindspot. It omitted history.
- Honored Nazi Exposes Canada's Longstanding Ukraine Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
By celebrating a Waffen-SS volunteer as a 'hero,' Canada's Liberal Party highlighted a longstanding policy that has seen Ottawa train fascist militants in Ukraine while welcoming in thousands of post-war Nazi SS veterans.
- I Was the Only U.S. Official Imprisoned Over the Torture Program - Because I Opposed It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The only person associated with the CIA's global torture program who was prosecuted and imprisoned was the man who blew the whistle on it - John Kiriakou.
- UK and Israel: Has the fightback against weaponised antisemitism begun?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Jews in the Labour party and academics are finally exposing the UK establishment’s smear campaign to silence criticism of Israel and destroy the left.
- I've been cancelled for standing up to racial identity politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
An education conference has disinvited me because my presence would make speakers feel 'unsafe'.
- The Need To Replace The Existing U.S.-Government-Controlled Web
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The U.S. Government controls the Web; and this means that it also indirectly controls the news-media.
- US Can't Deal with Defeat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability -- and ease -- of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror.
- Big Tech must not be judge, jury and executioner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
YouTube's clampdown on Russell Brand is an affront to due process.
- Only women can get pregnant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The GMC and the NHS are promoting gender pseudo-science. The idea that men can also get pregnant, or have periods and go through the menopause, is the sort of bonkers thing you might expect to hear from a students' union, not from respected medical professionals.
- Zelensky's terror team: Why the West looks the other way when Ukraine's secret murder squad kills journalists and activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Threats and tactics that would be instantly labeled unacceptable against any other country get a pass when applied to Russians.
- The Slow Motion Execution of Julian Assange
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Hyping Ukraine Counteroffensive, US Press Chose Propaganda Over Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
It has been clear for some time that US corporate news media have explicitly taken a side on the Ukraine War. This role includes suppressing relevant history of the lead-up to the war, attacking people who bring up that history as 'conspiracy theorists', accepting official government pronouncements at face value, and promoting an overly rosy picture of the conflict in order to boost morale. For most of the war, most of the US coverage has been as pro-Ukrainian as Ukraine's own media, now consolidated under the Zelenskyy government.
- Ukraine's worst enemies are those who demand Russia's strategic defeat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
There are reasons for Libya's 'chaotic', 'dysfunctional' response to the disaster. And to identify them, we need to look closer to home.
- 'Empty shelves with absolutely no books': Students, parents question school board's library weeding process
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
In a mindless outbreak of wokeness, a major school board removes books from library shelves en masse -- not to replace them with new books, but to replace them with -- nothing.
- Georgia's RICO Law Is in the News -- but Its Use to Silence Protesters Gets a Pass
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Georgia’s RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) law, modeled on the federal statute designed to attack mob bosses, has been in the news a lot, ever since Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis used Georgia's law to charge former President Donald Trump and his associates with attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
- NATO Now Acknowledges That Western Media Lie About Ukraine's War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
On September 7th [2023], NATO's Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, acknowledged that the war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, like Western 'news'-media say, but much earlier, in 2014, and that Russia's invasion in 2022 resulted from NATO's efforts to bring Ukraine into NATO and to bring NATO's military forces closer to Russia's borders.
- Will Ukraine's Western Apologists Finally Admit the Truth?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Western political leaders and their media sycophants ignore mounting evidence about the corrupt, brutal, and authoritarian nature of Ukraine's government. Ukraine is now a 'democracy' in which the press is strictly censored, opposition media banned entirely, opposition political parties are outlawed, a longstanding major church is being harassed and silenced, and torture and assassinations have become routine.
- Surrogacy: Human right, or just wrong?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Whether it is altruistic or for-profit, surrogacy is exploitation -- it turns the female body into a commodity for hire. Those gushing about the joy surrogacy brings to the lives of commissioning parents, and claiming it is a 'human right' to have a biological child, should take some time to consider the many wrongs being done to the women used as surrogates.
- The EU's best weapon against free speech isn't working
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The European Union has just realized that it can't rule the internet with an iron fist by throwing around the 'Kremlin propaganda' label.
- Progressive virtue, performed in public
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Wokeness, however it is defined, has more in common with a religious mindset than a political project, says Ian Buruma.
- Southfront blocked by U.S.-controlled global Internet supervisor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
On the night of 18 August [2023], the "international domain name registry" blocked southfront.org without any warning or explanation. Despite the fact that this organisation has been formally independent since 1998, it is actually controlled by the US Department of Commerce. What they have done is an unprecedented action in the history of modern information society. This is the American way of democracy, freedom of speech and the rule of law.
- Gofundme freezes Grayzone fundraiser 'due to some external concerns'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Another attack on left media.
- Forest carbon offsets, supposedly worth billions, have no climate benefit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
REDD projects combine false emission claims, worthless credits and human rights abuses.
- Blowing up pipelines won't save the planet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A review of the film "How to Blow up a Pipeline" that is critical of the film's message: The review argues that sabotage may be exciting and personally satisfying … but it can’t defeat capital’s colossal power.
- YouTube bans Scott Ritter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
YouTube has terminated the account of former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter and deleted all of his videos on the platform.
- The 'hanging libraries' of Nigeria: How a book drive is exciting pupils
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The quality of basic education is on a decline in Nigerian public schools. One volunteer book drive wants to halt that.
- JK Rowling scrubbed from Harry Potter exhibit over trans stance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle has removed any references to Harry Potter author JK Rowling from an exhibition celebrating the fictional wizard.
- Myths and reality about the Ukraine war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
How one views the war depends very much on the starting point of one's analysis.
- Forgotten Victims of America's Class War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Once the jobs left and Democrats abandoned working men and women, people became desperate in the author's hometown in Maine - as in tens of thousands of white, rural enclaves across the country.
- Modern Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Trying to collect on an insurance claim -- and finding it impossible to know what insurance company one is dealing with. This is just a small personal story, but it seems to illustrate how impossible it has become for ordinary people to interact effectively with the hypercapitalism that orders so much of our lives.
- The Lies that Launched Black Lives Matter (and other "movements")
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Beware the Righteous
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
There is nothing more dangerous that the inability to see that it is reasonable for others to have a different view or interest.
- 'Africa is fighting, Africa will win': How Soviet art supported the decolonization of the 'Dark Continent'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The liberation of Africa from the oppression of Western colonizers in the 1960s became one of the main themes of Soviet propaganda posters.
- NATO does not, and never did, 'defend' democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Its record demonstrates that NATO is not a consensual, popular alliance to defend democracy. NATO is not only a hazard to peace, it is also a threat to democracy.
- Opposing War: No Disclaimers Required
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
My own opinion on US meddling in Russian/Ukrainian relations doesn't depend on an assessment of whether the invasion was provoked, unprovoked, justified, or unjustified, so I don't need any such disclaimers.
- How Would Canadians Perceive Russian Troops On Their Border?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The Canadian government's plan to double its semi-permanent military force on Russia's border ratchets up tensions that should be reduced. It highlights the West's betrayal of promises made to Soviet officials and Canada's addiction to stationing troops in Europe.
- 'A Death Sentence For People And Ecosystems': The Climate Emergency, Governments And The Public Enemy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Media Lens' reporting on the climate crisis, the refusal of governments and corporations to take accountability, and the failure of the established media to address these rising climate issues.
- Has Western Democracy Now Failed?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Keir Starmer's determination to use his refusal to alleviate child poverty as the issue with which to demonstrate his macho Thatcherite credentials, has provided one of those moments when blurred perceptions crystallise. A Labour government in the UK under Starmer will bring no significant changes in economic or foreign policy and will make no difference whatsoever to the lives of working class people.
- NATO isn't defending Ukraine. It's stabbing it in the back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The US and its allies are sustaining the very war they now cite as grounds for disqualifying Kyiv from Nato membership.
- The Ever-Expanding Definition of Trauma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
In diluting the word's meaning mental health professionals are creating a generation of victims.
- The Most Massive Attack Against Free Speech in United States History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Sometime since January 2021, Biden administration policymakers decided that they were infallible -- or a 'close enough for government work' level of infallible. They claimed a divine right to suppress the online posts and comments of conservatives and anyone else who had a bad attitude towards federal power.
- 'Punch a TERF': the violent misogyny of the trans movement
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Woke identitarians have become apologists for violence against women.
- The Pseudoscience of Critical Race Theory
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First Published: 2023
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Critical Race Theory is not a hard science. It's not even a soft science.
- Norman Finkelstein: A National Treasure?
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First Published: 2023
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Among the most dangerous people in the US are those who actually once fervently believed the foundational myths of the country's social and political order.
- There is nothing progressive about identity politics
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When did supporting colour-blindness, gay rights and women's liberation become a right-wing position?
- They Lied About Afghanistan & Iraq; Now They're Lying About Ukraine
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First Published: 2023
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The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war.
- Aussie cops paid $1300 to identify as 'gender neutral' -- Teen girls in UK say NO to 'trans' lies -- And yes, they ARE coming for your children
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First Published: 2023
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- South Korea: the 'Land of Morning Calm' is working itself to death
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South Korea is often held up as a model of modern technological capitalism. But daily life for many South Koreans is much harsher than the glossy image projected by its popular culture.
- Toxic spills threaten marine ecosystem
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The X-Press Pearl sank off Sri Lanka two years ago, releasing a toxic cocktail of chemicals and plastics into the sea, the biggest disaster. Only tough regulations can prevent a repeat.
- Water is more than a common good
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As the ready availability of fresh water is threatened around the world, attention has focused on minimising water use. But that obscures how deeply political the issue of universal access to water is.
- Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story
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Without historical context, which has been buried by corporate media, it's impossible to understand Ukraine.
- TRC Chair Murray Sinclair: Genocide Denier
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The purpose of the denialism canard is to end questioning and to patrol what knowledge we're entitled to possess. Even the chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is a genocide denier according to definition now being used.
- The Enemy Is Not a Human Being
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There's a crucial, overlooked aspect of Daniel Ellsberg's legacy that's very much worth saluting, you might say: his transformation from a believer in the Vietnam war to a horrified opponent of it, ready to risk prison time to bring classified truth about its pointlessness into public awareness.
- Mourning a home filled with memories, destroyed by Israel's army
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Nablus, occupied West Bank -- rubble, destroyed window frames, remnants of a couch shrouded in dust and debris -- that is all that was left of the 130sq-metre home of the al-Jouri family. Overnight, Israeli soldiers, backed by armoured vehicles and bulldozers, surrounded the three-bedroom apartment in Nablus, filling it with explosives and blowing it to smithereens.
- Killing The Story - Bakhmut, Nick Cohen, Kakhovka, Nord Stream and Piers Morgan
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- A petri dish for fascism: How Ukraine has become a magnet for Western neo-Nazis
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Ukraine is a mecca for some of the most odious people on earth. What sort of threat does this pose to their home countries?
- Leaks reveal FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their info
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First Published: 2023
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal.
- Neo-Nazis in Ukraine? No, Yes, No-Yes
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A New York Times' reporter's job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia and marching through Kiev in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think.
- British police detain journalist Kit Klarenberg, interrogate him about The Grayzone
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First Published: 2023
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British 'counter-terror' police detained journalist Kit Klarenberg upon his arrival at London's Luton airport and subjected him to an extended interrogation about his political views and reporting for The Grayzone.
- The Democratic Party's Revenge on Matt Taibbi
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First Published: 2023
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Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.
- Underexposure Exposed
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If you want people to think that a country resistant to US leadership is a festering doomscape, just underexpose the hell out of your photographs.
- Journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Crimea
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At the end of April of this year [2023], the two of us ventured together to Russia. We went with the purpose of fact-finding and also to make a point that we do not believe that Russia should be isolated from the world through sanctions and travel bans.
- The War in Ukraine Was Provoked
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The Biden administration's insistence on NATO enlargement has made Ukraine a victim of misconceived and unachievable U.S. military aspirations.
- 'Apartheid' Designation Ignored as Israel Kills Children in Gaza Again
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Greene looked at coverage of Israel's bombings of the Gaza Strip from the Washington Post, New York Times and CNN, and didn't find a single reference to Israel as an apartheid state, despite this being the consensus in the human rights community. Greene criticizes the lack of coverage and distortion of events perpetuated by the media.
- The Attack on Our Libraries
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- One foreign government openly interferes in Canadian politics
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Amidst widespread anxiety over foreign interference in this country's politics, Israel's embassy recently mobilized its domestic lobby to strategize on shaping Canadian policy. The absence of media outrage, or even a little embarrassment, speaks loudly about which foreign governments are allowed to ‘interfere' in Canadian politics.
- An Immigrant's Ode to Canada
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First Published: 2023
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A survivor of Sri Lanka's civil war who found safety and prosperity on Canadian shores wonders why his well-to-do white neighbours seem so fixated on racism.
- Palestinian photographer brings towns lost in Nakba to life on walls of refugee camps
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As soon as you enter Madaris street in Balata refugee camp, to the east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, your gaze is drawn to the right-hand wall of the street - now adorned with 30 depictions of villages and towns that were purged of Palestinian residents during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. In 17 refugee camps across the West Bank, Palestinian photographer Ahmed al-Bazz has brought to life images of historic Palestine to the descendants of those who were expelled during the Nakba.
- Why the Agressor in Ukraine is America - Not Russia
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- Have you had an 'Ojibway taco'? If not, act quick - Toronto is losing a cafe devoted to powwow fare
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Pow Wow Cafe is Closing
- US Seizes Web Domains Related to Hezbollah
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The U.S. government has seized over a dozen web domains belonging to the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah and others. The U.S. Department of Justice said that the web domains were operated by persons or groups who had been sanctioned by the U.S. government.
- Israel's Latest Hasbara Scheme Enlists High School Students as Trolls Against Palestine
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First Published: 2023
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In April, Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry launched a program training high school students to boost the country’s image online. However, as global awareness grows of Israel’s human rights violations, the government is turning teenagers into its own personal troll army to combat the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s efforts on social media.
- Behind the Wall of East-Germany
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With more than 300,000 objects, German Democratic Republic museum in Berlion probably has the world’s largest collection of GDR artifacts and historical items. The wealth of objects at the museum is due to the enormous willingness of former citizens of the GDR to donate items that they still had in their possession.
- Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know
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First Published: 2023
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A citizen's starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel
- The Debt Ceiling Debate Is A Massive Deception Against The Public
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Opinion piece on the U.S. Congress imposing successive ceilings on the national debt. The piece criticizes the government, media and academics for refusing to admit or consider tax increases as a viable alternative.
- The Guardian's 'Anti-Semitism' Incident
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With the row over its cartoon, the newspaper that helped oust Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party has briefly found that what you sow, you can reap.
- Julian Assange: A Fight We Must Not Lose
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The detention and persecution of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press.
- Things Fall Apart
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- A big passion for little things
After 42 years, the Moncton Miniature and Doll Club closes its tiny doors
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- Jewish doctor denied $500 payment after refusing to promise Arkansas he won't boycott Israel
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The state of Arkansas is refusing to pay a Jewish doctor for a talk he delivered at a public university because he declined to promise not to boycott Israel.
- From Yellow Journalism to China Bashing, the Media's Enduring Role in Promoting War
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- AOC gloats over 'deplatforming' of Tucker Carlson
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson was fired on Monday, eliciting cheers from the Pentagon and numerous public figures. New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrated Carlson's 'deplatforming', saying "Deplatforming works, and it is important and there you go. Good things can happen. Couldn't have happened to a better guy."
- Tucker Carlson's firing reveals how afraid the media is of independent journalists
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While the left is busy hating on Tucker Carlson, and not without reason, it is missing the bigger picture.
- Hypocrisy and war
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The Ukraine war is a graphic case study of the pitfalls of playing the geopolitical game.
- If Lula can call for peace in Ukraine, why not Canada's left?
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Progressive governments are rejecting pleas to send more weapons to Ukraine. Canada should follow suit and push for peace talks.
- John Pilger's Guide to Propaganda
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Journalist, author and filmmaker John Pilger, who has spent decades studying governments’ nefariousness, tells Katie Halper how to spot propaganda.
- Western media suddenly hates Twitter's 'government-funded' labels
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Establishment outlets were perfectly fine with the social media scarlet letter when it was handed to their 'undesirable' counterparts. Recently, some media outlets have quit Twitter over what they see as unjust labeling, which leads to the question 'where was their outrage when the same rules were being applied to their competition?'
- Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For 'Weaponized' Free Speech
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The Biden administration's Department of Justice has just charged four members of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) for conspiring to act as agents of Russia by using speech and political action in ways the DOJ says 'weaponized' the First Amendment rights of Americans.
- Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For 'Weaponized' Free Speech
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The U.S. government is charging that members of the African People's Socialist Party 'weaponized' the First Amendment to publish 'propaganda' and promote 'dissenion." What that means is that they engaged in speech and political activism that the U.S. government does not like.
- Snowden and Texeira: Ten Years of Disaster
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First Published: 2023
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The idea that the legacy media in any way serves the truth or the public interest is now completely buried. The legacy media serves the state, and the state serves the billionaires. It is a shame the Washington Post, New York Times, Guardian and Bellingcat each had no interest whatsoever in the journalistic pursuit of the truth behind this extraordinary episode. We live entirely in security states: there is no doubt about it.
- The Case of Steven Donziger: Supreme Court Liberals Help Turn Judges into Prosecutors
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Criticizes the decision from seven of the nine justices of the Supreme Court of the United States to decline to hear Steven Donziger’s appeal of a criminal contempt decision involving his representation of Indigenous Ecuadorians against Chevron.
- Disorder is the Order of the Day
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America suffers a dangerous leadership vacuum. This is not civil war. This is something else. But what?
- How the trans census fooled Britain
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Tribal speech codes breed linguistic compliance.
- Mughals, RSS, evolution: Outrage as India edits school textbooks
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India's right-wing government removes significant historical and scientific facts from textbooks as it pursues a Hindu supremacist agenda.
- The case for getting naked
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Non-sexual nudity is being erased
- How NATO states sponsored ICC prosecutor's Putin arrest warrant
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ICC prosecutor general Karim Khan raised millions from NATO states by crafting an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin while freezing investigations into well-documented US and Israeli war crimes. Along the way, he won powerful friends in Washington, London, Kiev - and Hollywood.
- Why socialist Susan Neiman says 'woke-ism' is not leftist
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All marginalized peoples or people who have been oppressed in the past need deep solidarity with other people.
- India town mourns burning of historic library at Muslim school
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Residents of Bihar Sharif town are still coming to terms with attack on a century-old 'madrassa' during the Hindu festival of Ram Navami.
- 'Death to Christians': Violence steps up under new Israeli government
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Christian leaders in Jerusalem say never have Israeli attackers felt more emboldened than under the far-right ruling coalition.
- Fossil Fuel Divestment Doesn't Work
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NGOs, activists and especially policymakers need to stop pretending that the climate movement can succeed by pressuring capitalists to be more responsible.
- Why Zelensky Will NOT Take Back Crimea
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The 2014 coup was the last straw. The Maidan violence, coup government decisions on language, and attacks on civilians made it imperative to quickly secede. Russia already had soldiers in Crimea at the leased naval base at Sebastapol. The referendum proceeded quickly and peacefully. Western hypocrisy and double standards are breathtaking. The West actively promoted the breakup of Yugoslavia, the secession of Kosovo from Serbia and South Sudan from Sudan. The right and popular will of Crimeans to secede from Ukraine and reunify with Russia is clear. Yet the West continues to falsely claim that Russia "occupies" Crimea.
- "Legitimate target" - Bellingcat defends terror attack at St. Petersburg cafe
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Christo Grozev of the US government-sponsored Bellingcat endorsed the terror attack that killed a Russian war reporter and injured many others during a public event in St. Petersburg. He also defended Ukraine's attempt to assassinate a Russian philosopher because he was a 'propagandist.'
- The tragedy of the war in Ukraine: a reply to Kagarlitsky
Mandel, David; Gindin, Sam
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Even if Ukraine were in some sense to win the war, what sort of sovereignty would the Ukrainian people possess?
- Israel's crisis is about who gets to play tyrant: the generals or religious thugs
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Over the years, international human rights groups have slowly come to acknowledge this fundamental lack of democracy, too. They now describe Israel as what it always was: an apartheid state.
- The Clock is Ticking
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With landmark anniversaries of the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine, and the failure to address global heating, Chomsky argues that ninety seconds to midnight (the new set time for the doomsday clock, a universally recognized indicator of world's vulnerability to global catastrophe) may be too generous an appraisal.
- Germans Down and Russians Out
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Any sign of sympathy with Russia has been so demonized, repressed, even criminalized since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24, 2022, that most German protests initially avoided taking any position on the war and focused on the economic hardships caused by sanctions. But on January 25, 2023 of this year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave in to U.S. pressure to send German Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, about the same time that German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, of the Green Party, casually told an international meeting that "we are fighting a war against Russia." This jolted people into action.
- Attack on Antiwar Activists Exemplifies Russophobia Among 'Leftist' Apologists for Western Imperialism and a Fascist-Loving Regime
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Many liberal leftists, siding with the U.S.-NATO and Kyiv, purvey falsehoods about the Ukraine War.
- The true Left is not woke
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Progressive activists have forgotten their roots.
- 'Rigorous' Maidan massacre exposé suppressed by top academic journal
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A peer-reviewed paper initially approved and praised by a prestigious academic journal was suddenly rescinded without explanation. Its author, one of the world's top scholars on Ukraine-related issues, had marshaled overwhelming evidence to conclude Maidan protesters were killed by pro-coup snipers.
- The Censorship Industrial Complex
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First Published: 2023
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Contains testimony by Michael Shellenberger to The [U.S.] House Select Committee on the weaponization of the Federal Government, i.e., U.S. government support for domestic censorship and Disinformation Campaigns 2016-2022.
- Fascistic Judges
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First Published: 2023
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The jailing of three U.K. climate activists should provide another warning to anyone expecting judges to defend liberties. The current legal establishment will adapt itself to whatever legal framework is ordained by the rulers.
- "You'll Be Hearing From Me as Long as I'm Here," Daniel Ellsberg Vows After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis
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- Despair and Joy in Berlin
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- "Erase the Memory" to "Erase a People"? They're Doing it in the USA Too
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- The Crusades of the Virtuous
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It is now indispensable, more than ever before, to support and promote enlightenment, education, culture and the arts by reconstructing the bridge (that was damaged by postmodernism and neoliberalism) to our historical cultural roots.
- On military vs political support
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First Published: 2023
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Why the Bolshevik Tendency favours a Russian military victory over US/NATO and its Ukrainian proxy.
- Left and Right Join Together to Rage Against Ukraine War on Its One Year Anniversary
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Several thousand people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, February 19, 2023, to protest U.S. support for the war in Ukraine around the time of its one-year anniversary. The protest was organized by the People's Party and Libertarian Party. It brought together groups on the left and libertarian right which were unified in their demand that the U.S. government should not spend one more penny on the war in Ukraine.
- Unifying the Rage Against the War Machine
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Recalling the disparate groups who came together for the massive anti-nuclear demonstration in New York City on June 12, 1982, Chuck Zlatkin recommends the same unity of purpose on February 19, 2023 in Washington.
- Hollywood abandoned Russia one year ago, but the country's box office has just set an all time record: How did this happen?
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First Published: 2023
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Film industries around the world exist independently of Hollywood, and Russian producers might just be about to strike gold.
- 19 February 'Rage Against the War Machine' Protest in D.C.: Why socialists should attend
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First Published: 2023
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The Bolshevik Tendency plans to attend the February 19 (2023) protest against the war. We do not agree with political views of the organizers, but we plan to attend in order to talk to participants who agree (as we do) with many of its slogans.
- The Calamity of America's 'Divine Mission'
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First Published: 2023
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Critical review of Robert Kagan's book The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941.
- Ending the Cesspool in Pharmaceuticals by Taking Away Patent Monopolies
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First Published: 2023
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Explores the prevalent corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, inlcuding monopolies, patents of "dubious legal status," and concealing evidence of drugs' protential harm.
- The problem with "trans women are women"
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First Published: 2023
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Is it any wonder people are confused?
- Sy Hersh & The Way We Live Now
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First Published: 2023
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Coverage of the sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines helped Murray realize something important about how the Big Lie works.
- How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
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First Published: 2023
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The New York Times called it a "mystery," but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept a secret - until now.
- Hassan Diab, trial in absentia
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First Published: 2023
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Hassan Diab's supporters are demanding that the government not put him through another unfair extradition hearing based on thin evidence.
- Ukraine purges libraries of Russian-language books
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First Published: 2023
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Ukraine is undergoing a process to "overcome to consequences of Russification," which includes removing certain Russian literature from school curricula, renaming streets, and dismantling monuments to Russian historical figures.
- Canada's Russia sanctions are hitting people with no connection to Putin's war
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First Published: 2023
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Canada's economic measures against Russia - which are meants to target the assets of wealthy oligarchs and government officials - are hitting the personal finances of people with no ties to the Russian government, CBC News has learned. Canadian residents are pleading with Ottawa to release assets frozen after sanctions were imposed on banks.
- The Enormous Limitations of U.S. Liberal Democracy and Its Consequences
The Growth Of Fascism
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First Published: 2023
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Explores the "baked-in bias" towards the far right in the United States and the threat it poses to the democratic system of governance.
- The Ukraine War in the Light of the UN Charter
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First Published: 2023
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The war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022, but already in February 2014. The civilian population of the Donbas has endured continued shelling from Ukrainian forces since 2014, notwithstanding the Minsk Agreements. These attacks on Lugansk and Donetsk significantly increased in January-February 2022.
- Woke Imperialism
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First Published: 2023
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Diversity is important. But when it is devoid of a political agenda it recruits a tiny segment of those marginalized by society into unjust structures to help perpetuate them.
- Canada's state broadcaster CBC peddles lies and slanders about jailed journalist Julian Assange
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First Published: 2023
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Following the calamitous ruling on December 10, 2021 by a British court to extradite Julian Assange to face espionage charges in the US, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired two reports, densely packed with hideous deceptions that lend support to Washington's efforts to persecute and silence the award-winning journalist.
- ChatGPT is the best thing to happen to teaching since the Socratic method
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First Published: 2023
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Can there be another way to teach and learn? ChatGPT is a reminder that the oral tradition is still fitfully around.
- The books that made me
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First Published: 2023
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Lively explores the role of reading in her writing process. She explains that every library is autobiographical, with its potential to shape and define its readers.
- Tyre Nichols: The bigotry of the 'anti-racists'
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First Published: 2023
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Those blaming his death on white supremacy seem to think black cops are just mindless thugs.
- Every Gender Identity Is 'Authentic' - Until It Isn't
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First Published: 2023
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Faddish forms of self-identification often reflect subjective feelings that shift over time. Let's stop treating them as sacred truths.
- Looking back on the coverage of Trump
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First Published: 2023
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Seven and a half years ago, journalism began a tortured dance with Donald Trump, the man who would be the country's forty-fifth president, first dismissing him, then embracing him as a source of ratings and clicks, then going all in on efforts to catalogue Trump as a threat to the country (also a great source of ratings and clicks).
- The Inspiring Outrage of Norman Finkelstein
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First Published: 2023
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A few thoughts on the new book, "I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!"
- Why this woman left a career in architecture to catalogue bird feathers
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First Published: 2023
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During the pandemic lockdowns, Munshi took a two-year online course on bird biology from Cornell University. And now, instead of designing buildings, she puts her aesthetic skills to use by collecting, photographing, measuring and cataloguing the wings and feathers of India's more than 1,300 bird species.
- Labour Militancy in Canada
A History of the Right to Strike
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First Published: 2023
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Bill 28, the Keeping students in Class Act, 2022, had its first reading in the Ontario Legislature on October 31, 2022. The name was a distraction from the Act's actual wording and intention, which were less about keeping students in class and more about removing education workers' right to strike.
- Jordan Peterson is being disciplined for his tweets. Why some say that raises free speech issues
College of Psychologists of Ontario launched investigation after complaints about Peterson's tweets
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First Published: 2023
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The College of Psychologists of Ontario has ordered controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson -- who has espoused questionable views on women, masculinity and gender identity -- to undergo media training over tweets allegedly degrading the profession.
- America's 'War Against Communism' Was Really A War Against Advocates For The Poor
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First Published: 2023
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Two examples - Korea and Indonesia - will be documented here in order to display that America's Cold War against communism was/is a cover-story, or deceptive cloak, for a war actually against the poor (and the political left) in all nations: in other words, a fascist war, meaning that America's Government became fascist-imperialist as soon as World War II ended, despite FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt - America's President throughout WW II) having been passionately anti-fascist and anti-imperialist.
- Rooftop turbines aim to capture power in windy cities
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First Published: 2023
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The design of traditional wind turbines doesn't really work in cities, where densely packed buildings tend to black and redirect wind, making it gusty and variable in speed and direction. However, new designs of wind turbines that allow for urban use have the potential to change the ways cities use energy.
- Using diversity to eviscerate diversity
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
On a controversy over an image depicting Muhammad.
- Russia-Ukraine war: How the US paved the way to Moscow's invasion
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First Published: 2023
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Nearly a year after Russia's invasion, the western narrative of an 'unprovoked' attack has become impossible to sustain.
- Archives donation paints picture of local union's rich community history
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First Published: 2023
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A donation of historical materials from Unifor Local 199 to Brock’s Archives and Special Collections is now available for students and researchers to explore in the James A. Gibson Library. The fonds of Unifor Local 199, which was previously the Canadian Auto Workers Local 199 and, before that, the United Auto Workers Local 199, includes records and ephemera dating back to 1937.
- Bayard Rustin: The Panthers Couldn't Save Us Then Either
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Bayard Rustin's commentary between 1965 and 1975 on race, class, and politics in the U.S. was sharply insightful and can be read profitably for cultivating a nuanced understanding of the crucial period between the victories won by the civil rights movement and institutional consolidation of the ethnic interest-group regime generally known as 'black politics.'
- War, Peace and the Media: Propping up the U.S. Empire and Risking the Planet
Fourth Edition, Expanded and Updated
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First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
This fourth and greatly expanded edition of a work first published in 1983 questions the dominant narratives about militarism and war, and their relationship to global heating, as well as the role of the media in distorting and suppressing truths about their relationship. Contributors to this new edition of War, Peace and the Media challenge the U.S./NATO version of the Russia-Ukraine war and its historical causes, and highlight the role of mainstream and social media in sidelining or silencing dissenting information and opinions.
- Charting a New Path for Canadian Engagement with the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Canada is criticized today for not having a coherent Middle East policy that adequately reflects the realities of the region or defines a long-term strategy to protect and advance its interests in this part of the world. This article offers recommendations on how to address such a deficit by first reviewing Canada's historical engagement with the Middle East, particularly its effective role in influencing regional events during the Cold War and in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union.
- Donbass: The War on Remembrance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The Ukrainian Army wants not only to annihilate pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine but also wipe out the region’s heroic history of resisting the Nazi onslaught in World War II.
- Guy Debord's Warning of "The Role of the Expert": A Philosophical Perspective on the Rise of Fact-Checking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Why are we bombarded by fact-checks and 'anti-disinformation' efforts in our timeline scrolls?
- Bad faith UN report on Nicaragua whitewashes violent US-backed coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A new, anonymously-produced UN report denouncing Nicaragua's government whitewashes the brutal US-backed 2018 coup against it while refusing to interview victims of sadistic opposition violence.
- Boomtown
A solar land rush in the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Canada's 'shocking' new report on foreign interference has found none
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The idea that the US -- the most powerful country on Earth -- has absolutely no influence on its resource-rich next-door neighbor is absurd. The fact that the influence is so systemic that it's not even worth a glance or a mention in a report into foreign interference is glaring. Does the Canadian government care to look under that rock? Or are they just going to keep scapegoating Russia and China when the most existential, insidious threat to Canadian independence lies inward and southward?
- Canadian government partners with pro-Israel lobby to delete Palestinian accounts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Children can't be experts on themselves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Character is created over a lifetime, not discovered whole.
- Corporate Rules
The Real World of Business Regulation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
How government regulators are failing the public interest.
- The Cultural Looting of Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
People in Gaza are confined to living with few resources in what amounts to a prison. They are permitted levels of nutrition and medicine that are just enough to prevent total starvation and disease. This is only because Israel, which controls the piece of land known as the Gaza Strip, does not want disease to spread into its own borders.
- Dangers of AI Revealed as Israeli Bullet Decides to Kill Somebody
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
This use of the passive in describing Israeli crimes is absolutely typical of the Guardian, and of the entire mainstream media. A more naturally expressed and honest headline would have been "Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian journalist in the head for filming demolition of Ramallah homes".
- Files expose Syrian 'Revolution' as Western regime change operation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Throughout August and September, anti-government protests have rocked Syrian cities. While the crowds are typically small, numbering only a few hundred, they show little sign of abating. Demonstrators are motivated by increasingly unlivable economic conditions spurred by crippling U.S.-led international sanctions against Damascus. These have produced hyperinflation, mass food insecurity, and many daily hardships for the population. They also prevent vital humanitarian aid from entering the country.
- Five Decades of Connexions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Gaza, Israel & The Hamas Attacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- In the Dead of Night
Israel's military raids into Palestinian homes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Almost every night, between midnight and 5am, the Israeli army breaks into Palestinian homes across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
- Insurgent Notes 25 - January 2023
On the War in Ukraine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A collection of left perspectives on the war between Russia and Ukraine.
- The Media Accountability Project
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Nat Turner in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Finkelstein draws parallels between the Nat Turner rebellion in the United States and the Gaza rebellion of 2023.
- Pirates of the European Union: How Brussels turned its own customs agents into petty thieves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
The bloc's bureaucracy, unable to sever economic ties with Russia, decided to annoy Moscow in different way - by stealing from the country's ordinary citizens.
- Remembering Reg McQuaid (1935-2023)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Remembering U of T's Natalie Zemon Davis, a renowned social historian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- The Scottish Gestapo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
If you are on the 'wrong' side in the culture wars, you will get prosecuted for an innocuous tweet or a remark in the street. If you are on the 'right' side, you can punch women in the face or parade a sign calling for the decapitation of those who disagree with you, and face no legal jeopardy.
- Secret Canada
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Secret Canada is a freedom of information project from The Globe and Mail
Freedom of information laws give you the right to obtain records held by public institutions. This project helps you navigate Canada's access system.
- Shakespeare flagged as 'far right' literature in UK - media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Several of the UK's most respected television shows, movies and works of literature have been included in a list of works that could potentially encourage far-right sympathies.
- Toronto Holocaust Museum aims to keep survivors' memories alive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- The Twilight of Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
Three British journalists I know personally - Johanna Ross, Vanessa Beeley and Kit Klarenberg - have each in the last two years been detained at immigration for hours on re-entering their own country, and questioned by police under anti-terrorist legislation. This is plainly an abuse of the power to detain at port of entry, because in each case they could have been questioned at any time in the UK were there legitimate cause, and the questioning was not focused on their travels. They were in fact detained and interrogated simply for holding and publishing dissident opinion on foreign policy, and in particular for supporting a more collaborative approach to Russia.
- Unprovoked narratives
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
A series of films celebrating the beauty of Gaza, its people, its struggle and its survival. The program aims to resist the demonisation of this beautiful place.
- How General Winter Did Not Save the Soviet Union in 1941
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
- Diversity is Important. Diversity-Related Training is Terrible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Published: 2023
It became increasingly obvious that many of the problems that diversity-related training was supposed to help mitigate seemed to be persisting or growing worse, raising the prospect that many widely-used interventions may be ineffective or even harmful.
- The Nations of Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2023
Podcasts, 136+ episodes.
- 231 Palestinians were killed in 2022. These are their stories.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
2022 was the deadliest year for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in decades. We kept a record of all those who were killed by Israeli state and settler violence. These are their names, faces, and stories.
- Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
NewsGuard gave Consortium News a red mark for "publishing false content" on Ukraine, including that there was a U.S.-backed coup in Kiev in 2014. Here is CN's detailed proof.
- FBI Cointelpro is Back and Worse Than Ever
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Elon Musk has opened the floodgates to expose the FBI's latest war on Americans' freedom of speech. The FBI massively intervened to pressure Twitter to suppress accounts and tweets from individuals the FBI disapproved, including parody accounts. The FBI and other federal agencies also browbeat Facebook, Instagram, and many other tech companies.
- Most of All, I am Offended as a Muslim
On Hamline University's shocking imposition of narrow religious orthodoxy in the classroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Barring a professor of art history from showing a painting, lest it harm observant Muslims in class, is just as absurd as asking a biology professor not to teach evolution because it may offend evangelical Protestants in the course.
- On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine.
- Reflecting New U.S. Control of TikTok's Censorship, Our Report Criticizing Zelensky Was Deleted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
For years, U.S. officials and their media allies accused Russia, China and Iran of tyranny for demanding censorship as a condition for Big Tech access. Now, the U.S. is doing the same to TikTok.
- On the First Workday of the New Year, the Average CEO Will Make More Than an Average Workers Earns in an Entire Year
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
If the typical CEO of a large U.S. corporation clocks in at 9 am on January 2, by 3:37 pm that afternoon he'll have earned $58,260 - the average annual salary for all U.S. occupations.In other words, in less than seven hours on the first workday of the New Year, that CEO will have made as much as the average U.S. worker will make all year.
- The Curse of the Algorithm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The existence of algorithms might be a sign of civilization, but it might also be a sign of madness. As human decision-making is handed over to machines, these machines can make rather irrational, discriminatory, and outright mad decisions.
- To Defeat Fascism, We Must Win Over a Substantial Segment of the Social Strata that Make Up its Mass Base
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
It is not enough to counter fascism militarily, as Antifa does, though that is important. To truly defeat fascism, we must win over a substantial segment of the social strata that make up its mass base. That is a project that has not been undertaken since the 1960s and 1970s, when the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) challenged white radicals to organize in white communities against racism and for economic and social justice.
- Ukraine dismantles monument to iconic Soviet author
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Ukrainian authorities have taken down a monument to Maxim Gorky, a revolutionary who founded socialist realism and became one of the most popular Soviet writers, in the eastern city of Dnepr. The move comes amid the 'de-Russification' campaign ongoing across the country.
- Critical Thinking, Reverential Thinking, and Lashing Out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Before we challenge conventions, we must understand and master them.
- Snowden says 'I told you so'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Former CIA and National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has claimed vindication after a media report exposed how surveillance tools deployed to fight Covid-19 are now being abused by law enforcement and other authorities – as he predicted over two years ago.
- Why German state racism is now directed at the Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Holocaust serves, paradoxically, as an alibi for Europeans to assume they are morally superior to others, as the cancellation of an arts prize to Caryl Churchill shows.
- The EU's freeze of Russian media assets is a perversion of its own principles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
There's a big difference between actual disinformation or misinformation, and information or analysis that you just don't like.
- Starless Sky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
As humanity conquered the dark with electricity, a new rhythm regulating daily life emerged. Making the night disappear has affected us in many ways, including the disregulation of our hormones, including Melatonin which regulates sleep, lowers cholesterol, boosts the immune system, and more.
- Vandals destroy prehistoric aboriginal art
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Trespassers have ruined a one-of-a-kind sacred artwork in South Australia's Koonalda Cave. South Australian officials have been criticized for failing to secure Koonalda Cave, which was previously vandalized.
- The Wild American Chestnut is on its Way Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
There is a petition in front of the US Department of Agriculture requesting permission to release genetically engineered American chestnut trees into wild forests. However, naturalist Bernd Heinrich finds clear evidence of a natural revival of the nostalgic chestnut tree, and many fear that GE trees would threaten this natural comeback.
- Can the Left Disagree Without Being Disagreeable?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Addresses the lack of nuance amongst the Left and calls for more meaningful dialogue.
- Promoting Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Abroad
Regavim in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- On Justice for Kashmir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Among the self-determination struggles of our time, Kashmir is at risk of being forgotten by most of the world (except for Pakistan), while its people continue to endure the harsh crimes of India’s intensifying military occupation that has already lasted 75 years.
- 'Nearly Every War Has Been The Result Of Media Lies'
Julian Assange, State-Corporate Media and Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Julian Assange once observed that, 'Nearly every war has been the result of media lies.' For daring to publish evidence of US war crimes, Assange now sits in the high-security Belmarsh prison in London, at risk of being extradited to the US within the next few weeks. The prospects for a fair trial range from miniscule to zero.
- America's Neo-Nazi bedfellows in Ukraine are latest in long line of odious allies Washington has used against Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
From pogrom-mongers to Hitlerites to radical Islamists, the US has collaborated with repugnant partners for more than a century.
- Something in the water?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
One Deer Lake crusader believes a corporate giant knew about debris sullying the town’s water supply. He’s on a mission to prove it.
- West ignores evidence of Ukrainian torture and use of prohibited weapons when making 'war crimes' claims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
To mark Ukrainian Armed Forces Day, it's worth remembering the crimes Kiev has committed against civilians.
- At Cross Purposes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Quebec's secularism law is the culmination of a decades-long struggle to come to terms with the province's Catholic past.
- Book of the Living
House museums of New Orleans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Canadian 'father' of evidence-based medicine wins global Einstein Foundation award
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Hamilton researcher Gord Guyatt has won an international prize for work that jurors say makes him the "father of evidence-based medicine."
- Gentrifying America's school system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Pakistan's coercive sweatshop capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Pakistan's textile industry is a major supplier for Western discount clothing brands. This means nothing is allowed to disrupt productivity; workers' rights and safety are frequently flouted, and police and private security firms use intimidation and violence to ensure the machines keep running.
- Scramble to be Africa's window on the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Several nations are boosting their presence in Africa in a quest for trade opportunities, status and influence. A key way of pursuing this is through the media, in what's become a propaganda war.
- Gender indoctrination in schools: a teenage girl's testimony
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- 'Tantura' Exposes the Lie at the Heart of Israel's Founding Myth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A new documentary challenges Israel's narrative about 1948 and the forced displacement of Palestinians.
- Bye-bye, Kiev, hello Cote d'Azur
As Westerners send aid, here's how Ukraine's corrupt elites are profiting from the conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Officials and oligarchs have diverted much of the financial support sent to Kiev.
- Defending Palestinian Rights Is Not Antisemitism
The Bogus Attack on Joel Harden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A statement by Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) calling to reject the attacks on Ontario New Democratic Party MPP Joel Harden for his solidarity with Palestinian rights.
- Gay Not Queer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Gay identities are based on biological sex; gender identities erase biological sex and replace it with gender.
- When Journalism Standards Vanish
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Because Russia and Iran are both viewed as enemies of Washington, Western news media often feel comfortable publishing any old claim about them as fact regardless of sourcing or evidence. Imperial propagandists lower their editorial standards when reporting on official enemies not because they are bad at their job, but because they are very good at their job. It's just that their job isn't what we've been told.
- COP27
Corporate Courts Versus Developing World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
As rich countries move away from dispute-settlement mechanisms that give corporations power to block environmental protections, Manuel Pérez-Rocha says they keep imposing them on developing countries through trade pacts.
- Israel's Rightward Turn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The backlash against the increasingly vocal demands for recognition and equality on the part of Israel’s Arab citizens has decisively shaped twenty-first-century Israeli politics.
- Anti-racism attacks my American Dream
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Why do Democrats condemn hardworking immigrants?
- Blowback
Italian police bust Azov-tied Nazi cell planning terror attacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The arrest of Italian neo-Nazis affiliated with the Ukrainian Azov Battalion highlights the terrifying potential for blowback from the Ukraine proxy war.
- Q&A: Navigating the Left's Ukraine Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A lengthy statement from the pro-NATO left.
- The precautionary principle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Doing stuff 'just in case' is not precautionary. You need evidence.
- UN envoy admits fabricating claim of Viagra-fueled rape as 'Russian military strategy'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
UN Special Representative Pramila Patten has been exposed for fabricating her claim that Russia was supplying its troops with Viagra as a part of its 'military strategy' in the Ukraine conflict. The widely publicized lie was recycled from baseless NATO propaganda deployed during its 2011 Libyan regime change war.
- Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces are Defending their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Transgender charity seeks to strip gay rights group of status
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Members of 'Mermaids' have taken legal action against the LGB Alliance, accusing it of 'transphobia'.
- Getting Closer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Greens -- recently called "the most hypocritical, aloof, mendacious, incompetent and, measured by the damage they cause, the most dangerous party we currently have in the Bundestag" by the indestructible Sahra Wagenknecht -- are rather more afraid of nuclear power than nuclear arms.
- The cry gevalt syndrome
are Jewish students really 'terrified' on campus?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
University campuses are places where contending views meet and clash. Pro-Israel organizations would seem to want the opposite.
- 'Our Auschwitz, our Dachau'
Reckoning with Germany's genocide in Namibia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Professor Attacked by Mainstream Media for Opposing NATO Narrative on Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A highly regarded Russia specialist in Canada, Professor Michael Carley at the University of Montreal, has refused to support the NATO narrative on the Ukraine conflict and has since been subjected to a vicious smear campaign.
- Reckoning with Germany's genocide in Namibia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Researchers Find Massive Anti-Russian 'Bot Army'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war, Peter Cronau reports. The sample size dwarfs other studies of covert propaganda about the war on social media.
- The Hijab as a Billboard for Islamist Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Let's not fool ourselves about what is actually happening in Iran now and for the last five weeks. These women are not just merely "celebrating" or marching for their freedom of expression in general political terms, no! They are fighting a piece of cloth that has come to symbolise an all-encompassing religious intolerance and zealotry as the core of a disintegrating Islamist ideology.
- Only one country backs US in UN Cuba vote
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Biden administration is continuing the American embargo on Cuba, with only Israel supporting Washington.
- Germany's position in America's New World Order
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Discusses the American New Cold War and the creation of two camps: the U.S.-centered NATO, and the emerging Eurasian coalition. Germany finds itself in the midst of this fracture, and is being convinced by the US that it requires American protection.
- Wicked Leakidence On Nord Stream Sabotages
Part 1: How The Media Quarantined Evidence On Nord Stream Sabotage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
On the British media's biased reporting of the Nord Stream sabotage.
- It's Time to Abandon America's Fetish for "Unconditional Surrender"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Argues that the American obsession with "unconditional surrender" comes in the way of meaningful diplomacy, particularly between the US and Russia.
- More crash deaths linked to Teslas in US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Ten people have perished in accidents involving automated-driving vehicles over the past four months, government data shows.
- Practice involuntary recognition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
An old pamplet holds some contemporary wisdom, argues Marianne Garneau. She advocates for "involuntary recognition," in which workers force employers to recognize the union outside the boundaries drawn by labour law.
- Putting The Don in Its Place
Toronto's billion-dollar project to heal a river destroyed by development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The ads are virtual, but for some NHL fans, the irritation is real
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The NHL is making use of a new type of high-tech ad in its hockey broadcasts this season, where ads are presented virtually on the boards around the ice. Some fans have not welcomed the digitally enhanced dasherboards, which are visible to viewers at home but not to those in an arena.
- How Much Longer Can the U.S. Continue to Wage Economic War on Europe, and Much of the World, Without a Major Blowback Effect?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has awakened many people to the gangster methods that have been deployed for years by the U.S. government doing the bidding of multinational corporations.
- Pigeons and People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Every self-respecting downtown has pigeons, and pigeons have mastered the sidewalk ballet quite as expertly as we humans have.
- Crippling the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Whenever it truly matters, from Assange to Corbyn, Guardian George Monbiot journalist aligns with the corporate media herd.
- Why do Palestinian children throw stones?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Children of my Gaza refugee camp were rarely afraid of monsters but of Israeli soldiers. This is all that we talked about before going to bed. Unlike imaginary monsters in the closet or under the bed, Israeli soldiers are real, and they could show up any minute – at the door, on the roof or, as was often the case, right in the middle of the house.
- Nuclearism: Converging Disasters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Converging disasters: Unprecedented climate emergencies, methane leak from Nord Stream gas lines, interrupted energy supplies, wars -- Kyoto-exempt military is the largest single global emitter of greenhouse gases, Ukraine nuclear reactors in the battle zone. Shock doctrine response: more nuclear reactors, more coal.
- 60 years since the Cuban Missile Crisis
How cool heads prevented a Soviet-US naval encounter sparking a nuclear war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
This October marks the 60th anniversary of the 'underwater' component of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was an extraordinary episode that precipitated the infamous standoff between Moscow and Washington weeks later, and likewise brought the world to the brink of nuclear destruction. With frenzied Western accusations abounding that the Kremlin is preparing to use atomic weapons in the Ukraine conflict, and spirited denials emanating from the opposite direction, it’s never been more important to revisit the incide
- Unveiling the Chilly Climate
The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Independant Jewish Voices (Canada) conducted a study on the Canadian "chilling effect" in which academics, students and Palestine solidarity activists face repression in discussing Israel's crimes against Palestinians.
- Zeitenwende - Der Linksliberalismus und der Abschied von der liberalen Gesellschaft
Auszug aus dem neuen Vorwort zur Taschenbuchausgabe von 'Die Selbstgerechten'
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Is your boss tracking you while you work?
Some Canadians are about to find out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
In Ontario, employers must now disclose if they have been using productivity tracking software to keep tabs on their employees. Experts say while this may address transparency concerns, businesses should be tracking output instead.
- Amazon wants surveillance robots in every home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Amazon's new home robot is charged with privacy violations in line with the Roomba and the Ring.
- The Nord Stream Sabotage
A New Low For Western Mainstream Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Condemning the Guardian's coverage of the recent Nord Stream sabotage, Lascaris discusses the increasing lenghts which Western media will go to promote the U.S. government's hegemonic agenda. He highlights several examples of the Guardian's exercises in propoganda-masquerading-as-journalism.
- US Media's Intellectual No-Fly-Zone on US Culpability in Nord Stream Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Discusses the media's suspicion of Russia over the destruction of the Nord 2 pipeline, although Washington has an established history of opposition to the pipeline.
- The BBC to NATO Pipeline
How the British state broadcaster serves the powerful
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The death of Queen Elizabeth II, where the BBC dropped programming to run endless, wall-to-wall coverage, has underlined the fact to many Britons that the network is far from impartial, but the voice of the state.
- Israel experiments on Palestinians with AI-powered guns at checkpoints
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Discusses the ways Israeli weapons development efforts uses Palestinians as guinea pigs to be able to market their military technology as field-tested to foreign governments.
- Mass Media Omertà
Burying Al Jazeera's 'The Labour Files'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The damaging revelations about the Labour Party in the recent four-part Al Jazeera series, ‘The Labour Files’, and the almost totalitarian silence in response by British news media, should ram home the illusory nature of ‘democracy’ in the UK.
- Close Encounter with a Red-tailed Hawk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A life-and-death drama in downtown Toronto.
- Omerta in the Gangster War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has virtually announced that the war in Ukraine can only intensify with no end in sight.
- Pipelines sprengen unter Freunden, das geht gar nicht
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Es erscheint vollkommen unmöglich, dass inmitten dieses dicht überwachten Areals ein staatlicher Akteur eine größere Marineoperation durchziehen kann, ohne dass dies von den unzähligen aktiven und passiven Sensoren der Anrainerstaaten bemerkt worden wäre; schon gar nicht direkt vor der Insel Bornholm, wo sich Dänen, Schweden und Deutsche ein Stelldichein bei der Überwachung der Über- und Unterseeaktivitäten geben.
- Iran: "This is a woman's revolution in the making"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
If you look at the Handmaid's Tale, people talk about it as fiction. But it is real life in Iran. We're talking about a government that legally discriminates against women and legally imposes and encourages violence against us.
- Failing to Count the Arabs
The Myth of the "Democratic" Jewish State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Israel wants the world to believe that it is a majority Jewish state with a 20% Arab minority and that the Arab population enjoys a good standard of living and full equal rights. And while this is easy to disprove, it is still part of the mainstream discourse on Israel.
- Conditioned for War with Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders and Ivy-mantled elites, educated to believe in U.S. 'exceptionalism,' find the lucre and the luster too lucrative to be able to think straight. They deceive themselves into thinking that (a) the U.S. cannot lose a war; (b) escalation can be calibrated and wider war can be limited to Europe; and (c) China can be expected to just sit on the sidelines.
- Conditioned for War with Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Discusses the American role in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and the Establishment media's part in keeping the truth from Americans.
- Ukraine War, Divided Left
'Social Patriots' and the 'Anti-Imperialism of Fools'
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Since Russia's military operation commenced on February 24, 2022, the socialist left has been divided in its response to the armed conflict in Ukraine.
- Luring Doctors from Poorer Countries is the UK's Quiet Scandal
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The United Kingdom brings in medical professionals from poor and middle-income countries to make up for their shortage while disintergrating these countries' health systems.
- Captiongate: How a Single Zoom Call Propelled Canada's Greens Into Pronoun Meltdown
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Amita Kuttner claimed that online text reading 'she' instead of 'they' illustrated a 'system of oppression.' Now the party's president has resigned, and the movement is in chaos.
- Knowing What We Know, Knowing what We Don't Know and Knowing the Difference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
There is enormous disinformation (i.e., deception) flooding the internet from both Ukraine and Russia. However, Ukraine has a decided advantage in the information war given the massive covert action support supplied by US and NATO intelligence organizations.
- Anarchist antimilitarism and myths about the war in Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A polemic by Czech anarchists against war and all warmongers, who, they say, are also abundant in the anarchist movement.
- Google is spying on your private conversations, manipulating search results
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Interview with Dr. Robert Epstein who has been conducting research on tech companies' roles in American politics.
- The Great Clutching at Pearls
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Tt turns out Marx was right. The crisis of capitalism is now upon us. Neoliberalism (another word for designing state systems deliberately to lead to incredible concentrations of wealth amid general poverty) is coming to the end of its course.
- Strippers' greatest protection is each other
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Caroline Leigh describes her experience working in the stripping industry and the urgency of organizing it.
- Israeli army shuts down prominent Palestinian rights groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Israeli occupation forces have raided, sealed and imposed closure orders on the offices of several prominent Palestinian human rights, feminist and social services organizations in the West Bank.
- Ukraine war veterans on how Kiev plundered US aid, wasted soldiers, endangered civilians, and lost the war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Ukraine's parliamentarians have given themselves a 70% salary increase while soldiers fighting against Russia receive none of the humanitarian aid pouring in from the US and Europe.
- Clayton Ruby: weighing him in the balance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The well-known Toronto lawyer and civil libertarian died earlier this month, at age 80. So far, most of the obituaries have praised him and portrayed him as a left-wing icon. But it is the left that he smeared for its support for Palestinians' human rights.
- How Israel erases Palestinian cultural memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
On Israel's looting of Palestinian cultural and historical archives.
- Those angry at Rushdie's stabbing have been missing in action over a far bigger threat to our freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Satanic Verses novelist is championed by western liberals not because he has bravely articulated difficult truths but because of who his enemies are.
- Those Angry at Rushdie's stabbing have been missing in action over a far greater threat to our freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Both Julian Assange and Salman Rushdie have been victims of violence, but sympathy was only given to Rushdie. Cook argues that although both men are prominent proponents for the freedom of speech, Rushie questions the authority of clerics and governments in far-off lands, and Assange speaks out against the crimes committed by Western governments.
- Ukraine and its Western backers should be held accountable for the 'suicidal' attack on Europe's largest nuclear powerplant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Even as UN Secretary-General António Guterres addressed survivors of the World War Two US atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, halfway around the world, the armed forces of Ukraine seemed hellbent on unleashing a modern-day nuclear holocaust on Europe by firing artillery rockets at the Zaporozhye power plant.
- Pre-Emptive Murder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The lives of the latest fifteen Palestinian children to be murdered by Israel in Gaza, lives ripped from their small, terrified bodies with devastating violence, do not seem of much concern to the powerful in the West, or indeed anywhere.
- We all must speak up in defense of Graham Phillips!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
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British journalist Graham Phillips has been subjected to sanctions by the British government for reporting from Donbas.
- Clayton Ruby was a shining example of ‘how much one person can do
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
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Clayton Ruby was one of Canada’s leading lawyers and an outspoken proponent of social justice, the environment, and press freedom.
- Shedding Light on Who, Exactly, is Responsible for the War in Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
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It is necessary to understand not only what Russia is doing with its intervention in Ukraine but also what alternative existed to stop Ukrainian aggression against Donbas and to assure Russia's national security.
- The Globe and Mail Just Published Neo-Nazi Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A profile in the newspaper focusing on a Ukrainian neo-Nazi group uncritically includes its subject's description of them as 'heroes.'
- How the Elites Use Identity Politics to Wage Class War
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
I fail to perceive how this ideology menaces an established order that its identity-activists have unctuously and sedulously wooed. Worse, identity politics weakens worker solidarity, because it never mentions class.
- Radical chic' and the left's problem with race
White, middle-class left-wingers are still in thrall to age-old prejudices.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
"If you believe that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards", Thomas Sowell has said, "that would have gotten you labelled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today".
- Close encounter with humpback whale terrifies - and delights - B.C. family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A B.C. family had a thrilling experience off the coast of Vancouver Island when a humpback whale spent almost an hour rubbing up against their boat, spinning around and flapping its fins.
- Celebrated Canadian civil rights lawyer Clayton Ruby dead at 80
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Distinguished Canadian civil rights lawyer and legal giant Clayton Ruby has died at the age of 80.
- If Canada were a Christian state
What would Canada be like if it were a Christian state in the same sense that Israel is a Jewish state?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
What apartheid looks like in Israel, and what it would like in Canada.
- Uncloaked: Canada's "Jekyll-and-Hyde" Masquerade as Nation that Supposedly Supports Pacifism and Progressive Principles
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
How Canada's military-industrial complex sucks up to and serves the American one.
- Uncloaked: Canada's Jekyll-and-Hyde Masquerade as Nation that Supposedly Supports Pacifism and Progressive Principles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
How Canada's military-industrial complex sucks up to and serves the American one.
- Against False Privilege
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First Published: 2022
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One of the biggest blunders of modern activism is the promotion of guilt and the demand for false privilege.
- How Stonewall turned against gay rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
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How is it that an organisation that was so instrumental in the struggle for equality has morphed into what many perceive to be a serious threat to gay rights?
- American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
As in a Greek tragedy whose protagonist brings about precisely the fate that he has sought to avoid, the US/NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America's aim of preventing China, Russia and their allies from acting independently of U.S. control over their trade and investment policy.
- The West Can't Stop Pillaging Other Countries' Bank Accounts
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Leave your nation's money in a western bank, and it might not be yours for very long, especially if you in any way displease the U.S. and its client states.
- What the U.S. Government and The New York Times Have Quietly Agreed Not to Tell You About Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The narrative that portrays Ukraine as a democratic state - no matter how beloved by U.S. corporate media or endlessly repeated by the State Department - is a fantasy. History has shown us that the Ukrainian government's commitment to democracy is dubious or non-existent. Ukraine currently has more banned political parties than legal ones; political repression and imprisonment of dissidents has been commonplace ever since its independence; and both the government and its affiliated party militias routinely resort to violence to quell peaceful protests while turning a blind eye to violence inflicted on Jews and other racial and ethnic minorities.
- Time to acknowledge hateful leader of 'anti-hate' group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
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What do you call an 'antiracist' group led by an open ethnic/religious supremacist?
- Cruelty against Gaza patients enabled by US and EU
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First Published: 2022
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The cruelty of the siege of Gaza and the depravity of those who prolong it cannot be overstated.
- The Dawn of the Apocalypse
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First Published: 2022
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We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction.
- Servant of the Corrupt
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First Published: 2022
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Pedro Gonzalez details the connections among Zelensky, oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and Washington, D.C.
- Government censorship rebrands with 'disinformation' campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
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Current official talk about 'disinformation' has largely become a euphemism for protecting empire and a rebranding of age-old government-run censorship.
- Anger at trans swimmer's 'Woman of the Year' nomination
Lia Thomas has been nominated for a prestigious women's award
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The University of Pennsylvania is facing a wave of criticism after nominating transgender swimmer Lia Thomas for the NCAA's 'Woman of the Year' honor for 2022.
- Podcast with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen, Steve Grumbine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The Capitalist Solution to 'Save' the Planet: Make It an Asset Class & Sell it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Lynn Fries speaks to John Bellamy Foster on a critically important and underreported topic: how investors are trying to use rapidly moving climate crisis as an opportunity to loot even more of the commons.
- Barely Legal: the Global Uber Enterprise
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
In terms of the gig economy, there are few more ruthless buccaneers than this San Franciscan ride-share company that has persistently specialised in cutting corners and remaking them.
- Germany criminalizes journalist for exposing Ukrainian war crimes
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First Published: 2022
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Independent Donetsk-based journalist Alina Lipp of Germany details her prosecution by the German state for violating new speech codes through her reporting in the Donetsk People’s Republic. As the only German reporter on the ground in Donetsk, Lipp has exposed Ukrainian forces shelling civilians, attacking a maternity ward, mining harbors, and bombing a granary filled with corn for export. She faces three years in prison if she returns to her home country.
- The End of Western Civilization
Why It Lacks Resilience, and What Will Take Its Place
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Today's New Cold War diplomacy involves extracting economic tribute by pushing foreign economies further into dollarized debt, to be paid by imposing depression and austerity on themselves. This subjugation is depicted by mainstream economists as a law of nature and hence as an inevitable form of equilibrium, in which each nation’s economy receives "what it is worth." Today's mainstream economic models are based on the unrealistic assumption that all debts can be paid, without polarizing income and wealth. All economic problems are assumed to be self-curing by "the magic of the marketplace," without any need for civic authority to intervene. Government regulation is deemed inefficient and ineffective, and hence unnecessary. That leaves creditors, land-grabbers and privatizers with a free hand to deprive others of their freedom. This is depicted as the ultimate destiny of today's globalization, and of history itself.
- In memoriam: John W. Warnock
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First Published: 2022
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John Warnock leaves behind an incomparably rich political legacy.
- Americans are being urged to delete period tracking apps. Should Canadians do the same?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
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Health apps' promises to protect users' data should be taken with a grain of salt, privacy experts say.
- Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion has built a 'state within a state,' and it despises both Russia and the liberal West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Ukrainian regiment adheres to its own brand of ‘National Idea,’ loosely modelled on Mussolini's Italy.
- History boxes bring national museum to life for rural N.B. students
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
University students and Grade 1 class explore 'sacred stuff' together with help of Canadian Museum of History. As the school year wraps up, university and elementary students in the small town of Sackville, N.B., are reflecting on some important discoveries they have made with the help of one another, and a big black box filled with 25 Canadian artifacts.
- Cognitive Warfare: Israel Targets Journalists Who Threaten Its Reality-Creation Tactics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The evidence shows Israeli military/intel forces see journalists as 'lawful targets,' as part of the 'Cognitive War' they wage against the Palestinians, but more particularly against the global population in an attempt to legitimize their military oppression of the Palestinians in their ongoing effort of 'population expulsion' of the Palestinians from Palestinian territory.
- A Lemming Leading the Lemmings
Slavoj Zizek and the Terminal Collapse of the Anti-War Left
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Have you noticed how every major foreign policy crisis since the U.S. and U.K.'s invasion of Iraq in 2003 has peeled off another layer of the left into joining the pro-NATO, pro-war camp?
- Not worth your sympathy: The story of Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov battalion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Much less than the heroic defenders they are made out to be, the extremist regiment’s many crimes are well documented.
- The Paradoxical Seeds of The Holocaust
Oppression and Death Live On in the Apartheid State
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
It is becoming increasingly difficult for Israel and the agencies that promote Zionism around the world to portray Zionism in rosy colors. This is primarily because there is a history of close to 100 years of Zionism; and the actions of the Zionist State, Israel, have a history of seven and a half decades of violence and racism. To add to that, in February, Amnesty International came out with a damning report demonstrating in no uncertain terms that Israel is engaged in the crime of apartheid and has been since the day it was established.
- Robbed by Law Enforcement
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First Published: 2022
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People who have never even been charged with a crime can have their life savings taken away. That’s civil asset forfeiture.
- British 'Watchdog' Journalists Unmasked as Lap Dogs for the Security State
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The cases of Carol Cadwalladr and Paul Mason reveal how readily celebrated media figures are recruited to the intelligence services’ covert information war against other journalists.
- Craig Murray: Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Think of every sensible thing you think you know about prison. Think of education, training, rehabilitation. It is all completely ignored by the Scottish Prison Service.
- The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of employment and recruitment websites, MintPress has ascertained that the social media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from the national security state to work in the fields of security, trust, safety and content.
- Sámi: Looking for lost elements of night skies
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Over the past couple centuries, much of Sámi sky lore has been lost, but what is known shows a culture that is intimately in tune with the land.
- Old Norse: Reading into ancient sky stories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Despite mastering the night sky, many old Norse sky culture details have been lost over time
- Leaked emails expose Paul Mason's collusion with senior British intelligence agent
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First Published: 2022
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In leaked emails, celebrity journalist Paul Mason plots extensively with Andy Pryce of the UK Foreign Office Counter Disinformation and Media Development unit.
- Forget liberating Ukraine - We first need to liberate our minds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Because we in the West are the strongest tribe on the planet, we are also the most deluded, the most propagandized, and the most dangerous.
- Joe Biden's Saber-Rattling Threatens World War III - with China and Russia
Fits long pattern of war-mongering and provocations that are a feature of the American Century
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- On Ukraine, 'progressive' proxy warriors spell disaster
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First Published: 2022
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'Progressives" who urge leftists to support the Ukraine proxy war whitewash the US role, attack dissenting voices, and advocate the dangerous militarism that they claims to oppose.
- Palestinian artists targeted in Germany ahead of major art event
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Exhibition space for Kassel's documenta 15 art festival vandalised, as threats to Palestinian artists in Germany escalate.
- Paul Mason's covert intelligence-linked plot to destroy The Grayzone exposed
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Leaked emails reveal British journalist Paul Mason plotting with an intel contractor to destroy The Grayzone through "relentless deplatforming" and a "full nuclear legal" attack. The scheme is part of a wider planned assault on the UK left.
- US State-Affiliated NewsGuard Targets Consortium News
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Pentagon and State Dept.-linked outfit, with an ex-N.S.A. and C.I.A. director on its board, is accusing Consortium News of publishing "false content" on Ukraine
- A new generation of US-trained extremists is fighting Russia. Are we prepared for the blowback?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
US agencies have directly and indirectly trained and empowered Nazis and ultra-nationalists at home and abroad to fight Russians in Ukraine. This program follows the blueprint established by Western intelligence agencies in Afghanistan and Syria.
- Lawyers will add Abu Akleh to Palestinian journalists' ICC case
ICC case highlights Israeli attacks on journalists and the bombing of Al Jazeera's offices in Gaza last May
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- NATO/US vs Russia in Ukraine: A Trotskyist Analysis
A litmus test for Trotskyists
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The current conflict in Ukraine seems in all likelihood to eventually be viewed as a major historical turning point. It has three interrelated threads: the decline of the American imperium; Russia’s role in an emerging multipolar geopolitical world order; and sharpening of national/ethnic antagonisms within Ukraine itself.
- How 'Virtual Crime Scenes' Became a Propaganda Tool in Nicaragua, Ukraine, and Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
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Creating "virtual crime scenes" is a tool which enables establishment media such as the New York Times, the BBC or (in Spain) El Pais, to convey interpretations of the events which conveniently coincide with the way they are seen by the US government and its allies.
- Finance Capitalism's Self-Destructive Nature
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Transcript of Interview on The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong May 25th, 2022
- The Threat to Privacy in the Post-Roe Era
How Your Cellphone Could Be Used Against You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Using a maps app to plan a route, sending terms to a search engine and chatting online are ways that people actively share their personal data. But mobile devices share far more data than just what their users say or type. They share information with the network about whom people contacted, when they did so, how long the communication lasted and what type of device was used.
- India: Birds Drop Out of the Sky, People Die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
"The streets, she says, are lined with dead things. Dogs. Cats. Cows. Animals of all kinds are just there, dead. They've perished in the killing heat. They can't survive." People spend all day in canals and rivers and lakes. Some people line the streets passed out at the edge of life or death.
- Calls By Western Socialists For A Russian Retreat From Ukraine Amount To De Facto Support For NATO Aggression
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
NATO socialists dismiss or ignore altogether the concerns of Russia over the expansionism, militarism and sanctions of the NATO alliance. In reality, Russian diplomatic efforts to push back against NATO's aggression - and NATO's use of Ukraine for its aggression - have gone on for several decades.
- Gender Ideology's True Believers
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
I spent 25 years in a cultish political sect. Trans activists are giving me deja vu.
- Letter to editors of FAIR.org on 'annexationists' and 'secessionists' in Crimea and Donbass
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The duly elected government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea staged a democratic referendum on March 16, 2014 to secede from the new, right-wing Ukraine referendum and rejoin the Russian Federation.
- The 16 Biggest Lies the U.S. Government Tells America About the Ukraine War
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
In any war, the first casualty is truth. Here, according to Richard Ochs, are the biggest lies.
- Censoring Palestine: Swarms of Israeli Bots Are Crippling Pro-Palestinian Twitter Account
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Israeli government's targeting of Palestinian digital content is well-documented. According to 7amleh, The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, the Israeli Ministry of Justice Cyber Unit sends content-removal requests aimed at Palestinian content to social media companies such as Facebook, Google, and YouTube. The Justice Ministry has boasted these corporations comply with 95% of their requests. And Israeli governmental organizations and NGOs also encourage their citizens to flag Palestinian content for removal.
- The Israeli Execution of Shireen Abu Akleh
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Israel, which shoots hundreds of Palestinians a year, routinely includes reporters and photographers on its target lists. The execution of Abu Akleh was not an accident. She was singled out for elimination.
- The New Iron Curtain
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Ukraine crisis proves to be Europe's crucible and Europe proves a profound disappointment. And here's the thing about this profoundly misguided project. The populations of the Western post-democracies will pay a far higher price for letting their leaders build the thick stone wall of Cold War II than those it is supposed to consign to the wilderness. Westerners will pay this price in blindness, in ignorance, and in isolation from the global majority.
- Russia has the historical right to invade Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
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The simple question is: What was Russia to do?
- Will Shireen Abu Akleh's Murder Mark a Turning Point in the Liberation of Palestine?
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
As I write these words, the world is trying to make sense of the brutal assassination of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was targeted by Israeli forces while covering yet another Israeli assault on Jenin. Furthermore, Israeli forces have now attacked the funeral procession leading Shireen to her final resting place. One wonders why is anyone surprised.
- Ben Norton aka Multipolarista interviews Michael Hudson: Destiny of Civilization
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The decline of the US dollar, the three 'systems', the sanctions war on Russia, on the eve of the publication of Prof. Hudson's new book: The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism.
- Contemporary Race Theory and the Problem of History: A Critique
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The inability of contemporary race theory to fully account for and explain (rather than just label) the social dynamics that produce and reproduce inequality stems from two core assumptions that form the bedrock for this taxonomic project. The first is that anti-Black racism is an unalterable feature of American life - hence the impetus towards labeling and naming the different and ostensibly novel forms that racism takes. The second is that class analysis in inadequate theoretically, and class struggle is politically outmoded.
- How a century of political violence in Ukraine is linked to the atrocities of today
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First Published: 2022
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The history of Ukrainian nationalist cruelty is an important factor, barely discussed, or known, in the West.
- "Let Me Go Get My Big White Man"
The Clientelist Foundation of Contemporary Antiracist Politics
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
No matter what those who propound it may believe about themselves or, more meaningfully, want the rest of us to believe about them, contemporary race-reductionist politics - i.e., what is commonly recognized as antiracist politics - is not in any way left, egalitarian, or democratic. It is not linked to any popular, insurgent, or 'bottom-up' black or other political expressions. It is not oriented practically toward a vision of broadly egalitarian social transformation, nor is it at all aligned with or congenial to any project of generating a political movement toward such ends.
- Gerald Hannon, a key figure in the gay liberation movement, has died at age 77
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Recalling Gerald Hannon.
- Dear Al Gorithm
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A look at search engine optimization (SEO) spam and the algorithms behind them.
- My Husband Died With Dignity. Everyone Should Have That Right.
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Frank Cunningham, the love of my life for over fifty years, died of acute leukemia on February 4, 2022, at age eighty-one. Frank died as he wished: through the Canadian medical assistance in dying (MAID) program, at home in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), lying on our living room sofa, with me holding his hands.
- My Nelson Mandela is dead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The way to liberate the Palestinians from Israel requires replacing the apartheid regime known as "Israel" with a free, democratic Palestine – and not expecting that Israel itself will allow Palestinians to be free. Israel isn't just the perpetrator of the crime, it is, in and of itself, the crime. The existence of Apartheid Israel is the crime.
- Donziger: a Tale for Our Times
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
This case shows how we are all, in a sense, the prisoners of corporations which dictate the terms on which we live, work and share knowledge.
- A Reader Sounds Off on PayPal's Ban on Consortium News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
As with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, journalism that tells some truths that might undermine the case for war can't be tolerated.
- Ukraine: Cost of War in Africa & Global South
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
As the West is busy dealing with its own economic woes while cutting off Russian exports, little heed is being paid to those suffering the most.
- Burned alive: How the 2014 Odessa massacre became a turning point for Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Clashes between opposing activists turned into mass murder. The perpetrators have never been punished.
- UK intensifies crackdown against Russian media
London accused RT of spreading 'dangerous nonsense' amid Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- PayPal Cancels CN Account; May Seize Balance
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
PayPal has canceled Consortium News' account without any prior notice or due process and with virtually no explanation. As Consortium News is today launching its Spring Fund Drive, it has lost one of its most important ways for its viewers and readers to show their support through donations.
- The NATO to TikTok Pipeline: Why is Tiktok employing so many national security agents?
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- France Stuck in the Extreme Center
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
After years of neoliberalism, French politics that venture outside the conformist centre's unshakable loyalty to the Atlantic Alliance are now dangerously 'extreme.'
- Alice Walker & the Price of Conscience
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
On the decision of the Bay Area Book Festival to disinvite Alice Walker.
- A Recap Of The War In Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
- An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
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First Published: 2022
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Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- How the trans ideology dehumanises women
Grace Lavery's bonkers book shows just how sexist trans thinking has become.
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First Published: 2022
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I've seen some gaslighting in my time, but the new book from transgender professor Grace Lavery takes the biscuit. It is almost entirely about Lavery's penis - as confirmed by its title, Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis - and yet if any of you dare to refer to Lavery as a man you will be branded a bigot.
- Why Russia's intervention in Ukraine is legal under international law
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First Published: 2022
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The argument can be made that Russia has exercised its right to self-defense under international law.
- Big Tech's 'Cancel Culture' Love Affair
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Cancel culture is inbuilt in the techno-feudalist project: conform to the hegemonic narrative, or else. Journalism that does not conform must be taken down. This month, several of us - Scott Ritter, myself, ASB Military News, among others - were canceled from Twitter. The - unstated - reason: we were debunking the officially approved narrative of the Russia/NATO/Ukraine war.
- Mom furious Grade 8 students at Woodstock, Ont., school must make posters for anti-abortion group's contest
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The posters being made at Woodstock school will be graded, entered in Right to Life Coalition contest.
- Prison Food
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First Published: 2022
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"Not for Human Consumption." The author, who saw that label himself when he was incarcerated, calls out a widespread human rights violation being committed in U.S. prisons.
- Zelensky's Hardline Internal Purge
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First Published: 2022
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Ukraine's 'pro-democracy' president has outlawed his opposition, ordered rivals arrested and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents.
- As opportunities to see old movies fade, so does basic cinematic literacy
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
When it comes to the movies many people feel comfortable ignoring anything made before they were born. Black-and-white movies? Forget it. Silent films? Are you kidding? And I’m not even talking about teenagers, or casual fans. I've taught film students - many of whom want to make their own movies - who seem to think cinema started with 'Pulp Fiction.'
- Balalaika compared to swastika
Swedish folk group cancels concert after being criticized for playing Russian instruments
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First Published: 2022
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- "One less traitor": Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition
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First Published: 2022
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While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals' arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.
- US, EU sacrificing Ukraine to 'weaken Russia': former NATO adviser
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First Published: 2022
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As the Russia-Ukraine war enters a new phase, former Swiss intelligence officer, senior United Nations official, and NATO advisor Jacques Baud analyzes the conflict and argues that the US and its allies are exploiting Ukraine in a longstanding campaign to bleed its Russian neighbour.
- The US has The Hague Invasion Act, but wants The Hague to target Russia
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First Published: 2022
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Washington wants Putin in the International Criminal Court, but its law allows "all means necessary" to prevent cases against USA.
- Twitter Wars: My Personal Experience in Twitter's Ongoing Assault on Free Speech
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Five rules for fighting transactivism
Stonewall loyalists need rescuing from themselves
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First Published: 2022
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With a nod in solidarity to beleaguered adults across the land having to deal with transactivist drama in their organisations, homes, and friend groups: here are five supernanny-style rules from me.
- Pentagon Asks Top 8 US Arms Makers to Meet on Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
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According to a report from Reuters, the Pentagon will host leaders from the top eight US weapons makers to discuss the industry’s capacity to produce arms for Ukraine if the war lasts years. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the US has pledged over $1.7 billion in new military aid for Ukraine.
- Thinking about Terry Fox and the Marathon of Hope
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First Published: 2022
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Reflections on Terry Fox's legacy, forty-two years later.
- Frieden für die Ukraine - Wie der Krieg beendet werden kann
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First Published: 2022
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- Hate speech and death threats
Canadian academics harassed after criticizing Hindu nationalism in India
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First Published: 2022
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Academics receive online hate from local diaspora groups and foreign trolls.
- The US Bubble of Pretend
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First Published: 2022
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The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most Americans.
- Questions Abound About Bucha Massacre
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First Published: 2022
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The West has made a snap judgment about who is responsible for the massacre at the Ukrainian town of Bucha with calls for more stringent sanctions on Russia, but the question of guilt is far from decided.
- New witness testimony about Mariupol maternity hospital 'airstrike' follows pattern of Ukrainian deceptions, media malpractice
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First Published: 2022
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A key witness to the widely publicized incident at the Mariupol maternity hospital has punctured the official narrative of a Russian airstrike on the facility, and raised serious questions about Western media ethics.
- Democrats: Party Of Child Mutilators & Kidnappers
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The left-wing case against identity politics
It is time progressives stood up to the racism, classism and misogyny of wokeness.
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First Published: 2022
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Book review of The Identity Myth by David Swift.
- Russia, Ukraine and the Law of War: War Crimes
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First Published: 2022
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Scott Ritter lays out what the law says about war crimes and how it applies to the conflict in Ukraine.
- Striving to make sense of the Ukraine war
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First Published: 2022
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- The week the trans spell was broken
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First Published: 2022
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In the end, it wasn't one person who pointed out that gender extremism wears no clothes. There were so many: therapists, academics, parents, authors, athletes, politicians, barristers, journalists, scientists, feminists, gay activists, all shouting over the years that this ideology would hurt women, children, gay people and trans people.
- Biden Administration to Review 'Troubled Legacy' of Indian Residential Schools
The U.S. government funded hundreds of residential schools for American Indians
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First Published: 2022
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The Interior Department's press release says the commission will "shed light on the unspoken traumas of the past" and promised to "respect families and communities."
- How the organized Left got Covid wrong, learned to love lockdowns and lost its mind
An autopsy
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First Published: 2022
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For two years the left has championed policies of surveillance and exclusion in the form of: punitive vaccine mandates, invasive vaccine passports, socially destructive lockdowns, and radically unaccountable censorship by large media and technology corporations. For the entire pandemic, leftists and liberals - call them the Lockdown Left - cheered on unprecedented levels of repression aimed primarily at the working class: those who could not afford private schools and could not comfortably telecommute from second homes.
- Ukraine: The Economic Fallout
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First Published: 2022
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Economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss the economic war against Russia and its boomerang effect on the West. Does it mean that globalization is over?
- Partnering With Neo-Nazis in Ukraine: An Inconvenient History
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First Published: 2022
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Under pressure from neo-Nazi parties that have large power that is disproportionate to their small support, Zelensky abandoned his campaign peace promise and refused to talk to the leaders of the Donbas and implement the Minsk Agreements.
- Michael Hudson interview with Margaret Flowers
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First Published: 2022
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According to Michael Hudson, all of a sudden this last week, you're seeing the world economy fracture into two parts, a dollarized part and other countries that do not follow the neoliberal policies that the United States insists that its allies follow. We're seeing the birth of a new dual World economy.
- Palestine is a loud echo of Britain's colonial past - and a warning of the future
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First Published: 2022
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In moving from Nazareth back to the UK, I have stepped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
- Russia, Ukraine & the Law of War: Crime of Aggression
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First Published: 2022
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- Social media giants repress Palestinian content
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First Published: 2022
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Silicon Valley is solidly entrenching itself as a devoted enemy of political dissent. As the West implements draconian sanctions against Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, including the banning of the Russian news outlets RT and Sputnik from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok as well as search engine results, social media censorship of political messaging about the Palestinian liberation struggle continues.
- America Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century
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First Published: 2022
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The recent prodding of Russia by expanding Ukrainian anti-Russian ethnic violence by Ukraine's neo-Nazi post-2014 Maiden regime was aimed at (and has succeeded in) forcing a showdown in response to America's fear that it is losing its economic and political hold on its NATO allies and other Dollar Area satellites. These countries have seen major opportunities for gain to lie in increasing trade and investment with China and Russia.
- Cancel Culture Democracy Comes to Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
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When I am told, by possibly well-meaning but at best indoctrinated and at worst imbecilic individuals, that Freedom and Democracy require Censorship and Suppression it is my duty to fight against such buffoons.
- On Being Disappeared
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First Published: 2022
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YouTube has removed the entire six-year archive of the author's show 'On Contact.' This censorship, he says, is about supporting what I.F Stone reminded us is what governments always do - lie.
- MSM Cover-Up of Neo-Nazis In Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
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In its coverage of the war in Ukraine, one of the MSM's most egregious offenses is its silence or downplaying the significance of the neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
- The road to Ukraine started with 1999's Kosovo War
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On March 24, 1999, NATO launched an air war against Serbia and Montenegro, then known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Washington Helped Trigger the Ukraine War
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The magnitude of the aggressive moves taken by the Pentagon and CIA are just now becoming apparent.
- Escalation Without Consequences on the Op-Ed Page
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Corporate media outlets are calling for the United States and its allies to react to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine by escalating the war. The opinion pages are awash with pleas to pump ever-more deadly weaponry into the conflict, to choke Russian civilians with sanctions, and even to institute a "no-fly zone." That such approaches gamble with thousands, and possibly millions, of lives doesn’t shake the resolve of the press’s armchair generals.
- The fictional world of trans activism
There's nothing harmless about denying the truth
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- The Lie of American Innocence
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The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States. It is unclear how anyone would try Putin for war crimes since Russia, like the United States, does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. But justice is not the point. Politicians like Biden, who do not accept responsibility for our well-documented war crimes, bolster their moral credentials by demonizing their adversaries. They know the chance of Putin facing justice is zero. And they know their chance of facing justice is the same.
- Washington's Sanctions War
A Futile Attempt To Control the World Economy
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First Published: 2022
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In essence, economic sanctions assume that the state is entitled to expropriate and destroy economic value owned by any business which had been doing good faith trading or financial transactions with sanctioned Russian entities.
- World Frog Day
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- How Much Less Newsworthy Are Civilians in Other Conflicts?
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As US news media covered the first shocking weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some media observers -- like FAIR founder Jeff Cohen -- have noted their impressions of how coverage differed from wars past.
- It's Not OK for Grown Adults to Think This Way About Ukraine
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- Social media giants allow hate speech against Russia but silence Israel's critics
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Silicon Valley's decision to allow anti-Russia threats reveals it as little more than a propaganda arm of the West.
- For Washington, War Never Ends
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The formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the rearmament of Germany confirmed that for the United States, the war in Europe was not entirely over. It still isn't. It goes on and on.
- Is this how it all ends?
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- Shock and Awe: Then and Now
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In the two U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the world has seen two decades of wholesale death and destruction at the hands of the U.S. military, at a cost of trillions and countless deaths estimated between one and two million.
- Humanitarian flights for Ukraine loaded with weapons, protesting airport workers claim
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Airport workers in Italy claim "humanitarian" cargo from Pisa was actually aimed at fuelling the conflict.
- The politically driven campaign against Harvard anthropologist John Comaroff
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First Published: 2022
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The attack on Harvard anthropology professor John Comaroff has taken to a new level the campaign to purge American colleges and universities on the basis of anti-democratic identity politics.
- Under the Wolfsangel: The uncomfortable truth about radical ideologies in Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
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The Nazi influence on modern-day Ukrainian politics is clear, tangible, and willfully ignored by its Western supporters.
- Conflict In Ukraine Used To Silence Voices Of Dissent In The United States
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Clearing the FOG speaks with political comedian Lee Camp about the sudden de-platforming that happened to him when RT America abruptly shut down after the Russian military intervention in Ukraine last month. Camp lost his program Redacted Tonight that aired weekly for the past eight years, and he was kicked off of other platforms such as Spotify. Camp talks about the big picture of growing censorship, the state of the media and freedom of the press, and the assault on the public's access to information that counters the narrative in the corporate media.
- International Day of Action for Rivers 2022
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- Nuclear expert speaks on the dangers of war between the US and Russia
Interview with Greg Mello
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Nuclear war is not one or two Hiroshima-sized bombs. The imagination cannot encompass nuclear war. Nuclear war means nuclear winter. It means the collapse of very fragile electronic, financial, governmental, administrative systems that keep everyone alive. We’d be lucky to reboot in the early 19th century. And if enough weapons are detonated, the collapse of the Earth’s ozone layer would mean that every form of life that has eyes could be blinded. The combined effects of a US-Russian nuclear war would mean that pretty much every terrestrial mammal, and many plants, would become extinct.
- Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
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The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives during the Cold War and dominates our lives now.
- The West's Hands in Ukraine as Bloody as Putin's
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There is a discursive nervous tic all over social media at the moment, including from prominent journalists such as Guardian columnist George Monbiot. The demand is that everyone not only "condemn" Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, but do so without qualification.
- I Work for Sputnik News
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First Published: 2022
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Torture, whistleblowing, extraordinary rendition, secret prisons, solitary confinement and corruption in the justice system. Those are Kiriakou's subjects and he is happy to talk about them anywhere.
- Worthy & Unworthy Victims
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The life of a Palestinian or an Iraqi child is as precious as the life of a Ukrainian child. No one should live in fear and terror. No one should be sacrificed on the altar of Mars.
- Australian Government Sanctions People For Sharing Unauthorized Thoughts
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First Published: 2022
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Stomping on speech which doesn't align with the authorized opinions of the government and the globe-spanning empire of which it is a member state.
- The Casualties of Empire
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Diabolic methods of propaganda and perception management are at work now that have no precedent. This is war waged in a new way — against domestic populations as well as those declared as enemies.
- In These Days of Great Tension
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Rather than allow this war to escalate and for positions to harden, it is important for the guns to go silent and the discussions to recommence. writes Vijay Prashad.
- The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War
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- The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War
Boyd-Barrett, Oliver
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First Published: 2022
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In the United States and its allies, Russia confronts an adversary which is the only country ever to have used nuclear weapons on another. This is also an adversary which has many times since considered using nuclear weapons again.
- National Endowment for Democracy Deletes Records of Funding Projects in Ukraine
Deletion needed to preserve big lie of an unprovoked Russian invasion
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First Published: 2022
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The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) -- a CIA offshoot founded in the early 1980s to advance "democracy promotion" initiatives around the world—has deleted all records of funding projects in Ukraine from their searchable "Awarded Grants Search" database.
- Pity the Nation
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First Published: 2022
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Fact-based arguments Scott Ritter made challenging the case for war against Iraq were effectively silenced. Today he sees the same template in play towards anyone challenging the dogma of 'Putinism.
- A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War
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First Published: 2022
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An end to the invasion and war in Ukraine can only be guaranteed if Russia’s security is itself guaranteed. Security is largely indivisible. Security for one state requires security for others, says the Los Alamos Study Group.
- Western cancel culture has gone nuclear in targeting an entire country
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First Published: 2022
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By now, we're all used to righteous people pitching fits and ganging up, mean-girl style, on those they feel have committed transgressions against the status quo. But amid the conflict in Ukraine, some are actually trying to deplatform the world's largest country by attacking anyone and anything even remotely associated with it.
- Erklarung zur Abstimmung uber den Ukraine-Antrag von SPD/CDU/CSU, Bündnis 90/DIE Grune und FDP
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- War, Conflict & Enemies of Truth
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The frenzy engendered by the Ukraine conflict reinforces a herd mentality that cries out for critical thinking.
- George Monbiot: NATO's witchfinder
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First Published: 2022
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In everything he writes George Monbiot accepts what pro-Western sources report as gospel and on this basis alone denounces his opponents.
- How Zelensky Made Peace With Neo-Nazis
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First Published: 2022
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While Western media deploy Zelensky's heritage to refute accusations of neo-Nazis in Ukraine, the president now depends on them as front line fighters in the war with Russia.
- Russia-Ukraine: Western media are acting as cheerleaders for war
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First Published: 2022
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Journalists are cheering on the arming of militias and civilians making improvised explosives - acts they usually treat as terrorism
- Secret trackers and hidden cameras expose how some movers could be ripping you off
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First Published: 2022
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A group of moving companies is offering low quotes and then increasing the total cost of moves by thousands of dollars -- in some cases grossly over-estimating the weight of goods to be moved, a CBC Marketplace investigation has found. Questionable moving practices are on the rise, industry experts say.
- Spotify Purges Dissident Voices In Latest Censorship Escalation
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First Published: 2022
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Multiple American podcasters who speak critically of the political status quo in their country are reporting that their channels have been shut down as the censorship campaign against Russia-backed media continues to escalate.
- Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot Of Censorship
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First Published: 2022
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Perhaps we have foolishly consented to a reality where the most powerful people in the world get to control the information people consume in order to shut down dissent against a murderous and oppressive globe-spanning oligarchic empire.
- Russia and the West: between sanctions and war
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First Published: 2022
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On sanctions as economic war.
- How are the Germans keeping warm?
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First Published: 2022
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- Foreign Agents Designation Causes Media Cold War
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First Published: 2022
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Media based in countries the United States regards as enemies, such as Russia and China, even if they are privately owned, are required to register as "foreign agents." So are media which run reports critical of U.S. foreign policy, like Al Jazeera. Other state owned-media, like the BBC, CBC, Deutsche Welle, let alone Voice of America, are not required to register.
- Russia-Ukraine Resources: History, context and analysis of the crisis
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Articles and interviews examining the context and background of the 2022 crisis.
- Sleepy Joe's Ukraine Hypocrisy Is Truly Beyond Measure
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- Ukraine: What Will Be Done and What Should Be Done?
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- Chronicle of a War Foretold
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- Experts Warned For Years That NATO Expansion Would Lead To This
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Analysts and diplomats have been saying since the 1990s that NATO expansion would eventually spark a conflict in Eastern Europe.
- The main enemy is at home
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The outbreak of war is always a human disaster with unforeseeable consequences. The 'fog of war,' incessant propaganda, rapidly changing events, our own confused thoughts and emotions, all make it exceedingly difficult to know how to react.
- In Ukraine, 'No One Hears That There Is a Diplomatic Solution'
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First Published: 2022
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- Twelve Thoughts On Ukraine
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- Why Putin Went to War
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Russia says it has no intentions of controlling Ukraine and its military operation is only to "demilitarize" and "de-Nazify" Ukraine in an action taken after 30 years of the U.S. pushing Russia too far, writes Joe Lauria.
- Canceling talks with Russia won't achieve anything
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The United States and its European partners have no vital interests in Ukraine — and therefore should be prepared to compromise.
- No Actually The US Empire Is Still The Power To Criticize
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First Published: 2022
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- No To Preventive Detention: From Palestine, to Guantanamo, to U.S. Jails!
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First Published: 2022
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On administrative detention of 500 Palestinians when they announced a boycott of Israeli military courts.
- Trans ideology has captured the university
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First Published: 2022
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- Trans privilege
It is an outrage that Lia Thomas is allowed to compete against women
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First Published: 2022
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- US Foreign Policy Is a Cruel Sport
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First Published: 2022
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- Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Neo-Nazi Publicity Stunt in Ukraine
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First Published: 2022
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- What Is the Difference Between Kosovo & Donbass?
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First Published: 2022
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When the corporate media push for war, one of their main weapons is propaganda by omission. In the case of the recent crisis in Ukraine, Western journalists have omitted key context about the expansion of NATO since the end of the Cold War, as well as US support for the Maidan coup in 2014. A third and crucial case of propaganda by omission relates to the integration of neo-Nazis into the Ukrainian armed forces If the corporate media reported more critically about Western support for the neo-Nazi-infested Ukrainian security services, and how these forces function as a front-line proxy of US foreign policy, public support for war might be reduced and military budgets called into greater question.
As recent coverage demonstrates, one way of resolving this issue is by not mentioning the inconvenient matter of Ukrainian neo-Nazis altogether.
- Expelled from a Progressive Think Tank - for the Crime of Denouncing Antifa Violence
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First Published: 2022
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- Russia-Ukraine is an Information War, So Government Intelligence Needs More Scrutiny Than Ever
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Why I stopped being a good girl
Women can no longer afford to sit out the gender wars
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First Published: 2022
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How can feelings (gender identity) always take precedence over material reality (biological sex)?
- "If you want peace, prepare for war" (Russia, Ukraine, NATO, EU)
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First Published: 2022
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An explanatory article on the background and geo-political rivalries leading to the 2022 escalation of conflict in Ukraine. The text is a translation of "Si vis pacem para bellum – Wer Frieden will rüste sich zum Krieg (Platon, Cicero, Russland, Ukraine, NATO, EU)" by Gruppen Gegen Kapital Und Nation (Groups against Capital and Nation) which was published on February 21st, two days before the Russian invasion began.
- The Ottawa Trucker Protest Was Disruptive. The Hysterical Reaction to It Was Worse
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First Published: 2022
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- How sensitivity readers corrupt literature
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They sullied my memoir to suit their agenda
- The truckers have changed Canada forever
The Freedom Convoy has shaken Canadian politics to its core
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda
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First Published: 2022
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- Justin Trudeau's phoney dictatorship
Relying on emergency powers reveals his weakness
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First Published: 2022
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When Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers to quell protests against mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations this week, it was another sign that for Western liberal democracy, business as usual is over.
- The truckers' revolt has exposed the left's class hatred
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First Published: 2022
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- PBI-Canada remembers peace activist Frank Showler
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First Published: 2022
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Frank Showler passed away on February 10, 2022 at the age of 102.
- The Problem of Sex Discrimination in Indigenous Archaeology
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First Published: 2022
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Discrimination still faced by women who toil away in the fields of anthropology and archaeology.
- Rest in Power, Frank
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First Published: 2022
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Short biography of Frank Showler, an anti-capitalist and pacifist who died at the age of 102.
- World Hippopotamus Day
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First Published: 2022
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- World Bonobo Day
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First Published: 2022
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- The Crisis in Ukraine Is Not About Ukraine. It's About Germany
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First Published: 2022
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- How the Left betrayed the Truckers
The convoy is despised by those who should support it
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First Published: 2022
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Ottawa's truckers are a symptom of the massive class divide that is opening up across the West. Marxists are sticking their heads in the sand about this generational moment, or papering it over with absurd topsy-turvy leaps.
- Resource Limits to American Capitalism & the Predator State Today
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First Published: 2022
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James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of US capitalism from an industrial state to what he calls a predator state: a finance-led, military-centered corporate republic that continues to prevail. To overcome it, he lays out what is needed to focus on employment, stability and adjustments to rising resource costs.
- Freedom Convoy
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First Published: 2022
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- I'm not sure I trust my 'rational' view of the trucker protest anymore
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First Published: 2022
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Our reaction to the protest was narrative construction in real-time
- The Maus That Roared
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- US Approach to Ukraine and Russia Has Left the Domain of Rational Discourse
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First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Smearing an Entire Protest Movement as Fascistic Will Come Back to Haunt My Fellow Leftists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Canadians as a whole, and especially centre-left voters, have come to believe that the legitimacy of a movement inheres not in its size or the diversity of people and views it represents, but rather in its ability to discipline and control its supporters.
- What the Left can learn from the 'Freedom Convoy'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign: Jeremy Corbyn's Political Assassination
Zollmann, Florian; Coles, T.J.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the British Labour Party, was subjected to a concerted propaganda campaign by the British right-wing military-industrial establishment, which regarded him as a threat to its interests. This article fleshes out the individual components of this campaign and dissects how it was amplified by the British mainstream media. As Corbyn pointed out, he was not the threat. The real 'threat' was the general public who would have used Corbyn as a political representative to bring services back into common ownership, moderately raise taxes on the wealthy, properly fund social security, and to some degree curtail British militarism abroad.
- Canadian Jewish Group Welcomes New Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid, Urges Government to Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Amnesty International has analysed Israel's intent to create and maintain a system of oppression and domination over Palestinians and examined its key components: territorial fragmentation; segregation and control; dispossession of land and property; and denial of economic and social rights. It has concluded that this system amounts to apartheid. Israel must dismantle this cruel system and the international community must pressure it to do so. All those with jurisdiction over the crimes committed to maintain the system should investigate them.
- The Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Vaccine Policy
Why Mandates, Passports, and Segregated Lockdowns May Cause more Harm than Good
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Let's Back Up A Sec And Ask Why Free Speech Actually Matters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
To really answer the question of whether the increasingly widespread practice of Silicon Valley censorship via algorithm and deplatforming is a major problem and whether an increase in speech restriction is desirable, we need to take a step back and ask ourselves why free speech even matters in the first place.
- Meet the truckers: The men and women of the Freedom Convoy 2022
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The National Post spoke to truck drivers and supporters as they were driving to Ottawa for this weekend's "Freedom Convoy 2022" to protest vaccine mandates. Here is what they said about their jobs, their frustrations with government measures during the pandemic, and the rule that could kill their livelihoods.
- Joyce Nelson was my friend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Activists in Canada Build Construction Site on Pipeline Executives' Front Lawns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Toronto supporters of the Wet'suwet’en land defense struggle against the Coastal Gaslink pipeline set up construction sites at the Toronto homes of TC Energy Board Chair Siim Vanaselja and Royal Bank of Canada Executive Doug Guzman. The supporters also flyered the neighborhood with photos of the two men with signs warning, "Your neighbour is pushing the Coastal Gaslink pipeline through Wet'suwet'en Territory at gunpoint."
- Censorship By Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
By mid-2017 independent media outlets were already reporting across ideological lines that algorithm changes from important sources of viewership like Google had suddenly begun hiding their content from people who were searching for the subjects they reported on.
- The death of intimacy
Sex positivity has created a cult of celibacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
What's happening in heterosexual couplings now is also, crucially, about what isn't happening: a sexual famine amongst Gen Z, who are upending the entire romantic landscape as they come of age. There is less sex, but also less dating, less social interaction writ large without the intermediary of a screen.
- Is it already too late to say goodbye?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
My blog posts once attracted tens of thousands of shares. Then, as the algorithms tightened, it became thousands. Now, as they throttle me further, shares can often be counted in the hundreds. "Going viral" is a distant memory.
- As Trudeau cracks down, the left drives protesters into the right's arms again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Divide and rule, the cultivation of tribalism, is an insurance policy against successful dissent and the threat of revolution.
- Joyce Nelson
Obituary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- In Memoriam: Joyce Nelson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Actual reality is infinitely preferable to the dystopian augmented reality of the Metaverse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
After isolating lockdowns and other absurd anti-science measures that have made life hell for many for the past year-and-a-half, people are thirsty for real life interactions, not Zoom calls or other digital meet-ups.
- Advocating for Palestine in Canada
Histories, Movements, Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Archaeology is under attack from wokeness
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Identifying the sex of ancient remains must stop, woke academics are demanding. If they have their way, it will be a scientific disaster.
- Asian socialists condemn Russia's war on Ukraine, NATO expansionism
Statements against the war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Building That Bright Future
Soviet Karelia in the Life Writing of Finnish North Americans
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The Call of the Red-Winged Blackbird
Essays on the common and the extraordinary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The case that changed the gender debate
Stonewall's strategy of 'no debate' has backfired
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The causes and consequences of the Ukraine war
A lecture by John J. Mearsheimer
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The Destiny of Civilization
Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The Destiny of Civilization presents an overview of Michael Hudson's geo-political perspective: analysis which integrates economics, history, politics, archaeology and psychology.
- The Don: The Story of Toronto's Infamous Jail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
An in-depth exploration of the Don Jail from its inception through jailbreaks and overcrowding to its eventual shuttering and rebirth.
- 'Earliest total genocide of WWII'
How the massacre in Gudovac became a step into terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
In the first massacre ordered by the newly established Nazi Croatia, the Ustasha shot 180 Serb villagers near Bjelovar.
- For a Better World
The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers' Revolt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Looks at the history and legacies of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.
- 400,000 fewer mammograms during pandemic, more advanced cancer now seen: OMA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Doctors in Ontario are seeing more advanced cases of breast cancer after 400,000 fewer mammograms were performed in the province during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ontario Medical Association says. Although screenings have since returned to normal levels, the organization warned that the temporary decrease in testing has led to many cases of the disease being diagnosed at later stages.
- France's Yellow Vests: Western Repression of the West's Best Values
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
An account of the Yellow Vests movement in France, by a journalist who covered the movement.
- The Freedom Convoy: The Inside Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World
Lawton, Andrew
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Frieden für die Ukraine - Wie der Krieg beendet werden kann
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- From Layton to Singh
The 20-year conflict behind the NDP's deal with the Trudeau Liberals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
An analysis of the federal NDP since 2000, examining the ongoing, unresolved tension between the grassroots members and the central bureaucracy.
- Für eine populäire Linke
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Wir wollen eine LINKE, die für die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung, die Arbeitenden, die Familien, die Rentnerinnen und Rentner und die sozial Benachteiligten aktiv ist.
- Gifted magazine writer Gerald Hannon was no stranger to controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Gerald Hannon, a radical sex-positive activist, journalist and social commentator, on Dec. 13, 1996.
- Here's what I found at the reported 'mass grave' near Mariupol
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A first-hand look at the location where Kiev claims trenches hold thousands of bodies.
- How to stop children being indoctrinated
Woke textbooks should be laughed at - not censored
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
I read recently of the "flame purification" ceremony conducted by the board in charge of elementary and secondary schools in southwestern Ontario. Almost 5,000 books judged to contain outdated racial stereotypes were removed from school libraries to be burnt or recycled. Some of the incinerated remains were used as a fertiliser to plant a tree - an uplifting, progressive and environmentally conscious gesture, if one ignores the overtones of Fahrenheit 451.
- I know Israel practices apartheid because I helped enforce it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Rafael Silver left Israel because he could no longer be a part of a system that practices apartheid against the Palestinian people. "I have seen it in action with my own eyes," he writes. "I have enforced it during my military service in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip and supported it as an Israeli taxpayer."
- The Identity Myth: Why We Need to Embrace Our Differences to Beat Inequality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
In The Identity Myth, David Swift covers the four different kinds of identity most susceptible to this trend - class, race, sex and age. He considers how the boundaries of identities are policed and how diverse versions of the same identity can be deployed to different ends. Ultimately, it is not that identities are simply more 'complex' than they appear but that there are more important commonalities. Swift argues that we must unite against these identity myths and embrace our differences to beat inequality.
- Invading sea lions take over B.C. fish farm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Israel's Dance of Flags is a Zionist Hate Parade and, by Definition, an Act of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Kingdom of Night
Witnesses to the Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The Last Heroes
Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
So who really spearheaded India’s Freedom Struggle? Millions of ordinary people -- farmers, labourers, homemakers, forest produce gatherers, artisans and others -- stood up to the British. People who never went on to be ministers, governors, presidents, or hold other high public office. They had this in common: their opposition to Empire was uncompromising. In The Last Heroes, these footsoldiers of Indian freedom tell us their stories.
- Media Are Now Whitewashing Nazis They Had Previously Condemned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Over the years many 'western' media have correctly reported about the Ukrainian fascists. Here is an incomplete collection.
- Media Support 'Self-Determination' for US Allies, Not Enemies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Non-Western media outlets have identified a precedent for Russia citing Donetsk and Luhansk's right to self-determination as a rationale for attacking Ukraine: the Kosovo War. In 1999, NATO conducted a 78-day war that helped to dismember Yugoslavia and create a new state, Kosovo, a Serbian province whose population was 90% ethnic Albanians.
- David Milgaard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The victim of one of Canada's most notorious miscarriages of justice, David Milgaard spent 23 years in prison for a 1969 rape and murder he didn't commit. He died over the weekend after a short illness at the age of 69.
- The narcissism of America's race politics
The realities of black British lives were eclipsed by BLM
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
in the aftermath of Floyd’s death, the catch-all framework of "Black Lives Matter" was imported to every corner of the planet, even though race relations are not the same throughout the world. They are instead mediated by a country's unique history and culture.
It was bizarre, watching the majority of liberal democracies use the example of America to make sense of race in their own countries.
- Okoknage
The Story of the Kettle Nakoda First Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The comprehensive story of the Nakoda people in their own words
- On Going Seriously Boom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
On what nuclear war would mean.
- 'Peacemaker' of death: This Ukrainian website threatens hundreds of thousands with extrajudicial killings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
For the last eight years, a group of publicly unknown activists in Ukraine have been compiling lists of 'enemies of the people' with impunity. Hundreds of thousands have been declared criminals without trial. Among them are not only Russian citizens, but also Ukrainian opposition figures and bloggers, European politicians, and US citizens. At the very least, being added to this list is a stigma that makes life difficult in Ukraine, but it can also serve as justification for imprisonment or, in some cases, even being killed.
- Rare Merit
Women in Photography in Canada 1840 - 1940
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
As Canada took shape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women across the country captured people and places that were entirely new to the lengs. This book shows how they did so, and the meaning their work carries.
- Remembering Frank Showler
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Remembering Murray Dobbin: activist, intellectual, mentor, friend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- 'Rublegas:' the world's new resource-based reserve currency
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Rublegas is the commodity currency du jour and it isn't nearly as complicated as NATO pretends. If Europe wants gas, all it needs to do is send its Euros to a Russian account inside Russia.
- The Russian language in post-Soviet Ukraine
30 years of discrimination against the country's most popular tongue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
How restricting use of the language, native to a large part of the country, has become one of the top priorities of the Ukrainian government.
- The Situation in Russia and Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Smelter Wars
A Rebellious Red Trade Union Fights for its Life in Wartime Western Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
A memoir and historical account of growing up in the Jim Crow South.
- Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
For more than two decades, Hilary Peach worked as a transient welder and was one of the only women in the Boilermakers Union. This is her story.
- Those who violated the Geneva Conventions at Guantánamo are free, while the man who helped expose their crimes languishes in prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Tree Thieves
Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- The Uber Files
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
The secret story of how the tech giant won access to world leaders, cozied up to oligarchs and dodged taxes amid chaotic global expansion.
- Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm's way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals, as they repelled the Russian invasion that began in February, Amnesty International says,
- John Warnock
Obituary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- West Lincoln councillor breached code of conduct during 'freedom convoy': Integrity Commissioner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
West Lincoln Councillor Harold Jonker will be suspended from the Niagara-area council without pay for 30 days and be required to account for and pay back all food and gifts received during his participation in the anti-mandate protest around Parliament Hill. Jonker's participation in the so-called "Freedom Convoy," which began on January 28, 2022 and was determined by Ottawa Police to be "unlawful activity", led to a call by West Lincoln Integrity Commissioner John Mascarin for an investigation.
- Western media clubs together to white-wash Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Multiple outlets use the same talking points, quotes, and 'experts' to whitewash Ukraine's notorious Azov regiment.
- The woke mob are headed down the same well-trodden book-burning road as the Conquistadors and the Nazis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- You can't police offence
Politicians shouldn't try to outlaw psychological distress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
Delivering people from psychological distress is the business of therapists or priests, not lawmakers.
- Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Zeitenwende - Der Linksliberalismus und der Abschied von der liberalen Gesellschaft
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Published: 2022
- Key Biodiversity Areas
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2022
KBAs are sites that contribute to the persistence of biodiversity nationally and globally. Found across land, freshwater, and marine environments, KBAs support rare and threatened species and ecosystems, as well as key natural processes.
- Sanctions Kill
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2022
- Sense and Nonsense About Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- The left's contempt for bodily autonomy during the pandemic is a gift to the right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
When did parts of the left get so contemptuous of the principle of "bodily autonomy"? Answer: Just about the time they started fetishising vaccines as the only route out of the current pandemic.
- Greenlanders shipped to Denmark as children seek compensation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Inuit children were sent to the former colonial power as part of a failed social experiment that left them traumatised.
- Things are getting better and better and bettxrxr and bxzyxxx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Inside the US push to uncover Indigenous boarding school graves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Researchers say unmarked graves likely will be found at majority of boarding schools for Indigenous children across US.
- A database for the displaced
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Kushan Baladi initiative (literally: land title initiative) was founded to create an official register of Palestinian land ownership inside the 1948 boundaries of historic Palestine, now Israel.
- Anti-Vaxxer Protest
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Account of an anti-vaxxer protest in Toronto.
- The tribal left's a mirror image of the tribal right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Following the Science?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
"Following the science" has been the mantra of public officials from the very beginning of the pandemic. But what does "following the science" actually mean? When we as a society are faced with difficult policy choices, can science tell us what choices we should make?
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2021
Following the science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
When we as a society are faced with difficult policy choices, can science tell us what choices we should make? We should be sceptical of anyone who says that it can, because that isn’t actually what science does. It can certainly provide information we need to take into account when making choices and trade-offs, but choices don’t automatically follow from science.
- The politics of rebranding
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
How politics and social activism have too often become exercises in rebranding not material change.
- Justice for Julian Assange is Justice for All
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Following the final High Court hearing to decide whether or not Julian Assange is to be extradited to the United States - for the 'crime' of revealing a landscape of government crimes and lies -- John Pilger looks back on the decade Assange has been fighting for his freedom, and the implications for independent journalists and the very notion of justice.
- New research shows 50 year binge on chemical fertilisers must end to address the climate crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
New research shows that synthetic nitrogen fertilisers are a major driver of the climate crisis, responsible for 1 out every 40 tonnes of GHGs currently pumped into the atmosphere. Now is the time for the world to kick its addiction to synthetic nitrogen fertilisers and urgently transition to farming without fossil fuels and chemicals.
- The Planetary Rift
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In "Imperialism in the Anthropocene," we developed an argument that departs from most traditions on the left, in that it takes physical geography seriously as the climate catastrophe demands. Thus, we explained how low-latitude countries, essentially the Global South, are affected most, as a result of Earth System dynamics, by climate change, independently of the fact that they are already economically exploited by the nations of the Global North.
- World Development under Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The recent period of globalization - following the collapse of the Eastern bloc and the reintegration of China into the world economy - is one where global value chains have become the dominant organizational form of capitalism. The big question is whether this global value chain world is contributing to, or detracting from, real human development. Is it establishing a more equal, less exploitative, less poverty-ridden world?
- Massive cyberattack disrupts petrol stations in Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- We demand real zero, not net zero!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Net zero emissions and other false solutions allow polluters to continue polluting, says this statement adopted by the Oilwatch International Global Gathering in Nigeria in October 2021.
- Ecosocialism Not Extinction!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Ecosocialist Alliance statement on the opening of 2021 UN climate talks in Glasgow.
- Red tape bad, more red tape better
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Ontario's Progressive Conservative government, which bestowed the slogan "Open for Business" on the province after it took office, has been living up to its name by "cutting red tape" in order to make life easier for businesses. Ministerial Zoning Orders, which allow developers to build what they want, where they want, without being bothered by tiresome requirements like environmental assessments or public meetings, are a good example of what the Ford government means by cutting red tape.
- Covered Bridge Potato Chips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The hunt for Covered Bridge Sea Salt and Pepper potato chips.
- Library and Archives Canada service cuts hindering research, historians complain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Researchers say recent service cuts at Canada's national archives are making their work - already hampered by COVID-19 - even more challenging.
- These African animators are saving their native languages using cartoons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The African continent hosts roughly one-third of the world’s approximately 7,000 living languages. Due to the relentless dominance of international languages such as English and French, native languages are increasingly coming under threat.
- How Democracy Ends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The pandemic events of 2020-2021 outline a potential pathway for a future democratically elected President of the United States to systematically end democracy.
- Trans backlash on Atwood shows that while women have been freed from the control of men, they're now controlled by men in dresses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Why should award-winning author Margaret Atwood have to endure an online onslaught from trans activists who refuse to acknowledge basic biology, simply for retweeting an article that questions the erasure of the word 'woman'?
- Public health or private wealth?
How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Super Imperialism: The economic strategy of American empire with economist Michael Hudson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book "Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire" and the financial motivations behind the US new cold war on China and Russia.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 13, 2021
Light and darkness
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The more we learn, the more we realize how little we know. Each question we answer opens the door to more questions, because there are always more questions than answers. We are called upon to attempt to answer at least a few of the questions that seem important to us, but we do well to keep in mind that our answers are tentative and incomplete, always subject to revision in the light of further investigation. It can be difficult to remain critical, and self-critical, but self-righteousness and absolute certainty, no matter how emotionally satisfying they may be, only do harm, to ourselves, and to those we interact with. This issue of Other Voices offers some fragments of knowledge and insight, and it also raises questions.
- Shekon Neechie statement on "Open letter to the Council of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Public"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The undersigned applaud the CHA for their “Canada Day Statement” and refute the arguments used by the signatories of the “Open Letter” in the 9 August 2021 issue of The Dorchester Review to denounce it.
- World-Class Scientist Calls Out Medical Journal For Smearing Lockdown Critics Instead Of Proving Them Wrong
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A respected vaccine safety researchers says that scientific institutions are killing their own legitimacy by enabling and perpetrating lies, distortions, smears, and unwarranted hysteria about COVID-19. "Open and honest discourse is critical for science and public health. As scientists, we must now tragically acknowledge that 400 years of scientific enlightenment may be coming to an end," writes Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard University and coauthor of the Great Barrington Declaration.
- Kathleen Stock is the real victim of hate here
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Cancelling the Beat Generation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
What is extraordinary is the way in which the assaults on the Beat legacy have now switched from the Right to the Left.
- Critical Race Theory's new disguise
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Implementing a grievance model into our youth education curriculum will not fix the problems it purports to solve. There is, after all, a dearth of evidence suggesting that DEI programmes advance diversity, equity or inclusion.
- "Low-carbon" Misses the Point: Arguments Favoring Nuclear Power as a Climate "Solution" are Fundamentally Misframed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The climate argument for using nuclear power assumes that since nuclear power generation directly releases no CO2, it can be an effective climate solution. It can’t, because new (or even existing) nuclear generation costs more per kWh than carbon-free competitors -- efficient use and renewable power -- and thus displaces less carbon per dollar (or, by separate analysis, per year): less not by a small margin but by about an order of magnitude (factor of roughly ten).
- What Is Diversity? And Why Is It Valuable?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Suppose I just get back from vacation, and you ask me how it went. "Oh, it was wonderful," I say, "There was such diversity." That wouldn’t answer your question at all. Instead, you'd want to know two things: Diversity of what? And why would that sort of diversity make the vacation better? It doesn't make sense to speak about diversity, full stop. There's only diversity of this or that. And diversity isn't always valuable. Despite this, higher education continues to talk about diversity in the abstract.
- The Names You'll Never Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Americans have been killing civilians since before there was a United States. At home and abroad, civilians -- Pequots, African Americans, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Filipinos, Haitians, Japanese, Germans, Koreans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis, and Somalis, among others -- have been shot, burned, and bombed to death. So many civilians have been obliterated, incinerated, or "shredded" in America’s forever wars. Who in the United States remembers them? Who here ever knew of them in the first place?
- Palestinian village pledges to struggle 'until land is returned'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The village of Kufr Qaddoum near Nablus is paying a high price for its weekly protests against the theft of its land.
- 'Bodies with vaginas'?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, is in hot water over its latest issue. A quote on the cover from a senior editor has triggered widespread outrage on social media for "dehumanizing" and "erasing" women. "Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected," says the pull quote on the cover of its latest issue, with a publication date of September 25, 2021.
- Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Other than the ever-present risk of nuclear war, there is no greater threat to humanity than the climate crisis. And there is no more damning example of gaslighting by state-corporate media when they tell us we can trust governments and corporations to do what is required to avert catastrophe.
- Bill Gates' Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The health emergency of the coronavirus is inseparable from the health emergency of extinction, the health emergency of biodiversity loss, and the health emergency of the climate crisis. All of these emergencies are rooted in a mechanistic, militaristic, anthropocentric worldview that considers humans separate from—and superior to—other beings. Beings we can own, manipulate, and control. All of these emergencies are rooted in an economic model based on the illusion of limitless growth and limitless greed, which violate planetary boundaries, and destroy the integrity of ecosystems and individual species.
- Up to Six Million People
The Unrecorded Fatalities of the 'War on Terror'
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Nafeez Ahmed examines the direct and indirect deaths of the post 9/11 era, as a new kind of state-sanctioned mass violence became globalised and normalised.
- Anarchist Bookfair bans anarchist publisher
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The organizers of Montreal's Anarchist Book Fair have banned Black Rose Books, who have been publishing anarchist books since the 1960s, from participating. The reason given is that Black Rose publishes
- Judith Butler's toxic nonsense
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Circle in the Darkness Book Review
Review of Diana Johnstone's memoir Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Johnstone says: "If I must claim a label, it owuld be that of an independent truth-seeker."
- Greece Gives Birth to Another Virulent Neo-Nazi Party
Is the U.S. Ambassador One of Its Proud Godfathers?
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
This article explores Greek far-right organizations such as Golden Dawn and the "Greeks for the Fatherland" party, as well as former far-right MP Ilias Kasidiaris. He further explores American involvement in fostering the Far Right in the "cradle of democracy."
- The complications from sex reassignment surgery are horrific -- but in today's trans-activist world, we can't talk about this
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
There is an unspoken price being paid for the fashionable transgender theories of our day. There are unseen victims, invisible, though in plain sight. They are hidden because their supporters believe too blindly, and their detractors write them off, and their misery is facilitated by a lack of open discussion and a censorship of the facts. These hidden victims are the young transgenders themselves, who are led to believe so strongly that they can ‘change their sex’ that they undergo sex-reassignment surgery, only to find themselves not just disappointed by the result, but horrified. These are true victims, in the sense that many of them suffer horrific and irreversible physical damage and pain
- The Far Left and the Far Right Actually Have a Lot in Common
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
It is the strangest thing to know that most of the regular people attracted to both the far left and the far right very clearly appear to be motivated by a desire to stand up to an elite that is actively destroying the lives of so many people around the world, but they have such radically differing ideas of each other’s motivations, and of the nature of the elite they oppose.
- Wheatley explosion could be 'tip of the iceberg' in Ontario given number of abandoned wells: expert
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
An explosion in Wheatley, Ontario which sent 7 people to hospital, believed to be caused by an abandoned gas well is the extreme example of what can happen if such wells are not properly plugged.
- Don't expect tech giants to build back better
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Tech giants need to quantify human behaviour to make money from it. The pandemic, by forcing much of our lives online, has shown just how much money they can make.
- The Downsides of Masking Young Students Are Real
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Where Are They? The Disappeared: When Remembering is a Political Act of Resistance
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Every day, people disappear in many parts of the world. Some of these disappearances are investigated by police and the family of the disappeared. But too often the perpetrator is not a criminal or a gang, but rather the police or other agents of a nation state or a government.
- Watching The News
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Watching "The National" on CBC, as well as some local news programs, is proving to be an interesting experience. I haven't lived in a house with TV for more than 15 years, and hadn't watched TV news for many more years before that, so I come to this experience as a more-or-less naive outsider.
- Stop Deep-Sea Mining
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Advocates for the end of exploitation of mineral resources through deep-sea mining until sufficent scientific information has been obtained on if deep-sea mining can be done without damage to the marine environment.
- Afghanistan and the "experts"
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Tthe "experts" are never wrong. When each intervention turns into yet another predictable disaster -- predicted by others, of course, not by the "experts" -- the "experts" never acknowledge their mistakes, and the media never holds them to account.
- Canadian Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider bias, study finds
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Open Letter to the Council of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian public
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Historians express grave disappointment with the Canadian Historical Association's2021 Canada Day Statement.
- The Canadian Historical Association's Fake 'Consensus' on Canadian Genocide
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Last month, the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) issued a public 'Canada Day Statement" -- described as having been "unanimously approved" by the group's governing council -- declaring that "existing historical scholarship" makes it "abundantly clear" that Canada's treatment of Indigenous peoples amounts to “genocide." The authors also claimed that there is a "broad consensus" among historians on the existence of Canadian "genocidal intent" (also described elsewhere in the statement as "genocidal policies" and "genocidal systems").
- Robert Moses: An Equal Rights Militant in a Land of Unfulfilled Promises
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- The smear campaign against the Great Barrington Declaration
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Demonizing those who question lockdowns.
- Craig Murray's jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish police on Sunday morning. He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on the obscure and vaguely defined charge of "jigsaw identification".
- The Burning of Canada's Churches
Dozens have gone up in flames, and the prime minister’s response is tepid
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Papers Instead of Human Lives: The Sentencing of Daniel Hale
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in jail for telling the truth about the U.S. program of drone assassinations.
- Trauma is constant for Gaza's children
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
This article discusses the constant violence that children in Gaza are exposed to at the hands of Israel, and the long-term psychological effects that sustained trauma can have.
- What's the worst thing about being cancelled?
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
It's impossible to talk about cancel culture without acknowledging how fiercely social humans are. As frightening as it is to experience threats of violence, as disturbing as it is to suffer abuse, what's truly dreadful is the feeling of being ostracised. There’s no "I" without a "we" to reflect it back to you. When the "I" in other people’s eyes is a gross, despicable caricature of who you think you are, that's an attack on your fundamental sense of yourself as human, broadcast on the inhuman scale of social media.
- I had ten minutes to evacuate my life
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
I do not believe any human being should ever be accustomed to wars; it is just abnormal to live under fire and rockets with this amount of tension. Neither Abdallah, nor any other child should ever get used to wars.
- Why women are faking it
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Female Love Islanders justify Botox with the language of victimhood.
- These 3 Deceptively Simple Questions Can Shatter the Mythology that Sanctifies U.S. Imperialism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Why Black Lives Matter Can't be Co-opted
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Black Lives Matter BLM never was and never had the potential to be what people like this fantasized that it was.
- Climate Change: Why we can't trust mainstream media
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A Q&A on capitalism, media, and climate. Explains How and why mainstream media minimizes climate change.
- Israeli spyware used to target journalists, activists
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Activists, politicians and journalists from around the world – including from Al Jazeera – were targeted in a surveillance operation using software sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak by The Guardian, The Washington Post and 15 other media outlets.
- Women's rights at stake in fight over men in female spa area
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- The obliteration of memories
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Over 16,000 housing units were damaged during the recent [2021] Israeli attacks on Gaza. What that number doesn't capture however is what else was lost in those places -- the irreplaceable photos, keepsakes, and possessions and that made each a home.
- Auschwitz survivor and fighter against fascism Esther Bejarano has died
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Making Sense of Sex and Gender
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Feminist politics is not a denial of trans people’s experiences but an alternative way to understand those experiences that does not involve drugs, cross-sex hormones, and surgery. Feminist politics is an embrace of our differences and a way to live with those differences collectively, as we struggle to eliminate the hierarchies that impede our ability to thrive.
- Michael Ratner's inspiring activist life culminated with dramatic change on Israel
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Michael Ratner personally changed human rights law, and in doing so he let go childhood views of Israel. "I thought of [Israel] as the home of my people. I had my bedroom ceiling painted with the seven wonders of the world and a huge map of Israel. I had no idea how my view of Israel would change later in life."
- 'Beita is undefeatable': Inside the struggle to save this Palestinian village from Israeli settlers
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In early May, a group of Israeli settlers arrived with caravans and set up an illegal outpost on the top of Jabal Sabih on the outskirts of Beita, in the northern occupied West Bank. Every single day since then, protests in the village have been nonstop.
- Key Assange Witness Recants - With Zero Corporate Media Coverage
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson confessed to Icelandic outlet Stundin that he used his position to steal money from Wikileaks and received immunity from the FBI in a quid pro quo. This article critiques the lack of coverage about this in corporate media, and argues thatthe global corporate press long ago decided to side with the US national security state.
- A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A major witness in the US case against Julian Assange has admitted fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. But all of this is seemingly of no interest to the ‘mainstream’ media.
- Private moments captured on home security cameras being live streamed again on website
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Cybersecurity experts say with home security cameras becoming more popular and people working from home during the pandemic, it's vital the public is educated about how to keep their cameras secure.
- Dying for environmental democracy
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
This article is about Peruvian indigenous environmental defenders in Latin America, a region described as one of the world's deadliest areas for enviromental human rights defenders. Tran focuses on the indigenous Ashanika defenders and their plight in fighting for environmental justice.
- The Goal of These Ads Is to Distract From Their Actual Business Model
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
CounterSpin interview with Duncan Meisel on oil industry greenwashing.
- US seizes three dozen websites used for 'Iranian disinformation'
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- From fear to solidarity: Canada’s Jewish community and Palestine
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
For Jewish people who are already on edge, social media has created an echo chamber where their worst fears are affirmed and amplified by like-minded people. Suddenly, they’re seeing anti-Semitism everywhere. But it isn’t fear of rockets from Hamas that has got some people spooked. It’s the fact that Israel’s supporters were on the defensive against an unprecedented show of public support for the Palestinians, as well as a changing media landscape where critical opinions about Israel are now leaking through the cracks. Indeed, the traditional pro-Israel consensus that has long dominated the corporate media is now overwhelmingly being circumvented by new social media, where solidarity with Palestine is growing.
- Media Must Stop Asking Youth Activists to 'Save the World'
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Graceffo explores the recent trend in which young activists are granted international fame. She argues that the media places too much responsibility on these youth with little protection against scrutiny and hate speech while also continuing to silence voices from the Global South.
- Annamie Paul’s failure to confront international racism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Annamie Paul and her supporters are right to cite racism as a driving factor in her leadership crisis. But the Green leader's supporters have misplaced the source of responsibility. It is Paul's inability to view colonized peoples, notably Palestinians, as deserving of equal rights that is the source of her current troubles.
- Britain is a Parasite on Other Countries
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Britain deliberately trains far fewer doctors and nurses than it needs. It makes up the difference by recruiting great numbers of trained medical staff from impoverished countries where they are already in critically short supply.
- Lost Children
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The threat of death was part of life at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. So why is it so hard to determine how many children died there?
- Concerning Life
An Open Letter to Jean- Pierre Dupuy and Wolfgang Palaver
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
"Saving lives" has justified every policy adopted to counteract the pandemic during the last year, and life is likely to continue as the sacred sign in which the revised social order that emerges from the pandemic will root its legitimacy. Accordingly, it seems important to seek some clarity on what is now meant by this word.
- 'Net zero' emissions is a dangerous hoax
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- U.S. Imperialists Deprive Cuba of Syringes That Are Needed Now
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Cuba, the first Latin America country to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines, presently is short of syringes for immunizing its population against the virus. It’s not feasible for Cuba to make its own syringes. The U.S. blockade prevents Cuba from importing them from abroad.
- Exposing How Pro-Israel Groups Manufacture Antisemitism Narratives
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
These narratives attempt to have the public, media and politicians focus on bogus allegations of antisemitism instead of Israel’s actions.
- Was there a Wuhan lab leak?
An inquiry won’t dig out the truth. It will deepen the deception
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
For many years, scientists at labs like Wuhan’s have conducted Frankenstein-type experiments on viruses. They have modified naturally occurring infective agents – often found in animals such as bats – to try to predict the worst-case scenarios for how viruses, especially coronaviruses, might evolve. The claimed purpose has been to ensure humankind gets a head start on any new pandemic, preparing strategies and vaccines in advance to cope.
- Shamelessness, Thy Name is Blinken
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
It was only eight years ago that it was the US that was forcing down a plane, only in that case it was not just any plane but rather one carrying a head of state, Bolivian President Evo Morales. But as with this latest incident the goal was harassing an "independent media' and nabbing a critic. In that 2013 incident the real target was Edward Snowden, source for one of the biggest stories of the century: the disclosure thousands of documents from a global spying program by the top secret US National Security Agency where he had been employed as a private contractor.
- Groups That Aid Israel's War Crimes Can't Deny All Responsibility for Those Crimes
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
But here is something that can be said with equal certainty. Israel’s apologists – whether Jews or non-Jews – cannot deny all responsibility for Israel's war crimes when they actively aid and abet Israel in committing those crimes, or when they seek to demonise and silence Israel's critics so that those war crimes can be pursued in a more favourable political climate.
- We Want a Society Without Landlords
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The popularity of Berlin’s campaign to expropriate corporate landlords shows just how few people trust capitalism to provide them with affordable, good-quality homes.
- The Cautionary Tale Of "Doctor America"
How Dr. Tom Dooley -- Once A Universally Revered Secular Saint to Millions -- Found the CIA and Lost His Halo
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
How the Dulles brothers, the CIA and the U.S. Navy conspired to turn a decent man into a deceitful spreader of disinformation in support of the Vietnam War.
- Corporate Media's Double Standard: They Attack Whomever They Want, But You Cannot Criticize Them
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Greenwalk responsed to The Washington Post's article and Daily Beast's questions about accusations from The Intercept that he endangered their writers.
- ‘This time is different’: Gaza journalists on Israeli bombardment
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Several Palestinian journalists have spoken to Al Jazeera of their fear and the exhaustion of covering the continuing Israeli bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip and their determination to continue their work.
- "Today we are Nazis," says member of Israeli Jewish extremist group
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Israeli Jewish extremists used instant messaging services to organize armed militias to attack Palestinian citizens of Israel. Voice messages, texts and other communications indicate they coordinated attacks in cities where Palestinians live in close proximity to Jews – including Haifa, Bat Yam and Tiberias in the north, and Ramla and Lydd – Lod in Hebrew – in the center, to Beersheba in southern Israel. In many cases, extremist organizers said they relied on either the active or passive support of Israeli authorities.
- Ex-Israeli pilot: 'Our army is a terrorist organisation run by war criminals'
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A former Israeli Air Force pilot, Yonatan Shapira, has described the Israeli government and army as "terrorist organisations" run by "war criminals."
- Remembering the Committee of Concerned Canadian Jews and their fight for Palestinian rights
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Sometime in the summer of 1982, Jews in their 20s and 30s in Toronto, including myself, came out in droves to meetings of the new Committee of Concerned Canadian Jews (CCCJ). (Yes, our name was a bit awkward and wordy.)
- The fallacy of the colonial 'right to self-defence
Colonial powers have long demanded the 'right to self-defence' against the people they have colonised.
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- But What About Hamas's Rockets?
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
We must be clear: What started this immediate horror was the intensification of Israel’s ethnic-cleansing campaign against Palestinians in East Jerusalem.
- This Must End
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Our current living conditions under the siege are an affront to human dignity. Concrete political action is needed NOW to end not only the current deathly bombing raids, but also this illegal occupation and siege of Gaza by Israel, immediately.
- Fifteen Thoughts On Palestine
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
You don't get to drop an entire colony on top of an inhabited country, grind those inhabitants into the dirt for generations, and then claim self defense every time they retaliate. That's not a thing.
- This isn't a civil war, it is settler-colonial brutality
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
We are not seeing a "civil war" inside Israel, but rather the Israeli settler state declaring a war on its colonized "citizens," and Palestinians fighting for their liberation.
- Zionism's endgame has begun
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
All around us today we hear these blows falling on the central creed of Israel: the supposed right of a Jewish collective to national self-determination in a land populated by others.
- Boycott is a right and a duty
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Israel's efforts to demonize the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) threaten a venerable form of nonviolent resistance. These efforts push for the censoring of Palestinian voices and those of our allies, undermining free speech rights and academic freedom while falsely conflating criticism of the State of Israel with anti-Jewish bigotry.
- The Israel Narrative Is Crumbling Because Of Phone Cameras And The Internet
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Social media is teeming with viral video footage of police assaulting peaceful worshippers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, of Israelis cheering and chanting “Yimach shemam (may their names be erased)” at the sight of a fire near the mosque, of Israeli soldiers arresting Palestinian protesters using the signature knee-on-neck maneuver made famous by the murder of George Floyd, many of which have millions of views.
- We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
as journalists seek to liberate themselves from the strictures of the old corporate media, that same corporate media is working very hard to characterise the new technology as a threat to media freedoms. This self-serving argument should be treated with a great deal of scepticism. I want to use my own experiences to argue that quite the reverse is true. And that the real danger is allowing the corporate media to reassert its monopoly over narrating the world to us.
- The Myth of Corbyn's Labour Failure and Neoliberalisms Western Electoral Success
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The spin on recent history presupposes two false premises. Firstly, that the era of Corbyn’s grassroots mobilisation was some sort of oxymoron democratic failure, this the available evidence belies. Secondly, that rather than being a process of direct democratic representation on behalf of the mass of society, electoral politics should be treated as some sort of advertising/marketing game designed to facilitate the careers of a small handful of individuals, operating on behalf of highly financed corporate lobbyists.
- The "Kill a Leftist" Law
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
So now it’ll be legal in some Neolithic U.S. states to run over leftists with your car.
- United States Withdraws From Afghanistan? Not Really
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
No lessons have been learned from this history. The U.S. will “withdraw,” but will also leave behind its assets to checkmate China and Russia. These geopolitical considerations eclipse any concern for the Afghan people.
- Orientalism and ahistoricism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The ahistoricism of Orientalism leads Said to mimic the very discursive structures against which he polemicises. Said creates a “Western tradition” which runs in an unbroken line from the Ancient Greeks, through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to modernism. It is a tradition which defines a coherent Western identity through a specific set of beliefs and values which remain in their essence unchanged through two millennia of European and Western history. This, of course, is the myth of “Western civilization” propagated by many an advocate of Western superiority.
- World's Most Tyrannical Regime Can't Stop Babbling About "Human Rights"
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Like all US secretaries of state, Blinken's public statements overwhelmingly focus on the claim that other nations abuse human rights, and that it is America’s duty to defend those rights. Which is very silly, considering the fact that the US government is the single worst human rights abuser on planet Earth.
- The Left Continues to Destroy Itself and Others With Evidence-Free Destruction of Reputations
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Equating accusations with proven fact is reckless and repressive. It is also standard behaviour in liberal politics, whereby they ruin lives without a second thought.
- No more plastics in Southeast Asia paradise
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Plastic waste has accumulated in Southeast Asia since China stopped importing it for recycling. The region's governments want western exporters to stop using it as a dumping ground.
- The Futility of Race-Naming Mass Shooters
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
As simplistic and satisfying as it would be, no single demographic emerges from the data as “the typical mass shooter.” It depends on what type of mass shooting you’re looking at. In the end, focusing on the race of mass shooters is not helpful; it is not predictive of who is likely to engage in gun violence. Singling out any specific race as being dangerous is likely to do more harm than good. While race is not a useful or predictive prism through which to understand or identify mass shooters, mental illness is no better and is in many ways a distraction from the deeper issues. As with other mass shooter demographics, there is little insight to be gained by focusing on the mental health history of mass shooters. There are several reasons for this, perhaps most prominently that most mass shooters across all categories do not have a prior history of mental health treatment.
- Heroes But Not Saints: Why We Shouldn't 'Cancel' Flawed Progressive Icons
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Planned Parenthood need not reinforce the misconceptions about Sanger that the pro-life movement and right-wingers in general have been perpetuating for decades. These misleading views about Sanger hinge on two aspects of her life that have generated considerable controversy and debate.
- Human Rights Watch Confirms Israel is an Apartheid State
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The forthright branding of Israel as an apartheid state by Human Rights Watch could be a watershed moment in mainstream acceptance of what Israel has become. Human Rights Watch is not an outlier or left wing organisation. It is very much a part of the establishment in the United States and is not generally associated with hard hitting criticism that conflicts with the promoted interests of the American state. Kenneth Roth, the Human Rights Watch CEO who has been in power longer than Putin, is a darling of the New York liberal and Democratic Party Establishment. That is an important financial source for HRW and includes many members of New York’s highly altruistic liberal Jewish community.
- The Day The World Ended
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The day the world ended began like any other day. People woke up, had their coffee, checked their social media, kissed their loved ones, went to work. Nobody knew it was coming.
- Focusing Purely on Injustices in China and Russia with a Cold War Mindset Damages Human Rights Everywhere
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The essence of human rights propaganda is not lies or even exaggeration, but selectivity.
- The cynical hypocrisy of the world's No1 propagandist
US pledges $300mn to fund massive global anti-China media machine
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Chinese- and Russian-funded journalism is 'disinformation,' but when Washington spends millions on 'independent' news outlets and buying journalists to get favourable coverage of its policies, it's called 'spreading information.'
- The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public’s Trust
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
It doesn’t ultimately matter what mainstream pundits and reporters believe is the cause of the public’s growing disgust with them, because there's nothing they can do to fix it anyway. The mass media will never regain the public's trust.
- Biden’s Climate Plan: It’s Too Late for Gradualism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The climate emergency demands a radical and rapid decarbonization of the economy with numerical goals and timetables to transform all productive sectors, not only power production (27% of carbon emissions), but also transportation (28%), manufacturing (22%), buildings (12%), and agriculture (10%). That emergency transformation can only be met by an ecosocialist approach using public enterprise and planning. Instead, Biden's plan emphasizes corporate welfare: subsidies and tax incentives for clean energy that will take uncertain effect at a leisurely pace in the markets. Moreover, it does nothing to stop more oil and gas fracking and pipelines for more gas-fired power plants, or to shut down coal-fired power plants. Without out directly saying so, it is a plan to burn fossil fuels for decades to come.
- Reflections on Genocide as the Ultimate Crime
de Zayas, Alfred; Falk, Richard
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The misuse of the word genocide is disdainful toward relatives of the victims of the Armenian massacres, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide -- and as well a disservice to both history, law, and the prudent conduct of international relations. We already knew that we were adrift in an ocean of fake news. It is far more dangerous to discover that we are also at risk of being immersed in the turbulent waters of "fake law". We must push back with a sense of urgency. Such a development is not tolerable.
- Climate Scientists: 'Net Zero' is a dangerous trap
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The only way to keep humanity safe is by immediately and radically cutting emissions in a socially just way.
- Media's Top Meaning for 'Proxy' Is 'Iranian Ally'
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
"Proxy," defined as someone who works on someone else's behalf, is a term of delegitimation in international politics: It undermines the credibility of both those who are accused of being "proxies" and those accused of having "proxies." In the former case, the term suggests that the party in question is not representing its peoples' interests, but rather those of an outside actor. The nation described as having proxies is implicitly accused of meddling in another country's affairs.
- Slavery reparations are just another elite political ploy to avoid tackling the real race problems in America
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Unfortunately for black Americans, be they descendants of slaves or not, slavery reparation payments -- even if Congress ultimately sanctions them – will do nothing to alleviate black poverty, or ease the bitter ongoing racial tensions that continue to tear American society apart on a daily basis. In fact, the entire slavery reparations issue is nothing more than an ideological smokescreen, behind which America’s contemporary ruling elite can continue to avoid confronting the race issue that they have consistently refused to meaningfully deal with for centuries.
- America's Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Biden isn't ending the Afghanistan War, he's privatizing it
Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Over 18,000 Pentagon contractors remain in Afghanistan, while official troops number 2,500. Joe Biden will withdraw this smaller group of soldiers while leaving behind US Special Forces, mercenaries, and intelligence operatives — privatizing and downscaling the war, but not ending it.
- The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media. Now The CIA Is The Media.
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First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In totalitarian dictatorships, the government spy agency tells the news media what stories to run, and the news media unquestioningly publish it. In free democracies, the government spy agency says “Hoo buddy, have I got a scoop for you!” and the news media unquestioningly publish it.
- The Palestinians: "We Shall Not Be Moved"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The resolve of the Palestinians to live on the land that is rightly theirs, despite all the Israeli efforts to dislodge them and drive them out, has never wavered. Just as the long struggle of African Americans has persisted in the face of white resistance.For both peoples their simple determination to win their rights remains their greatest strength.
- The intelligence of ravens and the foolishness of (some) humans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The problem with studies that continue to propagate the idea that intelligence is a single quantity, a thing that can be measured and quantified.
- Agriculture's Greatest Myth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
For policymakers, the big obstacle to global promotion and restoration of small-scale farming (leaving aside the lobbying power of agribusiness) is allegedly that, "it can't feed the world". If that claim were true, local food systems would be bound to leave people hungry and so promoting them becomes selfish, short-termist, and unethical. Nevertheless, this purported flaw in sustainable and local agriculture represents a curious charge because, no matter where one looks in global agriculture, food prices are low because products are in surplus.
- Mighty Moe book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Mighty Moe tells the story of Maureen Wilton, a youthful long-distance runner from Toronto who set a women’s world record in the marathon in 1967, when she was 13.
- The news media offers wall-to-wall propaganda every day. We only notice when a royal dies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
If the BBC makes its editorial decisions based on what rightwing and far-right newspaper tycoons think is good both for the country and for the world, then how is the BBC not equally rightwing?
- The Judicial Persecution of Steven Donziger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
in the U.S., a judge acts as prosecutor and jury on behalf of a giant oil company, Chevron, as it destroys the life and career of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger. His crime? Daring to win a judgment against Chevron in an Ecuadorian court. For those less enchanted with the U.S. justice system, this is no surprise.
- Antidote For Rural Sprawl: Land Use Zoning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
There will always be people who will argue that zoning is an infringement upon their freedom to build a home where they choose. Speed limits and traffic lights are an infringement of our freedom to drive at any speed we want, but society recognizes that we would have chaos without such limits. The same principles apply to land use. Most of us recognize that zoning has value. Who doesn’t believe keeping structures out of a river's flood plain or keeping a pig farm out of a residential neighborhood isn’t reasonable? We need to extend that idea to the entire landscape, or we will lose much of what we consider valuable.
- How I got vaccinated
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- How the Saami Indigenous People Fended Off Gates-funded Geoengineering Experiment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The first ever stratospheric test of geoengineering technology, funded by Bill Gates, has been suspended under pressure from the indigenous people over whose heads it would take place, the Saami of northern Scandinavia.
- The Plague of Historical Amnesia in the Age of Fascist Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In the age of neoliberal tyranny, historical amnesia is the foundation for manufactured ignorance, the subversion of consciousness, the depoliticization of the public, and the death of democracy. It is part of a disimagination machine that is perpetuated in schools, higher education, and the corporate controlled media.
- Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates Empires 'Must Be Dismantled'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In an interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola, Vandana Shiva says, "… if In the next decade, if we don’t protect what has to be protected … and take away the sainthood from this criminal, they will leave nothing much to be saved."
- Some Standard Cynical CIA-Style Cuba Covid Reporting at The Washington Post
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Imperial cynics and propagandists can only see the world through the lens of cynicism and propaganda, which they project on to others.
- The Business of Scenery
Why America's national parks need new management
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Lost in Thought
The psychological risks of meditation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Seaspiracy
Closing the net on industrial fishing
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A review of Seaspiracy; the film lifts the lid on the fishing industry, described as secretive and corrupt. Seaspiracy scrutinizes ocean conservation groups like Marine Stewardship Council and the Earth Island Institute are complicit in the fishing industry, and educates viewers on the complex relationships found in ocean food chains.
- To Live in a Plural Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
No one has a right not to be offended. All of us have a duty to challenge bigotry. These two claims are not just compatible, they are often interconnected. Today, though, many view these as conflicting perspectives. To give offence to other cultures or faiths, they argue, is to foment racism; to challenge racism, one should refrain from giving offence.
- The Amazon Chernobyl is a Warning for Us All
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
From the Athabasca to the Niger Delta to the Ecuadorian Amazon, the fossil fuel industry, along with other extractive industries, are drenched in the blood of countless innocent people and responsible for ecological annihilation on a scale that is unimaginable.
- Islamic Homophobia is Empowered by Leftist Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
This piece scrutinizes homophobia in the Muslim community and explores the left's reluctance to criticize it in a consistent and productive manner.It argues that the word Islamophobia is a deliberate conflation that blends criticism of an ideology (Islam) with criticism of a people (Muslims). This allows the silencing of any critics of Islam through the accusation of Islamophobia, which carries an inferred accusation of hatred against Muslims – something which would be far better described as Muslimophobia or anti-Muslim bigotry. Due to this conflation, the fear of being accused of Islamophobia makes individuals hesitant to highlight the abhorrent nature of Islamic homophobia, its theological roots, and the corresponding Islamic jurisprudence that results in the ongoing persecution of LGBT people.
- Money Is Made Up And We Can Change The Rules Whenever We Want
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Have you ever noticed how online capitalism cultists who condescendingly tell socialists they “just don’t understand economics” are always unable to lucidly defend their own understanding of economics? If you've never pressed such a character to clearly and concisely explain what it is you "don't understand" using their own words, I highly recommend that you try it, because it’s one of the funniest things in the world.
- Enbridge is "funding and incentivizing" Minnesota police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Line 3's mostly female, indigenous opponents say they're being harassed by local cops bankrolled by the Canadian oil giant.
- Private ownership of long-term care homes means overcrowding and more deaths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The bottom linecknowledge, is that private ownership is associated with overcrowding, failure to invest in modernization, and more deaths. This certainly seems like an argument in favour of ending private ownership of long-term care facilities.
- WSJ Rage at 'Woke' China Foreshadows New Redbaiting of Social Justice Activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Wall Street Journal editorial board has accused a major Chinese newspaper, and by extension the People’s Republic of China, of exploiting progressive rhetoric around racial justice to create division in the United States.
- BBC secrets revealed: Leaked files indicate UK state media engaged in anti-Moscow information warfare operations in Eastern Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Within a tranche of secret UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) papers, recently leaked by hacktivist collective Anonymous, are files indicating that BBC Media Action (BBCMA) -- the outlets 'charitable' arm – plays a central role in Whitehall-funded and directed psyops initiatives targeted at Russia.
- Boring Revelations and Fanciful Victimhood: The Harry-Meghan-Oprah Show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Prince Harry-Meghan Markle revelations were boring, uninspiring, tedious, self-promoting celluloid slush. For a moment, royalty gorgers and gloaters could forget the pandemic, the deaths of over 500,000 Americans, millions of job losses and incompetent governance. They could feast their eyes on a privileged couple being interviewed in the environs of Californian luxury talking about their terrible hardships.
- Britain proudly announces a plan to 'protect journalists' – but if it really cared it would free Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Scarcely a day goes by without the UK Government's sounding off on the persecution of journalists somewhere–other than in the UK of course.
- Like the Diana story, Meghan’s fight with the Royals will ensure nothing really changes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Oprah Winfrey's interview with Meghan and Harry is a perfect case study of how an important political debate about the corrupting role of the monarchy on British life gets shunted aside yet again, not just by the endless Royal soap opera but by supposedly progressive identity politics.
- Sweden: Apocalypse Not
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
From the moment Covid-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, Western public-health agencies presented their publics with a single option: total lockdown of their societies. This was an improvised and untested option with many risks. After more than a year, it is clear that lockdowns did not “flatten the curve” as advertised, or even likely slow the spread, as promised. Societies which avoided this shutdown approach did just as well and even better. Since there were a limited number of states which rejected total lockdowns, the experiences of dissident Sweden and, to some extent, lighter-lockdown Japan had to act as the placebos in this grand medical experiment.
- WANTED: A different attitude to science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In our materialist, neoliberal society in which money is the measure of all things science is construed, and taught, almost entirely as a materialist pursuit - as the source of high technologies that can “compete” in the world market and make us all rich. (Or at least make some of us rich - those who are deemed to matter. Who, broadly speaking, are the ones who are rich already).
- Screened out by a computer?
What job interviews are like without human beings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Experts predict "asynchronous" one-way interviews will outlast the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Translation and Identity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
If the issue was simply about racism and marginalisation, the argument would not have been that a black poet needs a black translator but that there should be more black translators, whatever the skin colour of the writer being translated.
- The Left Will Never Achieve Its Goals Until It Prioritizes Countering Establishment Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The idea that China or Russia pose a threat to you is so self-evidently ridiculous, so transparently absurd, that the only way to make you believe it would be to propagandize you. And if you do believe it, that’s exactly what has happened. You can expand this principle to include the entirety of US foreign policy on the global stage today. No ordinary American benefits from the US having troops in Syria, sanctioning Venezuelans to death, supporting Saudi Arabia while it rapes Yemen, circling the planet with military bases and working to destroy any nation which refuses to bow to its dictates. The only way to get Americans to consent to any of these agendas is to propagandize them into doing so.
- Recentering the Lumpen Question Today
Understanding Lumpenization and Bonapartism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
To name a class "lumpenproletariat" is to reveal something that would otherwise prefer to stay hidden. The lumpenproletariat is not merely defined by its non-relation to production, which is the most common definition of the term in Marxist thought, nor is lumpenization reserved only to a process that occurs within the proletariat. Lumpenization is a process of active decomposition, a verb, not merely an analytic or descriptive category.
- Collecting the evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Publisher and activist Lokman Slim, assassinated last month in Lebanon, spent 30 years trying to make sure that the memories of civil conflict were not forgotten.
- U.S. State Department accusation of China 'genocide' relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Both President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have endorsed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s last-minute accusation of "genocide" against the Muslim Uyghur population in China's Xinjiang province. But an investigation of published work by the researcher Pompeo relied on to level his genocide allegation reveals a pattern of data abuse and fraudulent assertions that substantially undermines the incendiary charge.
- Notwithstanding clause
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The notwithstanding clause makes it possible for legislatures to overrule the courts. There are times when this is necessary, and a good thing. There are also times when it can be abused.
- The People Haven't Risen Up For The Same Reason Abuse Victims Don't Leave Their Abusers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Abusive relationships aren't just one partner doing cruel things to another. If they were, there would be no relationship: there'd just be a woman getting assaulted one time by her boyfriend and then immediately leaving. Abusive relationships necessarily include the construction of psychological barriers to leaving, or else they would not exist. Victims of abuse are kept constantly confused, off-balance, insecure and unsure of themselves, because their abuse always necessarily includes the element of psychological manipulation.
- Meet a Toronto man with a passion for collecting phone books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
For most of us, our phone books are in our smart phones — and many young people have probably never even seen one made of paper. But Fred Meandro has had to make room for dozens of them in his Toronto condo. The 66-year-old is an avid collector and says you can learn a lot about a city by going through old and new phone books.
- Capitol Riots Were a Dark Day for American Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
An article critical of the news coverage surrounding the January 6, 2021 invasion of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. Cockburn argues that exaggerating the violence of the event threatens the credibility of the media and could justify repression by the government.
- Plutonium in Space: What Are the Odds of a Catastrophe?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- 'Here Are the Superheroes To Come and Save Us'
Media Waste No Time Fawning Over Biden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
McLeod discusses the celebration of the Biden administration by prominent corporate media that has come at a cost of little scrutiny. He argues that the country's journalists should see themselves as the government's adversaries, rather than their allies.
- Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to "weaken Russia," leaked docs reveal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
New leaked documents show Reuters' and the BBC's involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect "attitudinal change" and “weaken the Russian state's influence," alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat.
- The Retrograde Quest for Symbolic Prophets of Black Liberation
Moving beyond the Moses Complex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
One little-examined legacy of the broader intellectual embrace of race-reductive thinking is something we might call the Quest for Moses(es)—the shorthand branding exercise of privileging the content of individual characters in our debates on racial injustice. We see this tendency in much of today’s wokeness-inflected discourse, which leans heavily on appealing to the authority individuals considered to be exemplary, from differing times or historical contexts, in lieu of empirical arguments to support assertions concerning how we should understand racial injustice.
- The fortunate Marxist
Ernie Tate (1934-2021)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Ernie Tate (1934-2021) was a long-standing supporter and leading member of Trotskyist groups in Canada and the United Kingdom and a founder of the International Marxist Group and Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in Britain.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 14, 2021
Beyond the Walls
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
From Gaza to Kashmir, people continue to meet life's challenges, and to love, laugh, and live.
- In Memory of Ernie Tate (1934-2021)
A Life of Revolutionary Activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The socialist movement lost an outstanding educator and organizer with the passing of Ernest (Ernie) Tate in Toronto on 5 February, 2021. An outstanding partisan of global anti-imperialist solidarity, Ernie also contributed, with his partner Jess MacKenzie, to building revolutionary Marxist groups and to promoting socialist unity in Canada and Britain.
- Ottawa Jewish Archives finding success online despite pandemic challenges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Archives are witnesses to the past, providing a tangible history of the community -- and the Ottawa Jewish Archives' collection includes family, business congregation and organization materials to preserve the Ottawa Jewish community's lived experiences.
- Forgotten 20th-Century Photography Studio Found in New York Attic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Big Tech's Playing Monopoly. It's Going to Lose.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Knapp critiques Big Tech, including Facebook and Twitter, as limiting freedom of speech in return for substantial revenue from government contracts.
- A Museum Dedicated to Stalin: An Example of How to Deal With Historical Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
I think that the Stalin Museum is an example of how to deal with historical memory.
- Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 1
Commodity cod & factory ships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.
- For Clinton feminists, not all women are equal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Female liberation has been captured by a wealthy elite.
- The Leadership Institute: PR School for Right-wingers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Why the West isn't racist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Enlightenment gave us individual freedom -- yet Kehinde Andrews blames it for anti-black bigotry
- The eviction moratorium is a useful lesson in how reforms actually happen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Ray Valentine describes how collective disruption "outside the political process" won tenants significant concessions.
- Twitter Rolls Out New Wikipedia-Like Program To Narrative Manage Tweets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
On the concerns raised in relation to Twitter's Birdwatch feature.
- Media's Deficit Hawks Fly Again -- Soon as a Democrat Takes Office
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
On corporate media's predictions on government spending since a Democrat has assumed office.
- Racial Justice, Class Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Unity in greater numbers has been the principal strength of working classes since the dawn of capitalism. Reducing economic inequality will routinely reduce racial inequalities unless specific actions are taken to interrupt that connection. Our lopsided levels of economic inequality are now so huge, with so much income and wealth concentrated in the hands of the super-wealthy, that even a relatively modest redistribution of economic resources – say, $2 trillion a year – could improve almost everybody’s lives. Progressive taxation of our infamous top 1% can provide more than enough to finance dramatic economic transformations for the working class of all colors.
- How the Israeli flag became a symbol for white nationalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The U.S. white nationalist movement's admiration for the Jewish state's supremacist values fits comfortably with its deep antisemitism. Lorber argues that for right-wing groups in the United States, Israel has become a symbol for a set of values and a worldview that transcends any geopolitical reality and takes on a life of its own.
- Historic photos of Corner Brook's paper mill -- saved from the trash -- see the light of day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Former mill supervisor rescued photos destined for the landfill in 1984.
- What 'Democracy' Is Under Attack? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Johnstone argues that threats to US "democracy" is "entirely fictional".
- Banning the Proud Boys
Be careful what you ask for
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Clarke argues that state efforts to eradicate the threat of fascism are often a double-edged sword that can be easily turned against the political left and used to threaten workers' rights.
- Trump's Twitter Ban May Be Justified, but That Doesn't Mean Tech Giants' Power Isn't Scary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
On the implications of mixed media response to social media companies taking measures against Trump, after the storming of the US Capitol.
- One of the oldest known cave paintings has been found in Indonesia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Pig art on the island of Sulawesi dates to at least 45,500 years ago.
- 'This is apartheid': Rights group slams Israeli rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
On report from human rights group condemning Israeli government's policies towards Palestinans as apartheid.
- Media Cry Wolf for Third Time on Afghan 'Bounties'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Macleod raises questions about credibility of media reports that have relied heavily on anonymous spies.
- How the left is being manipulated into colluding in its own character assassination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
This is the left's dilemma. We struggle to win the argument in a corporate media environment that not only denies us a hearing but also promotes the voices of those like Freedland trying to destroy us from the centre and those supposedly on the left like George Monbiot and Owen Jones who are too often destroying us from within. We need to find ways to turn the tables on the war criminals who have been gaslighting us in demanding that Assange, who exposed their crimes, is the one who needs to be locked up. We need to make clear that it is those who are so ready to smear anti-racists as antisemites – as Corbyn’s successor, Sir Keir Starmer, has done to swaths of Labour party members – who are the real racists. And we need to unmask as war hawks those who accuse the anti-war left of serving as apologists for dictators when we try to stop western states conducting more illegal, resource-grab wars with such devastating results for local populations.
We must get much more sophisticated in our thinking and our strategies. There is no time to lose.
- Stop Trivializing The Term 'Coup': Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Critique of media's use of term "coup" to describe events at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
- An Open Letter to Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys (cc: Antifa)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
What the elite from both ruling parties want is division. What they want is for us to shout at each other and shoot each other.
- No more easy scapegoats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
On Niki Ashton and our collective loss of compassion and critical thought.
- America's racial fairytales
Are those with the power to cancel people wielding that power responsibly?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The practice of cancelling ordinary people for minor public rudeness or crudeness has been a common practice for nearly 10 years now.
- Canada, a Working History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Creating a 'Brave New World': Rather than guarding Britain's national treasures, woke museum curators want to dispose of them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Museum curators are no longer the devoted custodians and investigators of artefacts; they are more likely to be schooled in post-modernism and to loathe those artefacts, seeing them as tainted by a history of oppression. Rather than guarding Britains national treasures, curators are lobbying to dispose of them.
- Decolonising Israel, Liberating Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
This book explores how the concept of settler colonialism provides a clearer understanding of the Zionist movement's project to establish a Jewish state in Palestine by displacing the Palestinian Arab population.
- The Devil Goes to Preschool
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
In 1983, journalists helped conjure a nationwide sex panic.
- Dissenting POWs: From Vietnam's Hao Lo Prison to America Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A fresh look at the how US troops played a part in the resistance of US troops to the American war in Vietnam.
- Every Drop of Blood
The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Achorn focuses on Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War.
- Everything on (the) Line
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
On a chilly April day in 2001, some 75,000 protesters flooded the streets of Quebec City to denounce corporate globalization and a neoliberal trade deal. From that wellspring of activist anger, energy, and hope came the founding of rabble.ca: an alternative news source and community space that reported on Canadian politics from the ground, catching the attention of journalists and activists across the country. Stories of activist struggle lie at the heart of Everything on (the) Line, a collection of rabble's most incisive articles from the past twenty years.
- A Few Good Them: Woke Canadian judge says lawyers and their clients must state their pronouns when introduced to the court
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A documentary which explores film through the voices of significant professionals who have contributed to make sure moving images survive and remain accessible.
- 5 Errors Made by Public Heath/ Science During The Pandemic
A Doctor Reflects
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Fred Hampton vs Race Bamboozlers: Solidarity is the Key to Justice
Solidarity is the Key to Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Where I part with CRT and BLM is when they take these evident truths about our country and weaponize them to collectively judge “others”, monopolize pains, arrogantly lecture people and silence anyone who disagrees with them. Forgetting the lessons of Martin Luther King—who wisely noted that hate cannot be driven out with hate—advocates of CRT and BLM insist on being divisive instead of forging common grounds with other marginalized communities the way Fred Hampton did in the 1960s.
- Grand Army of Labor
Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Learning to fight in a world on fire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Humans Nature and the Illusion of Separateness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
One of the biggest lies that people in the global north were sold and have largely internalized is that we are separate from the biosphere from which we evolved and on which we depend upon for our very survival. Even as we stand on the precipice of ecological collapse, human supremacy over nature has been the unchallenged narrative.
- Introducing the Icelandverse
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
After Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg introduced the 'Metaverse,' Iceland introduced something even more exciting: the 'Icelandverse.'
- Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?
Barnaby Raine on the resurgence of 'tankie' and 'campist' politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Raine professes to see a comeback of what he labels 'tankie' or 'campist' politics -- a tendency that, once upon a time, he claims, "uncritically aligned with the Soviet Union and other enemies of the United States, in the name of the struggle against imperialism."
- The Ku Klux Klan in Canada
A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- The Light of Days
Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Judy Batalion draws on overlooked, untranslated Yiddish memoirs, supplemented by recorded testimonies, to reconstruct the wartime lives and ground level exploits of a remarkable cadre of Jewish women ghetto fighters.
- Modest Hopes
Homes and Stories of Toronto's Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- The Path to a Livable Future
A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Stan Cox makes plain the connections between the multiple crises facing us today, and provides an inspired vision for how to resolve them. With a deeply informed, clear to-do list, Cox shows us how we can work together to address the climate emergency, white supremacy, and our vulnerability to future pandemics all at once.
- Paying for the Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
About the Dene of the Northwest Territories.
- Racism, Privilege, and Anti-Asian Hostility
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Anti-Asian hostility is real. Asian privilege is not. Nor is hostility towards Asians merely the product of “white supremacy”; it emerges from a complex interplay of racism and identitarian politics. Whatever the reasons behind the Atlanta shootings, it’s time we stopped using myths about Asian Americans to sustain both racism and cartoonish views about racial differences.
- A Radical Life: A memoir by Jim McIlroy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Remembering Don Weitz, 1930-2021
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- A Runner's Journey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Solidarity: Canada's Unknown Revolution of 1983
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The year 1983 began like any other year in Canada's West Coast province. Then everything suddenly changed. The newly elected provincial government announced an avalanche of far-right legislation that shocked the country. A resistance movement called Solidarity quickly formed across British Columbia, uniting social activists and trade unionists and people who had never protested before.
- Stealing Africa: How Britain looted the continent's art
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
During war and colonisation, Western nations participated in the theft of thousands of pieces of African art. This is the story of the role Britain’s anti-slavery mission played in looting African artefacts, and of the campaign to get them returned.
- Tea with Rosie
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Short video about Rosemarie Harrop.
- Temporary Closures Reduce Challenges to Publications and Policies in Canadian Public Libraries in 2020 and Early 2021
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Through Pluripolarity to Socialism
A Manifesto
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Our Manifesto appears in this moment of danger from deep and wide discussions
among activists of all continents representing many socialist traditions. Its historical
and theoretical assessment of the present conjuncture seeks to advance class and
national struggles for socialism.
- Toronto Community Union Project (T-CUP) in Trefann Court
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The Toronto Community Union Project (T-CUP) was a small group of community organizers who came together in 1966 to help working-class residents facing "urban redevelopment" in a neighbourhood called Trefann Court.
- Trans Science
A review of Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
The incidence of teen gender dysphoria is rising and seems to be linked to internet influences and social peer groups. The number of people identifying as lesbians is dropping. Therapists are accepting patients’ self-diagnoses unquestioningly, and irreversible treatments are being offered without therapist involvement.
- US Bombs Syria And Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
So we are being told that the United States launched an airstrike on Syria, a nation it invaded and is illegally occupying, because of attacks on "US locations" in Iraq, another nation the US invaded and is illegally occupying. This attack is justified on the basis that the Iraqi fighters were "Iranian-linked", a claim that is both entirely without evidence and irrelevant to the justification of deadly military force. And this is somehow being framed in mainstream news publications as a defensive operation. This is Defense Department stenography. The US military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq; it is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. It is always necessarily the aggressor.
- The Use and Misuse of Antisemitism Statistics in Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Sheryl Nestel of IJV-Toronto has published a detailed analysis B’nai Brith’s audit, and found that their interpretation of the state of antisemitism in Canada is misleading at best, perhaps deliberately so.
- Vietnam's Prodigal Heroes
American Deserters, International Protest, European Exile, and Amnesty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- We The Power - The Future of Energy is Community Owned
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
A journey into the citizen-led community-energy movement in Europe. An exploration of divesting power from large energy companies and placing that power of electricity in the hands of local communities. How can local activists create more financially empowering, environmentally beneficial, and healthier communities?
- The Wealth Hoarders
How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- What liberals get wrong about race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- X Troop
The Secret Jewish Commandoes Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- You can't win without a fight: Why worker cooperatives are a bad strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Youth Unstoppable
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
Follows Director Jewell-Kemker's journey from grassroots teenager to activist adult in the environmental movement. Centered over the course of twelve years in nine different countries.
- The Marathon World Record Holder the World Forgot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Published: 2021
- Criticising Monbiot isn't 'demonisation'. It’s a first step on the path to reclaiming our minds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Another Hiroshima is Coming - Unless We Stop It Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target - China.
- I am an American constitutional lawyer - and I see our government using Covid-19 to take away our fundamental rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- US Wants to Track Americans Over Coronavirus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Taking a Stand
Introduction to the February 18, 2020 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Afterword to Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Marx writes of producers or labor power. He writes about serfs, slaves; he includes employed and unemployed (the active army, the reserve army); he refers to peasants, to artisans, to small manufacturers. All people who have lost their organic connections to nature, that is, to land, its creatures, its grains; to the waters and pastures; as well as to the geological resources lying beneath the land. All people who have been expropriated from the means of life, the means of production, the means of subsistence, this is what he means.
- New Film Explores US Suppression of Key Footage from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- La Moralidad en un Mundo Inmoral
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Moralidade em um Mundo Amoral
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Morality in an Amoral World - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Collecting the evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Publisher and activist Lokman Slim, assassinated last month in Lebanon, spent 30 years trying to make sure that the memories of civil conflict were not forgotten.
- Living principles: In memory of Ed Finn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Born in Spaniard’s Bay, Newfoundland, in 1926, Ed Finn grew up in Corner Brook, where he later became first a printer’s apprentice, then a reporter, columnist, and editor of that city’s daily newspaper, the Western Star. His long career as a journalist later included two years at the Montreal Gazette and 14 years at the Toronto Star. During his four-year fling in politics in Newfoundland (1959-1962), he served as the first provincial leader of the NDP. He worked closely with Tommy Douglas and helped defend and promote his pioneering Medicare legislation in Saskatchewan. And throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, he did communications work for several labour unions, and served on the board of directors of the Bank of Canada. From 1994 to 2014 he was Senior Editor at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Editor of the CCPA Monitor. On November 27, 2020, Ed was appointed to the Order of Canada.
- When they say jump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
This article explores the failure of ATU Local 11, the union that represents the majority of TTC workers, to organize its members for "Transit Worker Assault Awareness Day" after a member was stabbed while working.
- Leo Panitch and the Socialist Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Maher reflects on Leo Panitch's contributions to democratic socialism.
- Postcard from a liberated Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A piece of fiction published as part of +972’s New Futures project. In this series, writers, thinkers, and activists share how they visualize Israel-Palestine the day after the pandemic, as a way of transforming this dystopian moment into an exercise in radical imagination of rethinking through the past, present, and future of this region, and envisioning a different reality for all those living between the river and the sea.
- Online classes, offline class divisions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Students living in the Ambujwadi slum in north Mumbai are struggling with online classes for months, while also working to support their families after their parents' income was hit by the lockdown and its aftermath
- The people who are preparing for war, and the lies they tell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The double standards, hypocrisy, and dishonesty of the media are absolutely breathtaking.
- The problem with 1199's 'Advice to Rookie Organizers'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
One of the most widely-circulated statements on organizing is SEIU 1199’s “Advice to rookie organizers,” popularized most recently by Jane McAlevey but originally drafted in 1985 at an SEIU organizing conference. It’s good advice — it’s actually excellent advice for the most part — and I think anyone who takes a hard look at almost any organizing can spot where things went right by how closely it followed this advice and where things went wrong by where it deviated from it.
- Secret, Invisible Evidence Of Russian Hacking Is Not Actually Evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- The Real Giants Whose Shoulders We Stand On
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
We stand upon the shoulders of giants. Yes, we do. But the giants are not the "great men" like Rich Fancyboi who have received all the acclaim and attention throughout recorded history, they’re the ones doing the actual moving, making, mothering and maintaining in our world upon whose heads the famous figures stand.
- History museums launch new program to address lack of representation in stories about Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Toronto's 10 history museums have launched a new program that aims to address the lack of representation in stories about the city. The program, called Awakenings, is a virtual series of art projects by artists who are Black, Indigenous and people of colour. The projects will be released in stages over the next couple of years.
- How Gulf states became business partners in Israel's occupation
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Since signing the Abraham Accords, the UAE and Bahrain have been actively colluding with Israel's settler movement and military authorities. The professed rationale for the recent Abraham Accords, so-called "peace deals" signed with Israel by the UAE and Bahrain, was to stymie Israeli efforts to annex swaths of the West Bank.
- Kashmiris outraged as authorities fell thousands of apple trees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
India engages inethnic cleansing in Kashmir.
- Uproar in India: And You Thought It Was Only About Farmers?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Surely the 'mainstream' media (a strange term for platforms whose content excludes over 70 per cent of the population) cannot be unaware of these implications of the new farm laws for Indian democracy. But the pursuit of profit drives them far more than any notion of public interest or democratic principles. Shed any delusions about the conflicts of interests (in plural) involved. These media are also corporations. The Big Boss of the largest Indian corporation is also the richest and biggest media owner in the country.
- Antisemitism claims mask a reign of political and cultural terror across Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Cook explores the "cultural, political and intellectual reign of terror" in European countries, primarily Germany, after the German parliament equated non-violent boycotts of Israel with antisemitism. He documents the hypocrisies of European countries who fight for free speech but outlaw criticism towards Israel, and the ways antisemitism has been weaponised.
- Beyond the Great Awokening
Reassessing the legacies of past black organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Discourse about race and politics in the United States has been driven in recent years more by moralizing than by careful analysis or strategic considerations. It also depends on naïve and unproductive ways of interpreting the past and its relation to the present.
- Gangsterism as Foreign Policy: Assassinations are Becoming the New Norm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
State-sponsored assassinations employ the methods of gangsterism and discredit and delegitimise those who use them.
- Adding up to Zero
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
I just learned that Canada's biggest meat company is now proclaiming itself both "carbon neutral" and "carbon zero."
- A Film from a Land with No Cinemas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
"This is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection" is a film from Lesotho, where no film industry exists.
- One of the Best Ways to Protect Biodiversity is to Preserve Indigenous Languages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Is there a connection between loss of biodiversity and loss of Indigenous languages? Or, to put another way, what significance protecting Indigenous languages might have for protecting biodiversity?
- Natural Pathogens and Social Affliction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On how focus on COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a lack of attention and resources to other diseases, particularly in developing nations.
- Establishment journalists are piling on to smear Robert Fisk now he cannot answer back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Leading journalist in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not only to criticise the late, much-respected foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, but to pile in against him, using the most outrageous smears imaginable.
- Maradona, Muhammad Ali, and me
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
For an Asian kid growing up in a Britain that was viscerally racist to a degree barely imaginable now, Maradona was more than a footballer. As with Ali, what mattered was not just his sublime skills, but his attitude, too. The defiance and pride that both men symbolised spoke to me in a world in which every day was a day of having to defend my dignity, often in the face of physical attack.
- Saving photos and memories from a flood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- The planet cannot begin to heal until we rip the mask off the West's war machine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- 'Refusing to serve in the army is my small act of making change'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Hillel Rabin spent 56 days in military prison for refusing to serve in the IDF. Now she opens up about her time behind bars, conversations with her fellow inmates, and talking to young Israelis about the occupation.
- Can We Build a Progressive Future If We Dismiss a Large Part of the Working Class?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
It is hard to imagine a stable progressive future for our country with many millions of working-class Americans mobilized in angry opposition. At best this will create a political deadlock that frustrates possibilities for the lasting and radical reforms we so desperately need.
- The People's Point of View: The Toronto Workers' History Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Yes, the Left Should Talk to Trump Supporters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
If we're serious about defeating the dictatorship of capital and the horrors of U.S. empire, left-wing activists, writers, and organizers should be very clear: there is absolutely no way to avoid talking and organizing with Trump supporters. It's not easy, but in many contexts, it’s already happening.
- Common Organizing Mistakes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Organizing is difficult and every organizer makes mistakes. Here are some of the most common ones, and how to avoid them.
- MSM Already Helping Next Administration Hide Corruption Under 'Diversity' Banner
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On published articles by the Times and Vox discussing diversity in the incoming Biden administration; and argues that it overlooks individual actions of those appointed.
- New York Times Job Listing Shows How Western Propaganda Operates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In order to get a job at the New York Times, you need to demonstrate that you subscribe to the mainstream oligarchic imperialist worldview which forms the entirety of western mass media output. You need to demonstrate that you have been properly indoctrinated, and that you can be guided into toeing the imperial line with simple attaboys and tisk-tisks from your superiors rather than being explicitly told to knowingly lie.
- The Dead And Those About To Die - Climate Protests And The Corporate Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the climate protest demonstration on Remembrance Day, 2020.
- Robert Fisk had True Independence of Mind, Which is Why He Angered Governments and Parts of the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
At the heart of Fisk's journalism was relentless and meticulous eyewitness reporting of events, a refusal to see complex conflicts in terms of black and white, while not surrendering to moral indifference and keeping a sense of outrage when confronted with real evil. Above all, perhaps, he showed an unbending refusal to back down when what he said was being denied, denounced or ignored by politicians and the media.
- US military buys location data of popular Muslim apps
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Conspiracy Theories and the Canadians who Love Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Anderson explores Canada's conspiratorial heritage, a heritage that continues to engage with transnational currents attempting to explain the modern world. He focuses on two Canadian figures, Social Credit MP John Blackmore and writer William Guy Carr, to argue that they are not isolated fringe figures in Canadian history, but that they exist within widespread national and transnational networks.
- Palestinians and Israelis call for a single democratic state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Palestinian-led One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC), comprised of Palestinians from every major community ('48, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the refugee camps and the Diaspora/Exile), together with their critical Israeli Jewish partners, has issued a call for the establishment of a single democratic state including everyone living between the River and the Sea, including Palestinian refugees who choose to return to their homeland.
- November 11
Remembrance Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Official remembrances are often about forgetting as much as they are about remembering.
- A Picture of How Power Works
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On normalisation of corruption and incompetence in the appointed heads in both public and private systems.
- Robert Fisk - Death Of A 'Controversial' Journalist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
why do ‘mainstream’ commentators feel obliged to red-flag Fisk’s journalism with ‘controversial’ in this way, and why is it a 'weasel word'? Consider that the likes of the BBC's Andrew Marr, the Guardian's Martin Chulov and The Times' David Aaronovitch, and numerous others, will never be described as 'controversial', despite their highly controversial, in fact outrageous, warmongering bias.
- Cultural and Political Diversity in the White Working-Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Explores American politics and voter trends and challenges the idea that highly educated people are the norm and the ideal, whereas poorly educated whites are ignorant and deplorable, standing in the way of positive change the educated are trying to bring.
- Party Organization in Lenin's Comintern
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Many socialist groups today seek to shape their organizational principles in the spirit of "democratic centralism" identified with V.I. Lenin. Yet as historian Lars Lih has demonstrated ("Fortunes of a Formula" and "Further Fortunes of a Formula"), Lenin himself used the term only occasionally, and then with widely varying emphasis. The formula's meaning for socialists today is in fact derived mainly from its application by the Communist International (Comintern) in Lenin's lifetime and under his guidance (1919–23).
- The Gaza I Grew Up In
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Palestinian journalist Jehad al-Saftawi speaks on his experience working in Gaza; walking a tightrope, seen as suspect by the rulers and residents of Gaza and the Israeli army.
- RIP Betty Dodson, Sex Revolutionary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The great sex revolutionary and Godmother of Masturbation, Dr. Betty Dodson (1929-2020), one of my most beloved mentors, died on the Blue Moon of Halloween night.
- The biosecurity myth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Favouring industrialised poultry rearing and stock raising, including pigs, through internationally prescribed rules doesn't prevent epidemics. It just puts small, local organic producers out of business, and it helps big agribiz.
- China's outlaw fishermen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
China subsidises a huge fishing fleet, umatched in size and reach. its vessels help feed the nation, but also serve as pawns on the geopolitical chessboard, intimidating other nation's fishermen and coastguards.
- Leninism without the working class? The missing subject in Malm's ecological revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Although scientists have been publishing on the viral consequences of deforestation for decades, Andreas Malm’s Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency is the first publicly accessible book that connects pandemics, climate change, and capitalism.
- Palestinian olive farmers defy Israeli attacks for prized crop
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Israeli restrictions, attacks and intimidation continue to hinder the vital olive harvest but Palestinians persevere.
- The Free University: A people's history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A history of a Free University in Australia.
- Social media's erasure of Palestinians is a grim warning for our future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Nowhere are ties between tech and state officials more evident than in their dealings with Israel. This has led to starkly different treatment of digital rights for Israelis and Palestinians.
- The Gonzo Constitutionalism of the American Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Secularists and free thinkers - Maryam Namazie on the freedom to choose
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A veteran campaigner for human, especially women's rights, Maryam Namazie speaks with the eloquence and quiet confidence that comes with years of sustained activism on issues ranging from Islamophobia, to blasphemy, misogyny and sex apartheid.
- Two very different Jewish responses to bigotry
One promoting solidarity, the other promoting insularity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In the last weeks of September 2020, anonymous adhesive stickers bearing possible messages of bigotry appeared on utility poles and other surfaces in Halifax, Nova Scotia. And the response from two Jewish organizations demonstrate two very different approaches to those messages.
- The Culture War is nothing but a bourgeois distraction from the only war that really matters - Class War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Middle-class squabbling over statues and outdated anthems only serves to fill up the political discourse with meaningless hot air and to perpetuate a system that keeps them comfortable and the working-classes quiet.
- After the QAnon Ban, Who's Next?
QAnon is crazy, but so is our increasingly arbitrary system of speech controls
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
This current system is the worst of all worlds. It's invisible to the public, clearly invites government recommendations on speech, allows a gameable system of anonymous complaints to influence content, and gives awesome power to an unelected, unaccountable body of private media regulators. Whatever the right method is for dealing with dangerous content in the Internet era -- and it’s clear we need a better one -- this isn't it.
- 'None Of It Reported': How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
When it comes to arguably the most important political trial in our lifetimes, there is a not-so-curious media reluctance to dwell on it or even mention it, never mind grant it the kind of blanket coverage that celebrity trials regularly generate. Thus, media attention given to the extradition hearing of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder and editor, was minimal and dwarfed by the coverage devoted to the actor Johnny Depp over the summer.
- Welcome to Flatland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the shallowness of cultural and political debate in relation to the postponement of Philip Guston's exhibition.
- Eyewitness to the Trial and Agony of Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
John Pilger has watched Julian Assange's extradition trial from the public gallery at London's Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia.
- The Prognosis
Looking the consequences in the eye
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
What has impressed me about the coronavirus is the extent to which its fearsome reputation has eclipsed and occasionally exceeded its actual effects. This is not to deny that some of these effects have been, in places, quite terrible. It is only to point out that the myth of the pandemic -- the story that already clothed it upon arrival -- has sometimes had more influence on policy than the facts of the matter, which are more difficult to ascertain.
- Greenwald's Intercept Resignation Exposes The Rot In All Mass Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has made major waves throughout mainstream and alternative media by resigning from The Intercept, an outlet he co-founded in 2014 with the stated mission of holding power to account with the power of unrestricted journalism. Johnstone argues that editorial freedom is being curbed.
- Exxon Touts Carbon Capture as a Climate Fix, but Uses It to Maximize Profit and Keep Oil Flowing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A discussion of ExxonMobil's promotion of carbon capture.
- 'Confirmed' Has Become A Meaningless Word In Mainstream News Reporting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The word "confirmed" has been misused and abused to such a spectacular extent in mainstream news reporting of late that it doesn’t actually mean anything anymore when they say it.
- Huawei Sting Operation Exposed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
December 1, 2020 is the second anniversary of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s arrest — or kidnapping, depending on your point of view — in Vancouver, Canada. If you work for the U.S.’s Departments of Justice, Treasury and State, with the CIA/NSA cheering from the galleries, it is just a simple extradition request to "carry out the law." If, however, you are company executive Frédéric Pierucci, Meng was kidnapped by the U.S., just as he was in 2013, whereupon he was imprisoned for two years on similar — he would say trumped-up — charges. His seizure was used to extort France’s flagship Alstom Corporation to pay $772 million in fines (ransom according to Pierucci) and sell off its most valuable portfolios to General Electric (GE), its U.S. competitor — all to gain his release.
- The Trouble with Disparity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Racism is real and antiracism is both admirable and necessary, but extant racism isn’t what principally produces our inequality and antiracism won’t eliminate it. And because racism is not the principal source of inequality today, antiracism functions more as a misdirection that justifies inequality than a strategy for eliminating it.
- Nonconforming
AGainst the erosion of academic freedom by identity politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Nuclear War: A Thought Experiment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- It's time Europeans demanded reparations for slavery
Over a million people from across the continent were taken by Moorish pirates — when will their descendents receive justice?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Let's make people pay for what their ancestors did. What could possibly go wrong?
- 'They're Out to Get You': Police Misconduct in White, Working-Class America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A study by the People’s Policy Project suggests that white, working-class people are particularly vulnerable to police brutality. As Jacobin reported, the study found that the rate of police killings increased as census tract poverty increased, with the level of police killings in the highest-poverty quintile more than three times that of the lowest-poverty quintile. In layman's terms, you’re overall more likely to be killed by a police officer if you’re working-class or poor.
- How Israel wages its war on Palestinian history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Israel’s archives are being hurriedly sealed up precisely to prevent any danger that records might confirm long-sidelined and discounted Palestinian history. Last month Israel’s state comptroller, a watchdog body, revealed that more than one million archived documents were still inaccessible, even though they had passed their declassification date. Nonetheless, some have slipped through the net.
- Torturing Assange
An Interview with Andrew Fowler
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Andrew Fowler, Australian award-winning investigative journalist and author of 'The Most Dangerous Man in the World: Julian Assange and WikiLeaks' Fight for Freedom,' accounts the rise and political imprisonment of Assange. According to Fowler, Assange seemingly inevitably moved toward an adversarial positioning against American imperialism abroad. He was a tonic for the indifference expressed by so many ordinary Americans in the traumatic aftermath of 9/11 and the rise of the surveillance state.
- The Simple Fix For Corporate Income Tax: Tax Stock Returns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
It is time for a major and simple overhaul of the corporate income tax system. The main problem with the current system is that it is focused on the wrong target. Instead of taxing corporate profits, we should be taxing stock returns.
- The cancellation of professor Adolph Reed, Jr.'s speech and the DSA's promotion of race politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The New York Times published a lengthy news article last week highlighting an instructive incident that took place earlier this year within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). A speech by professor emeritus of political science Adolph Reed, Jr. was cancelled due to objections by the AFROSOCialist and Socialists of Color Caucus over his "reactionary and class reductionist form of politics."
- Gassing Immigrants in Detention with a Highly Toxic Industrial Disinfectant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
What is being done to immigrant detainees by the US is a grotesque chemical assault on America's "undesirables."
- The 'Lesser-Evil' Syndrome: Noam Chomsky's Fall Into Self-Contradiction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
No matter whether or how we cast our ballots, policy is insulated from voter preferences and keeps moving to the right. Nevertheless, Chomsky takes leftists who abstain or vote third party (in swing states) to task for failing to carry out what he considers to be a straightforward exercise in damage mitigation.
- On The Barricades and Between The Lines
Steve Izma & Anarchy in the UW (and beyond)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Racial categories are reactionary
One of the most banal and vulgar ways to think about humanity is to classify by 'race'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Racial thinking, no matter how 'progressively' arrived at, can only be reactionary. It is irrational, anti-scientific and anti-humanist. It is a fetter on the social development of human beings and their flourishing. Racialism and racism are twin brothers. Solidifying racial categories in mainstream discourse is a grave mistake. Real progress should mean challenging racial thinking at its root and ultimately transcending it.
- Rosa Luxemburg's Birds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Victimhood has become a cult that wants you to suffer forever
I know because I broke free of its grasp.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Victim culture is pervasive. From gaming to politics, an endless cycle of hurt feelings has tainted all it touches. But in a society where depression is skyrocketing, it’s time to call out a mindset that is ruining people’s lives.
- How the US helped push Lebanon to the brink of collapse, and now threatens more sanctions
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
While the media blames the crisis in Lebanon solely on corruption, the US government unleashed a “maximum pressure” campaign to push regime change and crush Lebanese resistance with sanctions and aggressive hybrid warfare.
- From the Grassroots: The Company of Young Canadians, Local Activism, and Sustainable Development in Canada, 1965-1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
This study draws upon and extends recent work that examines grassroots environmental activism as well as government support for such ventures in the Canadian context. In doing so it examines how the CYC became midwife to initiatives that began to grapple with the meaning of sustainable development, from projects concerned directly with the environmental effects of air and water pollution, to urban countercultural communes and cooperatives experimenting with recycling programs and organic food. Though most of these CYC-sponsored projects and their affiliated community organizations were concerned primarily with economic and social development, it is argued here that members of the Company, like others in the nascent environmental movement of the period, were inevitably being drawn towards assessing issues and using strategies that linked people, land, and community in more broadly sustainable ways.
- The New Puritans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The attack on congressional candidate Alex Morse for consensual sexual relationships is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly because it reveals a new American phobia toward adulthood.
- The New Puritans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The attack on congressional candidate Alex Morse for consensual sexual relationships is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly because it reveals a new American phobia toward adulthood.
- Twitter spreads paid US government propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Twitter says it bans ads from state-affiliated media outlets. However, US government propaganda organs like Voice of America’s VOA Persian pay the social media corporation huge sums of money to spread disinformation against Iran and other foreign adversaries.
- Twitter spreads paid US government propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On allegations that Twitter has demonstrated bias in favor of US government and its interests, with regards to policies on state-backed media outlets.
- Journeying to freedom in a closed-off world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Palestinians know only too well what it’s like to be under lockdown or prevented from traveling, hemmed in by walls, checkpoints and bureaucracy, themes Qumsiyeh tackles in Walled Citizen.
- For Gaza patients, uncertainty over Israeli permits is a matter of life and death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Israel's permit regime has become even more arduous for Palestinian patients since the PA halted coordination, with rights groups trying to fill the vacuum.
- The history and politics of the Communist Party of Canada: an overview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Authoritarianism & Lockdown Time in Occupied Kashmir and India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Under the guise of crises, authoritarian governments can compress time, manipulating it in ways to render decisions that are long in the making seem like spur-of-the-moment measures taken to protect the public interest.
- 'Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine' Is The Dumbest Story Yet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- 'We Get There First or White Supremacists Do'
How These Rural Canvassers Disrupt Racist Narratives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The stew of punitive policies and racial demagoguery was precisely why progressive organizers deemed Alamance County a crucial battleground in the wake of the 2016 election. While the intertwined immigration and monument battles were playing out in Alamance, canvassers from Down Home North Carolina fanned out across the county, knocking on doors and holding conversations with residents about immigration and healthcare.
- Torture casts a shadow over the G20
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
This year, Saudi Arabia is holding the rotating presidency of the Group of 20 (G20), the world's largest economies. The kingdom will use its presidency as a PR opportunity to expand its economic influence and attract foreign investment. However, Legner argues that the proven practice of systemic torture and human rights abuses should disqualify Saudi Arabia from holding the presidency of the G20.
- Why is Surrogacy Illegal in Most of the World?
Ethics and Risks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The infertility and surrogacy multi-billion-dollar industries, those who benefit from it, and others, too often attempt to out-shout any criticism of surrogacy by conflating surrogacy with LGBTQ+ rights and labeling all opposition to surrogacy as homophobic. Opposition to surrogacy has nothing to do with the sexual preference, sexual orientation, gender identification or marital status of those who use anonymous gamete and/or hire a surrogate. It is contractual anonymous conception and surrogacy which is at question, regardless of who contracts for such services.
- Chemical weapons and cover-ups: the Western media's Syrian shame
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
How Western media shapes public perception with regards to chemical weapons in Syria.
- Butterfly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Lives end, but life goes on.
- COVID-19 Exposes the Weakness of a Major Theory Used to Justify Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Wolff argues that COVID-19 exposed orthodox economics -- the idea that capitalists' decisions about investing and producing are inherenty "efficent" -- as a sham.
- Electorial Interventions
A Suspiciously Naive View of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Gill explores American intervention abroad, and argues that foreign intervention has been a part of the American policy since the Monroe Doctrime in 1823. He further argues that in the Post-Cold War world, the US has promoted a liberal form of democray where any emphases on social and economic rights are largely absent. He critiques the work of David Shimer, a New York Times correspodent, as being naive and regurgitating the carefully crafted statements of American political elites.
- Heat Wave
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Like COVID-19 and much else, extreme heat disproportionately affects the poor and the elderly. They are the ones who often don’t have air conditioning, and often they live alone with no support networks.
- The Surprising Geography of Police Killings
Back-of-the-Napkin Calculations on Race, Region, and Violence
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- An evening paddle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Went canoeing on the Humber River with a friend yesterday evening. We paddled the river and explored the marshes.
- Polynesians steering by the stars met Native Americans long before Europeans arrived
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the history of interactions between Polynesians and Native American peoples based on new genetic findings.
- A Statue of Hatuey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the story of Hatuey, a Taino warrior who resisted the invasion of the Spanish in the Western hemisphere.
- On Disposability and Rebellion: Insights From a Rank-and-File Insurgency
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- A Call for Radical Humanism: the Left Needs to Return to Class Analyses of Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In tackling police violence and other social inequities rampant throughout the world today, we must address the underlying problems and not give overdue focus to the symptoms of the problems. For instance, we already know that class and not race is what determines who is affected most by institutional injustices, from the police murders of George Floyd to Tony Timpa to the the mass incarceration rates of the poor.
- The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the racial wealth gap in the US and how it is driven by the upper classes.
- On 'White Fragility'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism.
- How Racism is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
U.S. capitalism survived because it found a solution to the basic problem of its instability, its business cycles. Since capitalism never could end cyclical downturns and their awful effects, its survival required making those effects somehow socially tolerable. Systemic racism survived in the post-Civil War United States partly because it helped to achieve that tolerability. Capitalism provided conditions for the reproduction of systemic racism, and vice versa.
- Truth is Our Weapon and Shield
An Interview with Black Panther Party Veteran Billy X Jennings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Truth is Our Weapon and Shield - An Interview with Black Panther Party Veteran Billy X Jennings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Interview with Billy X Jennings discussing legacy of BPP, role of education in revolutionary practice, and current uprising in the US.
- Longing for freedom, and grieving loss
Reflections on watching swifts on a summer evening
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The chimney swifts lured me outside again this evening. I’d already been out for one walk, but my door was open, and hearing their calls pulled me out in search of them, as it so often does.
- Uncovering Canadian Media's Devastating Pro-Israel Bias
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The bias is enforced at every level of the media, from editorial boards all the way to ownership.
- Some musings about risk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
When it comes to COVID, my gut reaction is that everyone who is taking fewer precautions than me is reckless, and everyone who is taking more precautions than me is overly timid.
- Bringing the Israeli model to Kashmir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Green explores the repurcussions of more than a century's worth of oil and gas drilling, particularly leaks from abandoned wells that release pollutants into the air and water.
- Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On reports regarding social and mainsteam media attempting to censor and control narrative surrounding current protests in the US.
- The American Press Is Destroying Itself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The leaders of this new movement are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry, and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats, and intimidation. They are counting on the guilt-ridden, self-flagellating nature of traditional American progressives, who will not stand up for themselves, and will walk to the Razor voluntarily. They've conned organization after organization into empowering panels to search out thoughtcrime, and it’s established now that anything can be an offense
- Massacres as a weapon of ethnic cleansing during the Nakba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Sitta explores the ways massacres were an integral element of the Israeli settler colonial state, and aims to challenge the Zionist narrative that has dominated the Western mind. He provides a chronology of the violence and massacres commited by the Israeli state towards various Palestinian settlements.
- Police are the Enemy Within
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Yates argues that the police are the enemy of the working class, and that "law enforcement" has a long history of violence against Black and Indigenous individuals and communities. Moreover, in the capitalist system where the law is biased in favour of property over persons, the role of the police continues to be the protection of business from damage, and that harm to persons is simply collateral damage.
- Project Venezuela: Right-Wing Activists Push Wikipedia to Blacklist MintPress, other Alternative Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A group of right-wing Venezuelans has managed to ban the use of a range of alternative media outlets covering Venezuela, including MintPress News.
- Meet Wikipedia's Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation's regime-change operative CEO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial interests under the watch of its Randian founder, Jimmy Wales, and the veteran US regime-change operative who heads the Wikimedia Foundation, Katherine Maher.
- Parallels between Minneapolis and Jerusalem are More than Skin Deep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Cook argues that there are significant parallels between the United States and Israel, particularly the use of police brutality and the lack of prosecution against police officers and soldiers. He notes that the US police forces have learned from Israel's decades of experience in crushing Palestinian resistance and applied their techniques to the Black American underclasses.
- J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode 'woman' as a political and biological class. I stand alongside the brave women and men, gay, straight and trans, who're standing up for freedom of speech and thought, and for the rights and safety of some of the most vulnerable in our society.
- Wikipedia formally censors the Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The Grayzone on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia’s guidelines.
- Wikipedia formally censors the Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the blacklisting campaign of certain independent new sites launched by a small group of Wikipedia editors.
- The Most Revealing Footage On Police Brutality Is These Cops Applauding Its Perpetrators
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On video of police applauding perpetrators of police brutality, and the pervasiveness of violent police culture.
- Shocker: US state propaganda outlets censor Black Lives Matter protests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the history of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty of promoting the interests of the American Empire, and downplaying issues related to police brutality and racism.
- The Slow Exodus of Palestinian Christians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Israel has exploited the steady decline in the numbers of Palestinian Christians to advance its claim that they are being hounded from the region by Muslim extremists. But the real blame lies with Israel and the foreign Churches.
- Strange Sounds Up in the Trees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
I'm being distracted by the sounds coming from up in the trees above my head. Usually I have some idea of what I'm hearing from up above -- swifts, robins, cardinals, sparrows, squirrels, cicadas later in the summer -- but these sounds I can’t place. They're just weird: a combination of whistles, clacking sounds, chuckling, rattling, in no particular sequence that I can make out, and certainly not musical.
- Acadian Driftwood
One Family and the Great Explusion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Growing up on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Tyler LeBlanc wasn’t fully aware of his family’s Acadian roots — until a chance encounter with an Acadian historian prompted him to delve into his family history. LeBlanc’s discovery that he could trace his family all the way to the time of the Acadian Expulsion and beyond forms the basis of this account of Le Grand Dérangement
- Planet of the Censoring Humans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The campaign to remove Michael Moore’s new documentary from the Internet -- led by Moore's erstwhile progressive "allies" -- is a significant advance in the censorship revolution.
- Silencing the past: reflections on remembering and forgetting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Haitian writer Michel-Rolph Trouillot was first published in 1995. Twenty-five years on, its weaving of personal narrative with stories of slave rebellion, black Jacobins in the Haitian Revolution and the 'discovery' of the Americas still resonate.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 14, 2020
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our world. Many of us feel some degree of disorientation and uncertainty about when and how we will return to some kind of ‘normal’ and what that new normal will look like. Important choices lie ahead, so it is vital that we think clearly, ask questions, discuss with others, and make our voices heard.
- With Corbyn gone, the Israel lobby is targeting Palestinians directly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Thinking Clearly in a Time of Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A crisis like this pandemic is not a time to stop thinking. It is a time when critical thinking and public discussion are more important than ever. A small number of officials and politicians are taking decisions with enormous and far-reaching implications for the lives of many people, not just for the duration of this pandemic, but far into the future. The time to have serious discussions about what they are doing, and the direction we are heading in, is now, not some day in the future when it will be difficult, or too late, to change course.
- Remaking the Politics of Palestine Solidarity in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Farah explores the awkward position the Canadian-Arab finds themselves, where they attempt to engage in cultural and professional event programming which have to be resolutely non-political. Many times, this means avoiding those engaged in political organizing out of fear of the repercussions.
- Thought to be extinct, Beothuk DNA is present in living families, genetics researcher finds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
New research suggest Beothuk may be connected to other Indigenous peoples.
- The "Red Light" of Yugoslav Partisan Photography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The 75th anniversary of the liberation from fascism is a time to remember one of the largest anti-fascist movements in Europe.
- The Scourge of Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Questionable science is being used to pursue policies that are essentially 'unscientific' - governments, the policy and the corporate media have become the arbiters of 'truth'.
- Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and WebEx are collecting more customer data than they appear to be
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Certain applications collecting more data from users than is immediately apparent.
- Maubere Timor: Keeping East Timor's songs of resistance alive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Presumed dead for years, musician and independence fighter Berliku returns to pay tribute to his nation through music.
- Seasons in a Pandemic: Mary Shelley on What Makes Life Worth Living and Nature's Beauty as a Lifeline to Regaining Sanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Guess what, liberal thinkers? The working class doesn't need your condescending op-eds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Face Off: the Problem With Social Distancing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- People's Skepticism About Covid-19 Is The Fault Of The Lying Mass Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- What the coronavirus calamity means for intellectual and cultural life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Our leaders are terrified. Not of the virus - of us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- The Skies Are Emptying Out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Calling those who oppose totalitarian Covid-19 measures #COVIDIOTS is just another tactic by our sheepherders to shut down debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Lockdowns, curfews. Troops on the streets. Governments handing out free cash. This utter madness was entirely avoidable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
What happens when governments confuse worst-case scenarios with reality? They transform a health crisis into a social crisis and an economic tsunami, with consequences more severe than the virus could produce in the first place.
- Biggest threat Covid-19 epidemic poses is not our regression to survivalist violence, but Barbarism with human face
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The impossible has happened and the world we knew has stopped turning around. But what world order will emerge after the coronavirus pandemic is over – socialism for the rich, disaster capitalism or something completely new?
- Morality in an Amoral World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A crisis is a mirror. It shows us - if we have the courage to see - who we are as individuals and as a society. The self-congratulatory poses of governments, politicians, and state institutions are confronted with the harsh test of reality. Each of us - as individuals, friends, families, neighbours, communities - face new and sometimes difficult challenges. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is such a crisis.
- Morality in an Amoral World - Bulgarian text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 19, 2020
Morality in an Amoral World
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A crisis is a mirror. It shows us - if we have the courage to see - who we are as individuals and as a society. The self-congratulatory poses of governments, politicians, and state institutions are confronted with the harsh test of reality. Each of us - as individuals, friends, families, neighbours, communities - face new and sometimes difficult challenges. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is such a crisis.
- Women refugee photographers who changed how post-war Britain saw itself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
An exhibition on the lives and work of the two dozen women photographers who sought refuge in Britain from Nazi Europe after 1933.
- Can Coronavirus Force Policy Types to Think Clearly About Intellectual Property?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
While there are researchers all over the world working on developing a COVID-19 vaccine, they are to a large extent working in competition. Each team wants to be the first to develop a vaccine so that they can secure a patent and get immensely rich.
- The Only Treatment for Coronavirus Is Solidarity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
We live in an interwoven, interconnected world where an injury to one is truly an injury to all. We must confront the coronavirus with solidarity and fight for a society where the health of all is more important than profits for a few.
- Beothuk remains returned to Newfoundland after 191 years in Scotland
Mi'kmaq chief says remains are 'almost home' at St. John's museum, far away from gravesite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The remains of a Beothuk couple who were taken from a grave in central Newfoundland and sent to Scotland almost two centuries ago have been returned to their home province.
- Capitalism is an Incubator for Pandemics: Socialism is the Solution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the world. Capitalism cannot adequately respond to a global health crisis. That's why we need socialism.
- Dying of Thirst in Gaza
In Gaza, Even the Water is Occupied Territory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In 2012, the United Nations issued a report entitled Gaza 2020: A livable place?, with a question mark. If the report took off the question mark, it would’ve answered its own question in the title. No, it's not.
- The Killing and Raping Game in Kenya and the Despots Who Run It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Politics in Kenya is dominated by rapacious elites consumed with the looting of state resources, using violence to avoid any possible accountability. Elections serve as key points of entry and consolidation in this system for both ruling and competing elites, and are manifestations of corruption, fraud, and repression.
- A People's History of the German Revolution 1918-19 - book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
William Pelz’s People’s History of the German Revolution is a vivid and accessible introduction to socialism's greatest lost revolution.
- Best Methods For Staying Safe From Coronavirus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The real danger of each new outbreak is the failure -- or better put -- the expedient refusal to grasp that each new Covid-19 is no isolated incident. The increased occurrence of viruses is closely linked to food production and the profitability of multinational corporations. Anyone who aims to understand why viruses are becoming more dangerous must investigate the industrial model of agriculture and, more specifically, livestock production. At present, few governments, and few scientists, are prepared to do so. Quite the contrary.
- Reading About Coronavirus Without Scaring Yourself Too Much (or Too Little)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Unfortunately, because this is the corporate-controlled, understaffed, underexperienced news media we’re talking about, much of that coverage has been incomplete, misleading or sometimes just plain wrong.
- Time to Stop Pretending People With Serious Psychosis Can be "Independent"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- The Climate Movement Doesn’t Know How to Talk With Union Members About Green Jobs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Throughout the Democratic primary, the potential loss of good construction and fossil fuel industry jobs has helped prevent moderate Democratic candidates, including frontrunner Joe Biden, from taking policy positions that would aggressively confront the fossil fuel industry and the climate crisis. Whoever opposes Donald Trump in the general election will face a politics of climate denial built on an empty but alluring promise of job security in the oil, gas, and coal industries.
- Cookie Monster: the Nuts and Bolts of Online Tracking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Big Tech has become notorious for its hoarding of its users' personal data, collected with great breadth and down to minute details. Billions have been paid by online platforms to settle legal charges over their invasive and reckless privacy follies.
- Corporations and Military Powers Are Selling Phony "Wokeness" on International Women's Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
It was a familiar sight March 8, 2020 on International Women’s Day, as military contractors and other giant corporations used the holiday to attempt to associate themselves with progressive causes and agendas.
- Patterns of Occupied Palestine and Kashmir: Part 4 of Uncountable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- SYRIZA's Betrayal of Greece is a Spectre haunting the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Regardless of whether he beats the odds, no one can deny the significance of Sanders's movement in taking the relatively progressive first step of returning "socialism" from exile to everyday U.S. politics which was once an inconceivable prospect. Unfortunately, a consequence is that now his idea of an 'alternative' to capitalism has been made synonymous with the word in the minds of Americans, regardless of its qualifications.
- They Stripped Us of Our Clothes and Assigned Us a Number
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
How can one begin to excavate the horrors of a radical resocialization project (from roughly 1876 to 1986) to transform "savages" into "civilized" citizens? In turning First Nations societies upside down, the government and the churches ended up turning themselves upside down, evident in the spiritual and moral degradation of themselves and students under their care.
- 'Women are the strongest pillar'
Meet the female fishmongers in Liberia fighting for healthy fisheries.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the landing beaches of Liberia fishing canoes crowd the shallows, the bright colour schemes and fluttering flags showing the pride the fishermen take in their work. But although the men haul the nets this is an industry underpinned by women.
- Carrying the load: The weight of women's work in the DRC
For one photojournalist, an image of women miners symbolises the struggles and strength of all the women she has met.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
With her arms raised above her head, she grips the rope and leans forward to keep the basket full of heavy stones tethered behind her back. Beside her, the other women do the same as they make their way from the bottom of the valley, up a steep and slippery pathway of mud and rocks, towards the top of the Kamituga mining site in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Pakistan's Women's March: Shaking patriarchy 'to its core'
Young activists and their older counterparts explain why they are uniting to fight for women's rights in Pakistan.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Thousands of women have marched across Pakistan's main urban centres to mark International Women's Day. 2020 is the third successive year that the Aurat March, women's march, has been held in the country.
- Why the working-class, socialist history of International Women's Day matters today
On International Women's Day, Katherine Connelly looks at its origins in the socialist and feminist movements led by working class women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The high-profile celebrations of a day founded by socialists to highlight the struggles of working-class women will not include any discussion of socialism, nor will they contain much about the specific problems and experiences of working-class women.
- The Brooklyn Yeshiva Anthem Protest: Why It’s Not Antisemitic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Films from the Frontlines: "Sorry We Missed You," Ken Loach’s Stirring Exposure of Capitalist Speed and Consumers' Greed
Film review
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First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Johnstone Brings her Moral Compass to our Dantesque World
Review of Diana Johnstone, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Diana Johnstone's memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as long as we keep struggling for peace and justice. It is one of the great personal accounts of the anguished decline of our uncivilization, both a riveting eye-witness account of many of the horrors and perfidies, and a primer for students of history and all those struggling to not only dismantle the beast, but to prepare us for what follows it.
- A Feminism for the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In 1999, Barbara Ehrenreich charged the feminist movement with advancing only "educated, middle-class women." Her critique is more pertinent than ever.
- Inside the World Uyghur Congress: The US-backed right-wing regime change network seeking the 'fall of China'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In recent years, few stories have generated as much outrage in the West as the condition of Uyghur Muslims in China. Reporting on the issue is typically represented through seemingly spontaneous leaks of information and expressions of resistance by Uyghur human rights activists struggling to be heard against a tyrannical Chinese government.
- No Limits. The Disabled People's Movement: A Radical History - book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In No Limits, Judy Hunt recovers the history of the disabled people’s movement, showing how disabled people organised themselves against ‘the challenge of an inaccessible society’ and achieved significant gains.
- Even the Machines Are Racist. Facial Recognition Systems Threaten Black Lives.
The use of surveillance technology for "security" comes at the expense of civil liberties for Black and Brown people.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Politicians and companies pushing facial recognition technology say that, like the near-certainty of DNA and the exactness of fingerprint matches, the software is a precise, unbiased alternative to human bigotry in policing. Yet in reality, facial recognition technology is prone to false positives that target Black and Brown people, and then tracks them when they're on parole.
- Cajamarca - curing gold fever
The people of Cajamarca stopped a gold mine in their water and food rich territory. But the real story is what happened next...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Farmers, youth and other environmental defenders from Cajamarca, deep in the embrace of the Colombian Andes Mountains, have stopped a vast gold mine, re-valued the ‘true treasures’ in their territory and begun to develop regenerative alternatives to mining 'development'.
- Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Emboldened by the citizenry's inattention and willingness to tolerate its abuses, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expands its powers. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state's hands.
- In northeastern BC, over 10% of oil and gas wells are leaking methane
There is no monitoring program for abandoned wells, so they can leak for a long time before emissions are detected and repaired.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Northeastern British Columbia has been a major centre of conventional oil and gas production since the 1960s. More recently, the shale gas sector has also targeted the region.
- The Real Modi: Do the Killings of Muslims Represent India's Kristallnacht?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On 23 February 2020 in Delhi, Hindu nationalist mobs roamed the streets burning and looting mosques together with Muslim homes, shops and businesses. They killed or burned alive Muslims who could not escape and the victims were largely unprotected by the police.
- Researchers Are Substantially Undercounting Gene-Editing Errors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The standard gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, frequently produces a type of DNA mutation that ordinary genetic analysis misses, claims new research published in the journal Science Advances. In describing these findings the researchers called such oversights "serious pitfalls" of gene editing.
- To Save Our Climate We Need Taller Trees Not Taller Wooden Buildings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
To many of us working at the intersection of forest conservation and climate stability recent opinions and news coverage of proposals to fill our cities with tall wooden buildings presents not a stirring vision of sustainability but a nightmarish scenario of a land base increasingly scarred by clearcuts, logging roads and small diameter tree plantations at a time when climate science insists that reestablishing natural forests and letting them grow much bigger and older is one of humanity's last best hopes to keep climate change from accelerating out of control. To save our climate we need taller trees not taller wooden buildings.
- Freedom for Me But Not for Assange (or Thee): The Breathtaking Hypocrisy of CNN's Christiane Amanpour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour has some strange ideas about democracy and journalism, believing her colleagues to be above elected officials – but only if they have the correct politics and serve the right masters, obviously.
- How 'dark fishing' sails below the radar to plunder the oceans
Billions of dollars in illegal and unregulated fish supplies are mixed with legal catches and smuggled into the market.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In September 2019, the Greenpeace campaign ship Arctic Sunrise was scanning the mid-Atlantic ocean, thousands of kilometres from anywhere. On board, investigators were looking for vessels that were doing their best not to be found.
- Stop Calling Harmful Bigotry "Religious Freedom"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Supreme Court is considering a case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, that once again pits LGBTQ rights against so-called religious liberty. In this case, one of the plaintiffs, Catholic Social Services, is arguing that it has the right to discriminate against same sex couples when placing children in foster care.
- Every state is a battleground
Howie Hawkins' Response to "An Open Letter to the Green Party About 2020 Election Strategy"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
It is condescending and disrespectful to say that Greens are political dilettantes who cast votes just to feel good. We vote to advance a program of system change. We don't waste our votes affirming Democrats like Clinton who personified the elite consensus for the neoliberal economics and neoconservative imperialism that has given us unabated global warming, growing economic insecurity, and endless wars.
- An Open Letter to the Green Party About 2020 Election Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
As the 2020 presidential election approaches the Green Party faces the challenge of settling on a platform, choosing a candidate for president, and deciding its campaign strategy.
- How We Stay Blind to the Story of Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
If one thing drives me to write, especially these blog posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power. Power is the force that shapes almost everything about our lives and our deaths. There is no more important issue. Understanding power and overcoming it through that understanding is the only path to liberation we can take as individuals, as societies, and as a species.
- The "Liberal" Media’s Propaganda War on Bernie Sanders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- 'Every journalist should feel a cold, icy hand running down their spine
Assange's extradition case examined
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
"Every journalist in the United States should feel a cold, icy hand running down their spine" at the charges that had been leveled against this publisher. Because they could be next,' writer Suelette Dreyfus says about Assange whose project published leaked documents exposing possible US War crimes in Iraq and letters exposing shenanigans against Bernie Sanders in 2016 by bosses within the Democratic Party.
- 'I wish I was a boy': The Kenyan girls fighting period poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In Kenya, one million girls miss school each month because they cannot afford sanitary pads, while some share used ones.
- New Deal for Nature: Paying the Emperor to Fence the Wind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The latest idea to be heavily promoted by big conservation NGOs is doubling the world's so-called "Protected Areas" (PAs) so that they cover thirty percent of the globe's lands and oceans. This is now their main rallying cry and response to two of the world's biggest problems -- climate chaos and loss of biodiversity. It sounds good: It's easy to grasp and has numbers that are supposed to be measurable, and advertisers do love numbers. What better answer to climate change and biodiversity loss than to ban human "interference" over huge areas? If, that is, you think "everybody" is guilty of causing both crises and that everything's solved by keeping them away. The idea's been around for years, but now governments and industries are promoting it to the tune of billions of dollars, so it'll be difficult to oppose. But it's actually dangerous nonsense which would have exactly the reverse effect to what we're told, and if we want to save our world, it must be stopped.
- Assange's Extradition Case: Critical Moment for the Anti-war Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
While media have become stenographers to power and have long betrayed ordinary people, WikiLeaks has defended the public’s right to know by publishing more than 10 million documents, with a pristine record of accuracy exposing human rights abuses, government spying and war crimes on an unprecedented scale. By bringing truth to the public, the whistleblowing site transformed the Fourth Estate into becoming a powerful vehicle for peace-making.
- Revealed: The British government's covert propaganda campaign in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The British government covertly established a network of citizen journalists across Syria during the early years of the country's civil war in an attempt to shape perceptions of the conflict, frequently recruiting people who were unaware that they were being directed from London.
- 'Unreasonable & unacceptable': Beijing slams Washington for press freedom hypocrisy after Chinese media branded 'foreign missions'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
China has denounced Washington for advocating freedom of the press while obstructing media, after it tightened control over Beijing-run outlets operating in the US by equating them to diplomatic missions.
- The West Displays Its Insecurity Complex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
"The West is winning!' U.S. leaders proclaimed at the high-level Annual Security Conference held in Munich last weekend. Not everybody was quite so sure.
- Which Side Are You On?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
I think of my friend whenever I hear some bullshit-bloated politician or commentator dismissing the humanity and dignity of criminals and prisoners.
- Capitalist roots of the environment crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Here we are, heading into the middle decades of the 21st century, with all the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of millennia of human endeavour literally at our fingertips, staring down the barrel of a catastrophic, and possibly terminal, breakdown of the relationship between human society and the natural world on which we depend.
- The Disappeared
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the fifth floor of the tall glass federal building in Portland, Oregon, the immigration court hums in hushed tones, an air of reverence coming from a dozen or so fidgety children and teenagers. They sit in two long pews that line the back of the room, facing the elevated bench of the immigration judge.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 19, 2020
Taking a Stand
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Psychologists call it cognitive dissonance. George Orwell called it double-think. Some of us might call it organized hypocrisy. Call it what you will, it surrounds us. The government proclaims its commitment to 'reconciliation' with indigenous people, and says that its relationship with them is its most important relationship. At the same time the RCMP, following an order by a colonial court, invades unceded indigenous land and arrests people for occupying their own land. Governments mouth platitudes about the importance they place on dealing with the climate emergency while at the same time they build new pipelines and approve massive new tarsands projects. The biggest polluter on the planet - the U.S. military - meanwhile receives constant increases in its budget, even while it pursues demented schemes to take us to the edge of war, mostly recently by deploying a new generation of "low-yield" thermonuclear weapons on submarines. All this is business as usual. Fortunately many people across the country, and around the world, are saying no to business as usual. They are taking a stand and disrupting business as usual.
- Profiting from Loss: How Business in Illegal Israeli Settlements Continues Unchecked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
UN efforts to protect Palestinian land from economic exploitation are failing, and exposing the hypocrisy of western states.
- 'OK, Boomer' mentality: Academics want to label old age a disease, in case you had any respect left for the elderly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Prominent academics are pushing for the World Health Organization (WHO) to include old age on its list of diseases. They say it will improve old people’s lives – but in reality, it will give everyone the excuse to write them off.
- Colonial conservation - a 'cycle of impunity'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A UN investigation has suggested that rangers funded by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have beaten up, abused and murdered people in the forests of Congo. These atrocities were committed in the name of conservation.
- The Lies of Industry and the Liars Who Sell Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A review of The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception, a book by David Michaels.
- Extensive Chemical Safety Fraud Uncovered at German Testing Laboratory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The case of an animal rights activist who infiltrated an independent German chemical testing laboratory has triggered the discovery of an apparently extensive chemical testing fraud.
- 1945 Dresden bombing’s lesson is the same 75 years on: Might still makes right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Dresden is like Auschwitz or Srebrenica, a terrible event elevated to almost mythical status because it is in fact the symbol of a wider phenomenon, in this case the bombing campaign conducted against a large number of German cities including Hamburg and Berlin. Dresden occupies this symbolic status because of the very high number of civilian deaths, most burned to death by incendiary bombs whose function was to set buildings alight, and because the town had little or no military significance.
- Palestinians hail UN list of firms linked to Israeli settlements
Palestinian leaders say report will reinvigorate push to boycott international companies in occupied territories.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Palestinian leaders have hailed the United Nations Human Rights Office report, which lists firms linked to illegal Israeli settlements, saying it is a critical step towards boycotting Israeli businesses operating in the occupied West Bank. The UN body said it identified 112 business entities - 94 based in Israel and 18 in six other countries - which it has reasonable grounds to conclude have ties with Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.
- When CNN Introduces Bernie-Bashers Only as "Former," CNN is Lying to You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On Wednesday night, CNN's Don Lemon hosted ubiquitous Bernie Sanders-basher Jim Messina – solo, without an opposing view – to slam Sanders and his Medicare for All proposal. Messina was introduced and repeatedly identified only by his former positions: "Former Obama Campaign Manager" and "Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Obama Administration."
- Huawei fires back, points to US' history of spying on phone networks
Huawei denies having secret access to phone networks, calls it "impossible."
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Chinese vendor Huawei has provided a longer response to US allegations of spying, claiming that it doesn't have the spying capability alleged by the US and pointing out that the US itself has a long history of spying on phone networks.
- Named: 112 companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements by the UN
United Nations Human Rights Council lists firms it says likely connected to Israel's colonisation of the occupied West Bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The United Nations Human Rights Council produced a list on Wednesday of 112 companies it has concluded have ties to illegal Israeli settlements. Ninty-four of the firms named are domiciled in Israel, the other 18 are in other states.
- US media tries another 'Bernie blackout' after New Hampshire win, but their game is not working
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary, but it appears this is such a hard pill for US media to swallow, that they've simply decided to ignore it -- or at least frame it in a way that somehow makes winning sound bad.
- Wall Street Invading Wet’suwet’en Territory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
While protesters have rightly condemned the RCMP actions in arresting Wet’suwet’en First Nation land defenders, they (and the corporate media) have largely overlooked the role of a major player in this whole debacle: Wall Street titan Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., better known as KKR.
- Canadian Embassy: Militarily Supporting Israeli Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A top diplomat organizing an event to celebrate Canadians fighting for another country's military ought to generate criticism. Doing so while that force humiliates Palestinians at checkpoints in the West Bank, fires on protesters in Gaza and bombs Syria in violation of international law is an outrage that must be condemned.
- Oscars: Read Joaquin Phoenix's Best Actor Speech
The best actor winner received multiple standing ovations and teared up during his acceptance speech.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In his speech, he called out injustices in the world. During multiple moments throughout his acceptance, Phoenix received applause from the audience and even teared up toward the end when he spoke about a lyric his brother wrote.
- Systemic Cruelty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
When bailiffs broke down his door on the 20th June 2018 they found Errol Graham emaciated and dead. He weighed just four and a half stone (28.5kg). There was no food in the flat except for two tins of fish that were four years out of date, no gas or electricity supply.
- Bt Cotton: Cultivating Farmer Distress in India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
To date, cotton is the only officially sanctioned GM crop in India. Those pushing for GM food crops (including the government) are forwarding the narrative that GM pest resistant Bt cotton has been a tremendous success which should now be emulated with the introduction of GM mustard. Ever since its commercialisation in 2002, however, the issue of Bt cotton in India has been a hotly contested issue. Bt cotton hybrids now cover over 95% of the area under cotton and the seeds are produced by the private sector. But critics argue that Bt cotton has negatively impacted livelihoods and fuelled agrarian distress and farmer suicides.
- Democrats impeach Trump for Withholding Arms to Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
That the Democrats are not impeaching Trump for an actual unconstitutional offense like the diverting of military funds to his border wall without congressional approval is revealing of its true motivations. Trump only crossed a line when he went after another member of the political establishment and fleetingly halted the U.S. war machine in its aggression toward Moscow.
- German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Organizing to ampliyfy ecosocialist voices around the world
African journal interviews John Molyneux, a founder of the new Global Ecosocialist Network, on the challenges before ecosocialists today.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
John Molyneux, a socialist activist and writer based in Ireland, has played a central role in organizing the Global Ecosocialist Network. He was interviewed by Leo Zeilig of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE).
- Intimidating or coercing a civilian population is terrorism. Right?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
So, Donald Trump's "peace plan" threatening to wipe out the Palestinians' legitimate rights and reduce them to a fragmented vassal mini-state with restricted freedom and limited self-rule, to be forever at the mercy of their cruel and lawless neighbour, is a terror document. Right?
- 6-year-old begs for help during arrest at Florida school: video
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Step to Nuclear Doomsday: US Puts Low-Yield Nukes on Submarines in Response to Made-up Russian 'Escalate to Deescalate' Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The US has deployed “low-yield” nuclear missiles on submarines, saying it’s to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a “Russian strategy” made up in Washington and will only bring mass annihilation closer.
- Saugeen Ojibway Nation Has Saved Lake Huron From a Nuclear Waste Dump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A major victory for Canada's First Nations has just been won in Ontario. On January 31, 2020, the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON) overwhelmingly voted down the proposed deep geological repository (DGR) for storage of low- and intermediate-level radioactive nuclear waste next to Lake Huron.
- How to Help Someone With a Disability: Listen to Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
If you know someone with a disability, the best thing you can do is listen to them. Let them tell you about their strengths, and weaknesses, and needs.
- The Issue Dividing Democratic Candidates Is Hidden in Plain Sight
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Takes came in hot and heavy last weekend after the New York Times editorial board endorsed both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for the Democratic presidential nomination, mercifully ending the paper's self-aggrandizing pseudo-event widely compared to … that's right … "The Apprentice."
- The Public Charge Rule for Immigrants Evokes the Antebellum Slave Codes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Immigration historians have written extensively about how the archaic provision Trump is relying on had antecedents in state laws regulating Atlantic immigration in the 1800s. But little, if anything, has been said in the media about how Trump's rule is also rooted in a different set of state laws, specifically, state slave codes and other antebellum-era laws designed to preserve slavery and limit the movement of freed slaves.
- RBC surveillance camera shows someone else took cash, but bank says customer is to blame
Bank says she was careless, but tech expert says chip-and-PIN cards can be compromised
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
An Ontario woman says she is out thousands of dollars after her bank blamed her for two unauthorized withdrawals from her account, despite surveillance photos that show another person taking the cash right under the noses of RBC tellers.
- The military's carbon bootprint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
As the biggest single user of fossil fuels, why is the military exempt from the climate discussion?
- How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Chevron has hired private investigators to track Donziger, created a publication to smear him, and put together a legal team of hundreds of lawyers from 60 firms, who have successfully pursued an extraordinary campaign against him. As a result, Donziger has been disbarred and his bank accounts have been frozen.
- The Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX): Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the Russians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
There has long been fierce opposition to the TMX project (owned at the time by Texas-based Kinder Morgan), which will nearly triple the pipeline’s capacity to bring Alberta diluted bitumen (dilbit) to the West Coast.
- Free period products for trans boys in UK schools is about ideology, not pupils' needs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Proposed guidelines explicitly presumed that it is the teacher and not the parent who ought to possess the authority to provide the conditions that allow children to transition to another sex. The document entitled “Supporting Transgender Young People: Guidance For Schools In Scotland,” insisted that teachers should not inform parents if their child changes gender in school, unless the child, who may well be as young as four, gives permission.
- The Holocaust, the BBC and antisemitism smears
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Senior BBC news reporter Orla Guerin has found herself in hot water of an increasingly familiar kind. During a report on preparations for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, she made a brief reference to Israel and an even briefer reference to the Palestinians.
- 'We've got a real divide in the community:' Wet'suwet'en Nation in turmoil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The battle over the CGL pipeline in British Columbia both on social media and in the press is dividing the Wet'suwet'en Nation some members say. The two opposing sides have been in a very public dispute over Coastal GasLink's (CGL) 670 km pipeline that will carry fracked natural gas from Dawson Creek, B.C., in the northeast, to Kitimat on the coast.
- Flu Deaths: US 6,600 — China 25
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Western countries just let their people die. It's called "free markets" and the cold-blooded "cost of doing business".
- We have legal age limits for driving, voting, and having sex, why not for transgender treatment?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- The privatization of rivers in Chile
Auctioning-off rivers for private gain has severe social and environmental impacts. But there is a better way.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Chilean government has continued with the mercantile treatment of common goods, putting several rivers in the Bio Bio Region up for auction, despite ongoing social unrest.
- America's Long History of Meddling in Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Setting aside the question of whether it's smart to take the U.S. government at its word — it isn't — if Russia were to meddle in our domestic politics, we would have it coming. To say the least.
- Claims that the 'NAFTA 2' Agreement is Better are a Macabre Joke
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Although Democrats and public pressure forced through some improvements, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), or NAFTA 2, isn't substantially different and remains a document of corporate domination. It would appear that appearances, not substance, drove Democrats in the House of Representatives to approve the deal.
- Facebook censors explainer clip recalling when western media liked Soleimani – and demonetizes popular account for sharing it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The social media behemoth didn't just remove independent journalist Dan Cohen's 'In the Now' segment, "How 'good guy' Soleimani became US media's 'bad guy'," from the show's page on Tuesday – it demonetized In the Now entirely, citing the typical unspecified violations of "community standards." The move comes amid an alarming escalation in the platform's crackdown on political speech that runs contrary to US foreign policy, a wave of censorship that has not been limited to Facebook.
- The World Must End The US' Illegal Economic War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The United States is relying more heavily on illegal unilateral coercive measures (also known as economic sanctions) in place of war or as part of its build-up to war. In fact, economic sanctions are an act of war that kills tens of thousands of people each year through financial strangulation.
- Understanding France's General Strike in the Context of the Yellow Vests and Global Class Warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Labor and capital are at loggerheads in France. As the open-ended strike launched on December 5th against a neoliberal overhaul of the pension system continues to expand, the Macron regime has dug in its heels to defend the advantages this so-called reform would have for the wealthy (even though it has recently been forced to present what it considers to be a "compromise" to the union leadership).
- Black or White, It's the Same Old Anti-Semitic Pathology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
2019 closed with a number of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York City area—including the killing of three people at a Jersey City kosher market by two shooters who had expressed interest in the fringe Black Hebrew Israelite movement, and a machete attack at a rabbi's home in Monsey, NY by a suspect who appears to have referenced the same anti-Semitic hate group in his rambling manifesto.
- The Inauthentic Opposition is "Stunned" by a Crime it Encouraged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Top Democrats are "stunned" that Trump impulsively ordered the killing of "the commanding general of a sovereign government" (New York Times) – Iran’s Maj. Gen. Qassim Soliemani - on the sovereign territory of Iraq without the permission of Iraq's government. The imperial assassination of Soliemani is a criminal act of war guaranteed to provoke a reaction that could produce a regional war involving U.S. forces in the Middle East.
- Miriam Garfinkle Lane
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Miriam Garfinkle Lane is a laneway in the city of Toronto. The name honours Dr. Miriam Garfinkle (1954-2018), a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
- The Dangers of Privatized Intelligence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Ray McGovern once again effectively demolishes (as he has several times over the past three years) the flimsy props holding up Russiagate, especially the "Intelligence Community Assessment" (ICA) prepared in January 2017 by "handpicked analysts" from the FBI, CIA and NSA (not 17 intelligence agencies, as first claimed by National Intelligence Director James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan).
- Israeli Justice... a Futile Chase
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Seventeen years ago, 23 year old Rachel Corrie (a Washington State volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement) was crushed to death by an armoured military bulldozer as she stood on top of a mound of dirt trying to prevent the dozer from destroying a civilian home in the Southern Gaza Strip village of Rafa.
- A theological moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The question is: what is purgatory?
- 'Completely unsustainable': How streaming and other data demands take a toll on the environment
Tech firms look for solutions as data centres use huge amounts of power to fuel streaming and social media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
"We are using an immense amount of energy to drive this data revolution," said Jane Kearns, an environment and technology expert at MaRS Discovery District, an innovation hub in Toronto. "It has real implications for our climate."
- The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose
Wells, Karin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and a pickup truck. They called it the Abortion Caravan. Three thousand miles later, they "occupied" the prime minister's front lawn in Ottawa, led a rally of 500 women on Parliament Hill, chained themselves to their chairs in the visitors' galleries, and shut down the House of Commons, the first and only time this had ever happened.
- Accidental Wilderness
The Origins and Ecology of Toronto's Tommy Thompson Park
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Afro-American Progressive Association
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Afro-American Progressive Association (AAPA) was one of the first Black Power organizations in Canada, and one of the liveliest.
- All Shook Up: The Politics of Cultural Appropriation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In the era of global capitalism, imagining the lives of others is a crucial form of solidarity.
- Allan Gardens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
More than 150 years since it first opened to the public Allan Gardens is still a city park open to the public. Due to its central location and large size Allan Gardens Park has long been a chosen site for protests and demonstration in Toronto.
- Alternative Schools in Toronto in the 1960s & early 1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
In the 1960s, there was increasing criticism of the education system in Ontario, as in many other parts of the world, and a corresponding search for changes or alternatives.
- Assam's excluded non-citizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Bain Co-op
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Built as a low-income housing project in 1913, Bain became a co-operative in 1977.
- Big Strikes and the sabotage of the labor movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Black Power in Toronto
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
History of the Black Power Movement in Toronto, in the context of the Black Power movement in North America.
- Brickworks
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Beginning in the 1840s brick works operations began to locate near the Don River to take advantage of the large clay deposits and water power, as well as easy access to the growing city.
- Cage of Gold
The corrupt business of deportation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the Bracero Program that perpetuated violence and exploitation against Mexican laborers, and argues for a reckoning with this history in US-Mexico relations.
- Canadian Liberation Movement
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Canadian Liberation Movement (CLM) was an organization founded in 1969 dedicated to liberating Canada from U.S. control and domination. It fought for the independence of Canadian unions from U.S.-controlled “international” unions and stood for Canadian unions for Canadian workers. CLM adopted a nationalist perspective rooted in a variety of ‘Marxist-Leninist’ thinking, and drew inspiration especially from Maoist China.
- Cherry Beach
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Cherry Beach, originally called Clarke Beach Park, was established as a recreational beach in the 1930s. Established close to the mouth of the Don River, Cherry Beach was very close to what was then a heavily industrial area.
- Chicken: A History from Farmyard to Factory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Why has the chicken become the meat par excellence, the most plentifully eaten and popular animal protein in the world, consumed from Beijing to Barcelona? Historian Paul Josephson explains that the story of the chicken's rise involves a whole host of factors; from art, to nineteenth-century migration patterns to cold-war geopolitics.
- Circle in the Darkness
Memoir of a World Watcher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Veteran journalist Diana Johnstone's memoir covers half a century of contemporary history. Johnstone recounts in detail how the Western Left betrayed its historical principles of social justice and peace and let itself be lured into approval of aggressive U.S.-NATO wars on the fallacious grounds of "human rights". Subjects range from caustic analysis of the pretentious confusion of French philosophers to the stories of many courageous individuals whose struggle for peace and justice ended in deep personal tragedy, with a great deal in between.
- Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
History of the Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT).
- Company of Young Canadians
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Company of Young Canadians (CYC) was a federal program established in 1966 to encourage social, economic and community development in Canada.
- Compelled to Act
Histories of Women’s Activism in Western Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Historical perspectives on the diversity of women's contributions to social and political change in prairie Canada in the twentieth century, including but looking beyond the era of suffrage activism.
- Copenhagen, cycle city
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Coronavirus: Global academia gets a taste of the Palestinian lockdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Counter-Culture
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
An article on the history of the 1960s Counter-Culture in Toronto.
- The Cruise Missile Conversion Project
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Cruise Missile Conversion Project was a dedicated group of women and men committed in 1980-1981 to resisting Canadian militarism. They chose as their focus the Rexdale, Ontario manufacturing plant operated by Litton Systems Canada.
- Dammed
The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Dammed explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River.
- The Diary of Dukesang Wong
A voice from Gold Mountain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A window into the lives of Chinese workers who built the transcontinental railways across North America, a glimpse into the racism, starvation, and disease they faced every day while working the most difficult and dangerous jobs. The diary of Dukesang Wong, speaks vividly about his experiences and emotions during six years working on the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is the only first person account known to exist.
- Diet for a Large Planet
Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A history of the unsustainable modern diet -- heavy in meat, wheat, and sugar -- that requires more land and resources than the planet is able to support.
- Don Mount (Napier Place)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Located just east of the Don River in Riverdale, the area bordered by Queen, Broadview and Dundas Street as well as the Don Valley Parkway.
- Don Vale ("Old Cabbagetown")
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Don Vale, or "Old Cabbagetown" as it now usually called, is a small neighbourhood on the west bank of the Don Valley. Roughly bordered by Parliament and Gerrard Streets as well as St. James Cemetery, the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery, and Riverdale Park.
- Don Valley Parkway & Gardiner Expressway
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The first chair of the Metropolitan Toronto council, established in 1953, was Frederick Gardiner, who quickly drew up plans for a system of expressway and parkway arterials that expanded outward from the city centre. Gardiner's plan, which was considered progressive and reasonable at the time, included five total arterials including the Gardiner Expressway, the Don Valley Parkway and the Spadina Expressway.
- Don't Let Blackwashing Save the Investor Class
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
I could care less about these memorials to slavery and empire. Good riddance. The demonstrators have reinvigorated a process of recognition and historical consciousness that is long overdue, but their chosen targets also reflect a relative powerlessness in the face of contemporary forces. The gestural politics of the moment, reflected in terms like "white skin privilege" and "post-traumatic slavery disorder" have been heartily embraced by the investor class precisely because they deflect from the actual corporate decisions that justify exploitation, rationalize obsolescence and waste, and reproduce inequality all in pursuit of profit.
- Elder Abuse
Nursing homes, the coronovirus, and the bottom line
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Neglect of the elderly in nursing homes in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic and the inability of the US healthcare system (Medicaid) to support the elderly.
- Election Bias
The new playbook for voter suppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the systemic/bureaucratic voter suppression of People of Color (POC) and working class communties in the United States.
- Enemy Alien
A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
This graphic history tells the story of Canada’s first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, an internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917. The story is based on Boychuk’s actual memoir.
- Good Guys With Guns
Why the left should arm itself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the Socialist Rifle Association (SRA) and why working people and the left should own guns.
- The Great Barrington Declaration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.
- The Great Barrington Declaration - Frequently Asked Questios
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Basic epidemiological theory indicates that lockdowns do not reduce the total number of cases in the long run and have never in history led to the eradication of a disease. At best, lockdowns delay the increase of cases for a finite period and at great cost.
- Greater Riverdale Organization (GRO)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Greater Riverdale Organization expanded on, and replaced, the Riverdale Community Organization (RCO) – a lively and effective organization fighting for issues relevant to Toronto east-side neighbourhoods.
- The history of Highway 2 when it was the gateway to Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Homestead Steel Mill - the Final Ten Years
USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- In the name of rose
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- The Injured Workers Movement
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
History and formation of The Injured Workers Movement.
- Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Jeannie's Demise
Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- League for Student Democracy (LSD)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
An article about the history of the League for Student Democracy (LSD) in Toronto.
- Les cimetières historiques de Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Local Initiatives Program (LIP)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Local Initiatives Program or LIP was a federal program established by the Liberal government in 1971 to provide grants to a variety of community and cultural projects. The program was billed as part of the Pierre Trudeau's effort to create a "Just Society." LIP grants were intended to create jobs, especially in areas where de-industrialization had left many people unemployed.
- Locations of Grief
An Emotional Geography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- M is for Miriam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
An illustrated children's book about the Canadian physician and activist Miriam Garfinkle. Each page is devoted to some page of her life: C is for Community, D is for Doctor, G is for Garden, L is for Laughter, N is for Nature, P is for Piano, Q is for Questions, S is for Solidarity, W is for Waffles....
Identifiers: Canadiana 20190236663 - ISBN: 9781927470077
Subjects: LCSH: English language - Alphabet - Juvenile literature - LCSH Alphabet books. - LCSH: Garfinkle, Miriam, 1954-2018.
Classification: LCC PE1155.D54 2020 - DDC j421--dc23
- May 4th Movement (M4M)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The May 4th Movement (M4M) was a Toronto-based radical group formed after the Kent State shootings of unarmed university students on May 4, 1970.
- Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin
Reclaiming, Reconnecting, and Demystifying Resiliency as Life Force Energy for Residential School Survivors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin is a twenty-five year research and community based book. It brings forward Indigenous thought, history, and acts of resistance as viewed through the survivors of residential school who through certain aspects of their young lives were able to persevere with resiliency, and share their life experiences, teaching us about them, and their understanding of their own resiliency.
- Movement for Municipal Reform (ReforMetro)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Movement for Municipal Reform (often called ReforMetro) was created in Toronto in 1975. Its purpose was to establish and institutionalize close linkages among community organizers, left-wing city aldermen (as they were still called at that time), and their constituents (primarily in working-class wards).
- My Octopus Teacher
Erlich, Pippa; Reed, James
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Focuses on the relationship between Craig Foster -- a South African filmmaker -- and an octopus in a nearby kelp forest. This bond helps to reflect themes of protectionism and environmental empathy.
- Naomi Binder Wall Interview
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Three interviews with left political organizer Naomi Binder Wall conducted by Ulli Diemer in May 2020. An audio recording of this interview is in the Connexions Library & Archive.
- New Left Caucus
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The New Left Caucus (NLC) was a radical student group active on the University of Toronto campus in 1969-1970.
- 1960s CounterCulture in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Amidst the overt political developments of the late 1950s and early 1960s, a small but significant portion of youth became attracted to Beat or bohemian culture.
- November Rain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Opportunities for Youth
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Opportunities For Youth was a federal Liberal program of the early 1970s that provided funding for a variety of community projects.
- Our Backs Warmed by the Sun
Memories of a Doukhobor Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
When author Vera Maloff set out to find the truth about her family's history, she knew something of the struggles of living a pacifist, agrarian life in a world with opposing values. To find the bones of that history she turned to her mother Elizabeth, who, in her nineties, had forgotten nothing. In Our Backs Warmed by the Sun, the author, through the stories of her mother, describes a wholly activist life. The Doukhobors -- both the Sons of Freedom and moderate sects -- led anti-military protests throughout the early 1900s, harboured draft dodgers in the 60s, and stood up for their beliefs.
- Pakistan sentences Christian man to death for 'blasphemous texts'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Leo Panitch (1945-2020) - "An irreparable loss"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Parkdale Tenants' Association (PTA)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
History of the Parkdale Tenants’ Association (PTA) in Toronto.
- Pier 21: A History
Schwinghamer, Steven; Raska, Jan
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when it welcomed home nearly 400,000 Canadians after service overseas during the Second World War. In the immediate postwar period, Pier 21 became the busiest ocean port of entry in the country. Today, people across Canada still enjoy connections to Pier 21 through family history and stories of arrival at the site. Since 1998, researchers at the Pier 21 Interpretive Centre and now the Canadian Museum of Immigration have been conducting interviews, reviewing archival materials, gathering written stories, and acquiring photographs, documents, and other objects reflecting the history of Pier 21. This book builds upon the resulting collection.
- Le quartier de Yorkville dans les années 60
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Yorkville était un quartier dans la ville de Toronto qui était le centre de la contreculture des années 60s. Son nom vient de l’avenue Yorkville, mais en tant que district, ses limites était aux alentours de la rue Bloor vers le sud, la rue Davenport vers le nord, la rue Yonge vers l’est et la rue avenue vers l’ouest. L’avenue Hazelton et les rues Cumberland, Scollard, et Bellair faisaient partie du quartier de Yorkville.
- Race, Class, and White Privilege: A response
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Underlying the "white privilege" thesis are two basic claims. First, that being "white" is a useful category in which to put everyone from the CEOs of multinational corporations to the cleaners in an Amazon warehouse. And, second, that being in such a category imbues people with privileges denied to those not in that category. Are either of these claims true?
- Reclaiming Tom Longboat
Indigenous Self-Determination in Canadian Sport
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Reclaiming Tom Longboat recounts the history of Indigenous sport in Canada through the lens of the prestigious Tom Longboat Awards, shedding light on a significant yet overlooked aspect of Canadian policy and Crown-Indigenous relations.
- Red Morning
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Red Morning was a revolutionary group founded in Toronto in the early 1970s. Quasi-Marxist in orientation Red Morning sought to organize working-class youth into a revolutionary force to contest capitalism.
- Regent Park
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
One of the oldest public housing projects in Canada. Approved in the mid-1940s and finally completed by 1960, Regent Park consisted of high- and low-rise, subsidized apartment buildings in the area of Toronto bordered by Gerrard, River, Shuter and Parliament Streets. The area is now being rebuilt with mixed-income housing.
- Regent Park Community Improvement Association
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Regent Park Community Improvement Association (RPCIA) was founded in 1969 at a meeting organized by a previous organization, BLAST, which consisted of Regent Park South Residents.
- Restigouche
The Long Run of the Wild River
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Restigouche River flows through the remote border region between the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, its magically transparent waters, soaring forest hillsides, and population of Atlantic salmon creating one of the most storied wild spaces on the continent. In Restigouche, writer Philip Lee follows ancient portage routes into the headwaters of the river, travelling by canoe to explore the extraordinary history of the river and the people of the valley. They include the Mi’gmaq, who have lived in the Restigouche valley for thousands of years; the descendants of French Acadian, Irish, and Scottish settlers; and some of the wealthiest people in the world who for more than a century have used the river as an exclusive wilderness retreat.
- Riverdale
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Consisting of a the area east of the Don Valley and bordered by the Danforth, Greenwood Avenue and Lake Ontario, Riverdale was annexed into Toronto in 1884.
- Riverdale Community Organization
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The RCO emerged out of discontent at the city,’s handling of the housing expropriation in the Don Mount renewal zone. In 1969, several religious figures from the area formed the East Don Urban Coalition to represent local interests and hired organizer Don Keating. After six months several smaller organizations that had formed around specific local issues united to form the Riverdale Community Organization.
- Riverdale Zoo/Riverdale Farm
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A zoo which existed on the west bank of the Don River, at the east end of Winchester Street, from 1899 to 1975. the site subsequently became the location of Riverdale Farm.
- The Robbery of Nature
Capitalism and the Ecological Rift
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Various critical issues are examined in this collection of previously published essays, revised for this book. It won the 2020 Deutscher Memorial Prize.
- Rooming Houses in Toronto -- 1960s & 1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Rooming houses in Toronto became a big issue in the late 1960s and early 1970s as housing priorities were changing rapidly. These dwellings were usually old houses that had been converted for single-room-occupancy tenants, who typically paid weekly rent and shared the bathroom and kitchen facilities with four or more (unrelated) tenants.
- St. James Town
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Bounded by Wellesley, Howard, Sherbourne and Parliament Streets. Originally comprised of houses, the area was demolished in the 1960s and filled with highrise apartment buildings.
- St. Michael's Residential School: Lament and Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
St. Michael’s Residential School: Lament and Legacy is a moving narrative -- told by two caregivers who experienced on a daily basis the degradation of Indigenous children.
- Saving the Nile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
For the 280 million people from 11 countries who live along the banks of the Nile, it symbolises life. For Ethiopia, a new dam holds the promise of much-needed electricity; for Egypt, the fear of a devastating water crisis.
- Solidarity: Five Largely Unknown Truths about Israel, Palestine and the Occupied Territories
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Drawing on both historical and current struggles for Palestinians under siege, occupation and forced displacement, including the Great March of Return in Gaza, the film provides a stirring indictment of Israel’s settler project as well as that of the cable networks’ deliberate spin to shield Israel from accountability. As the film’s title indicates, Peck divides the film into five themes: the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba, when 800,000 Palestinians were forced from their homeland in 1947-1948; Israel’s disproportionate violence against Palestinians; Israel’s continued expansion of illegal settlement colonies; the US’ financial support of Israel; and what’s behind the smear campaigns to label criticism of Israel’s policies as anti-Semitism.
- South of Carlton Community Action Committee (SOCCA)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The South of Carlton Community Action Committee was formed by a group of residents in the South of Carlton neighbourhood in 1970.
- South of St. James Town
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The area just to the South of the St. James Town apartments, roughly bordered by Wellesley, Sherbourne, Carlton and Parliament Streets.
- Spirit of the Grassroots People
Seeking Justice for Indigenous Survivors of Canada's Colonial Education System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A memoir by a survivor of the Indian residential and day school system who fought for justice on behalf of Indigenous people.
- Springboard
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Springboard was a volunteer organization run out of the Christian Resource Centre during the 1970s. The purpose of the program was to facilitate regular contact between incarcerated men and their families during their time in prison.
- Stop Spadina Save Our City Co-ordinating Committee (SSSOCCC)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
History of the Stop Spadina Save Our City Co-ordinating Committee (SSSOCCC), which was formed to oppose the proposed Spadina Expressway that was supposed to be bulldozed through the middle of downtown Toronto.
- There is something missing from tech worker organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- Todmorden Mills
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Todmorden Mills were a series of mills built in the Don Valley, north of Bloor Street.
- Toronto Necropolis Cemetery
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A historic cemetery, located between Sumach Street and the Don River, opened in 1850, and the final resting place of people who were originally buried in Potter's Field.
- Toronto Student Movement (TSM)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Toronto Student Movement was organized at the University of Toronto in the summer of 1968. Its founding coincided with student revolts in Quebec, France, Germany, Italy, and the U.S. While there were many issues (such as the Vietnam War) galvanizing student uprisings, the primary focus of the TSM was education itself. The university was seen as itself oppressive and intent on re-creating subservience to capitalist and imperialist projects.
- Toronto Warrior Society
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The Toronto Warrior Society (TWS) was affiliated with the American Indian Movement (AIM), which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s to defend First Nations activists and to promote Native pride. TWS was strongly committed to socialism, and to anti-capitalist endeavours.
- Toronto Women’s Liberation Movement (TWLM)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
An article about the history and development of the Toronto Women’s Liberation Movement (TWLM).
- Toronto Women's Liberation Movement (TWLM)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
As the 1960s progressed, Toronto activists embraced a wide range of issues, from racial justice to student rights. Hardly anyone was talking about the oppression of women, yet women were paid much less than their male co-workers on average, and they weren’t allowed to apply for many jobs, simply because they were women.
- Toronto's Historic Cemeteries
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A overview of Toronto's early cemeteries.
- Trefann Court
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A thin strip of land just south of Regent Park and bounded by Queen, Parliament, Shuter, and River Streets, Trefann Court was slated for “urban renewal” by the City of Toronto in 1966. Residents fought back and eventually managed to stop the redevelopment plan.
- Trefann Court Residents Associations
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A thin strip of land just south of Regent Park and bounded by Queen, Parliament, Shuter, River Streets, Trefann Court was slated for 'urban renewal' by the city in 1966. Home to 1,300, mostly working class, residents, the area was characterized by old houses and a dwindling population. Faced with the demolition of their neighbourhood and inspired by earlier resistance by residents in the Don Mount on the other side of the Don River, residents organized against the project and refused to accept the city's plans.
- The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
- United Jewish Peoples Order (UJPO)
Connexipedia article to be written
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The United Jewish People’s Order (UJPO) is a national, progressive, secular and independent organization that can trace its roots back to 1926.
- Valley of Unrest
India's unending occupation of Kashmir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On life in Kashmir after India revoked its semiautonomous state under the Modi government.
- Walmart's planned economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
The mighty global chain operates according to highly efficient, constantly reactive, yet long-term plans, which leftwing government can only envy.
- We Shall Not Be Moved
Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
On the Community Land Trust (CLT) model implemented in Georgia to help build economic power among Black farmers.
- Women Working With Immigrant Women (WWIW)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Women Working With Immigrant Women (WWIW) developed as an umbrella organization for agencies and women working with immigrant women in Metro Toronto in 1974. Its main goals included information sharing and referral, acting as a support group, and initiating programmes and services to meet the needs of immigrant and refugee women and women of colour.
- Yellow Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
Rich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All hell breaks loose.
- Yorkville in the 1960s
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Published: 2020
A section of urban Toronto that was the centre of the counterculture in the mid-1960s.
- Radical Digressions 10
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2020
- Fallacies about free public transit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Whenever the movement for free public transit shows signs of gaining public support, the media digs up 'experts' who furrow their brows and tell us what an impractical idea it is.
- What Next?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- The Transnational Network That Nobody is Talking About
IntelBrief
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Azov Battalion is emerging as a critical node in the transnational right-wing violent extremist (RWE) movement. Recruits from the U.S., Norway, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Sweden, and Australia, among others, have reportedly traveled to train with the Azov Battalion. The global nature of these groups is just one of several similarities between RWEs and Salafi-jihadists.
- Radical Digressions 9
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2019
Published: 2021
- Faith, Hope and Persistence - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Wiara, Nadzieja i Wytrwalosc
Faith, Hope and Persistence - Polish translation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Concerns over 'shocking' road erosion in Wheatley Provincial Park
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Where does it all come from? Where does it all go?
Toronto's water, energy, and waste systems
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2020
In a big city like Toronto, it’s easy to live disconnected from the environment that supports us each day. Many of us do not know where our water or energy comes from or where our waste goes. This Toronto-specific picture book answers these questions for Torontonians of all ages and backgrounds in a simple and fun way. Looking at maps, readers can get to know specifically how they fit into the larger picture. Once we know where things come from and where things go, we are no longer lost. We are connected, and have a foundation upon which to develop a caring relationship with our environment.
- US Contractors Accused of Funding Taliban Attacks Against American Troops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On lawsuit filed by military personnel against group of companies, alleging funding attacks on Americans by making protection payments to Taliban.
- It's not oppression if a 'pro-Western democrat' does it? Montenegro's 'religious freedom' law is a vile, lawless travesty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Adopting a 'religious freedom' law that opens the door to persecuting a particular faith would normally be seen as a horrifying breach of human rights, but when done to Orthodox Serbs in Montenegro, the West doesn’t seem to mind.
- Liberals' 'humanitarian' open arms is not a solution to migrant crisis; radical economic changes are needed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Calls by Liberals to 'open our hearts' to immigrants from poor countries are about maintaining the status quo in the capitalist world. The solution is a radical change in the global economic system which encourages migration.
- Trans woman Debbie Hayton is accused of transphobia after expressing view that we are biologically attached to our sex at birth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A transgender physics teacher by the name of Debbie Hayton is facing disciplinary action and potential expulsion from her seat on the Trades Union Congress LGBT committee, for stating trans people are biologically attached to the sex they are born as.
- All Massacres Will Become 'Alleged Massacres' If We Don't Pay Attention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The greatest enemy of all journalists – and all politicians – is the failure of institutional, historical memory.
- Amazon Alexa wants to save you from uncomfortable Christmas dinner talk. Be careful what you wish for.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Amazon has introduced a feature for Alexa to introduce conversation topics at Christmas family dinners. Given the history of privacy breaches people should wary.
- Indo-Pak Nuclear Confrontation: First Use Policy and the Race Towards Armageddon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
There are several indications that India's ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological mentor the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) are obsessed with the perverse urge to wipe out Pakistan with nuclear weapons by unleashing a first or a second strike.
- Remembering America's First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal Islamists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Here are the relevant points when it comes to the Moro War (which will sound grimly familiar in a twenty-first-century forever-war context): the United States military shouldn’t have been there in the first place; the war was ultimately an operational and strategic failure, made more so by American hubris; and it should be seen, in retrospect, as (using a term General David Petraeus applied to our present Afghan War) the nation's first "generational struggle."
- Faith, Hope and Persistence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
When we look at what is happening in our world, it can be difficult to believe that there are grounds for hope, let alone faith. And yet we – we humans – continue to live and act in ways that testify to our hopes, and to our faith in the possibility of a better future.
- Fé, Esperança e Persistência
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Trade Deals Are About Increasing Protectionist Barriers
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Past trade deals were about making it easier to trade manufactured goods, making it as easy as possible for corporations to take advantage of low-cost labor in the developing world. This has the predicted and actual effect of putting downward pressure on the wages of less-educated workers.
- The Perils of Embedded Journalism: 'Afghan Papers' Wouldn't Be Needed If We Had a Real Independent News Media
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If the Post and other major news media outlets had been pursuing the truth over the years about these all the wars, and the so-called "War" on Terror, instead of leaving the hard work of exposing all the lies to the likes of whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden and journalist/whistleblower publisher Julian Assange, we'd already know about the venality and culpability of our government.
- This ancient cave art is the oldest known 'storytelling'
Art found in Indonesia shows humans with animal characteristics hunting animals with spears and ropes
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A cave painting found on Indonesia's island of Sulawesi, depicting human-like figures hunting animals, appears to be the earliest known pictorial record of storytelling, according to a study by a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers.
- By pretending the world is uniquely cruel to women, smug feminists only enrage men who risk & sacrifice their lives each day
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The kind of feminism sees women as victims, oppressed by evil men is not just deeply offensive to women, but also totally unhelpful to those who buy into it.
- Start a tradition of choosing picture books to share with children in your life
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Reading to children is associated with a heap of benefits, including more expansive expressive and receptive vocabularies, better language comprehension and better early math abilities. More recently, the study of reading has turned to examine the social and emotional benefits provided by storybook reading.
- How can the U.S. dare lecturing China about Rights of the Muslims?
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For some time, I have been warning the world that the West, and the United States in particular, are helping to radicalize the Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province and outside.
- Spokane vs. the Border Patrol: How Immigration Agents Stake Out a City Bus Station
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Amid the Trump administration's immigration enforcement crackdown, the Border Patrol has stepped up raids on Greyhound buses nationwide, combatting what the agency claims is a "growing threat" of "alien smuggling and drug trafficking organizations to move people, narcotics, and contraband to interior destinations."
- Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost
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It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally alarming is the complete polarization of public opinion as a result of self-serving media and, bankrolled by rich Arab countries, whose only goal is to serve their specific, often sinister, agendas.
- 'Sexy tricks': How journalists demonize Venezuela's socialist government, in their own words
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The United States has labeled Venezuela's government a "dictatorship" and part of a "troika of tyranny," and has sponsored multiple coup attempts there, including one in November. The corporate media has dutifully ignored the US role in the country's economic woes, laying the blame squarely at the feet of Maduro, omitting crucial political context on Venezuela's economic crisis while keeping up a constant flow of content presenting the country as a socialist hellhole.
- Russiagate media smears against Corbyn brought to you by US and UK military-intelligence apparatus
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The popular socialist leader of Britain's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, could be on the verge of becoming prime minister of the United Kingdom. And the mere possibility is terrifying British intelligence services and the US government.
- Uber Has Always Been a Criminal Organization
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Uber's whole business model was premised on criminality -- the willful, systematic flouting of local taxi regulations, based on a wager that the company could retroactively absolve itself by getting the laws changed via big-money lobbying. With that kind of mission, it's not surprising its executives had blood on their hands long before they started taking Saudi blood money.
- The Faux Generosity of the Super-Wealthy: Why Bill Gates is a Menace to Society
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While the media may be full of stories singing Gates' praises, presenting him as a good billionaire (as opposed to the current president), the reality is that one man with that amount of power, be it political (like Trump) or economic (like Gates and Bezos) has a highly corrosive effect on democracy and society more generally.
- Revolutionary reels: Soviet propaganda film and the Russian Revolution
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However, the Bolsheviks would revolutionize Russian cinema as leaders recognized the potential of film propaganda as a way to influence the political and social attitudes of the people. Vladimir Lenin clearly understood the power of film, as he stated, "Of all the arts, for us, cinema is most important."
- Study Reveals How UK Intelligence Works with Media to Smear Jeremy Corbyn
New research from Matt Kennard has shown how the British intelligence establishment works with the UK media to smear Jeremy Corbyn.
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Academic studies of the Corbyn coverage have also shown that corporate media have shown a profound hostility to him and his project. One report from the London School of Economics included an entire section called "Delegitimization through Ridicule, Scorn, and Personal Attacks."
- What Religion is Your Nationalism?
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On November 9, 2019, 27 years after mobs destroyed the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Supreme Court of India, despite stating that the demolition of the mosque was against the rule of law, pronounced the lawbreakers as victors. Those who had indulged in a bloodbath to build a temple where they claim Lord Ram was born have become the owners.
- Quo Vadis, Lebanon?
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Some Lebanese call what is happening on the streets of Beirut, Tripoli and other cities, an "October Revolution", but in reality, this uprising has very little to do with the iconic Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
- 'Shadow banning' written into Twitter's new terms of service, may 'limit visibility' of some users
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With the addition of those four words, the company is telling users it reserves the right shadow ban or "throttle" certain accounts. On what basis will it make those decisions – or whether they will be made solely by an automated algorithm – remains unclear.
- Ukrainian neo-Nazis flock to the Hong Kong protest movement
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Neo-Nazis from Ukraine have flown to Hong Kong to participate in the anti-Chinese insurgency, which has been widely praised by Western corporate media and portrayed as a peaceful pro-democracy movement. Since March 2019, Hong Kong has been the site of often-violent protests and riots that have run the city’s economy into the ground.
- Harvesting the Blood of America's Poor: The Latest Stage of Capitalism
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In today’s wretched economy, where around 130 million Americans admit an inability to pay for basic needs like food, housing or healthcare, buying and selling blood is of the few booming industries America has left.
- NATO's Crises
The 2% goal as defence illiteracy
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NATO's London Summit on December 3 and 4, 2019 displays the deep political crisis of the 70-year-old alliance: Only a dinner and a short meeting, no statement to be issued, quarrels among the leading military members, accusations, substantial differences on Syria and many other issues, the deepest-ever Transatlantic conflict and the usual issues of burden-sharing.
- Perspectives for the coming revolution in America: Race, class and the fight for socialism
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The title for this meeting is "Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America." It begins with the understanding, broadly felt by a growing section of workers and youth throughout the world, that we live in a revolutionary period.
- Ukraine, the New Cold War and the Politics of Impeachment
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The question not being asked is why it was politically, legally or morally justified for the U.S.-- the Obama administration, to 1) use NGOs and the CIA 2) to join with real and virulent Ukrainian Nazis to 3) oust the Democratically elected president of Ukraine 4) in order to install a puppet regime that answers to the national security state? Passionate assertions that Donald Trump is corrupt face the question back: what part of this entire operation isn't corrupt?
- Technocracy now: The US is working to turn Lebanons anti-corruption protests against Hezbollah
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The movement was spurred by the levying of regressive taxes and the persistence of a corrupt neoliberal order that has mismanaged the economy and hollowed out the public sector while enriching a handful of elites amid a looming economic collapse. Though the protests remain focused on class issues and corruption, the US is increasingly determined to co-opt the movement for its own goals.
- Berlin Tax Office withdraws charitable status from Nazi victims' organisation
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The Berlin Tax Office has withdrawn the charitable status of one of the largest and most long-established anti-fascist associations in Germany jeopardizing its abillity to continue its work.
- From Nukes to Occupy: The Rise and Fall of the Non-Violent Direct Action Movement in the United States, 1976 – 2012
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The non-violent direct action movement originated in the anti-nuclear power movement of the late 1970s / early 1980s. Inspired by the German anti-nuclear movement, activists organized occupations of construction sites for nuclear reactors, aiming to insure no new plants were built. The processes, organizational structure, and culture adopted by these activists differed sharply from the movements of the sixties and early seventies.
- Britain's Chief Rabbi is Helping to Stoke antisemitism
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Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has not only misrepresented the known facts about Labour and its supposed antisemitism crisis. He has not only interfered in an overtly, politically partisan manner in the December 12, 2019 election campaign by suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn -- against all evidence -- is an antisemite.
- Fire Brigades Union study exposes decades of deregulation and cost cutting that led to Grenfell Tower inferno—Part 1
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The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has published a damning report demonstrating that years of austerity measures, privatisation and deregulation led to the entirely avoidable fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, which claimed 72 lives.
- The Grand Illusion
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As the ecological crisis deepens, nearing the infamous Tipping Point – taking us closer to planetary catastrophe – we are being led to believe that an imminent "greening" of the world economy will deliver us from a very dark future. Somehow, against all logic, we have adopted a collective faith in the willingness of ruling governments and corporations to do the right thing.
- The Most Enduring Media Cover Up
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Clearing the FOG hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese interviewed Alison Weir, journalist and founder of If Americans Knew, a website that provides factual information about the Israeli State and Palestine.
- Statement Condemning US Removal of Democratically-Elected Evo Morales
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Following months of destabilization, on November 10, 2019, the legitimate, constitutional, democratically-elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was driven at gunpoint out of office and the country by the US and its allies, among them Bolivian fascists and several members of the Organization of American States (OAS), including Canada. This latest aggression follows centuries of colonial, imperialist, and neo-colonial conquest and plunder of the Indigenous-majority population of Bolivia.
- What is Happening in Spain?
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Spain spends much less on public social expenditures that what it should spend according to its level of economic development. It is one of the countries of the European Union 15 (the more advanced economies of the European Union) that spends the least on public services such as health care, education, public housing and child care, and on transfers, such as pensions.
- Antisemitism Claims have One Goal: To Stop Jeremy Corbyn Winning Power
The Jewish community’s alienation from Labour has been years in the making
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A supposed antisemitism crisis in Britain's Labour party since Jeremy Corbyn became leader has erupted back into the headlines.
- A Collective Ignorance of Ecosystems
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Loss of genetic diversity is one consequence of the Industrial Forestry Paradigm that dominates the U.S. timber industry and all public agencies from the state forestry agencies to the federal agencies like the Forest Service.
- An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times' 1619 Project
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I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it's going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways.
- The hijab: "preventing common impositions"
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Children are not the property of their parents. They are individuals with rights and bodily integrity. And just because their parents believe in child veiling or FGM and male circumcision doesn't mean they should be automatically entitled to impose their views on their children, especially when these views are harmful.
- New Study: "Russian Trolls" Did Not "Sow Discord" - They Influenced No One
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The U.S. has claimed that the Russia government tried to influence the 2016 election through Facebook and Twitter. Russia supposedly did this through people who worked the Internet Research Agency (IRA) in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia. The evidence contradicts these claims.
- Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua 'national security threat' and targets Mexico
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One successful coup against a democratically elected socialist president is not enough, it seems. Immediately after overseeing a far-right military coup in Bolivia on November 10, the Trump administration set its sights once again on Nicaragua, whose democratically elected Sandinista government defeated a violent right-wing coup attempt in 2018.
- With the right-wing coup in Bolivia nearly complete, the junta is hunting down the last remaining dissidents
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A brutal military junta that seized power from Bolivia's democratically elected President Evo Morales is violently repressing a working-class indigenous-led uprising, and the country is rapidly falling under its control. Soldiers in military fatigues prowl the streets, enforcing a series of choke points around the seat of power.
- Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built on Facial Recognition
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Amazon's plan to create proactive "watch lists" based on supposed suspicious activity - including facial recognition software - seen by their Ring cameras should alarm anyone who cares about privacy.
- It Is True That Corruption Caused The 737 MAX Accidents. But It Was Not Foreign.
The New York Times blamed the foreign pilots for the crashes of two 737 MAX airplanes. It now takes a shot at the foreign airlines
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So someone from Indonesia's air safety agency took another job in the industry. Three years later he changed back into a government role. That shows that Indonesia is a corrupt country and that Lion Air is the most corrupt, says a former pilot with an ax to grind.
- The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
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Newspapers and other media in the United States and Britain have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by the "Assange effect".
- Nuclear Lies and Broken Promises
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When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an economic meeting in the city of Sivas this September that Turkey was considering building nuclear weapons, he was responding to a broken promise. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the government of Iran of lying about its nuclear program, he was concealing one of the greatest subterfuges in the history of nuclear weapons.
- On the degradation of political debate
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Today, political debates have become vacuous and insipid because politicians have become contemptuous of the electorate. Voters, many believe, are ignorant, swayed more by emotion than by reason, happy to accept lies and drawn to politicians with easy answers.
- Uber stripped of taxi operations license in London
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Ride-hailing service Uber has lost its license to operate in the UK capital, after authorities have discovered that more than 14,000 trips were made with uninsured drivers. Transport for London (TfL) announced the decision not to renew the firm's license at the end of a two-month probationary extension granted in September.
- CIA helped shape ‘Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan' series into bigoted Venezuela regime change fantasy
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In a new video analysis of the show (embedded at the end of this article), researcher Tom Secker exposed the show as straightforward US imperial propaganda which was produced in direct collaboration with the CIA and Pentagon.
- A Guided Tour of AI and the Murky Ethical Issues It Raises
In "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans," Melanie Mitchell explores the workings and ethics of AI.
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Mitchell's goal is to give a thorough (and I mean thorough) account not only of the ethical issues artificial intelligence raises today (and tomorrow), but of how the various branches of AI that the Dartmouth group pursued actually work. She is a good writer with broad knowledge of the topic (unsurprising, since she has a Ph.D. in computer science), and a canny mindfulness of both the merits and problems of AI.
- Hillary's white pantsuit says 'empowerment' but Tulsi's says 'fringe cult leader': NYT pilloried for two-faced style commentary
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The New York Times has been accused of peddling ridiculous and shamelessly biased punditry, after the Gray Lady took aim at presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard’s white pantsuit but ended up red-faced.
- Hong Kong's opposition unites with Washington hardliners to 'preserve the US's own political and economic interests'
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The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on November 19, 2019, without any opposition. Despite loudly proclaiming to protect "human rights" and "democracy," a closer look at this legislation reveals the imperial agenda underlying Washington’s actions in Hong Kong.
- Journalists need 'national security' training to stop flow of embarrassing but true NATO stories, defense-backed think tank warns
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With Western armed forces already using embedded reporters to tell the story they prefer, a UK think tank now calls for national security training for journalists so they don't help out Russia or China by telling the truth.
- Responding to Lt. Col. Vindman about my Ukraine columns … with the facts
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- Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate known as the CIA: an Interview with Douglas Valentine
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- Stanford Study Says Renewable Power Eliminates Argument for Using Carbon Capture with Fossil Fuels
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A study in the peer-reviewed journal Energy and Environmental Science, concludes that carbon capture technologies are inefficient at pulling out carbon, from a climate perspective, and often increase local air pollution from the power required to run them, which exacerbates public health issues. Replacing a coal plant with wind turbines, on the other hand, always decreases local air pollution and doesn't come with the associated cost of running a carbon capture system, says Jacobson.
- Freedom, Valor, Love: On Snowden's Permanent Record
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Edward Snowden's life reveals it's not just "the computer guy" (or other non-male folks) at tech's helms, but the general U.S. public that bears witness to corporatized data surveillance state violations, or the data industrial complex. This secretive sprawling network is the invasive rule today; it involves regular media outlets, telecommunications, social media platforms, Internet service providers, and government agencies.
- Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your bush
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The interesting thing about feminine depilation: though it is a symptom of the patriarchy, it spreads, is held up and is passed along by women of their own free will. Like many parts of the patriarchy it is something we swallow and reproduce sometimes without the input of men at all.
- VAR, technology and human judgment
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VAR aims to eliminate 'clear and obvious errors' by referees by using TV replays to allow officials to view contentious incidents from different camera angles and by reconstructing the movement of the ball or players to check whether a goal was actually scored and whether a player was offside. The trouble is, what constitutes a 'clear and obvious error' is itself a judgment call.
- A World in Revolt
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We are pleased to include in this issue of Insurgent Notes a series of very detailed accounts and analyses of the gilets jaunes or yellow vests movement in France prepared by activists associated with Temps critiques. The texts are informed by a distinctive theoretical perspective (regarding capitalist reproduction and the possibility of revolution) and their sustained involvement in the yellow vests movement from its inception.
- A rich diversity: Underground channels and stream of US Trotskyism, 1928-1965
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- Rosa Luxemburg and the actuality of revolution
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She was brilliant, insightful, with considerable knowledge and practical experience. She said and wrote things that are worth comprehending, actively considering, and testing out as we try to understand and change the world around us.
- Why The 'Ok Boomer' phenomenon is short-sighted
Millennials and Generation Zers have more in common with struggling boomers than wealthy elites our own age
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The "Ok Boomer" meme, which many young people are using online as a rebuttal against supposedly out-of-touch baby boomers, taps into frustrations disproportionately experienced by millennials and Generation Zers -- particularly in Canada's most unaffordable cities. Unfortunately, however, the meme also represents a discourse that ignores the many older people experiencing poverty, discrimination and hardship.
- Israel's relentless violence on Gaza met by global silence
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A ceasefire has been reached in Gaza after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes that killed 34 Palestinians, including eight members of one family. Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada discusses Israel's latest bombings, which come after more than one year of weekly, deadly Israeli attacks on non-violent Palestinian demonstrators.
- Building resistance to Canada's destructive mining industry
Review of Joan Kuyek's book Unearthing Justice
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In her book Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry, long-time activist Joan Kuyek brilliantly shares lessons from decades of fighting environmental and community disruption by Canada’s mining corporations.
- Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US military's School of the Americas, served as attachés in FBI police programs
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The United States played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the country's elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10, 2019.
- How the Hand of Israeli Spy Tech Reaches Deep into our Lives
Israeli software used on Palestinians is producing new cyber weapons that are rapidly being incorporated into global digital platforms
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Digital age weapons developed by Israel to oppress Palestinians are rapidly being repurposed for much wider applications – against Western populations who have long taken their freedoms for granted.
- Social inequality in Early Bronze Age Europe
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Recent research into Bronze Age populations in Germany provides some insight into a certain aspect of class formation, which may be more broadly relevant. In Europe, aside from the Aegean area, such civilizations did not develop in the same manner as in the territories to the east, with their high degree of urbanization and intensive, often irrigation-based, agriculture.
- Cuba's urban farming shows way to avoid hunger
Urban farming, Cuban-style, is being hailed as an example of how to feed ourselves when climate change threatens serious food shortages.
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When countries run short of food, they need to find solutions fast, and one answer can be urban farming. That was the remedy Cuba seized with both hands 30 years ago when it was confronted with the dilemma of an end to its vital food imports.
- The 2019 UN Vote Against the US Blockade of Cuba
Trump's Washington Remains Cornered
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On November 7, 2019, for the 28th year in a row, the entire United Nations General Assembly, gathered in one room, voted overwhelmingly against "the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo Imposed on Cuba by the United States." The final tally was 187 in favor, 3 opposed (Brazil, Israel, US), 2 abstentions (Colombia, Ukraine), 1 not voting (Moldova).
- Noel Ignatiev, 1940-2019
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Yesterday I learned that my friend and comrade Noel Ignatiev passed away. He’d been in poor health for some time, diagnosed with a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer that made it difficult for him to swallow properly or digest, but it still caught me off guard.
- The "Irrepressible Conflict:" Slavery, the Civil War and America's Second Revolution
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The purpose of this lecture series, hosted by the Socialist Equality Party, is to address the falsifications of the New York Times' "1619 Project" and undertake a historical materialist analysis of American history, and in this lecture, the Civil War.
- Bank Report Reveals Where Ruling Class Lives
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The 2019 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report provides a glimpse at the inequality that the neoliberal era has produced, who has benefitted and those who have been left behind.
- My Friend Was Murdered for Trying to Save the Amazon
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Paulino paid with his life for trying save his tribe's forest, the Arariboia Indigenous Territory, in the north-east Amazon.
- Dams and the Green New Deal: Why the Silence?
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Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the backup for energy if it proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast enough.
- Erosion along Wheatley, Hillman Marsh, Point Pelee shorelines 'gravely concerning,' say experts
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Erosion along the shorelines of three major southwestern Ontario parks has experts deeply concerned.
- Gabor Maté on the misuse of anti-Semitism and why fewer Jews identify with Israel
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Talking today about antisemitism, particularly posing it as a problem on the left.
- The Never-Ending Curse of Coal
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Last week Murray Energy, one of the largest coal mining corporations in the nation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That makes it the fifth coal company to do so in the last year.
- Unfree Media – State Stenography And Shameful Silence
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A recent viral clip of Jeremy Corbyn featured vital truths about the corporate media that ought to be at the forefront of public consciousness in the approach to the UK General Election on December 12, 2020.
- failing to see the deeper causes of social tragedies
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In both cases, the roots of the tragedies are manifold. But in both cases we seem more interested in laying instant blame than in excavating the wider causes that might help us prevent such catastrophes happening again.
- 'What a mess': McDonald's customers frustrated as 'Hamburglar' hacks more app accounts
Company said incidents are rare and it's 'confident in the security of our app'
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The so-called Hamburglar is still at large, hacking customers' McDonald's app accounts and ordering food on their dime. For some victims, their troubles didn't end there as they were unhappy with how McDonald's handled their cases.
- Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
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In its insistence that race -- which has no basis in science -- is the determinative category of both the present and past, the 1619 Project shares the most basic premise of the white supremacists and fascists that are being set into motion by the Trump administration.
- Deconstructed Special: The Noam Chomsky Interview
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On this week’s Deconstructed, Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, the 2020 Democratic field, and why he opposed Trump's Syria troop withdrawal.
- Domestic violence was an issue with no name
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In the 1960s and ’70s, domestic violence was an issue with no name.
Countless women endured violence in their own homes, but it was not acknowledged as an issue in the public realm. It was a shameful secret, quietly accepted as a part of life for women. When a woman was abused, there was nowhere to go. A woman’s place was in the home, even if home could kill her. Against this grim backdrop, different groups of women across the country worked to open Canada’s first women’s shelters.
- Get Started with Lino Printing
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Lino printing is a form of fine art printmaking where the printing plate is cut into lino. Yes, lino as in linoleum, as in the floor covering. The lino is then inked, a piece of paper placed over it, and then run through a printing press or pressure applied by hand to transfer the ink to the paper. The result, a linocut print. Because it's a smooth surface, the lino itself doesn't add texture to the print.
- Tamil Nadu's seaweed harvesters in rough seas
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An unusual activity of the fisherwomen of Bharathinagar in Tamil Nadu keeps them more in the water than on boats. But climate change and overexploitation of marine resources are eroding their livelihoods.
- The Tangled Web of US Border Security Around the World
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Between 1998 and 2016, the US Border Patrol counted nearly 7,000 migrant deaths along the border. Curiously, El Salvador’s new president, center-right Nayib Bukele, who’d won the election in a landslide on a campaign that promised "new ideas," responded to the death of his country's citizens by saying, "It is our fault."
- Toronto's Meghan Murphy Meltdown: A Case Study in Media-Driven Social Panic
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- Colorado police who blew up family's house with CHEMICAL BOMBS just to catch a shoplifter owe them NOTHING, court rules
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A Colorado family whose house was destroyed in a 19-hour standoff between police and an armed shoplifter is not entitled to any compensation from the department that rendered them homeless, an appeals court has ruled.
- Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project
An interview with the author of The Free State of Jones
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The 1619 Project, launched by the New York Times in August 2019, presents American history in a purely racial lens and blames all "white people" for the enslavement of 4 million black people as chattel property.
- Money Talks, Bullshit Walks on Cable News
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
None of the big companies buying advertising time on CNN and MSNBC have any interest in the progressive taxation and restored union organizing and collective bargaining rights that Sanders advocates.
- Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib, and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Suffering caused through our wars including conditions inside US military camps, in Iraq, led to the extremism of Al-Baghdadi and his ISIS followers.
- To Be or Not to Be a Jewish State, That is the Question
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Israel's champions owe us an explanation. First, they insist that Israel is and always must be a Jewish state, by which most of them mean not religiously Jewish but of the "Jewish People" everywhere, including Jews who are citizens of other states and not looking for a new country.
- The Toronto Reference Library's rich collection of Communist newspapers
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Published: 2019
- What may be lost with Rojava
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
300,000 people displaced. Villages and infrastructure destroyed. Allegations of white phosphorus use. The costs of the Turkish invasion of northern Syria to create a 'safe zone' are immense, the latest twist in the seemingly intractable Syrian war.
- Disagreeing Reasonably in a Complex World
A review of The Case Against Free Speech
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Free speech is not a naturally occurring object. It's an idea, a notion, an aspiration, an approach to politics, always involving a theory about what it means to be human in a particular society at a particular time.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 27, 2019
What Next?
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Millions of us, in many different countries, came out in late September to demand action on the climate crisis. Around the world, in diverse ways, we are working to keep up the pressure. Time is short, and the tasks are huge. In the midst of our activism and organizing, we need to keep asking ourselves some important questions: What are our goals? And what should we do to reach our goals?
- A health care algorithm affecting millions is biased against black patients
A startling example of algorithmic bias
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A health care algorithm makes black patients substantially less likely than their white counterparts to receive important medical treatment. The major flaw, which affects millions of patients, was revealed in research published in the journal Science.
- Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A small number of researchers, mostly well outside of the scientific mainstream, have seized upon some of the new findings and methods in human genetics, and are part of a social-media cottage-industry that disseminates and amplifies low-quality or distorted science, sometimes in the form of scientific papers, sometimes as internet memes – under the guise of euphemisms such as 'race realism' or ‘human biodiversity'. Their arguments, which focus on racial groupings and often on the alleged genetically-based intelligence differences between them, have the semblance of science, with technical-seeming tables, graphs, and charts.
- Crow Nation is a place where one could vanish - and many have
Bureaucratic loopholes, jurisdictional gaps, discrimination foster an epidemic of missing and murdered Native Americans.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
It is an epidemic impacting land-based tribes across the country and is particularly acute in Montana, where Native Americans are five times more likely to be reported missing than any other group in the state. Here in Crow Nation, disappearances from this sovereign territory have become so commonplace that nearly every member of the Crow tribe has a close friend or blood relative who has gone missing.
- Revolutionary theory, academia and Marxist political parties
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
According to Lenin, revolutionary work has four parts: theoretical work, propaganda, agitation and organization.
- Let's Make Sure the Nazis Killed in Vain
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
I don't know how many times I've heard that if we don't stand by Israel, the victims of the Nazi Judeocide will have died in vain. I knew something was wrong with that claim, but for the longest time I couldn't put my finger on it. Now I think I can.
- The PR Campaign to Hide the Real Cause of those Sky-High Surprise Medical Bills
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Since 2010, an increasing number of hospitals have outsourced their emergency rooms, radiology, anesthesiology, and other specialized services to physician staffing firms. Patients who need these critical services may inadvertently receive care from a doctor outside of their insurance network and find that they owe thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in surprise medical bills.
- US Democrats Cultivated the Barbarism of Isis
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
There is something profoundly deceitful in the Democratic Party and corporate media's framing of Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to like Trump or ignore the dangers posed to the Kurds, at least in the short term, by the sudden departure of US forces from northern Syria to understand that the coverage is being crafted in such a way as to entirely overlook the bigger picture.
- Here we go again: Amazon AI-powered Cloud Cam actually powered by unseen humans who watch you have sex
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Amazon’s AI-based home security system is sending footage of users' private moments to dozens of algorithm trainers halfway around the world, according to former employees - not unlike its Alexa "smart" speakers. Amazon’s Cloud Cam home security device regularly sends video clips to employees in Romania and India, who help "train" its AI algorithms, according to five current and former employees who spoke to Bloomberg.
- Communist Dictatorship in Our Midst
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A kind of undercurrent of thought about workplace democracy has bubbled beneath the surface of public discourse of our current "crisis of democracy." Beneath the surface: one can hardly identify any serious public discourse these days on the anti-democratic nature of most work under Neo-liberal conditions.
- 'Consumers are not aware we are slaves inside the greenhouses'
Exploitation plagues Spain's farming province, with migrant workers paid below minimum wage and living in squalor.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
What is referred to as Almeria's "economic miracle" among Spanish economists is almost exclusively dependant on an invisible, expendable and often illegally employed migrant workers like Maruf, toiling under 40-degree heat and extreme humidity.
- I am a trans woman - but I think this woke world has gone too far
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
From anger directed at celebrities for the rational belief that parents shouldn't decide whether their three-year-old is trans, to a culture of outrage that freaks out at the most minor of offenses, transgender activists have become detrimental to my, and others', very existence.
- At 13, She Broke the Women's Marathon World Record. Then She Disappeared From Running
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Story of Maureen Wilton.
- Catalonia 'separatists' bad, HK 'pro-democracy protesters' good: Orwell's 1984 becomes user's manual for Western 'free media'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
When supporters of Catalan leaders jailed for organizing a democratic vote advance on Barcelona airport, media make a fuss over 'separatists' causing chaos. When the same tactic is used in Hong Kong, it's a 'pro-democracy' protest. In George Orwell’s 1984, The War Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Peace. Truth was Lies, Hate was Love. But author Lewis Carroll got there first.
- Death, Misery and Bloodshed in Yemen
"Strike with Creativity" proclaims Raytheon.
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Writing about his visit to the world's largest weapons bazaar, held in London during October, Arron Merat describes reading this slogan emblazoned above Raytheon’s stall: "Strike with Creativity." Raytheon manufactures Paveway laser-guided bombs, fragments of which have been found in the wreckage of schools, hospitals, and markets across Yemen.
- To Adapt to the Escalating Climate Crisis, Mere Reform Will Not Be Enough
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
As I've watched young people around the world take part in the climate actions of the last month, I've gotten the sense that I'm watching a spectacle which has been orchestrated to create the illusion that we're still in an earlier, more stable time for the planet's climate. Legitimate as the passion and commitment of this generation of teen climate activists is, their efforts are being packaged by the political and media establishment in a way that encourages denial about our true situation.
- Miriam Garfinkle
Connexipedia article
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Miriam Garfinkle was a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
- Why deep-learning AIs are so easy to fool
Artificial-intelligence researchers are trying to fix the flaws of neural networks.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
These problems are more concerning than idiosyncratic quirks in a not-quite-perfect technology, says Dan Hendrycks, a PhD student in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Like many scientists, he has come to see them as the most striking illustration that DNNs are fundamentally brittle: brilliant at what they do until, taken into unfamiliar territory, they break in unpredictable ways.
- 'Cotton has now become a headache'
A chemical-intensive Bt cotton monoculture is spreading through Odisha’s Rayagada district – harming health, deepening debt, irreversibly er
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Kunari's account reflects a dependence brought about by cotton cultivation that is taking root across the ecologically sensitive highland tracts of Odisha's Rayagada district, with deep implications for its rich store of biodiversity, farmers' distress and food security (See Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha).
- Lawless Trump-Canada Connections
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Canada recently seized and sold $30 million worth of Iranian properties in Ottawa and Toronto, a gross hypocrisy explains Yves Engler in light of oversights of more flagrant US and Israel terror victims. But the behaviour of Canada Foreign Affairs in joining the lawless US war of sanctions, embargos and military threats against Iran goes deeper than hypocrisy.
- Red-Green Alliance: A Green Earth With Peace And Room For Us All
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Red-Green Alliance advocates a strong international labour organization with muscles to raise global demands for workers. It means a labour organization where it is possible to remain organized, even when traveling across borders, and where people working in the same company, or in the same sector across borders, can be organized together, and raise common demands.
- Taxing Financial Transactions Is More Strategic Than Taxing High Wealth
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- New weapons and the new tactics which they make possible: three examples
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Impeachment, Brought to You by the CIA
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Despite occasional warm gas passed in a leftish direction, establishment Democrats never had any intention of allowing a left political program to move forward. After four decades of asserting that they 'believe' climate science, the moment has arrived when the only political path forward is to take on their donors.
- Irregular votes, panicked moves, kiosks
Insiders detail the last days of Jason Kenney's campaign to be leader of Alberta's United Conservative Party
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A CBC News investigation lifts the veil on what happened inside voting kiosks set up by the Kenney campaign. It’s part of a larger story about allegations of wrongdoing by the team behind Alberta's current premier that one longtime conservative operative says is the focus of an ongoing RCMP investigation and an expert says undermines the credibility of Canada’s democratic system.
- Making Money Off of Green Debt: Cory Morningstar Finds Corporate Wolves Behind Environmental Sheep
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Building through the privatization-friendly Reagan-Bush era of the 1980s, ramping up significantly with Bill Clinton's signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the 1990s, and solidified through the de facto repeal of the post-Great Depression separation between investment and commercial banks at the end of Clinton’s scandal-plagued final term in office at the turn of the millenium, the United States went through a very noticeable shift in how its economy functioned.
- Robot Trolls on Amazon: How Fake Reviews Could Undermine Progressive Politics
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In the pursuit of profit, corporations appear to be using bots to undermine competitors on Amazon, as they do on Twitter and Facebook. This could have detrimental effects on progressive authors and filmmakers who, in the absence of major corporate backing, need the support of reviewers -- at least on Amazon -- in order to boost their marketability.
- Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In Rayagada, Bt cotton acreage has risen by 5,200 per cent in 16 years. The result: this biodiversity hotspot, rich in indigenous millets, rice varieties and forest foods, is seeing an alarming ecological shift.
- The New York Times Called a Famous Cartoonist an Anti-Semite. Repeatedly. They Didn’t Ask Him for Comment.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- The Open Letter from the Governments of US, UK, and Australia to Facebook is An All-Out Attack on Encryption
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia told Facebook today that they want backdoor access to all encrypted messages sent on all its platforms. In an open letter, these governments called on Mark Zuckerberg to stop Facebook's plan to introduce end-to-end encryption on all of the company's messaging products and instead promise that it will "enable law enforcement to obtain lawful access to content in a readable and usable format."
- Adversarial Interoperability
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A round-up of the EFF's writing on 'adverserial interoperabillity' which is necessary for creating a decentralized internet free from corporate monopolies.
- The Peterloo Massacre and Shelley (2)
Part 2: Shelley's politics and his Peterloo poems
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Peterloo poems adopt various popular forms and styles. Addressing a popular audience with his attempt at a revolutionary understanding suggests a sympathetic response to the emergence of the working class as a political force, and the poems are acute on economic relations.
- Climate Change: A Socialist Solution
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A lot has been written, including by myself, on why capitalism, by its very nature, cannot tackle or stop climate change. The purpose of this article is not to repeat those arguments but to make the positive case for socialism as necessary to deal with this existential crisis for humanity.
- 'How Dare You!' The Climate Crisis And The Public Demand For Real Action
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Reality clashed with the BBC version of false consensus in a remarkable edition of HardTalk last month. Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, was starkly honest about humanity’s extreme predicament in the face of climate breakdown and refused to buckle under host Stephen Sackur’s incredulous questioning.
- The Peterloo massacre and Shelley (1)
Part 1: The aftermath of the massacre and the responses
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The escalation of repression by the ruling class that followed, resulting in a greater suppression of civil liberties, was met with meetings of thousands and the widespread circulation of accounts of the massacre. There was a determination to learn from the massacre and not allow it to be forgotten or misrepresented.
- The Solution to the Country's Debt and Deficit Problem
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
For most people, the country's national debt and annual deficit are not major concerns. However, for a substantial portion of the policy types who make, write, and talk about economic and budget policy, debt and deficits are really big deals. And, the fact that our budget deficit and debt are both large by historic standards, and growing rapidly, is an especially big deal.
- When Welfare Checks Turn Deadly
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The disabled and mental ill encur growing risks and dangers when interacting with police as their actions are often interrupted as hostile or dangerous. Such misinterruption often result in a fatal encounter with law enforcement.
- Agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to climate change. But it can also be a part of the solution.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
While past focus has been on industries such as fossil fuels and transportation, new attention is being put on agriculture's role in the climate change solution.
- Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory
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Published: 2019
Conspiracy theories in general tend to be crude and simplistic, more often than not reflecting the nature of the people who indulge them. But when the conspiracy theory is mingled with antisemitism – as with the Rothschild rot – it represents a particular failure of the imagination, a particularly null and void exercise in dehumanisation.
- Film Charts Failed Experiment Inviting Palestinian Teens to Become Kibbutzniks
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A new documentary brings to light an episode almost completely erased from Israel’s official history - and one that reveals how Israel's apartheid character was established from its birth.
- Reform or revolution? A response to three intriguing questions
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First Published: 2019
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The article by Steve Downs Three questions of political strategy poses three intriguing questions: Does "democratic road to socialism" = "parliamentary road to socialism"? Does "insurrection" = "revolution"? Does "rupture" = "revolution"? Steve found these questions helpful in understanding the contending views in Solidarity and DSA over reform or revolution.
- Three Questions of Political Strategy
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First Published: 2019
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As I read contributions to The Call and Jacobin, and from Solidarity members, I wonder if that doesn't explain some of the disagreements about "reform or revolution" that have come up between some Solidarity members and some members of DSA’s Bread and Roses caucus. Framing these disagreements as a set of questions has helped me better understand the contending views.
- New Met production of Porgy and Bess prompts racialist criticisms of America’s greatest opera
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The very fact that the race, gender or nationality of the artist is today uncritically presented as a central issue in evaluating a work testifies to the degeneration of bourgeois thought in general and the terrible damage inflicted over many years by identity and racial politics. The use of such criteria in past periods was associated with the political right, which employed them to promote anti-democratic and racist agendas.
- 10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional, showing how global warming is connected to issues such as race, poverty, migration and public health. One area intimately linked to the climate crisis that gets little attention, however, is militarism.
- How climate change gave added urgency to a $1.25B project to prevent flooding in Toronto
New river system being developed amid concerns about flooding, climate change
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
For Toronto, preventing the next potentially disastrous flood is increasingly urgent. And it's a reality facing many Canadian communities as they try to brace for the impacts of a changing climate in the years ahead.
- Technology was supposed to make us more capable. Instead it has made us scarily dependent
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Technology has promised to make things easier and elevate the species. But much technology emerging today has only increased our dependence on technology by rendering obsolete many of the skills we once relied upon.
- Amazon vs. the Socialists in Seattle
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In what may turn out to be a preview of the U.S. presidential election, with the ruling class hellbent on stopping Bernie Sanders at all costs, big business in Seattle is carrying out an unprecedented assault of corporate PAC money against socialist and progressive candidates in this year’s elections.
- Banks tell dozens of customers they're to blame for thousands of dollars lost to e-transfer fraudsters
Cybercrime detective says banks must do better job informing customers of risk
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Electronic banking agreements leave customers on the hook and absolve banks of responsibility when electronic money transfers go bad.
- Peter Graham and Ian McKay, Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto.
Book Review
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Works on the Canadian New Left are now sprouting plentifully and certainly a work on the country's major city is welcome. This one is encyclopedic, and Graham and McKay deserve thanks for their inclusive rendition of the youthful radical movements in Toronto from 1958 to 1985. The book is generous in its treatment of most of them, though it offers, as it should, analysis of why some groups achieved more in the short term than others while still others left a lasting legacy, for example, in preserving natural areas or working-class neighbourhoods that corporate interests wanted to bulldoze.
- Florida grandmother outraged after 6-year-old arrested for "tantrum"
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A Florida grandmother was shocked to find out her 6-year-old granddaughter had been arrested Thursday for throwing a tantrum.
- What George Carlin Taught Us about Media Propaganda by Omission
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In the old George Carlin joke, the TV sportscaster announces: "Here's a partial score from the West Coast – Los Angeles 6." For a brilliant comedian like Carlin -- who skewered corporate power, class structure and political/media propaganda – that's one of his more innocuous jokes. But it's sharply relevant today as corporate TV news outlets serve up a series of partial scores. Call it 'propaganda by omission.'
- Algorithms Are People
The secret sauce of search engines gives tech companies an abundance of plausible deniability.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Amazon, Google, and other tech platforms deny interfering with their respective search algorithms, to boost profits or sidestep regulations. Because of the murky mechanics of how search works, proving the allegations is nearly impossible.
- Recalling the Hundreds of Thousands of Civilian Victims of America's Endless 'War on Terror'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
According to very conservative estimates, as reported by the "Costs of War" project of Brown University’s Watson Institute on International and Public Affairs, nearly 250,000 civilians have been killed during the 8 years since September 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan in wars or attacks that were instigated by the United States.
- Smart Faucets And Toilets Use Alexa To Listen To Your Conversations
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone’s conversations, but that is just what Delta Faucet and Kohler have done. Delta Faucet's "Voice IQ" takes advantage of where lots of people like to congregate and turns it into an Alexa eavesdropping centre.
- Empires Are a Secret until They Start Falling
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Alfred McCoy says that it is only when empires are in decline that people begin to recognize they live in an empire and start to talk about it. While discussion of empire hasn't broken into the corporate media, it is certainly happening in the independent media. A concerted effort by a popular movement could bring it to the fore, just as Occupy changed the political dialogue about wealth inequality and the power of money. People in the US need to face some stark realities when it comes to declining US global power.
- Facebook advertisers can write their own headlines for shared news stories
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Advertisers on Facebook are able to completely rewrite the displayed headline for news stories, CBC News has learned, opening the door for potential disinformation to spread on the platform while using news media branding as cover.
- Against neurodiversity
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The neurodiversity movement has good intentions, but it favours the high-functioning and overlooks those who struggle with severe autism.
- Rich Getting Richer Via Tax Policies
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Marginal income tax rates plunged starting in the 1980s, hitting their modern-day lows under President George W. Bush. After rising modestly during the Obama Administration, they fell again under President Trump. Rate cuts generate only part of the current bonanza. Tax breaks passed by various Congresses account for the rest, hugely increasing the billions that flow to the haves.
- Sundarbans: 'Not a blade of grass grew...'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
People in the Sundarbans of West Bengal, for long living on the edge, are now facing climate change – recurring cyclones, erratic rain, growing salinity, rising heat, depleting mangroves and more.
- US Media Keep Saying Iran is "In Violation" of a Nuclear Agreement the US Withdrew From
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First Published: 2019
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US Media portray Iran as having violated the US-Iran nuclear agreement. That's because the Trump administration, acting on its own, foolishlypulled out unilaterally from that agreement, and has been imposing sanctions on Iran, all of which has been in violation of the agreement, and which, by violating its terms, effectively terminates the agreement.
- The War in Eastern Ukraine May be Coming to an End but Do Any Americans Care?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Ukraine War remains largely unknown to the American public even though the United States has had a great stake in it.
- Masterless Men: Poor whites and slavery in the Antebellum south by Keri Leigh Merritt - Book review
"1619" and the myth of white unity under slavery
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A critique of the New York Times' "1619" initiative, marking the 400th anniversary of the disembarkation of the first African slaves in what was to become the United States.
- What's the True Unemployment Rate in the US?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The real unemployment rate is probably somewhere between 10%-12%. The 3.7% is the U-3 rate, per the labor dept. But that’s the rate only for full time employed. What the labour depatment calls the U-6 includes what it calls discouraged workers (those who haven’t looked for work in the past 4 weeks). Then there's what's called the 'missing labour force' - i.e. those who have'’t looked in the past year. They're not calculated in the 3.7% U-3 unemployment rate number either. Why? Because you have to be 'out of work and actively looking for work' to be counted as unemployed and therefore part of the 3.7% rate.
- 'The forgotten people' of a razed Corner Brook neighbourhood revived in new book
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Poet Douglas Walbourne-Gough seeks to erase stigma of Crow Gulch, a community bulldozed beginning in the late 1960s, after its residents spent decades there living in poverty, and living with outsiders' racism and scorn, even as parts of Corner Brook prospered around them.
- Larry Dohey was unforgettable. We can honour him by protecting the archives he loved.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Keeping our stories alive for the future is the passion of archivists whose work is not often recognized.
- Yellow fever
Populist pangs in France
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The 'gilets jaunes' are a complex movement that has grown from a distrust of France's elites towards demands for citizen-led democracy. Their invocation of the French Revolution has provided the movement with a powerful sense of popular legitimacy but, as Gabriel Bristow argues, contains contradictions of its own.
- Ukraine's Nazis: Who are they, why are they so influential — and why have media ignored them?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A recent festival in Kiev proudly displayed Nazi symbols and even advertised 'White Pride' – yet received almost no attention from Western media, who still steadfastly pretend there are no Nazis in Ukraine, neo- or otherwise.
- The Knotty Question of When Humans Made the Americas Home
A deluge of new findings are challenging long-held scientific narratives of how humans came to North and South America.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Indeed, no tidy, new framework has arisen to take the place of older theories. Instead, new data, including genetic findings, continue to complicate the story of how these continents came to be peopled.
- Disablement, Oppression, and Political Economy
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
It is often claimed that disabled persons are invisible, disregarded by mainstream society, and irrelevant to the workings of society. This analysis has attempted to explain that the "unemployables" have been deliberately shut out of the labour force due to a capitalist economy that so far has dictated their exclusion by measure of economic calculations that favor the business class. It further posits that disabled persons are further oppressed in capitalist societies by having been purposely shifted onto social welfare or segregated into institutions for similar reasons – to keep workers who could not be profitably employed out of the mainstream workforce but also to exert social control over the entire labour supply.
- 'The happy days are now just nostalgia'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Along with the temperatures, the Brokpa say, the entire weather pattern has become increasingly unpredictable in the past two decades in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh, which border the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Bhutan and Myanmar.
- Remembering Mitch Podolak
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Time for creative disruption?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- The Stupidity of Smart Devices and Smart Cities
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Smart phones, smart bombs, and, it follows, Smart Cities (capitalising such terms implies false authority), do not exist in that sense, whatever their cheer squad emissaries in High Tech land claim. They are merely a masterfully daft celebration of tactically deployed cults: there is a fad, a trend, and therefore, it must be smart, a model option to pursue.
- Congo's Patrice Lumumba: The Winds of Reaction in Africa
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A brief history of Patrice Lumumba who was briefly Prime Minister of an independent Congo.
- In Protest Against Police Raping Spree, Women Burn Their Station in Mexico City.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A first person account of protests in Mexico City in response to reports of rape by police officers which have been dismissed by the administration.
- Offering Choice But Delivering Tyranny: the Corporate Capture of Agriculture
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Proponents of genetically modified seeds say they are opening up 'choice' to farmers and consumers but end up giving monopolies to powerful corporations with proprietary agricultural tools and methods. This lessens environmental and dietary health and diversity.
- That Couldn't Be True: Restorying and Reconciliation
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
To achieve reconciliation with Indigenous people Canada must let go of the myth of itself as a benevolent force in the world.
- Rivers of Dust: The Future of Water and the Middle East
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Syria and Iraq are at odds with Turkey over the Tigris-Euphrates. Egypt's relations with Sudan and Ethiopia over the Nile are tense. Jordan and the Palestinians accuse Israel of plundering river water to irrigate the Negev Desert and hogging most of the three aquifers that underlie the occupied West Bank. According to satellites that monitor climate, the Tigris-Euphrates basin, embracing Turkey, Syria, Iraq and western Iran, is losing water faster than any other area in the world, with the exception of Northern India.
- It's No Wonder the Military likes Violent Video Games, They Can Help Train Civilians to Become Warriors
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Most studies show no correlation between video games and violence but the adoption of computer simulations by the military and their similarity to video games should give us pause about their ethical impact on society.
- Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The white European "settlers" of North America wiped out millions of the continent's original inhabitants. They populated their southern colonies and states with Black slaves they mercilessly tortured, raped, maimed, and murdered in forced labour camps that provided the critical raw material for the rise of American capitalism long before Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler rose to power.
- Who Inflicts the Most Gun Violence in America? The U.S. Government and Its Police Force
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Statistical analyses of gun violence in America consistently fail to account for the number of victimes of police killings. The militization of policiing has led to a greater number of victims, particularly among young black men and the mentally ill.
- Facebook had human contractors 'reviewing' users' Messenger voice chats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Facebook has given contractors access to people's private voice chats for transcription purposes.
- Lyme Disease and Biowarfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Historical look at the connection between Lyme disease and US government-produced bioweapons by a journalist who has been researching it for decades.
- Myanmar's Other Reporters
The world cheered when two Reuters journalists were freed from prison. But who’s watching out for the rest?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Detailed analysis of the state of freedom of speech and the press in Burma/Myanmar.
- 5 facts confirming just HOW incredibly wealthy the world's richest families are
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Some facts based on Bloomberg's list of 25 richest families show how vast the gulf of inequality is.
- If you work for Uber or DoorDash, your boss isn't a person but an algorithm
App-driven jobs in the gig economy can mean constant surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Gig-economy apps claim that their workers are contractors or even another kind of customer but human-devised algorithms strictly control their work conditions.
- 'Today we seek those fish in Discovery Channel'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Kadal Osai, a community radio of and for fisherfolk on Pamban island of Tamil Nadu's Ramanathapuram district, turns three this week. And it's making waves – with climate change as its latest focus.
- Unhappy customer asked to sign legal agreement not to write a bad review
Contracting company offered cash rebate to Ottawa couple, but only if homeowners sign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
After a major kitchen renovation, an Ottawa couple say the contractor has refused to reimburse money they're owed unless they sign a legal agreement preventing them from publishing a negative review.
- Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Sources reveal new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times and refute lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
- Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Australian journalist Mark Davis HAS revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
- Politics in the Pub Mark Davis
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The current attempt to use the UK courts to drag Assange into the clutches of a foreign intelligence agency for his revelations is not just an abuse of the extradition process but a fundamental threat to journalism.
- Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match In China
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Unless China starts playing by neoliberal rules Trump's economic war with them will lead the US to a race to the bottom or isolation from international markets.
- The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
They now warn us that we have to drastically reduce global emissions – by at least 45 percent – over the next decade. Otherwise, we'll pass the point of no return – defined as reaching 450 ppm or more of CO2 in the atmosphere sometime between 2030 and 2050 – when our climate crisis will morph into a climate catastrophe.
- Families "Are Scared To Death" After A Massive ICE Operation Swept Up Hundreds Of People
About 680 suspected undocumented workers were arrested in Mississippi in one of the largest worksite operations ever conducted by ICE agents
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A massive arrest of undocumented workers in Mississippi had people scrambling to care for kids whose parents were detained and traumatized the community.
- Is the Pentagon Behind the Rise in Lyme Disease?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A conversation with Kris Newby author of Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons.
- Like Israeli settlers, white mass shooters are a manifestation of their society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A caution against calls from the left to label white mass shooters as terrorists. Calling them terrorists does not address the fact that they carry out the objectives of their settler-colonial states.
- Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa's new internet paradigm
The costs of speaking out online are rising rapidly
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many governments in Africa, threatened by the democracy of internet communication, are stifling it by imposing taxes and fees, throttling internet service itself and even arresting bloggers.
- To Silence a Poet, and a Nation: What Stella Nyanzi's Conviction Means for Uganda
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Dr. Stella Nyanzi has been convicted under internet obscenity laws for criticizing Uganda's president. The style of her writing may be as much an issue as the criticism itself.
- Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Amazon's home surveillance company Ring is coaching police on how to use their technology which simultaneously provides a source of advertising for Amazon.
- Are Israel's spies stealing your data?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many Israeli spies go into careers in surveillance software bringing techniques that are used to violate the privacy of Palestinians into everyday commercial software.
- How protesters are 'deanonymising' Russia's riot police
Online tools identify policemen who violently dispersed protesters in Moscow
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Tools such as reverse-image search are being used to identify police who violently broke up a protest in Moscow. The legality of releasing this information and the threats some people are making with it is discussed.
- What kind of rebellion will save humanity from extinction?
The real power of mass civil disobedience is not its ability to shock the powerful into listening, but rather its potential to draw masses o
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Despite overwhelming evidence that the world has already passed certain tipping points, setting off large and unpredictable changes in the climate, why are governments still refusing to act on the scale and pace required?
- How Slick Consulting Firms Get Us on Drugs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at some of the techniques drug companies use to get doctors to prescribe their products.
- The Last Frontier
Homesteaders on the margins of America
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The San Luis Valley in southern Colorado still looks much as it did one hundred, or even two hundred, years ago. Blanca Peak, at 14,345 feet the fourth-highest summit in the Rockies, overlooks a vast openness.
- Localism's Contradictions in Hong Kong
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Localism, as a recent political phenomenon in the Hong Kong political landscape, stresses Hong Kong’s political and cultural autonomy as distinct from that of China, while older pan-democratic organizations tend to stress this continuity between democratic struggles in Hong Kong and China. Localism has politicized the younger generations in many ways – but is localism a coherent political ideology, and how does it square with an anti-capitalist, mass-led political practice?
- A Play with No End
What the Gilets Jaunes really want
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
When I caught up with the Gilets Jaunes on March 2, near the Jardin du Ranelagh, they were moving in such a mass through the streets that all traffic had come to a halt. The residents of Passy, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Paris, stood agape and apart and afraid.
- Another day, another data hack-- and truth is, there's not much you can do about it
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
This week's Capital One hack is just yet another reminder of what cybersecurity experts have known for a while: you've probably already had your information stolen, and the only question is whether you know it.
- Small businesses, residences on Great Lakes being 'destroyed' by high water this summer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Fingers are pointed at the International Joint Commission, which regulates levels. But the IJC points out that the upper Great Lakes, Superior, Huron and Erie, are unaffected by Plan 2014, since their water levels are not controlled; they flow toward Niagara Falls and then down into Lake Ontario. Yet those upper lakes are also at near-record levels -- proof that weather is the sole cause of this summer's problems. Furthermore, allowing more water from Lake Ontario to flow through the dam at Cornwall, Ont., could lead to flooding downstream in Quebec.
- From Nazi Germany to Ottoman Turkey, Genocides Begin in the Wilderness, Far From Prying Eyes
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Recent research shows that the Armenian genocide began before its usually accepted date in 1915. This is consistent with other genocides which start away from the metropolises with only minimal instructions from higher government.
- The Discovery and Rediscovery of Metabolic Rift
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory, and a new generation to rediscover it in our time.
- 'It was chaotic': National outage of passport kiosks causes major delays at Pearson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A nationwide outage affecting the primary inspection kiosks and NEXUS of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) caused serious delays for passengers arriving on international flights.
- Numsa strike against sexual harassment is a 'powerful moment in labour history'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A union of metal workers in South Africa staged a strike underground in harsh conditions to support a coworker whose sexual harassment complaint had been dismissed by management.
- 'Algorithms don’t write themselves'
Google whistleblower on Big Tech merging with politics
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Israel's latest attempt to erase Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Efforts by teams from the Israeli defense ministry to remove sensitive documents from Israeli archives must be understood in a new political climate and are not simply an attempt to spare Israeli governments embarrassment, as some have suggested.
- Lessons of Nashville: The working class and the defense of immigrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A recent story about residents of a Nashville neighborhood rallying to protect their neighbors from ICE agents shows the power of class solidarity in the face of attempts at racial division.
- Marx on Children (and on Forgiving Christianity)
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An exploration of Marx's and Christianity's views on children.
- The Radical Roots of Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Interview with Laura Weinrib author of "The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise."
- This School District Threatened To Take Kids Away From Parents Over Lunch Debt. Then It Refused a Businessman's Offer to Pay Those Debts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A Pennsylvania school district sent letters to parents who owed lunch money informing them that they could lose custody of their children due to their lunch money debt.
- ANYONE can be re-identified from 'anonymous data', researchers claim & let you TEST it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Online services that claim to anonymize users’ personal data aren’t as secure as we think, according to researchers who found over 99 percent of people can be identified from a handful of supposedly anonymous data points. Using just three commonly-requested demographic attributes -- birthdate, zip code, and gender -- the program is able to successfully identify users about 83 percent of the time. And with 5 and more data points the machine-learning model gets it right over 99 percent of the time.
- This London Firm Helps the Wealthy Hide Assets - or Steal Them. Luckily We Have 15 Years of Their Client Communications
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A London firm that helps the rich hide or steal money has had 15 years' worth of communications leaked. These are being made available to hopefully help return stolen money.
- Did John Bolton Light the Fuse of the UK-Iranian Tanker Crisis?
Evidence suggests he pressured the Brits to seize an Iranian ship. Why? More war.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The details of the UK's seizure of the Grace 1 point to involvement by John Bolton and the Trump administration to put pressure on Iran.
- "How Could They?" Why Some Americans Were Drawn to the Communist Party in the 1940s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
We did not become Communists because of any adoration of Stalin. We wanted a better world, one in peace, and we admired the giant achievements of the Soviet people in overcoming illiteracy and building a giant industrial base which proved so vital in defeating the Nazis. We also admired an economy which suffered no joblessness while nearly the entire world groaned under the Great Depression.
- I was banned for trans heresy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- No Woman Should Be Forced to Give a Troll a Brazilian Bikini Wax
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Transgender activist Jessica Yaniv has forced the British Columbia Human Rights council to hear a truly absurd complaint. Canada's human rights authorities are currently considering whether the country's gender equality law requires a Brazilian waxing business that only takes female customers to perform the service on a trans woman who possesses male genitalia.
- American Visitors to the Gestapo Museum Draw Their Own Conclusions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An exploration of the ethics of drawing comparisons from present-day injustices to Nazi atrocities.
- Think Republicans are disconnected from reality? It's even worse among liberals
A new survey found Democrats live with less political diversity despite being more tolerant of it – with startling results
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Democrats and Republicans have deep misconceptions about what the other side believes. This stops them from working together towards goals that mutually acceptable and achievable.
- The Plastic Industry's Fight to Keep Polluting the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An in-depth look at the failure of recycling intiatives and the plastics industry's PR efforts that put the onus on small scale efforts to reduce waste while they fight any initiatives that curb production at the industry level.
- Our Veggie Gardens Won't Feed us in a Real Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Small scale farming that can actually provide for people requires more knowledge and resources than people think.
- Our Veggie Gardens Won't Feed us in a Real Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Prudence would dictate that we heed this year's events as a warning and get serious about making preparations for worse years. Literal cycles of "feast or famine" have marked agriculture since its birth and sooner or later we will experience significant shortages here in the US, if not from the weather, than from war or lack of resources.
- History Is Happening: WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An article based on and in discussions with Nozomi Hayase's book 'WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate: History Is Happening'.
- The People Emerge: The Storming of the Bastille
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A history of the storming of the Bastille emphasizing the revolutionary history that is glossed over in patriotic celebrations.
- Brexit Divides the British Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Short commentary on three leftist perspectives on Brexit. The articles discussed are linked in the main piece.
- The World Needs a Water Treaty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
During the face-off earlier this year between India and Pakistan over a terrorist attack that killed more than 40 Indian paramilitaries in Kashmir, New Delhi made an existential threat to Islamabad. The weapon was not India’s considerable nuclear arsenal, but one still capable of inflicting ruinous destruction: water.
- The World Needs a Water Treaty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Climate change is making water into as valuable a commodity as oil with similar national tensions resulting.
- It's Raining Sand in Rayalaseema
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In the Rayalaseema region in India, changing agriculture has reduced biodiversity, depleting the soil and leading to aridity and sandstorms.
- The Journalists Do The Shouting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A summary and analysis of some of the mainstream media's coverage US conflicts with Iran.
- The Journalists Do The Shouting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Today’s meaningful art is samizdat stickers on wireline poles and spray-canned corporate advertising. Corporate media is no longer considered a sure source of credible reporting.
- Outsourced spying: Google admits 'language experts' listen to 'some' assistant recordings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Google assistants are recording their surroundings without the user's knowledge and making the recordings available to contractors.
- "Strategic Extremism": How Republicans and Establishment Democrats Use Identity Politics to Divide and Rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Since morality is easy to use as a tool to manipulate voters, Republican's wooing of the alt-right is an effective strategy in a close election. To counter this the left must focus on real issues that challenge corporate power.
- On the Democratic Character of Socialist Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Great social movements redefine legality and human rights, setting in motion a process of change that becomes irresistible. Socialists utilize electoral opportunities while recognizing that they are far from the whole story. A workers’ government committed to socialism will probably be achieved as the democratic ratification of a program that has already gained majority support through discussion and mobilization among the population at large.
- RT's ban from media freedom conference shows British irony is alive and well
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
RT has been banned from a conference on media freedom for reportedly 'spreading disinformation.' They find this accusation and its source an ironic juxtoposition.
- The Seizure of an Iranian Tanker and the Lethal Toll of Sanctions
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Sanctions against Syria are having a disastrous effect on the population. Comparisons to Iraq during the 1990s by someone who was there show the historic failure and potential further consequences of sanctions.
- Trudeau government gives dangerous new powers to Canada's political cops
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association has published a massive collection of documents that reveal that CSIS is gathering information on peaceful protest groups. This coincides with new legislation from the Trudeau government that gives CSIS increased powers to conduct surveillance.
- Why Aren't the Democrats Talking About Ending Patent Financed Drug Research?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Presenting a case for replacing government-granted patent monopoly financing of pharmaceutical research to make drugs available at free market prices.
- Guilt of Anti-semitism Now Needs No Evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Accusations of anti-Semitism against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party make an effective smear in a corporate-contolled media that focuses on individual personalities.
- Weaponizing human rights: UN chief Bachelet's Venezuela report follows US regime change script
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A report from the UN High Commissioner on the situation in Venezuela has been condemned by many sources as a political tool to justify the US's attempted regime change in that country.
- Canada Adopts America First Foreign Policy US State Dept Boasted in 2017
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A declassified cable from the US embassy in Ottawa titled "Canada Adopts 'America First' Foreign Policy" notes that the Canadian government would be "Prioritizing U.S. Relations, ASAP."
- Doubling Down: The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not In Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The two most important narratives imposed on us are climate change as a "threat to national security" and as a "business opportunity" - the twin rationales for military and corporate power. They want to focus us on how to manage the crisis, profit from it, or adapt to it, instead of opposing it.
- From the Green Revolution to GMOs: Toxic Agriculture Is the Problem Not the Solution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The pesticide industry lobbies governments to allow chemicals that have long been known to be harmful.
- Google Maps outage sparks mass disorientation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Google Maps server went offline in some parts of the world, and users found themselves utterly disoriented – or couldn't find themselves at all.
- Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution
Part 2: 1917: The Bolsheviks Apply Kautsky’s Tactics
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Bolsheviks came into 1917 with two pieces of Kautsky advice firmly under their belts: enlist the peasantry as a revolutionary ally, and do not deviate from militant anti-agreementism.
- When the IWW Took on the Copper Kings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of the movie "Bisbee ‘17" about a strike and subsequent deportation of the workers of an Arizona mining town.
- Whose history? Why the People's History Museum is vital
In recent months, high-profile figures have claimed museums should be ‘neutral’ spaces. Thank goodness, then, for the People’s History Museu
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Peoples History Museum also acts as a space for learning and offers a site for new debates to emerge, regularly allocating space for community exhibitions and contemporary political discussion. It also exhibits documents from recent events and contemporary unions, as it continues to build its collections.
- Amazon admits it keeps some Alexa recordings even when users delete them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Amazon has admitted that Alexa can keep recordings and other data after a user believe they have deleted them. Amazon cites improving customer service and technology as one reason for doing this.
- Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution
Part 1: Before the War: The Bolsheviks Applaud Kautsky's Tactics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Lenin remained true to the tactical ideas of Karl Kautsky after the latter had abandoned them.
- De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A long interview with economist Michael Hudson about Trump's plan to lower interest rates.
- How Does the War on Terror Stack Up to Some of History's Most Infamous Genocides?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at whether the US War on Terror can be classified as genocide. Comparisons to historical precedents are complicated since the War on Terror is not a systematic effort directed at one location.
- Israeli government minister takes credit for 27 U.S. states passing anti-BDS laws
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
It is considered a huge scandal that Russia allegedly interfered in the 2016 US election but Israel is messing in our politics all the time, and that’s standard operating procedure.
- Memory, History, and a Pillar of Salt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A personal memoir about art and history in the early days of AIDS and ACT UP.
- Paris police use pepper spray against seated climate change protesters
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Police in Paris have been filmed pepper-spraying peaceful protestors. This is part of Macron's crackdown on the "yellow vest" movement in which several protestors have been seriously injured.
- Raging Against the Algorithm: Google and Persuasive Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Fears of Google's algorithms detrimental effect on society may be well-founded but the proposed solutions are problematic.
- The Anti Nazi League and its lessons for today
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Interview with Paul Holborow, organising secretary of the Anti Nazi League in 1977-1980.
- Germany threatens journalist with prison for speaking about Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Palestinian-Canadian journalist Khaled Barakat has been banned from speaking or participating in political activity in Germany.
- How Evil Wins: the Hypocritical Double Standards of Political Outrage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The injustices carried out under Trump are not new and people who believe they are or that partisan politics will fix things are being fooled.
- The secrets of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Close analysis of 1984, including biographical details of Orwell, defending it as a work of leftist literature.
- Thousands of Goldminers Invade Yanomami Territory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Goldminers have invaded Yanomami lands in northern Brazil, probably emboldened by Bolsonaro's war against Indigenous rights. They have brought disease to uncontacted peoples and are poisoning the environment.
- Women and the far right
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many of the past gains of human and civil rights with women are at risk of being rolled back as the far right assumes power in numerous countries. Such attacks on women's reproductive rights and their places and roles in society have historical precedents in fascist movements in the past.
- Rolf Knight Obituary
March 4, 1936 - June 22, 2019
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Born on March 4, 1936, the son of an itinerant cook, Rolf Knight grew up in B.C. logging camps, gained his M.A. in anthropology at UBC in 1962, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1968. For decades Knight was a brave and under-heralded historian and a steadfast enemy of the notion that there exists such a phenomenon as the common man.
- How Capitalist Globalization Forecloses on Health Systems
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Discussion of the multi-author collection "Health Care under the Knife." The book criticizes many aspects of medicine under capitalism but falls short of promoting radical alternatives.
- The Watchmakers Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
History of a worker takeover of a watch company in 1970s France. Refers to a recent book by Donald Reid 'Opening the Gates: The LIP Affair, 1968-1981.'
- Deep Fakes: Will AI Swing the 2020 Election?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The ability of AI to create credible-looking fake videos could pose a threat to candidates at election time but gullibility was a problem before computer technology.
- New York Times Admits it Sent Story to Government for Approval
The American paper of record just provided a major example of the symbiotic relationship between U.S. corporate media and the government
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The NY Times' seeking approval for a recent story is part of a history of the mainstream media's collaboration with the US government.
- The Hydroponic Threat to Organic Food
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US Department of Agriculture is approving methods as "Certified Organic" which are contrary to the principles of organic, sustainable agriculture. This is done mostly to comply with the demands of large agribusiness companies.
- Fear in Sri Lanka as monk calls for stoning of Muslims
Top monk says Muslims should be stoned amid unsubstantiated reports of Muslim doctor sterilising Buddhist women.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Sri Lanka's Muslim minority fear further violence as a top Buddhist monk advocate's stoning amid unsubstantiated rumors of a Muslim doctor sterilizing Buddhist women.
- Mark Field and the Danger of Getting Sidetracked
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The media's focus on British government minister Mark Field's assault on a climate change activist, is a smokescreen to draw attention away from people with money and power that effect real issues such as climate change.
- A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An overview of ethnic cleansing and civilian concentration camps in the US starting with the Trail of Tears.
- Race, Identity and the Political Economy of Hate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at statistics casts doubt on the supposed rise of white nationalist groups and violence.
- Some Suburb of Hell: America's New Concentration Camp System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to US border detention facilities as "concentration camps," spurring a backlash in which critics accused her of demeaning the memory of those who died in the Holocaust. Debates raged over a label for what is happening along the southern border and grew louder as the week rolled on.
- Washington's Dr. Strangeloves: Is plunging Russia into darkness really a good idea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
US cyber attacks on Russia's power grid, reportedly done without the president's knowledge, are part of a historic pattern of US/Russian relations being sabotaged US defense and intelligence agencies.
- We hacked tube ads to call out the Home Office's hostile environment
Our Future Now on how they helped the Home Office be a little more honest about its policies
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Today our activist group, Our Future Now, have installed subverted adverts on London Underground trains calling out the Home Office's 'hostile environment' and its brutal and racist policies.
- The Shaving Kit - Manufacturing The Julian Assange Witch-Hunt
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A survey of mainstream media coverage of Assange's arrest that makes him an object of ridicule. Much attention is given to the beard he had at the time.
- 'We Need to Ban Fracking': New Analysis of 1,500 Scientific Studies Details Threat to Health and Climate
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The latest analysis of studies on the effects of fracking confirms that it poses an extreme threat to the environment and local people's healt.
- The Global Movement Against Gentrification
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Accounts of worldwide efforts to promote municipal engagement and organize locally for justice are given in the book Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement.
- Marta Harnecker, the Fighter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Obituary for Marta Harnecker, sociologist, political scientist, and activist from Chile.
- US Foreign Policy Exposed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Some recent events and information leaks have forced even the mainstream media to break the usual veneer over US foreign policy.
- US Cyber Attack on Russia's Power Grid is an 'Act of War' (According to the US)
What about Venezuela's hacked power grid?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The New York Times reports that the US has hacked Russia's power grid. Reporting on the issue has failed to mention any call for consequences or the fact that the US has already been accused of doing the same to Venezuela.
- How Much Do Humans Pollute? A Breakdown of Industrial, Vehicular and Household C02 Emissions
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Modified excerpt from author's new book, Privatized Planet: "Free Trade" as a Weapon Against Democracy, Healthcare and the Environment.
- How SDS Imploded: an Inside Account
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at how Students for a Democratic Society imploded 50 years ago and how it is similar to the behaviour of political parties in the US today.
- Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Much of modern psychiatry is based on unscientific theories even many practitioners of its find problematic. Since Thomas Paine knew Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), considered the "father of American psychiatry," this article draws parallels between Paine's criticisms of religion with those of psychiatry today.
- Trump's Trade Threats are Really Cold War 2.0
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Trump's attempts to bully China economically may backfire and alienate the US from trade partners.
- The Irish Language and Marxist Materialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin's book "Language From Below: the Irish language, ideology and power in 20th century Ireland" which looks at the role language and nationalism has played in Irish liberation movements.
- Creative + Strategic = Effective Movements for Change
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Some positive, creative ideas on non-violent actions to make social change.
- How Urban Planners Promote Gentrification
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of Samuel Stein's book "Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State" which looks at how private interests and government promote gentrification.
- While the World Watches Trump, It’s Missing What’s Really Going On
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The superficial antics of Trump and other world leaders are making front page news while investigative reporting on real issues is pushed to the margins.
- Breach of Ethics
Leaked Chats Between Brazilian Judge and Prosecutor Who Imprisoned Lula Reveal Prohibited Collaboration and Doubts Over Evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Leaked documents show that Sergio Moro, a judge at the time, collaborated heavily with investigators in Operation Car Wash, a serious breach of judicial impartiality. Even critics of Lula who consider him corrupt doubt the veracity of aspects of the investigation.
- How and Why The Intercept Is Reporting on a Vast Trove of Materials About Brazil’s Operation Car Wash and Justice Minister Sergio Moro
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A summary of the Intercepts investigation into Operation Car Wash based on a trove of private communication they have received and are making available to the public.
- US Sanctions on Venezuela Illegal Under UN, OAS and US Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A detailed look at the many laws being violated by US sanctions against Venezuela.
- Education in the Service of Assimilation: The Founding Vision of Residential Schools in Canada
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at some scholarly histories of residiential schools that put paid to Canada's kinder, gentler reputation.
- Mainstream media loves protests for democracy and freedom... unless they're in US ally Honduras
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Anti-government protests in Honduras provide a contrast with coverage of those in Venezuela. People protesting an illegitimately elected president get almost no US mainstream coverage in this case.
- On Equating BDS With Anti-Semitism: a Letter to the Members of the German Government
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An open letter to the German government by a Jew arguing against a motion equating BDS with anti-Semitism.
- Why the US is Persecuting Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Governments don't like it when reporters disclose secrets that impede their preferred narrative. This article draws parallels between Assange and the work of Yemeni reporter Maad al-Zikry.
- 'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, 9 slave testimonies
The voices of five men and four women, once held in human bondage, interviewed in Alabama in 1937.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Testimonies of several victims of slavery collected in the 1930s tell of separation from family, overwork, and abuse.
- At the Bridge
James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The story of James Teit (1864–1922), a prolific ethnographer and tireless Indian rights activist who spent four decades helping British Columbia's Indigenous peoples in their challenge of the settler-colonial assault on their lives and territories.
- Downstream
The afterlife of American junk
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The squat warehouse at Miami’s 5th Street Terminal was nearly obscured by merchandise: used car engines; tangles of coat hangers; bicycles bound together with cellophane; stacks of wheelbarrows; cases of Powerade and bottled water; a bag of sprouting onions atop a secondhand Whirlpool refrigerator; and, above all, mattresses -- shrink-wrapped and bare, spotless and streaked with dust, heaped in every corner of the lot -- twins, queens, kings. All this and more was bound for Port-de-Paix, a remote city in northwestern Haiti.
- Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way Gorgon Stare Did
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An interview with an expert on drones about a new camera technology that drastically improves wide-area sureillance capabilities.
- Israeli intervention in US elections overwhelms anything Russia has done, claims Chomsky
The 89-year-old said the media was largely ignoring vital issues such as climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Chomsky on the brazen interference of Israel in US politics to which supposed Russian meddling in the US election pales in comparison.
- Swedish Sex Pistol Aimed at Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
By asserting the extraterritorial jurisdiction of American law to demand the extradition of another country’s (Australia) citizen from a third country (Great Britain) for activities that took place entirely outside the US, the present indictment is, as Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists, points out: “a direct threat to journalists everywhere in the world….Under this rubric, anyone anywhere in the world who publishes information that the U.S. government deems to be classified could be prosecuted for espionage.”
- Arab photography archive releases 22,000 historic images online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Arab Image Foundation completes $255,000 digitisation initiative and will reopen its Beirut building this summer.
- CRA signs secret settlement with wealthy KPMG clients involved in offshore tax scheme
Watchdog group accuses the Liberals of covering up the KPMG affair
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Canada Revenue Agency has settled out of court and off the record with large tax avoiders. This follows years of promises to crack down on tax evasion and have more transparency at the CRA.
- Engels on the importance of Hegel to Marxism
Letter to Conrad Schmidt
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Neo-Kantian by persuasion, Schmidt nevertheless asked Engels what the philosophical underpinnings of Marxs thought were. Engels already had put out a book on the topic, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of German Classical Philosophy (1885), but apparently the implications of this work were not clear enough.
- Lessons from Canada: On Women's Libraries and Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A report on a talk Bec Wonders gave at the For Women Scotland event held on May 14, 2019, detailing her experiences as co-founder of Vancouver Women's Library and the value of knowledge produced by second wave feminists.
- The human cost of US 'economic war' on Venezuela: Hyperinflation hits 130,000% last year
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Short article about the steep increases in inflation in Venezuela.
- Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its Birth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US was not among the conulates protesting controversial new extradition bill in Hong Kong. They can't with a straight face object to Hong Kong passing an act that endorses extradition for political crimes while Washington is pursuing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
- Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its Birth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The author draws parallels between the US and Hong Kong's treatment of freedom and individual rights.
- The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An analysis of why western media has failed to practice any scepticism regarding claims that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons.
- Another Empire's Boot Stomps on Ireland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A civilian airport in Ireland is being used as a hub by the US military.
- The Evidence We Were Never Meant to See About the Douma Gas Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A report that conflicts with claims that two cylinders containing chemicals were dropped from an aircraft was suppressed by the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons. This erodes public trust in the institution and is distressing given the recent history of using dubious existence of deadly weapons to justify wars.
- How You Can Be 100% Certain That QAnon Is Bullshit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Outlines techniques used by members of QAnon, including excusing Trump's facilitation of evil deep state agendas, refusing to prove the validity of their positions, and making bogus claims and innacurate predictions.
- The Boeing Way: Blaming Dead Pilots
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing about the recent crashes of Boeing 737 MAXs. The Representatives (many of whom received campaign contributions from Boeing) actively tried to shift blame from the company and place it on the dead pilots.
- Bolivia's universal healthcare is model for the world, says UN
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Bolivia has implemented universal healthcare to provide free care to its poorest citizens. Although controversial with the country's doctors the program is lauded by the UN.
- Rooting rebellion in nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Reflections on the legacy of philosopher and ‘geologian’ Thomas Berry, ten years after his death.
- Russiagate and the Dry Rot in American Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The idea that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election is used by both liberals and the right to maintain the status quo. Comparisons to Hunter S. Thompson show how staid mainstream news has become.
- An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth
Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Article exploring of limitations of carbon credits
- Gaza exit permits: Aisha's lone journey for cancer treatment
Israeli permit system prevents some parents from accompanying their sick children to hospitals outside of Gaza Strip.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Heartbreaking story of a girl in the Gaza strip with a brain tumour who had to go through surgery accompanied by a stranger because parents could not get permission to accompany her to the hospital.
- Far-Right Identity Politics and the Task for the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
To oppose far-right ideology, the left must fight the violence and austerity they promote but also acknowledge the appeal of universal values of populist movements.
- From the Middle East to Northern Ireland, Western States are All Too Happy to Avoid Culpability for War Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Forgiving war crimes when they are committed by their own side is a practice of the Nazis that many western governements seem to be taking up.
- Moving past climate denial
Deniers feel that the impacts of climate breakdown don't matter, but the solutions pose an imminent threat, new research shows.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Katharine Hayhoe, a climate researcher and political science professor argues that it's more productive to show climate change skeptics that solutions are beneficial to them rather than trying to make them believe in the science of climate change.
- The Violent History of the Venezuelan Opposition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Mainstream media paint Venezuelan opposition as peaceful heroes and President Maduro as a villain. Details about opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez show this to be blatant propaganda.
- The Yellow Vests of France: Six Months of Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at the Yellow Vest movement in France after six months. Although they avoid structures of formal organizations they are converging with several other groups.
- 3 solutions to electronic car theft, a continuing threat to high-end Toronto automobiles
Electronic theft of luxury vehicles rose 90% from Dec. 2017 to 2018, police say
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Cars that unlock and start with an electronic fob can be stolen without the key. The article suggests some ways to protect yourself.
- Where Lyme Disease Came From and Why It Eludes Treatment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of two books that discuss Lyme disease's origin in government experiments with germ warfare.
- Assange revolutionized journalism, and the elite will never forgive him
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Julian Assange's treatment by governments and mainstream media shows how he is a threat to the former and shames the latter.
- Updated flood plain maps will send the housing market underwater
Eventually, entire communities will find themselves publicly identified as at-risk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The federal government will soon be posting maps of places at risk of flooding. This will have serious consequences for the housing markets in those areas.
- WhatsApp breach might have targeted human rights groups
Suspicion falls on Israeli company as users urged to update messaging app
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The messaging app WhatsApp had a security breach that installed surveillance software on users' phones. It seems to have targeted several people in human rights groups who report getting phone calls from strange numbers at odd times.
- D is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
American government is much like show business: empty entertainment with smoke and mirrors hiding the string-pullers behind the scenes.
- Why Are These Facts So Stubbornly Forbidden?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The author gives several examples of people refusing to change their beliefs even when confronted with facts.
- 120 years of Indian day schools leave a dark legacy in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory
'The damage from day schools was just as severe as residential schools,' says former student
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Day schools have not received as much attention as residential schools but they were attended by more children who experienced simliar abuses and loss of culture.
- The Strange Workings of Identity and Adolph Reed Jr.'s Thought
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
One of the cornerstones of the socialist approach to identity is the insistence that identities are not naturally occurring but are, rather, the products of history. The controversy surrounding Reed’s work offers an opportunity to try to clarify our understanding of identity.
- Distorting 'Democracy' in Venezuela Coverage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Round up of some of the many media outlets that call Guaidó's coup attempt in Venezuela a democratic movement and refer to democratically elected president Maduro as a dictator.
- PepsiCo ends lawsuits against Indian potato farmers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Pepsi has dropped a lawsuit against Indian potato farmers for growing the same potatoes used in Lay's chips. The lawsuit had been subject to public backlash.
- Thank Russia for Winning World War II
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Thank Russia for Winning World War II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Our Soviet allies barely held on alone for three years against Hitler, yet conventional wisdom is that we won the war because we equipped Soviets to die for us. This is propaganda – the USSR bore more than 90% of its own wartime industrial burden.
- Dam it all: More than half of the world's long rivers are blocked by infrastucture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
But with the increasing demand for more water, energy generation, and flood management, the construction of dams, levees, reservoirs, and other river-obstructive infrastructures is becoming ubiquitous.
- Imagination and Nuclear Weapons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Imagining the horror of nuclear war is not enough to prevent it. Governments with nuclear weapons must be forced to disarm.
- The London Climate Protests - Raising The Alarm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Analysis of media coverage of the climate crisis looks at how many outlets try to discredit 'alarmist' activists. However a sense of panics is rational and needed to avoid catastrophe.
- The Militarization of Empathy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Surprise reunions between returning soldiers and their families are a major spectacle in US media. But these heartwarming scenes serve as a distraction from the activities of the soldiers while they are overseas.
- Yelp and the Myth of Consumer Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Online reviews on Yelp have had a massive effect on the service industry but this should not be perceived as giving power to consumers. In the end it is only the platfrom that profits.
- Peterloo (film review)
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of a movie about the massacre at a popular revolt in St Peter's Field in Manchester, U.K in 1819.
- A million species 'threatened with extinction'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A summary of a dire climate report on the decline in global biodiversity.
- On the Coast of Oaxaca, Afro and Indigenous Tribes Fight for Water Autonomy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In southern Mexico, a multi-ethnic network of towns has halted the construction of a mega-dam. Now they are organizing to manage their own natural resources and revitalize their culture as native water protectors.
- US State Department Publishes, then deletes sadistic Venezuela hit list boasting of economic ruin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A fact sheet put out by the US State Department listing its "accomplishments" in Venezuela reads more like a confession of atrocities. The document was later withdrawn.
- Google Bans Press TV
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Social media companies are banning media outlets in the name of alleged 'hate speech' but the companies' contacts and their targets make them instruments of government censorship.
- Gray Whales Are Dying: Starving to Death Because of Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at the plight of sea mammals and the state of marine science education.
- Israel Again Bombs Gaza - But Is It "In Response"?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In this case it is undoubtedly the Palestinian side that is responding to Israeli violence. But even if Palestinians would fire missiles without an immediate cause it would be within the full rights of the Palestinian people. In its 1982 Resolution 37/43 the General Assembly of the United Nations reaffirmed:
"the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;"
The UN GA resolution is standing international law. The Palestinian people have the right to resist against the occupation force. In practice as well as legally Israel is a colonial entity that occupies Palestinian land, especially in Gaza and the West Bank. Any armed struggle by Palestinians against the occupation, provoked or not, is thus morally and legally justified.
But do not expect that any 'western' mainstream media will ever point that out.
- Review: Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness (2019)
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A detailed review, focusing mainly on gun violence, of Jonathan Metzl's book Dying of Whiteness.
- Leaked: USA's Feb 2018 Plan for Coup in Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Publication of a military document outlining the military, diplomatic, and propaganda policies to overthrow the Maduro governnment.
- Venezuelan economist: 'Hyperinflation is a powerful imperialist weapon'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Interview with Venezuelan an economist about how hyperinflation is being used as a weapon against the country.
- West Africa's Fine Line Between Cultural Norms and Child Trafficking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Human traficking in West Africa is difficult to deal with as it has become entrenched in the culture of people living in extreme poverty.
- Wildly Underestimated Oilsands Emissions Latest Blow to Alberta's Dubious Climate Claims
As disaster looms, petro province lets industry call the shots.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The oilsand industry's own measurements of their carbon output fall far short of that reported by Environment Canada's and others' research. This could deal a blow to the industry's PR efforts.
- Lost at Sea
Poverty and paradise at the edge of America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A few miles north of San Francisco, off the coast of Sausalito, is Richardson Bay, a saltwater estuary where roughly one hundred people live out of sight from the world. Known as anchor-outs, they make their homes a quarter mile from the shore, on abandoned and unseaworthy vessels, doing their best, with little or no money, to survive.
- Pete Seeger Was A Movement Musician
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A memorial to Pete Seeger on what would have been his 100th birthday.
- The Truce
How the United States helped spoil a plan to end gang violence in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
For over twenty years, Mijango argues, the overwhelming influence of the United States on Salvadoran law enforcement has led to tremendous mistakes in security policy. Mijango believes that the United States pressured the Salvadoran attorney general’s office to prosecute him because it had opposed the negotiations from the beginning.
- Where Our New World Begins
Politics, power, and the Green New Deal
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
We find ourselves today in much the same place, confronted by an array of emergencies -- seemingly disparate, but in fact closely connected - that threatens to destroy us. Braced against them is a set of ideas put forward in a congressional resolution by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (the notorious AOC), a twenty-nine-year-old freshman congresswoman, and her young, ad hoc brain trust.
- "I have been there before" - For Sri Lankan Christians like me, the Easter attacks revived old
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A personal narrative about the complicated politics of language, ethnicity, and religion in Sri Lanka in the wake of the Easter bombings.
- Sri Lanka Easter Sunday Massacre: Reflection Of Long Time Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A personal story about extreme ideologies that infiltrated Islamic societies.
- Canada’s new far right: A trove of private chat room messages reveals an extremist subculture
An analysis of 150,000 chat room messages paints a picture of a group that is actively recruiting new members, buying weapons and trying to
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Globe and Mail has obtained a trove of 150,000 messages posted between February, 2017, and early 2018 that reveal the private communications of a loosely aligned node of Canadian right-wing extremists. The record of their continuing conversations reveals a movement, energized by the rise of white ethnonationalism in the United States, that aims to upend a decades-old multicultural consensus in this country.
- A Lethal Industrial Farm Fungus is Spreading Among Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Agricultural fungicides are creating strains of drug-resistant fungi.
- Why Left Wing Populism Is Not Enough
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Mainly a critique of Chantal Mouffe's book 'For a Left Populism,' discusses the shortcomings of a poplulism that downplays the role of class.
- What the 'White Irish Slaves' Meme Tells Us About Identity Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In setting out to rebut narratives of 'Irish Slaves' the left has often downplayed the history of Irish oppression.
- My Response to the PBS Series: Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A criticism of the PBS series on Reconstruction which presents slavery as a 'southern problem,' ignoring its ties to capital and class.
- Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth's life support systems
Part One of a discussion of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The rift in the nitrogen cycle is a major threat to the stability of the Earth System. This and subsequent articles will discuss how the natural cycle works and how it has been disrupted in the Anthropocene.
- Russiagate is Dead! Long Live Russiagate!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Looking at the fiasco of Russiagate, it's instigators, who profits from it and the issues that it distracts from.
- How the U.S. Military Feeds at the Terror Trough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A meandering take on the US's perpetual wars around the world.
- Washington's Biggest Fairy Tale: 'Truth Will Out'
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The idea that the truth will eventually be exposed may be comforting to people that think we live in a transparent democracy. But this investigative journalist discusses how hard it is to get information from the government.
- The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A history of national debt and the international power structures it supports. Calls for the repudiation of illegitimate debt.
- Talking Trash: Unfortunate Truths About Recycling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A deep dive into the mechanics of recycling and why it isn't a panacea for our environmental problems.
- Calling Assange a Narcissist Misses the Point
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Personal attacks on Assange are used to discredit his work publicizing war crimes and the truth behind pro-war propaganda.
- How a Christian Nonprofit Helped a Controversial Minnesota Mining Company Buy Gear for Local Police
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A Christian non-profit called Shield616 that donates gear to police forces has received donations from mining companies. This sparks concerns of a conflict of interest among residents that are protesting these mines.
- ICL Breaks with Leninism on the National Question
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the radical change of direction of the Trotskyist International Communist League.
- In Defense of (Seymour’s) Marxism
Exposing the 'Theoretical Framework' of ICL's Neo-Pabloist Turn
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The abrupt abandonment of the longstanding approach to the national question by the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL - formerly the international Spartacist tendency [iSt]) has major (many as yet unelaborated) programmatic implications. It is difficult to overstate the political importance for the ICL of the dramatic turn represented by the main conference document, "The Struggle Against the Chauvinist Hydra" which repudiates the iSt/ICL's previous refusal to capitulate to "Third World" nationalism - a stance that distinguished the group from its pseudo-revolutionary competitors for decades. The former policy is now simply dismissed as "chauvinism."
- Assange's Indictment Treats Journalism as a Crime
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The charges against Assange send a message to journalists that they are in danger for doing their jobs. The UK can and should deny extradition of Assange to the US.
- Israel: Are democracy and despotic racism compatible?
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A criticism of Zionism as a "melding of an elitist pseudo-democracy with racist despotism."
- The Burning of Highlander Center: a Fascist-like Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Highlander Research and Education Center was burned to the ground in New Market, Tennessee in an act of arson by the white power movement.
- The politics of identity, left and right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
One of the consequences of the bifurcated debate is historical amnesia about the origins of identity politics. Most people imagine that its roots are on the left. In fact, they lie on the reactionary right, in the counter-Enlightenment of the late 18th century. It wasn’t then called the politics of identity. It was called racism. It is, however, in the concept of race -- the insistence that humans are divided into a number of essential groups, and that one’s group identity determines one’s moral and social place in the world -- that we find the original politics of identity, out of which ideas of white superiority emerged.
- Wealth and the Invisibility of Human Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of the book "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism" by Quinn Slobodian.
- Kautsky, Lenin, and the transition to socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Counterposing Karl Kautsky's perspective of a "democratic road to socialism" as against a supposed Leninist "insurrectionary strategy" presents a false framework for the debate.
- Fake News Tsunami - Trump's 'Collusion' And Corbyn As 'Dangerous Hero'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Analysis of recent news coverage that paints Corbyn as an anti-semite compared to that of the Trump campaign's supposed ties with the Russian government.
- An Open Letter to Chelsea Manning: A Free Woman in An American Prison
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A message of courage and strength addressed to Chelsea Manning.
- Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of Fascism
Social media platforms give governments, extremists, haters and propagandists the ability to excite and incite hate amplified by algorithms.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Describing how social media wages war on reality by spreading propaganda. With examples from ISIS to Alex Jones.
- Where Have You Gone Abbie Hoffman?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A collection of excerpts of people writing about Abbie Hoffman on the 30th anniversary of his death.
- From Pre-K On, US Schools Privilege the Already Privileged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The college bribery admissions scandal is only the extreme end of the inequality in the education system. Public policies, such as school funding based on property values, disadvantage children in low-income communities starting as early as pre-K.
- Eight miners die from toxic gases in Peru’s northern highlands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Eight miners died after poisonous gases escaped in an informal gold mine in northern Peru. Informal mines are operated without licenses or safety standards by companies that can easily bypass regulations.
- Fighting Against Racism - And For a Better Paycheck - On the Docks
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Dockworker labour solidarity. Heavily references two books: 'Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area' by Peter Cole and 'Choke Points' essays edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness.
- Former UAW vice president pleads guilty to conspiracy in bribery scheme
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Norwood Jewell, former vice president of the United Auto Workers pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate labor laws. There could be even higher ranking officials charged, highlighting the conflicting interests of union bosses vs workers.
- Social Media Regulation: Speak of the Devil and in Walks Zuck
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Social media giants such as Facebook support government regulation as a means to secure their monopolies.
- US Capitalism Was Born in the Destruction of the Commons
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Interview with Silvia Federici and Peter Linebaugh about Federici's book Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons.
- Collusion in Plain Sight
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The media should use the same language for Trump's pandering to corporations and failure to publicly condemn white supremacist violence as they do for his supposed collaboration with Russia.
- Factional provocation, middle-class hysteria, and the collapse of the International Socialist Organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The International Socialist Organization is collapsing just over a month after its national convention, amidst factionally instigated denunciations of sexual assault and cover-up.
- Facebook plans to curate 'high quality' news for its users from 'trusted outlets'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Facebook is considering hiring human editors to hand-pick 'trustworthy' news to display on its site. Facebook's track record of bias and censorship make its motives suspect.
- Filing Your Taxes Is Already Difficult. The House Just Passed a Bill That Keeps It That Way Forever.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The complicated process of paying and filing taxes - and the consquences of doing so incorrectly - cause hardship to many Americans especially the poor. This system could be much easier but many companies have an interest in maintaining the status quo.
- Lyft and Other Gig Economy Giants Cash In With IPOs Before Labor Laws Catch Up With Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many platform companies are making initial investors money by going public. Later investors could be on the hook if they have to change their business models to be in compliance with labour laws.
- The Public Library: Antidote to Everyday American Banality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A celebration of the local library that includes conversations with librarians and patrons.
- Solidarity, Survival and Sabotage: Reconstructing the History of the Blackouts Tormenting Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A detailed timeline of events during the recent blackout in Venezuela.
- Works of Mercy
The power of pastoral care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Health care organizations increasingly recognize that meeting the spiritual needs of their patients is part of their mandate, and hospitals must address these needs to receive national accreditation. The provision of care for the sick, disabled, and dying beyond the strictly medical or therapeutic is now a career possibility with many variant descriptions and categories.
- Don't Believe the Hype: Paying for Medicare for All Is Simple
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Debunking recent arguments that Medicare for All will require reducing spending in other areas.
- Notorious Portuguese political prison becomes museum of resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A historical fortress Peniche used to hold dissidents under Portugal's dictatorship is being turned into a museum to remind people of the life under fascism.
- Some of Khashoggi's killers received training in US: WaPo report
Projects under intelligence and defence partnership between US and Saudi on hold after killing.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Some of the people involved in killing Jamal Khashoggi may have had special-operations training in the US, conducted by Tier 1 Group, an Arkansas-based company.
- In defense of To Kill a Mockingbird: The 1962 film about racism in theaters this week
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Attempts to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from curricula are misguided and ignore the artistic and courageous ambitions of the book and film.
- ‘Renouncing Violence’ Is a Demand Made Almost Exclusively of Muslims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Media analysis shows that calls to renounce violence are directed at Muslims or other victims of Western occupation.
- UN aviation body blocks critics online
The UN’s aviation body is blocking climate critics on Twitter, accusing them of 'fake news' and 'spam'.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The International Civil Aviation Organization is blocking people who interact with them on Twitter. They claim their critics' arguments are not 'fact-based.'
- The U.S.' Refusal of Entry to Arnold August Is a Dangerous Precedent for All Activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US's refusal of entry to August is part of a long history of targeting people at the borders. This limits our democratic rights to organize and express political views peacefully.
- Dung beetles 'reduce human pathogens risk'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Farmers remove habitats that encourage natural wildlife for food-safety reasons, however, these habitats encourage biodiversity which could reduce the risk of pathogens in food.
- To Readers, $X Billion Just Means 'a Whole Lot of Money'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A call for media to put numbers in context, e.g., food stamps cost of $70 billion a year is just 0.4 percent of the budget.
- Russia and the Democrats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Democratic Party's insistence of Russian meddling in the election show how out of touch and unfit their leadership is.
- 'They Had Already Decided They Wanted to Invade Iraq'
CounterSpin interviews with Robert Dreyfuss and Diana Duarte on media and the Iraq War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
MP3s and transcripts of two interviews about justifications for the Iraq war. One focused on intelligence on WMDs and the other on women's rights.
- A Very Incomplete List of Sinister Things Vladimir Putin/Russia/'the Russians' Have Been Accused of Doing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A list as the title describes (with links).
- Why Activists Fail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Describes why activists have historically failed to make a real difference - they don't know how the world works. Describes how the world works and explains some components of nonviolent strategy for change.
- Pathological Deceit: The NYT Inverts Reality on Venezuela's Cuban Doctors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Claims that the Maduro government is using Cuban doctors to coerce voters by refusing care to the opposition are based on very dubious evidence.
- Race, Class, and the Left with Adolph Reed Jr.
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Audio interview with Adolph Reed Jr.
- Reflections on coherence and comradeship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A lengthy personal meditation on strategic challenges facing left organizing.
- UN to probe 'horrific' Mali attacks as death toll jumps to 160
Local officials say at least 160 people were killed and scores more wounded in Saturday's attack in Mopti region.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The UN has sent a team of investigators to Mali in the aftermath of an attack that killed 160 people. Violence in the region is rooted in rivalry between two communities.
- US Foists 'Humanitarian Aid' on Venezuela, Helps Create a Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US-backed Saudi Arabia war on Yemen is causing the worst humanitarian crisis of the modern era. The lack of concern from politicians should belie this justification for U.S. intervention in other countries.
- Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Far-Right Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Far-right ideology is fuelled by such a large mishmash of ideas that censoring anti-Muslim rhetoric is futile for stopping attacks.
- Emulating the circle of life
We need to rethink efficiency in our food system.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Developing food systems that simulate the processes found in nature can make food production more sustainable.
- Epifanio Camacho: a Militant Farmworker Brushed Out of History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Biographical info on Epifanio Camacho, a labor activist who fought alongside the less militant Cesar Chavez. He has been largely forgotten by history.
- The Homeless 8-Year-Old Chess Champion and Other Horrific 'Uplifting' Stories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Stories in US media of people overcoming adversity are only inspiring if you ignore the unjust systems that create their oppression.
- How would a revolutionary government protect the environment?
There is an enormous unused human potential waiting to be drawn into the job of saving the ecosphere. How can it be mobilized?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at how a revolutionary government would combat climate change. Includes a lengthy excerpt from the pamphlet The Green Tax Fraud by Dick Nichols.
- In Brazil, thousands of people are still living under the threat of bursting mining dams
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is home to several large dams many of which have burst causing death and environment damage. There is evidence that some of these disasters were predictable.
- Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover collusion between Donald Trump's camp and the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election.
- The TSA's Role as Journalist Harasser and Media 'Watchdog'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An American journalist whose work opposes the US government is openly marked for extra screening and inspections when travelling.
- The Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge and Approved Ideas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites and administrators, the contrarian idea must be boxed, the controversial speaker silenced and sent beyond the pale.
- Rethinking Dominant Approaches to Climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Market-based attempts to curb climate change are inadequate since they further enable its root cause, capitalism.
- 10 Failed Levees In Midwest Flood Zone Were Not Inspected By Federal Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many of the levees that failed during flooding of the Missouri River had not been inspected since the early 2010s. Some people say the Army Corps of Engineers has mismanaged levees under their responsibility.
- US and Puppet Guaido Implicated in Terrorism Plot Against Venezuela PLOT
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
New evidence has been uncovered regarding terror campaign planned by the US and the Venezuelan opposition.
- Defense for Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Transcript of a speech in defense of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange.
- Everyone Washington Supports, by Definition, Is a Moderate Centrist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many right-wing movements and leaders are described as moderate or even left-leaning by politicians and corporate media. In these cases the terms no longer have a political definition but is a way to convey approval.
- Killing for Credibility: A Look Back at the 1999 NATO Air War on Serbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A detailed look back at NATO's 1999 war on Yugoslavia.
- New Zealand - Open letter: Betraying women and free thought in the name of Christchurch massacres
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An open letter questioning shows of solidarity with Muslims after the Christchurch massacre, specifically non-Muslim women wearing head coverings and a Canadian university that disinvited an ex-Muslim atheist speaker.
- Recording Reveals Oil Industry Execs Laughing at Trump Access
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A 2017 recording of Independent Petroleum Association of America executives reveals them revelling in their access to high levels of government. Since then many environmental protections have been rescinded.
- Reading Manifestos: Restricting Brenton Tarrant's The Great Replacement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Attempts to censor the Christchurch shooter's manifesto hinders attempts to understand and counteract their motives. Arguments for censorship, such as enabling copycats, are based on controversial evidence.
- Undermining the watercycle
A critical appraisal of the mining industry's contributions to the global water crisis.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The mining industry is often overlooked as a cause of the global water crisis. This article examines recent history of mining disasters and how the industry PR greenwashes its image.
- U.S.: We Will Break Your Legs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US has threatened to deny visas to any ICC personnel investigating possible war crimes by U.S. forces. This should make clear the hypocrisy when the the US cites human rights violations as an excuse to invade other countries.
- The Chilling Censorship of the Christchurch Shooting
Rather than expunging information about the killer, we should be confronting evil head on.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Attempts to censor details of the Christchurch shooting may have the opposite of the intended effect by enabling denial and conspiracy theories.
- Larger high school class sizes will make Ontario students more resilient, education minister says
Lisa Thompson defends education changes in Metro Morning interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Ontario Education Minister Lisa Thompson claims that larger class sizes are good for students based on consultations with employers and post-secondary teachers.
- Women's stories from the frontline of Sudan's revolution must be told
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Women are leading Sudan's revolt against religious fundamentalism. As in Egypt and Saudi Arabia they face a violent backlash.
- Broiler chickens: The defining species of the Anthropocene?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Broiler chickens may be distinct and ubiquitous enough as a human-modified species that their fossil record could justify calling our era the Anthropocene.
- The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The corporate media's hostility towards Assange, Manning and WikiLeaks - obvious by lack of coverage or overt antagonism - shows it is tool of the state and big business.
- Green construction and worker safety
Green construction yields promising results for the future of our planet. But new technologies come with new safety risks for workers.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Eco-friendly construction exposes workers to new methods and materials which do not have the standard safety practices of those that are more established.
- Hebron - the heart of the occupation
Justice for Palestine is central to the left. The situation in Hebron is a good example why.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The history and current situation in Hebron.
- An Interview With Lisa Littman, Who Coined the Term 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In 2018, Lisa Littman, Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health, published an article in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE entitled Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Study of Parental Reports. The article drew attention to a phenomenon that had attracted widespread concern among parents, but which had not yet been studied systematically in the scientific literature. Following publication, Dr. Littman and her study became the subject of intense criticism from some activists.
- The New Zealand Shootings, a Microcosm of Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The New Zealand Shootings and other mass murders use the same justification as governments that carry out campaigns against the same targets on a larger scale.
- US Government Knew Climate Risks in 1970s, National Petroleum Council Documents Show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Newly discovered documents show that the fossil fuel industry has know since the 1970s the effect that CO2 emissions would have on the environment.
- Why climate action is the antithesis of white supremacy
Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Climate action and climate change denial are antithetical to each other as the former is based on interconnectivity and collective action while the latter seeks exclusion and separation.
- The New Politics of Disablement: The Contribution of Mike Oliver
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Obituary for Mike Oliver, one of the founders of the social model of disability. Includes historical information, his legacy, and suggested reading.
- Exposure of Another Pro-War Lie Doesn't Make Media More Skeptical of Pro-War Claims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The story of pro-Maduro forces burning trucks bringing aid to Venezuela has now been reported as false, even by corporate media. The bigger story of how and why this lie was propogated gets left behind.
- Murder on the Mekong: why exiled Thai dissidents are abducted and killed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In Thailand, people who violate lèse-majesté law - which prevents any criticism of the monarchy - can find themselves with a bounty on them and end up living in exile. Some dissidents have been murdered or disappeared.
- 'Combat Obscura' is a brutally honest look at the blurred morality of the war in Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A documentary featuring footage from a 2011 deployment in Afghanistan shows the reality of the war.
- Local fishermen: caught between the pros and cons of traceability
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Consumers concerned about the environmental impact of fishing are demanding more transparency and accountablity from the industry. Ironically, the resulting regulations are prohibitive to the small scale fishermen that are the most sustainable part of the industry.
- Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won’t be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Detailed look at the differences between cancellation of Germany's debt and that of developing countries today.
- Brazilian dam disaster 'is part of a pattern'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A team of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) academics is marking the international day of action for rivers by hanging out the dirty laundry of a very dirty company.
- Venezuela Coup Leader's Oil Plans Revealed: Guaidó Hopes to Privatize State-Controlled Industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Juan Guaidó and his economic advisers have a plan to privatize the country's petroleum industry. This privatization scheme will be difficult to implement, however, since he is not in power.
- The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
First Look Media, owner of The Intercept, is shutting down access to Snowden’s leaked NSA documents. Their reporters still have copies of all the documents and are looking to find a new outlet for them.
- "Please Step Away from the Socialism": The Red Scare Dems at MSNBC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The anti-socialist scaremongering at MSNBC should put paid to the idea that they have any leftist bias.
- Grand Jury Efforts: Jailing Chelsea Manning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The role of Grand Juries in the persecution of Chelsea Manning and a summary of their history.
- Hollywood's 'Captain Marvel' Blockbuster Is Blatant US Military Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Captain Marvel is the latest in a long line of movies made with the cooperation and approval of the US military.
- Publicised Cruelty: Scott Morrison Visits Christmas Island
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Australia is reopening the immigration detention centre on Christmas Island. The prime minister made a public tour of the facilities.
- US Negotiations: Masters of Defeats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A summary of several US attempts at diplomacy that have failed due to their unwillingness to make any concessions to the other party.
- US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as 'Watershed Event' for 'Galvanizing Public Unrest'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A 2010 memo from Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) seems to be playing out as planned in 2019.
- Shout out for peace and quiet
Green solutions to noise reduction could improve our mental and physical wellbeing.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Noise is a cause of stress with physical and psychological effects on people and also harms the environment. Noise reductions needs to be made part of solutions such as industry standards and urban planning.
- The Fake News Nazi - Corbyn, Williamson And The Anti-Semitism Scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Analysis of Corbyn's press shows accusations of anti-semitism against him only started when he became a political threat.
- 'I lost four sons': In Kashmir, women suffer brunt of conflict
Women's Day is a grim reminder of atrocities and hardships faced by the women of the region in decades-long conflict.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Women in Kashmir suffer the loss of their sons, husbands, and fathers in ongoing conflict.
- Bela Lugosi: actor, union leader, anti-fascist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the life and career or Bela Lugosi.
- Eric Hobsbawm: Historical cosmonaut
David Kynaston on a 'national treasure' whose politics provoked endless bitterness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of 'A Life In History' a biography of Eric Hobsbawm by Richard J. Evans.
- The witch hunt at Westminster
Why was a documentary film on the 'anti-Semitism in Labour debate' banned from being screened at the British parliament?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A screening of a documentry about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party was cancelled in British parliament. Charges seem to conflate anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism.
- The Global Assault on Indigenous Peoples
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Focusing on the the Ngäbe–Buglé in Panama, a look at the Indigenous people who have their way of life is destroyed by capitalism.
- The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A tribute to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Includes details of some of the corruption they have exposed.
- The War That Never Ends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
North Korean denuclearization is unlikely without concessions (such as sanctions relief) from the US side. How likely is the Trump administration to make such a deal?
- Breaking the Silence: Inside the Israeli Right's Campaign to Silence an anti-Occupation Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Breaking the Silence, an Israeli anti-occupation group that collects testimonies of Israeli soldiers operating in Palestinian territories has been targeted by moles and other attacks.
- British MPs won't get to see 'WitchHunt' in the House of Commons - the very place it needs to be shown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A screening of a documentary - made by Jewish Labour party members - about charges of anti-semitism in the British Labour Party has been cancelled.
- Angela Davis: Relevant as Ever After Thirty Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at how Angela Davis's work in Women, Culture, and Politics (1989) applies today.
- Betraying the Kurds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many debates about Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria ignore the overall illegitmacy of military-political intervention.
- Britain's Witchfinders are Ready to Burn Jeremy Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The suspension of MP Chris Williamson for alleged anti-semitism is part of a smear campaign against Corbyn. It is also a by-product of all criticism of Israel being labelled anti-semitism.
- California Burning, PG&E Bankrupt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A synopsis of PG&E's history of negligence and corruption which has caused wildfire disasters. The company tries to escape consequences but others are demanding change.
- A Call to Action
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Positive review - with caveats - of a book about how we can transform society.
- Catechism of the Waters
Species in conflict on the Columbia River
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In September, commercial fisheries for salmon and sardines throughout the West Coast states were granted disaster relief. But over the past ten years, much of the damage has been done by sea lions.
- Chicago Charter Teachers Strike, Win
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Reporting on the unprecedented and successful strike of charter school teachers in Chicago.
- Facebook Wants You to Know if You’re Getting Your News From the Wrong Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Media outlets owned by a company with ties to the Russian government are forced to disclose their affiliation on Facebook. Media outlets owned or funded by the US government are not held to the same standard.
- A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A history of West Africa from the 17th century onwards. Draws on written histories as well as archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters.
- Further Reading on the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Several book recomendations with some comments on each.
- Guiding principles for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Statement of the Ecosocialist Working Group of the DSA on their demands for a Green New Deal that combats climate change and inequality.
- Lots of Scurrying But No Revolution in Sight
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Disappointed review of a collecton of essays of women and climate change, mostly in support of reforming the status quo.
- Marx for Today: A Socialist-Feminist Reading
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In-depth look at the relationship between feminism and Marxism.
- MLK in Memphis, 1968
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at MLK's actions and speeches in Memphis and their relevance today.
- Orbán: Strong Man, Authoritarian Ideology
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of a book about Viktor Orbán's political career.
- PG&E Bankruptcy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A short news item about Pacific Gas & Electric's bankruptcy case.
- The Story of Storytelling
What the hidden relationships of ancient folktales reveal about their evolution—and our own
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, scientists have repeatedly proposed that the laws of biological evolution apply not just to bird and beast but also to creatures of the mind. Perhaps most famously, in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, the English evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the word meme to describe a "unit of cultural transmission" analogous to a biological gene.
- The Strange Career of the Second Amendment, Part II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A further look at the history of the Second Amendment. Focuses on late 19th and 20th c and disparity of the laws in regard to race.
- Turkey in 2019: An Assessment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at the current state of the Erdogan regime in Turkey as well as the hopes and challenges of what the left can accomplish.
- The UTLA Victory in Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at the bigger picture surrounding the LA teacher's strike as part of the national upsurge that began with the 2012 strike of the Chicago Teachers Union.
- Venezuela Coverage Takes Us Back to Golden Age of Lying About Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Corporate media has many stories about food and medicine shortages in Venezuela. These lies and others are debunked by someone who lives there.
- What Los Angeles Teachers Won
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A Los Angeles teacher's take on the successful strike.
- White Women and White Power
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of two books about white supremacy. Especially focused on the role of white women in white power movements.
- Who Is Responsible?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A short update on attempts to gain justice for Indigenous genocide in Guatemala in the 1980s.
- Whose "Security" -- and for What?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Editorial about how accepted "security" discourse obscures the real structural and systemic crises today.
- Women's Oppression and Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the role of Marxism in the feminist movement in India.
- UN Council: Israel Intentionally Shot Children and Journalists in Gaza
Officials say killings are part of Israel's 'obligation'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A short piece on the UN Human Rights Council report on Israel's firing on unarmed protesters.
- Debunking The Myth That Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Looks at some of the cases of Anti-Semitism and Zionism as mutually held beliefs, as well as other contradictions, to argue that Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are not the same.
- A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-1966
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of a book of the Indonesian massacres contains lengthy excerpts and summary of the history.
- Hitting nature where it hurts: Iran feels the pernicious effects of US sanctions on biodiversity conservation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Iran is home to a rich and complex array of biodiversity. Efforts to protect its biodiversity have been challenged by decades of economic sanctions and political isolation.
- Illusion or Advance? Ecosocialists debate the 'Green New Deal'
Activists from System Change Not Climate Change discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal proposal.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Activists from 'System Change Not Climate Change' discuss the strengths and weaknesses of 'Green New Deal' proposals, and how the left should respond.
- ‘It Was a Remarkably Successful Grassroots Campaign to Target Amazon’s Credibility’
CounterSpin interview with Neil deMause on Amazon's retreat from New York
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Transcript of interview with Neil deMause about NY's bid for Amazon HQ. Included downloadable MP3 of interview.
- The Rigors of Organizing: On the Road with the German Climate Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Ende Gelände, is a broad coalition of German climate resistance organizers. Members are touring the US sharing info about their tactics.
- The U.S. is funding dangerous experiments it doesn’t want you to know about
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US government is funding research into making bird flu virus highly contagious without publicly disclosing it. A number of scientists are opposed to the secrecy behind these experiments and even question their value.
- ‘We Don’t Do Propaganda’
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman's (un-aired) appearance on Tucker Carlson sparked outrage in Carlson and an opportunity to highlight how money controls the narrative in mainstream news.
- The Christian Genocide During the Ottoman Empire Sounds a Dark Warning for the Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review and discussion of The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities 1894-1924 by Benny Morris and Dror Zeevi.
- The battle of testosterone that will decide the fate of sport
The curious case of Caster Semenya
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Since the notion of “transgender athletes” appeared in the public domain – brought in by transgender tennis player Renee Richards back in 1975 – this has been the subject of never-ending controversy and debate. But now things are heading to what could be a culmination of decades-long deadlock. That is through the ongoing legal battle between South African runner Caster Semenya and the International Association of Athletics Federations. Last year, after IAAF introduced the controversial limit to testosterone levels of 5.0 nanomols per liter of blood for female athletes. Many regarded this as an attack on innocent athletes.
- Black Liberation Struggle: The Key to American Socialist Revolution
Part Two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Everybody is familiar with Marx's famous saying, in Capital, Vol. 1 (1867), that "labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded." This was more than a moral appeal against slavery. It was a statement of fact: Marx recognized that so long as half the country was dominated by slavery, workers would never be able to fight for even basic trade-union rights. The Civil War paved the way for the growth of American capitalism and the labor movement.
- Judicial Secrecy: Where Justice Goes to Die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The trend of courts imposing gag orders and press bans on judicial proceedings is a hallmark of police states and a threat to freedom and justice.
- The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Maduro, like Chavez before him, is a fairly elected leader with support from the people. Talk of his 'illegitmacy' is propaganda in service of the coup.
- 'Making this up': Study says oilsands assessments marred by weak science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The environmental impact assessments required by oil companies use such inconsistent criteria that their reports say have little reliable information about one of the most heavily industrialized landscapes in Canada.
- A Tale of Two Citations: Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and Michael Harrington's "The Other America"
Contrasting Lessons for Activists
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Looking at the forgotten, more radical aspects of Carson's "Silent Spring." Compares it with other, less radical works that were more easily co-opted by governments looking to appease new social and environmental movements.
- The Chickens Come Home to Roost ... in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
American meddling in the Middle East since 9/11 may finally be reaching a crisis as the process produces irreconcilable conflicts with allies.
- Court Throws out Energy Transfer's 'Racketeering' Claims Against Dakota Access Pipeline Opponents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An energy company that tried to bring RICO charges against Greenpeace and other people opposing their pipeline have had their case thrown out.
- The new Jewish left
In Canada, young Jews are fighting antisemitism while opposing the Israeli occupation
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Young Jewish people in North America are fighting antisemitism while opposing Israel's occupation of Palestine.
- Yiddish Glory: How a Grammy nomination sprang from a Canadian prof's chance discovery
'Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II' nominated in World Music Grammy category
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A collection of WWII era Soviet Yiddish music went from an archive to a Grammy-winning album. The collection revealed much new information about Soviet Jews.
- Beyond Corporate Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
By concentrating on corporate power we can end up looking to the state for solutions. But the only way to achieve even the moderate reforms necessary is through revolutionary mass movements.
- Greenwashing the Climate Catastrophe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many solutions to climate change such as the Green New Deal do not address the real threat to the planet: capitalism. They in fact are a smokescreen under which to conduct business as usual.
- Juan Guaidó: The Man Who Would Be President of Venezuela Doesn't Have a Constitutional Leg to Stand On
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US coup in Venezuela uses constitutional arguments to give legitimacy to Guaido's presidency. This article details how this argument is false.
- On the Front Lines of the Climate Change Movement: Mike Roselle Draws a Line
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An excerpt from the book The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank. An account of environmental activists fighting massive industries to save the environment.
- Why Ann Coulter Has Power: U.S. Politics are Authoritarian by Design
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A description of undemocratic processes in the US government - the Electoral College, gerrymandering, etc. - and how these allow a small minority to decide the leadership of the country.
- Repeat after me, protests in Venezuela good, protests in France bad!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Anti-government protests in Venezuela and France are treated differently because of the interests the respective presidents - and their opposition - represent.
- Venezuela Blitz - Part 1: Tyrants Don’t Have Free Elections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Thorough summary of support for the Venezuela coup in US and UK media with many excerpts.
- Venezuela Blitz - Part 2: Press Freedom, Sanctions And Oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Analysis of corporate coverage of Venezuela reveals: reporting on the supposed lack of free press, and rarely mentioning the US's interest in their oil and effect of sanctions on the country.
- US Media Ignore -- and Applaud -- Economic War on Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
US reporting on Venezuela fails to mention the effect economic sanctions have in Venezuela defying the work of experts in the area.
- Venezuela: The U.S.'s 68th Regime Change Disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US's sanctions and political interference in Venezuela are part of a long history of foreign meddling that brings strife to the affected country.
- Face Surveillance Is a Uniquely Dangerous Technology
CounterSpin interview with Shankar Narayan on facial recognition
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Lightly edited transcript of an interview regarding face recognition technology and how it will impact people who are already over-policed.
- The Long Goodbye of Antiwar Protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
There is a lack of real opposition - both by other governments and the public - to US-led regime changes.
- A Plague of Rats: How Years of Austerity Prompted Many Britons to Vote for Brexit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Many Britons in poor areas voted for Brexit even though they benefited financially from the EU. Though often blamed on fear of immigration it is also a result of discontent brought on by severe austerity and privatization.
- How the Murders of Journalists in the Middle East Are Brushed Aside
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Though higher-profile than most, Jamal Khashoggi was far from the first Arab journalist to be murdered in the Middle East. In his case, just like most others, cover-ups disguised as investigations may placate public outcry.
- 'Palestinian Rights Has Become an Incredibly Mainstream Issue'
CounterSpin interview with Josh Ruebner on BDS bans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Interview with Josh Ruebner about anti-BDS legislation. With downloadable MP3 of interview.
- What the Media Won't Tell You About the Venezuelan Coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Calling Venezuela's election illegitimate is false and is also a familiar tactic for US interference in a country's government.
- A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat the US Coup Attempt in Venezuela
To the People of Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An open letter to the people of Venezuela regarding the US coup and with support for how they can resist.
- Judge: Providing Water to Dying Immigrants in Desert is a Crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Activists who leave water near the US-Mexico border have been found guilty of various charges. Others in similar situations are still awaiting trial.
- The Need for a Compelling Anti-Capitalist Narrative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
To inspire people with possibility socialists need to create a vision of the world they want to create instead of just showing how bad capitalism is.
- Orphan Bachelors
Exclusion and Confession, the two slamming doors of America
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law to ban a nationality, as well as a victory for labor. Since the 1840s, whites moving to California considered the state to be for whites only and thought that any job held by a non-white was stolen from them.
- Reclaiming control of Indonesia's oceans
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Indonesian activists are building a global movement to resist the financialisation and privatisation of the world's oceans.
- Republican Estate Tax Repeal: An Effort to Avoid Ever Being Taxed
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
While Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes an important increase in the estate tax, Republicans are gearing for its complete repeal. Morris Pearl of the group Patriotic Millionaires, talks about how the Republicans’ plan would help the rich from ever being taxed.
- The Same Media That Opposed Democracy in South Africa Now Warn Against It in Israel/Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Coverage of South African apartheid in US news in the 1980s compared with coverage of Israel/Palestine today reveals similar racist bias.
- Trump's Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The US's ability to use finance as international leverage is weakening as American nationalism becomes more blatant and alienates allies.
- Without a Trace
Missing, in an age of mass displacement
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
We are entering an age of mass displacement, bearing witness to the first tentative gestures of what promises to be a titanic redistribution of the world's citizenry. More than 68 million people are currently exiled from their homes by violence, more than at any other point in recorded history.
- Media Rally Around 'Forever War' in Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A round up of some of the alarmist reporting on supposed withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
- Rivers in crisis: water theft and corruption in the Darling River system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A water crisis in New South Wales has resulted in millions of fish dying and a shortage of water in communities. Politicians blame drought while other blame corruption and the actions of big irrigators.
- Why the Anthropocene is not 'climate change' - and why that matters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Reducing our current predicament to combatting climate change, or even narrower, reducing CO2 emissions fails to show the big picture of how humans have changed the planet. To contend with the Anthropocene we need to get rid of one-dimensional thinking of climate change.
- A Liberal Elite Still Luring Us Towards the Abyss
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A recent manifesto decrying "populism and nationalism" see today's problems as coming from the abandonment of liberal ideals when they are in fact caused by extreme adherence to them.
- The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A detailed account of US-backed groups that positioned Juan Guaidó to declare himself president of Venezuela.
- Rigging the Science of GMO Ecotoxicity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Scientific article about dangers of GMO plants and techniques used by developers to disguise harms to get GMOs through testing.
- Water resources - 'The river is dying': the vast ecological cost of Brazil's mining disasters
Water resources are tapped with often reckless abandon and poor regulation. And it looks set to go on under new president.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Brazil's worst mining disaster in decades has prompted calls to create stronger regulations and enforce them with real consequences rather than small fines that often go unpaid.
- The West Failed to Learn the Most Important Lessons From the Rise and Fall of ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The attempted coup in Venezuela today is an example of imperial overreach western governments displayed in the Middle East.
- In Praise of Direct Action (and More)
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The speed with which air traffic controllers' work stoppage put an end to the government shutdown shows the power of direct action especially when it threatens capitalist profit.
- The Nine Worst Lawfare Injustices in the US and What They Tell Us About Ourselves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
"Lawfare" is when the law is weoponized and directed against a group of people declared to be an enemy. This is a brief history with nine examples.
- Kashmiris launch calendar to remember disappeared loves ones
At least 8,000 people have disappeared since 1989 according to human rights groups, leaving relatives in no-man's land
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Women whose husbands were disappeared have spent decades wondering what happened to them and fighting for justice. They and a group representing families of disappeared persons have published a calendar commemerating 12 victims.
- 'No right to make money off us that way': Woman targeted by baby product marketing after miscarriage
Go Public test reveals Motherhood Maternity not always transparent about how personal information is shared
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Information shared with companies and social media is often shared in ways that seem unethical. This is very upsetting to people who suffer miscarraiges and continue getting marketing directed at new parents.
- The US coup in Venezuela: New attempt to eradicate the Chavista Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The coup in Venezuela is the latest in a long history of US attempts to undermine and overthrow progressive governments in Latin America. American progressives must do more to stop this aggression.
- Yet Another U.S. Coup Attempt to Eradicate the Bolivarian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
History of the attempted coup in Venezuela as of January 2019.
- International undercover agents target Toronto-based digital rights group Citizen Lab
Group targeted following its reports on Israeli software used to spy on Jamal Khashoggi
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Members of the internet watchdog group Citizen Lab have been contacted by men masquerading as investors who seem to be trying to dig up dirt on them.
- Komiks from the Underground: the Radicalism of Gilbert Shelton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review and history of "Radical America Komiks," a reprint collection of underground comics from 1969.
- Venezuela: Is President Maduro 'illegitimate'? 10 facts to counter the lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Concise rebuttal of talking points used by those trying to bring about a coup in Venezuela.
- A Robust Doctrine: Break the Taboo on Odious Debts and their Repudiation
The Challenges for the European Left regarding Debt and the Banks
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An interview with Éric Toussaint, the author of The Debt System. A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation. He discusses debt, illegetimate debt and the instances in history when debts were repudiated.
- Behind the popular revolt in Sudan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Interview with journalist and former Sudanese Communist Party activist Rashid Saeed Yagoub. Amgad Fareid Eltayeb outlines the situation and background to the revolt in Sudan. Also, a solidarity statement issued by the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists.
- Attacks in Thailand's deep south: Who, why and what's next?
Burst of violence deepens concerns the situation in the conflict-hit region could deteriorate in the coming months.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Fatal attacks by Malay separatists have brought what some feel are overly punitive retaliation from Thailand's military. This could lead to a deterioration in diplomacy and more violence.
- 'Fake news' is okay if it's about #RussiaGate: Top 7 fake 'collusion' stories the media pushed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A summary of stories of Russian interference in US politics that were later retracted.
- First responder in Skripal poisoning turns out to be Britain’s most senior military nurse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Sergei and Yulia Skripal were given first aid by the British Army’s most senior nurse, who just happened to be nearby, according to a new report – adding further intrigue to the highly controversial case. The latest development in the Salisbury poisoning affair will fuel the claims of skeptics, who don’t believe the official British narrative.
- Propaganda of omission: Britain's role in Rohingya genocide absent from UK reports
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The British military supports the Myanmar army with training. While coverage of Myanmar violence against innocent Rohingya is covered the media say little about British involvement and politicians find ways to excuse it.
- 'I regret it': Hayden King on writing Ryerson University's territorial acknowledgement
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
I think that the territorial acknowledgement is by and large for non-Native people. So if we're writing a script then providing a phonetic guide for how to recite the nation's names, then it doesn't really require much work on behalf of the people who are reciting that territorial acknowledgement.
- What's the alternative to factory farms?
Book Review
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Mixed review of a collection of essays about industrial agriculture. Most of the papers point out the destructiveness of animal agriculture but neglect the wider issue of capitialism.
- Declassified Documents Now Reveal There Were Two CIA Torture Programs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Declassified documents expose new info about the CIA's detention and interrogation operations. This article looks at their history going back to MKUltra in the 1950s.
- Refugees Are in the Channel Thanks to the Actions of the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The outcome of Western military and economic interventions in the Middle East and North Africa have caused the outflow of refugees from zones of conflict.
- Breaking the Left's Gay Taboo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of Allen Young's "Left, Gay and Green: a Writer's Life" that includes much historical context and the reviewer's personal history.
- Climate Advocates Underestimate Power of Fossil Fueled Misinformation Campaigns, Say Top Researchers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The "climate countermovement" direct massive resources towards denying the reality of climate change. Climate advocates need to address their opposition's tactics to be able to combat this misinformation.
- Dances of Disinformation: the Partisan Politics of the Integrity Initiative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Integrity Initiative - a supposedly non-partisan agency aiming at dismantling state sponsored misinformation - was exposed as funded by a UK government agency to undermine the opposition. This brings into question the plausibility of an impartial or apolitical playing field.
- Mainstream Media Bias on 2020 Democratic Race Already in High Gear
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Mainstream media pundits undermine the chances of progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders despite the defeat of centrist politicians by the right.
- More than 100 First Nations could purchase the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Dozens of First Nations leaders are meeting to discuss a plan that could make them the next owners of the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline. Indigenous leaders will debate which financial model is ideal if they are able to purchase the pipeline project, which would boost the amount of oilsands bitumen shipped from Alberta to the B.C. coast. The Indian Resource Council (IRC) is optimistic it will be able to present a proposal to Ottawa to acquire the pipeline project in the coming months. The IRC represents 134 First Nations that have oil and gas resources on their land.
- Putin Asks And Trump Delivers - A List Of All The Good Things Trump Did For Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Dearest Arundhati Roy: Shahidul Alam reflects on his time in prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Bangladeshi photographer was charged with criticising his country on Facebook and spent more than 100 days behind bars. Now freed, he replies to the Indian novelist who wrote to him in jail.
- Do we fetishize indigenous people?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Although well-intentioned, Western representations of and interactions with Indigenous people can undermine their humanity.
- The FBI's police state operation against Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The allegations that Trump is a Russian agent lack credibility. The FBI's invesitigation seems more like the agency is attempting to overthrow an elected government - a threat the FBI has posed in the past.
- In the US South, anti-Confederate protesters face harassment
At least 1,728 Confederate memorials - among them 772 monuments - remained intact as of June 2018, says SPLC watchdog.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In recent years Confederate monuments have become increasingly high-profile as symbols of racism with links to extremist violence. Protests against these monuments are highly tense even when violence does not break out.
- The Persecuted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Fundamentalist Christians maintaining that they are persecuted may not make sense given the prevalence of sympathetic and Christian-owned media and businesses. Listening to a sermon reveals they see the inability to impose their views in society as persecution.
- Shedding Light on Forced Child Pregnancy and Motherhood in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2018
Research and campaigns by women's rights advocates are beginning to focus on the problem of Latin American girls who are forced to bear the children of their rapists, with the lifelong implications that entails and without the protection of public policies guaranteeing their human rights.
- Socially Polarised, Politically Paralysed
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An essay on the peculiar character of contemporary social polarisation illstrated through the discussion of Brexit.
- We The Workers: A limited documentary about labour rights groups in China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of a documentary on labour conditions in China. The docementary was filmed at great risk but the motiviations and the end product are questionable.
- "Free Trade" Is Today's Imperialism by the 1 Percent
Building alternatives to free trade must become an essential component of a more progressive US foreign policy.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Principles of "free" trade allow global North corporations to continue the colonial policies that made them their wealth. Alternatives to free trade need to shift power and wealth to the global South to create fairness and progress.
- In The Eye of the Beholder: USA History of Imprisoning Women Politicals
Part One of review and discussion of Linda G. Ford's Women Politicals in America: Jailed Dissenters from Mother Jones to Lynne Stewart
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An in-depth review of Linda Ford's "Women Politicals in America: Jailed Dissenters from Mother Jones to Lynne Stewart" (2018). The author draws on his personal experience as a journalist and organizer.
- 1919: The Year the World Was on Fire
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A sprawling take on international revolutionary events of 1919 using Emma Goldman, Bill Haywood, and John Reed as focal points.
- Updating Some U.S. Political Prisoners January 2019
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An update on political prisoners in the United States.
- Argentina's Indigenous People Fight for Land Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Indigenous people in Argentina live with the constant threat of eviction on land to which they own no title. Much of their predicament is due to colonial laws and attitudes that persist even though constitutional changes now recognize Indigenous land rights as an urgent issue. Deforestation due to expanding agriculture exacerbates this conflict.
- U.S. Newspapers Are More Than Twice As Likely to Cite Israeli Sources in Headlines Than Palestinian Ones
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A study of 50 years of news headlines on the Israel-Palestine conflict from five major American publications shows that they are biased towards the Israeli side.
- US astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson targeted by #MeToo campaign
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has become one of the most recent targets of the #MeToo campaign, the sexual witch hunt sweeping the professional middle classes in the US and beyond. Nothing that has come to light so far demonstrates that Tyson is guilty of any wrongdoing. On the contrary, the published material suggests he is the victim of a virulent strain of political and psychological hysteria.
- As Democratic Elites Reunite With Neocons, the Party's Voters Are Becoming Far More Militaristic and Pro-War Than Republicans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
As President Trump announces plans to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan Democrats have seemingly adopted a pro-war stance in greater numbers than Republicans.
- French Democracy Dead or Alive?
The Gilets Jaunes in 2019
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An overview of the Yellow Vests: their methods, demands, media coverage and summary of major events from November 2018 to January 2019.
- Legal Weed Is Great, But Black and Brown Communities Can't Be Left Behind
Marijuana legalization must bring both equity and justice for those most impacted by the War on Drugs.
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Marginalized populations that were hardest hit by the War on Drugs should be at the forefront of legalization legislation as well as recipients of the tax revenue from legalized marijuana.
- Neoliberalism: Free Market Fundamentalism or Corporate Power?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The idea of "free market fundamentalism (FMF)" omits the fact that neoliberalism requires state intervention to run, so criticism of neoliberalsm based on FMF is ahistorical and self-defeating.
- 'Not a Good Answer': Privacy Advocates Reject Democratic Proposal for 'Technological Wall' With Expanded Border Surveillance
'More surveillance' has become the default answer to far too many difficult policy questions
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Digital rights advocates called on Democratic lawmakers to expand their fight against the wall into a fight for all human and constitutional rights-instead of suggesting alternative "border security" proposals that would infringe on civil liberties.
- For Owners of Amazon’s Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Amazon's Ring security cameras have a history of lax, sloppy oversight when it comes to deciding who has access to some of the most precious, intimate data belonging to any person: a live, high-definition feed from around -and perhaps inside- their house.
- Indigenous People, the First Victims of Brazil's New Far-Right Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Anti-Indigenous sentiment in Brazil is emboldened by Bolsonaro's regime. This is leading to greater efforts by the government and agribusiness to seize Indigenous Lands.
- Meet Europe's Left Nationalists -'A momentous turn against free movement in Europe'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The rise of leaders like Sahra Wagenknecht and Jean-Luc Mélenchon marks a momentous turn against free movement in Europe-at the expense of immigrants.
- Resignations rock US civil rights institute after it strips Angela Davis of award over pro-BDS views
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Three members quit the board of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute after its controversial decision to first grant, then to rescind an award for iconic activist Angela Davis, following objections to her anti-Israel statements.
- A Tale of Two Toilets: Profiting from Necessity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
As indoor plumbing arrived in the U.S. in the 1840s and Dr. John Snow’s treatise on sewage-contaminated water causing cholera came out in 1855, the current global toilet situation cannot be attributed to lack of knowledge, technology, or resources.
- The 'Unpeople' of South Korea
Idiocy and Violence of Immigration
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Who are the ‘unpeople’ of South Korea? They are an majority of illegal migrants who lack basic rights and security and believed to deserve it according to the laws and principles under which Korean society operates.
- Catherine Rottenberg's Neoliberal Feminism
Book Review
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An interview with Catherine Rottenberg, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018).
- The Orwell quotes right-wingers never mention
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A brief look at George Orwell's revolutionary, left-wing views to counter the superficial references to "thought police" or "big brother" used in right-wing circles.
- Protesting the "slave law" in Hungary: The erosion of illiberal hegemony?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Popular protests have arisen in Hungary to oppose exploitive changes to the labor code. The government opposition has supported the protests but this could result in weakening the protests' legitimacy as a movement.
- Alliance statement: Solidarity with the popular uprising in Sudan
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First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Statement of allliance by the Aliiance of Middle Eastern Socialists for the ongoing uprising in Sudan which erupted on December 19th, 2018.
- From Academic to Assembly Line Worker: My Life of Precarity in Middle America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A non-tenured academic's story of trying to make ends meet in Indiana.
- Nicaragua: The Other Revolution Betrayed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at the current neoliberal regime in Nicaragua and how the Sandinista government failed to deliver on the promise of the 1979 Revolution.
- Shots All Around: How Four Roses Bourbon Workers Won Their Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Four Roses Bourbon Worked successfully striked over a two-tier contract proposal that would have given worse benefits to new hires.
- Who Would Believe It? Annals of the New Left Era
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of "You Say You Want a Revolution" a collection of memoirs of the Progressive Labor Party.
- Newly Released FOIA Documents Shed Light on Border Patrol’s Seemingly Limitless Authority
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
More than 1,000 pages of previously unseen Customs and Border Protection training documents, shed light on the details of the Amercian Border Patrol’s seemingly limitless authority.
- Progressive Ideas Matter to Voters. So Why Do Democrats Fixate on the Identity of the Messenger?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
There is a larger rhetorical trend toward divorcing voter preferences from ideology to focusing on identity. Wittingly or not, the effect is to undermine the obvious power of progressive ideas.
- 'Slaves of the sea'
The long-forgotten Jaladas community and their need for policy inclusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Due to socio-econimical, political, and geographical reasons, the Jaladas community has been negelected and they are vulnerable. Relevant sectoral policies enacted by the government of Bangladesh would address these issues.
- France: Yellow Jackets and labour movement at a crossroads - Social and political questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A brief look at the Yellow Vests in 2018. Though they may have their problems they provide a possiblity of change outside the electoral system.
- U.S. Senate's First Bill, in the Midst of the Shutdown, Is a Bipartisan Defense of the Israeli Government From Boycotts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
This Senate's first bill of 2019 considers giving state and local governments the power to punish companies that boycott Israel. These laws have been found to be unconstitutional but still have bipartisan support.
- Discarded Christmas trees used to restore creeks and streams, protect fish in Halton
Trees rebuild banks in creeks, streams in order to reduce warming of the water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In Halton, discarded Christmas trees are used to restore and protect wildlife in creeks and streams.
- Indonesia: 41 dead, 546 assaulted, 51 shot in agrarian conflicts under Jokowi’s watch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An explosion of agrarian conflicts between 2014 and 2018 has resulted in many casualties including 41 people killed, 546 people assaulted and 51 people shot since President Joko Widodo came to office.
- Must Writers Be Moral? Their Contracts May Require It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Publishers have been adding clauses to contracts that let them break relationships with writers who display behaviour that could damage their reputations. Many see this as a risky loophole open to abuse.
- Three big insights into our African origins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
John Hawks delivered a lecture to the American Society for Human Genetics, focusing on the African record of human origins.
- United States - DSA Two Years Later: Where Are We At? Where Are We Headed?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) had had a massive surge in membership in the last two years. Here is a look at the history of socialism in the US and the DSA's current prospects for enacting real change.
- When Your Boss Locks You Out for Nearly 6 Months and Cuts Off Your Healthcare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
When energy company National Grid locked out its workers during contract negotiations, workers workers had to struggle with loss of income and health insurance. Workers as well as legislators see this as an unfair bargaining tactic.
- Why Should My Newspaper Pledge Not to Boycott Israel?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
An editorial by the publisher of an Arkansas newspaper expected to sign a pledge promising to not boycott Israel in exchange for the ability to sell advertising.
- Old Mother Forest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A poignant look at the ecosystem of a rainforest from a conservationist in India.
- U.S.A : How Federal Workers Could Fight the Shutdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Federal workers have dealt with low pay, degraded working conditions, and repeated employer lockouts. If they want to improve their conditions, they'll have to organize.
- Anti-Semitism & Me Too complaints challenge freedom of debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Apocalypse of Our Times
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of Gerald Horne's "Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism," a look at the 17th century origins of the slave trade.
- As Long as Grass Grows
The Indigenous Struggle for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A call to action on behalf of indigenous environmental justice that is deeply grounded in the histories and legacies of settler colonialism and the nonnative environmental movement. Understanding this past, the author believes, is fundamental to reshaping the future.
- BDS: Repression and Progress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Short piece about recent BDS actions and attempts to censor pro-Palestinian protest.
- Bolivia's coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Breaking the Impasse
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of Cracks in the Wall by Ben White, a hopeful book about weakening pro-Zionism in public consensus.
- Capitalism and Disability: Selected writings by Marta Russell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.
- Class War on New Ground
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of Kim Moody's New Terrain, a book looking at how capitalism has changed and how left wing organizing must adapt.
- Colorblind Law -- NOT
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Positive review of Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. It looks at the history of how states circumvented federal desegregation laws.
- Disciplined for Acting with Integrity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The smear campaign against two profs at University of Michigan participating in BDS harks back to McCarthyist attempts to silence the left at that same institution.
- Easy Chair: Lefty Lingo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On contemporary vernacular categorized as left-wing and its tendency towards exclusion.
- Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness. Family Farmers and the Battle for the Future of Food
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests.
- The economic Anschluss of the GDR
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- The Emergence of Ecosocialism
Collected Essays by Joel Kovel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Europe's Political Turmoil -- Part II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Could the rise of the far right across Europe actually lead to establishing fascist regimes? Overemphasis on this fear may divert attention from where it is needed.
- Father Greg: A Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A biography of Fr. Greg MacLeod, noted for his work on community economic development on Cape Breton Island.
- The FBI in Ecuador
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of a book detailing the FBI's actions in Latin America throughout the 20th century.
- Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Self-government, or 'municipalism', is changing politics all over the world. This is a guide to winning back our towns and cities from below with real radical policies happening now; practical organizing strategies and tools; and profiles of 50 pioneering municipalist platforms from around the world.
- The Forest for the Trees
Reducing Drug and Mental Health Harms in the Inner City of Winnipeg
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
15 Annual State of the Inner City report.
- Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Gaza Fights for Freedom
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.
- Global business of bytes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- GM Closures -- What's Next?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Plant closures by GM in the US, Canada and internationally threaten workers and communities. Can unions fight to stop this destructive practice?
- Grenfell's untold story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Nancy Gruber, 1930-2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Obituary of radical activist Nancy Gruber.
- History in the Age of Abundance?
How the Web is Transforming Historical Research
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Ian Milligan argues that web-based historical sources and their archives present extraordinary opportunities as well as daunting technical and ethical challenges for historians. Through case studies, he outlines the approaches, methods, tools, and search functions that can help a historian turn web documents into historical sources.
- Holocaust to Resistance
My journey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A memoir by Suzanne Berliner Weiss, a holocaust survivor born in France, who came to North America and was active in radical causes in the United States and Canada.
- Honeyland
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Delves into the life of Hatidze, a beekeeper in North Macedonia utilizing traditional methods of cultivation. However, new neighbors arrive and cause harm to the area. The film explores the link between survival, commercialization, and the environment.
- How the World Works
The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In How the World Works, Cockshott connects scientific, economic, and societal strands to produce a sweeping and detailed work of historical analysis.
- I Accuse!
Herewith a proof beyond reasonable doubt that ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda whitewashed Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
This finely-honed indictment by a writer widely acknowledged for his forensic skills is directed at Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. It sets out how she defiled her office by refusing to investigate credible allegations of Israeli criminality.
- In Defense of Julian Assange
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A wide range of distinguished contributors, many of them in original pieces, here set out the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the importance of their work, and the dangers for us all in the persecution they face. In Defense of Julian Assange is a vivid, vital intervention into one of the most important political issues of our day.
- Invisible Generations
Living between Indigenous and White in the Fraser Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Historian Jean Barman narrates the story of a family of mixed Indigenous and white descent and the prejudice they faced in BC -- a long-ignored aspect of the province's history.
- A Jagged Scrap of history
On the Shining Path
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the history of "The Shining Path", a Maoist guerilla group and its political impact on Peru.
- Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Journalists and journalistic organizations around the globe, express their grave concern for Julian Assange's wellbeing, for his continued detention and for the draconian espionage charges.
- The K-12 Takeover
Big Philanthrophy's bid to privatize education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the effects of the implementation of the charter school system in New Orleans.
- Law's disorder in Nigeria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Lebanon: the right to know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- A Left for Itself
Left-Wing Hobbyists and Performative Radicalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
David Swift argues that the left is dominated by what he terms hobbyists and performative radicals.
- Life After Life
Why parole in America is just another prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the ineffectiveness of the US criminal-justice system's parole arm for paroled people who have been sentenced to life in prison.
- Life Itself is an Art
The life and work of Erich Fromm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Magnificent FIght: the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In Magnificent Fight, Dennis Lewycky lays out the history of this iconic event, which remains the biggest and longest strike in Canadian history. He analyzes the social, political and economic conditions leading up to the strike.
- Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban revolution. Using extensive examples, including pre-revolutionary historic coverage, journalist Keith Bolender reveals how the national press has established an anti-Cuba chronicle in adherence to Washington's unrelenting regime change policies.
- David McReynolds, 1928-2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Obituary and memoir of leftist activist David McReynolds.
- Men at Work
Is there a masculine cure for toxic masculinity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On the "EvryMan" men's group and its retreats supposedly designed to cure toxic masculinity.
- The Menace of Right "Populism"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Editorial about Trump and right-wing regimes world-wide and the opportunities for left-wing organizing.
- Mighty Moe
The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The story of how 13-year-old Maureen Wilton set a women's world record in the marathon at a time when most of the sports world was antagonistic to the idea of women and girls competing in distance running.
- Miriam Garfinkle Social Justice Fund
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The Miriam Garfinkle Social Justice Fund was established to honour Miriam Garfinkle's lifetime of work for social justice. Its mission is to support projects and initiatives which aim to change the world in large ways and small, with the ultimate goal of building a world based on justice and community where people live in harmony with the planet.
The Miriam Garfinkle Social Justice Fund prioritizes grassroots initiatives, with special emphasis on projects designed to raise awareness and stimulate organizing and action.
- My Gang is Jesus
Brazil's evangelicals face the temptations of the drug trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Examines the use of religion by gang members as a source of community and support; highlighting the complex relationship between gang culture and religion.
- Nationalism, Patriotism, Hate Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A look at the (mis)use of the word "nationalism" to describe Trump and white supremacists.
- The Nature of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A collection of essays, photos, and illustrations, exploring how humans have engaged with Canadian nature and what those interactions say about the nature of Canada.
- No, Iran Does Not Break The Nuclear Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
On May 8 2018 the United States broke the JCPOA when it reimposed sanctions on Iran. Iran can not "break" a deal that the U.S. already broke. The JCPOA clearly states that Iran would take this step if and when the U.S. breaches the agreement by imposing new sanctions. That Iran is now exceeding one of the limits JCPOA sets out is not in breach of the agreement but in adherence to its letters.
- Our Movement, Our Lives
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of a history of the Black Lives Matter movement, both nationally and locally.
- Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Although Soave may not personally agree with their motivations and goals, he takes their ideas seriously, approaching his interviews with a mixture of respect and healthy skepticism. The result is a faithful cross-section of today's radical youth, which will appeal to libertarians, conservatives, centrist liberals, and anyone who is alarmed by the trampling of free speech and due process in the name of social justice.
- Party for the Revolution
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of Crowds and Party by Jodi Dean, a philosophical look at the crowd and the individual in revolutionary action.
- The Peking University Marxist Society and Student Activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Their report on the living and working conditions of university staff approaches Mao's suggestion that 'knowledge of any kind is inseparable from direct experience' when it states that 'it is only through practice that you can produce genuine knowledge.'
- Permanent Record
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Pure: Ten Points I Just Can’t Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Radical Ambition
The New Left in Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The story of Toronto's New Left from its initial stirrings in the late 1950s to its 'long, ambiguous goodbye in the early 1980s.
- Red Round Globe Hot Burning
A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Resistance Matters
The Radical Vision of an Antipsychiatry Activist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Don Weitz writes "Antipsychiatry organizing saved my life once, and has always given it meaning. This book is an invitation to join me and other psychiatric survivors (and our allies) in exposing psychiatry’s coercive, life-destroying practices and utter lack of scientific validity; and creating and promoting life-affirming alternatives."
- A Revolutionary Detroit Memoir
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Review of autobiographical memoir of a white, working-class, Catholic woman who became involved in Black activisim.
- Russia and the patriarchal code
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Sard's Permanent War Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A long biographical essay on Edward Sard who founded the theory of "permanent war economy."
- Sister Language
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Sister Language is a collaboration, composed mainly of letters and other writings, between two sisters, one of whom, Christina, is schizophrenic.
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2018
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Sources News Release Archive 2019
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
News releases from 2019.
- Still Lonely on the Right
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
A review of 3 books about Black Republicans.
- The Strange Career of the Second Amendment -- Part I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Detailed analysis of the Second Amendment and different perceptions of gun rights in US history.
- Ukraine on Fire: The Real Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injustice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.
- Unconditional support for Israel is unconditional support for injustice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Like tens of thousands of Jews worldwide, we oppose Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and its regime of violence, intimidation and incarceration aimed at the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. We challenge those who offer unconditional support for Israel to ask themselves if they would support the same violations of human rights and international law anywhere else in the world. We affirm that our criticism of Israel comes from an embrace of both Jewish and universal humanitarian values and has no relation whatsoever to antisemitism.
- Unearthing Justice
How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Brimming with case studies, anecdotes, resources, and illustrations, Unearthing Justice exposes the mining process and its externalized impacts on the environment, Indigenous Peoples, communities, workers, and governments. But, most importantly, the book shows how people are fighting back.
- US Trotskyism 1928-1965 Part I: Emergence
Left Opposition in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The first in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1928 to 1940, surveying labour struggles, contributions to the study of history and Marxist theory, and confrontations and convergences among left currents.
- US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part II: Endurance
The Coming American Revolution. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The second in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1941 to 1956, surveying the Second World War, the post-war strike wave, ongoing struggles against racism, and more.
- US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part III: Resurgence
Uneven and Combined Development.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
The third in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1954 to 1965, surveying the Cold War era, the Black liberation struggle, the "third wave" of feminism, and more.
- Water as a Form of Social Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Whether in Palestine or Detroit, restricting access to water is a tactic used to deprive populations of personal and social agency with dire consequences to health.
- What Black Life Actually Looks Like
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In the age of Black Lives Matter protests, many activists and academics seem unable to see the complexity of black life beyond the barricades, or outside the frame of the latest viral video killing of a black civilian.
- Who funded the ISO? An analysis of the financial basis of pseudo-left politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
- Why the US Puppet President of Venezuela is Toast
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
In the alternative universe of corporate media, which ignores the economic war being waged against Venezuela, Reuters bemoans that the “crackdown” on Guaidó’s agents has failed to receive “significant retaliation from the international community.” In reality, Venezuela has massively suffered from the US-orchestrated punishments for resisting reverting to the status of a client state.
- The Yaniv scandal is the end-product of trans activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Does inclusivity mean the Canadian state should compel women to handle a penis?
- The Deportation Racket
Con artists are preying on undocumented immigrants in detention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Published: 2019
Undocumented immigrants have long been targeted by swindlers who promise shortcuts through the labyrinthine corridors of immigration law. What happened to Duran is most commonly called notario fraud, a catchall term that refers to a scam in which an individual misrepresents his or her qualifications to handle immigration work.
- CLR James rejected the posturing of identity politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
C.L.R. James railed against the superficial nonsense that masquerades as 'anti-racism.'
- 75 Years Ago, the Battle of Stalingrad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The impact of the Battle of Stalingrad was enormous. In Germany, the public was henceforth painfully aware that their country was heading towards an ignominious defeat, and countless people who had previously supported the Nazi regime now turned against it.
- Quebec prosecuting nearly 100 crane operators for 'illegal' 2018 strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Nearly 100 crane operators in Quebec are facing criminal prosecution for having participated in an "illegal" wildcat strike in June 2018.
- Venezuela: US Imperialism Is Based On Lies And Threats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
First-hand report of a delegation to Venezuela from the US. They say the coup is weak and the Venezuelan people are strong and Maduro has their support.
- "Embodied Materialism" and Ecosocialism
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Detailed chapter-by-chapter review of Ariel Salleh's Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern.
- Not My Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Women's March is not immune to the same forces that have confronted the political left in the U.S. for decades. The larger women's movement itself, that sprang from the antiwar movement and civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, carried flaws along with its development that are not new to left political movements in the U.S.
- Media Panic Over the Stock Market Plunge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The media continue to be in a panic over the drop in the stock market over the last few weeks. Fortunately for political pundits, there is no expectation that they have any clue about the subjects on which they opine. For those more interested in economics than hysterics, the drop in the market is not a big deal.
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2018
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Worse than Obsolete: NATO Creates Enemies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Twenty years' worth of "unintended" or "collateral" damage hasn't created friends in the war zones.
- 'This is a big bird': Wild turkey in Christie Pits is a neighbourhood favourite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- The US war on China's economic model
The growing hostility of Western governments to China is more about the interests of Western investors than legitimate security fears
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
China poses no military threat to the US but is still considered a top threat to the US. Although this perceived threat is economic that may not stop the US from military intervention.
- Water Wars: El Salvador Social Movements Resist Water Privatization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the efforts of Salvadoran social movements which have unified in an urgent effort to counter the right-wing's most recent push to privatize El Salvador's scarce water resources.
- Irony alert: Firm that warned Americans of Russian bots...was running an army of fake Russian bots
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The co-founders of cybersecurity firm New Knowledge warned Americans in November to "remain vigilant" in the face of "Russian efforts" to meddle in US elections. This month, they have been exposed for doing just that themselves.
- Islamic State in Ukraine: A Christmas present from the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The report in British newspaper the Times, that Chechen Islamists, many reeling from defeat in Syria and Iraq amongst the alphabet soup of fanaticism, had indeed arrived at the war front in eastern Ukraine, woke me up from any Christmas torpor.
- Organ theft, staged attacks: UN panel details White Helmets' criminal activities, media yawns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- No matter how it appears, Trump isn't getting out of Syria and Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Trump's plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Syria don't reflect a large change in US foreign policy. US troops are only a small part of the forces currently deployed there and they will probably be replaced with mercenaries paid for by oil monarchies.
- Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Article examines root causes and socioeconomics dimension of police violence, with particular stress on the importance of class.
- Alice Walker's Conspiracy Theories Aren't Just Anti-Semitic - They're Anti-Black
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
White supremacy relies on different stereotypes of Black and Jewish people. Alice Walker's adoption of anti-semitic conspiracy theories points to the need for solidarity between the Black and Jewish communities - which are not mutually exclusive.
- The Case that Dare Not Speak Its Name: the Conviction of Cardinal Pell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Cardinal Pell, a high-ranking official of the Catholic Church and financial grand wizard of the Vatican, was found guilty on December 11, 2018 of historical child sexual abuses pertaining to two choir boys from the 1990s. But details remain sketchy.
- The ignorant, repressive attack on Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Frank Loesser's 1944 song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and the social forces which have aggressively pushed the new 'Puritanism' that seeks to have the song banned.
- Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not Hopeless
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Discusses how even though issues such as the Dakota Access Pipeline have received lots of public attention people are unaware of how Indigenous dispossession is deeply ingrained in the fabric of the US.
- Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not Hopeless
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A discussion of Stephanie Woodard's book "American Apartheid: The Native Struggle for Self-Determination and Inclusion" and looking at how present-day colonial practices impact Native people in the US.
- Marc Lamont Hill's Detractors are the True Anti-Semites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Temple University's administration announced the unsurprising news that it has found no grounds to punish or investigate Professor Marc Lamont Hill for his speech on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Yet, the university's Board of Trustees felt compelled, nonetheless, to issue a statement further maligning Dr Hill, albeit indirectly this time.
- Viktor Orban, Trump and the Populist Battle Over Public Space
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Hungarian legislation and the turmoil caused by Trump's moral equivalencies reveal how politicized space is not a distracting side effect of populist politics; rather, public space treated as a symbol of national identity is a defining characteristic of populism.
- The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Google's encroaching powers over our lives, to include the freedom of expression protected by most national laws, not to mention EU and UN Charters, around the planet today.
- "Alexa, Drop a Bomb": Amazon Wants in on US Warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at US comapany Amazon and its involvement with the US military in creating an artificial 'brain' called JEDI. It demonstrates a new level of US determination for global domination, and would represent the creation of a weapon that would dramatically up the level of global military rivalry and ensure more human conflict.
- The "Gilets Jaunes" Seen From My Workplace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Due to the insular and ambiguous nature of social media, the Yellow Vests movement may spark political unrest but probably won't lead to real social revolution.
- Israeli army razes home of prominent Palestinian activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Israeli army has demolished a residential building owned by a prominent Palestinian activist, whose six sons have been imprisoned by Israel. The building, owned by Latifa Abu Hmeid, is located in the Amari refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
- Central Europe and Central America: Will there be a historical convergence?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Industrial accident claims three lives in Leduc, Alberta
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the troubling indifference to the alarming statistics on worker fatalities, and the lax occupational health and safety regulations that are designed to protect employers and permit the further expansion of company profits.
- Something New for Revolutionary Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Kristin Ross's provocative article on the “The Long 1960s and 'The Wind from the West.'"
- The Troubling Link Between Attacks on Immigrants and Repression of Labor
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the targeting of immigrants and its connection to attacks on labour movements, and how it leads to disturbing increases in violations of civil liberties.
- Israel rolls out the welcome mat for Europe's neo-fascists
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The recent visit to Israel of a dominant figure in Italy's right-wing coalition government, is the latest in an increasingly open alliance between the Israeli state and resurgent forces of the far-right and neo-fascism in Europe.
- Left-Wing Disaster Relief Efforts Spread Goodwill for Socialism
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at some of the disaster relief initiatives by left-wing groups in the United States, as well as the disconnect that seems to underscore a number of issues with the state's disaster relief efforts.
- Truckers Spend the Holidays Driving Too Much for Too Little Pay
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the diminishing compensation provided to truck drivers, and why the trucking corporations get away with paying so little.
- Uber? Taxis? Or Plan C? How to Get Ride Hailing Right
BC could show the world a non-profit model that beats oligopolies
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at 'ride-hailing' and why it should be run on a non-profit basis as a co-op or other non-profit model.
- Huawei executive's arrest provokes anti-US protests in China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The arrest of a Huawei executive in Canada has led to a wave of anger in China, in a move perceived to undermine China's increasingly dominant position in advanced technology. On Chinese social media comments denounce the arrest and call for the executive's immediate release as well as a boycott of Canadian brands.
- Québec solidaire reviews the election and maps campaign on climate crisis
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Meeting in Montréal December 7-9, 2018, Québec Solidaire reviewed elections results, adopted a proposal to prioritize the issue of climate crisis, and held a discussion on how to prepare an internal debate on "secularism and religious signs."
- Tale of two uprisings: Ukraine's Maidan got McCain & cookies, French Yellow Vests get shunned
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Unlike the 2014 Ukraine uprising, which witnessed invasive meddling on the part of US politicians and diplomats, Western support for the French Yellow Vest protests has been conspicuously missing in action.
- Time magazine honors journalists facing repression - but snubs Julian Assange
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' award for 2018, which did not list any journalist who exposed state secrets or government misconduct in the United States, nor whistleblowers from Israel, Egypt, India or any of the NATO countries.
- Want to Fix Foster Care? Ask Kids Who Have Been Through the System
Innovative report co-researched by youth from care focuses on importance of relationships
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A report called Relationships Matter for Youth "Aging Out" of Care, co-researched by youth from care, focuses on what truly matters to the young people who are in the system and notably on the importance of building relationships.
- What the Attack on Marc Lamont Hill Tells Us
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Destruction is the Zionists' strategic goal and the attack on Marc Lamont Hill and others like him is dictated by the tactics they have chosen to use toward that end.
- Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alike
White supremacy and Hindu nationalism have common roots going back to the 19th-century idea of the 'Aryan race'.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Many members of the so-called "alt-right" - a loosely knit coalition of populists, white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis - turned to India to find historic and current justifications for their racist, xenophobic and divisive views.
- Blacking Out the Yellow Vests on Cable News: Corporate Media Doing its Job
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
France is experiencing a left-leaning popular and working-class uprising consistent with the French revolutionary tradition of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity", yet the majorty of Western media have given very little investigation or serious attention to the momentous events.
- Climate justice and migration in the media
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A climate justice narrative is needed to communicate and enhance public understanding of migration induced by climate change. Key components must include human rights protection, greater equity in burdens sharing, and participation in decision-making processes.
- Siloed Thinking, Climate, and Disposable People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Judith Deutch takes a look at the human side of the climate disaster and the constricted way of thinking about it, as even those who do recognize anthropogenic climate change still do not examine a range of critical interactions.
- A very British coup: The spies who went out to the cold
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Former British MP George Galloway comments on the revelation that subcontracted work from MI5 and MI6 targeted not only Russia but also smeared British politicians whom they perceived to be "pro-Russian"; those smeared include not only himself but Jeremy Corbyn and others in his party.
- Washington using legal cover to conceal economic banditry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The arrest of a Chinese telecom executive in Canada on behalf of the US is an abuse of the legal process and international law to pursue American economic interests. China's anger resonates with similar grievances against the US felt by Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and even American allies in Europe.
- William Blum: Anti-Imperial Advocate
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The late William Blum, former computer programmer in the US State Department and initial enthusiast for US moral crusades, who died December 2018, gave us various exemplars of this counter-insurgent scholarship. His compilation of foreign policy ills in Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, was written with the US as sole surveyor of the land, all powerful and dangerously uncontained.
- Climate litigation looms
Interview
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Nick Breeze interviews Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), who explains why we must stay below 1.5C, and why loss and damage compensation, and litigation, are the next big agenda items at COP24.
- 'If I don't come back, call my lawyer': Practical solidarity for people
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A recommendation of practical steps to help people facing the threat of detention, and the importance of standing in solidarity with others who are dealing with a hostile environment.
- Foreign Interventions in Revolutionary Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
All over Europe, the First World War had brought about a potentially revolutionary situation as early as 1917. In countries where the authorities continued to represent the traditional elite, exactly as had been the case in 1914, they aimed to prevent the realization of this potential by means of repression, concessions, or both.
- Here's how we stopped a brutal, inhumane and barely legal charter flight
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Helen Brewer describes how she, and 14 other activists, broke into Stansted Airport on the 28th of March 2017, and blocked a mass deportation charter flight due to send 60 people to Nigeria and Ghana -- a forced removal which threatened to place migrants in extreme danger.
- 100th Anniversary of 1918 Australian & New Zealand Surafend Massacre Of Palestinians
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look back at the premeditated massacre of male Palestinian villagers by Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the village of Surafend and a nearby Bedouin camp, which took place on December 10, 1918. The massacre has been largely ignored but serves as an allegory of settler colonialism.
- Stansted 15: British Activists Who Stopped Deportation Charter Flight Convicted of Terrorism Charge
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at a group of fifteen activists who prevented a deportation charter flight from leaving Stansted airport in the UK by securing themselves around the aeroplane, and were subsequently found guilty of a terrorist offence.
- Unions Should Go Big on a Green New Deal for Canada
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Canada's unions need to play a much larger leadership role on climate change, not just because it deals with economic policies directly affecting members but also because it will be difficult to get where we need to go without them.
- William Blum, Renowned U.S. Foreign Policy Critic, Dead at 85
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for William Blum with biographical information and links to his work.
- Ethics and Whistleblowing for Engineers Affects Us All
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Some engineering professors worry that their students' busy course schedules prevents them from adequately exploring the liberal arts. Without exposure to the liberal arts, engineering students will lack the broad context that will help them approach their work as a profession, not just a trade.
- Linking class and gender theory
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A detailed review of "Social Reproduction Theory" an essay collection edited by Tithi Bhattacharya. Contributors include Nancy Fraser, Salar Mohandesi and Emma Teitelman, Susan Ferguson, Carman Teeple Hopkins, Serap Saritas Oran and Alan Sears.
- She's Planting the Seeds of Indigenous Food Sovereignty
How Jessie Housty feeds the growth of her Heiltsuk culture and community
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the efforts of Jessie Housty, an Indigenous woman from British Columbia, who is helping to change the diet of her community that is overwhelmingly dominated by industrial food products.
- Canadian Jewish News: Promoter of Terror Tourism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What should we make of a media outlet that praises those who join or give money to a foreign army, which occupies territory belonging to another people, terrorizes the local population by destroying houses, restricting their movement, subjecting them to military courts and shooting unarmed protestors? What should we call the Canadian Jewish News, an unfailing flatterer of Canadians who join or finance a military subjugating Palestinians? Would “promoter of terror tourism” be an appropriate description?
- A Killer Dies, a Teacher Lives: George H.W. Bush v. Noam Chomsky
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The obsequious praise of the life and legacy of the now deceased mad-dog killer George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) contradict the reality of his actions during his life and presidency.
- Climate Jobs for All
Building Block for the Green New Deal
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This article discusses the federal jobs guarantee (JG) concept which is also known as "jobs for all." The advocates of JG generally include climate protection as one of many types of work beneficial to the public that might be included in a jobs guarantee program.
- Climate Jobs for All
Building Block for the Green New Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A federal climate jobs guarantee (CJG) is a proposed program similar to the New Deal's WPA that would prioritize jobs that protect and improve the environment. Polls show that the program has popular support and could be a major political force in 2020.
- Israeli spyware being used to monitor Indonesian LGBT community, religious minorities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the company and spyware product that is used by various institutions to monitor the activities of the LGBT community and religious minority groups in Indonesia.
- On the nature of change
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The first in a series of articles exploring how dialectical systems thinking can direct change making. The 'On the Nature of Change' series will have three clear sections: 'The Philosophers' will examine a philosophical theory of change, and how this has developed and evolved over time. The second, 'Interpreting the World', and will apply this theory to three fundamental areas: the self, the team, society. Lastyly, 'Changing the World', will present clear ways in which this theory of change can be practically applied.
- Revolution in Ukraine? Yes, please! Revolution in France? Rule of law!
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Western media coverage has differed with reports describing French protesters as rioters, while Ukrainian protesters were described as revolutionaries. The contrasting reaction has prompted many to ask: If a so-called revolution is allowed to happen in Ukraine, why not in France?
- Preservation Acts
Toward an ethical archive of the web
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
But they began to wonder what it meant to take an ephemeral object -- destined, after days and weeks, to sink to the bottom of an ever-shifting pile -- and render it permanent. It wasn't hard to see how an archive of civil disobedience could become a tool of government surveillance.
- The Vanishing
The plight of Christians in an age of intolerance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the summer of 2014, the Islamic State occupied Christian cities and villages across northern Iraq, appropriated Christian homes, and destroyed farms of Christian families. When Islamic State commanders separated men from women and imposed jizyah, or extortion taxes, their purpose was extreme: they meant to subjugate the Christians or drive them away from the land.
- Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession. American teenagers and young adults are having less sex.
- Women in the Black Panther Party
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While much that has been written about the Black Panther Party (BPP) is focused on the role of certain prominent male leaders, lesser known is that during peak membership women made up nearly two-thirds of the party. Leela Yellessety spoke to three authors of recent books that highlight the contribution of women in the Black Panther Party.
- Manifesto of Indian Farmers
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Adopted by an assembly representing the farmers of India, the manifesto outlines Indian farmers convictions, principals, concerns, rights and calls on the parliament of India to hold a Special Session to address the agrarian crisis by passing and enacting the two Kisan Mukti Bills and address additional demands.
- Remembering the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look back at the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919, where British colonial forces opened fire on peaceful Indian protesters. The massacre stands as a pivotal moment in Indian history that laid bare the true face of British Imperialism.
- The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the reporting of 'fake news' by the BBC, which has no legal obligation to give its audience any information about its sources and seemingly has legal protection from scrutiny.
- Pakistan's blasphemy laws – The Supreme Court, Asia Bibi and the laws' historical background
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A description of a blasphemy case in Pakistan. Also includes a history of blasphemy laws going back to British India.
- 'A Turtle is Worth More Alive Than Dead'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Various participants at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Kenya discuss ways they can sustainably economically benefit from the local environment.
- Alberta has only itself to blame for bitumen problems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The article explains why Alberta has primarily itself to blame for the low price of its bitumen, a situation built on years of mismanagement in government and poor industry advice.
- The Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Bernard Harcourt argues in his recent book "The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens" that the same counterinsurgency paradigm of warfare used against post-9/11 enemies has now come to the US as the effective governing strategy.
- The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Various companies and government agencies aim to use technology that measures biological features such as facial expressions or tone of voice to assess individuals, such as refugee claimants or potential employees, for 'risk'. Many critics say the science behind this is dubious and can hide cultural bias under a blanket of objectivity.
- Disagreement is not hatred
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An essay on the transgender debate which argues that debate ends when we label views we simply disagree with as 'hatred''.
- Oil Industry Cleanup Costs Vastly Exceed Alberta Government’s Estimates
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Transcript of interview with Regan Boychuk of Reclaim Alberta on the cost to clean up after Alberta's tar sand industry.
- Climate Change Drives Up Rural Poverty in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Latin America and the Caribbean region's first meeting of Week of Agriculture and Food, held in November 2018, more than 1,000 officials and experts agreed that the fall in agricultural yields and increasing migration from the countryside are consequences of global warming.
- Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the Extinction Rebellion, an international movement that calls for peaceful mass economic disruption around the world in order to bring awareness to the growing environmental crisis.
- Made-in-China fake news overwhelms Taiwan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Since 2016, when Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected as Taiwan's president relations between Taiwan and China have been increasingly strained. In parallel, a series of fake news campaigns have captured Taiwanese media, with experts tracing several of these stories back to China.
- Afghanistan is Collapsing. Get Out: Now!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the disastrous results of US and NATO intervention in Afghanistan, a conflict which has little to do with eliminating international terrorism.
- Air pollution now 'largest health crisis'
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The WHO estimates that seven million premature deaths are linked to air pollution every year, of which nearly 600,000 are children who are uniquely vulnerable.
- Alberta's Problem Isn't Pipelines; It's Bad Policy Decisions
Bitumen prices are low because the province has ignored at least a decade of warnings.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A 2007 Alberta government report indicates that the provincial government has been aware for more than a decade that its oilsands policies were setting the stage for today's price crisis.
- Dunlop Factory (South Africa): The workers who won't snitch
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Metalworker union Numsa files legal arguments in the Constitutional Court on on behalf of Dunlop factory workers from Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, after workers were dismissed because they did not snitch on fellow workers during a protected strike.
- Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A brief look back at the life and work of world reknowned linguist, philospher and social activist Noam Chomsky, who turns 90 on December 7, 2018.
- Thankstaking in the Trumpfederacy: Terminate the Tribe That Aided the Pilgrims
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the hostile climate that exists under the Trump Administration for America's first peoples. The article looks at the further erosion treaties and protective laws, and the belief among indigenous communities that the administration's policy is a return to 'termination'.
- Twitter closes down my account for 'hateful conduct'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Several Twitter accounts with pro-Palestinian content have been suspended. At the same time those making explicit threats against them have been found not to violate Twitter's terms of service.
- When the BBC did fake news
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The BBC recently aired a series on disinformation and fake news which made it seem like a problem reserved for non-British/non-European locales. The author looks at the BBC's role in the 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected government.
- After Visiting Brazil's Lula in Prison, Noam Chomsky Warns Against "Disaster" Under Jair Bolsonaro
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An interview with Noam Chomsky about newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil. Politically the election marks a dramatic shift to the right for the country which Chomsky describes as a disaster for Brazil. The article includes a link to the interview on video.
- Facing the left-wing challenge in the European Union - Ten proposals
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The left could bring radical change if they could prove themselves capable to people in the Eurozone dissatisfied with austerity measures. Here are ten proposals for social mobilization and actions to be taken by any government that is truly operating in the interests of the people.
- "It's Killing the Student Movement": Canary Mission's Blacklist of Pro-Palestine Activists Is Taking a Toll
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Canary Mission, a website that compiles dossiers on Palestinian rights advocates and labels them racists, anti-Semites, and supporters of terrorism has taken a toll on activists' mental health and their ability to engage in free speech and public advocacy on Palestine.
- Noam Chomsky: Moral Depravity Defines US Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An interview with Noam Chomsky where he discusses the political parties' lack of focus on crucial issues. Though made hopeful by young progessive candidates winning in the midterms, electoral politics should not be the focus for radical political change.
- Trump's Amoral Saudi Statement Is a Pure Expression of Decades-Old 'U.S. Values' and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Donald Trump's statement that the US would continue business and diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi may be blunter than people are used to but it is standard operating procedure of American policy.
- US bombs continue to kill in Laos 50 years after Vietnam War
US dropped two million tonnes of bombs on Laos at height of Vietnam War. Why are cluster munitions still killing?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the problem of unexploded US bombs in Laos which have killed tens of thousands of people since the end of the war, and continue to kill and maim dozens annually.
- You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A collection of memoirs from people who were part of Progressive Labor Party in the United States in the 1960s.
- Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Analysis of the 1930s Dust Bowl as the result of capitalism and US imperialism. Also looks at what we can learn from it for today's climate crisis.
- Herbicides undermine antibiotics, threaten medical care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A New Zealand study adds to the body of evidence that industrial herbicides, not intended to be antibiotics, can have profound effects on bacteria, with potentially negative implications for medicine's ability to treat infectious diseases.
- New maps of land destruction show why caravans flee Central America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A new map developed at the University of Cincinnati illustrates the extent of worldwide land degradation, including the deforestation that is now forcing migrants to leave Guatemala and Honduras.
- 'Time is Running Out,' American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In 1965 the president of the American Petroleum Institute discussed the effect of CO2 in the changing the atmosphere and the role specifically of the petroleum industry in causing climate change. More than 50 years later the science on this has become stronger but messaging from the industry has softened.
- Why (Mostly) Men Trophy Hunt: a Biocultural Explanation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of several studies offering insights into the biological basis of human behavior, specifically trophy hunting, and the biologically responsive strategies for changing it.
- Women-Led Radio Station Amplifies Voices of Indigenous Communities in Argentina
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the late 1990s several Indigenous women founded a radio station which continues to broadcast. It resists cultural subjugation and provides a voice to Indigenous people.
- Approaching Development: GMO Propaganda and Neoliberalism vs Localisation and Agroecology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the pro GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) lobby and the reasons why they are pushing GMO technology. The article looks towards agroecology as a better means of achieving genuine food sovereignty.
- It's Time for America to Reckon With the Staggering Death Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Researchers strive to count the casualties of American wars but are faced by a lack of political and military accountability and a seemingly apathetic public.
- Welcome to Arivaca: Where residents want anti-migrant militia out'
Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Many in this Arizona border town want armed vigilantes, who've vowed to round up undocumented migrants, to leave.
- Why is Inclusive Mosque so Afraid of Secularism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Secularism is merely a framework that separates religion from the state to ensure that religion cannot influence the state and public policy and impose itself on private lives. After all, not everyone in a given society is a believer and even if they are, they don’t usually want the state to tell them how to believe. Only a secular framework can ensure the equal rights of all citizens before the law and not different rights for different categories of communalised groups. It is only a secular framework that can ensure one law for all via changeable laws made by people versus unchangeable ‘divine’ laws imposed by clerics. It is a secular framework which can allow for multi-ethnic, multi-religious and plural societies and is a minimum precondition for the rights of women and minorities. It is a secular framework that can ensure freedom of conscience, including freedom of and from religion.
- Palestinian 'geeks' code their way to a better future in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Coding is empowering a new generation of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and helping many find work.
- These Activists Blocked Migrant Deportations. Now They Face Life Imprisonment in the U.K.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Fifteen activists who blocked a plane deporting migrants are being charged with laws intended for terrorists. The use of charter flights for deportations is one of the issues they raise.
- As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Democrats and Republicans both seem willing to curtail freedom of the press when an outlet publishes work against their interests, however, prosecuting Julian Assange/Wikileaks would create a precedent that would criminalize the core function of investigative journalism.
- 'Being treated like slaves': Why migrant exploitation exists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the labour market in modern capitalist society, and how it leads to the exploitation of migrant workers who are sometimes treated as slaves.
- Cucks, Cuckolding and Campaign Management
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Talk about a bunch of sad sacks that really stink in the sack. The Trumpocalypse is ruining sex for the rest of us.
- A New Economic Model for the South: Ditch Corporate Welfare and Fund Agricultural Co-ops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A report from the Institute for Policy Studies, titled "Agricultural Cooperatives: Opportunities and Challenges for African-American Women in the South," makes the case that redirecting governmental support from corporate welfare to agricultural co-ops could provide an alternative vision for economic development in the Southern United States.
- November 1918: Red Revolution in Strasbourg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the context of the revolution that erupted in Germany as the country suffered defeat in November 1918, a revolutionary situation also arose in Strasbourg, capital of Alsace, a province that still belonged to the Reich at that time.
- Right-wing coup or popular revolt? The April 2018 Nicaraguan uprising examined
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Description of a report on the causes of the April 2018 conflict in Nicaragua.
- Amazon HQ2 Will Cost Taxpayers at Least $4.6 Billion, More Than Twice What the Company Claimed, New Study Shows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In addition to the billions in local government subsidies Amazon stands to gain from Federal Opportunity Zones. Researchers who have studied opportunity zones find that these tax schemes rarely ever help cities, and often financially cripple them.
- Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at how corporate media distort the news. Uses recent examples such as the Scottish Independence referendum.
- Crucifying Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Juilien Assange, who exposed the dark machinations and crimes of the US government, is now under threat of being expelled from the Equadorian Embassy. The article looks at what is happening to Assange and why the the silence over his plight is a betrayal by the press.
- Google's 'Smart City of Surveillance' Faces New Resistance in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A plan to develop 12 acres of the valuable waterfront just southeast of downtown Toronto
by the government agency Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has sparked concerns about privacy and lack of public consultation. A recent slew of resignations from its board has made these concerns increasingly urgent and public.
- Pakistan, hostage of the religious - The radical left in resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Radical leftists strive amid fundamentalist hostility in Pakistan where blasphemy is a serious charge with its roots in colonial religious divisions.
- Military 'Service' Serves the Ruling Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Military veteran and peace activist Will Griffin comments on the military campaigns in which he participated, and why he believes that military service ultimately serves noboby but a minority ruling class.
- Why does the language of journalism fail indigenous people?
A journalist with indigenous roots reflects on the making of We Are Still Here: A Story from Native Alaska.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A journalist with Indigenous roots reflects on the difficulty of doing justice to the community she is filming a documentary about. Historical misrepresentation due to lack of cross-cultural understanding has led to a distrust of the media.
- The Left Has Better Things to Do Than Watch Liberals Scratch Their Heads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Drawing from author David Harvey's work "The Ways of the World", Munson examines how Liberal-democracy has changed when the nucleus of capitalism shifted in the 1970's from the production of goods to the production of 'signs'. He further examines how 'neo-liberalism' is now grappling and adjusting in the era of Trump.
- The Malevolent Hypocrisy of Selective Sanctions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at why the US government is steadfast in its support of the Saudi dictatorship no matter what criminal excesses may be perpetrated by the Riyadh regime, while on the other hand it is determined to punish other countries like Cuba and Venezuela with severe economic sanctions.
- The Weaponization of Social Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
How the online environment and social media is being used as a political weapon, notably through the use of 'Bots'.
- How To Be A Reliable 'Mainstream' Journalist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A commentary on what is required to be a 'good' and 'reliable' journalist for the mainstream Western media.
- Keep those albums sounding great by converting your vinyl to a digital format
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- The niqab represents a pernicious ideology and its spread should worry us all
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the controversial niqab and similar veils, and why they are so concerning.
- The Rewilding of Humanity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
John Davis looks back at the exploitation of the wilderness, where urban dwellers are now alienated from the natural world that once surrounded them, and wonders whether we can ever return and live in a more natural and balanced state.
- Public Spaces, Private Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the commercialization of public spaces in Britain and elsewhere in the industrialized world, where gentrification and increasingly troubling privatization of public spaces goes largely unnoticed by a populace caught up in the day-to-day grind of living.
- Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Jonathan Cook explains why the mainstream Western media prefer an extreme right-wing leader over one from the Left.
- Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Jonathan Cook explains why the plutocrats and the mainstream media spokespeople much prefer a far-right populist like Jair Bolsonaro, or Donald Trump, to a populist leader of the genuine left.
- ECHR twisted logic: You can insult Christian but not Muslim religion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Two recent rulings by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demonstrate not only that it's a political and hypocritical organization. They also show the severe structural defects of human rights law in general.
- If We're on the Left, How Come We're Still Here?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Andrew Levine looks at why the Left is largely ignored by Trump's more radical followers and pundits.
- Architects of Mass Slaughter
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Detailed review of two books about the Indonesian Genocide.
- The Constitutional Root of Racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at how the US Constitution enables racism by affording power to the states.
- The End of "The Great War"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A thorough look at the ending of World War I, focusing especially on class conflict.
- Europe's Political Turmoil (Part I)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Far-right parties are gaining ground all over Europe scapegoating immigrants and people of colour. The radical left has not come up with a competitive strategy for winning people over.
- Europe's Political Turmoil and the Rise of the Far Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the recent rise of far-right governments all over Europe and the failure of the left to effectively counter this.
- Is There a Gig Economy?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A data-heavy analysis questioning whether 'gig-economy' precarious jobs are indeed growing rapidly as reported.
- Jan and Carrol Cox, Political Activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for Jan and Carrol Cox, long-time activists from Illinois.
- Karl Marx in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Looking at how Marx's theories can explain today's global crisis.
- Karl Marx: Revolutionary Heretic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A celebration of Marx as a thinker who constantly adapted his ideas and thinking.
- Latin America Crises and Contradictions
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Detailed review of a collection of essays on Latin America.
- The Logic of Human Survival
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of a Marxist look at the concept of the Anthropocene.
- The Making of Corporate Empire
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of a book covering Henry Ford's "ethos of the assembly line" and how his racist views shaped it in different places.
- Marx and the "International"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A rebuttal of the idea of Marx as Eurocentric and a white supremacist.
- Marx's Capital as Organizing Tool
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A guide to how the left could use Marx's Capital as a text for organizing.
- The Saga of a City Rising
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Positive review of a collection of essays about Black organizing in Mississippi. The review focuses on two of the essays with two "key takeaways."
- Slavery and Capitalism
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of a collection of essays about the economics of American slavery.
- Supreme Toxicity -- Confirmed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Editorial about Brett Kavanaugh, the U.S. Supreme Court and the hopefulness of grassroots movements like #metoo and BLM spur people to take action.
- Triumph and Tragedy
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Le Blanc's sympathies with the Bolshevik project are clear, but this is no apologia. On the contrary, grounded in material and intellectual evidence, it is a work that helps us better understand the factors that shaped the choices the revolutionary leaders made and the alternatives paths that might have been open to them.
- Trump and Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Although Trump is called anti-science he simply continues a trend that started with Reagan. Calling him anti-science can mask how his policies and tactics are rational ideologies in the service of neoliberalism.
- Two Powerful Films on Indonesian Mass Terror
Film Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Short review of two films about Indonesian genocide.
- The Wars of Rich Resources
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of Bolivia's mid-20th century conflicts over resource extraction.
- Diverting Class War Into Generational War, Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Dean Baker provieds a counter argument to a New York Times article titled "65 or Older? Here's What We Owe Our Kids" by Glenn Kramon, which directs blame at Social Security and Medicare for the current struggles of the younger generation.
- Fact-Checking the Establishment's 'Fact-Checkers': How the 'Fake News' Story is Fake News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the introduction of "Fake News" in the US and how is was used by both political parties in the lead-up to the 2016 US election, and moreover how it was propogated by the mainstream media and fact-checked by dubious verification sources.
- How Not To Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This essay refutes conceptions of what working class really means by reactivating fundamental Marxist insights about class formation that have been obscured by decades of neoliberalism. The author argues that the key to developing a sufficient understanding of the working class is the framework of social reproduction.
- Over 90% of the world's children breathe toxic air every day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the WHO report on "Air pollution and child health: Prescribing clean air", a study of the heavy toll of both outdoor and household air pollution on the health of the world's children, particularly those living in low and middle-income nations.
- This Soviet-era ghost town is being reclaimed by nature and it's eerily beautiful
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Crumbling bricks, vines crawling up the walls and trees growing on roofs – see the silent beauty of an abandoned Soviet-era town nestled in the mountains of Abkhazia. In summer, you would have a hard time spotting Akarmara from above. The small town is almost entirely overgrown, with trees even growing on the few roofs that are still intact.
- We think therefore we are
Staying Positive in a Negative World - Celebrating Dr. Miriam Garfinkle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Blasphermy, Religious and Secular
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An essay on a European Court of Human Rights ruling and on changing forms of blasphemy law.
- Eulogy for Miriam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Eulogy for Miriam Garfinkle (24 April 1954 - 15 September 2018) delivered by Ulli Diemer at Memorial gathering for Miriam on October 28, 2018.
- How the EU's principled pragmatism sows strife in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at how the European Union is creating greater instability, distrust, and casualties like Jamal Khashoggi, by trading fundamental values such as human rights for more practical avenues coined as "principled pragmatism".
- 'October Song' - A challenging portrayal of the Russian Revolution
Review of Paul Le Blanc, October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917-1924
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review 'October Song,' Paul Le Blanc's book about the Russian revolution. Detailed with excerpts and criticism.
- Revolutionary Rojava: An polyethnic, feminist and anti-capitalist experiment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A history of the Democratic Federation of North Syria as a beacon of hope in Syria's 8-year-long civil war.
- System change means dismantling patriarchy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at patriarchy and the sexual division of labour, and why gender justice is fundamental for meaningful environmental justice, and moreover how grassroots, anti-capitalist feminism is key to system change.
- Karl Kautsky: From Pope to Renegade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Once recognized as "The Pope of Marxism" for his popularization and systematization of Marxist ideas, Kautsky fell into obscurity following the Russian Revolution. In recent revival of interest in his politics, in both academia and on the political left, raises questions about the meaning of Kautsky's orthodox Marxism and about what a renewed revolutionary left should adopt from it as their own.
- 'City of Surveillance': Google-backed smart city sounds like a dystopian nightmare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Google-backed project to build the interconnected, data-driven ‘city of the future’ sounds like all George Orwell’s nightmares come true, and is now in the spotlight after a privacy expert resigned from the project in protest. Toronto’s Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs – a sister company of Google – wants to turn that wasteland into a prototype ‘city of the future,’ where data helps planners micromanage every aspect of urban life.
- Revealed: The Saudi death squad MBS uses to silence dissent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The MEE reveals information from a Saudi source with intimate knowledge of the Saudi intelligence services, about a death squad that operates under the guidance and supervision of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
- Why the "Two State Solution" is Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Laurie Anderson on language, story and losing her archives to Hurricane Sandy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Artist and performer Laurie Anderson discusses her recent book titled "All the Things I Lost in the Flood". The book was inspired by the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2011, which destroyed Anderson's archive of work and memorabilia. The article contains a link to the interview on CBC Radio.
- Reflections on Chomsky's Voting Strategy: Why The Democratic Party Can't Be Saved
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Nick Pemberton explains why his opinion is different from that of Noam Chomsky on the matter of third party voting during US elections.
- Quiet, Please! The Latest Threat to the Big Wild
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the growing problem of noise pollution in Glacier National Park in Montana, where each summer helicopters carrying tourists fly low over the landscape.
- US 'Outrage' Over Slaying of US Residents Depends on the Nation Responsible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This article takes a look at the reasons why the US media managed to be outraged at the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia's government, yet there was no such reaction when Israel killed Furkan Dogan, a 19-year-old American citizen.
- Caught In The Cross Hairs - Media Lens And The Mystery Of The Wikipedia Editor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Media Lens investigates the case of "Philip Cross", a person who has made hundreds of thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages in a campain against anti-war activists, critics of British and Western foreign policy as well as Media Lens itself.
- Climate-Driven 'Bugpocalypse'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An alarming report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that in addition to annihilating hundreds of mammal species, the climate crisis has also sparked a global "bugpocalypse" that will only continue to accelerate in the absence of action to stop planetary warming.
- A Marxist History of Capitalism (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A book review of Henry Heller's "A Marxist History of Capitalism" which restores class struggle to a central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome.
- US plastic waste is causing global environmental crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A recent ban in China, which normally takes in the largest proportion of US plastic waste, has left the US dumping plastic in other over-burdened countries, while waste still continues to pile up in the States. US plastic scrap exports dropped by almost a third in the first six months of 2018, as waste firms struggled to find a home for their plastic scrap.
- The dawn of our liberation: The early days of the International Communist Women's Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An examination of the early days of the international Communist Women's Movement (CWM). The article focuses on three points in particular: the CWM's ideas on women's emancipation, the relationship with non-communist women's movements and the problematic relationship with male comrades.
- The Doomsday Machine and Nuclear Winter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The portion of an interview with Daniel Ellsberg, an American activist and former United States military analyst, who comments on thermonuclear war and its outcome.
- Lopez Obrador in Mexico: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The newly elected President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has been described by some in the U.S. as a radical socialist, however this article explains that he has already back-peddled on important pre-election promises.
- Anarchism and Kavanaugh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Richman argues that without the current State, but rather with an Anarchistic one, the U.S. public would have been spared the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination episode.
- Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, and the End of Legal Neutrality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings destroyed any surviving myth of legal neutrality. Shultz explains why this may be a good thing, because it is time to recognize that the Supreme Court and its Justices are not politically neutral and that neither should they be.
- Plastic plague intensifies on remote southern islands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at a report titled " Marine plastics threaten giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas", which examines the alarmingly high concentrations of plastic on southern Atlantic islands and throughout the food chain.
- 'This is murder': French islanders want Paris to own up to poisoning their land with pesticide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean want France to take responsibility for polluting their land with a toxic pesticide. This article looks at the effects of Kepone, also called chlordecone, on the people of the islands, who now suffer from alarmingly high cancer rates and fertility problems.
- The voice of Hobsbawm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at how the work and ideas of influential British Historian Eric Hobsbawm made an entry into the Indian intellectual scene, as well as his involvement in two crucial political and intellectual debates in Brazil that cemented his reputation there.
- Blanket Silence: Corporate Media Ignore New Report Exposing Distorted And Misleading Coverage of Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Media Reform Coalition report reveals that the corporate media in Britain have been producing an alarming amount of 'fake news' items, which includes a narrative that Jeremy Corbyn and Labour party are mired in an 'antisemitism crisis'. The corporate media have largely ignored the report, or any other reasoned criticism of their biased reporting.
- Socialist Register 2019
Volume 55: A World Turned Upside Down?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Since the Great Financial Crisis swept across the world in 2008, there have been few certainties regarding the trajectory of global capitalism, let alone the politics taking hold in individual states. This has now given way to palpable confusion regarding what sense to make of this world in a political conjuncture marked by Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ presidency of the United States, on the one hand, and, on the other, Xi Jinping’s ambitious agenda in consolidating his position as ‘core leader’ at the top of the Chinese state.
- Checkpoint Nation
Border agents are expanding their reach into the country's interior
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Even if you never leave the United States, you can encounter Border Patrol at the thirty-five fixed checkpoints and dozens of temporary checkpoints they operate deep in the interior. The locations of these checkpoints are not made public, but the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, has developed a project to track them.
- Paper Terrorism
Anti-government vigilantes wield a subtle weapon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Such tactics have become known as paper terrorism, defined by Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow with the Anti-Defamation League, as "the use of bogus legal documents and filings, or the misuse of legitimate ones, to intimidate, harass, threaten, or retaliate against public officials, law enforcement officers, or private citizens."
- The Printed Word in Peril
The age of Homo virtualis is upon us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What I do feel isolated in -- if not entirely alone in -- is my determination, as a novelist, essayist, and journalist, not to rage against the dying of literature's light, although it's surprising how little of this there is, but merely to examine the great technological discontinuity of our era, as we pivot from the wave to the particle, the fractal to the fungible, and the mechanical to the computable.
- An interview with Mike Leigh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Working on the film, there were people of various generations, from their twenties to people of my age, from the area, who said, 'I didn’t know about this.' And yet the massacre was widely reported and is a famous and significant, seminal event in the history of democracy in Britain, the labour movement, etc., etc.
- The Rise of the Intellectual Pornstar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Once only found in society's margins, the pornography industry has developed into a multi-billion dollar business that is branching into the mainstream. The article explains that the industry, while still controversial, increasingly comments on the social problems of today and pushes for reforms in areas that other large industries are scared to.
- What Brett Kavanaugh Really Learned in High School: Make the Rules, Break the Rules and Prosper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The accusations against Kavanaugh may be an open question but his behaviour in handling them proves he is unfit for the Supreme Court. This is reinforced by his previous evasiveness about his role in the Bush administrations torture policy which called his integrity into question long before Christine Blasey Ford made her accusations.
- On Militancy, Self-reflection, and the Role of the Researcher
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Researcher Jared Sacks examines and questions methodologies of social movement researchers through a self-reflective investigation into his own experience and work.
- Expansion of monocultures expels peasants from their lands
Repression intensifies against peasant leaders opposed to land grabs, evictions and the pollution of water sources.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Guatemala a wave of violence at the hands of large agriculture corporations has been driving Indigenous people and peasants off their land.
- Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
- Charges 'Without Merit' - Jeremy Corbyn, Antisemitism, Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A commentary on the anit-semitism claims by the British media regarding Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party.
- The Omega Principle: A vicious circle of fish, cattle and capitalism (Book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Paul Greenberg's book "The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet", which examines how the fishing industry that plunders the seas for tiny fish is supporting unsustainable industrial agriculture.
- Dinner with Marx in the House of the Swan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
When Jacques Pauwels enters a bistro in Brussels' Grand-Place, he finds himself under the watchful eye of an illustrious former patron - Karl Marx. As he dines, a great number of stories cross his mind. The historian, author of 'The Great Class War 1914-1918', tells us how this tourist hotspot was once a hotbed of revolutionaries, and how Marx's stay in Brussels played a role in his writings.
- Open Letter: Health Care Providers Support OPS and SCS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An open letter to Premier Doug Ford and Minister of Health Christine Elliot regarding the Ontario Government's recent hold on approvals for new overdose prevention sites (OPS). The letter is signed by over 800 physicians and medical personnel.
- The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life.
- The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Offers a new framework for understanding the kind of cultural work neoliberal feminism carries out. Examines the high-powered women and celebrities who are embracing this new variant of feminism.
- To overcome climate paralysis, unite for system change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at how to break through the climate paralysis that has led to the environmental crisis that mankind is currently facing. Wallis indicates that by having identified who the enemy is, we know who our potential allies are- the other 99%.
- European Communist Parties and '68
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
One effect of the May 1968 uprisings was to highlight and/or hasten the split between communist parties and social movements in Europe.
- Fascist Attack in Chile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An open letter calling for international solidarity in the aftermath of an attack on the March for the Right to Free, Legal Abortion on Demand in Santiago, Chile where three women were stabbed.
- Historical Subjects Lost and Found
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Looking at the legacy of Marx in the West Indies.
- Janus and My Ode to Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Looking at Marx and how to make him relevant to people through 40 years of teaching Capital.
- Joel Kovel (1936-2018)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for psychiatrist, teacher and author Joel Kovel.
- Labor's Last Stand
Unions must either demand a place at the table or be part of the meal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The slow degradation of workers' rights through the use of the courts has led to a weakening of negotiated power of unions and the retreat of organized labour.
- Martha (Marty) Quinn, 1939-2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for Martha Quinn, a founding member of Solidarity.
- Marx, Engels and the National Question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A historical look at the role of class and nation-states in socialism.
- Marx Turns 200: A Mixed Gift
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A mixed but detailed review of a biography of Karl Marx. The author likes the Life material but has problems with the treament of the Works.
- Nicolas Calas: The Trotskyist Time Forgot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A lengthy, detailed look at modern Trotskyist poet Nicolas Calas (1907-88).
- On the "Transformation Problem"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Further discussion of Marx's "transformation problem." References a previous column reviewing Fred Moseley's "Money and Totality."
- The Power of Story, the Evidence of Experience
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of a book of oral histories of migrant farmworkers.
- Reply
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A reply by the author of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital and the End of the Transformation Problem" to two previous responses to his book.
- Struggling for Justice
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Mainly postive review Keith Gilyard’s biography of organizer, educator, cultural worker and Black Left feminist Louise Thompson Patterson.
- Syria's Disaster, and What's Next
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Detailed description of Syrian crisis as of July 2018.
- A Template for Hate
Polarized politics and mainstream intolerance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The rise of Hindu nationalist politics has led to communal violence, particularly around the status of cows, as they are considered sacred by Hindus. Inter-communal violence has increased with killings perpetuated by vigilantes and the mainstreaming of intolerance.
- An Unrepentant '68er's Life
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of an autobiographical book by May 1968 figure Daniel Bensaïd.
- Wellness Cures
Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Deaf regularly move through the medical system without agency or dignity -- not because they cannot hear but because they are not given the opportunity to communicate. The onus for change is put on the Deaf themselves, often in terms of changing their own bodies to accommodate the hearing majority. What if, instead, the Deaf were consulted about what changes they would like, or how they would like for them to happen? What if they were invited to take part in shaping the next generation of doctors?
- Where to Begin?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The rise of socialist-identified candidates like Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez are a hopeful resistance against the politics that resulted in President Trump. But people must organize outside of electoral politics to bring real change.
- The White World and Black Reality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
White people on the left must deal with racism to create true solidarity and resist Trump's politics.
- Who Killed Marielle?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman, whose murder is still unsolved, was a thorn in the side of the right-wing, repressive government. The fight she fought continues through with people people she represented.
- Worldwide "Moment of Madness"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at 1968 a legendary year in history. Analysis of how student- and worker-led revolts played out in different parts of Europe.
- The Irishmen Who Fought in the Last Great Battle Against Spanish Fascism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An account of the numerous Irishmen who were killed, injured, captured and who simply disappeared while volunteering to fight against the rising fascist tide during the Spanish Civil War.
- Revised NAFTA Shows Every Sign of Being Another Trump Scam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement between the US and Mexico, a deal intended to force Canada, which has the strongest regulations, into signing on disadvantageous terms. Dolack explains why any new NAFTA will undoubtedly be a windfall for multi-national corporations at public expense.
- Engineering the climate could cost us the earth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Political scientist Gareth Dale takes a look at Geoengineering as a "political technology" and institutional apparatus that is preventing effective climate action, and actually serves to reduce the sense of urgency needed for genuine and more effective structural change.
- Carrying capacity, technology, and ecomodernist confusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Biologist Michael Frieman responds to an article titled "The Earth's Carrying Capacity for Human Life Is Not Fixed" by Ted Nordhaus, an executive director of the Breakthrough Institute and strong proponent of ecomodernism. Friedman counters the idea that capitalist technology is capable of solving virtually any of the environmental problems generated by humankind while still making eternal capitalist growth possible- a viewpoint based on assumptions that are fraught with problems.
- No Remorse: Reflections on Radical "Purism"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Street justifies his critical commentary on the disappointing presidency of Barrack Obama and the standard neoliberal manipulation of campaign populism and identity politics in service to big-money. He also takes a cynical look at the DMC, another party of corporations, as well as Bernie Sanders and what a Sanders Presidency might have looked like.
- Bolton calls on Al-Qaeda to stage more chemical attacks in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The latest statements from the US, France and UK warning against the use of chemical weapons in Syria leave many skeptical and disbelieving of the alarm cries, having seen this song and dance before. Chemical weapons accusations are among the most overused war propaganda tactic used by the West during the war on Syria.
- The deadly flood in Kerala may be only a gentle warning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Arundhati Roy comments on the disasterous flooding in the Indian state of Kerala. While acknowleding various forces lead to the disaster, Roy also places blame on government mismanagement and ignoring the needs of the state's most disadvanted people.
- Lockheed Martin receives bloody images instead of cool weapons photos in failed Twitter campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The world's largest defense contractor fails miserably in a social media campaign asking Twitter users to send them an "amazing photo" of a Lockheed Martin product.
- Corbyn's Labour Party is Being Made to Fail - By Design
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The embattled Labour party is reportedly soon to adopt the four additional working "examples" of anti-semitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The full adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism will be a victory for Israel and its apologists in Britain, who who have been seeking to curb all meaningful criticism of Israel.
- A Mighty Voice for Peace Has Gone Silent: Uri Avnery, 1923-2018
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A brief article in commemoration of Israeli human rights activist Uri Avnery, who died in Tel Aviv at the age of 94.
- NATO training Latvian military to quell 'civilian unrest' during largest drills in decades
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
NATO has launched war games in Latvia involving 10,000 troops, the largest training exercise since the country gained independence.
- What if the world started using US logic in its relations with America?
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
You're sanctioned! You’re bombed! You're invaded! The US has plenty of punishments lined up for states which it claims are doing things wrong. But what if the rest of the world held the US to the same standards?
- How Canada could use the Saudi quarrel to help the Middle East - and itself
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Saudi Arabia's overreaction to Canadian criticism on human rights provides an opportunity for Canada to rethink Middle East policy. Such a policy, based on universal human rights, would greatly benefit not just Saudi Arabians but those in the broader Middle East, and also Canada.
- Africa's Pioneering Marxist Political Economist, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the pioneering work of Egyptian-French Marxian economist Samir Amin, who died on August 12, 2018.
- Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
We on the Left don't need to reflexively and absurdly jump to the defense of imperial criminals at the instigation of that (well, yes) "enemy of the people" the U.S. corporate and so-called mainstream war, news, and entertainment media.
- Memoir From the Underground
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the film "Memoir of War", directed by Emmanuel Finkiel, a semi-fictional memoire of writer Marguerite Duras who lived under a facist regime in Vichy France.
- My Longest Day: How World War II Ended for My Family
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An essay excerpted from Hans-Armin Ohlmann's memoirs, which recounts his experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War.
- An Updated and Improved Marxism
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An article that criticizes the stubborn immersion in the past by current Marxists and left wing intellectuals, and to comprehend activism and set goals in the twenty-first century requires a revision of the Marxian conception of revolution.
- Where Have All the Nazis Gone?
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Thousands of "anti-fascist" protestors converged on the streets of the nation's capitol to deny a platform to (or just beat the snot out of) twenty or thirty racist idiots who were trying to assemble in Lafayette Square and stand around shouting racist slogans at each other.
- Chasing Shadows: Socialism Won't Go Away Because It is Capitalism's Antithesis
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The abstract forces of capitalism's dynamism create the conditions for ever more creative and novel ways to profit, which is why the Golden Age of postwar capitalism-which had a mix of capitalist and socialist economic features-evolved into the neoliberal period after the external oil shocks of 1973 and 1979. Those conditions created a transitional context to shift out of a regulated state-interventionist capitalism into the aggressive, free-market neoliberal variety lasting more than 30 years, leading us to the precipice of the present.
- Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Google has admitted that its option to "pause" the gathering of your location data doesn't apply to its Maps and Search apps – which will continue to track you even when you specifically choose to halt such monitoring.
- The Stasi Project: Solving the World's Biggest Puzzle
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Germany, a small team virtually piece together the history of a surveillance state in the Stasi Puzzle Project.
- There Is a Coordinated Campaign to Suppress Criticism of Israel
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Israel's human rights violations are accompanied by U.S. efforts to stifle dissent.
- Institutionalizing Intolerance: Bullies Win, Freedom Suffers When We Can't Agree to Disagree
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As America has become ever more polarized, and those polarized factions have become more militant and less inclined to listen to -- or even allow for the existence of -- other viewpoints, we are fast becoming a nation of people who just can't get along. Here's the thing: if Americans don't learn how to get along--at the very least, agreeing to disagree and respecting each other's right to subscribe to beliefs and opinions that may be offensive, hateful, intolerant or merely different--then we're going to soon find that we have no rights whatsoever (to speak, assemble, agree, disagree, protest, opt in, opt out, or forge our own paths as individuals). In such an environment, when we can't agree to disagree, the bullies (on both sides) win and freedom suffers.
- "Right to Try" Is a Cruel Farce
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Drug companies want you to think they're providing glimmers of hope to terminally ill patients. Don't believe them.
- Thousands of Palestinians and Israelis Chant: 'No to the nation-state law, yes to equality'
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Palestinian flags were seen held high during a demonstration in which tens of thousands of Arab Palestinians and Israeli Jews marched on Saturday, in Tel Aviv, to protest against the controversial Jewish Nation-State Law.
- American Exceptionalism: The Naked Truth
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A large number of Americans hold a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the US does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well. American leaders may make mistakes, they may blunder, they may lie, they may even on many occasions cause more harm than good, but they do mean well. Their intentions are always honorable, even noble. Of that the great majority of Americans are certain.And Americans genuinely wonder why the rest of the world can’t see how benevolent and self-sacrificing America has been. Even many people who take part in the anti-war movement have a hard time shaking off some of this mindset; they march to spur America -- the America they love and worship and trust -- they march to spur this noble America back onto its path of goodness.
- Australia: Worst drought ever, but don't mention climate change!
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Despite record drought conditions in Australia and the numerous climate related disasters around the globe, the Australian goverment still refuses to acknowledge human-induced climate change.
- Venezuela: Maduro survives assassination attempt -- but journalism doesn't
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Venezuela was rocked on August 5, 2018 by an attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro during a public event, using drones armed with explosives.But as more details of the attack became available, mainstream media coverage sought to sow doubt on the events, using words such as "apparent" or "alleged". It focused on the government using this "alleged" event to step up repression.
- Bangladesh: Challenge of the Students Uprising - Its historical background
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The students’ movement that erupted on 29 July following the death of two students in a tragic road accident in Dhaka spread to almost all the major cities of the country. Thousands of outraged school and college students laid siege to the streets of the capital Dhaka for a week demanding road safety across the country.
- Helping drought-stricken farmers requires recognising global warming and planning
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
All of NSW has now officially been declared to be in drought, and 57% of Queensland has officially entered its sixth year of the current drought (though there has been little real change from when 88% was declared to be in drought in March 2017).Droughts keep getting worse, and the changing climate means they will continue to do so.The Coalition's "solutions" start with denying that climate change is real.
- On 'Bullshit Jobs'
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the book "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" by anthropologist David Graeber, which provides a classification for the many forms of employment, some which he deems not only meaningless and unfullfilling, but ultimately harmful to society.
- Yes, the Press Helps Start Wars
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
History shows that a jingoistic media can whip up support for hardline policies, as Trump rightly pointed out.
- Barcelona's Experiment in Radical Democracy
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Issues that Barcelona en Comu is tackling come up against limitations set by Catalan and Spanish law. The city lacks authority to regulate housing, although the city has created new affordable housing, and has successfully limited the reach of Airbnb.
- The Crisis in Corbyn's Labour Party is Over Israel, Not Anti-Semitism
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
If there is indeed an anti-semitism problem in the UK's Labour party, it is not in the places where the British corporate media have been directing our attention. What can be said with even more certainty is that there is rampant hatred expressed towards Jews in the same British media that is currently decrying the supposed anti-semitism of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
- First they came for Alex Jones. Now Facebook bans Venezuela news site
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela.
- Israel Is The Real Problem
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Elite power cannot abide a serious challenge to its established position. And that is what Labour under Jeremy Corbyn represents to the Tory government, the corporate, financial and banking sectors, and the 'mainstream' media. The manufactured 'antisemitism crisis' is the last throw of the dice for those desperate to prevent a progressive politician taking power in the UK: someone who supports Palestinians and genuine peace in the Middle East, a strong National Health Service and a secure Welfare State, a properly-funded education system, and an economy in which people matter; someone who rejects endless war and complicity with oppressive, war criminal 'allies' such as the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
- Siege and resistance in Gaza – For more than 10 weeks...
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Toufic Haddad, an activist, academic and author of Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory, spoke to Omar Hassan about the meaning of the protests – and what next in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
- 'Unprecedented': Staffers drown out reporters by clapping at Doug Ford news conference
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
When reporters tried to ask Ontario Premier Doug Ford questions at a Tuesday news conference about new funding to prevent gun violence, they were once again intentionally drowned out by applause.
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Fictions and Facts
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The New York Times reported that year, “Many historians believe the bombings [of] Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, which together took the lives of more than 200,000 people, saved lives on balance, since an invasion of the islands would have led to far greater bloodshed.” Many historians, perhaps; but not that many.
- Inside Google's Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Google analyzed search terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to confidential documents seen by The Intercept. Engineers working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com, a Chinese-language web directory service owned by Google.
- It's not a 'defense' of Alex Jones to argue that we're on a slippery slope of internet censorship
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The celebration on the Left at the quick-fire purge of Alex Jones and InfoWars from social media has been disturbing -- not because Jones' views deserve to be defended, but because his banning is a warning shot against dissent.
- Nine essential tools from ICIJ's data journalism and programming experts
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' favorite data journalism tools, including: spreadsheets, Datawrapper, Jupyter Notebook, OpenRefine, Python and R, Talend Studio, SQL, Pandas, Neo4j + Linkurious.
- "What followed horrified us beyond our wildest imaginations": an eyewitness account of the Bangladesh student protests
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Like other high school students, Abdul Karim Rajib, 18, and Dia Khanam Mim, 17 had many hopes and dreams for their lives. One had hoped to become an army officer, the other, a banker. On July 29, 2018, around noon, the two teenagers were killed in the streets of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, by three buses speeding against each other for no reason other than to arrive first and cram as many passengers into their already overcrowded interiors, for maximum profit.
- Disabled People in UK Lead Fight Against Austerity
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In July 20,2018, John Clarke represented the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) at the International Deaf and Disabled People’s Solidarity Summit, in Stratford, east London that had been convened by one of our key allies in the UK, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC). This powerful gathering was an important moment in the building of a resistance by disabled people as part of a broader international struggle against the forces of neoliberal austerity.
- Even the FBI Agrees: When Undercover Agents Pose as Journalists, It Hurts Real Journalists' Work
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The FBI doesn't want the public to know more about how its agents pose as journalists during undercover investigations.The government acknowledged in a court filing that FBI agents who pretend to be journalists create a chilling effect, making it harder for real journalists to gain trust and cooperation from sources.
- Eternity, nature, society and the absurd fantasies of the rich
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The wealthier they are, the more they fear that others will try to take their wealth. No wonder the super-rich are building bunkers to escape the apocalypse.
- The Unjust Prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation Five
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Miko Peled, in "Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five," his exhaustive study of the U.S. government's case against five defendants from a friendless minority, demonstrates how American justice has deviated so far from Blackstone that the courts can convict a hundred innocents for one who is guilty.
- Working Class Movement Must Be Independent
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A new chapter in the history of the South African working class was opened in Soweto on 21-22 July 2018, when representatives from over 147 South African working-class formations represented by 1000 delegates assembled to unite workplace and community struggles.
- Let Us Now Praise Infamous Animals
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In medieval Europe (and even colonial America) thousands of animals were summoned to court and put on trial for a variety of offenses, ranging from trespassing, thievery and vandalism to rape, assault and murder. The defendants included cats, dogs, cows, sheep, goats, slugs, swallows, oxen, horses, mules, donkeys, pigs, wolves, bears, bees, weevils, and termites. These tribunals were not show trials or strange festivals like Fools Day. The tribunals were taken seriously by both the courts and the community.
- The Lessons of the World Cup for our Victim Culture
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
That we are living in an age of victim culture is well-exemplified by an article recently published by the CBC suggesting that minorities "feel apprehensive about heading into the wild because they don't see themselves reflected in the outdoor industry and media." The underlying premise is that a paucity of representations of members of these groups constructs the outdoors as a kind of "unsafe space" of which people from these communities ask, according to the African-American author of a book called The Adventure Gap, James Mills, "'Do I belong here? And if somebody believes that I don’t belong here, will they do something to harm me?'"
- The other side of Gaza: Swimming, canoeing and 'trying' to be a child
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Here in Gaza, I want to tell this story. To show our audience a piece of a normal life, away from Hamas, or Israel's "terror" rhetoric, away from the diplomatic efforts, the political bargaining, away from the weekly Friday protests. Just show you something normal.
- Nazi-inspired jewellery, trinkets wiped from auction site
Polish anti-racist group convinces auction site to punish sellers and buyers trading goods bearing fascist symbols
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The anti-facist group Never Again has convinced an auction site to punish sellers and buyers trading Nazi memorabilia and other goods bearing fascist symbols.
- "Brutal and Sadistic": Noam Chomsky on Family Separation & the U.S. Roots of Today's Refugee Crisis
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An interview with Noam Chomsky on the refugee crisis and the Trump administration's family separation policy. The article includes a link to the video interview.
- The Socialists of the Prairies
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Proyect talks about the arrival of the Prairie Trilogy at the Metrograph Theater on Friday, July 27th. The trilogy consists of three documentaries made in 1978 by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson about the radical movement in North Dakota during the heyday of the IWW, the Socialist Party, and the Nonpartisan League (NPL).
- Israel's 'nation-state law' parallels the Nazi Nuremberg Laws
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Israel's new 'nation-state' law follows in the footsteps of Jim Crow, the Indian Removal Act and the Nuremberg Laws.
- The Marxist and the Gamers: Reading, Fortnite, and My Students' Identities
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A school teacher reflects on the differences he sees in his students from past generations, notably the many young people who are avid online gamers.
- When Worse is the Enemy of Bad
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The claim that all that is wrong with America is due to the malignant machinations of Putin is the most blatantly false, potentially disastrous bucket of bullshit ever inflicted by the matrix on this ignorant, credulous, propagandized people.
- PayPal censors journalists who criticize Israel
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Under apparent influence from Benjamin Weinthal, PayPal chose to close down the account of the French online publication Agence Media Palestine. Such a move constitutes censorship as it denies journalists the means to raise money for their work and freedom to express ideas.
- Still 'world policeman': US expands overseas military presence with 300k troops in 177 states
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Trump is sticking to the policies of past administrations despite campaign claims that the US shouldn't be 'world policeman', experts told RT regarding Pentagon figures of 300,000 US troops in 177 states.
- Traditional and contemporary Anishinaabe expression celebrated in M’Chigeeng museums
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- If the doctor is listening, you have 11 seconds
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
U.S. study found that just 36% of doctors posed an open-ended question to get patients to talk.
- Israel steps up its war on mixed marriages
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Israeli government has long funded various efforts to try to prevent romantic relationships between Jews and non-Jews, both inside territories it controls and around the world. But a new program confirmed this month by the tourism ministry takes Israel's war on families of mixed religion or ethnicity to a new level.
- The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration: An historic document
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In 2008 more than 400 activists from 37 countries endorsed this statement of ecosocialist principles and goals. Today the Belem Ecosocialist Declaration remains an important consensus statement of ecosocialist principles and goals.
- Cooperative farming is the only solution to the present agriculture crisis
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the agricultural crisis in India and the economic realities the country faces in a market tilted in favour of America and Europe. Solutions include government policy based on science in the use of land and water, less reliance on pesticides and fertilizers, and a move towards cooperative farming.
- Banned in Pakistan
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Pakistan's decision to censor 'blasphemous' websites provides a new perspective on the attitudes of many Western liberals towards Charlie Hebdo.
- Israelis Just Keep Killing People, Stealing Land
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The recent killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by Israeli sharpshooters following the "The Great March of Return" is outlined, as well as the ongoing futility of Israel's policy and actions against the self-governing Palestinian territory whose population are forced to live under dire conditions.
- Nelson Mandela's legacy hijacked to help West sell liberal agenda
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Wight explains why the distortion of Nelson Mandela's legacy by champions of Western liberalism is "sickening and obscene".
- Canada's Military shapes Coverage of Deployments
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the Canadian military's influence over news coverage. The article outlines the great lengths the military goes to shape information covering its missions, including the recent deployment to Mali.
- Israeli forces 'deliberately killed' Palestinian paramedic Razan
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Probe by Israeli rights group B'Tselem concludes that intentional fatal shot was fired at the Palestinian paramedic.
- A New Native-Led Strategy for Fighting Keystone XL
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Sacred crops planted by the Poca represent another legal barrier for the construction of the Keystone pipeline, as its intended path must now cross sacred historic sites owned by a sovereign tribal nation.
- ICE: The making of an American Gestapo
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Justin Akers Chacón, author of Radicals in the Barrio and co-author with Mike Davis of No One Is Illegal, takes an in-depth look at the troubling history and practices of a government agency that more and more people are calling to be abolished.
- Interview: Angela C. Wild of #GetTheLOut on Pride in London and Lesbian erasure
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Meghan Murphy interviews Angela C. Wild about the recent Lesbian protest at Pride in London and the state of the LGBT movement today.
- New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Red Fawn Fallis and the Felony of Being Attacked by Cops
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The tackling, arrest and imprisonment of female protester Red Fawn Fallis near a Dakota Pipeline construction site is another example of corporate and government abuse of power. When it comes to women dissenters, particularly of black or indigenous dissent, US authorities have a significant history of intimidation and punishment.
- Reality check: Croatian uniform virtually identical to...
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Some media reports are ga-ga that the Croatian team will be wearing its red and white checkered uniform in the 2018 World Cup final on Sunday against France. Far from being innocent or fashionable, this is ominous. By allowing this uniform to be worn, FIFA is emboldening the Croatian fascists and their European allies such those in Ukraine.
- Starving and Bombed Children of Yemen Seek Entrapment in Flooded Thai Cave
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While the world was gripped by media coverage of trapped Thai boys in a flooded cave, hundreds of thousands of children were killed and suffering in other parts of the world -- yet received little or no attention. This article examines what this tells us about ourselves and geopolitics.
- Parkdale tenants' campaign blames real estate agent for loss of rooming houses
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at 'displacement realty' in the Parkdale area of Toronto, where the selling affordable homes at inflated prices pushes new landlords into forcing out old tenants in order to increase rents.
- Why the food movement needs to understand capitalism
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
To fully appreciate the challenges we face in transforming our food system we need to explore the economic and political context in which food is grown, sold and consumed in the world today.
- Lenin and the Bolshevik Party: A revolutionary collective
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Russian Revolution of 1917 clearly reveals the complexities of Bolshevism – Lenin's party – as a revolutionary collective.
- Rethinking community organising
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Building a just, sustainable future will require transcending traditional community organising models. Working through existing institutions within the current system is not good enough.
- CEMB march at Pride 2018 in London: A Victory against Islamism
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain marched in Pride in London on 7 July for LGBT rights in countries under Islamic rule; in 15 states or territories, homosexuality is punishable by death. The march was a victory against Islamist forces in Britain like Mend and East London Mosque that tried and failed to stop CEMB from marching with accusations of 'Islamophobia' aimed at imposing de facto blasphemy and apostasy laws.
- No Trump, No Clinton, No NATO
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Murray explains why the notion that those who do not want Clinton in power are therefore supporters of Trump is intellectually risible and politically dishonest.
- Changing the concept of "woman" will cause unintended harms
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
There are more things to consider than some trans activists would have you believe, argues Kathleen Stock.
- 'Fake news' a loosely-defined term used for political gain
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Commentary on a panel discussion of media representatives, part of the International Cybersecurity Congress, which discusses the topic of 'fake news'. The article includes a link to full video of the discussion.
- Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A report on Israeli weapons and training being provided to anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi soldiers in the Ukraine.
- It's not a conspiracy theory – your phone really is watching you, research finds
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Scientists used an automated system to interact with apps, searching for any media files that had been sent from them -- particularly to a third party. It was in the course of searching for audio files that the researchers began to see that screenshots and video recordings were being sent to third parties instead.
- Justice Kennedy and the Myth of the Legal Neutrality
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The enduring myth in America that law and politics are separate is put into question at the end of 2017 with 5-4 decisions upholding President Trump's travel ban, the striking down mandatory public sector union fees, and the resignation of Justice Kennedy.
- When America Downed an Iranian Airliner and Celebrated It!
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Every 3rd of July Iranians commemorate the killing of 299 innocent people, including 66 children, by the US Navy. Adding to the tragedy is the American attitude towards this catastrophic event.
- Ex-Muslims: A community in protest
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
I see ex-Muslims as a community in protest: insisting on freedom from religion, and freedom of conscience. For the right to apostasy and blasphemy, without fear. Like the LGBT, anti-slavery, anti-colonialist, anti-apartheid, suffragette or civil rights movements, it’s a movement which insists upon our common humanity and equality – not upon difference or superiority. It’s a movement of people who refuse to live in fear and in the shadows, and who are speaking out for social change in unprecedented ways.
- The Official Fake News
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Emmanuel Macron, who was comfortably elected to the presidency, has instructed his parliamentary majority to provide him with a law against 'fake news' during election campaigns. The law would be a selective halt to the the dissemination of information with dangerous consequences.
- Why Ocasio-Cortez's Platform is So Great
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
By labeling her foreign policy platform "A Peace Economy," Ocasio-Cortez, using a phrase popular with the peace movement, makes the financial connection without shying away from the immoral and criminal and counter-productive character of war. The fact is that war endangers rather than protecting, erodes rights, militarizes police and society, destroys the natural environment, directly kills and injures and traumatizes and harms millions, and - on top of that - does the most damage through the diversion of resources from where they could do good.
- BDS Versus Settler-Colonialism
Book Review
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of two books about pro-Palestinian political activism known as BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.) Contains detailed discussion of history and current events covered in the books.
- Cesspools, Sewage, and Social Murder
Environmental Crisis and Metabolic Rift in Nineteenth-Century London
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Karl Marx's analysis of changes in British agriculture in the nineteenth-century provides the theoretical starting point for what is now known as 'metabolic rift theory'. This article considers an aspect of the theory that has not been much discussed in modern ecosocialist analysis- the environmental crisis that the accumulation of human excrement caused in urban areas, notably in London.
- Communism and Self-Management
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at workers' self-management in past regimes and their relevance to current debates.
- Disabling Barriers
Book Review
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of a collection on disability rights.
- Endless War, Swirling Chaos
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The editors of Against the Current comment on current American global affairs, including the Singapore Summit, Iran and Palestine as well as the need for a new Anti-War movement.
- Exploitation, Alienation and Oppression
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Bakan discusses the varations of Marxism and proports that the best of the Marxist tradition resists orthodoxy. She considers the complexity and variation in the core concepts in Marx's work regarding inequality.
- #FreeSiwatu!
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Siwatu-Salama Ra, an activist, was arrested in Detriot for felonious assault despite the fact that Siwatu-Salama was acting to defend herself and her family.
- Gender, Race and Marx's Whiskers
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Roediger juxtaposes James and Marx quotations and discusses the iimplications for how Marx’s limits and his forward motion regarding race and gender might be understood together.
- India's Freedom Struggle Influenced by Marxism
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In India Marxism has influenced revolutionary figures to varying degrees. As inequality rises a renewed interest in Marx that engages local philosophies could invigorate a proletarian movement.
- Just Transition: Let Detroit Breathe!
A talk by William Copeland
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
William Copeland presents the campaign, Let Detroit Breathe. The campaign's prinicipal aim is to help Detroiters win their right to breathe clean air.
- Letter to the Editors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Georgakas responds to the book review of Finally Got the News in a previous issue of the journal. He was disheartened that pertinent political and artistic seeds that directly fed that period have been neglected.
- The Making of C.L.R. James
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A short, positive review of a graphic novel about CLR James.
- Mali disintegrates
‘People are rejecting injustice’
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Mali’s general election this month looks uncertain, with rebels -- partly inspired by Islamist jihadism -- offering an alternative source of law and order in the central regions.
- Marx and Organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Lause examines Marx's involvement in different organizations and argues that he seems never to have had a problem not being in an organization -- not because he accorded organization no importance, but rather that the importance he accorded it depended entirely on the demands of the class struggle around him.
- Marx, Our Contemporary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Marx’s analysis uncovers essential features and defining tendencies of capitalism far better than alternative frameworks. Smith outlines five examples in how Marx remains our contemporary.
- Myron Perlman, Z"L: Working-Class Jewish Radical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Memorial for Myron Perlman, union carpenter and social justice activist.
- On Economic Madness
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A mostly positive, informative review of "Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason" by David Harvey.
- Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll. Review discusses history of Appalachia as well as previous literature on the subject.
- Rev. Edward Pinkey Freed after 30 Months
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Michigan's Supreme Court has ruled that Berrien County Prosecutor improperly charged activist Rev. Edward Pinkney with five felony counts of election forgery.
- Revising Class: Lumpen in Literature
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of Ragged Revolutionaries by Nathaniel Mills. Marxist analysis of depression-era African-American literaature by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Margaret Walker.
- The Soviets and Tsarist Debt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A history of the Soviet's refusal to honor Tsarist debt afterthe 1971 revolution. Looks at the effect on Russia up to and after the end of the USSR.
- State of the UAW
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Since the 1979-1981 economic crisis, when the UAW convinced its members to make concessions to the Big-Three, auto-workers have been losing benefits, wages and programs. Feeley discusses the current state of UAW focusing on its leadership.
- Transformation Problem Unraveled
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital
and the End of the 'Transformation Problem'" by Fred Moseley. Burkett provides a summary of the details of Moseley's theory.
- Israeli Government Fears Palestinian Cameras
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A report on a Bill by the Israeli Knessett that would criminalize the filming of Israeli soldiers in Palestine, with a proposed five year jail sentence for offenders.
- Stop Whining and Start Organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A commentary on the state of the labour movment in the United States, which has been in a marked decline since the 1950's. Lindorff discusses why unions are vanishing, loss of membership, disassociation with the Democratic party, and the changes needed to reorganize and enforce workers' rights.
- UNRWA Does not Perpetuate the Conflict, the Conflict Perpetuates UNRWA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In January, without warning, Donald Trump refsued to pay $305 million of his country's $365 million commitment to UNRWA. UNRWA, the UN agency serving Palestinian refugees, remains $200 million short of the funds it needs to provide humanitarian services for five million people, including 2/3 of the population of the Gaza Strip.This is not really a story about under-funding UNRWA. This is about the people who strenuously seek to eliminate it.
- The birth of the Cuban polyclinic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
During the 1960s, Cuban medicine experienced changes as tumultuous as the civil rights and antiwar protests in the United States. While activists, workers, and students in western Europe and the United States confronted existing institutions of capitalism and imperialism, Cuba faced the even greater challenge of building a new society.
- Celebrating Canadian Multiculturalism Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On this 27th day of June, let us reflect and give homage to not only all those people who have come from every corner of the world and by working together contributed to building this country of ours
- "I Really Don't Care, Do U?" the Mendacity of Evil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While Americans consider themselves well above the authoritarianism and atrocities of such regimes as Nazi Germany, the author takes a look at some disturbing connections and similarites with the United States.
- Kidnapper Trump as Symptom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The current plight of asylum seekers in the United States and the traumatic separation of children from parents at the southern U.S. border, is the most recent American policy that is racially motivated.
- On Purpose, In Kabul
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Amid years of fighting and war profiteering the Afghan Peace Volunteers (APV) forge ahead with impressive work that demonstrates what needs to be done to rebuild the war-torn and economically devastated country.
- Painting a false picture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the book "The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media" by Greg Shupak.
- Why Do Students Kill Their Class-Mates
Detachment, Isolation, Dehumanization, and Emotional Estrangement from Human Relationships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A recently released phone video shot by 19-year-old Parkland, Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, reveals a cold, callus young man who claims to "hate everyone and everything."
- The Defiance that Launched Gaza's Flaming Kites Cannot be Extinguished
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Now Israel is facing a new and apparently even tougher challenge: how to stop Palestinian resistance from Gaza using flaming kites, which have set fire to lands close by in Israel. F-16 fighter jets are equipped to take on many foes but not the humble kite.
- 15 Actions That Can Shut Down Trump's Assault on Immigrant Families
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A list of recommended actions that can be taken against the Trump Administration's policy toward immigrant families, some of which include: Expose for-profit detention corporations; Target mayor's offices, state capitals, and governor's mansions; Practice non-violence, as well as using the media to your advantage.
- Movers charged 10 times the agreed upon price, Oakville woman says
Last minute move went from about $250 to $2,200
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An Oakville woman's simple $250 move deteriorated into a $2,200 nightmare earlier this month, she says. And now, the people she hired to do the move are not returning her calls.
- Why It Just Makes Sense for the U.S. to Withdraw from the UNHRC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Having withdrawn from the Paris Accord, and the Iran deal; having broken with the world to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital; having provoked allies and rivals with trade war-triggering tariffs and personal insults; having shocked the world with talk of a Great Wall to keep out Mexicans (paid for by Mexico).
- A New COINTELPRO?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Malik discusses the revelations that the FBI is targeting Black Lives Matters and what Justice Department head Jeff Sessions calls “Black identity” extremists as well as the response to open racism and how to move forward.
- Young protesters are defying Israel's blockade with scraps of paper and plastic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Five years ago, the film Flying Paper documented the successful efforts of Gaza’s children to set a new world record for mass kite-flying. The children defied Israel’s blockade, which prevents entry of most goods, by making kites from sticks, newspapers and scraps of plastic.
- Sanitized Radicals: Whitewashing 20th Century Socialists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at some of the 20th century's most inspiring leaders, whose socialist views have been conveniently ignored by the Right and the mainstream American media.
- Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A discussion of Israel's tactics in its campaign against Palestinians, which includes the use of deliberate provocation to incite retaliation, and the disturbing reality that results in large numbers of children's deaths.
- All in the family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Three parents who have made Canadian history by winning a court's recognition as a legal family are still adjusting to their status as pioneers for polyamorous rights.
- How can environmental activists use social media? Part 3
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Has Twitter jumped the shark? Is Facebook now MySpace? Should environmental activists bother with social media - and does the Cambridge Analytica scandal mean we should boycott?
- Less Than Fundamental: the Myth of Voting Rights in America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The story of voting rights in America is one of exceptionalism. In 1787 when the US Constitution was drafted the right to vote was absent from the text.
- Trump's War on Children is an act of State Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
State terrorism comes in many forms, but one of its most cruel and revolting expressions is when it is aimed at children. The Trump administration has detained more than 2,000 children, and the numbers are expected to grow exponentially in light of Trump's refusal to change the cruel policy.
- The U.S. Is Building Jails for Toddlers Because Trump "Doesn't Want to Look Weak"
The optics of Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy are - somehow - only getting worse.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the Trump Administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy, announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April, 2018. The policy, which separated children from their mothers and detained them in caged facilities, caused outrage among both Democrat and Republican lawmakers.
- Unprecedented Cruelty Against Immigrants and Their Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Recently White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly backed up the policy when he explained that, "the children will be put in foster care or whatever." This comes at the same time as a new report revealed that there are some 1,500 undocumented children, who have been placed by federal authorities in homes of "sponsors," and are now missing in the system.
No other country has a policy of separating families who intend to seek asylum.
- How can environmental activists use social media? Part 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Environmentalist activists and major NGOs all spend a considerable amount of time on social media - as an immediate and direct connection to the public. But to what effect?
- John Pilger's speech at Sydney rally to free Julian Assange
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Video by Cathy Vogan & Liam Kesteven (https://www.facebook.com/liam.kesteven), for Politics in the Pub. http://politicsinthepub.org.au
- A one of a kind culinary tour with food from some of the world's most dangerous places tonight
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A one of a kind culinary tour with food from some of the world's most dangerous places
happening tonight!
- Separating children from their families is nothing new, US has been doing it for decades
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While the child-parent separation of asylum seekers at the southern U.S. border is closer to home for Americans, the United States has had a longstanding foreign policy of separating thousands of children from their parents on a daily basis.
- The fallacy of Israel's human shields claims in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Desperately trying to justify the killing of unarmed protesters, Israel once again uses its 'human shields' mantra.
- How can environmental activists use social media? Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Environmental activists and NGOs spend a considerable amount of time Facebook posting and Tweeting. But the best use of social networks is about what you want to achieve. Alessio Perrone spoke to some experts in the field and gives some tips about how to use platforms successfully to promote social change
- Hundreds of children wait in large metal cages with foil blankets at Texas Border Patrol facility
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of immigrant children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.
- The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Henry A. Geroux gives his analysis on such subjects as fascism and white nationalism in the age of Trump, and the state of higher education in a time of Neo-liberalism.
- Democracy and Ecological Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In view of the global ecological problems which have arisen from aggressive market driven economies, the author examines what democracy and socialism really mean, and what a more environmentally responsible Post-Capitalism society might look like.
- Toronto gets its 1st Industrial Heritage District, highlighting history of Dundas and Carlaw
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Toronto's first-ever Industrial Heritage District is open in Leslieville - an area now home to some of the city's trendiest lofts.
- Toronto gets its 1st Industrial Heritage District, highlighting history of Dundas and Carlaw
'It's a fascinating rich history that's being brought to life,' Councillor Paula Fletcher says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An Industrial Heritage District opens in Leslieville, an area of Toronto now home to some of the city's trendiest lofts. The initiatve is part of an ongoing effort to promote an appreciation for the city's rich architectural, industrial, and cultural heritage.
- The NED's Useful Idiots
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On Friday, June 8, 2018, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow augmented her nightly Russiagate fetish by extolling the merits of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), telling her huge audience that the NED, created in the 1980s by the Ronald Reagan administration, still does the "non-partisan hard work around the world, of promoting small D democracy and promoting the institutions of civil society that any culture needs in order to have a functioning democracy."
- Oliver Law, the Lincoln Brigade's Black Commander
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
General Colin Powell was three months old when at 33 tall, broad-shouldered Texas African American Oliver Law, became the first Black Commander of an American Army.The date was June 12, 1937.Law was selected by a committee of three white officers to lead this integrated army.Heard of Colin Powell but never heard of Oliver Law? Hardly surprising. Law’s not mentioned in school books or social studies classes, and has yet to find a place in most college texts or history courses. But Law made his mark on world history in June 1937and for very good reasons.
- Why Do Establishment Feminists Hate Sex Workers?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On March 21st, 2018, U.S. Senate Republicans and Democrats joined together to overwhelmingly pass the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA); the House had earlier passed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA).
- No such thing as socialist Zionism
The historic contradictions of the Zionist left are being played out in the death throes of Meretz, writes Tony Greenstein
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Greenstein discusses the historic contraditions associated with Labour Zionism and explains why the term 'Socialist Zionist' just cannot exist.
- She says federal officials took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Under the American zero tolerance policy at the southern U.S. border hundreds of children are being separated from their mothers and families, including babies and toddlers.
- 3 adults in polyamorous relationship declared legal parents by N. L. court
St. John's court ruling believed to be legal first for Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In what is believed to be a legal first in Canada, a court in Newfoundland and Labrador has recognized three unmarried adults as the legal parents of a child born within their "polyamorous" family. Polyamorous relationships are legal in Canada, unlike bigamy and polygamy, which involve people in two or more marriages.
- Separating Migrant Families Is Barbaric. It's Also What the U.S. Has Been Doing to People of Color for Hundreds of Years.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the root of the current human rights crisis at the southern border, a crisis based primarily on racism and bigotry which has driven many American policies throughout the nation's history.
- The corporate media's world of illusions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In fact, the Great Western Narrative has been developed and refined over centuries to preserve a tiny elite’s privileges and expand its power. The role of journalists like me was to keep feeding these illusions to readers so they would remain fearful, passive and deferential to this elite. It is not that journalists lie – or at least, not most of them – it is that they are as deeply wedded to the Great Western Narrative as everyone else.
- The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Wrong Story lays bare the flaws in the way large media organizations present the Palestine–Israel issue. It points out major fallacies in the fundamental conceptions that underpin their coverage, namely that Palestinians and Israelis are both victims to comparable extents and are equally responsible for the failure to find a solution; that the problem is "extremists," often religiously-motivated ones, who need to be sidelined in favour of “moderates”; and that Israel’s uses of force are typically justifiable acts of self-defense.
Weaving together the existing literature with new insights, Shupak offers an up-to-date and tightly focused guide that exposes the distorted way these issues are presented and why each is misguided.
- Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?
- The New York Times' Second Assassination of Razan at-Najjar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On 1 June 2018, an Israeli assassin poised along "the largest concentration camp ever to exist" killed 20-year-old paramedic Razan al-Najjar. On 7 June 2018, the New York Times assassinated her a second time. It surely does not surprise that the Times provides yeoman’s service for Israeli hasbara.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
- Debunking A Century of War Lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the modern age of democracy and volunteer armies, a pretense for war is required to rally the nation around the flag and motivate the public to fight. That is why every major conflict is now accompanied by its own particular bodyguard of lies. From false flag attacks to dehumanization of the "enemy," here are all the examples you’ll need to help debunk a century of war lies.
- How the Guardian aided the anti-semites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Who do you help when you censor a cartoon depicting Israel's well-documented war crimes against Palestinians – and do so on the grounds that the criticism of Israel is anti-semitic?
The answer is: you help anti-semites.
- What would you do if soldiers dragged your son out of bed in the middle of the night?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
After more than half a century of occupation, most Israelis can no longer imagine themselves in the place of the Palestinians. But if we cannot imagine what it is like to live under occupation, we must at least confront its brutal reality.
- Pret-A-Patriarchy – on "modest" fashion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
"Modest" fashion is a fast growing industry with companies like Dolce & Gabbana, H&M, Marks and Spencer, DKNY, Zara and others all rushing to cash in. But while more choice is undoubtedly good, I have a problem with the labelling.
- Police Broke Into Chelsea Manning's Home with Guns Drawn - in a 'Wellness Check'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A video recording of a 'wellness check' by police in Maryland, USA, shows police officers arriving with weapons drawn. The incident sheds light on a very disturbing police procedure and whether law enforcement should be called at all as first responders in matters of mental health.
- The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Should the media include positive editorial content secretly paid for by major corporations, as London's Evening Standard newspaper has begun doing, according to new revelations?
Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read?
- The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read? But here's a seditious idea. Would that be such a bad thing? Maybe it would better if we were far more wary of the corporate media and began to think of it chiefly as a sales platform – selling us an ideology harmful to our individual welfare and that of our societies.
- Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and unapologetically, to say: “We refuse to remain invisible. We reject any attempt to assign us to the discard pile of history. We will exercise our fundamental right to go home.” They have done this unarmed, in the face of Israel’s use of deadly armed force against targets (children, press, medics) deliberately chosen to demonstrate the Jewish state’s unapologetic determination to force them back into submissive exile by any means necessary. By doing this repeatedly over the last few weeks, these incredibly brave men, women, and children have done more than decades of essays and books to strip the aura of virtue from Zionism that’s befogged Western liberals’ eyes for 70 years.
- The Syrian Observatory: Funded By The Foreign Office
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The UK funded a project worth £194,769.60 to provide the 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' with communications equipment and cameras.
- Gaza medic killed by Israel as she rescued injured
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Israeli occupation forces shot dead a volunteer medic and injured dozens of people as they continued their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians taking part in Great March of Return protests in Gaza for the 10th consecutive Friday. Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar, 21, was helping treat and evacuate wounded protesters east of Khan Younis when she was fatally shot on Friday evening. She was about 100 meters away from the boundary fence with Israel at the moment she was shot and was wearing clothing clearly identifying her as a medic.
- Takashi Nagai
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Takashi Nagai was a Catholic physician specializing in radiology. During WWII Nagai treated the wounded and was a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, after which he also treated its victims. Diagnosed with leaukemia, likely from his work in radiology, Nagai spent his remaining years as a teacher, author and devout Catholic. He was honoured with the title of Servant of God, the first step towards Catholic sainthood.
- This e-waste evangelist got into a battle involving Microsoft - and is going to prison for it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Recycling entrepreneur pleaded guilty, sentenced for copyright infringement dealing with computer discs.
- Africa's whistleblowers
'All I did was tell the truth'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Africa, those who denounce corruption face hardship and physical danger even when there’s a legal framework that should protect and guarantee them a fair hearing.
- Mozambique won't be Mato Grosso
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A popular movement centred on a small farming village in northern Mozambique has, for the moment, halted an attempt to move to cash-crop monocultures mainly for export.
- A search for roots and connections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The post-third-way Labour Party is trying to encourage its many new activist members, especially among the young, to turn the party into a social movement.
- Surveillance Self-Defense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A guide on how online surveillance works and the various tools and techniques the public can use to help protect themselves from spying.
- Trump's EU doormats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The author demontrates the need for EU members to maintain their independence and sovereignty through the treatment and demands made of EU leaders by Trump concerning deals on Iran.
- Missing Children: The Pottery Barn Rule Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
If one in five American parents couldn't figure out where their kids were, most people would rightly see the phenomenon as a crisis and a national scandal. Grandstanding prosecutors with visions of gubernatorial campaigns dancing in their heads would conduct mass parental perp walks. Legislators would boost their presidential aspirations by co-sponsoring legislation requiring universal implantation of GPS trackers at birth.
- Nanking Massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A summary of the massacre at Nanking (Nanjing) , which occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937. During this period soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army perpetrated horrific atrocities, and murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000.
- Confronting Germany's New Fascists in Berlin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the rise of facism in Germany with the recent winning of seats, now with 92 representatives in the national Bundestag, by the five-year-old Alternative for Germany (AfD). This new found platform provides the party with a voice in every debate and the first speakers after those of the government.
- Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western Nations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The main theme of all my talks in various cultural, academic and media platforms was the pressing need to refocus the discussion on Palestine on the struggle, aspirations and history of the Palestinian people. But, interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I also learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world.
- Finding the truth amid Israel's lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The famous – and by now overused – expression that history is written by the victors can be countered in many ways. One way is by unpacking the victors’ publications in order to expose the lies, fabrications and misrepresentations, as well as their less conscious actions. A rereading of these open sources about the Nakba, mostly written by Israelis themselves, unlocks fresh historiographical perspectives on the big picture of that period – while declassified documents allow us to see that picture in a higher resolution. This reprise could have been done at any moment between 1948 and today – as long as historians were willing to employ the critical lens needed for such an examination. Rereading these open sources, especially in tandem with the numerous oral histories of the Nakba, reveals the barbarism and dehumanization that accompanied the catastrophe. The barbarism is common to settler communities in the formative years of their colonization projects and can sometimes be obscured by the dry and evasive language of military and political documents.
- Israel deliberately provoked the latest violence in Gaza, but you won't learn that in the NY Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Times breathlessly and at length recounts Israeli anxiety over the limited attacks from Gaza: "Sirens blared again;" "cellphones were buzzing with alerts of incoming rockets."
- Israel deliberately provoked the latest violence in Gaza, but you won't learn that in the NY Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Times breathlessly and at length recounts Israeli anxiety over the limited attacks from Gaza: "Sirens blared again;" "cellphones were buzzing with alerts of incoming rockets." The Times has a reporter in Gaza, Iyad Abuheweila, but the paper had nothing to say whatsoever about how Gazans were reacting to being under assault. Maybe their cellphones were also buzzing, and their children were also afraid?
- Israeli minister threatens to destroy Gaza "once and for all"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As Israel bombed it dozens of times in the past day, a senior Israeli minister has incited the total destruction of Gaza.
- Joyless in Zion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Israel is held in contempt by much of the western world, and Israelis know it even as they get down to the hard business of shooting border-crossers. The New York Times did a piece suggesting that Israelis have a conscience about the violence they poured forth at the Gaza border, and they hope that it was the right thing to do. But Gideon Levy says they have lost their conscience; and that was my impression too from interviewing Israeli Jews in West Jerusalem. I talked to 20 people. Every one expressed support for the killings. There was simply no dissent.
- Local Autonomy: A Key to Protection of the Ecosystem
Apo Island's Protected Landscape and Seascape
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In his book, The Plundered Seas, Michael Berrill called the Grand Banks and Georges Bank maybe the saddest story of overfishing.Berrill’s solution was the management of Large Marine Ecosystems.
- 'Our Rivers are Black with Coal' - living with Siberia's mines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the aggressive coal mining industry in Siberia where local opposition and human rights are ignored, and indigenous communities and ecosystems are being destroyed.
- Video: IJV and CJPME tell Israeli trade Minister Eli Cohen and the Canadian Trade Minister to #EndApartheidTrade and divest from the Israeli-Canadian arms trade
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Fathi Harb burnt himself to death in Gaza: Will the world notice?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Self-immolation is more than suicide. That can be done quietly, out of sight, less gruesomely. In fact, figures suggest that suicide rates in Gaza have rocketed in recent years. But public self-immolation is associated with protest.
- MST Letter to the Brazilian People
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
We call on the Brazilian society as a whole to build and participate in the Congress of the Brazilian People, organized by the Brazil Popular Front, to be the space for discussion and organization on the country's problems and the structural measures
- Say 'I Love You'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A commentary on the issue of gun violence in schools in the United States, and the current lack of leadership which narrowly places blame on the shooter rather than tackle the more complex issues and policies which could make a difference.
- The Simulation of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The global capitalist ruling classes have been stuck with "democracy" ever since, or, more accurately, with the simulation of democracy.
- 13 protesters against copper plant in India killed after police open fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Public protests at the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries in the town of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, India, were met with police fire during the last two days, with 13 protesters killed and and hundreds injured.
- Trump, the NYPD and the People We Call 'Animals'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the reckless use and dissemination of de-humanizing pejorative language, notably by President Donald Trump and some police agencies in the United States, which has consequences for the public who interact with police and for society as a whole.
- You Can't Commit Genocide Without the Help of Local People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
How do you organise a successful genocide – in Turkish Armenia a century ago, in Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1940s, or in the Middle East today? A remarkable investigation by a young Harvard scholar – focusing on the slaughter of Armenians in a single Turkish Ottoman city 103 years ago – suggests the answer is simple: a genocidal government must have the local support of every branch of respectable society: tax officials, judges, magistrates, junior police officers, clergymen, lawyers, bankers and, most painfully, the neighbours of the victims.
- A Faustian Bargain with the Climate Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Take as our inspiration the temptations of capitalist individualism set before us, we make the exact same bargain. The difference in this case however is that we know the disaster is coming; we don't even need to worry about what our spidey senses say, 97% of all climate scientists agree that the capitalist mentality that sees the world as an infinite resource and infinite garbage dump is warming the atmosphere. We have even less excuse.
- YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market "Solutions" to the Nation's Housing Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them -- and shower them with cash.
- Baran & Sweezy versus Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In response to the editors' question 'Where was Marx in 1968?," Daum chooses to comment briefly on one topic: the anti-Marxist influence of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s book Monopoly Capital.
- Editorial Statement: Introducing Insurgent Notes on Marx in 1968
Insurgent Notes vol. 17
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The editors introduce the focus of this issue: How present or absent was the thought of Karl Marx in 1968?
- From Catholicism and the working class to communism and Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Garvey describes his childhood growing up in a Catholic community in New York and explains how Marx and Marxism were episodically present in the later periods of his life but first engagement with them was not nearly as deep as it needed to be. He asserts that in the 1960s Marx and Marxism that were on offer in the world of political practice were, more often than not, caricatures. What was needed in 1968 and beyond was not simply more Marx but a different Marx. At the end, he sketchs out some ideas of what a different Marx might have been and what difference it might have made.
- Getting to Marxism in Wisconsin and Iowa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Dave Ranney recounts his experiences during the 1960s which led him to accepting Marxism. He emphasizes his experinces in Southeast Asia during the 1960s which exposed covert Americian military action in the region. Other formative experiences include those as an university professor in Wisconsin and Iowa where he witnessed and joined campus movements.
- Marx in 1968 in France
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In a personal essay, Coleman describes his personal experiences in France from 1966-1968.
He highlights significant number of Marxists teaching in both high schools and secondary settings. Furthermore, he discusses how the working class perceived in the Marxist far left, Trotskyist and Maoist press before May 1968.
- Marx in 1968: Report on a Journey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Harvey Goldman discusses his intellectual jounrey during the 1960s in relationship to Marism. As a member of SDS, Goldman was engaged actively in student activism.
- Marx is dead, long live Marx!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Duran describes 1968 as an an "ideological revolution which unquestionably affected the dominant revolutionary ideology, Marxism, and here begins my contribution, which I will divide into two large sections: an account of the situation in Spain, and then the rebirth of
Marxism, and why we can say: 'Long live Marx!'"
- Marx and Marxism in Berkeley in 1968
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Setting context by describing the early twentieth century political landscape in Berkeley, Goldner continues to describe his experince as a student at UC Berkeley by discussing local, national and international contexts for my encounter with Marx in Berkeley, 1968.
- A Political Education and Militant Intervention Before, During and After May ’68
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the context of the Algerian War for independence, Charroussart discusses his political education and activism before, during after 1968 in relation to Marixsm.
- Studying Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Buhle discusses how often participants in "The Movement" were not formally educated in Marxism but rather held self-studies conducted individually and in groups.
- The Italian Long ’68
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Taddeo describes how the charateristics of 1968 continued in Italy passed 1968 and his subsequent participation in various movements. He explains that with the struggles of 1977 and the repression that followed, one can say that the social ferment begun in Italy in 1968 had exhausted itself.
- Wild at Heart: Keeping Up With Margie Kidder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Margie Kidder died on Sunday in her house in Livingston, Montana. It's not that she hadn’t had close calls with the Reaper before.
- An Interview with Norman Finkelstein: "I'm Not Betraying the Legacy of My Parents in Order to Make Myself Palatable."
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Norman Finkelstein is among the leading scholars on the Israel-Palestine conflict in the United States. His work primarily focuses on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Nazi Holocaust. For decades, he has advocated for a two state solution on the June 1967 borders, a "just solution to the refugee question," an end to the Israeli settlements in Palestine, the deconstruction of the border wall, the right to clean water, and an end to the occupation, the Gaza blockade, and the use of force against the Palestinians.
- Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza Fence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" that resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and the theft of their lands, homes, and even their household possessions, the message today was clear: the Israeli state is prepared to maintain its apartheid state by any means necessary. The catastrophe for the Palestinians was the birth of Israel and was celebrated by the Israeli state with tear gas, bullets and the blood of Palestinians.
- "Killing Gaza" captures culture of resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Watch Killing Gaza, absorb the atmosphere of siege and listen to the testimonies of the trapped. You might then understand why so many chose to rush the gates.
- American Jews Stand Against the U.S. Embassy Move and Israel's Mass Killing of Protesters in Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This is the ongoing Nakba: Celebrating the annexation of Jerusalem while gunning down Palestinian protesters
- CJPME Condemns Israeli Shooting of Canadian Doctor, Slaughter of Gaza Protesters
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) condemns Israel’s shooting of London, ON based doctor Tarek Loubani, shot while attending the wounded in Gaza.
- My Experiences in 1968 in Working-Class Turin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Lepore recounts his experiences growing up in 1968 in working class Turin. He highlight the influence of the newspaper, Lotta Comunista, its developed Marxist approach and his subsequent involvement with, and then commitment to, that group.
- 'Today is one of the most tragic days in the history of the Jewish people: one American Jews response to the Gaza massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In this open letter to the Westchester Israel Action Committee by congregant Howard Horovitz, Horovitz asks "When will we stand up, as human beings, as a committee and as a Temple, to condemn the massacre of Palestinians on the Gaza border?"
- West's failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Jewish Israelis celebrate, and governments around the world stand by passively, as Israel massacres Palestinians in Gaza. Inaction by Western governments ensures that Israel will feel embolded to commit further massacres in the future.
- On Nakba Day Palestinians in Gaza explain why they joined the 'Great March of Return'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Palestinian refugees in their own words, on the 70th anniversary of the creation of Israel. In the context of the 2018 opening of the USA embassy in Jerusalem.
- A New Politics? Movements, Power and Transformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Hilary Wainwright’s latest book, A New Politics from the Left (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press), represents a timely appeal for a democratic, participatory, and bottom-up political transformation.
- When Covering Up a Crime Takes Precedence Over Human Health: BP's Toxic Gulf Coast Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On April 20, 2010, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Over the next 87 days, it gushed at least 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst human-made environmental disaster in US history and afflicting the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
- The future of the Nakba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
If the Nakba’s most salient features are the theft of Palestinian land and the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land, and subjecting the lands that could not be stolen and the people who could not be expelled to systematic control and oppression, then, it would be most inaccurate to consider the Nakba as a discrete event that refers to the war of 1948 and its immediate aftermath. Rather, it should be historicized as a process which spanned the last 140 years, beginning with the arrival of the first Zionist conquerors to colonize the land in the early 1880s. In addition, Israeli leaders continue to regale their own people and the world with assurances that the Nakba is not just a past and present process of dispossessing the Palestinian people of their lands and expelling them, but rather one that must continue to preserve the future survival of Israel. The Nakba then turns out to be not just a past event and an ongoing process in the present, but a calamity that has a decidedly planned future ahead of it. If so, what might that future be?
- Israel at 70: Why Gaza's refugees and their descendants will never forget their violent expulsion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Tuesday marks the anniversary of the start of the exodus from what became Israel, an event Palestinians call the Nabka (catastrophe). Sarah Helm visits Gaza to hear the views of residents old and young about their past and future
- The May '68 Events and Revolution in the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The political explosion fifty years ago in May 1968 in France has become a key historical marker for the Left. In an outburst of political revolt, workers seized factories and students occupied universities bringing France to a halt in a series of massive general strikes.
- What's it like for a social movement to take control of a city?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Ada Colau surprised many when she won the election to become mayor of Barcelona. The housing rights activist was part of a deep social movement aiming for participatory democracy. But this latest article from the Symbiosis Research Collective examines how winning the election was just the first step
- Why Everyone Is Wrong about the Censorship Fight at Universities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The silencing of part-time instructors is the real free speech crisis
- A Brief History of American Torture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The recent appointment of Gina Haspel as Head of the CIA reopens a dark chapter in US history -- the "enhanced interrogation", or torture of men, women and children. It also emphasizes the fact that no American officials who sanctioned, devised, supervised or implemented torture have ever been brought to justice for these crimes against humanity.
- Free and Accessible Transit Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Transit is a critical issue for many people in Toronto, as in all major urban areas. More is at stake than reducing traffic congestion and gridlock. Free transit opens the door to a broader transformation of urban life and the current social system. Our 'Red-Green' vision is socialist, based on the working class, environmentally just, internationalist, and transformative.
- Killing Children: From Ireland to Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The most tragic casualty in a conflict is that of a child, the most disturbing casualty in a conflict is that of a child killed purposely. In Palestine there is a disturbingly tragic high rate of children killed by those sporting the uniform of Israeli armed forces.
- What if Ida B. Wells Depended on Facebook?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The work of Ida B. Wells, the crusading journalist who forced Americans to pay attention to lynchings and human rights abuses, is a reminder why we need a tax-dollars-funded, and journalism focused, commitment to public media.
- Who is Afraid of Venezuelan Democracy?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
We are witnessing before our eyes a scenario of subversion and disqualification of Venezuela’s democracy.
- De-Briefing Academics: Unpaid Intelligence Informants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Many academics frequently engage in what government officials dub 'de-briefing'! Academics meet and discuss their field-work, data collection, research finding, observations and personal contacts over lunch at the Embassy with US government officials or in Washington with State Department officials.
- 2018: When Orwell's 1984 Stopped Being Fiction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A commentary on The Guardian's news story "Revealed: UK's push to strengthen anti-Russia alliance". Cook questions facts and the terminology used in the Guardian article, a form of 'journalistic fraud', which promotes the UK government's policy towards Russia.
- Defining Israel as a "Jewish State"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The definition of what is a "Jewish State" and "what is a Jew" is a fundamental part of this debate. The "Jewish State" is like no other. It uses a concept of Jewish nationality which is like no other definition of nationality. It is the Jewish character of the State that is given preference to all other considerations and gives superior rights to Jews over the non-Jewish population in Israel.
- Who's Funding the White Helmets?
Reality Check
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
You've no doubt heard of the White Helmets, aka the Syria Civil Defense. They claim to be a neutral entity in Syria. They say they are just helping people caught in the middle of a civil war. But are they? Follow the money and you will find numerous ties to government funding from not only the U.S., but the U.K., Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. We untangle these ties to the White Helmets in a Reality Check you won't get anywhere else.
- Denver Post Editor Who Criticized Paper's Ownership Resigns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Chuck Plunkett said he knew that he was risking his job as the editorial page editor of The Denver Post when he wrote an impassioned editorial last month blasting the newspaper's hedge-fund owners as "vulture capitalists" who had hobbled Colorado's largest newspaper with deep layoffs and cost-cutting. On Thursday, Mr. Plunkett resigned after he said an executive who oversees the newspaper refused to run another sharp-edged editorial Mr. Plunkett had written for this Sunday's newspaper.
- The 'One Democratic State Campaign' program for a multicultural democratic state in Palestine/Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As the Leonard Cohen song goes, ":everybody knows" the two-state solution is dead and gone. Zionism’s 120-year quest to Judaize Palestine – to transform Palestine into the Land of Israel – has been completed. Every Israeli government since 1967 has refused to seriously entertain the notion of a genuinely independent and viable Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel.
- Though Invisible to Us, Our Dead Are Not Absent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A reminder that the world is a beautiful place, and we must save it by listening to the voices of those who have passed, who instilled us with life, love and the spirit of resistance.
- A Tool to Combat Washington's Middle East Wars
Book review: "The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State have Conspired to Vilify Iran"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Review of Dan Kovalik's book "The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State have Conspired to Vilify Iran", which provides a concise overview of US imperial conduct since WWII and the disturbing hypocrisy and deceit of the US Government and media.
- What your government can't tell you about drug prices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
One of the best kept commercial secrets? The price governments pay for brand name drugs
- FC St. Pauli: Antifascist, Antiracist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Haasen describes the political activism of FC St. Pauli footbal team and its supporters in Hamburg, Germany. Having once supported the Nazi Regime, this club has radiically changed it stance to become a vocal supporter of antiracism, antifascism and humanitarian efforts.
- Gazan Gandhis: Gaza Bleeds Alone as 'Liberals' and 'Progressives' Go Mute
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Tens of thousands of protesters, raising Palestinian flags continue to hold their massive rallies across the Gaza border. Despite the high death toll and the thousands maimed, they return everyday with the same commitment to popular resistance that is predicated on collective unity, beyond factionalism and politics.But why are they still being largely ignored? It is politically convenient to criticize Palestinians as a matter of course, and utterly inconvenient to credit them, even when they display such courage, prowess and commitment to peaceful change.
- Privatization is Killing Us: Dispatches from the Capitalist War on Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at various sectors of society that are suffering under privatization in the United States- including education, the prison system, healthcare, and the environment.
- African Americans and Immigrant Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Malik discusses job competition and tensions between Afrcian Americans and Hispanic workers, more specifically between African Amercians and undocumented workers. He illustrates this through the example of a conflict in a Chicago bakery.
- Animating the Great Migration and After
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Brian Dolinar reviews Pioneering Cartoonists of Color by Tim Jackson.
- Barbara Ehrenreich Isn't Afraid to Die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, The Certainty of Dying, and Our Illusion of Control", where she questions current cultural practices, our sense of 'self', and advocates for a broader acceptance of death's inevitability.
- Can a Minority Overthrow the Majority?
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Feeley reviews Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean.
- Confronting the Right: An Introduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An overview of issues related to confronting the right, including questions surrounding the labelling of free speech as hate speech.
- Defending 'Our Democracy'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Despite the onsought of attacks on American democracy, groups like the teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky and the Parkland surviors through their activism are defending America's democracy.
- Doubts about 'Novichoks'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Briefing notes developed from ongoing research and investigation into the use of chemical and biological weapons during the 2011-present war in Syria conducted by members of the "Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda".
- For Campus Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Bose describes the right-wing incursion on universities and his troubled feelings about the climate of intellectual fear among some on the campus left. He elaborates on this by discussing the demands for speaking engagements for right-wing pundits to be cancelled.
- London Pub Crawl with Karl Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An account by Wilhelm Liebknecht of an incident which occured during a 'beer trip' -pub crawl- between Karl Marx, other Germans, and some Englishmen.
- Marx at 200; Capital at 150
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Holmstrom discusses the relevance of Marx's Das Capital in understanding modern and historical economic systems. Specifically, she looks at the themes of exploitation, gender, race and capital.
- Marx's Ecology: Recovered Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Löwy says that while mainstream ecologicail theory has been dismissive of Karl Marx, serious research in recent decades has recovered some of his very important insights on ecological issues.
- Modernity and Negations
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Finkel reviews The End of Jewish Modernity and What is Modern Israel? He says they offer complementary perspectives on some of the tragedies confronting today’s world, and their historical backgrounds.
- 1917 and the Colonial Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Solenberger discuss the 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent spead of the communist movement internationally. He focuses on the conditions which led to the rapid spread of its ideas and how in 1920 the movement went from being on the offense to defence.
- On the 'Duty to Protect'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On April 14, 2018, U.S.-British-French forces launched a missile strike on alleged Syrian chemical weapons facilities, citing as justification the 'duty to protect'. Finkel make it clear that this attack was illegal under international law.
- Organizing Workers Strikes Against War and Repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Brief History of Labour Strikes Against Imperialist Wars and Reaction
- Popular Front Counter-Memories
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Ehlers reviews Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War by Benjamin Balthaser.
- Remembering Joanne Landy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Farber recalls the life and work of Joanne Landy. She is remembered as a supporter and organizer for a radical democratic politics opposed to oppression and exploitation throughout the world.
- Review Essay: Are Strikes Over?
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Moody reviews and critiques Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings by Joshua Clover.
- "Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists"; Against the Current vol. 194
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In October 1864, Marx drafted the inaugural rules for the International Working Men's Association (First International). Its opening lines were a hymn to freedom and self-activity: "the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves."
- Taking on the Far-Right Menace
An Interview with Mark Bray
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Diana Feeley and David Finkel interview Mark Bray, author of The Anti-Fascist Handbook and professor at Darmouth College. Bray answers questions about his book, facism, tracking the racist right and tactical issues.
- An Urban Teacher Union Epic
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Swerdlow reviews A Fight for the Soul of Public Education: The Story of the Chicago Teachers Strike. She suggests that the 2012 Chicago teachers strike can be used as a model to persuade the public that public employees and their labour organizations benefit society and lead to effetive change.
- What Fascism is, and Isn't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
By examining historicial fascist movements, Oppenheimer delineates what is and isn't fascism and also explores the common themes between the alt-right and its fascist predecessors.
- Where It All Began: The Dawn of 'Fake News'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While today's political smear campaigns and propaganda have gotten more sophisticated and subtle, the underlying ethics remain as maggoty as ever.
- Yemen's Turn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Arab Spring, numerically strong but politically weak, failed to break this destructive dynamic. With the corpse of Arab nationalism in a state of advanced decay and the principal opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood, desperate for a deal with Washington, the 2011 uprisings were easily confiscated by the US to further its own aims in the region. Despite its many national peculiarities, the ruinous war in Yemen has to be viewed in this context.
- Help wanted from Canadian Mothers, for Mothers in Malawi
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
It's easy for Canadian mothers to find proper health care for themselves and their children. In Malawi, it is not. Pregnant women will walk for hours or days to reach a health facility or camp out beside one, so they have a safe place to give birth.
- WADA reveals worst doping cheaters in 2016, Russia not even in top 5
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While Russian national athletics federations (RUSAF) still remain suspended by international sports governing bodies as part of the crackdown over its alleged state-sponsored doping system, a new report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) indicates that Russia is far from the worst offenders in 2016.
- Toronto's film industry grows, but at what cost?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While high profile film productions are increasing in Toronto, the article questions whether taxpayers are getting good value for the billions of dollars of public money being invested into the film industry's expansion in the city.
- The Attack on Wilderness From Environmentalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Wildlands are being lost across the globe, and some conservation groups are assisting in that loss by proposing lesser protective status.
- Defenders of Copyright Troll Victims Urge Congress to Reject the "Small Claims" Bill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A dedicated group of attorneys and technologists from around the U.S. defend Internet users against abuse by copyright trolls.
- The League of Assad-Loving Conspiracy Theorists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
So the global capitalist ruling classes' War on Dissent is now in full swing. With their new and improved official narrative, "Democracy versus the Putin-Nazis," successfully implanted in the public consciousness, the corporatocracy have been focusing their efforts on delegitimizing any and all forms of deviation from their utterly absurd and increasingly paranoid version of reality.
- How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America's Post-9/11 Wars? Part 3
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Davies investigates the death toll of U.S. covert and proxy wars in Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen and underscores the importance of comprehensive war mortality studies.
- Privately run prisoner transport company kept detainees schackedl for 18 days
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The inhumane treatment of people by a prisoner transport company puts into question the use of privately hired companies, where incentive to pick up as many detainees as possible for financial gain supercedes the basic human rights of their charges.
- Russia and the War Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A critical look at the book "Russian Roulette", by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, which examines alleged Russian interference in the 2017 U.S. election.
- For the love of books: Mobile libraries around the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the people behind mobile libraries serving communities from Nigeria to the Netherlands.
- Gideon Levy: A Voice of Sanity from Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In spite of a systemic policy of demonization, Israeli journalist and human rights activist Gideon Levy continues denouncing the Israeli government and the crimes against Palestinians.
- Girls Reduced to Being Repositories of Communal and Religious Identities in Kashmir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The rape and ruthless murder of an eight-year old girl in Jammu province underscores the brutal gender violence that is a consistent feature of the political thuggery that grips the subcontinent.
- In Middle East Wars It Pays to be Skeptical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the context of Western air strikes on alleged Syrian biological weapons sites on 14 April, 2018, the history of the bombing of the Abu Ghraib baby milk factory in 1991 underscores the need for permanent scepticism towards claims by U.S. and Western governments that they know exactly what is happening on the ground in Syria.
- Just When You Thought 'Russiagate' Couldn't Get Any Sillier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks is simply the latest version of what the DNC has been doing since 2016, which is trying to fob blame for its loss of an election it should have won.
- Unit 731: How Leaders of Japan's WWII Germ Warfare Unit Ended Up Working for the US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the post-war collaboration between the United States and members of Unit 731, a germ warfare branch of the Imperial Japanese Army that conducted horrific and lethal experiments on Chinese civilians and Allied prisoners.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
Their Interent or Ours?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
- Palestine: MSF teams in Gaza observe unusually severe and devastating gunshot injuries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
MSF medical staff report receiving patients with devastating injuries of an unusual severity, which are extremely complex to treat.
- Their Internet or Ours? - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Their Internet or Ours?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Internet, at one time a free & open space for sharing information & ideas, has been privatized & twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition & criticism.
- Their Internet or Ours?
Introduction to the April 21, 2018 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What happened to the Internet? The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
- Government Mass Murder
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
"This is not an assault." Twenty-five years ago, that was the lie blaring over government loudspeakers as the FBI and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) carried out its plan to obliterate the Branch Davidians, an integrated group that formed as a breakaway from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Orchestrated and overseen at the highest levels of the Clinton administration, the 19 April 1993 assault outside Waco, Texas, engulfed the Branch Davidians’ Mount Carmel commune in an inferno that killed over 80 people, including some two dozen children.
- Liberation of Dalits: Key to Indian Workers Revolution
Review of Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Ants Among Elephants is both a family memoir and a political history.
- A Tale of Two Atrocities: Douma and Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Compare the intense media coverage of an alleged Syrian chemical attack to the near silence accorded the horrific civilian massacre perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, at the very same time.
- 'The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly Ended
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian reflects on the Nakba, where 750,000 were driven from their homes or fled in terror following massacres of Palestinian civilians by Jewish militias.
- As lies on Syrian gas attack unravel, US and UK shift to claims of Russian "cyber war"
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An examination of the alleged gas attack in Syria as pretext for yet another war against a Middle Eastern nation, the suppression of anti-war sentiment, and the legitimization and crackdown on democratic rights and censorship of the Internet under the banner of combating Russian cyber warfare.
- Challenging Capitalism through Workers’ Control
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
From the upheavals of the early 20th century to the neo-liberal re-structurings of the late 20th century emerges the common feature of 'worker's control' -- a movement to protect jobs and communities.
- Exposing Canary Mission
A Resource for College and University Leaders
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A report on Canary Mission, a secretive and non-academic political organization that uses their website to engage in defamatory attacks against college students, academics and others who report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and advocate for Palestinian rights.
- Facebook says it tracks non-users but doesn't 'sell people's data'
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Facebook admits it also collects data on people who are not users of their service, yet what they do with that data is unclear.
- Fisk Puts to Test the Free-Press Myth in Douma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Veteran Middle East corrrespondent Robert Fisk was the first western correspondent to arrive in Douma following the US, UK and French attacks on Syria. Based on first hand interviews Fisk's account is clearly honest about what he reported and certainly plausible, yet respected British newspapers like the Guardian gave his reports a cursory if not hostile treatment.
- Robert Fisk's Douma Report Rips Away Excuses for Air Strike on Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A report by respected journalist Robert Fisk shows that there is a highly credible alternative explanation for the aftermath of the alleged gas attack in Douma, Syria. His report, including an eyewitness account by a senior doctor, counters the video evidence used by the US to justify the air strikes on the region. It was an attack that should never have taken place before inspectors were able to investigate and report their findings.
- His father brought hundreds of Jewish tailors to Canada - now he's stitching together their
'It opened the doors,' Larry Enkin says of the Tailor Project
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Larry Enkin hopes to document the history of the immigrant tailors who came to Canada under the The Tailor Project. The project was initiated by his father Max Enkin following WWII, which brought approximately 2,000 displaced people from Europe to Canada to work in the clothing industry.
- Don't Fall for the Chemical Weapons Convention Justification
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the interventionalist arguments in support of Western air and missile attacks in Syria, and the false claim that the attack was justified under international law because it was a response to the use of banned chemical weapons.
- IJV deeply concerned about politically-motivated firing
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) is deeply concerned about the firing of Kevin Metcalf, a staff person at Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), following a statement he issued in the name of the organization condemning recent attack
- President Trump's War Crime is Worse than the One He Accuses Assad of
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The single most important thing that happened Friday night when the US military on President Trump's orders launched a wave of over 100 cruise missiles against Syria was that once again the US violated the most profound international law of war: initiating a war of aggression against a nation that posed no threat, imminent or otherwise, to the US or its allies.
- War is just f**king wrong
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Jacobs explains the underlying capitalist imperative of waging war.
- What's Kinder Morgan's Real End Game?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An ultimatum has been imposed by Texas based Energy Infrastructure company, Kinder Morgan,that they will cancel the Trans Mountain Pipeline Extension at the end of May 2018 unless clarity is provided by the government. Klein argues that Kinder Morgan knows that the pipeline is already doomed, due to external economic factors and Indigenous opposition.
- Call me radical, but journalists should be able to pledge support for Palestinian journalists: Neil Macdonald
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Journalist Neil MacDonald defends journalistic freedom and safety following a statement issued by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), an organization that faltered in carrying out its mandate.
- Remembering Ireland's Great Famine
A review of Black '47 a soon to be released film about the famine in Ireland
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Irish film, Black 47 (Director Lance Daly) is about the worst year of the catastrophic Irish famine and is set in the west of Ireland in 1847. The story centers around an Irish soldier, Feeney (James Frecheville), returning from serving the British Army in Afghanistan only to find most of his family have perished in the Famine or An Gorta Mor (the Great Hunger) as it is known in Gaelic.
- US media love war more than they hate Trump & egg him on to strike Syria
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
US media outlets are recklessly promoting war with help from neocons, including Arab American right-wingers who do not represent the views of the region they are demanding Trump bomb.
- War, lies and censorship
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Damon cautions news consumers that there is precedent for dissemination of government propaganda in the Anglo-American mainstream media when leaders are preparing to take part in military action.
- "Al Qaeda's MASH Unit": How the Syrian American Medical Society Is Selling Regime Change and Driving the US to War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is not merely a group of Syrian doctors tending to the wounded in war torn areas, nor is it an objective and relaibale source on chemical attacks and other atrocities. This article explains that SAMS is actually a politically enaged organization that has for years been actively seeking to overthrow the Syrian government.
- "Before all else a revolutionist": Marx and the Question of Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
If we begin listening to the voices of those he conversed with, we can stop seeing Marx as the source of infinite quotes and begin to view him instead as a comrade on a common path – a path that he walked before us, always in conversation, and often in dispute, with many of his contemporaries.
- Killing Mosquitoes: The Latest Gaza Massacres, Pro-Israel Media Bias And The Weapon Of 'Antisemitism'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The most recent brutality against Palestinians, and brazenness with which the killings were carried out, is yet another demonstration of the Israeli contempt for the people it tried to ethnically cleanse in 1948.
- Misleading figures on greenhouse gas emissions
Letter to the editor
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A letter to the editor from an oil industry apologist (April 12) tries to excuse the Alberta oilsands’ growing carbon emissions with the argument that Canada accounts for “just” 1.6 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Even if that figure were accurate, it would mean that Canada is producing emissions which are more than three times as large as its proportion of the world’s population.
- Facebook: A Cooperative Transformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Facebook represents a standard for a global model of concentration of wealth and power in the 21st century, joined by companies like Google, Amazon, and Uber. Entrepreneurs with computer skills and good or lucky timing have privatized and enclosed the global information commons and have enriched themselves by providing services for free or for reduced prices to the billions.
- Taking the World to the Brink of Annihilation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Western neoconservatives and hawks are driving the international situation to increasing tension and danger. Not content with the destruction of Iraq and Libya based on false claims, they are now pressing for a direct US attack on Syria.
- Argentine Newspapers Recuperated by Workers' Cooperatives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An economic recession in Argentina that culminated in intense protests and the resignation of then-president Fernando de la Rua, also fostered the phenomenon of companies being recuperated by its workers as a cooperatives. In the last two years the majority of companies recuperated have been media outlets, which opens up new possibilities for journalism in the country.
- Debunked: How VoA journalist pushed fake news story on 'Russian tanks crossing into Ukraine'
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The easily-verifiable false claim by Voice of America journalist that Russian tanks were filmed entering Ukraine was shared thousands of times before being debunked. The journalist, however, refused to issue a retraction.
- UN Security Council Rejects Proposal for Investigation Into Syria Chemical Allegations
Russian envoy urges US, allies to refrain from attacking Syria
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A UN Security Council resolution proposed by Russia has been voted down, with Western nations fighting against it. The resolution would've called for a formal investigation into the alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack on Saturday.
- Despite Gaza Massacre, Israel Remains Immune From Criticism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Imagine for a moment that it was not the two million Palestinian in Gaza, who are mostly refugees from 1948, but the six million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan who had staged a march to return to the homes that they have lost in Syria since 2011. Suppose that, as they approach the Syrian border, they were fired on by the Syrian army and hundreds of them were killed or injured. The international outcry against the murderous Syrian regime in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin would have echoed around the world.
- Palestine: IFJ demands justice following the killing of a journalist in Gaza
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joined its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS), in condemning the killing of Palestinian photojournalist Yasir Murtaja and the wounding of at least 7 more journalists in Gaza.
- Eight reasons why the latest Syria chemical weapons attack allegations are almost certainly complete nonsense
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A discussion on the chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and why the allegations are likely false.
- If only we could revive the fruitful tension between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
Reflections on Dr King’s death have overlooked how his liberal universalism and Malcolm X’s separatism gave each other strength
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Kenan argues that conflict averse approach to activism blunts the edge of contemporary social movements for change.
- The Economics Behind the Skripal Poisoning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The question is why are they doing this with Russia? Why are they imposing sanctions and mounting a great publicity campaign?
- A Letter to CBC: Your Biased Coverage of the Land Day Massacre
The following letter was sent yesterday to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation regarding their biased coverage of the Land Day massacre
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Chairperson of the Canada Palestine Association, Hanna Kawas, presents a letter to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, alleging editorial interference by pro-Israel lobbying group 'Honest Reporting Canada' in their coverage of the land day killings of unarmed civilians by Israeli government forces.
- US Isn't Leaving Syria -- but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The US military exists to fight wars. It is the most heavily armed, most violent organization in the world. Saying that it should continue to occupy Syria, and most of the mainstream media do, is a way of saying that the war in that country should continue. In fact, it’s a call for escalation of that war.
- Ecuadorean Villagers May Still Triumph Over Chevron
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Michael Krauss, a lawyer who teaches "ethics" at a law school named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, recently posted a blog on the Forbes website entitled "The Ecuador Saga Continues: Steven Donziger now owes Chevron more than $800,000" (Forbes 3/14/2018). Kraus says that Chevron has basically triumphed over evil...
- Guidelines for police in dealing with mentally ill people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An investigative report report by the CBC shows that more than 460 people in Canada have "died in encounters with police" since the year 2000.
- Digital occupation: What's behind Israel's social media in Arabic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Israeli social media accounts in Arabic aim to normalise Israel's occupation and whitewash its image, Palestinians say.
- Laura Ingraham's advertisers aren't really staging a boycott. It's a capital strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
There are no regulations or laws preventing or even restricting capital strikes in the form of corporate activism, therefore social and political aspirations of capital always have an effective instrument on hand; yet the same cannot be said for labour.
- Most Canadians killed in police encounters since 2000 had mental health or substance abuse issues
More than 460 people have died in encounters with police in Canada since 2000
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
More than 460 people have died in encounters with police across Canada since the year 2000, and a substantial majority suffered from mental health problems or symptoms of drug abuse, a CBC News investigation has found.
- License to Kill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Halimi places alleged Russian involvement in the attempted assasination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the context of routine extrajudicial killings by the wider inernational security services.
- Top 10 Civil-Rights Songs
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Upon the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., some of the more popular civil-rights songs are remembered. The article includes online links to music videos.
- Facebook and the Rise of Anti-Social Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
For those who haven't thought about it, the internet is insidious because of the very capacity that Cambridge Analytica claims to be able to exploit: customization. Users have limited ability to confirm the authenticity of anything they see, read or hear on it. Print editions can be compared and contrasted-- technology limits print media to large-scale deceptions. With the capacity to create entire realms of deception -- identities, content, web pages and entire online publications, trust is made a function of gullibility.
- Trump's Protectionism: A Great Leap Backward
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
US Presidents, European leaders and their academic spokespeople have attributed China's growing market shares, trade surpluses and technological power to its "theft" of western technology, "unfair" or non-reciprocal trade and restrictive investment practices. President Trump has launched a 'trade war' – raising stiff tariffs, especially targeting Chinese exports – designed to pursue a protectionist economic regime.
- Courrieres Mine Disaster 1906
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The devastating mine disaster in 1906 that killed over 1,000 workers in Courrieres, France, is remembered.
- How the Guardian became the West's Pravda
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Cook says that the British newspaper The Guardian has become a mouthpiece for the establishment.
- Why aren't we expelling Israel's diplomats?
Letter to the Editor
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2108
Canada expelled Russian diplomats on the strength of unsubstantiated allegations that Russia was involved in the poisoning of a former spy in Britain. Will Canada now expel Israeli diplomats in condemnation of Israel's latest massacre in Gaza?
- Assange's internet blackout & Skripal case part of propaganda war that risks real one
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
John Pilger condemns the mainstream media for its role in acting as an uncritiical conduit for government propaganda.
- Beyond Implementation: Policy Considerations for Secure Messengers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The importance of secure Messenger tools goes beyond just reliable technology, it must be developed and have its infrastructure maintained by a trustworthy group with a history of responsible stewardship.
- For first time in 70 years, Palestinians return to their villages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
To commemorate Land Day, group of Palestinian refugees returned to the villages they were expelled from in 1948.
- Engaging the Popular Imagination; Engaging the Holy Week culture
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Holy Week, in the Christian religious tradition, comprises an important series of events that take place in many communities in the Mediterranean, Latin America and beyond around this time – events commemorating Jesus Christ's entry to Jerusalem, his last supper with the Apostles, together with his passion, death and resurrection. These commemorative events extend well beyond religious devotion and piety.
- Gun Control in Old East Germany
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Communist-run East Germany weapons and ammunition were strictly controlled. Rifles, though privately-owned, were locked up at the hunting clubs, usually connected with the forest rangers' home and station.
- If John Bolton Is Right, Pearl Harbor Was Perfectly Legal
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Michigan attorney Kary Love explores the legal basis for a pre-emptive attack on North Korea by the USA.
- Off the Map: Disabilities and Just Mobility
People with disabilities who rely on local public transit are getting squeezed between gentrification and austerity.
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An examination of the tensions between investment driven public transit improvements and displacement of less affluent residents; with particular reference to people with mobility issues or disabilities.
- The Skripal Poisonings and the Ongoing Vilification of Putin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Pinning the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter by a nerve agent on the Russian state makes little sense, and is an attempt by the West to futher villify Putin who actually had little to gain by ordering such an action.
- This Artist Took 4,000 Portraits to Show the Range of Human Skin Color - and the Results Exceeded the Pantone Library
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
"Using this scale, I am sure that nobody is 'black,' and absolutely nobody is 'white,'" says artist Angélica Dass.
- The anti-semitism paradox damaging Labour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the damaging effect of anti-semitism for the political left, which is being exploited in a tactic to stifle class solidarity and subvert a genuinely progressive Labour leadership.
- Demand for atheism rises in countries under Islamic rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The rise of atheism in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia is something we have been speaking about for some time now. The Iranian Baztab Now website warned of a tsunami of atheism amongst Iranian youth. The #ExMuslimBecause hashtag initiated by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain became viral overnight with over 120,000 Tweets from 65 countries.
- Recalling Africa's harrowing tale of its first slavers - The Arabs
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Community forest management against illegal timber logging
Indigenous communities comply with strict rules to ensure the regeneration of the forest and protect water sources.
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Guatemala is hit hard by mudslides caused by deforestation. Government-led initiatives created in consultation with Indigenous communities have been successful in preserving forests and promotiing sustainability.
- Gina Haspel's CIA nomination demands the United States account for its history of torture
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to head the CIA has stirred objections from many quarters. Dorfman recounts the impact of state sanctioned torture in Chile.
- New website gives Torontonians a glimpse of the city's past
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Sidewalk Labs has unveiled a interactive map based on City of Toronto Archives images that allows people to view old pictures of Toronto by clicking on a map. However, the mapping is often wrong.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- Amnesty International: Trumpeting for War… Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
One would expect a human rights organisation to be intrinsically opposed to war, but AI is a cheerleader of so-called humanitarian intervention, and even "humanitarian bombing".
- The Meaning of Heritage in an Age of Identity
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A discussion of the meaning of heritage in the current age of identity politics, and why there is a need to reject the nativist, or clash of civilizations, and the multicultural approaches to heritage.
- Israeli hackers reportedly gave Cambridge Analytica stolen private emails of two world leaders
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Israeli hackers reportedly gave information from the hacked emails of two world leaders to Cambridge Analytica, the political-research company at the centre of a massive Facebook-data scandal.
- Police release video of Uber self-driving vehicle accident in Arizona
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- No Spirit Of Liberty - The Salisbury Case, Corbyn And The Need For Dissent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at recent 'Mainstream' media coverage, notably the Guardian and BBC, which has been instrumental in presenting a misleading image of Prime Minsiter May as a stable leader, and yet presents Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in a much less flattering light.
- How They Sold the Iraq War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold: it was a propaganda war, a war of perception management.
- In Run-Up to Vote to End Yemen War, MSNBC Remains Totally Silent
MSNBC outflanked from the left by Breitbart
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Johnson expresses concern about the lack of MSNBC coverage of the role of the USA in the conflict in Yemen since 2015.
- Raleigh police are asking Google to provide user data for all people near crime scenes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, have presented Google with warrants to obtain data from mobile phones from not just specific suspects who were in a crime scene area, but from the mobile phones of all people in the area
- Revolutionary Optimism: Journeys in Radical Politics Past and Present
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On the "Reality Asserts Itself" program of The RealNews network, Prof. Leo Panitch is interviewed by host Paul Jay. Discussion topics include his political leanings, the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, the UK Labour Party, and whether radical change is indeed possible.
- Violet McNaughton: the Mighty Mite Reformer From Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none
- Amazon's Initiative: Digital Assistants, Home Surveillance and Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at technological developments such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, which are less innovations than intrusive tools utilized by big data companies to mine personal information and condition human approaches to the way information is shared.
- Of a Type Developed by Liars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Porton Down scientists are not able to identify the nerve gas as being of Russian manufacture, and have been resentful of the pressure being placed on them to do so. Porton Down would only sign up to the formulation "of a type developed by Russia" after a rather difficult meeting where this was agreed as a compromise formulation.
- School Shootings: Who to Listen to Instead of Mainstream Shrinks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine discusses the prevailing cynicism and hopelessnes among young people in the United States -- about their country and their future. In particular the article focuses on troubled young people who have lost any connection with adults and view the world as an uncaring place, and are commonly prescribed medication such as anti-depressants.
- Superunknown: Scientific Integrity Within the Academic and Media Industrial Complexes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Mattis provides an analysis of the competing priorities of scientists, funders and the media that together, create a perfect storm of "unscientific science".
- The Tip of the Iceberg: My Lai Fifty Years On
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- What is Organizing?
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Morgan reviews the history of Organizing in the USA and provides advice to activists on how to organize in an inclusive, constructive, way.
- Will We Ever See Al Jazeera's Investigation Into the Israel Lobby?
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
So when am I going to be able to watch Al Jazeera's hard-hitting investigation into Israel’s powerful lobby in the United States? Remember Al Jazeera? The tough, no-holds-barred Middle East satellite channel that transformed Qatar into a media empire whose reports frightened dictators and infuriated potentates and presidents alike? Why, George W Bush once wanted to bomb its headquarters in Doha – so it must have been doing something right. It even has an office in Jerusalem.
- Why They Hate Margaret Atwood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On March 9, a University of Alberta English professor named Julie Rak headlined a speaking event that was billed as a showdown on the issue of "bad feminism." A promotional poster done up in a boxing motif included a picture of Rak on one side, and legendary Canadian author Margaret Atwood on the other.
- Illegal logging: An organized crime that is destroying Latin American forests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A recent report indicates that Illegal wood trafficking is the most profitable crime against natural resources, and allows other crimes to flourish, including deforestation, labor exploitation, land invasions, tax evasion, document forgery and state corruption.
- Illegal logging: An organized crime that is destroying Latin American forests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Illegal timber trafficking is a complex type or ogranized crime that involves other crimes such as tax evasion, labor exploitation, and land invasion. Countries in Latin America need to work together to fight this crime.
- No Fare Is Fair: A Campaign for Free Public Transit in Toronto
Why Do We Need Free Transit?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Public transit should be a right for everyone in Toronto. Using subways, buses, and streetcars shouldn't require paying fares, or user fees, that penalize riders with lower incomes.
- All Fire and Fury in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Using Oliver Stone's 'portentious' documentary film 'Ukraine on Fire' as a basis for discussion, the article looks beyond the mainstream media and public discourse on the events and developments in the country which ultimately framed the public's view of the situation.
- The End of Policing & Police: A Field Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Field Guide to the Police is a study of the indirect and taken-for granted language of policing, a language we're all forced to speak when we talk about law enforcement. The book refuses to see the world as police do, instead it contends that when we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through the art of euphemism. State sexual assault becomes "body-cavity search," and ruthless beatings become "plain compliance." Like any other field guide, it reveals a world that is hidden in plain view. In entries like "Police dog," "Stop and frisk," "Rough ride," and scores more, the authors show how "copspeak" obscures the true meaning and history of policing. This book will arm activists on the streets--as well as anyone with an open mind--on one of the key issues of our time: police violence. The book argues that a redefined language of policing might help us chart a future free of police and police violence.
- nerve agent case for 'action' on Russia
Official claim that 'Novichok' points solely to Russia discredited
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The case against Russia using the nerve agent Novichok is undermined by earlier reports by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which previously declared that they have no evidence for the existence of a Russian Novichok programme.
- Notes on Terminology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at common and popular terminology and 'labeling', especially in the media, which at times is not only inaccurate and misleading, but also diminishes or softens the severity of an event.
- Say No to 'Hardening' the Schools with Zero Tolerance Policies and Gun-Toting Cops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The last thing the school system needs is harsher penalties and armed guards which turn students into 'inmates'. Schools in the Unites States are already heavily policed, with School Resource Officers (SRO) funded by the Deptartment of Justice, and harsh penalties for kids as young as 4-5 years old.
- The Young Cree Man from Saskatchewan
Without Truth There Is No Reconciliation: Two Colten Boushie Stories
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
It seems there are two versions of the August 2016 death of Colten Boushie, the young Cree man from Saskatchewan.
- Popular airlines flagged for safety system non-compliance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The regulatory breach was uncovered by Transport Canada agents during a 2016 visit to the airline's Etobicoke offices, where inspectors reviewing maintenance records also found planes had not received required work.Sunwing is one of several popular commercial airlines that have been flagged for widespread non-compliance by Transport Canada, the details of which are contained in government surveillance reports that are not public and must be obtained through Access to Information legislation.
- America's Troll Farm Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the American mainstream media, which is in a constant search of sensation, scandal, gossip, and above all -- profit.
- Crisis of the State, Crisis of the Left
Articulating Socialism After the Anarchist Moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
'Augmenting the left' -- that is, finding ways to build new organizational alliances, expand practices of resistance, and culturally envision and collectively build toward a better world -- is not just a worthwhile project, but also an essential one. Human survival may depend upon it. In this regard, it must be recognized that there is also a crisis of the various post-Marxisms, especially to the extent that they tried to replace class as the central structural pivot around which different forms of oppression and counter-hegemonic emancipatory struggles condense.
- The leaders of the American Womens March have spoken: Jews are unwelcome on the feminist left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Columnist Emma Teitel draws attention to the problematic relationship between US Women's March organizers and antisemetic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
- How Palestinian women led successful non-violent resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Two women share their stories of how they peacefully protested during both Intifadas and challenged Israel's occupation.
- Barbarism: Texas judge ordered electric shocks to silence man on trial. Conviction thrown out.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the controversial use of the stun belt, a pain inducing device used to control prisoners, which was recently used by a judge within a court of law in the state of Texas.
- 'Follow Your Bliss' - The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism To The Brink Of A Nervous Breakthrough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Don't write for the "mainstream". Don't write for money. Don't write for prestige. Just "follow your bliss" by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.'
- Hamilton anarchist space, The Tower, has been vandalized
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The city's local anarchist social centre, The Tower, has been vandalized. The damage comes days after a masked mob that dubbed itself "The Ungovernables" caused $100,000 in damage during a vandalism spree on Locke Street.
- Baum, Gregory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A brief biography of Gregory Baum, one of Canada's most influential and controversial theologians and a participant in the Second Vatican Council.
- Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firestorm among employees of the technology giant when they learned of Google's involvement.
- Know your history: Google has been a military-intel contractor from the very beginning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
But the fact that Google helps the military build more efficient systems of surveillance and death shouldn't have been surprising, especially not to Google employees. The truth is that Google has spent the last 15 years selling souped-up versions of its information technology to military and intelligence agencies, local police departments, and military contractors of all size and specialization -- including outfits that sell predictive policing tech deployed in cities across America today.
- City closes foot path to school where 11-year-old student was killed by a driver
Jim Karygiannis, Councillor for Ward 39, says decision was not made lightly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Following years of advocating for a safer walkway for pedestrians, the death of a child leads to a closure and further safety measures.
- The risks of becoming a Google city
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Plans for a high tech custom-connected community by US company Google raises significant concern from experts. With sensors monitoring and recording daily life there are troubling questions in matters of freedom and privacy, as well as potentially negative implications for the poor and less privileged residents of the city who stand little to gain from efficient privately operated communities.
- Anti-BDS bills expected to feature prominently at AIPAC
Annual meeting to push for measures that counter boycott Israel campaign as rights groups call bills 'unconstitutional'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
At the annual meeting of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the lobbying group's agenda is set to propose measures to counter the growing campaign to boycott Israel and its West Bank settlements. At the centre of discussion are anti-bocott bills, described by critics as laws designed to curb the not-for-profit Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement- a human rights movement that supports Palestinian rights.
- Suspect in Lahore blasphemy case fighting for his life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Christian resident of Lahore says he attempted suicide as interrogators forced him to perform oral sex on cousin.
- Suspect in Lahore blasphemy case fighting for his life
A Christian resident of Lahore says he attempted suicide as interrogators forced him to perform oral sex on cousin.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Christians and other minorities, who make up about two percent of Pakistan's 207 million population, are disproportionately targeted by blasphemy laws, which prescribe a mandatory death penalty for anyone found guilty of "defiling the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad". There is increasing violence associated with the laws, with at least 74 people killed in attacks motivated by blasphemy accusations since 1990.
- The Geography of Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
David Harvey is a geographer and a Marxist. A collection of his works titled The Ways of the World was recently published in paperback. A collection pulled from his writing and lectures, the works are insightful, both in their approach to the world and the manner in which he combines geography and Marxism.
- How Neoliberal Fundamentalism Helped Make Trump President
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A common, headache-inducing media narrative has surfaced since the election in 'mainstream' liberal U.S. publications they can no longer trust, such as The Washington Post or New York Times: that the true decline of U.S. democracy, the true dominance of U.S. corporate power in public life, and the true deterioration of the 'American Dream' has at last begun to arrive with the victory of Donald Trump.
- After the Grenfell Tower Fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the grave injustice surrounding the Grenfell Tower fire, from the way residents were treated before and after the disaster and the austerity measures that exacerbated it - such as cuts to fire departments.
- Dialectics of Revolutionary Learning
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of the book Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge by Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab.
- The Fight for Housing, 1967-68 & Milwaukee NAACP Commandos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A history of The Commandos, an offshoot of the NAACP Youth Council formed in Milwaukee in the 1960s. Their main fight was against segregated housing.
- For International Women's Day: Honoring the Fighters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Brief descriptions of Ahed Tamimi, Asma Jahangir, Heather Heyer, Berta Cáceres, Erica Garner, and Tarana Burke in honour of International Women's Day.
- Gaza girl awaiting surgery reunited with her mother in West Bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
After getting an Israeli-issued medical permit, Inam al-Attar traveled without her parents from Gaza Strip to West Bank.
- Honduras: U.S. Support for Repression & Fraud
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The US has supported the illegitimate election in Honduras. The people continue to resist despite deaths, disappearances and incarcerations by the military.
- #MeToo for All Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The #MeToo movement exposed systems that abuse and silence of women. It's important to note that these systems are not just individual professions or university administrations but they are enabled by the larger system of capitalism.
- MLK: To the Promised Land
Charles Williams interviewing Michael Honey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Interview with Michael Honey author of the study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice.
- Moroccan Catastrophic Convergence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The convergance of injustices in Morocco - climate change, neoliberalism, political suppression - make for a completely untenable situation. This could make people hopeful since it makes radical change the only possibility.
- The New Poor People's Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Though there has been progress in electoral politics since the days of MLK this success leaves many people behind. The New Poor People's Campaign seeks to create a grassroots movement to counter that.
- The 1970s: Finally Got the News!
Charles Williams interviews Brad Duncan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Interview with Brad Duncan, editor of Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979.
- 'NSA-proof' Tor actually funded by US govt agency, works with BBG, FBI & DOJ - FOIA docs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Newly released documents reveal that The Tor Project, a supposed safeguard against a surveillance state, has received funding from US government agency the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), and cooperates with intelligence agencies.
- One Hundred Years, "We" Past and Present
Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Steve Bloom's epic poem about the Russian Revolution.
- The Patriarchal Stranglehold
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne.
- William A. Pelz
Obituary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for labour history scholar and activist William A Pelz.
- Readings: Intersectional Black Activists
Domestic Worker Organizers, 1960s-1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A brief history and suggestions for further reading on 1) Black women fighting for labor rights for domestic workers, 2) Callie Houses's struggle for reparations 3) Sojourner Truth and her fight for emancipation and suffrage for Black women.
- Reproductive Justice in an Age of Austerity
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Reviews of two books about reproductive rights.
- Sex and the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The philosophy of the October Revolution contained radical ideas around sexual politics which have been forgotten today. Drawing parallels to today's issues on gender and sexuality could help a new generation get into radical labour politics.
- Single Payer: What Will It Take to Pass It?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Single payer healthcare needs to be implemented in a universal, sweeping move. Incremental changes will only impede progress.
- A Window on Inhuman Detention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A first-hand account of the inhumane conditions of immigration detention by a Korean woman seeking asylum in the US.
- Worldwide Wobblies Remembered
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the essay collection Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW.
- The Authoritarians Who Silence Syria Questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the unchallenged western media narrative on Syria and notably recent commentary by Brian Whitaker, the Guardian's former Middle East editor, who is opposed to experts in the study of propaganda setting up a panel - the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media - which aims to "provide a source of reliable, informed and timely analysis for journalists, publics and policymakers" on Syria.
- Large Archive of Hannah Arendt's Papers Digitized by the Library of Congress
Read Her Lectures, Drafts of Articles, Notes and Correspondence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Many people read the German-Jewish political philosopher and journalist Hannah Arendt as something of an oracle, a secular prophet whose most famous works -- her essay on the trial of Adolf Eichmann and her 1951 Origins of Totalitarianism -- contain secrets about our own times of high nationalist fervor.
- ACLU sues US over separation of mother, child seeking asylum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
American Civil Liberties Union accused the U.S. government of unlawfully separating a Congolese woman and her 7-year-old daughter by holding them in different immigration facilities 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) appart.
- The Curse of Energy Efficiency
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The more 'efficient' our technology, the more resources we consume in a downward spiral of catastrophe.
- Microfinance or Debt Trap? What the Poor Don't Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Qazi's article outlines how poorly designed microfinance initiatives harm rather than help low income borrowers.
- James Laxer - Canadian iconoclast 1941-2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary for the prominent campaigner, author and academic James Laxer, who passed away February 23rd 2018.
- Where's the Beef Stroganoff? Eight Sacrilegious Reflections on Russiagate
Street, Paul
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Street expresses his frustration with the US political establishment in light of the 2017-2018 FBI investigation into alleged foreign intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.
- Ryan Coogler's Black Panther: A hollow "defining moment" cloaked in identity politics
A review of the film 'Black Panther'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A conventional Hollywood "blockbuster," chock full of action sequences, explosions and the rest.
- The World Will Not Mourn the Decline of U.S. Hegemony
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Norman Finkelstein's book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom", which investigates the Israeli attacks on Gaza such as Operation Cast Lead (2008-09), the Mavi Marmara (2010), and Operation Protective Edge (2014).
- Pakistan / Gilgit-Baltistan: Advocate Ehsan Ali, a symbol of political sanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Gilgit-Baltistan, one of the most politically sensitive regions of Pakistan, the author explains why it is important to recognize and support people like Ehsan Ali, who is a vocal human rights activist and a symbol of interfaith harmony.
- The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As "smarter" vehicles provide storehouses of personal information, carmakers are building databases of consumer preferences that could be sold to outside vendors for marketing purposes, much like Google and Facebook.
- The Crisis of Social Democracy: From Norway to Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
With social democratic parties in Europe suffering poor election results and significant setbacks, this article puts the current crisis in historical context, and how resolution and success will depend on more radical solutions.
- Disinformation: In the Philippines, political trolling is an industry - this is how it works
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the Philippines, influential personalities and online 'trolls' are credited with winning Rodrigo Duterte the presidency in 2016. This article examines the chief architects of disinformation who continue to vociferously share 'fake news' and silence dissenters.
- Doctors as Stewards of medicare, or not: CAMSI, MRG, CDM, DRHC and the thin alphabet soup of physician support
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Physicians are deeply involved in Canadian medicare because it is through medicare that they are paid. However, from its origins to the present physicians -- as a profession -- have not been strong supporters of medicare.
- Ecological Sustainability, Inequality and Social Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Raju Das connect sustainability to metabolism, reproduction, and value of labour power.
- Indictment of Russians over US election meddling is case of pot calling the kettle black
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
WorldNetDaily writer and former US Department of Defense official F. Michael Maloof recalls past US foreign policy adventures in light of claims of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
- Lawsuit accuses DC police of collusion with far right
An advocacy group has filed a lawsuit alleging that police broke protocol by working with a far-right organisation.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Federal prosecutors and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, DC, colluded with far-right groups in cases against anti-Trump protesters, a recently filed lawsuit alleges.
- Remembering Italy's Cervi brothers amid far-right surge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Cervi brothers in Italy are famous for leading the local peasant resistance against Benito Mussolini's rule. Today, Adelmo Cervi is still a leading voice against the rise of far-right populist parties in Italy.
- Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
If we want to change the world, we need other people - millions, eventually hundreds of millions of others - to agree that the world needs changing and to join us in changing it.
It's a daunting prospect. How can we reach and persuade those who may have voted for the likes of Donald Trump and those like him in other countries, or who are not interested in engaging in 'politics' at all?
- Mueller Indictment - The "Russian Influence" Is A Commercial Marketing Scheme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An explanation of why the U.S. Justice Department's indictment is based on a misunderstanding of the commercial activities of a Russian marketing company in U.S. social networks.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
- The Boomerang Effect: How Netanyahu Made Israel an American Issue, and Lost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Trends in US opinion polls indicate that Israel is not just losing support and overall appeal among large sections of American society but also among the newer generation of American Jews, a worrying change in US public opinion for the Israeli government.
- Stop replacing London's phone boxes with corporate surveillance
New connected kiosks are replacing London's payphones. Every time you use them, you're allowing Google, BT and Primesight to track you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Concerns over privacy in London, UK, as Google, BT and Primesight provide free wifi and phone charging in exchange for allowing the consortium to identify users and track their movements through the city.
- Syria strikes back as Israel discovers its warplanes aren't invincible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The recent shooting down of an Israelli jet by the Syrian Army brings attention to the numerous recent incursions into Syrian territory by Israel. It also highlights vulnerabilities of the Israelli military which is assuredly on course for another conflict with Hezbollah, an organization that has grown in strength since 2006.
- What You Don't Know About Abolitionism: An Interview with Manisha Sinha on Her Groundbreaking Study
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Manisha Sinha draws attention to the role of Black abolitionists in ending slavery in the USA in her book: The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
- To stop migration, stop the abuse of Africa's resources
Europe should tackle migration not by deploying troops, but by curbing economic abuse and destablisation.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On January 17, Italy's parliament approved the deployment of up to 470 troops in Niger to combat "irregular migrant flows" and the trafficking of people towards Libya, and, from there, to Europe. A number of other European countries are pursuing similar policies, including France, Germany, and Spain.
- Kenya's 'Erin Brockovich' defies harassment to bring anti-pollution case to courts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Phyllis Omido is leading a landmark class action demanding a clean-up and compensation from a lead-smelting factory accused of poisoning local residents - including her own son.
- A puzzling moment in the park
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A woman, a German Shepherd, a conversation, and a game of fetch.
- Canada's Deadly Diplomacy and the Plight of Political Prisoners in Honduras
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the political crisis in Honduras since the Nov. 26 election, which has led to brutal and deadly government crack-downs by military police and other state forces of Honduras. Described as state-led terrorism, it is being tacitly supported by funding from Canadian taxpayers.
- '54 Palestinians die' as Israel refuses medical permits
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
According to Rights groups, Israel is responsible for 54 deaths in the besieged Gaza Strip in 2017 due to a lack of medical permits.
- Intellectual Property Regime Undermines Equity, Progress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Developing countries must reject the intellectual property rights regime imposed on them by powerful foreign monopolies in recent decades.
- The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66,
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- The Face Off: Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Face recognition is poised to become one of the most pervasive surveillance technologies, and law enforcement's use of it is increasing rapidly. However, the adoption of face recognition technologies like these is occurring without meaningful oversight, without proper accuracy testing of the systems as they are actually used in the field, and without the enactment of legal protections to prevent internal and external misuse.
- FashMaps website tracks neo-Nazis in the US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As Daily Stormer struggles to keep an online home, a new anti-fascist site aims to track neo-Nazis' meetings in the US.
- Lissa Lucas Dragged Out of West Virginia House Judiciary Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Mokhiber's article summarizes the case of political candidate Lissa Lucas, whose testimony against a bill "that would allow companies to drill on minority mineral owners' land without their consent" was censored by the court.
- Mozambique's farmers battle to keep land in Nakarari
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Parenti and Liberti examine the Nakarari community's ongoing resistance to commercial agricultural planning.
- Norman Finkelstein and Dr. Mads Gilbert
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A discussion with professor and author Norman Finkelstein about his book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom".
- On Resistance: BDS and Israel's Declining Support Among Diaspora Jews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Like its predecessor movement decades ago in South Africa, assessing the success of BDS against Israel today necessarily rubs up against the tension between Israeli Hasbara (propaganda) and its reality as an effective organizing tool against it throughout the world.
- Against the odds: Why customers often lose in battles with banks
Complaint system wears people down and usually rejects claim, consumer advocate says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Banking customers with complaints about lost deposits face significant obstacles, with those looking for help dealing with a complaints system that is designed to wear people down and usually siding in favour of the banks.
- Black Politics After 2016
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A article on the significance of race in American politics, particularly since the 2016 election, and the symbiotic relation between antiracist politics and Democratic neoliberalism.
- Fake News and the Gatekeepers of Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at misinformation or 'fake news' and how it has changed from the past; while only governments and prominent figures could once manipulate public opinion, today it is anyone with online access.
- Fragmented Power: Portugal in Revolution, 1974-1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Portugal the underground Armed Forces Movement's long-planned coup d'etat to bring down the Estado Novo regime was a success; however it was relatively short-lived despite the modest intentions of its organizers. This article takes a look at the popular initiatives that brought Portugal to the brink of a socialist revolution and why it failed.
- After Alleged Election Fraud and Protests, Honduran Congress Moves to Regulate Hate Speech Online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Honduran Congress is debating a law that seeks to regulate hate speech and "fake news" on the Internet. Honduran activists and opposition political parties say the proposal would function as a gag law aimed at silencing government critics.
- Foxconn: The Myth and Reality of the Welfare Queen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Social scientists who have studied the welfare system before and after the Clinton era welfare "reforms" have exposed the notion that women on public assistance were "welfare queens" as a myth.
- How Apple is Paving the Way to a 'Cloud Dictatorship' in China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Apple Inc. is set to hand over the operation of its iCloud data center in mainland China to a local corporation, but Apple has not explained the real issue. With the move a state-owned big data company controlled by the Chinese government will have access to all the data of its service users in China; this will allow the state apparatus to jump into the cloud and look into the data of Apple's Chinese users.
- How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This article outlines ways to address common climate-contrarian arguments, all of which contain errors in reasoning that are independent of the science itself.
- The Power Struggle in Catalonia, or the Staging of a Tragicomedy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
One, a consolidated power, is the Spanish state. The other, an emerging power, drives the project to create a state of its own, a project promoted by nationalists and pro-independence currents. These include a fraction of the divided system (PdeCat, erc and cup) and some social organizations (the Catalan National Assembly, Omnium Cultural and some trade unions) -- with the support of an important part of society.
- Syria: The Assad regime - a response to Marcel Cartier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A response to Marcel Cartier's article "Vanguards of Humanity: Why I support Afrin & the Rojava Revolution", which denounces the Turkish invasion of Afrin and calls for solidarity with Rojava. While author Slee agrees with the call for solidarity, there is disagreement with some fundamental points in Cartier's article.
- Brazil's Largest Newspaper Quits Facebook, Accuses it of Harboring 'Fake News'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Brazilian media conglomerate Folha de S. Paulo, made the decision to rebel against Facebook by ceasing to publish content, saying the decision stems primarily from Facebook's recent change on users' news feed which aims to reduce the amount of content and favour posts by friends and family. The paper says Facebook is effectively banning professional journalism from its pages in favour of personal content and 'Fake News'.
- Defending Afrin means defending the women's revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Since January 20, 2018 the Turkish army has been attacking the Kurdish region of Afrin in the Democratic Federation of North Syria; among the casualties are women, children and many refugees. In this message to the world a confederation of women's organisatons in Afrin call upon all women worldwide to join their struggle.
- Haiti: An Example of Fake News by Omission
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The main problem with the mainstream media today, as in the past, is not 'fake news' but what is left out of articles dealing with controversial issues.
- How a backwards shirt led to a lesson in kindness for P.E.I. kindergarten class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Students show their support for one of their own.
- Keep seeing Mondoweiss in your news feed following changes at Facebook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As most of you by now know, Facebook has recently made big changes to how users see content from publishers like Mondoweiss.
- 'A Load Of Tosh'– The BBC, 'Showbiz News' And State Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
BBC News reporting on international relations, with particular reference to 2017-2018 tensions with Russia, relies heavily on state propaganda.
- NYT op-ed describing Israel as a place of refuge is missing the word, Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A rebuke by author Levine to the New York Times op-ed written by Susan Silverman titled "How Did Israel Become A Place of No Refuge?".
- Soros & the £400k Question: What constitutes 'foreign interference' in democracy?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The news that US billionaire Soros donated £400k to an anti-Brexit group came on the day that YouTube said they found no evidence of Russian interference in Brexit.
- Thursday morning ping pong: The little sport doing big things at Toronto retirement home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Patterson is one of many at the Salvation Army Meighen Retirement Residence who've become dedicated ping pong players, benefiting from the physical and cognitive exercise, according to staff at the home.
- What 'News' Media in U.S. And Allied Countries Never Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Newsmedia effectively ban reporting corruptness of newsmedia -- even of media that stand on the opposite side of the political divide.
- A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez
How the #MeToo campaign echoes the McCarthyite witch hunt of the 1940s and 1950s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Clearly, this is not as organized a political campaign as the one that took place in the 1940s and 1950s, but the climate is chillingly similar in terms of the massive capitulation and conformity in the entertainment industry.
- Here's what war with North Korea would look like
A full-blown war with North Korea wouldn't be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the chilling logistics and devastating loss of life a full-blown war between the USA and North Korea would cause.
- Jeff Bezos' Quest to Find America's Dumbest Mayor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Baker questions the wisdom of cities offering online-retailer Amazon tax and infrastructure incentives to host the company's second head quarters.
- Propaganda! Pardon me, is mine really bigger than yours?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
They say Propaganda! In the West, both the mainstream media and even some of the so-called progressive outlets are shouting: "Those Russians and Chinese and the others like them, they are at it again! Their vicious propaganda is infiltrating our democratic, freedom-loving countries, spreading confusion and chaos!"
Yes, ban or at least curb RT, contain TeleSur, and if at all possible, throw Press TV to the dogs. And put the writers of NEO, Sputnik, Global Times and other foreign outlets on that proverbial Western mass media 'no fly list'.
- Science's pirate queen
Alexandra Elbakyan is plundering the academic publishing establishment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A profile of open access academic publishing activist Alexandra Elbakayan and the ongoing conflict between academics and for-profit academic publishing houses.
- Will The Conspiracy Against Trump and American Democracy Go Unpunished?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The American people do not realize the seriousness of the Russiagate conspiracy against them and President Trump. Polls indicate that a large majority of the public do not believe that Trump conspired with Putin to steal the presidential election, and are tired of hearing the media prostitutes repeat the absurd story day after day. On its face the story makes no sense whatsoever.
- Can a minority rule a majority in perpetuity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of "Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?" by Josh Ruebner. Subjects include the question of one or two states, and whether Israel should be considered democratic or an apartheid state are among numerous topics addressed in the book.
- Foreign Policy for Sale: Greece's Dangerous Alliance with Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
For a brief historical moment, Alexis Tsipras and his political party, Syriza, ignited hope that Greece could resurrect a long-dormant Leftist tide in Europe. A new Greece was being born out of the pangs of pain of economic austerity, imposed by the European Union and its overpowering economic institutions – a troika so ruthless, it cared little while the Greek economy collapsed and millions of people experienced the bitterness of poverty, unemployment and despair.
- In Sweeping War on Obesity,Chile Slays Tony the Tiger
New regulations, which corporate interests delayed for almost a decade,require explicit labeling and limit the marketing of sugary foods to
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Chilean government, facing skyrocketing rates of obesity, is waging war on unhealthy foods with a phalanx of marketing restrictions, mandatory packaging redesigns and labeling rules aimed at transforming the eating habits of 18 million people.
- A library without books? OSU and other universities purging dusty volumes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A library without books? Not quite, but as students abandon the stacks in favour of online reference material, university libraries are unloading millions of unread volumes in a nationwide purge that has some print-loving scholars deeply unsettled.
- Resistance is life: Mehmet Aksoy's last letter to his family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A tribute authored by family and friends to Mehmet Aksoy, a hero of Kurdistan and the internationalist struggles against capitalism, colonialism and fascism.
- Facebook announces latest step in censorship campaign, prioritizing "local news"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant will prioritize news from 'local sources' in the News Feed displayed to users. This is the third move this year in a roll-out of updates by Facebook aimed at censoring online information.
- A 14-Year-Old Girl Forced Alone and at Night Into the Gaza Cage. Another Routine Mishap for Israel's Occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials – alone, at night and without her parents being informed?The terrifying ordeal – a child realising she had not been taken home but discarded in a place where she knew no one – is hard to contemplate for any parent.And yet for Israel's gargantuan bureaucratic structure that has ruled over Palestinians for five decades, this was just another routine error. One mishap among many that day.
- Is political pressure behind YouTube's video labeling?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
YouTube has started labeling videos by government-funded media after their recommendation program was the subject of a Guardian investigation and a letter from the Senate Intelligence Committee's ranking Democrat.
- On our way to the moon? A snapshot of feminist marches which shook the world.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The authors tell the story of the Midsummer's day 1908 'Votes for women' Suffragist rally and the March 1971 Women's Liberation Movement Demonstration in Hyde ParK, London.
- Up Against the Ivy Wall: the Columbia Insurrection at 50
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
"My plan was to major in English and become a professor," she writes in an essay titled "Stopping the Machine" that's collected in A Time to Stir: Columbia '68, a new 438-page book (Columbia, $35) which is edited by filmmaker Paul Cronin. Rosahn explains that at the start of the protests, she was a "leftish Democrat" and that in the course of the rebellion she became "a devoted student radical."
- Academics Who Serve as Israel's Useful Idiots
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
How derisively would we have treated an academic - an expert in human rights, no less - who argued back in the 1980s that those who supported a boycott of apartheid South Africa must have been secretly anti-white or anti-Christian because they did not equally prioritise a boycott of Israel?
- Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate looting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A World Bank report indicates a massive depletion of Africa's natural wealth by transnational corporations (TNC). There are two ways to address TNC capture of African wealth: bottom-up through direct action that blocks extraction, or top-down through significant reform.
- Bring on Solutionary Rail!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Solutionary Rail, a people-powered campaign to electrify America's railroads and open corridors to clean and renewable energy.
- 'I really want to find it before I die': why are we so fascinated by lost books?
From the Book of Kells to Walter Benjamin, literary history is marked with tantalising absences – which two bibliophiles have made it their
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Essay on the allure of rare and lost books, inspired by Giorgio van Straten's recent work, " In Search of Lost Books".
- Rebel Without a Clue: Autonomy and Authority in the American Public School
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The high school dropout is a revolutionary without having recovered the sense of dignity of failure, in a system of authoritarian control. Blaming the dropout is to blame the victim of institutional abuse of power exercised within youth indoctrination centers carrying the misnomer, school. Is it possible that the problem is mainly systemic and not due to the personal faults of the dropout? Is it possible that the education system itself contributes to young people dropping out of high school? Is it possible that capitalism is the root cause?
- Without a Popular Movement We Don't Stand a Chance: Andreas Malm on Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An interview with the author of "Fossil Capital and The Progress of This Storm", who says there are reasons to be hopeful but significant progress will require a global movement of unprecedented scale.
- Immigration and Cultural Loss
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While immigration has brought major changes in the physical character of British cities and in the rhythm of social life, it is not alone in driving social changes nor is it even the most important driver of social change.
- Teen On Birthright Trip Hadn't Expected To See So Many Dead Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Satire.
- Iranian police arrest 29 women over protests against compulsory hijab
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Iranian police have arrested 29 women in the capital, Tehran, after they protested against a law that makes wearing the hijab compulsory.
- Korea: What the Generals Aren't Telling You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Hamilton points out that the 24 nuclear power stations in South Korea represent high risk targets in a retaliatory attack from North Korea.
- How the internet 'punishes' Palestinians
Tech giants Google, Airbnb and PayPal accused of shaping false narratives with policies in Palestinian territories.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Multinational tech companies, including Google, Facebook and PayPal are being accused of complicity in rights violations and in shaping false narratives with regard to policies in Palestinian territories.
- Liberal Totalitarianism and the Trump Diversion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Baraka warns against enthusiastic embrace of the FBI as a "neutral political force populated by people of unreproachable character" in light of their well documented history of politically motivated targetting of civil rights activists.
- "Mr. Boston": Meet the Man Who Secretly Helped Daniel Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers to the Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Interview with historian Gar Alperovitz. Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak to journalists the Pentagon Papers -- a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam.
- Champions Of Democracy - From Fake News To Imposed Insanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
While social media is largely blamed for the proliferation of 'fake news', it is through social media where the corporate media commentariat are exposed. Readers are now at last able to see some rational dissent, this is the up-side to social media that the 'mainstream' cannot even discuss.
- How to create an ecological society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the book "Creating an Ecological Society: Towards A Revolutionary Transformation" by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, which addresses different aspects of the debate on the politics of the environment.
- The Real Burning Man
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Driving converted delivery trucks, Roadtreks,vintage RVs, "skoolies" and the odd Prius, a few thousand gather in defiance of consumerist society.
- Buy Banned Books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The article takes a look at 'banned books' in the social media era, where the 'imagination police' dominate and a form of 'fictional aparteid' is taking place, and moreover why we have a duty to buy them.
- Mass Incarceration
New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Lewis analyzes racial and class disparities in incarceration.
- Thailand: Junta orders pro-democracy leaders charged with inciting rebellion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The junta has ordered seven of the most prominent pro-democracy activists charged with crimes including sedition after they launched a protest campaign calling for general elections to be held in November.
- Volkswagen faces new twist in emissions scandal as allegations of animal testing emerge
Ten macaque monkeys exposed to diesel emissions to see the impact on their bodies
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
German automaker Volkswagen is facing a new round of criticism after the company was found to have funded tests of its diesel engine emissions on captive monkeys as part of an attempt to brand its vehicles as clean, safe and healthy.
- From Moral Outrage to Moral Panic: the Limits of Public Rage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
There has been forceful break from the culture of silence that has long protected men from being held accountable for their misdeeds. While rage emerges against male sexual abuse, some progressive feminists have raised concerns that this movement may slip into 'moral panic' and a possible conservative, neo-puritan anti-sex campaign.
- How the 'free' media dupe us on climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Commentary on a segment of Al Jazeera's programme The Listening Post on why climate scepticism persists only in what it terms the "Anglosphere media", that is, those in the United States, UK, Australia and Canada.
- Hue Back When: the Bloodbath in Vietnam Was Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Mark Bowden's book "Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam", which provides a two-sided perspective on a particularly tragic moment in the Vietnam War.
- Claude McKay's Lost Novel
Review of Amiable with Big Teeth; Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of Amiable with Big Teeth, a novel by the African-American revolutionary activist and writer Claude McKay.
- The FBI's Maoist Faction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The following is based on research by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher for their book, A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974, (London: Repeater Books, 2018).
- Fruits and perils of the 'bloc within': The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 3)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The most advanced experience of Communist alliance with national revolutionists occurred in Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) prior to the Baku Congress. However, it was not mentioned at the congress, even though one of its architects – the Dutch Communist Maring (Henk Sneevliet) – was present in the hall. Maring had been a leader for many years of revolutionary socialist Dutch settlers in Indonesia, who had achieved the remarkable feat of transforming their group into one predominantly indigenous in leadership, membership, and programmatic orientation. The key to success had been a close alliance with a mass national-revolutionary organization of the type described by the Second Congress, called Sarekat Islam.
- New Orleans' History of Struggle
Review of Development Drowned and Reborn; Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Development Drowned and Reborn which is a novel by Clyde Woods.
- On Justice And Vengeance
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Should Communists ally with revolutionary nationalism? The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 2)
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
But how would the proposed alliance of workers' and national uprisings be effected? This strategic issue was addressed in the Comintern’s Second Congress, held in Moscow 9 July-7 August 1920.
- Toward a global strategic framework: The Comintern and Asia 1919-25 (Part 1)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The revolutionary activists who founded the Communist International (Comintern) in 1919 had little contact with movements for national and colonial liberation outside Russia. Nonetheless, only a year later, in July 1920, the Comintern adopted a far-reaching strategy for national and social revolution in dependent countries, later termed the anti-imperialist united front.
- The Hollow Ethics of Israel's Liberals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Although sympathetic to the plight of African immigrants, when it comes to the Palestinians most liberal Israelis sound little different from Netanyahu's supporters, both concerned with maintaining Israel as a fortress Jewish state.
- Struggle for equal rights for Palestinians is 'right choice,' and will lead to 'significant exodus of Jews' - Henry Siegman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Everyone should read Henry Siegman's long piece in the National Interest on the "Implications of President Trump's Jerusalem Ploy." Siegman is a great leader because he has bucked the American and Jewish establishment, of which he is a member, to declare that the two-state solution is dead and buried. He is also a prophet inasmuch as he is counseling American Jewry to give up its attachment to Zionism as a dead letter, no different from a Christian state here, and so prepare itself for a future in which Israel is isolated as a pariah state and there is a "significant exodus of Israel’s Jews." His words are astounding because Siegman, a Holocaust survivor now in his late 80s, was himself a Zionist, and head of the World Jewish Congress. His bravery in renouncing the animating political faiths of his life-- it's inspiring.
- The Great British Empire Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Malik discusses the complex issues of British colonialism, its many painful legacies and how it should be dealt with in such fields as academia and politics.
- Let Me Be Frank: Francesco Serpico, A Genuine Actor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
When you see injustice and corruption, when you open your eyes and see lying and deceit everywhere, you must be your own hero; you must be courageous and act.
- Privatizing the IRS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The headline in the New York Times on January 10, 2018, a few short days before Congress decided it was easier to shut down the government than to legislate, announced that the I.R.S. "paid $20 million to collect $6.7 million in Tax Debts." At first blush the reader assumed this was a story that had somehow crept into the newspaper by mistake and escaped the attention of the articles editor. The reader who thought that could be forgiven for being surprised at seeing the story. That is because that story had appeared in the New York Times and other publications on two earlier occasions.
- Raising Consciousness About The Color of Law
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" by auther Richard Rothstein, and how racial segregation is the underlying cause of much of the country's social and economic problems.
- Sex, Scandals and Power
#MeToo Mania and the Democrats' "Resistance"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A wide range of behavior -- including flirtation and innuendo, a vulgar text or a crude joke, not to mention unpleasant sex -- is being lumped together with real crimes of coercion and assault. Those called out for sexual impropriety, no matter how trivial, how unproven or how long ago, run the media gantlet, are declared guilty and their careers ruined.
- Trump & the Fed: US Shadow Bankers About to Deepen Control of US Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What's sometime referred to as 'shadow bankers' have been running the economy and drafting US domestic economic policy since Trump took office. 'Shadow' banks include such financial institutions as investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, insurance companies, finance companies, asset management companies, etc. They are outside the traditional commercial banking system (e.g. Chase, Bank of America, Wells, etc.) and virtually unregulated. Shadow banks globally now also control more investible liquid assets than do the world's commercial banks.
- Intersectionality is a Hole. Afro-Pessimism is a Shovel. We Need to Stop Digging, Part 1 of 2
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Dixon argues that intersectionality - or, rather, its interpretation by the so-called "US left" - decenters class struggle in its effort to equalize oppressions.
- Jackson Rising: At Last, a Real Strategic Plan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Moser reviews Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
- A Lavish Bollywood Musical Is Fueling A Culture War In India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of the controversial 2018 Bollywood film "Padmaavat". Qureshi summarises the politically charged campaign of misinformation and resulting sectarian violence that has dogged its release.
- "Show Me Your Papers!" Roundups, Checkpoints and National ID Card
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
With the government empowered to carry out transportation checks to question people about their immigration status within a 100-mile border zone that wraps around the country, you're going to see a rise in these "show your papers" incidents. That's a problem.
- What happened to Brown is fundamentally wrong. Every man in the world is now vulnerable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
For all the other moments #MeToo has wrought, the Patrick Brown story is seminal: A political leader is cut down like a sapling in the forest in a matter of hours, and none of his colleagues, in and outside of the Ontario Conservative party, and including the Ontario premier and the prime minister of Canada, have one word to say in the defence of fair play or the presumption of innocence.
- The Algiers Accords: Decades of Violations and Silence
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This week marks the 37th anniversary of a pledge made by the United States in 1981:
The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs.
This week also marks 37 continuous years of the United States failing to uphold its pledge: the 1981 Algiers Accords.
- If you're going to blame a cyberattack on North Korea, you'd better show your work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Transit operator Metrolinx says it was hit by North Korean hackers. Experts want evidence
- An Inside Look At The Accounts Twitter Has Censored In Countries Around The World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
BuzzFeed News has identified more than 1,700 Twitter accounts that have been blocked in at least one country. The list provides an unprecedented glimpse into Twitter's collaboration with national groups and governments -- democratic and authoritarian alike -- and provides new details about a surge in blocked accounts in Germany, France, and Turkey.
- Iran: Compulsory veiling is abusive, discriminatory and humiliating; end the persecution of women for peacefully protesting against it
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Amnesty International criticizes Iran's compulsory veiling laws, arguing that they are not only harmful to women, but fundamentally unconstitutional.
- Me Too's Misguided Pursuit of Equality: Drop the Spirit of Vengeance and Defend Dignity Instead
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
With Me Too’s focus where it is, on man’s injury to woman, the capitalist for-profit system can wash its hands. Eyes glued to salacious details are off the oppressive economic order that has over time erased our cultures, communities and is set to destroy all life on the planet.
- Peterson unmasks stitch-up of TV interviews
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Jonathan Cook on Jordan Peterson’s recent interview with Channel 4’s Cathy Newman.
- The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s views beyond those emphasized by the mainstream media, where he pushed beyond 'liberal' America and his strong anti-war and global solidarity values were unapologetically linked to the fight against racism and poverty.
- Ursula K. Le Guin - Rest in Power
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Obituary celebrating Le Guin's contributions as a community activist, a fighter for feminism, peace, freedom of speech, access to knowledge for everyone, and radical democracy in addition to her literary acclaim.
- Call-Out Culture Is a Toxic Garbage Dumpster Fire of Trash
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the "Call-out" culture where individuals who express opinions are quickly reprimanded online with derogatory labels; a mass media social comdemnation often without any sort of due process, which ultimately spreads a fear to engage in controversy or voice opinions that are even slightly outside the tide of contemporary thinking.
- For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In this open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the threat and consequences of internet censorship and reduction in access to information is highlighted.
- The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".
- Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
- It's Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Cockburn argues that economic sanctions impose collective punishment on the general population rather than targetting the people in power.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
- What are we eating?
Introduction to Other Voices, January 21, 2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
- What are we eating? - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Apple and the Guardian: Partners in a Death Spiral
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This report on Apple CEO Tim Cook's visit to a UK school to promote the company's new coding curriculum for schoolchildren could hardly be a better illustration of the way the Guardian newspaper serves as a key propagandist for aggressive global corporate capitalism, helping to create for it a façade of humanitarianism.
- The data war behind net neutrality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The fight for the enormous volume of information the public generates with every search and click is the most precious commodity for big data companies, and the winner stands the most to gain with the end of Net Neutrality.
- King St. middle-finger approach seems like an odd way to deal with lost business
For people who say business is down because of streetcar traffic, the owners have chosen a really bizarre way to try to welcome riders in
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Toronto business owners protest Theatre District anti-congestion measures with a sculpture of a middle finger (obscene gesture).
- A Liberal Pillar Of The Establishment - 'New Look' Guardian, Old-Style Orthodoxy
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First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Respected liberal media like the New York Times and Guardian are key battlegrounds in the relentless elite efforts to control public opinion.
- Tax Havens and the Other Paris Agreement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Paradise & Panama papers, Canada & red herrings, and the international agreement on tax havens with "enough loopholes to drive a fleet of Ferraris through"
- A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A Threat of the First Magnitude reveals the untold story of the FBI informants who penetrated the upper reaches of organizations such as the Communist Party, USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labeled threats to the internal security of the United States.
- Yanis Varoufakis's Self-Incriminating Account of the Greek Crisis - Parts 3 and 4
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Yanis Varoufakis traces his collaboration with Alexis Tsípras and his alter ego, Nikos Pappas, back to 2011. That collaboration gradually broadened, starting with 2013, to include Yanis Dragasakis (who became vice-Prime Minister in 2015). There is a constant in the relations between Varoufakis and Tsípras: Yanis Varoufakis constantly argues for changes in the political programme that Syriza had adopted. Varoufakis tells us that Tsípras-Pappas-Dragasakis themselves clearly wanted to move toward an orientation that was different from, and significantly more moderate than, the one their party had adopted.
- The Atomized and Siloed U.S. Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
We're increasingly siloed as organizers and protesters. The environment literally decays as we watch, and the Trump administration is hard at work dismantling what environmental regulations there are.
- Bitcoin's energy usage is huge - we can't afford to ignore it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the use of cryptocurrency, its astonishingly high use of electrical power and why there is a need to take it seriously as a climate threat.
- The Business of Bullshit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Bullshit business is about the meaningless language conjured up in schools, in banks, in consultancy firms, in politics, in the media and, of course, in thousands of business schools releasing MBA-certificated managers who are then spreading the meaningless managerial buzz-word language of bullshit business around the world. Bullshit business can indeed take over organizations crowding out their core purpose – profit-maximization.
- The Collaboration Trap
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Most of environmental/conservation groups in the West are participants in various public land collaboratives.Most participating collaborative members are made up of people who generally believe in exploiting natural landscapes for human benefit. As a generalization, there is overwhelming representation in such collaboratives by people who speak for the resource extraction industry or their sympathizers like rural county commissioners, ORV enthusiasts, and so forth.
- Force of Evil: Abraham Polonsky and Anti-Capitalist Noir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Policy lies at the heart of Abraham Polonsky’s Force of Evil, arguably the most anti-capitalist film ever to emerge from Hollywood. Released 70 years ago to puzzled critics and an indifferent public, over time it would achieve cult status among devotees of film noir while offering a tantalizing glimpse of what might have been accomplished by Polonsky and other members of the Hollywood Left had the blacklist not intervened.
- How Big Pharma Infiltrated the Boston Museum of Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Mental illness is a highly stigmatized, life-long condition, that millions do not even realize they have and only a pharmaceutical drug can fix says Pharma and its operatives.
- Uber Used Clandestine Technology Tool To Thwart Police Raids
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Uber uses a number of technological tools for tax evasion, undermining competition and monitoring customers and drivers.
- GI Coffeehouses Recalled: a Compliment From General Westmoreland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The New York Times has published an op-ed piece by historian David Parsons about the coffeehouses started near US bases during the War in Vietnam.
- Toronto does not need to hire more police officers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As you contemplate the push by the Toronto Police Association to have more police officers hired, remember that the issue is not the need for more officers, but featherbedding.
- Why "Coercive Diplomacy" is a Dangerous Farce
Offering to talk while threatening military force hasn't worked in 30 years.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the context of rising tensions between the USA and North Korea 2017-2018, historian and journalist Gareth Porter, details the history of failure of "Coercive Diplomacy" as a tool in US foreign policy.
- The Forgotten Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
King believed that a multiracial working-class movement was required to overcome the failings of capitalism.
- Justice for Hassan Diab and the Unbearable Banality of Evil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Deutsch examines the case of Dr. Hassan Diab - a sociology professor and Canadian citizen who was accused of bombing the Rue Copernic Synagogue - and uses it to critique international and domestic justice systems.
- Monbiot Is a Hypocrite and a Bully
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
It is time for George Monbiot’s legion of supporters to call him out. Not only is he a hypocrite, but he is becoming an increasingly dangerous one. Turning a blind eye to his behaviour, or worse excusing it, as too often happens, has only encouraged him to intensify his attacks on dissident writers, those who – whether right or wrong on any specific issue – are slowly helping us all to develop more critical perspectives on western foreign policy goals than has ever been possible before.
- Outspoken professor stokes free-speech debate at East Coast university
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An associate professor at Acadia University is facing a growing backlash over incendiary social media comments, stoking a national debate about free speech on campus amid calls for his ouster from the Wolfville, N.S., school.
- The suffering of surrogacy: A veteran feminist spells it out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation Dr Renate Klein takes on the surrogacy industry with plenty of sass and hard evidence. A dogged feminist academic and publisher for over thirty years, her critique of neoliberal capitalism is always underpinned by an authentic concern for women’s wellbeing and a focus on patriarchal structures. She never fails to point out the power differentials. She completely rejects surrogacy in all its forms.
- Typewriters Still Smoking? An Interview with Underground Press Maven John McMillan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An Interview with Underground Press Maven John McMillan, who is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta, with degrees from Michigan State and Columbia, and the author of the best book about the underground press. Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America (Oxford University Press)
- Gentrification and Class Struggles in Barcelona, Spain: Interview with Etcétera Collective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In an interview with the Barcelona-based collective Etcetera, the processes of urban development in one of the fastest gentrifying cities in Spain and their implications for potential movements and struggles are examined.
- Am I a bad feminist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. Nor do I believe that women are children, incapable of agency or of making moral decisions.
- The Guardian, White Helmets, and Silenced Comment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Guardian recently published an article claiming that critical discussion of the White Helmets in Syria has been 'propagated online by a network of anti-imperialist activists, conspiracy theorists and trolls with the support of the Russian government'. Many readers were dismayed at this crude defence of a – presumably – pro-imperialist perspective, and at the unwarranted smearing of reasoned questioning based on evidence from independent journalists.
- This Is Why Carrots Cost More Than Twinkies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An examination of the role of Government-subsidized crop insurance, farm loans, tax credits, agricultural research and education, as well as environmental and public-health exemptions for farming, on the cost of food production and how that transfers to the consumer.
- World War I: Crime and Punishment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Jacques Pauwels' The Great Class War is a contribution to the ideological front in the struggle for a world without wars, for in resetting the story of that war in the Marxist frame, he loosens our ties to idealist interpretations that obscure the class nature of wars, naturalize war as an inevitable part of life, and force us to assume and share a guilt that largely rests on the shoulders of a profiteering and exploitative class, which holds the power of decision making through its control of political, economic, military, police, and media powers and grants us a vote that is largely cosmetic.
- Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903, by Aidan Forth - Review
Internment in the colonies served a darker purpose beyond aid efforts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A book review of Aidan Forth's "Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903", which provides new insights and ulterior motives behind Britain's aid efforts in southern Africa.
- Ahed Tamimi Offers Israelis a Lesson Worthy of Gandhi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when, over many years, they criticised Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela.
Eventually, colonised peoples bring to the fore a figure best suited to challenge the rotten values at the core of the society oppressing them. Ahed is well qualified for the task.
- What Happened to H E Harris
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Those of us who started in philately over thirty years ago remember H E Harris. Harris was the largest stamp dealer in the mid twentieth century, growing rapidly during the Great Depression with the Captain Tim radio show. Harris was a leading promoter of philately with album publishing and approvals so that by 1975 Harris had tens of thousands of customers.
- Comrade Bernard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Bernard Goldstein's "Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland", a firsthand account of the struggles of the Jewish working class in Poland between the two World Wars.
- Eric Hobsbawm’s histories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Eric Hobsbawm was the author of, among many other works, a classic quartet on modern world history, The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire and Age of Extremes. Hobsbawm was widely respected as one of the greatest historians of the left and one of the greatest historians of the 20th century more generally.
- Fishers under siege
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Penny McCall Howard, Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: "Working the Ground" in Scotland.
- The language of the unheard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A book review of "A People's History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) by author Matt Clement.
- Lenin and the Tsarist Duma
A review of August H Nimtz, Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Donnelly reviews Nimtz's two volume account of Lenin's pre-revolution electoral strategy and summarises the thesis that Lenin's critique of reformism in parliamentary democracy was rooted in the conclusions of Marx and Engels.
- Marxism, class and revolution in Africa: the legacy of the 1917 Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This article assesses the influence of 1917 on African liberation movements and explains how it influenced struggles against and beyond colonialism.
- The PCP in the Portuguese Revolution 1974-5: crisis, state and revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
How did the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), loyal to the Soviet Union deep into the second half of the 20th century, react to a social revolution in 1974-5? The moments are rare when we can study workers' revolutions in a European country where the Communist Party had a decisive influence. I argue here that the revolution happened despite the party, not because of it. The USSR wanted above all to maintain the equilibrium of the Cold War, and Portugal was, in the division made at Yalta and Potsdam in 1945, in the NATO sphere. The PCP was faithful to that policy.
- The radical Robert Burns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
For many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called "that heav'n taught ploughman". MacKenzie was a lawyer, novelist and editor of The Lounger magazine in which he reviewed Burns's work. Burns admired some of Mackenzie's work; indeed one of his favourite novels was his Man of Feeling (1771). Mackenzie, however, was scornful of Burns's use of vernacular Scots "which greatly damps the pleasure of the reader".
- The Button, the Wall and the Myth of Nations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
North Korean sanctions, the border wall with Mexico, and the "toxic" role of nationalism with regards to international relations and domestically in the US are discussed.
- GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. But GM agriculture is not 'feeding the world', nor has it been designed to do so. The choice for farmers between a technology based on broken promises and conventional non-GMO agriculture is no choice at all.
- Causes behind Iran's protests: A preliminary account
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The causes of the uprising that has been rocking the Islamic Republic of Iran for a week now are unsurprisingly both structural and contingent.
- US J20 defendants: 'Waiting is part of the punishment'
The first six people have been acquitted, but the 188 remaining Inauguration Day defendants have yet to go to trial.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Alleged anti-fascist protestors, controversially arrested at the 2017 US presidential inauguration, await trial and or sentencing in 2018.
- All You Fascists Bound to Lose
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at Shane Burley's new book "Fascism Today: What It is and How to End It", which examines the current fascist movement and the opposition to it in the United States.
- Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Consumer freedom and privacy are examined as coercive commercialism quickly moves toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are forced into corporate payment systems from credit/debit cards, mobile phones and perhaps even through facial recognition technology.
- How the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica's Electoral Psyops Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Available from Cinema Libre Studios, "Trumping Democracy" provides the key to understanding how we have ended up with the most unpopular president in history.
- Mining History Written in Blood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
- The Truth About "Trailer Trash"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
"Trailer trash" remains one of the last unquestioned relics of political incorrectness in our nation. As a toxic slur, the "trailer trash" brand works to stigmatize an entire category of people marginalizing them from mainstream society.
- Current Developments in Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An update on the new wave of demonstrations that started December 28, 2017 in Mashhad, the second-largest city in Iran, and why dissent is different from that of 2009.
- Sci-fi author Judith Merril and the very real story of Toronto's Spaced Out Library
A prolific author and pioneer Merril's donation of 5,000 items started the Toronto Public Library's massive speculative fiction collection.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The story of Judith Merril's work promoting and developing Science-fiction writing in Canada, and the founding of the Rochdale Library, which later became the Spaced Out Library.
- Trump threat to cut Palestine aid could 'unravel Oslo'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
US President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) would deprive Washington of its influence on the body, and could cause the Oslo accords to unravel, analysts say.
- Does the Bitcoin frenzy make any sense at all?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The author explains how the strange story of a "crypto-currency" reveals the underlying irrationality of a system that is designed to work for the rich only.
- Life without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? This delusion is not limited to one country, one group, or one political party, but rather is the unstated assumption of everyday life in the high-energy/high-technology industrial world. This is the delusion that we are -- to borrow from the title of a particularly delusional recent book -- the god species.
- Report From Southeast Asia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A general commentary on work and economic conditions in parts of Southeast Asia, and possible comparisons with the ferment in Eastern Europe prior to 1917.
- South Sudan archivists fear loss of historical texts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
South Sudan doesn't have a museum, so thousands of archival documents are sitting in a small building in the capital, Juba, waiting for a national archives to be built. The project will also need the help of international donors to get off the ground, and the ongoing conflict has made it difficult to secure funding.
- Fallen Pan, Furious Women, and the Failure of Soulless Feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The excited triumphal coverage of the Me Too Movement conveys the fatal devaluing of imagination - and the banning of thoughtful discourse as well as passionate enthusiasm - that defines and shackles the liberal mind during this excruciating Trumpian moment we’re sharing.
- Pakistan: Teachers and Farmers Protests Brutally Crushed in Sindh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On December 25, 2017, primary, secondary and high school teachers in Karachi held a defiant protest against the Sindh government due to its refusal to provide them with permanent jobs despite having agreed to do so in 2014. The provincial government is refusing to honor its agreement even after forcing teachers to pass a rigorous examination conducted by the National Testing Service and the University of Sindh.
- Seven Forbidden Words: On the Uses of Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved to take ideological control of the agency's budget-writing process. A Trump appointed official presented a directive to the agency's departments listing seven words that were not to be used in budget preparation.
- Thousands march in Ukraine to mark Nazi collaborator Bandera's birthday
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Some 6,500 people across Ukraine took part in marches on the first day of the year to mark the birthday of Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist leader considered a hero in the country despite his violent past and history of collaboration with the Nazis.
- After 10 years, Hassan Diab is finally free
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Hassan Diab is freed by French authorities after what was deemed a bungled case and rush to judgment, one which zeroed in on Diab with unjust finger-pointing from B'nai Brith.
- American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In this provocative collection of essays, Henry Giroux warns of the consequences of doing too little as Trump and the so-called alt-right relentlessly attack critics, journalists, and target the hard-earned civil rights of women, people of color, immigrants, the working class, and low-income Americans.
- Archive That, Comrade!
Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Archive That, Comrade! explores issues of archival theory and practice that arise for any project aspiring to provide an open-access platform for political dialogue and democratic debate.
- As the World Burns
Combustion Engines; There Will Always Be Fires
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A two essay report that examines the causes and costs of large wildfires. The first essay titled "Combustion Engines" takes a look at a 'mega-fire' that raged across Montana in 2017, placing blame on global warmimg, mismanagement by authorities, and the building of houses in high rish areas. The second essay, "There Will Always Be Fires", describes the conditions that led to huge blazes in Portugal which are largely attributed to the introduction of of the highly flammable eucalyptus.
- Before the Deluge
How Washington sealed Puerto Rico's fate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the problems facing Puerto Rico prior to Hurricane Maria, which was already a plundered and mis-managed society with crumbling infrastructure long before the hurricane struck.
- Black History and the Class Struggle
#26
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Black Nationalism, Black Solidarity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Malik explains examines Black Nationalism and its relationship to a Marxist analysis of nationalism of oppressed peoples.
- The Bodies in The Forest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An excerpt from Gessen's book "Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia", published by Columbia Global Reports. The book examines Stalin's extensive network of labour camps that held and killed millions of prisoners in 1930s to the 1950s.
- Bypassing Dystopia
Hope-Filled Challenges to Corporate Rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Joyce Nelson explores global examples of active and creative resistance to the iron grip of corporatism on our economies and imaginations.
- Can the Working Class Change the World?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at how the working class and its allies can oppose capitalism to bring radical change.
- Capitalism: A Crime Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Harry Glasbeek explains how liberal law strives to reconcile capitalism with liberalism, while giving corporate capitalism privileged treatment under the law.
- Catalunya: 'Only the People Save the People'
Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Celebrating Miriam Garfinkle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Miriam Garfinkle is my hero.
- Clarion Alley Confronts a Lack of Concern
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Clarion Alley's thought-provoking, provocative, clever and often political art was created by those determined to leave a record of their existence and experience and to give voice to marginalized and disenfranchised communities.
- Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Stories of the impact of and resistance to climate change from grassroots activists around the world.
- Cold as Ice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An excerpt from a letter written in 1897 to the editor of the British newspaper the 'Daily Chronicle'. The letter is included in "The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde", published by Harvard University Press. The letter is an appeal and commentary on the harsh and cruel treatment of children being held in English prisons.
- Combat Obscura
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Footage of combat in Afghanistan from the Marine Corps' official videographer.
- Cursed Fields
What the tundra has in store for Russia's reindeer herders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Noah Sneider visits the Yamal Peninsula in Russia where an outbreak of anthrax is killing herds of reindeer and engdangering the lives of the local people. Rising temperatures and a particularly hot summer have led scientists to conclude that climate change is the most credible explanation for its deadly return.
- The Death of a Once Great City
The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Kevin Baker takes a close look at the changes to his home city of New York over the past forty years. He notes that while some of the more undesirable aspects of New York in the 1970's have improved, such as crime, dirt, garbage- the new and more gentrified city masks significant problems, the most notable being a growing housing crisis.
- Drinking Poblems
A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the health crisis in Pretty Prairie, Kansas, where Nitrate from farms has polluted the water supply for three decades. Elizabeth Royte takes a look at the town's history and social climate in order to understand why the problem was left for so long.
- Drinking Problems
A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Investigation on the drinking water crisis in the US, examinign the sources of contamination, the inadequate regulatory responses, and the potential helath consequences of long-term exposure to pollutants in the country's water supply.
- Empty Suits
Defamation law and the price of dissent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at lawsuits filed by companies that are intended to censor, intimidate, and silence dissenters by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense- known as SLAPP or strategic lawsuits against public participation.
- The End of Eden
Climate change comes to the end of civilization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the devastating environmental outlook in Iraq, where climate change has led to rising temperatures and a dramatic drop in precipitation. Further exacerbating the environmental problems are decades of mismanagement, war, and regional politics.
- Estar Baur (1920-2017)
Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
With the passing of Estar Baur, Dianne Feeley discusses Baur's life as a lifelong socialist activist.
- A Flag for Trump's America
The power of strength
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the Blue Lives Matter slogan and flag, which became a symbol for the U.S. police counter-movement advocating that those who are prosecuted and convicted of killing law enforcement officers should be sentenced under hate crime statutes. It was started in response to Black Lives Matter.
- Florida Students Confront Spencer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Aliya recounts her experience protesting the Richard Spencer event at the University of Florida.
- Following the Levellers, Volume Two
English Political and Religious Radicals from the Commonwealth to the Glorious Revolution, 1649–1688
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-9 around popular consent and liberty for conscience, especially in their Agreement of the People. Following the Levellers, Volume Two examines the later political efforts of Leveller spokesmen like John Lilburne, John Wildman, and Richard Overton, and their followers.
- Free Public Transit: And Why We Don't Pay to Ride Elevators
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In an age of increasing inequalities and ecological crisis, movements for free public transit are proposing a profound rethinking of urban transit as a fundamental human right and public good. Research shows that, if the bus were free, people would ride it as much as 50% more in the first year, dramatically reducing car use, traffic, and pollution, while redistributing wealth and increasing social inclusion for poor and working people. But free public transit alone is not enough; it must also be combined with much better service and reserve bus lanes to be effective. In its twenty chapters, this book explores the winning strategies and pitfalls of case studies ranging across fourteen countries: the United States, Canada, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, Poland, China, France, Belgium, Germany, and Australia.
- Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless. In the meantime, Israel has subjected Gaza to a merciless illegal blockade.
What has befallen Gaza is a man-made humanitarian disaster.
Based on scores of human rights reports, Norman G. Finkelstein's new book presents a meticulously researched inquest into Gaza’s martyrdom. He shows that although Israel has justified its assaults in the name of self-defense, in fact these actions constituted flagrant violations of international law.
- Harvey's Toxic Aftermath in Houston
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Wingard exposes the enviromental devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey. The hurricane caused chemical spills and explosions which Wingard says forecast a pending enviromental crisis.
- A History of International Women's Day in words and images
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An online history of International Women's Day, which includes visual materials and numerous photographs from each decade.
- How the UAW Can Make It Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Aswar discusses how the UAW lost the vote at the Nissan plant in Mississippi and proposes that Organized laboUr adapt Opertaion Dixie to move forward.
- How to Start a Nuclear War
The increasingly direct road to ruin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A chilling look at the security measures and processes behind the U.S. nuclear weapons system. The article examines how safeguards and procedures have evolved, including more recent efforts to curb the President's absolute authority to push the button.
- If These Walls Could Talk
The strange history of our futile border fortifications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
From ancient times to the present day, the article takes a look at the reasoning behind physical barriers that society's construct to divide nations, and the historical fact that they usually fail.
- Illiberal Values
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Walter Kirn reflects on the Liberalism of his youth and how the principles that attracted him in the 1970's have changed, and are particularly eroded in the era of Trump.
- Indigenous Sovereignty & Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- International Women's Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The annual day for recognition of and struggle for women's economic, social and political rights.
- Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Josh Ruebner draws on personal anecdotes and reflections, historical documents, and legal analyses to answer one of the most pressing issues in international affairs today: is Israel a democracy or does its separate and unequal treatment of the Palestinian people render it an apartheid state?
- Killing Gaza
A documentary film about life under siege
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Independent journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen documented Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza during the war, and chronicled its horrific aftermath. As they waded through the rubble of Gaza’s destroyed border regions, they turned a camera onto the survivors of the slaughter and let them speak for themselves. Dan returned, week after week, to capture on film the daily struggles of the people of Gaza as they suffered through one of the worst winters in recorded history, and then weathered the sweltering summer heat without electricity and -- in many cases -- without homes. While giving voice to the pain of a people under siege, Cohen and Blumenthal also highlighted Gazans’ inspiring acts of creative resistance, from painting to break-dancing to literature, that allow them maintain their humanity in the face of deprivation and war. Yet this film is much more than a documentary about Palestinian resilience and suffering. It is a chilling visual document of war crimes committed by the Israeli military, featuring direct testimony and evidence from the survivors.
- The Kurdish Crisis in Iraq and Syria
Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In discussion of right of self-determination for the between 28 and 35 million Kurdish people in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, the author considers the current polticial landscape.
- Language for Resisting Oppression
Review of Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Review of the Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left by Ian Parker.
- Leon Rosselson on Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Gaza the slaughter was premeditated and calculated. The snipers were primed to kill. They had their orders. They used the protesters, men women, children, for target practice. According to the latest reports, 109 Palestinians?—?including children, one an 8 month old baby -- have been killed and over 6,000 wounded, including nearly 1000 children. The wounds were particularly debilitating because Israeli soldiers used dumdum bullets which expand when they enter the body. The bullets used are causing injuries local medics say they have not seen since 2014. The entrance wound is small.The exit wound is devastating, causing gross comminution of bone and destruction of soft tissue.
- Lessons from James Baldwin
Review of James Baldwin: The FBI File; Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of James Baldwin: The FBI File, a novel edited by William J. Maxwell which sets out an interpretive frame,through which readers may study his excerpts his file from the FBI.
- Looking for Calley
How a young journalist untangled the riddle of My Lai
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Seymour M. Hersh looks back at the 1969 My Lai Massacre where hundreds of unarmed civilians were massacred by U.S. Army soldiers. As a young freelance journalist in Vietnam Hersh gained recognition for exposing the atrocity and its cover-up, and ultimately helped turn public opinion against the war.
- Looted and Hidden - Palestinian Archives in Israel
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- The Lost City
Ian MacEachern's Photographs of Saint John
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
For The Lost City: Ian MacEachern's Photographs of Saint John, architectural and social historian John Leroux has selected seventy-five black-and-white photographs drawn from MacEachern's exceptional archive and written an accompanying essay that examines the recent history of Saint John and the effect of urban renewal on civic architecture, historic neighbourhoods, and community structure.
- Man of the Trees: Richard St. Barbe Baker, the First Global Conservationist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A biography of Richard St. Barbe Baker
- A Marxist History of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A short history of capitalism by a history professor at University of Manitoba
- The #MeToo Revolution Edtorial
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The editors ask whether the #MeToo Movement will be different than other moments in which sexual abuse was revealed, and propose that organized labour can play a role in ensuring harassment-free work enviroments.
- Midian Farm
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
From 1971 - 1977, Midian Farm was a back-to-the-land social experiment created by a community of urban baby boomers from Toronto. Part of the youth counterculture movement during a period of social and political re-imagining, its utopian vision eventually collapsed. More than four decades later, filmmaker Liz Marshall unearths a transformative piece of family and Canadian history.
- The Minds of Others
The art of persuasion in the age of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In a divided America, seven writers explore the ways that persuasion operates in our lives- from the intimate to the far-reaching, and ultimately how we can pursuade others to see things the way we do.
- Miriam Garfinkle
Memories, Stories, Photos, Articles, Statements, Interviews, Letters, Actions, Activism, News
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This page is dedicated to the memory of Miriam Garfinkle (1954 - 2018). It provides links to Miriam’s articles and interviews, letters; accounts of her activism and organizing; stories from some of the occasions when Miriam’s activities landed her in the news; photo albums; and tributes to Miriam. There is a separate page, Moments with Miriam, on which more 100 people share stories of Miriam.
- Mobbed Up
How America boosts the Afghan opium trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Touted by the US as fueling terrosism, the author takes a closer look at the opium trade in Afghanistan and reveals a situation far more complex; notably drug lords manipulating US commanders and Western involvement ironically creating explosive opium growth.
- Moments with Miriam
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This page was created to enable Miriam Garfinkle’s friends, family, and the people whose lives she touched, to share their stories, memories, and photos.
- The Moral Economy of the Iranian Protests
Beset by inequality and corruption, Iran's provincial working classes are revolting against the revolution's broken promises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the root causes of the widespread protests that have been taking place, primarily in provincial towns, throughout Iran. Persistent unemployment and inflation, overdue wages and pensions, environmental degradation, and ponzi schemes are a far cry from the social justice vision that animated and united the revolutionary forces of 1979.
- No Exit
The ongoing abuses of Australia's refugee policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A first person account of the refugee crisis in Australian detention centres. At great expense the Australian government holds detainees offshore in crowded camps, many of whom are stranded and living under deplorable conditions.
- NPR Runs IDF Playbook, Spinning Killing of 17 Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The article looks at the NPR reporting on the killing of 17 palestinians, which follows a pro-Israel bias that dates back for years.
- Obstruction of Justice
Why the criminal justice system is ill-equipped to prosecute rape charges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Author Charlotte Shane examines why the U.S. justice sytem is incapable of effectively adjudicating rape, moreover the profound psychological and societal issues inborn in our culture that produces rapists. Shane takes a look at the film "I Am Evidence", directed by Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir, as a starting point for discussion.
- The October Revolution: Its Necessity & Meaning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Mandal examines the necessity and meaning of the October Revolution.
- The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Looking at the hype around the benefits of omega-3 as well as the impact its extraction has on the environment.
- Open and Hidden Horrors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Before Trump's December 6, 2017 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, American aggression and its results were apparent in the Middle East and Africa.
- The Other Whisper Network
How Twitter feminism is bad for women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Katie Roiphe takes a closer look at the #MeToo movement, particularly the use of Twitter and social media which can dangerously be used to rouse extremes in a similar way that Trump has energized his supporters.
- A People's History of the German Revolution
1918-19
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The story of the revolutionary moment which overthrew the German monarchy in 1918, but was then defeated by the forces of reaction.
- The Pictures
Securing Peter Hujar's place among the greats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In his will American photographer Peter Hujar left his entire photographic archive to his friend Stephen Koch. In this article Koch explains why he embarked on a journey to usher Hujar's work into posthumous notoriety, and ultimately how the photographs changed his life.
- The Plot to Attack Iran
How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A summary to the US war against Iranian democracy and the complex situation in the Middle East.
- Portrait of an Icon
Review of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical by Judith E. Smith.
- The Progress of This Storm
Nature and Society in a Warming World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other.
- Punching the Clock
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
An excerpt from David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs" published by Simon and Schuster. Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, looks at the existence of meaningless work and the psychological and societal harm that results.
- Race and the Logic of Capital
Review of Class, Race, and Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Review of Class, Race, and Marxism by David Roediger.
- Racial Terror & Totalitarianism - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
by Vaughn Rasberry.
- Rage Against the Machine: A War vs. Consensus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
As it stands now, even if the unlikely liberal wet dream of a Trump impeachment actually comes to pass, the theocratic Mike Pence will simply assume office. No doubt cities like New York and Boston will initially erupt in celebration. But should it really be that long before the realization dawns that the real work remained ongoing?
- Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Food production in the age of climate change and corporate control.
- Sources News Release Archive 2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
News releases from 2018.
- Speaking of Indigenous Politics
Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
On her radio program Indigenous Politics, J. Kehaulani Kauanui talked candidly and in an engaging way about how settler colonialism depends on erasing Native peoples and about how Native peoples can and do resist, bringing Indigenous activism to the mainstream. Collected here, these conversations speak with clear and compelling voices about a range of Indigenous politics that shape everyday life.
- The State & Institutional Power: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
- Surveillance Self-Defense
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Modern technology has given those in power new abilities to eavesdrop and collect data on innocent people. Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.
- Swap Meet
Wall Street's war on the Volcker Rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A look at the opposition to the Volcker Rule, originally proposed by former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, which restricts US banks from making certain speculative investments that do not benefit customers.
- Theorizing the Soviet Bureaucracy
Review of Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A review of the book: Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy by Thomas M. Twiss.
- Transgender Children and Young People
Born in Your Own Body
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A collection of essays about the current theory and practice of transgendering children.
- The Trouble With Uplift
How black politics succumbed to the siren song of the racial voice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
I've long suspected that, to a certain strain of race-conscious or antiracist discourse, historical exploration in popular culture was less important than the propagation of tales of inspiration and uplift. These fables typically feature singular black heroes who have overcome crushing racist adversity against all odds. In recent years, a steady stream of films and other narratives have openly embraced that preference.
- US, UK and France 'Inflicted Worst Destruction in Decades on Raqqa'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Amnesty International reports that air and artillery strikes by the US and allies inflicted devastating loss of life on civilians in the Isis-held city of Raqqa. It is a report that contradicts claims by the US, Britain and France, that they precisely targeted Isis fighters and positions during the four month siege.
- What Really Happened With Lesbian Protestors At Pride London Yesterday?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
A campaigning group, called 'Get the L Out', protesting harassment of young lesbians for same-sex attraction are being smeared in the media as marching against 'against trans women'.
- Why There are Few Christians Left in the Holy Town of Bethlehem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
This is the time of year when they have a chance to break out of an isolation enforced in concrete since Israel enclosed the town with a "separation wall" more than a decade ago.
- William ('Bill') Pelz:
Againist the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In memoriam, Patrick M. Quinn and Eric Schuster discuss the life and contributions of William ('Bill') Pelz, a well-known socialist activist and prolific scholar in the field of European and comparative Labour History.
- Alternative Canada 150 project redraws history to spotlight untold stories
Born from opposition to Canada 150, Remember Resist Redraw posters are being used in schools across Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
During Canada 150 celebrations, a project titled "Remember Resist Redraw" releases illustrated posters depicting a variety of stories often left out of traditional history textbooks -- stories of oppression, inequality, racism, and colonialism.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Coates represents the neoliberal wing of the black freedom struggle that sounds militant about white supremacy but renders black fightback invisible. This wing reaps the benefits of the neoliberal establishment that rewards silences on issues such as Wall Street greed or Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and people. The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: any analysis or vision of our world that omits the centrality of Wall Street power, US military policies, and the complex dynamics of class, gender, and sexuality in black America is too narrow and dangerously misleading. So it is with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ worldview.
- Why Is Allergan Partnering with the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe?
Inside the bizarre world of patent law.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has invested in a portfolio of patents, their status as a sovereign-entity allows the holder to circumvent the "inter partes review" if a patent dispute is raised, increasing the value of their holdings.
- Action this Thursday, City allowing respite spaces to be lost
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
City allowing respite spaces to be lost despite shelters being full and directive from council to maintain respite capacity
- Betty Peterson Leaves a Legacy of Peacework
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
It is with great sadness and immense appreciation of her contribution to peace and justice that we let you know of the peaceful passing of our mentor, inspiration and “grandmother with a hug”, 100 year-old Betty Peterson. Long-time Nova Scotia
- China: Human Rights activist detained for six months without charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Since September 2017, human rights activist Zhen Jianghua has been in police detention and his lawyer Ren Quanniu has been denied access to his client. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) demand the immediate release of Zhen Jianghua.
- Connexions Other Volices - June 10, 2018 - Massacres and Morality
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad.
- Creating a worldwide Nakba 70th anniversary community thorough Action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
With the 70th anniversary of the Deir Yassin Massacre on April 9, and especially with Gaza's heroic "Great March of Return" leading to May 15, the world's attention is being drawn to the Nakba like never before. To mark Nakba Day, nakba70action.org
- CWF Reminds Canadians to Nominate Nature Heroes for Awards
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The Canadian Wildlife Federation reminds Canadians that it’s the final week to submit nominations for the national Conservation Achievement Awards. The deadline for applications is Jan. 31.
- Disability and Immigration Rights Groups Call on Immigration Minister to Do the Right Thing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Advocates are calling on Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen to do the right thing: repeal sections of the Immigration Act that deny permanent residency to an entire family if a member of the family is sick or has a disability.
- Emmanuel International Canada (EIC) applauds the Government of Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Emmanuel International Canada (EIC) applauds the Government of Canada for tabling historic accessibility legislation aimed at breaking down barriers for Canadians with disabilities.
- Emmanuel International Canada (EIC) is taking part in the nation-wide celebration of International Development.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Emmanuel International Canada (EIC) is taking part in the nation-wide celebration of International Development. Established 27 years ago by Global Affairs Canada, International Development Week (IDW) is a tradition unique to Canada.
- Emmanuel International Canada Celebrates World NGO Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Emmanuel International Canada Celebrates World NGO Day. World NGO Day to raise awareness and recognize the importance of the NGOs worldwide.
- Hearts and Minds: How Do People Change?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Hearts & Minds: How do people change? Feb 17 Connexions Other Voices asks How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? See http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2018-02-17.htm
- IFJ welcomes lowest number of killings of journalists for a decade but warns "no room for complacency"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) warns there is no room for complacency despite recording the lowest number of killings of journalists since 2007.
- IJV Canada statement on the 70th Anniversary of the Nakba
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Let this latest string of massacres be a wake up call to the world. We call on Canadians, and fellow Jewish Canadians in particular, to join us not only in acknowledging and mourning the Nakba, but in doing all that we can to put an end to it.
- India: Two journalists killed in 24 hours
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Sandeep Sharma and Naveen Nishchal were both killed in separate vehicle incidents in India on Monday, March 26. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) condemn the killings
- Interview Opportunity with Chopsticks+Forks, Founder and entrepreneur Jusep Sim
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2018
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Interview Opportunity with Chopsticks+Forks, Founder and entrepreneur Jusep Sim
- Looking for answers, creating alternatives - Connexions Other Voices March 25, 2018
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The March 25, 2018 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- Malaysian government tables 'Anti-Fake News' bill
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists; Peninsular Malaysia (NUJM) in criticizing the so-called anti-fake new bill and the heavy penalties.
- Media Release - IFIC Announces New Senior Management Appointments
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Toronto, ON - January 24, 2018 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) President and CEO Paul C. Bourque, Q.C. has announced two new appointments to IFIC’s senior management team – Carolyn Quick to the position of Vice President, Pu
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for December 2017
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Toronto, ON - January 19, 2018 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending December 31, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.48 trillion. AUM decreased by $6.7
- Media Release - IFIC Requests Creditor Protection for RDSP Beneficiaries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Toronto, ON - January 9, 2018 - In a submission made on January 5 to the Government of Canada, the Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) requested an amendment to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act that would give beneficiaries of Registered
- Opening of Moss Park Armouries Necessary But Temporary Measure: More Permanent Shelter Beds Needed
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Warming centres will save lives this winter but conditions within most are appalling and they don’t necessarily meet the City’s own shelter or public health standards. We need permanent beds in the downtown core and we need them now.
- Our Statement on Syria
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
VOW condemns the devastating attack on Syria
- Recognizing World Water Day 2018
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
2018 marks the 25th anniversary of World Water Day held every year by the United Nations and recognized by millions around the Globe.
- Richard McGowan Executive Director Emmanuel International Canada congratulates the Finance Minister Hon. Bill Morneau and the Federal Government of Ca
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Richard McGowan Executive Director Emmanuel International Canada congratulates the Finance Minister Bill Morneau and the Federal Government of Canada’s commitment announced in the 2018 Federal Budget to increase investment in international assistan
- The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
We call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech.
- There's No Such Thing As "Free" Preschool Say Day Care Operators
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Ontario's independent licensed child care centres question whether the Liberal Government's latest election promise-- "free" preschool --will actually benefit families, or just result in more centre closures, higher taxes and greater government debt
- Thirteen journalists injured in bloody repression of Gaza protests
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Thirteen journalists covering protests in Gaza were injured on Monday, 14 May when Israeli military opened fire on Palestinian protesters along the Gaza border.
- Thousands Marching In Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
In Gaza, thousands are marching -- one of the many unarmed actions planned over 45 days which will build through May 15, when Palestinians mark 70 years since hundreds of thousands were made refugees during the war of 1948.
- UN call to stop attacks on Palestinian journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
The IFJ has welcomed calls by United Nations Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk that freedom of the media and the rights of journalists must be respected and that Israel should stop targeting Palestinian journalists.
- VOW Demands Peaceful Resolution for the Crisis in North Korea
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
Re: Worsening humanitarian and human rights impacts of UN sanctions on the DPRK. To Honourable Members of UN 1718 Sanctions Committee (DPRK). This letter comes to you from the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) and
- What are we eating? asks January 21 issue of Other Voices
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else..
- Multiple distinct groups historically populated Newfoundland, DNA study suggests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Study suggests implies that the island of Newfoundland was populated multiple times by distinct groups.
- Vintage Photos of Traveling Libraries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Photo essay.
- U.S. elections rank last among all Western democracies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Are US elections fair and democratic? A detailed look at the data and methodology that questions the integrity of elections.
- Welcome to the Witchhunt
or Would the Labour Party Expel Einstein for Antisemitism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Companies race to gather a newly prized currency: Our body measurements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The mining of data by clothing companies in the form of documented body measurements raises concerns over privacy and misuse of our most personal information.
- Corporate America Unmasked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While US public views seem generally favourable about American corporations, an extensive study by psychologist Dr. Gary Brumback concludes that leadership, particularly in large corporations, is found to be morally depraved and their organizations often dysfunctional.
- Alternative Toronto: 1980 - 1995
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2018
A community archive and historical map of Toronto’s alternative cultures, scenes and spaces of the 1980s and early 1990s.
- Ethiopian workers 'beaten and robbed' by Saudi police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A group of undocumented Ethiopians told The Associated Press news agency that after being captured by Saudi police officers they were subject to serious abuses, including beatings and filthy prison conditions as well as witnessing shootings during roundups.
- Why is the West praising Malala, but ignoring Ahed?
Is an empowered Palestinian girl not worthy of Western feminist admiration?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Khoja-Moolji examines the lack of media response to the plight of 16 year-old Ahed Tamimi, detained for allegedly assaulting an Israeli soldier during a confrontation at her home during which Israeli soldiers shot a fourteen-year-old child.
- Venezuela declares Craib Kowalik, Canada's Chargé d'Affaires in Caracas, persona non gratas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Last week Venezuela declared Canada's chargé d'affaires in Caracas persona non grata. In making the announcement the president of the National Constituent Assembly Delcy Rodriguez denounced Craib Kowalik's "permanent and insistent, rude and vulgar interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela."
- Apple sued for deliberately slowing down older iPhones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A lawsuit was filed in California against technology giant Apple after the company admitted to slowing down their older iPhone models.
- The Great Unraveling: Using Science and Philosophy to Decode Modernity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
All of this ecological destruction has been driven by America’s most popular exports: capitalism and imperialism. William Hawes talked about using science and philosophy to decode modernity.
- How Inequality Kills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Global March of Neoliberalism: The World Inequality Report 2018
- Not by Bread Alone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War focused on people's daily needs--who doesn't love hot, buttered toast? People in Spain were starving--they needed food. People--were homeless and needed homes; people were jobless and needed something to do; people were rejected from their communities needed to be included. Anarchists focused on these practical, attainable and above all human needs. And, these are the basic rights that should undergird all human social organizations.
- Turning Perpetrators into Healers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Innocent people -- or "innocently guilty" people, like the junior senator from Minnesota -- often get unfairly hung out to dry. Should he have to resign? Who among us (Roy? Donald?) hasn't committed worse transgressions? And shouldn't a person's positive achievements be factored into the severity of his punishment, at least when no permanent damage has occurred?
- In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times
Perspective to lift the blinders of our cultural moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Maria Popova has found solace in taking a more telescopic view - not merely on the short human timescale of her own life, looking back on having lived through a Communist dictatorship and having seen poems composed and scientific advances made under such tyrannical circumstances, but on far vaster scales of space and time.
- The Big Lie About the Tax Bill: Why Bosses Will Never Raise Wages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The big lie underlying the $1.5-trillion Trump/Republican Congressional tax bill is that Corporations will pass much of it on to workers in the form of higher wages, and to consumers in the form of lower prices.
- The Internet is Already Broken
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Nick Pemberton's article on the already broken internet.
- Sex, Drugs and Rollickin' Roles: Christmas and Our Ever-Changing Relationship with Nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The benefits of industrialisation have come at price as industry and technology the world over pushes nature further and further into ecological crises. Christmas has become the vehicle for the worst excesses of industrialisation, commercialisation and commodification.
- South Asia: Murderous majorities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Drawing from essays and recent literature the author discusses the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Burma/Myanmar, and the broader historical context of majoritarian nationalism in South Asia where majoritarian violence has been a shortcut to power.
- South Sudan: Volunteers Gather Names of South Sudan's Uncounted War Dead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The names of 5,000 victims of violence appear in the "Remembering the Ones We Lost" project, a memorial to people who have died in seven decades of conflict.The project invites witnesses to submit details of killings or disappearances through an online form or by text message, the information is then collated by volunteers.
- What is Happening in Catalonia and Spain?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Vincente Navarro explains the historcal background to the Catalonian independence referendum results in 2017, and notes the political challenges this movement will face.
- How Brazil’s Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In Brazil, sex work remains politically and socially contentious. But thanks to a staunch sex worker movement in the country, the people who actually do the work have made themselves key contributors to the debate.
- How Brazil's Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sex workers in Brazil have been organizing for 30 years and have influenced politics to the extent that the government recognizes sex-work as an official occupation. They are celebrating the anniversary in part with an exhibit of photographs taken by sex-workers.
- Import and Die: Self-Sufficiency and Food Security in India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While there are clear signs that India needs to achieve greater food self-sufficiency, there is also a World Bank-backed agenda for the future of India where the majority of farmers don't have much of a role.
- Marxism, feminism and transgender politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of feminism and transgender politics through a Marxist lens.
- Adapt or Die: Millennials, Technology, and Net Neutrality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Internet is changing the way we think, concentrate, and process information. Studies are showing the Internet is lowering our concentration because the Internet offers constant distractions. It’s reducing our attention span, and it’s ruining our interpersonal communication skills. Basically this technology is dehumanizing us.
- Half of UK sees The Sun tabloid as 'negative influence'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Half of Britons see one of the UK's largest tabloids, The Sun, as a negative influence on society, according to a new poll.
- Musta'ribeen, Israel's agents who pose as Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Musta'ribeen, or mista'arvim in Hebrew, is a word that is derived from the Arabic "musta'rib", or one that is specialised in Arabic language and culture. In Israeli security terms, the word denotes security forces who disguise themselves as Arabs and carry out missions in the heart of Palestinian societies or other Arab countries.
- Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
- A history of violence: Growing up in CAR
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A child born from rape and a young gunshot victim grow up amid CAR's cycle of violence.
- The U.S. is Not a Democracy, It Never Was
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is no contradiction or supposed loss of democracy because the United States simply never was one. This is a difficult reality for many people to confront, and they are likely more inclined to immediately dismiss such a claim as preposterous rather than take the time to scrutinize the material historical record in order to see for themselves
- Zionism in the Light of Jerusalem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Surveillance firms spied on campaign groups for big companies, leak shows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
British Airways, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Porsche are among five large companies that have been identified as having paid corporate intelligence firms to monitor political groups that challenged their businesses, leaked documents reveal.
- A damning indictment of the Ontario Liberal government's private power strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Private power is a great deal for private power owners, writes Thomas Walkom. For the rest of us, not so much.
- Google's true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Two decades ago, the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story. Some of the research that led to Google's ambitious creation was funded and coordinated by a research group established by the intelligence community to find ways to track individuals and groups online.
- Israeli soldiers filmed harassing schoolchildren in occupied Hebron
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Footage shot in Hebron in occupied Palestinian territory shows Israeli soldiers routinely harassing teachers and schoolchildren on a number of occasions. Rights activists say it is part of a state policy aimed at forcing Palestinians to leave the city.
- Province ignored whistleblowers who warned about child abuse at its training schools
An ongoing Star investigation of alleged physical, sexual and emotional abuse at the schools for troubled youth between the 1960s and the 19
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An investigation of alleged physical, sexual and emotional abuse at Ontario training schools between the 1960s and the 1980s found that two officials warned the province of brutal and sadistic treatment at the hands of staff -- warnings the province appears to have ignored.
- 'Reporters Without Scruples' fails to derail revelatory conference on White Helmets
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Geneva Press Club (GPC) announced an event that would present the darker side of the Oscar-winning, multi-million-dollar internationally funded White Helmets, operating in Syria alongside Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Nusra Front) and other US Coalition-armed & financed terrorist groups.The event was entitled "They Don't Care About Us – White Helmets True Agenda."
- Israel uses Palestinian land to illegally dump toxic waste
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Israel dumps unknown waste and military garbage in a disposal site in Kisan village, in the occupied West Bank.
- Syrian boys caught in 'vicious cycle' of sex abuse: UN
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Syrian men and boys, in their war-torn country and abroad, have suffered "a vicious cycle" of sexual abuse with more devastating consequences than previously reported, according to the United Nations new report "We Keep it in Heart".
- Toronto music teacher sues after principal, VP call folk song racist
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Toronto music teacher is suing her principal, vice-principal and the public school board for defamation after the administrators sent an email to the school community apologizing that a well-known folk song - "Land of the Silver Birch" - was performed at a school concert, calling it "inappropriate" and "racist."
- Transit decisions must remain local, former city planner says
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Toronto Region Board of Trade seeks to plunge us into a massive transit amalgamation process.Reminiscent of arguments made two decades ago touting the efficacy of the megacity, the board sees magical solutions for revenue shortages, better planning, superior service levels, and the adoption of modern technologies through the creation of a mega transit corporation, Superlinx.
- What Happens When the Government Uses Facebook as a Weapon?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It's social media in the age of "patriotic trolling" in the Philippines, where the government is waging a campaign to destroy a critic -- with a little help from Facebook itself.
- As Egypt Arrests and Tortures Gay People, It Enlists the Help of Pro-LGBTQ PR Firm in Washington
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The public relations firm APCO has taken on a $1.2 million annual contract to work with Egypt's notorious spy services, the General Intelligence Directorate, to promote the Egyptian government’s interests in D.C.
- Evicting the Underclass
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Chinese government campaign to expel migrant workers from Beijing is designed to reap greater profits from urban land and reserve the city for elites.
- Finland: 100th anniversary of workers' revolution drowned in blood
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the Workers' Revolution in Finland, a source of inspiration and a powerful example of the strength of collective struggle.
- International Olympic Committee bans Russia from 2018 Olympics in political provocation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board announced Tuesday that it had decided to ban the Russian Olympic team from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
- Postmedia and Torstar deal results in "largest closure of newspapers on single day in Canadian History
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned by the deal between Canada's two largest newspaper publishers, Postmedia and Torstar, which have decided to swap more than forty local newspapers with each other, and subsequently shut down most of these newly acquired newspapers in regions where they compete with other existing publications.
- Resistance to Antibiotics: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The growing resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobials due to their overuse and misuse both in humans and animals has become an alarming global threat to public health, food safety and security, causing the deaths of 700,000 people each year.
- The rising repression of social protest in Latin America
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On 17 October, 2017, the corpse of Santiago Maldonado appeared in the Chubut River. The young activist had been missing for 80 days. The suspense surrounding Maldonado’s whereabouts aroused a great sense of unease in a country where the word “disappeared” brings to mind the 30,000 victims of the civic-military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
- Violence Against Women: Why The UN Secretary-General Got It Wrong
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Burrowes argues that efforts to resolve violence aganist women are futile unless the focus shifts to preventing emotional and physical violence against children, with particular emphasis on boys.
- Who Voted for Germany's New Nazis?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Klikauer examines the rise of the far-Right in Germany, with reference to unresolved inequalities post re-uinification, changing demographics and media interests.
- Another peace activist, Raza Khan, goes missing in Lahore
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Raza Mahmood Khan, a Peace activist and social worker, went "missing" in Lahore on Dec. 2, 2017, shortly after he had organised a public discussion about a recent demonstration that ended in ignominious surrender to those seeking power in the guise of religion.
- The Anti-Empire Report #153
Cold War Number One: 70 years of daily national stupidity. Cold War Number Two: Still in its youth, but just as
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A comentary on current events in Russian and US relations which may be entering a new Cold War, as well as a look back at events through the Cold War period from 1948 to the 1980's.
- Broadband monopolies to censor Internet content
Behind the FCC plan to abolish net neutrality
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The recently released plan by the American Federal Communications Commission to abolish net neutrality has evoked mass opposition across the US and around the world.
- Class Dismissed: Identity Politics Without The Identity
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In a capitalist society, work is at the core of identity, In the United States there are sharply divergent attitudes between professionals and the working class.
- The FBI's Perjury Trap of the Century
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
John Brennan, Jim Comey, Sally Yates, Peter Strzok and a passel of deep state operatives -- all of whom baldly abused their offices, set a perjury trap designed to snare Mike Flynn as a first step in relitigating and reversing the voters' verdict.
- The Government Is Trying to Make It Impossible For Reality Winner to Defend Herself in Court
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Justice Department is engaged in a multi-pronged effort to hamstring Reality Winner's defense against charges of violating the Espionage Act behind cumbersome classification rules.
- How Bosses Use 'Open Shop' Campaigns to Crush Unions
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Chad Pearson's book "Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement" and Lane Windham's new book "Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970's and the Roots of a New Economic Divide", take a historical look at anti-union tactics through the 20th century, and demonstrate how Unions can regroup, reform and fight back.
- How Israel is digitally policing Palestinian minds
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Israeli authorities have been arresting and holding hundreds of Palestinians it accuses of fanning the flames of violence in the occupied West Bank and Israel.
- Power and Protest: The Electoral Tactics of Leftist Social Movements
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The central difficulty for left social movements is determining electoral tactics that will enable them to win both in the short run and in the middle run. On the surface, it seems that winning in the short run conflicts with winning in the middle run.
- The public humiliation and destruction of Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The decision by the Metropolitan Opera in New York City to suspend James Levine, its longtime musical director (1976-2016), from any further conducting engagements is the latest victory for the New York Times and the champions of the new repression.
- Tearful Liberal MP should accept James Bezan's fifth apology and move on
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Comes a time to draw the line, to note that not all remarks of a sexual nature are actually sexual in nature, that not all talk that is debatably inappropriate must be censored, that sometimes a bad line is just a bad line and that the #metoo movement does not require every woman to recall and publicize every slight, real or imagined, ever inflicted upon her by every man in the world.
- This Israeli Presentation on How to Make Drone Strikes More "Efficient" Disturbed Its Audience
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Research backed by the U.S. and Israeli military scandalized a conference near Tel Aviv earlier this year after a presentation showed how the findings would help drone operators more easily locate people -- including targets -- fleeing their strikes and better navigate areas rendered unrecognizable by prior destruction.
- Trump's Transition Team Colluded With Israel. Why Isn't That News?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Hasan asks the question: why aren't more members of Congress or the media discussing the Trump transition team's pretty brazen collusion with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to undermine both U.S. government policy and international law?
- Untouchable - The Uses And Misuses Of 'Genocide Denial'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
One of the wonders of contemporary propaganda is the extent to which corporate commentators are in denial about their use of the term 'genocide denial'. Clearly, they believe they are using a neutral, objective term to describe indisputable facts of genocidal killing and ugly refusals to recognise those facts. The delusion is quickly exposed when we ask a few simple questions. For example: how often do we see 'mainstream' commentators describing US-UK sanctions on Iraq from 1990-2003 as 'genocidal', as affirmed by senior UN diplomats? How often do journalists describe supporters of the devastating Bush-Blair war on Iraq, the Obama-Cameron war on Libya, or May's war on Yemen as 'genocide deniers'? Can we imagine someone who supported the war on Libya being called an 'Obama apologist'? Like 'terror' and 'terrorism', 'genocide' and 'genocide denial' are simply not terms that are applied to Western actions. This really awesome level of bias points to the reality that 'genocide denial' is a propaganda term overwhelmingly used to portray Official Enemies as morally and intellectually despicable, in fact untouchable. As used in the 'mainstream', the term is antirational, an attack on honest debate.
- The BDS movement is about justice for Palestine
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The University of Ottawa Israeli Awareness Committee (IAC) blocked a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolution presented by the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO). The BDS movement is a call to action from Palestinians seeking justice and equality, while the IAC is a pro-Israel lobby group which works with the Israeli Embassy and others to promote the Israeli government to students.
- How Russia-gate Rationalizes Censorship
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Russia-gate hysteria has spread beyond simply a strategy for neutralizing Donald Trump or even removing him from office into an excuse for stifling U.S. dissent that challenges the New Cold War, reports Joe Lauria.
- Uncertainty shapes immigrant life in the United States
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Immigrants in the United States without legal residency or who were admitted on a temporary basis feel that their lives have become much more complicated in 2017 because of the current Republican administration's intention to expel thousands of Latin Americans even though they are successfully integrated into the local economy and have no criminal record.
- The myth of one Jewish nation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Zionism is an anti-Semitic creed. It was so right from the beginning. Already the founding father, Theodor Herzl, a Viennese writer, penned some pieces with a clear anti-Semitic slant. For him, Zionism was not just a geographical transplantation, but also a means of turning the despicable commercial Jew of the diaspora into an upright, industrious human being.
- The President of Honduras Is Deploying U.S.-Trained Forces Against Election Protesters
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, using the specter of rampant crime and the drug trade, won extensive support from the American government to build up highly trained state security forces. Now, those same forces are repressing democracy.
- 33rd Anniversary Of The Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The escape of about 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) – a highly toxic chemical – from a storage tank on the premises of the pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) in Bhopal – the capital of the State of Madhya Pradesh – on the night of 02/03 December 1984 resulted in a horrendous disaster in the city, which was inhabited by about 900,000 persons then.
- The long ecological revolution
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Up until the rise of the ecological movement in the late twentieth century, the conquest of nature was a universal trope, often equated with progress under capitalism (and sometimes socialism). To be sure, the notion, as utilized in science, was a complex one. As Francis Bacon, the idea's leading early proponent, put it, "nature is only overcome by obeying her." Only by following nature's laws, therefore, was it possible to conquer her.
- Philippines: when the police kill children - Kulot, Carl, Kian...
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Murders of several teenagers in the Philippines suspected to have been killed as part of the government's war on drugs.
- Internets Past
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This article discusses the Internet and the problems with prevailing public concern over Net neutrality. The author advocates for an alternate way forward, and a need to bring political economy back to the agenda by viewing corporations as political actors and the technology corporations as powerful commercial players with their own agendas.
- Stop Shock Now: Psychiatry's War Against Women and the Elderly
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Today, most people including many health professionals are surprised to learn that electroshock (ECT) is still prescribed. As we also know, women, particularly elderly women, are the main targets of electroshock -- women over 60 and many in their 80s or 90s have been shocked in Canada.
- Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum, the nation's largest publicly accessible collection of racist objects. These images are evidence of the social injustice that Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as "a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be exposed to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured." Each chapter concludes with a story from the author's journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives.
- A dramatic suicide in a 'court' of fake justice
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
After a war crimes tribunal rejected his appeal, a Bosnian Croat general drank poison and died. His last words resonate with many in the Balkans, who regard the court as a tool of US and NATO that has not fostered justice, but only made war wounds worse.
- Fighting for Their Water and Their Lives, Communities Take Direct Action Against Barrick Gold in the Dominican Republic
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
People who live near the Pueblo Viejo gold mine iin Dominican Republic struggle to gain accountabilty from the Canadian-owned companies running it. Their environment has been poisoned and they want funds for 600 families to be relocated.
- Major study shows species loss destroys essential ecosystems
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Long term research by German ecologists proves that loss of biodiversity has "direct, unpleasant consequences for mankind."
- Withdrawal of RT America's accreditation on Capitol Hill 'dire development'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The US congressional press office has revoked RT America's accreditation on Capitol Hill, citing its 'foreign agent' status.
- The Blue-Collar Hellscape of the Startup Industry
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The tactics and work environments at tech companies, including Amazon, show a disregard for the fundamental health, safety and humanity of low-tier workers, demonstrating what laissez-faire startup-styled late capitalism really looks like.
- Borneo: Island Devastated, People Oblivious
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Borneo is now synonymous with mining and logging, as well as with terrible plantations that have already cannibalized most of the land. Nothing is being produced, but everything has been extracted.
- Depraved Treatment of Drug War Captives on US Coast Guard Ships
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Wessler provides details in an interview transcript on how the United States Coast Guard routinely subjects individuals alleged to be involved in the transport of cocaine between South America and Central America to such conditions.
- Occupy: The Fall of the Oakland Commune
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
For many people, the Occupy movement was an initiation into radical politics, an experiment in decentralized and nonhierarchical movement-building, and a glimpse at the possibility for a new kind of society. Yet the whole thing was over in just a few weeks -- a crisis quieted, a moment of hope extinguished.
- Strike Friday at Amazon.it
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Amazon workers at the Castel San Giovanni hub launched their first strike on Black Friday 2017. The facility is Amazon's largest in Italy, where the retail giant employs up to four thousand workers, less than half of whom have a permanent contract.
- Beating wives if they refuse sex is OK, according to books in Britain's Islamic schools
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An educational watchdog in Britain finds reading material in some Islamic schools to be out of step with mainstream Muslim thinking.
- Cutting Cords to Kurds: Facebook's Foreign Policy
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The recent deletion and suspension of Facebook accounts of Kurdish supporters provides further troubling evidence that the popular social media company has been censoring the Kurdish resistance for the past five years.
- NY comedian Randy Credico targeted in Russia investigation over 'links to Assange'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
New York comedian Randy Credico has become the unlikely focus of the US government's Russia investigation. He believes the US is trying to use him as a pawn to undermine WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been dubbed a "demon" by the CIA director.
- Politics Without Politics
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Jonathan Smucker's recently published book Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals offers a flawed road map for rebuilding the Left.
- U.S. Coast Guard operating secret floating prisons in Pacific Ocean
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the war on drugs, the U.S. Coast Guard is reportedly turning its cutter ships into floating prisons.
- US & Europe's farcical hypocrisy over Russian foreign media law
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The US and the European Union rushed to condemn Russia's new media laws restricting foreign entities. At the same time, they assume the unilateral right to hound Russian news outlets as "foreign agents."
- Google's de-ranking of RT in search results is a form of censorship and blatant propaganda
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A commentary on the recent admission by an executive of Google's parent company (Alphabet) that special algorithms are being created to filter RTs news in order to make it appear less prominently in Google's search results.
- Susan Sarandon: 'I thought Hillary was very dangerous. If she'd won, we'd be at war'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An article about actress Susan Sarandon who discusses politics, sexism in Hollywood, female empowerment and her career.
- It flies, and it snoops: Norway's pricey F-35s caught sending 'sensitive data' to US
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Norway's new F-35 fighter jets boast an impressive array of high-tech gadgetry, but Norwegian defense officials were surprised to learn of one unadvertised feature: the pricey plane relays sensitive data back to its US manufacturer, Lockheed Martin.
- Quebec City police arrest 44 at far-right protest and counter-demonstration
Police laud co-operation from far-right group La Meute, but had to use tear gas to keep sides apart
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A report on a protest and clash between demonstrators when several hundred members of far-right groups, including La Meute and Storm Alliance, marched in the rain to a convention centre that was hosting a major policy meeting of the Quebec Liberal party.
- The Great American Sex Panic of 2017
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What interest of sanity or reason is served by this reckless lumping together of flicks of the tongue and forcible rapes into the single broad-brush term “sexual misconduct,” as though there is no important difference between an oafish pat or crude remark at an office party and a gang rape?
- Protecting individual privacy -- with a large dose of hypocrisy
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In a prominent half-page article in Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, the Toronto Star, columnist Emma Teitel criticizes "the media" for invading the privacy of the daughter of a prominent politician.
- Two Decades of Monsanto's Illegal Actions, Frauds and Crimes in India
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Over the two decades since Monsanto entered India, it has violated laws, deceived Indian farmers by making unscientific and fraudulent claims, extracted super profits through illegal royalty collection by violating India’s Patent and Intellectual Property laws, pushed farmers into debt, and, as a consequence of the debt trap, to suicide.
- God: A Human History - a rescue attempt by Reza Aslan
Book review
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Gods and religions have caused so much distress that even those who have spent a lifetime apologising for and ignoring the doctrinal foundations of their abuses must make a rescue attempt.
- From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content that threatens their rule. But in the "democratic" west, it is being done differently. The state does not have to interfere directly -- it outsources its dirty work to corporations.
- Google's Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Recent remarks by the Executive Chairman of Google's parent company confirm charges that the company has been deliberately altering its search algorithms and taking other measures to prevent the public from accessing information that is critical of the US government.
- Survival? Symptoms of Breakdown
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Government policies are driven primarily by short-term political gain and corporate power, so there needs to be a massive public demand for control of the economy towards sustainability. The alternative is no human future.
- Syria, 'Experts' and George Monbiot
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Investigative journalist Gareth Porter has published two exclusives whose import is far greater than may be immediately apparent. They concern Israel’s bombing in 2007 of a supposed nuclear plant secretly built, according to a self-serving US and Israeli narrative, by Syrian leader Bashar Assad.
- Israel's settlements: 50 years of land theft explained
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Today, between 600,000 and 750,000 Israelis live in these sizeable settlements, equivalent to roughly 11 percent of the total Jewish Israeli population. So why have these housing compounds caused so much rancour and been called a threat to the prospect of peace in the Holy Land? Follow this journey to find out.
- The Nuclear Enterprise Is on Autopilot
CounterSpin interview with William Hartung on nuclear overkill
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Janine Jackson interviewed William Hartung about nuclear overkill for the November 17, 2017, episode of CounterSpin.
- France Is Debating Whether French Is Sexist
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In early September, French President Emmanuel Macron paid a visit to Villers-Cotterets. An hour's drive north of Paris, the village boasts as its main attraction the ancestral home of Alexandre Dumas pere."France was made through its language," he observed, when "the king decided in this chateau that all of those living in his realm had to speak French." Understandably, the children did not correct Macron: The edict simply made French, not Latin, the administrative language of the kingdom. As for the "French," they continued to speak a dozen different languages and hundreds of patois for the next 300 years or so.
- Google will 'de-rank' RT articles to make them harder to find - Eric Schmidt
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Executive Chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet states that the company will engineer specific algorithms for news services RT and Sputnik to make their content less prominent on the search engine's news delivery services.
- Israel's Ploy Selling a Syrian Nuke Strike
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Evidence now available shows that there was no nuclear reactor in the Syrian desert, and that the Israelis had misled George W. Bush's administration into believing that there was in order to draw the United States into bombing missile storage sites in Syria.
- Making Nuclear Weapons Usuable Again
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A chilling look at the urge of both President Trump and key figures in the Pentagon to normalize nuclear weapons as a basic war-fighting tool in the American arsenal.
- On the 800th Anniversary of the Charter of the Forest
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Keynote Address, Delivered in the State Rooms at the House of Commons, 7 November 2017 about the Charter of the Forest.
- Imagining a New Social Order: Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin in Conversation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin discuss how the left can save the US from neoliberal excesses.
- Istvan Meszaros and Marx's theory of alienation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article explains how alienation can only be overcome by collective action which challenges capitalist relations of production.
- The colour-coded Israeli ID system for Palestinians
Israel's control over the Palestinian population is based on a system of colour-coded IDs in the occupied territories
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the colour-coded system of Palestinian population control that has remained in place in Israel for five decades; it still affects everything from freedom of movement to family unity.
- The German Revolution (World Revolution for Beginners Part III)
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It's really important to understand that the Nazis made real appeals to the working class, not very successfully, but they considered themselves to be a party that was for a workers' revolution, but for a German Workers Revolution. So, that’s something often lost in translation when people just say "Nazis" or "National Socialists".
- Lenin and Luxemburg (World Revolution for Beginners, Part I
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Both of these people are great revolutionaries and there are libraries of books written about them. So in two hours, I’m going to try to sort of summarize what I think is really important about them.
- Stalin and Trotsky (World Revolution for Beginners Part II)
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Last week, we were talking about Lenin and Luxemburg, and I was trying to work up some notes for today; I just realize that the topic of Stalin and Trotsky is far more complicated. Why? First of all, because it was in this period that Bolshevism became an international phenomenon.
- Excerpts from secretly recorded meeting between Wilfrid Laurier University grad student and faculty
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Lindsay Shepherd, a Wilfrid Laurier University graduate student and teaching assistant, landed in hot water with the university over a video clip, featuring controversial University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson, she used in a critical thinking course. After receiving complaints, the university claimed she created a toxic environment. Shepherd had a meeting with faculty and administration, here are excerpts from the secretly recorded conversation.
- ICIJ Releases Paradise Papers Data From Appleby
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at data released from the Paradise Papers investigation, a global journalistic collaboration that exposed offshore deals of political players and corporate giants. A team of journalists explored a trove of 13.4 million records from two offshore firms and 19 secret jurisdictions.
- Suppressing TVO video, stifling free speech, is making Wilfrid Laurier unsafe
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The university is wrong to castigate a grad student and teaching assistant for showing to her students a debate on TVO’s The Agenda that featured controversial professor Jordan Peterson.
- Transgender refugee defies critics by inviting military recruiters to a trans job fair
Trans group calls job fair 'extremely disrespectful' and 'a racist act'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A transgender Kenyan refugee is defiant in the face of accusations she's being racist and "inherently violent," for inviting the Canadian Armed Forces to a job fair aimed at helping transgender people find work.
- A creeping quiet in Indian journalism?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How a combination of government pressure, harassment by political activists, commercial actors including both advertisers and some media owners, is exercising a chilling effect on Indian journalism.
- The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Do you want to stop criminals from getting into your Gmail or Facebook account? Are you worried about the cops spying on you? Motherboard Staff have answers on how to protect yourself. This is Motherboard's comprehensive guide to digital security, which will be regularly updated and replaces some of our old guides. This guide is also available as a printable PDF.
- Rethinking the challenge of anti-Muslim bigotry
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In 1997 the British anti-racist organisation the Runnymede Trust published its highly influential report Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All. Twenty years on, the Runnymede Trust has brought out a follow-up report Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us All, which is a stock-take on current views, and facts, about the issue.
- Thank You, Ed Herman
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Obituary of Edward S. Herman, condsiderd "the godfather of antiwar media critique."
- Why Are Police In The USA So Terrified?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The routine killing of innocent civilians by the police has become a national crisis despite concerted attempts by political and legal authorities and the corporate media to obscure what is happening.
- In search of the common good
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This essay examines the historical change in the meaning and understanding of the 'common good', particularly between ancient times and the modern world, and also takes a look at the social and political changes of recent decades that have shaped how we look at the issue.
- Richest 1% have more money than poorest half of world's population
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The bottom half of adults in the world collectively own less than the richest one percent, according to a Credit Suisse report. The gap between the super-rich and the poor has significantly grown since the global crisis.
- Forcing RT to register as 'foreign agent' is a 'horrendous blow to press freedom'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The US government ultimatum that forced news agency RT to register as a 'foreign agent' has drawn condemnation from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which calls the action a "troubling precedent."
- An open letter from Jewish academics and elders to McGill's administration regarding false allegations of student anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This letter was sent Nov. 13 to Principal Suzanne Fortier, Provost Christopher Manfredi, and Secretariat Board of Governors and Senate Maria Kontzidis.
- Warning to Spanish (and Other) Whistleblowers: Anonymous Boxes which ARE NOT ANONYMOUS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Citizens' victories in the struggle against corruption, sometimes requiring information to be provided through safe anonymous channels like Xnet's Mailbox for reporting corruption, have catalysed a proliferation of similar initiatives within governments and institutions.
- Kichwa community commits to eco-sustainable tourism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In Ecuador the Sani Isla Indignenous community runs a sustainable eco-tourism business. Although in close proximity to oil companies they do not cooperate with them and are in legal disputes with them due to the impact of pollution.
- Cambridge slammed for 'censoring' Palestine BDS event
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Cambridge University is accused of censorship after it threatened to ban a meeting about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, unless the Palestinian academic chairing it was removed and replaced with its own choice.
- Left parties
Introduction to the November 11, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
"There is no alternative." That is capitalism's message in the neo-liberal era. The rich keep getting richer and richer, millions of people are unemployed, millions more are trying to survive on precarious, marginal, and part-time work, hundreds of millions are without health care, housing, education, or clean water. Environmental collapse is increasingly likely, masses of people are fleeing wars and economic disasters, nuclear war is a real danger. And all that the corporate elite, the corporate media, and the mainstream political parties have to offer is their insistence that there is nothing we can do about it: there is no alternative.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 11, 2017
Left Parties
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In recent years, there have been repeated attempts to build left political parties and coalitions, i.e. parties to the left of the established social democratic parties which have long become part of the neoliberal capitalist mainstream. Left parties have emerged out of mass movements in countries like Spain (Podemos), Germany (Die Linke), and Greece (Syriza). In Latin America, in the last two decades, left movements or parties have formed governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay. What these new left parties/movements have in common is a strategy of engaging in grassroots organizing and also running in elections. They all describe themselves as socialist, though in many cases their programs are more reminiscent of what social democrats used to advocate decades ago: reforms that would tame and manage capitalism rather than abolish it. Their ultimate vision may be a world without capitalism, but their immediate proposals are more modest and incremental, though still significantly to the left of the neo-liberal consensus.
- In Search of Los Angeles' Lost Socialist Colony, Llano del Rio
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In search of the ruins of Llano del Rio, a socialist colony founded in 1914 by Job Harriman, looking to create a utopian community.
- Kaspersky Lab in crosshairs since exposing US & Israeli spies behind Stuxnet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The campaign to discredit Kaspersky Lab dates back to 2010, when the Russian-based cybersecurity firm uncovered the origin of the Stuxnet malicious computer worm which ruined Iran's nuclear centrifuges.
- Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief Comparison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone relying on BBC News receives a power-friendly view of the world, systematically distorted in a way that allows the state and private interests to pursue business as usual.
- On the Intolerant Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Julian Vigo's concern with the growing pattern of intellectual and political intolerance he's witnessed within allegedly progressive circles.
- Thought police strike again as Wilfrid Laurier grad student is chastised for showing Jordan Peterson video
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Wilfrid Laurier University teaching assistant has been identified as “transphobic” and sanctioned for last week showing her class an excerpt of a video debate involving the controversial University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson. In fact, her supervising professor, Nathan Rambukkana, told her that by showing the video to her “Canadian Communication in Context” class, “it basically was like … neutrally playing a speech by Hitler …”
- CIA wrote code 'to impersonate' Russia's Kaspersky Lab anti-virus company, WikiLeaks says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
WikiLeaks published documents exposing the elaborated malware suite used by the CIA to hack, record and control modern hi-tech appliances worldwide.
- Reframing Migration: A Conversation With Historian Sunil Amrith
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The 2017 MacArthur Genius Fellowship recipient's interdisciplinary work on the Bay of Bengal teaches us that movement and migration are central forces in the making of Asian -- and global -- history.
- Setting the Record Straight: The Beirut Barracks Bombing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The White House wants to blame Iran, but they're wrong. I was there.
- Yemen Doctors: Hundreds Will Die Within a Week to Saudi Blockade
Key Medicines Have Run Out in Yemeni Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the past month, Saudi Arabia's naval blockade of Yemen, has tightened dramatically, and even vital medications and food are virtually impossible to import.
- Coverage of sexual harassment claims carelessly blurs lines between minor misconduct and real abuse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It is undeniably a great thing that abusers like Harvey Weinstein are finally receiving their comeuppance, however overdue it may be. But in the aftermath of Weinstein’s downfall, we’re at risk of broadening the definition of sexual harassment too widely.There is a vast difference between genuine sexual harassment, abuse or rape — and minor misconduct, flirting or otherwise inappropriate behavior in the workplace (or anywhere else). Yet, in recent weeks, the two have been dangerously conflated.
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Have we just decided to do away with the presumption of innocence, or at the very least the idea that these matters should be dealt with through lawyers and courts, not on Facebook and Twitter? Are we supposed to completely ignore the possibility that just maybe, an accusation could be false?
This kind of trial by social media is dangerous. A simple tweet can brand a person as a rapist who deserves to lose their job and have their lives utterly destroyed in an instant — on nothing more than the say-so of another person.
Sterile culture
A couple of weeks ago, Adam Sandler found himself in the firing line when he touched actress Claire Foy’s knee twice during The Graham Norton Show. Some viewers were so outraged by the contact Sandler had made with Foy’s knee that she was forced to release a statement saying she was not angry or offended by Sandler’s gesture. If this kind of behavior is classed as sexual harassment or as outrageously inappropriate as some viewers suggested, we appear to be on our way toward living in a completely sterile, robotic and puritanical world where nobody can say or do anything for fear of pious backlash from the political correctness police.
There is also an insulting, sexist and patronizing element to all of this which makes women out to be weak-minded, overly sensitive creatures who can’t even handle a sexual joke being told in their presence. Or who are so vulnerable that they simply can’t be left alone to fend for themselves. One POLITICO journalist recently suggested that a good way to limit sexual harassment would be to make closed-door meetings in the workplace a fireable offense.
- The FBI Blindly Hacked Computers in Russia, China, and Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Recent court papers indicate that the FBI repeatedly broke into devices overseas as part of ordinary criminal investigations; in countries hostile to the U.S. this could have significant geopolitical fallout.
- The Forgotten World of Communist Bookstores
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Communist bookstores were one of the most important public spaces for radicals in twentieth century America.
- How Big is My Tribe? The Crisis in Catalonia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at recent divisive events in Catalonia, Britain and the US, proposing that we should really be concentrating more on important universal issues such as inequality, influence peddling, profit-only deregulation, and offshore tax havens.
- Nation That Says It Can't Afford Medicare for All Has Spent $5.6 Trillion on War Since 9/11
Because, as new study notes, wars force the question: "What we might have done differently with the money spent?"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new analysis offers a damning assessment of the United States' so-called global war on terror, and it includes a "staggering" estimated price tag for wars waged since 9/11—over $5.6 trillion.
- Canada's Impossible Acknowledgment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its final report in 2015 with ninety-four calls to action, and renewed hope that the nation would finally confront its darkest history with tangible action. This article looks at why this process has yet again stalled, one which repeats the cycle of promises and yet again does not deliver.
- Think Mass Shootings Are Terrorism? Careful What You Wish For
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the United States there is no law enforcement or policy reason to apply the entirety of international terrorism law domestically. Doing so would not improve the ability to investigate, prosecute, or punish domestic terrorism, and it would come with unwanted consequences.
- Dennis J. Banks, Naawakamig (1937-2017) - Cofounder of the American Indian Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Under cofounder of the American Indian Movement, Dennis Banks, AIM became the most powerful Native movement of the twentieth century, galvanizing indigenous people throughout the United States, Canada, and beyond.
- As Wildfires Raged, Insurers Sent in Private Firefighters to Protect Homes of the Wealthy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Another manifestation of extreme inequality in the United States: fire protection for the rich only.
- Hollowing out democracy and law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The recent actions of the Catalan government are not those of politicians respecting democracy. The reaction of the Madrid government, which criminalize political dissent, are equally disturbing.
- Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South: An Interview with Historian Keri
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Historian Keri Leigh Merritt presents a comprehensive study of this malignant and overlooked aspect of slavery in her new book Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press). This is an interview with her.
- The Revolution Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The accumulating failures of both Communist and Social Democratic parties over the past 50 years was accompanied by a marked shift on the radical left toward a broad-ranging ‘movementism’ – whether in its pressure-group or protest-oriented dimensions. As Jodi Dean has recently argued, those trying thereby to escape 'the constraints of party’ often reduced it to 'the actuality of its mistakes’ while ‘its role as concentrator of collective aspirations and affects [was] diminished if not forgotten.'
- Can You Say "Conflict of Interest"? Not at the UN
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Exposing the ways that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) allows oil giants to shape negotiations.
- Don Draper Rules: Russian Ads and American Madness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
So we've finally seen some of the social media ads which we are told skewed the entire election in 2016 and constituted a key part of the internet assault on America launched by Vladimir Putin's "troll army." Scary stuff blazoned across front pages and screen scrolls everywhere. But before going on, perhaps we should find out what makes a social media account part of Putin's invasion force?
Well, according to Twitter, it is ANY account created in Russia.
- The Serious Price of the Hyperconvenient Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The rapid "progress" towards greater convenience will induce dependency, ignorance of the product and service and more loss of voice, self-determination and self-reliance.
- Title IX Witchhunts, Anti-Sex Frenzy and Bourgeois Feminism
Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus - A Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Is the specter of sex haunting the campus? Under the pretense of targeting sexual harassment and assault, university administrations have been whipping up a climate of fear and imposing neo-Victorian values. As the recent book Unwanted Advances - Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus (HarperCollins Publishers, April 2017) argues, "The new campus codes aren't preventing nonconsensual sex; they're producing it.” Written by Northwestern University professor and self-described left-wing feminist Laura Kipnis, the book exposes the vastly expanded definitions of sexual assault, which criminalize anything from drunken hook-ups to student-professor romance and even allow for consent to be withdrawn retroactively.
- 'We're designing minds': Industry insider reveals secrets of addictive app trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the science and psychology behind the 'technological arms race' which seeks to keep people fixated on their smartphones.
- Who’s Afraid of Corporate COINTELPRO?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On November 30, 2016, presumably right at the stroke of midnight, Google Inc. unpersoned CounterPunch. They didn't send out a press release or anything. They just quietly removed it from the Google News aggregator. Not very many people noticed.
- Confessions of a (verified) Russia-linked Twitter Bot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Twitter's defines any user who has "ever logged in, at any time, from Russia" as being "Russia-linked." This is taking the new McCarthyism to ridiculous levels.
- Tabloids do not represent the working class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It should come as little surprise that media owned and run by unscrupulous billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond should be more concerned with protecting the party of big business than it is with the wellbeing or interests of working class people. We need to call out the tabloid media for what it is – run by and for the elites.
- Ecuadoreans Won't Back Down in Fighting Chevron-Texaco Over Amazon Oil Disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A class-action lawsuit first filed in 1993 against Chevron-Texaco has taken its toll on the lawyers and Ecuadorean people seeking justice for environmental damage. Hope for justice and healing drives people to not give up.
- Geri Allen: A Tribute
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
By the time Geri Allen, the pianist, composer and Detroit native who died June 27, 2017 at the age of 60, arrived in New York City in 1984, she had finished one of the most rigorous formal educations then available for an aspiring jazz musician, and it showed
- The Ghosts of St. Louis Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Maxwell provides an analysis of the court decision by Judge Timothy J. Wilson's acquital of Jason Stockley, the white St. Louis cop charged with the first-degree murder of Anthony Lamar Smith (a 24-year-old African American).
- Higher Education for Hire
The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States since 1945
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Henry Heller's The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States since 1945.
- Honduras Since the 2009 Coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As this is being written, news arrives of arrests and serious charges filed against 14 community members of a poor area of Choluteca for opposing land grabs to build a solar energy plant; 28 small farmers in the northern Agujn Valley criminalized for trying to keep and work their land; and 31 university students and three human rights defenders facing jail after government attacks on student protests in Tegucigalpa.
- How Imperialism Works Today
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of John Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis.
- Identities and Solidarity
On Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of On Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice, published by Jewish Voice for Peace.
- 'Inappropriate Behaviour' - Michael Fallon, Yemen, And The 'Mainstream' That Is Anything But
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at 'mainstream' journalism, a product of corporate conformity and a deference to power that is anything but mainstream.
- Iran: The Impact of October
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Russian Revolution had a profound influence on the revolutionary movement in the countries neighbouring the new Soviet Republic, and Iran was no exception.
- Keeping the Faith
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A book review: We Were Eight Years In Power (written by Ta-Nehisi Coates)
In Ta-Nehisi Coates's work, we encounter white supremacy not as a political ideology, but as the defining feature of the U.S. polity -- its essential nature.
- One Hundred Years of the Balfour Declaration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Balfour Declaration then not only legitimized the Zionist project in Palestine and transformed it into a contender in international relations. It in effect precipitated the spread of Zionism among British Jews.
- Open Letter to the People of the United States from Puerto Rico, A Month After Hurricane Maria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An open letter to the people of the U.S., following the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico.
- The Philipinnes: War Against the Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is responsible for a so-called "war on drugs" that is costing thousands of lives and is increasingly concentrating power in his own hands.
- The Political and Rhetorical Strategies of Martin Luther King
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What we can learned from Martn Luther King about political and rhetorical strategy, as well as movement building and organizing.
- Power to the Soviets
Book Review of October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of China Miéville's October: The Story of the Russian Revolution.
- Principles of Organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Explores the culture of organizing, the challenging and confusing dialectical tension that is every organizers terrain: change and continuity, the personal and the political, ideals and interests, planning and opportunity, and the transitions from evolutionary to revolutionary forms of unionism.
- Punitive Neoliberalism in Puerto Rico
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examines current debates in Puerto Rico using two concepts, punitive neoliberalism and financial melancholia.
- Resisting Capital's Disasters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Trump represents the twisted and half-deranged face of a systemic assault on virtually every facet of the social safety net, workers' rights, and the entire public sector -- apart from the bloated permanent war economy.
- A Response to the Anti-Defamation League
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Anti-Defamation League's statement published in Detroit Jewish News (July 24, 2017, "Jewish Voice for Peace Increases Anti-Israel Radicalism") contains numerous distortions, which can't all be addressed in detail in the limited space available to us here.
- Sweden's Potato Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Together with the other Nordic countries Sweden was spared from the First World War but suffered food shortages and other hardships due to the surrounding conflicts.
- Theodore W. Allen's Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Theodore W. "Ted" Allen (1919-2005) was an anti-white supremacist, working-class intellectual and activist, whose work on the centrality of struggle against white supremacy is growing in importance and influene 98 years after his birth.
- Theodore W. Allen: Working-Class Scholar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Theodore W. Allen was an independent, anti-white supremacist, working-class scholar when he pioneered his "white skin privilege" analysis in the mid-1960s and when he wrote The Invention of the White Race in the 1990s.
- Toxicity and Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In a political moment that tends to inspire overwhelming anger, apprehension and fear rather than hope or energy, I suggest that we look towards those who have made resistance a daily part of their lives out of necessity and determination.
- Trials of the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book reviews of The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution by Tariq Ali; The Russian Revolution: When Workers Took Power by Paul Vernadsky; The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin; and Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 by S. A. Smith.
- Trump and Duterte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Philippines President Duterte presents himself as a nationalist who is especially opposed to the continuing strong influence of the former colonial power, the United States.
- White Supremacy/ Identity Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Can cop violence and anti-Black racism be permanently defeated so long as white supremacist ideology permeates the ruling class and society?
- Why Is There No 'Saudi-Gate'?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
For decades, the DC establishment has been on the payroll of a foreign terror state. But because it's Saudi Arabia, you won't hear a peep.
- World War I and Afterward: Upheaval, Repression and Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Following the April 1917 U.S. entry into World War I, a massive months-long strike wave occurred as workers in those industries, booming with wartime orders demanded improved conditions and better wages that were rapidly being outstripped by war-bred price increases.
- America's "Open Door Policy" May Have Led Us to the Brink of Nuclear Annihilation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article takes a critical look at the potential outcome of North Korea's stigmatized relationship with the United States. It considers the role of US-produced propaganda against North Korea in relationship to the disparity between the militaries of the two countries.
- Big Business and Hitler
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This book discusses the multiple multinationals doing business with Germany during the Second World War, including American companies such as General Motors, IBM, Standard Oil and Ford, which may explain America's late entry into the war and Hitler's support from powerful businesses despite the horrendous actions of the Nazis'.
- Google, Amazon, Netflix mount lobby crusade on Trudeau Liberals
Amazon had 99 registered contacts with the government last year, Google had 37
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The numerous meetings between top Liberal Government officials and U.S. tech giants not only smack of favouritism, but also raise ethical questions and concerns over deregulation.
- How to steal a billion-dollar American election with a pocketful of rubles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the absurdity of the narrative that claims that nameless Russians stole the multi-billion-dollar American election with pocket change.
- Is Russiagate dead? Paul Manafort & Kiev caught up in FBI dragnet, Kremlin not mentioned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Racists and xenophobes find fertile ground in violent online world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Spend enough time hunting terrorists or wandering dystopian wastelands in online games and you're bound to come across players hurling xenophobic and racist taunts at each other -- from the openly Islamophobic in Europe to Korean and Japanese gamers bickering over disputed islands.
- Undocumented special-needs girl in federal custody after emergency surgery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An undocumented 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was taken into US Customs and Border Protection custody shortly after emergency gallbladder surgery in Texas in a case that advocates say shows the harmful extent of the President's hard line on immigration policies.
- Anthem Protestors Should Stop Mucking Around and Make Their Demands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The "anthem protests" have gone on for two years now, but so far the players have not presented a specific set of demands.Why? Do the players simply want to use Sunday football as a platform for raising awareness of racial injustice and police brutality or is there something else going on here?
- The Politcal Economy of Fascism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
For all of the millions of words written about the fascist danger posed by Donald Trump, there are very few devoted to an actual analysis of fascist economics both as ideology and state policy.
- Sticks and Stones: Free Speech and Punching Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author explains why he does not agree with those who believe that right wing 'facist' groups should be denied the right to express their views, either by physical means or force of law.
- Cowardly New World: Alternative Media Under Attack by Algorithms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An insidious assault is underway against alternative media on the internet. Leftist and progressive websites have been suffering significant declines in traffic. Some have had online income sources cut. Many others have been publicly defamed.
The only voices speaking the truth, says Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, are those on the fringes and we must amplify them however we can. Some suggestions:
* Read/view alternative media stories and share them in whatever venues you can.
* Stop consuming mainstream media and stop posting links to it.
* Actively support alternative media by donating money, time or other resources.
* Stop using Google as your search engine; I recommend DuckDuckGo. You will be surprised at how much you've been missing.
* Become the media: take your own photos or video and write up stories yourself for whatever outlet will take your work, even if that's only your own blog.
- I'm looking to sue: Black activist says Twitter banned her as 'Russian bot'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Among the 201 Twitter accounts suspended from the platform for "Russian interference" in the 2016 US election was an African-American activist from Atlanta. Now she has come forward, telling RT she may sue the company for the unjustified suspension.
- Russia-gate Breeds 'Establishment McCarthyism'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Russia-gate provides cover for an Establishment attack on Internet freedom and independent news, while traditional defenders of a free press and civil liberties are joining the assault or staying on the sidelines.
- Baum, Gregory - obituary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Obituary for renowned Canadian theologian Gregory Baum, 94, who died Oct. 18, 2017.
- The Character of the Russian Revolution: Trotsky 1917 vs. Trotsky 1924
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An analysis of the evolution of Leon Trotsky's views from 1917 to 1924.
- Goodbye to Golden Rice? GM Trait Leads to Drastic Yield Loss and "Metabolic Meltdown"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While proponents of Golden rice have blamed its failure to reach the market on "over-regulation" of GMOs and on "anti-GMO" opposition, the latest research suggests that problems intrinsic to GMO breeding are what have prevented researchers from developing Golden Rice suitable for commercialization.
- The Harmful Effects of Antifa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An historic opportunity is being missed. The disastrous 2016 presidential election could and should have been a wakeup call. A corrupt political system that gave voters a choice between two terrible candidates is not democracy.
- Indigenous population growing rapidly, languages surging: census
Data also reveals on-reserve First Nation housing getting worse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Indigenous population in Canada continues to rapidly outpace the growth of the rest of the country while Indigenous languages are showing a strong resurgence, according to census data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada.
- The Just Society Movement
For the Poor by the Poor - A Model for Grassroots Activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Just Society Movement (1968 - 1972) was a short-lived but remarkably successful Toronto based grassroots social and political advocacy network run by and for Toronto’s poorest residents.
- Don't Call the Cops If You're Autistic, Deaf, Mentally Ill, Disabled or Old
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When people entering the police service are trained to be military warriors instead of peace officers, tense situations involving some of our society's more vulnerable people will more likely end violently.
- The FBI's Forgotten Criminal History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The FBI has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago, Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that "the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedom of others." This has practically been the Bureau's motif since its creation in 1908.
- Google wants to run cities without being elected. Don't let it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new initiative will see Alphabet – the parent company of Google – take charge of redeveloping a waterfront district in Toronto. Here's why that's troubling.
- Land and Racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the Jewish National Fund (JNF), an organization subsidized by Canadian taxpayers, and its exclusionary land policies.
- Pay to play: Facebook rolls out nightmare scenario for publishers on its network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Proposed changes to the way Facebook handles posts from publishers and businesses may result in publishers having to pay Facebook to promote their stories so that people can see them.
- 'Pay to play': Facebook rolls out nightmare scenario for publishers on its network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Facebook is testing out a change to their network in six markets. As a result, posts from some publishers and businesses will be removed from the site's News Feed section. The change has caused a dramatic drop in referral traffic to news outlets.
- What if You Had to Worry About a Lawsuit Every Time You Linked to an Image Online?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- What Makes Americans Proud
The Anti-Empire Report #152
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Donald Trump thinks that everyone will be impressed that the American military has never been stronger. Lucky for the man … his seeming incapacity for moral or intellectual embarrassment.He’s twice blessed. His fans like the idea that their president is no smarter than they are. This may well serve to get the man re-elected, as it did with George W. Bush.
- Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In an era when reparations to electronics such as digital devices is becoming increasingly more difficult, pending U.S. legislation could force manufacturers to make repair parts and information available at fair prices.
- Guardian Sells False Image of an Open Jerusalem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Guardian essay on a new Israeli open-rooftops project in Jerusalem, part of a Season of Culture, sadly falls into a standard trap for feelgood articles of this kind. It fails to provide the main context for Jerusalem: that the native Palestinians live under a belligerent Israeli occupation that is ultimately trying to evict them from the city.
- Israel maintains robust arms trade with rogue regimes
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Israel's collusion with Myanmar's military is part of a pattern of military aid to rogue regimes that goes back decades, and reflects the importance of the arms trade to Israel's economy.
- Senators 'Stunned' to Learn US Has 1,000 Troops in Niger
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee members recently confirmed they were "stunned" by the revelation that the US had upwards of 1,000 ground troops operating inside the country of Niger, sparking new questions about war authorization.
- Why So Many White Supremacists Are into Veganism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Not many realize that numerous white nationalists are vegan and vegetarian, a dietary decision with origins from one of the movement's bedrock beliefs: the concept of "blood and soil."
- Gender segregation is humiliating and damaging
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author looks at gender segregation, drawing on her own personal experiences in Iran but also in a broader context and the resulting psychological damage done to girls from a very young age.
- The U.S. Will Invade West Africa in 2023 After an Attack in New York - According to Pentagon War Game
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
By 2021, according to the war game's scenario, AQIM boasts an estimated 38,000 members spread throughout Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, and a network of training camps in Mauritania, as well as outright bases in Western Sahara.
- The Killing of History
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Pilger examines Ken Burns' documentary about the Vietnam War and the ongoing revisionist history it presents, as well as the acquiescence of the American 'left' in the era of Trump.
- Clinton, Assange and the War on Truth
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An overview of an interview with Hilary Clinton by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to promote her score-settling book about why she was not elected President of the United States.
- Proof of concept: An insurgent left can achieve electoral success - even in Canada
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article looks at Vancouver's current political climate on the municipal level. Jean Swanson's recent support placed her in second place in a civic election, and demonstrates the city's shift to the centre - left.
- Tomorrow Belongs to the Corporatocracy
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Virtually every major organ of the Western media apparatus (the most powerful propaganda machine in the annals of powerful propaganda machines) has been relentlessly churning out variations on a new official ideological narrative designed to generate and enforce conformity.
- Two Soviet Spies Who Deserve a Posthumous Nobel Peace Prize
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, both scientists working on the Manhattan Project, should receive posthumous Nobel Peace Prizes for actions that almost certainly saved millions of innocent lives.
- Cambridge University students given trigger warnings for Shakespeare plays
Academics say degree of sensitivity will 'curtail academic freedom'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Warnings to Cambridge students regarding violence in course materials brings about discussion over student development and ultimately academic freedom and censorship.
- The Right-Wing Assault on the Truth in India Claims the Life of Another Journalist
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Journalist, activist and writer Gauri Lankesh, was gunned down on the night of Sept. 5, 2017, by a suspected right-wing extremist for her published views in a tabloid paper.
- American Teaching Hospitals: Where Pelvic Exams Under Anesthesia Happen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Before undergoing a liver biopsy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, I asked my surgeon's nurse whether I was to be catheterized for the procedure. In response to this perfectly legitimate question the knave sardonically replied: "I'm really not supposed to say this, but what difference does it make? You're going to be under general anesthesia."
- The conspiracy to censor the Internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The political representatives of the American ruling class are engaged in a conspiracy to suppress free speech. Under the guise of combating "trolls" and "fake news" supposedly controlled by Russia, the most basic constitutional rights enumerated in the First Amendment are under direct attack.
- The Decertification of Iran Speech: Refuting Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Despite the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring each time it has reported - most recently in August 2017 - that Iran is in total compliance with its agreements in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Donald Trump has now carried through on his threat to decertify Iran.
- Facespook! Social Media Giant Becomes Arm of US Intel
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Facebook, the world's top social media platform, is reportedly seeking to hire hundreds of employees with US national security clearance licenses. Purportedly with the aim of weeding out "fake news" and "foreign meddling" in elections.
- 'Fake news' or free speech: Is Google cracking down on left media?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Left leaning progressive websites say they are being unfairly penalized by Google's efforts to stamp out fake news.
- How the Nazis Used Jim Crow Laws as the Model for Their Race Laws
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An interview with James Q. Whitman about his new book "Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law".
- Israeli Soldiers Shut Down Media Outlets In The West Bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Israeli soldiers and secret security officers invaded media outlets in dawn raids in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The media outlets provide services to Palestinian TV stations such as Al-Aqsa and Al-Quds.
- Life and Death After the Steel Mills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In her study of a community devastated by industry's flight, anthropologist Christine Walley raises questions about how to create and support meaningful work in a postindustrial world.
Steel mills were the economic backbone of many cities across the Midwest and Northeast until the 1980s. When the industry left, former workers not only took a hit economically -- they also felt displaced and suffered disillusionment and a loss of identity.
- No, US Didn't 'Stand By' Indonesian Genocide - It Actively Participated
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Within the coverage of the newly declassified telegram that proves the US actively participated in the Indonesian genocide the media frames Washington as a passive onlooker rather than active participant. This not only lessens the government's culpability; it also tells readers that if the US is to be faulted, it's to be blamed for not doing enough. That's a handy attitude to cultivate for the next time you want to sell a "humanitarian" war.
- On Catalonia: Debates in the Greek Left
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Without the burden of self-censorship or "political correctness" on our backs, let us examine what the possible secession of Catalonia actually means and where it could potentially lead.
- The racist worldview of Arthur Balfour
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, whose Declaration of 1917 led to the expulsion of Palestinians.
- Where the world's appetite for fish matters most
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Illegal over-fishing by Chinese and other foreign vessels is severely affecting the economy and food securty of West African nations.
- Big Data is Accelerating Corporate Control of the Global Food Supply
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A summary of the report "Too Big to Feed: Exploring the Impacts of Mega-Margers, Consolidation and Concentration of Power in the Agri-Food Sector," published by The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.
- Blueprint for a Progressive US: A Dialogue With Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the Trump era, what would an authentically populist, progressive political agenda look like? What would a progressive US look like with regard to jobs, the environment, finance capital and the standard of living? What would it look like in terms of education and health care, justice and equality? In an exclusive interview with C.J. Polychroniou for Truthout, world-renowned public intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin tackle these issues.
- A brief dictionary to help understand the US far right
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A break down of some of the most important phrases, terms and numerology that are used by the far right online.
- Expert panel identifies unacceptable toll of food and farming systems on human health
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome has today launched a new report examining the impact of chemical intensive, industrial food system on human health.
- Google Is So Big, It Is Now Shaping Policy to Combat the Opioid Epidemic. And It's Screwing It Up.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A snap decision by Google has begun to reshape the drug treatment industry, tilting the playing field toward large conglomerates-- the precise opposite outcome Google had hoped to achieve.
- Journalism as We Knew It Is Never Coming Back
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It’s old news that Donald Trump abuses reason, knowledge, decency and dark-skinned people. If you are paying attention, each one of his assaults on decency, intelligence and knowledge will feel urgent, ridiculous or both. Each day he threatens grave damage to actual human beings and the rest of Planet Earth, and each day he demonstrates his incapacity to do anything but inflict more damage.
- 1965-1966: Files Reveal US had Detailed Knowledge of Indonesia's Anti-Communist Purge
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge of and support for an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civilians during anti-communist hysteria in the mid-1960s.
- The police are not here to protect you
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It is a liberal fantasy that policing exist to protect us from the bad guys, rather it serves more to manage and suppress those on the losing end of economic and political arrangements.
- The police are not here to protect you
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The police spend little of their time making arrests, and most crimes are not solved, writes Alex Vitale - their real purpose is social control
- The Popular Front Didn't Work
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Communist Party's 1930s popular front strategy weakened the labour movement and empowered the Democratic Party, a strategy that would be even more destuctive to the socialist left today.
- The Popular Front Didn't Work
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This article focuses on the recent growth of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Through a historical overview of worker's parties in the United States, the article discusses the party's vision for the future.
- Hillary Clinton Just Told Five Blatant Lies About WikiLeaks
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
During an interview with ABC's Sarah Ferguson, while promoting her new book about her loss in the 2017 presidential election, Hillary Clinton told five lies about the WikiLeaks.
- In Myanmar, Anti-Terrorism Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A brutal crackdown in Myanmar under the guise of anti-terrorism is really ethnic cleansing against a long-persecuted Rohingya minority.
- 6 underrated Marxists who don't get enough love
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at six less celebrated Marxists: Gavril Miasnikov, Ngo Van Xuyet, Clara Zetkin, Martin Glaberman, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, and Ambalavaner Sivanandan; who participated in working class movements such as the 1918 German revolution, the 1945 Saigon Commune and the strikes in the car factories of Detroit.
- 6 underrated Marxists who don't get enough love
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It's a sad fact that many of the most radical Marxists, whose participation in working class struggle and ideas challenged not only capitalist society but also the social democratic and Leninist tendencies in the workers' movement tend to get ignored by anarchists and Marxists alike.
- A Tale of Two Islands
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the two island nations of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes; one is a poor socialist state and the other a territory of one of the richest countries in the world.
- When a hurricane swept through Toronto, this firefighter made the heartbreaking first rescue attempt
Hurricane Hazel caused 81 deaths and more than $1B in damages in 2017 dollars
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the wet and windy evening of Oct. 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel was bearing down on the city. The fire department was to take no unnecessary risks in the storm, which had already claimed more than 400 lives in Haiti and close to 100 in the United States. As it spiralled towards Canada, Hazel merged with a cold front, intensifying the system.
- When a Radio Host Interviews a War Criminal, Is It Churlish to Ask About His War Crimes?
A letter to New York's popular WNYC-NPR radio host Brian Lehrer
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An open letter to NPR radio host Brian Leher, critizing the host for not providing greater context and background for his guest Elliott Abrams, who was a go to-guy for U.S.-funded terrorism, and helped arrange the overthrow of democratically elected governments throughout Latin America and the Middle East.
- Historic Speaker's Corner Becomes Site of Anti-feminist Silencing and Volence
Efforts to silence feminist speech have taken a violent turn
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The "What is gender" debate at the historic Speaker's Corner in London turned vitriolic and violent when opposing organizations accused the discussion of potentially inciting "transmisogyny."
- Marxist Theories of the State Played out in Venezuela
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The implications of Marxist state theories developed by Nicos Poulantzas and Ralph Miliband are useful for framing issues related to leftist strategy in twenty-first century Venezuela.
- Trump Is the Only One Losing Out by Refusing to Certify the Iran Deal
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While commentators across the world struggle to adequately convey their outrage over Trump's withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear agreement, Iran is calculating that nothing they do will be quite so damaging to US interests as Trump himself.
- Trump Is the Only One Losing Out by Refusing to Certify the Iran Deal
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As President Trump withdraws certification of the nuclear agreement with Iran, commentators across the world struggled for words to adequately convey their outrage and contempt. A favourite term to describe Trump is as "a wrecking ball", but the phrase suggests a sense of direction and capacity to strike a target which Trump does not possess.
- In Sarnia's Chemical Valley, is 'toxic soup' making people sick?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Experts and documents cast doubts on whether industry and Ontario government are revealing levels of benzene in areas where residents live right near oil and gas facilities.
- Left-Wing Drexel Professor Who Opposes Free Speech Has His Curtailed
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Outspoken Drexel University associate professor George Ciccariello-Maher has been put on-leave by his employer, stiring the debate about academic freedom and free speech.
- Victory in Stagnation?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An analysis of the direction of the German left party, Die Linke, in the wake of the 2017 national elections.
- Council committee to tackle what some claim is a new loophole for landlords
Landlords' group says suite meters are a fair way for tenants to budget their power consumption
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There's growing concern among municipal politicians and tenants advocates about a relatively new practice by landlords called "suite metering" -- and the issue's set to be discussed at city hall Friday. Suite metering allows landlords to stop supplying electricity to their tenants, and instead hire a broker who installs a meter in each unit. The tenant then pays rent to the landlord, and a separate monthly electricity payment to the broker.
- The Flint Militants
Eighty years ago, the Flint Sit-Down Strike showed the power of a determined rank and file and a class-conscious leadership
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In 1937 hundreds of autoworkers seized two General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan, paralyzing the massive corporation's production line. The workers' new tactic - the sit-down strike - threatened to fundamentally change the balance of power between workers and management.
- Kansas Is Punishing a Teacher for Following Her Church's Guidance to Boycott Israel
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As part of her employment with a state program in Kansas a woman was asked to sign a statement proclaiming she not boycott Israel, a clear violation of her first amendment rights says the American Civil Liberties Union.
- Why the truth about the death of anti-apartheid activist matters
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The murder of school teacher and activist Ahmed Timol is but one of many stories of injustice hidden by apartheid, and left mostly untouched since 1994.
- Chomsky clarifies position on the cultural boycott of Israel
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Prof. Noam Chomsky makes the essential point: the presence of international artists in Israel is used by the government to cover up its occupation and human rights abuses.
- Indigenous resistance: my fight for land and life in Colombia
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On World Day of Indigenous Resistance, Wayúu woman ANGELICA ORITZ shares her experience as a human rights defender, living and fighting for the future of her community in the shadow of the largest opencast mine in Colombia.
- Rural Americans and the Language Too Many People Use to Talk About Them
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
With the rural-urban divide more pronounced now than it has been in generations, the author takes a closer look at the derogatory language too many people use, as well their meaning and contradictions.
- White Nights: Before Charlottesville Was in the Spotlight, Police Arrested Their Most Prominent Critic in the Middle of the Night
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Within two weeks of voters in Charlottesville going to the polls to decide on the city's next district attorney, the candidate vowing to rein in police abuse and roll back mass incarceration was arrested in the middle of the night and bound for a police station.
- Catalonia: The Revolt of the Rich?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Catalonian rebellion, similar to Scottish separatism, is an uprising of the rich against the poor, the protests of a liberal society against the remnants of a redistributive social state.
- New Archival Collections: How to Know What’s New at Your Favorite Repository
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
New archival collections at your favorite repository may be the long-awaited key to solving your family history mysteries! But how can you keep up with what’s new at archives and libraries? Professional archivist Melissa Barker shares her favorite tips.
- Unprecedented data trove maps China's growing global reach and self-interest of its aid
China and U.S. 'neck and neck' in foreign assistance spending
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The new data on more than 4,300 projects of China in 150 countries indicate those contributions -- if not the means -- have in total, almost matched those of the world's largest foreign aid donor, the United States.
- Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein's "Responsible Encryption" Demand is Bad and He Should Feel Bad
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein delivered a speech about what he calls "responsible encryption" today. It misses the mark, by far.
- Antifa in Theory and in Practice
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In recent weeks, a totally disoriented left has been widely exhorted to unify around a masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist. Hooded and dressed in black, Antifa is essentially a variation of the Black Bloc, familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa sounds more political. American Antifa looks very much like a middle class wedding between Identity Politics and gang warfare.
- Antifa in Theory and in Practice
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist, is just a variation of the Black Bloc, which is familiar for introducing violence into peaceful demonstrations in many countries. Imported from Europe, the label Antifa serves the purpose of stigmatizing those it attacks as "fascists", yet despite its imported name Antifa in the U.S. is basically just another example of America's steady descent into violence.
- Meeting the Challenge of the Right
Introduction to the October 9, 2017 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When we talk about the Right, it is well to keep in mind that "the Right" is by no means a unified political force or organization, but rather a label used to describe a disparate collection of ideologies, parties, groups, and individuals.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017
Meeting the Challenge of the Right
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. This issue of Other Voices offers a number of articles, books, and films offering different perspectives on meeting the challenge of the right.
- The Seeds of Agroecology and Common Ownership
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
With platitudes about 'feeding the world', the corporate agribusiness/agritech industry is destroying the commons and democracy and displacing existing localised systems of food production. In fact the increasingly globalised industrial food system is responsible for some of the most pressing political, social and environmental crises we are facing.
- The Seeds of Agroecology and Common Ownership
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A political-economical critique of modern agriculture and the urgent need to establish societies run for the benefit of the mass of the population, as well as a system of food and agriculture that is more democratically owned and controlled.
- Ghosts of Spadina Expressway haunt us still
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
More than 45 years after the Spadina Expressway was cancelled, its ghosts exist among us in the form of expropriated properties.
- 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery
Wikipedia article
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against African-American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies.
- Why Canada's farm industry is ripe for change
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Ottawa is touting agri-food as an area where Canada's economy can grow globally -- and temporary foreign workers have a key role to play.
- Germany's Network Enforcement Act: Legal framework for censorship of the Internet
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On October 1, 2017, the Network Enforcement Act took effect in Germany. Under the cover of a fight against "fake news" and "hate speech," it creates a legal framework for censorship of the Internet.
- Socialist Register 2018
Volume 54: Rethinking Democracy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
We have conceived this 54th volume of the Socialist Register on Rethinking Democracy as a companion volume to the 2017 volume on Rethinking Revolution. As we put it in the preface to that volume: ‘The "political event" of gaining state power, whether by taking parliament or in a collapse of the existing political regime, has proven time and again to be less crucial than the social revolution of building capacities for self-government and the democratization and socialization of institutional resources … The "event", in itself, … will never be a sufficient condition for the exploited and oppressed to build their own capacities for establishing collective, rather than competitive, ways of living through developing socialist democracy.'
- The Spirit of Late Capitalism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at Pentecostalism, one of the world's fastest growing religious movements, which preaches a seductive message to the marginalized: that religious prayer, not political action, is a solution to their earthly woes.
- Warnings from First Americans: Insidious Changes Are Underway that Will Affect Us All
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Rural America In These Times spoke to Native Americans--people whose survival requires being extremely well informed about what all branches of the federal government are up to. From their vantage point as sovereign entities with direct government-to-government relationships with the United States, the tribes have a unique perspective on issues including voting rights, the economy, the extractive industries' hold over this administration and more.
- The Catalan Chain Reaction
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article discusses the chain reaction of viral social media support surrounding Catalonia's drive for "independence", which has alarmingly resurrected civil war-era rhetoric. However the most dangerous consequences are a domino effect in regions elsewhere if the separatists are ultimately successful.
- New group challenges role of Israel lobby inside Labour Party as effort to undermine Corbyn
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Jeremy Corbyn's recent declaration of support for the Palestinian cause came as sections of his party's establishment demonstrated that they are determined to undermine his leadership; the issue they have selected as his Achilles' heel relates directly to the debate about the Palestinians.
- The NRA's Latest Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It's long past time to start understanding the giant mass shootings that have become part of the new-normal fabric of life in the United States as terrorist attacks on the U.S. populace conducted by the nation’s plutocracy through one of its key and rightward campaign funding, lobbying, and policy organizations -- the National Rifle Association (NRA).
- American Rape of Vietnamese Women was Considered "Standard Operating Procedure"
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Comparing testimony from Vietnamese women and American soldiers, Gina Marie Weaver, in her book Ideologies of Forgetting: Rape in The Vietnam War, finds that rape of Vietnamese women by American troops during the US invasion of Vietnam was a "widespread", "everyday occurrence" that was essentially "condoned", even encouraged, by the military, and had its foundation in military training and US culture.
- Disobeying Spain: the Catalan Referendum for Independence
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On October 1, 2017, all across Catalunya ballot boxes were ripped from people's hands by masked police and a dangerous violence was unleashed, at random, upon some of the 2,262,424 people who stood in long lines to cast their vote. The repression dealt by the Spanish State to prohibit the Catalan Referendum, in every bloodied baton and ever rubber bullet, transformed the day from a question of independence to a question of democracy.
- A Jewish Atonement for Zionism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of “Not by Might, nor by Power": The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism, by author Moshe Menuhin. Drawing from personal experience, the book is a methodical and chronological survey of Jewish nationalism.
- On the Extreme Margins of the Centennial of the October Revolution: The Legacy of 1917 We Can Affirm
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The year 1917 is most closely associated with the Russian Revolution, but it is important to locate that revolution in the global tidal wave of working-class struggle from 1917 to 1921 (continued up to 1927 in China), which forced the end of the first inter-imperialist world war (1914–18).
- The Russian Hack That Wasn't
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept exposes the fake news put out by the US Department of Homeland Security (an euphemistic name for a Big Brother operation that spies on US citizens) that Russia hacked 21 US state elections, news that was instantly spread around the world by the presstitute media.
- The Ecosocialism of Joel Kovel
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Joel Kovel has been a prestigious and best-selling writer on psychotherapy, a militant left activist from the middle 1960s onward, an eco-theorist and an explorer of the world just beyond our sense perceptions.
- Istvan Meszaros: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In memorium to Istvan Meszaros, an excerpt of his writing shows how he was one of the first Marxists to identify the global environmental crisis as a central contradiction of late capitalism.
- A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Capitalism drives our global food system. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to understand capitalism. This book will help do that.
- 'It's like they never existed': Toronto monument will honour mistreated British Home Children
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Over eight decades 115,000 children in Britain living in squalid conditions were sent to Canada for a better life, only to be exploited as workers by foster families and often suffering deplorable abuse.
- Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, nature, and the unfinished critique of political economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A re-evaluation of Karl Marx's views on ecology.
- That rotten stench in the air? It’s the smell of deadly gas and secrecy
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Documents obtained through freedom-of-information requests and from whistleblowers, including internal correspondence and inspection reports, disclose serious infractions and failures in performance by oil and gas companies; yet regulatory standards remain largely unchanged and H2S incidents and risks remain hidden from the public.
- 'There's no sense in speaking up' despite deadly gas risks
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An investigation into oil industry in Saskatchewan reveals a culture of secrecy fuelled by oil industry money, the province's reliance on that money, and the threats and intimidation that have followed those who have spoken out.
- The Future Belongs to the Blasphemers
A message from ex-Muslims to mark International Blasphemy Day
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Some people believe that disagreeing with deeply held beliefs is hate. It is not. I want to remind you that many of the most powerful ideas, ideas that changed our world were once heretical. I want to remind you that many of the most radical thinkers and reformists in past eras were blasphemers against the established order of their day.
- I wanted to understand why racists hated me. So I befriended Klansmen
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Daryl Davis befriended Ku Klux Klan members in order to gain some understanding of the organization, their beliefs and hatred.
- Memento Mori: a Requiem for Puerto Rico
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Puerto Rico is dying. Let those words sink in.Three and a half million people are without power, water, fuel, food, and support. This isn’t some uninhabited atoll.
- Bequests
Leaving a social justice legacy
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Many of us have made working for social justice a lifetime commitment. If you are thinking about leaving a legacy for social justice that will live on, you might want to consider leaving a bequest to Connexions in your will.
- Bullied BBC? Alternative media returns fire on claims it's waging 'war' on the corporation
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Alternative media accused of waging "guerilla warfare" against the BBC by its former political editor Nick Robinson say they are just providing balance to the 'biased' government-funded corporation.
- Connexions welcomes your support
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Your contribution to Connexions will help us preserve the memories, experiences, strategies, success, failures and visions of those who have worked for social justice over the years so that future generations can learn and be inspired by them.
- The Plague of Nationalism
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First Published: 2017
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Catalan nationalists insist that "self-determination" is an inalienable right and cannot be curbed by the Spanish Constitution. Well, then, why stop with an "autonomous community" as Catalonia is designated? Why don’t provinces everywhere have the right to declare their independence? How about cities? Or neighbourhoods?
- Russian officer who prevented nuclear disaster in 1983
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Stanislav Petrov single handedly prevented the nuclear destruction of the United States and the USSR, and only a handful of Communist leaders knew about the apocalypse he averted.
- Trump, fake news and the war on dissidents
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First Published: 2017
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A rebuke to a recent Guardian article titled "If mainstream news wants to win back trust, it cannot silence dissident voices", where journalist Nick Robinson claims that the left and right are the peddlers of the same "fakery" in attacking the media.
- While US, North Korea Both Make Threats, Only One Has Killed Millions of the Other's People
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First Published: 2017
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Despite bombastic threats from both the Unites States and North Korea, the mainstream media plays down the simple fact that it is North Korea that is isolated and facing overwhelming military superiority.
- The 24 hour day: women, work and class
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First Published: 2017
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Movements of women, as well as those involving large numbers of women, will increasingly be features of resistance to neoliberalism. The extent to which they succeed will be the extent to which they are able to challenge the class basis of neoliberalism, and its consequences.
- A Visit to Germany's Flyover Country
The AfD Heartland
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Why Don't We Demand 1st Amendment Rights on the Job?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Most workers in the US who speak their minds are at the risk of being fired, and have little recourse if they are let go for publicaly expressing opinions that aren't shared by the boss.
- Colonialism Never Gives Anything Away for Nothing
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First Published: 2017
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Decolonization is a violent phenomenon exemplified in Zohra Drif’s memoir, "Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter."
- Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialism
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First Published: 2017
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Ian Angus challenges a left-wing magazine that promotes geoengineering, nuclear power, carbon storage and other techno-fixes as solutions to climate change.
- An ordinary Labour member just gave the most moving speech of the party conference so far
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First Published: 2017
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An ordinary member's speech to the Labour Party conference left the audience stunned. And it's one that everyone needs to hear, as the moving address reflects a crisis in the UK.
- Any White Cop Can Kill a Black Man at Any Time
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First Published: 2017
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Any white cop can kill a black man at any time and the cop will not go to jail, exemplified in the Jason Stockley, Anthony Lamar Smith case.
- The Cancer in Blue: Cop Documentaries
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First Published: 2017
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John Ridely's film "Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992" is a 144-minute kaleidoscope of interviews and television news footage that climaxes in the riots that followed the acquittal of four cops who were captured on home video by a man named George Holliday as they were beating Rodney King with steel batons.
- The Censorious Vortex of the "Flash News" Barons
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
For decades, the factors that decided what noteworthy stories would not find their way into print or on the air came down to the media's ignorance, laziness or from advertising restraints. For too long, the explosive material for good journalism in these and other areas had remained hidden in plain sight.
- Islamophobic U.S. Megadonor Fuels German Far-Right Party With Viral Fake News
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First Published: 2017
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An American website, the Gatestone Institute, is peddling fake news focused on anti-immigration and anti-Islamic rhetoric that many fear will influence the upcoming German federal election.
- Poison in the Fields: Agriculture as Chemical Warfare
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Highly poisonous chemicals ( that were originally designed as weapons of war) have been allowed for many decades, under successive Government policies, to be sprayed on crop fields all over the UK, and with literally no protection at all for the many millions of rural citizens living or attending schools in the locality of such chemically treated areas. (In fact, there is actually no protection for rural residents and communities in the majority of other countries around the world either!)
- Who Are the "Alt-Right"? On the Rise of Reactionary Hatred and How to Fight it
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First Published: 2017
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With much of the public discussing strategies for how best to fight right-wing extremism, the need for constructive solutions is greater than ever. First and foremost, it’s important to point out that public support for far-right extremists is miniscule. The vast majority of Americans reject this movement's violence and hatred. According to a Marist survey from the summer of 2017, just 4 percent of Americans said they support "white supremacy movement" or "white nationalism." Similarly, just 6 percent embraced the term "alt-right" Still, there is a legitimate concern that support for right-wing bigotry may grow in the future if left unchecked.
- Whose Streets? Their Streets
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First Published: 2017
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If people don’t believe that the police in America are the greatest threat to civil society then they've been asleep for years, and comatose just this week. Or they're white, privileged and/or accepting of brutality against their own fellow citizens.
- Why Won't American Media Tell the Truth About What's Happening in Venezuela?
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First Published: 2017
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Unlike Brazil and Argentina, Venezuela has been victimized by a number of factors outside of its control, but especially a precipitous drop in the price of oil, the country's main source of revenue.
- Jacobin and ecomodernism: Two replies
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First Published: 2017
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Two readers, David Schwartzman and David Walters, respond to criticism of Jacobin magazine's special issue on climate change.
- The left wing opposition in Italy during the period of the Resistance
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First Published: 2017
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An account of the groups to the left of the PCI, during WW2 by independent Marxist historical researcher Arturo Peregalli. It was first published in 'Revolutionary History, Vol.5, No.4', and translated by Barbara Rossi and Doris Bornstein.
- Drowning in the waste of Israeli settlers
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Several decades ago, the al-Matwa spring in Salfit city would often be crowded with Palestinians hiking in the valley and families picnicking alongside the clear, flowing stream. Now, however, the sewage flowing through the spring, the rancid smell that engulfs the valley, and the mosquitoes swarming the area have left the valley largely deserted.
- Free Speech for the Right? A Primer on Key Legal Questions and Principles
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First Published: 2017
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The rise in national attention to the "alt-right" and fascist-white supremacist protesters has raised questions about the parameters of free speech in America. When can free speech be limited, if ever? What are the implications of attempting to limit controversial speech? And what precedents has the Supreme Court set regarding free speech?
- Greece mourns slain anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas
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First Published: 2017
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A self-professed Golden Dawn member stabbed leftist rapper Killah P to death in Piraeus on September 18, 2013.
- The Problem is Fascists, Not Those Who Stand Up To Them
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First Published: 2017
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The ongoing debate of recent weeks around how, or if, to confront demonstrations of white supremacists and fascists is the latest manifestation of arguments the Left and liberals have been having for many years. For this is not simply a question of tactics but incorporates broader ideas of how we conceptualize the threat from the extreme Right.
- Race v. Class? More Brilliant Bourgeois Bullshit from Ta-Nehesi Coates
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First Published: 2017
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Coates is either flat-out lying or woefully ignorant when he argues that "the left" is disinterested in the big and significant problems of racial identity and racial justice. The longstanding legitimately Left progressive agenda addresses both race and class at one and the time. It does not accept Coates' false dichotomy between class and race.
- Rainbow Coalition or Class War?
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First Published: 2017
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Is there any reason to think that Redneck Revolt and the new Rainbow Coalition will turn out differently from the People's Party? American history shows that any political group, left, right or center, that fails to challenge in practice the white community and the institutions and patterns that maintain it will reinforce an identity that has led countless potentially progressive movements to ruin and whose capacity to do harm is by no means exhausted -- no matter how vigorously it denounces “racism” and capitalism and how many coalitions it enters with non-whites. Simply put, white people organized as whites are dangerous to the working class and to humanity, and white people with guns organized as whites are doubly so -- and this is true regardless of the intentions of the organizers.
- U.S. real estate lobbyists turn blind eye to rising sea level threats to waterfront properties
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First Published: 2017
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All along the coast of the southeast United States, the real estate industry confronts a hurricane. Not the kind that swirls in the Atlantic, but a storm of scientific information about sea-level rise that threatens the most lucrative, commission-boosting properties.
- The Genocide of the Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy and False Prophets
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To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a 'democracy icon' because she opposed the same forces in her country, Burma, at the time that the US-led western coalition isolated Rangoon for its alliance with China.
- 100 Percent Wishful Thinking: the Green-Energy Cornucopia
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First Published: 2017
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A growing body of research has debunked overblown claims of a green-energy bonanza.
- The Russian Hacking Story Continues to Unravel
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First Published: 2017
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An examination of the text from a recent report by an IBM executive, which disproves the claim that Russia interfered in the US elections or hacked the servers at the DNC.
- Anti-Fascist Self-Defense: From Mussolini's Italy to Trump's America
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First Published: 2017
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A conversation with Mark Bray, a political activist, historian and a lecturer at Dartmouth College and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.
- Myanmar Rohingya Face "Textbook Example of Ethnic Cleansing"
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First Published: 2017
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As hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State, thousands that remain in the country face mass atrocities at a scale never seen before.
- Preferred Conclusions -- The BBC, Syria And Venezuela
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In 2013, it was remarkable to see the BBC reporting claims from Syria on a daily basis in a way that almost always blamed the Syrian government, and President Assad personally, for horrendous war crimes. But as the New York Times reported last month, the picture was rather less black and white.
- Rohingya and the Myth of Buddhist Tolerance
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First Published: 2017
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Since their citizenship rights have been progressively revoked between the 1940s and '80s, thousands of Rohingya men, women and children have been subjected to murder and rape, their villages have been raised to the ground and more than a million have fled to neighboring countries without much protest from the world beyond.
- Radical White Workers During the Last Revolution
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First Published: 2017
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The long-lost story of anti-racist, radical white working class activism has been restored by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy in their invaluable book: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times.
- Years Before Charlottesville, Tribes Urged Yellowstone National Park to Change the Names of a War Criminal and a White Supremacist That Defile Sacred Land
We're Still Waiting
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First Published: 2017
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Chief Stan Grier explains why historical figures who advocated genocide and white supremacy must be not continue to be commemorated at Yellowstone National Park, a sacred land to Indigenous communities for at least 10,000 years.
- Berkeley Republicans Hope More Left-Wing Riots Will Create "Pedestal" For Conservative Movement
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First Published: 2017
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The students hosting conservative pundit Ben Shapiro at University of California, Berkeley this week say their fingers are crossed in the hopes for a left-wing protest that could amplify his message.
- Cultural Imperialism and the Seeds of Catastrophe: Ripping Up The Social Fabric of India
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Foreign capital is dictating the prevailing development agenda in India. The aim is to replace current structures with a system of industrial agriculture suited to the needs of Western agribusiness, food processing and retail concerns.The plan is for a fraction of the population left in farming working on contracts for large suppliers and large chain supermarkets offering a diet of highly processed, denutrified, genetically altered food based on crops soaked with chemicals and grown in increasingly degraded soils according to an unsustainable model of agriculture that is less climate/drought resistant, less diverse and unable to achieve food security.
- Do You Socialists Have Any Plans?
Why we need socialist architects
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First Published: 2017
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Bruce Lerro claims that the only way 21st century socialism is going to get any traction or respect from the working class is if socialists collectively develop blueprints for socialism: five years, ten years, fifty years down the road.
- Idylls of the Liberal: The American Dreams of Mark Lilla and Ta-Nehisi Coates
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First Published: 2017
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Social change is not made by noble heroes, even if they find themselves in the right place at the right time to take the credit. It is made by the commoners -- by those who remain nameless and faceless in the legends, and in the political ideologies of Lilla and Coates.
- Hundreds of Scottish Orphanage Children Allegedly Buried in Mass Grave
High infant mortality rate and allegations of abuse raise suspicions of Smyllum Park in Lanark, once run by Catholic nuns
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First Published: 2017
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The Scottish child abuse inquiry is to investigate claims that the bodies of at least 400 children from an orphanage once run by Catholic nuns are buried in an unmarked mass grave.The Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark operated from 1864 to 1981.
- On the Extreme Margins of the Centennial of the October Revolution
The Legacy of 1917 We Can Affirm
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First Published: 2017
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The year 1917 is most closely associated with the Russian Revolution, but it is more important to locate that revolution in the global tidal wave of working-class struggle from 1917 to 1921 (continued up to 1927 in China), which the forced the end of the first inter-imperialist world war (1914-1918).
- Laughing on the Way to Armageddon
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First Published: 2017
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Roberts argues that he real threat is not from foreign powers like Russia, but from corruption and power games within US politics, and the military/security complex that truly undermine democracy.
- Liberals and Ultra-leftists: A Marriage Made in Hell
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First Published: 2017
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What liberal defenders of ultra-left violence don’t realize is that it’s not the Nazis legally marching down main street that will sabotage U.S. democracy, but the paramilitary police state that will crush all legitimate dissent. Ultra-left violence plays into what apologists for police militarization have been saying all along -- that the police have to keep ahead of the increasing violence in the streets with updated weapons and paramilitary training. Ultra-left violence, far from stopping fascism, enables it. It makes martyrs of the right and helps white supremacists recruit more angry right wingers to their cause, just as every wedding party the U.S. bombs in the Middle East recruits angry family members to the jihadis. With every violent clash between ultra-left and ultra-right, the militarized police will grow stronger … and they’ve got minorities and peace activists in their sights.
- Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google now watching your every political move
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First Published: 2017
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Google has taken the unprecedented step of burying material, mostly from websites on the political right, that it has deemed to be inappropriate. The problem, however, is that the world's largest search engine is a left-leaning company with an ax to grind.
- Could Punching Nazis Have Prevented Hitler From Taking Power
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First Published: 2017
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There have been repeated references to how Nazism could have been stopped by street-fighting, with almost no attention paid to the concrete socio-political conditions of Germany between 1920 and 1933. For many of those who think that physical force was the key to stopping Nazism, the viral video of Richard Spencer getting punched in the face was far more important as a guide to action than understanding the tragic history of the German left.
- Hippies, Yippies, Radicals and Pranksters
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First Published: 2017
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Review of the book entitled "Did iT! From Yippie to Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, an American Revolutionary," by Pat Thomas.
- Human Rights: the Latest Weapon Against Venezuela
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Non-governmental organizations are using false information to charge Venezuela with "human rights violations." These are merely extensions of the US and western foreign policy apparatus, working as the local infrastructure that is necessary in regime change operations as well as a source for the media to build its biased narrative.
- Palestinian Human Rights Defender Arrested for a Facebook Post
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is continuing its crackdown on free speech in the West Bank, this time arresting prominent Palestinian human rights activist Issa Amro for criticizing a journalist's arrest in a Facebook post.
- Venezuela: the capitalist offensive - has socialism failed?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The current economic, social, and political crisis taking place in Venezuala has not been caused by a failure of socialism, but rather is the result of the country's inability to distance itself from capitalism, and introduce a democratic, socialist, and planned economy.
- Chinese neocolonialism in Africa
The Dragon eating the African Lion and Cheetah? (Part I)
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
China has literally invaded Africa with its investors, traders, lenders, builders, developers, labourers and who knows what else. The fancy phrase for that is win-win cooperation. The "cooperation" has opened up Africa as a source of raw materials for China and a dumping ground for cheap Chinese manufactured goods. It is Chinese neocolonialism.
- Evictions, trials as Russian Church claims property
With the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson.
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First Published: 2017
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With the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson.
- How the aristocracy preserved their power
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
After democracy finally shunted aside hereditary lords, they found new means to protect their extravagant riches. For all the modern tales of noble poverty and leaking ancestral homes, their private wealth and influence remain phenomenal.
- People are radicalizing Venezuela's Revolution: An interview with Christina Schiavoni
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In this interview Christina Schiavoni, a researcher and food sovereignty activist, provides a different view of the life of the Venezuelan people than we normally get from the media. The interview covers food and health situations as well as on-going politics and people's participation in the politics.
- People's History, Memory & Archives
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives.
- The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left - Book review
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First Published: 2017
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A book review of The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left by author Helena Sheehan.
- How Right-Wing Extremists Stalk, Dox, and Harass Their Enemies
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How neo-Nazis in the U.S use the online chatroom Pony Power to harass anti-facist activists.
- Quebec's Antifa movement on rise in response to growth of far-right groups
Left-wing activists grapple with tactics to fight racism, neo-Nazism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A report on anti-facist groups and their roots in Quebec, and what they are doing to counter the rise of right wing nationalism in the province.
- Community Organizing in Philly and New York
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look back at the NY and Philadelphia community activist groups White Lighting, O4O, Standing Up Angry, Young Patriots, and what can be learned towards building compelling and viable alternatives to the Right.
- Fighting for climate justice
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Climate change is a key factor in oppression of the poor worldwide.
- Indian journalist critical of Hindu extremists is shot dead in Bangalore
Police say Gauri Lankesh was shot and killed by three assailants as she was entering her home
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist who was killed by three assailants was the senior editor of the tabloid known to be critical of Hindu extremists. The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that 27 journalists have been killed since 1992 with impunity.
- Why Culture Matters
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First Published: 2017
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In order to engage in a meaningful dialogue about 'cultural appropriation' we have to reject the framing that critics like Bari Weiss give it -- where culture becomes just another market.
- Does Freedom of Speech Include Fascists?
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First Published: 2017
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There are two concepts on how to deal with fascism. One is fighting; the other is running away.
- Language Wars
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First Published: 2017
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Issues of language are examined, in particular the maintenance of power by a linguistic or political majority through imposition of linguistic norms and beliefs on a minority.
- Martin Luther the Man-Devil
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of the book 'Manteuffel' by Danish author and public intellectual Peter Tudvad, a work of popular fiction that also takes on religious and social-political issues.
- Protest Alone Won't Stop Fascism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Desperate people are vulnerable to fascism, and the desperation is deepening: millions are eyeball deep in debt and 80% live paycheck to paycheck, while skyrocketing healthcare costs and rising rent heat up the social pressure cooker. It's this economic gut punch that the fascists hope to benefit from: as working people struggle to breathe the fascists hope to offer cheap, ready-made oxygen.
- The Strange (and Tortured) Legacy of 'Free Speech'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Despite a well-cultivated radical image, Antifa rarely focuses on the growing ultra-nationalism, militarism, and imperialism that lies at the very core of American politics – tendencies in fact more dangerous than the rhetoric of Yiannopoulos, Coulter, and Shapiro. Beneath its ultra-leftism is a modus operandi riddled with the worst of identity politics. And since its violent tactics are not aligned with any popular movement, its opposition to fascism (such as it is) turns hollow, empty. The irony is that while the FSM and its heirs did everything possible to expand the realm of free speech, new social forces – extreme identity groups, Antifa – want to restrict or deny freedoms.
- Venezuela in the Media: Double Standards and First Impressions
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This article looks into the inconsistent ways that Venzuala has been portrayed in the media, and the effect of sensationalizing the recent crisis. It concludes that those who support the Venezuelan poor, workings classes must seek and spread honest information outside of the mainstream narrative.
- What the Media isn't Telling You About North Korea's Missile Tests
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First Published: 2017
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Here's what the media isn't telling you about North Korea's recent missile tests.
Last Monday, the DPRK fired a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan's Hokkaido Island. The missile landed in the waters beyond the island harming neither people nor property.The media immediately condemned the test as a "bold and provocative act"
- Annie Kidder and People for Education have made a mark on Ontario schools, but have they become part of the system?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the work of Annie Kidder, a public education advocate, who has spearheaded a grassroots movement that has given Ontario parents more of a voice in what goes on inside their children's classrooms.
- Smoke seen coming out of chimney!!
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The suspicious activities of those Russians never cease, and neither does the vigilance of the mainstream media in exposing them.
- Attica from 1971 to Today
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Interview with Heather Ann Thompson.
- BLM: Challenges and Possibilities
From #BlacLlivesMatter to Black Liberation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.
- Choices Facing African Americans
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
For African Americans, this campaign against Russia (and North Korea, Iran) is a diversion from more central issues including the right to vote.
- Chronicle of Black Detroit
Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination (Review)
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Herb Boyd's Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination.
- CIA sneak undetectable 'malicious' implants onto Windows OS - WikiLeaks
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Windows machines are targeted by the CIA under 'Angelfire,' according to the latest release from WikiLeaks' 'Vault7' series. The documents detail an implant that can allow Windows machines to create undetectable libraries.
- The Coddling of the American Mind
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
For their own emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection in the classroom from words and ideas they don't like. It is a movement that is problematic for academic institutions, and likely damaging to student development and mental health.
- A Consistently Erroneous Technology
A Magician in the Lab
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the polygraph, or lie detector technology, and why it is unreliable.
- The danger of the white American liberal
What a team of 10-year-olds building a robot can teach us about sexism and racism in the US.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Liberal white American reaction to the sexism and racism exeplified in the Google manifesto and the killing of nine innocent people at Emanuel AME church in Charleston shows how remarkably how easy it is to condemn the evil other when we can use that to avoid facing our responsibility for the society we ourselves have created and work to maintain.
- Dawn of "Total War" and the Surveillance State
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In its efforts to mobilize society for "total war," a still nascent corporate liberal state expanded its scope and authority and in doing so laid foundations and set precedents for the expansion of executive power and the rise of the national surveillance state.
- Detroit's Rebellion and Rise of the Neoliberal State
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In 1967 hundreds of uprisings circulated across U.S. cities with unprecedented power and intensity. Almost always the provocation was racist police violence - ranging from arrests to beatings to shootings.
- Did Scandal Tip the Balance?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In 2014 a rumor circulated in UAW plants even beyond the Detroit area that UAW Vice President General Holiefield had been "on the take." He suddenly resigned, his administrative assistant was let go and within months Holiefield died from cancer. Then silence.
- Evolution in the College Classroom
Facilitating Conversations about Science and Religion
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
New approaches embedded in introductory biology courses about science and religious belief point to promising models for instructors to adopt, and offer insight on strategies for encouraging more constructive dialogue about science and religion.
- How the UAW Lost at Nissan
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In early August, the UAW's union recognition campaign at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi ended in a disastrous 63% "no" vote - 10% greater than the loss at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee three and a half years earlier.
- Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of Nature
Houston is the city where capitalism's victory over nature is the most complete - and also where nature takes its ultimate revenge
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Proyect argues that historically the shortsighted nature of capitalism has led to natural disasters such as Hurricane Harvey. To understand nature, the ripple effects of its manipulation and to implement laws that protect it is in our only hope to prevent catastrophes such as Hurricane Harvey in the future.
- Immigration's Troubled History
Immigration and the Decline of Internationalism in the American Working Class,1864-1919
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Charles R. Leinenweber's Immigration and the Decline of Internationalism in the American Working Class,1864-1919.
- Israel Seeks 'Jewish' Non-Jews in Numbers Battle with Palestnians
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
With a shortage of Jews to defeat the Palestinians demographically, the Netanyahu government is considering a revision to the traditional rabbinical injunction that a Jew must be born to a Jewish mother -- opening the doors to a new category of 'Jewish' non-Jews.
- Making Their Own History
A People's History of Modern Europe
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of William A. Pelz's A People's History of Modern Europe.
- Marxism, the Arab Spring, and Islamic fundamentalism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While Islamic fundamentalists are united by a reactionary worldview, the movements are not the same and must be approached differently. The Left must stake out an independent view based on democracy, social justice, equality, and liberation and freedom from oppression.
- Mexican Journalists Say 'No to Silence'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In Mexico powerful entities -- ranging from government officials, to law enforcement, to drug cartel leaders -- routinely and systematically intimidate journalists and media outlets to prevent them from investigating state corruption and drug-related violence. Efforts to silence media often take place in the shadows, forcing victims to choose between self-censorship, forced displacement, or risking their lives for doing their jobs.
- Mourn Liu Xiaobo, Free Liu Xia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Assessment of the death of Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo, as well as the house arrest of his wife, Liu Xia.
- Mourn, Then Organize Again
Left Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Enzo Traverso's Left Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory.
- The Murder of Kevin Cooper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
I, Kevin Cooper, have been on death row in the state on California for 32 years, going on 33. I came to this place in May of 1985, and I have been fighting for my life ever since.
- NSA's Cyberwarfare Blowback
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In May and June 2017, hackers took over thousands of computers around the world, encrypted their contents, and demanded ransom to decrypt them. They used tools developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) to exploit vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows operating system.
- Paradoxes of Infinity
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Amir Alexander's Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World.
- The People vs. Big Oil
Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Steve Early's Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City.
- Predatory Journals: Write, Submit, and Publish the Next Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Predatory journals can be defined as "publications [that take] large fees without providing robust editorial or publishing services." They usually "recruit articles through aggressive marketing and spam emails, promising quick review and open access publication for a price. There is little if any quality control and virtually no transparency about processes and fees. Their motive is financial gain, and they are corrupting the communication of science. Their main victims are institutions and researchers in low and middle income countries..."
- Responding to Antifa and Riseup
On Revolutionary Politics and Non-Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
"The left" of contemporary 2017 America is deeply divided and fractured, and it is a shadow of its former self, considering the decline of organized labor, and the disappearance of left-public intellectuals in higher education. In this environment, what remains of "the left" desperately needs to reach out to the masses of Americans, including liberals, moderates, and political independents, and to pull them further to the left, if there is to be any chance of meaningful change. And berating anyone who is not perceived to be on the far left, rather than patiently working to bring these individuals into a broader left movement, is a recipe for irrelevance.
- The Trial of Sacco and Venzetti
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On May 5 both men were arrested for the Braintree murders. They were armed, Vanzetti with a .38 revolver, Sacco with a .32 Colt pistol.
- Under Attack at San Francisco State University
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Students, staff and faculty at San Francisco State University are under investigation by the university on trumped up charges of anti-Semitism brought forth by San Francisco Hillel. This is the latest in a long history of accusations made against Palestinians and Palestinian advocates at SFSU by the pro-Israel organization.
- The War at Home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A question often arises whether Trump is a genuine representative of the aims of the capitalist ruling class in general and the Republican right wing in particular, or a self-centered rogue with serious and potentially dangerous personality disorders. The answer is that he's actually both.
- The Wheel Has Come Full Circle
What Went Wrong: The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Dan La Botz's What Went Wrong: The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis.
- When Progressives Start Abandoning Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the wake of attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia there were a number of rallies in Canadian cities. The anti-racist counter-demonstrators hugely outnumbered their rally opponents, constituting phenomenal public solidarity against racism. There was much to be cheered in these events. One thing dampened this amazing response. It was how, for some, denouncing hate slid into denouncing speech rights and into dangerous calls for governments to prevent rallies.
- When White Supremacists March
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The rally, featuring white nationalist groups such as the Nationalist Front and the League of the South as well as white supremacist "superstars" like Richard Spencer and David Duke projected violence from its first moments.
- Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history. Combining new revelations from the past with sketches of a sane path forward, this is a deliberate collection looking at our past, present, and future.
- Pride parade in Vancouver rejects Iranian over veil float
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Iranian Shawn Shirazi and his group Cirque de So Gay were denied entry to the Pride Parade in Vancouver, Canada this year because their float criticising the veil was deemed to be 'culturally [in]sensitive'.
- Victory Over the Sun
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Postwar America's greatest environmentalist Tony Mazzocchi (who passed away in 2002) was a labour leader.
- The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
They were known as the "book women." They would saddle up, usually at dawn, to pick their way along snowy hillsides and through muddy creeks with a simple goal: to deliver reading material to Kentucky's isolated mountain communities.
- AntiFa's Moral Superiority and the Potential for Left-Wing Unity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the tragedy at Charlottesville and its aftermath.
- Canada, Sign the Nuclear Ban Treaty!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Security Council met on August 29th to consider the heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Janis Alton*, Co-Chair of VOW, sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging Canada to to be a voice for diplomacy at the UN and sign the Nu
- The Stomach-churning Violence of Monsanto, Bayer and the Argrochemical Oligopoly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Companies like Monsanto, Bayer and Syngenta, which make up the oligopoly that controls an increasingly globalised system of modern food and agriculture, have successfully instituted the notion that the mass application of biocides, monocropping and industrial agriculture are necessary and desirable.
- Why Are Progressives Stupid? It's Not Too Late to Get Smart
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Many progressives are stupid. Unless they get smart soon, "The Resistance" to Donald Trump will fail, just like everything else the Left has tried to do for the last 40 years.
- Podemos, Catalonia and the workers' movement in the Spanish state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Following a long period of electoral upheaval and failure of the left, it is argued that the two key areas where the Spanish ruling class could have been confronted was through the workers' movement and the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, both of which were not sufficiently addressed by the Podemos campaign.
- Spend time honouring Indigenous heroes rather than debating Macdonald: Murray Sinclair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Senator Murray Sinclair, the former chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, says that removing tributes that are considered offensive to Indigenous Peoples would be 'counterproductive' and smacks of anger not harmony.
- Why is the media promoting Antifa?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The promotion of Antifa serves several interrelated functions. First, the physical violence of a handful of protesters in any large demonstration is regularly used as a pretext for police provocation. This is true not only in the US, but in Europe and around the world. Police give the "anti-fascist" and anarchist groups a free hand to carry out provocations, which are then exploited to carry out a violent crackdown. The groups themselves are easily infiltrated by police provocateurs, who encourage violent acts for the desired end.
- Car remotely deactivated after Quebec teen refuses to pay for removal of GPS device
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Quebec teenager's car was remotely deactivated by a dealership after he refused to pay to remove a GPS tracking device -- one that he never wanted installed in the first place.
- Is Harvey Also a Threat to the Air We Breathe?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Following Houston's catastrophic flooding, petrochemical plants have abruptly started shutting down operations, including ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Shell and Chevron Phillips. While these shutdowns might be necessary, they can also produce significant amounts of air pollution.
- The Ugly Side of Antifa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When you criticize Antifa members or their defenders for the tactic of mob violence, the reflexive response is usually something like, "There are literal Nazis marching in the streets, and you're attacking us over your precious little non-violence principles?" But Antifa doesn't have a monopoly over concern for what's happening in this country.
- How 'Antifa' Mirrors the 'Alt-Right'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Behind the rhetoric of the "alt-right" about white nativism and protecting American traditions, history and Christian values is the lust for violence. Behind the rhetoric of antifa, the Black Bloc and the so-called "alt-left" about capitalism, racism, state repression and corporate power is the same lust for violence.
- Official Enemies
Introduction to the August 27, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
We are never left in any doubt about who our enemies are. The word goes out from the United States that a certain country is a dictatorship which abuses human rights, supports terrorism, and poses a terrible threat to the U.S. and to the world. The mainstream media then swing into action with military precision and flood us with stories, images, and commentary about how dreadful country 'X' is.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
Official Enemies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
- The Young Patriots, The Original Rainbow Coalition and Rising Up Angry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look back at the social movements The Young Patriots and Rising Up Angry in the 1960's and 70's; the seventh article in the series 'Organize the White Working Class!'.
- Fascism and the far right; twenty years on
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Author Dave Renton revisits his book Fascism: Theory and Practice, and examines how his perspectives would change if he was to think today about the same questions raised 20 years ago.
- "American Thought": from theoretical barbarism to intellectual decadence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Juraj Katalena argues that direct transposition of ideological frameworks developed in the specific cultural and economic context of the USA, to Eastern Europe (and other regions), is misguided.
- The Anti-Empire Report #150
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Anti-Empire Report by William Blum.
- Marx's Capital at 150
History in Capital, Capital in History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at Karl Marx's historic book 'Capital' Volume 1 on the 150th anniversary of publication, its historical significance and influence, and what it means for those who read the book today.
- 150 years of Karl Marx's Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Marx's Capital, Tom O'Lincoln explains why "the Bible of the working class" is about much more than economics.
- Philippines: Walden Bello on fighting fascism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Walden Bello at the National Anti-Dictatorship Conference, University of the Philippines, outlines the key elements of an anti-dictatorship program.
- Trump Attorney Sues Greenpeace Over Dakota Access in $300 Million Racketeering Case
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Lawyers for Energy Transfer Partners, which include Donald Trump's go-to attorneys, have filed a $300 million lawsuit against Greenpeace and other environmental groups for their activism against the long-contested North Dakota-to-Illinois project.
- Antifa is a 'major gift to the right
World-renowned academic prompts criticism for his comments about the anti-fascist movement in the wake of Charlottesville
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville and tension between white supremacists and anti-fascists, Noam Chomsky condemns Antifa militant tactics and suggests constructive activism based in education is more effective.
- Black Bloc Warning Urges More Violence Against Canadian Journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Black Bloc anti-fascists whose members assaulted two Global News journalists at a demonstration in Quebec last weekend defended their actions Thursday and threatened more violence against journalists covering future protests in order to, according to the post, "make demonstrations safer" for the group.
- Freedom for the Speech We Hate: a Legal Guide to Your Protest Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A list of Constitutional questions and answers, including laws and guidelines for peaceful protesting, aimed at promoting the effectiveness of the First Amendment.
- How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As white nationalism and the so-called "alt-Right" have gained prominence in the Trump era, a bipartisan reaction has coalesced to challenge these ideologies. But much of this bipartisan coalition focuses on individual, extreme, and hate-filled mobilizations and rhetoric, rather than the deeper, politer, and apparently more politically acceptable violence that imbues United States foreign and domestic policy in the 21st century.
- Undermining the Democratic Process: The Canadian Government Suppression of Palestinian Development Aid Projects
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This paper examines the government suppression of Canadian development sector organisations running Palestinian aid projects from 2001 to 2012; based on document analysis, policy analysis and original interviews with coordinators running aid projects, it describes how their work was almost universally undermined by the Canadian government.
- Amid the Tumult in Durham
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Peter Gilbert (a rights attorney) and his wife Elena Everett,a non-profit organizer, had their house searched by Sheriff's officers in Durham when nobody was at home. It had to do with a demonstration of some 200 on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017.
- Thousands of Atlantic salmon escape fish farm near Victoria after nets damaged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Thousands of Atlantic salmon escaped into Pacific waters east of Victoria, BC after facilities containing an estimated 305,000 fish were damaged at a U.S. fish farm in the San Juan Island.
- Village demolition based on Israel's 'racist' plan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, residents say the closing of an investigation into the killing of Yacoub Abu al-Qiyan is evidence of a wider strategy to drive residents out of the rural community.
- CBC Radio badly off track with too much personal storytelling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
CBC Radio's wandering off into a journalistic sub-culture must be curtailed. At most, radio's schedule should include a couple of the storytelling programs.
- 2017 Toronto Open Chess Championship - September 2 - 4
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Toronto Open Chess Championship is Greater Toronto’s marquee Open event of the year, sanctioned by the Greater Toronto Chess League. It's being held September 2 - 4, 2017.
- Why Are All Those Racists So Terrified?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Past efforts, whatever personnel, resources and strategies have been devoted to them, have done nothing to address the underlying cause of racism and so their impact must be superficial and temporary. As the record demonstrates.
- The Economy of an Ecological Society Will Be at the Service of Humanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What would a truly just, equal and ecologically sustainable future look like? Why would it require a change in our economic system, namely the end of capitalism? Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams answer these questions in Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation.
- A taxonomy of American far-right hate groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An overview of the attitudes of various far-right groups in the United States.
- Israel Continues Its Attack on Palestinian Freedom of Expression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The arrest of a teenager for voicing an opinion on a social media site raises serious concerns over freedom of expression in Israel.
- Linguistic data analysis of 3 billion Reddit comments shows the alt-right is getting stronger
Taxonomy of Trolls
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The alt-right isn't one group. They don't have one coherent identity. Rather, they're a loose collection of people from disparate backgrounds who would never normally interact: bored teenagers, gamers, men's rights activists, conspiracy theorists and, yes, white nationalists and neo-Nazis. But thanks to the internet, they’re beginning to form a cohesive group identity.
- Ryerson Made a Mistake in Cancelling Panel Discussion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Not only are censorship and suppression fatal to the purpose of the university, they undermine the foundation of democratic society. When individual rights to freedom of expression are diminished or taken away for an allegedly good cause, they are necessarily invested in some higher authority that is given the right to determine what is acceptable. The result is censorship from above – ultimately the state – with the likelihood that the champions of that censorship today are its vulnerable targets tomorrow.
- Big city war: NATO seeks concepts for waging urban conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
NATO is asking outside contractors to pitch concepts on military operations in urban areas, admitting that the bloc’s forces are still unprepared for waging wars in big cities, including those lying close to the coast.
- Germany: Confronting the colonial roots of racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Nazis didn't fall out of the sky, there is a deeper racist, xenophobic mindset in German history.
- Historic Settlement Reached on Behalf of CIA Torture Victims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Details on the legal settlement between the U.S government and the victims of a CIA torture program in 2002.
- The North Korea Standoff, Like the Cuban Missile Crisis, Exposes the Reckless U.S. Worldview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The confrontation between the U.S. and North Korea has cooled off slightly with Kim Jong-un's announcement that, at least for the time being, he will not attack Guam with an "enveloping fire." A good place to start is with the repeated comparisons U.S. politicians have made between the situation with North Korea and the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.
- Right But Wrong: Trump's Defense of Confederate Symbols and Its Threat to Color-Blind Liberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The ugly scenes of neo-nazis, neo-Confederates, and self-proclaimed white supremacists marching in large numbers and brawling on the streets of Charlottesville shocked American culture. President Trump spoke three times commenting on those troubling events.
- Settlement Reached in C.I.A. Torture Case
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The lawsuit against two psychologists who helped architect the Central Intelligence Agency's brutal interrogation program was recently brought to an end, in what was an unusual effort to hold them personally accountable for the tactics the CIA adopted.
- This Group Has Successfully Converted White Supremacists Using Compassion. Trump Defunded It.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Life After Hate is a Chicago-based nonprofit that does path-breaking work. Founded by former white supremacist leaders in 2011, it studies the forces that draw people to hate and helps those who are willing to disengage from radical extremist movements. In June, the Department of Homeland Security revoked a grant to the nonprofit, telling The Huffington Post that it wants to focus on funding groups that work with law enforcement.
- Yanis Varoufakis's Self-Incriminating Account of the Greek Crisis - Parts 1 and 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Part One: Proposals Doomed to Fail
In his latest book, Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government's shameful capitulation in July 2015. It essentially analyses the period 2009-2015, though it makes incursions into earlier periods.
With this voluminous work (550 pages), Yanis Varoufakis shows that he is a gifted narrator. At times he succeeds in moving the reader. His direct and vivid style makes it easy to follow events.
This initial article will cover the first four chapters of a book that comprises 17 in all. It deals with the proposals Varoufakis made before he became a member of the government in January 2015.
- Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life -- And He Isn't Going to Change After Charlottesville
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Consider the first time the president's name appeared on the front page of the New York Times was an article which pointed out that the Department of Justice had sued the Trump family's real estate company in federal court over alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act because of anti-black bias. Over the next four decades, Trump burnished his reputation as a bigot.
- The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
You can fight fascism by employing and championing one of its defining traits: viewpoint-based state censorship. those who favor free speech suppression, or who oppose the ACLU’s universal defense of speech rights, will create results that are the exact opposite of those they claim to want. It’s an indescribably misguided strategy that will inevitably victimize themselves and their own views.
- The Vietnam War is Not History for Victims of Agent Orange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Nearly 58,000 Americans and 2 to 3 million Vietnamese, many of them civilians, were killed in the war. Untold numbers were wounded. Many US veterans of the war suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. More US Vietnam War vets have committed suicide than died in the war. However, those numbers do not begin to tell the complete story of the war.
- The Chinese Typewriter: A History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.
- Do you know a community that might like a new newspaper?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
At least 171 media organizations in 138 communities closed between 2008 and this January [2017]. However, Canadian communities still should be able to have reliable newspapers. They need to explore creating community-controlled not-for-profit papers.
- Dialectics and Difference: Against the 'Decolonial Turn'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
"Decolonial" criticism is an example of vogue academic approach, which can be grafted onto preexisting disciplines and practices with relative ease. Still further, in so doing, it offers the semblance of radicalism, because it appears to challenge the tacit erasures and hidden presuppositions of prior revolutionary perspectives.
- From the Editors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Beyond the specifics of the disagreements regarding the election results, it also became clear that political support for the Insurgent Notes project, as it had evolved within that small group was not as deep-seated as needed to allow for coherent decision-making about how we should proceed. We are in the process of forming a new editorial group that we hope will address that fundamental challenge.
- On the Grenfell Towers Fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Still working on things in relation to Grenfell as something that belongs to a more long-term development -- if you like, a culmination of so many cover-ups since the advent of brutalised Thatcherism as the neoliberal agenda unfolded during the last 40 years or so.
- Radical Ruptures Emerging from Global Wageworkers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The following notes were the basis of a contribution to the internationalist communist summer meeting organized by TPTG, Underground Tunnel and friends, July 11–17, 2017, in Greece.
- US-China Relations in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the current relationship between the United States and China.
- Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare
What the heck is really going on in Venezuela? A complex story lies behind the offical narrative.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article examines elements of Venezuala's economic warfare, role as global provider of oil, and the country's relationship with the Trump administration, to provide a multi-faceted picture of the country's recent violent events.
- Whiteness Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Whiteness is a protection racket that used to provide material bonuses. It is a minimally advantageous deal that the ruling class continuously renegotiates with a part of the working class, and the first such deal happened before the founding of the United States.
- Google's new advertising program tracks offline line shoppers, violates privacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The privacy watchdog Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a formal complaint against Google alleging that the company's new advertising program violates consumer privacy.
- Google's new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
New data suggests that the implementation of changes in Google's search evaluation protocols resulted in a massive loss of readership of socialist, anti-war and progressive web sites.
- How to Fight a Giant: Militant Labor Organizers Catch PepsiCo Off Guard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The sudden closing of a factory by PepsiCo, the world's second-largest snacks producer, leaves hundred's of workers in Argentina without jobs or sucurity, resulting in a massive demonstration of solidarity for worker's rights.
- Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Shashi Tharoor's book "Inglorious Empire", which is a scorching indictment of British rule in India and British imperialism in general.
- My Coal Childhood: Lessons From Germany's Mine Pit Lakes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A personal account of living near a coal mine in the Lausitz region of Germany, where extensive mining has severely damaged the environment and current 'solutions' are creating even further challenges.
- The People are Not the Enemy: Police Anarchy in America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
With alarming regularity unarmed American men, women, children and even pets are dying at the hands of police who are trained to shoot first and ask questions later, yet government seems to do little to resolve this crisis in policing.
- Biological Warfare: US & Saudis Use Cholera to Kill Yemenis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The US has supported Saudi Arabia and its allies in their aggression against Yemen, committing daily war crimes involving civilians, who are now suffering a cholera epidemic with more than 400,000 victims.
- How to Escape the Present
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Naomi Klein's book "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need". Klein's focus is the global economy and the deeply flawed value system it creates, at the expense of people and the environment.
- Jewish woman sues Andrew Anglin over troll storm
Suit against Daily Stormer's neo-Nazi blogger raises questions about free speech and online harassment.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Tanya Gersh and her family had been the target of a coordinated harassment and intimidation campaign spearheaded by Andrew Anglin, a blogger who runs a neo-Nazi website. An ensuing lawsuit against Anglin could set a precedent for the way courts draw a line between free speech and online harassment.
- Nutrient Runoff is Killing American Waters and Voluntary Actions Aren't Working
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The ongoing causes and devastating effects of nutrient pollution on American lakes, bays and waterways is examined.
- Venezuela Elections: Resurgent Chavismo and 'Unrecognised' Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
After weeks of imperialist threats and opposition violence, the elections for the Constituent Assembly (ANC) in Venezuela took place on July 30th. The result was a massive turnout of over 8 million voters, around 41% of the electorate, which gave chavismo a much-needed shot in the arm. The western media reacted by trying to dispute the number and sticking even closer to the narrative being pushed by the opposition and the US State Department.
- Marx and Engels on ecology: A reply to radical critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of the book "Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique" authored by Paul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster, who respond to critics of ecological Marxism with a comprehensive examination of what the founders of historical materialism wrote and thought about mankind's relationship to the earth.
- RIP Liu Xiaobo: Nobel Peace Awardee Who Supported All Wars Unleashed By US Imperialiasm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Stupid Patent of the Month: HP Patents Reminder Messages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A recent patent to HP on 'Reminder messages' provides more evidence that the Patent Office takes an overly rigid approach to evaluating whether or not a patent application is obvious, and speaks poorly for its ability to determine whether patent applications actually reflect new inventions.
- Debunking the 2 claims: anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, and BDS unfairly singles out Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author points out the falsehoods surrounding the two most common claims by those who oppose actions in support of Palestinian rights.
- 'It's okay to be racist in Israel'
An Israeli conscientious objector speaks out about racism and subjugation as the occupation enters its 51st year.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An interview with Sahar Vardi, a conscientious objector in opposition to Israel's policies in the Palestinian territories, who was sentenced to prison and detention for her defiance.
- Palestine Museum of Natural History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Palestine Museum of Natural History provides testimony to the Palestinian attachment to the land, for preservation of plant and animal life, as well as cultural expression and identity to the Palestinian community.
- Collateral Damage: U.S. Sanctions Aimed at Russia Strike Western European Allies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sanctions by the U.S. Congress which aims to distance relations with Russia may also have a crippling effect on European banks, particularly those in Germany and France.
- Israel's Slander Network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author responds to an article titled "It’s Time to Talk About Yves Engler", which was written by a York University student affiliated to the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).
- One Taxi Driver's Story of Trying to Survive in the Age of Uber
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Since Uber and other "ride-share" businesses emerged in Chicago, the livelihood that once sustained one taxi driver's family of five has now virtually disappeared.
- How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A summary of a whitepaper released by EFF titled "Which Internet registries offer the best protection for domain owners?", outlining important points to consider, such as the policies of the registry that operates the domain.
- The Lynching of Ted Smith
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An account of the brutal slaying of Ted Smith, an African American teen who was burned at the stake by a mob of white men in Greenville, Texas on July 28, 1908.
- Poison Papers Snapshot: HOJO Transcript Illustrates EPA Collusion With Chemical Industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A commentary on the "Poison papers", chemical industry and regulatory agency documents and correspondence stretching back decades, which shed light on what was known about chemical toxicity and practices in the often-incriminating words of the participants themselves, and which still have implications for us today.
- First of Its Kind Study Shows 55,400 People Hospitalized or Killed by US Cops in a Single Year
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The authors of a study which examined police interactions with the public conclude that alarmingly high numbers reflect an "excess exposure" of people to police violence.
- Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.'s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Commentary on 'policing for profit', or civil asset forfeiture, which allows police and prosecutors to seize property and sell it to help fund agency budgets.
- Leonardo da Vinci's Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at some of the secret manuscripts by Leonardo da Vinci, many now online, which remained hidden for centuries and only accessible by only the most rarified of collectors.
- Only 100 cyclists...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A news article reports that a woman riding her bicycle was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver in Halton, a regional municipality west of Toronto. But, hey, no big deal.
- Venezuela on the Edge of Civil War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Venezuela is a step closer to civil war after the July 20, 2017 "fake referendum" held by the government opposition, which resulted in a vote of "no confidence" for President Nicolas Maduro.
- Was the "Russian Hack" an Inside Job?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Forensic studies of "Russian hacking" into Democratic National Committee computers last year reveal that on July 5, 2017, data was leaked (not hacked) by a person with physical access to DNC computers, and then doctored to incriminate Russia.
- When Israel's friends in Labour advocated genocide
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Every so often Labour Friends of Israel pays tribute to Richard Crossman, an early activist with the British pressure group and one of the best known British politicians of the mid-20th century. The tributes to the late cabinet minister are not entirely informative.One detail that tends to be omitted is that, when it came to Palestine, Crossman advocated genocide.
- "All Power to the Soviets!" Biography of a Slogan
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of the origins of the slogan "All Power to the Soviets" in its original context of Russia in 1917.
- Dylan and Woody: Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Daniel Wolff's 'Grown Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913.'
- EFF Asks Court to Strike Down Unconstitutional Restraint on Our Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
GEMSA's patent litigation was featured in EFF's June 2016 blog series "Stupid Patent of the Month."
- Quantitative Easing: the Most Opaque Transfer of Wealth in History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Quantitative Easing, by 'injecting' money into the economy, was supposed to get banks lending again, boosting investment and driving up economic growth, but this has proven not to be the case.
- A Shameful Silence: Where is the Outrage Over the Slaughter of Civilians in Mosul?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The catastrophic number of civilian casualties in Mosul is receiving little attention internationally from politicians and journalists. This is in sharp contrast to the outrage expressed worldwide over the bombardment of east Aleppo by Syrian government and Russian forces at the end of 2016.
- Analyzing the Failures of Syriza
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examines the failture of Syriza, The Coalition of the Radical Left, since their election in Greece.
- The wonderful world of bossnapping
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A short introduction to and history of 'bossnapping', where workers detain their bosses in order to win demands.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
Secrecy and Power
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
- Secrecy and Power
Introduction to the July 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It is one of the essential attributes of power that it insists on secrecy. Or, more precisely, those who wield power over others routinely claim that the details of what they do, and why they do it, are far too sensitive to be revealed to the public.
- Dakota Access-Style Policing Moves to Pennsylvania's Mariner East 2 Pipeline
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examination of the troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
- Alt-right group posts names, photos of 'potentially dangerous' Cornwallis protesters
28 people 'doxed' by national socialist group, some labelled as mentally ill
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A group of self-described national socialists in Nova Scotia has posted personal information about people who have shown interest in protests calling for the removal of an Edward Cornwallis statue in Halifax, labelling them as "potentially dangerous."
- Condemnation Grows for Bipartisan Attack on Free Speech Rights of BDS Supporters
Lawmakers urged to reject bill that would punish Americans for supporting boycotts of Israel
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A pair of bipartisan bills targeting boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements appear to have widespread support in Congress, to the dismay of civil rights advocates who say the proposals are an attack on free speech.
- Empire of Destruction
Precision Warfare? Don't Make Me Laugh
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A single word to summarize American war-making in this last decade and a half: rubble. It's been a painfully apt term since September 11, 2001. In addition, to catch the essence of such war in this century, two new words might be useful: rubblize and rubblization.
- Jeremy Corbyn Wants to Requisition Homes of the Rich for Fire Survivors - Like Churchill Did in WWII
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has a bold proposal to house the survivors of a devastating fire at London's Grenfell Tower apartment complex in empty luxury homes.
- Palestinians have a legal right to armed struggle
It's time for Israel to accept that as an occupied people, Palestinians have a right to resist - in every way possible.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
International law recognises the fundamental rights to self-determination, freedom and independence for the occupied. For Palestinians that includes the right to armed struggle.
- The Biotech Industry Is Taking Over the Regulation of GMOs from the Inside
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When a comprehensive evaluation of GMOs and the weaknesses of scientific risk assessment within the biotech industry is urgently needed, the chemical and biotech industries are forcing risk assessment in the opposite direction.
- Ear Hustle: Prison podcast tells of life in San Quentin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Recorded in the historic San Quentin State Prison, the new Ear Hustle podcast paints a human image of life in lockup.
- Fear and Trembling in the Workplace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Organized labour is desperately in need of a major facelift. The AFL-CIO needs to hire the best public relations firm in the land, pay them what they ask, do exactly as they say, and get busy educating the American public.
- How Seattle Voted to Tax the Rich
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Seattle further cemented its reputation as one of the most progressive cities in the U.S. last week, when its City Council passed a law to tax the rich, sponsored by socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant along with Councilmember Lisa Herbold.
- Venezuelan Opposition "Consultation"
Playing Alone and Losing
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Venezuelan opposition "referendum", which in reality was nothing more than a non-binding 'consultation' without any legal status, was predicted as a major political earthquake that would instantly change the country's landscape.
- Why ISIS Fighters are Being Thrown Off Buildings in Mosul
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The suspicion by Iraqi soldiers and militiamen that their own government is too corrupt to keep captured Isis fighters in detention is one reason why prisoners are being killed.
- Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A story of the caste system in India told through the autobiography of an untouchable woman.
- CNN: "Russia is an Adversary, Ukraine is Not."
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Monday morning. David Chalian, CNN Political Director, on CNN's "New Day" program. News ticker: "How do Trump-Russia and DNC-Ukraine compare?" New Day co-anchor Alysin Camerota (former Fox anchor) puts the question to her Political Director. Chalian's mechanical reply: "Russia is an adversary, Ukraine is not."
- How I Learned Courts are Off-Limits to the 99 Percent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Rall discusses the expenses of the American justice system that benefit large corporations and the wealthy.
- Your Personal Consumption Choices Can't Save the Planet: We Have to Confront Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Failing to do our part for climate change is a convenient narrative to the small minority of people who are actually responsible for fueling the crisis, and the answer to tackling the crisis is actually changing the economic system driving climate change.
- The Moral Corrosion of Drone Warfare
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Jerry Berrigan Brigade, named after Syracuse peacemaker Jerry Berrigan, were called to court for their nonviolent witness against drone warfare at the state-side drone base Hancock.
- The making of a modern 'spell-book'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris discuss designing The Lost Words – a gorgeously illustrated book that conjures lost words and and species back into our everyday lives.
- University of Toronto student app takes you back in time in Kensington Market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The app uses augmented reality to tell the story of a historic Toronto neighbourhood.
- The Left needs to "find common ground" with Evangelical Christians
"There's no point arguing that it can't be done because the cultural differences are too great," says Chomsky
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A discussion between Noam Chomsky and Charles Derber excerpted from the novel by Derber entitled, "Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Democracy for Social Justice in Perilous Times."
- Anti-Racism at the Neighbourhood Level
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Rabea Murtaza, a member of East Enders Against Racism, a neighbourhood-based anti-racism group in Toronto. Podcast and article.
- The financial system killing environmental activists
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Global Witness report reveals 2016 as the deadliest year yet for environmental defenders. International investors are accused of bankrolling the projects that hundreds of people have been killed protesting.
- Israel's Ever-More Sadistic Reprisals Help Shore up a Sense of Victimhood
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Israel argues that a potential attacker can only be dissuaded by knowing his loved ones will suffer harsh retribution.
- Message from the High Court: Carry on arming the Saudis
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Campaigners are furious with a High Court decision in London allowing the UK Government to carry on exporting arms to Saudi Arabia for use against Yemenis.
- The Ordeal of Hassan Diab
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sociology professor and Canadian citizen Hassan Diab was wrongfully arrested and extradiated to France in 2008. To this day the Canadian government is silent on the events.
- Trump's Worst Collusion Isn't With Russia -- It's With Corporations
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Many leading liberals suspect that Trump worked with Russia to win his election, but we've long known that huge corporations and wealthy individuals threw their weight behind the billionaire.
- U.S., UK and France Denounce Nuclear Ban Treaty
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S., UK and France did not participate in the United Nations negotiations leading to the recent adoption of the nuclear ban treaty, and joined together in expressing their outright defiance of the newly-adopted treaty.
- The view from different planets
Connecting wildfires and climate change proscribed only on Planet Alberta
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The political discourse surrounding climate change and wildfires is almost nonexistent in Alberta.
- Why Can't the U.S. Left Get Venezuela Right?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As Venezuela's fascist-minded oligarchy conspires with U.S. imperialism to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro, few in the U.S. seem to care.
- A Brief History of Mass Theft
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The process by which communal land and resources are appropriated by private wealth (or capital), and people are robbed of their self-sufficiency and thereby forced into a position where they have to sell their labour in order to survive, is called Primitive Accumulation. Today we might call this Privatisation, or in plain-speaking, Mass-Theft.The entire process of mass-theft took centuries to carry out in Western Europe and is often difficult to grasp in its entirety.
- Comply or Die: the Police State's Answer to Free Speech Is Brute Force
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Forget everything you’ve ever been taught about free speech in America. It's all a lie.There can be no free speech for the citizenry when the government speaks in a language of force.
- Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Why Americans Hate Muslims
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Certainly, anti-Arab and Muslim sentiments in the US have been around for generations, but it has risen sharply in the last two decades. Arabs and Muslims have become an easy scapegoat for all of America's failed wars and counter-violence.
- My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the West
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An interview with Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the forced hijab policy in Iran, about how the Islamic Revolution affected women, compulsory hijab laws, and her activism.
- Thoreau at 200
Don't Let Bill Gates Ban the Hoe
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In support of the so-called 'Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa,' Bill Gates is telling African women in remote villages to put down their hand-held hoes.
- Canada's Little Known History of Impoverishing the Congo
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canadians are ignorant and confused about their country's role in the world.In a recent example of 'benevolent Canada' bias, the Globe and Mail reported uncritically about a trip International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau made to the Congo. In a story last week headlined "Canada commits $97-million to Congo under feminist foreign-aid policy", the Globe reported that "Canada has committed nearly $100-million to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to support women's economic empowerment, protect street children and provide humanitarian assistance."
- A successful rent strike in 1930s Peckham
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Historical account of a successful rent strike in Peckham, London, where tenants lived in appalling conditions.
- Why Palestine is Still the Issue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The longest occupation and resistance in modern times is a crime that has been suppressed in the intellectual and political culture of the West.
- UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia ruled lawful
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
After seeing secret evidence, the High Court in Britain has ruled that the UK government's arms sales to Saudi Arabia are lawful, despite claims the government has contravened humanitarian law.
- 'Atheist Muslim' says bigoted Donald Trump supporters have hijacked debate on Islam
'The left is wrong on Islam - the right is wrong on Muslims,' says author Ali Rizvi
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Author Ali Rizvi claims that people on the left and the right of the political spectrum are both unable to distinguish between "Islamic ideology and Muslim identity", preventing honest conversations about the link between religion and terrorism.
- Cultural Appropriation and Secular Blasphemy
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the controversies over 'cultural appropriation'.
- Is Tribalism Racist?
Antiracism Norms and Immigration
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Are ethnically-motivated restrictions on immigration racist? Eric Kaufmann draws on new data from an 18-country survey to explain how people answered this question and how their answer affects their own support for higher or lower immigration levels.
- Fake News on Russia in the New York Times, 1917-2017
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Fake news on Russia is a Times tradition that can be traced back at least as far as the 1917 revolution.
- Germany made over 1bn out of Greek debt crisis
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Since the beginning of Greece’s crisis in 2009 Germany’s Finance Ministry has cashed in to the tune of 1.3 billion as a result of its loans to Athens and its debt buying programs reports Euractiv.
- Hungarian far right launches new political party
Militants gather in Budapest to form political movement aiming to replace current party on the extreme right
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Hundreds of Hungarian right-wing militants gathered in Budapest to launch a political movement that they hope will run in next year’s parliamentary elections on a platform that includes open racism.
- The Attack on Al Jazeera
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Since its genesis, Al-Jazeera has served as much more than a mere signpost of speech or thought... popular or otherwise. Its existence, alone, stands as a safety valve against those closed societies that embrace repression as so much a check against the light of day of which they fear. Al-Jazeera's availability throughout the Middle East changed its information landscape ... introducing a level of freedom of speech, on TV, that was previously unheard of in the region.
- The Canadian Left and Israel
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Accusations of Left anti-Semitism may mask a more significant racism problem on the Left.
- The Destructive Power Trips of Amazon's Boss
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Pointed criticism of online retailer Amazon and its Boss Jeff Bezos, whose practices include avoiding state taxes, erosion of traditional retail and small business, and undermining the tax base in communities.
- How climate scepticism turned into something more dangerous
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The motley array of candidates who ran for the Republican presidential nomination was divided on many things, but not on climate change. None of them was willing to take the issue seriously.
- There's No Good Reason for Your Boss to Make 347 Times What You Do
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
CEO pay at America's 500 largest companies averaged $13.1 million in 2016. That's 347 times what the average employee makes.
- This is What Plutocracy Looks Like
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Mr. Trump is the quintessential plutocrat-- a self-interested man of inherited means and limited life experience who stumbled upward through political economy engineered to benefit his class. It is this very public nature of his 'success' that attaches class culpability to his actions.
- What if Omar Khadr isn't guilty?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The controversy surrounding Omar Khadr's reported $10.5-million settlement for Ottawa's complicity in his oppressive detention at Guantanamo Bay obscures a key issue we've never truly explored in Canada.What if Khadr was innocent of the murder of Sgt. Christopher Speer this whole time, and we didn't lift a finger while he sat in a hell-hole for a decade?
- When Will Co-opted Figures and Board Members Be Hauled into Court?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
They promote the message that their products are essential to our survival. They promote a fundamentally ecologically, socially and economically damaging model of agriculture facilitated by Washington, the World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
- Why Imperial Washington Should Cool It On North Korea
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author argues that an enhanced package of sanctions, UN resolutions, diplomatic pressures and miltary threats against North Korea is futile; indeed Washington has been doing this for years and it hasn't worked yet, and a more robust version directed at North Korea won't work now.
- Wonder Woman is a hero only the military-industrial complex could create
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author peels back the layer of blockbuster comic book fun to reveal the film's disturbing and not-so-covert political and militaristic messages.
- Clinton lost because PA, WI, and MI have high casualty rates and saw her as pro-war, study says
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new study appears to show that Hilary Clinton lost the battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan in the 2016 presidential election because they had some of the highest casualty rates during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and voters there saw Clinton as the pro-war candidate.
- Gilroy and Reed on Race, Class & Culture
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The common theme has been the way that those who call themselves 'progressive' or 'anti-racist' often draw upon ideas that are deeply regressive and rooted in racial ways of thinking; and that the consequences of identity politics and of concepts such as cultural appropriation is to bring about not social justice but the empowerment of those who would act as gatekeeprs to particular communities. The articles have inevitably drawn much hostility, especially from would-be gatekeepers, who insist that to challenge such ideas is to challenge antiracism, even to 'defend white supremacy'.
- New map records sites of Australia's colonial massacres
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Map is the first to detail evidence of more than 150 massacres involving almost every aboriginal clan between 1788 and 1872.
- The problem with identity politics
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of identity politics, and how experience alone is an inadequate foundation from which to develop an analysis of oppression or to devise political strategies to end it.
- Egerton Ryerson doesn't deserve an anti-Indigenous label
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In defence of Egerton Ryerson (the namesake of Ryerson University) regarding the current anti-indigenous controversy.
- The Great Power Shift: a Russia-China Alliance
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A significant powershift in the triangular relaionship between the US, Russia and China is occuring as Sino-Russian relations are improving.
- I'm a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Professionals who question the unscientific party line of supporting gender transition therapy could find themselves out of a job.
- Squatters' 60-Year War Against Private Property
How propertied classes team up with the state to forcibly evict urban squatters.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Over the past 60 years, whenever squatters claimed homes in Western European and U.S. cities, even buildings long abandoned, the state used force to protect private property.
- Washington and Berlin on a Collision Course
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Russia sanctions bill that passed the US Senate on June 15, 2017 directly demonizes the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, under the Baltic Sea, which is bound to double Gazprom's energy capacity to supply gas to Europe.
- You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author explains why the dystopian future dreamed up by such authors as George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Margaret Atwood has already arrived.
- Class, Race and Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Through the lense of Marxism, Roediger argues that racial divisions and the identity of whiteness are inexorably connected to capitalism and the logic of capital.
- Here's why papers don't deserve support; money should go to committed Internet sites
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Governement funding should not go toward propping up mainstream print media, but rather towards access to information in communities where it is currently lacking.
- An Addict, a Confessed Killer and Now a Debut Author
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Despite the voluminous literature produced in prisons very little contemporary prison literature is released by major publishing houses, which are wary of the controversial and ethical pitfalls associated with publishing works by convicts.
- The 'Forgotten' US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The shooting down of Iran Air flight 655 by the US Navy, which killed 290 civilian passengers, is well remembered in Iran twenty-nine years after the incident, yet many Americans reliant on US media may not have even heard about it.
- Waving From the Rooftops
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The drug Narcan (Naxalone) has skyrocketed in price due to the heroine and opioide crisis. Political response shows disregard for not only drug addicts, but the welfare and lives of all people under capitalism.
- What Does 'Community' Mean?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The terms evolution makes a nice metaphor for the rise of American individualism -- and the decline of trust in American institutions.
- Where Did Britain's Racists Go?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A year ago Britain voted to exit the European Union. Anyone who wanted to leave the EU was deemed to be a racist, a caveman, an irrational nationalist and even a drunk fool. However today – exactly one year later, some are talking about a "soft" Brexit or even no Brexit. Has Britain changed so much in a year?
- An Addict, a Confessed Killer and Now a Debut Author
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The novel "The Graybar Hotel" has received significant praise, yet its release has also raised difficult questions and challenges for the publisher as it tries to win over booksellers and critics to support a work written by a convicted murderer.
- Aztec tower of Human Skulls Uncovered in Mexico City
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Archeologists discover 676 skulls from Aztec archeological site, in Mexico City.
- First register; then turn tricks
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new prostitution law to include compulsory registration meant to fight human trafficking and exploitation is not popular in the industry, and may lead to a return of prostitution going underground.
- How Culture Came to Appropriate Race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Racism has historically played a major role in shaping adoption practices.
- How Paul Robeson found his political voice in the Welsh valleys
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Acclaimed stage actor, American football player, and political activist Paul Robinson became invovled with the Welsh mining labor movement in Rhondda Valley.
- How the tiny fishing village of Pugwash tried to stop a nuclear war
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Pugwash Conference in Nova Scotia, a gathering of leading scientists to help thwart nuclear war, is the inspiration for a new play by Vern Thiessen.
- The Myth of 'Cultural Appropriation'
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Arguing that certain people don’t have the right to tell certain stories is a distraction from the real menace: inequality.
- What can the Corbynistas learn from Syriza?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As a Corbyn government seems more and more likely, there are clear lessons to be drawn from the Greek experience.
- As the World Turned Upside Down
Left Intellectuals in Yugoslavia, 1988-90
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An account of the author's experiences and reflections meeting left intellectuals, primarily during conferences in Yugoslavia between 1988 and 1990.
- Birth of the "Open Shop"
Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Chad Pearson's Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement.
- China's Ancient Labor Party
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Mozi was an outstanding thinker and what is more a militant, grounded on a well-defined program, who fought on behalf of the toilers in ancient China.
- Confederate Monuments Down
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
For the rewriters, the Civil War became a "misunderstanding" (as Donald Trump echoes today) and Confederate generals and politicians were transformed into great Southern heroes and cultural icons. African-Americans were routinely humiliated, brutalized, and mutilated.
- Detroit's Rebellion at Fifty
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
From the days of the Marcus Garvey nationalist movement in the early decades of the century, to Malcolm X, revolutionary autoworkers and the Black Power movement in the 1960s, Detroit was front and center in debates on strategy and tactics to win Black freedom.
- Lebanon and Middle East: On the Hezbollah and fundamentalism - "We need a large movement from below!"
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Interview with Joseph Daher on his new book on the political economy of the Hezbollah.
- The Longest Occupation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the current maelstrom of imperialism and regional wars, Israeli military supremacy, Islamic fundamentalism and the destruction of whole societies and even civilizations in Iraq and Syria, the very possibility of any positive outcome sometimes seems remote.
- Marching for Science and Humanity
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On April 22, 2017 the March for Science took place in Washington DC, which I attended. It was a dreary rainy day that was lit up by the large crowd of scientists and concerned citizens gathered at the Washington Monument. The atmosphere was festive and defiant despite the weather.
- Murder at the Algiers Motel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The following account is abridged from an anthology, Detroit 1967, just published by Wayne State Press. McGuire has uncovered material that hadn't previously come to light.
- One Half-Cheer for Trump?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
June 1, 2017, Donald Trump announced that "The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord," setting off alarm bells and outraged protests in U.S. cities and around the world. We would suggest that under present circumstances, he chose the better - well, less bad - of the existing options.
- Poland's Solidarity and Its Fate
Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution: Solidarity and the Struggle against Communism in Poland
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Jack Bloom's Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution: Solidarity and the Struggle against Communism in Poland.
- A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As the Anthropocene advances, people across the red-green political spectrum seek to understand and halt our deepening ecological crisis. Environmentalists, scientists, and ecosocialists share concerns about the misuse and overuse of natural resources, but often differ on explanations and solutions.
- Roots of the Rebellion
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Kim D. Hunter interviews Melba Joyce Boyd about the 1967 rebellion.
- The Russian Revolution: Workers in Power
October 1917: Workers in Power
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Fred Leplat's and Alex de Jong's October 1917: Workers in Power.
- Sweatshop Shoes for Ivanka
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The factory producing shoes for Ivanka Trump's brand has come under scrutiny for exploitative workplace practices, and for the arrest and disappearance of three labour rights activists who were investigating the place for China Labor Watch.
- A Tale of Two Detroits
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Poverty in Detroit has become more concentrated over the last decade. Families live in neighborhoods with declining populations, more and more abandoned homes, and a poverty that persists year after year.
- Teachers as Change Agents
Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Howard Ryan's Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut.
- Theresa May's Katrina
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The unlikely reality of a bearded, unashamedly socialist (of sorts) MP winning the affection of working class voters countrywide calls out for further investigation.
- The Unclaimed Dead
In Texas, the Bodies of Migrants Who Perished in the Desert Provide Clues to the Living
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Operation Identification, a program began in 2013 amid a swirl of grassroots organizing, lead the exhumation of more than 50 unidentified human remains from a rural graveyard named Sacred Heart.
- The Unraveling Middle East
Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Raja Shehadeh's and Penny Johnson's Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East.
- USAID in El Salvador: The Politics of Prevention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) frames its work in El Salvador in the sterile, technocratic language of neoliberalism. The Agency is devoted to fostering "prosperity, security and good governance" in the small Central American nation. Notions of non-partisanship and apolitical, post-ideological action are key to this discourse
- The World and Its Particulars
The Ways of the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of David Harvey's The Ways of the World.
- The World Through African Eyes
Securing the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Securing the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe.
- Call Center Unions Build International Connections
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
One big issue in the three-day strike by 38,000 AT&T workers was the company's offshoring of jobs. To shine a spotlight on the issue and strengthen international solidarity, a group of union members visited the Dominican Republic a couple of weeks before the strike to meet the call center workers on the other end of that offshoring.
- Cleaning Toilets for Jesus
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of the job-readiness program called Jobs for Life. Founded in 1996 in North Carolina, JFL is a global nonprofit organization premised on the belief that the local church is the ideal solution to unemployment and poverty.
- Liberals' Neglect of Hassan Diab a Scar on Canada's History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An innocent Canadian citizen has been wrongly incarcerated by foreign powers and torn away from his family, but our country's leader seems unfazed.
- Class and class struggle in China today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of the transformed economy in China and the consequent changes in class relations, and how the Communist Party has managed to maintain its rule.
- Detroit's Underground Economy: Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Detroit's economic comeback is greatly overstated, while many residents survive through informal business arrangements and bartering.
- Fast food rights: organising the unorganised
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The experience from the examples of organising the unorganised both in the US and UK demonstrate that it is possible to develop union organisation; significant examples are discussed in this article, particularly in a British context.
- The 1,000-year-old lost Arab poetry that lives on in Hebrew
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A thousand years ago, the Iberian peninsula was a cultural oasis-- until a million of its Arabic manuscripts were destroyed. Benjamin Ramm explains how its poetry lives on.
- Uncovering the history of the English Revolution
Book review
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of John Rees, The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650, Verso (2016).
- Canadian William Grant Stairs: Killing Natives and Seizing their Land for Leopold II in Congo
A Brutal Part of Canada's Dark History in Africa
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
William Grant Stairs of Halifax played an important role in two expeditions that expanded Leopold II's profitable Congolese venture, one that included forced labour and ultimately resulted in millions of deaths.
- Israel's Efforts to Hide Palestinians From View No Longer Fools Young American Jews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The denial of Palestinian history by Israel is no longer accepted by many young American Jews, a community that is increasingly polarized by the issue.
- Trump's 'No Fly Zone' Escalates U.S. War Against Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The June 18th destruction of a Syrian government aircraft by a U.S. fighter jet underscores the fact that U.S. and its imperial allies in Syria will attack any and all forces that seek to interfere with U.S. imperialist objectives.
- CNN Journalists Resign: Latest Example of Media Recklessness on the Russia Threat
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Major U.S. media outlets have published claims about the Russian threat in the direction of exaggerating the threat as well as inventing incriminating links between Moscow and the Trump circle, many of which have turned out to be false.
- Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The driverless personal car is quickly emerging without a legal, ethical and priorities framework, when priorities should be placed on safer, more efficient and less polluting means of transport.
- Hersh's New Syria Revelations Buried From View
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at veteran journalist Seymour Herst's latest investigation, which questions whether Syrian President Assad was responsible for another alleged gas attack at Khan Sheikhoun.
- HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier runs on Windows XP, vulnerable to cyberattack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The first of Britain's two brand new aircraft carriers runs on outdated Windows XP software that may be vulnerable to cyberattack.
- Immanuel Kant on Electoral Interference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Historically the United States has been far more inclined to engage in politcal interference than Russia.
- Software problems delay virtual F-35s as well
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Virtual planes experiencing problems plaguing the F-35. "Unexpected issues" have resulted in a three-month delay in delivering the newest simulator software to foreign customers like Norway, Italy, Israel, and Japan.
- Grenfell Tower: the Tragic Price of the Rolled-Back State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The British state used to be better organised and effective, but self-interested denigration of the state over the past 30 years has helped erode these strengths, leaving authorities less equiped to handle emergencies such as Grenfell tower disaster.
- Lies That Capitalists Tell Us
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Counter-arguments against common beliefs of the benefit of capitalism.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
Public Safety
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The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
- Public Safety
Introduction to the June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2017
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It is becoming increasingly clear that we have been witnessing a drastic rolling back of the systems and structures which Western societies developed over the past century or more to safeguard public health and safety. Politicians and business leaders, permeated with free-market ideology, have been jettisoning, with little thought or understanding of the consequences, the apparatus previous generations built, piece by piece, to mitigate the most dangerous aspects of industrial civilization.
- Francis Daniel Pastorius
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Francis Daniel Pastorius (September 26, 1651-1720) was a German born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official, who is particularly known for his anti-slavery advocacy.
- One Woman Is Behind the Most Up-to-Date Interactive Map of Femicides in Mexico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The interactive 'Femicides in Mexico Map' is a "citizen-led, civic, independent initiative based on open data which, using geographical coordinates, has been mapping cases of femicide since 2016.
- These are the Israeli leaders who want to destroy al-Aqsa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The recent violence at the al-Aqsa temple and subsequent response by Israeli leadership underscores the belief that the intent is to replace the Muslim holy site as part of the broader agenda of Israeli sovereignty.
- East Africa: EAC Urged to Go Ahead With Plans to Ban Second-Hand Clothes Import
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The East African Community (EAC) should continue with plans to ban imports of second-hand clothes to promote the domestic textile industry.
- Election Interference Hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While Canadian and Western media pursue Russian election meddling they ignore clear-cut Canadian meddling elsewhere, and the Unites States' long history of interference in elections around the world, including in Canada.
- No One Has the Data to Prevent the Next Flint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Data gaps in testing and regulations of water safety in America can potentially put many citizens at risk.
- On Hidden Cultural Corruptors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The educational institution and military institution both purport to be a source of the nation's highest values, yet they often corrupt and bring out the worst qualities in American citizens.
- Palestine: Another Desperate Cry for Help
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine (NCCOP) has just issued a final plea for help in the form of an open letter to the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement.
- The Sex Offender: the 21st Century Witch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Looks at the status of a "sexual offender" in America, including sexual offender registries, as well as groups working against false accusations.
- What's left of Pakistan's left?
For those in Pakistan who want to explore a non neo-liberal, non-right wing option, the Left is there in some form.
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First Published: 2017
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Menon recounts her discovery of the emerging political Left in Pakistan and reflects on its future. Awami Workers Party featured.
- The Bolsheviks and Antisemitism
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First Published: 2017
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Antisemitism was found across the political divide in Russia's year of revolution.
- The Pentagon Says One Civilian Died in Drone Strike on Syrian Mosque. Witnesses Say It Killed Dozens.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Pentagon review concludes that a missile strike only killed one person and was a legal attack on a legitimate target. The review did not include eye witness testimony which claims dozens of lives were lost as well as damage to a mosque.
- Remembering Peekskill
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First Published: 2017
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The Peekskill Riots in 1949 remind us of a period of postwar rebellion and reaction that set the stage for the rest of the century.
- Disaster at Arm's Length
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Grenfell Tower disaster in London exposes the class violence embedded in London's gentrifying neighbourhoods.
- Resist This: the United States is at War With Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The United States is engaged in military actions within a sovereign country that poses no actual or imminent threat, effectively an act of war against Syria.
- The Single Party French State ... as the Majority of Voters Abstain
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The victory of Macron's personal party, la République En Marche (REM), with an absolute majority of 350 out of 577 seats in the National Assembly, has bled the two traditional governing parties, the Republicans and the Socialists.
- Trump's election integrity commission needs to redress voter suppression, not fraud
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
President Trump signed an executive order to establish the Election Integrity Commission, an effort focused on improper voter registrations and voter fraud. The formation comes days after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal to reinstate North Carolina's stringent voter identification laws that were found to discriminate against African Americans.
- Who Built the Panama Canal?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Donald Trump might not know it, but the United States didn't build the Panama Canal. Workers did.
- Grenfell Tower Fire: Corporate Manslaughter in London
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A massive fire engulfed Grenfell Tower in the early hours of June 14th. Grenfell Tower is a 24-storey building of public housing flats in the North Kensington area of London. Over 600 people were believed to be inside the building and there are fears that the death toll, currently at 58, will rise to over a 100. This incident generated a wave of public anger over ignored safety warnings, an inadequate response from authorities, and most of all about the (housing) policies that safeguard corporate greed over the rights of the poor and working class, in this case their very lives. This was no accident – it was corporate manslaughter.
- Mass Incarceration, Prison Labor in the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Federal Prison Industries (FPI) under the brand UNICORE operates approximately 52 factories (prisons) across the United States.
- The Militarized Police State Opens Fire
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Police and government agents are often left out of the conversation on gun violence, despite being among the greatest purpotrators of gun violence in America.
- Reporters face 70 years in prison over anti-Trump march
Two journalists are among more than 200 people facing felony charges after mass arrests at Inauguration Day rally.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The actions of police during the inauguration of Donald Trump and arrest of over 230 people with threat of harsh penalties, including 70 years in prison for two journalists, is tantamount to criminalizing dissent.
- Texas Couple Exonerated 25 Years After Being Convicted of Lurid Crimes That Never Happened
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Fran and Dan Keller's prosecution in 1992 was part of a wave of cases across the country amid an episode of mass hysteria known as the Satanic Panic.
- Decision from an Unknown Body: On blocking websites in Egypt
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Report by AFTE on state censorship and the monitoring and blocking of websites in Egypt.
- Grenfell Tower fire: anger rising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Four days after the raging inferno that criminally took the innocent lives of so many, survivors and friends and families of the missing are still not only without the support from the authorities that they need, but are suffering an unacceptable lack of information and coordination. It is fair to say, that despite the Tory insistence that all is hand and all that can be done is being done, in reality, all that is being done, is being done by community brothers and sisters and a wider volunteer force. Lacking a central command, people are being fed, clothed and comforted from within the community, organised by those of the community. And while the community has so far largely remained peaceful, united by loss and grief, anger is bubbling.
- The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social housing; its job is to monitor the performance, finances and provision of services of landlords. Missing from the media coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster so far is any discussion of what relation the HCA has to this horror story of corporate murder.
- The Politics of Terror Mirrors the Politics of Heroin
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While terrorist activities of ISIS in the West are describes as blowback. a more sinister connection than ‘guilt by association’ comes to the surface if we analyse Western elite behaviour elsewhere.
- Republican Data-Mining Firm Exposed Personal Information for Virtually Every American Voter
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Evidence suggests that Republican-linked election databases were inadvertently exposed to the internet, without password protection, potentially violating the privacy of almost every registered voter in the United States.
- Transit Riders Unions vs. Climate Change, White Supremacy and Disaster Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On May 28th, 2017, two men were killed while intervening to stop the harassment of two young Black women aboard Portland city's light rail. These events occured at a time of growing debate about the militarization of public transportation.
- Trustworthy, loyal, obedient, clean and reverent...
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of 'The Hotel Tacloban' by Douglas Valentine.
- The History Channel Is Finally Telling the Stunning Secret Story of the War on Drugs
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The US government's involvement with the drug cartels is examined in a new documentary on The History Channel.
- Banned Love: Trump, Pocahantas and the Lovings
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author looks at the history of interracial relationships, from thier legalization 50 years ago, to their future during the Trump administration.
- The Challenge of Defining Fossil Fuel Subsidies
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of the ways fossil fuel subsidies are measured and why semantic arguments over definitions may be missing the point.
- Death of an Activist in Venezuela: In Memory of Orlando Figueroa
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Highlighting the death of a political activist in Venezuala by the utra-right, which uses brutality, murder and ecological destruction to pursue their goal of recuperating control over the oil producing nation.
- Election Con 2016: New Evidence Demolishes the Myth of Trump's "Blue-Collar" Populism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Evidence indicates that Donald Trump's popularity among working class voters had less to do with economic insecurity and more to do with embracing support for elitist, pro-corporate, and reactionary social agendas.
- Essential Debates at the Intersections of Science and Socialism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the introduction to his new book "A Redder Shade of Green", Ian Angus says ecosocialism must be based on a careful synthesis of Marxist social science and Earth System science -- a twenty-first century rebirth of scientific socialism.
- Here's the PR Firm Behind ‘Your Energy America’ Front Group Pushing Atlantic Coast Pipeline
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A newly formed front group called "Your Energy America" is pushing Dominion Energy's Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline; evidence points to DDC Advocacy as the PR firm behind the group, which has known ties to the Republican Party.
- Nuclear Weapons Ban? What Needs to be Banned Is U.S. Arrogance
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First Published: 2017
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Nuclear disarmament will be possible only when leaders in Washington recognize that other peoples also have a right and a will to live.
- Rigged. Forced into Debt. Worked past exhaustion. Left with nothing.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Port trucking companies in southern California have spent the past decade forcing drivers to finance their own trucks by taking on debt, which is then used as leverage to extract forced labor and trap drivers in jobs that leave them destitute.
- The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly
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First Published: 2017
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Alternative articles are being shared more widely online than the views of mainstream newspaper commentators. Discussed in relation to 2017 UK election.
- Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
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First Published: 2017
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A review of Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason Moore. The author examines how capitalism is innately destructive of its environment, but the solution is revolutionary socialist organisation says Graham-Leigh.
- A Day in the Life of a Day Laborer
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First Published: 2017
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A look at day labourers in Chicago, many who work precariously, under dangerous conditions and sometimes without getting paid.
- Lynching Free Speech
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In Charlottesville, as in so many parts of the country right now, the conflict is over how to reconcile the nation's checkered past, particularly as it relates to slavery, with the present need to sanitize the environment of anything -- words and images -- that might cause offense, especially if it's a Confederate flag or monument.
- Why the CIA Cares About Marxism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Abundant evidence of course exists of the CIA's complex cultural interventions into French intellectual affairs -- but it is critical to recognise that it was the political shortcomings of communist organizations themselves (i.e., Stalinists) that had the determinant impact on the obscurantist trajectory of left-wing academic ideas.
- Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Have Been Duped into Producing Too Much Milk
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First Published: 2017
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Wisconsin farmers have been duped into producing too much milk, resulting in reduced profitability and at the expense of the environment.
- Beware the Poisoned Chalice
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the aftermath of the recent (2017) UK election Jeremy Corbyn may be well poised to form a Labour government. But there would be huge risks in assuming office in a context of economic chaos.
- Comey's Lies of Omission
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of testimony by FBI Director James Comey, which pitted President Donald Trump against the powerful US foreign policy establishment that aims to punish the President for not being 'sufficienty hostile' to the Kremlin.
- The Grenfell Tower fire could have been avoided: this government must be held responsible
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- In Defense of Cultural Appropriation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It is just as well that I’m a writer, not an editor. Were I editing a newspaper or magazine, I might soon be out of a job. For this is an essay in defense of cultural appropriation. In Canada last month, three editors lost their jobs after making such a defense.
- Monbiot Still Can't Admit Media's Core Problem
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
After more than two decades at the Guardian, George Monbiot has finally written a column in which he concedes that the entire British media has a problem, including its supposedly left-liberal elements like the Guardian.
- The Ordeal of Migrants
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First Published: 2017
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Migrants face prejudices, xenophobia and racism, besides bureaucratic obstacles that do not recognize their qualifications.
- The Problem Isn't Willie Pete, The Problem is War Crimes
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First Published: 2017
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The problem with bombarding Syrian cities, or any populated areas, isn't just that it is being done with white phosphorous, it's that it is being done at all.
- Scapegoating Russia
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First Published: 2017
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Book review of "The Plot to Scapegoat Russia" authored by labour and human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik.
- Colin Kaepernick: Patriotism and the Owning Class
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
National Football League player Colin Kaepernick takes a stand for human rights by kneeling during the U.S. national anthem prior to football games.
- Journalism, History and War: Sit, Type and Bleed
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There are millions of victims throughout the Middle East region, that cannot be understood or expressed through typical media narration: a gripping headline, couple of quotes and a paragraph or two by way of providing context.The price is too high for this kind of lazy journalism.
- U.S. Has Only Acknowledged A Fifth of Its Lethal Strikes, New Study Finds
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While Obama took steps to improve transparency about drone strikes, reports show that the U.S. has only acknowledged approximately 20 percent of its reported drone strikes, and failed to claim responsibility or provide details in the vast majority of cases.
- We Need a Much Bigger Leap! John Bellamy Foster on Naomi Klein's 'No Is Not Enough'
Book review
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is much to admire in Naomi Klein's new book, but she underestimates the danger posed by Trumpism, and doesn't pose a real alternative. She calls for a Leap, but it isn't high enough or far enough.
- Women-only spa stirs controversy after transgender woman turned away
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A popular women-only spa is at the centre of a social media controversy after a transgender individual said they were not allowed to enter because of a policy forbidding male genitalia.
- Britain Refuses to Accept How Terrorists Really Work
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Self-interest is motive for the British government's portrayal of terrorism as essentially home-grown cancers within the Muslim community.
- Britain's Real Terror Apologists
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First Published: 2017
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Despite a smear campaign to denigrate Britain's Labour leader as soft on terror, Jeremy Corbyn pulled of a remarkable achievement in the general election.
- Egypt bans Medium as media crackdown widens
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Dozens of websites, including opposition publications, banned since May 24, 2017, in 'clear attack on media', watchdog says.
- An End to Conversion Therapy?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Nevada is the latest of eight states that officially ended the practice of sexual "conversion therapy" of minors.
- The Making of the Muslim World
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Review of Christopher de Bellaigue's 'The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason', Cemil Aydin's 'The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History' and Tariq Ramadan's 'Islam: The Essentials'.
- One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Urban agriculture is playing an increasing role in helping feed communities. The article and accompanying video introduces Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine.
- One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
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First Published: 2017
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Video that introduces Said Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine, along the Mediterranean Coast.
- We Didn't Start the Fire
Class conflict isn't something we choose to engage in. It's just how capitalism works.
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First Published: 2017
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Day urges the historically Liberal US Democratic party to turn to the left, embracing class conflict as an integral component of left-wing politics.
- Why Israelis must disrupt the occupation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Even dedicated dedicated well-meaning Israelis do far too little and use far too little of their privilege to challenge and combat the injustice meted out against Palestinians.
- The assassination of the Rosselli brothers
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First Published: 2017
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A summary of the ideology and actions of Carlo and Nello Rosselli, highlighting what led up to their assassinations and its aftermath.
- Davis Day: Coal Miners & Community Connection
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An historical look at tragic events in the Cape Breton coal mining community, highlighting mining companyies' greed that led to unrest and disaster.
- Propaganda and Lies, Canadian Style
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First Published: 2017
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As Canadian politicians speak freely and with less accountability on international affairs, indiviuals need to educate themselves on international issues and through alternative sources of information.
- The Facts Proving Corbyn's Election Triumph
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Corbyn has proved himself the most popular Labour leader with the electorate in more than 40 years, apart from Blair’s landslide victory in 1997.
- The Militarization of Canada: Chrystia Freeland's Budgetary Coup
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canada is to increase military spending by 70% over the next ten years following Donald Trump's demand for NATO allies to increase defense spending to 2% of GDP.
- The World Center of Hacking is in Washington, Not Moscow or Beijing
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Documents from the U.S. NSA (National Security Agency) unveiled by Edward Snowden show that whole countries, not just a number of sensitive computers, have been hacked by the NSA.
- Ten Theses on Farming and Disease
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There’s a growing understanding of the functional relationships health, food justice, and the environment share. They’re not just ticks on a checklist of good things capitalism shits on.
- Brazil: Increase in land killings as political crisis threatens Amazon
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Cuts to Funai, the agency meant to protect Brazil's indigenous tribes, have encouraged land barons to expand their land holdings into indigenous territories.
- False news
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Laws regulating 'False News' present several unacceptable dangers, including stifling journalists from reporting in environments that are often contradictory and rapidly developing.
- The Clintons Had Slaves
But the prison labor system is also rotten to the core...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The prison labour system in the United States has long been an unacknowledged scandal and is in fact as a form of slavery; among the beneficiaries of this prison labour system were Bill and Hillary Clinton.
- Hue 1968
A Turning Point in the American War in Vietnam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam.
- In Search of the Lost Chord
1967 and the Hippie Idea
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An extensive look into the social and cultural events that shaped 1967. Golberg touches on influencial musicians such as the Doors, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin as well as LSD, the Summer of Love and the Vietnam War.
- A Little Crooked House: Trudeau, Morneau, BMO & KPMG Inc
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canada's Finance Minister Bill Morneau has recently reinvigorated his promise to crack down on tax evasion schemes, but how can we trust him when he is himself named in the Panama Papers?
- London Terror Attack: It's Time to Confront Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the UK people are dealing with the aftermath of yet another terrorist attack in which innocent civilians were butchered and injured, this time in London. It is time for an honest conversation about Wahhabism, specifically the part this Saudi-sponsored ideology plays in radicalizing young Muslims both across the Arab and Muslim world and in the West.
- The Plot to Scapegoat Russia
How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future.
- Bogota's bibliophile trash collector who rescues books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
55-year-old Jose,who lives on a steeply sloping road in the La Nueva Gloria barrio in the southern reaches of Colombia's sprawling capital, created a community library and donates books to children, believing that education can break the cycle of poverty.
- Rebels Without a Cause: The Assault on Academic Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examining current academic culture which falsely labels "words as violence" and how it is affecting acedemic freedom, notably by some who think of themselves as being on the left, who are employing totalitarian tactics which ultimately cause professional and economic harm.
- Gaza power cuts: When fuel runs out, 'babies will die'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Gaza's doctors fear inevitable patient deaths if fuel reserves are depleted by end of June.
- New Report Shows Corporations and Western Governments Continue to Profit from Looting of Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A recent report published by a coalition of African and British social justice organizations indicate that foreign corporations and governments continue to exploit the world's most impoverished continent.
- Swords in the Hands of Children: Reflections of an American Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Against the vividly evoked chaos and conflicts of the Vietnam Era, Jonathan Lerner probes the impulses that led a small group of educated, privileged young Americans to turn to violence as a means of political change.
- Time to Confront the Media's Anti-Corbyn Bias
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Jeremy Corbyn has been subjected to unprecedented vilification by the British media. No one is surprised that the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Times have been relentless in their hatchet jobs on Corbyn. But it has been disconcerting for the left that the Guardian and BBC never gave him a chance either. He was in their gun-sights from day one.
- Barry Commoner: Radical Father of ModernEnvironmentalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Biography of Barry Commoner, a scientist who laid the groundwork for what later become known as the environmental justice movement.
- Dying at home: What I learned from my husband’s death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A physician assistant reflects on the palliative care industry and the death of her husband. People need more information on the reality of death to be prepared to help loved ones die at home.
- IFIC Welcomes New Member - LOGiQ Asset Management Ltd.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that LOGiQ Asset Management Ltd. https://logiqasset.com/) has joined IFIC.
- How the 1989 War on Manuel Noriega's Panama Super-Charged US Militarism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Manuel Noriega is dead at 83. He seems like a sad footnote to the last disastrous quarter century, but the December 1989 US invasion of Panama really was a permission slip for Washington -- led by both Republicans and Democrats -- to waste whatever potential benefits the end of the Cold War might have brought.
- Kenyans Forced Off Tea Highlands By British Colonialists Seek Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Kericho -- One of hundreds of elderly Kenyans seeking to sue the British government for alleged displacement and torture by its colonial predecessor in 1934 to plant tea on their family land, in a case that could encourage other former colonies to press similar claims.
- LIVE with Bret Weinstein: Evergreen State College Racism Controversy
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Bret Weinstein (professor, Evergreen State College) and Dave Rubin sit down to discuss his controversy on campus surrounding allegations of racism and #exposeevergreen.
- The Need to Radicalise the Bolivarian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Through an interview with Jorge Martín, the secretary of the Hands Off Venezuela solidarity campaign, the events leading to the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela are examined.
- Poland's Bialowieza: Losing the forest and the trees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Article takes a closer look at official explanations for the Polish government's decision to log a primaeval forest, a practice which sacrifices the long-term wellbeing of ecosystems for short-term pragmatic concerns.
- The Venezuelan Opposition does not want Democracy or Elections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Interview with Jorge Martin, secretary of the "Hands Off Venezuela" solidarity campaign. The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela is facing its most challenging times. The right-wing opposition, backed by the United States, is engaged in a full-blown regime change campaign, with violent protests occurring daily and resulting in over 50 casualties. The chavista supporters of the government have also taken to the streets in defence of the Bolivarian Revolution, and President Maduro surprised everyone by calling for a Constituent Assembly. Jorge Martín, the secretary of the "Hands Off Venezuela" solidarity campaign, give his understanding of the sitution and where it might lead. He discusses how western media are distorting the reality and presenting a one-sided picture, the role of international solidarity, the lack of progress made by the opposition and where things might go from here.
- We Can't Let Britain Become a Vast ISIS Recruiting Station
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The massacre in Manchester is a horrific event born out of the violence raging in a vast area stretching from Pakistan to Nigeria and Syria to South Sudan.
- Connexions Other Voices - Challenging Injustice
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States.
- How to build brand awareness
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Developing a BRAND is the first step to marketing yourself, product or service. But it doesn't stop there. Who's going to know about your brand if it doesn't have a presence? Yes! I'm talking about building brand awareness.
- No Laughing Matter: The Manchester Bomber is the Spawn of Hillary and Barack's Excellent Libyan Adventure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The jihadi bomber in Manchester and miltants in the hotel massacre in Mali were direct products of American and Western regime change in Libya, a project that was executed by the Obama administration and spearheaded by Hillary Clinton.
- From Left Radicalism to Radical Islamism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The current preoccupations of Islamic youth in Britian are much different from the anti-racist activism and political radicalism of the author's generation.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
Resisting Injustice
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
- Oil and Water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A collection of articles charting how leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
- Are Credit Rating Agencies America's Secret Fifth Column?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Rating Agencies and the Banks are part of an organized criminal enterprise that include our Justice Department and our Politicians.
- The Deep State is the State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Like all elements of the state, the so-called deep state exists to enforce the economic supremacy of US capitalism.
- The Dirty Secret of the Korean War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is a much darker denial at work in forgetting the specifics of history, and this unwillingness to honestly examine the Korean War is at the root of our ongoing conflict with North Korea.
- Endarkenment: Postmodernism, Identity Politics, and the Attack on Free Speech
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Many today find the idea of free speech appalling -- an awful fact to those who believe in freedom, quaint as it sounds. Left-liberals agitate to prevent disagreeable expression. Their masked street allies physically attack those who engage in it.
- It's Not Gonna Be Okay: the Nauseating Nothingness of Neoliberal Capitalist and Professional Class Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Confronted with statements of concern and/or disgust over how they are giving the nation state away to an ever more neofascistic, white-nationalist Republican Party, "Indivisible" liberals say that "things are going to be okay" since their party will "win power back in 2018 and 2020." Paul Street begs to differ.
- We Know What Inspired the Manchester Attack, We Just Won't Admit It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Not blaming Muslims in general but targeting "radicalisation" or simply "evil" may appear sensible and moderate, but in practice it makes the motivation of the killers in Manchester or the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015 appear vaguer and less identifiable than it really is.
- We Must Be Brave Enough to Admit the War on Terror Simply Not Working
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Amid sorrow of Manchester bombing, UK Labour Party leader explains why actively building peace is requisite for ending such horrific and inexcusable carnage in the future.
- Another Housing Bubble?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This is an edited transcript from an interview on The Real News Network. Sharmini Peries interviewed Michael Hundson (author of J is For Junk Economics).
- The Irish Dead: Fighting Fascism in Spain, 1937
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the springtime of 1937, Spain was in the grip of civil war which flared as intense and as hot as the sun that hung over its skies. Of the many different nationalities that went to Spain to help the Republicans defeat the fascists, it was the Irish who proved to be a dominant force, but death stalked the men from the emerald isle and many of them did not see the end of that intensely hot Summer.
- Beyond Neoliberal Identity Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Neoliberal identity politics (NIP) is a great weapon on the hands of the privileged capitalist Few and their mass-murderous global empire.
- The British establishment is putting our lives at risk: Our state's key ally is a major public threat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Why is the British government allying itself with a country that promotes extremist ideology?
- DEA Lied to Congress About Deadly Raid That Killed Four Hondurans, Government Report Says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Drug Enforcement Administration repeatedly lied to Congress about fatal shooting incidents in Honduras, including the killing of four civilians during a DEA-led operation, according to a devastating 424-page report released today by the inspectors general for the State and Justice departments.
- IFIC's President and CEO to Chair Third Annual Canadian Funds Summit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announced today that its president and CEO, Paul C. Bourque, Q.C., will chair Strategy Institute's third annual Canadian Funds Summit in Toronto on May 25-26, 2017.
- The Left/Right Challenge to the Failed "War on Drugs"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
More and more conservatives and liberals, from the halls of Congress to people in communities across the country, are agreeing that the so-called "war on drugs" needs serious rethinking.
- Malaysian government crack down continues: Malaysiakini CEO charged
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly crticises the charges brought against the CEO and Editor-in-chief of Malaysiakini for posting footage of a press conference in July 2016. The IFJ calls for the charges to be immediately withdrawn.
- Panama: la FIP pide justicia en un caso de lesiones contra un sindicalista
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
La Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) pide que se haga justicia en un caso de lesiones contra el secretario general del Sindicato de Periodistas de Panamá, Filemón Medina, cuyo agresor condenado a cinco años de prisión ha recurrido la
- Police assault dozens of journalists covering political demonstration in Kolkata
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) is condemning two incidents of police brutality against media workers in Kolkata, India on Monday, May 22, 2017. The IFJ demands immediate action
- Ragpicking Through History: Class Memory, Class Struggle and its Archivists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Our current conjuncture invites a renewed rethinking of two historical imaginaries: first, what is class memory? To ask this question is really to reopen a discussion on what is class struggle – and, more specifically, how does our collective memorialisation of struggles past inform our relationship to struggle in the present. Second, and relatedly, who can be this struggle's archivist?
- Reactions to Manchester Bombing Show How Anti-Muslim Bigots Are 'Useful Idiots' for ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Following recent terrorist attacks in Britain, the article looks at anti -Mulsim backlash and how it is playing into the hands of ISIS.
- Reactions to Manchester Bombing Show How Anti-Muslim Bigots Are 'Useful Idiots' for ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How hatred of Muslims is unwittingly an effective tool for ISIS recuritmenent.
- 10 simple yet vital tips when planning to speak to the media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
You've sent out newsworthy information, was contacted for an interview and now you are ready to speak to the media. Not quite! Speaking to the media involves planning and tact. How you represent yourself and your organization is important.
- Thai journalist faces defamation charges for reporting
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses concerns for the criminal defamation proceedings against a Thai journalist by a mining company over his reporting. The IFJ calls for the charges to be immediately dropped.
- West Bank: Palestinian photojournalist wounded during clashes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Majdi Shtayeh, a Palestinian photojournalist for Associated Press (AP) and a member of the IFJ affiliated Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) was today wounded from gun shots at a protest in the West Bank.
- Why Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
No country in the world recognises Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, with the exception of Russia.
- The Women of 1917
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Women weren't just the Russian Revolution’s spark, but the motor that drove it forward.
- Giving a Voice to Local NGOs in a Flawed Global Aid Environment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Driven by wealthy donor countries, the global aid environment is flawed and unbalanced, and evidence suggests it is taking advantage of the regions they are supposed to be helping.
- Music education makes for a poor commodity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Privatizing the teaching of music into a commodity and decreasing attention spans is leading to poorer music education.
- The beginning of the end for identity politics?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While the millennial left’s preoccupation with identity has not disappeared, the moralistic fire has grown dimmer.
- Gig Economy or Odd Jobs: What May Seem Trendy to Privileged City Dwellers and Suburbanites is as Old as Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The rise of precarious employment is not a stimulus to "creativity" but a long-established way of explloiting the poor.
- Red Terror: Anti-Corbynism and Double Standards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A defence oif Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labour party.
- To discover the 'rights of a river', first think like a river
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is a growing global movement to recognise the rights of rivers. But rights alone are not enough. We must love and respect rivers, and even think like rivers to understand the vital functions they perform within landscapes and ecosystems, and so discover where their 'best interests' truly lie. And then we must be willing to act: protecting rivers and restoring them to health and wholeness.
- Unfinished Business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The failure of Nicolás Maduro's government to maintain popular living standards has allowed the right-wing opposition to take control of Venezuela's National Assembly, resulting in a bitter standoff between executive and legislature that has yet to be resolved one way or another.
- The erasure of Syrian voices in Western media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Trapped between a police state and Al Qaeda, average Syrians explain why they fear regime change.
- Getting Assange: the Untold Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The witchhunt against Wikileaks founder Jullian Assange.
- "Hegemony How-To": Rethinking Activism and Embracing Power
A review of Hegemony How-To: a Roadmap for Radicals, by Jonathan Smucker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
"How many times, I wondered, had I favored a particular action or tactic because I really thought it was likely to change a decision-maker’s position or win over key allies, as opposed to gravitating toward an action because it expressed my activist identity and self-conception? How concerned were we really, in our practice, with political outcomes?"
- How Russia Became "Our Adversary" Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How did Russia, which has been a capitalist state for a querter of a century, become "our adversary" to the United States?
- A people's history of England
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A posting which attaches in pdf format the 1938 work by AL Morton outlining the most important turning points of British history.
- Propaganda Feeds Fear and Loathing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The disturbing and growing trend of misinformation in news reporting.
- Seth Rich, Craig Murray and the Sinister Stewards of the National Security State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Security leaks and the murder of a Democratic National Committee staff member.
- Slavery Now: Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Slavery still exists today. And it exists in the Gulf states and in Saudi Arabia.
- The Ancient Game That Saved a Village
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The village of Marottichal in India was rife with alcoholism and illicit gambling, but everything changed after one man taught the town to play the ancient game of chess.
- The Dangerous Academic is an Extinct Species
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Nair analyzes current academia and the structures in place that prevent academics and students from putting forth ideas that challenge the status quo.
- Fast and Furious: Now They're Really Gunning for Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Allegations about President Donald Trump revealing highly classified intelligence are intended to bring him down.
- If China Can Fund Infrastructure With Its Own Credit, So Can We
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What the US could learn from China about funding infrastructure initiatives.
- The Uproar Over 'Transracialism'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Discusses 'transracialism' in relation to gender identity and self identification.
- After Middle Eastern Wars End, the Medical Wars Begin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What are the wars doing to the health care infrastructure?
- American/Russian Vladimir Posner on the State of Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Russian journalist's views on the state of journalism.
- China Widens its Silk Road to the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
China's new 'Silk Road' initiative is a large-scale, multilateral development Asian project which has the potential to change the shape of the world economy.
- Divine ecstasy of Nature: Selected Writings by John Muir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new collection of John Muir's (1838-1914) writings promises to inspire another generation to fall in love with wild nature, to care for it, to know that wilderness is not optional but central to our survival in the centuries to come. His words survive him. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."
- The everlasting effects of homophobia and why it's not just gay people that suffer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A journalist's personal story about combatting homophobia.
- Security Is Ruining the Internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How the need for cybersecurity has made the internet less convenient for users.
- Who's Afraid of the White Working Class?: On Joan C. Williams's 'White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America'
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A book review on White Working Class Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America (Written By Joan C. Williams).
- African Migrants Bought and Sold Openly in 'Slave Markets' in Libya
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Hundreds of migrants along North African migration routes are being bought and sold openly in modern day 'slave markets' in Libya, survivors have told the United Nations migration agency, which warned that these reports "can be added to a long list of outrages" in the country.
- Are They Really Out to Get Trump?
Sometimes paranoia is justified
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2917
President Donald Trump and the firing of FBI Director Comey
- Professional Speakers: Market Yourself LOUD and PROUD
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Professional speakers focus on presenting the essence of their message by molding a presentation that is unique and distinctive to their audience. The words you use can make a difference in the effectiveness of how you promote yourself.
- Restoring the Heartland and Rustbelt through Clean Energy Democracy: an Organizing Proposal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A proposal to end capitalism and fight climate change at the same time.
- Twelve Reasons to Oppose Rules on Digital Commerce in the WTO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
US-based transnational companies in the fields of information, technology and media are working to create international rules that limit the ability of governments to put restrictions on how they make profits.
- There's no such thing as a 'pure' European--or anyone else
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Europeans have no unique heritage. New studies show that almost all indigenous Europeans descend from at least three major migrations in the past 15,000 years, including two from the Middle East.
- The Absurdity of Saying "White Privilege'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Using rhetoric like "white supremacy" and "white privilege" is a way of stereotyping the whole of "white" people and lumping everyone into one group. This is the surest way to turn potential allies in the struggle for justice into adversaries; by doing so we end up perpetuating the very divides that the "system" depends on to splinter people apart.
- Dump the Guardian!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Guardian has spent the last two years relentlessly attacking Jeremy Corbyn. Only recently has it changed its tune, perhaps worried that it has alienated too many readers. Corbyn's success has been despite the Guardian and the rest of the corporate media. The Guardian will now want readers to forget its propaganda war on Corbyn. We've compiled this list so they don't. Dump the Guardian!
- Ban the Bomb! Where is Canada?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace asks where is Canada? Historic negotiations of a treaty banning nuclear weapons are on now at the United Nations! The vast majority of countries are gathering from 15 June to 7 July, 2017 to finally prohibit these weapons
- Brazil: Amazon's Indians, rainforest under attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Attacks on Amazon Indians and on their land rights threaten vital areas of rainforest. FUNAI, the agency responsible for safeguarding indigenous tribes is being forced to withdraw due to underfunding, while Indians' attempts to assert their rights are met with state violence.
- Get Media Attention by Starting a Public Relations Plan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Every business, small or big should have a PR plan, for the simple fact that each business has a story to tell. A story that wants to be HEARD amongst the HERD. The first step is to know the ins and outs of your industry.
- The Nat Turner Rebellion and the Fight Against Slavery - Part 2
Black History and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Nat Turner’s 1831 revolt in Virginia tears apart the myth that there is no history of slave rebellion or resistance in colonial America or the United States. This is a lie often promoted by racist apologists for American slavery. But it is also untrue to think that the U.S. has a history of slave rebellions similar to the massive uprisings that convulsed the Caribbean, most notably the Haitian Revolution.
- Notes on a factory uprising in Yangon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examination of a recent strike and riot at a Chinese-owned H&M supplier in Myanmar (Burma), looking beyond the headlines into its local context and broader political significance.
- Reflections on the way to the gallows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A record from a short prison diary kept by Japanese anarchist and feminist Kanno Sugako prior to her execution in 1911 for her part in a plot to assassinate the Emperor.
- Concrete, or beaches? World's sand running out as global construction booms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A crucial component of concrete, sand is vital to the global construction industry. China alone is importing a billion tonnes of sand a year, and its increasing scarcity is leading to large scale illegal mining and deadly conflicts. With ever more sand fetched from riverbeds, shorelines and sandbanks, roads and bridges are being undermined and beaches eroded. And the world's sand wars are only set to worsen.
- Document Trove Details Bradley Foundation's Efforts to Build Right-Wing "Infrastructure" Nationwide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Documents examined by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) expose a national effort funded by the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation to assess and expand right-wing "infrastructure" to influence policies and politicians in statehouses nationwide.
- A history of American lynchings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A soil collection project is commemorating the forgotten victims of lynching and helping to tell their stories.
- Lessons in leftism: Pete Seeger and the black power movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The rise of "black power" led Pete Seeger to realize he had become a towering figure in a movement he didn't fully understand. The way he dealt with criticisms of him and his friends holds lessons for today.
- Somebody's Going to Suffer: Greece's New Austerity Measures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The European Commission announced on May 2, 2017, that an agreement on Greek pension and income tax reforms would pave the way for further discussions on debt release for Greece. The European Commission described this as good news for Greece. The Greek government described the situation in similar terms. It isn't.
- The Universal Lesson of East Timor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Filming undercover in East Timor in 1993 I followed a landscape of crosses: great black crosses etched against the sky, crosses on peaks, crosses marching down the hillsides, crosses beside the road. They littered the earth and crowded the eye.
- The Anti-Fascist Revolution
Remembering the Action Party, one of Italy's biggest anti-fascist partisan movements.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Over the last two decades, the Italian Resistance has been a subject of sharp public debate, with both political and historical efforts "radically to repudiate the role and significance" of anti-fascism in Italy's contemporary history. As Pier Giorgio Zunino wrote in 1997, "for the Italian history of the second half of the twentieth century, anti-fascism is the villain."
- Anti-Vax Propaganda Helps Measles -- Once Eradicated -- Spread Across the Twin Cities
Health officials expect the number of diagnoses to rise.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The anti-vaxxer misinformation campaign has led to yet another outbreak of a preventable disease. Minnesota's Department of Health has announced that 44 people in the state have been diagnosed with measles, a disease once eradicated in the United States. Forty-two of the cases are in children, most of them Somali-Americans who were never vaccinated. According to numerous sources, the outbreak is the result of a sustained anti-vaccination campaign.
- The anti-Zionist Bund led the Jewish Resistance in Poland whilst the Zionist Movement abandoned the Jews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Zionism and Israel's racist rulers have created a series of myths about how the only Jewish Resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland was from the Zionists. The role of the anti-Zionist Bund has been erased. In fact the Zionist movement in Palestine and the West abandoned the resistance including the Zionist component of that resistance.
- The British Camps
Though it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Today, the expression "concentration camp" evokes the horrors of Nazi Germany, conjuring up black-and-white images of Auschwitz and Belsen. But Germans were neither the first nation to make use of concentration camps nor the last.
- CIA Chief Declares War on Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Mike Pompeo made it clear that he has little regard for truth, for personal decency, or for the Constitutional protections for free speech or for the free exercise of religion. It was an altogether chilling debut for a spy agency head in a country that still imagines itself enjoying some basic freedoms.
- History and Hypocrisy: Why the Korean War Matters in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The DPRK's recent missile test is a "provocation" according to US state sources. A provocation indeed. Firing things into the air that go bang is clearly not a nice thing to do. People really should ease up on things that explode. I mean somebody could get hurt.
- How Churchill Broke the Greek Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On May 8, 1945, Hitler’s successors signed Germany's capitulation. By that point, Greece had already been liberated for six months. Across more than three years, the Greek people had waged a mass resistance against the fascist occupiers -- the Italians, the Bulgarians, and above all the Germans -- in which they had shown heroic courage in the face of a boundless terror.
- If this is feminism...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Part of the problem with the response to Tuvel's article is that some seem to feel that they are the only ones who have the legitimate right to talk about certain topics. At best, this is identity politics run amok; at worst it is a turf war.
- Israel's New Cultural War of Aggression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A few weeks ago my book Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace was published by Pluto in Britain. I was in London and Scotland at the time to do a series of university talks to help launch the book. Its appearance happened to coincide with the release of a jointly authored report commissioned by the UN Social and Economic Commission of West Asia, giving my appearances a prominence they would not otherwise have had. The report concluded that the evidence relating to Israeli practices toward the Palestinian people amounted to 'apartheid,' as defined in international law.
- Julius Nyerere: Legacy and defeated dreams in Tanzania
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Julius Nyerere is regarded as one of the greatest African political leaders. He was a visionary for African unity, socialist development and self-reliance in the aftermath of colonialism, and still commands great respect. Though much of his vision failed to materialise he leaves a legacy of ethnic and religious tolerance and peace in his East African country, Tanzania.
- The Lost History of Antifa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
72 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look back to postwar Germany, when socialists gave birth to Antifa.
- A Partisan Mayor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look back at the "French Tito," partisan militant Georges Guingouin.
- The Real Dad’s Army
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Britain's wartime Home Guard is immortalized in popular culture -- but the socialists who shaped it are forgotten.
- What Obsessing About Trump Causes Us To Miss
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Since the late eighteenth century, the United States has been involved in an almost ceaseless string of wars, interventions, punitive expeditions, and other types of military ventures abroad – from fighting the British and Mexicans to the Filipinos and Koreans to the Vietnamese and Laotians to the Afghans and Iraqis. The country has formally declared war 11 times and has often engaged in undeclared conflicts with some form of congressional authorization, as with the post-9/11 "wars" that rage on today.
- Why I Support the Palestinian Right of Return
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The repatriation of Palestinian refugees is is a very real and practical concept for which there is ample historical precedent as well as practical means of implementation.
- Academe's Poisonous Call-Out Culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
I cannot help thinking that something has gone seriously wrong when a scholar who is not transphobic or working against the interests of trans people, but, in fact, considering an important question, is labeled as "doing harm."
- Don't tell me that working-class people can’t be articulate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When writing dialogue, the idea that a drug dealer must be portrayed as verbally hesitant is daft -- language is not a tool issued by the nobility.
- Fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles: Underresearched and overhyped
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the early years of the internet, it was revolutionary to have a world of information just a click away from anyone, anywhere, anytime. Many hoped this inherently democratic technology could lead to better-informed citizens more easily participating in debate, elections and public discourse.
- Italy 1980-81: After Marx, jail! The attempted destruction of a communist movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Charting the repression of Italy's 1970s extraparliamentary communist movement.
- Jobs and industry in the Hunter Valley: Context for a conversation about a Just Transition away from coal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The development of employment opportuniteis outside the coal miniing industry is both possible and necessary.
- SNCC's Think Tank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How SNCC's research department helped civil rights organizers fight Jim Crow.
- Counter Mobilization: an Effective Response to Right Wing Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As the effects of the Great Recession linger, the ruling rich are making every effort to ensure that the working class bears the brunt of the economic crunch. In this atmosphere, elements of the extreme right feel emboldened to promote their reactionary wares. From the increasing visibility of right wing websites like breitbart.com, to well-publicized speaking tours by conservative ideologues like Milo Yiannopoulos and others, to former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon attaining the status of presidential advisor – the message from the top is clear: racism, sexism and xenophobia will all be used to divide and oppress the 99%. Meanwhile, these same poisonous sentiments are used to divert attention from those actually responsible for and benefiting from the current crisis.
- How are you going to pay for it?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Debates on how government will pay for new programs suffer from a fundamental fallacy: the assumption that the government spends other people's money. It doesn't.
- Imperialism and the Logic of Mass Destruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As throughout much of its war-obsessed history, the United States is currently engaged in military conflict – or threatening such action – across a broad contested terrain. In the cases of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, Washington has resorted to its familiar global modus operandi: sending off barrages of missiles and bombs, much of it hitting civilian populations and resources needed for their survival. Death tolls mount, the largest numbers lately in the protracted battle for Mosul. Heavier casualties are being visited upon non-combatants in Yemen, thanks to U.S.-backed Saudi aerial savagery.
- A Response To George Monbiot's 'Disavowal'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is a pattern of 'mainstream' media insisting on the need for war in response to unproven claims that are often later debunked.
- Zionist Colonization is Not 'Exceptional': A Marxist Viewpoint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This article aims to challenge the rather widely accepted claim that the nature of Zionist settler colonization is exceptional and even "defies appeal to any precedent that can usefully be invoked as to its evolution and eventual revolution."
- Zionist Colonization is Not 'Exceptional': A Marxist Viewpoint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author offers a contrasting position to Moshé Machover's 2016 article, "The decolonization of Palestine"- namely, that Zionist colonization is not unique and that features of Zionism are similar to those of other colonial projects, including apartheid South Africa.
- Globe and Mail promotes Controversial Mining Magnate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How close is too close when it comes to media outlets working with institutions set up by wealthy individuals to influence the news? The question becomes important to ask when Canada's "national newspaper" promotes a worldview paid for by one of the planet's most controversial mining magnates. The Globe and Mail's close ties to the Munk Debates and University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs should worry journalists and everyone who cares about foreign policy discussion in this country.
- The tragedy of liberal environmentalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The tragedy of liberal environmentalism is that it occupies the political discourse as the most pragmatic, the most possible way to a better future, but implementing this watered down, technical environmental politics is not at all smooth, or easy. It is rather Sisyphean. This is the tragic political circumstance of our times: What is framed as easy, as the most compatible with the status quo, is actually so very, very hard.
- Academic Bullying the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the Academy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Workplace bullying is an increasing problem. Books are being written about it, and there is even a Workplace Bullying Institute. The problem isn't restricted to the business world. Books such as Faculty Incivility: The Rise of the Academic Bully Culture and What to Do About It, Bully in the Ivory Tower: How Aggression and Incivility Erode American Higher Education, and Workplace Bullying in Higher Education suggest that bullying is a particular problem among academics.
- The Hidden History of the SNCC Research Department
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
SNCC may have been the most important organization of the postwar civil rights movement. It grew out of the wave of sit-ins in 1960 and was guided initially by Ella Baker, the foundational organizer whose emphasis on bottom-up organizing and democracy deeply shaped SNCC’s vision and methods.
- How Canada's first women’s shelter saved women and their children from abuse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- The Prisoners' Revolt: The Real Reasons behind the Palestinian Hunger Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected to varied degrees of military restrictions. At some level, they are all prisoners.
- Winner of the 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize for Asia: Prafulla Samantara
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Prafulla Samantara, winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for his relentless efforts, has made it his life's work to fight injustice by lending a voice to Indigenous communities and small scale farmers.
- Assuming Boycott
Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A collection of essays and seminars that looks at the history of boycott and divestment within activism. Examines a variety of cultural and academic boycotts around the world.
- The Birth of a Holiday
The late Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm recounts the origins of International Workers' Day.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The history of the fight, by the working class, for a holiday for the working class.
- Black War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Black War was the period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Australians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832. The conflict, fought largely as a guerrilla war by both sides, claimed the lives of more than 200 European colonists and between 600 and 900 Aboriginal people, all but annihilating the island's indigenous population.
- A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Like Serge's extraordinary novels, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems bears witness to decades of revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule; many of the poems were written during the "immense shipwreck" of Stalin's ascendancy.
- Bouncing Back Against the Corruption of Science in Capitalist Society
Part 2 of a 2-part series: The Role of Science in Capitalist Society and Social Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Part two in a look at capitalism and the role of science, and the strong evidence that science can be on the side of social justice and social change.
- Child Soldiers Reloaded: The Privatisation of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at private military companies, a multibillion-dollar industry, and how they recruit former child soldiers for military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Includes a link to the film by Mads Ellesoe.
- C. L. R. James and His Times
Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and the Works of C.L.R. James
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Review of the Worldwrite documentary film Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and the Works of C.L.R. James.
- Connexions Other Voices - Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The April 30, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. This issue is about affirming life, resisting war, and reporting UFOs.
- Detroit Radicals' Odessey
In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James & Grace Lee Boggs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Stephen M. Ward's In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James & Grace Lee Boggs.
- E. P. Thompson's Socialist Humanism
E. P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Cal Winslow's E. P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics.
- Franz Kafka: In His Times and Ours
Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Michael Lowy's Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer.
- How Workers Made May Day Theirs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The extraordinary thing about the evolution of this institution is that it was unintended and unplanned. To this extent it was not so much an ‘invented tradition’ as a suddenly erupting one.
- Latin America: A Conservative Restoration?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
After a decade of the left's near-hegemonic control over government structures throughout Latin America, previously discredited conservative politicians who favour a return to the capitalist neoliberal polices of privatization and austerity are staging a comeback.
- Learn from Malcolm X
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It's time to re-learn lessons from Malcolm in the Black community - nationalism and pride, solidarity and militancy, and a worldview that African Americans are part of a global community in struggle against the injustices of capitalism.
- Leonard Weinglass in History
Len, A Lawyer in History: A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Seth Tobocman's Len, A Lawyer in History: A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass.
- Market Uber Alles
Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Lester K. Spence's Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics.
- Nature, Labor, and the Rise of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The nature of capitalism puts it at war with Nature.
- Philosopher’s Article On Transracialism Sparks Controversy
Updated with response from author
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An article in the current issue of the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia has created such a controversy over the past several days that the members of its board of associate editors have now issued an apology for publishing it.
- Race and the Real California
The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Sarah D. Wald's The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl.
- Reflections on Tom Hayden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reflections on Tom Hayden and the 1962 Port Huron Statement.
- Regulation -- Who Needs It?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In Trump's vocabulary, regulations are ALL bad. (Of course Trump sees regulations around reproductive rights as good, but consistency isn't one of his characteristics.)
- The Russian Revolution and Workers Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Russian Revolution of February and October 1917 opened up a new historical epoch, and was greeted with enthusiasm by workers around the world.
- Science for the People with the EZLN
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Zapatistas have been extremely clever in responding to the continual challenges (not without serious setbacks), both militarily and politically. They have not only survived over the past 23 years but prospered, in their own terms, and gained considerable popular appeal.
- Spain Through Orwell's Eyes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Eighty years ago, Barcelona's calamitous May Days sealed the fate of a worker-led social revolution. George Orwell was there to bear witness.
- Trump and the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Trump tweets about keeping refugees out of the United States, and zeroes out the grossly inadequate U.S. humanitarian aid budget. It all poses the question: Which is the real "failed state"?
- Vietnam Revisited During Trump's Bonkers Brinkmanship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
I returned to Vietnam in April, having not been there since the war, nearly 50 years ago. I'd sailed there as a seaman in the National Maritime Union (NMU) on a cargo ship carrying war materiel from the naval ammo base in Port Chicago, California.
- What Corporate Media Never Tells You about North Korea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is a great deal of propaganda and deliberate misinformation about North Korea, which the public should know. While neocons, a cheering corporate media, and Deep State, rush to war with North Korea, information is the ultimate weapon. For example, did you know that North Korea, China, and India, are the only three nations who have committed to a "no nuclear first" policy.
- What Is Reproductive Justice?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reproductive justice means having full control over all aspects of our sexual and reproductive lives, which means an end to all sexual violence.
- What Kind of Opposition?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
To address the millions of Trump supporters whose lives are devastated by his government... requires building an independent - and yes, socialist - left with uncompromising loyalty to the working class and oppressed people of the United States and the world, not to the liberal wing of capital or the Democratic Party.
- Which Way to the Barricades?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What was the mass strike and what would a successful one look like today?
- Why "traditional media" is far from dead in today's digital world
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Each form of media, traditional or new, has pros and cons on how information is communicated and presented. With Public Relations, it's important to strategically deliver the message in ways that generate maximum coverage and impact.
- Abbas fears the Prisoners' Hunger Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is due to meet Donald Trump to discuss reviving the long-cold corpse of the peace process. Back home, things are heating up. There is anger in the West Bank, both on the streets and within the ranks of Abbas's Fatah movement. The trigger is a hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
- You Are Not An Experience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A growing number of intellectuals are arguing that free speech needs to be subordinated to the goal of protecting the feelings of people who don't want to hear views that they find threatening. They are wrong.
- The Role of Science in Capitalist Society and Social Change
Part 1 of 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
With its Republican allies in Congress, the Trump administration plans to cut scientific programs while feeding more fuel into the ravenous, murderous, and imperialistic war machine of the United States. Trump's hate of scientists is clearly universal as demonstrated by the sanctioning of 271 Syrian scientists by the Treasury Department despite the fact these scientists have not engaged in any hostile acts aimed at the United States.
- Doctors in Denial
Why Big Pharma and the Canadian medical professionals are too close for comfort
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look into the disturbing relationships between medical doctors and Big Pharma, which has influenced what medical students learn and the interactions doctors have with their patients.
- IFIC Supports Continuing Education Requirements for Financial Advisors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In a submission filed yesterday, The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) expressed strong support for rules proposed by the Mutual Fund Dealers Association (MFDA) governing continuing education (CE) requirements for financial advisors
- South Korea: How candlelight protests impeached a president and created spaces for direct democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
At 9 am on March 10, 2017, people gathered in front of the Constitutional Court to await the court's ruling on whether to impeach South Korean president Park Geun-hye. Two hours before the verdict was read, those gathered chanted: "The Constitutional Court should uphold Park’s impeachment!"
- Climate Struggles and Ecosocialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The hard right U.S. administration of Donald Trump has widened the terrain of struggle over climate change and, indeed, the entire array of environmental issues facing the ecology of North America and the working class movement.
- Discovery of mass graves highlights bloody scramble for Congo’s resources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Last week, a team with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights together with personnel from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) discovered scores of mass graves in Kasai Province, a south central region of the Congo currently wracked by bloody conflict between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and Kamuina Nsapu, a local tribal militia.
- Free Speech, but Not for All?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Just over a century ago, the president of a distinguished college barred the suffragette and human-rights activist Jane Addams from speaking on campus, and suspended a student named Inez Milholland for organizing others in support of women's rights. Milholland would go on to become influential in the women’s movement, and the college president, James Monroe Taylor, would become yet another example of an overly protective and historically myopic educator. He believed that women should be "not leaders, but good wives and mothers" -- the prevailing view of the day.
- IFIC Welcomes New Member and New Directors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - April 27, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has announced that the board of directors approved the application of CF2G Investissement Inc. to become a member of IFIC at its April meeting. The board also approved
- Indigenous Women: The Frontline Protectors of the Environment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Indigenous women, while experiencing the first and worst effects of climate change globally, are often in the frontline in struggles to protect the environment.
- Informal Labour, Another Wall Faced by Migrants in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A large proportion of the 4.3 million migrant workers in Latin America and the Caribbean survive by working in the informal economy or in irregular conditions. An invisible wall that is necessary to bring down, together with discrimination and xenophobia.
- "It Is Profitable to Let the World Go to Hell": Will Capitalism Doom the Planet?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Disaster, poverty and misfortune have become great ways to make a fortune. From Afghanistan to Haiti, Pakistan to Papua New Guinea, the United States to the UK, and from Greece to Australia, journalist Antony Lowenstein uncovers how companies cash in on organized misery.
- It's Time for the Left to Ask "What Are We For?"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sarah Jaffe interviewed Maria Poblet. Maria Poblet has been working in base building and community organizing in the Bay Area for 18 years, building Causa Justa Just Cause, a democratically held grassroots organization where she is currently transitioning out of the role of executive director.
- Leslieville gallery cancels art show over concerns of Indigenous cultural appropriation
'It trivializes our art, our experience, and our culture', says Indigenous artist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An art gallery in Leslieville has cancelled an upcoming exhibit after receiving complaints that works by a Toronto artist are offensive to Indigenous people.
- Retired GM worker speaks on three years of the Flint water crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The poisoning of the city of Flint continues three long years after the decision was made by politicians and financial speculators to switch city residents to Flint River water. As the world now knows, the corrosive Flint River water leached lead from the antiquated piping system into the homes of residents. Lead is a deadly neurotoxin. Because next to nothing has yet been done to fix the city’s infrastructure, even after the switch back to Detroit water, there is no safe water supply for thousands of residents.
- "Superman Is Not Coming": Erin Brockovich on the Future of Water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Come take a ride on America's toxic water slide: First stop: Flint, Michigan, where two years later, people are still contending with lead-laced water, which was finally detected by the EPA in February 2015 with the help of resident Lee Anne Walters. Next stop: California, where hundreds of wells have been contaminated with 1,2,3-TCP, a Big Oil-manufactured chemical present in pesticides.
- Trump's Reviled Hotline for "Criminal Aliens" Flooded with Reports of UFOs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has unveiled its controversial immigrant crime office, complete with a hotline for U.S. citizens to report alleged crimes committed by undocumented aliens. The hotline was promptly overwhelmed with calls about extraterrestrials and UFOs.
- Using Children for Israeli Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Engler brings to light Canadian schools' practices that indoctrinate students with problematic colonial, Zionist views.
- Brazil: Government to abandon tribes to 'genocide' by loggers and ranchers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Brazil's extreme right wing government is preparing to open up the rainforest territories of uncontacted indigenous tribes to 'free for all' development by defunding the protection they currently receive.
- Changing minds on a changing climate
What Makes Climate Science Deniers Change Their Minds?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reddit commenters point to reasons they went from being climate contrarians to having confidence in mainstream climate science.
- Coal Miners' Futures in Renewable Energy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
If President Trump wants to earn a rare legislative victory and take political credit for reviving hard-hit regions of rural America, he should take a close look at how one Kentucky coal company is creating jobs.
- Empire Abroad, Empire At Home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The institutions and ideas U.S. elites used to project "full spectrum dominance" onto the global stage have eventually become part of the political order in the U.S. It is empire -- most of all -- that dooms democracy. As corporations have an insatiable drive for profit, empires have an insatiable drive for power.
- Endless Atrocities: The US Role In Creating The North Korean Fortress-State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An overview of the history that informs North Korea's relations with the United States and "drives its determination never to submit to any American diktat".
- How Propaganda Works to Divide Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
- Inside Corbyn's Office
An interview with Matt Zarb-Cousin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Jeremy Corbyn’s former press officer on sabotage within the British Labour party, his relationship to the media, and how Labour can close the polling gap.
- The Looting Machine Called Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment. In other words, capitalists make profits because their costs are externalized and born by others. In the US, society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.
- Monks with guns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Westerners think that Buddhism is about peace and non-violence. So how come Buddhist monks are in arms against Islam?
- Only one bear in a hundred bites, but they don't come in order
Resource Type: Videotape
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Bob Bossin talked about oil tanks in a Youtube video
- Palestinian, Jewish Voices Music Jointly Challenge Israel's Past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Baroud analyzes how Israel has appropriated the Palestinian narrative of Al-Nakba to rewrite history and place the occupation of Palestine in a positive light.
- The Rule of Law Won't Save Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Donald Trump won't be stopped by the law -- in fact, his worse abuses are enabled by it.
- A Special Obscenity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Picasso painted Guernica eighty years ago this spring. It still stands as a searing protest against the brutality of war and fascism.
- To conserve tropical forests and wildlife, protect the rights of people who rely on them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Who are the best guardians of forests and other wild places? Governments? Conservation NGOs? Corporations? No, writes Prakash Kashwan, it's the indigenous peoples who have lived in harmony with their environment for millennia. But to be able do so, they must first be accorded rights to their historic lands and resources, both in law and in practice.
- The CIA director is waging war on truth-tellers like WikiLeaks
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Mike Pompeo, in his first speech as director of the CIA, chose to declare war on free speech rather than on the United States’ actual adversaries.
- Forest Service's 'Independent' Report on Atlantic Coast Pipeline Written by Pipeline Company Contractor
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S. Forest Service recently published an assessment of the proposed Atlantic Coast pipeline, calling the report "independent." In reality the assessment was performed and written by none other than a contractor working for the pipeline company.
- Fracking kills newborn babies - polluted water likely cause
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new study in Pennsylvania, USA shows that fracking is strongly related to increased mortality in young babies. The effect is most pronounced in counties with many drinking water wells indicating that contamination by 'produced water' from fracking is a likely cause. Radioactive pollution with uranium, thorium and radium is a 'plausible explanation' for the excess deaths.
- Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) Halifax, N.S.
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The public is invited to join the Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace (NSVOW) at this international Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS).
- The Madder Trump Gets, the More Seriously the World Takes Him
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The more dangerous America's crackpot President becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the lies, the fantasies and self-regard of this misogynist leader of the Western world appalled all of us. But the moment he went to war in Yemen, fired missiles at Syria and bombed Afghanistan, even the US media Trump had so ferociously condemned began to treat him with respect. And so did the rest of the world.
- Major Challenges of New Orleans Charter Schools Exposed at NAACP Hearing
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
New Orleans is the nation's largest and most complete experiment in charter schools. After Hurricane Katrina, the State of Louisiana took control of public schools in New Orleans and launched a nearly complete transformation of a public school system into a system of charter schools.
- Media Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian Interference As Facts
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The headline of a New York Times article published April 6, 2017, "C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed," misleadingly implies not only that there was an effort by the Russian government to help Donald Trump win the American presidential election but that it is a settled fact that the CIA was in possession of hard evidence to that effect.
- Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher is another sign of a crumbling façade of democracy.
- Trump the Gardener
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In an interview defending his Presidential candidate, Silicon Valley billionaire and undisguised self-interested Randian fanboy Peter Thiel assured the public that when Donald Trump asserted that he would build a mighty wall along the US Mexican border, what he really meant was that he would impose a 'saner, more sensible immigration policy'.
- Dynamo Kiev fans wear KKK outfits, swastikas in ‘white frenzy’ display intended for UEFA official
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Dynamo Kiev fans welcomed a visiting UEFA inspector to their home match versus Shakhtar Donetsk wearing outfits of the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and masks bearing swastikas.
- Noam Chomsky: US Is the "Most Dangerous Country in the World"
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Nuclear proliferation and climate change are subjects of acute concern in the current moment, driven into an all-out state of emergency by the new Trump administration. In this interview, Noam Chomsky discusses the media coverage of these two major issues, highlighting US tensions with Russia, Iran and North Korea, as well as discussing the recent US airstrike on Syria's Air Force base.
- The reactionary, class nature of left Academia today
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Mellor challenges the idea that socialism is eurocentric and speaks to how capitalist exploitation and workers' resistance is fundamentally similar all over the world.
- Treating Mental Health Patients as Criminals
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The criminalisation of the mentally ill is one of the cruellest and most easily avoidable tragedies of our era.
- Gentrification Represents a Geography of Inequality
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What does gentrification mean for the future of American cities? It means more than the arrival of trendy shops and expensive coffee. Peter Moskowitz intertwines human narratives with incisive analysis of the systemic forces contributing to America's crises of race and inequality, in How to Kill a City. Click here now to order this book with a donation to Truthout!The following is a Truthout interview with Peter Moskowitz, author of How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood.
- Newspaper Owned By Fracking Billionaire Leaks Memo Calling Pipeline Opponents Potential "Terrorists"
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has produced a report titled, "Potential Domestic Terrorist Threats to Multi-State Diamond Pipeline Construction Project," dated April 7, 2017. The DHS field analysis report points to lessons from policing the Dakota Access pipeline, saying they can be applied to the ongoing controversy over the Diamond pipeline, which, when complete, will stretch from Cushing, Oklahoma to Memphis, Tennessee. While lacking "credible information" of such a potential threat, DHS concluded that "the most likely potential domestic terrorist threat to the Diamond Pipeline … is from environmental rights extremists motivated by resentment over perceived environmental destruction."
- Xulhaz Mannan: Murder of LGBTQ+ editor highlights danger facing all rational voices in Bangladesh
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First Published: 2017
Published: 17
The murder of Xulhaz Mannan, the founder and editor of Bangladesh's first and only LGBTQ+ magazine, Roopban, has drawn the world's attention to the violence directed against the country's outspoken supporters of equal rights. His death at the hands of six assailants sent a wave of fear through the community, and has prompted others to go into hiding.
- Challenging Racism isn't Anti-Semetic
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Engler criticizes Canadians' willingness to defend the Jewish Defense League, even with their growing connection to white supremist groups.
- Climate Change As Genocide
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Is this what a world battered by climate change will be like—one in which tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of people perish from disease, starvation, and heat prostration while the rest of us, living in less exposed areas, essentially do nothing to prevent their annihilation?
- Israeli activists 'thought it nice' to hold BBQ near Palestinian hunger strikers
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the face of increasing human rights abuses being committed towards Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, an Israeli right-wing group mocked the Palestinian mass hunger strike by hosting a BBQ outside a military prison.
- IFIC Updates Monthly Statistics for March 2017
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - April 21, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) released updated sales data for the month ending March 31, 2017. The assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.39 trillion. Year-to-date
- The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty.
- Rahul Pandita's New India: A Hindutva India On the Ashes Of Democratic Secular India
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Shamsul Islam responds to the rise of the Hindutva in India and challenges their anti-Muslim propaganda.
- Review: Where I Live Now by Sharon Butala takes readers on a lovely and dark journey
Book Review
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Review of a woman's memoir of life on the prairies and the death of her husband.
- The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
Part Three
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Ecologist Special Report: From fish to forests and conflicts to coffee ... how humans are affected by climate-driven species shifts
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Climate change has species on the move, with major consequences for biodiversity and human communities. Building resilience has never been more important and Indigenous Peoples are showing the way.
- Re-examine revolution, but don't abandon it
Book review
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Re-examine revolution, but surely now is not the time to abandon it. Chris Nineham reviews Socialist Register 2017: Rethinking Revolution
- Global Days of Action on Military Spending: April 18-28, 2017
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This year, the GDAMS movement will take place from April 18th to April 28th, 2016. Canadian Voice of Women for Peace joins with The International Peace Bureau and its members with organized events all around the world (Australia, Colombia, Kenya, Nigeria
- A Turkey Divided by Erdogan Will Become Prey to Its Enemies
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What critics claim is the openly fraudulent Turkish referendum ends parliamentary democracy in the country and gives President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dictatorial powers. The most unexpected aspect of the poll on Sunday was not the declared outcome, but that the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) allegedly found it necessary to fix the vote quite so blatantly.
- The U.S. Pushed North Korea to Build Nukes: Yes or No?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Washington's policy toward North Korea for the last 64 years entirely based on the assumption that you can persuade people to do what you want them to do through humiliation, intimidation and brute force.
- Children & Nature Network International Conference brings 850+ international leaders working to connect children to nature to Vancouver, BC
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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More than 850 leaders and activists from 22 countries are gathering today in Vancouver B.C. for the 2017 Children & Nature Network International Conference and Summit. This premier gathering of the children and nature movement, co-hosted by the Canad
- The Return of Commercial Prison Labour
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Prisons are seldom mentioned under the rubric of labour market institutions such as temporary work contracts or collective bargaining agreements. Yet, prisons not only employ labour but also cast a shadow on the labour force in or out of work. The early labour movement considered the then prevalent use of prison labour for commercial purposes as unfair competition. By the 1930s, the U.S. labour movement was strong enough to have work for commercial purposes prohibited in prisons.
- Why we should be thanking Burger King for hijacking our smart home devices
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Pringle analyzes the social impact of Burger King's advertising tactic and the hidden vulnerabilities our smart devices are capable of bringing us.
- The Destruction of Inlet Beach
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As Inlet Beach undergoes development to turn the site into a tourist vacation spot and with no support from the county government or develepment laws, the local community is slowly driven away.
- Has Trump Stolen Philosophy's Critical Tools?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Williams analyzes how U.S. President Trump is able to exploit the post-modernist view of the subjectivity of truth in order to wield power over how Americans perceive their own reality.
- In India Any Social Activist Can Be Arrested, Charged And Tried - Sans Evidence - For Terrorism: Kobad Ghandy's Case - Part II - The Punjab Trial
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First Published: 2017
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In a follow-up to an article detailing how Delhi's legal system was able to detain Kobad Ghandy in Tihar Jail for engaging in supposedly communist activities, this article discusses a separate attempt to prosecute Ghandy for his social activism.
- Interactive map of workers' councils (1917-1927)
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This article charts the spread of the workers' council movement in the ten-year period after the 1917 revolution in Russia.
- A History of Women's Rights in Toronto
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Whether they were marching in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington or commemorating International Women's Day, women in Toronto have a longstanding tradition of advocating for gender equality across Canada.
- In Memoriam: Bobby Lee, Black Panther
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Hy Thurman remembers Bobby Lee.
- Journalistic Integrity: Allan Nairn vs. Julian Assange
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
I've been really upset since the inauguration and trying to cope with the emotions I am encountering daily. It is pretty obvious that a successful meme has been implanted in the progressive mindset that will have as much impact as the claim Ralph Nader gave the 2000 election to Bush. By this I mean that people are extremely pissed off at me for having backed the Green Party and Jill Stein and seem to say with almost a psychic vitriol that it is somehow my fault that Trump got elected. Didn’t you throw your vote away on the Greens? Didn't you say awful things about Hillary?
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace - Statement on Syria
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) calls for the immediate cessation of violence by all parties. We want no more strikes, an investigation by UN experts into the use of chemical weapons, and immediate commencement of peace negotiation by a
- The Freeland-Chomiak Connection: "It takes a village to raise a Nazi"
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sanders uncovers Chrystia Freeland's, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, own personal and professional connection with fascist groups and publications.
- Green nationalism? How the far right could learn to love the environment
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Myths of a pagan past in harmony with nature have been a feature of green nationalism, from its beginnings through to the Anastasia ecovillages in contemporary Russia where - unlike their equivalent hippy communes found in the West - sustainable living is combined with a 'reactionary eco-nationalism'. Could it happen here too?
- Israel's first trans officer helps with ethnic cleansing
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Queer and transgender activists protested an event featuring an Israeli soldier in Seattle on 5 April.The event was supported by the LGBTQ Commission, a body that advises city leaders on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.Two commissioners resigned in protest just days earlier, criticizing the group’s participation as an act of pinkwashing. Pinkwashing is a public relations strategy that deploys Israel's supposed enlightenment toward LGBTQ issues to deflect criticism from its human rights abuses and war crimes and as a means to build up support for Israel among Western liberals and progressives.
- The Promises and Limitations of Radical Local Politics
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Steve Early's most recent book, Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of An American City (Beacon Press), describes the building of a what is very likely the most successful progressive political organization, The Richmond Progressive Alliance, in the United States, in Richmond, California, a blue collar city long dominated by Chevron Corp.
- Archives As Activism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Last week was archives awareness week in Ontario, a week to raise awareness about what archivists do, what archives are, and just generally celebrate all of the good stuff associated with archives. In addition to general archives promotion this week it is also about the connection between archives and activism.
- Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Martin Empson reviews an important book (DEAD ZONE: Where the Wild Things Were
by Philip Lymber,Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) for activists, a frightening examination of the impact of industrial agriculture on the environment, and particularly biodiversity.
- How Media Bias Fuels Syrian Escalation
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The mainstream U.S. media now reports as "flat-fact" the Syrian government's guilt in the April 4, 2017 chemical weapons incident, but the real facts are less clear and some point in the opposite direction.
- Running Government Like a Business is Bad for Citizens
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Donald Trump and Jared Kushner say that the government should be run like a business, but that would mean eliminating regulations and expenses that benefit the people.
- ISIS Church Bombings Kill 47 in Egypt
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Ditz details two recent ISIS attacks in Egypt targeting Christian churches and followers.
- Wag The Dog -- How Al Qaeda Played Donald Trump And The American Media
Responsibility for the chemical event in Khan Sheikhoun is still very much in question.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Once upon a time, Donald J. Trump, the New York City businessman-turned-president, berated then-President Barack Obama, back in September 2013, about the fallacy of an American military strike against Syria. At that time, the United States was considering the use of force against Syria in response to allegations (since largely disproven) that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against civilians in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Trump, via tweet, declared "to our very foolish leader, do not attack Syria - if you do many very bad things will happen & from that fight the U.S. gets nothing!"
- Free Speech and Unsafe Spaces
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Malik criticizes "the blinkered, self-centred, indeed narcissistic, attitudes that shape much contemporary discussion on speech and its limits. Free speech, from this perspective, requires not a robust exchange of ideas but the validation of my views. I should have the right to denounce anyone I wish, but criticism of my views is a denial of my free speech. Vigorously defending oneself against criticism is to deny safe space for one's critics."
- How to Access Digital Files from the Nineties
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In this step-by-step, digital archivist Tim Walsh demonstrates how to access decades old files.
- The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
Part Two
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- The Balance of Probabilities
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Unlike the famous chemical weapons "attack" portrayed by the BBC in Saving Syria's Children, it does appear that in the latest incident at Idlib there was real horror inflicted by chemical attack of some kind. The question is who did it and why?
- Is Assad to blame for the chemical weapons attack in Syria?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What possible motives that could link the Assad regime to a chemical attack in Northern Syria?
- The Spell Checker Poem
The Facts Behind "Candidate for a Pullet Surprise"
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
"The Spell Checker Poem." originally was composed in 1991, its first official appearance was in The Journal of Irreproducible Results in 1994. Since then, it has made its way around the Internet under various titles, including "Spell Checker Blues," "Owed to a Spelling Checker," and "Spellbound." Almost always the poem is attributed to Anonymous or, more playfully, "Sauce unknown."
- Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S. government and the mainstream media have rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry.
- A common treasury for all: Gerrard Winstanley's vision of utopia
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Gerrard Winstanley was the ideological force behind the Diggers, a left-wing movement during the English Revolution. The Digger movement of 1648-1650 arose out of the juncture of three processes, notably the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
- Devices that track, spy on cellphones found at Montreal's Trudeau airport
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
CBC Radio-Canada investigation already found electronic surveillance devices near Parliament Hill.
- Double standards: Do all journalist lives matter?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Little attention is paid to reporters from the Global South who are killed, abused, or left stranded by foreign media.
- Engels, Neanderthals and the origins of the family
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Based on concrete evidence from genetics and archaeology, Friedrich Engel's theories well over a hundred years ago are still relevant to current disputes about the origins of the human family.
- Frantz Fanon: Decolonisation through revolution
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015); Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015); and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution (I B Taurus, 2016). The three books illustrate a renewed interest among activists and within academia in the life and work of Frantz Fanon. The three highlighted works demonstrate that Fanon has many lessons for current movements against racism, imperialism and capitalism.
- How Financial Transaction Taxes Make the Economy More Efficient
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The efforts to implement a financial transactions tax (FTT) within the European Union (EU) seem to be finally coming to a head. While the EU is far from unanimous in support of a FTT, an effort to implement a joint FTT has been moving forward for the last six years under a provision that allows ten or more countries to act collectively.
- It's WMD all over again. Why don't you see it?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Today’s frenzy over alleged use of poison gas in Syria is the 2017 version of Anthony Blair’s WMD in Iraq. Why can you not see it? Did you think they would do it in exactly the same way again? You are being assailed through your emotions, to act first and think long after, and far too late.
- Lenin's April Theses and the Russian Revolution
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In 1917 Lenin arrived from exile iin Petrograd, soon to give an outline of what were to be called the April Theses. Broadly, the theses can be summarised as follows: Only the overthrow of the provisional government and the fight for soviet power could secure a state of affairs that would bring bread to the workers, land to the peasants and peace to end the imperialist war.
- Marxism 2.0: New commodities, new workers?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Ursula Huws, 'Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age' and Nick Dyer-Witheford, 'Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex'.
- Self-Censored Questions by Career Questioners
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
I've always been intrigued by the major questions not asked by reporters at press conferences, not asked by legislators at public hearings or even the questions citizens at town meetings don't ask public officials. It's not that they do not know about or could not easily become informed enough about a given issue and ask substantive questions. It's just that so many taboos are packed into these questioners' ideological mindset, career goals or concern with what other people over them might think. Maybe it is a culturally-rooted fear of challenging entrenched power brokers.
- The Sense of Art: In memoriam John Berger
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First Published: 2017
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In memoriam of the British writer and lecturer John Berger.
- System of a Down
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Michael Roberts 'The Long Depression'.
- World's Best Economist Tells All!
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson’s books. What you will learn is that neoliberal economics is an apology for the rentier class and the large banks that have succeeded in financializing the economy, shifting consumer spending power from the purchase of goods and services that drive the real economy to the payment of interest and fees to banks.
- Israel Steps up Dirty Tricks Against Boycott Leaders
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The current obsession with the challnege posed by BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) reflects a changing political environment for Israel.
- Just Wait Until I Get Tenure
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A Facebook friend, Steven Salaita, recently wrote a post about academe arguing that tenure-track professors are kidding themselves if they say they will become more radical once they get tenure. I agreed with his post, and I made a long reply. Here, I incorporate what I said into a more coherent commentary.
- CWF issues a Seven Day Challenge for National Wildlife Week April 9-15
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is urging Canadians to step it up for National Wildlife Week April 9-15, 2016 with a seven-day conservation challenge.
- Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Some of the more common myths regarding the modern agricultural industry are outlined, notably that large scale commercial farming provides higher yields and greater diversity of products. Indeed the author contests the coversation should move beyond conventional farming vs organic, and that it is regenerative farming practices that concentrate on soil health that will provide the best solution.
- More on the Red Chemist
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
More on the important role that the eminent chemist Carl Schorlemmer played in the development of Marx and Engels' understanding of the natural sciences.
- Journalists allege threat of drone execution by US
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Fearing assassination, Al Jazeera's Ahmad Zaidan and independent journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem file US legal complaint.
- 1,418 days of WWII viewed through lens of legendary Soviet photographer
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Profile of Soviet photographer Yevgeny Khaldei and a sample of his photographs captured during WWII.
- The Boy Without a Country
Tokyo's painful exclusion of immigrants
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Citizenship in Japan is jus sanguinis -- determined by blood, rather than by place of birth. Though Utinan qualified for Thai citizenship, Lonsan didn’t know how to register his birth from abroad, so he was rendered stateless.
- Jobs for Climate and Justice: A Worker Alternative to the Trump Agenda
A working paper from the Labor Network for Sustainability
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Jobs for Climate and Justice exposes and challenges the Trump agenda and proposes the kind of economic program we must fight for. It also offers examples of the great organizing efforts around the country – led by working people – that provide the foundation for the a transition to a just and climate-safe economy.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
April 1 issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
- West Papua: the sago and the palm oil - The Yerisiam people fight
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How Papua's Yerisiam people are fighting against palm oil expansion and protecting their last sacred sago forest.
- IFIC Supports Ontario Plans to Strengthen Financial Planning and Advice
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - March 31, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada has commended Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa for his commitment to move ahead with several recommendations aimed at strengthening financial planning and advice.
- Land Day 2017: Israel's relentless land grab continues
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First Published: 2017
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As Israel resumes its settlement expansion with impunity, Palestinians have plenty to protest at this year's Land Day.
- IFIC Updates Monthly Statistics for February 2017
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - March 29, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) released updated sales data for the month ending February 28, 2017. The assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.38 trillion. Year-to-date
- The Neoliberalism Order Begins to Crack
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Western ruling classes are now beginning to suffer political payback for 40 years of neoliberalism and nearly ten years of economic crisis.
- Fake news about the Rojava revolution
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sharply different opinions have developed among the radical left in recent years towards the Syrian radical democratic movement led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) -- an initially Kurdish-based force which through a series of political and military struggles and alliances has recently formed the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, as a model for a multi-ethnic, non-sectarian, federal and socially just alternative for the nation and the region.
- Fake News: the Unravelling of US Empire From Within
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A war of opposing certitudes and denunciations is waged day to day between the long-ruling US corporate media and the White House. Both continuously proclaim ringing recriminations of the other's 'fake news'. Over months they both portray each other as malevolent liars.
- The guardians of the Andean potato
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
More than 2,800 types of potatoes are known to have originated in Peru. The existence of these varieties can be attributed to the high value the Quechua people place on their cultural traditions and biological diversity.
- India: Why are Suzuki automobile workers in jail?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Why are automobile workers being jailed for murder? The story at Maruti is a familiar one in India's industrial scene.
- Memory Against Forgetting: the Resonance of Bloody Sunday
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The museum John guards is a physical manifestation of the moral necessity of remembering that day’s cataclysmic violence. An attempt to remember the silences imposed on peoples’ experiences by time and traumatised memory, and, most of all, murderous rampage. And of course, if those left behind do not remember who will? It certainly will not be the guilty.
- Noam Chomsky: Trump's First 100 Days Are Undermining Our Prospects for Survival
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
No recent US president has demonstrated such an overwhelming ignorance about governing as the current occupant of the White House. But is Trump's apparent inability to govern and conduct himself in a remotely conventional manner an innate character flaw or part of a well-conceived strategy aimed at a society that loves reality TV? In this exclusive Truthout interview, Noam Chomsky shares his views about the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
- State Department Condemns Attacks on Russian Peaceful Protests, Ignores Those in America
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On March 26, the State Department tweeted, "U.S. condemns detention of 100s of peaceful protesters in Russia today. Detaining peaceful protesters is an affront to democratic values."
- The UK Is Among the World's Largest Suppliers of Weapons -- and Is Making Arms Boycotts Illegal
Despite human rights abuses, the UK continues to sell arms to Israel and crack down on dissent.
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Through 'open' trade conventions such as the Security & Policing (S&P) exhibition and closed events such as the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) fair, the UK allows local and international companies to showcase some of the world's most lethal weapons.
- Why ICE Raids Imperil Us All
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Millions of people who have been living and working in the U.S., contributing to their communities and to the economy, are now at risk simply for who they are: people "without papers."
- Campaign to Stop GE Trees Release Statement of Solidarity Following World Water Day
Sources News Release
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Published: 2017
The Campaign to Stop Genetically Engineered Trees released this statement in solidarity with communities affected by the industrial forestry model. These tree plantations, which do not support biodiversity, are not forests, but more like laboratories.
- Digital Privacy at the U.S Border: A New How-To Guide from EFF
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A new guide released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) gives travelers the facts they need in order to prepare for border crossings while protecting their digital information.
- Disappeared on the Border: "Chase and Scatter" -- to Death
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The inhuman tactics used by US Border Patrol Agents against people corssing the border are causing untold numbers of migrants to die in the desert.
- Ecologist Special Report: Why mining and violence are inextricably linked
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The South African government is currently embarking on streamlining decision-making processes in mining. To many this sounds like more top-down decision-making at the expense of those communities that will have to host mines and paves the way for more violent conflict, warns Jasper Finkeldey.
- Global Gathering Takes Aim at Genetically Engineered Trees
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Members of the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees from around the world are gathered in Chile for 2 weeks to investigate impacts of industrial tree plantations & the potential future impacts of genetically engineered tree plantatations.
- Has the meaning of "organizing" been forgotten?
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Published: 2017
Rising inequality, US anti-union laws crushing organized labour south of the boarder, and the slow unrelenting decline of union density here in Canada has renewed the focus on labour union organizing. The response from the leadership of the movement has been focused -- rightly -- on changes to law regulating labour unions that make it harder to organize. However, changing labour laws will not undo the slow decline in union density alone. Unions will also have to actually go out and talk to workers, sign them up, establish a local, bargain a first agreement, and enforce those terms.
- How French 'Intellectuals' Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained
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First Published: 2017
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Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself.
- Impacts of mass coral die-off on Indian Ocean reefs revealed
Warming sea waters - caused by climate change and extreme climatic events - threaten the stability of tropical coral reefs, with potentially
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
New research by the University of Exeter shows that increased surface ocean temperatures during the strong 2016 El Niño led to a major coral die-off event in the Maldives, and that this has caused reef growth rates to collapse. They also found that the rates at which some reefs species, in particular parrotfish, are eroding the reefs had increased following this coral die-off event.
- John Bellamy Foster answers five questions about Marxism and ecology
Can Marxism strengthen our understanding of ecological crises? The author of Marx's Ecology replies to a critic on metabolic rift, sustainab
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the Anthropocene, we are faced with the eventual prospect, if society continues to follow the path of business as usual, of the end of civilization (in the sense of organized human society) and even potentially of the human species itself. But well before that hundreds of millions of people will be affected by increasing droughts, rising sea levels, and extreme weather events of all kinds.
- Letter to the World Anti Doping Agency and International Olympic Committee
Regarding the McLaren Report and the Politicization of Doping in Sports
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Russian track and field athletes, plus the entire Paralympics team, were banned from the Rio Games last summer. This was based on the first McLaren report commissioned by the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA).
- Migrant workers left behind in 2017 Federal Budget
Sources News Release
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Migrant workers and advocates are angered that the 2017 Federal Budget failed to deliver promised details on reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
- Nepalese journalist attacked for timber smuggling report
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Nepal Press Union (NPU) and the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) in condemning the attempted attack of a journalist by government employees in Bara district of Nepal on March 21, 2017.
- Online harassment and threats for Indian journalist exposing illegal sand mining
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses serious concern over the online harassment and threats over the telephone to independent journalist Sandhya Ravishankar over her reporting of illegal beach sand mining in Tamil Nadu, India.
- An Unholy Alliance
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First Published: 2017
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Fleischmann looks at the reasons behind the unlikely alliance that has formed between Trump, the alt-right, and Israel, who have based their support for each other around shared enemies.
- Urban Homesteaders Win Cancellation of Bogus Trademarks
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Urban homesteaders can speak freely about their global movement for sustainable living, after convincing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel bogus trademarks for the terms "urban homesteading" and "urban homestead."
- The Value of Capital
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Roberts responds to David Harvey's review of his publication "Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital" by defending and opening up a discussion regarding the theories presented in Marx's "Capital," and how they connect with the rest of his oeuvre.
- What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Rural Poverty
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Gurly analyzes the institutional reasons behind widespread poverty, depopulation, and unemployment in Jefferson County, Mississippi.
- Where the Anti-Russian Moral Panic is Leading Us
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First Published: 2017
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This is how the smear campaign scores points: you don't have to be on the Russian payroll -- you can be a "useful idiot" just because of your political views, which condemn you as an "unwitting" agent, as former CIA director Mike Morell described Trump. This is how the parameters of "respectable" opinion are policed: this is how the War Party criminalizes those who think that the cold war is over and shouldn't be revived.
- Ideological Violence and Sociopathic Rage
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First Published: 2017
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‘How can we distinguish violence driven by ideology from sociopathic rage?
- The 712-page Google doc that proves Muslims do condemn terrorism
When a classmate told 19-year-old Heraa Hashmi that “all terrorists are Muslims” she began to compile a dossier of all instances of Muslims
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First Published: 2017
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Muslims are constantly denouncing atrocities that have been committed in the name of Islam. Yet many people seem to think Muslims don't condemn terrorism enough. So Heraa Hashmi decided to put the notion to the test.
- Trump Insults the Media, but Bush Bullied and Defanged It to Sell the Iraq War
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Bush was anything but a friend of the press during his presidency. Maybe he didn’t demonize it as much as Trump does -- but he actively manipulated it and bullied it far worse and far more effectively than Trump has, much of it in the service of selling his marquee policy: the war in Iraq.
- Trump's War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
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Although precise numbers are difficult to obtain, there seems little question that the number of civilians being killed by the U.S. in Iraq and Syria -- already quite high under Obama -- has increased precipitously during the first two months of the Trump administration.
- In the 19th and 20th centuries, Mexico proved that debt can be repudiated
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Mexico's past demonstrates that despite the domination of the major powers and international finance, a country can make major social advances.
- Why White Working Class Americans Are Dying "Deaths of Despair"
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Franklin examines the reasons behind the steadily growing mortality rates for working-class white Americans, which he attributes to both workplace hazards and mental illness resulting from joblessness, poverty, and despair.
- 'All Power to the Soviets?' - Biography of a slogan
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The origins of one of the most famous slogans in revolutionary history: "All power to the Soviets!" in its original context of Russia in 1917.
- A Century Later, Namibia Demands Justice From Germany for Its First Holocaust
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Between 1904 and 1908, German colonialists committed a holocaust against the Herero and the Nama, exterminating as many as 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama. Now Namibia is demanding reparations.
- Lynne Stewart: 1939-2017
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Radical attorney Lynne Stewart died in Brooklyn on March 7, 2017 at the age of 77. The immediate cause was a series of strokes which, together with metastasized breast cancer, finally drained the life out of this tireless fighter for the oppressed. Lynne's death will be keenly felt by the incarcerated opponents of the U.S. government, for whom she fought until the end. Without her, the world is a lonelier, crueler place for these prisoners and their families.
- The Plant Next Door
A Louisiana Town Plagued by Pollution Shows Why Cuts to the EPA Will Be Measured in Illnesses and Deaths
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When the Environmental Protection Agency informed people in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, last July that the local neoprene plant was emitting a chemical that gave them the highest risk of cancer from air pollution in the country, the information was received not just with horror and sadness but also with a certain sense of validation.
- The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
Part One
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The Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 was the greatest victory for the world's working people and for all of the oppressed. The spark for the revolutionary upsurge was a mass outpouring of women in Petrograd on International Women’s Day (IWD), March 8 (February 23 by the old Julian calendar). While in recent years bourgeois feminists have usurped IWD, in fact it is a workers' celebration that originated in 1908 among female needle trades workers in Manhattan.
- Aleppo boy versus ‘Mosul girl’: How the Western MSM peddles war propaganda
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While much of the developed world knows of 'Aleppo boy' Omran Daqneesh, how many have heard of an equally tragic story involving a five-year-old girl named Hawraa, the sole survivor of a US-coordinated airstrike on her home in Mosul?
- The Dangers of Salting Under Trump
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First Published: 2017
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Johnson analyzes the legal rights that a labour union 'salt' has -- or doesn't have -- in the wake of the anti-union of the U.S. government.
- IFIC Welcomes Budget Measure to Allow Tax-Deferred Merger of a Mutual Fund Corporation into Trusts
Sources News Release
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Toronto - March 23, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) welcomes the government's decision, announced in yesterday's federal budget, to permit the tax-deferred merger of a mutual fund corporation into mutual fund trusts.
- Netizen Report: Why Did YouTube Censor Your Videos? You May Never Know.
Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights ar
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Amid an apparent shift in YouTube’s approach to monitoring for rules violations and staying in the good graces of advertisers, a wave of YouTube users have found their work either blocked or relegated to "restricted" mode in recent months.
- Scientists: protect vast Amazon peatland to avoid palm oil 'environmental disaster'
A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under
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The peatland in Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin in northeast Peru - discovered in 2009 by Finnish scientist Outi Lähteenoja - is said to contain 3.14 gigatons of carbon, roughly equivalent to two years of CO2 emissions from the United States. Scientists have said that economic development in the region, like road-building and the arrival of commercial agriculture threatens the important ecosystem.
- Thou Shalt Not Give Offence
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Kenan Malik looks at the free speech debates around the Danish cartoons and Charlie Hebdo.
- Why Banning Laura Kipnis Would Betray Wellesley's Academic Mission
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Six professors at an elite American college insist that students will suffer "damage" or "injury" if speakers they may disagree with are allowed to speak on campus.
- Women Rise Up Against Gender Violence in the Caribbean
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Podur interviews Joan Joy Grant Cummings, a women's right activist, regarding the severity of sexual violence towards women and girls in Jamaica.
- Workers Hold the Keys
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In a discussion of the history and practice of socialist ideas, Chibber and Farbman discuss precarity and the changing composition of the working class, how socialists should think about unions, and how the Left can get off the college campuses and into the workplaces and streets.
- Workers Hold the Keys
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An interview with Vivek Chibber.
- World Bank claims 'sovereign immunity' to escape liability for its crimes against humanity
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In arguing against the World Bank's attempt to declare itself a sovereign state that is above the law, Dolack brings attention to the large-scale crimes the World Bank has committed or been involved in over many decades.
- Al Qaeda Is Attacking Major Syrian Cities with US Weapons -- but You Wouldn't Know That from the Media
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Norton analyzes media coverages of attacks linked to Al-Qaeda in the West to highlight how this emphasis on Muslim extremism is used to justify Islamophobia.
- CWF encouraged by federal budget support for oceans and freshwater
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) welcomes the federal government's investment in ocean protection, freshwater conservation and aquatic invasive species management in the new budget. However, CWF continues to urge governments to a
- The Enduring Myth Of Microfinance
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First Published: 2017
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When microfinance-provision of financial services tailored to fit the needs of low income people – made its first appearance, everyone was infatuated by its narrative.
- Real-Time Face Recognition Threatens to Turn Cops' Body Cameras Into Surveillance Machines
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For years, the development of real-time face recognition has been hampered by poor video resolution, the angles of bodies in motion, and limited computing power. But as systems begin to transcend these technical barriers, they are also outpacing the development of policies to constrain them. Civil liberties advocates fear that the rise of real-time face recognition alongside the growing number of police body cameras creates the conditions for a perfect storm of mass surveillance.
- Russiagate and the Democratic Party are for Chumps
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First Published: 2017
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Now Trump and the nation's 34 Republican governors get to wield the ever-expanding powers of the police state in a nation whose populace has lost faith in nearly every major U.S. institution but two: the military and the police. It's a militarized police-state the Democrats helped create.
- Bourgeois Feminist Bullshit
The Rebecca Traister view of gender and the world...
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- FAO: Plantations are not forests!
Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantations
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The FAO definition considers forests to be basically just 'a bunch of trees', while ignoring other fundamental aspects of forests, including their many other life-forms such as other types of plants, as well as animals, and forest-dependent human communities. Equally, it ignores the vital contribution of forests to natural processes that provide soil, water and oxygen.
- 'Liberal' Libel Law: Still a Disgrace to Democracy
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In the age of social media, our allegedly liberal libel laws might pose more of a threat to unfettered free speech than ever.
- Playing Chicken: Discovering a Diverse Working Class in Trump Country
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Since the election of 2016, much has been written about rural working-class voters who helped elect Donald J. Trump to the presidency. Most of those stories have assumed that the rural working class is overwhelmingly white. But if we look at one of the most significant parts of the rural economy – the poultry industry – we get a different picture. Not only do we see more workers of color, we also see more exploitation and greater potential for resistance.
- Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember
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First Published: 2017
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Tasmania’s Black War (1824-31) was the most intense frontier conflict in Australia's history. It was a clash between the most culturally and technologically dissimilar humans to have ever come into contact. At stake was nothing less than control of the country, and the survival of a people.
- UN's 1947 Partition Plan made Palestine a deal it had to refuse
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Weinroth analyzes the reasons behind Palestinians' refusal of the Partition Plan, reasons that have been largely dismissed in favour of casting their actions in an unfavourable light and thereby justifying Israeli colonization.
- What is Objective Journalism?
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Despite objectivity being widely accepted as a norm in journalism, Edwards discusses how opinion and bias are still an inherent part of 'reporting the facts.'
- The Extraordinary Lynne Stewart
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Remembering Lynne Stewart, who died on March 12, 2017.
- Israel's New Travel Ban
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Weir calls attention to the bizarre state of affairs in which the recent Israeli travel ban denying entry to anyone supporting Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment against Israel is denied entry to Palestine as well as Israel. What right does Israel have, asks Weir, to decide who may or may not visit Palestine?
- Occupation captured
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Photos of Palestinian life and Israeli occupation in the West Bank city of Hebron.
- Tears of Solidarity
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The story of Ann Atwater and Claiborne Paul (C. P.) Ellis is beautifully told in Osha Gray Davidson's book The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South. Atwater, a domestic worker whose parents were sharecroppers, was a civil rights activist in Durham, North Carolina. Ellis, the son of a millhand, was a janitor at Duke University and a local Klan leader. In 1971, after battling each other for years, Atwater and Ellis ended up co-chairing a ten-day public forum -- a "charrette," as it was called -- that brought together black and white community members to address problems in Durham's public schools. It was a fraught process.
- The Dead Don't Rest
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First Published: 2017
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Rodgers reviews two novels by Han Kang, "The Vegetarian" and "Human Acts", and analyzes their shared themes dealing with humanity's struggle against its own most destructive qualities.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
Public Transit
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Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
- Public Transit
Introduction to the March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices
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Public transit -- good affordable public transit -- is key to a liveable city.
- Public Transit - Arabic text
Introduction to the March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices - Arabic translation
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- The CIA's 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers
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In this week's episode of "Scheer Intelligence," Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Joel Whitney, author and co-founder of Guernica magazine.Whitney's new book, "Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers," explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold War to produce subtly anti-communist material. During the interview, Scheer and Whitney discuss these manipulations and how the CIA controlled major news agencies and respected literary publications.
- Israel and the A-Word
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Israel's apartheid foundations were laid in its dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948. They were reinforced by the immediate erection of colonial constitutional structures that cemented the exclusion of the colonised. Since then, Israeli law and policy has only deepened the state apparatus of separation and segregation, discrimination and domination. Over the years, countless activists, authors and artists, as well as leading anti-apartheid figures from South Africa, have referred to Israel’s particular brand of structural discrimination as akin to apartheid. In the last decade, international lawyers have also begun to do likewise, but with reference to the definition of apartheid under international law rather than by analogy to southern Africa.
- The Most Moral Army?
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War is the realm of killing and destroying. How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show mercy?
- Peter Maurin's Vision for the Catholic Worker, an Idea Whose Time has Come
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Today it seems obvious that a return to the land, to a proper relationship with creation and to meaningful, productive work is integral to the aims of the Catholic Worker movement. For much of its history, however, since its beginning in 1933, this aspect of its founder's original intentions was relegated to the margins of an already marginal movement.
- Propaganda, Fake News, and Media Lies
The Diabolical Business of Global Public Relations Firms
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The PRP industry has experienced phenomenal growth since 2001. In 2015, three publicly traded mega PR firms -- Omnicom, WPP, and Interpublic Group -- together employed 214,000 people across 170 countries, collecting $35 billion in combined revenue. Not only do these firms control massive wealth, they also possess a network of connections in powerful international institutions with direct links to national governments, multi-national corporations, global policy-making bodies, and the corporate media.
- WikiLeaks Vault 7 Reveals CIA Cyberwar and the Battleground of Democracy
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WikiLeaks dropped a bombshell on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named “Vault 7”, the whistleblowing site began releasing the largest publication of confidential documents that have come from the top secret security network at the Cyber Intelligence Center.
- Assessing Togliatti
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Broder provides a historical perspective of Italian Communism, looking at longtime leader Palmiro Togliatti's concrete actions during his leadership and not just the party's Gramscian-inflected theoretical canon.
- Europe: Reactionary Working Class? "Could it be that the Left have failed their constituencies"
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First Published: 2017
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There is no lack of condemnation and moralizing to those who go to the far right. An increasing number of commentators, however, are now beginning to suspect that the march of large groups of workers toward the far right can be an expression of protest against the prevailing social development. Not all have received the benefits from the globalization success story.
- Image Copyright Infringement Scam
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First Published: 2017
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- 'Modi is God's gift to Pakistan security establishment'
Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif talks about shrinking freedoms, liberal voices and human rights in Balochistan.
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Mohammed Hanif is a Pakistani journalist and writer. In an interview with Al Jazeera he talks about the shrinking freedoms in mainstream and social media in Pakistan, the role of liberal voices and the state of human rights in Balochistan.
- Fake News about Venezuela: A Simple Recipe
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"Journalists" who want to write fake news about Venezuela, or about any other country or group that dares to stand up to US imperialism, only need to follow this simple recipe:
- Choose one or more countries/groups opposed to US imperialism
- If available, have a former official, now being paid by the US government, make the accusations
- Season well with doses of "war on terror" and/or "war on drugs"
- Sprinkle with opinions of "experts" who work in DC think tanks or US-funded NGOs
- How Zionist terrorism determined Palestine's fate
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A book review on State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel, Thomas Suárez, Olive Branch Press (2017).
- Is the Vault 7 Source a Whistleblower?
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Historically, the criminal justice system has been a particularly inept judge of who is a whistleblower. Moreover, it has allowed the use of the pernicious Espionage Act – an arcane law meant to go after spies – to go after whistleblowers who reveal information the public interest.
- It wasn't just Greece: Archaeologists find early democratic societies in the Americas
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Recent discoveries indicate that Tlaxcallan, Mexico is one of several premodern societies around the world that archaeologists believe were organized collectively, where power was shared and commoners had a say in the government that presided over them.
- A Letter from North America – Our Migrant Crisis
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This is the third of Ernie Tate’s letters to Left Unity detailing and analysing the struggles against Trump as they emerge on the other side of the pond.
- Payment Processors are Still Policing Your Sex Life, and the Latest Victim is FetLife
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First Published: 2017
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The adult social network FetLife just lost its ability to process credit card payments because it offers a platform for members to discuss and to post depictions of consensual BDSM practices.
- When Canada Invaded Russia
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The corporate media presents Russia as militaristic but ignores Canada’s invasion of that country.
- Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerillas, and Digital Ninjas
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Breaking the Spell offers the first full-length study that charts the historical trajectory of anarchist-inflected video activism from the late 1960s to the present. Video plays an increasingly important role among activists in the growing global resistance against neoliberal capitalism.
- Deadly weapon? Ottawa police assault gloves scrutinized after officer charged in death
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A man dies after being struck by a police officer wearing assault gloves.
- The Death of Liam Tumilson, an Irish Anti-Fascist in Spain
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Murphy commemorates the life of Liam Tumilson, who fought against facism in the Spanish Civil War.
- Edward Snowden Has Some Advice for Donald Trump About Surveillance
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Emmons interviews NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden about Trump's skewed priorities.
- In India Any Social Activist Can Be Arrested, Charged And Tried - Sans Evidence - For Terrorism: Kobad Ghandy's Case
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In 2009, the Government of India announced a new nation-wide initiative viz. "Integrated Action Plan" (IAP) for broad coordinated operations to deal with the 'Naxalite' problem. This plan included increased funding for special police for better containment and reduction of Naxalite influence. Kobad Ghandy’s arrest in September 2009 was a direct fall out of this IAP.
- Jewish National Fund: Teaching Children an Exclusive, Religious/Ethnic Nationalism
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The JNF has produced puzzles and board games as well as organizing a Youth Summer experience program. According to JNF Canada's Education Department, the group "educates thousands of young people in Israel and abroad, helping them forge an everlasting bond with the Land of Israel."
- Joy Kogawa in conversation with Ulli Diemer
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Ulli Diemer spoke with Joy Kogawa in Toronto on March 14, 2017. Joy Kogawa is the author of Obasan, Gently to Nagasaki, and other works of fiction and poetry.
- Of Hegel and Bernie Sanders
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My concern is not with Bernie Sanders (basically a New Deal liberal) but with the social dynamics of the Sanders phenomenon. What is going on when we see a surge of mass support for someone who identifies himself (however inaccurately) with socialism? What is the social process driving this unexpected shift in political goals and ideas toward the left? What lies behind the re-entry of socialism into the mass vocabulary of political life?
- Ontario man publishes coal-mining novel
William Pancoast recently published his fifth book, "The Road to Matewan."
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William Pancoast likes to call his writing working-class literature for the working class. The Galion native recently published his fifth book, "The Road to Matewan." The novel includes history from a turbulent time in West Virginia history. The Battle of Matewan, also known as the Matewan Massacre, involved a May 19, 1920, shootout in Mingo County.
- Senate Dem Seeks Investigation of RT for Being Russian-Funded
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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D – NH) is pushing a bill that would seek a Justice Department investigation of whether television station RT America is "coordinating with the Russian government."
- Truth Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression
A Statement by Robert P. George and Cornel West
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- The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus
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First Published: 2017
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While the blight did strike and take down most of Ireland’s potatoes, the truth is that Ireland was exporting more than enough food to feed everyone at the same time as the famine was happening.
- Silence in NGO Discourse
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Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) maintain a ubiquitous presence in most peoples lives (whether they realize it or not). It therefore should be a commonsense act that we scrutinize NGO activities to ascertain their exact political function within the "our" neoliberal world order.
- UK exporting 67% of plastic waste amid 'illegal practices' warnings
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Britain's trade in waste plastic to the Far East is booming. The exported plastic is meant to be recycled under UK conditions and standards, but often is not, undermining bona fide UK recycling firms who face falling prices, reduced turnover, collapsing profits, and all too often, closure.
- The War Over Mangoes
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Growing mangoes in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has racked up an enormous socio-political expense for the region far greater than the price tag on the fruit in the supermarket. For a Mexican drug cartel desperate to move product, hiding illicit drugs in mango shipments is a risky but viable cover for getting them to the U.S. market. For the people of Oaxaca, however, the infiltration of one of the region’s most important industries indicates the threat of a life controlled by drug violence and its wide-ranging effects on society.
- Fascism and anti-fascism in 1930s Manchester
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An account of the growth of fascism in Manchester in the early 1930s, and working class resistance to it.
- How Fukushima gave rise to a new anti-racism movement
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First Published: 2017
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Shaw examines the rise in anti-discrimination social activism in Japan after the environmental disasters in 2011 and lack of support from the government towards its non-Japanese citizens.
- The Need for a museum on British colonisation of India
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To support the establishment of a museum in India displaying the negative side to British colonialism, Tharoor brings to light various atrocities committed by Britian to India during the colonial period that have been given very little attention by both countries in the present day.
- Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia
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Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question. This is especially true among left-leaning, postmodern, and post-structuralist thinkers. This coincides with one of the Alt-Right’s primary tactics: adopting leftist rhetoric as cover for its racialist, nativist, and often misogynistic agendas.
- How American History Erases Mass Killings Against Native Americans
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First Published: 2017
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In the wake of recent American mass killings, the author reminds us of mass murders of indigenous people in American history.
- For bibliomaniacs, there is no cure
Literary hoarders were once seen as antiscocial but historians thank them now
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An essayist looks into the curious pastime of book collecting, as well as her own lifelong passion to grow her collection.
- A Forgotten Novel Reveals a Forgotten Harlem
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Wilson brings attention to Claude McKay's novel "Amiable With Big Teeth" which was never published until 70 years after it was written and holds valuable information about an overlooked African American Harlem.
- Formed by Megafloods, This Place Fooled Scientists for Decades
Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State. Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientif
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First Published: 2017
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Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State. Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day.
- Noise, the 'ignored pollutant': health, nature and ecopsychology
The sonic backdrop to our lives is increasingly one of unwanted technospheric noise, writes Paul Mobbs.
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For those who like to enjoy the natural environment, noise is something to be escaped from within the relative sanctuary of the landscape. These days that's getting harder and harder to accomplish. That's not only because of noise from all around - in particular from urban areas, roads and the increasing mechanisation of agriculture - but also due to the increasing level of air traffic overhead.
- Tomato pickers win higher pay. Can other workers use their strategy?
Florida's tomato pickers took on some of the country's biggest retailers and fast-food chains - and won, transforming working conditions in
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First Published: 2017
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Tactics like this protest outside Wendy's, repeated in cities across the country, have helped make the Coalition of Immokalee Workers one of the most successful worker organizations in the country. By applying pressure to corporations at the top of the supply chain, the big retailers and fast-food chains that buy tomatoes, the CIW has helped tens of thousands of mostly Hispanic immigrant workers who pick the bulk of the nation’s winter tomato crop.
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace - International Women's Day
Sources News Release
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Canadian Voice of Women for Peace wishes everyone a very Happy International Women's Day. This year the theme for International Women's Day is "Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030". Women and other people in more
- Gaza's women of steel
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First Published: 2017
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Gadzo interviews three different women in Gaza who have taken on difficult, yet culturally progressive, employment in the wake of the region's economic devastation.
- Heatwave frequency rises twice as fast in the poorest countries
New research proves that the countries least responsible for global warming, those least able to adapt, have already been hit much harder by
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A feature of most statements about climate change is the use of the future tense: the poorest countries will be worse-hit than the rich ones. But new research shows that the predicted unequal climate future has actually been with us for decades. The poorest countries have already experienced twice as great an increase in extreme temperatures as the rich ones, and the gap has been widening for more than thirty years.
- The Kurdish struggle - An interview with Dilar Dirik
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Dilar Dirik interviewed by George Souvlis.
- We Need to Talk about Women: The Problem with Western Liberal 'Feminists'
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Western women have fought hard and bravely for rights and privileges that were denied to generations of women before them and have made vast strides towards greater equality and representation in society. For this, western women and traditional feminism should be applauded. At the same time, the version of feminism that presently functions in the west -- liberal, consumer, mainstream feminism -- has become problematic.
- Farewell to the Guardian
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First Published: 2017
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When a newspaper has arrived at the point of praising war criminals while deluding itself that it is holding the powerful to account, I know that it’s not a newspaper that I want to keep receiving.
- The global decline of extreme poverty - was it only China?
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The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has fallen very substantially in the last 200 years: from over 80% in 1820 to 10% in the latest estimates. In recent decades, extreme poverty has declined faster than ever before in human history. Often when I point this out – in conversation or on social media – I hear the response 'Yes, but this is only because of China.' This post asks whether this statement is true. Is the substantial decline of global poverty only due to the poverty decline in China?
- Despair is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope
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Brockman lists various methods to prevent feelings of cynicism, frustration, and grief for social activists and to inspire renewed hope in their efforts.
- Pharma Funded "Patient" Groups Keep Drug Prices Astronomical
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- Who Could Ever Feel Pride in the Balfour Declaration?
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Although the Balfour Declaration itself has been parsed, de-semanticised, romanticised, decrypted, decried, cursed and adored for 100 years, its fraud is easy to detect: it made two promises which were fundamentally opposed to each other -- and thus one of them, to the Arabs (aka "the existing non-Jewish communities"), would be broken.
- 5 of the worst atrocities carried out by British Empire, after 'historical amnesia' claims
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A YouGov poll found 43 per cent of Brits thought the British Empire was a good thing, while 44 per cent were proud of Britain's history of colonialism. The Independent looks at five of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire.
- Grasping Diversity, Embracing Democracy
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Can Diversity Embrace Democracy? Can Democracy Acknowledge Diversity?
- It's Not All Relative
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Can a devotion to cultural tolerance lead to the triumph of alternative facts?
- Baby remains found in mass grave at ex-Irish orphanage
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First Published: 2017
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Remains of children ranging from new-born to three-years-old discovered in the sewers of a former children's home run by the Roman Catholic Church.
- Israel: Neither Democratic or Jewish
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After 50 years of Occupation, Israel is neither democratic, nor Jewish.
- Manifesto for the Green Mind
Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone.
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Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone. The first call to action is: "Every child outdoors every day".
- A Nazi Skeleton in the Family Closet
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Chrystia Freeland's dark family secret is that her grandfather, Mykhailo Chomiak, faithfully served Nazi Germany right up to its surrender, and Chomiak's family only moved to Canada after the Third Reich was defeated by the Soviet Union’s Red Army and its allies – the U.S. and Great Britain. Mykhailo Chomiak was not a victim of the war – he was on the side of the German aggressors who collaborated with Ukrainian nationalists in killing Russians, Jews, Poles and other minorities. Former journalist Freeland chose to whitewash her family history to leave out her grandfather’s service to Adolf Hitler. Of course, if she had told the truth, she might never have achieved a successful political career in Canada. Her fierce hostility toward Russia also might be viewed in a different light.
- Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality
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Vials reexamines Adorno's Authoritarian Personality, F-scale, and their implications for a Trump America.
- Arab Spring: Against Shallow Optimism and Pessimism
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First Published: 2017
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Book review of Gilbert Achcar's Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising, and Joel Beinin's Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
- Attica: The Revolt and Afterwards
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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Book review of Heather Ann Thompson's Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.
- Erwin Baur (1915-2016)
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Erwin Baur, radical trade unionist and founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), died on November 30, 2016, in Alameda, California at the age of 101. Unlike many veteran unionists of the 1930s generation, Baur made a youthful contract with revolutionary socialism that he never broke.
- Birth of a New Movement
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I came back from the Women's March in D.C. exhausted but thrilled, convinced that we are seeing the birth of a new women's movement. Hearing about all the other Women's Marches around the world only confirmed that impression.
- Demythifying Native Americans
"All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans
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First Published: 2017
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Book review of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's and Dina Gilio-Whitaker's "All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans.
- Enemies of the People
How hatred of the masses bridges our partisan divide
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As we veer into a brave new age of right-wing populism, a restive mood of contempt for the masses has seized the opposition. Demoralized liberals, still reeling from the debacle of the 2016 presidential ballot, are salving their wounds with reveries of metaphysical superiority.
- Florynce Kennedy & Black Feminism
Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
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Book review of Sherie M. Randolph's Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical.
- The Freeland-Chomiak Connection
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What is truly impressive is how the ultranationalist Ukrainian diaspora, the Liberal government and the mainstream corporate media have managed to keep a lid on broader issues surrounding Ukrainian collaboration with the Nazis in executing mass murder and genocide, including the Holocaust.
- A Global Matrix of Control
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
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First Published: 2017
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Book review of Jeff Halper's War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification.
- The Journeys of Julia de Burgos
Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon
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First Published: 2017
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Book review of Vanessa Perez Rosario's Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon.
- Lessons from New Orleans
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Interview with author Kristen Buras.
- Making Trump's America Ungovernable
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First Published: 2017
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The goal of opponents, including those of the far left, should be to make the Trump presidency ungovernable. In that struggle revolutionary change is possible.
- Marx and Engels and the 'Red Chemist'
The Forgotten Legacy of Carl Schorlemmer
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First Published: 2017
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New studies of Marx’s long-unavailable notebooks, now being published in the massive Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (Marx-Engels Complete Works), decisively refute claims that Marx was uninterested in the natural sciences or considered them irrelevant to his politics.
- Marxist and Feminist Interventions
Marxism and Feminism
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First Published: 2017
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Book review of Shahrzad Mojab's edited volume Marxism and Feminism.
- The Ohio Vote in November
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First Published: 2017
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Donald Trump won Ohio because the total Democratic vote declined more than the drop in the total two-party vote, and significantly more than the Republican increase.
- A Partial Peace in Colombia
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First Published: 2017
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Colombia's peace accord serves capitalist interests, but may also open new space for the grassroots left.
- The Politics of Some Bodies
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection
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Book review of Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection.
- Lillian Pollak
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Activist, revolutionary socialist and writer Lillian Pollak died in New York City at the age of 101.
- The Return of Engels
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After Marx's death in 1883, Engels prepared volumes two and three of Capital for publication from the drafts his friend had left behind. If Engels, as he was the first to admit, stood in Marx’s shadow, he was nevertheless an intellectual and political giant in his own right.
- Review: The Politics of Some Bodies - On "Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection"
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First Published: 2017
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At a time when Marxist politics is struggling more than ever against the current, queer Marxist scholarship is enjoying a slight, startling, heartening resurgence. Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody is a major contribution to the trend.
- Sanders' Campaign & the Democratic Party
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Despite his many flaws, the Sanders campaign had a working-class, implicitly anti-capitalist flavor that garnered considerable support among those who might otherwise have voted for Trump, as many perhaps did.
- Trump's Road to Ruin
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The editors address Trump's early assaults on democratic principles and institutions, from the snarling menace of his "America First" inaugural address, to his cabinet of multi-millionaire and billionaire reactionaries, to the pending removal of millions of people from health insurance, to assaulting women's reproductive rights and attempting to bar Muslim travelers, to attacking Black youth and every vulnerable population.
- The CIA Reads French Theory
On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left
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First Published: 2017
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A recently unclassifed CIA documents reveals that in the 1980s, the agency had its analysts devote substantial time and resources to studying trends in French theory, and specifically, the work that writers like Michel Foucault, Jacques, and Roland Barthes were doing in undermining the Marxist left. The CIA saw this trend as beneficial to the maintenance of American power, and capitalism generally, because it undermind the idea that there could or should be fundamental revolutionary change.
- Guardian's day of shame, and the dark depths of liberal McCarthyism
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The liberal 'resistance' to Donald Trump has revealed a service media now plumbing its own dark, reactionary depths. A Guardian editorial has welcomed back to public prominence none other than George W Bush. Even for the Blair-protecting, war-apologising Guardian, it's a landmark day of shame.
- Shotgun Pointed at Black Children Trivialized as 'Confederate Flag Incident'
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First Published: 2017
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How a story is framed is as important -- if not more so -- than the content of an article. Sixty percent of Americans don't read past the headline and 60 percent of Americans share articles on social media without reading them. How a story is teed up to the reader is an essential element in how our media shape our understanding of the news.
- Who is the biggest climate change villain?
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First Published: 2017
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Here is an exclusive the Guardian has held back from its readers for 26 years. It is finally published on its pages today.
- Africa: Lessons From Africa Prove the Incredible Value of Mother Tongue Learning
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First Published: 2017
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Using case studies of educational systems in Africa, Heugh defends the use of mother-tongue education in multilingual countries, whereby vernacular languages are used in primary schools to introduce official languages.
- How Brain Scientists Forgot That Brains Have Owners
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First Published: 2017
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Five neuroscientists argue that fancy new technologies have led the field astray.
- Humans and Subhumans: Weill Cornell and the Death of the American Soul
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First Published: 2017
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All patients that walk through the door of Weill Cornell are put into two categories: the humans, who are deemed by Cornell to have "good insurance," and the subhumans, who are deemed by Cornell to have "bad insurance." If you fall into the category of the former, they will generally make a grudging effort to provide you with good care. If you fall into the category of the later, they will literally bend over backwards to see to it that you are provided with truly awful and atrocious care.
- We need popular participation, not populism
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Wainright dissects the problems with liberal democracy and argues for real democratic self-government.
- 10 Questions for William Blum
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First Published: 2017
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"God forbid we should not have a Revolution every 20 years," Jefferson wrote. "The world belongs to the living," he believed, and each generation holds the world in "usufruct." In the United States in 2017, in this whirling age of instantaneous communication, gratification and frustration, TJ would probably Twitter something like: "Make that every 10 years!"
- Antiwar.com vs. the Decline of American Journalism
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What is the "alternative" media? If we look at the phrase itself, it seems to mean the media that presents itself as the alternative to what we call the "corporate media," i.e. the New York Times, the Washington Post, your local rag – in short, the Legacy Media that predominated in those bygone days before the Internet. And yet this whole arrangement seems outdated, to say the least. The Internet has long since been colonized by the corporate giants: BuzzFeed, for example, is regularly fed huge dollops of cash from its corporate owners. And the Legacy Media has adapted to the primacy of online media, however reluctantly and ineptly. So the alternative media isn’t defined by how they deliver the news, but rather by 1) what they judge to be news, and 2) how they report it. And that’s the problem.
- The Bait and Switch of Public-Private Partnerships
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First Published: 2017
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This being the age of public relations, the genteel term "public-private partnership" is used instead of corporate plunder. A "partnership" such deals may be, but it isn't the public who gets the benefits.
- Donald Trump and the death of the two-state solution
The demise of the two-state has been evident for some time.
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At his meeting with the US President Donald Trump at the White House on February 15, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scored what in his eyes must be a spectacular diplomatic success: he got the new president to reverse the US' long-standing support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to give him a free hand to do more or less whatever he likes with the West Bank.
- Israel’s Terrible Problem: Two States or One?
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First Published: 2017
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Israel has created a terrible problem which it is incapable of solving. That is why it has always been the case that the United States must pretty much dictate a solution, but it is unable to do so, paralyzed as it is by the heavy influence of Israel and America’s own apologists and lobbyists.
- The Nat Turner Rebellion and the Fight Against Slavery - Part One
Black History and the Class Struggle
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First Published: 2017
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In 1831, American slaveowners learned what it means to have the fear of God put into them. In August of that year, an insurrection was launched by rebel slaves led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia. Before their suppression, the rebels killed up to 60 whites in the course of a few days -- the highest number to die in a slave uprising in the U.S. It was the unmistakable justice and vengeance of revolutionary terror. And it was met with the reactionary terror of the slaveowners.
- Palestinians decry West Bank industrial zone expansion
For years, Israel has increasingly taken control of Palestinian lands in Area C to build out its industrial zones.
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First Published: 2017
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Israeli media outlets recently reported that 60 new companies have registered to relocate to the area, despite the threat of retaliation from the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
- The Prophet: Deutscher's Trotsky
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First Published: 2017
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The Old Testament prophets belonged to a religious order devoted to the study of sacred texts, which they interpreted, and from which they proclaimed the obligations of the leaders of their nation to the people. From these scriptures they envisioned the coming of the Messiah, who would usher in an era of justice and goodwill toward men.
- The Realist: Irreverence Was Their Only Sacred Cow
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First Published: 2017
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The Realist was a magazine both representative and counter to the times it existed in. Viciously satirical and usually aimed at power (like all good satire should be), it was neither liberal nor conservative, Democrat or Republican, communist, fascist or anything else in between. Its targets were religion, government, corporate America, popular and counter cultures, racism and imperialism. Very little was spared its pointed and often poison pen. The magazine lasted over forty years, from 1958 to 2001 and published a total of 146 issues.
- Three Years Since the Kitty Litter Disaster at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
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First Published: 2017
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There is a place in the United States, almost half-a-mile underground, in a salt mine, where radioactive waste leftover from the production of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs was to be held separate from all contact with humanity for 10,000 years, equivalent to the entire history of civilization. This separation of civilization from the byproduct of its folly had lasted one-tenth of one percent of that immense time when on Valentine's Day, three years ago, an explosion sent the deadly contamination back to the world of humans.
- The Trump-Netanyahu Circus: Now, No One Can Save Israel from Itself
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First Published: 2017
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The President of the United States can hardly be taken seriously, saying much but doing little. His words, often offensive, carry no substance, and it is impossible to summarize his complex political outlook about important issues. This is precisely the type of American presidency that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, prefers.
- Israel Barring Palestinians From Entering for Medical Care Over Cellphones, Witnesses Say
Gaza women say they were turned back at border because they didn't have their cellphones, which were taken by Hamas.
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First Published: 2017
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Palestinians from Gaza attempting to enter Israel claim that Israel's Shin Bet security service has recently begun demanding they hand over their cellphones when being questioned and that those who refuse are barred from entering.
- 100 Trump voters explain why they voted for him even though they think he 'could destroy the whole world'
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First Published: 2017
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After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country. I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online.
- One State: Trump Has Reminded Palestinians What It Was Always About
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
For more than 15 years, the Middle East "peace process" initiated by the Oslo accords has been on life support. Last week, United States president Donald Trump pulled the plug, whether he understood it or not.
- Restricting People’s Use of Their Courts
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First Published: 2017
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In not so merry old medieval England, wrongful injuries between people either were suffered in silence or provoked revenge. Cooler heads began to prevail and courts of law were opened so such disputes over compensation and other remedies could be adjudicated under trial by jury.
- Ten Examples of Direct Resistance to Stop Government Raids
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First Published: 2017
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Resistance to unjust government action is the duty of all people who care about human rights. As Dr. King reminded us in his letter from a Birmingham jail, "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
- Why Did the US Use Depleted Uranium Weapons in Syria?
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First Published: 2017
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The recent confirmation by the US that DU ammunition was used in two attacks in Syria in late 2015 raises a number of troubling questions. Firstly, why was DU used? Has it been used again? Will it be used again?
- How Immigrants Built the American Left -- And Can Build It Again
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The energy and upheaval unleashed by the Trump administration's assault on Muslims, Latinos, and other immigrants, documented or not, has been directed toward a restoration of their rights and dignity, toward the family reunions and free passage into our country that have been happily broadcast from airports all across the country -- and rightly so. But if our ambitions are simply to restore the old status quo or even recreate a liberalized version of the policies extant under President Obama, then we will be selling short the possibilities inherent in this moment.
- Liberals Beware: Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas
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First Published: 2017
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An examination of the dishonesty in the New York Times' efforts to undermine President Trump, and broader criticisms of other tactics used by the liberal establishment to the same end.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for January 2017
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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Toronto, ON - February 22, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending January 31, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.34 trillion. Year-to-date, industr
- Open Letter on the Coming Crisis in Scientific Research
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First Published: 2017
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The US government threatens, by closing scientific programs, by muzzling its scientists, and possibly by distorting scientific facts, to inflict an intolerable loss to humankind’s collective understanding of crucial elements of planetary survival. Scientists in the US have shown their alarm at the threat by beginning a plan for a massive protest march in Washington this spring. In order to limit the damage, it is incumbent on the other nations of the world to expand their investment in science to maintain scientific integrity in the service of human and planetary well-being.
- Strategic Thinking and Organizing Resistance
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Argues the need for strategy and vision, and effective organizing, in forming a resistance movement to the Trump presidency, and provides several suggestions for organizers.
- The 'Superficial, Arrogant Smugness' of BBC News - Peter Oborne Delivers Some Home Truths On BBC Radio 4 Today
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In a recent media alert, we noted the occasional tell-tale signs of uncomfortable truths that slip through cracks in the propaganda façade of BBC News. Very occasionally, the propaganda nature is clearly highlighted and can be enjoyed for its directness and the flustered BBC response it provokes.
- The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II
In the name of safety, Aleuts were held against their will under intolerable conditions in internment camps
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A brief history of the internment of the Aleut people of Alaska during WWII.
- Why We Must Oppose the Kremlin-Baiting Against Trump
The Russia-connected allegations have created an atmosphere of hysteria amounting to McCarthyism.
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The bipartisan, nearly full-political-spectrum tsunami of factually unverified allegations that President Trump has been seditiously "compromised" by the Kremlin, with scarcely any nonpartisan pushback from influential political or media sources, is deeply alarming. Begun by the Clinton campaign in mid-2016, and exemplified now by New York Times columnists (who write of a “Trump-Putin regime” in Washington), strident MSNBC hosts, and unbalanced CNN commentators, the practice is growing into a latter-day McCarthyite hysteria. Such politically malignant practices should be deplored wherever they appear, whether on the part of conservatives, liberals, or progressives.
- Finance as Warfare: the IMF Lent to Greece Knowing It Could Never Pay Back Debt
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An interview with economist Michael Hudson, who argues that the International Monetary Fund provided loans to Greece with the deliberate intention that the country be forced to go into default and be forced to sell public assets and land.
- How the 'guerrilla archivists' saved history -- and are doing it again under Trump
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On Inauguration Day, a group of students, researchers and librarians gathered in a nondescript building on the north side of the University of California, Los Angeles campus, against a backdrop of pelting rain. The group had organized in protest against the new U.S. administration. But, instead of marching and chanting, participants were there to learn how to "harvest," "seed," "scrape" and ultimately archive websites and data sets related to climate change.
- J is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Michael Hudson's new book covers contemporary terms that are misleading or poorly understood as well as many important concepts that have been abandoned -- many on purpose -- from the long history of political economy.
- Joshua Kurlantzick, A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA: Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Review of A Great Plaave a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA, by Joshua Kurlantzick.
- VOW Appalled by Targeted Hate Mail and Threats
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) is appalled by the recent targeted hate mails and threats towards MP Iqra Khalid and other politicians. No one should be threatened or face any kind of discrimination based on faith. Khalid said she received mo
- What We'll Tolerate, And What We Won't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It wasn't that he told a woman there was something wrong with her for wearing a hijab in America. It wasn't that he encouraged people to "Purge the Illegals" and gave out ICE's hotline number at a presentation. It wasn't that he mocked a transgender college student in front of a crowd, saying he'd still almost bang her because she looked like a man. Instead, it was his discussion of the complexities of his sexual experiences with adults as a gay teenager that caused Milo Yiannopoulos to lose his $250,000 book deal with Simon and Schuster.
- Resistance and Resolve in Russia: Memorial HRC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An account of the current climate for political dissent in Russia, describing the activities of and challenges faced by the Memorial Human Rights Centre, a Russian NGO.
- Trump v. the Media: a Fight to the Death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
At present, this is a golden era in American journalism, because established media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post find themselves under unprecedented and open attacks from the powers that be. Richard Nixon may have felt persecuted by press and television, but he never counter-attacked with the same vigour and venom as Trump.
- CRAC-PC: take the arms and the destiny of our lives in Guerrero, Mexico
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A documentary on the CRAC-PC (Regional Coordinator of Communitary Authorities - Communitarian Police), a police force of community volunteers elected by regional assemblies, operating in the Guerrero state in Mexico.
- Gene Drives: A Scientific Case for a Complete and Perpetual Ban
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
One of the central issues of our day is how to safely manage the outputs of industrial innovation. Novel products incorporating nanotechnology, biotechnology, rare metals, microwaves, novel chemicals, and more, enter the market on a daily basis. The majority of products receive no regulatory supervision at all.
- How Did It Start?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: "When did it start?" Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it.
- Ineffective 350.org divestment campaign should give way to direct corporate actions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While 350.org runs a number of important campaigns, such as "Resist Trump's Climate Agenda" , there are serious questions about whether divestment campaigning is effective or whether it should be replaced by direct action campaigning.
- Restoring the Heartland and Rustbelt through Clean Energy Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Al paper discussing ways to simultaneously fight climate change and create jobs.
- The Absurd Consequences of a "Right to Privacy"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
British MP David Davis’s text messages poking fun at the appearance of a female colleague make him the latest whipping boy for those determined to root out sexism and misogyny in public life, the Daily Mail reports. Curiously, they also make him the latest poster boy for exponents of an expansive "right to privacy."
- Denmark's 'Land of Mine' Is a Harrowing Look at Life After War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A film review for Denmark's "Land of Mine," written and directed by Martin Zandvliet.
- Expansion of Renewable Energies in Mexico Has Victims, Too
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An account of the impact of wind and solar projects in the Yucatan state of Mexico on the nearby communities, in particular farmers, and the failures of the government to consult or inform the community on the environmental impacts and contract terms.
- Migration to America took long enough for evolution to happen on the way
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Similarities in Native American genomes suggest adaptation in ancient history.
- Neighbors joining together to block Trump deportations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In neighborhoods across Chicago with large immigrant populations, people are banding together to form rapid response networks to support their neighbors in the event of expected deportation raids by President Donald Trump's administration. In the 35th Ward on the city's Northwest Side, Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa has started what he calls the Community Defense Committee.
- Segregation Had to Be Invented
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.
- 7 Ways Social Justice Language Can Become Abusive in Intimate Relationships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A list of signs that social justice language is being used abusively in a relationship
- IFIC Welcomes New Director and New Affiliate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - February 16, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today announced that Duane Green, President & CEO at Franklin Templeton Investments Corp., has joined IFIC's board and that WeirFoulds LLP has joined as an affiliate
- Media Review: Fake News
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Richard Seymour looks at the current debate around 'fake news'. What does the term refer to and is it as new as we think?
- Mainstream News And USA's Heroics In Vietnam
Why The Silence About The 7 Million Dead?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An account of the media's role in suppressing information about US military actions in Indochina from the 1940s and onward, and how the same tactics persist in the present.
- Be the Change: Six Disabled Activists On Why the Resistance Must Be Accessible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Six activists, leaders, and advocates on how we can all move forward, whether on our feet, on wheels, or online -- plus a resource list.
- Grassy Narrows Chief welcomes Wynne's clean-up promise and calls for swift results
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Grassy Narrows Chief Simon Fobister is responding today to a new commitment made on Friday by premier Wynne to clean the English-Wabigoon River. The river has been highly contaminated since 1962 when a paper company in Dryden began dumping 9,000 kg
- How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Co-operation between labour and climate groups may be possible in the Trump era.
- The John Lewis Conundrum: Caring for Justice or Carrying Water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What the author is writing about John Lewis is not so much a condemnation as it is a reflection of the very meaning of justice and how we can fight for it.
- ELI Phone Support Call with Matthew Chan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- A history of American anti-immigrant bias, starting with Benjamin Franklin’s hatred of the Germans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the 1750s, the United States of America was not yet a country, but its trouble with immigrants already had begun. People of non-WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) descent were crossing the ocean to start new lives in the new world, and earlier Colonial settlers were none too happy about it.
- Political Prisoners Remain Behind Bars as Obama's Term Nears End
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the last full week of Barack Obama's eight year tenure as President of the United States of America, dozens of political prisoners still sit in cages across the nation's prisons, rotting away as Obama consciously chooses not to exercise the power to simply free them with the stroke of a pen.
- Race and Class
Introduction to the February 12, 2017 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Class conflict -- first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race.
- CIA awards Saudi prince medal for anti-terror efforts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia's deputy premier and interior minister, has been presented with a CIA award for his work fighting terrorism.
- Connexions Other Voices - February 12, 2017 - Race & Class
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The January 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter focues on Race and Class.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
Race and Class
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
- Looming Climate Catastrophe: Extinction in Nine Years?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reports from the Arctic are getting pretty grim.
- Meet the man crowd-funding Gaza's first English library
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Mosab Abu Toha, works to expand his collection of English books to create a public library that will enrich the lives and society within Gaza during the Israeli occupation.
- Revolution and the Color Line
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of the biography 'W.E.B. DuBois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line', by Bill Mullen, detailing the life of the influential author and organizer.
- The FBI: Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Lately, there's been a lot of rhetoric comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. The concern is that a Nazi-type regime may be rising in America. That process, however, began a long time ago.
- Israel's New Land Law: Clearing the Path to Annexation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Israeli parliament passed the legalisation law on Monday night, widening the powers of Israeli officials to seize the final fragments of Palestinian land in the West Bank that were supposed to be off-limits.
- Trump appeals to the military against the press and the courts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examining recent remarks by Donald Trump suggesting a presidential and military alliance in opposition to the press and the court system, and the broader impacts of this position.
- Israeli torture of Palestinian children 'institutional'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Investigation of the practice of torture by Shin Bet interrogators, revealing the practice as systematic.
- Let's Get to Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Instead of asking "What is to be done?", we could start with a different question: "What should I do?" As it turns out, the right-wing hecklers we've all encountered are half right: we should get jobs. And then we should do what we tell workers to do all the time: organize our workplaces. This tactic has a name and a history. It's called "salting." Salting has deep roots in the history of the labour movement and the Left.
- 'Can you hear me?': New phone scam tricks you into answering 'yes'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Describes a new telephone scam being run in North America, wherein a recording of one's voice saying the word 'yes' is used to defraud victims.
- Towards a Transformative Electoral Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An essay on Electoral Strategy for the left in the United States.
- No Ban! No Wall! No War?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The corporate media avoids connecting our wars to Trump's ban because war and empire is a matter of agreement among the political elites, an elite that the corporate media is very much a part of.
- Undermining Democracy - Corporate Media Bias on Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson and Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Are we able to prove the existence of a corporate media campaign to undermine British democracy? Media analysis is not hard science, but in this alert we provide compelling evidence that such a campaign does indeed exist. Compare coverage of comments made on Syria by a spokesman for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in October 2016 and by UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson in January 2017.
- Why is the New York Times promoting the "black bloc"?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A New York Times article, which ran across four columns of the newspaper's front page under a huge photo of a black-masked individual preparing to break an office building window with an iron bar during Wednesday night's protests at the University of California, Berkeley, amounted to free publicity and promotion of the violent protests organized by elements identifying themselves as the "black bloc," anti-fascists and anarchists.
- Annex Chess Club What's My Name Swiss
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Annex Chess Club in Toronto is kicking off a new chess tournament on Monday February 6, 2017, called the "Annex What's My Name Swiss."
- Canadian Ethnocultural Communities Extend Condolences
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Canadian Ethnocultural Council(CEC) and its member organizations extend their prayers, thoughts and condolences to the families and friends of the victims and injured in the Quebec City Mosque attack and deadly shooting.
- Les communautés ethnoculturelles du Canada offrent leurs condoléances
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Le Conseil ethnoculturel du Canada et ses organisations membres offrent leurs prières, leurs pensées et leurs condoléances aux familles et aux amis des victimes et aux personnes blessées dans l’attaque meurtrière à la mosquée à Québec.
- IFIC Stresses Importance of Robust, Consistent Suitability Process
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - February 3, 2017 - In a submission filed today on IIROC's Proposed Guidance on Order Execution Only (OEO) Services and Activities, The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) emphasizes the importance of ensuring that investor
- Unspeakable: the Black Book of Imperial Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
American "mainstream" journalists who want to keep their paychecks flowing and their status afloat know they must report current events in a way that respects the taboo status of the nation's underlying inequality and oppression structures and its savage and relentless imperial criminality.
- Fake News Inquiry: Old Wine in New Bottles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A criticism of a recent investigation by the UK's Culture, Media and Sports committee into 'fake news' and public persuasion by false propaganda, describing the challenges of identifying or preventing the dissemination of fake news.
- IFIC Launches New Advisor Centre
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - February 1, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today launched a new advisor portal on its website (https://www.ific.ca/en/pg/advisor-centre/) with insights on current topics and plain language tools to help advis
- Killing 'Schizophrenics': Contemporary U.S. Psychiatry Versus Nazi Psychiatry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the United States in the earlier part of the twentieth century, there was widespread compulsory sterilization of those diagnosed with serious mental illness; and from the 1970s through the early 1990s, dehumanizing experiments that ignored the Nuremberg Code of research ethics were administered on this population by prominent American psychiatrists.
- VOW Statement on the Quebec City Mosque Attack
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, offers its deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones in the senseless act of violence. Our hearts are with the Muslim community in Quebec and across Canada. We stand in unity with people of all ethni
- Why the Anti-Trump Resistance Movement Should Not Initiate Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
One hazard we must avoid in our struggle is to allow violence to be used in the movement. We can't afford to give our approval to this by green lighting the burning of limousines and the breaking of store windows, as happened in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2017, or by punching the Nazi Richard Spencer in the face, which is satisfying but unproductive.
- Class, Party and the Challenge of State Transformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An essay examining the challenges of changing the state and status quo following major crises of capitalism, and how the current neoliberal status quo has persisted through the various crises it has presented.
- The FBI's Secret Rules
President Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A collection of articles exploring the contents and implications of a cache of internal FBI manuals, offering a rare window into the FBI’s quiet expansion since 9/11.
- The Fort Hood 43
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A history of the 43 infantrymen who refused to be deployed against protestors at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- Please Stop Chanting That 'We' Won the Popular Vote!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
"We" didn’t win the popular vote, because we weren't on the ballot. We are the ninety-nine percent.
- Trump's Muslim Ban Will Only Spark More Terrorist Attacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and visitors from seven Muslim countries entering the US makes a terrorist attack on Americans at home or abroad more rather than less likely. It does so because one of the main purposes of al-Qaeda and Isis in carrying out atrocities is to provoke an over-reaction directed against Muslim communities and states.
- Deranged and Deluded: The Media's Complicity In The Climate Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In an important recent book, the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh refers to the present era of corporate-driven climate crisis as 'The Great Derangement'. For almost 12,000 years, since the last Ice Age, humanity has lived through a period of relative climate stability known as the Holocene. When Homo sapiens shifted, for the most part, from a nomadic hunter-gatherer existence to an agriculture-based life, towns and cities grew, humans went into space and the global population shot up to over seven billion people.
- Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Debunking the claims of industrial poultry producers that multiple outbreaks of bird flu are due to wild waterfowl, instead providing evidence that industrial farming practices are responsible for the outbreak.
- Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The U.S. continues to massacre Yemeni civilians, both directly and through its tyrannical Saudi partners.
- Shocked by Donald Trump's 'travel ban'? Israel has had a similar policy for decades
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Describing how President Trump's stances and policies on immigration, borders and torture draws heavily from existing policies and tactics of the Israeli state.
- Coopting the language of the left at the pro-life march on Washington
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examining the use of left wing rhetoric by a participant of the pro-life match on Washington to justify right wing ideologies and policies, and the broader impliciations of such tactics.
- We shouldn't weep for broke but lying mainstream media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A report from the Public Policy Forum of Montreal released on January 26 says the Canadian news industry "is reaching a crisis point as the decline of traditional media, fragmentation of audiences and the rise of fake news pose a growing threat to the health of our democracy." Whereas the 1970 report was entitled "The Uncertain Mirror", the new appeal for support is called "The Shattered Mirror."
- A Coalition of Scientists Keeps Watch on the U.S. Government's Climate Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Via memos leaked to the press, rogue tweets, and unnamed agency sources, the public learned of growing pressure on federal employees to avoid sharing their scientific work. Meanwhile, small but significant changes to federal web pages hinted at the demise of former president Barack Obama’s efforts to manage climate change.
- Liberalism as Class Warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Liberals, as guardians of the status quo, are class warriors on the side of economic mal-distribution and the immiseration of the labouring classes and poor for the benefit of the rich.
- The Politics of a Punch: Richard Spencer and the Black Bloc
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Alt-right leader Richard Spencer was punched in the face by a man dressed in black bloc garb. Louis Proyect gives his interpretation of the punching incident.
- The ever-darkening shadow of Monsanto-fueled superweeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Investigating the agricultural impacts of use of Monsanto's herbicides, which has led to rapid development of herbicide-resistant weeds which pose difficulties for farmers and lead to further dependence on new herbicides.
- Manufactured Consent
Power, Media and Thinktanks
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Corporations don't just shape our politics or economics, they also seek to change public opinion to serve their interests. Which corporations play the biggest role in shaping knowledge and news? What do they fund? Who do they represent? What role have they played in the rise of authoritarian populists? This infographic for State of Power 2017 exposes those 'manufacturing consent'.
- Mnuchin Lied About His Bank's History of Robo-Signing Foreclosure Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin lied in his written responses to the Senate Finance Committee, claiming that "OneWest Bank did not 'robo-sign' documents," when ample evidence proves that they did.
- Red cap terror at the moussaka line: West London ready-meal workers' report and leaflet
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Workplace report for WorkersWildWest no.5 and leaflet for future distribution. Main challenge will be the migrant status of workers - there have been various police raids in the plant - and the language and contract division.
- Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. He blasted news organizations for lazily broadcasting the assertions of U.S. intelligence officials as established facts.
- Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth and Morality
Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Observations on Hannah Arendt's 1951 book "Origins of Totalitarianism" on the nature of Totalitarianism and the role of propaganda in its rise and support within societies.
- Reflections on DC: Promises and Pitfalls in the Anti-Trump Uprising
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The first mass protests of President Donald Trump represent a historic moment – one worth reflecting on so we can understand where we are and where we're going as a nation.
- A Short History of Liberal Myths and Anti-Labor Politics
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A history of how labour and working-class groups have been alienated or disserviced by the major US political parties, particularly by liberal policies which are primarily aligned with business interests.
- There's Nothing Parochial About the Issue of GMO Food Labeling
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A criticism of the notion that the issue of labelling GMO foods is too narrow in focus, detailing the complexities of the issue and arguing for the broader importance of labelling.
- The Women's March Was a Dismal Failure and a Hopeful Sign
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Despite what pundits said, the Women’s March was not a movement. Nor was it the beginning of a movement. It was a moment: a show of hands: "I'm against Trump," these women (and men) told the world. Question was, who/what do they want to replace him?
- Want to Stop Trump? Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested. But, perhaps, the most dramatic and important action was taken by dockworkers in Oakland, California: They stopped working. Their strike demonstrated the potential power ordinary people have on the job, when organized.
- Connexions Other Voices - January 22, 2017 - Disobedience
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Other Voices: #Disobedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey.
- Disobedience
Introduction to the January 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017
Disobedience
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.
- Fighting Fascism: the Irish at the Battle of Cordoba
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A history of the role played by Irish citizens who enlisted to fight against General Franco's fascist forces in Spain in 1936.
- Globalization vs. Empire: Can Trump Contain the Growing Split?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A brief history of US policy supporting globalization and the growing divide it has created between US hegemony and global capitalism, and criticism of the Trump administrations capability to deal with the impacts of this divide.
- A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping's new China
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Peter Dahlin tells the story of his incarceration and expulsion from the People's Republic of China, where he spent 23 days in a 'black prison' in Beijing and was deprived of sleep and questioned with a 'communication enhancement' machine.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for December 2016
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Toronto, ON - January 19, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending December 31, 2016, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.34 trillion. Year-to-date, industry
- Should You March Against Trump?
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Yasmin Nair addresses the issue of whether or not to march against Donald Trump this week, or in the months and years following.
- The Dying Days of Liberalism
How Orthodoxy, Professionalism, and Unresponsive Politics Finally Doomed a 19th-century Project
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
It's not a small thing that has fallen here, not merely the defeat of Hillary Clinton and Americans rejecting Obama’s "legacy". We are dealing with a series of institutions, an expert class, and a network of political and corporate alliances, that is being shaken beyond repair. We are in the earliest days of a historical transition, so it's not clear what is coming next, and the labels that have been proliferating demonstrate confusion and uncertainty -- populism, nativism, nationalism, etc.
- Throw Sand in the Gears of Everything
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A call for strategic and effective organizing against the Trump presidency, drawing on historical precedent of antiwar and other movements in the US.
- The Issue is Not Trump, It is Us
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Until real politics return to people's lives, the enemy is not Trump, it is ourselves.
- Jeremy Corbyn Accused of Being Russian 'Collaborator' for Questioning NATO Troop Build-Up on Border
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The armed forces minister for Britain's right-wing government, Mike Penning, accused Corbyn of being a collaborator with the Kremlin.
- The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Author of three books on CIA operations, Valentine’s research into CIA activities began when CIA Director William Colby gave him free access to interview CIA officials who had been involved in various aspects of the Phoenix program in South Vietnam.
- Presidio mutiny
Wikipedia article
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Presidio mutiny was a sit-down protest carried out by 27 prisoners at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco, California on October 14, 1968. The stiff sentences given out at courts martial for the participants (known as the Presidio 27) attracted attention to the extent of sentiment against the Vietnam War in the armed forces.
- The Case for Haitian Reparations
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A history of France's exploitation of colonial Haiti, the aftermath of Haiti's independence, and the lasting social and environmental impacts, arguing for Haiti's recent demands of reparations from the French government.
- Facebook job ads suggest 'mind reading' social networks could soon be a reality
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Details job descriptions from the 'Building 8' group of facebook, which suggest engineering efforts in neuroscience, neuroimaging, artificial intelligence and augmented reality.
- Journalist hacked to death in Tamil Nadu, India
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) in condemning the murder of a journalist on the outskirts of Sattur in Tamil Nadu state, south India on Monday, 9 January, 2017.
- Journalist murdered in Balochistan, Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in condemning the murder of a journalist in Kalat, Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan
- Magazine editor among disappeared activists in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in expressing serious concern over the disappearance of a magazine editor and other activists in Pakistan.
- Marxism: an Introduction to a Misunderstood Philosophy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An introduction to fundamental principles of Marxism, and and examination of how these principles have been misrepresented by dictators and war criminals, leading to widespread misunderstanding.
- Militant Hope in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Debates over whether Donald Trump was a fascist or Hillary Clinton was a right-wing warmonger and tool of Wall Street were a tactical diversion. The real questions that should have been debated include: What measures could have been taken to prevent the United States from sliding further into a distinctive form of authoritarianism?
- The Russian Dossier Reminds Me of the Row Over Saddam's WMDs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The conclusions reached in the Trump dossier claim to be based on multiple sources of information where, in the nature of things, they are unlikely to exist.
- Turkey: journalists detained following reports on Erdogan's leaked emails
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) are deeply concerned by the ongoing detention without any official explanation of journalists and media workers in Turkey.
- Who to Believe: The CIA and Corporate Media or WikiLeaks?
Without Substantiation, Media Integrity Suffers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Imagine if justice were administered mainly on hearsay (ignoring the fact that justice is too often lacking in society). It is a cardinal rule of justice that rendering a decision of guilty must only be done when such guilt is beyond a reasonable doubt. Medical schools state they follow evidence-based practices. Nursing schools do the same. Science progresses through the scientific method which demands evidence. When observations and experimental results contravene theory, the theory is tossed. There is academia, and then there is politics and the corporate media. Politics and its corporate media has long since become risible within the sphere of serious contemplation.
- Why Ridiculous Official Propaganda Still Works
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Chief among the common misconceptions about the way official propaganda works is the notion that its goal is to deceive the public into believing things that are not "the truth" (that Trump is a Russian agent, for example, or that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, or that the terrorists hate us for our freedom, et cetera). However, while official propagandists are definitely pleased if anyone actually believes whatever lies they are selling, deception is not their primary aim.
- Zimbabwe: China Demands Property Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
China this week urged the Zimbabwean government to respect property rights, address concerns over policy inconsistency and clarify its indigenisation policy to attract investment into the country.
- A Comprehensive Map of American Lynchings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the practice of lynching in the United States through to the 1960's, where thousands of non-white Americans, mostly black, were killed in public acts of terror. A new map project called 'Monroe Work Today', named after the pioneering sociologist, shows that lynching was not limited to the southern states.
- Fury at Azaria Verdict is Israel's Trump Moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examining the popular reaction to the conviction in military court of Elor Azaria for manslaughter as demonstrating a deep social divide in the vein of Trump's election in the US and the Brexit vote in the UK.
- The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of the book, "The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers" by Joseph Hickman.
- The Deep State Goes to War With President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is a real danger here that this maneuver could harshly backfire, to the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want to oppose him. If any of the significant claims in this “dossier” turn out to be provably false -- such as Cohen’s trip to Prague -- many people will conclude, with Trump’s encouragement, that large media outlets (CNN and BuzzFeed) and anti-Trump factions inside the government (CIA) are deploying "Fake News" to destroy him. In the eyes of many people, that will forever discredit -- render impotent -- future journalistic exposés that are based on actual, corroborated wrongdoing.
- Where's the Evidence?
The CIA-FBI-NSA report on the hacking of the 2016 election is pure baloney
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
We are told from the outset that the actual evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC and John Podesta's emails as part of a wide-ranging campaign to put Donald Trump in the White House cannot be revealed: "source and methods" must be kept secret. This in spite of DNI director James Clapper's pledge that he would declassify as much of the evidence as possible in the interests of transparency: but then again, Clapper is an admitted liar.
- The Crimes of Seal Team 6
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most celebrated of the U.S. military's special mission units. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of "revenge ops," unjustified killings, mutilations, and other atrocities -- a pattern of criminal violence that emerged soon after the Afghan war began and was tolerated and covered up by the command's leadership.
- A House Full of Females: Plural Marraige and Women's Rights in Early Mormomism, 1835-1870
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, fifty years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress, and who became political actors in spite of, or because of, their marital arrangements. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, writing of this small group of Mormon women who've previously been seen as mere names and dates, has brilliantly reconstructed these textured, complex lives to give us a fulsome portrait of who these women were and of their "sex radicalism"--the idea that a woman should choose when and with whom to bear children.
- How a 13-year-old Canadian girl ran the world’s fastest marathon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- The Lobby: Young Friends of Israel
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the first of a four-part series, Al Jazeera goes undercover inside the Israel Lobby in Britain. We expose a campaign to infiltrate and influence youth groups, including the National Union of Students, whose president faces a smear campaign coordinated by her own deputy and supported by the Israel Embassy.
- Watch How Casually False Claims Are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann Edition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
We have a perfect example of how this happens from the New York Times today, in a book review by Nicholas Lemann, the Pulitzer-Moore professor of journalism at Columbia University as well as a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker. Lemann is reviewing a new book by Edward J. Epstein -- the longtime neocon, right-wing Cold Warrior, WSJ op-ed page writer, and Breitbart contributor -- which basically claims Snowden is a Russian spy.
- Why you shouldn't trust Geek Squad ever again
The government reportedly pays Geek Squad technicians to dig through your PC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Orange County Weekly reports that the company's repair technicians routinely search devices brought in for repair for files that could earn them $500 reward as FBI informants. That, ladies and gentlemen, is about as blatant a case of unconstitutional search and seizure as it gets.
- Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Swanson calls into question the US government-driven media accusations that the Russian government had direct involvement in swaying the 2016 US election for Trump, and exames the motivations behind these claims.
- Israel put up a £1,000,000 bounty for Labour insiders to undermine Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A second release from an Al Jazeera undercover sting operation has revealed the existence of a £1,000,000 plot designed by the Israeli government to undermine Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
- Resolutions Advocating a Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Modern Language Association (MLA) Delegate Assembly voted in Philadelphia on two resolutions, for and against, of an academic boycott of Israel.
- The CIA in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Edited excerpt from "The CIA as Organized Crime", by Douglas Valentine, detailing the CIA's activities in Ukraine and influence on political movements there.
- How many British MPs are working for Israel?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Investigating the revelations that UK embassy staff in Israel are cooperating with Israeli political parties to influence UK policy making.
- Letter From Mexico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The editors of Insurgent Notes sent a couple of articles on Mexico from the Financial Times to our Mexico correspondent to check their accuracy. The following is his reply.
- Against imperialist regime-change intervention in Syria and the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
David Bush has published an appeal for reasoned and informed discussion in Canada of the war and humanitarian disaster in Syria. Roger and Courneyeur write this essay as a contribution to the discussion David suggests be opened.
- Ontario health-care reform and Community Health Centres
Re: Too Many Left Behind in Health Care Reforms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
We already have a working model of primary care that targets these populations and that is very good at dealing with complex needs and providing holistic care. Community Health Centres (CHCs) have been in existence for decades all over Canada, providing care to communities that are not well served by other models of primary care.
- "Beyond Banksters" by Joyce Nelson
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of "Beyond Banksters: Resisting the New Feudalism" by Joyce Nelson.
- A Case Study in the Creation of False News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Paul Craig Roberts discusses a classic case in the creation of false news.
- John Berger (1926-2017)
"He helped form a generation for whom he made it possible to discover a different, critical way of seeing"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
John Berger's revolutionary insistence was that our reality could be seen differently, and altered by our intervention.
- Native Seeds Sustain Brazil's Semi-Arid Northeast
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
More than a thousand homes that serve as "seed banks", and 20,000 participating families, make up the network organised by ASA to preserve the genetic heritage and diversity of crops adapted to the climate and semi-arid soil in Brazil’s Northeast.
- On the hunt for illegal miners as a new gold rush hits New Zealand
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the black market in gold in New Zealand and the efforts to thwart opportunists who sneak onto private farm land and national parks without permits to mine illegally.
- US Spy Chief Presents Third-Party Debates as Proof RT Is Anti-US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s latest report on the alleged "election hacking" by Russia includes a substantial section focused around the idea that Russian government-funded channel RT is overtly anti-American.
- Whose seeds are they anyway?
Real Farming Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The new People Need Nature report - published to coincide with this week's annual Oxford Real Farming Conference - warns that modern farming practices are not good for wildlife. But they're not good for humans either. And with predictions that we will need to produce 70 per cent more food to feed a third more mouths by 2050 the question of seed ownership and diversity cannot be ignored.
- CSA/SRO Compensation Surveys Fail to Justify Ban on Embedded Fees
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Key to investor protection lies in quality of enforcement; not quantity of rules. In light of research issued by Canada's regulators in late December, The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today called
- Fighting Franco: the First Irish Casualties of the Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A brief biography of Tommy Patten and Jack Barry focusing on their involvement in the Spanish Civil War.
- Inside The Scorpion
A Journalist's Ordeal in Egypt's Most Notorious Prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The story of journalist Mohamed Fahmy's experiences during their two-year confinement in an Egyptian prison.
- Journalism and Pornography
Real crime is always organised
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As long as we cannot name something that is bothering us, we have an enormous if not insurmountable impediment to action. The capacity for titillation, for erotic stimulation even with simultaneous pain, is enhanced by suspension of belief or cognition. This is what pornography does and it is also the function of compatible journalism.
- Toronto's gay archive getting an upgrade
Renovations will make it more accessible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reporting on the renovations to the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in Toronto, which will expand the archive and improve accessibility.
- Toronto's gay archive getting an upgrade
Renovations will make it more accessible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The world's largest independent lesbian and gay archive — which happens to be right here in Toronto — is about to get a little bit larger.
- South Africa: Former Pharmacist Runs Children's Library Out of Shipping Container
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reporting on the work of Muzi Nkosi, a South African former pharmacist who runs a library for children.
- In Syria, Western Media Cheer Al-Qaeda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Khalek criticizes Western media for their failure to report on attacks in Syria because to do so would highlight how the West has been responsible for prolonging Al-Qaeda's bloodshed.
- Open Letter to "Human Rights Defenders" on Aleppo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Syria is the legitimacy of the interventionist policies of the U.S. and its "allies", Europeans, Turkey, and the Gulf states in that country.
- The Safety Pin and the Swastika
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examining the rise of the alt-right as being opposed to but also drawing from liberal identity politics, and how the two movements are not comparable, yet also compatible.
- The Trump Way
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Arun Gupta spoke to Leo Panitch about Trump's economic agenda, his relationship to transnational elites, and how neoliberalism's crisis could mean revitalization for the Left.
- The U.S. Government Thinks Thousands of Russian Hackers May Be Reading My Blog. They Aren't.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
After the U.S. government published a report on Russia's cyber attacks against the U.S. election system, and included a list of computers that were allegedly used by Russian hackers, I became curious if any of these hackers had visited my personal blog.
- WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of "fake news," the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false.
- Debating the world revolution
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of "To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International", edited and translated by John Riddell.
- Ecology and value theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Jason W Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital.
- Good To Know You! - John Berger's ways of seeing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A tribute to the life and work of John Berger, author of the influential 'Ways of Seeing'.
- Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique.
- Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition
Book review of Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Marxist analyses of the natural world have been the focus of intense debate recently, and the publication of any book that further explores what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels thought about the subject is something to be welcomed. John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett have proven track records of writing some of the clearest books on the subject, and while Marx and the Earth is not a specific response to some of their recent critics, it is an important defence of Marx’s and Engels’s original work.
- Seeing red: the wisdom of John Berger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A reflection on the life and work of critic John Berger.
- Striking back in the "world's factory"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Hao Ren, Eli Friedman and Zhongjin Li (editors), China on Strike: Narratives of Workers' Resistance, which gives a history of labour struggles of Chinese migrant workers.
- Understanding the counter-revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016).
- Understanding the counter-revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016).
- Automated book-culling software drives librarians to create fake patrons to "check out" endangered titles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Two employees at the East Lake County Library created a fictional patron called Chuck Finley and then used the account to check out 2,361 books over nine months in 2016, rescuing the books from automated purges of low-popularity titles.
- Consigned to the Memory Hole: The content of the DNC Leaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examining the content of the DNC data leaks during the 2016 US elections, and the efforts by the Democratic party to distract from their content.
- Internet history is fragile. This archive is making sure it doesn't disappear
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A report on the Internet Archive (archive.org) including an interview with its founder, Brewster Kahle.
- A Smuggling Operation: John Berger's Theory of Art
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examining the theories put forth in 'Landscapes' by John Berger.
- Actually, I Am Anti-Police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The I'm not anti-police stance would work if, and only if, police brutality could be separated from the nature of policing. But it can't. That's because the major purpose of policing is to maintain the supremacy of the ruling class.
- Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock captures the story of Native-led defiance that forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet.
- Beautiful Rising
Creative Resistance from the Global South
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Follow up to 'Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution', Beautiful Rising showcases some of the most innovative tactics used in struggles against autocracy and austerity across the Global South.
- A Better World in Birth
The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Michael A. Lebowitz' The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now.
- Birth of the Abolitionist Nation
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Manisha Sinha's The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
- The Black Lives Matter Response to Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Our mandate has not changed: organize and end all state-sanctioned violence until all Black Lives Matter.
- Black and White
Images from the Archives of Liberation News Service Photographer Howard Epstein, 1968-1974
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Black and White is a book of 32 evocative images of political conflict and confrontations in the streets taken by Howard Epstein when he was a photographer for Liberation News Service.
- Bounty Hunters
A clandestine war on wolves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The centuries old killing of wolves has extirpated the species throughout most of the United States, yet there remains a strong anti-wolf lobby which continues to threaten even a modest recovery.
- Broken Homes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In East Jerusalem, home to 300,000 Palestinians, Israel has been using home demolition as a tool to control the population. Following what some have described as a "third Intifada" in 2015, Al Jazeera started monitoring the policy of home demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem and how it was being enforced -- 2016 was documented to be a record year. Al Jazeera presents an extensive month by month report with graphs, video and photographs.
- Bumpy ride
Why America's roads are in tatters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at America's negleced infrastructure of roads and bridges. Despite declining conditions, particularly on secondary roads, Republicans continued to press for less State funding- which they termed "devolution".
- Canada's State of Reconciliation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The brutal suppression of water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota and their ongoing resistance has also galvanized Canadian conversations about Indigenous land rights and environmental welfare.
- Chicago Teachers Settle Contract
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
While an almost 3-1 vote in favor is decisive, the vote against is significant in showing both dissatisfaction and anger among teachers. Who voted against the contract?
- Civil Rights Movement Is a Reminder That Free Speech Is There to Protect the Weak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The importance of First Amendment rights is examined, and even while those rights do protect actions of the powerful, the author argues that it is ultimately the poor and powerless who beneffit from it's protection.
- Class Dismissed
When a state divests from public education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at education in the state of Arizona where Empowerment Education Accounts (ESA's), money otherwise used to fund public education, are upheld by conservatives as a successful means of advancing private alternatives to traditional schooling.
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2017
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Filipino text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Creating a Socialism that Meets Needs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
There is widespread and growing understanding that the current social order cannot continue without catastrophe occurring - yet we lack a vision of what might replace it.
- Creating an Ecological Society
Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old.
- Dangerous Grounds
Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned and operated by civilian activists, GI coffeehouses served as off-base refuges for the growing number of active-duty soldiers resisting the war.
- Dolores
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Dolores is a 2017 documentary directed by Peter Bratt on the life of activist Dolores Huerta. The film focuses on Huerta's work to organize farmworkers in California to form the United Farm Workers (UFW), in alliance with such movements as the Chicano Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, LGBTQ social movements, and the late 20th century Women's rights movement.
- Down on the Seed: The World Bank Enables Corporate Takeover of Seeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Exposing how the World Bank's policies ignores and undermines farmer-managed seed systems and enables profiteering by agrochemical companies.
- East York Workers' Association
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The East York Workers' Association (EYWA) was an unemployment movement that developed during the Great Depression in the township of East York, Ontario.
- EducationSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Eyewitness at Standing Rock
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Interview with Rebecca Kemble.
- Fair Play for Cuba Committee
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- A Few Things About Nonviolence: A Response to Yoav Litvin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The goal of a true movement opposing American fascism should not be adrenaline-boosting brawls, it can only be the long and dedicated work of dismantling various engines of white supremacy within our socio-political landscape.
- Fighting Back for Survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The editors reflect on the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
- Following the Levellers, volume One
Political and Religious Radicals in the English Civil War and Revolution, 1645–1649
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This book reinterprets the Leveller authorships of John Lilburne, Richard Overton and William Walwyn, and foregrounds the role of ordinary people in petitioning and protest during an era of civil war and revolution.
- Forty Questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An excerpt from Valeria Luiselli's book "Tell me How it Ends", a damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children in the United States.
- Framing The Shadows
The luminary vision of W. Eugene Smith
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the life and work of American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith, who is particularly noted for his brilliant photo essays that chronicled suffering and injustice.
- Ghost Nation
An ethnic-cleansing campaign by the government threatens to empty South Sudan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Reporter Nick Turse provides a first hand acount of his time spent covering a refugee crisis in Southern Sudan, where the government's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is committing atrocities that include mass rape, mutilation, torture, and the burning down of villages.
- The Green Party After the Election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Until the Green Party has built a real power base of well-organized, dues-paying members and elected Green caucuses in city councils, state legislatures and the U.S. House, it will not be taken seriously in a presidential run by most media and most voters
- Grenfell Tower: A Disaster Waiting to Happen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Grenfell tower disaster is a consequence of social housing policies dating back to the 1980's.
- The Group of Seven Guitar Project
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The 2017 film The Group of Seven Guitar Project documents the story of seven luthiers who have come together to honour the work of Canadian painters the Group of Seven by creating seven original guitars inspired by their paintings.
- HealthSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Hegemony How-To
A Roadmap for Radicals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of power, leadership, and strategy.
- Historical Timeline: 1900-Present: History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- John Edgar Hoover
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The life of JFBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
- Hope in Dark Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The most dynamic and emergent forces in U.S. politics today are on our side, and possibilities for a radical transformation of the system have not yet been foreclosed. Whether we make good on them is up to us.
- House Hunters Transnational
Israel's economic settlers in the West Bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Settlement developers in Israel are seizing upon the country's economic woes and high cost of living as an opportunity to expand housing on the disputed West Bank, putting further into question a two state solution.
- How Do We Organize A Hundred Million?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The strategic considerations discussed in this series of posts assumes that it will take a hundred million activist in the US and many hundreds of millions more worldwide to make revolution. Real politics begin where there are millions, many millions.
- How "Race Neutral" Policy Failed
Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review ofKaren R. Miller's Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit.
- Humber River, Old Mill, and Marshes
Discovery Walks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- "I am Here Only for Working"
Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the petroleum industry in the United Arab Emirates through conversations with workers and foreign labourers. Many of the labourers come from abroad, work for very low wages, and live in crowded worker's camps designed to service the oil industry.
- I Am Not Your Negro
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
I am Not your Negro explores the history of racism in the United States through James Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr, as well as his personal observations of American history.
- In the Shadow of the Revolution
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the Shadow of the Revolution provides alternative perspectives on Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution. Through interviews with academics, journalists and socal activists the film helps explain the rebellion against the corrupt authoritarian government that created a catastrophe in Venezuela.
- Inside Lindsay Shepherd’s heroic, insulting, brave, destructive, possibly naïve fight for free speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- IntelligentSearch.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Introduction to the Inside/Outside Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The inside/outside strategy (IOS) is an approach to organizing and movement building that emphasizes learning from and coordination with resistance movements and political positions you do not completely agree with.
- Jane Does
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Conversations between journalist Madeleine Schwartz and members of the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation, later known as Jane, an underground reproductive care service that was started in 1969.
- Jeremy Corbyn campaign video
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Jewish Currents goes to heaven, Jewish Currents goes to hell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A collection of writings, poems and images reflecting the traditions of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
- JournalismSources.com
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Kill All Normies
Online culture wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
How internet subcultures are conquering the mainstream, from from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right.
- Killing Bill O'Reilly
The disgraced broadcaster's distortions of history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the biased, idealized and error-riddled historical accounts espoused by American broadcaster Bill O'Reilly. Despite the former broadcaster's distortions of history and recent public disgrace his books still remain popular among Americans.
- Kathe Kollwitz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The life of the German socialist artist Kathe Kollwitz.
- Labor's Schoolhouse
Lessons from the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The author recounts the Paterson Silk Strike, a 1913 labour dispute organized by mill workers and noted for its large size, duration, and non-violence. Central to the dispute was the requirement by overworked weavers to start running four large looms instead of two, an appropriation of technolgy for the bottom line which has particular relevance for us today.
- The Last Man in Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Glover explores the creation of George Orwell's classic work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which for millions of readers worldwide defined the twentieth century.
- Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Explores the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. By turns, the collection interrogates the theoretical boundaries between Marxism and anarchism and the process of their formation, the overlaps and creative tensions that shaped left-libertarian theory and practice, and the stumbling blocks to movement cooperation.
- The Lost Traveller's Dream
A Memoir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A memoir of Kovel's first 80 years, from his early Jewish upbringing, his academic career, to his embracing of Marxist political economy and commitment to radical ecosocialism.
- MA Stops Charter School Expansion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Despite their $24 million, the charter forces - which in March had more than a 20-point lead in the polls - lost by an amazing 24 points, 62% to 38%.
- Macaroni & Cheese and Revolution
The Anarchist Cookbook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Keith McHenry's and Chaz Bufe's The Anarchist Cookbook.
- Mad Marx: The Class Warrior
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- The March on Everywhere
The ragged glory of female activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Leslie Jamison recounts her experience as part of the Women's March on Washington in protest of the new Trump Administration, which became the largest single day protest in U.S. history.
- Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Analyzing land policy, labour, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor.
- A Matter of Life
The death penalty as a conservative conundrum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the Death Penalty in the United States and a Republican's campaign to have the practice abolished in the more Conservative areas of the country.
- May 1998 riots of Indonesia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The May 1998 Riots of Indonesia, also known simply as The 1998 Tragedy, were incidents of mass violence of a racial nature that occurred throughout Indonesia, mainly in Medan in the province of North Sumatra (4–8 May), the capital city of Jakarta (12–15 May), and Surakarta (also called Solo) in the province of Central Java (13–15 May). The riots were triggered by economic problems including food shortages and mass unemployment, and eventually led to the resignation of President Suharto and the fall of the New Order government.
- MediaSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Momentum Activist Handbook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An activist training guide for members of People's Momentum, the campaigning group in the British Labour Party.
- Monumental Error
Will New York City finally tear down a statue?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An examination of the Sims controversy in New York City, where authorities have long debated the removal of a statue in Central Park celebrtating 19th-century doctor J. Marion Sims, the 'father of gynecology' who experimented on black women.
- Mothers and Children First
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An interactive report on mothers and child bearing in Bolivia where deaths are highest among indigenous populations. This report looks at the efforts by doctors, indigenous midwives and healers who are collaborating in what is being called 'intercultural health care'.
- My Lai
Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Jones shows how pivotal the My Lai massacre was in galvanizing opposition to the Vietnam War, playing a part nearly as significant as that of the Tet Offensive and the Cambodian bombing. For many, it undermined any pretense of American moral superiority, calling into question not only the conduct of the war but the justification for U.S. involvement.
- 93 media professionals killed in 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
93 journalists and media professionals were killed in 2016 according to new statistics published by the world's largest journalists' organisation.
- The Number That No Man Could Number
Black America's civil war over gay rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the complex relationship between the Church and homosexuality among African-Americans. While many church leaders become the public face of resistance to homosexuality and same-sex marriage, behind closed doors the reality is very different.
- Obama's Legacy and the Rise of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
So much has been written about why Donald Trump won the presidency and the anger of the white working class. White supremacists are overjoyed by his victory. Much less is written or discussed about the failures of liberalism and the Obama presidency for Blacks and other minorities who voted for Hillary Clinton as a lesser evil.
- Oil's Deep State
How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An insider's eywitness view of the oil industry, and how and why governments have failed to heed warnings despite substantial scientific evidence of global warming
- On Movement and Freedom
Tales of Enduring Transience
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canada-based artist Gita Hashemi embarks on a ground journey from Germany to Greece along the so-called "Balkan route." In this written account Hashemi meets with others who are also on the move, as well as artists and activists who support freedom of movement and refugee rights. It is part of an art project called "On the Move" about freedom of movement.
- One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Drawing from exclusive testimony, landmark historical scholarship, and stunning research, Andrea Pitzer unearths the roots of this appalling phenomenon, exploring and exposing the staggering toll of the camps: our greatest atrocities, the extraordinary survivors, and even the intimate, quiet moments that have also been part of camp life during the past century.
- Ontario's health workers call for improved sick leave policies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Over the River
Returning home to Flint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Author Richard Manning returns to his childhood home of Flint, Michigan and recounts the city's decline from thriving industry into an economic depression, from which the city has never recovered. Flint is left with an eroded infrastructure, neighbourhoods rife with crime and public health emergencies, and the decades old question of how will it ever recover.
- Public Transit - Introduction to March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- PublicitySources.com
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring publicity and PR resources, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Putting the Racist Flyers at University of Michigan in Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On Monday morning, September 26, 2017, students arrived to the U-M campus to find racist flyers plastered in Haven Hall, Mason Hall, and several other buildings
- Racism in Asia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Racism in Asia exists for similar reasons that racism elsewhere exists, with roots in events that have happened anywhere from thousands of years ago to the present.
- Radical Digressions 8
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- The Reconciliation Manifesto
Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the historical and current relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians, and what needs to be done to accomplish true reconciliation.
- The Reichstag Fire Next Time
The coming crackdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article draws comparisons between the current climate in the Trump era with that of pre-Nazi Germany, in particular the Reichstag Fire of 1933, an event which Adolph Hitler exploited and launched a militant stance that eventually lead to a facist state.
- Remembering Lissa Donner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Recollections of Lissa Donner, 1955 - 2017.
- The Rise of the Valkyries
In the alt-right, women are the future, and the problem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at strategies and recruiting practices of the extremist alt-right, particularly outreach efforts towards recruiting women into their ranks.
- The River of Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In these essays, Oliver Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes -- above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age; the questions, they explored -- the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity, and the nature of consciousness -- lie at the heart of science and of this book.
- Sacred Cod
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sacred Cod is a feature-length documentary that captures the collapse of the historic cod population in New England, delving into the role of overfishing, the impact of climate change, the effect of government policies on fishermen and the fish, and the prospect of a region built on cod having no cod left to fish.
- Science and its enemies - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Sex, Gender, and the New Essentialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A series of essays on sex, gender, and sexuality.
- SexSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- "The Slave-Holding Republic"
Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Gerald Horne's Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic.
- Snowden's Box
The human network behind the biggest leak of all
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Edward Snowden's disclosure of NSA secrets to the press as reported by the two journalists who literally had Snowden material mailed to them in a cardboard box. The article describes their experiences with encryption, codewords, government surveillance and extreme paranoia. The journalists also reveal that they were not the only people to have received Snowden's files.
- Song of the Lion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
When a car bomb kills a young man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the intended victim as a mediator for a multi-million-dollar development planned at the Grand Canyon.
- Sons and Daughters
The village where girls turn into boys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An account of an isolated village in the southwestern Dominican Republic where children who are seemingly born female become male later in their childood; such cases are so prevalent in the village that it is no longer considered abnormal.
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2017
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Sources News Release Archive 2017
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
News releases from 2017.
- States of Decay
A journey through America's nuclear heartland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The aftermath of the AEC procurement program (uranium) and the present state of yellowcake towns in the Colarado plateau.
- The Struggle Against the Chauvinist Hydra
Document of the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Political statement announcing a sharp change of direction in the Trotskyist International Communist League.
- Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
According to Renate Klein, "pared down to cold hard facts, surrogacy is the commissioning/buying/ renting of a woman into whose womb an embryo is inserted and who thus becomes a 'breeder' for a third party."
- Survival is the Question
Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Ian Angus' Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System.
- Sustainable Agriculture Versus Corporate Greed
Small Farmers, Food Security & Big business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Examines the downfalls of profit-centred agriculture, and the struggle for a people-and-environment centred alternative in Australia.
- Symbols of Resistance
A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chican@ Movement
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The documentary looks at the history of the Chicano and Chicana Movement in the 1970's; with a focus on Colorado and Northern New Mexico it explores the struggle for land, the student movement and community struggles against police repression. Runtime: 75 min.
- The Syriza Wave: The Discussion Continues via Irish Marxist Review
The Discussion Continues via Irish Marxist Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The article is review of Helena Sheehan's book "The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left". Her book is an account of her polital activity and personal reflections during the surge of Syrzia from 2012 through 2015.
- Ten Myths about Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In this book published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.
- Terror in Britain: What Did the Prime Minister Know?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Why did the Manchester bombing occur? How does it relate to British relations with Middle Eastern countries?
- Terrorism: How the Israeli state was won
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Transcript of a speech by the author on December 14, 2016 at the House of Lords, giving a history of the conflicts and terrorist tactics of Zionists in the formation of the state of Israel.
- That Precious Strand of Jewishness that Challenges Authority
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Like so many of those others in Britain of Jewish lineage, songwriter and award-winning folk singer Leon Rosselson is descended from antecedents who fled pogroms in eastern Europe. Pertinently, he questions what being a Jew means -- is it adherence to Judaism as a religion, an ethnicity, a citizen of Israel, or someone who eats "chicken soup with knedlach"? He describes clearly and with historical insight how any concept of "Jewishness" can involve all of those things and more. In his own life, he has decided to pick and choose from this tradition and history and build on what he deems to be the progressive, humane, and universalist values of that Jewish background.
- Tomorrow's power
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An award-winning documentary that follows stories of communities in Germany, Gaza and Colombia that are challenging current power structures, leading to possibilities of a future with both social and climate justice. Runtime: 76 min.
- Tribal Justice
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Documents an effective criminal justice reform movement in America: the efforts of tribal courts to return to traditional, community-healing concepts of justice.
- The Trouble with Defectors
What informants taught an intelligence officer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Author and former U.S. Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter writes about his experiences working with informants and defectors. Recounting first hand experiences he discusses the problems and issues working with informants, notably their motivation, quality of information, and its reliabitlity and currency. While quality control is a recurring problem with informants Ritter further discusses why intelligence professionals still keep using them.
- Trump not "Exceptional"
Trump: A Graphic Biography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Book review of Ted Rall's Trump: A Graphic Biography.
- Ulli Diemer - Selected Articles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
- Unwanted Advances
Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis. Anyone who thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress is deranged.
- Via Campesina Declaration of the Forum on Food Sovereignty, Territories of Peace for a Dignified Life 2017
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The participants of the Forum on Food Sovereignty held in the city of Buenos Aires on December 12th and 13th [2017] want to express our agreements regarding the construction of territories of peace for the people: the peasants of the world and every community struggling to remain in our ancestral territories and to continue feeding humanity, as we have done for the last ten thousand years, while at the same time fighting for a worthy life in the cities with healthy, locally produced food.
- Wartime
The First World War in a Canadian Town
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
What World War I meant to daily life in a Canadian community becomes clear in this book about the war years in Guelph, Ontario.
- The Weekly Package
How Cubans deliver culture without internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
With limited resources and government restrictions on internet access in Cuba, a thriving underground industry selling digital information has developed.
- When the Alt-Right Hits Campus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Under the auspices of the "Alt Right" and its wannabe hipster version of white nationalism, the University of Michigan community was subjected to a bombardment of racist hate that many of us thought relegated to the pre-Obama past.
- Where Health Care Won't Go
A tuberculosis crisis in the Black Belt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A look at the outbreak of tubercolosis in Alabama, where a significant proportion of the population lacks proper health care. While State reaction was swift the lack of attention to some communities persists, as do the conditions for outbreaks to reoccur.
- Who Put Trump in the White House?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The media story in the days following the 2016 election was that a huge defection of angry, white, blue-collar workers in the Rust Belt from their traditional Democratic voting patterns put Donald J. Trump in the White House in a grand slap at the nation's "liberal" elite. But is that the real story?
- With Ash on Their Faces
Yezidi Women and the Islamic State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A chronicle of ISIS' genocide of the Yezidis population in northern Iraq in 2014, including the enslavement and abuse of women and children, a persecution and tragedy that continues to this day.
- The World Must Learn From Cuba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
On the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, why has the small Caribbean nation outperformed many capitalist democracies in key ways despite fifty years of attack?
- Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Sociologist Wess Harris further examines the coal industry in Appalachia, and brings attention to how state government and the coal industry have strived to keep its troubling history buried from the public.
- W.W.E. the People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An excerpt from Naomi Klein's book "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need", published by Haymarket Books.
- The Young Karl Marx
Der Junge Karl Marx
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A 2017 film about Karl Marx directed by Haitian Raoul Peck, co-written by Peck and Pascal Bonitzer, and starring August Diehl.
- Zapatistas urge scientists to join in building a better world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
With all the damage that the capitalists have done to the people through their misuse of science, can we create a science that is truly human? Can we work collectively to defend life and humanity?
- The problem is more than integration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Polls show that minorities, and Muslims in particular, have a greater attachment to Britain than does the population at large. They also show that nine out of ten Britons think that their community is cohesive, and local area a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together. According to Casey this figure has increased (from 80 per cent to 89 per cent) since 2003. Britons, in other words, have become more positive about social cohesion in the very period in which ‘uncontrolled immigration’ has supposedly eroded peoples’ sense of community and belonging.
- Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The recent calls for the British left either to “reclaim Labour” (Len McCluskey) or to build a new party capable of emulating Syriza’s successes in Greece (Ken Loach) demand serious consideration on these pages. At their core these proposals reflect a widespread desire, shared by members of the Socialist Workers Party, to fight the cuts, alongside revulsion at the Labour Party’s failure to do so. They also reflect a genuine excitement across the left about the prospects for new left formations such as Syriza and France’s similar Front de Gauche.
- Arnold Amber - IFJ mourns loss of true champion of working journalists’ rights
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Working journalists have lost a true champion and the IFJ has lost a dear friend.
- Bangladeshi journalist detained for reporting on dead goat
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobodhikari Sambadhik Forum (BMSF) condemns the detention of a journalist for posting allegedly derogatory comments about a minister on Facebook. The IFJ demands immediate drop
- Canadian Ethnocultural Council partnering with ParticipACTION
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Canadian Ethnocultural Council is partnering with ParticipACTION, Canada's premier physical activity brand. ParticipACTION helps Canadians sit less and move more through innovative engagement initiatives and thought leadership.
- Canadian Voice of Women Making Waves from Coast to Coast!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
This past weekend in both Toronto and Victoria, VOW members held Ban the Bomb events in protest of the current Canadian government boycotting the UN talks on nuclear weapons. VOW will be running peace leadership camps in BC, ON, and NS this August.
- CBSA-Red Cross monitoring contract a rebranded empty gesture says immigration detention watchdog
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
An agreement between Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Canadian Red Cross (CRC), announced last week to much government fanfare, is being described by opponents of Canada’s indefinite immigration detention regime as political spin.
- Celebrating Canadian Multiculturalism Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Driving this year’s celebration of Canada’s 150th, let us all together embrace Canada’s multiculturalism and make Canada a beacon of same and the instrument of world peace.
- China to further beef up internet control
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on the Government of China to clarify the usage of privately-run VPNs (Virtual Private Network) in China. The IFJ also calls on the Government of China to end its attempt to control and stifle
- Connexions Other Voices - August 28, 2017 - Official Enemies
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the August 27 issue of Other Voices, we examine why and how some countries become ‘enemies’ and how and why governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies.
- Connexions Other Voices - December 17, 2017 - Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
From Canada to Palestine, from South Sudan to Burma, people are working to document their stories and bring them to the attention of the world.
- Connexions Other Voices - March 18, 2017 - Public Transit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Other Voices explores what that means and how to bring it about.
- Connexions Other Voices - November 11, 2017 - Left Parties
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
In the November 11 issue, Connexions Other Voices looks at left parties which have emerged out of mass movements in countries like Spain (Podemos), Germany (Die Linke), and Greece (Syriza).
- Connexions Other Voices - Public Safety
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. This issue is about challenging injustice.
- Connexions Other Voices - Secrecy and Power
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Secrecy and Power; The July 22 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. It sptolights the relationship of secrecy and power.
- CWF Calls for Nominations for Canadian Conservation Awards
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is now accepting nominations for the Conservation Achievement Awards.
- CWF finds shocking numbers of dead turtles on the roads this summer and calls for more help to save these species at risk
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) and Scales Nature Park found hundreds of dead turtles on roads around Muskoka and Ottawa this summer and are calling for more help to save these species at risk.
- CWF Launches National Conservation Summit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
A diverse range of experts from across Canada are meeting in Alberta this week to seek collaborative action for fish, wildlife, and biodiversity conservation.
- Discussions on new perspectives and challenges for the funds and asset management industry at the 31st IIFA Conference in Switzerland
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Zurich, 5 October 2017 - The 31st Annual Conference of The International Investment Funds Association (IIFA) was held this week in Zurich, Switzerland. Over 70 people representing 38 funds associations discussed the perspectives and challenges for
- Douglas Roche Featured Speaker at August 6th Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration in Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Douglas Roche Featured Speaker at August 6th. Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration in Toronto. Former Senator Douglas Roche, who also served as Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament.
- Emmanuel International Canada is mobilizing as an official drop off point for the Barbuda Relief Recovery
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Emmanuel International Canada is working with the Consulate of Antigua and Barbuda to collect needed items for the people of Barbuda
- Emmanuel International Canada and Emmanuel International Malawi commence training health-care providers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Emmanuel International Canada and Emmanuel International Malawi commence training health-care providers
- Emmanuel International Canada is helping the families of Barbuda Island with emergency food kits and clean water
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Emmanuel International Canada is helping the families of Barbuda Island with emergency food kits and clean water
- Fearless and outspoken Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh shot dead in Karnataka
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) in condemning the brutal killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru, India on September 5.
- Freedom Flotilla Coalition Donates Materials to over 400 Fishers in Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), an international coalition composed of civil society groups demanding an end to the illegal and inhumane blockade of Gaza, recently sent fishing materials to Palestinian fishers in Gaza. In cooperation with sever
- Heather Taylor originally from Stouffville takes on the "World's Toughest Row" across the Atlantic Ocean
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Heather Taylor originally from Stouffville takes on the "World's Toughest Row" across the Atlantic Ocean in the 2018 Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge to raise awareness and funds for Emmanuel International Canada’s PROMISE project in Malawi
- IFIC Annual Leadership Conference Showcases Innovation and Investor Choice
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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Rapidly evolving innovation and unparalleled investor choice were the central themes of a day-long conference hosted by The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) on Wednesday, September 27 in Toronto.
- IFIC Launches Investor Centre to Help Investors Make Informed Decisions
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today launched its new Investor Centre (https://investorcentre.ific.ca), with expanded content and contemporary features to help Canadians navigate their financial journeys.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for April 2017
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending April 30, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.42 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM increased by $79.9 billion or 6
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for February 2017
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First Published: 2017
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Toronto, ON - March 23, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending February 28, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.36 trillion. Year-to-date, industry
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for July 2017
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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Toronto, ON - August 22, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending July 31, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.4 trillion. AUM decreased by $12.3 bill
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for September 2017
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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Toronto, ON - October 23, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending September 30, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.43 trillion. AUM increased by $16.
- IFIC Welcomes CRA Decision to Defer Application of Advantage Rules to Investment Management Fees
Sources News Release
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Toronto, ON - September 29, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) welcomes the Canada Revenue Agency’s recent decision to defer by one year, to January 1, 2019, application of the "advantage rules" to the tax treatment
- IFJ and EFJ condemn murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered yesterday around 3pm by a car bomb in the town of Bidnija, near her family home. The International and European Federations of Journalists condemned today this killing.
- Investment Funds Industry Gathers for 30th IFIC Leadership Conference
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Canada’s pre-eminent networking and information event for the investment funds industry
- Iran: journalist loses eye and part of face after being refused cancer treatment in prison
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Association of Iranian Journalists board member and political prisoner Alireza Rajaee has lost his right eye and part of his face due to a cancer that was left untreated during his time in prison between 2011 and 2015.
- Israeli authorities must cease their routine abuse and harassment of journalists, says IFJ
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) recorded at least 15 incidents of journalists being attacked, abused or prevented from reporting by Israeli security forces while attempting to cover the Al-Aqsa Mosque protests over the weekend.
- It isn’t News until it's Newsworthy!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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So, what makes a newsworthy story? 'News' is noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events. However, what might seem newsworthy to you may not appear newsworthy to a journalist. There are ways to make your story stand out!
- It’s Time to Ban the Bomb
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace Asks Where is Canada? On July 7, 2017, 122 countries voted to adopt the historic Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons-- a landmark international agreement that outlaws, categorically, the worst weapons
- Join Canadian Voice of Women for Peace’s call for Ottawa to suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace calls on the Canadian government to: Suspend arms sales and transfers to Saudi Arabia, including armoured vehicles, weapons, munitions, military equipment or technology (or logistical and financial support for
- Journalists harassed, detained by Pakistan’s investigation agency
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the harassment and detention of two reporters by the state agency in Islamabad, Pakistan on July 21. The IFJ demands action against the officials involved in the harassment and unlawful
- Lethal Arms Sale from Canada to the Ukraine
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace objects strongly to the Canadian Government's recent decision to break a twenty-six year de-facto embargo on lethal weapons sales to Ukraine. By adding Ukraine to the Automatic Firearms Country Control List
- Media Advisory - Event: June 15, 2017 - Safeguarding Access to Financial Advice for Canada’s Middle Class – Paul C. Bourque, Q.C. in Conversat
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Paul C. Bourque, Q.C., president and CEO of The Investment Funds Institute of Canada, and veteran journalist Tom Clark will explore why Canadian policy makers are thinking about travelling a road not taken by the majority of global regulators and how
- Media Release - IFIC Announces New Chair and Board Appointments and Welcomes New Member and Affiliate
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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Toronto, ON - The board of directors of The Investment Funds Institute of Canada is pleased to announce that at its annual meeting on September 7, Ross Kappele (EVP & head of distribution, BMO Asset Management Canada) was elected chair
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Final Annual Fund Risk Classification Guidelines
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released its 15th and final annual Voluntary Guidelines for Fund Managers Regarding Fund Volatility Risk Classification / Directives d’application facultative concernant
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for June 2017
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending June 30, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.41 trillion. AUM decreased by $13.6 billion
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for May 2017
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First Published: 2017
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Toronto, ON - June 21, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending May 31, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.43 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM inc
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for November 2017
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Toronto, ON - Dec 21, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending November 30, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.48 trillion. AUM increased by $15.9 billion
- Media Release - IFIC Welcomes New Member – Equity Associates Inc.
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First Published: 2017
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Toronto, ON - July 5, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today announced that Equity Associates Inc. has joined IFIC.
- Media Release - IFIC Welcomes Recommendations Addressing Vulnerable Investors
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Toronto, ON - November 16, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada today congratulated FAIR Canada and the Canadian Centre for Elder Law on the thoughtful recommendations contained in their Report on Vulnerable Investors: Elder Abuse, Fin
- Media Release – IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for August 2017
Sources News Release
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Toronto, ON – September 21, 2017 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending August 31, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.41 trillion. AUM increased by $8.3
- Media Release – IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for October 2017
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Toronto, ON - November 21, 2017 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending October 31, 2017, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.47 trillion. AUM increased by $40.7
- Meeting the Challenge of the Right
Sources News Release
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Meeting the challenge of the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision.
- Myanmar journalist arrested and blocked from leaving country
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the latest move by authorities in Myanmar, following the detainment of a journalist at Yangon International Airport on Sunday, July 30, 2017.
- No Tasers For Toronto Police, Communities Urge
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First Published: 2017
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The Urban Alliance on Race Relations, working on civilian oversight of police since 1975, is joined by lawyers and academics to oppose the buying of more tasers at the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) public meeting on 'Conducted Energy Weapons'.
- North Korea: Canada’s First Test of Its Feminist Foreign Policy
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With the spectre of North Korea aiming long-range nuclear-tipped missiles at its neighbor the United States, never has the time been more right for Canada to be re-embracing global diplomacy. In January, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia
- Open Letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
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Dear Secretary General, On your recent visit to Gaza, you saw with your own eyes some of the deplorable and inhumane conditions suffered by the Palestinians living in Gaza. You called it one of the most dramatic humanitarian crises that you had seen
- Other Voices - The April 1 issue
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The April 1 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is out. Other Voices always strives to present alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts."
- Pakistan: fourth journalist killed this year
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns the killing of a journalist in Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, October 12.
- Peace Groups Hold Vigil at Chrystia Freeland's Toronto Constituency Office
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Peace Groups will hold a Ban the Bomb Vigil at the constituency office of Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, 344 Bloor Street West, on Saturday June 17 from 12 to 1 pm. The groups are protesting the government's boycott
- Peace Groups Issue an Emergency Appeal to Mayor John Tory to Examine the Dangers of Nuclear Weapons
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Peace Groups Issue an Emergency Appeal to Mayor John Tory to Examine the Dangers of Nuclear Weapons
July 19, 2017 (Toronto) Two weeks after the UN ratified a treaty banning nuclear weapons that was boycotted by Canada, thirteen peace, faith and env
- Philippines slaps libel suit to silence broadcast journalist
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), in condemning the libel suit against ABS-CBN’s broadcast journalist Ted Failon and three members of his staff.
- Police seals TV channel in Siliguri, India
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the shutting down of a television channel based in Siliguri, West Bengal, India by the police on July 22. The IFJ demands the immediate restoration of the channel.
- Safety protocol with 16 points for journalists covering conflict zones
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) in partnership with the European and International Federation of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) successfully organised a 2-day Safety Workshop in Diyarbakir
- SOURCES.COM joins forces with MediaRelease.com for all the right reasons
Sources News Release
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MediaRelease.com will be the start of each and every press and media release sent by Media Release Canada or Media Release International.
- Stop the Violence Against Rohingya; End Discrimination and Protect Civilians
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is appalled by the persecution of Rohingya minority and calls on Myanmar’s authorities and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to immediately and urgently: End the ongoing systematic persecution of Rohingya minority
- Syria: IFJ condemns killing of Russia Today journalist
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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A Russia Today (RT) correspondent was killed and a cameraman injured in a rocket attack by the Islamic State (IS) militants on Sunday 30 July in Homs province, Syria.
- Together in Canada- Ensemble au Canada
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The Canadian Ethonocultural Council (CEC) in proud collaboration with the Canadian Ethnic Media Association (CEMA) are delighted to announce that on June 24, 2017, will be holding a Dinner Gala and Award Event, Together in Canada- Ensemble au Canada
- Turkey: Cumhuriyet journalists face trial on 24 July
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First Published: 2017
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The International and European Federation of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) join their affiliates TGS and DISK Basin-Is in condemning the trial of the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet
- Unrelenting crackdown on critical voices in China
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2017
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned about the pressure applied by Chinese authorities which forced a prestigious University publication to block online access to more than 300 articles on its website.
- VOW Condemns Decision to Recognize Jerusalem as Israel's Capital
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Canadian Voice of Women for Peace strongly opposes the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and begin the process of relocating its embassy to Jerusalem. VOW believes that the world’s governments should no
- We Must Keep the Internet Free and Open. EFF, Tech Giants, Startups and Internet Users Tell FCC: Don’t Sell Out Net Neutrality To Appease ISPs
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First Published: 2017
Published: 2017
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a broad coalition of user advocacy groups and major technology companies and organizations joined forces to protest the FCC’s plan to toss out net neutrality rules that preserve Internet freedom.
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2916
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- Line 9 pipeline is a risky business
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Article for the Toronto Field Naturalist newsletter on the risks to our natural environment posed by Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline project.
- Extortion Letter Info
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2017
- The City That Bleeds
Freddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The killing of black teenager Freddie Gray by six police officers resulted in a civic uprising, and spotlights a history of brutality and bloodshed by police in the city of Baltimore.
- Trump's People
Among the fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Journalist Paul Woods speks with supporters of Donald Trump prior to the 2016 election and examines the appeal and popularity of the candidate by speaking with various supporters during the campaign.
- The American Imperium
Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With the present-day US military overextended throughout the globe, this essay takes a look at past American military policy and actions in overseas conflicts, and how these events of the past century affect public perceptions and ultimately how the military continues to be used.
- Destroying Detroit Schools
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Detroit Public School system (DPS) has been under state control for 15 years, the last decade under the direction of a series of Emergency Managers.
- Facebook will soon filter out RT news, so this is how you fix it… probably
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In light of recent changes to Facebook's news feed, this RT article demonstrates what is needed to secure access to RT content.
- Academic mobbing, or how to become campus tormentors
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If you’re a university professor, chances are fairly good that you have initiated or participated in mobbing. Why? First, because mobbers are not sadists or sociopaths, but ordinary people; second, because universities are a type of organization that encourages mobbing; and third, as a result, mobbing is endemic at universities. Unlike bullying, an individual form of harassment in which a typical scenario consists of a boss victimizing an assistant, mobbing is a serious organizational deficiency.
- Workers and Climate Change
Introduction to the July 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Many elements of the environmental movement have been guilty of ignoring working people, while others actually blame ordinary working people for climate change and the injustices associated with it. Yet it is working people who are dying, in many places, even now, from excessive heat in factories, fields, construction sites, and homes. And million of working people stand to lose their jobs, homes, and communities in the transition to a low-carbon or no-carbon economy.
- Science and its enemies
Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
- Corporate Crime
Introduction to the April 9, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2015
Corporations have increasingly become legally unaccountable for their behaviour. All too often corporations break the law and engage in criminal acts which would be severely punished if they were committed by ordinary individuals. These illegal acts range from deliberate health and safety violations that cost lives, to land seizures, to environmental negligence that contaminates lands and waters. Most of these illegal acts are never prosecuted, and those that are, are usually dealt with by a fine that corporations can treat as a cost of doing business.
- 2894: reading of the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015)
List of readers in Toronto
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Cheshire, Ohio
An American coal story in 3 acts
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2017
Follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River town, after exposing them to years of harmful emissions.
- Planet Earth II
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2017
- After Trotskyism, what? Some personal thoughts
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Arash Azizi had been a member the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) for more than seven years. Recently Azizi left the organization. He outlines his decision to leave in this esssay at the request of many friends and comrades.
- Sources News Release Archive 2016
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
News releases from 2016.
- Bringing up the bodies in Bosnia
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Using cutting edge scientific research, an international organization is digging up mass graves to give victims' families some sense of closure and justice.
- Debating Syria Productively
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A collection of remarks on how the debate, within the left, over the Syrian conflict has been lacking and could be made more productive.
- ISIS and the Far Right: a Joint Assault on Multicultural Countries
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
ISIS's assaults on multicultural countries is to provoke the non-Muslim people of those countries to reject their millions of Muslim fellow-citizens.
- Jamaica's Culture of Fear Allows Police to Get Away With Murder
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the past decade, the Caribbean island nation's police have killed more than 2,000 people - until recently an average of four people every single week, mostly young men in inner-city, marginalized communities.
- The Seminole Christmas Gift of Freedom
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A history of the Christmas Day battle of 1837 between the Seminole nation and the invading US army, adapted from the author's 'Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage'.
- Statistics in the Information War
An Instructive Example from Hama, 1982
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Examines the manipulation of information in the case of the 'Hama massacre' of 1982 to advance the US's regime change policies regarding Syria.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for November 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - December 22, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending November 30, 2016, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.33 trillion. Year-to-date, indust
- On the Nature of Police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Having a group of reluctant citizens charged with the enormous responsibility that came with being a cop was preferable.
- Connexions Other Voices: The Fake News issue
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Connexions newsletter, Other Voices, takes a closer look at the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
- "Fake News"
Introduction to the December 20, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentaries about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news."
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
Fake News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
- Wendell Berry's Radical Skepticism
The celebrated farmer and poet shares a message of love in a time of unrest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When the celebrated writer, farmer, and elder statesman of the local food movement sat down in front of a sold-out audience at Johns Hopkins University last week, the crowd seemed even more eager than usual to soak in Berry's wisdom in this particularly fraught national moment. The event was a public conversation between Berry and Eric Schlosser, investigative journalist and author of Fast Food Nation, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. And many in the audience -- made up of people who care about the work the Center does to study the intersections between food systems, the environment, and human health -- were likely feeling a great deal worried about the fate of the issues about which they care deeply.
- The Bad Losers (And What They Fear Losing)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If the 2016 presidential campaign was a national disgrace, the reaction of the losers is an even more disgraceful spectacle. And why is that?
- Clinton's Defeat and the Fake News Conspiracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Debunking the scapegoating of 'fake news' by the corporate media following the 2016 US elections as a tactic by the media and Democratic party establishment to avoid blame for Hillary Clinton's election loss.
- Here to stay, here to fight: How Asians transformed the British working class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
During the blisteringly hot summer of 1976 a group of Asian workers, predominantly women, walked out on strike at a small factory in north west London. Most were recently arrived migrants from Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and were as unlikely a group of militants as you were likely to find that year. The Grunwick strikers acted spontaneously, without a union to back them and without knowing whether they could count on any wider support. Yet their determination and courage during a dispute that would last until the summer of 1978 would transform the politics of race in the labour movement—and in doing so would have huge ramifications for British society in general.
- More Propaganda Than News Coming Out of Aleppo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The dominance of propaganda over news in coverage of the war in Syria.
- Demonetisation: Stories Of Flesh And Blood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An article about the demonetization announced by the Indian government on November 8th, 2016.
- Facebook’s 'anti-fake news' plan looks like effort to curb alternative media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Examines the problems of how 'fake news' is defined, and how Facebook's strategy to limit exposure to 'fake news' might also impact any alternative media.
- 'Fake News' in America
Homegrown, and Far From New
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Details the hypocrisy of the media and Democratic party's recent outcry over 'fake news', as the loose definition encompasses well-established media practices, and may be used to attack any alternative media source.
- Five reasons why we don't have a free and independent press in the UK and what we can do about it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Exposes the power structures and entities that exert influence over the UK press, and proposes ways that influence might be subverted.
- What would Rosa Parks do today?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If Rosa Parks was taking action against transit racism today, she likely wouldn’t talk about segregated seating. Instead, she would be calling attention to disappearing service and unaffordable fares in communities that need transit the most.
- The Senseless Death of Tobeka Daki
Auctioning Health and Life to the Highest Bidders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Details the circumstances of the death of Tobeka Daki of South Africa, implicating the exorbitant drug prices of pharmaceutical corporations.
- Where is this Digital Watergate Propaganda Campaign Going?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Intelligence sources point out Russian interference in recent elections. However, WikiLeaks-related sources say the Democratic Party’s mail leak was the working of a whistleblower within that institution.
- The New Red Scare
Reviving the art of threat inflation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An examination of miltary escalation through the Cold War, and how the United States continues to use 'threat inflation' as a means of increasing military spending by pointing towards China as well as renewing fears of Russia.
- On Toronto Tolls, Marxists Align with Auto Industrial Complex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To be "progressive" in 2016 must include a political commitment to upending a transport/urban planning system structured around the private automobile.
- Sorry, Not Sorry: Neither the Media Nor Their Owners are Going to Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Detailing the failures of the corporate media in coverage of the 2016 US election, and how these problems are systemic due to the corporate ownership structure.
- Censorship in Social Media Leaves Users in Frustration
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Release of the whitepaper "Censorship in Context: Insights from Crowdsourced Data on Social Media Censorship," an analysis of content moderation by social media companies and impacts on users, by Onlinecensorship.org.
- Crime reporter brutally murdered in Myanmar
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists joins its affiliate the Myanmar Journalists Association in deploring the murder of a crime reporter on Dec. 13, in Monywa in the Sagaing region of Myanmar (Burma), and demand an immediate investigation.
- EFF To Canadian Court: Order Allowing Worldwide Censorship of Google Search Results Violates Users' Free Speech Rights
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On Dec. 6, 2016, the Electronic Frontier Foundation will tell Canada's highest court that an overbroad court order that censors Google search results for users everywhere violates our rights to freely search the web without government interference.
- Internet Archive Received National Security Letter with FBI Misinformation about Challenging Gag Order
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Internet Archive published a formerly secret National Security Letter (NSL), highlighting misinformation in the letter about the process for challenging the contents of the NSL, impacting many communications providers who have received such NSLs.
- New Privacy Badger Upgrades Help Protect Your Online Holiday Shopping from Sneaky Data Collection
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Privacy Badger 2.0 - a free browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera with new upgrades to help protect shoppers from online tracking.
- It's time to judge Assad's Aleppo campaign by the standards that we set ourselves in Mosul
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We judge Assad by one set of rules, and ourselves and our own allies by another.
- The Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing threat to their rights and to their collective struggles for security and independence.
- Entrenching Capitalist Agriculture in India Under the Guise of Development
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A criticism of the efforts by the IMF and World Bank to change India's agricultural system and its impact on the Indian economy and populace.
- Finding Cahokia
Finding North America's lost medieval city
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Recounting the author's experiences on an archaeological dig examining the city of Cahokia, found under the suburbs of St. Louis.
- The Media's Emphasis on Russian Hacking is a Diversion
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It's highly likely that the flurry of reports on alleged Russian hacking has more to do with a rejection of the status quo than with the act of clandestine meddling.
- Scapegoating by the Political Right: A Mask for Privilege
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A historical context for the role of scapegoating of minorities in the 2016 US election examining similar practices by privileged groups to maintain power in modern history.
- Why the Nazis studied American race laws for inspiration
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On 5 June 1934, about a year and half after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, the leading lawyers of Nazi Germany gathered at a meeting to plan what would become the Nuremberg Laws, the centrepiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi race regime. The meeting was an important one, and a stenographer was present to take down a verbatim transcript. That transcript reveals a startling fact: the meeting involved lengthy discussions of the law of the United States of America.
- Billions of litres of raw sewage, untreated waste water pouring into Canadian waterways
Conservatives introduced new rules in 2012, but problem was actually worse last year
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
More than 205 billion litres of raw sewage and untreated waste water spewed into Canada's rivers and oceans last year, CBC News has learned, despite federal regulations introduced in 2012 to try to solve the problem.
- Monitoring the Miners: Rio Tinto, Drones and Surveillance
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Management at the mining giant Rio Tinto have ambitions to take the technology of monitoring employees to another level – quite literally-drones.
- Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA's Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There are some basic facts about what is known and, more importantly, what is not known about the anonymous CIA leaks concerning the 2016 US Presidency Election.
- Human Chain to Surround Toronto Immigration Jail Against Indefinite Detention and Prison Expansion
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Former immigration detainees and supporters of immigrants jailed indefinitely without charges or trial will surround the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre (TIHC), a medium security immigration prison, today to oppose the expansion of immigration
- Copyright Infringement Fraud: A Serious Problem
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Copyright infringement is serious business and true violations should be addressed as soon as possible. But what if it isn't a true violation? What if it is a ploy to make money? And, whether true or a scheme, how would one know the difference?
- How To Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Gmail and Google
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Instructions to enable two-factor authentication for improved security for users of Gmail and Google services.
- British Government-Funded Outlet Offered Journalist $17,000 a Month to Produce Propaganda for Syrian Rebels
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Revolutionary Forces of Syria media office, a major Syrian opposition media outfit and frequent source of information for Western media, is funded by the British government as a propaganda outlet.
- Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
- Israeli Army Admits Tweeted Hezbollah Map Actually Fake
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Israeli media has been forced to admit a map purported to contain information on Hezbollah positions, distributed to foreign diplomats and on twitter, is a fabrication.
- Dorothea Lange's Censored Photographs of FDR's Japanese Concentration Camps
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A collection of photographs by Dorothy Lange, commissioned by the US government to record the process of relocating Japanese-americans into internment camps in 1942, along with accompanying quotations providing an oral history of the period and events.
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Class
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Professor of sociology at North Carolina State, Michael Schwalbe, reflects on the intrinsic contradiction of teaching and researching about class in the United States while benefiting from his own class position.
- Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft team up to tackle extremist content
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Tech companies plan to create a shared database of 'unique digital fingerprints' that will able to identify images and videos promoting terrorism and extremist content.
- The Coming War On China
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Coming War on China, is a warning that nuclear war is not only imaginable, but a ‘contingency’, says the Pentagon. The greatest build-up of Nato military forces since the Second World War is under way on the western borders of Russia. On the other side of the world, the rise of China as the world’s second economic power is viewed in Washington as another ‘threat’ to American dominance.
- Fake News About 'Fake News' - The Media Performance Pyramid
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Following Brexit and Trump, mainstream media have focused on media bias and the implications of so-called fake news. The definition of fake news can be easily generalized to all corporate media, and applied to the recent focus on fake news itself.
- Patently Biased
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Journalists share responsibility for the increasing commercialization of scientific research.
- Say YES to the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace calls on Canada to change its vote to yes, and support Resolution L.41 at the General Assembly, signalling its intent to contribute constructively to the discussions to be launched in March 2017.
- This is why everything you’ve read about the wars in Syria and Iraq could be wrong
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A description of how much of the coverage of the wars in Syria and Iraq is second-hand reporting, due to the dangers posed, and subject to political bias and propaganda.
- Before Facebook Was The Coffee House
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Kenan Malik writes about the issue of fake news.
- Marx as a Food Theorist
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Marx developed a detailed and sophisticated critique of the industrial food system in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, in the period that historians have called "the Second Agricultural Revolution." Not only did he study the production, distribution, and consumption of food; he was the first to conceive of these as constituting a problem of changing food "regimes" -- an idea that has since become central to discussions of the capitalist food system.
- With Child
The right to choose in Rapid City
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A lack of abortion clinics, doctor shortages, high costs, and traditional values are among the significant obtacles and challenges facing women in Iowa and other rural mid-western states who seek the right to choose.
- The CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the CIA’s Propaganda Network
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last week, the Washington Post published a scurrilous piece by a heretofore obscure technology reporter named Craig Timberg, alleging without the faintest evidence that Russian intelligence was using more than 200 independent news sites to pump out pro-Putin and anti-Clinton propaganda during the election campaign.
- The Untold Story of the Black Radical Tradition in Canada
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Looking back on the development of Black radical organizations in Canada.
- Why Chomsky and Zizek are wrong on the US Elections
Chomsky and Zizek clashed on voting in the US elections, but the views of both are critically flawed.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek, while both critical of Hillary Clinton, are opposed on whom they declare to vote for in the 2016 US election. In opting for Clinton or Trump, Chomsky and Zizek both avoid the crucial question of actual voters and how and why they voted the way they did, and are fixated on the abstract illusion of being on the left or right side of a vacuous argument.
- Prospects for an Alt-Left
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First Published: 2016
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Examining the limitations and issues with prevalent approaches of younger progressives and how a more effective 'alt-left' movement might be formed.
- The Real Link Between Israel's Forest Fires and Muezzin Bill
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Examines and contextualizes the discriminatory 'muezzin bill', which would ban the broadcasting of Muslim calls to prayer in Israel.
- The Revival of the Working-Class Concept
Trump, the Class Struggle, and the (Somewhat Overstated) Specter of Fascism
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Details how the concept of a working-class has been misused in the media to blame specific groups for Trump's success in the 2016 election, and how recognition of broader working-class issues is needed to enact positive political change.
- Confessions of an Alleged Russian Propagandist: A Pentagon Hit?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While our corporate media don't talk about it, the US does run a vast propaganda operation, which includes the spawning and spreading of, guess what?, fake news stories! This kind of thing has gone on for years abroad, but since 2001, under both the Bush and Obama administrations, both the Pentagon and the US Information Agency have done away with an earlier ban on spreading such lies posing as news inside the US. Now we’re all fair game for US propaganda, which by the way the mainstream media routinely parrot.
- Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter -- Special issue on alternative media
Sources News Release
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The November 27, 2016 edition of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is devoted entirely to alternative media.
- The Witch-Hunters
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Washington Post pushes campaign to censor alternative media.
- Alternative Media
Introduction to the November 27, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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It's no wonder that the mainstream media are widely distrusted, and even held in contempt, by many people. They are seen, rightly, as part of the neoliberal system people are increasingly rejecting. On the other hand, the Internet has made it possible to launch a vast number of alternative media projects.
- The Coding Of 'White Trash' In Academia
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As an academic from the U.S. Deep South, Holly Genovese has found herself between two worlds, not accepted in academia because of her background, and yet unable to 'go home again.'
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2016
Alternative Media
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A special issue on alternative media.
- Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
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First Published: 2016
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The Washington Post on Thursday night promoted the claims of a new, shadowy organization that smears dozens of U.S. news sites that are critical of U.S. foreign policy as being "routine peddlers of Russian propaganda."
- Steven Galloway is Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Everyone is owed due process
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2015
Yes, far too often women who are sexually assaulted are disbelieved. Which is why I understand and see the reasoning behind the "I Believe Women" slogan. It is a powerful statement. It is a strong political position. It is a rhetorical tool, but is not an actual, automatic truth. If we see it as such, it is an inherently tyrannical position that has historically been used to imprison and murder poor men of colour and Indigenous men. For these reasons I much prefer "I Listen to Women."
- F*** You, White Liberal: a Middle-Eastern American Glad Trump Won
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
Life and Health are the most precious things humans can have
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First Published: 2016
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Introducing Said Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine, along the Mediterranean Coast. Abu Nasser has created a 200-square-meter (2,000-square-foot) micro-farm using a hydroponic system and homemade organic pest-control solutions consisting of garlic, pepper, soap and more.
- The Dangers of Anti-Trumpism
Silvio Berlusconi's tenure as Italian prime minister shows how not to resist an authoritarian demagogue.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Comparisons between Donald Trump and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi abounded throughout the presidential election campaign. We can draw some important lessons if we move our attention away from the apparent similarities between Berlusconi and Trump, and focus instead on the analogies between anti-Berlusconism and the shape anti-Trumpism threatens to take.
- 'Fake news' & 'post-truth' politics? What about those Iraqi WMDs?
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First Published: 2016
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The people and the outlets warning of the dangers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' have been the biggest peddlers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' out there. It's like receiving lectures on the immorality of bootlegging from Al Capone.
- IFIC Welcomes New Members
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - November 21, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that Natixis Global Asset Management Canada and Picton Mahoney Asset Management have joined IFIC.
- Police Blast #NoDAPL Activists With Water Cannons in Sub-Freezing Temps
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Law enforcement unleashed concussion grenades, rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons in sub-freezing temperatures on peaceful water protectors battling the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota late Sunday.
- We Are All Deplorables
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First Published: 2016
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Those cast aside by the neoliberal order have an economic identity that both the liberal class and the right wing are unwilling to acknowledge. This economic identity is one the white underclass shares with other discarded people, including the undocumented workers and the people of color demonized by the carnival barkers on cable news shows. This is an economic reality the power elites invest great energy in masking.
- We Are All Deplorables
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First Published: 2016
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Chris Hedges on American life, politics and religion.
- Censorship in Social Media Leaves Users in Frustration
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
EFF and Visualizing Impact Analyze Reports of Content Moderation Gone Awry
- IFJ/EFJ slam Investigatory Powers Bill which threatens journalistic sources and whistleblowers
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International and European Federation of Journalists, (IFJ) and (EFJ), joined their UK affiliate, The National Union of Journalists (NUJ), in strongly condemning the Investigatory Powers Bill, which threatens the right to privacy, freedom of ex
- NYT Advocates Internet Censorship
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First Published: 2016
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The New York Times wants a system of censorship for the Internet to block what it calls "fake news," but the Times ignores its own record of publishing "fake news."
- Recording Police Is Protected by the First Amendment, EFF Tells Court
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
EFF Supports Citizen Journalists' Role in Reporting on Law Enforcement Use of Force
- To escape Trump's America, we need to bring the militant labor tactics of 1946 back to the future
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Seventy years after the Oakland General Strike, we should talk about the relevance of the Oakland General Strike tactics for today. It seems do-able, and if it's presented right, could pull a lot of interest to prepare for the kind of labour movement we need - the kind that is ready to stand up to the state and the capitalists.
- If gender identity debate at U of T was about free speech, then the battle is truly lost
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A recounting and criticism of the public debate over Bill C-16 and the Ontario Human Rights code, held in response to the remarks of University of a University of Toronto professor about transgender pronouns.
- Slime, Shorebirds, and a Scientific Mystery
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Examining the impact of large developments near the Fraser River estuary in British Columbia on migrating populations of shorebirds, which have been found to depend on a biofilm in the area to sustain their long flights.
- Breaking Yugoslavia: How the US Used NATO as Its Battering Ram
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First Published: 2016
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The United States used NATO to break up the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- The Cashless Economy of Chikalthana
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First Published: 2016
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An article about the cash crisis in the Indian village Chikalthana.
- Filtering The Election
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First Published: 2016
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Examining the mainstream media's role in the 2016 US election of suppressing criticisms of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party establishment.
- Hillary Clinton, The Vote, and Contemporary Feminism's Class Blindness
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First Published: 2016
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The feminist fight for libreration has been sidelined.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for October 2016
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending October 31, 2016, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.32 trillion.
- The real cause of Trump: rampant neoliberalism
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First Published: 2016
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Examining how the response from the traditional left to the 2016 US Election fails to recognize the failings of neoliberal policies and attitudes that contributed to the election of Trump.
- The general strike of 1842
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A detailed history of the UK Chartist general strike of 1842 against pay cuts and for universal male suffrage.
- Listening to Trump
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Trump is a racist and misogynist. But the heart of his message spoke to legitimate working class concerns.
- Psychiatry Professor: 'Transgenderism' Is Mass Hysteria Similar To 1980s-Era Junk Science
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While fair-minded people can agree that gays or people with gender confusion should not be discriminated against, the general public doesn’t appear to be ready to accept gender as simply a social construct or that people can be whatever gender they choose. These contentions, the conceptual foundation of transgenderism, fly in the face of reality: the biological difference between the sexes.
- The Working Class, Reconsidered
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The central narrative of post-election analysis asserts that Trump won the election by riding a wave of white working class resentment; a wave that he'd activated and steered in dangerous directions. The narrative is partly right, but it needs to be subject to critical analysis, specifically regarding how we think about "the working class" and the role that "it" played in this election.
- How Trump Took Middle America
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First Published: 2016
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Examining the lives of Trump supporters in middle America and the conditions and perceptions that motivate their support.
- Out in the Open
Remarks on the Trump Election
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With the Republicans' monopoly control over the government, even those who normally focus on electoral politics must realize that for some time to come the main struggle will be outside the parties and outside the government. It will be grassroots participatory actions or nothing.
- Dirty Fossil Fuel 'Business-As-Usual' Tactics Spew Out Of The International Maritime Organization At COP22
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The shipping industry needs to clean up its CO2 emissions now. The IMO's own Third IMO Greenhouse Gas Study 2014 report stated that by 2050, CO2 emissions from international shipping could grow by between 50 percent and 250 percent, depending on future economic growth and energy developments.
- Liberal Condescension
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First Published: 2016
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In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. election, a debate has erupted on the liberal left about the best way to deal with working class people who voted for Trump. The disagreement, for many of the participants, appears to revolve around whether liberals ought to spend their time giving patronizing lectures about white privilege, or patronizing lectures about other aspects of reality. What people on both sides of the debate seem to share is the assumption that the job of middle-class liberals is to lecture the working class.
- Misrepresenting the White Working Class
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First Published: 2016
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In McDowell County -- the poorest county of West Virginia , people were open to, even preferred, a real alternative to Trump and Clinton.
- Neo-Liberalism Under Cover of Racism
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Brexit and Trump represent the continuance of neo-liberalism, but with popular discontent diverted into added racism.
- Occupying Trump?
Five years after its formation and demise, Occupy is mostly a study in what to avoid for the anti-Trump movement.
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First Published: 2016
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Instead of creating a movement that materially attacked the institutions of the 1 percent, many members of the Occupy movement vowed to transform themselves and raise awareness at the individual level. Some responses to Trumpism have fallen into the same trap - treating the election as an opportunity for soul-searching or a reason to rail against individual Trump voters.
- A Blueprint for a New Party
With the rise of Donald Trump, we need to think seriously about what it would take to form a democratic organization rooted in working class
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First Published: 2016
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A proposal for a national political organization that would have chapters at the state and local levels, a binding program, a leadership accountable to its members, and electoral candidates nominated at all levels throughout the country.
- Occupying Trump?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Five years after its formation and demise, Occupy is mostly a study in what to avoid for the anti-Trump movement.
- Three Myths About Clinton's Defeat in Election 2016 Debunked
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A debunking of the explanations for Hillary Clinton's defeat in the 2016 election commonly given by the Democratic party establishment and Clinton loyalists - in particular the role of racism, sexism, and the loss of key Obama-supporting counties.
- Trump in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
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First Published: 2016
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Noam Chomsky shares his thoughts on the aftermath of this election in an interview.
- Victorian Class War -- Bloody Sunday at Trafalgar Square
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Patrick Murfin recalls a part of UK history, Bloody Sunday at Trafalgar Square.
- Commercial Ships Could Be Quieter, but They Aren't
Shipbuilding economics and lack of regulations are getting in the way of a quieter ocean
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As the ocean drowns in sound, the number of studies showing the harmful effects of noise on marine life has surged. And so, too, have the projections for how loud things might soon become.
- How the liberal class enabled the election of Donald Trump
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In a filmed interview with Afshin Rattansi, John Pilger describes how the collusion and silence of America's 'enlightened' liberal elite, notably its journalists, helped create President Trump.
- The myth of the reactionary white working class
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This identity-based presentation of Tuesday's election is a false narrative exploded by the most basic analysis of the data from the election.
- The myth of the reactionary white working class
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Following the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, the Democratic Party and media have attributed the results to the ignorance, backwardness and inherent racism and sexism of the "white working class." This identity-based presentation is a false narrative exploded by the most basic analysis of the data from the election.
- Are There Lessons for Canada's Elites in the US Election?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the aftermath of the results of the US election the mix of emotions and analysis spans the spectrum from feeling sorry for the irrational and politically illiterate American voter to fear about the consequences of the election of a thuggish buffoon as president. But common to all reactions is a smugness rooted in our sense of superiority -- as if our elites are somehow more attentive to the public interest and the lives of ordinary Canadians.
- Blaming Everbody
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Democratic Party brought the 2016 election disaster on themselves.
- Class is More Intersectional than Intersectionality
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Left as it exists currently is often ashamed of and apologetic for its class struggle orientation, chasing after demographic-specific oppression issues. An approach that leans toward greater emphasis on a class struggle focus is actually more intersectional than a focus which gives more attention to demographic-specific issues than to class.
- For India's extremist Hindus, Trump is a hero
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
India's Hindu nationalists are celebrating Donald Trump's surprising victory in the US presidential election. Trump is being hailed as a "hero" for taking a tough line against Islamists and Muslim immigrants in the US.
- How Did We Get Here? What Lies Ahead?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We need to understand the reasons why Trump won the 2016 U.S. election. This requires recognizing the uniqueness of this election on multiple fronts. Trump’s victory was just as much about the Democratic Party's implosion as it was about the triumph of Trump's "outsider" political campaign. The Republican victory was not driven by the party's ascendance among the public at large. If anything, the party is in big trouble looking ahead.
- Inequality Among Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary's Loss
Working-class women who voted for Trump tell us a lot about feminism's relationship to class politics.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The outcome of the 2016 American election was, like any, multi-causual. In addition to factors of racism and sexism, economic inequality, specifically economic inequality among women, must be identified as an additional culprit.
- Roaming Charges: Whitelash, White Heat?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Debunking Whitelash Theory in the context of the 2016 US presidential election and more.
- Americal Liberals Unleashed the Trump Monster
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Cook argues that Trump's victory was due to liberals losing rather than Trump winning.
- The Big Split
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The article depicts how despite Trump being likened to the perfect wrong play, wrong director and wrong cast as in Mel Brooks' The Producers, he has managed to claim victory. The author argues that this was more due to the Democratic party's failure than it was Trump's success.
- Blame the Neoliberals: Democrats' Toxic Ideology Paved the Way for Trump
How corporate centrism has failed to defeat even the most incompetent figurehead of the nativist right
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Democratic Party is ideologically bankrupt. Neoliberalism, the party's driving force, is toxic, and it has failed not only much of the United States, but also much of the world, driving wealth into the hands of the few. Without a populist left offering an ambitious alternative to the status quo, the nativist right has thrived.
- Dumbass Democrats
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Democrats were oblivious to the deep discontent among the American people because that simply does not figure into their clever and cunning calculations. Why should it? Fear, lesser of two evils, scapegoating, palace politics -- all these things worked in the past, didn't they?
- Race, class and the election of Trump
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An analysis on the 2016 US presidential election.
- President Trump: Big Liar Going to Washington or Tribune of the People?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An examination of Donald Trump's challenges to precepts of globalism, interventionist foreign policy, and special interests, how they resonated with public sentiment, and the challenges and potential outcomes of their implementation.
- Why Trump Won - And What's Next
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 shows that American voters wanted 'anything but the above' Obama policies of the previous eight years, policies which were just extensions of the neoliberal regime established in the 1980s in the US since Reagan. However, US Neoliberal policy may not change fundamentally in a Trump regime; just its appearance.
- Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Detailing how the Democratic party's response to their defeat in the 2016 election reflects a failure to recognize factors leading to the UK Brexit referendum result.
- Beltway to English Dictionary
Because sometimes words mean other words.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A list of words that have special meaning in the world of U.S. politics.
- I'll bet you didn't know you own billions of dollars in coal stocks
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Exposing the investments and other involvements of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in the fossil fuel industry.
- Land of the Free? Harvard Study Ranks America Worst in the West for Fair Elections
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
According to the EIP, U.S. elections scored lower than Argentina, South Africa, Tunisia, and Rwanda -- and strikingly lower than even Brazil. Specifically compared to Western democracies, U.S. elections scored the lowest, slightly worse than the U.K., while Denmark and Finland topped the list.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - Depression and Joy
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
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The November 7, 2016 issue of Other Voices is now out. If you're not on the email list, you can find it online on the Connexions website www.connexions.org. The focus of this issue is Depression and Joy.
- Standing Rock and Imperialism Itself
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First Published: 2016
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An article about the Dakota Access Pipeline.
- Agencies of Fear
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The article details an example of how little control the US administration can have over one of its agencies and the dangers and consequences of the situation.
- Depression and Joy
Introduction to the November 7, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other.
- Media Backgrounder: The Gamma Factor and the Value of Advice
Sources News Release
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This backgrounder highlights key findings from new landmark research from Dr. Claude Montmarquette and Ms. Nathalie Viennot-Briot (Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations CIRANO)
- One woman's brush with Sharia courts in the UK: "It ruined my life forever"
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The UK government is conducting an inquiry into the operation of Sharia courts which is being boycotted by a number of women's organisations because its remit is too narrow, and the panel of judges is not seen as 'independent' enough. Parallel to this, the Home Affairs Committee has also launched an inquiry into whether the principles of Sharia are compatible with British law.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
Depression and Joy
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It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
- Key to the Leap: Leave the oil in the soil
Movement Building
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Ian Angus and John Riddell argue that using the Leap Manifesto as the basis for building a new socialist movement in Canada must include confronting the climate crisis and the power of Big Oil.
- A miss bigger than a missed story: my final reflections on Trump and the press in 2016
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A shift in political culture away from journalism's grasp.
- Splendors and Miseries of the Antiracist 'Left'
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- Why the Jewish vote is to important to US presidential candidates
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Examining the reasons why US presidential candidates focus on the vote of the Jewish community despite US Jewry constituting only two percent of the electorate, and examining the alignment of the Jewish community with the American political parties and candidates.
- The Descent of the Left Press: From IF Stone to The Nation
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Just about fifty years ago when I was becoming politicized around the war in Vietnam, I began searching desperately for information and analysis that could explain why this senseless war was taking place. After taking out a subscription to I.F. Stone’s Weekly that an old friend had recommended, the scales began to fall from my eyes.
- How to Make Union Meetings Interesting and Useful
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Meetings should give members a sense of power by bringing them together. They can see and feel that they are not alone, that others have similar problems, and that others have found solutions. They can learn from each other, combine ideas, and build something bigger.
- Just How Gray Are the White Helmets of Syria?
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While thousands of humanitarian organisations around the world are struggling fiercely with diminishing support from governments and the public, one has achieved a surprising amount of support from Western governments in a surprisingly short period of time and gained a surprising attention from mainstream media and ditto political elites: The Syrian Civil Defence or White Helmets.
- The Trans Pacific Partnership Will Not Help Struggling Farmers
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A recent Associated Press article claimed that Wisconsin dairy producers "see nothing but advantages" if the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) were passed during the final session of Congress. A more accurate statement would be that some dairy producers see nothing but advantages. I am at a loss to understand how dairy producers would see any advantages to yet another "free trade" agreement.
- Syria and the Reemergence of McCarthyism
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Framing the rhetoric surrounding the Syrian conflict of 2016 as a reemergence of McCarthyism, with accusations of dictatorship being used to foster support for war.
- 1953 - 2002 - 2016: Syria and the Reemergence of McCarthyism
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A history of McCarthyism, or red-baiting, in US politics to justify or bolster foreign war efforts, and how the recent Syrian involvement has brought about a revival of McCarthyist discourse and tactics in the political and social realms.
- As Pipeline Construction and Repression Grows, DAPL Protest is Looking More Like a Mass Movement
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A look at the escalating conflict between the DAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, and the native tribes and activists who are resisting it. The issue is centered around the construction of a pipeline which risks the destruction of a river that serves as a main water source to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and the more than 17 million people downriver.
- 'Feels like blackmail': Canada needs to take a hard look at its piracy notice system
Copyright infringement notices spark fear and confusion among some Canadians
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Some anti-piracy firms routinely send out letters demanding hundreds of dollars from Canadians for alleged illegal downloads. And if they don't pay up, recipients are told they could face legal action and big fines. The problem is, people may be falsely accused and no one is under obligation to pay a settlement -- not even a penny.
- Indigenous rights are key to preserving forests, climate change study finds
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Leaving forests in communal hands cuts carbon emissions from deforestation, helps communities and offers long-term economic benefits: 'Everyone wins'
- Public Servants or Corporate Security?
An Open Letter to Law Enforcement and National Guard in North Dakota
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Detailing the role of the National Guard and law enforcement services as protecting corporate interests opposed to public safety in the context of the North Dakota pipeline protest action, and appealing to these public servants to consider the impact and implications of their role in the conflict.
- Allen Ginsberg and the '60s Movement
The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg
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Book review of Eliot Katz' The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg.
- Early U.S. Communism Revisited
The Communist International and US Communism 1919-1929
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Book review of Jacob A. Zumoff's The Communist International and US Communism 1919-1929.
- Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education
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Williams discusses why American universities' current trend of advocating innovation ends up prioritizing corporate interests over the gola of accessible education.
- A Legless Veteran's Struggle
Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran"
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Book review of Robert Goldstein's Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran".
- Michael Ratner
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Michael Ratner was President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Chair of the Board of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. He practiced law for 45 years, dying on May 11, 2016 at age 72.
- Requiem for a Black Trotskyist
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News of the death of former United Auto Workers staff member Ernie Dillard came by way of a phone call on Bastille Day 2016. The subsequent silence about his passing in the radical and mainstream press is an accusatory reminder of the extent to which the memory of the Left has been confiscated from those who require it most.
- The Revolutionary Art of Failure
Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
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Book review of Martin Espada's Vivas to Those Who Have Failed.
- Glenn Shelton
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Glenn Shelton, a retired president of Michigan Mailhandlers Local 307 who never stopped fighting for the rights of working people, and a member of Solidarity, died March 24, 2016, after a battle with cancer.
- The Truth About Venezuela's Opposition
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Western journalists can't admit that Venezuela's opposition is neither democratic nor peaceful.
- Voting Under Socialism
It'll be more meaningful - but hopefully won't involve endless meetings.
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- When Chinese Labor Strikes
China on Strike
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Book review of Hao Ren's edited volume China on Strike.
- Why are our environmental groups supporting weak climate targets?
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The federal government's recently announced that all Canadian jurisdictions must adopt a carbon pricing scheme by 2018 with a minimum price of $10 per tonne. The price must rise to reach $50 per tonne by 2022. The goal of reducing emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 will not get Canada anywhere close to its promises to the United Nations. Canadians probably believe that our major environmental groups are busy lobbying and pushing the federal and provincial governments to do much more. But no, this is not the case.
- Samhain to Halloween - The Sacred, the Profane, and the Silly
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Patrick Murfin review the orgin of Hallowe'en and the Celtic harvest festival Samhain.
- Show a Film, End Up on a Watch List
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On September 21, the Case Western Reserve University Radical Student Union showed a documentary titled "The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States," to all members of the university community through the Kanopy streaming service. The chairman of the board of trustees of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland called out for a follow-up investigation of the screening.
- Israel paints fighter jet pink to raise breast cancer awareness while preventing cancer patients in Gaza from receiving treatment
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- Kill for the Cure: The U.S. and Israel Aim to Cure Breast Cancer With Tasteful Pink Fighter Jets
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- Legal case deserves support
Re: Chippewas of the Thames protest pipeline
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The case that the Chippewas of the Thames is taking to the Supreme Court of Canada strikes at the heart and soul of this country's relationship with the indigenous people and their rights and the government of Canada's duty to consult.
- Power naps and eating on the wing - how common swifts set 10-month flight record en route from Britain to southern Africa
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The common swift stays constantly airborne for up to ten months at a time, new research reveals. The bird, ubiquitous in the UK and Europe, conserves energy by riding currents of hot air and taking “power naps” as it slowly glides from high altitudes.
- The U.S. and Israel Are Trying to Cure Breast Cancer With Tasteful Pink Fighter Jets
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According to companies that manufacture pink doodads, we could totally cure breast cancer if it weren’t for all the people who are unaware of breast cancer. Since pink means women, and women mean breasts, pink things are the best way to make people aware of breast cancer, and thus cure it. Imagine all the awareness that will rise in the contrails of these two pink fighter jets, brought to you in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month by the U.S. Navy and the Israeli Air Force.
- Wolfe Erlichman in conversation with Ulli Diemer
October 26, 2016
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An interview with Wolfe Erlichman, who worked as a community worker/organizer in Trefann Court in Toronto in the late 1960s. An audio recording of the interview, and a transcript, are held in the Connexions Archive.
- The Iceland women's strike, 1975
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A short history of the strike, or day off, by the of women in Iceland for equality with men on 24 October, 1975.
- Why Progressives Love the New Cold War
The anti-Russian hysteria coming from the left isn't surprising
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The Clinton campaign's effort to turn the 2016 US election into a referendum on Vladimir Putin is causing some liberals to question how the tactic appears contradictory to Clinton's other goals and beliefs. Examining support for US war efforts since WWI shows the current Cold War tactics of Clinton have many precedents from liberal politicians.
- June Days: Paris 1848
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The euphoria that set in after the revolution in February was short-lived among the workers in Paris.
- Missak Manouchian
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Missak Manouchian (1906 - 1944) was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist.
- RT in UK: A brief history of establishment hysteria
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NatWest Bank, a subsidiary of Britain's majority state-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland, gives notice that it is closing RT's accounts – without explanation. In this article detailed information has been presented concerning the issue.
- Corporate climate risk is about profit, not fixing the problem
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Corporate 'risk management' is concerned with protecting profits, not with protecting the planet or human beings.
- Four Harsh Truths for Canada's Lovestruck Pipeline Politicians
A reality check for our bitumen-besotted leaders.
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There are four obvious (and very conservative) reasons why more pipelines don’t make any kind of economic, energy or climate sense. These truths also explain the growing opposition to the corrupt National Energy Board that still approves pipelines without due process and ignores their impact on global pricing, let alone the science on climate change.
- Israel's Bogus History Lesson
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It was presumably intended as an Israeli history lesson to the world. A video posted to social media by Israel's foreign ministry shows an everyday Jewish couple, Jacob and Rachel, in a home named the "Land of Israel". A series of knocks on the door brings 3,000 years of interruptions to their happiness. First it's the Assyrians, followed by the Babylonians, Hellenists, Arabs, Romans, Crusaders, Mamluks, and Ottomans – all straight out of Monty Python central casting. Jacob and Rachel are forced by the warring factions to relocate to ever smaller parts of their home until finally they have to pitch a tent in the garden. Their fortunes change only with the arrival of a servant of the British Empire, who returns the title deeds. A final knock disturbs their celebrations. On the doorstep are a penniless Palestinian couple, craning their necks to see what goodies await them inside.
- Mao: Monster or Model?
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The world’s premier business newspaper the Financial Times (Japanese owned) has the answer: Mao was the worst ever. The worst ever what? If he was a monster that would be fine because monsters don't exist. Revolutions do though and that's the gripe of the Financial Times. That's the story. Revolution or Maoism is back in the Chinese air – if it ever went away. So Mao is still a threat even if he has been dead for forty years. He's still a model.
- Rigged
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The 2016 Republican presidential primary was rigged. It wasn't rigged by the Republicans, the Democrats, Russians, space aliens, or voters. It was rigged by the owners of television networks who believed that giving one candidate far more coverage than others was good for their ratings. The CEO of CBS Leslie Moonves said of this decision: "It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS." Justifying that choice based on polling gets the chronology backwards, ignores Moonves' actual motivation, and avoids the problem, which is that there ought to be fair coverage for all qualified candidates (and a democratic way to determine who is qualified).
- Syria and the Left: Time to Break the Silence
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The cold, hard reality of the war in Syria is that the violence, bloodshed, and chaos continues unabated while the Left, such as it is, continues on in a state of schizophrenic madness. Different points of view, conflicting ideological tendencies, and a misunderstanding of the reality of the conflict are all relevant issues to be interrogated, with civility and reasoned debate in short supply. The Left does need to seriously self-reflect though about just how it responds to crises of imperialism and issues of war and peace.
- Why Is the Truth on Syria Difficult To Decipher?
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According to Steven Kinzer, the American media's misinformation on Syria is leading to the kind of ignorance which is enabling the American government to pursue any policy, however imprudent, in the war-torn Arab country. The US government can "decree the death of nations" with “popular support because many Americans - and many journalists - are content with the official story," he wrote.
- ACLU Wants 23 Secret Surveillance Laws Made Public
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The ACLU has identified 23 legal opinions that contain new or significant interpretations of surveillance law -- affecting the government's use of malware, its attempts to compel technology companies to circumvent encryption, and the CIA's bulk collection of financial records under the Patriot Act -- all of which remain secret to this day, despite an ostensible push for greater transparency following Edward Snowden’s disclosures.
- Derailing Neoliberalism
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Haines-Doran examines the British transit workers' stike against rail privitization with its lack of concern for safety, unions, and workers' rights.
- 1956: Hungary's lost revolution
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The 21st century anti-capitalist movement owes a debt to the heroic and inspiring working-class uprisings in Hungary.
- Notes on a Future Politics - Part I
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In the aftermath of the 2016 US election, Garvey argues that no variety of liberalism, progressivism or social democracy will be adequate for addressing the multiple global crises of capitalist society nor will they be adequate for providing a genuine alternative to the many millions of people who are drawn to varieties of populist or fascist politics.
- Quebec First Nations may try to block Algonquin land claim
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The Algonquins of Ontario are one step closer to assuming tens of thousands of acres of their ancestral territory in a historic treaty, but their counterparts in Quebec are vowing legal action to stymie the agreement and delay a deal decades in the making.
- How a Selective Boycott Can Boost External Support for Palestinians
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The pro-Palestine solidarity movement could enlarge its following, convince more influential supporters, and get past trivial, harmful and sectarian disputes -- if it wants to. A boycott must be humanist, as is the cause of supporting Palestinian self-determination. Boycotting humanism allows the cynical internal corrosion of any political movement of the left.
- On Activism and Organizing: There is a Distinction
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What's the difference between an organizer, an activist, and someone who is just plain fighting for their life, on a personal level? Often, there is no discernible distinction, as these roles often blend together in ways that could never be separated. But for some people, there is no such complexity. I point this out because, in recent years, there has been a verbal shift in social justice spaces towards referring to everyone involved as an organizer. As a person who believes that we too often negate the meanings of words by transforming them into umbrellaed concepts, I have to say my piece about the matter.
- Why You Shouldn't Use Transgender Pronouns
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You don't need to be a psychology professor to realize than an attempt to transplant pronouns from the body to the mind is an attempt to destroy our ability to communicate.
- Guardian front page channels Orwell's 1984
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Reading the "liberal" press has become a truly Orwellian experience. What was true yesterday is a lie today. What was black today will be white tomorrow. Two reports on today’s front page of the Guardian could easily be savage satire straight from the pages of the novel 1984.
- Petroleum Disaster in the Great Bear Rainforest
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Outrage is the only word for what people are feeling after a tug and fuel barge, owned by Texas-based Kirby Offshore Marine, crashed on rocks in the heart of B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest on October 13, 2016. It’s been leaking 200,000 litres (59, 024 gallons) of diesel fuel into the sensitive marine ecosystem ever since.
- Canadian Taxpayers Federation has 5 members -- why should we care what they think?
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The Canadian Taxpayers' Federation has been around since the late 1980s, selling itself as a populist "citizens advocacy group" looking to cut waste and ensure accountability in government. They get acres of free coverage in newspapers and on local and national newscasts; their spokespeople regularly get more coverage than elected officials. Perhaps the CTF gets the coverage it does because it is seen as less biased than politicians — it is seen as advocating for taxpayers against all politicians, on the right and left. The CTF's media presence is truly remarkable when you consider it has a membership of five people. You read that correctly: five.
- Lurching to War
Introduction to the October 15, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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Capitalism hates competition, and the U.S., the world's dominant capitalist power, has never tolerated competitors, rivals, or leaders who dare to put their own country ahead of U.S. interests.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016
Lurching to War
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The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pursued a hyper-aggressive strategy of surrounding Russia with hostile military forces and missiles aimed at the Russian heartland.
- The Ruling Class's Hatred of Trump is Different Than Yours
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The master class's fear and loathing of Trump – one of their own, sort of – can be detected in the normally Republican-leaning corporate elite.
- Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans
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Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans – and native Kansan Sarah Smarsh sets out to correct what newsrooms get wrong.
- Pentagon Video Warns of 'Unavoidable' Dystopian Future for World's Biggest Cities
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According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept, the future of global cities will be an amalgam of the settings of "Escape from New York" and "Robocop" - with dashes of the "Warriors" and "Divergent" thrown in. It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes - brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers.
At least that's the scenario outlined in "Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity," a five-minute video that has been used at the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations University.
- The Real Nuclear Threat
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The fact that Trump has so cavalierly raised concerns about nuclear weapons may have a silver lining. It underscores how dangerous and irrational our nuclear policies already are.
- The deadly racism of the 'anti-racist' liberal imperialist
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When it comes to hypocrisy, the pro-war Western ‘liberal’ is in a class of his own. While professing opposition to racism, the pro-war liberal is cheerleader for the most dangerous and deadly form of racism in the world today - contemporary US/Western imperialism.
- "Do Not Resist": The Police Militarization Documentary Everyone Should See
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On a sunny afternoon last summer, Craig Atkinson, a New York City-based filmmaker, stood in a front yard in South Carolina surrounded by several heavily armed police officers. Inside, they found a terrified family of four, including an infant. As the family members were pulled outside, Atkinson's camera captured a scene that plays out with startling regularity in cities and towns across the country, one of many included in his new documentary, "Do Not Resist," an examination of police militarization in the United States.
- Every 25 Seconds, Cops Arrest Someone for Drug Possession
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The war on drugs may have failed, but it certainly hasn't ended: Every 25 seconds in the U.S., someone is arrested for drug possession. Arrests for the possession and personal use of drugs are boosting the ranks of the incarcerated at astonishing rates - with 137,000 people behind bars for drugs on any given day, and 1.25 million every year.
- Racist of the year, Ian Khama: Not Botswana's finest
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General Ian Khama, the President of Botswana, and his frequent outbursts against the Kalahari Bushmen are among the most horrifying instances of racism of recent times. His sentiments are extremely troubling.
- Class War in the Confederacy
Why Free State of Jones Matters
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Free State of Jones may well be the most politically important film about the civil war and its aftermath to appear in a quarter century. Free State of Jones is a proper antidote to identitarian thinking, which has mystified popular understandings of the past, and how we approach political action in the present. In contrast to the prevailing view among so many nowadays that racism has always been and continues to be the main barrier to any progressive left politics, this film reminds us of a more complex history, where anti-slavery politics, Radical Republicanism and mass action created the short-lived progress of Reconstruction.
- The Countdown Clock Law is Ridiculous, and so is the Police Pedestrian Blitz
The pedestrian countdown clock law shows what's wrong with Toronto's approach to road issues.
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The Highway Traffic Act is a foolish law, and this crackdown is antithetical to council’s stated goals. Rather than wasting police resources on enforcing it, we should be appealing to the province to scrap it altogether, as they did in New York City.
- How the West's Economic Sanctions are Inflicting Suffering on Ordinary Syrians
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The US and EU economic sanctions on Syria are causing huge suffering among ordinary Syrians and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid, according to a leaked UN internal report.
- No Shortcuts
Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
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Examines case studies of successes and failures of labour and social movements in recent history, arguing for the need for mass organization and bottom-up organizing which empowers ordinary people at the community level.
- Russkies at the Doorstep
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In a year noted for crude political discourse, eagerly serialized in the mainstream media, the MSM are themselves bellowing anti-Russian rhetoric, conspiracy theory, and fear-mongering.
- Socialist Register 2017
Volume 53: Rethinking Revolution
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This 53rd volume of the Socialist Register addresses the question of the meaning of revolution in the twenty-first century. Coming to terms with the legacy of 1917 is obviously one aspect of this. ‘October’ was a unique event that provided inspiration for millions of oppressed people, and also became an inevitable point of reference for socialist politics in the twentieth century. The twenty-first century left needs to both understand and transcend this legacy through a critical reappraisal of its broad effects – both positive and negative – on political, intellectual and cultural life everywhere as well as on the other revolutions that took place over the last century. But the main point of the volume is to look forward more than back. All revolutions emerge in conjunctures saturated with unique contra-dictions, contingencies, class alignments and struggles.
- U.S. Military Operations Are Biggest Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds
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A secret FBI study found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of "homegrown" terrorism. The report also identified no coherent pattern to "radicalization," concluding that it remained near impossible to predict future violent acts.
- Verizon Lawyer Argues for Greater Legal Protection for Customer Location Data
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Verizon's general counsel and head of public policy made a public case for reconsidering legal protections on customer data in light of evolving technology that allows companies to almost continuously track cell phone users' location.
- What is a Coup? Analysing the Brazilian Impeachment Process
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The debate over whether the regime change in Brazil constituted a coup hinges on whether the impeachment process used to depose President Dilma Rousseff had democratic legitimacy or was an illicit use of formal procedures to undermine the popular mandate granted to the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) by the Brazilian people in the last presidential election. Proponents of the view that the impeachment was legal and that this legality confers democratic legitimacy tend to abstract the impeachment process from its lived context. This abstraction leaves the politics behind the regime change opaque and even irrelevant.
- WikiLeaks Bombshell: Emails Show Citigroup Had Major Role in Shaping and Staffing Obama's First Term
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According to emails released by WikiLeaks, which came from a hack of the email account of John Podesta, a co-chair of Obama's 2008 Transition Team, we learn that despite the obvious fact that Citigroup was both corrupt and derelict in handling its own financial affairs, Barack Obama gave executives of that bank an outsized role in shaping and staffing his first term.
- Hilary Clinton: Candidate of War
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The U.S. political/media establishment only permits the propaganda version of the Syrian conflict -- and Hillary Clinton fully embraced it in her belligerent comments in the second presidential debate.
- The Slippery Slope: Rolling Downward, No Brakes, Nuclear War
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Policy is not a discrete entity; indeed, instead, it is a cumulative force, broadening in scope and direction, as it -- in this case -- plunges toward self- and global-annihilation. Destruction is in the very air we breathe, as though Thanatos looming overhead, because exceptionalism is reaching a point of satiety and feelings of emptiness and alienation make other than war and dominance meaningless.
- Why the New Silk Roads terrify Washington
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Almost six years ago, President Putin proposed to Germany 'the creation of a harmonious economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok.' This idea represented an immense trade emporium uniting Russia and the EU, or, in Putin's words, "a unified continental market with a capacity worth trillions of dollars."
In a nutshell: Eurasia integration.
Washington panicked.
- Notes on a Future Politics? Part I
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This essay is intended to enable those of us associated with Insurgent Notes and others to imagine how we might contribute to the emergence of an emancipatory, anti-capitalist mass politics in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election.
- President Trump?
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No matter what happens, the old US party system is broken. Donald Trump is like no major candidate in living memory.
- Review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island
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A book review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island.
- Strike Wave and Worker Victories in Cambodia
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Cambodia the class struggle has resulted in the enactment of a major anti-union labour law this year. Yet more is reported in the media on the long-gone Khmer Rouge than the frequent strikes that occur in the country. Still, the strikes are happening. And more often than not, they are winning.
- Donald Trump and the Vicious Culture of Neoliberal Mass Idiocy
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First Published: 2016
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The U.S. media and educational elites share responsibility for creating a world where a despicable idiot like Trump coud be president.
- Iceland Jail Top Bankers For 46 Years, Europe 'Outraged'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Iceland has differed from the rest of Europe and the US by allowing bankers to be prosecuted as criminals, rather than treating them as a protected species.
- Beware Liberals: Ridicule Will Backfire
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
What a year for political satire. It's nourishing; it lowers our stress level; it breaks taboos. Every democracy needs satire but one wonders how much it will count when it comes to votes on November 8th.
- Myanmar's forgotten guerrillas in the mist
A battle for self - determination continues among the country's ethnic groups
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An examination of Myanmar's complex ethnic makeup and the rivalries that exist between these groups.
- The Trump Phenomenon, as Seen From Europe
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First Published: 2016
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Trump is berated as the latest incarnation of Evil (after Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, the Brexiters): racist, sexist, Islamophobe, a friend of dictators, etc., in short the embodiment of all that arouses the righteous indignation of the human rights defenders. I would like to suggest a different way of seeing Trump. He is above all a capitalist, almost a caricature of the sort of man capitalism produces, encourages and celebrates. He makes money and is proud of it. For him, the bottom line is cost-benefit. Everything comes down to that ratio. Defend the Baltic States? What does it cost, what do we gain? Defend Japan? What does it cost, what do we gain?
- Beating the drums for war with Russia
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The US ruiling establishment is considering an escalation of US intervention. Such an escalation carries the very real threat of provoking a wider war.
- The History Thieves - Review
How Britain covered up its imperial crimes
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A review of Ian Cobain's book The History Thieves, an engrossing study which identifies secrecy as a 'very British disease', exploring how, as the empire came to an end, government officials burned the records of imperial rule.
- Operation Smoke and Mirrors: In the Chicago Police Department, If the Bosses Say It Didn't Happen, It Didn't Happen
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On May 31, 2016, the city of Chicago agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by two police officers who allege they suffered retaliation for reporting and investigating criminal activity by fellow officers. The settlement, for $2 million, was announced moments before the trial was to begin.
- Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market. Rather it was the result of conscious policies that were designed to put downward pressure on the wages of ordinary workers while protecting and enhancing the incomes of those at the top. Baker explains how rules on trade, patents, copyrights, corporate governance, and macroeconomic policy were rigged to make income flow upward.
- Thousands Of Israelis Take To The Streets Calling For Palestinian Genocide
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Massive rallies and Facebook campaigns calling for Palestinian genocide are ignored by Western mainstream media and Facebook despite concerns and collaborations aimed at stopping "calls to violence".
- To Sell Weapons, Defense Contractors Make War Seem Fun
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
At the Association of the United States Army's annual exposition at the new, cavernous Washington Convention Center, defense contractors are making their weapons seem fun where in order to score contracts with the Pentagon. AUSA features a who’s who of the military-industrial complex, and the extreme excess of money in the industry is evident everywhere.
- Watch Your Back: Chicago Police Bosses Targeted Cops Who Exposed Corruption
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First Published: 2016
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After Chicago police officers Shannon Spalding and Danny Echeverria filed a whistleblower lawsuit, retaliation against them only intensified.
- The Battle of Cable Street
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Eighty years ago this week, anti-fascists in East London confronted Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts as they tried to march though what was then a largely Jewish area. Mosley's British Union of Fascists was notorious for using marches and rallies as cover for vicious attacks on Jews. The confrontation has gone down in folklore as 'The Battle of Cable Street'.
- The Dreadful Chronology of Gaddafi's Murder
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First Published: 2016
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Since 2003, Gaddafi had worked hard to repair his reputation for financing terrorism; his proposal for a trans-African banking system never reached fruition. Freedom and justice were never part of the West's agenda.
- A History of Student Movements and Activism at Evergreen State College and the Greater Nation
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Students and student movements have played a major role in struggles for reform and revolution in the United States and around the world. Before I turn to Evergreen, I will give a few examples, mainly from the United States in the 1960’s. I will also share a few conclusions based on many years of activism with student movements.
- The New York Times Suddenly Embraces International Law To Condemn Russia
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As the Syrian Arab Army dug in for a fight against the self-declared Islamic State on September 17, they were struck by an air raid that killed 62 soldiers and injured 100 more. The culprit was a foreign military that has never been attacked by, and has not declared war on, Syria. Two weeks later, that same nation’s military killed 22 soldiers in a strike inside Somalia, another country which it had never been attacked by nor declared war on. The very next day the New York Times published a stinging editorial decrying flagrant violations of international law by an "outlaw nation."
- Southwest Airlines kicks Muslim off a plane for saying 'inshallah', meaning 'God willing' in Arabic
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A Muslim man was told to leave a Southwest Airlines flight after another passenger overheard him speaking Arabic on his mobile phone.
- The 'White Helmets' and the Inherent Contradiction of America's Syria Policy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The danger faced by the White Helmets is not a fiction -- to date, 141 first responders affiliated with the Syrian Civil Defense have been killed while performing their duty. And although their claims of having saved more than 60,000 lives are unverifiable, there can be no doubt that many lives have, in fact, been saved as a result of their work. But let there be no doubt -- despite their oft-cited claims of being neutral and impartial, that the White Helmets are very partisan.
- WikiLeaks: 10 Years of Pushing the Boundaries of Free Speech
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We are now entering WikiLeaks 10 year anniversary. The organization registered their domain on October 4, 2006 and blazed into the public limelight in the spring of 2010 with the publication of Collateral Murder. This video footage depicted the cruel scenery of modern war seen from an Apache helicopter gun-sight. It became an international sensation, with the website temporarily crashing with the massive influx of visitors.
- America's Deceptive Model for Aggression
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First Published: 2016
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Since NATO's 1999 war on Serbia, U.S. officials have followed a script demonizing targeted foreign leaders, calling ultimatums "diplomacy," lying about "war as a last resort" and selling aggression as humanitarianism.
- Destroying Syria: a Joint Criminal Enterprise
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First Published: 2016
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Everyone claims to want to end the war in Syria and restore peace to the Middle East. Well, almost everyone.
- Future Sex - Review
Future Sex by Emily Witt
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Future Sex, Emily Witt makes quick and effective references to the sex she has and the sex she witnesses. She mentions boyfriends, describes a hardcore porn shoot, goes to a sex party with polyamorists, and visits the orgy dome at Burning Man.
- The Great Libya War Fraud
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Coming so soon after the incomplete but still damning exposure of the Iraq deception - with the bloodbath still warm - the media's deep conformity and wilful gullibility on the 2011 Libyan war left even jaundiced observers aghast. It was clear that we were faced with a pathological system of propaganda on Perpetual War autopilot.
- Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings
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First Published: 2016
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Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one officer, secret police teams are partly responsible.
- Security experts urge clients to stop using Yahoo Mail after spying report
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Yahoo is once again under scrutiny after a report that at the behest of the U.S. government, its engineers had written software to scan every email message sent and received by its users.
- A Seismic Shift Toward Socialism in the U.K. Labour Party
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First Published: 2016
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Jeremy Corban's unexpected 2015 rise to the leadership of the U.K. Labour Party and his recent resounding victory over the right-wing forces within the party that tried to dislodge him are sending shockwaves throughout Europe - waves that could reach the shores of the U.S. if events continue to unfold in the same direction.
- 'Captain Elder Brother' and the Whirlwind Army
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First Published: 2016
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At 94, a forgotten hero of India’s struggle for freedom returns to the scene of his most daring exploit in the anti-British Raj uprising that saw a parallel government established in Satara, Maharashtra, in 1943.
- Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That's Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Posing as a non-political solidarity organization, the Syria Campaign leverages local partners and media contacts to push the U.S. into toppling another Middle Eastern government.
- Unreliability, Spinelessness of the Western 'Left'
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First Published: 2016
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For years and decades, the so-called 'left' in the West has been moderately critical of North American (and sometimes even of European) imperialism and neo-colonialism. But whenever some individual or country rose up and began openly challenging the Empire, most of the Western left-wing intellectuals simply closed their eyes, and refused to offer their full, unconditional support to those who were putting their lives (and often even the existence of their countries) on the line.
- Cold War, today, tomorrow, every day till the end of the world.
The Anti-Empire Report #145
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First Published: 2016
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The first Cold War performed a lobotomy on Americans, replacing brain matter with anti-communist viral matter, producing more than 70 years of functional national stupidity. For all of you who missed this fun event there's good news: Cold War Two is here, as big and as stupid as ever. Russia and Vladimir Putin are repeatedly, and automatically, blamed for all manner of bad things.
- 50 Years Later, Protesters in Texas Reenact a Farmworker Strike That Is Scarcely Mentioned in History Books
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First Published: 2016
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In the summer of 1966, hundreds of farm workers in Texas marched from Rio Grande City to Austin -- almost 500 miles over 90 days -- to demand change. They weren’t asking for anything fancy. They wanted better wages, restrooms and uncontaminated water for the people cultivating and picking melons and other crops. Now 50 years later, more than 100 people -- some who were at the original strike in Starr County -- are are marching again.
- How the White Helmets Became International Heroes While Pushing U.S. Military Intervention and Regime Change in Syria
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First Published: 2016
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Created by Western governments and popularized by a top PR firm, the White Helmets are saving civilians while lobbying for airstrikes.
- Pentagon Spent Over $500 Million Making Fake Al-Qaeda Videos
Troops Would Litter Videos Around Sites of Raids
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It has already been well-documented that the Pentagon spent a substantial amount of money on propaganda during the occupation of Iraq, running pro-occupation commercials and also covertly getting pro-occupation news stories into the media around the region. It turns out that was just the tip of the iceberg. It has now been revealed that there was a third program ongoing, in which a London-based PR agency was paid $540 million to make fake al-Qaeda propaganda videos for Pentagon use.
- Propaganda Techniques of Empire
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First Published: 2016
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Washington’s quest for perpetual world power is underwritten by systematic and perpetual propaganda wars. Every major and minor war has been preceded, accompanied and followed by unremitting government propaganda designed to secure public approval, exploit victims, slander critics, dehumanize targeted adversaries and justify its allies’ collaboration. In this paper Petras discusses the most common recent techniques used to support ongoing imperial wars.
- A Solution for Kashmir
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First Published: 2016
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What would justice for those suffering under Indian occupation in Kashmir look like?
- Hillbilly Elitism
The American hillbilly isn't suffering from a deficient culture. He's just poor.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is not aimed at that underclass (few books are), but rather a middle- and upper-class readership more than happy to learn that white American poverty has nothing to do with them or with any structural problems in American economy and society and everything to do with poor folks' inherent vices.
- Marxism and the Dialectics of Ecology
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First Published: 2016
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The recovery of the ecological-materialist foundations of Karl Marx’s thought, as embodied in his theory of metabolic rift, is redefining both Marxism and ecology in our time, reintegrating the critique of capital with critical natural science. Marx's materialist conception of history is inextricably connected to the materialist conception of nature, encompassing not only the critique of political economy, but also the critical appropriation of the natural-scientific revolutions occurring in his day.
- Young activist is on the front lines of First Nations' fight against pipelines
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First Published: 2016
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Vanessa Gray’s hand shakes as she talks about the prison sentence dangling over her head. The 23-year-old activist says she's "a little scared," but also hopeful she won't be convicted of mischief endangering life when her case goes to trial next year. Crown prosecutors charged Gray and two others last December after they allegedly sabotaged a pipeline in Sarnia.
- Big Papers Want Foreign Companies, Not War Crime Victims, to Sue US
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First Published: 2016
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The editorial boards of the US’s four most influential newspapers joined President Barack Obama in opposition to the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, a bill that makes suing Saudi Arabia for the 9/11 attacks markedly easier.
- The Biggest Heist in Human History
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First Published: 2016
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The only way stimulus can work is if its put where it’s needed. And we can now say with 100 percent certainty, that the Fed’s stimulus wasn’t put where it was needed which is why it hasn’t worked.
- Corrupted Science: the DEA and Marijuana
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While I was on my book tour for Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto, I was shocked to discover how many Americans didn’t know our Founding Fathers grew cannabis.
- Dakota Access Pipeline and the Future of American Labor
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As United States Energy Transfers Partners began building the Dakota Access Pipeline through territory sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the tribe began an escalating campaign against the pipeline.
- Is renewable energy really environmentally friendly?
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First Published: 2016
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Renewable energy sources may have low CO2 emissions at the point of use, but the mines that make the technology possible are often environmentally destructive.
- Israel and Academic Freedom: a Closed Book
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It’s not by accident that free speech and association is under attack from coast to coast in ways unseen since the academic purges that targeted largely "radical" Jews of the 1950's brought to us by a guy named McCarthy. He too had this notion that good thought must necessarily adhere to a checklist of sanitized ideas. That safe speech and association demanded a line of logic dictated by the powerful and pervasive.
- Thoughtcrimes and Stupidspeak: Our Assault Against Words
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We are tortured with repetitions. How many bloggers do we have in cyberspace, opining in a Duckspeak that gets a Bellyfeel response because those who have an opposing Bellyfeel response listen only to their Duckspeak bloggers. 152 million bloggers as of 2013. 500 million tweets per day. 1.71 billion active users on Facebook. 4 billion YouTube views per day. A Pandora’s Box opened that cannot be closed, perhaps because what cybertech installs can neither be abjured nor rejected. "It's all good" apparently. Perhaps not.
- US Propaganda Campaign to Demonize Russia in Full Gear over One-Sided Dutch/Aussie Report on Flight 17 Downing
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If the danger of the anti-Putin, anti-Russian disinformation propaganda campaign out of the Pentagon and promoted by the US corporate media weren’t so serious, the effort itself might be laughable.
- Digital Disconnect and its adverse impact on how (or whether) we engage with nature
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As the Digital Schoolhouse programme starts a national roll out to schools across the UK, scientists warn that digital disconnect can mean caring less - for each other and the environment.
- The Secret Struggle Against Apartheid
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First Published: 2016
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In the 1960s, a group of leftists risked everything to revive the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.
- When Is Direct Military Intervention Not Direct Military Intervention?
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First Published: 2016
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Since 2014, according to official Pentagon figures, the US has carried out 5,337 airstrikes in Syria. Yet the New York Times continues to pretend that the U.S. has not intervened militarily in Syria.
- Apple Logs Your iMessage Contacts - and May Share Them With Police
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Apple promises that your iMessage conversations are safe and out of reach from anyone other than you and your friends. But according to a document obtained by The Intercept, your blue-bubbled texts do leave behind a log of which phone numbers you are poised to contact and shares this (and other potentially sensitive metadata) with law enforcement when compelled by court order.
- The Politics of Bombing
Wholesale, Retail, and Improvised
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Bombs, domestic and foreign, are defining the nature of politics in the United States, the European Union and among radical Islamist groups and individuals. The scale and scope of bomb-politics varies with the practitioner. 'Wholesale bombers' are state actors, who engage in large-scale, long-term bombing designed to destroy adversary governments or movements. 'Retail bombers' are groups or individuals engaging in small-scale, sporadic bombings, designed to provoked fear and secure symbolic outcomes. In this paper we will focus on the nature of 'wholesale' and 'retail' bombings, their frequency, political consequences and long-term impact on global political power.
- Green by default - how a nudge and wink can save the planet
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There's a simple way to induce us to make good environmental choices: make them the default setting. Whether it's selecting double sided photocopies or renewable electricity tariffs, defining easily-overridden 'green defaults' is by far the most efficacious means to influence consumer choices for the environment and the planet.
- The Memory Code: how oral cultures memorise so much information
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Long before the ancient Celts, Aboriginal Australians were recording vast scores of knowledge to memory and passing it to successive generations. Aboriginal people demonstrate that their oral traditions are not only highly detailed and complex, but they can survive -- accurately -- for thousands, even tens of thousands, of years.
- Peaceful warrior: Permaculture visionary Bill Mollison
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First Published: 2016
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Australian educator, author and co-inventor of Permaculture, Bruce Charles 'Bill' Mollison, died on the 24 September 2016 in Sisters Creek, Tasmania. He has been praised across the world for his visionary work, and left behind a global network of 'peaceful warriors' in over 100 countries working tirelessly to fulfill his ambition to build harmony between humanity and Mother Earth.
- Draw and you'll go to jail': the fight to save comics from the censor
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
From worried parents to policemen with built-in 'Satan detectors', underground comics have never lacked enemies. And for 30 years Neil Gaiman and his friends have fought back in the name of free speech.
- Workers in a lean world: unions in the international economy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In a comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, Kim Moody surveys both sides of the picket lines. A bracing riposte to the conventional wisdom concerning the irresistible power of globalization, Workers in a Lean World is a definitive account of contemporary labour relations on a global scale.
- A Walking Tour of New York's Massive Surveillance Network
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
So it felt a bit risky to be climbing up a street pole on Wall Street to closely inspect a microwave radar sensor, or to be lingering under a police camera, pointing and gesturing at the wires and antenna connected to it. Yet it was also entirely appropriate to be doing just that, especially in the company of Ingrid Burrington, author of the new book "Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure," which points out that many of the city's communications and surveillance programs were conceived and funded in response to the attacks.
- Anti-Palestine Media Bias Remains Untouchable Even to Canada’s Media Critics
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A recent Canadaland podcast simultaneously highlighted anti-Palestinian media bias and the fear liberal journalists’ face in discussing one of the foremost social justice issues of our time.
- Kingdom of the Unjust
Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The co-founder of CODEPINK's research on the sinister nature of the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
- Students Are Pulling a Kaepernick All Over America -- and Being Threatened for It
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Students are being threatened with punishment for not participating in rituals surrounding the national anthem or Pledge of Allegiance -- and they are fighting back. Since NFL 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat during the national anthem in August to protest oppression of people of colour, many Americans, particularly professional athletes and students, have followed suit. But their constitutional right to engage in such gestures of dissent is not always being respected.
- 21st Century Trade Union Conspiracy Trial
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It's fitting that the return of the trade union conspiracy trial would take place in Philadelphia, the city of the infamous Philadelphia Cordwainers Trial of 1805, the first known trade union conspiracy case in America.
- 21st Century Trade Union Conspiracy Trial
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It's fitting that the return of the trade union conspiracy trial would take place in Philadelphia, the city of the infamous Philadelphia Cordwainers Trial of 1805, the first known trade union conspiracy case in America. Beginning with the genesis of the first combinations of wage labourers in eighteenth-century England, trade unionism has been perceived and prosecuted as a conspiracy against private property -- and rightly so. What is a trade union but a permanent conspiracy against private property and the inviolable right to private property? Friedrich Engels designated trade unions as schools of war in The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1845, and the processes underlying workers' control and workers' power made manifest in trade unionism then remain in operation today.
- Against the Cultural Turn
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The starting point of this debate is the failure of multiculturalism. It has become fashionable today to criticise multiculturalism. The trouble is, many of the criticisms are as problematic as multiculturalism itself. And I say that as someone who's been a critic of multiculturalism for more than 20 years, from well before it was fashionable to be so.
- Unreliable Informants: IP Addresses, Digital Tips and Police Raids
How Police and Courts are Misusing Unreliable IP Address Information and What They Can Do to Better Verify Electronic Tips
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An explanation of the pitfalls of use of IP addresses as electronic evidence by law enforcement, and how law enforcement and courts can use IP addresses responsibly in criminal investigations with specific suggestions to assist each of them.
- What Are We Allowed to Say?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Free speech is an aberration -- it is best to begin by admitting that. In most societies throughout history and in all societies some of the time, censorship has been the means by which a ruling group or a visible majority cleanses the channels of communication to ensure that certain conventional practices will go on operating undisturbed. It is not only traditional cultures that see the point of taboos on speech and expressive action. Even in societies where faith in progress is part of a common creed, censorship is often taken to be a necessary means to effect improvements that will convey a better life to all. Meanwhile, since the fall of Soviet communism, liberal bureaucrats in the North Atlantic democracies have kept busy constructing speech codes and guidelines on civility to soften the impact of unpleasant ideas.
- Accept Bill C-242: An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (inflicting torture)
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We,The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW), understand that presently Canadian legislation on torture (CC 269.1) only addresses torture inflicted by a State official or someone acting with the consent and acquiescence of such an official. Theref
- The Assassination of Orlando Letelier and the Politics of Silence
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In 1976, agents working for the Chilean secret service attached plastic explosives to the bottom of Orlando Letelier's Chevrolet as it sat in the driveway of his family's home in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. There are still many unanswered questions about this time. Exactly how complicit was the U.S. in the overthrow of the Chilean government? Why did the CIA ignore a cable telling it that Chile's agents were heading to the U.S.? Why did Henry Kissinger, then Secretary of State, cancel a warning to Chile not to kill its overseas opponents just five days before Letelier was murdered?
- Evidence FBI Gathered While Running Porn Site Thrown Out Again
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For the third time, a federal judge has ruled that a mass hack by the FBI - which ensnared thousands of computers based on only one warrant - was illegal. Like the previous ones, the decision was based on a jurisdictional technicality: Rule 41 of criminal procedure holds that magistrate judges can only authorize searches inside their jurisdiction - meaning a judge in one district cannot authorize a search in a different geographical location. The hack in question was part of an investigation into a child pornography website called Playpen. Playpen was hosted on the dark web, meaning that users could only access it through a service that concealed their IP address, making it impossible for the FBI to tell who was accessing the site and downloading child pornography.
- Why the Food Movement is Unstoppable
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Even today, in more than a few countries, food is the organising principle behind the main challengers of existing power structures. In El Salvador, the National Coordinator of its Organic Agriculture Movement is Miguel Ramirez who recently explained: We say that every square meter of land that is worked with agro-ecology is a liberated square meter. We see it as a tool to transform farmers’ social and economic conditions. We see it as a tool of liberation from the unsustainable capitalist agricultural model that oppresses farmers.
- Responsible advertisers must boycott climate-sceptic Mail, Sun, Times, Telegraph, Express
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A handful of right wing media billionnaires have been using their newspapers as propaganda rags to attack climate science and oppose climate action, writes Donnachadh McCarthy. Yet even 'climate leader' companies like M&S are fuelling their profits by advertising with them. Now a new #Deadvertisment campaign is demanding them to stop, right now.
- World's oldest library reopens in Fez: 'You can hurt us, but you can't hurt the books'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
After years of restoration, the ninth-century Qarawiyyin library in north-eastern Morocco is finally set to reopen – with strict security and a new underground canal system to protect its most prized manuscripts
- New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Oliver Stone's latest film, "Snowden," bills itself as a dramatized version of the life of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the global extent of U.S. surveillance capabilities.
- Why capitalism causes oppression
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An examination of capitalism and how the aggressive competitive drive to accumulate wealth exploits and marginalizes individuals and social groups.
- Assad's Death Warrant
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The war in Syria did not begin when the government of Bashar al Assad cracked down on the uprisings in the spring of 2011, but rather the war began in 2009, when Assad rejected a Qatari plan to transport gas from Qatar to the EU via Syria.
- Who is appropriating what?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last week the novelist Lionel Shriver gave the keynote address at the Brisbane Writers Festival. It did not go well. She addressed the question of 'Fiction and identity politics' (apparently the organizers had originally asked her to talk about 'community and belonging', but she had submitted to them a different topic), providing a robust critique of identity politics and of the idea of ‘cultural appropriation’.
- Black Ops Advertising
Native Ads, Content Marketing, and the Covert World of the Digital Sell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Black Ops Advertising dissects this rapid rise of "sponsored content," a strategy whereby advertisers have become publishers and publishers create advertising -- all under the guise of unbiased information. Covert selling, mostly in the form of native advertising and content marketing, has so blurred the lines between editorial content and marketing message that it is next to impossible to tell real news from paid endorsements. In the 21st century, instead of telling us to buy, buy, BUY, marketers "engage" with us so that we share, share, SHARE -- the ultimate subtle sell.
- The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Every four years, tempers are tested and marriages fray as Americans head to the polls to cast their votes. But does anyone really care what we think? Has our vaunted political system become one big, expensive, painfully scriped reality TV show? In this cringe-inducing expose of the sins and excesses of Beltwayland, a longtime Republican party insider argues that we have become an oligarchy in form if not in name.
- I Was a CIA Whistleblower. Now I'm a Black Inmate. Here’'s How I See American Racism.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
From the moment I crossed the threshold from freedom to incarceration because I was charged with, and a jury convicted me of, leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter, I needed no reminder that I was no longer an individual. Prison, with its "one size fits all" structure, is not set up to recognize a person's worth; the emphasis is removal and categorization. Inmates are not people; we are our offenses. In this particular prison where I live, there are S-Os (sex offenders), Cho-Mos (child molesters), and gun and drug offenders, among others. Considering the charges and conviction that brought me here, I'm not exactly sure to which category I belong. No matter. There is an overriding category to which I do belong, and it is this prison reality that I sadly "compare unto the world": I'm not just an inmate, I'm a black inmate.
- Menwith Menace: Britain's Complicity In Saudi Arabia's Terror Campaign Against Yemen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 'mainstream' Western media is, almost by definition, the last place to consult for honest reporting of Western crimes. Consider the appalling case of Yemen which is consumed by war and an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Since March 2015, a 'coalition' of Sunni Arab states led by Saudi Arabia, and supported by the US, Britain and France, has been dropping bombs on neighbouring Yemen. The scale of the bombing is indicated in a recent article by Felicity Arbuthnot - in one year, 330,000 homes, 648 mosques, 630 schools and institutes, and 250 health facilities were destroyed or damaged.
- Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last week, a major censorship controversy erupted when Facebook began deleting all posts containing the iconic photograph of the Vietnamese "Napalm Girl" on the ground that it violated the company's ban on "child nudity." Facebook even deleted a post from the prime minister of Norway, who posted the photograph in protest of the censorship. As outrage spread, Facebook ultimately reversed itself - acknowledging "the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time" - but this episode illustrated many of the dangers I've previously highlighted in having private tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google become the arbiters of what we can and cannot see.
Having just resolved that censorship effort, Facebook seems to be vigorously courting another. The Associated Press reports today from Jerusalem that the Israeli government and Facebook have agreed to work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network.
- How Israel aims to redefine 'ethnic cleansing'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Netanyahu’s controversial comments have thrown another obstacle in the way of Palestinian statehood, analysts say.
- Long-Secret Stingray Manuals Detail How Police Can Spy on Phones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Harris Corp.'s Stingray surveillance device has been one of the most closely guarded secrets in law enforcement for more than 15 years. The company and its police clients across the United States have fought to keep information about the mobile phone-monitoring boxes from the public against which they are used. The Intercept has obtained several Harris instruction manuals spanning roughly 200 pages and meticulously detailing how to create a cellular surveillance dragnet.
- Don't believe the rumours. Universal Grammar is alive and well.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
According to a recent article in Scientific American, however, the community I just described doesn’t exist, and maybe couldn’t possibly exist in linguistics today, because the kind of work that I just described has long since shown the Universal Grammar hypothesis (UG) to be flat-out wrong. But such a community does exist.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
Back to School
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
- Containing the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With Hillary Clinton about to be elected and some advanced cadres of the war party preparing to take charge, who is going to contain the United States? The U.S. political system has failed its populace and the world and has imposed no brakes on the war machine. The UN and EU are still too much under the U.S. thumb. Russia and China are too weak and with too flimsy an alliance system to threaten U.S. hegemony and do more than make direct U.S. aggression against themselves very costly.
- Bata’s footprint in Africa: The dark story of Canadian shoe giant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Toronto-based shoemaker took advantage of European colonialism to rapidly set up across the continent, squeezing out local footwear producers, working with apartheid South Africa and even reaching out to Uganda’s Idi Amin.
- No way to remember anything
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An analysis of the 2011 Egyptian revolution reproduces the same mistakes on the left that led to the revolution’s defeat in 2013.
- Another Response to May '68 Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The significance of the May Events is not to be found in the question of state power. Like other recent movements such as Occupy, it changed the discourse in the public sphere. May 68 changed people's expectations in their social life and their utopian hopes.
- Between Rage and Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the nature of comteporary terror.
- Beyond Bernie: The Hidden Potential of Progressive Third Parties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
What Bernie no longer articulates, and what relatively few of his new fans may realize, is that left third parties can be effective. Resisting the two-party system, even against the so-called odds, is not futile or irrational. Contrary to popular myth, it is a proven and still relevant method for advancing progressive change in the United States.
- Checking Out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In mid-June of 2016, tension between workers and their boss in a small New York City retail shop reached the boiling point. The result was chaos for a hated overseer, and the sweet aftertaste of an assertion of people power all too rare in their line of work.
- Good nutrition begins in healthy soils
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There's no such thing as 'healthy food' if it's not produced by sustainable farming systems on living soils, Patrick Holden told the recent 'Food: The Forgotten Medicine' conference. But after 70 years of industrial farming, there's a huge job to be done to restore our depleted soils and the impoverished genetic diversity of our seeds and crops.
- UK police will soon start bagging people's heads during arrests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Metropolitan Police officers will soon be able to use specially designed bags, known as spit hoods, to cover suspects’ heads during arrests and in police stations. The mesh bags are used to restrain suspects and protect the police from those who might try to bite or spit at them. The Met insists the hoods prevents exposure to diseases and serious infection.
- What's Class Got to Do With It?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Unsettled by Donald Trump's bigotry and xenophobia, liberal pundits have struggled to understand his improbable anointment as the nominee of the Republican party. Many have sought answers in the experience and behaviour of the white-working class, the bedrock of Trump support.
- Among the Pipeline Fighters in Central Iowa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Iowans protest the Bakken pipeline, fighting against Big Carbon and 21st century petro-capitalism.
- An open letter to the Peel Catholic School Board from Jewish Canadians in support of Nadia Shoufani
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Jewish Canadians writing in support of Nadia Shoufani, a teacher in the Peel Catholic School Board who was suspended pending an investigation by the Ontario College of Teachers.
- Public Relations Firm Claims to Have Ghost Written Thousands of Op-Eds in Major U.S. Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Laura Bentz of Keybridge Communications describes her company as "a boutique PR firm -- founded by a former writer for the Wall Street Journal -- that specializes in writing and placing op-eds. With some of the country's most influential trade groups and global corporations as clients, we run many of the major op-ed campaigns in the U.S. We place roughly 3,000 op-eds per year."
- Abortion Victory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On June 27, 2016 the U.S. Supreme Court, in Whole Women's Health vs. Hellerstedt, not only struck down key provisions of a 2013 Texas law restricting abortion, but also set a standard by which similar legislation can be measured.
- Acceptable Losses
Aiding and abetting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A close look at the crisis in Yemen, a country rife with povery and water shortages and further devastated by a prolonged campaign of bombing and military action.The military campaign, supported by the United States, is an effort by the Saudi governemnt to oust a tribal group in north Yemen who follow Zaidism, an off-shoot of Shia Islam.
- BLM Movement Grows Stronger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The vanguard leadership of the young women who started the Black Lives Movement with the #Blacklivesmatter on Twitter, after the killings of Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Missouri, continues to advance and has led to similar formations in other countries.
- China's Climate of Repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With secret trials and lengthy prison sentences imposed on human rights lawyers after forced and humiliating "confessions," the abduction of Hong Kong booksellers under circumstances that remain obscure, and new legislation that sharply restricts the work of independent organizations, the climate of repression in China is clearly sharpening.
- Detroit's Tax Foreclosure Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Given the history of housing discrimination in Metro Detroit over the last 100 years, it is hardly surprising that the illegal over-assessments of property values has a greater impact on African-American homeowners.
- A Giant, Flushing Sound
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The editors discuss the anti-TPP rhetoric of Sanders, Trump, and Clinton, as well as the pro-TPP positions of both the Democratic and Republican parties.
- Land of Sod
Southern California Homeowners vs Nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at the water crisis in Southern California, where fifty-percent of water is used to irrigate the lawns and gardens of residential properties. The freshwater shortages has brought about close media scrutiny, highlighting the differences between have and have-not neighbourhoods, as well as instances of 'water-shaming'.
- The Living Legacy of Cornel West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To some of his critics, West is a bitter intellectual prizefighter past his prime who feels the need to broadcast his paroxysms of rage over feeling snubbed by Obama.
- Memorial Essay: Benedict Anderson
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The reception of Imagined Communities took its author by surprise. Anderson was like a person who posts a home video online and then discovers the next morning that she is an international celebrity.
- The Queer Movement Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A year after marriage equality was legalized nationwide in the United States, and two months since the June 12, 2016 massacre at a gay club in Orlando, the LGBT movement confronts a contradictory future.
- The RNC Comes and Goes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Throughout the week, journalists got plenty of newsworthy stories, from Melania Trump's plagiarism of Michelle Obama’s speech to the arrests of 18 protestors at Public Square.
- Socialists Discuss During the DNC
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the steamy evening of July 27, 2016 in Philadelphia a raucous audience of close to 800 gathered to discuss electoral politics and movement-building. This was day three of Socialist Convergence, organized by a coalition of left organizations to create a socialist presence during the Democratic National Convention.
- Victory in Shutting Down Oakland Coal Port
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On July 19, 2016, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to turn down the application for export of coal to Asia through a bulk commodities terminal under construction at the city's port.
- War Against the Kurds Renewed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For show, Erdogan's airforce carried out a few symbolic raids against ISIS, but in reality the aerial offensive was against the Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq.
- Was Brexit a Working-Class Revolt?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The malevelant genius of the Leave campaign was that it managed to go one step further and direct the anger of many previous working-class targets of derision at the even more vulnerable immigrants.
- Where Did Our Red Love Go?
Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Paula Rabinowitz's, Ruth Barraclough's, and Heather Bowen-Struyk's Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century.
- Why "Lesser Evilism" Is A Loser
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Interview with Jill Stein, the 2016 presidential candidate of the Green Party.
- Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Trade unionists in the 1920s didn't have much reason for optimism. Labour membership, which had shot upwards amid postwar unrest, crested and then plunged. A decade later, strikes were blocking production across the country, and union density was skyrocketing.
After years of malaise in the labor movement, is a similar upsurge possible today?
- The Thiaroye massacre, 1944
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A short history of the mass killing of black soldiers in the Free French Forces who were protesting against non-payment of wages towards the end of World War II.
- Authors, Can You Afford to Produce an Audiobook?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Karen Commins, a professional audiobook narrator,gives tips to authors who want to produce audiobooks.
- A Different Kind of Safe Space
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Words are dangerous, but not as dangerous as efforts to suppress them, be it by government or dean -- and certainly not as insidious as self-censorship.
- Ideas for the Struggle: required reading for activists in these challenging times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Arguing why the ideas presented in Marta Harnecker's collection of essays, 'Ideas for the Struggle', are essential and important for present-day activists and organizers.
- How could our country lie so completely?
Meet the North Korean defectors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Describing the efforts of North Korean defectors engaing in a propaganda to inspire others to flee the country.
- Australia: 1966 Aboriginal Stockmen's Strike
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the courageous Aboriginal stockmen's strike at the Wave Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory (NT). On 23 August 1966, head stockman Vincent Lingiari led 200 workers out on strike against the appalling conditions under which they were forced to live and work. They walked off with their families to a nearby welfare settlement and later set up camp at Daguragu (also known as Wattie Creek). This strike by Aboriginal workers for equal pay and conditions, and protesting the abusive treatment of Aboriginal women, provided an opportunity for class-struggle unity between Indigenous and white workers.
- Could urban farming provide a much-needed oasis in the Tulsa food desert?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Oklahoma is one of the most food insecure states in the US, where families struggle to buy enough healthy food. Locals are trying to ease poverty with community farming, but face difficulty in a city with a complex racial history
- Echoes From the Past: Creating the Underclass
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Kenan Malik explores the late twentieth century 'underclass' debate, and what it tells us about the changing character of the perceptions of race and class.
- Genocide in Plain Sight: Shooting Bushmen From Helicopters in Botswana
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In a healthy democracy, people are not shot at from helicopters for collecting food. They are not arrested, stripped bare and beaten while in custody without facing trial. Nor are people banned from their legitimate livelihoods, or persecuted on false pretenses. Sadly in Botswana, southern Africa's much-vaunted ‘beacon of democracy', all of this took place late last month in an incident which has been criminally under-reported. Nine Bushmen were later arrested and subsequently stripped naked and beaten while in custody.
- How Not To Fund Infrastructure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Recycling is supposed to be a good thing, so when the federal Liberals quietly announced that "asset recycling" would be part of their strategy for meeting their much-ballyhooed infrastructure promises, not many eyebrows were raised. They should have been. Asset recycling is an obscure code word for selling our public goods for private profit. It's privatization by another name.
Don't have the taxes to pay for new buses? It's okay, you can sell your electricity utility to pay for them instead. In fact, this is precisely what the Ontario Liberal government is doing. Already 30 per cent of the profitable Hydro One have been sold and another 30 per cent will be sold before 2018. A public Hydro One could more directly fight climate change, lower energy costs for the poor or work with First Nations on whose lands generation often happens. A private Hydro becomes an instrument for profit first with other goals secondary.
What the Liberals have started in Ontario will soon be rolled out across Canada. Here are the problems with these schemes.
- How to spot hazardous 'rip currents' at the beach -- before you get in the water
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Five men tragically died this week at Camber Sands in East Sussex, making holiday makers are increasingly fearful of the dangers of sea bathing. One of the biggest dangers comes from so-called 'rip tides' which carry swimmers out to sea on fast-moving 'rivers' of water, writes MARTIN AUSTIN. So here's how to recognise the dangers - before you even get in the water.
- India's Dalit cattle skinners share stories of abuse
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
From hospital wards to skinning fields, India's Dalit cattle skinners share stories of abuse and fears for their future.
- The Birth of Agro-Resistance in Palestine
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Canaan Fiar Trade, a co-operative farming project with a model of self-sufficiency and dignity, has grown rapidly, and now assists some 2000 small-hold farmers in the West Bank, but it still receives little more than ambivalent support from the compromised Palestinian national leadership.
- Greek Debt and the New Financial Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Describes how the Greek goverment is forced to extract income and wealth from its workers and small businesses resulting in a new form of financial imperialism that smaller states and economies, planning to join larger free trade zones and 'currency unions' should avoid at all cost.
- Israel armed Argentina to deadly effect during Falklands War, secret files show
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Newly released documents suggest the supply of arms and military equipment from Israel to Argentina may have been fuelled by an old hatred of the British harboured by then Israeli Prime Minister Menachim Begin -- himself a former Irgun terrorist who fought against British troops in Palestine. Israeli exports included Skyhawk jets that were responsible for bombing and sinking the RFA Sir Galahad, a troop ship, leaving 48 dead and numerous horrific injuries.
- Provoking Nuclear War by Media
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The exoneration of a man accused of the worst of crimes, genocide, made no headlines. Neither the BBC nor CNN covered it. The Guardian allowed a brief commentary. Such a rare official admission was buried or suppressed, understandably. It would explain too much about how the rulers of the world rule.
- US Lost Track of Nearly a Million Guns in Iraq, Afghanistan
Officials: Records Remain for Only 48% of the Guns Sent to Warzones
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Early in the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, the go-to policy for the US in trying to prop up new allied security forces was to dump weapons, en masse, into the countries. It's only now that people are really starting to ask what happened to the 1.45 million guns shipped into those countries.
- Fear of the light: why we need darkness
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Light pollution conceals true darkness from 80% of Europe and North America. What do we lose when we can no longer see the stars?
- Israeli museum transfer sets 'dangerous precedent'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A recent court ruling sanctioned the move of a rare archaeological library from East to West Jerusalem.
- The vanguard of India's assertive patriotism is a 3 million-member student group
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In India rightwing group combs campuses to weed out voices critical of state.
- The Working Class: Saskatchewan's Political Orphan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We all suffer from the absence of working class politics. We are smothered in the business-oriented, neoliberal 'consensus' instructing us to reconcile ourselves to 'the new reality' -- rollbacks in social welfare and universal publicly funded programs; huge tax cuts to business and the rich, driving up public debt and enriching finance capitalism; an end to secure employment and guaranteed benefits; surrendering our dreams of home ownership unless we are prepared to accept a lifetime of debt enslavement; a future of uncertainty and endless personal struggle to sustain ourselves and our children. Flippant commentators now tell us the proletariat has been replaced by 'the precariat', and this will define the future of this new capitalism.
- Charter Schools Increase Fraud, Corruption, Chaos, and Anarchy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Charter schools, which barely make up seven percent of U.S. schools, are often accused of taking all the antisocial, antipublic, and antipeople practices of medieval autocrats and opportunuties to new extremes. Shawgi Tell looks into the issue of privatization of education that will intensify in the months ahead.
- The Perilous Lure of the Underground Railroad
Hardly anyone used it, but it provides us with moral comfort-and white heroes.
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Underground Railroad entered our collective imagination in the eighteen-forties, and it has since been a mainstay of both national history and local lore. But in the past decade or so it has surged into "the popular literature of this nation" -- and the popular everything else, too.
- Arctic Death Rattle
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The warming of the Arctic negatively affects the entire Northern Hemisphere by altering jet streams at 30,000-40,000 feet altitude, which turns normal weather patterns upside down, wreaking havoc throughout the hemisphere. Even more significantly, loss of Arctic ice exposes the planet to risks of a crushing blow to the planetary ecosystem, without warning.
- Western Propaganda: So Simple But So Effective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Western propaganda is actually a perfect apparatus! It is effective and it is almost fully 'bulletproof'. It 'works'!
- An Activist Actor's Climate Group Is Moving Rapid Grassroots Grants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Mark Ruffalo's the Solutions Project has quickly grown into a legit national clean energy campaign, and in the past year, a grantmaker. It continues to impress with its new plan to deploy nimble community-based grants.
- Crimea, Georgia and the New Olympic Sport: Russia Bashing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Sarah Schulman's 'Conflict is not Abuse' is Essential Reading For Activist Communities
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In her 18th book, writer and Distinguished Professor of English at CUNY Staten Island Sarah Schulman takes on the weighty topic of interpersonal conflict, abusive behavior, the "overstatement of harm," and how the continued mistaking of conflict for abuse leads to unnecessary escalation of various problems -- often leading to cruel acts of isolation, shunning, scapegoating, and other manifestations of in-group bullying that are used to justify keeping certain people out of families, circles of friends, affinity groups, and activist communities.
- Charged with murder, but they didn’t kill anyone -- police did
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A Reader investigation found ten cases since 2011 where police killed a civilian in Chicago and charged an accomplice with the murder.
- Echoes From the Past: the Racial View of Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
How the Victorian elite saw class in racial terms. Malik challenges conventional ways of thinking about the historical roots of racial ideas, and demonstrates how much of racial thinking originated not in the context of perceptions of non-Europeans but to a large extent at home out of the relationship between the elite and the masses. And that is what makes this material important in thinking about contemporary discussions of the working class. Today, elite views of the working class are rarely racialized, at least in an overt fashion. Yet, many of the themes, especially about the character of the 'unrespectable' working class, remain, though they necessarily have to be expressed in a different language. What is of interest here is to understand what has changed as well as what remains the same in thinking about democracy and the working class.
- The Tragic Transgender Contagion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Anguished parents note that entire peer groups seem determined to 'transition' together.
- Western Media Responds to Latest Ukrainian Sabotage of Crimea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Western governments and media have a problem with the right-wing regime that is governing Ukraine. The country's economy is a shambles. Even the regime's own backers in the West acknowledge the country and its economy are hopelessly mired in corruption.
- Climate justice and the prospect of power
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A balance sheet of the movement to block the cross-Toronto 'Line 9' pipeline project. With notes on the meaning of "climate justice" and the relationship of socialism to social movements.
- Lost cities #7: how Nasa technology uncovered the 'megacity' of Angkor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Recent laser surveys have revealed traces of a vast urban settlement, comparable in size to Los Angeles, around the temples of Angkor in the Cambodian jungle. The ancient Khmer capital was never lost … it just got a bit overgrown.
- Election Meddling
Bad if Done to USA, Bad to Complain About if Done by USA
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Describing the contradictions in media coverage of, and attitudes toward, outside meddling in US elections versus US interference in foreign elections.
- Gender is not an identity, it is a tool of patriarchy
Gender hurts
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Gender is a set of societally-imposed, socially-constructed norms which are the structure through which all males and females are boxed in, but which, in particular, are the building blocks of the hierarchy between males and females. From a very early age, almost birth, these gender expectations are imposed through the clothes we wear, the toys we play with, the colours that are considered appropriate, the behaviour that is expected of us, the attitudes expressed towards us. They may vary from culture to culture and throughout history but their purpose is the same, to mould us into roles in society. Let’s not swallow patriarchy’s lies, let’s keep asserting that the objective definition of us as a female or a male based on biological reality will never define our personality, our attitudes, our abilities, our desires, our behaviour, our place in the world.
- Lost cities #6: how Thonis-Heracleion resurfaced after 1,000 years under water
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ancient Egypt's gateway to the Mediterranean – submerged and buried under layers of sand – is an eerie reminder of how vulnerable cities are to nature's forces. Thonis-Heracleion is returning to the surface once again.
- Echoes From the Past: Fear of the Masses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 13, 2016
Sports and Politics
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era. In the modern sports era, survival and success depend largely on the favour of corporations, whose power to provide or withhold funding and sponsorships now shape every aspect of sport, including athletes' incomes and lifestyles. It is now difficult to remember that only a few decades ago, corporate logos were strictly forbidden at Olympic events, while athletes were prohibited from accepting any kind of payment for their involvement in sports. The corporate conquest of sports closely parallels the corporate colonization of nearly all aspects of modern life. Accompanying this in recent years has been the increasing injection of militaristic content into sports spectacles. In Canada, hockey games are now commonly preceded by rituals honouring militarism. In the United States, similar spectacles have been staged for years. In this issue, we feature resources which remind us that resistance to the commercialization, corporatization, and militarization of sports is also part of our heritage.
- Sports and Politics
Introduction to the August 13, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Sports in general, and the Olympics in particular, have never been free of politics. Allegations of bribery and cheating had already been part of the Olympics for centuries before that noteworthy day in 67 AD when the judges proclaimed the Emperor Nero winner of the Olympic chariot race even though he had been thrown from his chariot and failed to complete the race.
- Doubling Down in Atlantic City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The casino workers' strike at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino is a defining battle for American labor.
- In the Stars? Personal Investigations of Astrology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Nickell details his experience with the "science" (actually pseudoscience) of astrology.
- Royal greed and oppression sold as culture in Swaziland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Swaziland’s King Mswati III passes suppression, unaccountability and royal opulent spending in the face of drought, starvation and poverty, as traditionally "Swazi" values. Sonkhe Dube, a young exiled activist, begs to differ.
- Killer Instincts: When Police Become Judge, Jury and Executioner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Those responsible for this policing crisis are none other than the police unions that are helping police officers evade accountability for wrongdoing; the police academies that are teaching police officers that their lives are more valuable than the lives of those they serve; a corporate military sector that is making a killing by selling military-grade weapons, equipment, technology and tactical training to domestic police agencies; a political establishment that is dependent on campaign support and funding from the powerful police unions; and a police state that is transforming police officers into extensions of the military in order to extend its reach and power.
- The Nauru files
Cache of 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Describing the traumatic conditions in the Nauru asylum camp as revealed by internal reports.
- Why America's Judges Should be Chosen by Citizen Juries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Judges should not be chosen by popular vote, nor by politicians. Both approaches are undemocratic and deeply flawed, perhaps even absurd, despite the fact that the former is in widespread use at the state level, and the latter has always been used at the federal level (in the form of appointment by the President and confirmation by the Senate). A far better option is for judges to be chosen by juries drawn from the public by random selection.
- Bernie Sanders and the New Class Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An interview with Adolph Reed, a political scientist and Bernie Sanders supporter, who dicsusses assumptions about black voters, the legacy of the Sanders campaign, and the tasks ahead.
- Delta says 740 flights cancelled after worldwide system outage
Flights already en route operating normally, U.S. airline says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Delta Air Lines says it has cancelled 740 flights after a power outage that began overnight knocked out its computer systems and operations worldwide.
- Former Fox boss Roger Ailes spent millions on 'Black Room' op to smear journalists
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Roger Ailes, the former CEO and co-founder of the conservative TV network who resigned last month after several sexual harassment allegations, now faces accusations of spending millions of Rupert Murdoch's money to set up a 'Black Room' and take down his enemies, both personal and political. The network’s $1 billion profits were also used to settle lawsuits brought by its employees. Fox executives have since discovered that Ailes used his budget to target journalists reporting negatively about him, according to New York Magazine.
- Exhuming history: censored Jewish text brought to light by Library and Archives Canada
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First Published: 2016
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Words that were once lost to history have been brought into the light by book conservationists at Library and Archives Canada. The 16th-century collection of sermons were by a rabbi and philosopher who sought to keep the faith alive during a dark era of persecution and censorship, when Jews were facing possible expulsion from their homes if they did not convert to Christianity.
- France's National Front Draws Strength From Brexit
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The party has long shrouded racism in the language of "self-determination" -- now, they feel vindicated.
- Liberal Antiwar Activism is the Problem
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Every election season, veterans and their families are used as political pawns. During the Democratic National Convention in Philly, the Khans, the mother and father of a Marine Captain who was killed in Iraq, conveniently filled the role for Hillary Clinton and the Neoliberals. At the Republican National Convention, Patricia Smith gladly took the stage for the Neofascists and talked about the death of her son and the non-scandal that is, Benghazi. In the meantime, anyone who opposes U.S. Empire is shit-out-of-luck when it comes to presidential elections and the two major parties. Here, we should commend Gary Johnson and Jill Stein for remaining principled in their views surrounding foreign policy, militarism, torture and surveillance. They’re the last of a dying breed.
- The shocking story of Israel's disappeared babies
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New information has come to light about thousands of mostly Yemeni children believed to have been abducted in the 1950s.
- Tharparkar: Pakistan's ongoing catastrophe
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More than 1,500 children under the age of five have died in the Tharparkar district of Pakistan's Sindh province since 2011. Each year, as the death toll climbs, reports are sought, commissions created and emergency plans announced by the provincial government. But none of these seem able to stop the recurring problems plaguing this vast 20,000sq km district.
- Is this Europe's best secret museum?
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In a small German town, a museum dedicated to life in the GDR – with everything from crank-handled calculators to Communist doilies – exists, virtually undiscovered, in one man's attic.
- My Mother, Stopped for Driving While Black
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First Published: 2016
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When the police pulled their guns on my mother, I reached for my phone and told her to be calm and do as they say. My parents and I had just been swarmed by police cars, sirens blaring, as we drove on I-64 through Virginia. Shock and fear consumed my family as we came to a stop and were ordered out of the vehicle at gun point. A third car even showed up to stop traffic. The officers then arrested my mother without any explanation. I felt helpless.
- Files linking Britain to Israel's nuclear weapons go missing from National Archives
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First Published: 2016
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Official documents on Britain's relationship with Israel, including papers on "military and nuclear collaboration" in the 1970s, have disappeared from the National Archives in the last four years.
- Our 10 pledges to rebuild and transform Britain
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Jeremy Corbyn - 10 Pledges to Rebuild and Transforme Britain: Full employment and an economy that works for all; A secure homes guarantee; Security at work; Secure our NHS and social care; A national education service, open to all; Action to secure our environment; Put the public back into our economy and services; Cut income and wealth inequality; Action to secure an equal society; Peace and justic at the heart of foreign policy.
- Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars
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In the near future, it is likely that cities will come under intense pressure to sacrifice public transportation in favor of new, private, car-dependent alternatives, even at a time when city planners are suggesting reducing or even eliminating car use in cities.The article looks into the benefits of the new technologies, as well as benefits of public transit.
- Milosevic exonerated, as the NATO war machine moves on
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First Published: 2016
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When Slobodan Milosevic, the former Present of Yugoslavia, was put on trial in 2002 for alleged war crimes, the Western mainstream media went into full hue-and-cry mode in denouncing the man they called "The Butcher of the Balkans." Milosevic's guilt was taken as a given. Anyone who dared to challenge the NATO line was labeled a Milosevic apologist, or a genocide denier, Now, fourteen years later, and ten years after Milosevic died in a prison cell in The Hague without ever having been convicted of anything, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has quietly issued a report which states that, er, well actually, Milosevic was not guilty. That piece of news has been met with complete silence in the same media that trumpted Milosevic's guilt.
- The New York Times Outrage at Trumps Refusal to Demonize Russia
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Donald Trump is criticized by the American media for behaving in a diplomatic manner towards Russia, as opposed to vilifying Russia.
- Brazen, extortionate: Photographer sues Getty Images for $1bn after copyright claim on her work
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Photographer Carol M. Highsmith is suing Getty Images for $1 billion in damages for using her images after she was slapped with a lawsuit from a company which screamed infringement after she published one of her own photos on her website. It turns out Highsmith had no idea Getty was making any money off of her 18,755 photos, which, as she specified on her website, were donated "copyright-free" to the US Library of Congress. This means they were to be available to the public freely.
- The doctor who is besting big tobacco
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When Dr Bronwyn King discovered her pension fund was investing in the cigarette companies that were killing her cancer patients, she was staggered. And she knew she had to act
- Political correctness demands diversity in everything but thought
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First Published: 2016
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For 50 years I've been painstakingly cataloguing the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of US foreign policy, building up in the process a very loyal audience. To my great surprise, when I recently wrote about the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of the Islamic State, I received more criticism from my readers than I've gotten for anything I've ever written. Dozens of them asked to be removed from my mailing list, as many as I'd normally get in a full year. Others were convinced that it couldn’t actually be me who was the author of such words, that I must have been hacked. Some wondered whether my recent illness had affected my mind. Literally! And almost all of the Internet magazines which regularly print me did not do so with this article.
- America's hidden homeless: Life in the Starlight Motel
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A motel in Massachusetts reveals the extent of the US' hidden homelessness problem. Residents share their stories.
- How to Understand Someone With Chronic Pain
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Chronic pain is pain that continues for weeks, months and even years. The experience of acute pain is the nervous system’s natural response to possible injury. With chronic pain, however, pain signals continue abnormally. This can be both distressing and exhausting for chronic pain sufferers. In some cases of chronic pain, there was an injury, illness or infection that first caused the pain. In other people, though, chronic pain appears and continues without a history of these events. To understand chronic pain sufferers, you should learn about chronic pain, be supportive and know what to say and what not to.
- Russia misses out while former drug cheats take their place in Rio
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While Russia’s track and field team, including athletes with no doping history, sit out the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, there's a host of athletes who will be allowed to compete in Brazil despite having had their own issues with banned substances. In addition to International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) decision to ban entire Russian track and field team from Rio Olympics (with only one exclusion – the long-jumper Darya Klishina, who lives and trains in USA), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stated that Russian athletes with any doping history will not be allowed to compete in Rio, even if they have served a penalty. Here's a look at some of the drug-tainted athletes from other countries, who meanwhile will be able to take their place in Rio.
- Sources HotLink - July 30, 2016
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This issue centres around the theme of injustice. The injustice of mass murder in Nice, France, the injustice of police violence against African Americans and the injustice of imprisoning those who stand up to police violence. Around the world, we look at Oligarchs who have the power to not only control the world’s money but also the world’s information.
Media professionals get old school with newspaper advertisements and interviews. Film buffs learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and bookworms learn about American elections.
- European Unification Divides Europeans: How Forcing People Together Tears Them Apart
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Unification of Europe has brought about radical new divisions within Europe. The most significant split is between the people and their political leaders.
- Breedlove Network Sought Weapons Deliveries for Ukraine
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Working with dubious sourcing, a group close to NATO's chief military commander Philip Breedlove sought to secure weapons deliveries for Ukraine, a trove of newly released emails revealed. The efforts served to intensify the conflict between the West and Russia.
- Brexit: the British Working Class has Just Yawned Awake
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The referendum has engaged all kinds of people who were politically indifferent 6 months ago.
- Civil unrest leads to media crackdown in Kashmir, India
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates the Indian Journalists' Union (IJU) in strongly condemning the ongoing media crackdown by the state in Jammu and Kashmir, in north-western India.
- EFF Lawsuit Takes on DMCA Section 1201: Research and Technology Restrictions Violate the First Amendment
Sources News Release
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has sued the U.S. government on behalf of technology creators and researchers to overturn onerous provisions of copyright law that violate the First Amendment.
- Online crackdown sees online sites shut down en-masse in China
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly criticises the recent crackdown by the Cyberspace Administration of China on online media, with several online outlets shut down. The IFJ demands an immediate investigation into the actions
- Professor Homa Hoodfar -- detained in Iran
Sources News Release
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On the arrest in Iran of renowned anthropologist and Concordia University Professor Homa Hoodfar.
- The Real Secret of the South China Sea
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The South China Sea is the ultimate geopolitical flashpoint of the 21st century. The future of Asia is at stake.
- Turkey: EU must hold Turkish President accountable for press freedom violations
Sources News Release
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As arrests of journalists and media closure continue the International and the European Federation of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) call on the European Union to take additional steps to hold Turkish president Erdogan accountable for press freedom breaches
- Turkey: Press Freedom in the grip of major crackdown following failed coup
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An ongoing crackdown on the media in Turkey has led to the arrests of more journalists and raids on their homes. The International and the European Federation of journalists (IFJ/EFJ) today denounced the deterioration of democratic rule
- Ban of Russian Olympic Team: Cold War at its "Best"!
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The West is using both old and new tactics to demonize and discredit all of its opponents, in what is becoming a new Cold War.
- Hackers can record everything you type on certain wireless keyboards
Some low-end wireless keyboards send keystrokes to your computer completely unencrypted, say researchers
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A computer security research team has identified a weakness in several brands of low-cost wireless keyboards that could allow hackers to view and record every word, number and password typed by a user from up to about 75 metres away. According to Bastille, an Atlanta-based research team, eight wireless keyboards made by companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Radio Shack and Toshiba send keystroke data from the board to the USB dongle that connects to your computer without the encryption needed to mask what someone is typing.
- In Solidarity with Imprisoned Poet, Ashraf Fayadh
Sentenced to death on charges of apostasy and promoting atheism, Ashraf had his sentence reduced to eight years and 800 lashes
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Countless people, including the poet Ashraf Fayadh, are imprisoned because of things they wrote.
- Smartphone addiction is part of the design
The Slot Machine in Your Pocket
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Examining the methods by which smartphone apps are created to demand constant, repeated attention, and offers a proposal to promote apps which avoid these pitfalls and promote better use of user's time.
- TTIP: The most dangerous weapon in the hands of the fossil fuel industry
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Looks into the impact that the TTIP papers will have on the fossil fuel industry and Climate Action.
- Climate Migrants Lead Mass Migration to India's Cities
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South Asia will be severely impacted by climate change and cause challenges that the government must resolve.
- Forests and Crops Make Friendly Neighbors in Costa Rica
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The ways to better agricultural development is to promote co-existence of farming and forestry, and encourage farmers to be productive and competitive.
- The Importance of Making Trouble: In conversation with Frances Fox Piven
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Coversation with Frances Fox Piven, a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the City of University of New York Graduate Centre and the past president of the American Sociological Association, about the importnace of social movements and upcoming 2016 US election.
- The Scourge of Youth Detention
The Northern Territory, Torture, and Australia’s Detention Disease
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Australia tolerates gulags that house intrepid asylum seekers, and other similarly deemed undesirables.
- US must stop playing with nuclear hellfire
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The chances of nuclear destruction are higher than in the Cold War due to recent US foreign policy actions, including the positioning of armed forces positioned on Russia's borders.
- Erdogan is Strengthened by the Failed Coup, But Turkey is the Loser
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Looks into the impact of the recent (2016) coup attempt in Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's counter-coup.
- FSNL, 1979 and today: Nicaragua's compromised revolution
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The Sandinista revolution happened over 30 years ago, but FSLN has completely altered within the past few years to a neoliberal organization.
- Guardian tries to silence Democrat Leak Scandal
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The Democratic National Convention had their emails leaked which proved their attempt at swinging the vote for Hillary Clinton. The Guardian newspaper seems to show bias for Hillary Clinton in their response.
- Millions of people yearning for a "Brexit" from destructive trade deals
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While the votes for Brexit, and the support for Trump, may not always choose the best political framing, politicians and elites would be arrogant to dismiss the widespread discontent with the status quo.
- Open Source Software: a necessary tool to build our movements | What's Left
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Software companies are exploitative and other companies should invest in unionized products, condem work to lower wages and act in solidarity with other workers in the software industry.
- The Political Is Political: In Conversation With Yasmin Nair
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An activist and writer based in Chicago, Nair is one of the founders of Against Equality, a group that was born in 2009, initially as an online archive of pieces that were critical of the gay-marriage movement and mainstream gay politics.
- Workers and Climate Change: July 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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Workers and Climate Change is the focus of the July 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter.
- Neoliberalism Is a Political Project
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David Harvey gives his views on what neoliberalism is, how it unfolds, and what resistance to it looks like.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016
Workers and Climate Change
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Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about the needed rapid change away from a fossil fuel based economy, working people are the ones who stand to bear most of the costs, including the cost, for millions of workers and their families, of losing their jobs.
Many elements of the environmental movement have been guilty of ignoring working people, while others actually blame ordinary working people for climate change and the injustices associated with it. Yet it is working people who are dying, in many places, even now, from excessive heat in factories, fields, construction sites, and homes. And million of working people stand to lose their jobs, homes, and communities in the transition to a low-carbon or no-carbon economy.
- Extinction
A Radical History
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely. Then human beings arrived. Devouring their way down the food chain as they spread across the planet, they began a process of voracious extinction that has continued to the present. This relentless extinction, Ashley Dawson contends in a primer that combines vast scope with elegant precision, is the product of a global attack on the commons, the great trove of air, water, plants and creatures, as well as collectively created cultural forms such as language, that have been regarded traditionally as the inheritance of humanity as a whole.
- Political Correctness: Handle with Care
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Racial, gender, and ethnic diversity matters, of course, but political correctness (PC) tied to bourgeois identity politics can be deadly to left thinkers and activists and to the causes of peace and social justice.
- Race and class in the United States: J. Sakai and the politics of revolution
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Doug Greene offers a critique of J. Sakai's 1989 work, Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat.
- Social Media for Academics
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An introduction to Mark Carrigan’s how-to guide, Social Media for Academics, with its lessons on how to be aware of your audience.
- Why Black Lives Matters Is Taking on Police Unions
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Black Lives Matter argues that the police associations have to be challenged head-on because of their power in preventing change.
- Why Corbyn so terrifies the liberal elite
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Most Labour MPs would rather destroy their own party than let Jeremy Corbyn and his backers make it fit for its 21st century purpose.
- Before the parade
A History of Halifax's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities, 1972-1984
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Halifax's first generation of gay and lesbian elders forged a rainbow path that LGBTQIA and Two-Spirited activists continue to march down today.
- Former Cleanup Workers Blame Illnesses on Toxic Coal Ash Exposures
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There have been numerous cases of workers getting sick after exposure to ash.
- Interactive map of Latino urban riots and social unrest
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A map that displays Latino riots in the United States from 1964 to 2016.
- Charting Environmental Conflict - The Atlas of Environmental Justice
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Another tool supporting the growing movement and better global awareness is the Atlas of Environmental Justice. The EJAtlas is packed with qualitative information about almost 1800 environmental conflicts.
- Turkey: A War of Two Coups
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On 15 July 2016 a huge section of the Turkish armed forces attempted to take power from the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the AKP, came very close to its objective, but was ultimately defeated. This article examines the causes of the failed coup and its social and political effects on the Turkish society from a Marxist perpective.
- Full of holes
Why Australia's mining boom will leave permanent scars
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Describing the environmental impact following the end of Australia's coal boom.
- Green transformation is a political project, not an economic one
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There is a need for public policy in order for green initiatives to be tangiblem in-depth projects.
- In the US, money talks when it comes to Israel
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Investigates the 2016 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates and their allegiance to Israel.
- The Attempts to disappear Garifuna people
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Development projects pushed by the government in the Atlantic coast threaten the survival of afro-descendant communities.
- The Unfair Narrative on Global Warming and Development: Why it must be challenged
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Industries that majorly contribute to climate change are being subsidized, while more marginalized industries receive vey little to mitigate the impact of climate change.
- Israel seeks to 'publicly shame' human rights groups
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The Israeli government is being accused of implementing a campaign that criminalizes human rights groups.
- Pemulwuy
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Pemulwuy (aka Pimbloy, Pemulvoy, Pemulwoy, Pemulwye) (c1750 - 2 June 1802) was an Aboriginal Australian man born around 1750 in the area of Botany Bay in New South Wales. He is noted for his resistance to the European settlement of Australia which began with the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. He is believed to have been a member of the Bidjigal (Bediagal) clan of the Eora people.
- Polyamory and Polygamy: Is the Media Right?
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There are a few of repeated themes emerging in many of the articles railing against polyamorous marriage.
- After Nice, Don't Give ISIS What It's Asking For
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Not much is yet known about Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the 31-year-old man French police say is responsible for a horrific act of mass murder last night in the southern city of Nice. In the wake of the killings, French President Francois Hollande has denounced the attack as "Islamist terrorism" linked to the militant group the Islamic State. Supporters of ISIS online have echoed these statements, claiming responsibility for the attack as another blow against its enemies in Western Europe. While the motive for the attack is still under investigation, it is worth examining why the Islamic State is so eager to claim such incidents as its own.
- Canada's Liberal Government Joins NATO's War Escalation
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Canadians who hoped the October 2015 federal election would usher in changes to the aggressive, foreign policy of the defeated Conservative government are wondering what happened to their wishes. The transition in imperialist foreign policy from the Harper Conservatives to the Justin Trudeau-led Liberals has been utterly seamless, if not predictable.
- For 90 years, lightbulbs were designed to burn out. Now that's coming to LED bulbs
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In 1924, representatives of the world's leading lightbulb manufacturers formed Phoebus, a cartel that fixed the average life of an incandescent bulb at 1,000 hours, ensuring that people would have to regularly buy bulbs and keep the manufacturers in business. But hardware store LED bulbs have a typical duty-cycle of 25,000 hours -- meaning that the average American household will only have to buy new bulbs ever 42 years or so.
- The "Fundamentalism" in Police Operations
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First Published: 2016
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As police murders accumulate, and police chiefs get fired and replaced because they cannot stop it (as in Oakland and San Francisco), the notion that this represents a political crisis becomes a truism. It is not a "crisis of policing," which would suggest a situation beyond the capacities of the police. It is the police who have become the crisis. In Oakland, on July 7, 2016, 5000 people came to demonstrate on one day's notice against the two police killings that had occur the previous two days out of a profound awareness of the malignity afoot – and they shut down the Interstate. The magnitude of this crisis is represented by its insidious repetitiveness.
- LGBT: a Dissection
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"LGBT" is everywhere these days. But is it here to stay, or is it a passing fad? Where did it come from? Why was it promoted? By whom? And to what end? How did it acquire its seemingly endless variants? The acronym, in its many permutations, designates a movement very different from the gay liberation movement it evolved from. Some might see it as progress, expansion, and greater inclusivity, others as a tombstone for what was once a radical sexual liberation movement.
- The Life and Resistance of a Chinese Worker
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First Published: 2016
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Under China's labour management system, independent unionism is strictly banned, and the state's official trade union body monopolizes worker representation. That means that all of China’s 806,498,521 workers are barred from forming independent organizations to agitate for their interests -- in an economy where the poorest 25 percent of households own just 1 percent of the country’s total wealth, and where long hours, safety hazards, and authoritarian management define life in the factories. This official antagonism has not stopped the emergence of workers' resistance. The number of strikes has been increasing over the past two decades, and as Eli Friedman wrote last year, "on a typical day anywhere from half a dozen to several dozen strikes are likely taking place."
- No Unity of the Police and the Community is Possible or Desirable
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First Published: 2016
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After the police murders of Alton Sterling, 37, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile, 32, of St. Paul, Minnesota, we are asked to embrace the police, to form a partnership, to work together. From President Barack Obama on down, Democratic and Republican party politicians have called upon the police and communities to unite to solve our common problems.
- Teamsters and Cops
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Minneapolis teamsters in 1934 knew something we should remember -- police enforce the ruling class's unjust order.
- They Throw Us Out of Our Homes But We Get Ice Cream
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If there were any doubt that gentrification has come to my corner of Brooklyn, that was put to rest last weekend with the appearance of an ice cream truck. An ice cream truck painted with the logo and red color of The Economist. Yes, it was just as this reads. Free scoops of ice cream were being given out as a young woman with a clipboard was attempting to get people to sign up for subscriptions to The Economist.
- A Travesty of Financial History: Bank Lobbyists will Applaud
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First Published: 2016
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Debt mounts up faster than the means to pay. Yet there is widespread lack of awareness regarding what this debt dynamic implies. From Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC to the modern world, the way in which society has dealt with the buildup of debt has been the main force transforming political relations.
- What's Driving Got to Do With It? How the DMV is Conscripted to Do the Dirty Work of the Criminal Justice System
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First Published: 2016
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In the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri protests of the death of Michael Brown in 2014, articles were written about the exorbitant fines assessed against residents of Ferguson, mostly minorities, and how these fines both led to and exacerbated a cycle of incarceration and poverty.
- Jeremy Corbyn's supporters are so dangerous they took over the Labour Party before they were even born
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If you were cynical you might wonder if, despite their ability to reach out to people, Corbyn's opponents feel they'd be unlikely to beat him in a straight vote of members.
- Open Letter To Minister Goodale
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We are doctors, nurses, and healthcare providers working in Canada. It has come to our attention that over 50 men on immigration hold are once again engaging in a hunger strike. They are determined to remain without food until they are granted a meeting with you, Minister Goodale. They have been calling for an end to indefinite immigration detention and inhumane conditions and are now asking to bring their concerns to you in person.
- See You at the Barricades! Three Books That Revive the Memory of the Paris Commune
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For socialists and communists of over a century, the Paris Commune was a defining event. From March 18 to May 28 in 1871, following the collapse of the French Republic and the Prussian siege of the capital, the Communards swore to defend Paris until they were overwhelmed by the French army itself. Karl Marx himself called the temporary self-government of the population the "dictatorship of the proletariat."
- Amazing Brexit: Identity and Class Politics
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First Published: 2016
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This shell of a once fighting left embraces the culture of identity but excludes the entity of class. As a result poverty has become the P-word, and the poor the pariahs of neoliberal dystopic utopia. When we talk about class in a Marxist, materialist, scientific sense, we are talking about a relation of power, specifically about who does and who doesn’t have power to shape society. Identity politics makes this conflict of interests in society invisible. Neoliberal economics, however, is class war. It has advanced in part because identity politics depoliticized the public.
- Billionaires in Brazil: Understanding How Extreme Wealth and Political Power Overlap Everywhere
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First Published: 2016
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Alex Cuadros spent years covering the billionaire class of Latin America for Bloomberg. A Portuguese-speaking American journalist who spent years based in Brazil, he has now written a highly entertaining and deeply insightful book about the particularly powerful, flamboyant, assertive, and often-crazed class of Brazilian billionaires. Titled Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country, his new book was released yesterday. Brazillionaires contains important lessons far beyond Brazil.
- Democracy was never intended for degenerates
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First Published: 2016
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This is not a left vs right debate -- today, as a century ago, the anti-democratic impulse comes from both left and right, from both reactionaries and self-defined progressives.
- Gilead Avoided $10 Billion In Taxes On Over Priced Hepatitis C Drugs
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A new drug called Sovaldi, intended to treat Hepatitis C, is incredibly unaffordable and inaccessible for Americans.
- Law Professor's Response to Black Lives Matter Shirt Complaint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A first year law school student wrote a complaint about her professor having worn a Black Lives Matter T-shirt during class. Here is the professor’s response.
- The Network
Leaked Data Reveals How the U.S. Trains Vast Numbers of Foreign Soldiers and Police With Little Oversight
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- The ABCs of Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of Jacobin magazine.
- Brexit: It's Not About the EU, It's About the EZ
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Politics is the concentrated essence of economic forces in motion."
Forget the politics of the June 23 Brexit referendum for a minute. Let's take a look at the money.
- Israeli rabbi who advocated rape of 'comely gentile women' during war becomes chief army rabbi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
“New IDF Chief Rabbi: in times of war it is permissible for soldiers to "have sex with comely gentile women against their will".
- MyseumIntersections
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- The Repression in Bahrain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Bahrainis are calling their government's intensified repression of all opposition "the Egyptian strategy", believing that it is modelled on the ruthless campaign by the Egyptian security forces to crush even the smallest signs of dissent.
- Vanishing the People's Wealth to Make the Bosses Richer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Imagine you are a shareholder in a big company and the top executives are sitting on huge amounts of cash and are not interested in putting it to work through productive capital investments, research and development, reducing company debt or paying employees a higher wage. What would you want done about it? Since you and other shareholders are the owners of the company, you'd likely say "give us back our money in cash dividends."
- The Workers' Climate Plan & The Federal Climate Consultations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Government of Canada is leading a process to create a National Climate Strategy, a result of signing the Paris Agreement to limit increasing global temperatures. Over the next 3 months, political leaders will be consulting the public and key stakeholders to propose a new federal climate strategy in October 2016.
- Genocide by Prescription: The "Natural History" of the Declining White Working Class in America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of 'premature deaths' -- a bland term to cover-up the drop in life expectancy in this historically important demographic. This is the first time in the country's 'peacetime' history that its traditional core productive sector has experienced such a dramatic demographic decline -- and the epicenter is in the small towns and rural communities of the United States.
- Hunger in Venezuela? A Look Beyond the Spin
Special Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Venezuala has food shortages when it comes to specific foods, but there have been grassroots and governmental responses.
- Images of Militarized Police in Baton Rouge Draw Global Attention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Photographs and video of heavily armed police officers wearing body armour and helmets arresting protesters in Baton Rouge over the weekend reverberated on social networks and in the world's media, focusing new attention on the militarization of police forces across the United States.
- In Africa, the U.S. Military Sees Enemies Everywhere
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
From east to west across Africa, 1,700 Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets, and other military personnel are carrying out 78 distinct "mission sets" in more than 20 nations, according to documents obtained by The Intercept via the Freedom of Information Act.
- Murray Bookchin's New Life
Whatever their limits, Murray Bookchin's ideas should be studied by today's left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Murray Bookchin spent fifty years articulating a new emancipatory project, one that would place ecology and the creative human subject at the centre of a new vision of socialism. Here is a thinker, who in the early sixties, declared climate change as one of the defining problems of the age. Bookchin saw the environmental crisis as capitalism's gravedigger.
- Race, class and police murder in America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the aftermath of the mass shooting of police officers in Dallas, Texas on July 7, 2016, the American media and political establishment has sought to portray the police killings of unarmed people and widespread protests against police violence as proof of deepening and unbridgeable racial divisions in the United States.
- Robot Cops Are Racist, Too
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As an institution, the police is racist through and through -- irrespective of whether or not particular cops harbor racist views. This is because, among other reasons, as an institution the police is an appendage of the larger institution of property. And property, in the US at the very least, is inextricable from racist dispossessions, and reproductions, of wealth. That is, in addition to manifesting other aspects of domination, property is racist.
- Vladimir Putin Is the Only Leader the West Has
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A Reuters news report under the names of presstitutes Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold shows how devoid the West is of honest, intelligent and responsible journalists and government officials.
- I Was Sick for a Year After an Oil Spill. Five Years Later, Pipeline Accidents Are Worsening
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Early in the morning on July 2, 2011, I walked down the gravel road on our Montana farm to let the goats out to graze for the day. I found an oily rainbow sheen on the Yellowstone River flowing through our hay fields and pasture, plus large clumps of crude oil sticking to trees, cattails and brush. The oily water was in our sloughs, our pond and the creek that runs along the eastern edge of the farm. I checked the local news on my phone and found that an Exxon oil pipeline had ruptured underneath the Yellowstone River upstream. More than 300 people upstream from us were evacuated, but no one had thought to notify those of us further from the spill. The smell of hydrocarbons was overwhelming. In the end, more than 63,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the Yellowstone River from what we later learned was a "guillotine cut" in Exxon's Silvertip pipeline, which lay in a trench only four to five feet under the Yellowstone River.
- Noam Chomsky and Over 100 Intellectuals Denounce 'Savage' Media Treatment of Britain's Jeremy Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"We do not expect journalists to give any elected leader an easy ride," a letter published in The Guardian and signed by more than 100 intellectuals reads, "but Corbyn has been treated from the start as a problem to be solved rather than as a politician to be taken seriously."
- Class Is in Session
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Millennials are better educated than ever. They also overwhelmingly identify as working class.
- The Media Against Jeremy Corbyn
The British media has launched an unprecedented campaign of disinformation against Jeremy Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The British media has never had much time for Jeremy Corbyn. Within a week of his election as Labour Party leader in September, it was engaging in a campaign the Media Reform Coalition characterized as an attempt to "systematically undermine" his position. In an avalanche of negative coverage 60 percent of all articles which appeared in the mainstream press about Corbyn were negative with only 13 percent positive. The newsroom, ostensibly the objective arm of the media, had an even worse record: 62 percent negative with only 9 percent positive.
- Toward a socialist future: Children's picture books after the Bolshevik Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was the defining event of the 20th century. Its influence extended across virtually every aspect of human society the world over. The scope for study of the revolution and of the social order that emerged from it is immense, though generally overlooked in contemporary art curation. It comes as a welcome exception to see the attempt by London's House of Illustration art gallery in its exhibition, A New Childhood: Picture Books from Soviet Russia, to bring to light the artistic impetus lent by the revolution to children's book illustrations in early Soviet society.
- As Police Killings of Minorities Mount, Attacks on Police Like the One in Dallas, While Awful, Are Also Sadly Predictable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The tragedy that is America has deepened with the news of a sniper attack targeting police in Dallas during a protest march and rally against police brutality and killings of black people in that city. The murder of anybody, whether it's a police officer or someone who is simply stopped by a cop for a minor traffic violation and is then shot because a jumpy officer mistakes reaching for a wallet to be reaching for a gun, as happened just two days ago in Minnesota, is a dreadful thing.
- The Gatekeepers Aren't Gone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Viral content seems democratic. But it's still mostly controlled by big media companies.
- Guide to the UFW Canadian Boycott: Toronto Office Audio-Visual Collection LAV002473
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The UFW Canadian Boycott was part of a series of U.S. nation-wide boycotts that the United Farm Workers spearheaded during the mid 1960s and 1970s. These boycotts alerted the national consumer of the grape and lettuce strikes that had erupted in California, Texas, Arizona and other states. The main duties of the Toronto Boycott office were to enlist support for the striking farm workers by soliciting donations, spreading information and organizing marches and rallies.
- An Immediate End to Police Brutality and Murder of Black People by Police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Black Panther Party remains unfulfilled fifty years after the Party's founding. This truth is a tragic acknowledgement of both the failure of US capitalism to resolve its greatest disgrace and an admission that it may not be able to. The unpunished murders of Black men by police are just the most graphic proof of this truth.
- NATO Prepares for War: Confrontation and Insanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The US-NATO military alliance is gearing up for war, and its meeting 8-9 July, 2016 is yet another step to nuclear confrontation and a gigantic leap backwards in world sanity. The gathering in Warsaw, capital of implacably anti-Russia Poland (NATO member since 1999, when the US-inspired military push towards Russia's borders gathered further momentum), is a symbol of Western determination to menace Moscow.
- Some Pundits Think the Solution to Right-Wing Populism Is Less Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The core orthodoxies of neoliberalism are under attack by populist forces, and commentators are scrambling for a response. Some are suggesting more left-wing red meat. Others, a moment of self-reflection. But a number of pundits are doing that most noxious of political commentary pastimes -- equating right and left responses to the failures of globalization and advocating that "elites" should fight back against the forces of inconvenient democracy.
- How Hitler's Rise to Power Explains Why Republications Accept Donald Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To watch Donald Trump rant and rave uncontrollably on the stump and on Twitter -- praising Saddam Hussein for his disregard for civil liberties, insisting the anti-Semitic propaganda he inadvertently borrowed from neo-Nazis is as innocent as a Disney poster -- is to ponder the psychology of a party that would entrust supreme executive authority to a racist, nationalistic, power-worshiping demagogue.
To be perfectly clear, Trump is not Hitler or a Nazi. Trump’s racism is not of the genocidal variety, and he is committed neither to a program of Darwinian racial conquest nor the principled imposition of one-party rule. If President Trump does start a world war, it would probably be as a result of blundering rather than a long-term master plan. But the two figures do have certain traits in common relative to the political environments they inhabit.
- If You Like Obama, You'll Love Trump!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Oh, what fun we have with the nonsense that flows out of the mouth of Donald J. Trump. The man is suffocatingly banal, racist, dishonest, inarticulate, uninformed, uneducated, narcissistic, a bully, just plain stupid, and an asshole (or in the immortal words of my people -- a schmuck!) I would guess that as the boss of his own enterprises for many years, with the power and the habit of firing people, he eventually became deeply accustomed to not having his thoughts seriously questioned or challenged, to the extent that he really believes the crap that comes out of his mouth and doesn’t really understand what others actually think of him.
- Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: Who Said What When
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This is a list of quotations is excerpted from Imperial Crusades: a Diary of Three Wars.
- Prominent groups to portage red canoe with over 35,000 signatures calling on Wynne to clean up Grassy Narrows mercury poison
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Prominent groups to portage red canoe with over 35,000 signatures calling on Wynne to clean up Grassy Narrows mercury poison
- Rainbow Capital, Queerness, and Black Lives Matter's Shocking Reformism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Though I support BLM’s policy goals and shock-tactics, their lack of analysis of the forces behind the oppression of Black and other people seems to put them in an awkward place. Their use of shock tactics makes them too radical for the reformists, while their emphasis on piece-meal reforms and little else alienates the radicals. It puts them in a kind of activist nether-space that makes unity difficult.
- Why They Left
Brexit wasn't the first time Europeans rejected the EU, and it won't be the last. Here's what the Left should do.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Leave victory in the British referendum represents a moment of political confusion -- a hiatus in the opposition between social classes. No class appears capable of directing events. The ruling class has no clear plans for the future, and seems temporarily stunned.
- Elie Wiesel: Poseur for Peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the midst of another Israeli operation in Lebanon, this one in 2006, Wiesel stood in front of a crowd in Manhattan (along with then Senator Hillary Clinton) and declared "Israel defends herself, and we must say to Israel 'Go on defending yourself.'" His final years didn't slow him down. Wiesel took out a full page ad in newspapers across the country during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict fully supporting Israel's effort (Human Rights Watch went on to document several instances of war crimes by the Israeli military) without a syllable about diplomacy except that 'before diplomats can begin in earnest the crucial business of rebuilding dialogue…the Hamas death cult must be confronted for what it is'.
- The Iraq War Was an Act of Military Aggression Launched on a False Pretext: Remarks on the Chilcot Inquiry Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The following is a transcript of Jeremy Corbyn's remarks in the House of Commons.
- An Open Letter to the British Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Dear friends and comrades, To a foreigner who has been living and working in the United Kingdom for the last sixteen years, the immediate post-referendum situation appears highly paradoxical. It seems as if the shock has been of such a magnitude that even the most celebrated British virtues -- sense of humour, understatement and, above all, solid common sense -- have faded away.
- As Temperatures Climb Across the Country, Workers Will Suffer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The summer of 2016 is barely two weeks old, but this year is already on track to break high temperature records in the United States. On June 20, cities across the Southwest and into Nevada reached all-time triple-digit highs. Meanwhile, every single state experienced spring temperatures above average, with some in the Northwest reaching record highs. These temperatures have already proved deadly, killing five hikers in Arizona earlier this month. Triple-digit heat earlier that same week is also being blamed for the deaths of two construction workers, 49-year old Dale Heitman in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 15 and 55-year old Thomas F. “Tommy” Barnes on June 14 at the Monsanto campus in nearby Chesterfield, Missouri.
- The elites hate Momentum and the Corbynites - and I'll tell you why
The movement that backed the Labour leader challenges MPs and journalists alike - because it's about grassroots democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As the rolling catastrophe of what's already being called the "chicken coup" against the Labour leadership winds down, pretty much all the commentary has focused on the personal qualities, real or imagined, of the principal players. Yet such an approach misses out on almost everything that's really at stake here. The real battle is not over the personality of one man, or even a couple of hundred politicians. If the opposition to Jeremy Corbyn for the past nine months has been so fierce, and so bitter, it is because his existence as head of a major political party is an assault on the very notion that politics should be primarily about the personal qualities of politicians.
- Ghostbusters, GMOs and the Feigned Expertise of Nobel Laureates
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last week a controversy erupted just as the Roberts-Stabinow Digital Divide GMO labeling law was being discussed in the Senate. It involves a letter signed by 100+ Nobel laureates attacking Greenpeace for being "anti-scientific" in its stance against the proliferation and continued use of genetically engineered organisms.
- How The Guardian Undermines Jeremy Corbyn and the Left
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
teleSUR spoke to David Cromwell and David Edwards, co-editors of Media Lens, about The Guardian and corporate media's bias against Labour party leader Jeremy Cobyn.
- Labor Organizing Across Israel's Apartheid Line: An Interview with Israeli Labor Activist Yoav Tamir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Yoav Tamir is an organizer with the new Israeli labour union, Workers Advice Center, or WAC-MANN. WAC-MAAN was founded in the late 1990s as (as its name might suggest) a workers' advice center, and began organizing unions and negotiating contracts in 2010. A product of both deepening austerity within Israel as well as the wave of uprisings in the Arab world in 2011, WAC-MAAN organizes both across the racial line and across the Green Line, doing what no other labor organization in Israel or Palestine's history has done: create a multi-ethnic, bi-national workers' movement.
- Democracy and Popular Sovereignty instead of Neoliberal Integration and a failed Euro-System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This document was commonly developed by people from the Lexit Network. It was written and agreed before the Brexit referendum and was not intended to influence the popular vote one way or another. With the implementation of the European single market and the Maastricht Treaty, European integration was established as a neoliberal project for the long run. The Stability- and Growth Pact, the fundamental freedoms of the single market and the European monetary union, among other elements, constituted a framework that has fueled austerity policies, the dismantling of workers’ rights and the welfare state and imposed privatization throughout the EU member states.
- From political coups to family feuds
how WhatsApp became our favourite way to chat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
How the WhatsApp messaging app has grown in popularity due to it's security and privacy benefits.
- Why we voted leave: voices from northern England - documentary
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A short look at why those in the north of England mainly voted to leave the EU - from Guerrera Films.
- Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The July 2, 2016 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. This issue focuses on Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, and on contempt for democracy that has marked the elite reaction and media response to that vote.
- Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Introduction to the July 2, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A constant theme in elite reaction to the Brexit referendum, expressed especially through the mainstream media, has been a visceral contempt for democracy. Ordinary working people are portrayed as stupid and reactionary, incapable of understanding how wonderful the European Union project is. Again and again, one hears the comment that the great unwashed should not be allowed to vote on issues which they are incapable of understanding. This reaction is not new: ruling classes for centuries have loathed democracy, which is seen as an existential threat to the wealth and privileges of the elite.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
- Brexit: the English and Welsh Enlightenment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
By voting for Brexit the English and Welsh have switched on the light. And, as usual, when the light suddenly conquers the dark the cracks become obvious and the cockroaches scatter. It’s a beautiful sight. The speculators and the hoarders are running for cover. And their liberal apologists are blinded.
- Converging on Philadelphia
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
At the "Socialist Convergence" and other spaces in Philly the weekend before and week of the DNC, socialists should argue for an orientation toward movements rather than narrow electoralism.
- The Domestic Workers' Movement
Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built A Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Premilla Nadasen's Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built A Movement.
- Electoral Strategy After Bernie's Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Supporters of Bernie Sanders wagered that his campaign would be the most important event in the development of socialist politics in decades. There is at least some evidence to suggest that this prediction was correct.
- Fascinating Antifascism
Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914-1945
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Enzo Traverso's Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914-1945.
- Get out there and organise
The excitement of activism has supplanted slowly organized structures working for social and political change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While there has been an explosion of activism over the past couple of decades, the left must better cultivate organizing to make activism more sustainable and effective.
- Greece is sold off and sold out
Greece's public assets, including ports and airports, went at discount prices to predatory buyers who will deprive the state of much - need
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A recent study has concluded that privatisation in Europe has undermined wage structures, made working conditions worse and increased income inequality; nowhere is this exemplified more than in Greece.
- Happy Activism
Six ways to make our movement strong and feed our spirit.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
How do we make environmental organizations attractive to large numbers of people? And how do we keep these folks engaged for the years, even decades that it will take to create a sustainable society? My interest here is not to enumerate people’s reasons for activism but rather, based on these reasons, to articulate principles that movement organizers should follow to bring people to the cause.
- Keep your mouths shut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The media coverage of union and Nuit Debout protests in France are evidence that publications and channels now serve only the wealthy and influencial.
- Making Green Jobs Good Jobs
Unions organize the clean energy sector
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Jobs versus the environment -- it's an old dilemma that pits unions seeking work for their members against activists rallying against projects like the Keystone XL. An expanding renewable energy sector might provide a way out of this quandary. Solar and wind energy projects can put people to work without imperiling the planet. But will these jobs be friendly to workers, as well as the environment?
- Marx on Financial Bubbles: Much Keener Insights Than Contemporary Economists
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While paying homage to Marx for his profound understanding of "the laws of motion of the capitalist mode of production," most contemporary economists argue that, nonetheless, his economic analysis cannot be of much service when it comes to the study of modern banking and big finance, since these are relatively recent, post-Marx developments. I will argue in this essay that, in fact, a careful reading of his work on "fictitious capital" reveals keen insights into a better understanding of the instabilities of today's financial markets.
- Muhammad Ali: Free Black Man
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Muhammad Ali spoke truth to power. Even after he became ill with Parkinson's disease and eventually lost much of his verbal skills, he stood by his militant spirit and youth. He never apologized for his words or action.
- Orlando: Home-Grown Terror
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In some ways the most shocking thing about Orlando may be that it's hardly shocking at all, in context. Only the scale is unusual.
- Political Revolution -- What Is It?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The editors discuss Bernie Sanders' concept of a political revolution, as well as the terror attack in Orlando.
- Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's Aboriginal people
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s. The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of high and intermediate level nuclear waste on Aboriginal land, and open new uranium mines. But now Aboriginal peoples and traditional land owners are fighting back.
- Rainbows and Weddings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It is utterly ironic that not a hundred years ago the West tried to "civilize" us by criminalizing homosexual conduct, and now the West wishes to "civilize" us by decriminalizing the homosexual conduct that it criminalized in the first place, all the while producing us as the "barbarians" that they have the duty to correct.
- Rape as Colonial Legacy
The Beginning and End of Rape
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Sarah Deer's The Beginning and End of Rape.
- Rasmea Odeh's Appeal Gains
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Palestinian activist and Chicago community leader Rasmea Odeh is gaining ground in her struggle for a new trial, following her 2014 conviction for "unlawful procurement of naturalization."
- Reactionary Tide in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The oligarchic reaction against the leftist governments never ceased during the past 15 years, but now it has achieved some very substantial victories.
- Refugees and Capitalism
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The process of escaping violence has turned into a "journey of death" for millions of refugees. For Syrian refugees it is also a journey of "no return."
- Reimagining the Harper's Ferry Revolt
The Good Lord Bird
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of James McBride's The Good Lord Bird.
- A Response to Rebecca Hill
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Timothy Messer-Kruse responds to Rebecca Hill's review of his book The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age.
- The Silence of the Left: Brexit, Euro-Austerity and the T-TIP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The media in the United States have treated the British vote against remaining in the European Union (EU) as if it is populist “Trumpism,” an inarticulate right-wing vote out of ignorance at being left behind by the neoliberal economic growth policy. What is left out of this picture is that there is a sound logic to oppose membership in the EU.
- Terrifying Prospects
This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Moustafa Bayoumi's This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror.
- Time for an Independent Party
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
More than in most presidential cycles, there is reason to hope for a mass breakaway in 2016. Sanders' campaign has revealed that a mass base exists now for an independent party of the left.
- Truth and Fiction in Elie Wiesel"s "Night"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When in trouble, head for Auschwitz, preferably in the company of Elie Wiesel. It's as foolproof a character reference as is available today, at least within the Judeo-Christian sphere of moral influence.
- Turbulent 1970s Revisited
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book reviews of Michael Simanga's Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People: History and Memory, and Aaron J. Leonard's and Conor A. Gallagher's Heavy Radicals:
The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union/
Revolutionary Communist Party, 1968-1980.
- Understanding the Cataclysm
Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Alexander Anievas' Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics.
- "A warm reminder of humanity's less barbaric traits"
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Washington's Not-So-Invisible Hand: It's Not Economics, It's Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Scottish philosopher Adam Smith famously noted the "invisible hand" of the market that supposedly shaped the character of economies near and far. The rightwing neoliberal capitalist movement, dominant in the West since the early Seventies, has turned this phrase into the sacrosanct dictum of its secular religion. All human behaviour must be submitted to the "free market." (This is the notional credo, but in practice corporate elites are subsidized, bailout out, and given every possible taxpayer benefit to ensure higher private profits.) So now, when nations fail, it is typically said in the media to be the product of a) a crazed dictator threatening counterintuitive genocide on his own people; or b) foolish state interventions by deranged socialist ideologues.
- What is the Next Left?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
I think it is going to be very difficult to build national organizations that function under the control and as an expression of grassroots movements at this point; however, I think there is some real possibility for accomplishing this at the local level.
- Whither the "Political Revolution"?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A new generation is forming its political identity - large numbers of youth, the majority of whom belong to the working class or a collapsing "middle class," have been shaped by the Sanders phenomenon in ways that will last long after this election. They are open to socialist ideas, and many have gained experience in organizing.
- The Funny Business of Farm Credit
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In May of 1998 we held a conference dedicated to two Government-sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In my statement to that assembly, I noted that both corporations had been enjoying good times, but cautioned that one of the unintended consequences of fat profits over a long period is the tendency of both government and private corporations to start believing in the fantasy of ever-rising profits. GSEs often escape the accountability that Congress or regulatory agencies should impose.
- Guardian sinks into gutter on Corbyn - again
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Jeremy Corbyn today launched a review into the Labour party's supposed "anti-semitism crisis" -- in fact, a crisis entirely confected by a toxic mix of the right, Israel supporters and the media. I have repeatedly pointed out that misleading claims of anti-semitism (along with much else) are being thrown at Corbyn to discredit him.
- How a PR company manufactured the Labour coup - Part I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As the chaos surrounding Jeremy Corbyn continues at an unprecedented rate, The Canary can exclusively reveal more elements to the Labour coup that has been unfolding since the EU referendum result. In an overarching investigation, more links have come to light between Portland Communications, its subsidiaries and parent company, members of staff both there and at the Fabian Society and the Progress wing of the party.
- Liberals Need to Stop Writing Off Non-College Educated Workers -- Before the White Working Class Writes Off Liberals
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Article focuses on American elections and candidate's strategy on providing economic security for the working class and uneducated citizens.
- Response to May '68 Revisited
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"May '68 was another step in the modernization of French capitalism." So was 1789, but it was a lot more too.
- The right-wing, racialist attacks on the film Free State of Jones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The new film written and directed by Gary Ross, Free State of Jones, about a white farmer in Mississippi, Newton Knight, who led an insurrection against the Confederacy from 1863 to 1865, has come under sharp attack by right-wing elements in the American media. By right-wing elements, we mean the "new right" of identity politics advocates.
- Sources HotLink - June 30, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Articles about the FBI and the information it gathers, Donald Trump and the media, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in suppressing information.
- We must win back democracy, even if it takes Hedges' revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While the banks, elites, and the super-rich have been scrambling to try to hold onto their billions following the UK's shocking vote to exit from the European Union, the anger expressed by the leave side was another emotional cry to end the control that corporations and the elite have over everyday people in many Western countries.
- Birth-Control Wars: Two Centuries of Struggle
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The birth-control wars have reached a new level of contestation. On June 27th 2016, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law -- Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt -- that sought to restrict a woman’s right to an abortion and other birth-control medical services.
- Britain, Europe and the Real Crisis
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The decision by British voters last week to leave the European Union has brutally exposed two features of contemporary British politics. The first is the depth of popular disaffection with mainstream political institutions. The second is the paralysis of the political class in the face of this disaffection.
The Brexit victory was buttressed by a coalition of disparate social groups. Traditional Conservative supporters in the shires and the suburbs have long been suspicious of the European project. Few were surprised that they voted in large numbers against EU membership. What shocked many politicians and pundits about the referendum result was the extent of hostility in traditional Labour Party heartlands, in the North of England, in the Midlands and in the Welsh valleys.
- Digitizing old radical publications
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The libcom.org library hosts an enormous amount of material. Some of this was digitized and put online for the first time by either our users (thanks!) or one of us who run the site.
But there is still much work to do. Many older publications are in danger of being forgotten. Many more are deteriorating, victim to poor storage and fragile newsprint. We would like to change that.
Donating to our fund will allow us to be better able to digitize these pieces of radical history.
- Killing Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 'Brexit' referendum vote, split 52% to 48% in favour of leaving the European Union, has been exploited by the 'mainstream' media to launch yet another assault on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
- The Nonviolent History of American Independence
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Often minimized in our history books, the tactics of nonviolent action played a powerful role in achieving American Independence from British rule. Benjamin Naimark-Rowse wrote, "the lesson we learn of a democracy forged in the crucible of revolutionary war tends to ignore how a decade of nonviolent resistance before the shot-heard-round-the-world shaped the founding of the United States, strengthened our sense of political identity, and laid the foundation of our democracy.'
- To My Less-Evilism Haters: A Rejoinder to Halle and Chomsky
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
John Halle has taken to calling my CounterPunch article, No Lesser Evil, Not This Time, "idiotic" and part of the "lunatic and sociopathic left". These pathetic and childlike insults are part of a left that spends more time giving itself a thousand cuts than one good jab at the common enemy. I was even more hurt to read that Chomsky, quoted by Halle, thinks my article represents "left…self-destruction" that is "adding new dimensions" through "contemporary irrationality and refusal to think".
- Free State of Jones: Three cheers!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
From 1863 to 1865, Newton Knight (1837-1922), a white, antislavery farmer in Jones County in southern Mississippi, led an insurrection against the Confederacy. Inspired by Knight's life and struggle, Free State of Jones, written and directed by Gary Ross, is a fictional account of an enormously compelling, but little known chapter in American history.
- How Western Military Interventions Shaped the Brexit Vote
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Michael Hudson argues that military interventions in the Middle East created refugee streams to Europe that were in turn used by the anti-immigrant right to stir up xenophobia.
- Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- The truth behind the Labour coup, when it really began and who manufactured it
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An exclusive investigation by The Canary can reveal that the current Labour 'coup' being instigated against Jeremy Corbyn appears to have been orchestrated by a PR company where Tony Blair's arch spin-doctor, Alastair Campbell, is a senior advisor.
- Why bad ideas refuse to die
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
How disproven or easily dismissed ideas and beliefs can still endure in the population.
- Brexit: Establishment Freak Out
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The "masters of the universe" are shocked and displeased. Increasing numbers of voters are registering their anger, most recently by voting for Brexit in Great Britain. But many who voted for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump during the recent US primary season were motivated by similar frustrations. And before that, there was Occupy Wall Street, los Indignados in Spain, Syriza in Greece, and other massive protests elsewhere in Europe as well. The reason is simple.
- Brexit and the EU implosion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The article looks into the construction of the European Union, Britaint's Brexit choice and Germany's hegemony, particularly in the euro zone.The author talks about a range of ways that financialised monopolies of the imperalist triad (Inited States, Europe, Japan) implement to dominate over the nations of the peripheries and force developing counties into the plunder of their national resources.
- 41 Years Since Jumping Bull (But 500 Years of Trauma)
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Leonard Peltier writes about his own case and about the 500 years of violence and injustice directed at indigenous peoples.
- The Reaction to Brexit Is the Reason Brexit Happened
If you believe there's such a thing as "too much democracy," you probably don't believe in democracy at all
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"This isn't democracy; it is Russian roulette for republics," Kenneth Rogoff recently wrote in the 'Boston Globe,' of last week's Brexit vote.
- Being African in India: 'We are seen as demons'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
After a year in India, Zaharaddeen Muhammed, 27, knows enough Hindi to understand what bander means. Monkey. But it isn't even the daily derogatory comments that make him doubt his decision to swap his university in Nigeria for a two-year master's degree programme in chemistry at Noida International University. Nor is it the questions about personal hygiene, the unsolicited touching of his hair or the endless staring. It is his failure to interact with Indian people on a deeper level.
- Brexit and the Diseased Liberal Mind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The enraged liberal reaction to the Brexit vote is in full flood. The anger is pathological -- and helps to shed light on why a majority of Britons voted for leaving the European Union, just as earlier a majority of Labour party members voted for Jeremy Corbyn as leader.
- A Children's Book Introduces German Kids to the True Story of Syrian Refugees
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Germany has received more than 1 million refugees, mostly from Syria and Iraq. Despite supporters initially celebrating Chancellor Angela Merkel's actions, many Germans have begun voicing concerns about when this acceptance of migrants will come to an end. But while the adults in Germany have expressed mixed reactions to the refugees, German author Kirsten Boie wants children at least to realize that a refugee child is just like any other kid in the world.
- How the left should deal with the referendum results
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With many of the old political certainties breaking up, the left have to rise to the challenge.
- It's a Question of What Unites Us
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An interview with Harold Lavender on accountable structures, systemic change, and the peril and promise of alliances against gentrification.
- It's Still the Iraq War, Stupid.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
No rational person could blame Jeremy Corbyn for Brexit. So why are the Blairites moving against Corbyn now, with such precipitate haste? The answer is the Chilcot Report. It is only a fortnight away, and though its form will be concealed by thick layers of establishment whitewash, the basic contours of Blair’s lies will still be visible beneath. Corbyn had deferred to Blairite pressure not to apologise on behalf of the Labour Party for the Iraq War until Chilcot is published.
- Leonard Peltier: 'My Last Hope for Freedom'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Leonard Peltier is a political prisoner and Native freedom fighter who has been unjustly incacerated for 40 years. The International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee is ramping up efforts for Peltier's clemency under U.S. President Obama’s last year in office. This may be his last chance at freedom and justice. Find out how you can help achieve Peltier's freedom here: whoisleonardpeltier.info.
- UK after the rain
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Shabbir Lakha looks beyond the media blizzard surrounding last week's referendum result and identifies anti-racist work as a campaigning imperative.
- Brexit Is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The decision by U.K. voters to leave the EU is such a glaring repudiation of the wisdom and relevance of elite political and media institutions that -- for once- their failures have become a prominent part of the storyline.
- Brexit and the new hostility to participatory democracy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The reaction to Brexit illustrates the desperate need for the Left to return to first principles. For, as the result broke on social media, a remarkable number of progressives directed their anger not at anti-immigrant demagogues and opportunist politicians but against the voters themselves and the very idea of a referendum in which they might express their will. It's merely the most recent illustration of a growing estrangement from democracy, not only on the mainstream Right but also on the Left.
- Building a progressive majority
Left strategy after the Brexit vote
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
After the EU referendum we are seeing both horror at anti-migrant sentiment and pandering to it -- but only a radical economic offer can carve a way through.
- Israel lawfare group plans 'massive punishments' for activists
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Why are we using the word Palestinian? There’s no such thing as a Palestinian person," Brooke Goldstein declared to enthusiastic applause at a meeting of key Israel lobby operatives in New York earlier this month. Goldstein is the director of the Lawfare Project, a legal group that aims, in her words, to "make the enemy pay" -- that "enemy" being mainly comprised of Palestine solidarity activists and students.
The Lawfare Project was founded with the support of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an important forum for anti-Palestinian organizing in the US.
- Private Banks: Creating Money Out of Thin Air
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In his book The Joy of Tax: How a Fair Tax System Can Create a Better Society, Richard Murphy, UK Tax Justice Network co-founder, offers a radically pioneering approach to tax and fiscal policy. Murphy is one of the first economists to link tax policy to the 400- year-old reality that nearly all money is created by private banks out of thin air.
- The Revolt of the Fragments
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It was, without question, a bloody nose for the political establishment, the biggest it has received for decades. And many have read the unexpected success of the Leave camp in the British EU referendum straightforwardly as a revolt against the political class and as a victory for democracy. Yes, it was a revolt against the political class in London and in Brussels. But the referendum result was also far more complicated than that.
- This vote was about far more than immigration
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The vote to leave the EU was fuelled by class divisions, argues Alastair Stephens.
- The Battle of Oaxaca
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This is not just another of the many Oaxacan wars. It is part of a much more profound and extensive war that is by no means contained within the national territory itself. But the battle being waged in Oaxaca has a special meaning in that war, in the larger war.
It is a battle long overdue. In Oaxaca people knew that many aspects of the ongoing confrontation were being postponed due to the elections. It was evident that after the elections, the attacks, provocations, and the final assault would intensify. Everywhere, preparations began.
- A Blow for Peace and Democracy
Why the British Said No to Europe
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.
- Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold fired whistleblower. Then it spilled cyanide into five rivers
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto-based mining giant, Barrick Gold, spilled cyanide solution into five Argentina rivers shortly after firing an engineer who raised serious safety concerns about the mining operation responsible for the contamination.
- How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. This alarming development has been taking place for weeks, since Israel’s national water company, "Mekorot", decided to cut off – or significantly reduce – its water supply to Jenin, Salfit and many villages around Nablus, among other regions. Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians.
- In or out of the European Union? A tale of two referenda
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Andrew Burgin argues for a 'Remain' vote in the Brexit referendum.
- Mikmaq say Bay of Fundy developments could harm endangered fish
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Nova Scotia, people are concerned about the impacts of big projects on endangered fish in one of the world’s most famous waterways. Two projects are being considered by the province on the Bay of Fundy. Its high and low tides are also home to a number of fish that are on the endangered species list.
- The roots of Israel's most racist law
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israel’s most draconian laws may have been passed by the current right-wing government, but the stage was set long ago by the Israeli Left. With a majority of 65 votes, the Knesset approved last week the extension of an order to prevent family reunification in Israel. Of Palestinian families, of course. Jews are welcome to continue and reunify as much as they please.
- A Story from El Salvador: Julio Molina, Saving Historic Memory
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Julio Molina dedicates himself to preserving the "historic memory" of the generation that was involved in the 12-year civil war that took place in El Salvador from 1980 to 1992 between the rightwing government of the oligarchy and the revolutionaries of the FMLN. "We have many tasks today," he says, "but one of them is the preservation of the historic memory."
- Unimpeded Rivers Crucial as Climate Changes: New Study
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Gravel-bed rivers and their floodplains are the lifeblood of ecosystems and need to be allowed to run and flood unimpeded if species are to be protected and communities are to cope with climate change.
- Cuadrilla versus The Nanas - #IamTinaRothery
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Thanks to fracking company Cuadrilla, grandmother Tina Rothery will be in court tomorrow over a £55,000 'debt' imposed on her for joining a peaceful occupation of a fracking site in Lancashire. But as she explains, she can't pay, she won't pay, and even if she could pay, she wouldn't. Someone has to stand up to corporate vandalism and abuse of justice - and in this case, it's her, no matter what the consequences.
- A History of the Barricade
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The barricade is the iconic tactic of historic class struggles, and its history is engagingly explored in Hazan's history, finds William Booth.
- Hong Kong media forced to leave Mainland after covering protest
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly criticizes the recent actions by the Government of Shanwei, Guangdong, against journalists covering protests in Wukan village. The IFJ calls on the local government to end its attack on
- IFJ demands immediate release of jailed Turkish journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) have strongly condemned the arrest of Turkish journalists.
- Iran: new attacks by authorities on journalism
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists has called for a halt to the 'relentless attack by Iranian authorities on journalism" following new legal threats against an Iranian newspaper.
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics... and U.S. Africa Command
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the strangest news developments of our time is the way the media now focus for days, if not weeks, 24/7, on a single event and its ramifications. Omar Mateen's slaughter of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando is only the latest example of this. If no other calamitous or eye-catching event comes along (“‘Unimaginable’: Toddler’s body recovered by divers after alligator attack at Disney resort"), it could, top the news, in all its micro-ramifications and repetitions, for three or four weeks. Such stories -- especially mass killings, especially those with an aura of terrorism about them -- are particularly easy for strapped, often downsizing news outfits to cover. They are, in a sense, pre-packaged.
- Die Linke: Ten Years On
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Political organizations, particularly those committed to radical change, face their greatest tests in times of crisis. In 1914, German social democracy, the international socialist movement’s crown jewel, was brought to its knees by its inability to confront the outbreak of World War I. Two decades later, German Communism’s ultra-leftism proved similarly impotent in the face of the growing Nazi threat, and Europe's most powerful laboUr movement was decimated within a couple of years.
- Media worker detained for eight months, released to Hong Kong
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses concern following the revelation that Lam Wing Kee, one of the five Hong Kong Causeway Bay bookstore employees detained in 2015, was detained by the Central Task Force in Mainland China.
- Palestine's 'Prayer for Rain': How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians, according to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah. The irony is that the water provided by "Mekorot' is actually Palestinian water, usurped from West Bank aquifers. While Israelis, including illegal West Bank settlements, use the vast majority of it, Palestinians are sold their own water back at high prices.
- Two Views on Marxist Ecology and Jason W. Moore
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On June 6, 2016, Climate & Capitalism published an interview with John Bellamy Foster, in which he for the first time responded to nearly a decade of criticism from Jason W. Moore, who accuses Foster of "Cartesian dualism" and who promotes what he calls "world-ecology" as an alternative to the approach Foster is most associated with, metabolic rift theory and Ecological Marxism.
- Your EU vote is crucial because it won't count
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Here is a prediction about the outcome of today’s UK referendum on leaving the European Union. Even in the unlikely event that the remain camp loses, the UK will still not Brexit. Europe's neoliberal elite will not agree to release its grip on a major western nation. A solution will be found to keep the UK in the union, whatever British voters decide. Which is one very good reason to vote Brexit.
- Can we combine intersectionality with Marxism?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Neoliberal austerity is impacting particularly hard on women. Capitalism relies on women not just directly as workers who generate surplus value but also to provide the primary carers for the next generation of workers and increasingly for the sick and elderly as social service cuts bite. Reproductive rights face serial attacks and domestic violence and other forms of endemic sexism in capitalist society mean that the fight for women's liberation and, in the shorter term, the fight to defend those rights women have won so far from being rolled back remain key issues for socialists.
- Capital in context
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Deciphering Capital by Alex Callinicos is the impressive balance sheet of some 30 years of research. Its starting point is a thesis completed at Oxford in 1978 entitled "The Logic of Capital", which distanced him at one and the same time from both the surrounding Hegelian Marxism and the empiricism of Ernest Mandel.
- Disability, resistance and revolution
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The number of disabled people has grown from around 10 percent of the world population in the 1970s to 15 percent, 1 billion people, today. The World Health Organisation predicts that this figure will continue to grow as the world's population ages and chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, respiratory disease and stress related illness increase. Severe physical injury in warfare and road traffic accidents as well as industrial injury, malnutrition and insanitary living conditions also remain major causes of serious impairment. Around the world disabled people are among the most marginalised -- suffering poorer health outcomes, lower levels of educational achievement and higher levels of unemployment and poverty than non-disabled people.
- History of the Equals
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Mahdi Ganjavi interviewed Professor pETER Linebaugh during his visit with a special focus on two of his major contributions to a Marxist study of "history from below": The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, and The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century.
- Imperial silences: From Rhodes to Surabaya
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The campaign last year to have the statue of Cecil Rhodes removed from Oriel College, Oxford, has provoked more discussion of the British Empire and its crimes than we have seen for many years. Rather than keeping quiet about Britain's imperial past, the Rhodes Must Fall campaign has actually flushed establishment apologists out into the open. They have been forced to defend the legacy of a man who, if he had not been British and had not given a substantial bribe to Oxford University, would today be generally acknowledged by everyone as a corrupt fraudster, thief, liar and killer for profit, as someone marked out only by the enormity of his crimes. The hypocrisy that the debate over Rhodes Must Fall has occasioned has been very instructive in itself, but what is intended here is an examination not just of the part played by hypocrisy in the defence of British imperialism, but of the other strategies employed: suppression and amnesia.
- Is there a vast cowspiracy about climate change?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Cowspiracy movie review: Cowspiracy's argument is based on badly flawed and almost unanimously rejected interpretations of science. Actual science and scientists are practically absent among the many talking heads in the film.
- The Left and the EU
Why Cling to This Reactionary Institution?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Why is it that many people who consider themselves left-wing have such difficulty grasping that the EU is a deeply reactionary institution? The mere fact that those running the EU present it as an internationalist venture dedicated to the creation of a world free of nationalist enmities does not make it so. If we want to examine the EU in its proper light, then we should ignore the high-flown rhetoric in which its supporters indulge, and consider its actual record. And what is the record of the EU, once we penetrate the obfuscatory rhetoric about ‘internationalism’ that surrounds EU policy? Without a doubt, that record is one that should cause those on the left now defending it acute embarrassment, as it starkly contradicts the ideals that the left has always claimed to uphold.
- Marxism and the Anthropocene
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As you read this article every breath you take in contains about 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide, around a third more than your great grandparents breathed 100 years ago. As well as leading to potentially catastrophic global warming, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has changed the way plants photosynthesise and has also made seas and lakes more acidic, more so than they have been for the last 800,000 years. The effect human activity is having in the world is on such a huge scale that, for a growing number of thinkers, Earth has entered a new geological epoch defined by human activity. Using the Greek word Anthropos (human) they propose to name this epoch the Anthropocene.
- Sound & Fury
Just What Does Brexit Signify?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Not since Y2K thretened to plunge the planet into chaos has a story provoked overwrought handwringing comparable to that triggered by Britons voting to withdraw from the European Union. By common assessment, Brexit signifies something profound. History itself has seemingly gone off the rails. Darkness threatens to cover the earth.
- The stagnation of the Dutch Socialist Party
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Socialist Party (SP) is one of the parties that emerged to the left of traditional social democracy in the last decade of the 20th century. In electoral terms, it is one of the most successful. At its peak in 2006, the SP got 25 out of 150 seats (16.6 percent of the vote), becoming the third party in the House of Representatives. With the European Parliament (2014) and provincial (2015) elections it eclipsed the Labour Party (PvdA) for the first time, becoming the biggest party of the left in the Netherlands. Until Syriza's election victory in 2015 the Dutch SP was the only left reformist party in Europe to win a bigger share of the vote than the traditional social democratic party.
- State, power and bureaucracy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The theory of bureaucratic state capitalism in Russia and elsewhere characterises the International Socialist Tendency and distinguishes us from most other Marxist parties worldwide. So a study of the development of Leon Trotsky's ideas on the Russian bureaucracy is of particular interest. This book reveals one of the greatest Marxists struggling to come to terms with a wholly new phenomenon, the Stalinist bureaucracy.
- War from above, resistance from below
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A review of Donny Gluckstein (ed), Fighting on all Fronts: Popular Resistance and the Second World War. As Donny Gluckstein points out in the introduction to this book, understanding the nature of the Second World War is fundamental to our understanding of the world today. Liberal and left wing opinion sees it as a war between democracy and fascism, or "progress and reaction" as Eric Hobsbawm described it. This leads some to see the Allies' victory as the straightforward triumph of democracy and ushering in American prosperity for all. For example, the Confederation of German Trade Unions has suggested, without any hint of irony, that workers today should get behind the idea of "a new Marshall plan" as the basis for a "progressive strategy" for the crisis-ridden European Union.
- Where does ISIS come from?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A review of Abdel Bari Atwan, Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate.
Rosa Luxemburg said that capitalism would end in either socialism or barbarism. Looking at the Middle East, as hopes of democracy and social justice have been dashed by counter-revolution and violence, and at the West’s depictions of Islamic State or ISIS, barbarism might seem to have triumphed. Abdel Bari Atwan, editor for 25 years of the Arabic daily AlQuds AlArabi and now running the news website Rai al-Youm, is well placed to give an informed account of the origins, ideology and spread of ISIS.
- Beyond the brexit debate
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Whatever the result of the Brexit referendum, of one thing we can be sure: Britain will neither be invaded by marauding Turks, as anti-EU campaigners suggest might happen if the country votes 'Yes', nor will Western civilization collapse, as EU president Donald Tusk fears after a 'No' vote. There will undoubtedly be economic and political turbulence, but Britain will not be staring into the abyss, however it votes.
- Brazil's Crisis and the New Right
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff resulted from the conjunction of three factors: the rupture of the alliance with business owners, the rise of a new militant right, and the PT's serious mistakes after abandoning the streets. What remains is a wounded society and an extractive model that went unquestioned by the left and undermined the hegemony of the Lula current.
- The Great Seed Piracy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A great seed and biodiversity piracy is underway and it must be stopped. The privateers of today include not just the corporations -- which are becoming fewer and larger through mergers -- but also individuals like Bill Gates, the "richest man in the world". When the Green Revolution was pushed in India and Mexico, farmers' seeds were "rounded-up" and locked in international institutions, which used these seeds to breed green revolution varieties which responded to chemical inputs.
- Africa: Cultural Appropriation - When 'Borrowing' Becomes Exploitation
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The idea of "cultural appropriation" has recently entered mainstream debates about the ways in which African cultural creations are used, borrowed and imitated by others. In fashion, art, music and beyond, some people now argue that certain African cultural symbols and products are off-limits to non-Africans.
- Connexions Other Voices - June 18, 2016 - Homophobia, Cultural Appropriation, Liberation Theology
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
- Strike strategy today
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Why has the use of the strike in the US become so scarce? While subjective factors are more difficult to quantify, certain basic reasons seem more readily evident. Union membership, particularly in the private sector, is at an all-time low. Most of the unions are heavily bureaucratized, and central labor councils ossified. "Sympathy strikes," long ago outlawed by Taft-Hartley, militate against the sort of broad-based solidarity so essential to an industrial victory. Moreover, many unions have accepted no-strike clauses for the duration of their contracts, effectively tying one hand behind their backs.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
- Workers Profiles: Below the Minimum Wage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An endless supply of alcohol, good music, pool tables, and friendly strangers -- these elements seem like a recipe for a fun time. For those of us who frequent bars and pubs, this kind of environment is exactly what we look forward to at the end of a long day or work week. Imagine working at a bar. It seems natural that bartenders would enjoy their upbeat surroundings at work as much as their customers. Now, imagine being the only worker at a bar. You alone are responsible for cleaning the bar, controlling drunk customers, serving food, buying supplies -- everything all alone during an overnight shift.
- Foreclosure Fraud Is Supposed to Be a Thing of the Past, But It Happens Every Day 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn't exist: finding "missing" documents required to "complete" broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage should have been prepared and recorded within days of the transfer or sale -- and the failure to do so irreparably ruptures chain of title -- the companies would seem to be looking for time travelers or magicians. Or maybe they want to manufacture false evidence to introduce into courts as a means to take away people's homes.
- Mortgage Companies Seek Time Travelers to Find Missing Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn’t exist: finding "missing" documents required to "complete" broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage should have been prepared and recorded within days of the transfer or sale -- and the failure to do so irreparably ruptures chain of title -- the companies would seem to be looking for time travelers or magicians.
- TISA 'free trade' deal to force draconian social, environmental, financial deregulation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A leaked text from the 'Trade In Services Agreement' negotiations shows that TISA is set to unleash a massive wave of deregulation affecting social, environmental and financial standards, and force the privatisation of state-run enterprises. So it's not just TTIP, CETA and TPP we have to fight - TISA could be the biggest corporate power grab of them all.
- As Corruption Engulfs Brazil's "Interim" President, Mask Has Fallen Off Protest Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Momentum for the impeachment of Brazil's democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was initially driven by large, flamboyant street protests of citizens demanding her removal. Although Brazil's dominant media endlessly glorified (and incited) these green-and-yellow-clad protests as an organic citizen movement, evidence recently emerged that protests groups were covertly funded by opposition parties. Still, there is no doubt that millions of Brazilians participated in marches demanding Rousseff's ouster, claiming they were motivated by anger over her and her party’s corruption. But from the start, there were all sorts of reasons to doubt this storyline and to see that these protesters were (for the most part) not opposed to corruption, but simply devoted to removing from power the center-left party that won four straight national elections.
- The Black Student Rebellion of 1976
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A defining feature of the 1976 uprising was the decisive entry of black students onto the stage of history. Until the 1960s, the number of Africans in schools remained relatively low. But the urban African population was growing, especially the number of young people. And industry required a larger pool of industrial labour. So there was a rapid expansion of schooling for Africans. In 1976 there were 3.8 million Africans in schools. Nearly 10% percent of those were in secondary schools. In Soweto alone the number of secondary school students increased from approximately 12,500 to more than 34,000.
- A historic turning point in Brazil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
President Dilma Rousseff's suspension is a historic turning point in Brazil -- the end of an era of Workers' Party (PT) national governments that began in 2002 with the election of Lula. The PT won four presidential elections, two with Lula (2002 and 2006) and two with Dilma (2010 and 2014). This political crisis and historic turning point is intertwined with an equally deep economic crisis -- in 2015 GDP shrank by 3.8 percent in Brazil and, taking into account IMF projections for 2016, GDP might shrink by a further 3.5 percent. These data suggest that now there is an economic crisis similar to the crisis of 1929-31, when Brazilian GDP shrank by 8.1 percent.
- Old New York Police Surveillance Is Found, Forcing Big Brother Out of Hiding
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, police surveillance of political organizations in New York was extensive enough to require more than half a million index cards, simply to catalog and cross-reference the many dossiers. But over the ensuing decades, the dossiers themselves were presumed missing or lost. Police Department lawyers said they had no idea where the files had gone.
Now, a significant portion of the missing files have been discovered during what the city said on Thursday was a routine inventory of a Queens warehouse, where archivists found 520 brown boxes of decades-old files, believed to be the largest trove of New York Police Department surveillance records from the era.
- A queer take on Safe Schools and identity politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In recent weeks, the debate over the Safe Schools Coalition anti-bullying program has intensified, taking what is in many ways a bizarre turn. The brief suspension of program architect Roz Ward from her position at La Trobe University has reopened the debate about whether Safe Schools is 'cultural Marxism' by stealth, the program once again coming under fire from conservatives across the country. Even trans advocate and member of the ADF Catherine McGregor has weighed in. One of the more interesting elements of this, however, has been the debate it has created about the role gender and sexual politics can and should play within Marxism. Here enters Guy Rundle. In the pages of Crikey, Rundle penned a treatise on the program and what he considers the failures of 'queer theory'. Rundle believes Safe Schools (via queer theory) presents the view that 'gender and sexuality are infinitely fluid'. He argues, however, that such a view denies the material realities of sexuality and gender, not to mention his view that 'almost no-one really believes it -- and they certainly do not let it shape their lives'.
- Victory Assured on the Military's Main Battlefield -- Washington
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When it comes to Pentagon weapons systems, have you ever heard of cost "underruns? I think not. Cost overruns? They turn out to be the unbreachable norm, as they seem to have been from time immemorial. In 1982, for example, the Pentagon announced that the cumulative cost of its 44 major weapons programs had experienced a "record" increase of $114.5 billion. Three decades later, in the spring of 2014, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the military’s major programs to develop new weapons systems -- by then 80 of them -- were a cumulative half-trillion dollars over their initial estimated price tags and on average more than two years delayed.
- DuPont May Dodge Toxic Lawsuits By Pulling a Disappearing Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
First DuPont spun off much of its environmental liability into a new company known as Chemours. Now the company plans to merge with Dow.
- Halle/Chomsky: An Eight Point Brief for LEV (Lesser Evil Voting)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Among the elements of the weak form of democracy enshrined in the constitution, presidential elections continue to pose a dilemma for the left in that any form of participation or non participation appears to impose a significant cost on our capacity to develop a serious opposition to the corporate agenda served by establishment politicians. The position outlined below is that which many regard as the most effective response to this quadrennial Hobson's choice, namely the so-called "lesser evil" voting strategy or LEV. Simply put, LEV involves, where you can, i.e. in safe states, voting for the losing third party candidate you prefer, or not voting at all. In competitive "swing" states, where you must, one votes for the "lesser evil" Democrat.
- The Way to the Spring
Life and Death in Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest villages.
- Naturism booms in France as young eager to ditch clothes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Why are more and more people, especially the young, opting to get naked in France?
Indeed, over the past three years, the phenomenon has begun to attract a younger audience according to the the FNN (French Federation of Naturism), seeing many more young families showing up to camps with their children.
- Stop Exploiting LGBT Issues to Demonize Islam and Justify Anti-Muslim Policies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the late 1990s, Eric Rudolph -- raised Catholic and affiliated for a time with a Christian Identity sect -- bombed abortion clinics and a gay bar, insisting they were venues of immorality and evil. Last July, an Orthodox Jewish Israeli attacked the marchers in the Jerusalem LGBT pride parade, stabbing six of them, and one of them, a teenager, died of her wounds; justifying his attacks by appealing to Talmudic punishments for homosexuality, he had just been released from a 10-year prison term for doing the same in 2005. Yesterday, a Christian pastor from Arizona, Steven Anderson, praised the slaughter of 49 people in an Orlando LGBT club on the ground that "homosexuals are a bunch of disgusting perverts" and are "pedophiles."
- Why changing our diets won't save the Earth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Received wisdom says that to save the planet we have to change our eating habits. Elaine Graham-Leigh explains why the received wisdom isn't just wrong, it blames working people for a crisis they didn’t cause.
- 'Badass Librarians' Foil al Qaeda, Save Ancient Manuscripts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Scholars used donkey carts, boats, and teenage couriers to smuggle a priceless collection out of Timbuktu.
- May '68 Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Mitch Abidor recently spent weeks in France tracking down people who came of age politically in May 1968, to ask them how they viewed that experience, then and now. He went out of his way (with 1–2 exceptions) to talk to people "unknown," in contrast to the "stars" who feature in so many accounts of May. He talked with anarchists, Trotskyists, Stalinists, and even anarchists who had become Stalinists later. We publish this short summary of his results in Insurgent Notes because we like his direct, unvarnished access to participants, while taking our distance from some of his interpretations, which are subject to debate. We (the editors of Insurgent Notes) found Mitch's results sobering, if not downright deflating, because his subjects across the board say that the French working class in May 1968 was not revolutionary.
- NSA learning how to snoop on pacemakers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The NSA is seeking new ways to satisfy its hunger for raw data by exploiting the so-called internet of things, an emerging network connecting objects such as vehicles, home appliances and biomedical devices. "We're looking at it sort of theoretically from a research point of view right now," the spy agency's Deputy Director Richard Ledgett told a conference on military technology at Washington's Newseum on Friday.
- Convict and Immigrant Detainee Struggles Converge in Strike Wave
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There was a time in the United States when it was not only common knowledge, but commonly reported, legislated, and adjudicated that crime is a function of poverty. This went out sometime during the Carter Administration, its demise heralded by the appearance in 1975 of James Q. Wilson's Thinking About Crime, where he first aired the broken-windows theory,which holds that punishment has to be harsh for minor violations of public order to incentivize criminals against larger violations.
- Convict and Immigrant Detainee Struggles Converge in Strike Wave
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The ongoing struggle of us convicts to preserve and enhance their humanity has been taking on an explicit labor aspect, connected to and conscious of such struggles outside the prison walls, and it appears to be intensifying hand in hand with the convicts' traditional struggles for human dignity.
- Dorothy Day Refuses To Duck-And-Cover
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On June 15th, 1955, Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day joined a group of pacifists in refusing to participate in the civilian defense drills scheduled on that day. These drills were to prepare the citizenry in the event of a nuclear attack, and involved evacuations of city centers, taking shelter in subway tunnels, and, for schoolchildren, "duck-and-cover" to hide under their school desks. Such actions would be futile if a nuclear attack were underway, but the drills were part of a government propaganda program to convince Americans that nuclear weapons were a necessary part of the US arsenal, and that it would be possible to survive a nuclear war.
- Things My Students Don't Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the discussion exercises I use in my course on corporate power begins with the bare text of the First Amendment projected on screen at the front of the room. I tell students that this is a recently proposed piece of federal legislation and invite their comments. I also say that if anyone has heard of the proposal, they should remain quiet for the time being and let others speak first.
- U.S. Elites
The Original Gangsters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Donald Trump is at home in the underworld. Tom Robbins writes that the de facto GOP nominee "has encountered a steady stream of mob-tainted offers that he apparently couldn't refuse" in his decades in business. He "worked with mob-controlled companies and unions" while building his empire, the Washington Post reports. So the man has presidential cred. U.S. elites, since the colonial era, have shown contempt for the law: if they weren't ignoring their own codes, they were violating those of other nations or international statutes, or partnering with avowed outlaws. It's not clear, in other words, what distinguishes politicians and businessmen from career criminals.
- Why Israel is blocking access to its archives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israel is concealing vital records to prevent darkest periods in its history from coming to light, academics say.
- Authoritarianism Means Never Having to Apologize Over Spilled Milk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Virginia a middle school student named Ryan Turk was arrested and then suspended from school for allegedly stealing a $0.65 carton of milk. Officials claim that the student tried to conceal the carton of milk and are also charging him with larceny. But there’s a problem: Ryan Turk is on the free lunches program.
- Eritrea commits crimes against humanity, UN says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Eritrea's government is guilty of committing crimes against humanity since independence a quarter-century ago with up to 400,000 people "enslaved", the UN has said. The crimes committed since 1991 include imprisonment, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killings, and rape and murder, said the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) on human rights.
- Forsaken
The Persecution of Christians in Today's Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Across the Middle East, Christian communities today find themselves the victims of widening repression: massacres, expulsions, and brutally enforced restrictions on the right to worship have all become commonplace. Such persecution has now reached the point where, in the region that was once its birthplace, Christianity's very existence is under threat.
- How the Media Manipulated the Democratic Primary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Though it might not always seem like it, the news media is composed of human beings. Humans aren't, can’t be, and possibly shouldn't be, objective. Still, there's a reasonable expectation among consumers of political news that journalists of all political stripes strive to be as objective as possible. At their minimum, media outlets ought to be straightforward about their biases. They certainly shouldn't have, or appear to have, their thumbs on the scales.
- How The Press Hides The Global Crimes Of The West: Corporate Media Coverage Of Chad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the essential functions of the corporate media is to marginalise or silence acknowledgement of the history -- and continuation -- of Western imperial aggression. The coverage of the recent sentencing in Senegal of Hissène Habré, the former dictator of Chad, for crimes against humanity, provides a useful case study. The verdict could well have presented the opportunity for the media to examine in detail the complicity of the US, UK, France and their major allies in the Middle East and North Africa in the appalling genocide Habré inflicted on Chad during his rule - from 1982 to 1990. After all, Habré had seized power via a CIA-backed coup.
- Ireland Continues to Remember 1916 and Continues to Betray It (With Some Canadian Help)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Do you remember Ireland’s 1916 commemorations in late March? Do you remember the spectacle? Do you remember all those fighting words and strong images of national independence and national justice? The attention of the world was on Dublin for a few days and Dublin played the part of the rebel city. Well it was all a bit too real and too popular. And for that reason it had to be officially repressed as soon as possible.
- American Wasteland
The Most Urgent Challenge for America is Its Poorly Hidden Mental Health Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Hearing the phrase "mental health crisis," one may think of the epidemic of mass shootings plaguing the country since the Reagan era. Or, images may erupt of home grown terrorist attacks or the plunge toward right-wing extremism in contemporary politics. Yet, suicide outranks both homicides and car accidents as the number one killer of our fellow citizens.
- Faulty update breaks Lexus cars' maps and radio systems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A faulty data broadcast is causing problems for Lexus car owners in the US. The buggy update - which was delivered via a wireless transmission - is causing affected vehicles' infotainments systems to stop working. This prevents drivers from getting navigation directions, climate controls and digital radio.
- Snowden leak: MI5 has gathered so much data it may actually be missing 'life-saving intelligence'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
British spies may have missed potentially "life-saving intelligence" because their surveillance systems were sweeping up more data than could be analyzed, a leaked classified report reveals. The document, given to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was sent to top British government officials, outlining methods being developed by the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, to covertly monitor internet communications.
- A Leap Toward Radical Politics?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Leap Manifesto is, in a way, Canada's version of the burst of Left and socialist energies that have come with the Bernie Sanders campaign in the Democratic Party in the U.S. and the Jeremy Corbyn leadership win in the Labour Party in Britain. As with these, the explosion of popular interest reflects general disquiet about the limits of recent protests demanding changes from the state but having no strategy to transform it, on the one hand; and disappointments with electoral politics and social democratic parties that only seem to reinforce neoliberalism, on the other.
- The Wages of Neoliberalism
Poverty, Exile and Early Death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Economist Michael Hudson says neoliberal policy will pressure U.S. citizens to emigrate, just as it caused millions to leave Russia, the Baltic States, and now Greece in search of a better life. A research team from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York estimates 875,000 deaths in the United States in year 2000 could be attributed to social factors related to poverty and income inequality.
- When Phoenix Came to Thanh Phong
Bob Kerrey and War Crimes as Policy in Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On May 16, 2016, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was named chairman of Fulbright University, a US-backed college with ties to the State Department in Ho Chi Minh City. During his recent visit to Vietnam, President Barack Obama heaped praise on Kerrey, a former Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969. What Obama failed to mention is that Kerrey also supervised one of the most atrocious war crimes of that ghastly war.
- Ancient bison fossils offer hints about 1st humans in southern Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The fossils of bison that roamed near what is now Edmonton 13,000 years ago are helping solve the mystery of the earliest humans in southern Canada, including how and when they got there and where they came from.
- Employment Lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On June 3, 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the US economy only created 38,000 new jobs in May and revised down by 59,000 jobs the previously reported gains in March and April. Yet the BLS reported that the unemployment rate fell from 5.0 to 4.7 percent, a figure generally regarded as full employment. The May jobs increase only covers a small fraction of the monthly growth in the labor force and, therefore, cannot account for the drop in unemployment.
- In Defense of Ecological Marxism: John Bellamy Foster responds to a critic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the most important books of Marxist theory published in recent years is Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature, in which John Bellamy Foster rediscovered and expanded on Marx’s understanding of the alienation of human beings from the natural world, crystallized in the concept of metabolic rift. In a recent conversation, Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus asked Foster about Moore’s criticisms of ecological Marxism.
- John Pilger on Class Vs "Identity"
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Award-winning journalist & film-maker, John Pilger describes the corrosive impact of "identity" politics and the loss of "class" as a tool to understand the world we live in.
- Ali knew his job - to inspire people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Describing Muhammad Ali's role as a symbol of resistance to power and the inspiration provided by his acheivements.
- I Don't have to be what you want me to be
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
'A strange fate befell Muhammad Ali in the 1990s', Mike Marqusee writes in Redemption Song, his wonderful, illuminating study of 'Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties'. ‘The man who had defied the American establishment was taken into its bosom. There he was lavished with an affection which had been strikingly absent thirty years before, when for several years he reigned unchallenged as the most reviled figure in the history of American sports.' The global outpouring of grief, affection and tribute to Ali this weekend has been moving and heart-warming. Yet, there is a part of me that thinks that, as affection has washed away the old contempt with which he once was greeted by large sections, especially of American society, we have also lost something of the sense of Ali's true greatness.
- Countering Pro-GMO Deceptions in the British Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In his recent piece for The Times newspaper in the UK, Viscount Matt Ridley argues that a new report from the American National Academies of Sciences (NAS) leaves no room for doubt that genetically engineered crops are as safe or safer, and are certainly better for the environment, than conventionally bred crops.
- Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Washington DC based History Teacher Dan Falcone and New York City English Teacher Saul Isaacson sat down with Professor Noam Chomsky to discuss current issues in education and American domestic and foreign policy issues. They also discussed the place of the humanities in education and how it relates to activism, definitions of terrorism, and how education impacts the perceptions of the political process in the US.
- The Body Cam Trade-Off
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ever since the Snowden revelations, both liberals and conservatives have become increasingly convinced that government surveillance and encroachment into Americans lives has spiraled out of control. That the government should play some role in providing safety and security for its citizens is accepted, but how the government achieves these goals is not as clear. We want security, but not at undue cost to our privacy.
- Crime or Punishment Why Wall Street Elites Don't Do Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Illicit financial behavior has been decriminalized in the United States -- for all practical purposes. Despite the revelations of massive misconduct by banks and other financial services businesses, criminal investigations are rare, indictments exceptional and guilty judgments extraordinary. Most potentially culpable actions are overlooked by authorities, slighted, reduced from criminal to civil status when pursued, individuals evade penalties much less punishment, and the appeals courts take extreme liberties in exonerating culprits when and if the odd conviction reaches them. The last mentioned are establishing new frontiers in the formulation of ingeniously sophistic arguments to justify letting financial malefactors off the hook.
- Let's Stop Google from Gobbling Up Our Schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In October of 2006, Google launched its Apps for Education, with Arizona State University being its first client. Today there are more than 25 million individual users in both K-12 and higher ed institutions, and 74 of the top 100 universities use Google apps for their university communications and software applications.
- Poverty, Militarism and the Public Schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
What's the difference between education and obedience? If you see very little, you probably have no problem with the militarization of the American school system -- or rather, the militarization of the impoverished schools ... the ones that can't afford new textbooks or functional plumbing, much less art supplies or band equipment. My town, Chicago, is a case study in this national trend.
- The 'slow genocide' of Brazil's Guarani people must stop
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Land theft, agribusiness and violence pose an existential threat to Brazil's Guarani people. They maintain a powerful resolve to regain their historic lands, and even have the law on their side - but the tribe will need international support to prevail against murderous ranchers and farmers, corrupt politicians and a paralysed legal system.
- Toxic Curve Ball: Why Outdated Assumptions to Determine "Safe Levels" of Toxicants Forfeit the Game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
By now, a large number of consumers are aware of the hazards of the synthetic compound bisphenol-A (BPA). Effective May 11, 2016, under California state law Proposition 65, products containing BPA must possess a warning label indicating that exposure could result in female reproductive impairment. Independent research on the endocrine disrupting effects of the chemical, commonly used in plastic bottles, the lining of metal cans, and customer receipts, among other applications, has consistently demonstrated toxic effects at low dose exposures. Two recent robust studies from Denmark concur, finding deleterious effects in rats exposed to BPA at doses lower than those considered safe for human ingestion, yet not at several higher doses. Nevertheless, regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) conclude that BPA is safe at the levels at which it is currently in use.
- A Very Brazilian Coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On one level, the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff seems like vintage commedia dell’arte. For instance, the lower house speaker who brought the charges, Eduardo Cunha, had to step down because he has $16 million stashed in secret Swiss and U.S. bank accounts. The man who replaced Cunha, Waldir Maranhao, is implicated in the corruption scandal around the huge state-owned oil company, Petrobras.
- African-American Women Now Top the List of Most-Educated Group in the Country
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Statistics on black women and education have shown them leading all other gender and racial groups for a few years now. More than half of all black women specifically between the ages of 18 and 24 are enrolled in college, and black women overall outpace other race and gender groups in terms of college enrollment, according to the National Center of Education Statistics/U.S. Census numbers.
- Generation Revolution
How Egypt's military state betrayed its youth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An account of the violent end of the Islamic youth uprising in Cairo and the treatment of the movement by the military and populace in its aftermath.
- Redeeming Chávez's Dream
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The world press, suddenly aware of the deepening crisis in Venezuela, is relishing in the Bolivarian Revolution's woes. But its coverage rarely goes deeper than images of poor people clamoring for food. The photos index the situation's seriousness, but they do not capture its complexity.
- Google voice search records and keeps conversations people have around their phones - but the files can be deleted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
How google search can record and store conversations picked up by a phone's microphone, as well as how to prevent this and delete the stored files.
- The great train robbery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Privatised networks of European railways have neglected safety, community and environmental issues in pursuit of profit.
- Marxism and LGBT politics: a new wave of discussion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Colin Wilson reviews Peter Drucker's book Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism.
- The return of the "grand narrative"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Throughout the world, a rising tide of social struggle is upending the proclamations by anti-Marxist intellectuals that the "grand narratives" of working-class struggle and socialist revolution have been superseded.
- Russia's truckers protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Russian government leniency towards protesting truckers indicates that the country's social crisis could overshadow its noisy diplomacy.
- 45 Days of Solidarity
How Verizon workers outmatched the country's largest telecommunications company.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The strike by 39,000 Verizon workers -- members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) -- ended after forty-five days with a tentative agreement announced late last week.
- Good News of the Day: Army of 1,000 Ducks Used as Brilliant Pesticide Alternative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
South Africa's Vergenoegd vineyard in Stellenbosch keeps a flock of over 800 Indian Runner ducks to help combat tiny white dune snails that would otherwise destroy the budding vines. The ducks' upright and slender posture allow them to navigate the rows of plants, clearing up to a hectare a day.
- The bookseller saving Jerusalem's Palestinian identity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Stripped of their rights, the last wall of Palestinian resistance is culture, says owner of a Jerusalem bookshop.
- From Albrecht to Monsanto: A System Not Run for the Public Good Can Never Serve the Public Good
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Guaranteed income's dangerous outcome
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Ontario Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne is talking about a guaranteed basic income for all residents. It sounds great; in fact it sounds too good to be true. There are a number of very different models of guaranteed annual income (GAI) out there, and there are proponents on both the right and left. In Canada, most GAI proposals have come from the right and, importantly, at times when capitalism is experiencing crises.
- OCCRP Launches New Search Engine for Investigative Journalists
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a non-profit network of investigative journalism centers in Europe and Eurasia, has launched a new data platform to enable journalists and researchers to sift more than 2 million documents and use the findings in their investigations. People using the new data platform, called ID Search, will be able to set up email alerts notifying them when new results appear for their searches or for persons tracked on official watchlists. They can also create their own private watchlists.
- The State of the Left: Many Movements, Too Many Goals?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Sanders campaign has proven a couple of important things about today's political reality in the United States.
1) A substantial number of Americans are interested in redistributing wealth and making government work for the 99 percent
2) That is impossible within the current electoral system in the United States.
- Still Wavy After All These Years: Flower Geezer Turns 80
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- When Soldiers Resist
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Let's remember the courageous war resisters who said no to the slaughter in Vietnam.
- White Rose Begins Leaflet Campaigns June 1942
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In June 1942, a pair of German university students formed The White Rose, a German resistance movement that used a series of leaflets to decry Nazi militarism and call for an end to the war. Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell wrote the first four leaflets between the end of June and beginning of July. In the fall, Hans' sister, Sophie Scholl, discovered that her brother was one of the authors of the pamphlets, and joined the group. Shortly after, Willi Graf, Christoph Probst, and Kurt Huber became members.
- Why Scientists Are Amazed at Oilsands Smog Levels
Air pollution report in Nature shocks even Canada's top researchers
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On any hot day Shell and Syncrude tour guides used to call the gasoline-like vapours that wafted from Fort McMurray's huge open-pit bitumen mines "the smell of money." But a new study in Nature has another name for the stench: air pollution and megacity volumes of it.
- Henri Alleg
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Henri Alleg (20 July 1921 – 17 July 2013), born Henri Salem, was a French-Algerian journalist, director of the "Alger républicain" newspaper, and a member of the French Communist Party. After Editions de Minuit, a French publishing house, released his memoir La Question in 1958, Alleg gained international recognition for his stance against torture, specifically within the context of the Algerian War (1954–1962).
- EFF Asks Court to Reverse Chelsea Manning's Conviction for Violating Federal Anti-Hacking Law
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
EFF Asks Court to Reverse Chelsea Manning's Conviction for Violating Federal Anti-Hacking Law. Wikileaks Prosecution Included Unfair Charge Under CFAA
- EFF to FCC: Prevent ISPs From Following Your Every Internet Move
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to update privacy rules to prevent broadband Internet access service providers from recording and sharing their customers' every move online.
- Food sovereignty and climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Climate change has become, in a short time, one of the "global affairs" of critical importance in our times. It has now penetrated every sphere of our social and political life to the point of acquiring a centrality that dangerously makes it seem natural.
- The Missing Piece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A strong, independent labour movement could lead the struggle for democracy and justice in the Philippines. Rodrigo Duterte's revolution, at least so far, looks like nothing more than a reshuffling of the country's political elite. The election seems to mark a period of continuity, not progressive change, in Philippine politics.
- Safer, Smarter Journalism: Digital Security Need for South Asia's Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) have launched Safer, Smarter Journalism, a week-long digital security campaign to build digital security awareness and skills for South Asia's jou
- Yemen: IFJ calls on UN to exert pressure for release of 10 journalists on hunger strike in Houthi jails
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on the United Nations envoy in Yemen to act to help secure the immediate release of 10 jailed journalists amid growing concerns about their health and allegations of torture.
- Amid corruption, poverty and violence, Paraguay's rural poor fight for land and freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The closing down of a community radio station in eastern Paraguay is the latest example of political repression in the country with the most unequal land distribution in Latin America, and in which the media are dominated by a tiny elite of the super-rich. As small farmers begin to reclaim the land that is rightfully theirs, landowners and the state they control are striking back.
- Blatant Hypocrisy: the Latest Late-Night Bailout of Greece
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The new late night deal in the Eurogroup on the new bailout for Greece is another blatant hypocrisy by the dominant European Union powers, their partner-cum-competitor IMF (aka the US) and the Greek establishment (now represented by the SYRIZA government). The new deal is an uneasy compromise subject to a continuing tug-of-war between the US (through its proxy, the IMF) and the EU.
- Calibrated with precision. How is GPS changing our world?
A review of Greg Milner's Pinpoint
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The satellite navigation system we all live by is still controlled by the US military.
- Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity
Big Brother is watching...
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
FindFace, new app developed by 26-year-old Artem Kukarenko and 29-year-old Alexander Kabakov,compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability.
- Google's upcoming Allo messaging app is 'dangerous', Edward Snowden claims
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Using Google's upcoming messaging app is "dangerous", according to Edward Snowden. In a tweet, the whistleblower advised against using Allo, the search giant’s latest app, saying: "Google's decision to disable end-to-end encryption by default in its new Allo chat app is dangerous, and makes it unsafe. Avoid it for now."
- Nine Out of 10 Americans Tested Positive for Monsanto's Cancer-Linked Weedkiller Glyphosate
A probable human carcinogen is found in far too many foods
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If you participated in the glyphosate test project launched last year by the Detox Project (formerly Feed The World) and Organic Consumers Association, you probably failed. A staggering 93 percent of Americans tested positive for glyphosate, according to the test results, announced on May 25, 2016.
- The Old Braceros Fight On
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Dozens of men assemble to remember their lives as contract guest workers in the United States and discuss the latest news or lack thereof in their decades-old movement to recover the 10 percent that was deducted from their paychecks and supposedly deposited in a savings account created for the return to Mexico under the old Bracero Program.
- Recession led to 260k extra cancer deaths, experts claim
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Unemployment and austerity were associated with more than 260,000 extra deaths of cancer patients in countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD), a study has shown. Those countries with universal health coverage , such as the UK, and a record of increased public health spending had fewer casualties.
- The Seemingly Endless Indignities of Air Travel: Report from the Losing Side of Class Warfare
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For most of my alleged adult life I have wanted to live in a third world country, and now that my native United States has kindly accommodated this wish, all I do is bitch. It's bad enough that our income and wealth disparity rivals that of Guatemala, now our tax dollars are actively promoting this ever-deepening caste system.
- Silencing America as It Prepares for War
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 2016 election campaign is remarkable not only for the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders but also for the resilience of an enduring silence about a murderous self-bestowed divinity. A third of the members of the United Nations have felt Washington’s boot, overturning governments, subverting democracy, imposing blockades and boycotts.
- Close Calls: We Were Much Closer to Nuclear Annihilation Than We Ever Knew
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The proposition that nuclear weapons can be retained in perpetuity and never used -- accidentally or by decision -- defies credibility. This unanimous statement was published by the Canberra Commission in 1996. Among the commission members were internationally known former ministers of defense and of foreign affairs and generals.
- Holocaust survivor and activist for justice Hedy Epstein dies at 91
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, 91, died at her home in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on May 26, 2016. An internationally renowned, respected and admired advocate for human and civil rights, Hedy was encircled by friends who lovingly cared for her at home.
- The Looting Stage of Capitalism: Germany's Assault on the IMF
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Having successfully used the EU to conquer the Greek people by turning the Greek "leftwing" government into a pawn of Germany's banks, Germany now finds the IMF in the way of its plan to loot Greece into oblivion.
- Pan-Africanism, feminism and finding missing pan-Africanist women
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There are numerous women in the African Diaspora who have worked for the liberation of Africans under the banner of Pan-Africanism. They must be rescued from political obscurity. Pan-Africanism as a revolutionary ideology must firmly embrace feminism.
- Sources HotLink - May 26, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This issue takes a look at the good and bad of governments. Stateside, the NSA and CIA are at it again. Repeating mistakes in spite of media scandals and public outcry. Spies will be spies. In Uganda, censorship flexes its muscles and free elections become less free. In the Russian cyberspace, a though provoking debate is being had over the limitations of free speech. Finally, in the Middle East, we have a bit of hot and cold. The Pakistani Senate celebrates a victory for democracy and the freedom of speech.
- Time to End the 'Hasbara': Palestinian Media and the Search for a Common Story
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Merely being in the company of hundreds of Palestinian journalists and other media professionals from all over the world has been an uplifting experience. For many years, Palestinian media has been on the defensive, unable to articulate a coherent message, torn between factions and desperately trying to fend off the Israeli media campaign, along with its falsifications and unending propaganda or 'hasbara'.
- Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this together
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Liberal environmentalists insist that we are all passengers on Spaceship Earth, sharing a common fate and a common responsibility for the ship's safety. In reality, a handful of Spaceship Earth's passengers travel first-class, in plush air-conditioned cabins with every safety feature, including reserved seats in the very best lifeboats. The majority are herded into steerage, exposed to the elements, with no lifeboats at all. Armed guards keep them in their place.
- The Financial Invasion of Greece
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Greece's economic crisis has perhaps been eclipsed by Europe's refugee crisis, terrorist attacks, and by the forthcoming Brexit referendum. But it has not gone away. Greece's Syriza coalition faced violence on the streets and a 3-day general strike last week that brought much of the country to a halt. In spite of the protests the government of Alexis Tsipras pushed through legislation to amend the country's tax and pension system with the backing of 153 MPs, a measure required by the lenders in order to continue the debt negotiations.
- Free Speech
Ten Principles for a Connected World
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ash offers a manifesto for global free speech in the digital age.
- Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science but Genetic Engineers Often Are
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Henderson argues that biotechnologists conflate anti-science with anti-genetic engineering, and that genetically engineered crops are being commercialized without proper testing.
- Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science but Genetic Engineers Often Are
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Religious Zealots Ready for Takeover of Israeli Army
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In a surprise move, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week forced out his long-serving defence minister, Moshe Yaalon. As he stepped down, Yaalon warned: "Extremist and dangerous elements have taken over Israel." He was referring partly to his expected successor: Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, whose trademark outbursts have included demands to bomb Egypt and behead disloyal Palestinian citizens.
- This is What Insurgency Looks Like
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The call to Break Free from Fossil Fuels envisioned "tens of thousands of people around the world rising up" to take back control of their own destiny; "sitting down" to "block the business of government and industry that threaten our future"; conducting "peaceful defense of our right to clean energy." That's just what happened.
- The FBI's secret biometrics database they don't want you to see
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wants to prevent information about its creepy biometric database, which contains fingerprint, face, iris, and voice scans of millions of Americans, from getting out to the public. The Department of Justice has come up with a proposal to exempt the biometric database from public disclosure. It states that the Next Generation Identification System (NGI) should not be subject to the Privacy Act, which requires federal agencies to give people access to records that have been collected concerning them, "allowing them to verify and correct them if needed."
- Transit Activism and the Urban Question in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The demand for free transit has been an important starting point of recent mobilizations in Brazil, notably those that shook the whole country in the summer of 2013. This interview with local activists and researchers João Tonucci and André Veloso zeroes in on transit organizing in Belo Horizonte, the third largest metropolitan area in Brazil.
- Connexions Other Voices - Tax Evasion
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The May 21, 2016 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. The theme of this issue is Tax Evasion. Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1%
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Tax Evasion
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Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
- Tax Evasion
Introduction to the May 21, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2016
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The essence of the capitalist economic system is the drive to accumulate as much as possible, by any means possible. It is almost inevitable, therefore, that those – individuals or corporations – whose existence revolves around accumulating capital will seek to avoid paying taxes.
- The new 140-character war on India’s caste system
Social media gives India's Daltis a voice
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Twitter users highlight caste issues ignored by mainstream media
- Penny dreadfuls: the Victorian equivalent of video games
Wild stories that caused a moral panic
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The story of how in 1880s and 1890s, penny dreadfuls were blamed for youth violence and suicide.
- RoboCop is real -- and could be patrolling a mall near you
K5 robot, the new sheriff in the valley
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Automated security has cameras, microphones and costs $7 an hour.
- Secret Armies, Shadow Wars, Silent Unaccountability
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We live today in an era of postmodern war. It's a two-front war -- the first being the virtual front of threats, posturing, and arms buildups we persist in waging, Cold War-style, against state-based mirror-images of ourselves (Russia and China); the second being the dirty front we wage in the shadows against irregular, non-state thugs and pygmy tyrants who use their weaknesses as strengths, asymmetrically, to turn our strengths into weaknesses.
- Joy Kogawa
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Joy Kogawa is a Canadian writer.
- Warning: This May Injure Your Modesty
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ahmed Naji is an Egyptian novelist and journalist who, in February, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for "injuring public modesty". In August 2014, Akhbar al-Adab, a state-funded literary magazine, had published an excerpt from his third novel, Istikhdam al-Hayah (Using Life), which had been previously approved by Egypt's censorship authority. In the excerpt, the narrator smokes hashish, drinks alcohol with his friends, and enjoys a sexual relationship with a woman. Hani Saleh Tawfik, a 65-year-old Egyptian, filed a case against Naji, alleging that reading the excerpt had caused him to experience heart palpitations, sickness, and a drop in blood pressure.
- Foreclosure Fraud Is Supposed to Be a Thing of the Past, But It Happens Every Day 2
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Every day in America, people continue to be kicked out of their homes based on false documents. The settlements over allegations of robosigning, faulty paperwork, and illegal mortgage servicing didn’t end the misconduct. And law enforcement, along with most judges and politicians, have looked away in the mistaken belief that they wrapped up a scandal that just goes on and on.
- We can dream, or we can organize
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The swift rise, and swift crumbling, of the Occupy movement brings to the surface the question of organization. Demonstrating our anger, and doing so with thousands of others in the streets, gives us energy and brings issues to wider audiences. Yes spontaneity, as necessary as it is, is far from sufficient in itself. For all the weeks and sometimes months that Occupy encampments lasted, little in the way of lasting organization was created and thus a correspondingly little ability to bring about any of the changes hoped for. Nor is social media a substitute for mass action.
- Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz - Part 2: 'Hitlergate'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As with so many propaganda blitzes, intense media coverage was triggered by 'dramatic new evidence'; namely, the discovery of a graphic posted by Naz Shah two years ago, before she became a Labour MP. The graphic shows a map of the United States with Israel superimposed in the middle, suggesting that a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict would be to relocate Israel to the US.
- C.L.R. James's "Critical Support" of Fidel Castro's Cuba
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
C.L.R. James's "critical support" of Fidel Castro’s Cuba is little understood among scholars of his life and work. This essay explores James’s 1967–1968 visit to Cuba and reconstructs private debates and discussion on Cuba within his revolutionary organizations, based in Detroit, in the 1950s and 1960s, and among anti-imperialist movements. Many of James's commentaries and disputes were consistent with his attempts to reconcile anti-colonialism with direct democracy and workers self-management.
- Donald Trump and the New American Nationalism
An Exhausted Democracy
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There have been moments in this election campaign that have brought back dark memories. In Mississippi, Florida and elsewhere, presumed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump asked his supporters to raise their right hands and pledge their allegiance to his cause: "I do solemnly swear that I, no matter how I feel, no matter what the conditions, if there's hurricanes or whatever. Will vote on or before the 12th for Donald J. Trump for President." Tens of thousands raised their right arms and repeated the oath after him. The America media drew comparisons to Adolf Hitler.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for April 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending April 30, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.24 trillion. AUM increased by $7 billion or
- Chomsky on Trump's Climate Denialism
He wants us to march toward the destruction of the species
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Transcript of an interview with Noam Chomsky discussing Donald Trump's denial of climate change and the dangers it poses.
- Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage
'Citizen Archivists' for the Future
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Jan Zastrow looks at some of the exciting ways crowdsourcing is being used to increase online access to unique resources in cultural heritage collections, reflect on the ROI of such activities, discuss the challenges, and hypothesize possible future directions.
- Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
A science journalist takes a skeptical look at capital-S Skepticism
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First Published: 2016
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So I'm a skeptic, but with a small S, not capital S. I don’t belong to skeptical societies. I don’t hang out with people who self-identify as capital-S Skeptics. Or Atheists. Or Rationalists. When people like this get together, they become tribal. They pat each other on the back and tell each other how smart they are compared to those outside the tribe. But belonging to a tribe often makes you dumber.
- Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A science journalist takes a skeptical look at capital-S Skepticism
- Landless Workers' Movement on the True Origins of Brazil's Political Crisis
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Brazil's Landless Worker's Movement, MST, takes a profound look at Brazil's political crisis, how it affects the working class and how they must respond.
- Migrant workers testify on Parliament Hill today, call for permanent immigration status, open work permits, and real reforms
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Four migrant workers will testify at the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (HUMA) today calling for permanent immigration status, open work permits & comprehensive reform
- Unsafe at any Dose? Diagnosing Chemical Safety Failures, from DDT to BPA
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Piecemeal, and at long last, chemical manufacturers have begun removing the endocrine-disrupting plastic bisphenol-A (BPA) from products they sell. Sunoco no longer sells BPA for products that might be used by children under three. France has a national ban on BPA food packaging. The EU has banned BPA from baby bottles. These bans and associated product withdrawals are the result of epic scientific research and some intensive environmental campaigning. But in truth these restrictions are not victories for human health. Nor are they even losses for the chemical industry.
- Congo's Environmental Paradox
Potential and Predation in a Land of Plenty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Congo has natural resources the world needs. Its forests count in the fight against global climate change and Congo's farmers could feed all of Africa's population. The Inga hydroelectric site has the potential to light up the entire continent. Congo's incredible natural wealth has the potential to contribute to development in this troubled central African country -- but structural problems, cultural factors, poor governance and predation remain serious challenges.
- Gay imperialism: Postcolonial particularity
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Since her refusal to accept the Berlin Pride Civil Courage Award, Judith Butler has been a leading critic of "homonationalism" and the closely related phenomenon of so-called "pinkwashing." Homonationalism is understood here as an ideology which uses a nation's liberal attitudes toward homosexuality as a means of encouraging racist attitudes toward other nations, on the grounds that they are supposedly less enlightened. Butler stated in a May 2010 address on "Queer Alliance and Antiwar Politics" in Ankara, Turkey that "in some parts of Europe and surely in Israel as well, the rights of homosexuals are defended in the name of nationalism."
- Sex, Needs, and Queer Culture
From Liberation to the Post-Gay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist. In recent years, however, lesbian and gay subcultures have become increasingly mainstream and commercialized -- as seen, for example, in corporate backing for pride events -- while the initial radicalism of sexual liberation has given way to relatively conservative goals over marriage and adoption rights. Meanwhile, queer theory has critiqued this homonormativity, or assimilation, as if some act of betrayal had occurred.
In Sex, Needs and Queer Culture, David Alderson seeks to account for these shifts in both queer movements and the wider society, and he argues powerfully for a distinctive theoretical framework. Through a critical reassessment of the work of Herbert Marcuse, as well as the cultural theorists Raymond Williams and Alan Sinfield, Alderson asks whether capitalism is progressive for queers, evaluates the distinctive radicalism of the counterculture as it has mutated into queer, and distinguishes between avant-garde protest and subcultural development. In doing so, the book offers new directions for thinking about sexuality and its relations to the broader project of human liberation.
- Climate Justice Transitions
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The devastating fires in Fort McMurray show the urgent need to transition to an economy that supports people and the planet, and this is part of a transition in climate justice politics.
- Burying the White Working Class
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Liberal condescension towards white workers is code for a broader anti-working class agenda. The white working class is a zombie that doesn't know it's dead. Or if it's not fully zombified yet, its members are all too busy cleaning their AR-15s and posting racist comments on YouTube to vote for a progressive. That is, if they're not already on the Trump bandwagon, which they probably are. At least that's what the Democratic Party wants you to believe.
- Desire to Kill the Streetcar
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The author analyzes the conspiracy by large corporations to monopolize the American transit system and its fuel system.
- A fossil free world must be founded on a Just Transition for workers and their communities
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Climate impacts hit working people first and with extreme weather events, changing seasons and rising sea levels, whole communities stand on the frontlines. The challenge of industrial transformation is both an imperative and an opportunity. We know there are jobs in action on climate, millions of jobs. With infrastructure investment projected to be up to US$90 trillion by 2030. This means jobs.
- Syria: Armed opposition groups committing war crimes in Aleppo city
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A detailed account of attacks carried out by opposition groups in Aleppo city between February and April 2016, which indiscriminately struck civilian targets with heavy civilian casualties.
- Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz - Part 1
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We live in a time when state-corporate interests are cooperating to produce propaganda blitzes intended to raise public support for the demonisation and destruction of establishment enemies. Here we will examine five key components of an effective propaganda campaign of this kind.
- Feeding body and soul - an exploration of Britain's new age landworkers
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There is a change being made in food production that have individual reaping healthier and energy preserving benefits.
- 100,000 California Indians Killed During Gold Rush Genocide
Bloody Gold; the California Gold Rush and state sponsored genocide
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Legislation with roots in Manifest Destiny and dehumanization helped lead Euro-Americans to commit the greatest act of genocide in American history.
- Share if You Think Every School Should Have a Year-Round Organic Gardening Program!
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A few years ago the children at our school grew, harvested and, ultimately, ate a giant, two-pound carrot. Our organic gardening program at the Waldorf School of Cape Cod has come a long way since then. We now have a unheated hoop house and a program where middle school gardeners lead first through fifth graders as they learn to build soil, plant, transplant, tend, water and harvest food year round. Our harvests are transformed by our school chef into amazing meals served at lunch.
- What Principles Rule the World?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
According to Chomsky, the Global War on Terror sledgehammer strategy has spread jihadi terror from a tiny corner of Afghanistan to much of the world, from Africa through the Levant and South Asia to Southeast Asia. It has also incited attacks in Europe and the United States.
- Beyond Panama: Unlocking the world's secrecy jurisdictions
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 21 jurisdictions covered by the Panama Papers data vary from the rolling hills of Wyoming to tropical getaways like the British Virgin Islands. But all have at least one thing in common - secrecy is the rule.
- IFIC Comments on Ontario Securities Commission's 2016-2017 Statement of Priorities
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - May 9, 2016 - In a submission filed today on the Ontario Securities Commission's (OSC) 2016-2017 Statement of Priorities, The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) notes that several key trends and challenges that will influ
- Mother's Day Message: Protect the Children
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last week Houston. This week Fort McMurray. Next week: where on earth? The climate crisis knows no bounds and its hallmark is unpredictability. We know the general trends, as the carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere, but we don't know
- Women in Politics: Fast Forward - An International Women's Conference in Jordan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Participants were filled with energy and enthusiasm; sounds of optimistic laughter echoed under the dome of Parliament of Jordan. Instead of men in black, grey or blue suits, the place was filled with finely dressed women. Some of them wore their tra
- Hippalos: Early Navigation of Deep Sea Routes Between India and Egypt - Part I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the south-east or Coromandel Coast of India, about two miles (3.2km) south of the former French enclave of Pondicherry, there is a tract on the east known locally as Arikamedu, near the village of Virampattanam. After 1937 it was gradually revealed as an Indo-Roman trading station.
- Connexions Other Voices - Destabilization and Regime Change
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The May 7, 2016 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. The theme of this issue is Destabilization and Regime Change.
- Destabilization and regime change
Introduction to the May 7, 2016 issue of Other Voices
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
People looking at the United States from the outside tend to assume that life is easy when you're an imperialist superpower in command of the world's largest military forces, backed by the world’s most powerful economy. With so much power concentrated in your hands, what could possibly go wrong?
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Destabilization and Regime Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When governments get too far out of line -- the most outrageous offence, from the point of view of imperial power, is pursuing policies that help ordinary people at the expense of transnational corporations and local elites -- then they have to be overthrown. The preferred method is a destabilization campaign followed by a coup. This issue of Other Voices focuses destabilization and regime change.
- Divine wilderness: John Muir's spiritual and political journey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For John Muir, founder of America's national parks, immersion in nature was a blessing providing direct communion with divinity,and the cause of a spiritual awakening that inspired his life's work: to preserve wilderness and communicate the beauty, wonder and fragility of nature, sharing widely the source of his own enlightenment.
- Mother's Day and nuclear weapons abolition
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Card companies, florists, and drugstores with perfumes and lotions galore, are urging us to celebrate and honour our mothers with the perfect gift. It's a commercial bonanza! Everyone feels bound by social convention to show respect through gifts
- Goodbye to democracy if TTIP is passed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The leaked chapters of the EU-US TTIP 'free trade' deal reveal a shredding of health, environmental and other protections for consumers and citizens. It's a wet dream for corporate monopolists and profiteers, and the elite bureaucrats that serve them. But for civil society it represents an irreversible destruction of democracy itself.
- IFIC's President and CEO to Chair Second Annual Canadian Funds Summit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announced today that its president and CEO, Joanne De Laurentiis, will chair the second annual Canadian Funds Summit in Toronto on May 10-11, 2016.
- IFIC's President and CEO to Chair Second Annual Canadian Funds Summit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announced today that its president and CEO, Joanne De Laurentiis, will chair the second annual Canadian Funds Summit in Toronto on May 10-11, 2016.
- Zionism and Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
What is the meaning of Zionism today, almost 70 years after the formation of Israel, and why is it such a buzzword? Are we talking here about a particular form of nationalism or is it something a little bit more complex? What is its agenda?
- Baiting the Bear
Russia and NATO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Aggressive," "revanchist," "swaggering": These are just some of the adjectives the mainstream press and leading U.S. and European political figures are routinely inserting before the words "Russia," or "Vladimir Putin." It is a vocabulary most Americans have not seen or heard since the height of the Cold War. The question is, why?
- From Hillsborough to pesticides
Establishment cover-ups, lies and corruption
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The British establishment does nothing quite so well as lies, cover-ups and high-level corruption - whether it's the Hillsborough disaster or permitting polluters to poison us. Georgina Downs won her own High Court legal victory protecting rural residents from pesticide exposure as long ago as 2008 - only to have it snatched away as Court of Appeal judges closed ranks.
- Hanford's Leaky Nuke Tanks and Sick Workers, A Never-Ending Saga
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It's been a toxic few weeks at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Eastern Washington. Not that this is exactly news -- Hanford is the most radioactive site in North America and is thereby always toxic. But what is news is how dangerous and negligent the remediation efforts at Hanford continue to be.
- An introduction to the Indian Ocean slave trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Indian Ocean slave trade encompassed Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with people from these areas involved as both captors and captives. The numbers of people enslaved and the exact length of the trans-Indian slave trade have not been definitively established, but historians believe that it preceded the transatlantic enslavement by centuries. Even though it is largely ignored as an international slave trade, examples of its impact abound. Writing on Indian Ocean slavery frequently mentions African people in China and Persia as well as in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, which also served as central slave markets.
- Remembering Nonviolent History
Freedom Rides
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
By May 1961, federal law had already ruled that segregation on interstate public buses was illegal. Southern states, however, maintained segregation in seating, and at bus station bathrooms, waiting rooms and drinking fountains and the Interstate Commerce Commission refused to take action to enforce federal law. To change this, the Civil Rights Movement (CORE, SNCC, NAACP) began a series of Freedom Rides on May 4th, 1961.
- TIPP
Advancing American Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Greenpeace has done that part of the world whose representatives are so corrupt or so stupid as to sign on to the Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic "partnerships" a great service. Greenpeace secured and leaked the secret documents that Washington and global corporations are pushing on Europe. The official documents prove that my description of these "partnerships" when they first appeared in the news is totally correct.
- TTIP is on the rocks. Let's defeat these toxic trade deals!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The TTIP EU-US trade deal has finally hit the rocks with massive popular opposition on both sides of the Atlantic gaining serious political traction. There's now a good chance that TTIP will be defeated - but first we must make sure that CETA, the equally toxic EU-Canada 'Trojan Horse' deal, bites the dust.
- The American Jewish scholar behind Labour's 'antisemitism' scandal breaks his silence
Norman G. Finkelstein talks Naz Shah MP, Ken Livingstone, and the Labour 'antisemitism' controversy.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An interview with author Norman Fikelstein on the Labour 'antisemitism' scandal.
- Anarchism's Mid-Century Turn
A Review & Response: Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century,
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
No matter how one feels about it, the current state of anarchism has represented something of a mystery: What was once a mass movement based mainly in working class immigrant communities is now an archipelago of subcultural scenes inhabited largely by disaffected young people from the white middle class.
- Destroying Detroit Schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Detroit Public School system has been under state control for 15 years, the last decade under the direction of a series of Emergency Managers. The result has been a staggering debt, now more than half a billion dollars, with a 50% decline in the number of students served. More students attend charter schools than the public system, but as there is no oversight over charters, poorly run schools continue year after year.
- A Dweller in Peace
The Life and Times of Daniel Berrigan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the renowned anti-war activist, award-winning poet, author and Jesuit priest, who inspired religious opposition to the Vietnam war and later the U.S. nuclear weapons industry, died at age 94.
- the Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust - Key Texts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Blairites' crocodile tears are about defending empire, writes David Moyles in this introduction to The Jews, Israel and the Holocaust by Tony Cliff.
- Leaked TTIP papers reveal 100% corporate sellout
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Secret documents leaked to Greenpeace from the EU-US TTIP negotiations show that environmental protection, climate change mitigation, consumer protection, public health and sustainability are sacrificed throughout to corporate profit and commercial interests.
- The Mythology Of Trump's 'Working Class' Support
His voters are better off economically compared with most Americans.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It's been extremely common for news accounts to portray Donald Trump's candidacy as a "working-class" rebellion against Republican elites. Narratives like these risk obscuring an important fact about Trump's voters: As compared with most Americans, Trump's voters are better off.
- Tracing ancient Asia-America migration in language
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Kets are Siberia's last hunters and gatherers with linguistic links to Native North Americans as far away as Arizona.
- What is the "Nuit Debout"?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In late February the Michael Moore-style documentary "Merci Patron!" debuted in a few small cinemas in France. The sleeper hit caught a representative of Bernard Arnault, the CEO of the luxury-goods conglomerate LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) forking over 35 thousand euros in hush money to a couple who were threatening to go public with their layoff from a garment factory.
- Celebrating Mother Jones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This week commemorates the anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, International Workers' Day, and the claimed birthday of Mother Mary Harris Jones. While the United States' official Labour Day falls in September, the international community celebrates workers and workers rights on May 1st, in recognition of actions taken by Americans in 1886, and the events that led up to the Haymarket Massacre.
- Communities at Risk
Hazards of LNG
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The proposed LNG Terminals and Tanker Routes for BC put coastal communities at risk. Know the Hazards of LNG Transportation and advocate for the adoption of the SIGTTO safety standards.
- On the Frontlines of Peace
The Life of Daniel Berrigan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Certain events in one's life often determine the choices made later in that same life. These crucial events can be of a personal nature -- a romance, a family death, the birth of a child, or something less universal -- or they can be events that take place in the public sphere. One such event of the latter category in my life occurred May 17, 1968.
- American Literature and the First World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Given that the United States entered the First World War much later than any other major belligerent, declaring war on Germany in April, 1917 - over two and a half years after the war began - one might expect that the war had less impact here than on other countries. American literature, however, argues otherwise.
- Auto's Permanent Temporaries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the auto industry, temporaries were once students who covered auto jobs over a clearly defined summer vacation period. Today temps can work a full week year after year, never becoming permanent workers.
- The Contested Haymarket Affair: 130 Years Later
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On May 4th, 1886 someone threw a bomb into a file of Chicago police dispatched to break up a workers' protest rally at the city's Haymarket Square. The blast and ensuing gunfire killed seven cops and at least four civilians, and wounded many more.
- Defending the Faith
The Catholic Church waged a century-long war against the Irish left.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ireland's foremost socialist knew that the British Empire and Irish capitalists weren't the only challenge he and his comrades faced. "In dealing with Ireland," James Connolly wrote in 1910, "no one can afford to ignore the question of the attitude to the clergy." Connolly's subject of discussion was a 1830s Owenite cooperative that enjoyed brief success, in large part because nearby clergymen didn't oppose it.
- Disasters in Seria and Yemen
An Interview with Gilbert Achcar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Interview with author Gilbert Achcar.
- An enemy within
There are terrible precedents for attacking immigrant culture - like the well organised and sponsored US campaign during the first world war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at the persecution and campaign against Americans of German origin within the United States during WWI.
- Fatema Mernissi: A Pioneering Arab Muslim Feminist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Remembering sociologist Fatema Mernissi.
- Front Runner
Marine Le Pen's campaign to make France great again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at Marine Len Pen, leader of the far-right National Front Party (FN), and the events and circumstances that led to her party's rise in popularity from a fringe movement to the forefront of French politics.
- The Habits of Highly Cynical People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at the consequences and dangers of 'naive cynicism', where complex issues are oversimplified and the future and past is flattened out, reducing motivations to engage in intelligent dialogue, and to participate and act.
- Homonationalism and Queer Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For most young queers today, still, the image of a "worker" is white, male and straight. You can't understand the realities of class without an intersectional approach - an intersectional approach fused with some of the key insights of contemporary radical queer theory.
- Inside/ Outside the Campus Box
The Cutting Edge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of David Lanksy's The Cutting Edge.
- Messer-Kruse's Haymarket History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book reviews of Timothy Messer-Kruse's two works The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age and The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks.
- Politics of the New Normal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For those of us on the socialist left, the biggest issue is what will come from the passion and commitment of millions of voters and tens of thousands of activists who are feeling the Bern.
- Red Light Therapy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A traffic light experiment in the Netherlands forms the basis of a discussion on how we interpret 'rules' and morality and what they mean to us.
- Russia's Intervention and Syria's Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There's a lot of hypocrisy in the present complaint by the Obama administration that most Russian strikes are directed against the non-ISIS Syrian opposition. And yet, Washington's hope is that Putin will not only prevent the regime's collapse and consolidate it, but also help in reaching some kind of political settlement of the conflict. For the time being this is more wishful thinking than anything else.
- Standing Against Counterrevolution
The Two Trotskyisms Confront Stalinism: The Fate of the Russian Revolution, Volume 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Sean Matgamna's The Two Trotskyisms Confront Stalinism: The Fate of the Russian Revolution, Volume 2.
- "This Deportation Business": 1920s and the Present
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This article examines the growth of the deportation regime during the 1920s, and explores the enduring ramifications of early deportation practice and the renegotiation of the state's coercive power over migrants.
- Trouble Down in Texas (and Elsewhere)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The U.S. Supreme Court, on March 2nd, 2016, heard arguments in the case of Whole Women's Health vs. Hellerstedt. The judges will be deciding the constitutionality of a 2013 Texas bill (HB2) that places restrictions on clinics where abortions are performed - most within the first eight weeks of pregnancy.
- U.S. Labor - What's New, What's Not?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An analysis of the changing and unchanging elements of the working-class in the contemporary U.S.
- U.S. Labor: What's New, What's Not?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We all know that there's something different about today's working class. One obvious difference is that today's working class produces fewer things "you can drop on your toe," as The Economist famously put it, and more that you can't. What’s actually changing in capitalist production in the United States?
- Water in a World of Crisis
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Karen Piper's The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos.
- Why Blacks Vote for "Pragmatism"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
African Americans are probably the most pragmatic voting bloc in the country. African Americans more than any other ethnic group understand white supremacy, racism and class exploitation.
- Disobedience
The rise of the global fossil fuel resistance
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Disobedience is a film about a new phase of the climate movement: courageous action that is being taken on the front lines of the climate crisis on every continent, led by regular people fed up with the power and pollution of the fossil fuel industry.
- Brutal, opaque, illegal: the dark side of the Tres Santos 'mindfulness' eco-tourism resort
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A small fishing community in Mexico's Baja California is playing involuntary host to a gigantic tourism and real estate development. And while the branding of the Tres Santos resort is all about mindfulness, ecology and sustainability, the reality is one of big money, high level politics, and the unaccountable deployment of state violence against those who dare oppose it.
- Daylighting (streams)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In urban design and urban planning, daylighting is the redirection of a stream into an above-ground channel. Typically, the goal is to restore a stream of water to a more natural state. Daylighting is intended to improve the riparian environment for a stream which had been previously diverted into a culvert, pipe, or a drainage system. In the UK, the practice is also known as deculverting.
- Statement on "Labour's problem with antisemitism"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are not the same. Zionism is a political ideology which has always been contested within Jewish life since it emerged in 1897, and it is entirely legitimate for non-Jews as well as Jews to express opinions about it
- What are the components of an innovative economic transformation?
Where to find new competitive models
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- World Press Freedom Day 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There must be no hiding place for those who attack journalists or undermine media freedom. That's the strong message from journalists unions across the world to mark the World Press Freedom Day
- Beinart's Jewish double-bind: Support oppression or you're out of the family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Even when he's serving up a soul-crushing ultimatum, you have to give Peter Beinart some credit. By comparing Israel to "your violent, drug-addicted brother," but saying that if you call the cops -- i.e., support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) -- to "make them change their destructive and self-destructive behavior” you are putting your “personal morality" ahead of family loyalty, he's enraged Israel defenders and anti-Zionists alike. In this way, he becomes the personification of the untenable situation he writes about.
- Call to act against torture and free Yemeni journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has welcomed the release of two kidnapped Yemeni journalists - and backed calls for all those still held captive to be freed immediately.
- The Commons and the Centennial of the Easter Rising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A hundred years ago today in Dublin the Easter Rebellion commenced. This was an urban insurrection, in the revolutionary tradition. Not more than a thousand participated. It lasted five days, before the British military killed hundreds, and executed sixteen including those who had signed the Proclamation of the Republic.
- The Devil Capitalism Makes Us Destroy Our Planet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Capitalism is asking us to choose between jobs and the future livability of our planet. Capitalism tells us it makes sense to flood some of the best food growing land in B.C. and build a dam to provide electricity for Alberta's tar sands; capitalism says build more pipelines across B.C. and allow hundreds more oil tankers every year to sail through pristine waters; capitalism doesn’t care that more carbon extraction will guarantee our planet is cooked.
- Editor of Bangladesh's first LBGTI magazine hacked to death
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) condemn the murder of the editor of the country's first and only LBGTI magazine in Dhaka on April 25, 2016.
- The Evolution of Union Co-ops and the Historical Development of Workplace Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Gambia: IFJ calls for the immediate release of jailed journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has backed calls by the Gambia Press Union (GPU) for all charges against jailed radio journalist Alhagie Ceesay to be dropped and for his immediate release.
- How Israel lobby manufactured UK Labour Party's anti-Semitism crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last year, socialist stalwart Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership of the UK’s Labour Party by a landslide. Since then, there has been a steady flow of claims by Israel’s supporters that Corbyn has not done enough to combat anti-Semitism.
- IFJ calls on Palestinian journalists' leader to be set free
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The IFJ condemned the arrest yesterday of Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal, member of the board of IFJ affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate, while he crossed the al-Karameh border.
- New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self-Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A newly published study from Oxford's Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Reporting on the study, the Washington Post this morning described this phenomenon: "If we think that authorities are watching our online actions, we might stop visiting certain websites or not say certain things just to avoid seeming suspicious."
- Puerto Rico: a Junta By Any Other Name
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Empire is once again fashionable. The financial crisis that is presently gutting the island of Puerto Rico plays out like the world's worst case of botched assisted suicide. The sell of its municipal funds and its constitutionally guaranteed promise of repayment to investors has plunged the island into a very precarious situation for its millions of citizens and the opportunity of a lifetime for hedge fund vultures.
- Turkey: foreign press correspondents increasingly banned
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International and European Federations of Journalists have today condemned the entry ban imposed by Turkish authorities against Russian journalist Tural Kerimov, the Turkey bureau chief for Sputnik news agency, who is the 10th foreign press
- The 'war on drugs' is a war on culture and human diversity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 'war on drugs' is presented as a necessary battle against social evils. But from the Andes to the Caribbean, prohibition has criminalised both religious and cultural expression. And it's a war that is strictly for the global poor: people in Colorado can grow pot - so why not Colombians?
- Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Researchers are increasingly turning to Sci-Hub, the world's largest largest 'pirate' website for scholarly literature. Sci-Hub is becoming the world's de facto open-access research library.
- Workers' Memorial Day: North Dakota deadliest state in US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Tyler Erickson was a floor hand with Heller Casing in Williston, North Dakota, from 2012 until 2014. He specialised in maintaining the casing, which would be lowered into drill holes in what back then were the state’s booming oil fields. Accidents, he says, were a regular occurrence.
- Eight Challenges Indian-Language Wikipedias Need to Overcome
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Even after a decade of existence, Indian language Wikipedias are not yet known to many Indian language speakers. Wikipedia, the largest available encyclopedia made in the human history, is what it is today because of the hundreds and thousands of volunteer editors. But while native-language Wikipedias are becoming game-changers in other corners of the world, the scenario in India is skewed.
- Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. Exxon corporate documents from the late 1970s state unequivocally "there is no doubt" that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing "problem" well understood within the company.
- Fossil Capital: the rise of steam power and the roots of global warming
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We all know that coal and steam vanquished over water power in Britain's - and the world's - industrial revolution, writes Irma Allen. But as Andreas Malm sets out in his fascinating new book, the deciding factors in that victory were the unconstrained mastery over people and nature that coal provided mill owners. And so the model was set for the fossil age that may only now be coming to an end.
- How Big Oil seeps into Canadian academia
Canada's oily universities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For years, Royal Dutch Shell has tried to portray itself as one of the good guys in the battle against climate change. It recently completed improvements to an oil upgrader in Fort Saskatchewan, near Edmonton, to capture up to a third of its greenhouse gas emissions - equivalent to removing the annual pollution of about 250,000 cars.
- Luxembourg Puts Journalist and Whistleblowers On Trial for Ruining Its "Magical Fairyland" of Tax Avoidance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Luxembourg istrying to throw two French whistleblowers and a journalist in prison for their role in the "LuxLeaks" exposé that revealed the tiny country’s outsized role in enabling corporate tax avoidance.
- A Pen to Battle Fascism
Remembering George Seldes (1890-1995)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
During the course of his life, George Seldes repeatedly accused the American Press of "covering itself in filth" when glorifying fascist regimes, no matter how brutal and undemocratic, as long as it was in the name of anti-Communism.
- Preventable Deaths 2016 Infographics
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Infographics from the National COSH report Preventable Deaths 2016, released on April 27, 2016 for Workers' Memorial Week.
- Study: NSA Surveillance Has Chilling Effort on Internet Browsing
Users Feared Reading About 'Sensitive' Topics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A new study in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal found that traffic on Wikipedia articles considered "sensitive" or terror-related plummeted drastically in the immediate wake of revelations about broad NSA surveillance of Internet use.
- Teenage Girls Increasingly Requesting Labiaplasty to Get the Perfect Designer Vagina
Very young women are going under the knife to sculpt parts that are still growing and changing.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Never underestimate the power of beauty myths to manufacture inadequacies where before there were none. A little over a decade ago, labiaplasty -- the partial or wholesale removal of parts of the labia minora, aka the inner vaginal lips -- was a relatively obscure plastic surgery, compared with nips, tucks and lifts to various other parts. In more recent years, the number of women opting for the surgery has grown exponentially. Now very young women -- girls still in their teens -- are requesting the procedure in numbers growing so quickly that even some practitioners are concerned.
- Toxic Range: the BLM's Growing Chemical Addiction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
BLM is escalating herbicide use on public lands. A primary agency excuse for forsaking sage-grouse ESA protection is the pipe dream that new habitat will be created through radical deforestation, and that fuelbreaks will stop fires.
- Austerity vs. the Planet:The Future of Labour Environmentalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last December members of the International Trade Union Confederation joined other civil society activists in a mass sit-in at the COP21 talks in Paris. Unionists and their allies, some 400 strong, filled the social space adjacent to the negotiating rooms for several hours, in defiance of a French ban on protests that remained in effect in the wake of the November 13 terrorist attacks. The ITUC delegation demanded the negotiators go back to the table and make a serious effort to incorporate labour's demands for a just transition – which, at its heart, is concerned with making sure workers in environmentally unsustainable industries are retrained and put to work building a new, sustainable economy.
- Big Loser in Wente Plagiarism? Globe's Reputation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Margaret Wente has been busted, again, for plagiarism. The paper's response, again, has been wholly inadequate. The first scandal, in 2012, damaged the Globe's credibility, largely because of the way it mishandled the affair.
- IFIC Welcomes New Member and New Affiliate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - April 26, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) is pleased to announce that Canso Fund Management Ltd. has become a member of IFIC and Versacom Inc. has joined as an affiliate.
- More Than a Few Rogue Cops: the Disturbing History of Police in Schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Another week, another video of police abuse surfaces. This time the video shows San Antonio school resource officer Joshua Kehm body-slamming 12-year-old Rhodes Middle School student Janissa Valdez. Valdez was talking with another student, trying to resolve a verbal conflict between the two, when Kehm entered and attacked her. "Janissa! Janissa, you okay?" a student asked before exclaiming, "She landed on her face!" In a statement on the incident, co-director of the Advancement Project Judith Browne Davis wrote, "Once again, a video captured by a student offers a sobering reminder that we cannot entrust school police officers to intervene in school disciplinary matters that are best suited for trained educators and counselors."
- The Return of the Coup in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Venezuela and Brazil are the scenes of a new form of coup d'etat that would set the continent's political calendar back to its worst times. Meanwhile, in Argentina, the brutal model for the demolition of democracy is set forward by the continental oligarchic right and the hegemonic forces of US imperialism who wish to impose their model in the region.
- Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.
- Defending Exxon's Denial: It's Their Right to Free Speech!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the world of science denial, Money is Speech, corporations are people, Donald Trump is Galileo, and apparently, lying to your customers and shareholders is exercising your constitutional rights.
- Electoral Politics and the Illusion of Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We have all been told a lie. The lie that says democracy can be maintained only through voting, through purely representative, parliamentarian means. When the founding fathers set up the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were wary of any truly popular, working and middle class control of the United States. Our government was to be run as a republic, designed by elites, for the elites. Our three branches of government were not simply invented for checks and balances: another reason was to stymie any massively popular mandates that would go against the interests of the oligarchy.
- In Israel, an Ugly Tide sweeps over Palestinians
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Israel's evermore tribal politics, there is no such thing as a "good" Arab -- and the worst failing in a Jew is to be unmasked as an "Arab lover". Or so was the message last week from Isaac Herzog, head of Israel's so-called peace camp.The shock waves of popular anger at the recent indictment of an Israeli army medic, Elor Azaria, on a charge of "negligent homicide" are being felt across Israel's political landscape.
- The Lost Partisans
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Italy's April 25 holiday marks the anniversary of the country's liberation from fascism. This day in 1945, antifascist partisan units freed the northern industrial centers of Milan and Turin from the grip of Hitler and Mussolini's remaining loyalists, after Allied forces had swept through the country. Just three days later, in a humiliating epitaph to the twenty-year regime, partisans captured and executed il Duce and his entourage, hanging them upside down in Milan's Piazzale Loreto. Now the resistance is remembered more as representing 'national unity' than working-class resistance to fascism.
- Moving forward while celebrating Palestinian art's past
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Unlike Other Springs, on display at the Birzeit University Museum in the occupied West Bank through the end of June, pulls off the heavy feat of looking back while moving forward. Conceived as both a celebration and retrospective, the exhibition is guest curated by the museum's formidable founder, the renowned artist Vera Tamari, who oversaw its transformation from the Ethnographic and Art Museum at Birzeit University into the center of contemporary Palestinian and international art that it is today.
- Remembering Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Campaign Nonviolence is a movement to build a culture of active nonviolence. We share the stories of nonviolent action, drawing lessons, strength, and strategy from the global grassroots movements for change. This week commemorates the 39th anniversary of the first protest of the Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared.
- The Rise and Fall of Liberation Theology in Latin America
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Liberation Theology in Latin America has been an integral part of progressive movements. The Vatican, with the support and guidance from the United States, has sabotaged Liberation Theology in Latin America. Their aim has been to maintain the status quo and stop the progressive forces from taking control.
- Securing communal land rights for Tanzania's Indigenous Peoples
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite. That ability to straddle the two very different worlds he inhabits has been key to his success at having 200,000 acres of land registered into village and community ownership.
- Revolution für soziale Gerechtigkeit und Demokratie!
Vorschläge für eine offensive Strategie der LINKEN
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In den nächsten Jahren wird sich entscheiden, in welche Richtung sich diese Gesellschaft bewegt. Sie steht an einem Scheideweg: Zwischen rechter Hetze und neoliberaler Konkurrenz auf der einen Seite, Demokratie, Solidarität und sozialer Gerechtigkeit auf der anderen Seite. Werden größere Teile der Erwerbslosen, Prekären, Geringverdienenden und die abstiegsbedrohte Mittelschicht sich den Rechtspopulisten zuwenden und damit den Weg für eine noch unsozialere, autoritäre und antidemokratische Entwicklung bereiten? Oder gelingt es, Konkurrenz und Entsolidarisierung zurückzudrängen und ein gesellschaftliches Lager der Solidarität zu bilden?
- Brazil: Social movements reject coup, take to streets
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In response to a recent vote in the lower house of Brazil's parliament in favour of impeaching Workers' Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's two main coalitions of social movements issued the statement below on April 17, 2016.
- Ciência e seus inimigos
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Connexions Other Voices -- Science and its enemies
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
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The April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. The focus of this issue is science and its enemies.
- Nauka i jej wrogowie
Polish translation of Science and its Enemies
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First Published: 2016
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- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
Science and its enemies
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Published: 2016
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
- Science and its enemies - Farsi text
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First Published: 2016
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- La science et ses ennemis
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- Science and its enemies - Chinese text
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- Beware of Basic Income
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Wouldn't it be great to get a cheque every month just for being you? This is the sweet, fuzzy vision the Ontario and federal Liberals are counting on to sell their latest idea, a basic income. Just this year, the Ontario government laid the groundwork for a pilot project to test the idea. Any actual large-scale program is far off into the future, however, and that's a good thing. We need to take a hard look at the idea, especially in Liberal clothing.
- Defend Brazil!
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Enough weeping! Latin America has wept incessantly, continuously, for years, decades and centuries. Its people robbed of everything since the days of Columbus, since Potosi. Tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions have been slaughtered here, in the last five centuries; first by the conquerors, then by their descendants and serfs, and finally by the Empire of Lies as well as the treasonous local 'elites'.
- Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine: Home Demolitions on the Rise
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
According to the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions, an Israeli NGO, the Israeli government has demolished 28,000 Palestinian structures since the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza began in 1967, resulting in the homelessness and suffering of untold numbers of people. There is little ambiguity about the morality of this form of ethnic cleansing, and even most Israeli legal scholars agree that it is in contravention of international law.
- The Fire Each Time
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, and suddenly there was light, and warmth, and the gathering at the hearth. The gods never forgave, and ever since periodically they thrust a torch into villains' hands and watch the hearths burn and bring the roofs down. Civilization weeps, in Troy, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria.
- Getting Serious About Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground Means Getting Serious About a Just Transition
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If the climate movement is going to get serious about keeping fossil fuels in the ground, the movement needs to get serious about cultivating a real vision for a just transition. If we’re going to see coal-fired power plants and oil refineries and chemical plants shut down we need to have a real vision about what the future looks like for those workers, their families and their communities.
- Global pitbulls: the US military mission to support corporate colonialism
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With its 800 bases in 80 countries, the US's global military domination is often seen as an altruistic exercise to ensure world peace and harmony. It is, of course, the opposite: the essential underpinning of the US's predatory economic power, always ready to strike down any challenge to the rights and privileges of its corporate conquerors and financial oligarchy.
- James Connolly: The Irish Rebel
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Graphic History Collective is pleased to release GHC member Sean Carleton’s comic book, "James Connolly: The Irish Rebel." Written and illustrated by Sean, the comic book commemorates the life of Irish socialist James Connolly and the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
- Journalism, Pro-GMO Triumphalism and Neoliberal Dogma In India
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Military Spending is the Capitalist World's Fuel
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It is common for activists to decry the enormous sums of money spent on the military. Any number of social programs, or schools, or other public benefits could instead be funded. Not least is this the case with the United States, which by far spends the most of any country on its military. The official Pentagon budget for 2015 was $596 billion, but actual spending is far higher. (Figures for 2015 will be used because that is the latest year for which data is available to make international comparisons.) If we add military spending parked in other portions of the U.S. federal government budget, we’re up to $786 billion, according to a study by the War Resisters League. Veterans benefits add another $157 billion. WRL also assigns 80 percent of the interest on the budget deficit, and that puts the grand total well above $1 trillion.
- On the Uprisings in France
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First Published: 2016
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At the beginning of March 2016, France's now ultra-liberal Socialist Party (PS) government officially revealed a labour reforms bill whose objective was to promote the competitiveness of businesses operating in France. The bill, commonly referred to as the El Khomri (the country's Labour Minister) law, was instantly perceived by most leftist factions as a fundamental attack on workers rights and a downright sabotage of the French Labour Code ("Code du Travail"), considered one of Europe's most progressive. The law allows for companies to reach "agreements" with its staff over working conditions without the need to negotiate with trade unions, subjecting workers to employers' arbitrary decisions (in regards to longer hours and lower overtime pay) without any legal protection. It also facilitates mass sackings and individual lay-offs by relaxing French law's constraint on firing and hiring, and casts aside the sacrosanct 35-hour work week in favour of a lengthened, more "flexible" one.
- Six steps back to the land: an agricultural revolution for people and countryside
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First Published: 2016
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What's the point of farming? To produce an abundance of wholesome food, writes Colin Tudge, while supporting a flourishing rural economy and a sustainable, biodiverse countryside. Yet the powers that be, determined to advance industrial agriculture at all costs, are achieving the precise opposite. It's time for a revolution in our food and farming culture, led by the people at large.
- The Strange Death of Hugo Chavez: an Interview with Eva Golinger
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
I believe there is a very strong possibility that President Chavez was assassinated. There were notorious and documented assassination attempts against him throughout his presidency. Most notable was the April 11, 2002 coup d'etat, during which he was kidnapped and set to be assassinated had it not been for the unprecedented uprising of the Venezuelan people and loyal military forces that rescued him and returned him to power within 48 hours. I was able to find irrefutable evidence using the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that the CIA and other US agencies were behind that coup and supported, financially, militarily and politically, those involved. Later on, there were other attempts against Chavez.
- Here's How To Craft A Winning Climate Message
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First Published: 2016
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A guide to fighting back against dirty energy industry spin when discussing the climate crisis. The Climate Solutions for a Stronger America messaging guide is based on data from a repeat national survey of likely voters. Researchers examined the data to determine how to successfully communicate climate issues and identified three top-performing messages.
- The myth of the 'brutal savage' and the mindset of conquest
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 'brutal savage' meme has enjoyed a resurgence in popular culture and establishment narratives, despite abundant evidence that it's fundamentally wrong. But it suits today's dominant mindset of conquest, conflict and colonialism all too well, and serves to justify the ongoing genocide and expropriation of surviving Indigenous Peoples today.
- New GMOs are 'not GM' -- EU folds under US pressure
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First Published: 2016
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The EU Commission has caved in to US pressure in TTIP trade talks by deciding to consider organisms modified by new "gene editing" techniques as non-GM -- in violation of the EU's own laws. The move could make the 'new GMOs' exempt from labeling and from health and environmental testing.
- The smug style in American liberalism
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First Published: 2016
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The smug style in American liberalism has been growing these past decades and in 2016 it has even found expression in media and in policy, in the attitudes of liberals both visible and private.
- Sources HotLink - April 21, 2016
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First Published: 2016
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In this issue of Sources Hotlink: The Panama Papers are out and they’re reaking havoc to governments all around the world. They’ve already take down the Icelandic Prime Minister but he won’t be the only one to fall. Meanwhile, in Sudan, the women’s movement struggles and Germany sells out one of their own citizens. Also in this issue, we take a little look at what computer automated journalism looks like and the business value of Reddit.
- Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won't Frack the Rich
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Fracking companies deliberately keep their wells away from the "big houses" of wealthy and potentially influential people, a top executive from one of the country's most prominent shale drilling companies told a gathering of attorneys at a seminar on oil and gas environmental law.
- We Can't Save the Economy Unless We Fix Our Debt Addiction
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Our economy has increasingly been financialized, and the result is a sluggish economy and stagnant wages. We need to decide whether to stop the cycle and save the economy at large, or to stay in thrall to our banks and bondholders by leaving the debt hangover from 2008 intact. Without a debt writedown the economy will continue to languish in debt deflation, and continue to polarize between creditors and debtors.
- Can we shop our way to a better world?
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First Published: 2016
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In this article Umair Mohammad summarizes arguments from the introduction and first chapter of his book Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism. Mohammad argues that lifestyle change and 'ethical consumerism' are not bridges to effective social change, but barriers to it. To build effective social movements, he says, we must begin by rejecting individualist approaches.
- Corbyn's Millions - Blair's Millions
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While 'social media' like Facebook and Twitter are forms of corporate media, it is unarguable that they and other web-based outlets have helped empower a serious challenge to traditional print and broadcast journalism. For the first time in history, uncompromised non-corporate voices are able to instantly challenge the filtered 'mainstream' version of events. This certainly helps explain the rise of Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, Podemos in Spain, and now Bernie Sanders in the US.
- Hybrid War Hyenas Tear Brazil Apart
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First Published: 2016
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The gloomy and repulsive night when the female President of the 7th largest economy in the world was the prey of choice fed to a lynch mob of hyenas in a drab, provincial Circus Maximus will forever live in infamy.
- The path to power: 'Let's commit to the long haul'
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First Published: 2016
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The following discussion of strategy for social change, by Umair Muhammad, was first published under the title "An Altered Position," as an afterword to the second edition of his book Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism.
- Talking about radicalization
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First Published: 2016
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One of the problems with discussing the concept of radicalization is that it can mean all things to all people. In one sense it simply means 'the process by which terrorists become terrorists'. But, radicalization, particularly as it is discussed in political and popular discourse, has also come to embody certain ideas about how that process takes place: For instance, that the acceptance of extremist religious ideas is the first step in leading people to violence; that there are certain stages through which people move from belief to terror; that there are certain tell tale signatures of radicalization; and so on.
- Venezuela's Opposition: Attacking Its Own People
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The corporate media would have you believe that Venezuela is a dictatorship on the verge of political and economic collapse; a country where human rights crusaders and anti-government, democracy-seeking activists are routinely rounded up and thrown in jail. Indeed, the picture from both private media in Venezuela, as well as the mainstream press in the US, is one of a corrupt and tyrannical government desperately trying to maintain its grip on power while the opposition seeks much-needed reforms. In fact, the opposite is true.
- The hidden treasures of Gaza
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First Published: 2016
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A small room on a rooftop in the occupied Gaza Strip’s crowded Beach refugee camp resembles a miniature archaeological museum. It is the workshop of Nafez Abed, 55, who studies archaeological artifacts in order to replicate them in exquisite detail. Abed copies antiquities photographed in history books and ones he’s seen during visits to archaeological sites across Gaza, which many a civilization has passed through, as well as in other Arab countries and Europe.
- How Did We Get Into This Mess?
Politics, Equality, Nature
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This selection from George Monbiot's journalism, assesses the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline of the political debate over what to do.
- Scientists reveal Jewish history's forgotten Turkish roots
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israeli-born geneticist believes the Turkish villages of Iskenaz, Eskenaz and Ashanaz were part of the original homeland for Ashkenazic Jews.
- Sharing the Intense Experience - VOW attends UNCSW60
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
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Over 20 women from Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) attended the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) in March along with 4000 other NGOs from around the world - all ages, religions, and ethnic backgrounds.
- Truth Is The First Casualty Of War: Nagorno-Karabakh And Media Misinformation
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First Published: 2016
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The Crimean War, in mid-19th century, introduced the world to the cardigan, the raglan jersey, and the balaclava headdress. It also introduced a new profession: the foreign correspondent. And almost immediately after the war the axiom "truth is the first casualty of war" was born because of the falsehoods spread by foreign correspondents on both sides.
- The Precautionary Principle: the basis of a post-GMO ethic
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First Published: 2016
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GMOs have been in our diets for about 20 years. Proof that they are safe? No way - it took much, much longer to discover the dangers of cigarettes and transfats, dangers that are far more visible than those of GMOs. On the scale of nature and ecology, 20 years is a pitifully short time. To sustain our human future, we have to think long term.
- Beth Macy, Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local -- and Helped Save an American Town (2014) (Review)
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- In Service to Scarcity: The Pursuit of Value as the Production of Poverty
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This essay argues that exploring the roots and subsequent development of capitalist value theory over the course of the nineteenth century reveals a Janus-faced project:on the one hand, the development of a popular narrative which insists upon the "natural" inevitability of the scarcity which both backs value and precludes socialism, and on the other, an esoteric discussion of the need to channel the labor-power of society in directions that maintain the scarcity of the goods for which the majority exchange their time.
- On Lenin and the Right to National Self-Determination
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First Published: 2016
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I’d suggest that the Leninist formulations of policy on the national question do not deserve to be taken seriously as poles of debate on the matter. More precisely, they should be viewed as all but completely hypocritical.
- US Party Elites Hemorrhage at the Edges
Editorial
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First Published: 2016
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American party politics have been dominated for so long by the "same old, same old" that with months to go until November, 2016 already stands out as an exception. Most clearly in the case of the Republicans, but palpable as well with the Democrats, the "center-right" and "center-left" elites, who have graciously taken turns administering year-in, year-out misery for more than forty years, have lost control. It appears that Washington and Wall Street are loathed by a majority of people across the spectrum.
- Australian police access journalists' metadata without a warrant
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) in condemning the actions of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in secretly accessing a journalists' metadata without a warrant.
- The Case Against Glyphosate
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First Published: 2016
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On 13 April, 2016, the EU Parliament called on the European Commission to restrict certain permitted uses of the toxic herbicide glyphosate, best known in Monsanto's Roundup formulation.
- Crime & Public Shaming
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Published: 2016
Shaming is one of the oldest forms of social regulation and, in the U.S., has long been employed to enforce social order -- specifically to fight crime and suppress unacceptable beliefs and practices. Today, there is an apparent rise of public shaming either as an alternative or supplement to incarceration. On February 8th, 2016, Pres. Obama signed the “International Megan’s Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking” (H.R. 515), the first law in U.S. history in which a special symbol will be placed on a citizen's U.S. passport to identify that the individual was convicted of a sex crime.
- The Easter Rising, My Grandfather and the Untold Story of Sir Roger Casement
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 100th anniversary of the Easter uprising of 1916 saw the beginnings of a deeper appreciation of the achievements of Sir Roger Casement who was hanged as a traitor in Pentonville prison on 3 August 1916. Over the following century he has never lacked for notoriety, famous as an Irish patriotic martyr, but discussion of his life has frequently focused on his sexuality and revolved around the "Black Diaries" that were covertly used by the British government to blacken Casement's name and sabotage the campaign against his execution.
- Fiction v nonfiction - English literature's made-up divide
Fiction v non: an English affliction?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Some cultures do not distinguish between fiction and nonfiction - and instead talk of 'stories'. Is that a barrier to English-language writers and publishers? Or should they just learn to enjoy telling stories?
- The Perfect Organizer - Almost
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Fred Ross, Sr. was as close to the perfect embodiment of the myth of the organizer as is humanly possible. Cesar Chavez called him "my secret weapon". In "Finding and Making Leaders," Nicholas Von Hoffman, Saul Alinsky's favorite organizer, said, "The good organizer ... judges his work a success when he can leave the organization without even being missed. He is rare, rarer than first-rate leadership, but he exists ... and he can work in almost any situation."
- Revolution Never Sleeps: Nuit Debout in France and Beyond
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The movement Nuit debout -- 'night on our feet' or 'stand up night!' -- is a potent reminder of the existence of an indefatigable global struggle against the neoliberal credo and all of its devastating consequences. Although it has deep roots, like all sociopolitical movements, it has come into its own since the prolongation of a March 31st, 2016 general strike (grève générale) and mass protest against French labor reforms, which aim at further consolidating class power and rendering the status of the labor force even more precarious. It quickly mutated like so many other recent movements from a circumscribed protest into an extended and rapidly spreading occupation.
- Save the Tiger, Keep the People
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the fate of India’s forest-dwelling peoples: and how many will be aware that so many of them are being illegally evicted as part of the drive to conserve flora and fauna? Despite having co-existed with tigers and other animals for centuries, many of India's tribal peoples are currently being persecuted in the name of conservation.
- "The Term has Become Meaningless to Me": on Violence, Social Change, and Nonviolent Communication
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Violence means different things to different people. While some people find it important to show their opposition to acts like touching someone against their will or supporting an oppressive regime, others mill about in confusion around the middle of the space when facing supposedly unambiguous statements such as "murder is violent." Participants from the same family or the same activist group disagree on the classification of certain acts as violent. In our context, two important questions arise out of this apparent incoherence of the term: what are the implications for Nonviolent Communication? And, what does this mean about nonviolence as a political strategy for social change?
- There's No Place for Clean Water Under 'Free Trade'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Yet another standoff between clean drinking water and mining profits has taken shape in Colombia, where two corporations insist their right to pollute trumps human health and the environment. As is customary in these cases, it is clean water that is the underdog here.
- Away with the gatekeepers!
The bane of cultural appropriation
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the the controversies over 'cultural appropriation' and what they reveal about the degradation of contemporary campaigns for social justice.
- The Disneyfied Narrative of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Pinocchio and Little Red Riding Hood still believe in the impartiality of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). I have yet to meet either a partial or an impartial Serb that shares their sentiments. Toward the political bazaar in Hague the Serbs feel what has been hurled at them by the institution’s creators since the early 1990s -- disdain, occasional profanity, and boiling resentment. Those are the only self-defense tools available to the tired citizens of a small, impoverished country.
- The Logic of Murder in Israel: A Culture of Impunity in Full View of the Entire World
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Whether he made a mistake or not, is a trivial question," said an Israeli Jewish man who joined large protests throughout Israel in support of a soldier who calmly, and with precision, killed a wounded Palestinian man in al-Khalil (Hebron). The protesting Jewish man described Palestinians as 'barbaric', 'bestial', who should not be perceived as people.
- Revolutionary Feminism, Communist Interventions vol. 3
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The third volume of the Communist Interventions reader series, on Revolutionary Feminism. A century of debates between communist, anarchist, and radical feminist militants on women's oppression and capitalism.
- Latest Corbyn Hit-Piece: He earns MP's Salary
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If I hadn’t seen for myself that this article "exposing" Jeremy Corbyn was published on the Daily Telegraph’s website, I would have assumed it was a spoof from The Onion – an even more preposterous one than normal.
- The Logic of Murder in Israel: A Culture of Impunity in Full View of the Entire World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Whether he made a mistake or not, is a trivial question," said an Israeli Jewish man who joined large protests throughout Israel in support of a soldier who calmly, and with precision, killed a wounded Palestinian man in al-Khalil (Hebron). The protesting Jewish man described Palestinians as 'barbaric', 'bestial', who should not be perceived as people.
- 2,500 Years of Class Hatred
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Class struggle never existed without hatred of the poor. And neither has racism. Boots Riley's recent article, posted in The Guardian, systematically dispels the myth of black-on-black crime advocated by Bill Clinton. Rather than pointing the image of failure at black people in the US, Riley insists, the mirror should be redirected to class war and the failure of liberal democracy. The condition of black people will advance with economic prosperity, not punitive drug laws.
- UC Davis spent $175,000 to scrub online pepper spray references
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The University of California, Davis, contracted with consultants for at least $175,000 to scrub the Internet of negative online postings following the November 2011 pepper spraying of students and to improve the reputations of both the university and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, newly released documents show.
- What is to be done with the banks? Radical proposals for radical changes
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Nine years after the outbreak of the financial crisis that continues to produce damaging social effects through the austerity policies imposed on victim populations, it's time to take another look at the commitments that were made at that time by bankers, financiers, politicians and regulatory bodies. Those four players have failed fundamentally in the promises they made in the wake of the crisis – to moralise the banking system, separate commercial banks from investment banks, end exorbitant salaries and bonuses, and finally finance the real economy. We didn't believe those promises at the time, and for good reason.
- Capitalism and Freedom
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the United States, many take for granted that freedom and democracy are inextricably connected with capitalism. Milton Friedman, in his book Capitalism and Freedom, went so far as to argue that capitalism was a necessary condition for both.
- Pipeline Rights vs Private Property Rights
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The U.S. natural gas industry views private property with less reverence than it did when the shale gas revolution began 10 years ago. Companies are chomping at the bit to build new pipelines that will move natural gas and natural gas liquids to profitable markets. However, building a single long-haul pipeline is a timely and costly endeavour that often requires working with hundreds of individual private property owners to create a right of way.
- The War on Savings: the Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The bombshell publication of the "Panama Papers," leaked from a Panama law firm specializing in shell companies, has triggered both outrage and skepticism. In an April 3, 2016 article titled "Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak," UK blogger Craig Murray writes that the whistleblower no doubt had good intentions; but he made the mistake of leaking his 11.5 million documents to the corporate-controlled Western media, which released only those few documents incriminating opponents of Western financial interests.
- Climate justice movement shakes Canada's New Democratic Party
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The impact of the Leap Manifesto at the party convention, argues Richard Fidler, opens major opportunities to deepen the debate on climate justice and to build an ecosocialist left in and around the NDP.
- EFF to Copyright Office: Improper Content Takedowns Hurt Online Free Expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Safe Harbors Work for Rightsholders and Service Providers. Content takedowns based on unfounded copyright claims are hurting online free expression, says Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
- The Nagorno-Karabakh Story the US Does Not Want You to Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the early morning hours of April 1-2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched a major military offensive into the disputed region Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) that's been controlled and defended by NK Armenian forces since the Russian brokered truce ended a bloody three year war in 1994. While Azeri President Ilham Aliyev was flying back to Baku after meeting 24 hours earlier with John Kerry in Washington who claimed "an ultimate resolution" had been reached, Azerbaijan was already once again at war with the NK Armenians.
- Panama Papers show that capitalism is working perfectly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While corporate fraud is gargantuan in its scale, it is not the expression of a system that "isn't working". In fact, this is the way the system is designed to work.
- Connexions Other Voices - Corporate Crime
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Other Voices, the bi-weekly newsletter published by Connexions, focuses on Corporate Crime in its April 9, 2016 issue.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2016
Corporate Crime
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Corporations have increasingly become legally unaccountable for their behaviour. Yet all too often corporations break the law and engage in criminals acts which would be severely punished if they were committed by ordinary individuals. These illegal acts range from deliberate health and safety violations that cost lives, to land seizures, to environmental negligence that contaminates lands and waters. Most of these illegal acts are never prosecuted, and those that are, are usually dealt with by a fine that corporations can treat as a cost of doing business.
There are movements demanding that corporations be held accountable for their crimes in a serious way, and, specifically, that corporate executives should face jail time when the corporation they are in charge of engage in behaviour that causes death, injury, and illness. Our topic of the week for this issue of Other Voices is Corporate Crime, and a number articles, as well as a book, a film, and a website, explore aspects of the problem.
- Why Sitting Bull was right about Washington's lack of integrity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
That integrity is a foreign land where Washington is concerned is an inarguable fact. In the latest example, the failure to complete the construction of a nuclear disposal plant agreed with Russia once again leaves Washington's credibility in tatters.
- Australia's rebel heritage of poetry and song
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ballads like the one published in Borough, London, by the famous printer HP Such, had been sold on the streets of the towns and cities from which convicts were transported to Australia from the First Fleet onwards. This street literature was hawked for less than a penny and was sung, or "chaunted" by the seller to a large audience, many of them poor. HP Such's ballad provides us with a sample of the early industrial working class' emotional and political understanding of the rising empire.
- The Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet that refuses to die. As incendiary as the day it was published, Paul Vernell unpacks this founding document
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The striking thing about re-reading Marx's Communist Manifesto is how each time you return to it, it seems more not less relevant than the last time. Chillingly, it seems to be describing the globalised, war-torn, crisis-ridden world of the 21st century. In many ways this is because it is a document ahead of its time, whist being firmly rooted in it. Its predictive power and vision are central to its resonance.
- Philanthropic colonialism: embedding agribusiness and GMOs into African agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Perhaps all the 'do gooders' busy forcing industrial models of agriculture onto poor but independent African farmers really do think they are helping them. But if so they are deeply deluded. All they will achieve is the takeover of export-oriented agribusiness and GMOs, the destruction of agroecological farming systems, and a future of debt and landlessness.
- The Empire Strikes Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If you argue a case strongly on the internet you must expect to receive robust argument back. Plus the odd insult. There has been plenty of both in reaction to my posts about corporate media control of access to the data in the Panama Papers. But I believe it is fair to say that the overwhelming public feeling I have picked up through monitoring online discussion worldwide, is that the full data should be made available online in searchable form so that the public can look through it and form their own conclusions.
- Fishers and plunderers: The tragedy of the commodity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Overfishing, pollution and warming water have pushed the world’s oceans into crisis. If nothing is done the results will be catastrophic for marine systems and the billions of humans who rely on them. To stop this destruction our society has to be organized in a completely different way.
- Israel: The Broken Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review - Israel: The Broken Silence.
- Philosophy journal spoofed, retracts hoax article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A philosophy journal that focuses on the teachings of philosopher Alain Badiou has apparently fallen victim to yet another Sokal hoax, and has retracted a fake article submitted by authors trying to expose the publication's weaknesses. The paper, "Ontology, Neutrality and the Strive for (non-)Being-Queer," attributed to Benedetta Tripodi of the Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza in Romania, is apparently the work of two academics, who submitted the absurd article to Badiou Studies to expose its lack of rigor in accepting papers.
- Reading Eduardo Galeano Through Palestinian Eyes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano is best remembered for chronicling five centuries of colonialism, genocide, pillage, and structural inequality in the Americas. His pen dug through the bleeding heart of Latin America, unearthing forgotten stories of resistance, exploring the roots of injustice and exploitation, and amplifying the voices of the outcasts and misfits.
- Nest's move to stop supporting Revolv smart hub leaves customers with costly 'brick'
Internet of Things customers need to be aware what will and will not work without internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Here's a major downside to the so-called Internet of Things -- companies can potentially disconnect your smart devices and leave them essentially useless at any time.
- Turning darkness to light in rural Romania
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Amidst reports of bribery and corruption in the energy sector, an estimated 100,000 households in Romania, a member state of the European Union since 2007, lack electricity.
- World Bank Orders Venezuela To Pay Crystallex $1.4 Billion For Gold Mine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has ordered the government of Venezuela to pay $1.386 billion to Crystallex, a bankrupt Canadian gold mining company, for canceling a 2002 permit to mine for gold in the Imataca Forest Reserve.
- Chimney swift project asks Manitobans to preserve habitat for sooty bird
Threatened species has undergone massive population declines over last 60 years, biologist says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It used to be the case that chimney swifts nested deep inside the rotten, hollowed-out trunks of dying old growth trees. They build bracket nests using twigs and saliva, which they stick to the sides of vertical surfaces. As forests were cleared for developments, the birds adapted to urban environments by nesting in chimneys but that habitat is disappearing as well.
Modern furnace guidelines generally suggest building owners cap or line old chimneys to prevent anything from getting inside. Over time, chimneys have also been torn down, replaced or fallen into varying states of disrepair, jeopardizing the future of the chimney swift species.
- Days of Rage
America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements in the United States in the 1970s.
- Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Nest Labs, a home automation company acquired by Google in 2014, will disable some of its customers' home automation control devices in May. This move is causing quite a stir among people who purchased the $300 Revolv Hub devices -- customers who reasonably expected that the promised "lifetime" of updates would enable the hardware they paid for to actually work, only to discover the manufacturer can turn their device into a useless brick when it so chooses.
- The Occupation of the American Mind
Israel's Public Relations War in the United States
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An eye-opening look at pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S. Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the film explores how the Israeli government, the U.S. government, and the pro-Israel lobby have joined forces, often with very different motives, to shape American media coverage of the conflict in Israel's favour.
- Spies and shadowy allies lurk in secret, thanks to firm’s bag of tricks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Panama Papers reveal how spies and CIA gun-runners use offshore companies to stay hidden. Offshore world blurs the line between legitimate business and the world of espionage.
- Academics can change the world -- if they stop talking only to their peers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Public outreach or engagement is not valued enough in universities where the emphasis is on research journal articles with tiny readerships for communication. The "publish or perish" culture is a reality at universities all over the world.
- "All changed, changed utterly": The historical significance of the Irish Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The problem with political anniversaries is that they often focus on specific dates in the past without any recognition that they are part of a longer process. Easter Monday 1916 is an iconic date in Irish history that all and sundry seek to appropriate, but it can only be understood by what preceded and followed it.
- At the forefront of revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The gains won by the women's liberation movement during the 1960s and 1970s, such as the right to divorce and increased reproductive rights, are real material gains. Women are told that in Britain we have never had it so good. And on the surface that can appear to be true. But, as Judith Orr points out in Marxism and Women's Liberation, "much has changed for women, but too much has not".
- Emerging workers' movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Since the 1980s the institutionalisation of global neoliberalism has been pursued based on a range of ideological claims which have been advanced (or at least accepted) across the political spectrum. These claims include the arguments that the working class is increasingly a thing of the past, both structurally (as industry gives way to services and information) and politically (as traditional left parties embrace varieties of neoliberalism); that globalisation is reducing world poverty and that as a result the global middle class is expanding rapidly; and, seemingly logically, that radical politics are a thing of the past.
- Genetically Modified Crops Can Thrive as the World Warms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Genetically engineering photosynthesis in plants could take advantage of rising global temperatures and increased levels of carbon dioxide, US scientists say. They believe this could achieve much higher yields on the same amount of land and help to stave off the prospect of widespread hunger as human populations increase.
- The Great Acceleration
An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a massive uncontrolled experiment. The Great Acceleration explains its causes and consequences, highlighting the role of energy systems, as well as trends in climate change, urbanization, and environmentalism.
- In the belly of the beast
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In these days of intense state and media racism, any book that offers a deeper understanding of the role of anti-racist and black liberation struggles is invaluable. Høgsbjerg’s book provides a thorough and engrossing account of such struggles in the colonial world and in the belly of the imperial beast -- where C L R James lived from 1932 to 1938. James left Britain ten years before the Windrush docked in London; the story of his time in the UK is a valuable insight into the vibrant political organisations built by black people in Britain before what is generally considered to be the start of "Black British History".
- Katrina, Climate Justice and Fish Dinners: Social Justice Lawyer Colette Pichon Battle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Colette Pichon Battle gave up a great job working as a corporate immigration lawyer in Washington DC to live in a tent in front of her flooded family home 50 miles from downtown New Orleans. She is now a much honored director of a small but powerful non-profit climate justice human rights firm advocating all along the Gulf Coast. Why the big change in her life? Katrina, climate justice and fish dinners.
- The meaning of the school testing obsession
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This article focuses on the new frontiers for the calculation of human productivity in its earliest forms, in early years education in Britain; but the general points are applicable across continents and educational age-phases. It will be argued that the English baseline test is just one example of the policing of capital's interests in our classrooms, but a particularly pernicious one for the way it reaches deep into the experience of the youngest children.
- PostCapitalism: A reply to Pete Green
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Reassessing Podemos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Podemos has come an immense distance in a very short time. It represents a clear choice by millions of people in the Spanish state to vote against corruption, institutionalised greed and contempt for voters, but also against austerity. As such, it weakens the ruling class in the Spanish state and strengthens the anti-austerity side in Europe. The success of Podemos in December is a cause for celebration and a source for lessons and parallels.
- Revolutionary workers' movements and parliaments in Germany 1918-23
A reply to Tony Phillips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Shakespeare belongs to us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We don’t know a great deal about William Shakespeare’s life. The records are scant and, in the absence of personal testimony, we know nothing of his intimate feelings or thoughts.
- Some questions about the lost German Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Tatchell's reply: "A new left-wing McCarthyism"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The future of progressive politics is under threat, again. But this time from the left. Historically, socialists and greens have made gains by building broad alliances around a common goal, such as the campaigns against the poll tax and the bombing of Syria. We united together diverse people who often disagreed on other issues. Through this unity and solidarity, we won. Nowadays, we are witnessing a revival of far 'left' sectarian politics and it is infecting the Green Party too. Zealous activists, seemingly motivated by a desire to be more 'left' and pure than rivals, are putting huge energy into fighting and dragging down other campaigners.
- 'Zionism is nationalism, not Judasim,' a former Hebrew school teacher explains
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Former Hebrew school teacher, Tziva Thier clarifies the distinction between Zionism as a political movement and Judaism as a religion, and explains why Israel's acts cannot be condoned by the religion.
- Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in tax avoidance. These Panamanian lawyers hide the wealth of a significant proportion of the 1%, and the massive leak of their documents ought to be a wonderful thing.
Unfortunately the leaker has made the dreadful mistake of turning to the western corporate media to publicise the results. In consequence the first major story, published today by the Guardian, is all about Vladimir Putin and a cellist on the fiddle. As it happens I believe the story and have no doubt Putin is bent.
But why focus on Russia? Russian wealth is only a tiny minority of the money hidden away with the aid of Mossack Fonseca. In fact, it soon becomes obvious that the selective reporting is going to stink.
- Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption
Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A massive leak of documents exposes the offshore holdings of current and former world leaders, politicians , public officials, and wealthy individuals around the world.
- How the One Percenters Divorce: Offshore Intrigue Plays Hide and Seek with Millions
Firm that practices no matrimonial law nonetheless plays big role when the superrich around the globe decide to split
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Offshore companies used 'in a game of hide and concealment' after marriages break down
Documents list luxury cars and yachts, lavish homes, and art collections. Spouses face a costly battle to prove ownership of offshore assets in protracted divorce proceedings.
- Key findings: The Panama Papers by the numbers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The largest cross-border journalism collaboration ever has uncovered a giant leak of documents from Mossack Fonseca, a global law firm based in Panama.
- Leak Ties Ethics Guru to Three Men Charged in FIFA Scandal
Secret documents show how deeply the world of soccer has become enmeshed in the world of offshore havens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Four of the 16 FIFA officials indicted in the United States used offshore companies created by Mossack Fonseca. Files show offshore companies used by some soccer players to hold money from image rights deals. Offshore revelations extend beyond soccer to other sports including hockey and golf.
- The Panama Papers
Politicians, Criminals and the Rogue Industry That Hides Their Cash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Panama Papers is a global investigation into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the world’s rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up front companies in far-flung jurisdictions. Based on a trove of more than 11 million leaked files, the investigation exposes a cast of characters who use offshore companies to facilitate bribery, arms deals, tax evasion, financial fraud and drug trafficking.
- Panama Papers: The Power Players
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This interactive presentation produced by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) explores the stories behind the use of offshore companies of politicians and their relatives and associates -- more than 100 in all. Among them are 12 current or former country leaders and 33 other politicians and public officials with direct connections to structures in tax havens. Their names appeared inside a cache of 11.5 million leaked files from Panama's Mossack Fonseca, one of the biggest offshore service providers.
- Panamanian Law Firm Is Gatekeeper To Vast Flow of Murky Offshore Secrets
Files show client roster that includes drug dealers, Mafia members, corrupt politicians and tax evaders - and wrongdoing galore
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Founding partners of Mossack Fonseca had international pedigrees and backgrounds in the worlds of money, power and secrets. The law firm helps clients respond swiftly to changes in laws, shifting business from one secrecy jurisdiction to another. Among additional services offered are yacht and plane registrations, and, for some clients, handling of finances. Mossack Fonseca kept a low profile -- until recent scandals brought international attention.
- Stairway to Tax Heaven
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A news role-play game featuring three fictitious characters: Juan Penalti (Soccer Player), Polly Tissien (Politician) and Edmund von Kronen (Business Executive). Welcome to the secret world of offshore. Your goal is to navigate this parallel universe and hide your cash away. Don’t worry! Lawyers, wealth managers and bankers are there to help you. Pick a character and don't get caught.
- How can we destroy capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Corporate Watch's new publication, 'Capitalism, What is it and how can we destroy it?' provides an accessible introduction to capitalism and explores how we might bring about its ending. What is capitalism? An economic system built on private property, markets, exploitation and profit, enforced by state violence. But also, digging deeper, a culture of fear and passivity, in which we learn to see the natural world, other people, and even ourselves, as objects to be owned and managed, bought and sold.
- The Zionist educator we should have listened to
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
At a time when Israel's education minister sees only Jews as moral, it is worth remembering a prominent Zionist educator who taught us that things could have turned out differently.
- The Cowards' Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The condemnation of Radovan Karadzic to forty years of imprisonment by the International Crime Tribunal-Yugoslavia occasions these reflections.
- The cyber arms race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at cyber warfare between nations, a militarisation of cyberspace that is advancing far faster than the creation of positive peace keeping mechanisms.
- Down the Tube
Television, turnout, and the election-industrial complex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Examining the election industry as comprised of media outlets and super PACs, and the diminishing effects of TV advertisements and coverage on voter turnout and engagement.
- Indicting the System with Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In this interview Noam Chomsky brings once more to bear on current and historical events his eviscerating analysis of power systems.
- Krankenkassenvergleich - Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung im Vergleich
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Während es in den meisten Ländern mit einem gesetzlichen Krankenversicherungssystem nur eine zentrale Krankenkasse gibt, sind es in Deutschland viele Kassen, die sich trotz gleicher gesetzlicher Grundlage in ihren Leistungen und Beiträgen unterscheiden. Viele Versicherte überrascht, dass es so viele verschiedene Krankenkassen gibt (aktuell sind es etwa 150 Kassen).
- Left Behind by Good Friday
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In 1969 Bernadette Devlin traveled to the United States on a fundraising tour. At age twenty-two, she was the youngest woman ever elected to Westminster and already a veteran of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement and the radical student group People's Democracy.
- Legalize it All
How to win the war on drugs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Arguing for complete legalization as a means of dealing with substance problems in America.
- The Lies of Neoliberal Economics (or How America Became a Nation of Sharecroppers)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Michael Hudson and Chris Hedges talk about how America become a nation of 'sharecroppers'.
- Marx's Theory of Working-Class Precariousness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the last decade and a half the concept of worker precariousness has gained renewed currency among social scientists. This trend grew more pronounced after the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–2009, which left in its wake a period of deep economic stagnation that still persists in large parts of the global economy. Most scholars define precariousness by reference to what workers lack, including such factors as: ready access to paid employment, protection from arbitrary firing, possibility for advancement, long-term job stability, adequate safety, development of new skills, living wages, and union representation.
- The security - digital complex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With the rise of the Internet and the globalisation of electronic data, there has been a shift in the university-military-industrial complex to a new security-digital complex -- a public-private hybrid that is both narrower and more far-reaching.
- Suing for Justice
Your lawsuits are good for America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Arguing for the importance of tort law to protect the populace and the importance of restoring and maintaining the tort system after past reforms that have placed it at risk.
- To spread the revolution: anarchist archives and libraries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Notes on why anarchists have created libraries (past and present) and some of the challenges they face, drawing on a survey of current anarchist libraries, anarchist history, and the author's own experiences at the Kate Sharpley Library.
- Agroecology Case Studies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The thirty-three case studies shed light on the tremendous success of agroecological agriculture across the African continent. They demonstrate with facts and figures how an agricultural transformation respectful of farmers and their environment can yield immense economic, social, and food security benefits while also fighting climate change and restoring soils and the environment.
- Bloggers Under Fire: The Fatal Consequences of Free Thinking in Bangladesh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Six secular Bangladeshi writers have been killed since November of 2014: Rajshahi University professor AKM Shafiul Islam, literary publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, and bloggers Avijit Roy, Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, Ananta Bijoy Das and Niloy Neel. At least a dozen more bloggers and progressive activists have been killed and scores of others attacked or threatened with death for their progressive and secular views since 2005.
- How Propaganda (Actually) Works
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
- Kunduz Killers Go Free
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the night of October 3, 2015, a United States Air Force AC-130 gunship repeatedly attacked a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Forty-two people were killed and dozens wounded. The US military plane conducted five strafing runs over the course of more than an hour despite MSF pleas to Afghan, US and Nato officials to call off the attack.
- Brazil, like Russia, Under Attack by Hybrid War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Colour revolutions would never be enough; Exceptionalistan is always on the lookout for major strategic upgrades capable of ensuring perpetual Empire of Chaos hegemony. The ideological matrix and the modus operandi of color revolutions by now are a matter of public domain. Not so much the concept of Unconventional War (UW).
- International Injustice: the Conviction of Radovan Karadzic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last Thursday, news reports were largely devoted to the March 22, 2016 Brussels terror bombings and the US primary campaigns. And so little attention was paid to the verdict of the International Criminal Tribunal for (former) Yugoslavia (ICTY) finding Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic guilty of every crime it could come up with, including "genocide".
- Is This Class Warfare?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Is there a conspiracy to keep wages from rising or is it just plain-old class warfare? Well, what do you know? Everywhere the global bank cartel has its tentacles, wages are either flatlining or drifting lower."Coincidence", you say? Not bloody likely, I say. There's either policy coordination between the various heads of state and their central banks or wealthy elites have secretly seized the levers of power and imposed their neoliberal dogma when no one was looking.
- Islamic Extremism is a Product of Western Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
So what happened to bring Islamic fundamentalism to the forefront of global politics? While there are many factors involved, undoubtedly one of the primary causes is Western imperialism.
- Police Go on Fishing Expedition, Search the Home of Seattle Privacy Activists Who Maintain Tor Network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Seattle police descended on the Queen Anne condo of two outspoken privacy activists with a search warrant early this morning, leaving them shaken and upset. Jan Bultmann and David Robinson, a married couple and co-founders of the Seattle Privacy Coalition, said they were awakened at 6:15 a.m. by a team of six detectives from the SPD knocking on the door. Bultmann said were made to sit outside as the officers, who had a search warrant, examined their equipment.
- Reflections on the Brussels Attacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Debate and reflection are urgently needed with respect to the political violence that is being unleashed in various forms in the West and non-West.
- Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis
German historian shows how news agency retained access in 1930s by promising not to undermine strength of Hitler regime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Associated Press news agency entered a formal cooperation with the Hitler regime in the 1930s, supplying American newspapers with material directly produced and selected by the Nazi propaganda ministry, archive material unearthed by a German historian has revealed.
- Trump and the Liberal Intelligentsia: a View from Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A new specter haunts the American elites: the candidacy of Donald Trump in the US President election and his success so far in the Republican primaries. The Republican establishment itself hopes to block his rise, even as he is drawing huge crowds into the party. As for the Democrats, they are hoping that his repugnant image will make the election of Hillary Clinton that much easier.
- Why do the Tories want to hide who owns British land?
Selling off the Land Registry could lead to an increase in house prices as a private monopoly hoards information on property sales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Like an embarrassed child trying to hide a broken lamp behind a curtain, Sajid Javid last Thursday, hours before the Easter break, sneaked out the news that the government wants to privatise the Land Registry. Perhaps he hoped nobody would notice.
- The Case Against Bombing ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The military campaign against ISIS is just the latest phase of US imperialism in the Middle East.
- Global Agribusiness, Dependency and the Marginalisation of Self-Sufficiency, Organic Farming and Agroecology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Is organic-based farming merely a niche model of agriculture that is not capable of feeding the global population? Or does it have a major role to play? In addressing these questions, it would be useful to consider a selection of relevant literature to see what it says about the role of organic farming, how this model of agriculture impacts farmers and whether or not it can actually feed the global population.
- Growing International Movement Seeks to Place Arms Embargo on Saudi Arabia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A lawsuit filed in Canada in March 2016 is seeking to halt a major $15 billion sale of light-armoured vehicles to the government of Saudi Arabia, part of a growing international movement to stop arms sales to the Saudi government over its alleged war crimes in Yemen.
The suit, filed by University of Montreal constitutional law professor Daniel Turp, argues the vehicle sales to Saudi Arabia violate a number of Canadian laws.
- How the Easter Rising changed the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Chris Bambery argues that the Easter Rising relaunched the struggle for independence in Ireland and inspired national liberation movements globally.
- Interview with director of "Like"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The director of a documentary about Bangladeshi workers who get paid to "like" Facebook posts discusses the people and ideas behind her film.
- 'It's No Longer About Saying No': How B.C.'s First Nations Are Taking Charge With Tribal Parks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On June 26, 2014, the Tsilhqot’in Nation's 25-year court battle came to an end when the Supreme Court unanimously ruled the nation holds title to approximately 1,900 square kilometres of its traditional territory.
- People power: how Montana stopped the biggest coal mine in North America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Campaigners are celebrating after defeating plans to build America's largest open pit coal mine. In an epic 'David and Goliath' battle, Montana activists challenged the project, and all the politicians and businessmen that supported it, with fierce opposition, protests and demonstrations. The outcome spells hope for all in the fight against dirty energy.
- Spain in Our Hearts
Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Hochschild shares tales of some of the roughly 2,800 Americans who participated in the Spanish Civil War. He shows how the war was a brutal, cruel mismatch from the beginning, with Franco's fascist forces strengthened by 80,000 Italian troops supplied by Mussolini, as well as weapons and airplanes provided by Hitler in exchange for war-related minerals. Additionally, Hochschild uncovers the story of how Texaco, headed by an admirer of Hitler, Torkild Rieber, provided Franco with unlimited oil on credit, shipped it for free, and supplied invaluable intelligence on tankers carrying oil to the Republican forces.
- Study: Fracking, Not Just Fracking Wastewater Injection, Causing Earthquakes in Western Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A groundbreaking study published in Seismological Research Letters has demonstrated a link between hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for oil and gas and earthquakes.
- Surprise Syrian showdown: 'Pentagon-backed rebels fighting CIA-backed rebels'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
American soldiers never used to shoot at CIA agents, and vice-versa, but that's what’s reportedly happening in the northern part of Syria, former CIA officer Ray McGovern says. In February, the CIA-armed group 'Fursan al Haq', or Knights of Righteousness, were apparently forced out of their positions by the so-called 'Syrian Democratic Forces', backed by the Pentagon.
- Trump and Clinton: Censoring the unpalatable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A virulent if familiar censorship is about to descend on the US election campaign. As the cartoon brute, Donald Trump, seems almost certain to win the Republican Party's nomination, Hillary Clinton is being ordained both as the "women's candidate" and the champion of American liberalism in its heroic struggle with the Evil One.
- Witness to a War Crimes Trial: My Heart is Sepur Zarco
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A frail, elderly woman, covered from head to toe in bright, colorful clothing approaches the witness chair. Her face is almost entirely covered. She is no more than five feet tall, and under all that clothing she can't weigh more than 100 pounds. She sits next to her translator. She speaks only Q’eqchi, one of Guatemala’s 24 officially recognized languages – no Spanish.
The witness speaks quietly into a microphone, and her testimony is harrowing.
- Bring on the Crackup: Hoping for a Trump - Sanders Election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There is every reason to think that electoral "politics" in the United States (and most places) is bullshit. For people who yearn for a very different world to get involved in this "process" -- which is almost entirely scripted by people who absolutely do not yearn for a very different world -- is a big waste of energy and commitment. The arguments here are addressed to the yearners, who I will call "radicals" -- people who recognize that the only real solution to the many problems facing humanity today is a qualitative, even epoch-making, change. When I say "we," I mean those of us who yearn for and work for such a change.
- CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The CIA took naked photographs of people it sent to its foreign partners for torture, the Guardian can reveal. A former US official who had seen some of the photographs described them as “very gruesome”.
- The Culture That Created Donald Trump Was Liberal, Not Conservative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Now that Donald Trump, the candidate, has become both widely popular and deeply loathsome, we're seeing a cataract of editorials and commentary aimed at explaining how it happened and who's to blame. The predictable suspects are trotted out: the Republican Party, which had been too opportunistic and fearful to stand up to its own candidate, Fox News, which inflamed the jingoes, and white working-class voters, unhinged by class envy and racial resentment.
- Does the United States Still Exist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To answer the question that is the title, we have to know of what the US consists. Is it an ethnic group, a collection of buildings and resources, a land mass with boundaries, or is it the Constitution? Clearly what differentiates the US from other countries is the US Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose the Constitution is to lose the country.
- Here We Go Again, Trash-Talking The Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This column begins with a brief story about the author's two grandmothers who lived in trailer homes.
- Ireland's Unfinished Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The revolutionary period sparked by the 1916 Easter Rising offered a vision of a truly democratic Ireland.
- Medic Who Killed Palestinian Being Portrayed as 'National Hero'
DM Slams Coalition Members for Backing Execution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Tensions within Israel's extremely narrow right-far-right coalition continue to grow, as the military's investigation into an Israeli medic who shot and killed an already wounded and disarmed Palestinian has become a cause célèbre for the settler movement and for hawks in general.
- The Realist's Dilemma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Brazil's Workers' Party thought accommodating capital could save them. That was a grave mistake.
- Statement on Another Attack by the Far Right on Christians and Democracy in Pakistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
More than 72 people including children were killed, and more than 200 injured, in a suicide bombing in Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Bagh.
- Connexions Other Voices - The Forest and the Trees
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Other Voices, the bi-weekly newsletter published by Connexions, looks at threats to forests worldwide, and at the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
- EFF and Partners Support Media Monitoring Service in Fight for Fair Use
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A media monitoring service that creates a text-searchable database of television and radio content is defending its fair use rights before a federal appeals court.
- IFJ / EFJ condemn scandalous ban on media at Turkey media trial
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
IFJ/EFJ today condemned the decision to hold the trial of Can Dundar and Erdem Gul behind closed doors. All diplomats, journalists, members of the public were evacuated from the court room.
- What Die Linke Should Do
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The German right made stunning gains in this month's regional elections. The Left must rise to the challenge.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
Forests and trees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
- US man's bank payment denied because of his dog's 'terrorist' name
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Sometimes terrorists move on all fours. That's what Chase Bank apparently decided when it wouldn't clear a payment for a disabled man's dog walker. It was the dog's name that led to the payment being bounced and the Treasury Department being involved.
- The Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Chris Hedges has a discussion with the economist Michael Hudson (author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy) on a great Ponzi scheme that not only defines not only the U.S. but the global economy, how we got there and where we’re going.
- Navajo Diné Fight Uranium Resources Inc. Mining Permits In New Mexico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Navajo Diné community have notched up a victory over Uranium Resources Inc. decades old plan to dig for uranium at Crownpoint and Churchrock, New Mexico, by successfully appealing a state permit for the Colorado company to dump waste into the Westwater Canyon aquifer.
- Revealed: how facial recognition has invaded shops – and your privacy
New in store: facial recognition devices
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Retailers are using ever more sophisticated software to watch how consumers shop.
- The War on Democracy in Latin America: Interview with John Pilger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Journalist, writer and filmmaker John Pilger granted this exclusive interview where he talks about the US war on democracy in Latin America. "Modern era imperialism is a war on democracy. Genuine democracy is a threat to unfettered power and cannot be tolerated", he says.
- The Conquest of Bread
Review article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Kropotkin’s classic, The Conquest of Bread, reveals problems of radical politics and organisation that remain vital today, argues Dominic Alexander.
- A History of Silencing Israeli Army Whistleblowers: From 1948 Until Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One might expect that only historians would care to revisit the 1948 war that created Israel. And yet the debate about what constitutes truth and myth from that period still provokes raw emotions.
- The hubris of investigators
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A now-vacated hearing over whether to require Apple to undermine the security of its users prompted an ongoing controversy over government access to encrypted devices. While the court in San Bernardino may never rule on the flood of arguments supporting Apple's defense of user security, observers-- especially members of Congress-- should pay close attention to a few themes that have emerged in the public debate.
- The War on Memory Begins in Argentina
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Within less than a month of the inauguration of the new Macri/Cambiemos government in Argentina, the new leadership, or gestión (management) as they prefer to be called, acted in a great sweeping hurry. Argentine congress, full of opposition parliamentarians from the Frente Para la Victoria Party that lost the presidential race by 2% of the vote, was closed for the summer holidays that take place in the ardent month of December, as much of the urban population of Argentina seeks to carelessly flock to the seaside.
- Al pi tehom
At the Edge of the Abyss
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.
- Can You Figure Out What This Chart Means?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The U.S. economy is in the throes of the lousiest recovery since World War 2. The so called monetary stimulus has failed to lift the economy out of the doldrums or produce the robust recovery that they promised. Instead, US gross domestic product, (GDP) has been plodding-along at an abysmal 2.2% since 2009, which is far below the 3.6% average of the prior 60 years.
- International arms companies make a killing in Turkey: a case study of the Roboski Massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Today, Turkey continues its brutality in its war against its Kurdish population. The state is imposing new curfews daily in the south-east of the country. Hundreds of citizens have been killed so far, whilst the western mainstream media and politicians remain largely silent about the massacres. Anti-militarist activists in the UK, however, are taking action against atrocities carried out by states such as Turkey.
- Junk Economics and the Parasites of Global Finance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Justin Ritchie intervieww Michael Hudson about economics and global finance.
- They Came for the Children: Truth Commission Sheds Light on Canada's Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Imagine a village with all its children gone. For aboriginal peoples all across Canada, this was their lived reality, not the stuff of imagination. The story of what happened to the children -- who were forcibly removed from their families and sent to military-style camps that were euphemistically called "schools" -- has at last been told, compiled in the monumental six-volume Truth and Reconciliation Report on residential schools for aboriginal children released in 2015.
- A World War has Begun: Break the Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile.
- The Crusade in Favor of GMO: Falsehoods and Vilification Will Not Fool the Public
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Pro-GMO campaigners often attack critics of the technology by claiming their negative views of it emanate from well-funded environmentalist groups or commercial interests in the organic food sector. The assertion is that such bodies promote falsehoods and scaremongering about GM to protect their own interests and that the GMO agritech sector has fallen victim to this.
- A Terrible Beauty: Remembering Ireland's Easter Rebellion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It's a hundred years since some 750 men and women threw up barricades and seized key locations in downtown Dublin. They would be joined by maybe 1,000 more. In six days it would be over, the post office in flames, the streets blackened by shell fire, and the rebellion's leaders on their way to face firing squads against the walls of Kilmainham Jail. And yet the failure of the Easter Rebellion would eventually become one of the most important events in Irish history - a 'failure' that would reverberate worldwide and be mirrored by colonial uprisings almost half a century later.
- While you were distracted climate change warning arrived
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With dire warnings of catastrophic sea level rise and superstorms capable of pitching 1,000 tonne mega-boulders onto shorelines, scientist James Hansen sounded an alarm over continued global warming.
- Sources HotLink - March 21, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Refugees, censorship and North American politics. This issue looks at nine of the most influential whistleblowers in modern history. In France, instances of police violence increase tension in the refugee crisis. Cyberspace sees an unprecedented move in advertising as AdBlock lowers its walls for Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders to raise awareness about censorship and government cyber-spying. Media professionals get expert insight on the state of earned media. Film buff activists learn about life in the Favelas. Bookworms are invited to read Chomsky on the mass media.
- NSW protesters: 'We will break these laws'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"This is a law to protect the rich. We will need to break these laws to protect our democratic rights," Aboriginal activist and lead NSW Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance team in the federal elections Ken Canning, said on March 15, 2016. Canning was addressing protesters who had occupied the road outside State Parliament following a rally, called by Greens MLC David Shoebridge, against the state government's new laws attacking the right to protest.
- Apartheid in the fields: From occupied Palestine to UK Supermarkets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Articles and interviews with Palestinian agricultural workers and farmers in the West Bank and Gaza, together with information on many of the Israeli exporters and UK supermarkets, as a resource for campaigners seeking to follow the call to boycott Israeli goods, companies and state institutions.
- Are These the Keystone Cops?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The CIA owes its vaunted reputation to one source: Hollywood’s movie studios. The way the movies portray America's clandestine services goes so far beyond mere "exaggeration" or embellishment, it verges on outright hero worship, stubbornly confusing James Woolsey with James Bond. Alas, if our intel-gathering networks were a fraction as accomplished as Hollywood portrays them to be, we wouldn’t have been mired in Vietnam or Iraq.
- The FBI Wants Teachers To Go Stasi On American Kids
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While Apple and the federal government duke it out over the encrypted phone of a dead terrorist, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is keeping things old school by advocating that educators start paying close attention to any radical leanings among their students.
- Government media crackdown in China continues as a journalist disappears
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) raises serious concerns over actions by the Chinese government this week, which lead to one journalist been suspended from duty and a second disappearing while travelling.
- Help Needed to Produce Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The effort to issue The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg has reached a critical phase, and we appeal for your help in enabling future volumes to be published.
- On eve of Iranian New Year, concern about fate of imprisoned journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its concern about the conditions in which journalists are being detained in Iran, especially Afarine Chitsaz of the daily newspaper Iran.
- Renewed calls for Bassel Khartabil's release on 4th anniversary of detention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Syria's authorities should reveal the whereabouts of Bassel Khartabil, a software developer and free speech activist, and release him immediately, 32 organizations said on the fourth anniversary of his detention.
- Drug War Capitalism: An Interview with Dawn Paley
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Dawn Paley’s book, Drug War Capitalism, provides a provocative thesis. The drug war is not about crime nor security. Rather, it enables global capitalist expansion through enclosure. In our hour-long interview Dawn elaborates on how elites collude across borders for their own benefit at the expense of their populations. She describes the consequences of this collusion as militarism, human rights abuses, and insecurity. As the interview develops, Dawn brings optimism back into the equation, with a discussion of resistance in everyday life, activism, and grassroot, peoples’ movements.
- They Came to Take a County: Land Seizure Agitators, Propagandists, Politicians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Thanks to the Bundy Gang, public lands advocates became aware of elements of the Land Seizure movement that had been operating in the shadows. The curtain was drawn back on networks of agitators and propagandists: Constitutional "experts" and sheriffs, "patriot" legislators and self-centered sovereign citizens.
- Two justice systems?
Letter to the editor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It seems that we have two justice systems: one for the police, and one for the rest of us.
- Age of Austerity
Capital, the Financial Crisis and the State in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The financial and economic crisis of 2008 has left a continuing legacy on social welfare, showing up in slow economic growth, unemployment and underemployment, and increasing social conflict. In the debate over the future of the world economy, many foresee a long depression, and the intensification of neoliberal austerity. Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman's new book is concerned with Canada's unique economic and social history over the period of neoliberalism, including the financial and economic crisis of 2008.
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace at the Canadian Mission in New York for UNCSW60
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
More than 20 members of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) are currently in New York City attending the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Thursday, March 17,2016, they will meet with Giles Norman, Government Relations and Legal
- GMOs, Development and the Politics of Unhappiness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Modern state-corporate capitalism is stripping the environment bare through unsustainable levels of consumption. It is legitimised by a deceitful ideology that attempts to justify and sell a system which by its very nature is designed to benefit a minority at the expense of the majority.
- Human nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A review of Jason W Moore's book on world-ecology, Capitalism in the Web of Life.
- Integrating cannabis into clinical cancer care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Literature review of contemporary (2016) understanding of the efficacy of cannabis and cannabis derived drugs in treating cancer symptoms.
- Collateral Freedom #2: RSF unblocks six more censored sites
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To mark World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is launching Operation Collateral Freedom #2, in which it is unblocking access to websites that are censored in five countries and is unveiling the RSF Censorship Detector
- The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Don't protest the same way twice. If there's a single message to be gleaned from Occupy Wall Street co-initiator Micah White's idea-packed polemic against conventional protest, The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution, that's probably it.
- I Found My Voice in Spanish, a Language Once Used to Subjugate My Ancestors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Author Shirley Campbell explains how her Afro-Caribbean parents decided not to speak to her and her siblings in English, perhaps as an attempt to give them one less reason to be different in Spanish-speaking Costa Rica.
- RSF calls for end to harassment of The Online Citizen
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Singapore's authorities to stop trying to intimidate The Online Citizen (TOC), a community news website that is being harassed by the interior minister over its coverage of a Singaporean teenager's suicide
- The Socialism of the Black Panthers
A new documentary on the Black Panther Party overlooks the group's socialist core.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An analysis on the documentary on the Black Panther Party, "Up From Liberalism".
- Biofuel or Biofraud? The Vast Taxpayer Cost of Failed Cellulosic and Algal Biofuels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In November 2014, cellulosic biofuel company KiOR filed for bankruptcy, having shut down their refinery in Columbus, Mississippi earlier that year. There have been many unsuccessful biofuel ventures of this type, but KiOR's stands out for several reasons.
- The Case Against Ratifying the TPP
The Case Against Ratifying the Trans Pacific Partnership
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Dear Sisters, They Are Killing Our Trees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
People in the Thrissur district of Kerala, India, are fighting to keep their forests in the face of a threatened dam project which would submerge their ancestral lands.
- Iceland's Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
After its financial crisis, Iceland put bankers in jail. But it didn't rein in capital. In reality the responses to the 2008–9 Icelandic banking crash were only modestly progressive and failed to bring about any kind of shift to the left. They have also been much more contested locally than most international media accounts reflect.
- Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Most of the time the white working class is invisible in the U.S. But during elections there is a flurry of attention to this "demographic" among political reporters and operatives.
- Why Qaddafi had to go: African gold, oil and the challenge to monetary imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.
- Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The world, it seems, cannot get enough of Sokal-type hoaxes. A French journal, Sociétés, has retracted an article allegedly penned by one Jean-Marc Tremblay but actually written by two sociologists, Manuel Quinon and Arnaud Saint-Martin, who spoofed the work of the journal's editor, Michel Maffesoli.
- Bias in the Media: the Result of Corporate Ownership
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
There may still be, perhaps in the quiet countryside somewhere, people who believe that news programs present news. It is unlikely that this is true; rather, those who rely on the corporate-owned press for information probably enjoy finding sources that support what they want to hear. And, if they are unsure of just what it is that they want to hear, their 'trusted' source will tell them.
- Media Release - IFIC Acknowledges OBSI's Improvements, Notes Additional Measures are Needed
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - March 11, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today acknowledged that the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI) has improved several of its practices in recent years and suggested additional measur
- "They Fear Us Because We Are Fearless:" The Life and Legacy of Berta Cáceres
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
I began writing a eulogy for Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores years ago, though she died only last week. Berta was assassinated by Honduran government-backed death squads on March 3, 2016.
- Who the Hell is Supporting Donald Trump?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Somehow the Trump shell game has gained followers. So the question is now, who the hell are these people voting for Trump?
- Death In Honduras - The Coup, Hillary Clinton And The Killing Of Berta Cáceres
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- The Nation is Not Divided and Still Prefers Bernie Sanders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The reportage of the presidential primaries has been heavy on personalities and the latest numbers, and light on information useful to voters. Comparisons to a horse race are apt. Were the news to take a documentary approach instead, the campaigns would be revealed as they are: something existing contrary to the public's interests.
- The Organized Left and the Death of "Pragmatic" Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Shifting political winds are battering the establishment, as the breeze flows to the back of the populists. The left-populist Bernie Sanders didn't conjure the hurricane but adjusted his sails to it. As the political storm grows apace with rising income inequality, new social attitudes are bringing fresh expectations, transforming politics as we know it.
- Spelling mistake prevented hackers taking $1bn in bank heist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
New York Fed reveals spelling of 'foundation' as 'fandation' prompted bank to seek clarification and stop transfer, but hackers still got away with about $80m.
- A Warning From the B.I.S.: the Calm Before the Storm?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is worried that recent ructions in the equities markets could be a sign that another financial crisis is brewing. In a sobering report titled "Uneasy calm gives way to turbulence" the BIS states grimly: "We may not be seeing isolated bolts from the blue but the signs of a gathering storm that has been building for a long time."
- What is Meant by 'Single-Payer' in the Current Discussion of Health Care Reforms During the Primaries?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Single-payer means that most of the funds used to pay for medical care are public, that is, they are paid with taxes. The government, through a public authority, is the most important payer for medical care services and uses this power to influence the organization of health care. The overwhelming majority of developed countries have one form or another of a single-payer system.
- A Century of Theft From Indians by the National Park Service
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Mojave National Preserve is run by the National Park Service, which, in contrast to previous times, has been including more Indian history in its displays and programs.
- A Citizen's Guide to Combating Election Propaganda: Debunking Anti-Welfare Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The goal moving forward must be to create a critical citizen consciousness, so the masses don't simply "accept what they're told" once every four years by the pretty faces running for office. What follows is a primer for readers to help in their conversations with friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and family, to fight back against the racist, classist propaganda so often employed against disadvantaged groups in the U.S.
- The Financial System is a Larger Threat Than Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Trillions of dollars have been added to the taxpayers' burden and many billions of dollars in profits to the military/security complex in order to combat insignificant foreign "threats," such as the Taliban, that remain undefeated after 15 years. All this time the financial system, working hand-in-hand with policymakers, has done more damage to Americans than terrorists could possibly inflict.
- How Defamation Law has Developed and is Applied in Canada
Canadian Defamation Law is Noncompliant with International Law (Part Two of a Two Part Series)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This article was prepared for the Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA). Overall Defamation law in Canada is contrary to international law, in both design and practice.
Also, Canada’s practice of its defamation law materially aggravates the noncompliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (eleven impugned rules and practices are described).
- How Most Aid to the Palestinians Ends up in Israel's Coffers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While Europe may think of itself as part of an enlightened West, using aid to defend Palestinians' rights, the reality is less reassuring. The aid may actually be making things significantly worse.
- IFIC Comments on CSA Approach to Fund Risk Classification
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - March 9, 2016 - In a submission filed today, the Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) expressed broad support for the proposed CSA Mutual Fund Risk Classification Methodology for Use in Fund Facts and ETF Facts, and suggested
- Paid Off in Passion: The Life Lessons of John Ross's Rebel Reporting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A book review of Rebel Reporting, written by Cristalyne Bell and Norman Stockwell.
- Pentagon's War on the Earth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. But our fighting forces -- and their attendant industries which manufacture the bombs, bullets, and ballistic delivery devices -- also wage a war on the clean air, clean water, and clean soil many Americans falsely regard as protected by legislation fought for by those trying to protect our environment.
- Scandal! Exxon knew about climate change, boosted denialism, misled shareholders, went carbon heavy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the world's biggest energy companies has been caught out in what may be the biggest ever climate scandal. Way back in the 1980s ExxonMobil knew of the 'potentially catastrophic' and 'irreversible' effects of increasing fossil fuel consumption, but chose to cover up the findings, spread misinformation on climate change, and go for high carbon energy sources.
- Academics can change the world -- if they stop talking only to their peers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Heleta discusses the limited audience that academics publish for and the lack of real-world impact their ideas have as a result.
- Berta Cáceres: her fight for human rights in Honduras continues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last week the environmental and human rights activist Berta Cáceres was murdered by gunmen in an early morning attack on her home which may have been carried out by or in collusion with state agents. Now her friend and colleague Gustavo Castro, himself wounded in the attack and the only witness to Berta's murder, has been detained for questioning.
- Colonialism and Nationalism in the Building of Liberation Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This is an excerpt from It's Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment.
- A History of Violence
Living and Dying in Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This is a book about one of the deadliest places in the world: Central America.
- Investing in the care economy: a gender equitable alternative to austerity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A new report by the United Kingdom (UK) Women’s Budget Group for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) shows that sustained investment of public funds in childcare and eldercare services is worthwhile and that it is more effective in reducing public deficits and debt than austerity policies.
- Protest Against Closing Down the Lukács Archiv
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We, the undersigned, wish to express our deepest worries about the resolution of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to close down the Lukács Archives in Budapest. Görgy Lukács was one the significant philosophers of the 20th century, an author of modernity outstanding not only in philosophy but also in the fields of political mindedness, theory of literature, sociology and ethics An author of international renown, Lukács represented one of the intellectual peaks in Hungary's history of civilisation, his works constitute a part of the treasures of humankind. For decades, the Lukács Archives has facilitated academic and non-academic circles to have access to the documents related to the philosopher's life and professional achievements. As it is located in the philosopher's home of his late years, it has also served as a memorial place devoted to a decisive personality of our era. Based on the above, we call on the authorities in charge to re-consider their decision, which took the international community of science and art by consternation and sorrow.
- They Want to Prohibit Us from Dreaming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A 2014 interview with renowned Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated last week.
- Women Activists Lobby MPs
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On this International Women's Day our priorities must be human development and communities free of violence.
- Iraq's greatest danger yet: collapse of 'world's most dangerous dam'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As if Iraq has not suffered enough under Saddam Hussein, the vicious UN sanctions regime, the US-UK occupation and the depradations of Daesh, a new threat looms that could kill a million people or more, and destroy Baghdad and a string of other cities along the Tigris river. The porous rocks beneath the Mosul dam are dissolving away and the entire edifice could collapse at any moment, releasing 11 cubic kilometres of water.
- Racist housing? How postwar suburban development led to today's inner-city lead poisoning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan is just the tip of a vast iceberg of lead contamination afflicting mainly urban black communities. A rigid 'race bar' on postwar suburban housing and mortgages left black families in inner cities, exposed to flaking lead paint in run down housing, leaded gasoline residues and lead pipework. Now is the time to correct this shocking historic injustice.
- Reverse Robin Hood: Six Billion Dollar Businesses Preying on Poor People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Many see families in poverty and seek to help. Others see families in poverty and see opportunities for profit. Here are six examples of billion dollar industries which are built on separating poor people, especially people of colour, from their money, the reverse Robin Hood.
- Why Survival International has made a formal complaint to the OECD against WWF
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
WWF's support for 'fortress conservation' has led to serious human rights abuses for indigenous peoples, and nowhere more so than in Cameroon, where the Baka are considered trespassers and poachers in their own ancestral forests. A formal complaint against WWF's behaviour is now in process.
- China: New regulations aimed at foreign media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses strong concern for new administrative regulations aimed at China-based foreign media outlets and joint ventures.
- Despotic Erdogan seizes control of leading daily
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today orchestrated an Istanbul court decision to place Zaman, a leading daily newspaper that supports the opposition Gulen movement, under state control.
- EFF and 46 Technology Experts Ask Court To Throw Out Unconstitutional Apple Order
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Undermining iPhone Security Violates First Amendment
- Media ethics breached with televised confession on state-owned TV
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the continued airing of 'confessions' by state-owned media in China. The IFJ calls on the government to immediately end the practice that violates media ethics.
- Other Voices: the Connexions newsletter - International Women's Day Issue
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The March 5, 2016 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. This issue focuses on International Women's Day.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
International Women's Day
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
- Review: Kate Evans, Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg (2015)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Red Rosa does not aspire to be an authoritative biography but, perhaps as a result, it is a more compelling book. What's compelling about it? The graphics have a lot to do with it; it's an extended comic strip (although the author might take offense with that characterization). The events, both intimate and very public, of Luxemburg’s life and the words and deeds of her political activity are portrayed in vivid graphics. When reading the book, it's impossible to feel detached from them. At the same time, those events, words and deeds are presented seriously, without trivialization. This is no "Rosa Luxemburg for Dummies."
- Tibetan writer sentenced to three years imprisonment
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the conviction and sentencing of a Tibetan writer on February 17, 2016. The IFJ demands the Chinese government ends its attack on media freedom.
- Berta Cáceres, Honduran eco-defender, murdered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Berta Cáceres, Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, has been murdered, days after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project. Her death has prompted international outrage, and a flood of tributes to a courageous defender of the natural world.
- IFIC Welcomes New Member - Greystone Managed Investments Inc.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - March 4, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that Greystone Managed Investments Inc. has joined IFIC.
- Indigenous Communities in Guatemala Fight Against the Privatization of Sacred Sites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In recent years, the popular tourist attraction of Semuc Champey in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz has become a point of social conflict for the indigenous Q'eqchi' Mayan communities surrounding the site. On February 8, tensions erupted and led to the occupation of the municipality building of Lanquín by over 200 members of the communities near the tourist attraction. Community members demanded the recuperation of the site. Since that day, residents have maintained management of the park.
- Mozambique's Movement to End Land Grabs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To corporations, the forest is only business. To communities, the forest is everything: trees, medicine, culture, spirituality. Land-grabbing and the removal of communities from forests and land breaks the community, displaces access to food and water, and uproots the connection to nature and [local] knowledge. There is an old saying in Africa: the land doesn’t belong to us; it belongs to our children, and the children of our children.
- 'Dalit movement has to see itself as part of a class-wide movement'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Following the death of Rohith Vemula, the Dalit scholar from Hyderabad Central University, several thousand students in India came together in protest. The incident also sparked spontaneous, nationwide mobilisation of Dalits, many of whom were already engaged in local struggles. Around the same time a strong criticism of the mainstream Left emerged that pointed to its perceived indifference to Dalit causes and, more broadly, caste-based discrimination in India. Here in the U.S., we see Black Lives Matter — a campaign against violence targeting black people in the U.S. — that has become a prominent movement in the last few years, drawing enormous attention and support. All the same, some activists within the movement are said to be questioning the exclusive emphasis on racial identity. Are there any parallels?
- The Invention of Nature: adventures of Alexander Humboldt, lost hero of science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Andrea Wulf's book about the remarkable 19th century explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt is welcome, opportune and a pleasure to read, packed as it is with high adventure and amazing discoveries. We have much to learn from him today in tackling the world's environmental crises; reading this book is an excellent - and enjoyable - way to begin.
- Many European Pesticide Approvals Are 'unlawful' Says EU Ombudsman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Many current pesticides in the European Union appear to have been approved illegally the Ombudsman of the EU has said. This judgment was reached on Feb 22nd by the EU Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, following an official complaint against the European Commission’s Directorate responsible for public health and consumer safety (DG SANTE).
- Monarch butterfly decline can only be stopped by a ban on glyphosate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling despite protection of their wintering forests in Mexico, and voluntary schemes to restore their food plant, milkweed, in US field margins, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji. These measures alone are insufficient: no less than an end to the mass spraying of glyphosate on crops, predicated by 'Roundup-ready' GM corn and soy, will do.
- Why the Newberry Library Is Collecting Black Lives Matter Artifacts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Archivists hope to crowdsource historical documentation of today's civil-rights movements.
- Why Trump?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Donald Trump is winning Republican presidential primaries at such a great rate that he seems likely to become the next Republican presidential nominee and perhaps the next president. Democrats have little understanding of why he is winning -- and winning handily, and even many Republicans don't see him as a Republican and are trying to stop him, but don't know how. There are various theories: People are angry and he speaks to their anger. People don’t think much of Congress and want a non-politician. Both may be true. But why? What are the details? And Why Trump?
- An Extraordinary Moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the end, the one sure prediction about the 2016 election is that the power of corporate capital will not be touched. That's the nature of what's called "bourgeois democracy." But almost everything else is up for grabs.
- Florida Today: "Worse Than Mississippi"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If Emancipation means the right to breathe clean air and drink clean water, then Florida falls short. In the 20th century we were a leader in environmental racism.
- Fukushima After Five Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the five years since the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, at least 100,000 people remain displaced; 80 people have committed suicide in Fukushima alone over the loss of their families.
- The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at the extensive drainage and sewer system under the streets of Brooklyn, NY. When pipes fill up and plants reach capacity, untreated water containg sewage flows into local rivers and bays. However a bold green infrastructure initiative hopes to reduce such overflows by 3.8 billion gallons a year.
- Hip-Hop Ain't Dead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Many rap artists used their words to question oppression. This is where hip-hop began, a radical middle finger to the system that created the need for such an outlet.
- Jerusalem: Colonized City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An interview with author Thomas Abowd.
- Killer Bunny in the Sky
A drone war begins between vegans and hunters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at how animal rights activists are using drones to the detriment of hunters.
- Lessons of the Egyptian Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
I almost cannot believe that five years have passed since the chants of "the people want to bring down the system" and "Bread...Freedom...Social Justice...Human Dignity..." Maybe this is because even in my cell I am filled with dreams of freedom and with hope.
- Long Distance High Tech State Terror
Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Andrew Cockburn's Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins.
- Mahmoud Darwish, A Poet's Complex Trajectory
Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Khaled Mattawa's Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation.
- Making Race Disappear
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Black lives are discounted in the eyes of whites and official arms of the state. It is not conspiracy theory to say this. It is hard fact.
- Only in America: an Indiscreet Selfie Can Put A Kid in Prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Did you know that if you are an American under 18 years old and you use your cell phone to send a nude "selfie" of yourself to a friend, you can be convicted of manufacturing and distributing "child pornography" and sent to prison? This is how expansively prosecutors, whose main purpose in life is to ruin as many people as possible, interpret laws passed to protect children from sexual exploitation.
- Our Guns, Our Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
For the past several decades, this country has been periodically caught up in anti-gun fear and hysteria, some generated deliberately by self-serving political forces and some by presumably well meaning liberals whose knowledge of firearms - and of hunting and sensible individual/family self-defense - usually adds up to Zero.
- The Promise of a Revolution
Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards, and the Origins of the Council
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Ralf Hoffrogge's Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards, and the Origins of the Council.
- Raising Hell for Labor
Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Jane McAlevey's Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement.
- Reading and Returning to Denise Levertov
A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Donna Hollenberg's A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov.
- The Rogue Agency
A USDA program that tortures dogs and kills endangered species
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A look at the disturbing and cruel animal control practices of the USDA, a branch of the US Fish and Wildlife Service at the time, which has included accidental poisonings of domestic animals as well as endangered species.
- Rosa Luxemburg for Our Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Does Rosa Luxemburg leave feminists a theoretical and political legacy? That is, does she give us any theoretical guidance as to how to understand women's oppression? If so, what is it?
- Rosa Luxemburg of Our Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Does Rosa Luxemburg leave feminists a theoretical and political legacy? That is, does she give us any theoretical guidance as to how to understand women’s oppression? If so, what is it?
- Salvadoran Women Combatants
Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Jocelyn Viterna's Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador.
- Save Our Public Universities
In defense of America's best idea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This essay looks at the role of public universities in democratizing diverse and thoughtful thinking, and why the importance of these institutions seems to be getting lost in the aggressive capitalism of modern America.
- Thinking About Suffragette
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Alison Baldree responds to the 2015 flim Suffragette.
- Towards Workers' Climate Action
Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity: Tackling Climate Change in a Neoliberal World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Paul Hampton's Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity:
Tackling Climate Change in a Neoliberal World.
- Turn on tune in - hippie photos unseen for decades
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A recent visit to the Chronicle's basement archives to look for hippie-related photos paid off with some wonderful images that have not been seen in several decades. Many of them were taken in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
- Undeceiving the World
Can a staged photograph tell the truth?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A historical look at how photographs have been staged and manipulated, and the meaning of "truth" as it relates to photo-journalism and documentary film making.
- Women of the Dada and Their Timnes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Thinking about Dada today, it is astonishing that such a small, obscure group should have become such an influence. It was the laboratory for new ideas and unrestrained, uninhibited, playful activity and their works still find joyful resonance in our hearts.
- Women's Monumental Struggle
Suffragette
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Barbara Winslow and Alison Baldree respond to Sarah Gavron's controversial 2015 film Suffragette.
- Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Remembering Marxist scholar Ellen Meiksins Wood.
- A Word Warrior for Freedom
Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio and Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Sonja D. Williams' Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio and Freedom.
- Workshop Talks: Do job, get fired
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Under the Affordable Care Act, it’s standard HMO practice to offer patients the opportunity to fill out an advance directive as an exercise in considering one's quality of life, not just its prolongation. Frontline healthcare providers have a concrete reason for quality-of-life care concerns. But in the HMO business campaigns promoting quality of life over quantity, things are not really what they appear.
- The Arctic Turns Ugly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Runaway global warming is far and away humankind's biggest nightmare, and the Arctic is the likely perpetrator. If it happens, it'll blister agricultural foodstuff before it can reach the outstretched arms of the multitudes.
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace Moves to the Beach
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace have moved their national office.
- The Centrality of Seed: Building Agricultural Resilience Through Plant Breeding
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Five of the global issues most frequently debated today are the decline of biodiversity in general and of agrobiodiversity in particular, climate change, hunger and malnutrition, poverty and water. Seed is central to all five issues. The way in which seed is produced has been arguably their major cause. But it can also be the solution to all these issues.
- Oscar Hangover Special: Why "Spotlight" Is a Terrible Film
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
I am astonished (though I suppose I shouldn't be) that, across the past few months, ever since Spotlight hit theatres, otherwise serious left-of-centre people have peppered their party conversation with effusions that the film reflects a heroic journalism, the kind we all need more of. I was in Boston in the Spring of 2002 reporting on the priest scandal, and because I know some of what is untrue, I don't believe the personal injury lawyers or the Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team or the Catholic "faithful" who became harpies outside Boston churches, carrying signs with images of Satan.
- A Chilean Ex-Soldier Guiltily Recalls His Unit's Atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Guillermo Padilla was part of a commando unit that spent months combing towns and remote outposts in southern Chile in late 1973, searching for suspected opponents of the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and for weapons. The unit raided homes, arrested and tortured suspects, and killed at least 30 people, he said. He admitted to participating in several executions as part of a firing squad.
- Clinton Manipulates Language of Intersectionality to Preserve Support from Minority Voters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has been a master class in how to divorce economic issues from issues of race and gender by pushing the language of "intersectionality," which enables the political class to head off threats to their power and protect the status quo.
- Siberia's Heavenly Lake and 'small peoples' of the High North at risk from oil drilling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A vital nature preserve in western Siberia, and the indigenous peoples that inhabit it, are at risk from oil development. Oil giant Surgutneftegas is already active in the Numto Park, but now they want to extend operations into its fragile wetlands, putting at risk snow cranes, the Heavenly Lake, and the survival of the Nenet and Khanty peoples.
- Trident rally is Britain's biggest anti-nuclear march in a generation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Thousands of protesters including Jeremy Corbyn and other party leaders gather in London for CND march and rally.
- The Wanted 18
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A claymation comic that showcases the BDS movement through the establishment of a Palestinian dairy co-operative in Beit Sahour.
- Blood on the Marias
The Baker Massacre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An in-depth depiction of the 1870 Baker Massacre in a small Piegan town by the Euro-American Major Eugene Baker who attacked the wrong town killing 173 innocent citizens.
- It's Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The path to a better world can't be found without knowledge of history. "It's Not Over" analyzes attempts to supplant capitalism in the past in order to draw lessons for emerging and future movements that seek to overcome the political and economic crises of today. This history is presented through the words and actions of the men and women who made these revolutions, and the everyday experiences of the millions of people who put new revolutionary ideas into practice under the pressures of enormous internal and external forces. This is history that can be applied to today's struggles to shape our world, in which new ideas are emerging to bring about the economic democracy that is indispensable to a rational and sustainable future.
- Coal companies trying to revive 'zombie' open cast mines in Wales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A tangle of undercapitalised companies are coming forward to cash in on old deep coal mines in Wales - by digging them all out from above from huge open cast pits. But local communities, alarmed at the noise, pollution and destruction of landscape, increasingly see coal as an industry that's best consigned to the scrapheap.
- The noble cause of the Heathrow 13
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
With the 'Heathrow 13' protestors expecting custodial sentences today for their occupation of a Heathrow runway last July, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP writes that their direct action followed years of official lies and broken promises, and forms part of a long tradition of direct action protests in defence of democracy.
- Richard Levins: Scientist, Activist and Friend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
American scientist Richard Levins, philosopher of science, titan of ecology, forebear of agroecology, renowned authority on the social and ecological dimensions of disease, and friend of Puerto Rico, has passed away.
- After Malheur, the end of the beginning: war for America's public lands rages on
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Those who value public lands - for economic, environmental, recreational and aesthetic values - owe a debt of gratitude to Harney County, Oregon, writes Peter Walker. A violent branch of the Sagebrush Rebellion came to town, and the community told it to go away: the decisive factor in the occupiers' defeat. But the greater war for America's public lands has only just begun.
- London tube posters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israel and its supporters are used to having the mainstream media repeat their talking points. We put up around 150 posters on the tube to shine a spotlight on the support Israel gets from the UK: the government, arms industry, and companies like G4S. Turns out the world loves/hates our tube ads.
- Race, Gender, and Class Politics in the US Primaries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The US has some of the largest feminist organizations in the Western world. I should also add that it has the largest organization for the elderly, the AARP. In spite of this, the US is the country where African Americans, women, and the elderly have fewer political, civil, and social rights. African Americans, women, and the elderly have the least health benefits among their equivalents in other developed countries. The primary reason for this underdevelopment of human rights is the absence of powerful socialist forces and parties, rooted historically in the working class. This reality, however, is rarely mentioned in the US. It is presented as too "ideological" or antiquated.
- Israeli fury at unofficial ads on London Underground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Activists from London Palestine Action put up these posters criticizing Israel’s apartheid policies against Palestinians all over London's underground train network early Sunday morning. An activist from the group told The Electronic Intifada that they posted 150 copies around at least four different lines on the network.
- Key evidence in EU's risk assessment of glyphosate must not remain 'trade secret'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The chemical industry and the European Food Safety Authority are refusing to disclose key scientific evidence about glyphosate's risks, citing 'trade secrets' protection, writes Corporate Europe Observatory. They must be compelled to publish the 'mysterious three' scientific studies EFSA used to assess glyphosate as 'unlikely' to cause cancer to humans - contradicting the IARC's view.
- Most US Jewish students don't see Israel as 'civilized' or a 'democracy,' Luntz tells secret anti-BDS conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Minister Gilad Erdan has organized a secret conference in Jerusalem, with 150 top supporters of Israel.
- Sources HotLink - February 22, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We start off our year with a review of the last. According to the report, 2015 was a dangerous year for journalists overseas. In North America, we re-explore the debate between privacy and security and the curious case of Donald Trump. In South America, the issues with impunity remain ever prevalent.
For our media relations professionals, we feature a fun guide to press releases and the words of thought leaders in digital media.
Bookworms get The Man Who Recorded the World and film buffs get Control Room.
- What is socialism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The word socialism is the English language's answer to Madonna: consistently topping the popular charts and maintaining its appeal across generations and among ever changing new audiences. It is, according to the Miriam Webster dictionary, the seventh most looked up English word of all time, and in 2015 had more people seeking out its meaning than any other word.
- Bangladeshi editor faces legal barrage
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists joins the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) in expressing serious concerns over a barrage of legal cases filed against the editor and publisher of an English daily newspaper in Bangladesh
- Corporate power and the moulding of truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The corporate dominance of 'free' media in western democracies imposes deep structural constraints on what may be reported, and how. Syria is now the latest example of skewed reportage - and even journalists seeking to analyse the problem must carefully avoid the real reasons for it.
- Eleven years of protesting Israel's occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Al Jazeera spoke with 11 villagers on the anniversary of Bilin's weekly protests against Israel's separation wall.
- In search of the unseen: an investigation into plastics in our oceans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the biggest threats facing marine life is the 'microplastic' particles found in ocean ecosystems from bottom to top of food chains. Just back from a voyage of environmental exploration in the tropical Atlantic sampling the waters to build up a global picture of this ubiquitous pollutant, Ana Stanic writes of the joys and trials of life on the waves, and the need to keep our oceans clean.
- Journalists covering court hearing attacked in India
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Indian Union of Journalists (IJU) in condemning the attack on journalists at the Patiala House Court premises in New Delhi, India on Monday, February 15,2016.
- Maple syrup farmers lose fight against fracking pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A family of maple syrup farmers in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania cannot stop their trees being cut down to make way for a new fracking pipeline project owned by billion dollar oil companies, a federal judge ruled Friday. The Holleran family opposes the seizure of their maple grove to make way for the new 124-mile-long Constitution Pipeline. The group faced contempt of court charges for obstructing tree cutting on their property.
- More tear gas in in Artvin, Turkey as anti-mining protests enter 7th day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Hundreds of activists gathered in the Black Sea province of Artvin, Northwest Turkey, to oppose plans to build a gold mine in the area. Police again used tear gas and batons to disperse the angry crowd.
- RSF accuses Malaysia government of endangering general interest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders condemns the government's decision, after a series of corruption scandals, to prioritize the intimidation of journalists and whistleblowers, who just do their duty to inform the public.
- RSF calls for release of four US journalists detained in Bahrain
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arbitrary arrest of four US journalists in Bahrain on 14 February. They were there to cover the fifth anniversary of the 2011 protests in Bahrain.
- RSF delivers Jeffrey Sterling's petition to the White House
Sources News Release
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) delivered yesterday with the wife of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling a petition for his pardon to the White House. The petition has now gathered over 150,000 signatures. Sterling, a former CIA operative
- Worldwide call to demand Netanyahu to release journalist on hunger strike
Sources News Release
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The IFJ called today on its affiliates worldwide to join their sister union in Palestine, the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate, to demand that the Israeli authorities release journalist Muhammad al-Qiq
- Canada's wild rice wars
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How a conflict over wild ricing on Pigeon Lake is drawing attention to Indigenous rights and traditional foods.
- Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1976–1981
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This authoritative reference guide is a continuation of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964–1975. It starts where the first volume left off, and highlights some of the seminal events and people involved in the fight for gay rights in Canada to the end of 1981.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 20, 2016
Connexions Enters Its Fifth Decade
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This issue of Connexions Other Voices falls on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the very first Connexions newsletter, which was published in February 1976. That first issue carried the title "Canadian Information Sharing Service", which was also the name of the collective which compiled it, from submissions from across Canada. Within a couple of years, the name of the publication became "Connexions" and then, a little later, "The Connexions Digest".
In addition to our own history, in this issue we spotlight black history as our topic of the week. We look at the Haitian revolution, when slaves confronted the French empire and won; black resistance against the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, and the meaning and limits of anti-racism. We also look at the Kurdish liberation movement in Rojava, the dangers posed by geoengineering, and we mark the publication of the Communist Manifesto on February 21, 1848.
- Why This Radical Leftist is Disillusioned by Leftist Culture
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I will always believe in "The Revolution". But I am becoming very frustrated with modern "activist" culture.
- 'Call me a terrorist, but I'm no different from Israeli troops defending their homeland'
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Some thoughts on the true source of incitement against and hatred of Israelis from a Palestinian who spent 23 years in jail for killing one. In 1990, Muqbel was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Yaakov Shalom in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Karem. Released after 23 years, he is now a key activist in Fatah, talking on the movement's behalf in West Bank schools.
- Climate Justice and Palestine: the New Intersectionality
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The repeated failures of international and governmental agencies to effectively deal with the disastrous changes that threaten the entire planet have sparked local indigenous and small farmer activism from Bolivia to Palestine.
- Dark history of Canada's First Nations pass system uncovered in documentary
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Little known policy restricted people living on reserves, enforced for nearly 60 years.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for January 2016
Sources News Release
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Toronto, ON - February 19, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending January 31, 2016, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.21 trillion. Almost all (99.6%) of
- The Mad Violence of Casino Capitalism
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American society is morally bankrupt and politically broken, and its vision of the future appears utterly dystopian. As the United States descends into the dark abyss of an updated form of totalitarianism, the unimaginable has become imaginable in that it has become possible not only to foresee the death of the essential principles of constitutional democracy, but also the birth of what Hannah Arendt once called the horror of dark times.
- The New Global Financial Cold War
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Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson, a financial economist and historian.
- Nor a Lender Be
Hillary Clinton, liberal virtue, and the cult of the microloan
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A criticism of the rhetoric of the modern liberal class' rhetoric of idealism and virtue, as embodied by the efforts of Hillary Clinton.
- Palestinian villagers tilled their land so well, Israel is now confiscating it from them
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The separation barrier will cut residents of Al-Walaja from their lands by the end of the year; the beauty of the terraces they cultivated for decades was used as one of the main reasons for announcing the area a national park.
- South Africa's conservation success story: the 'Black Mambas' mean business!
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A unique, all female anti-poaching unit has transformed the conservation picture in South Africa's Kruger National Park. In just three years the Black Mambas have cut poaching by more than 75%, removed over 1,000 snares, and become role models for local youth. And this weekend they arrive in the UK to collect Helping Rhinos' 'Innovation in Conservation' Award.
- A Technical Perspective on the Apple iPhone Case
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The legal dispute between Apple and the FBI might prove pivotal in the long-running battle to protect users' privacy and right to use uncompromised encryption. The case has captured the public imagination. Of course, EFF supports Apple's efforts to protect its users. The case is complicated technically, and there is a lot of misinformation and speculation. This post will offer a technical overview, based on information gleaned from the FBI's court motion and Apple's security documentation.
- The US Economy Has Not Recovered and Will Not Recover
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The US economy died when middle class jobs were offshored and when the financial system was deregulated. Jobs offshoring benefitted Wall Street, corporate executives, and shareholders, because lower labour and compliance costs resulted in higher profits. These profits flowed through to shareholders in the form of capital gains and to executives in the form of "performance bonuses." Wall Street benefitted from the bull market generated by higher profits.
- Why India's first 100% organic state matters
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In a mountainous region in eastern India, Sikkim is now a 100% organic state, with no chemical pesticides or fertilizers and no GMOs. This matters because it shows that organic food in an entire region is possible. Now, other people in India and throughout the world are learning from Sikkim's success, and beginning to ask, "Could organic food succeed in other areas, too?"
- The Dark Side of Clean Energy: Industrial Wind Plantations in Mexico
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- This Is the Real Reason Apple Is Fighting the FBI
If the FBI wins, it could open the door to massive surveillance
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The first thing to understand about Apple’s latest fight with the FBI -- over a court order to help unlock the deceased San Bernardino shooter's phone -- is that it has very little to do with the San Bernardino shooter's phone.
- War crime? Israel destroys Gaza crops with aerial herbicide spraying
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Gaza farmers have lost 187 hectares of crops to aerial spraying of herbicides by Israel hundreds of meters within the territory's borders. The action, carried out in the name of 'security', further undermines Gaza's ability to feed itself and may permanently deprive farmers of their livelihoods. It may also represent a war crime under the 1977 Protocol to the Geneva Conventions.
- The God that fails: C-51, review committees and the dangers of window dressing
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Among the Harper era's most destructive legacies is a toxic stew of repressive "anti-terror" laws that, in building on similarly repressive measures brought in under Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, extended major new powers to Canadian state security agencies Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the RCMP, among numerous others.
- Clickbait v Political Impact: Alternative Journalism as Social Media Becomes the New News Source
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In first world countries, Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming the main places where people come across their news -- ahead of television and news sites. "Success" is becoming about the number of reads, shares, likes, upvotes, and re-tweets -- making it easy to lose sight of what really defines the usefulness of an article: political impact.
- Greatest Threat to Free Speech in the West: Criminalizing Activism Against Israeli Occupation
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The U.K. government has announced that it is will be illegal for "local [city] councils, public bodies, and even some university student unions ... to refuse to buy goods and services from companies involved in the arms trade, fossil fuels, tobacco products, or Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank." Thus, any entities that support or participate in the global boycott of Israeli settlements will face "severe penalties."
- Marxism and the Petition
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Many petitions operate only on the reformist appeal to authority (this is especially true of the many online petitions from sites like Change.org), which fits perfectly within the liberal democratic framework. But the petition can operate on more than one level. Its dual nature means that it is often an indispensable tool in building collective power for more radical ends.
- Arms, agribusiness, finance and fossil fuels: the four horsemen of the neoliberal Apocalypse
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The world is in the grip of a structural war against people, land, economies and ecosystems, writes Colin Todhunter. It is being waged by a quartet of organised criminal interests bent on monopolizing energy, money, food and violence across the globe. But a deep-rooted resistance against their 'neoliberal' doctrine of death and destruction is fighting back.
- Bahrain's Government Continues to Strangle Dissent Five Years After Uprising Began
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Five years after the eruption of what came to be known as the "Arab Spring" protests that spilled over from Tunisia, Bahrain's regime continues to lock up opposition leaders, sending a message of its refusal to reform or change.
- The Department of Defense Is the Third Largest Polluter of US Waterways
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Advocacy group Environment America has "crunched the numbers" in an effort to reveal who the largest polluters of American waterways are. The culprits that crack the top-15 list may very well surprise you.
- Homes Demolished in the South Hebron Hills
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Israeli authorities have destroyed 24 homes in the South Hebron Hills. The homes lie within an area which Israel claims as Firing Zone 918, in which approximately 1000 Palestinian civilians live in 8 villages.
- Psychiatry's 'Defect Model of Mental Illness:' a Path for Those it Has Failed
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For some depressed, anxious, and substance-abusing people, it feels better to believe that they are essentially defective, as it provides them with a defense of sorts against insulting accusations that they are malingering. But the defect model of mental illness doesn't work for everyone.
- Public transit is a women's issue
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Drimonis highlights the problem of sexual harrassment of female passengers and the failure of transit officials to address this problem.
- Uranium Mine and Mill Workers are Dying, and Nobody Will Take Responsibility
In the Southwest, poisoned uranium workers are still seeking justice
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To talk to former uranium miners and their families is to talk about the dead and the dying. Brothers and sisters, coworkers and friends: a litany of names and diseases. Many were, as one worker put it, "ate up with cancer," while others died from various lung and kidney diseases.
- Asia-Pacific the deadliest region for journalists globally
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists and its Australian affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) launched the IFJ 25th Killed List report, Journalists and Media Staff Killed 1990-2015: 25 years of contribution towards Safer Journalism
- Barriers to love in Israel and Palestine
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Love Under Apartheid and IMEU released a new video "Palestinians Daring to Love" highlighting four married couples struggling to maintain love and family relationships despite the restrictions imposed by Israel's policies that systematically discriminate and segregate Palestinians.
- Greece: A journalist brutally attacked during public rally
Sources News Release
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A radio journalist has been brutally injured on 4 February, 2016 by unknown assailants while covering a massive rally in the capital, Athens.
- In the footsteps of Gandhi: an interview with Vandana Shiva
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Vandana Shiva is more than just a leading scientist, author and campaigner on green issues and anti-globalisation. She is also among the most prominent of Mahatma Ghandi's intellectual heirs. In this interview, she discusses how this led her to be an outspoken voice on such crucial environmental issues as seed legacy, biopiracy and economic injustice.
- Indian journalist threatened and attacked for reporting
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) in condemning the attack on journalist Malini Subramaniam in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India on Sunday, February 7, 2016.
- Meet the Robin Hood of Science
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The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world. On September 5th, 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, created Sci-Hub, a website that bypasses journal paywalls, providing access to nearly every scientific paper ever published immediately to anyone who wants it.
- Palestinians' access to water in 2015
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Thirsting for Justice finds that Palestinians' access to water was worse in 2015 than in 1995 due to Israel’s discriminatory water regime.
- RSF demands immediate withdrawal of new charges against editor
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Reporters Without Borders calls on Moroccan authorities to drop the absurd and iniquitous charge of harming the country's territorial integrity brought against website editor Ali Anouzla on the basis of a translation error, and to abandon the trlal
- Television offices attacked in Lahore, Pakistan
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in condemning the attack on the office of the City 42 News television channel on Sunday, February 6, 2016, in Lahore, Pakistan.
- Time to Call US Aid to Africa by Its True Name: Bribery
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Aid, what is it good for? While many Bono-loving, bleeding heart liberals would be appalled at the very thought of questioning the importance of giving money to charity or to the less fortunate, such a belief is rooted in pure fiction. In fact, the seemingly innocuous act of transferring money abroad in voluntary Robin Hood fashion is at the root of most political problems wreaking havoc across the developing world.
- When They Lock Up the Truth: Khadija Ismayilova and the Latin America Connection
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Azerbaijan, a former Soviet country with remarkable oil and gas reserves has been controlled for decades by the Aliyev family.
- Why I Choose Optimism Over Despair
An Interview With Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky explores the possibilities for a better human society.
- Finally, a Wall to Unite People, Not Divide Them
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Throughout history, walls have been a symbol of separation, segregation, and division. However, a new phenomenon called "walls of kindness" (Deewar-e-Meherbani) is doing just the opposite. Faced by cold weather, Iranians began outdoor charity drives for the homeless and needy by building "walls of kindness." The walls feature clothing hooks beside the phrase, "Take one if you need it. Give one if you don't." Iran's campaign to clothe the poor has developed into an international onslaught of donations, coats, hats, trousers, and warm apparel.
- Salvadoran Women Respond to Violence with Community Service, Music, and Individual Efforts
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Outside of the peace negotiations that resound in the media and governmental organizations, one of the strongest solutions to the scourge of gang violence in El Salvador has come from individual initiatives and groups dedicated to women. This work with female youth and ex-gang members, both in and outside of prison, is part of a movement that seeks to collaborate with peace processes in which women have rarely been taken into account. At the same time, it addresses the social structure that intensifies violence against women.
- Branding Tradition: a Bittersweet Tale of Capitalism at Work
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It's almost sugaring time here in Vermont. On our homestead we tap about 25 trees, boil down the sap on the kitchen cookstove, and - in a good year - end up with 4 or 5 gallons of maple syrup. That may sound like a lot, but since it represents our family's main source of sweetener it's rarely enough to get us through the year. By mid-winter we're usually buying syrup from a neighbor -- someone who makes his living from his sugar bush.
- Cap and Clear-Cut
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Jerry Brown basked in adulation during his whirlwind trip to Paris, and the evening of December 8 figured to offer more of the same. Standing alongside governors of states and provinces from Brazil, Mexico, and Peru, California's governor planned to tout his state's leadership role on global climate policy. The event was one of 21 presentations that Brown delivered during a five-day swing through France during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21). His busy schedule included a stately private meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and presentations at events organized by the French, German, Chinese, and US governments.
- Coming Cutthroats and Parting Pirates
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"Shoot them down!" That’s one answer to the problem of refugees and immigrants flooding into Germany, clearer even than any Trump-wall. It was offered by Frauke Petry, head of Alternative for Germany (AfD), the fast-growing party which, now at 12 percent nationally, has moved up into third place, outstripping the Greens and the Left party (LINKE).
- The Flint River Lead Poisoning Catastrophe in Historical Perspective
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By now the main facts of the Flint River lead poisoning are pretty well known and essentially undisputed. A spectacular regulatory failure by all levels of government -- enabled by Michigan Governor Snyder's unprecedented "emergency management" policies for African-American majority cities. The big remaining question is why this disaster happened?
- Israeli Myths: An Interview with Ramzy Baroud
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For many years, much of the Western world understood Israel based on a cluster of myths, from the early fables of the Zionists making the desert bloom, to Palestine supposedly being a land without people for a people without land. That intricately constructed and propagated mythology evolved over time, as Israeli hasbara laboured to provide a perception of reality that was needed to justify its wars, its military occupation, its constant violations of human rights and its many war crimes.
- Living the Spanish Language as the Descendant of Afro-Caribbean Migrants in Costa Rica
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Several generations of the black population have been forced to fight in order to conserve the language they brought with them, and with it all of their accumulated history, wisdom, and identity. They struggle against the rejection of the mestizo majority as well as the governments in office, who have for years denied them Costa Rican nationality, despite being born in the country.
- Obama to sign AIPAC-promoted trade bill that legitimizes Israeli occupation and fights BDS
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The U.S. Senate has passed the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 by a 75-20 veto proof margin. The large trade policy bill includes anti- BDS trade legislation promoted by AIPAC and introduces new U.S. policy language by including all "Israeli-controlled territories" as part of Israel.
- The Opposite of Transparency: What I Didn't Read in the TIPP Reading Room
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TTIP, the EU-US free trade deal, has secrecy written all over it. Those responsible for it live in dread of any public scrutiny. If it was up to me, I would give everyone who's interested the chance to make up their own minds on the text of the agreement in its current form.
- When Thoughtful People Think Illogically
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This man with whom I corresponded believes Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon were staged and that those involved, even the children, are "crisis actors" -- employed by a government whose aim is seizing guns, passing gun control laws, and creating a climate of fear. I asked about hospital staff, those who treat the injured and the spokesperson that provides information about a patient's condition. His answer, "Crisis actors."
- Beware the GMO Trojan horse! Indian food and farming are under attack
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Global oilseed, agribusiness and biotech corporations are engaged in a long term attack on India's local cooking oil producers. In just 20 years they have reduced India from self-sufficiency in cooking oil to importing half its needs. Now the government's unlawful attempts to impose GM mustard seed threaten to wipe out a crop at the root of Indian food and farming traditions.
- Fighting the TPP
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Canada has a choice and should decide to reject the TPP. We shouldn’t sign. In that, the new government would have a solid argument – the agreement was concluded in secret by the previous Conservative government in the midst of the election.
- 'I KNEW I WAS WITNESSING A TERRIBLE EVIL'
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Today marks 50 years since the South African apartheid government declared District Six, in the heart of Cape Town, a 'whites only' area from which all non-whites would be forcibly removed.
- New York Police Have Used Stingrays Widely, New Documents Show
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The NYPD has used cell-site simulators, commonly known as Stingrays, more than 1,000 times since 2008, according to documents turned over to the New York Civil Liberties Union. The documents represent the first time the department has acknowledged using the devices.
- The NYPD Is Kicking People out of Their Homes, Even If They Haven't Committed a Crime
And it's happening almost exclusively in minority neighborhoods.
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The morning of May 4, 2011, Jameelah El-Shabazz watched out the window of her Bronx apartment as a team of police officers fanned across the rooftop of Banana Kelly High School. The 43-year-old mother of five said she didn’t think much of the scene -- drug raids were common in her neighbourhood.
- Pharma Greed Run Amuk
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Congress, especially its GOP members, created the Martin monster. Martin Shkreli is only one of the monsters the GOP Congress has created. Probably our best hope is that one or many, like Shkreli, will overreach in an outrageous greed that our government has condoned for decades. Like errant spoiled children, pharmaceuticals (Pharma) have run roughshod over an obliging Congress and a consuming public since politicians -- in effect -- gave them license to steal.
- What's Yours Is Mine
Against the Sharing Economy
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The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the "old order." But this new wave of technology companies is funded and steered by very old-school venture capitalists. And in What’s Yours Is Mine, technologist Tom Slee argues the so-called sharing economy damages development, extends harsh free-market practices into previously protected areas of our lives, and presents the opportunity for a few people to make fortunes by damaging communities and pushing vulnerable individuals to take on unsustainable risk. Drawing on original empirical research, Slee shows that the friendly language of sharing, trust, and community masks a darker reality.
- The Flowers of Rojava: A Feminist Revolution in Northern Syria
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Janet Biehl speaks about her recent visit to Rojava, Kurdistan where Kurdish men and women have organized themselves into a democratic autonomous region.
- A Last Chance for the World's Forests?
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An alarming new study has shown that the world’s forests are not only disappearing rapidly, but that areas of 'core forest' -- remote interior areas critical for disturbance-sensitive wildlife and ecological processes -- are vanishing even faster.
- Leamington, Ontario: Growing Tomatoes in the Era of Free Trade
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Southwestern Ontario is the historic home of Canadian tomato growers. The bulk of the crop goes to processing, and since 1909 the dominant corporation had been H. J. Heinz, a food giant based in Pittsburgh. But in 2013 the Heinz Corporation was bought by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (26%) and 3G Capital (51%), based in Brazil. It was soon announced that they were planning to close their plant in Leamington. The story has been a snapshot of what has happened to the manufacturing industry in Ontario following the "free trade" agreements with the United States.
- MPAA May Like Donuts, but They Shouldn't Be the (Copyright) Police
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The companies and organizations that run the Internet's domain name system shouldn't be in the business of policing the contents of websites, or enforcing laws that can impinge on free speech. The staff of ICANN, the organization that oversees that system, agrees. That's why it’s not surprising that the Motion Picture Association of America, which has consistently sought power to edit the Internet, is now bypassing ICANN and making private deals with domain name registries.
- Nazi Zombies Ate Gloria Steinem's Brain!
Why US Politics Turns Ordinary People into Drooling Morons
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The problem, in a nutshell, is this: when people decide to support a prospective candidate in the US primary races they are putting themselves in the position of defending the indefensible. The very nature of this politico-Darwinist death match means that once you pick your chosen leader you must reject all criticism and suppress all doubt. You must become aggressively defensive and you must, above all, prevent your own wayward brain from thinking those bad thoughts that weaken the image of the immaculate leader. Any chink in their armour will be exploited by the enemies that surround them. Loyalty must be automatic and unconditional. Vigilance must be constant.
- 1965-1975 Another Vietnam
Unseen images of the war from the winning side
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Many famous images of the war were taken by Western photographers and news agencies, working alongside American or South Vietnamese troops.But the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong had hundreds of photographers of their own, who documented every facet of the war under the most dangerous conditions.
- Pakistan: The hell of sexual harassment in the workplace
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In increasingly competitive Pakistani work situations, women continue to be targets for men with power.
- The Return of Crisis: Everywhere Banks are in Deep Trouble
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Financial markets the world over are increasingly chaotic; either retreating or plunging. Our view remains that there’s a gigantic market crash in the coming future -- one that has possibly started now.
- Crowds and Party
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Dean argues that class struggle and the party form are not obsolete, and this renewal has caused great enthusiasm in left politics.
- The government just admitted it will use smart home devices for spying
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Many consumers are wholly unaware that the smart devices making their home more custom and responsive are making data that can be hacked or collected.
- Opposing street thuggery in Dublin and incitement to violence
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The peaceful protest against the planned Pegida rally in Dublin on Saturday was a positive demonstration of how citizens should respond when they believe that a political movement is threatening our democracy. The street thuggery that happened beside it does not reflect the aims or methods of the peaceful protesters, and it undermines the campaign against Pegida. Violence, and incitement to violence, cross a dangerous line for human rights and democracy.
- These Quakers Are Asking Tougher Questions Than Many in the Press
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American Presidential candidates these days are accustomed to mainstream reporters quizzing them on process and politics, with a typical media scrum filled with questions about the latest polls, repeated demands for a response to the most recent attack from rival campaigns, and sometimes even vapid inquiries about workout routines or favorite foods. A group of Quakers has been trying to fill the substance vacuum - by training hundreds of activists to stalk the candidates in early primary states and ask them tough questions on issues ranging from immigrant detention to nuclear weapons to the role of money in politics.
- Beating the fascists? The German Communists and political violence 1929-1933
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Eve Rosenhaft examines the involvement of Communist Party militants in political violence against Nazis during the years of Hitler's rise to power in Germany (1929-33). Specifically, she aims to account for their participation in 'street-fighting' or 'gang-fighting' with National Socialist storm-troopers.
- 'Land Grabbing': exposing the impacts of large-scale agriculture on local communities
Film review
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Agriculture is big business and with the EU pumping money at the sector, the corporate profiteers are holding all the aces. The documentary 'Land Grabbing' investigates what happens when well-financed agro-investors take over rural communities' land and water.
- Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
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First Published: 2016
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If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever. In April, 2014, the state-appointed emergency manager, in order to save money, ordered that the city's water source be changed from Lake Huron to the notoriously polluted Flint River.
- Former students allege psychological, physical and sexual abuse at Ont. Christian school
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First Published: 2016
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Alumni of Grenville Christian College in Brockville, Ontario recount disturbing stories, including allegations of physical, sexual and psychological abuse during the 1970s, 80's and 90's.
- Lies about Assange and UN human rights jurists imperil us all
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The defence secretary, 'comedians' on BBC Radio's News Quiz, and the entire media commentariat have ganged up this weekend up to pour mockery and poisonous lies over Julian Assange and the UN's human rights jurists. As they attempt to fight off the UN's 'guilty' verdict against the British state, they are putting dissidents at risk everywhere.
- These Senior Citizens Are Destined to Die in Prison -- For Marijuana
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First Published: 2016
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There are drug war excesses remaining to be rectified. Here are some of the most outrageous.
- Freeing Julian Assange: the Final Chapter
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One of the epic miscarriages of justice of our time is unravelling. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention -- the international tribunal that adjudicates and decides whether governments comply with their human rights obligations -- has ruled that Julian Assange has been detained unlawfully by Britain and Sweden.
- Israel Moves to Check Its Artists
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As a writer/photographer and a tax-paying American citizen, a story in the New York Times about Israel's culture wars made me cringe. It seems the powerful, militarist right in Israel -- so committed to expansion and settlements in the West Bank -- is now trying to suppress ideas among the nation's artistic and literary minds.
- The Liberal Hounding of Julian Assange: From Alex Gibney to The Guardian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
At what point do we cry foul when we witness the abuse of a political dissident, one who dares to take on mighty vested interests? When his own state, the local legal system and the media all turn on him? When he is forced to seek sanctuary in a foreign embassy for many years, surrounded by state security forces threatening to arrest him if he leaves? When the world’s highest arbiter on the matter of his confinement, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, supports his case? When the state, legal authorities and the media ignore the ruling and continue to demand his arrest?
- "Lies, Lies and More Lies" - GMOs, Poisoned Agriculture and Toxic Rants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As as been well documented, it is the pro-GMO lobby/industry that distorts and censors science, captures regulatory bodies, attacks scientists whose findings are unpalatable to the industry and bypasses proper scientific and regulatory procedures altogether.
- US Foreign Trade Zones: Connecting Labor Exploitation in a Global Race to the Bottom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As the debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement continues, many Americans are unaware that hundreds of foreign trade zones are already entrenched within the US, and most likely in their own part of the country.
- When economists ignore the human factor, we all pay the price
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Guardian recently asked nine economists whether we’re heading for another global financial crash and they gave many different answers. Yet still we turn to economists as if they were physicists, armed with scientific predictions about the behaviour of the body economic. We consumers of economics, and economists themselves, need to be more realistic about what economics can do. More modesty on both the supply and the demand side of economics will produce better results.
- At least 2,297 journalists and media staff have been killed since 1990: IFJ report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
International Federation of Journalists publishes its 25th report on journalists and media staff killed since 1990.
- Free Speech and Double Standards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- An Idiot's Guide to Prosecuting Corporate Fraud
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A new group called Bank Whistleblowers United have just pushed out a comprehensive plan they think would put the executive branch in the United States back in the business of enthusiastically identifying, indicting, and convicting financial fraudsters -- restoring accountability while protecting the public.
- Israeli Military Censor Seeks to Expand Control to 'Prominent' Facebook Users
High-Profile Critic Ordered to Submit All Writing to Censors in Advance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Israeli military censor usually tries to stay out of the headlines. It's not always easy, as several times high-profile Israel-related stories have broken in the US media first, and aren’t "allowed" in Israeli papers for days after.
- Progressive Movement Security and Self-Defense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A comprehensive list of security measures organizers should take to protect themselves and their groups from government, corporate and right-wing surveillance and persecution.
- Rebranding The Conquistadors As Social Justice Warriors - The Guardian, Corporate Sponsorship And 'Branded Content'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Like most newspapers, the Guardian is struggling financially and is desperately worried about a dwindling stream of advertising revenue. The paper's declared intent of becoming 'the world's leading liberal voice', with rapid expansion in the US and Australia, has backfired, leading to the need for significant cuts including likely job losses. As a result, the paper is heading ever deeper into the murky world of 'branded content' to raise much-needed funds from corporate advertisers.
- Report released: China's Great Media Wall: The Fight For Freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) releases its annual China Press Freedom Report, China's Great Media Wall: The Fight For Freedom.
- Involuntary Medication
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This study examines the possible effects of the TPP on how Canada regulates medicines and how much the country spends paying for them. It finds that the TPP would require Canada to extend patent terms to compensate brand-name pharmaceutical firms for regulatory delays in approving drugs. This policy change alone could add hundres of millions of dollars annually to the price of drugs in Canada. The agreement will restrict future policy options in these areas in ways that benefit brand-name producers over consumers and the broader public interest. The TPP could also have profound effects on the criteria that Canada uses to decide on drug safety and effectiveness, how new drugs are approved (or not) for marketing, post-market surveillance and inspection, the listing of drugs on public formularies, and how individual drugs are priced in the future.
- ISIS Was Born In An American Detention Facility (And It Wasn't Gitmo)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The US seems to have a knack for creating, incubating, and training its future enemies. As the late Chalmers Johnson showed in BLOWBACK, this pattern goes back quite far and includes recent struggles with Islamist terrorists. In the 1980s, of course, the US armed and trained the Taliban as well as Osama Bin Laden as part of a proxy war with Russia. Years later, Bin Laden's criminal network, sheltered by the Taliban, attacked the US in Yemen, Kenya, New York, and more. In response to those attacks, the US invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, killing and detaining hundreds of thousands of men. At the time, many people wondered -- none more forcefully than Johnson -- whether the US response to blowback would engender more blowback.
- An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Liberals Who Love Him
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ta-Nehisi Coates recently criticized the Bernie Sanders campaign for Sanders’ pessimism regarding black reparations for slavery and Jim Crow segregation. When asked during a campaign event whether he would support reparations, Sanders responded with characteristic bluntness, saying that "its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil," before adding that a push for formal reparations for slavery would be politically divisive.
- Find out how these 800 ducks contribute to wine making
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Find out how these 800 ducks contribute to wine making.
- First Steps of Participatory Research Project: Indigenous Languages and Digital Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The rapid development of digital media, which began during the last decade of the 20th century, has had unanticipated effects at the beginning of the 21st century. Peoples, whose cultures and languages were marginalized and displaced by the Nation-State, have appropriated -- slowly, but surely -- these media to reassert their cultural and linguistic presence in cyberspace.
- The Flint Water Crisis is Not Without Parallel in Michigan History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the days, weeks, and months following a disaster people feel uncertain about real and perceived risks. The parties directly involved a disaster as well as other organizations such as public agencies, governmental bodies, corporations, the media, and environmental groups release a cacophony of information and disputations that the affected population and the general public see as conflicting and confusing. In the process victims and the general public struggle to gain credible sources of information in an attempt to make sense of an event and unpack the truth in order to assign, meaning, blame, and responsibility as well as develop coping strategies and effective remedies. This informational uncertainty can also result in the lack of an effective response between responding governmental agencies on all levels as witnessed in the ongoing crisis in Flint, Michigan.
- Liberals' interim pipeline measures fall short
Band-aid solutions cannot fix deeply flawed pipeline reviews, environmental assessments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Harper government’s 2012 environmental law rollbacks were a blunt-force trauma to the environmental assessment of pipelines. Last week, the new federal Liberal government prescribed band-aids for an ailing patient that needed more.
- MEDIA IN CRISIS - 1: Why feds should step in to help democracy's watchdogs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A flourishing, capable news media is the oxygen of democracy. In Canada, our traditional oxygen-providers, the mainstream corporate-owned newspapers, are dying. We need to come up with something better to serve our communities.
- MEDIA IN CRISIS - 2: Citizens, government need to plan now to have quality media in future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Canada's mainstream media are in a state of incipient meltdown. They no longer deliver the volume or quality of news that Canadians need to be informed about important happenings in their communities, let alone to participate in a healthy democratic process.
- Politics on the Plate: Mob Wives, GMOs and Salt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
How can we broaden our movement to appeal to and involve the majority of people out there who do not seem to be aware, do not seem to care or are just too apathetic?
- VW, GM and Takata: the Case for Jailing Corporate Executives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Making the case that executives at VW, Takata and General Motors should be jailed for corporate crime. The crimes committed by the corporations they head are extremely serious, and have caused and will cause hundreds of deaths. Why are the perpetrators allowed to get off simply by writing a cheque to cover the fine, instead of going to jail the way other criminals do?
- Bernie and His Critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Bernie Sanders has provided an opening that we can't squander.
- Demonstration model for the 'democratic deficit'
National decisions made by Brussels technocrats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Exposing the technocrat-led bureaucracy within the EU and its impact on national decisions by member states.
- Disunified Front
The chaotic, underfunded battle against the Islamic State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Journalist Charles Glass and photographer Don McCullin toured the Kurdish and Arab Shiite front lines that facing Islamic State Territory. In interviews with embattled leadership against ISIS, they discover an underfunded resistence, shortage of weapons and ultimately America's refusal to coordinate which has prolonged the fighting.
- Is Law Enforcement "Going Dark" Because of Encryption? Hardly, Says New Report
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Unbreakable encryption -- which prevents easy, conventional surveillance of digital communications-- isn’t a big problem for law enforcement, says a report published by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The report, titled "Don’t Panic," finds that we are probably not "headed to a future in which our ability to effectively surveil criminals and bad actors is impossible" because of companies that offer end-to-end encryption, such as Apple.
- I've changed my mind on the gay cake row. Here's why
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Like most gay and equality campaigners, I initially condemned the Christian-run Ashers Bakery in Belfast over its refusal to produce a cake with a pro-gay marriage slogan for a gay customer, Gareth Lee. I supported his legal claim against Ashers and the subsequent verdict – the bakery was found guilty of discrimination last year. Now, two days before the case goes to appeal, I have changed my mind. Much as I wish to defend the gay community, I also want to defend freedom of conscience, expression and religion.
- Left of Bernie
You say you want a revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A commentary on the state of the far Left in America, and a look back at the formation of the anti-capitalist Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) by Bob Avakian in the late 20th century.
- Marx's Ecological Notebooks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This article investigate Marx's natural-scientific notebooks, especially those of 1868, which will be published for the first time in volume four, section eighteen of the new Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe(MEGA). As Burkett and Foster rightly emphasize, Marx's notebooks allow us to see clearly his interests and preoccupations before and after the publication of the first volume of Capital in 1867, and the directions he might have taken through his intensive research into disciplines such as biology, chemistry, geology, and mineralogy, much of which he was not able fully to integrate into Capital.
- Pandora's box: how GM mosquitos could have caused Brazil's microcephaly disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Brazil's microcephaly epidemic, one vital question remains unanswered: how did the Zika virus suddenly learn how to disrupt the development of human embryos? The answer may lie in a sequence of 'jumping DNA' used to engineer the virus's mosquito vector - and released into the wild four years ago in the precise area of Brazil where the microcephaly crisis is most acute.
- The Trouble with Iowa
Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While a state of only three million Iowa plays an outsized role in American politics, speaking to such central issues as healthcare and obesity, poverty and income inequality, waste and pollution, and the entrenchment of corporate oligarchy.
- We Don't Have Rights, But We Are Alive
A gay soldier in Assad's army
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Considered more of a safe haven for homosexuals than other places in the Middle East, the author speaks with a military member in Syria about being a gay man in Assad's army as well as the future of his country.
- The year it all went down the tubes for the TTC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Flack analyzes the provincial budget cuts imposed by the Mike Harris Conservatives and the resulting lack of funding that led to the Toronto Transit Commission having to increasingly rely on revenue from ridership to fund transit, leading to a decrease in customer satisfaction, a lack of opportunity for expansion, and general decline.
- The "Bernie Bros" Narrative: a Cheap Campaign Tactic Masquerading as Journalism and Social Activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The concoction of the "Bernie Bro" narrative by pro-Clinton journalists has been a potent political tactic -- and a journalistic disgrace. It's intended to imply two equally false claims: (1) a refusal to march enthusiastically behind the Wall Street-enriched, multiple-war-advocating, despot-embracing Hillary Clinton is explainable not by ideology or political conviction, but largely if not exclusively by sexism: demonstrated by the fact that men, not women, support Sanders (his supporters are "bros"); and (2) Sanders supporters are uniquely abusive and misogynistic in their online behavior. Needless to say, a crucial tactical prong of this innuendo is that any attempt to refute it is itself proof of insensitivity to sexism if not sexism itself (as the accusatory reactions to this article will instantly illustrate).
- Koch Brothers View Universities As Propaganda Machines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer’s new book, "Dark Money," includes details that bolster concerns publicized by UnKoch My Campus, and students and professors across the USA who have blown the whistle on Charles Koch’s co-optation of higher education programs. Universities are the spine of Charles Koch's lobbying model, which after four decades of finance has grown into an integrated network of professors, public relations agents, lobbyists, pundits, and politicians. Koch foundations started investing in campuses at an exponential pace, starting with just seven campuses in 2005.
- Line 9 pipeline needs review
Re: Pipelines face new environmental rules
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Line 9 is a disaster waiting to happen and the climate crisis disaster is already unfolding. Indeed no tar sands pipeline can pass a serious climate test if Canada is to keep its commitment to a limited warming to 1.5 degrees C.
- UK Tax Dodgers PLC - Google outrage is the tip of an iceberg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Why are we so surprised at the Google tax heist? It's not because there's anything new about it. It's because our own political class have long had their noses in the trough, and the tax-dodging billionaires that own our mainstream media are anxious to hide the swindle that's keeping them rich, and us poor.
- The West Is Reduced To Looting Itself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Third World countries were and are looted by being enticed into development plans for electrification or some such purpose. The gullible and trusting governments are told that they can make their countries rich by taking out foreign loans to implement a Western-presented development plan, with the result being sufficient tax revenues from economic development to service the foreign loan.
- Behind Israel's campaign to vilify peace groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Far-right activists spying on Israeli human rights community received hidden funds from Netanyahu government.
- CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prepared to kidnap Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed illegal and unconstitutional mass spying by the National Security Agency (NSA), documents obtained by the Danish media outlet Denfri show.
- Digital Labour and Imperialism
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A century has now passed since Lenin's Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) and Bukharin's Imperialism and World Economy (1915), as well as Rosa Luxemburg's 1913 Accumulation of Capital. All spoke of imperialism as a force and tool of capitalism. It was a time of world war, monopolies, antitrust laws, strikes for pay raises, Ford's development of the assembly line, the October Revolution, the Mexican Revolution, the failed German revolution, and much more. It was a time that saw the spread and deepening of global challenges to capitalism.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016
Conflict of interest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of interest are inherent in capitalism, a system founded on the premise that the state and society should be subordinated to economic self-interest and the accumulation of private wealth. Scientists who are supposed to be studying the effects of GMOs are funded by agribusiness corporations. Doctors who receive money from pharmaceutical companies write articles promoting the drugs produced by those companies. Decisions about pipelines are made by regulators who have spent years working in the oil industry, and who will be heading back to jobs in the industry after their stint 'regulating' it. Politicians receive campaign funds from corporate lobbyists.
- Our attitude towards Rojava must be critical solidarity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Many articles from different people about Rojava have expressed different views. The vast majority of them have covered the positive and bright sides of this experiment. I too have written many articles, in both Kurdish and English. In addition, I have given many interviews to Kurdish and non-Kurdish media. I have attended and addressed several meetings, both in the UK and abroad. I travelled once to Rojava and twice to Bakur (the Kurdistan part of Turkey).
- Racialism, art and the Academy Awards controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Should artwork be categorized and presumably appreciated according to whether it represents a male or female, black or white perspective? Many critics, influenced by the prevailing ideology, set up this basic standard: women gain more from art produced by women, Jews from work created by Jews, African-Americans from "African-American art," etc. In ideological terms, these critics, in their obsession with race, are spouting a conception of society and art identified historically with the extreme right.
- 7 Places to Find Porn You Actually Like
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It's not hard to find porn online, but it is hard to find good porn online. The mainstream industry tends to produce a lot of wham-and-bam content, and while that might sell, there are a whole lot of people who don't find it all that appealing. Fortunately, the Internet is a huge space, and tucked away in its unseen corners is a lot of sexy stuff. Here are 7 places to look for porn that's a little more interesting.
- Moving Target
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ruby rides in the backseat of an armoured car while a bodyguard rides shotgun. As a human rights advocate working in Colombia, she speaks out onbehalf of victims of the long-running conflict between government paramilitaries and FARC guerrillas, and dedicates her life to justice despite having to live in fear.
- Rosa Lives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg continues to inform and inspire anticapitalist movements today.
- "Black Americans for a Better Future" Super PAC 100% Funded by Rich White Guys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
New FEC filings show that all of the $417,250 in monetary donations to a Super PAC called "Black Americans for a Better Future" comes from conservative white businessmen-- including $400,000, or 96 percent of the total, from white billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer.
- A Food Renaissance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Colin Tudge reports on The College of Real Farming and Food Culture; a project designed to tackle the current issues in global food production. The current system is not fit for purpose but through a holistic approach and an overhaul of current mainstream agriculture, achieving a balance between feeding the world and conserving the environment is within grasp.
- The Great Inequality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A growing inequality in income and wealth marks modern capitalism, and it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, especially those of the working class. Michael Yates explains what inequality is, why it matters, how it affects us, what its underlying causes are, and what we might do about it. This book was written to encourage informed radical action by working people, the unemployed, and the poor, uniquely blending the author’s own experiences with his ability to make complex issues comprehensible to a mass audience.
- Outrage as plant bosses acquitted over fatal toxic spill in Hungary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Prosecutors had demanded prison terms for those on trial after alumina works disaster killed 10 and wrecked villages.
- The Seeds of Spin: Decoding Pro-GMO Lies and Falsehoods
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If you are in some way critical of genetically modified food and agriculture or have some concerns that remain unaddressed, here is a brief interpretive (satirical) guide for navigating the seedy world of pro-GMO spin.
- Conversations about Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
At first, the scene appears tense. Twenty-one Israeli soldiers in full combat gear are arrayed in a neat line across the main road of the small village of Al Ma’sara, just south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. Several of the soldiers wear partial balaclavas which obscure their features, leaving their faces visible only from the eyes up. They stand expectantly, some with their hands resting casually on the butts of their rifles.
- Don't build Jew-only towns on the rubble of Bedouin villages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israel's government is now free to expel 1,200 of its Bedouin citizens from their 'unrecognised' villages in the Negev desert, following a Supreme Court decision not to hear their appeal. Now only one thing can save the Bedouin, their communities and their way of life: an international outcry.
- Ethiopian Protesters Endure Brutality and Censorship Amid Land Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Students in Ethiopia's largest administrative region, Oromia, have been braving state-sponsored violence and censorship since November 2015 to protest a government development plan.
- Five Revealing Facts About Homeless Youth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The federal government has set a goal of ending youth homelessness by 2020 with Opening Doors, a strategic plan released in 2010. But as the plan acknowledges, figuring out how many youth are homeless is no easy task.
- Israel continues to sow the seeds of discontent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Israel, it seems, has found a new weapon against Palestinian attacks -- the humble cucumber seed. Soldiers have been handing out seeds at checkpoints with advice to Palestinians -- a nation of farmers until their lands were swallowed up by Jewish settlements -- to stop their recent knife attacks on Israelis and invest in a peaceful future.
- Making the Promises Real: Labor and the Paris Climate Agreement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
As nearly 200 nations gathered in Paris approved the UN Climate Change Agreement, the AFL-CIO issued a statement that broke new ground on climate. While the AFL-CIO opposed the Kyoto climate agreement and never supported the failed Copenhagen agreement, it applauded the Paris climate change agreement as "a landmark achievement in international cooperation" and called on America "to make the promises real."
- Media More Outraged by Possible Murder by Putin Than Definite Murder by Obama
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The British government, whose foreign policy is overtly hostile to their Russian counterpart, declared last week that their investigation into the killing of a former Russian intelligence agent in London nearly a decade ago concluded there is a "strong probability" the Russian FSB security agency was responsible for poisoning Alexander Litivenko with plutonium. They further declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin "probably approved" of the act.
- The specter of geoengineering haunts the Paris climate agreement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
in a capitalist framework negative emissions technologies appear to offer the only possible way out. Geoengineering is the specter that haunts the text adopted in Paris and gives it meaning. The fact that the Agreement does not mention "energy transition" is not a regrettable lapse in generally good text, but proof by omission that the negotiators have chosen to bet on geoengineering instead of confronting fossil capital.
- Flint's poisoned water and capital's second contradiction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The politicians who poisoned the water supply in Flint are as bad as they come, but it's the system they serve that makes such disasters inevitable.
- The JFRP: For a New Communist Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Real change, the kind of change that Occupy Wall Street had hoped to start, can be achieved through -- I know you’re going to find this hard to believe -- a political party. I found it hard to believe, until I read Jodi Dean's book Crowds and Party. Jodi is here to explain to us how a political party can bring about real change.
- Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Among critics of technological surveillance, there are two allusions so commonplace they have crossed into the realm of cliché. One, as you have probably already guessed, is George Orwell's Big Brother, from 1984. The other is Michel Foucault’s panopticon -- a vision, adapted from Jeremy Bentham, of a prison in which captives cannot tell if or when they are being watched. Today, both of these touchstones are considered chillingly prophetic. But in Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age, Bernard Harcourt has another suggestion: Both of them are insufficient.
- Australia's Day for Secrets, Flags and Cowards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In my lifetime, non-indigenous Australia has changed from an Anglo-Irish society to one of the most ethnically diverse on earth. Those we used to call "New Australians" often choose 26 January, "Australia Day", to be sworn in as citizens. The ceremonies can be touching. Watch the faces from the Middle East and understand why they clench their new flag.
- The Cowliphate and Poisoned Kids: Twin Assaults on The Commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When I opened up my Facebook feed today, 90 percent on the items on my feed were equally divided between the Bundy Cowliphate here in Oregon and the poisoning of the water supply in Flint, my hometown. Given my decades of Public Lands’ Conservation activism, both topics are dear to me.
- Deadly week for media in Pakistan - two journalists killed in KP province
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) condemn the killing of two journalists in the past week in the troubled Khyber-Pakhtunhkhwa province in Pakistan's north-west.
- Flint drinks lead-laden water; Republicans attack Clean Water Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To save a small amount of money residents of Flint, Michigan, have been forced to consume hazardous levels of lead in their drinking water. Just the moment for the Republican House Speaker to attack the Clean Water Act.
- The Genius of Huey P. Newton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
To those of us who were alive -- and sentient, the name Huey P. Newton evokes an era of mass resistance, of Black popular protest and of the rise of revolutionary organizations across the land. To those of subsequent eras, youth in their 20s, the name is largely unknown, as is the name of its greatest creation: The Black Panther Party.
- How the West Creates Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Terrorism has many forms and many faces, but the most terrible of them is cold cruelty.
And so the West linked terrorism with Islam, which is one of the greatest cultures on earth, with 1.6 billion followers. In order to make Islam a worthy enemy, the Empire had to first radicalize and pervert countless Muslim movements and organizations, then create the new ones, consequently training, arming and financing them, so they could really look frightening enough.
- Hunger strike threatens health of Palestinian journalist in Israeli jail
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists' syndicate (PJS) are deeply concerned over the health of a Palestinian journalist who has been on hunger strike for almost 50 days.
- Iran must stop denying medical care to imprisoned journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the appalling conditions in which journalists are detained in Iran and calls on the authorities to stop denying them medical attention.
- Kuwait: New Cyber Crimes Law restricts free expression and targets online activists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Kuwait: New Cyber Crimes Law restricts free expression and targets online activists
- Migrant farmworkers ask Trudeau for Permanent Residency in Canada as they announce caravan to Ottawa
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Migrant farmworker group Justice for Migrant Workers is launching Harvesting Freedom, a year-long campaign for immigration status upon arrival for migrant farmworkers to mark the 50th anniversary of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP).
- Outrage Against Big Pharma! Activists Protest "Obscene" Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It was in their fancy tailored suits and with suspicious eyes that Big Pharma CEO's and investors got interrupted by protestors as they came and went from the (too-big-to-fail) JP Morgan-sponsored conference on "health care" (read: profit care) at the elite Westin St. Francis hotel on Union Square in San Francisco on Monday, the 11th of January 2016.
- Protecting the Choice to Speak Anonymously Is Key to Fighting Online Harassment
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
EFF Urges Department of Education to Uphold First Amendment Rights in University Anti-Harassment Policies
- Rabbis deny 1 in 10 Jews the right to marry in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Supreme religious body faces growing backlash as critics compare Israel's religious freedoms to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
- Rabbis deny 1 in 10 Jews the right to marry in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Supreme religious body faces growing backlash as critics compare Israel's religious freedoms to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
- RSF reiterates call for EU sanctions against CCTV and Xinhua
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for European Union sanctions against state-owned China Central Television (CCTV) and the official news agency Xinhua for broadcasting and publishing what are presumably forced "confessions."
- Spearheading the Neo-liberal Plunder of African Agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is dangerously and unaccountably distorting the direction of international development, according to a new report by the campaign group Global Justice Now. With assets of $43.5 billion, the BMGF is the largest charitable foundation in the world. It actually distributes more aid for global health than any government. As a result, it has a major influence on issues of global health and agriculture.
- TV office attacked in Islamabad
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the attack on the Islamabad office of the Pakistani television channel ARY News on Wednesday, January 13, 2016. The IFJ demands an immediate investigation into the attack by authorities.
- Yemen: journalist killed in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Yemeni journalist Almigdad Mojalli was killed on 17 January in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition in the capital, Sana'a, according to news reports.
- Noam Chomsky tells Al Jazeera "I'm not an absolute pacifist"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In an interview with Al Jazeera English’s flagship current affairs show, 'UpFront', MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky, a long-standing critic of US foreign policy and overseas interventions, said he supported U.S. air strikes against ISIL.
- A Revolutionary Speech: Patrice Lumumba and the Birth of the Republic of Congo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence leader and first democratically elected Prime Minister, was executed on 17th January, 1961. He had been beated and tortured in a culmination of two assassination plots by the Belgian government and the CIA, ordered directly by President Dwight Eisenhower to 'eliminate' the charismatic leader, with the cooperation of British intelligence and Katangan authorities.
- Women on the frontlines of Kurdish struggles: An interview with JI.NHA women's news agency
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In 2015, Corporate Watch visited Bakur (meaning 'North' in Kurmanji), the Kurdish region within Turkey's borders. We interviewed two journalists from JI.NHA, an all-women news agency made up of mostly Kurdish women, based in Amed. Our meeting with JI.NHA took place just after the Turkish election in June 2015. Since our interviews, the Turkish state has begun a new war on its Kurdish population. Cities have been attacked by the police and military with mortars, tanks and helicopters and every day Kurdish citizens are being murdered. People in cities across Bakur have erected barricades in their neighbourhoods to defend themselves against the violence and are trying to organise autonomously from the state.
- The Battle to Unionize Starbucks in Chile: an Interview with Andrés Giordano Salazar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
After six years of intense battles, two strikes, a hunger strike, and four legal sentences for anti-union activities, Starbucks reluctantly agreed to sign a collective agreement with unionized workers in Chile in May 2015. This was a huge concession for the world’s largest coffee shop chain that has long aggressively fought off unionization efforts among its 150,000 workers in 64 countries.
- Conflict of Interest and the Israel Lobby: a Junket for State Senators
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last December, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC), a pro-Israel lobbying organization, provided an expense-paid, ten-day trip to Israel for ten Massachusetts senators (including Senate President, Stanley Rosenberg).
- Don't weep for censoring, right-wing Postmedia newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Another 90 dedicated journalists in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa lost their jobs Tuesday as cutthroat Publisher Paul Godfrey slashed away again in an effort to turn Postmedia into a profit-making business. In a bizarre move, two competing papers will continue to be separate entities, but there will be one set of editors and most journalists will be shared.
- A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for December 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - January 20, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending December 31, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.23 trillion. Year-to-date, industr
- The Mine Wars: West Virginia's Coal Miners March on Public Television
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This riveting history of southern West Virginia's coal industry eventually caught the eye of a national television network.PBS is premiering a two-hour documentary called The Mine Wars as part of American Experience, the network's flagship history series.
- Race Without Class: the "Bougie" Sensibility of Ta-Nehisi Coates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Connecting with nature through wildlife, place and memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Some of us are fortunate enough to have close relationships with the nature around us. But what about everyone else? We must find ways to make people feel like old friends with wildife near and far, and feel that their wild homes and habitats are extensions of our own. And hence, that they are as deserving of our care as human neighbours - if not more so.
- Feral 'Roundup Ready' GM alfalfa goes wild in US West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A USDA study shows that a GM alfalfa has gone wild in alfalfa-growing parts of the West. This may explain GMO contamination incidents that have cost US growers and exporters millions of dollars - and it exposes the failure of USDA's 'coexistence' policy for GMOs and traditional crops.
- Global unemployment projected to rise in both 2016 and 2017
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Recent analyses coming from the ILO suggests that the global unemployment crisis is not likely to end, especially in emerging, and developing countries.
- Israel spraying toxins over Palestinian crops in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - On January 7, 2016, a low-flying agricultural aircraft sprayed herbicides on to Palestinian farmlands along the eastern border, eradicating or damaging up to 162 hectares of crops and farmland along the Israeli border fence. The sprayed areas belong to Israel's unilaterally imposed and poorly delineated "buffer" or "no-go zone".
- Israel's Occupation Continues Because Economic and Political Elites Around the World Benefit From It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
American-Israeli scholar and activist Jeff Halper, co-founder of The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, sought to discover the source of Israel's seeming immunity. He focused on Israel's arms trade, and argues that it was "parlaying its military prowess into political clout," as he writes in a book entitled War Against The People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. Halper spoke with In These Times about the book.
- Kids pay the price of transgender politics
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Dr. Zucker was the latest victim of the raging battles in gender-identity politics. Critics say CAMH’s decision has sacrificed science to ideology, and put children on the front line. They think it’s a disaster for science, and for kids.
- The Retreat of the Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ellen Meiksins Wood saw a great danger in the reluctance of today's intellectuals to criticize capitalism.
- Marx and the Earth
An Anti-Critique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2017
John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett respond to recent ecosocialist criticisms of Marx, offering a full-fledged anti-critique. They thus extend their earlier pioneering work on Marx’s ecology, providing the basis for a new red-green synthesis.
- Fury at Israeli plan to build town on historic Muslim village
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Netanyahu government agrees to first new Palestinian community in 68 years -- exclusively for the Druze -- on refugees' land
- Fury at Israeli plan to build town on historic Muslim village
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Netanyahu government agrees to first new Palestinian community in 68 years -- exclusively for the Druze -- on refugees' land.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
Working class organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
- Why Occupy Wall Street Must Include Deamdn for Honest, Observably Counted, Unrigged Elections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Too many critical parts of our electoral process are controlled by private partisan corporations. The counting of our votes is now controlled by these corporations' software inside computerized "black boxes" – entirely in secret.
- Big Crony CEO Pay Grab: Effects Beyond Greed!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Over the past fifty years, the pay gap between many highly-paid CEOs and their employees has increased dramatically. In 1965, when they also liked to be rich, CEOs made approximately twenty times as much as their average employee, meaning they would earn their workers' average pay by the third week of January, and since the 1980s, the average difference and greed have increased. Highly-paid CEOs now make 303 times as much as their employees in a year, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute.
- Chávismo and Its Discontents
International Left Intellectuals Respond to Venezuelan Government's Legislative Election Setback
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Five hours after the polls had closed, the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced a landslide victory for the opposition in Venezuela's the National Assembly elections. The response of international left intellectuals has ranged from critical support to outright rejection of the socialist project in Venezuela. We argue for the importance of recognizing the overarching influence of US imperialism and for the acceptance of using the state as an instrument of popular power by the international solidarity movement.
- Class War in the British Labour Party
Tories, Blairites Turn the Screws on Jeremy Corbyn
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ever since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the British Labour Party last September, the party has been in a state of internal class warfare. Corbyn is a decades-long member of old Labour’s left wing and is hugely popular among working people. Pitted against Corbyn and his followers are the vast majority of Labour Members of Parliament (MPs) who uphold the legacy of Tony Blair and are unashamedly committed to "free-market" capitalist exploitation and imperialist military slaughter in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.
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James Bronterre O’Brien, an Irish-born leader of the Chartists, gave voice to the need for the working class to fight in its own interests instead of begging its oppressors:
"My motto is... 'What you take you may have.' I will not attempt to deal with the abstract question of right, but will proceed to show that it is POWER, solid, substantial POWER, that the millions must obtain and retain, if they would enjoy the produce of their own labour and the privileges of freemen."
- Full Democratic Rights for Transgender People!
"Bathroom Bill" Bigotry
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Transgender and gender non-conforming people -- that is, anyone whose appearance, behavior or dress falls outside of bourgeois gender norms -- face an exceptionally high degree of harassment. Around 75 percent of transgender students report being verbally harassed at school and more than 30 percent physically assaulted. Transgender individuals are vulnerable in public spaces, especially if the difference between their preferred gender identity and their biological sex is apparent. Barring them from bathrooms would turn them into criminals while inviting further harassment and physical violence. Everyone -- regardless whether they match the skirt-clad or pants-clad signage on the door -- should be able to go about their business in peace.
- Rosa Luxemburg and the Growth of the Labor Movement
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Today is the 97th anniversary of the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the leading exponents of revolutionary socialism in Germany in the early 20th century. Both were prominent figures in the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) up to the First World War and, alienated by the reformist and pro-war politics of the SPD, founders of the Spartacus League in 1916. Both were killed by right-wing Freikorps death squads -- which had support from the Social Democratic government -- on January 15, 1919. The following is an excerpt from Gerald Friedman's Reigniting the Labor Movement (Routledge, 2007). Friedman describes Rosa Luxemburg's revolutionary politics and her understanding of the role of the mass strike -- not as the means for a decisive “one hit” victory for the working class, but as part of what Friedman terms a "long-term process of consciousness-building through participation in class struggle."
- Pakistan's Gramsci: Remembering Sibte Hasan (1916-1986)
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
2016 marks the birth centenary of Pakistan's own Gramsci, the pioneer of the Progressive Writers' Association (PWA) in undivided India and of the Communist Party in Pakistan, Sibte Hasan. Like the famed Italian thinker and activist, Hasan endured repeated jail terms, first during his sojourn in the United States, and then in Pakistan in 1951-55, and again during the Ayub dictatorship. It's surprising that despite Hasan’s iconic stature in the Indian subcontinent, very little is known about his biographical details.
- The Compelling Memoirs of Ali Abumghasib
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ali Abumghasib knows little about the current intrigues of the Fatah Movement, or, perhaps, he is just not interested. Now living in an old, rusty and tiny caravan somewhere in Gaza, Ali has no money, no family, but also no regrets. We spoke at length about his life. He wanted to share his story, and I wanted to understand what went wrong in what was once Palestine's leading movement.
- David Bowie, rock star groupies and the sexually adventurous '70s: "Labeling us as victims in retrospect is not a very conscious thing to do"
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Salon speaks to sexologist Carol Queen about the shifts in morality around an era of sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll.
- EFF To Court: Cisco Must Be Held Accountable For Aiding China's Human Rights Abuses
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Company Built Customized Golden Shield System to Identify Falun Gong Members Who Were Later Tortured.
- European Commission launches action against Poland following EU-wide protest
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International and European Federation of Journalists have welcomed the action against Poland's restrictive media law.
- 'Our Only Fear Was That He Might Pull His Punches' - BBC Caught Manipulating The News
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The position of BBC political editor plays an important role in this propaganda system. His or her function is essentially to tell the public what leading politicians say or even 'think'. It is certainly not to question power or challenge government authority in any meaningful way.
- Police Intimidation: From Dalton Trumbo to Deep Green Resistance
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security agents have contacted more than a dozen members of Deep Green Resistance (DGR), a radical environmental group, including one of its leaders, Lierre Keith, who said she has been the subject of two visits from the FBI at her home.
- Recolonized by the Past
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It began as a campaign at the University of Cape Town to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes that stood on the campus. For the protestors, the statue represented everything that Rhodes himself stood for: racism, colonialism, plunder, white supremacy, and the oppression of black people.
- SOS Media Burundi's dangerous reporting mission
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Almost the only relief for those in search of news in Burundi is to be found at SOS Media Burundi, a collective of journalists that emerged spontaneously within 48 hours of the destruction of the radio stations during the May 2014 coup attempt
- What the Catastrophic Aliso Canyon Methane Leak Teaches Us About Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
It’s early December, and I'm sitting in a mega-church packed with more than 500 people. They're here to listen to an update on the efforts to contain an enormous natural gas blowout that occurred more than a month before. Gas from the leak is being blown by prevailing winds right into their community of Porter Ranch, in Los Angeles County, CA.
People are mad.
- The 800k Protest
How UW student Rachel Thevenard ran the Enbridge Line 9 in protest of its violation of the Canadian Constitution
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
While some may have spent their holidays bundled up inside, Rachel Thevenard, a second-year knowledge integration student at UW, was out running the length of Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline. The pipeline runs roughly 800 kilometres from Sarnia to Montreal, and transports 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of bitumen and crude oil.
- Fire and Blood
The European Civil War, 1914-1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Europe's second Thirty Years' War -- an epoch of blood and ashes.
- Fossil Capital
The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power.
- In Patent Litigation, Justice Delayed Ensures the Entire Public Can Be Denied
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When courts fail to quickly address serious defects in a patent litigation complaint, it can harm not only the parties to the case, but also the public at large. EFF and Public Knowledge have filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a case where the Eastern District of Texas is allowing expensive litigation to drag on even though the defendant has already fully briefed validity issues that almost surely will dispose of the case, and stop the patent owner from suing on them in the future.
- Total terrorism solution
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Hoax highlights failures of military, security approaches to terrorism.
- Welcome to Israel's version of apartheid
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A small scene from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict unfolded last week on a Greek airport runway. Moments before an Aegean Airlines flight was due to take off, three Israeli passengers took security into their own hands and demanded that two fellow passengers, from Israel’s Palestinian minority, be removed from the plane. By the end of a 90-minute stand-off, dozens more Israeli Jews had joined the protest, refusing to take their seats.
Like a parable illustrating Europe's bottomless indulgence of Israel, Aegean staff caved in to the pressure and persuaded the two Palestinian men to disembark.
- Welcome to Israel's version of apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Moments before an Aegean Airlines flight was due to take off, three Israeli passengers took security into their own hands and demanded that two fellow passengers, from Israel's Palestinian minority, be removed from the plane. By the end of a 90-minute stand-off, dozens more Israeli Jews had joined the protest, refusing to take their seats.
- Why I had to face down the bullies trying to silence my supposedly 'offensive' stance on Islam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This week marked the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. The atrocity was a brutal attack not just on human life but also on the principle of free speech, one of the pillars of human civilisation. In the aftermath of the killings, people across the world united to express their support for that essential liberty.
- Why Israel has silenced the 1948 story of Nazareth's survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth's survival. It is the only Palestinian city in what is today Israel that was not ethnically cleansed during the year-long fighting. Other cities, such as Jaffa, Lydd, Ramleh, Haifa and Acre, now have small Palestinian populations that mostly live in ghetto-like conditions in what have become Jewish cities. Still others, like Tiberias and Safad, have no Palestinians left in them at all.
Nazareth was not only an anomaly; it was a mistake.
- Why Israel has silenced the 1948 story of Nazareth’s survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth's survival. It is the only Palestinian city in what is today Israel that was not ethnically cleansed during the year-long fighting. Other cities, such as Jaffa, Lydd, Ramleh, Haifa and Acre, now have small Palestinian populations that mostly live in ghetto-like conditions in what have become Jewish cities. Still others, like Tiberias and Safad, have no Palestinians left in them at all.
- The Boy Who Could Change the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Remembering the brief life of Aaron Swartz: programmer, activist, entrepreneur, community builder.
- Leading news website blocked in 3 Arab countries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed its deep concerns today following the blocking of news web site al-Araby al-Jadeed and its English counterpart The New Arab, in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Egypt.
- RSF alarmed by journalist's arrest on terrorism charges in Bahrain
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is worried by the terrorism charges brought against Mahmood Al Jazeeri, a journalist with the independent daily newspaper Al Wasat, who has been held for the past 11 days.
- RSF calls for firm EU stance if Poland does not abandon new media law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the European Commission to be firm with Poland if the two-month-old national-conservative 'Law and Justice' (PiS) government fails to abandon the media law that was adopted last week.
- Trump: the Ultimate Blowback for American Foreign Policy?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
When the late Chalmers Johnson introduced the word "blowback" to describe the adverse consequences of Washington’s actions in the world, he wasn't referring simply to the victims of U.S. imperial interventions striking back on American soil. More importantly, he saw the resulting destabilization of the American democratic process as the most dangerous blowback of all.
- A year after Charlie, RSF warns against "religious correctness"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris and amid controversy about the satirical weekly's latest cover, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) cautions against the insidious imposition of a "religious correctness"
- Essential reading on the Paris climate agreement
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An annotated guide to thirty-four of the best articles on the COP21 Paris Agreement on climate change published in the immediate aftermath of the agreement.
- BDS in the Crosshairs
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
That project in dispute is BDS, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, promoted by civil society throughout the Western world. BDS is directed at Israel due to its illegal colonization of the Occupied Territories and its general apartheid-style discrimination against non-Jews in general and Palestinians in particular.
- How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History
More than 500 slaves fought for their freedom in this oft-overlooked rebellion
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
on the night of January 8, 1811, more than 500 enslaved people took up arms in one of the largest slave rebellions in U.S. history. They carried cane knives (used to harvest sugar cane), hoes, clubs and some guns as they marched toward New Orleans chanting "Freedom or Death."
- One by One, South Sudan Tries to Name Its War Victims
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In South Sudan, where a vicious civil war has been raging, no government office or nongovernmental organization has kept a tally of the names of those killed by government forces, rebels, and other armed groups. But in a country in which automatic weapons are more plentiful than civil rights, and local journalists are regularly under assault, a tiny civil society group is trying to step into the breach by naming all of the names. It began on the first anniversary of the civil war's outbreak, when a small group of volunteers unveiled a list of 568 names of the people - from toddlers to centenarians - killed in the war to that point. Naming the Ones We Lost was a first step in what the organizers knew would be a long journey to grapple with the immense loss of South Sudanese life over the previous year. Today, the project goes by a slightly different name, Remembering the Ones We Lost, and has a radically expanded mission with a recently launched website [http://rememberingoneswelost.com/main]. The goal of the website is nothing short of remarkable - it aims to name all victims of conflict and armed violence in South Sudan since 1955.
- A reservation town fighting alcoholism, obesity and ghosts from the past
Blackwater: Arizona town fighting obesity and gohsts
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Chris McGreal completes his series on the most disadvantaged towns in the United States by finding out how life in a Native American community has been affected by modern eating habits and revenue from newly built casinos.
- We're not having it! $15bn KXL lawsuit shows what's wrong with 'trade deals'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
TransCanada has just made a big mistake by bringing its $15 billion lawsuit against the US government for refusing the Keystone XL pipeline, writes Sam Cossar-Gilbert. The move has exposed the real nature of 'trade deals' like TTIP and TPP - and why all democrats must rally to defeat them.
- Your Apps, Please? China Shows how Surveillance Leads to Intimidation and Software Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Now China has taken the next step. In November, a select group of Xinjiang residents found their mobile phone service abruptly terminated. Their phone service providers told them to visit their local police station to have the service restored. When contacted, the police told them that they had been detected using a VPN, or downloading foreign messaging software. Remove the software, the police said, and you'll get your connection back.
- IFIC / IFSE Launches CRM2 Module for Financial Advisors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Toronto, ON - January 7, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) together with its education arm, IFSE Institute, announce the launch of a new continuing education module designed to teach financial advisors about disclosure requirEMENTS
- More employers are changing the terms of termination notices in contracts that limit more generous payouts
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
More employers are changing the terms of termination notices in contracts that limit more generous payouts. Employment Lawyer Shelley Brown warns many judges are refusing to set aside these limitations.
- Philippines islanders unite to resist 'land grab' palm oil companies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Farmers on Palawan are being tricked into giving land away to palm oil companies with local government support, writes Rod Harbinson. Under the palm oil company 'leases' the farmers lose all rights to their land, never receive any money, and are saddled with 25 years of debt. Those who resist the land grabs are now in fear for their lives following the murder of a prominent campaigner.
- State of emergency in US city after water poisoned
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Flint has faced a lead-saturated drinking water disaster affecting almost 100,000 residents over the past 18 months.
- Between Marx and Freud: Erich Fromm revisited
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
More than three decades after his death, the ideas of Erich Fromm are enjoying something of an intellectual renaissance.
- Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been tranported over long distances, or because they are grown in energy-intensive greenhouses. But it wasn't always like that. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
- The Guangdong Six and the rule of law (of value): Preliminary theses on the December 3 crackdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Information about the December 3, 2014 crackdown on Chinese labour activists is now widely available in English and several other languages, but there has been little satisfactory analysis of its significance -- in relation to business as usual in China, to comparable situations in other countries, or to workers' struggles as such.
- A house divided: Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Something remarkable happened over the summer of 2015. Immediately after Ed Miliband resigned following Labour's defeat in the general election, the grip exercised by Blairism over the Labour Party had seemed set to continue grimly on. The field competing for the Labour leadership was confined to various shades of uninspiring Blairites, with the supposedly "left" candidate, Andy Burnham, rushing to distance himself from the unions. Even after Jeremy Corbyn threw his hat in the ring, most (including Corbyn himself) assumed he would be soundly beaten.
- Humans will be remembered for leaving a 'plastic planet'
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Radical economics, Marxist economics and Marx's economics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The major global crises of the mid-1970s and 2008-9 provoked debates among the ruling class about the best economic policies to manage capitalism. For socialists and activists the question was different, and debates about whether and to what extent capitalism could be reformed to avert crisis and instil a more humane and fair system became even sharper.
- Was the German Revolution defeated by January 1919?
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First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
John Rose argued in his talk at Marxism 2014 that the German Revolution had effectively suffered terminal defeat by January 1919. The National Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils voted in December 1918 to hand power to the National Assembly after elections to be held in January 1919.
- The Boy Who Could Change the World
The Writings of Aaron Schwartz
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways that we may not even realize. His tragic suicide in 2013 at the age of twenty-six after being aggressively prosecuted for copyright infringement shocked the nation and the world.
- Poor fetishes, poor critiques: gentrification as violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Hating on hipsters is not the answer to gentrification. If we want to reclaim our cities, we should organize for genuinely affordable housing in common, argues Gloria Dawson.
- The Postmodern Left and the success of neoliberalism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The international Left promotes its own image rather than engaging in the bitter reality of resistance against neoliberalism. It does not need to believe in postmodernism because it is postmodernism.
- The postmodern left and the success of neoliberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The rise of neoliberalism across the globe for decades, and its continued resilience since the 2007-2008 financial crisis in particular, forces us to ask why there has not been a more successful resistance against it.
- Sacred Trees, Christmas Trees and New Year Trees: A Vision for the Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Trees are a very important part of world culture and have been at the centre of ideological conflict for hundreds of years.In the current debates over climate change, trees have an immensely important role to play on material and symbolical levels both now and in the future.
- Showdown in the Malheur Marshes: the Origins of Rancher Terrorism in Burns, Oregon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
During the spring of 1995, shortly after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, James Ridgeway and I spent a couple of weeks traveling across the West for a series of stories in the Village Voice that chronicled the rise of militant new rightwing movements of militias, white supremacists, Christian Identity sects and anti-government groups, including a profile of central Oregon rancher Dwight Hammond, now at the centre of the armed seizure of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters near Burns.
- US sued over tax-exempt donations for illegal Israeli settlements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A group of American citizens is suing the US Treasury because they say the agency is allowing billions of dollars of tax-exempt charitable donations to flow to the Israeli army and support the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
- The New Far-Right Government in Poland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
IN asked a European comrade who spends a lot of time in Poland to comment on a recent article, "Poland: Anti-government rallies continue as Lech Walesa warns of civil war," in the (Trotskyist) World Socialist Web Site.
- "Small really is beautiful", claims new report on England's farming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A report on the benefits of small-scale farming practices in England, arguing that land size should not be used to exclude farms from receiving subsidies.
- Marx the Feminist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In the face of global economic crisis and the dismantling of social programs under austerity policies, many feminists are re-engaging Marx's critique of capitalism. This return to Marx is necessary if we are effectively to overcome gender oppression, especially since the latest trends in feminism -- or at least those "fit to print" and discussed in the popular press -- place the onus of equal treatment squarely on women's shoulders. Newfound feminists like Sheryl Sandberg advise women to "lean in" and adjust their behaviour to suit the aggressively entrepreneurial norms rewarded in the real world that men lead. As Nancy Fraser aptly puts it, these tendencies within feminism serve as "capitalism’s handmaiden": such identity-centered, cultural critiques have helped obscure capital's dependency on gendered oppressions.
- The May 18 Gwangju democratic uprising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The text is by the official May 18 History Compilation Committee of Gwangju. A detailed account of the May 18 popular uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, against the dictatorship's declaration of martial law and for workers' rights in 1980.
- Abundance for everybody
'Conscious food' supports a thriving urban activist community in Bolivia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A group of Bolivian activists engage in 'conscious eating' while resisting capitalism and climate change and valuing everyone's work.
- Against Activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
"Activism" stands in contrast to organizing. Organizing aims to bring people together to build and exercise power, informed by a strategic vision for acquiring power and changing society. To be an "activist" now merely means to advocate for change, and the hows and whys of that advocacy are unclear. Activist is a generic category associated with oddly specific stereotypes: today, the term signals not so much a certain set of political opinions or behaviours as a certain temperament. Worse, many activists seem to relish their marginalization, interpreting their small numbers as evidence of their specialness, their membership in an exclusive and righteous clique, effectiveness be damned.
- Alternatives to Neoliberal Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Neoliberal capitalism today has become unpopular, but imagining alternatives is difficult nonetheless.
- American Nuremberg: Putting Washington's War Criminals on Trial - Book Review
Book Review of "American Nuremberg: Putting Washington’s War Criminals on Trial" by Gar Smith.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Any honest review of the aggregating crimes of America’s political leaders gives rise to a nagging question: Isn’t it time someone threw the book at them? Well, the wait is over. We now have the book.
- America's poorest border town: no immigration papers, no American Dream
Colonia Muniz: a world cut off from rights and citizenship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Chris McGreal visits one of the Texas border townships that are home to hundreds of thousands of often-undocumented Latino immigrants and where the Amarican dream seems a remote fantasy.
- America's Social Arsonist
Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Gabriel Thompson provides a full picture of Fred Ross,this complicated and driven man, recovering a forgotten chapter of American history and providing vital lessons for organizers today.
- Archives Association of British Columbia Toolkit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The AABC Archivist's Toolkit offers access to a wide range of on-line and published resources for archivists and archives workers at all levels. Special care is taken to provide resources for small and medium-sized archives.
- Autonomist Marxism and Workplace Organizing in Canada in the 1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Accordin to John Huot, Autonomist Marxism, from its headwaters in the early 1960s workers’ struggles and Marxist circles in Italy to multiple, diverse social movement/Marxist/feminist spaces in many countries, has developed into a significant current in the global anti-capitalist, anti-oppression project for social transformation. Huot examines this current in the context of the 1970s "New Tendency" in Canada.
- Bank of Canada Lawsuit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
One of the most important legal cases in Canadian history is slowly inching its way towards trial. Launched in 2011 by the Toronto-based Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER), the lawsuit would require the publicly-owned Bank of Canada to return to its pre-1974 mandate and practice of lending interest-free money to federal, provincial, and municipal governments for infrastructure and healthcare spending.
- Beijing highway: $600m road just the start of China's investments in Caribbean
Jamaica's $600m highway kickstarts Chinese investments in the Caribbean
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Road connecting north and south Jamaca will be lined with luxury hotels and is China's largest investment in the Caribbean.
- Beyond Banksters
Resisting the New Feudalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Beyond Banksters explores how the powers of the Bank of Canada were appropriated in the 1970s, resulting in billions of dollars in public debt. From Milton Friedman to Justin Trudeau's Canada Infrastructure Bank, from BlackRock to crappy trade deals to Bilderberg, Nelson exposes the major players privatizing the world and creating a new state of feudalism. Icelanders resisted. Nelson says Canada must too.
- The Biased Report that led to Banning Russians at the Olympics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Canadian lawyer Richard Mclaren's report infuenced the World Anti-Doping Agency to call for the banning of all Russian athletes from the Rio Games.
- Big Farms Make Big Flu
Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An examination of the relationships between infectious disease, agriculture, economics, and the nature of science.
- Big Three Contracts: Who Won?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The 2015 UAW/Big Three contracts took 67 days and multiple attempts to ratify, resulting in what most autoworkers see as a partial victory.
- Bigotry vs. Black Lives, Muslims, Immigrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates use hate and fear of these "others." Could this strategy win the 2016 presidency?
- Bil'in and the Nonviolent Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Tells how the farming village in Bil'in, located in Palestine's West Bank, has been facing its occupier, Israel, head-on. Side by side with Israeli and civil rights activists the world over, the people of Bil'in and their protests have been standing against the injustices imposed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) since 2004. That was when the IOF's raids began to uproot the village's ancient olive trees and confiscate its farmlands, the main sources of its livelihood. All of it to build their separation wall and illegal settlements.
- Black History and the Class Struggle
#25
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Black Women's Writing Recovered
An Interview with Mary Helen Washington
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Interview with Mary Helen Washington.
- Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Blood on the Border is Dunbar-Ortiz's firsthand account of the decade-long dirty war pursued by the Contras and the United States against the people of Nicaragua.
- Bone metastases
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Bone metastasis is cancer that started in another part of the body and spread to the bone. It's sometimes called secondary bone cancer or metastatic bone disease. Bone metastasis is not the same as cancer that starts in the bone (called primary bone cancer).
- Bracero program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Bracero Program (named for the Spanish term bracero, meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated on August 4, 1942, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico. The agreement guaranteed basic human rights (sanitation, adequate shelter and food) and a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour.
- Bucharest's housing crisis: post-Communist restitution victimises Roma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Twenty-five Roma families were evicted from an apartment block in Vulturilor Street, Bucharest, in 2014, turned out of homes they had rented from the state for nearly 20 years. The entrance to their alleyway was sealed off with a metal sheet.
- California Drought and Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Global warming is not only exacerbating the drought, it has likely transformed the ecology of the state well into the future.
- Canada Since 1960: A People's History
A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
- The Candidate
Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Chronicling Jeremy Corbyn's rise to the position of leader of Britian's Labour Party. An insider's look at the events that led to his appointment.
- Cataclysm 1914
The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This collection argues that the First World War -- and its consequences -- was perhaps the defining moment of 20th century world-politics.
- Celebration and Fresh Inquiry
Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Howard Brick's, Robbie Lieberman's, and Paula Rabinowitz's Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald.
- Chain of Title
How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The account of how a car dealership worker, a nurse, and a forensic expert discovered the foreclosure fraud perpetrated by America's biggest banks.
- China on Strike
Narratives of Workers' Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Through first person accounts, the book details the growing unrest, destabilization and strikes in factories that are gripping China.
- Climate Change: A Radical Primer
Capitalism and Climate Change: The Science and Politics of Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of David Klein's Capitalism and Climate Change: The Science and Politics of Global Warming.
- Comintern Congress Revisited
To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Review of John Riddell's To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921.
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2016
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Connexions Calendar RSS Feed
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
RSS feed for the Connexions Calendar, listing events about social justice.
- Connexions RSS Feed
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
RSS feed listing some recent new, updated, and interesting items on the Connexions website.
- Crises, Craziness, and "Security"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Trump himself is not so important - a vicious demagogue, but not a mass organizer or leader. What matters, following the carnage of the "Islamic State" attack in Paris and the San Bernardino mass shooting, is the climate in which the priority target of opportunity for racist reactionaries has become Muslim refugees, immigrants, communities and mosques.
- Marie Curie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A pocket biography of Marie Curie.
- Debs for His Time and Ours
Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the CLass Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of William A. Pelz's Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the CLass Struggle.
- Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways. Archaeologists are learning more about their free communities.
- Digital Labor and Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This article reviews the role of the international division of labour in classical Marxist concepts of imperialism, and extends these ideas to the international division of labour in the production of information and information technology today. Sigital labour, as the newest frontier of capitalist innovation and exploitation, is central to the structures of contemporary imperialism.
- Disabled parking spot hologram
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
If there's one thing drivers hate having to deal with, it';s parking. But there's one type of person that is a real ass, the type that isn't handicapped and will take up one of those spaces anyways. This problem is so bad in Russia, that 30% of all drivers will take up a handicap space. To combat this, a nifty little surprise has been added to some of the spaces, take a look down below and let us know what you think!
- Edge Effect
Permaculture Design Principles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- 8 Things Vietnam War Movies Leave Out (By an Enemy Soldier)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Everyday Exposure
Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada's Chemical Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Surrounded by Canada's densest concentration of chemical manufacturing plants, members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation have expressed concern about a declining male birth rate and high incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular illness. Everyday Exposure uncovers the systemic injustices they face as they fight for environmental justice.
- Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Matthew Desmond examines the impact on the poor in the United States of rising housing costs and declining/stagnating incomes in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crash. Many tenants in the U.S. now pay more than 50 per cent of their incomes in rent -- over 70 per cent with the soaring costs of utilities included -- challenging their ability to survive on a daily basis.
- Excerpts from Endgame: Pacifism
Part 1 of 3
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Derrick Jensen looks at the main arguments normally presented by pacifists and examines them to see if they make any sense.
- A Farewell to Ice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A Farewell to Ice is a report from the frontline of planetary change in the Arctic and Antarctic by a leading authority, presenting incontrovertible scientific data, but always in clear language which the layman can easily understand. It is one of the most important books published in recent years about the existential challenge which human civilization now faces.
- Future Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In Future Sex, Witt explores Internet dating, Internet pornography, polyamory, and avant-garde sexual subcultures as sites of possibility.
- A Future Without Hate or Need
The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Driven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who came to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals. A Future Without Hate or Need brings to life the rich and multi-layered lives of a dissident political community, their shared experiences and community-building cultural projects, as they attempted to weave together their ethnic particularity -- their identity as Jews -- with their internationalist class politics.
- Gatekeeper
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In 2015, there were 24.025 documented suicides in Japan. A retired police detective dedicates his life to preventing deaths at Japan's suicide cliffs, providing emergency assistance and counseling even as tourists flock to the site, attracted by its notoriety as a popular suicide destination.
- Gently to Nagasaki
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An exploration both communal and intensely personal, Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage. Set against the backdrops of Vancouver, Toronto, the Slocan and Caoldate Valleys, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, this book from Joy Kogawa is also an account of a remarkable life.
- The Great Class War
1914-1918
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
In this critical, revisionist account, historian Jacques Pauwels shows how the First World War was rooted in class strife that begin with the French Revolution in 1789 and continued long past the war itself. As Pauwels sees it, war seemed to offer major benefits to the European upper classes of the early twentieth century, who felt threatened by the seemingly irresistible process of democratization or, as they saw it, the "rise of the masses." War was expected to serve as an antidote to social revolution, causing workers to abandon socialism's focus on overthrowing the established order via international worker solidarity in favour of nationalism and militarism.
- A Hero in France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- The History Thieves
Secrets, Lies, and the Shaping of a Modern Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Ian Cobain uncovers the role of secrecy in the British state - and the lies, omissions and misrepresentations we've been fed to maintain the facade of a fair and just Britain.
- HotLink RSS Feed
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
RSS feed listing new and updated items about Publicity, Media Relations, Public Relations, and Fundraising.
- Hungary: Politics and the Refugee Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Long before Daesh/ISIS appeared, climate change and globalization had shoved over 1.5 million Syrians off the land and out of their villages. Today over eight million have been displaced, along with 1.5 million Iraqis who came to Syria looking for refuge.
- The Hypocrisies of Terror Talk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The religious identity of terrorists and the place where terror strikes shapes the rhetoric that media uses to describe the perpetrators and places.
- I, Daniel Blake
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
I, Daniel Blake is a 2016 drama film directed by Ken Loach and written by Loach's frequent collaborator Paul Laverty. It stars Dave Johns as Daniel Blake, who is denied employment and support allowance despite his doctor finding him unfit to work. Hayley Squires co-stars as Katie, a struggling single mother whom Daniel befriends.
- I Spent 5 Years With Some of Trump's Biggest Fans. Here's What They Won't Tell You.
How Donald Trump took a narrative of unfairness and twisted it to his advantage.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Trump masculinizes benefits, but with a key proviso: restrict government help to real Americans.
- I'm Right and You're an Idiot
The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- In new book, Ilan Pappé says settler colonialism and apartheid best explain Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An analysis of Ilan Pappe's new book, Israel and South Africa - The Many Faces of Apartheid, and how Israel's settler colonization of Palestinians is similar to apartheid in South Africa.
- The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This book's reflections on the Red and the Green -- out of which arguably the only hope for the future lies -- are populated by the likes of Native American anarchocommunist Lucy Parsons, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Karl Marx, José Martí, W. E. B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, SNCC, and countless others, both sentient and verdant.
- The Internet and Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A review of Robert W. McChesney's Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet against Democracy.
- Jeff Sharlet (activist)
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Jeff Sharlet (1942–1969), a Vietnam veteran, was a leader of the GI resistance movement during the Vietnam War and the founding editor of Vietnam GI.
- Labor in the Age of Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Climate change must be stopped. But who will do the stopping? Who, in other words, could be the political subject of an anticapitalist climate revolution? Stefania Barca argues that this social agent could be, and indeed must be, the global working class. Yet to play this role, the working class must develop an emancipatory ecological class consciousness.
- Legislation on Chinese Indonesians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
An overview of Indonesia's anti-Chinese legislation throughout the country's history.
- Life Sentence
Stories from four decades of court reporting - or, how I fell out of love with the Canadian justice system (especially judges)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Through an examination of notable trials she has covered, Chrisitie Blatchford makes the case that Canada's judicial system is out of control and often inept. Judges, she says, are the new senators, unelected, unaccountable and overly entitled, while lawyers are often self-satisfied and contemptuous of anyone who is not a member of the club.
- The man reconstructing Palestine's lost villages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Abu Sitta has diligently reconstructed and mapped the future for all Palestinians laying the groundwork for their homecoming.
"Our plan is to reconstruct the destroyed Palestinian villages. The plans are derived from a massive database. We are creating a file for every village, its house plans before 1948, its features and characteristics, its economies and its status of education. Young architects are now working on the reconstruction of these destroyed villages to be built in the same locations with the same beautiful old features, but with modern amenities."
- Mapping American Social Movement Through the 20th Century
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
This collaborative project features maps and other visualizations showing the chronological geography of dozens of social movements that have influenced American life and politics during the 20th century, including radical movements, labor movements, women's movements, many different civil rights movements, environmentalist movements, and more. Includes interactive maps of more than 1,500 underground, alternative, and other kinds of unorthodox publications from the decade between 1965 and 1975.
- Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
These interactive maps below more than 1,500 underground, alternative, and other kinds of unorthodox publications from the decade between 1965 and 1975.
- Maps of Britain and Ireland's ancient tribes, kingdoms and dna
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Looks into the various territories and DNA evidence in Britan and Ireland and analyzes maps of these territories.
- Marxism.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
- Narrating American Antifascism
Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Christopher Vials' Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States.
- New videogame gives you a tough course in capitalist theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The video game Crisis Theory aims to teach players about capitalism.
- A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Grassroots movement organizations from every continent will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels in May 2016. They envision tens of thousands of people mobilizing worldwide to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy. Events will include nonviolent direct actions targeting extraction sites or infrastructure; pressure on political targets to shift policies around fossil fuel development; and support for clean energy alternatives.
- Noam Chomsky Announces Las Vegas Residency
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Not Such A Lonely Crusade
The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Brian Dolinar's The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation.
- Novel about Jewish-Palestinian love affair is barred from Israeli curriculum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A novel about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man has been barred from Israel's high school curriculum, reportedly over concerns that it could encourage intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews.
- Nuremberg Code
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The Nuremberg Code is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation set as a result of the subsequent Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War.
- Off the Rails - The Rise and Fall of the Streetcar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A history of the streetcar in the United States, beginning with the need for a modern, cost-efficient form of public transit, to its surging popularity, and ending with the General Motors conspiracy that sought to destroy rail-based public transit.
- Organizing In Mexico: It's Tough, Often Brutal, And It Means Taking On The State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The system in Mexico operates to the detriment of independent unions. Although the Mexican system of labour relations initially conferred real benefits on workers and peasants whose organizations supported the government, it now functions to maintain a status quo where benefits flow only to corrupt union leaders.
- The Other Slavery
The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of Natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors.
- Ours to Hack and To Own
The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision For the Future Of Work and A Fairer Internet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance.
- Perspectives From Exile
Lucine Kasbarian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Examines the political cartoons of Lucine Kasbarian, whose work unflinchingly chronicles the intergovernmental relationship between Armenia, Turkey and the United States of America, the history of the Armenian Genocide, and the persistent denial of those crimes against humanity of over one hundred years ago.
- Power Games: A Political History of the Olympic Games
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
- Principles and Guidelines for Interfaith Dialogue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A compendium of resources for and about the interfaith movement.
- Private Profits vs Public Policy
The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
According to Joel Lexchin, "Given the central role that medicines play in keeping us healthy, it is essential that we understand the policy environment that governs drug development, from the initial basic research to the sale of the manufactured produces to the patients that use them."
- Queer Progress
From Homophobia to Homonationalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
- Racial Liberalism: The Case of Interwar Detroit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
The paradox at the heart of contemporary racial politics is what sociologists and political scientists call "colorblind racism:" How is it that the United States is a country where racism is supposed to be politically, socially, and morally unacceptable yet simultaneously where inequalities are quite neatly organized along racial lines?
- Radical Digressions RSS Feed
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
New and interesting items from Radical Digressions, featuring progressive comment and analysis from a libertarian socialist perspective.
- Rebuilding A Class Movement
In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of Kim Moody's In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States.
- Remembering Ahmad Rahman and Ron Scott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Addressing the lives and accomplishments of Ahmad Rahman and Ron Scott.
- Revisit the province's royalty regime and make De Beers compensate Attawapiskat fairly.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Last month, the remote Cree community of Attawapiskat was front-page news. The community has been grappling with a devastating suicide crisis -- and more than 100 residents -- as young as 11 and as old as 71 -- have attempted suicide. This crisis reflects the despair facing the community over dilapidated housing, lack of mental health services and social infrastructure. But it is roots are in colonialism -- and worsened by corporate greed.
- Rojava: reality and rhetoric
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A detailed critical analysis of the "Rojava revolution".
- Snoops in the Reading Room
F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Book review of William J. Maxwell's F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature.
- Socialism.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
- Socialist Register 2016
Volume 52: The Politics of the Right
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Published: 2016
Today the left faces new challenges from political forces amassing on the radical right. The 52nd volume of the Socialist Register presents a serious calibration and a careful political mapping of these forces. It addresses pivotal questions on the reordering of the new right. These essays - very broad in terms of themes and places - speak to the global challenges the new right poses for the left at this historical moment.
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2016
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- Sources Calendar RSS Feed page
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RSS news feed for the Sources Calendar, which lists items of interest to journalists and the media.
- Sources Select News
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RSS news feed featuring news releases, announcements, expert comment, views, and opinion from members of Sources, the resource for journalists, writers, editors, researchers, producers, and other media professionals in Canada and abroad.
- A statement against the immigration detention of children
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As organizations and individuals that care about children, we believe that Canada should immediately cease the practice of placing children in immigration detention. These detainees include asylum seekers, refugees, Canadian citizens and non-citizens. Children range in age from newborns and toddlers to pre-teens and teenagers, some of whom are unaccompanied.
- Stop Line 9
Respect the Treaties. Protect the Land, Air and Water We All Share
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- Studs Terkel
Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation
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Drawing from over one hundred interviews of people who knew and worked with Studs, Alan Wieder creates a multi-dimensional portrait of a run-of-the-mill guy from Chicago who, in public life, became an acclaimed author and raconteur, while managing, in his private life, to remain a mensch.
- The Syriza Wave
Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left
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An account of the rise and fall of the Greek left party Syriza.
- To Laugh That We May Not Weep
A nearly forgotten cartoonist we need to look at -- right now!
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Among the greatest American political cartoonist, Art Young had the ability to boil complex social issues down to memorable symbols, drawn with justifiable anger but permeated with genial warmth. His work would be an immeasurable asset today in explaining the realities of class war to its casualties.
- Towards Workers' Climate Action
Book review
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A review of a book and a pamphlet by Paul Hampton, both on the urgent need for workers' action on climate change.
- Ukraine on Fire - The Real Story
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A documentary film that provides historical perspective for the deep divisions in the Ukraine, and the violent events leading up to the overthrow of democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych. While covered by Western media as a revolution by the people, the film demonstrates that it was in fact a staged removal from power that was ulitimately crafted by the US government. Runtime: 95 min.
- The Ultimate Terrorist Factory
Are French prisons incubating extremism?
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Since the passage of the broad anti-terrorism statute in France, authorities claim that it has prevented dozens of terror killings; yet arrests under the controversial statute also assumes guilt before any crime has taken place as well as inferring guilt by mere association. Are French prisons ultimately pushing those who are unjustly jailed into associations with those with extremist views?
- Unruly Equality
U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century
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Unruly Equality traces U.S. anarchism as it evolved from the creed of poor immigrants militantly opposed to capitalism early in the twentieth century to one that today sees resurgent appeal among middle-class youth.
- Viva la Revolucion
Eric Hobsbawm on Latin America
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Viva La Revolucion is Hobsbawm's magisterial work on Latin America, the fruit of forty years' writing about the continent.
- What's Yours Is Mine
Against the Sharing Economy
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Through original empirical research, What's Yours is Mine shows that the friendly language of the sharing economy actually masks a darker reality.
- Why Patrick Moore calls GMWatch "a bunch of murdering bastards"
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According to Patrick Moore, GMWatch are "low-life" "murdering creeps", "profiteering on ignorance". Not to mention, "a bunch of murdering bastards" with an "anti-human, murderous agenda." How come?
- Why the Working Class?
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Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that's why they are at the centre of socialist politics.
- Witnessing revolution in Rojava
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In Rojava, who is the enemy is real simple: the Turkish government. Everyone knows that the Turkish government has supported Daesh [also called ISIS]. If the outside world wants to support Rojava, it's not money they primarily need, it's opening the border.
- Realities of Zionism - Book Review
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Review of "Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution" by Moshe Machover and "False Prophets of Peace Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine" by Tikva Honig-Parnass.
- The NGO-Industrial Complex - Book Review
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Review of "Paved with Good Good Intentions: Canada's development NGOs from idealism to imperislism" by Nikolas Barry-Shaw and Dru Oja Jay.
- Reading CAPITAL - Book Review
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Review of "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital" by Michael Heinrich.
- The brief summer of anarchy: the life and death of Durruti
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s non-fiction "adventure novel" about Buenaventura Durruti and the Spanish anarchist movement (ca. 1917-1937), first published in Germany in 1972, consisting of a more or less chronological “collage” of "translated, abridged and rearranged" excerpts from "reports and speeches, interviews and proclamations … letters, travel narratives, anecdotes, pamphlets, polemics, newspaper articles, autobiographical texts, flyers and propaganda leaflets" (including extensive selections from the eyewitness accounts of Simone Weil, Ilya Ehrenburg, H. E. Kaminski, Mikhail Koltsov, Ricardo Sanz and Jesús Arnal Pena), punctuated by the author's "Commentaries".
- Bangladeshi secular blogger brutally murdered
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) condemn the murder of a secular online activist in Bangladesh. The IFJ urge the Bangladesh government to expedite investigation to punish
- Barcelona Hosts Women’s Boat to Gaza (WBG) for their inaugural journeyâ€
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Barcelona, Spain – From September 12-14, the sailing vessels Amal-Hope and Zaytouna-Oliva will dock at Bosch i Alsina in the port of Barcelona where various events (concerts, talks, nonviolent workshops, a street parade and visits to the boats) wil
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace having its annual conference at Saint Mary’s University
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(Halifax) – The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) is holding its annual Conference in Halifax, with delegates coming from as far away as Victoria, British Columbia. The theme is “Women Taking Action for Peace: Personal, Political, Global.
- Celebrating Canadian Multiculturalism Day
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On this Canadian Multiculturalism Day we recognize and acknowledge Canada's rich diversity and the significant contributions that ethnocultural communities have made and continue to make in shaping our great country, Canada.
- Conseil des fonds d’investissement du Québec (CFIQ)
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Montreal, QC – August 29, 2016 – The board of governors of the Conseil des fonds d’investissement du Québec (CFIQ) announced today that Stéphane Blanchette (Vice-President, Finance and Operations, Investia Financial Services) has been elected
- First Peoples Worldwide Closure
Sources News Release
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First Peoples Worldwide plans to close over the course of this year.
- From Preventive Diplomacy to Sustainable Peace
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The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace’s submission to the Defence Policy Review public consultations. A Gender-Based, Eco-Feminist and Nonviolent Approach to Canadian Defence and Security Policy.
- Government media crackdown in China continues as a journalist disappears
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) raises serious concerns over actions by the Chinese government this week, which lead to one journalist been suspended from duty and a second disappearing while travelling.
- IFIC Commends Ministers for Historic Agreement on Pension Reform
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Toronto, ON - June 21, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today issued a statement commending the Ministers of Finance from Canada and most provinces across the country for reaching a historic agreement-in-principle on pension
- IFIC Proposes Federal Budget Measures to Strengthen the Economy and Support the Middle Class
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Toronto - August 5, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today proposed federal budget measures that would contribute to Canada’s economic growth, support the middle class, enhance retirement savings, and enable Canadians with
- IFIC Releases Guide to Help Dealers Prepare New CRM2 Client Reports
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Toronto, ON - June 23, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released a guide for mutual fund dealers. Preparing CRM2 Reports for Your Clients (https://www.ific.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Preparing-CRM2-Reports-for-Your-
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for February 2016
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Toronto ON - March 18, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending February 29, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.20 trillion. AUM decreased by $11 billion
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for March 2016
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Toronto, ON - April 19, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending March 31, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.23 trillion. AUM increased by $37 billion
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for May 2016
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Toronto, ON - June 20, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending May 31, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.27 trillion. AUM increased by $28 billion or 2
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for September 2016
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending September 30, 2016, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.32 trillion. Year-to-date, industry totalled $1.32 trillion.
- IFIC Releases Updated Fund Volatility Risk Classification Guidelines
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Toronto, ON - June 28, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released its updated Voluntary Guidelines for Fund Managers Regarding Fund Volatility Risk Classification.
- IFIC Response to CCIR Consultation Endorses Greater Harmonization
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today submitted comments in response to the Segregated Funds Working Group Issues Paper published on May 16, 2016 by the Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators (CCIR)
- IFIC Urges Ontario to Lead National Collaboration on Financial Planning Rules
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Toronto, ON - June 17, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has urged the Ontario government to take a leadership role with its provincial counterparts to create nationally harmonized rules governing financial planning.
- IFIC/IFSE Welcome ETF Proficiency Standard
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Toronto, ON – September 28, 2016 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) and its educational arm, IFSE Institute, today expressed support for the new ETF proficiency standard proposed by the Mutual Fund Dealers Association (MFDA).
- IFJ calls for international laws protecting journalists to be enforced after another deadly year of killings
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2015 has been another deadly year for journalists, with at least 109 journalists and media staff killed in targeted killings, bomb attacks and cross-fire incidents, according to the annual report published by the IFJ.
- IFJ condemns media clampdown in Kenya
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today backed its Kenyan affiliate, the Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ), which accused the authorities of a major clampdown of media in the past few months, after a series of arrests of journalists
- IFJ women move forward struggle for gender equality
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The IFJ Gender Council held on 9 January, 2016, its statutory mid-term conference on the theme Gender and Media: Women Taking the Lead.
- IIFA Marks 30th Anniversary and Focuses on Better Serving Investors in Changing Global Economic and Regulatory Environment
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Osaka, Japan - October 26, 2016 - Leaders of the global investment funds industry gathered in Osaka, Japan this week to discuss challenges and opportunities in today’s global economic environment, as they celebrated the 30th anniversary of the
- Lurching to War - Octber 15 issue of Connexions Other Voices now available
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Lurching to War: The United States and its NATO allies increasingly see war, not as a disaster to be avoided, but a normal tool of foreign policy. Getting the public to acquiesce in regarding war as inevitable and justifiable requires propaganda
- Malaysian official calls for harsher penalties for whistle blowers
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists Peninsular Malaysia (NUJM) in strongly criticising proposed changes to the Official Secrets Act (1972) (OSA) by the Malaysian Attorney General.
- Media Advisory – EVENT – IFIC Presents Claude Montmarquette: The Gamma Factor and the Value of Financial Advice
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Dr. Claude Montmarquette (from the Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO)) will present his research findings on the impact of a financial advisor in building household wealth and the factors that contribute to wea
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for August 2016
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Toronto, ON – September 19, 2016 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending August 31, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.31 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for July 2016
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Toronto, ON - August 19, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending July 31, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.30 trillion. AUM increased by $37 billion
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for June 2016
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Toronto, ON - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending June 30, 2016, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.27 trillion. AUM decreased by $2 billion
- Media Release - IFIC Welcomes New Affiliate
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Toronto, ON - July 8, 2016 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) is pleased to announce that Prometa Fund Support Services Inc. has joined IFIC as an affiliate.
- Messina, Italy welcomed the participants on board Zaytouna-Oliva
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Messina, Italy – This morning the community of Messina, Italy welcomed the participants on board Zaytouna-Oliva as they arrived following their voyage from Ajaccio, France. The sailing boat will leave Messina when? for its final destination, the sh
- National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada 2016 Recognition Awards
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The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada is pleased to present its 2016 Recognition Awards on November 4, 2016, in Toronto
- New Infographic Helps Investors Understand What Services They Receive for Their Mutual Fund Fees
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released an infographic that highlights the services that investors receive for the fees they pay through their purchase of mutual funds.
- Sexual Harrassment & Investigations. Why are the foxes still guarding the hen house?
Sources News Release
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Sexual harassment complaints will be met with inertia, apathy or tepid response until corporations fully realize the financial impact and negative consequences of their actions and more women are in the boardroom and in leadership positions.
- Sports and Politics: August 13, 2014 issue of Other Voices
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Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era.
- Suspend the $15-billion sale of LAV IIIs to Saudi Arabia and sign the Arms Treaty (ATT)
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The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is deeply concerned that the newly- elected Canadian government seems intent on completing the $15-billion sale of Canadian-made LAV III vehicles to Saudi Arabia initiated by the former government.
- Ukraine: IFJ/EFJ condemns arson attack on TV station
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The International and European Federation of Journalists, (IFJ) and (EFJ), today joined their Ukrainian affiliates in condemning an arson attack that set ablaze the headquarters of private broadcaster Inter TV in Kiev, Ukraine.
- Wage Theft--Allow legal professionals to enforce pay orders.
Sources News Release
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Provide employees with the option of using an independent legal professional. This would minimise the burden on the government to collect. Random audits are not the answer.
- White Poppies for Peace: Peace Women VOW to End War
Sources News Release
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Canadian Voice of Women for Peace will distribute free White Poppies in Halifax on Friday, November 4 from 12pm - 1pm at the Central Library in Halifax. The white poppy campaign started in Britain in 1933 by women in the Women’s Co-operative Gui
- Will the legalization of recreational marijuana cause difficulties for employers?
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Will Legalization of recreational marijuana in the workplace cause difficulties for employers?
Employment Lawyer Shelley Brown explains-- Probably not- it will be treated like smoking and drinking in the workplace.
- Zaytouna-Oliva leaves Ajaccio, Corsica for Messina, Italy - its final European port before sailing to break the illegal blockade of Gaza
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Ajaccio, Corsica, France:
The Women’s Boat to Gaza (Zaytouna-Oliva)
left the port of Ajaccio at 09:30 this morning. It is due to arrive later this
week in Messina, Sicily, Italy, w
- Zaytouna-Oliva departs for Gaza
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Messina, Italy: This morning at 9:50 am, women representing 13 countries spanning five continents began their journey on Zaytouna-Oliva to the shores of Gaza, which has been under blockade since 2007. On board are a Nobel Peace Laureate, three parli
- Why Nonprofits can't lead the 99%
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A seasoned movement elder examines what happens left organizations are led exclusively by college-educated professionals answerable to self-perpetuating boards and philanthropic funders, what happens when union leaderships free themselves from their memberships, and when community organizations become government contractors. Only membership supported and membership-driven organizations, he suggests, can actually lead the 99%.
- A Marxist critique of the theory of 'white privilege'
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Candace Cohn outlines the origins and problems of privilege theory. She aruges that In holding white workers co-responsible for systemic racism, the privilege model attributed a power to white workers they manifestly do not have: control over the institutions of American capitalism – schools, jobs, housing, factories, banks, police, courts, prisons, legislatures, media, elections, universities, armed services, hospitals, sports, political parties – all of which function in a racist manner. These institutions are owned and controlled by the capitalist class.
- Don't toss out your pumpkins
Re: Are pumpkins wasteful?
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We don't have to throw out our Hallowe'en. We can remove the seeds and bake them, and after Hallowe'en the flesh of the pumpkin can be cooked.
- New Fight to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal
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In 2011, after years of international protest, Mumia's 1981 death sentence (following his wrongful conviction for killing a Philadelphia police officer) was rescinded allowing him to enter the general prison population. Although this was a major victory for the movement to win his freedom, it brought its own set of issues.
- Spain: Madrid and Barcelona show -- the greater the unity on the left, the bigger the win
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Once the results of Spain’s May 24, 2015, local and regional elections became known the main lesson for the anti-austerity and anti-capitalist left was simply and starkly obvious: the more united and more involving of ordinary people its election campaigns were, the greater its gains and the greater the losses for the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) -- its main rival for the popular and working-class vote -- and for the ruling conservative People's Party (PP).
- Bibi Netanyahu's War Dream
An interview with Moshe Machover
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Suzi Weissman interviews Moshe Machover, a founder of the Israeli Socialist Organization (Matzen) in the 60's. They discuss the reasons behind Israel's campaign against the Iran nuclear deal.
- El Salvador Feminists Fight for Justice
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The 1997 Salvadoran law banning abortion under all circumstances is one of the most punitive in the world.
- Spain on Edge
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An interview with Podemos spokesperson Pablo Iglesias.
- Uyoku dantai
Wikipedia article
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Published: 2017
Uyoku dantai are Japanese nationalist right-wing groups. Uyoku dantai are well known for their highly visible propaganda vehicles – converted vans, trucks and buses fitted with loudspeakers and prominently marked with the name of the group and propaganda slogans.
- Postmedia, Paul Godfrey and the demise of journalism
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A criticism of the right-wing political bias expressed by outlets of the Postmedia group under direction of CEO Paul Godfrey.
- Missing from the Paris Agreement: the Pentagon's monstrous carbon boot print
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How much of the mainstream media coverage given to COP21 and the Paris Agreement mentioned the mysterious exemption given to the US's massive military and security machine? None, writes Joyce Nelson. Not only are these emissions entirely outside the UNFCCC process, but a 'cone of sillence' somehow prevents them from even forming part of the climate change discourse.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume 2
Economic Writings 2
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2016
Rosa Luxemburg’s theoretical masterpiece
- How Propaganda Works
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2016
Jason Stanley argues that more attention needs to be paid to propaganda. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy -- particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality -- and how it has damaged democracies of the past.
- Rogue Lawyer
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First Published: 2015
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On the right side of the law -- sort of -- Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. His office is a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, and fine leather chairs. He has no firm, no partners, and only one employee: his heavily armed driver, who also happends to be his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddie.
- Sources News Release Archive 2015
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News releases from 2015.
- Alan Gross's Improbable Tales on 60 Minutes
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In a dramatic segment on CBS News' 60 Minutes titled "The Last Prisoner of the Cold War," former United States Agency for International Development (USAID) subcontractor Alan Gross tells of horrifying experiences in captivity: "They threatened to hang me, they threatened to pull out my fingernails, they said I'd never see the light of day."
- Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype?
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It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways.
- A Brief for Equality
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If it is believed that equality reflects and affirms what we most value in human social life, then the only politically coherent stance is to insist on it as a goal to aim for. This article takes a look at why equality is more desirable than inequality.
- Why is the Canadian Media Ignoring Evidence of 1948 Massacres?
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First Published: 2015
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The better part of a decade ago, I described the Toronto Star's Mitch Potter as "a canary in the mineshaft of liberal Canadian racism." A piece on 1948 Palestine published in a recent edition of the Toronto Star shows the canary very close to asphyxiating.
- Chaos Computer Club: Europe's biggest hackers' congress underway in Hamburg
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First Published: 2015
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Some 12,000 hackers are challenging the power of Google, Facebook and Youtube to filter information and shape users' view of the world. One of them demonstrated how to hack into VW's cheating software.
- Letter from Nazareth
The forgotten Palestinians
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First Published: 2015
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The city's Christians and Muslims continue to struggle against Israel's divide-and-rule policies
At 26 metres, Nazareth's artificial Christmas tree is the tallest in the Middle East, or so city officials boast. Its glinting red, silver and golden baubles have brought a temporary, but much-needed cheer to the city of Jesus' childhood. Despite the festive mood, friends and neighbours in what is Israel's largest Palestinian city struggle to sound hopeful about the future. Even the inflatable Father Christmases hanging from shop awnings look forlorn.
- Letter from Nazareth: The forgotten Palestinians
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First Published: 2015
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The city's Christians and Muslims continue to struggle against Israel's divide-and-rule policies.
- Caught in the act: German state channel accused of faking Russian soldiers in Ukraine
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Published: 2015
A Russian television channel alleges a German state broadcaster hired actors to show Russian involvement in the eastern Ukraine conflict. The scandal centers around a Russian '‘volunteer' paid by the German company to say he was fighting in Ukraine.
- U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
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U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time. According to 1956 Plan, H-Bombs were to be Used Against Priority 'Air Power' Targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe. Major Cities in Soviet Bloc including East Berlin
- What Really Caused the Implosion of the Occupy Movement - An Insider's View
Taking a hard look at some of the self-sabotaging behaviors of the left
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It's a cool night in early October of 2011, the height of Occupy Wall Street. Two months ago I had just moved into my parents' basement, feeling deflated after the end of Bloombergville (a two-week street occupation outside city hall to try to stop the massive budget cuts of that same year), convinced this country wasn't ready for movement. Now I'm in this living room with some of the most impressive people I've ever met, at the shaky helm of a movement that has become part of the mainstream's daily consciousness.
- Climate Deniers are More Dangerous Than Trump and More Deadly Than ISIS
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
So Rep. Lamar Smith (D-Tx.) finally got his NOAA emails. What he really should get is a jail sentence for crimes against humanity. He, and the other climate deniers like him who hold positions of power, are arguably more dangerous than Donald Trump and more deadly than ISIS.
- The Digital Dark Ages: Movies and Books Get Deleted as Selfies Pile Up
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Historians and archivists call our times the "digital dark ages." The name evokes the medieval period that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which led to a radical decline in the recorded history of the West for 1000 years. But don't blame the Visigoths or the Vandals. The culprit is the ephemeral nature of digital recording devices. Remember all the stuff you stored on floppy discs, now lost forever? Over the last 25 years, we've seen big 8" floppies replaced by 5.25" medium replaced by little 3.5" floppies, Zip discs and CD-ROMs, external hard drives and now the Cloud -- and let's not forget memory sticks and also-rans like the DAT and Minidisc.
- Gaza in Ruins
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gaza is a ruin, populated by nearly two million people. The July-August 2014 bombardment of this tiny enclave by Israel resulted in over 2,500 dead Palestinians and an infrastructure -- already weak -- utterly destroyed. A garrotted sliver of land that sits on the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza cannot import goods to survive, let alone to reconstruct the damage. Oxfam says that it would take over a hundred years to bring Gaza back to the conditions in June 2014 because of the ongoing Israeli siege. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), an agency tasked with the provision of relief to the Palestinian refugees, complained that "people are literally sleeping amongst the rubble; children have died of hypothermia." Pledges for relief are not delivered, and even if they would be handed over to the United Nations (UN), the Israeli embargo makes it impossible for goods to enter Gaza. Gaza, like the rest of Palestine, is condemned to purgatory.
- An Idiot's Guide to Why They Hate Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Nobody who is reasonably knowledgeable and honest about the long and ongoing history of U.S.- and Western-imperial policy in the Middle East, Southwest Asia, and Africa has any business claiming to find the origins of anti-American and anti-Western terrorism in the Muslim world mysterious.
- RSF decries Saudi citizen-journalist's jail term and writing ban
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the four-year jail sentence and 15-year writing ban that a Saudi court passed yesterday on writer and citizen-journalist Zuhair Kutbi as "unjust and disproportionate."
- SAC Nuclear Planning for 1959
U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The SAC [Strategic Air Command] Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956, published December 22, 2015. According to the Plan, H-Bombs were to be used against priority "Air Power" targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe
Major cities in Soviet Bloc, including East Berlin, were high priorities in "Systematic Destruction" for atomic bombings. Plans to target people (“Population”) violated international legal norms.
- War Is Realizing the Israelizing of the World
Divide, Conquer, Colonize
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As US-driven wars plummet the Muslim world ever deeper into jihadi-ridden failed state chaos, events seem to be careening toward a tipping point. Eventually, the region will become so profuse a font of terrorists and refugees, that Western popular resistance to "boots on the ground" will be overwhelmed by terror and rage. Then, the US-led empire will finally have the public mandate it needs to thoroughly and permanently colonize the Greater Middle East.
- Warped
Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Recent victories for LGBT rights have gone faster than most people imagined possible. Yet the accompanying rise of gay 'normality' has been disconcerting for activists with radical sympathies. This book shows how the successive 'same-sex formations' of the past century and a half have led both to the emergence of today's 'homonormativity' and 'homonationalism' and to ongoing queer resistance.
- The Canada Revenue Agency Needs an Overhaul
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada misses out on billions of dollars in revenue due to the Canada Revenue Agency's failure to pursue tax evasion by rich companies and individuals.
- Israeli attacks on a dissident soldiers' group could backfire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Yehuda Shaul was an infantryman in the Israeli army in Hebron during the second intifada. But in recent weeks, he and his group of veterans have been vilified by right-wing organizations and mainstream politicians in a public campaign against Israeli groups critical of their country's occupation of Palestinian territories.
- Militarizing the Environment
Climate Change and the Security State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In this extensive historical study of scientific, military, political, and economic formations across five centuries, Robert P. Marzec reveals how environmentality has been instrumental in the development of today's security society -- informing the creation of the military-industrial complex during World War II and the National Security Act that established the CIA during the Cold War.
- Talks in the city of light generate more heat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rather than relying on far-off negative-emissions technologies, Paris needed to deliver a low-carbon road map for today.
- COP21: in spite of the show, the glass is 80% empty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The COP21 Paris Climate Conference has, as expected, led to an agreement. It will come into effect from 2020 if it is ratified by 55 of the countries which are signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and these 55 countries account for at least 55% of global emissions of greenhouse gases. In the light of the positions taken in Paris, this dual condition should not raise any difficulty (although the non-ratification of Kyoto by the United States shows that surprises are always possible).
- EFF to Court: Posting 3-D Design Files Online Is Free Speech
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. government cannot require Americans to go through an export licensing scheme prior to posting and sharing 3-D printer design files online, because publishing technical information is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment.
- The KKK Has Infiltrated U.S. Police Departments for Decades
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During the Civil Rights movement, one of the KKK’s first orders was to infiltrate police departments around the country.
- Other Voices - The Connexions Newsletter - Utopias
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The December 19 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter, is now out. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise: our topic of the week is Utopias.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
Utopia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
- Test Your Online Privacy Protection with EFF's Panopticlick
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation launched new online tracker-testing in its Panopticlick tool today, helping you analyze the privacy protections in your Web browser. New Feature Analyzes Your Web Browser and Add-Ons for Successful Tracker Block
- Utopias
Introduction to the December 19, 2015 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical.
- Reversing Enbridge & Big Oil's Pipeline Plans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The National Academy of Sciences is skewering the industry's 'oil is oil' talking point -- making it clear that diluted bitumen is a different beast altogether and needs to be treated as such. The agonizingly slow and costly Kalamazoo River spill cleanup in Michigan made many of these points clear. Yet, the tar sands industry has continued to insist that diluted bitumen creates no deeper environmental threat as they push for unsustainable growth. While Keystone XL is off the table, there are numerous other projects being considered that extend the unique pipeline problems of dilbit into communities across North America.
- Open Your Mind, Change Your Life and Get Hypnotized for the 12th Annual World Hypnotism Day, January 4, 2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Hypno Healing Institute is offering an open house and a workshop to celebrate the 12h Annual World Hypnotism Day. The public is invited to attend the event, which will be held Monday, January 4, 2016. The open house is from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- A Very Capitalist Condition
A history and politics of disability
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This book examines the origins and development of disability and highlights the hidden history of groups such as disabled war veterans, deaf people and those in mental distress. Roddy Slorach describes how capitalist society segregates and marginalises disabled people, generating new impairment and disability as it does so.
He argues that Marxism not only helps provide a fuller understanding of the politics and nature of disability, but also offers a vision of how disabled people can play a part in building a better world for all.
- Assange's Battle: A Fight for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Whistle-blowers have become dissidents of the West. In the US, the crackdown on journalists and publishers has reached its height. Despite his campaign pledge to be "the most transparent administration", President Obama engaged in unprecedented persecution of whistle-blowers, worse than all other previous administrations combined. Those who communicate with the press and reveal the secrets of the deep state are seen as insider threats. They have become enemies of the state, often treated as traitors and criminalized.
- Everyone is the Mother of Victory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Everyone is the mother of victory; No one is the father of defeat. Do we claim COP21 as a success, and risk watching it being used by fossil fuel failures to carry on burning humanity, and so become complicit in defeat?
- Poisoning the Well
Special Report: Toxic Firefighting Foam Has Contaminated U.S. Drinking Water With PFCS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lori Cervera had always been an active person. She liked camping, playing outdoors with her kids, and practically lived in her running shoes. She didn’t have much patience for illness. So when she developed a dull ache on her right side in May 2014, Cervera took a few Tylenol and did her best to ignore it. But after a few days in which the pain grew sharper and more intense, she went to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed a mass. To her complete surprise, Cervera, a mother of four and grandmother of two who was 46 at the time, was diagnosed with stage 2 kidney cancer. That July she underwent surgery to remove both the tumor and almost half her right kidney.
- Rally demands end to Toronto Police racial profiling & unwarranted 'status checks'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Three weeks after the Toronto Police Services were caught red handed doing the work of immigration enforcement, concerned residents are gathering at the Toronto Police Service Board meeting calling for an end to racial profiling and status checks.
- The IFJ and Al Jazeera sign historical international framework agreement
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) hailed the signing yesterday in Geneva of an historical International Framework Agreement with Al Jazeera Media Network - the first of its kind in the media sector.
- Is Saudi Women's Vote a Step Forward?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The global press has been heralding the December 13, 2015, vote in Saudi Arabia as a breakthrough for women, since it's the first time in history that Saudi women have been allowed to vote. But is this vote really a significant step forward?
- Paris Climate Deal: How Could They Do This to Us?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On Sunday morning, 13 December 2015, the 2015 Paris Climate Summit (COP21) finally wound to close as the last decisions were agreed. At almost 1 a.m. observers representing youth, women, labour unions, research centers, indigenous peoples, and business were asked their opinion. Most media had already left COP21. Cleaners were dismantling the massive structures that had been erected to house thousands of conference participants for two weeks plus two overrun days. The Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change had finished their work, late as usual and with an usual outcome.
- RSF calls for boycott of China's World Internet Conference
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the international community to boycott the second World Internet Conference (WIC) being organized by China, the world's leading "Enemy of the Internet."
- The Secret Behind Donald Trump's Popularity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What if I told you about a nativist rally in which a charismatic white man drew a massive crowd of avid followers, using hate speech to whip them into a racist frenzy before pledging to cleanse America of a foreign threat -- all while 1,300 local policemen stood guard outside the building?
- Six Questions About Your Class Location that EverydayFeminism.com Isn't Asking You to Think About
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Solidarity doesn’t exist, like a material object, the way tables and chairs do. Solidarity is the confidence we can sometimes have that others, sharing with us a common enemy and a core of overlapping aspirations, will have our back when we find ourselves under attack, or when we need their support to win a crucial struggle. We don't stumble upon solidarity when poring over statistics; we won't find it by comparing our pay stubs with that of the worker down the street. We forge it in common struggle
- U.S. May Be Salvaging Victory For Jihadists In Syria: How & Why
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
According to Britain's Telegraph, in a recent report, the U.S. Tow antitank missiles that U.S. President Barack Obama sent in October to the Islamic Sunni fighters in Syria to use against the forces of the non-sectarian Shiite ruler there, Bashar al-Assad, have been so effective against Russia's forces that Assad had invited in, that Russia-- defending (upon Syria's legal request) President Assad's forces, and attacking the jihadists imported into Syria by the Saudis and the rest of the West -- is now being forced to send into the battle Russia's costly T-90 tanks, which are less vulnerable to America's missiles.
- Why Can't Capitalism Go Green?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is more than a quarter of a century since the ruling classes of the world began serious discussions on global warming, in preparation for the 1992 UN-sponsored ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio. Yet no meaningful steps have been taken to tackle the problem, even though the majority of the capitalist establishment has come to understand that something needs to be done. The Paris summit looks very unlikely to break from this pattern. So how can the lack of action be explained?
- Winners and Losers in Our New Media Moment
Donald Trump, Mass Shootings With an Islamic Terrorist Flavor, and the Rise of the "Spectaculection"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sometimes what matters most takes up every inch of space in the room and somehow we still don’t see it. That’s how I feel about our present media moment.
- Ya'alon Bans "Breaking the Silence"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said, on Tuesday, that he had banned Israeli veteran group Breaking the Silence from participating in any official activities with Israeli forces, Israeli media reported.
- Climate deal lacks strategies critical to achieving promised results
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It's easy to be swept-up in the feeling of accomplishment the COP21 agreement promises, especially with the enthusiastic response of the media, politicians, and celebrities involved. Unfortunately, while it is a victory for so many countries to come together and unanimously agree that something should be done, this is not the first time such promises have been made.
- The computer virus that blackmails you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ransomware is the fastest growing form of computer malware, experts warn.
- Failing the Trump Test: Cops for Fascism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Donald Trump just picked up his latest big endorsement: from the New England Policeman’s Benevolent Association, “the fastest-growing law enforcement organization in the northeastern United States” (according to the NEPBA’s website). Addressing the group in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, last Thursday, Trump told his audience that their support represented the most important honor he could possibly receive.
- On Victimless Crime Laws: And a Call to Release All Who Have Been Victimzed by Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In recent months, a Seminar on Prisoners' Writings has been meeting in Oakland. The idea of this seminar is to take some of the writings of people politicized by imprisonment, and make their insights available to the movements and the general public.
- TPP a Gift to Plutocrats? Canada's Trade Minister Wrote the Book on Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's new trade minister has sitting on her desk the sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal some say will accelerate the gap between rich and poor by protecting corporations' interests over those of workers and governments.
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Implications for Canadian Public Health
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Uber and the Luddites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The fight against the sharing economy, and Uber in particular, can be disorienting. Opposition is often painted as techno-phobia. The good guys in this story are Uber and progress; on the other side are opponents afraid of flexibility and smartphones, kicking and screaming against a future already here. In many ways, this is like the fight of the Luddites (machine smashers) 200 years ago at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. While the Luddites were fighting the way technology was used to further exploit rather than liberate workers, they were and are misrepresented as simply afraid of and opposed to technology.
- At COP21, the world agreed to increase emissions
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Some countries will reduce emissions a little, but other countries will increase them a lot. You would never know this from UN and media reports.
- COP21 An Opportunity For Climate Justice, If We Mobilize
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The COP21 resulted in an agreement that was 25 years in the making, beginning with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. Until now the world had been unable to reach an agreement on combating climate change. Now it is up to the people to push for policies at all levels of government to make the Paris Accord effective. We have the potential to use this deal to create a turning point in humanity's struggle for climate justice and end the fossil fuel era, but only if the people mobilize to make it so.
- Why we should feel positive about Paris
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As the final text of the Paris deal was being wrestled into shape, we were standing near the Arc de Triomphe, underneath a huge red line. This stretch of scarlet fabric was one of many held aloft by chanting and singing members of a 15,000-strong crowd. They - we - were there to demand climate justice; to condemn an international deal that we already knew would cross crucial red lines for the climate. Though the deal was a dud, this was no Copenhagen, argue Jess Worth and Danny Chivers.
- WTO is back. And this time, no more Mr Nice Guy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Overtaken by massive regional trade agreements like TPP, TTIP, CETA and TINA, the World Trade Organisation has slipped into the background. But this week it's back with a vengeance, with its first big meeting in two years. The US's plan is to globalise the investment protection regime set out in the TTP, and open a new era of corporate rule and the eradication of democracy.
- Are cows destroying the climate?
Film Review:
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How not to change the world. ‘Cowspiracy’ ignores capitalism and rejects Indigenous peoples’ concerns, while denouncing everyone who eats meat.
- The GMO Dark Act Cannot Survive the Light
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An ardent attempt is afoot on Capitol Hill to prevent states from requiring the labeling of genetically engineered foods – made especially urgent by the fact that Vermont’s labeling bill is set to take effect July 1st.
- How to Change Everything
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything is a vital book whose limitations should spark discussion about where we go from here.
- The Urban Green Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Struggling for working-class control of cities is crucial to bringing down carbon emissions.
- What Comes After Capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Naomi Klein's incisive critique of capitalism is blunted by her unwillingness to point to its replacement.
- Why the Real Target in the Attack on Stop the War is Jeremy Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stop the War, of which I am a founder member, was created to oppose the crude war of revenge against Afghanistan in 2001. I remember arguing at the time that the war would be a disaster for Afghans, it would destabilise neighbouring Pakistan and would end without solving anything.
- Citizen-journalist Nguyen Van Dai badly beaten
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is shocked by the severe beating that citizen-journalist and cyber-activist Nguyen Van Dai received from plainclothes policemen in Vietnam.
- Coal plant threatens world's largest mangrove forest - and Bangladesh's future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As COP21 reaches its endgame, there are plans to build 2,440 coal-fired power plants around the worl. Their completion would send global temperatures, and sea levels, soaring. Yet Bangladesh, the world's most 'climate vulnerable' large country, has plans for a 1.3GW coal power plant on the fringes of its World Heritage coastal wetlands.
- RSF decries government inaction in face of attacks on media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the government's failure to respond to a wave of attacks on media outlets throughout Pakistan in recent weeks and the absence of effective measures to protect news organizations and journalists.
- Climate 'academics for hire' conceal fossil fuel funding
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding.
- Community groups and First Nations demand the shutdown of Enbridge's Line 9
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
More than 80 organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted indigenous communities, as well as national organizations have released a statement letter to the Prime Minister condemning the recent National Energy Board (NEB) approval of Line 9
- Manufacturing Consensus - Hilary Benn's Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Everyone laughs when dictators claim 'Victory!' having secured fully 99 per cent of the vote. The deception is so naked, so obvious - nobody is fooled by this supposed 'national consensus'.
- Plusieurs groupes de la société civile et des Premières Nations demandent l’arrêt de la ligne 9 d’Enbridge.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Plus de 80 groupes de la société civile au Québec et en Ontario, ainsi que des Premières Nations, ont diffusé une lettre adressée au premier ministre qui condamne l’approbation récente du projet de renversement de la ligne 9 d’Enbridge par l’Office national de l’énergie (ONÉ).
- Google Deceptively Tracks Students' Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
EFF Launches 'Spying on Students' Campaign to Raise Awareness About Privacy Risks of School Technology Tools
- Green Parties, Green Future: lessons from history for Green politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How can Green parties acquire real political power? A new book by Per Gahrton, founder of the Swedish Green Party, is much more than a useful reference text on the history of Green Parties around the world. It's also a valuable manual in realpolitik that resonates here and now.
- IFIC Welcomes New Member - Fondaction CSN
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - December 8, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that Fondaction CSN has become a member of IFIC, effective today.
- IFJ condemns threats by Libyan official authorities against the journalism community
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the threats by the Director of Media and Culture Commission in the Libyan Transition Government, Omar Quary, against the Libyan Cloud News Agency (LCNA)
- The Insanity of the COP: We Must Adopt a Different Vision
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Iraq: 'Islamic State' atrocities fuelled by decades of reckless arms trading
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Decades of poorly regulated arms flows into Iraq as well as lax controls on the ground have provided the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) with a large and lethal arsenal that is being used to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity on a massive scale in Iraq and Syria, Amnesty International said in a new report today.
- The Long Game for the Long War
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fourteen years in, and the Terror War is raging on, mass-producing exactly what it was supposed to eliminate: terrorism and chaos. Western intervention has racked up at least six jihadi-overrun failed states throughout the Greater Middle East: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. The scope and scale of the imposed civilizational meltdown have become so great that the West itself has been increasingly inundated by its wreckage (in the form of refugees) and stung by its shrapnel (in the form of terrorist attacks).
- Other Voices - The Connexions Newsletter - Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The December 5, 2015 issue of Other Voices is now out. This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
- RSF launches a change.org petition to pardon Jeffrey Sterling
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has launched a petition for Jeffrey Sterling's pardon on change.org. Sterling, a former C.I.A. operative and the latest victim in the Obama administration's war on whistleblowers, was convicted in January.
- Wednesday Hearing in Facebook Case Against Power Ventures
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal appeals court Wednesday to reject Facebook's claims that it's a crime to workaround an IP address block -- an interpretation of the law that could criminalize routine online behaviour.
- The Collaborative Model Takes Root in Alberta's Tar Sands
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Relationship between Big Oil, Enviromental Groups and Government in Alberta Tar Sands.
- Evolving Geopolitical Economic Framework: US vs. China
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a game changer in what had been since World War II and Bretton Woods American global financial dominance in facilitating US unilateral market penetration via the preponderant voice in IMF and World Bank operations and policy making, and, equally significant, integrating expanding economic power with an interventionist military underpinning.
- Iraq: Taking stock: The arming of Islamic State
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) deploys a substantial arsenal of arms and ammunition, designed or manufactured in more than 25 countries. Their military campaign has relentlessly targeted civilians with small arms, artillery fire and improvised explosive devices. This report catalogues the array of weapons, ammunition and other military equipment observed in the possession of IS. Supplier states and the Iraqi authorities urgently need to implement far stricter controls on the transfer, storage and deployment of arms to avoid further proliferation to armed groups and abuses of human rights.
- Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Line 9
Climate Change and the Line 9B Reversal Project
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A letter from community organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted Indigenous communities, and national organizations that would like to express adamant opposition to the recent 'Leave to Open' status granted to the Enbridge Line 9B reversal project by the National Energy Board (NEB) of Canada.
- More than equality: reasons to be a feminist socialist
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Equality? Feminist socialism has something better in mind: using power to transform hierarchies.
- Playing Right Into ISIS's Hands
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Now that we're all supposedly involved in the world battle against the worst enemy since Hitler - not climate change, of course, but Isis - it's time to understand just how the forces of law, order and security, who are supposed to protect us, can do more to recruit European Muslims to the Islamist cause than all the Isis videos combined.
- Israel’s cynical approach is feeding unrest
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.
- Israel’s cynical approach is feeding unrest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.
- Pentagon Hypes 'Surging Sales' for US Missile Makers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The massive US military industrial complex is struggling to keep up, according to officials, with ever-escalating attacks on various targets across the planet, and growing demands from its various customers looking to build up their assorted missile arsenals for assorted wars.
- Why big NGOs won't lead the fight on climate change
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The cowardly response of prominent climate organizations like 350.org and Avaaz to the protest ban during COP21 demands accountability.
- Hilary Benn's speech The media's war footing on Corbyn and Syria
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Britain's media is on a double-war footing. The first war is against Jeremy Corbyn, and is countering the threat that Corbyn's more popular policies may gain even wider support. The second war is for Britain's ongoing right to bomb somewhere whenever elites want.
- I fit the description....
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On my way to get a burrito before work, I was detained by the police. I noticed the police car in the public lot behind Centre Street. As I was walking away from my car, the cruiser followed me. I walked down Centre Street and was about to cross over to the burrito place and the officer got out of the car. "Hey my man," he said. He unsnapped the holster of his gun.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
- Defense Contractors Cite "Benefits" of Escalating Conflicts in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Major defense contractors Raytheon, Oshkosh, and Lockheed Martin assured investors at a Credit Suisse conference in West Palm Beach this week that they stand to gain from the escalating conflicts in the Middle East.
- 'Only I and my paper were prosecuted'
Journalist who exposed Turkey's hospitality for jihadists
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Jihad fighters are treated in Turkey with state complicity; Journalist Dogu Eroglu of the opposition daily BirGun (One Day) was prosecuted.
- Racism in Australia: from 1788 to stopping the boats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When the First Fleet sailed into Port Jackson on January 26, 1788, it carried more than the physical paraphernalia for European settlement. Along with tools, agricultural implements, chains, handcuffs, the cat-o'-nine-tails and gunpowder, the colonists brought with them an entrenched world-view.
- Advancing Food Sovereignty to Transform Economies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Food sovereignty can transform local, national, and regional markets to support countries’ domestic economies and allow us to create wealth, both in production and knowledge.
- Gun Industry Executives Say Mass Shootings Are Good for Business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Behind closed doors, speaking with investors and Wall Street analysts, the gun industry views mass shootings as an opportunity to make lots of money.
- Horror Beyond Description: Noam Chomsky on the Latest Phase of the War on Terror
An interview with Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Does the "war on terror" make sense? Is it an effective policy? And how different is the current phase of the "war on terror" from the two previous phases that occurred under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush's administrations, respectively? Moreover, who really benefits from the "war on terror"? And what's the link between the US military-industrial complex and war making?
- Murray Bookchin -- Anarchism without the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Murray Bookchin was an influential and prolific writer and thinker on anarchism. While he made significant contributions, Wayne Price agrues that he made a major error in rejecting the working class as important for an anarchist revolution. This article reviews why he believed this and why, on the contrary, the working class must be a major force for a successful anarchist revolution.
- The Rise of the Illegitimate Authority of Transnational Corporations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Transnational corporations are demanding the right to what they call "competitiveness": lower taxes, control over lawmaking, and the right to sue governments for affecting profits. In her new book, Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power, Susan George shines a light on the secret corporate coalitions that are influencing critical government decisions and posing a direct threat to democracy.
- Ian Angus: COP21, the climate crisis, and ecosocialism
An interview with Ian Angus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An interview with Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus. Angus says 'The environmental question is the most important problem that we face in the 21st century: If we don’t recognize its centrality, our politics will be irrelevant.'
- Today's Trumbo: Try telling academic critics of Israel McCarthyism is behind us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"Trumbo," starring Bryan Cranston as Academy Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, tells the sordid and tragic story of the anti-communist witch hunt commonly referred to as the "Red Scare," which involved the interrogation and prosecution of suspected communists. Its instrument in Congress was the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), created in 1938 and not officially disbanded until 1975, which subpoenaed individuals, put them on the stand, and demanded that they answer one key question, "Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?"
- Activists Track Down Racist Trolls Who Thought They Were Anonymous and Brilliantly Embarrass Them
A Brazilian group is turning racist social media messages into signs everyone can see.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Recently, the Cleveland Plain Dealer announced it had turned off comments on stories about Tamir Rice because "just about every piece we published about Tamir immediately became a cesspool of hateful, inflammatory or hostile comments."
- Climate Technofix: Weaving Carbon into Gold and Other Myths of "negative emissions"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) published their most recent fifth assessment report, something surprising and deeply disturbing was lurking in the small print in chapter three on “mitigation”.
- LA Theses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Notes on class struggles, conflicts and unification.
- Reconstructing Marx's Critique of Political Economy from His London Notebooks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review: Lucia Pradella, Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx’s Writings (London: Routledge, 2015), 218 pages, $160, hardback.
- Deadliest Terror in the World: The West's Latest Gift to Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Nigeria's Boko Haram are now officially the deadliest terror group in the world. That they have reached this position is a direct consequence of Cameron and Co's war on Libya - and one that was perhaps not entirely unintended.
- Facts Back Russia on Turkish Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Turkey claims its November 24, 2015 shoot-down of a Russian warplane along the Syrian border was justified -- and the Obama administration is publicly siding with its NATO ally -- but a review of the evidence supports Russian accusations of an "ambush." The evidence from the Turkish authorities themselves thus leaves little room for doubt that the decision to shoot down the Russian jet was made before the Russian jets even began their flight.
- 70,000 Kalashnikovs: Cameron's "Moderate" Rebels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Not since Hitler ordered General Walther Wenck to send his non-existent 12th Army to rescue him from the Red Army in Berlin has a European leader believed in military fantasies as PR Dave Cameron did last week. Telling the House of Commons about the 70,000 "moderate" fighters deployed in Syria was not just lying in the sense that Tony Blair lied - because Blair persuaded himself to believe in his own dishonesty - but something approaching burlesque. It was whimsy - ridiculous, comic, grotesque, ludicrous. It came close to a unique form of tragic pantomime.
- TD Visa customers' browsing activities open to 'surveillance' by bank
Bank denies collecting general information about what customers do online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A B.C. man decided to Go Public after discovering Canada's second-biggest bank can access and collect information on all of its customers' online activities, including those that aren't banking-related.
- Zionist Power: Swindlers and Impunity, Traitors and Pardons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over two decades ago, Harvard political science professor, Samuel Huntington, argued that global politics would be defined by a 'clash of civilizations'. His theories have found some of the most aggressive advocates among militant Zionists, inside Israel and abroad.
- Arthur Topham's Political Beliefs May Just Be Illegal
The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham: Part 3
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On November 7, 2015, Arthur Topham was convicted of inciting hatred against a racial group, the Jewish people. Mr. Topham maintains a website, Radical Free Press, in which he publishes and comments upon various documents. These documents include The Elders of the Protocols of Zion, various anti-Zionist texts, and a tract entitled Germany Must Perish, first published in 1941 and then satirized by Mr. Topham as Israel Must Perish.
- Ayatollah BBC and #ExMuslimBecause
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Whilst we mourn our dead in Paris, we must not forget the countless others killed by ISIS and Islamists, including this very month in Lebanon, Nigeria, Mali, Iraq, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan... as well as those executed perfectly legally via Sharia laws in Iran, Saudi Arabia... The refugee crisis is in large part due to this unbridled brutality. In fact, if there ever was a "right" time to challenge Islam and Islamism, it is now.
- Bahraini photographer sentenced to ten years in prison
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A Bahraini criminal court has sentenced freelance photographer Sayed Ahmed Al Mousawi to 10 years in prison on a terrorism charge and has stripped him of his nationality. Reporters Without Borders condemns this arbitrary trial of a journalist who just covered pro-democracy demonstrations.
- Black November for journalists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns Pakistani journalist Hafeez Ur Rehman's murder on 22 November in Kohat, a city in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He was the second journalist to be murdered in this province in less than a month.
- EU urged to press Erdogan to free newspaper editor
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) appeals to the European Union and to all its member states to use a summit with Turkey in Brussels on 29 November to demand the release of Can Dündar, the editor of the daily Cumhuriyet, and Erdem Gül, his Ankara bur
- Gen. John Campbell, Commander in Afghanistan and Serial Liar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After weeks of lies, the Obama administration and the Pentagon, unable to find any way to explain their murderous hour-long AC-130 gunship assault on and destruction of a Doctors Without Borders-run hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, have turned to a new lie: they bombed the wrong building.
- How Cops Use 'Psychopaths and Liars' and Often Become Them to Achieve Their Goals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Does using criminals or actually becoming them, justify the path to security? American law enforcement tends to think so.
- I know Isis fighters. Western bombs falling on Raqqa will fill them with joy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Militants in Syria dream of a big showdown with the US and Europe. There are other ways to defeat them.
- IFJ condemns cyber-bullying against female journalists ahead of the UN Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Each year, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Gender Council stand in solidarity with the UN Campaign to Eliminate Violence Against Women on Nov 25 by highlighting its campaign to eliminate violence against women journalists
- The IFJ denounces the use of anti-terrorism law against Tunisian media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) have expressed their concerns over the use by the Tunisian government of the anti-terrorism law to muzzle media.
- IFJ and EFJ urge Turkey to immediately release journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) today called on the Turkish authorities to immediately release journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül and to drop all charges against them.
- IFJ joins Palestinian journalists in discussing the role of media in covering conflicts
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A delegation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joined yesterday in Ramallah city the national conference organised by the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) on the 'Role of Media in Covering Conflicts'.
- Onlinecensorship.org Tracks Content Takedowns by Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Sites
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Visualizing Impact launched Onlinecensorship.org on November 19, 2015, a new platform to document the who, what, and why of content takedowns on social media sites.
- Other Voices - The Connexions Newsletter - Climate Change and Social Change
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The November 21, 2015 issue of Other Voices is now out. This issue spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address.
- Police Ripped Off More Stuff Than Burglars Did Last Year
Civil asset forfeiture is big business for cops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Law enforcement use of asset forfeiture laws to seize property -- often without a criminal conviction or even an arrest -- has gone through the roof in recent years, and now the cops are giving the criminals a run for their money, and winning.
- Rosa Luxemburg - From Street Organizer to Street Name
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Overview of the life of Rosa Luxemburg.
- Shock, outrage as Saudi Arabia sentences Palestinian poet to death
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
PEN International, English PEN and PEN American Center strongly condemn the Saudi Arabian authorities' decision to sentence Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy, and call for his immediate release.
- Climate and competitiveness in the tar sands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Anytime the oil barons and baronesses are smiling for the cameras with NGOs and politicians, we should at least be interested, if not outright worried. Was the release of Alberta’s new climate change strategy just an occasion for the oil execs to ham it up for the cameras pretending all is well or do they have truly something to be smiling about?
- The spread of Wahhabism, and the West's responsibility to the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 2013, the European Union declared Wahhabism the main source of global terrorism. But it's not just a "Middle East problem"; it is our problem, too.
- Turkish newspaper editor in court for 'espionage' after revealing weapon convoy to Syrian militants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The prosecution has asked to imprison Editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper pending trial for espionage and treason. In May, the outlet published photos of weapons it said were then transferred to Syria by Turkey's intelligence agency. Turkish national intelligence is smuggling weapons into Syria and has been caught in the past.
- Challengers vow to publish Anne Frank diaries as foundation moves to keep control of copyright
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Charity that guards world-renowned account of a Jewish girl's life in hiding from the Nazis says copyright - which some argue ends this year - extends from father's death.
- NGOs condemn sentencing of Bahraini photographer to ten years in prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Award-winning photographer Sayed Ahmed al-Mousawi was sentenced on Monday, 23 November 2015, to 10 years in prison and had his nationality revoked, along with 12 others, after covering a series of demonstrations in early 2014.
- 1904-1924: 'The North American Indian'
One man's vision of a continent of cultures
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With J. P. Morgan's funding, Edward Sheriff Curtis spent more than 20 years crisscrossing North America, creating over 40,000 images of more than 80 different tribes. They conceived a 20-volume series, called The North American Indian.
- Orange the World: End Violence Against Women and Girls
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, on International Day to End Violence Against Women and Girls, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) stands in solidarity with its Asia Pacific affiliates on the issue of violence against women working in the media.
- The Soothsayers of Eternal War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Eisenhower famously sent some brusque advice to Anthony Eden in 1956 when he decided that Britain's deceitful war in Egypt should come to an end. "Whoa, boy!" were his words. And they should be repeated now to the politicians, historians and other nincompoops who regard themselves as the soothsayers of eternal war.
- State of Emergency in Crimea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Late on November 21, 2015, right-wing extremists in Ukraine severed the four electricity lines which transmit electricity from Ukraine to Crimea. The terrorist attacks, using explosives, cut domestic electricity service to much of Crimea's population of 2.3 million.
- Stronger Locks, Better Security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What if, in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris, or cybersecurity attacks on companies and government agencies, the FBI had come to the American people and said: In order to keep you safe, we need you to remove all the locks on your doors and windows and replace them with weaker ones. It's because, if you were a terrorist and we needed to get to your house, your locks might slow us down or block us entirely. So Americans, remove your locks! And American companies: stop making good locks!
- 'They know how it’s done': Turkey violated Greek airspace 2,244 times in 2014 alone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Turkish claims that the downed Russian Su-24 jet "violated" its airspace have sparked outrage among Greeks, who took to social media to say it is a clear-cut case of double standards as Turkish jets breached Greek airspace 2,244 times in 2014 alone.
- Brussels 'Revolving Door' Keeps Relationship Cozy Between Big Energy and EU Decision Makers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Brussels 'revolving door' has allowed Big Energy to remain close to European climate and energy decision makers ahead of December's Paris COP21 climate talks, a new report shows.
- Five tests for action in Syria that fail the challenge of beating Isis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
'We are alarmed that the government appears to be ready to embark on a campaign of airstrikes in Syria ... that does not seem to be part of a thought-through military, political and social strategy for the region,' write professors from the University of Oxford and Soas, University of London.
- How 'twisted' early childhood education has become - from a child development expert
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Nancy Carlsson-Paige is an early childhood development expert who has been at the forefront of the debate on how best to educate -- and not educate -- the youngest students. She is a professor emerita of education at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, where she taught teachers for more than 30 years and was a founder of the university’s Center for Peaceable Schools. She is also a founding member of a nonprofit called Defending the Early Years, which commissions research about early childhood education and advocates for sane policies for young children.
- The incredible plan to make money grow on trees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One of the most cutting-edge projects to tackle climate change is being pioneered in one of the most remote, undeveloped countries on earth. Does it have any hope of succeeding?
- 'It's a New Day': Why Environmentalists Need to Change Their Strategy Under Trudeau Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Now that Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have taken the helm, advocates have high hopes for a course correction on the environment and energy files. But after nearly a decade of working under hostile conditions, environmentalists need to make a course correction of their own if they want to effectively influence public policy, experts say.
- Stupid Patent of the Month: Infamous Prison Telco Patents Asking Third-Parties for Money
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Plenty of businesses rely on third-party payers: parents often pay for college; insurance companies pay most health care bills. Reaching out to potential third-party payers is hardly a new or revolutionary business practice. But someone should tell the Patent Office. Earlier this year, it issued US Patent No. 9,026,468 to Securus Technologies, a company that provides telephone services to prisoners. The patent covers a method of "proactively establishing a third-party payment account." In other words, Securus patented the idea of finding someone to pay a bill.
- The tawdry fall of the Postmedia newspaper empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It was the morning of Friday, June 22, 2012. Murphy, The Province's long-time staff cartoonist, was meeting with Moriarty in the editor's office on the fifth floor of the paper's headquarters on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver. The discussion between Murphy and Moriarty was heated; after all, Moriarty was informing Murphy that an animation the cartoonist had produced was being pulled off the web.
- WTO Ruling on Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labeling Illustrates Supremacy of Trade Agreements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
International trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) need to be carefully examined piece by piece because they can take precedence over a country's own laws.
- #BrusselsLockdown - When a hashtag is hijacked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When police in Belgium asked Brussels locals to stop tweeting about police activities, they accidentally started a grassroots campaign that ended up destroying a hashtag. The culprit: cat pictures.
- ISIS Thrives on the Disunity of Its Enemies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The aftermath of terrorist attacks such as the massacre in Paris are a bad time to produce new policies, but they provide ideal political conditions for a government to take radical, if ill-thought-out, initiatives. Leaders are carried away by a heady sense of empowerment as a worried or frightened public demands that something be done in response to calamity and to prevent it happening again. The moment of greatest risk is not when the bombs explode or the guns fire, but when governments react to these atrocities.
- They Sow the Cyclone - We Reap the Blowback
How Uncle Sam Seeded Global Jihad & Cultivates It to This Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It may be surprising to hear, but it is a plain historical fact that modern international jihad originated as an instrument of US foreign policy. The "great menace of our era" was built up by the CIA to wage a proxy war against the Soviets.
- Anger rises as Brazilian mine disaster threatens river and sea with toxic mud
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Conservationists and engineers battle to reduce the ecological fallout as mud and iron-ore residue from the BHP Billiton-Vale dam collapse flows down the Rio Doce to the Atlantic.
- Why Do Jihadis Seem So Evil?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The day before the Paris carnage, two suicide bombers killed at least 40 people in a Shia district of Beirut. The week after, two suicide bombings of street markets in Nigeria killed 49 people. Faced with such atrocities, we can often do little but reach for adjectives such as 'barbarous', 'depraved', or even 'evil'. But what is it that makes people act in such depraved, evil ways?
- Climate change and social change
Introduction to the November 21, 2015 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come -- everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles -- while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
Climate Change and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
- Paris terrorists operated "in plain sight"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reports over the past several days have revealed that most of the Islamists who engaged in the suicide attacks in Paris were known to the French and Belgian security services well before November 13. But no intelligence or police agency took action against them to prevent the murderous rampage.
- The tremendous success of agroecology in Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A quiet revolution has been working its way across Africa. Agroecological farming, constantly adapting to local needs, customs, soils and climates, has been improving nutrition, reducing poverty, combatting climate change, and enriching farmland.
- Why the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Scientists are trained to express themselves rationally. They avoid personal attacks when they disagree. But some scientific arguments become so polarized that tempers fray.
- Zionist Theatre
From Zundel to Topham
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The trials of Arthur Topham, Canadian journalist and publisher of Radical Press, for "hate crime" (2007) and "hate propaganda" (2012) under new Criminal Code "Hate Propaganda" legislation, have resulted in exactly the opposite of what the prosecution and B'Nai Brith, wanted. Instead of quietly muzzling the gadfly critic, the result has been the highlighting of past Jewish hate crimes, and the increasing control by Zionist groups of Canadian politics to promote Israel and censor anti-Zionist criticism.
- Climate crisis: seaweed, coffee and cement could save the planet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Greenhouse gas levels are on track to exceed the worst-case scenario. But, as world leaders meet in Paris for the UN climate summit this month, Tim Flannery argues that there are still realistic grounds for hope.
- Energy Revolution Is Possible... And It Would Only Take 782 Rich People To Pay For It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fewer than 800 of the world's wealthiest people could power half the world with 100 percent renewable energy within 15 years, report says.
- Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If you’re an ordinary saver with your money in the bank, you may soon be paying the bank to hold your funds rather than the reverse.
- Restoring a safe climate: Impossible dream or dangerous distraction?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Green house gases are at a level where drastic and far-reaching measures need
to be implemented; however authors caution against invoking emergency measures
that involve geo-engineering.
- Shock, outrage as Saudi Arabia sentences Palestinian poet to death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
PEN International, English PEN and PEN American Center strongly condemn the Saudi Arabian authorities' decision to sentence Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy.
- What's really at stake at the Paris climate conference now marches are banned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The decision to ban demonstrations at the Paris Climate Conference in the wake of the attacks will marginalize those who are most affected by climate change.
- The Dignity of Chartism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dorothy Thompson's writing on Chartism showed early working-class politics as it really was, a real challenge to the ruling class of the time, says John Westmoreland.
- Former Drone Operators Say They Were "Horrified" By Cruelty of Assassination Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
U.S. drone operators are inflicting heavy civilian casualties and have developed an institutional culture callous to the death of children and other innocents, four former operators said at a press briefing in New York.
- Israel divides the Jews
Reform Judaism vs Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Something significant recently happened in the ongoing political-ethical drama that grips Israel. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism publicly broke with Israel's political and religious leadership.
- 'Shooting to Kill:' Operation Get Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As David Cameron talks tough on shooting terrorists on Britain's streets, bombing Syria, shooting off nuclear weapons at unnamed enemies, over half of the Labour Party's MPs in the House of Commons gaze in admiration, open mouthed, wondering why their leader couldn't be more like that.
- Anti-Syrian Muslim Refugee Rhetoric Mirrors Calls to Reject Jews During Nazi Era
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During the 1930s and early 1940s, the United States resisted accepting large numbers of Jewish refugees escaping the Nazi terror sweeping Europe, in large part because of fearmongering by a small but vocal crowd. In recent days, similar arguments are being resurrected to reject Syrian refugees.
- From Paris to Boston, Terrorists Were Already Known to Authorities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Whenever a terrorist attack occurs, it never takes long for politicians to begin calling for more surveillance powers. Officials in the United Kingdom and the United States have been among those arguing that more surveillance of Internet communications is necessary to prevent further atrocities.
- NYT Editorial Slams "Disgraceful" CIA Exploitation of Paris Attacks, But Submissive Media Role Is Key
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A truly superb New York Times editorial this morning mercilessly shames the despicable effort by U.S. government officials to shamelessly exploit the Paris attacks to advance long-standing agendas.
- Overwhelmed NSA Surprised to Discover Its Own Surveillance "Goldmine" on Venezuela's Oil Executives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A top-secret National Security Agency document, dated 2011, describes how, by "sheer luck," an analyst was able to access the communications of top officials of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela.
- Prelude to Paris: Four Tragic Tactics by President Obama and Four Climate Justice Proposals He Must Support
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In December 2015 the world's governments meet in Paris for a truly historic event -- the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference. (UNFCCC). The objective of the conference is to protect Mother Earth from the assault of its most ungrateful inhabitants. The challenge is whether Homo sapiens, especially those of the ruling classes of the United States and Europe, can be civilized by the rest of the world before it is too late for all of us.
- Some popular fallacies about Islamism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Al-Qaeda and its most recent clone, the so-called "Islamic State" group, did not come about as a result of the invasion of Iraq or the civil war in Syria. It was born out of the unholy alliance between America and the Wahhabi zealots of Saudi Arabia to defeat communism and bring down the Soviet Union.
- COP21, Paris: 'Another world is possible, necessary and urgent'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The greatest danger of the Paris conference is that the global South will be bullied into to accepting a terrible deal rather than leave with none at all. That gives civil society an essential role - to support the resistance of developing country representatives inside the summit to an unjust and ineffective agreement imposed on them by the rich, powerful, high-emitting nations.
- Islamic State's Goal: "Eliminating the Grayzone" of Coexistence Between Muslims and the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In a statement published in its online magazine, Dabiq, this February, the militant group the Islamic State warned that "Muslims in the West will soon find themselves between one of two choices." Weeks earlier, a massacre had occurred at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attack stunned French society, while bringing to the surface already latent tensions between French Muslims and their fellow citizens.
- Shadows of Algeria: the Lost Context of the Paris Attacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It wasn't just one of the attackers who vanished after the Paris massacre. Three nations whose history, action - and inaction - help to explain the slaughter by Isis have largely escaped attention in the near-hysterical response to the crimes against humanity in Paris: Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
- U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks, Regardless of Snowden Leaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Despite the intelligence community's attempts to blame NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for the tragic attacks in Paris on Friday, the NSA's mass surveillance programs do not have a track record of identifying or thwarting actual large-scale terrorist plots.
- The Agony of Saada
U.S. and Saudi Bombs Target Yemen's Ancient Heritage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In addition to the growing number of civilian casualties in the country's seven-month-long war, U.S.-made bombs dropped by fighter jets from a Saudi Arabian-led coalition are pulverizing Yemen's architectural history. These airstrikes are tearing villages apart, forcibly displacing thousands and erasing the country's inimitable heritage, according to the world heritage body, UNESCO.
- Corporate Sycophants and the TPP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The hypocrisy of "free market" advocates is astounding. While they trumpet increased competition and the elimination of state imposed barriers as a means of spurring economic advancement, they ignore how the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and other "free trade" accords increase monopolistic intellectual property provisions.
- John Cusack and Arundhati Roy: Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A conversation With Arundhati Roy.
- Living in Pitiless Times: Baghdad, Beirut and Paris
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A week of horrible carnage -- bomb blasts in Beirut and Baghdad and then the cold-blooded shootings in Paris. Each of these acts of terror left dead bodies and wounded lives. There is nothing good that comes of them – only the pain of the victim and then more pain as powerful people take refuge in clichéd policies that once again turn the wheel of violence. How does one react to these incidents? Horror and outrage come first. They are instinctual.
- Only When We See the War Criminals In Our Midst Will the Blood Begin to Dry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that moves". As Barack Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger's murderous honesty.
- Paris terror attacks - who profits?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The attacks in Paris are placed in a geo-political context of France, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Syria.
- Terrorist Attacks in Paris: Can Tragedy Bring Change?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Paris has now suffered the sort of attacks that are familiar to Beirut or to Russia. The big question is: what next? Will this fear cause people to wake up to reality and think clearly?
- Time for a national conversation on TPP's Investment Chapter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Now that the legal text of the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) has been released it is time for a national discussion to begin. The new Liberal government has announced that there will be a 'full and open public debate in Parliament' regarding its terms. Much of the controversy has turned on questions of supply management and the auto sector. Yet there is much more in this pact that is not about trade and this includes conferring upon foreign investors special rights, many of which are well beyond those available under Canadian law. For investors making their home in TPP signatory countries outside of Canada, they are entitled to sue Canada for damages when their rights are adversely affected.
- Why States of Emergency and Extreme Security Measures Won't Stop ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There is little sign that the G20 leaders gathered in Turkey have understood the nature of the conflict in which they are engaged. ISIS's military strategy is a unique combination of urban terrorism, guerrilla tactics and conventional warfare. In the past, many states have used terrorism against opponents, but, in the case of ISIS, suicide squads focusing on soft civilian targets at home and abroad are an integral part of its war-making strategy.
- After Paris
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Some have seen the terrorism as the consequence of French foreign policy in Syria. Yet we should be wary of seeing these attacks as a response, however perverted, to French, or Western, foreign policy. The terrorists did not target symbols of the French state, or of French militarism. They did not even target tourist spots. They targeted, rather, the areas and the places where mainly young, anti-racist, multiethnic Parisians hang out. What the terrorists despised, what they tried to eliminate, were ordinary people, drinking, eating, laughing, mixing. That is what they hated - not so much the French state as the values of diversity and pluralism.
- Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Whistleblowers are always accused of helping America's enemies (top Nixon aides accused Daniel Ellsberg of being a Soviet spy and causing the deaths of Americans with his leak); it's just the tactical playbook that's automatically used. So it's of course unsurprising that ever since Edward Snowden's whistleblowing enabled newspapers around the world to report on secretly implemented programs of mass surveillance, he has been accused by "officials" and their various media allies of Helping The Terrorists.
- The Neoconservative Threat to World Order
Washington's Perilous War for Hegemony
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Paul Craig Roberts explores the extreme dangers in Washington's imposition of vassalage on other countries and Washington's resurrection of distrust among nuclear powers, the very distrust that Reagan and Gorbachev worked to eliminate. Roberts explains how the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 removed the only check on Washington's ability to act unilaterally.
- Why China's super-rich are now eager to invest in philanthropy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The country's wealthy elite chase recognition and status by splashing cash on museums and schools, but there may also be a less idealistic motive behind their largesse.
- The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham
Part II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On November 12th, 2015 the jury found Arthur Topham guilty of "inciting hate." This leads to a few questions.
- The one thing that won't stop terror is more war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Provoking retaliation is a key part of the jihadists' strategy, writes Alex Nunns - we need a different approach.
- Down With U.S. Imperialism's Anti-China Trade Pact!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If it is ratified, the TPP will be the largest trade agreement in history, encompassing at least 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product and one-third of all global trade. Japan and the more minor imperialist countries Canada and Australia have been cut in on the deal -- and competing European powers cut out -- but it is the U.S. rulers who hold the whip hand. Under the banner of "free trade," the TPP aims to drive up the exploitation of labour across the board while increasing imperialist domination of dependent countries. Above all, this agreement targets China, escalating the U.S. bourgeoisie's drive to promote capitalist counterrevolution there through economic pressure and military encirclement.
- Information is Everywhere and Everywhere We are Ignorant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An international survey of young people in the US and other countries asked 56 questions about geography and current events. The organization’s survey discovered that about 87% of Americans could not place Iraq on the map. Americans could find on average only seven of the 16 countries in the quiz. Only 71% of the surveyed Americans could locate the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest body of water.
- America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Chris McGreal reports from one of the most economically deprived places in the United States, and talks to people who are trying to cope with being left behind by the American Dream.
- A Call For A Fair Shares Agreement: Will Justice Prevail in Paris?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For most people the word justice conjures up images of superheroes and supreme courts. It seems a grand notion with little bearing on the practicalities of daily life. And when applied to the climate crisis it seems even less comprehensible. But the shocking thing about climate justice is that not only can it be calculated -- it can be achieved.
- Fightback in Korea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In a climate of increasing repression, the Park Geun-hye government in South Korea is launching the latest in its series of attacks on working people. A retrograde labour reform plan is being set in motion that promises to drive down wages and undermine job security. There is broad and determined resistance to the plan, and workers and farmers are taking the battle to the streets.
- Fossil Fuel Industry Benefits from $20 Billion in Subsidies in the U.S.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new joint investigative report by Oil Change International and the Overseas Development Institute reveals that, in the United States alone, the fossil fuel industry has benefited from over $20 billion per year in government subsidies between 2008-2015.
- Marc Morano's Climate Hustle Film Set For Paris Premiere With Same Old Denial Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Marc Morano is never short of a superlative or two, but when it has come to promoting his long-gestating documentary Climate Hustle, the climate science denialist extraodinaire has been outdoing himself.
- Environmental racism in the US - black communities fight for justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Landfill sites, giant hog farms, incinerators and other 'bad neighbor' industries in the US tend to be situated in African American communities. The Environmental Protection Agency is legally obliged to prevent 'environmental racism', but from California to Michigan, low-income communities of color have been waiting years for it to take a stand. Now, backed by Earthjustice, they are forcing the issue - in the courts.
- Lest We Forget: Tar Sands and War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over the past decade, Canada has been a war profiteer and fuel tank for the US military, who have killed well over a million people since the turn of the new millennium.
- Police Torture and the Real Militarization of Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What rights can we still say we have, if we find ourselves trapped in a military structure? A person has the right to remain silent if arrested, but one does not have the right to remain silent if approached by the police on the street with the demand that one respond. That would constitute being "uncooperative." Neither does one have the right to protect one's property from the police.
- The Wages of Whiteness is Early Death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The white working class has never had it easy in American history. It's been viciously exploited, disrespected, deceived, divided, repressed, and otherwise and generally abused from the United States' colonial origins through the present day.
- Jeremy Corbyn is right to reject Trident
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Jeremy Corbyn has come under attack yesterday for his refusal to countenance the use of nuclear weapons. But his stance is honourable and both legally and strategically correct - especially with his opposition to renewing the Trident nuclear missile system.
- Only Edward Snowden Can Save James Bond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bond is doomed because early in the movie Spectre, the otherwise benevolent Q, muttering something about nanotechnology and microchips, injects him with "smart blood."
- When We Fight, We Fuck Shit Up: Keystone XL and Delegitimizing Fossil Fuels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Keystone XL had become a household name when over 1200 people participated in two weeks of sit-ins at the White House demanding that Barack Obama reject the pipeline.
- Annex Chess Club Bonfire Swiss
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From Guy Fawkes celebrations to Irish Samhain to Indian Diwali, it is a good time of year for a bonfire! At Annex Chess Club we're lighting up Monday evenings with our Bonfire Swiss Tournament
- FAJ Condemns the Arrest and Intimidation of Three Journalists in Zimbabwe
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the Africa Group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the arrest of three journalists from The Sunday Mail in Harare, Zimbabwe on Monday, 2 November, 2015
- Health for All Welcomes Liberal Plan to Reinstate Refugee Health Care
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Health for All applauds the new federal government's pledge to fully restore the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) in response to years of public pressure. We look forward to a quick reinstatement of the original program, and hope it is a first step towards providing health coverage for everyone who is uninsured in Canada.
- How Class Kills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A recent study showing rising mortality rates among middle-aged whites drives home the lethality of class inequality.
- IFJ backs Iraqi affiliate's legal action against closure of media houses in the Kurdistan region
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today backed its Iraqi Kurdistan affiliate, the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate (KJS), and its legal action against the security forces in Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG), following the shutting down
- IFJ, EFJ and TGS demand an end to oppression of journalists in post-election Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) and their affiliate the Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) reviewed the implications for journalists and trade union rights following the victory of the Justice and Development
- The phantom election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The author criticises the elections took place on 1 November 2015 in Turkey.The ruling party AKP took away two millon votes from the fascist party MHP, one million from HDP the predominantly Kurdish party. half a million from SP a fundamentalist Islamist party, the predecessor of the AK, another million from new strata that came to vote at a higher rate this time. The author questions and attempts to explain the discrepancy between the opinion polls and the electoral results.
- Connexions Postcard
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A two-sided Connexions postcard. One side features the Connexions website; the other side features the Connexions Archive.
- Destruction of Palestinian olive trees is a monstrous crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The uprooting and cutting down of over a million olive and fruit trees in occupied Palestine since 1967 is an attack on a symbol of life, and on Palestinian culture and survival. A grave crime under international humantarian law, the arboricide is also contrary to Jewish religious teachings.
- The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham
Part I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Five security guards, members of the RCMP, two in bulletproof vests, all entrants pass through metal detectors, undergo a wand search, check all electronics including cell phones and have their bags meticulously scrutinized. Why all the security? The crown was presenting its criminal case against Arthur Topham, for the crime of "hate."
- India's Indigenous Peoples organise to protect forests, waters and commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations. But tribal communities are rising up to resist the takeover, which is not only morally reprehensible but violates India's own laws and international human rights obligations.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2015
Corporate rights treaties
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Our focus is on the corporate rights treaties that are misleadingly sold as trade agreements. In particular, the spotlight is on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The TPP is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy.
- Trade agreements and the corporate war on democracy
Introduction to the November 7, 2015 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy. It gives corporations the power to block any environmental protections or health and safety legislation that could be interpreted as interfering with a corporation's 'right' to make a profit by doing whatever it wants.
- How Law Enforcement Can Use Google Timeline To Track Your Every Move
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The recent expansion of Google's Timeline feature can provide investigators unprecedented access to users' location history data, allowing them in many cases to track a person's every move over the course of years. The expansion of Google's Timeline feature, launched in July 2015, allows investigators to request detailed information about where someone has been -- down to the longitude and latitude -- over the course of years.
- 17 Year Old Canadian Documentary Filmmaker Awarded Kim Phuc Youth Award for Peace
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kasha Sequoia Slavner, 17 year old filmmaker, writer & advocate for peace was selected as the recipient of the first ever KIM PHUC YOUTH AWARD FOR PEACE by The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, for her commitment to lead
- TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut into their profits, according to the text of the trade pact released this week.
- Trumbo
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Trumbo is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by John McNamara. The film stars Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman and Michael Stuhlbarg. The film follows the life of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and is based on the biography Dalton Trumbo by Bruce Alexander Cook.
- U.S. Journalists Who Instantly Exonerated Their Government of the Kunduz Hospital Attack, Declaring it an "Accident"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Shortly after the news broke of the U.S. attack on a Doctors without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, there was abundant evidence suggesting (not proving, but suggesting) that the attack was no accident.
- Batteries and renewables - believe the hype!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Discusses one of the biggest technological developments of our climate-stressed times: the large-scale storage of renewable energy.
- 'Let's Bring In Our Pentagon Spokesman' - Bombing Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If you want to get close to the 'defence' establishment, you better be close to the 'defence' establishment: ideologically, sympathetically, 'patriotically'.
- Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have finally released all 30 chapters of the trade deal today, a month after announcing the conclusion of the deal in Atlanta. Some of the more dangerous threats to the public's rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter. Now that the entire agreement is published, we can see how other chapters of the agreement contain further harmful rules that undermine our rights online and over our digital devices and content.
- 'Worse Than We Thought': TPP A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On issues ranging from climate change to food safety, from open Internet to access to medicines, the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) is a disaster.
- The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stromberg provides a historical overview of how jaywalking was pushed to become a crime by automotive companies in order to normalize the reign of automobiles over pedestrians in the streets.
- How California police are tracking your biometric data in the field
Agencies are using mobile fingerprint scanners, tattoo and facial recognition software
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
EFF and MuckRock got together to reveal how state and local law enforcement agencies are using mobile biometric technology in the field by filing public records requests around the country. Thousands of pages of documents were obtained from more than 30 agencies.
- How Zionism's brutality reaches from Gaza's beaches to US academia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Read one way, Steven Salaita's new book is about lies and children. (Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom by Steven Salaita, Haymarket Books). There are the persistent lies about Israel's continued attacks on Palestinians, and in particular its lies about how it kills children.
- Secular publisher hacked to death in Bangladesh by religious group
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) deplores the brutal murder of a secular publisher in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Saturday October 31, 2015.
- Senior journalist gunned down in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in strongly condemning the killing of senior tribal journalist in the Tank district of Khyber Pahktunkhwa province in Pakistan on November 3, 2015.
- The Anti-Empire Report #140
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Are you confused by the Middle East? Here are some things you should know. (But you'll probably still be confused.)
- Climate change: It's going to take a revolution
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new video by Suhail Ilyas: The growing strength of the climate movement around the world gives us great hope, but it's going to take a revolution to make the world inhabitable for future generations.
- How one of the most obese countries on earth took on the soda giants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As debate rages about whether to introduce a sugar tax, this is the story of how Mexico defied its own powerful fizzy drinks industry to impose a tax on soda.
- Red Rosa
A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
- Special Focus: Israeli Occupying Forces Assault Journalists in the OPT
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As Israeli violations escalate against Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), journalists and media professionals have also been the subjects of Israeli attacks.
- Stop & search app will 'hold police to account'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Individuals who are stopped and searched by police will now be able to record and report their experience using a new app designed to hold officers to account.
- White Poppy Campaign distribution
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace will distribute free White Poppies in Toronto on Sunday, November 9, 2015 at the corner of King and John Streets from 1pm - 1:30pm. Members will be making white poppies at our conference events this weekend.
- How will we get to an ecological civilization?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Capitalism's infrastructure, which is designed to dominate nature, cannot simply be taken over and used for an ecological transformation. Only a complete, root-and-branch change will do the job.
- Terrorizing School Children in the American Police State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Americans live in an age, to rephrase, W.E.B. Dubois, in which violence has become the problem of the twenty-first century. As brutalism comes to shape every public encounter, democratic values and the ethical imagination wither under the weight of neoliberal capitalism and post-racial racism.
- Anti-Capitalism and Queer Liberation
Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Peter Drucker's Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism.
- The Art of Carnage
Nothing But the Clouds Unchanged: Artists in World War I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Gordon Hughes' and Philipp Blom' Nothing But the Clouds Unchanged: Artists in World War I.
- BLM: A Movement and Its Critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Recent studies, once again, show that being Black makes life more difficult than for those with white skin. It is more difficult to get good paying jobs, education and housing (even for those with equal or better qualifications than whites). Blacks pay more for loans than whites, even if they have higher incomes.
- Bombast Bursting in Air
The story, so far, of the 2016 election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An essay on the 2016 election as a money-driven spectacle.
- Can Chicago Teachers Win Again?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Three years ago Chicago teachers defied the corporate-led attack on public education and went on a successful strike, widely supported by the public and parents, to support public education in all neighborhoods of the city.
- China's villages revive
A few migrants have begun to return from China's cities to its neglected countryside, and have been joined by artists and advocates of
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look at a movement towards rural reconstruction in China, which has gained fresh impetus from an economic slowdown as well as poorer urban living conditions and pollution.
- Chomsky and His Critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Noam Chomsky on ISIS, his foreign policy critics, and why socialist ideas are "never far below the surface."
- Down on the disappearing bayou
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look at the destruction of wetlands along the Louisiana Coast as a result of rising sea levels and the practices of the hydrocarbon industry.
- Global Lessons of A Catastrophe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is doubtful that Syria as a country will survive in anything like its pre-war form, that the millions of its citizens who have fled will have a place to return, or even whether seven million internally displaced Syrians will be able to remain.
- Help IFEX mark 2 November by saying 'No' to Impunity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
2 November marks the United Nations International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. Currently, 9 out of 10 cases of journalist killings go unsolved and unpunished. This leads to a culture of impunity where critical voices are silenced
- Hitler Wasn't Inevitable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials is cause to reflect on the forces that failed to halt Nazism’s rise.
- How to Promote a Just Transition and Break out of the jobs vs. environment trap
A Superfund for Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A strategy has been emerging to protect workers and communities whose livelihoods may be threatened by climate protection policies. Protecting those who lose their jobs due to necessary environmental policies has often been referred to as a "just transition."
- Incarceration and Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book reviews of Dan Berger's two works Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era and The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States.
- Insurance and the orgin of big data
Between the ledger and the computer was the card index - the basis of the mass commodification of personal insurance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A historical look at the origins of 'Big Data' and the collection of personal information by corporate America in the early 20th century.
- A Memoir of Life in Struggle
Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir, Volume One, Canada 1955-1965
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Ernest Tate's Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir, Volume One, Canada 1955-1965.
- Moral Combat: The Right to Vote
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In June 2013, substantial sections of the Voters' Rights Act of 1965 - a promise to African Americans that they could finally register and vote without fear of intimidation, retaliation, violence, and death - had expired. They were in fact those protective provisions put in place after hundreds in the South were killed in the name of voter suppression.
- Police Unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic
Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015).
- A Response on Trotsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Paul Le Blanc's reponse to Alan Wald's book review of his work on Leon Trostsky.
- Review Essay: Reaching for Revolution
Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Howard Brick's and Christopher Phelpss Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War.
- The Search for Negative Evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Everyone loves a mystery. Solve one in science, and accolades are forthcoming. Not so, however, in the realm of the paranormal, where evidence, logic, and theories are often stood on their heads. Whereas forensic scientists, say, begin with the evidence and let it lead to the most likely solution to a mystery, "parascientists" typically begin with the desired answer and work backward to the evidence, employing confirmation bias: They look for that which seems to confirm their prior-held belief and seek to discredit whatever -- or whoever -- would argue against it.
- A System That Makes You Breakable
Between the World and Me
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me.
- Teachers in the Crosshairs
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession.
- U.S. Workers and Puerto Rico's Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Puerto Rico has been in the news lately, particularly the financial news. The possibility that its government may default on part of its $73 billion public debt has drawn the attention of Wall Street analysts.
- When Marxism is Kids' Stuff
Little Red Readings: Historical Materialist Approaches to Children's Literature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Angela Huber's Little Red Readings: Historical Materialist Approaches to Children's Literature.
- When Radicals Beat the Two-Party System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, you cannot vote for peace, justice, and environmental sanity within a system predicated on serving the war industry, the wage system sustained by the prison-industrial complex, and deliberate obliviousness to the natural world. Slavery presented the abolitionists with exactly the same problem.
- The end of carding?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Ontario government has announced that it intends to bring in regulations to stop the police practice of stopping people at random and demanding their information. Of course this form of harassment, known as "carding" in Ontario, is far from random: everyone knows who is likely to be stopped, and what the colour of their skin is likely to be.
- IFJ and EFJ condemn UK police for using anti-terror laws to seize journalist's laptop
Sources News Release
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The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) joined their member union in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the National of Journalists (NUJ), to condemn the use by the UK police of special powers under the Terrorism Act
- IFJ launches Strengthening Media in the Pacific report
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has launched Strengthening Media in the Pacific - an insight into the media landscape and working conditions for media workers in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
- IFJ welcomes release of Iranian journalist and repeats its appeal for freedom of association in Iran
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes the release of journalist and Association of Iranian journalists (AoIJ)'s board member Aliezra Rajaee on 26 October.
- Police storm opposition media outlets four days ahead of Turkish elections
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Reporters Without Borders condemns an all-out government offensive against a media group whose parent company, Koza Ipek Holding, is owned by an ally of Fethullah Gülen, an influential Muslim preacher who once backed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Pumpkins are food!
Sources News Release
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What is really unfortunate about the tradition of pumpkin carving is the waste of food as the vast majority of these pumpkins are destined for destruction. Pumpkin is a highly nutritious vegetable. The seeds and the flesh are packed with vitamins &
- Radicalising the rank and file
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A discussion with U.S. labour historian Kim Moody focusing on the labour movement and rebuilding workplace organisation.
- RSF calls for the UN to appoint a Special Representative for the Safety of Journalists
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is launching a call to the UN to take concrete action by creating the position of a Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for the Safety of Journalists
- Saudi king urged to pardon Sakharov Prize laureate
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its appeal to Saudi Arabia's King Salman to pardon Raif Badawi, a Saudi blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison who has just been awarded the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov
- Second Indian journalist killed this month
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the murder of an Indian journalist in Bihar in northern India on October 24. The IFJ demand immediate action from the Indian government to end the attacks and violence against the country's
- Syrian citizen-journalist murdered in Turkey
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Reporters Without Borders calls on the Turkish government to do everything possible to identify those responsible for murdering Syrian citizen-journalist Ibrahim Abd al-Qader in the southeastern city of Sanliurfa, where he had lived as a refugee
- Dark Humor: Western Media Makes Light of Political Repression in Ukraine
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Political repression and violence are allegedly incompatible with Western liberal democratic values. Respect for human rights, freedom of expression, and protection of the rights of minorities are all purportedly the hallmarks of "free societies," the goals toward which all nations should be striving. And yet, such standards of freedom and democracy are only selectively applied, and only when beneficial to the Western (US-UK-EU-NATO) agenda.
- EU-Canada CETA trade deal is a back door for US to sue EU - even if TTIP fails
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There's been a big fuss about the 'ISDS' clauses in the TTIP trade deal that would allow US corporations to sue the EU and its member states for 'lost profits', writes Maude Barlow. But ISDS is already in CETA, the already negotiated EU-Canada trade deal - and nothing would be easier than for US companies to use it as their 'back door'. We must make sure CETA is rejected at its final hurdle.
- The German Left and the Weimar Republic
A Selection of Documents
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The German Left and the Weimar Republic illuminates the history of the political left by presenting a wide range of documents on various aspects of socialist and communist activity in Germany. Separate chapters deal with the policy of Social Democracy in and out of government, the attempts of the Communist Party to overthrow the Weimar Republic, and then later to support it. Later chapters move away from the political scene to deal with the attitudes of the parties to key social issues, in particular questions of gender and sexuality.
- Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
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Fire is raging across the 5,000km length of Indonesia.It is hard to convey the scale of this inferno, but here’s a comparison that might help: it is currently producing more carbon dioxide than the US economy. And in three weeks the fires have released more CO2 than the annual emissions of Germany.
- Do Indian Lives Matter? Police Violence Against Native Americans
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With all our talk about police violence aimed at poor and minority communities, we have yet to talk about the group most likely to be killed by law enforcement: Native Americans.
Native American men are incarcerated at four times the rate of white men and Native American women are sent to prison at six times the rate of white women.
- Indigenous peoples in Latin America fight to safeguard their knowledge
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Equal Times met up with William Park just a few months after he had completed a project of mammoth proportions: a 500-page encyclopaedia compiling, in collaboration with the community, a large portion of their medical knowledge. "The aim is to help the community to preserve and pass on their knowledge without it being pillaged by foreign businesses. If they decide to share it one day, that is their choice. It isn't up to us to decide for them," explains the specialist in sustainable agriculture.
- What is Nonviolence Anyhow?
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What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it? A kindergarten teacher is nonviolent when she puts a vase of fresh flowers on her desk and smiles at her little students, right? A young man who publicly refuses to be drafted during an invasion of another country is nonviolent, certainly. How about an old man who writes a letter to the editor arguing for peace on Earth?
- Why Is The Daily Beast's Russia Critic Silent About So Many Hideous Abuses?
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A comprehensive review by The Intercept of the writings of Sam Charles Hamad - author of this Daily Beast article accusing the "global left" of remaining "silent" on abuses by Russia - reveals that he has been completely silent, shockingly and appallingly so, about the following wide array of severe global injustices, never once writing about, let alone condemning...
- Workers of America, Unite! Racism is a Trade Union Issue
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The American working class is the most powerful in the world, is the most productive in the world and we operate the largest and most profitable economy in the world. American workers are also represented by national unions that have the most resources, the biggest staffs and the largest bank accounts, greater than any other trade unions in the world. Yet, without question, American labour is politically the weakest in the world among the large economies, largely because we remain so violently divided.
- Are Myanmar secret agents still playing 'dirty tricks'?
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Al Jazeera investigates whether crushing dissent and monitoring the opposition has continued after military rule.
- Canada-wide migrant worker coalition calls on Trudeau to MoVE for Real Change
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Canada-wide migrant worker coalition calls on Trudeau to MoVE for Real Change. Newly launched Coalition for Migrant Worker Rights - Canada calls for end to discrimination against migrant workers.
- 'Freedom of the Seas' Means American Global Hegemony
The US should stay out of the South China Sea dispute
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There ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough to keep us from our sacred duty to protect the world from itself. From the South China Sea to the shores of the Black Sea, America stands guard over Freedom. This tweet from Foreign Policy magazine, the organ of the Council on Foreign Relations, states our mission bluntly: "The Obama administration will finally send a destroyer to uphold freedom of navigation in the South China Sea."
- 'I Would Have Refused Such An Order' - Former RAF Pilot Gives His View of US Bombing Of MSF Hospital In Kunduz
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In our previous media alert, 'Sick Sophistry', we examined media coverage of the deliberate US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on October 3, 2015. In particular, we exposed the BBC's Pentagon-friendly reporting of the hospital as having been 'mistakenly' bombed.
- Inside the Sensational Business of "Rescuing" Sex Workers
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For years, the sex worker movement has been at odds with a conservative wing of the anti-human trafficking movement.
- 'Strong evidence' of genocide in Myanmar
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Al Jazeera investigation reveals government triggered deadly communal violence for political gain.
- UN General Assembly in One Voice (Almost) Rejects U.S. Cuban Blockade
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The United Nations General Assembly on October 27, 2015 voted on a Cuban resolution calling for "an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba." Approval was all but unanimous: 191 nations voted in favour and two voted against, the United States and Israel. There were no abstentions for the first time since the voting on the resolution began in 1992.
- Why Exxon Executives Deserve the Ultimate Punishment
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In a series of articles based on internal documents from Exxon Mobil going back to the 1970s and on interviews with former company scientists and employees, ICN shows that Exxon's "own research confirmed fossil fuels' role in global warming decades ago." Yes, decades ago -- during the late 1970s to be precise.
- Women for Peace Applaud Prime Minister Designate Trudeau
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We applaud the decision of Prime Minister Designate Trudeau to withdraw from Syria the six Canadian fighter jets. We strongly encourage you to re-align Canada's responses to violent conflict, threats of war, and war with actions grounded in the Uni
- Corporations Undermined Public Transportation
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Over the past eighteen months two of the world's largest automakers have been found responsible for deadly conspiracies. But, recent revelations can’t compete with the industry's previous scandals.
- Corporations Undermined Public Transportation
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Engler analyzes the largest conspiracies committed by automotive manufacturing companies, specifically General Motors' role in eliminating the trolley as America's most used form of public transportation.
- The Deciders
The disastrous Iraq policies that led to ISIS were not President Bush's
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In May 2003, in the wake of the Iraq War and the ousting of Saddam Hussein, events took place that set the stage for the current chaos in the Middle East. Yet even most well-informed Americans are unaware of how policies implemented by mid-level bureaucrats during the Bush administration unwittingly unleashed forces that would ultimately lead to the juggernaut of the Islamic State.
- EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software
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The Librarian of Congress has granted security researchers and others the right to inspect and modify the software in their cars and other vehicles, despite protests from vehicle manufacturers.
- The fight again tar sands is about more than the environment
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Indigenous rights defender Eriel Deranger explains how the struggle against tar sands mining is about protecting her people's rights and culture.
- IFJ launches 2015 global campaign to end impunity for crimes against journalists
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has launched its annual global campaign to hold world governments and de facto authorities accountable for impunity records for crimes targeting journalists.
- IFJ welcomes action plan on media safety from the international gathering on Yemen
Sources News Release
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A one-day international meeting agreed on an action plan to address the horrific situation facing journalists in Yemen.
- Journalists threatened and news website hacked in the Maldives
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The International Federation of Journalists strongly criticizes the hacking of Maldivian news website, Addu Live, and the threats made against its journalists. The IFJ calls on the Maldivian government to condemn the threats and ensure the safety
- 'Like a poison': how anti-immigrant Pegida is dividing Dresden
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A year since its launch, German protest group has evolved into slick operation whose polarising rhetoric is increasingly blamed for attacks on refugees.
- Lockdown: the end of growth in the tar sands
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Climate change is here and now. And if world leaders had heeded scientific warnings 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, or even as recently as the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 -- it's possible we would be well on our way to securing the decarbonized future that the world desperately needs.
- MEAA concerned by media restrictions on asylum seeker policy
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) in raising strong concerns about the media restrictions that surround Australia's asylum seeker policy and its offshore immigration detention centres.
- Netanyahu: Have You No Shame?
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Israel’s Prime Minister attributing the Holocaust to Palestinian influence over Hitler is a "Blood Libel" level lie.
- NYT Hypes Russian Threat to the Internet
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As if Americans didn't already have enough to worry about in regards to the recently resurrected Red Menace, we can now add the fear that those devious Russians are threatening to -- horror of horrors -- bring down the Internet.
- On Israel's colonial narrative
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Analysis: Palestinian novelist Susan Abulhawa deconstructs Israel's insidious language of power.
- The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors
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Last week Biloxi, Mississippi became the latest city to be sued by the ACLU for running a "modern-day debtors’ prison."
- The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors
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The criminal justice system has increasingly become the preferred way to fund city governments in the modern neoliberal nightmare that is the United States. The police target the poor for petty infractions that produce fines. When predictably these fines cannot be paid additional fines are piled on top and the person is thrown in prison.
- Putin's Question and the Ambassador's Answer
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A fascinating, if brief, verbal exchange recently took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1987 – 1991), Jack Matlock.
- Robert Lepage virtual-reality show fetes 10th birthday of the Grande Bibliothèque
Inspired by author Alberto Manguel's The Library at Night, Lepage uses Oculus Rift for immersive adventure
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In what Robert Lepage calls the most ambitious use of Oculus Rift virtual-reality technology to date, a new exhibition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Montreal's Grande Bibliothèque takes visitors on a tour of ten of the world's most interesting libraries.
Inspired by writer Alberto Manguel's book, The Library at Night, Lepage worked with the theme of the night to create virtual visits of libraries.
- Saudi Warplanes Destroy MSF Hospital in Yemen
At Least Two Staff Hurt in Attacks
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Adding to concerns about Saudi attacks on civilians in Yemen, an overnight air raid against the capital city of Sanaa pounded a residential district, hitting several homes, a girl's school, and destroying a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital. MSF reported the facility was struck multiple times and left in "wreckage."
- Threatening email orders Bangladeshi media to fire women
Sources News Release
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Reporters Without Borders condemns the threats against news media and bloggers contained in a email that was sent to a score of Bangladeshi print and broadcast media outlets on 19 October, and calls on the authorities to take concrete measures
- The "War Scare" in the Kremlin, Revisited: Is History Repeating Itself?
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The Washington Post on October 25, 2015 published an important story based on a recently-published U.S. intelligence review from 1990 that confirmed Soviet leaders in 1983 believed the Reagan administration was using a mobilization exercise to prepare a nuclear surprise attack.
- 'Yes, I Lied': Vindicating Villagers, Star Chevron Witness Busted for Perjury
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Chevron has taken the people of Ecuador and the U.S. court system on a ride, full of lies, deliberate delay, and obstruction of justice, says Amazon Watch.
- New Evidence Shows Main Chevron Witness Lied In $9.5 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit
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A key witness has admitted under oath that he lied on behalf of Chevron, the California oil multinational, when the company sued to overturn a $9.5 billion verdict for pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
- The Okinawa missiles of October
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John Bordne, a resident of Blakeslee, Pennsylvania, had to keep a personal history to himself for more than five decades. Only recently has the US Air Force given him permission to tell the tale, which, if borne out as true, would constitute a terrifying addition to the lengthy and already frightening list of mistakes and malfunctions that have nearly plunged the world into nuclear war.
- The Passing of Bhaskar Save
What The 'Green Revolution' Did for India
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Bhaskar Save died on 24 October 2015 at age 93. Emphasising self-reliance at the farm/village level, Save was regarded as the 'Gandhi of natural farming'.
- The True Costs of Driving
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Cortright highlights the costs behind building and maintaining roads as well as what part of public taxes fund such an expensive venture.
- Hebron Activist Who Died of Tear Gas Showed Israel's Crimes to the World
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Hebron resident and anti-occupation activist Hashem al-Azzeh died Wednesday after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces.
- In 1983 'war scare', Soviet leadership feared nuclear surprise attack by U.S.
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A nuclear weapons command exercise by NATO in November 1983 prompted fear in the leadership of the Soviet Union that the maneuvers were a cover for a nuclear surprise attack by the United States, triggering a series of unparalleled Soviet military responses, according to a top-secret U.S. intelligence review that has just been declassified.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 24, 2015
Whistleblowers and national security
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This issue sheds light whistleblowers and the murky world of national security. Governments may often pay lip service to the importance of protecting whistleblowers, but in reality they are almost always persecuted. Repercussions can range from being fired to being imprisoned.
- The U.S. Army Lost Track of 27 Ballistic Missiles
Military didn't know old Lance rockets were in storage igloos in Alabama
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For 30 years starting in 1962, the U.S. Army deployed Lance ballistic missiles in Europe. Twenty feet long and weighing a ton and a half, an atomic-tipped Lance could zoom 75 miles at Mach 3 and explode with a force of up to 100 kilotons of TNT. The Army retired its last Lances in 1992 … and ultimately lost track of 27 of them at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
- By Accepting Chinese Censorship of Domains, Registry xyz.com Invites More
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First Published: 2015
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Industry news site Domain Incite has reported that this puts perhaps close to 12,000 banned words and expressions onto the blacklist, thereby preventing terms such as the Chinese words for 'democracy' and 'human rights' from being registered within any of the company's top-level domains"
- Israel Calls a Man Its Soldiers Killed a 'Terrorist': Until They Realized He Was an Israeli Jew
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The Jerusalem Post today describes the killing of a man by two IDF soldiers after, the soldiers claim, he was acting erratically and tried to grab one of their guns. When he was fatally shot by the IDF, says the paper, he was "believed to be an Arab terrorist." As it turns out, he was not an Arab Palestinian but rather an Israeli Jew. Upon learning this, the "terrorist" designation was officially and "immediately" rescinded.
- 'Radical Academia: Beyond the Audit Culture Treadmill'
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First Published: 2015
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It was not just in economics that the radicals retreated; it happened in all the social sciences and humanities. And not just because of political timidity; they had been outflanked. Knowledge production had changed in ways that disadvantaged radicals.
- Why Is Benjamin Netanyahu Trying To Whitewash Hitler?
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First Published: 2015
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Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly asserted that Adolf Hitler had no intention of exterminating Europe's Jews until a Palestinian persuaded him to do it.
- Why the Left Isn't Talking About Rural American Poverty
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Within the popular American conscience there are two favoured focal points for discussing the problem of poverty. The first is within the urban, inner city context and the second is the poverty of the Global South: Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the rest of the developing world. What seldom gets talked about -- and when it is, often with irreverent humor and contempt -- is the poverty of rural America, particularly rural white America: Appalachia, the Ozarks, the Mississippi Delta, the Dakotas, the Rio Grande Valley, the Cotton Belt. So why is the poverty of rural America largely unexamined, even avoided?
- Before Parliament Hill attack, RCMP got 3 warnings, reduced patrols
Documents show Mounties reduced patrols prior to shootings, despite 3 separate warnings
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Mounties received at least three warnings of potential terrorist attacks on uniformed officers before last year's shootings on Parliament Hill, yet the RCMP wound down extra patrols around the parliamentary precinct just days before the tragedy, newly disclosed documents show.
- Canadians Choose a Clean Start: Bury the Tar Sands Along With Harper's Tenure
Sources News Release
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The ousting of the Conservative Government from Ottawa by the Canadian public in Monday's election is also a repudiation of the continued, unrestrained development of the Athabasca tar sands.
- Confronting the Ecological Emergency
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First Published: 2015
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In April 2014, two different teams of American glaciologists, specialists in the Antarctic, reached -- by different methods, based on observation -- the same conclusion: because of global warming, a portion of the ice sheet has begun to dislocate, and this dislocation is irreversible.
- Global Investment Funds Leaders Plan to Unleash Growth Opportunities
Sources News Release
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RIO DE JANEIRO - October 21, 2015 - Leaders of the global investment funds industry gathered in Rio de Janeiro this week to discuss recent trends in local and regional markets and consider the new drivers of growth for investment funds worldwide.
- No to 'Climate Smart Agriculture', yes to agroecology
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First Published: 2015
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Climate Smart Agriculture sounds like a great idea. But in truth it's a PR front for international agribusiness to promote corporate agriculture, pesticides and fertilisers at COP21, with a heavy dose of greenwash. Countries must resist the siren calls - and give their support to true agroecology that sustains soil, health, life and climate.
- On the Defeat of Megan Leslie & Peter Stoffer
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What happened on Monday is proof of how divorced from reality we are. Progressives, radicals, the Left, whatever you call the people who believe in and strive for deep social change - we are disconnected from the majority of people. We are insulated in our communities of like-minded activists, surrounded by people with similar beliefs and thoughts.
- Twenty-First-Century Fascism: Private Military Companies in Service to the Transnational Capitalist Class
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Globalization of trade and central banking have propelled private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural demands for a return on investment require an unending expansion of centralized capital in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
- Catastrophe: The NDP lost because it deserved to
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First Published: 2015
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It is, ultimately, astounding how facile and false political narratives come back to haunt those who insist on their veracity.
- Sick Sophistry: BBC News On Afghan Hospital "Mistakenly" Bombed by United States
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One of the defining features of the corporate media is that Western crimes are ignored or downplayed. The US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on the night of October 3, 2015, is an archetypal example.
- The Syrianisation of Turkey
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First Published: 2015
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On 10 October 2015 hundreds of thousands people marching in the streets of Ankara in solidarity with Kurdish people and to stop the civil war were struck with two bombs, which exploded and killed a hundred people and hundreds wounded. In this article the author questions Erdogan's policies over Syria such as finding an excuse to send the Turkish military into Syria, setting up home-grown Islamist militia forces to keep Erdogan in power, to help warring Sunni militia groups in Syria always bear a risk of Syrianisation of Turkey.
- Tony Mazzocchi Lives: Blue-Green Organizer Takes Up 'Just Transition' Mantle
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Union and environmental activist Alex Lotorto believes environmentalists should be working more closely with organized labour and following the advice of some of labour's more enlightened leaders.
- The Useful Altruists: How NGOs Serve Capitalism and Imperialism
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
NGOs are far from revolutionary organizations, but many of us would think that their work still seems more helpful than not. Political differences with them aside, it seems dogmatic to denounce free health care and anti-poverty programs. Short of more radical measures, NGOs seem to serve an important interim function. In fact, though, it can be argued that many NGOs are destructive, both in their current work and in their preclusion of an alternative future beyond the capitalist present. They undermine, divert, and replace autonomous organizing and erase working class struggle and organizing.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for September 2015
Sources News Release
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Toronto, ON - October 19, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending September 30, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.19 trillion.
- Remembering Rosalyn Baxandall
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Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall was a pioneering figure of socialist feminism in the United States.
- Who, or What, Is Behind Postmedia's Election Endorsements?
When hedge funds own newspapers, it's difficult to know
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Did thoughtful editors at Postmedia's daily newspapers across Canada consider the needs of their communities and then unanimously decide to endorse the Conservatives in election editorials?
- The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fair-and-balanced Fox News reported on Wednesday that "Cuban military operatives reportedly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe they are advising President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers and may be preparing to man Russian-made tanks to aid Damascus in fighting rebel forces backed by the U.S." Fox's claim of an imaginary enemy alliance relies on two sources: the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and an anonymous U.S. official.
- Vietnam: From National Liberation to Trans-Pacific Vassalage 1975-2015
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 1975 the people of Vietnam successfully ended one of the longest and bloodiest anti-colonial wars in world-history – defeating the US, the world's biggest imperial power, after 20 years of struggle.
- Australia: Journalists' sources under threat with data retention regime
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) in condemning the commencement of new data retention laws in Australia.
- Forty years on: Balibo victims remembered with scholarship
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) today, commemorate the 40th anniversary of the killing of the Balibo Five in East Timor, with the establishment of a scholarship
- Freedom of information essential for peace in Turkey
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
At a time of alarming developments centred on the Kurdish issue, Reporters Without Borders is publishing a report exploring the relationship between this issue and media freedom in Turkey.
- The Harper Years: Tough Times For Reporters In Canada
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As federal elections will be held in Canada on October 19, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reviews the evolution of freedom of the press and information during Prime Minister Stephen Harper's tenure. It is not a pretty picture.
- Why Hillary Won the Debate (Even though She Didn't)
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
CNN and Facebook co-sponsored last week’s Democratic presidential frontrunners' "debate." After the event, CNN conducted a poll. "Who won the debate?" it asked. The result: 83% Bernie Sanders; 12% Hillary Clinton.
- The Black Panthers: Movie Review
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With its powerful archival footage and interviews with former Black Panther Party members, Stanley Nelson’s documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution reopens a chapter of black history that has long been distorted, hated and feared by the racist rulers of America.
- Canada Should 'Get Tough' on Political Crimes, Say Watchdogs
Four needed crackdowns, starting with illegal surveillance and electoral crime.
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Published: 2015
A new round of Conservative Party advertisements return to a familiar tough-on-crime refrain.
- Leninism vs. Debs's Socialist Party
The Communist Fight Against Black Oppression
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Articles by Eugene Debs, written as polemics against racists within the Socialist Party, are eloquent in defending black people against racism, in calling for working-class unity across racial lines and in emphasizing that the Socialist Party should open its ranks to black people. In "The Negro in the Class Struggle," Debs stressed, "The history of the Negro in the United States is a history of crime without a parallel." Debs stands out favorably against most of his contemporaries in the labor movement -- including within the SP. Debs's writing remains a powerful denunciation of white workers' racism. Debs recognized that black oppression, rather than making white workers privileged, degrades them, thus providing a refutation of the later concept of "white skin privilege."
- Russia's Fantasy "Stray Missiles," America's Real Ones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Even to those who do not watch closely it has to be apparent that Washington's vast disinformation machine is finally out of control, seriously awry, or desperate.
- Snowden and Ellsberg hail leak of drone documents from new whistleblower
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
American whistleblowers hailed the release of a collection of classified documents about US drone warfare as a blow on behalf of transparency and human rights. The documents anchored a multi-part report by the Intercept on the Defense Department assassination program in Yemen and Somalia.
- Study Reveals Corporate Media's Refusal to Acknowledge Civilian Victims of US Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Mainstream media outlets are systematically disregarding the hazardous health impacts of widespread U.S. military burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby playing a direct role in "legitimating the environmental injustices of war," a harrowing new scholarly report concludes.
- Videos Challenge Israeli Police Account of Shootings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It has been called the "smartphone intifada". After a sharp escalation in violence between Palestinians and Israelis in recent weeks, shocking scenes captured on video have spread across social media.
- The Assassination Complex
Secret military documents expose the inner workings of Obama's drone wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There has been intense focus on the technology of remote killing, but that often serves as a surrogate for what should be a broader examination of the state's power over life and death.
- Elections Canada bungled its investigation of Michael Sona and the 2011 robocall scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Because the 'robocalls' fraud of Canada's 2011 federal election was insufficiently investigated by state authorities and underreported by the corporate media, Canadians have yet to understand its scale, focus, and impact.
- FDA Nominee Helped Medical Industry Find and Pay Faculty for "Regulatory Consulting"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dr. Robert Califf, whose nomination by President Obama to lead the Food and Drug Administration has come under scrutiny over his extensive ties to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, previously directed a business that specializes in helping health care companies hire faculty members and other academic researchers to influence regulatory decisions.
- Find, Fix, Finish
For the Pentagon, creating an architecture of assassination meant navigating a turf war with the CIA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Obama was urged by Michael Hayden, the CIA director, and his counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to adopt small footprint counterterrorism operations and drone strikes. In one briefing, Hayden told Obama that covert action was the only way to confront al Qaeda and other terrorist groups plotting attacks against the U.S.
- Firing Blind
Flawed Intelligence and the Limits of Drone Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Classified Pentagon documents reveal that the U.S. military has faced "critical shortfalls" in the technology and intelligence it uses to find and kill suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia.
- The Fog of Intelligence
Or How to Be Eternally "Caught Off Guard" in the Greater Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The phrase "the fog of war" stands in for the inability of commanders to truly grasp what's happening in the chaos that is any battlefield. Perhaps it's time to introduce a companion phrase: the fog of intelligence.
- The Kill Chain
The lethal bureaucracy behind Obama's drone war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Secret military documents offer documentary evidence of the process by which the Obama administration creates and acts on its kill lists in Yemen and Somalia.
- The Life and Death of Objective Peckham
Stripped of British citizenship and killed by an American drone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Documentation of the final years of Bilal el-Berjawi's life, a British-Lebanese citizen suspected of being a terrorist. The story raises questions about the British government's role in the targeted assassination of its citizens, and provides an insight into covert U.S. military actions.
- Manhunting in the Hindu Kush
Civilian casualties and strategic failures in America's longest war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
U.S. military forces set out to destroy the Taliban and al Qaeda forces that remained hidden in Hindu Kush. Dubbed Operation Haymaker, the campaign has been described as a potential model for the future of American warfare. Devereaux explains how this looks.
- Target Africa
The U.S. military's expanding footprint in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. military has engaged in a largely covert effort to extend across Africa with a network of low-profile camps. These facilities allow U.S. forces to surveil and operate on large areas of the continent and to strike targets with drones and manned aircraft.
- A Visual Glossary
Decoding the language of covert warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Along with illustrations, Begley explains some of the terminology employed in the drone warfare.
- Back-Talk from the "Old Stock"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper has been talking recently about "old stock" Canadians -- and at the same time stirring up fear and loathing against more recent arrivals in this country, notably those of Muslim faith, in order to mobilize electoral support for his Conservative Party.
- Rosalyn Baxandall, Feminist Historian and Activist dies at 76
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rosalyn Baxandall, a feminist historian who was among the first to bring scholarly attention to the historical role of women in the workplace and to expand the meaning of "women's work," has died.
- Human Rights Watch investigator among those attacked by Israeli forces
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"We didn't see any soldiers near us. That's why we felt safe. No one was throwing rocks or anything. Soldiers just started shooting."
- Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the age of information, companies are hungry for your data. They want it - even if it means resorting to trickery.
- The strange death of the antiwar movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After over 14 years of unending US wars of aggression waged in the name of fighting terrorism, humanitarian intervention and promoting "democracy," the threat posed to mankind by the eruption of American militarism has never been so acute.
- Top 1 percent own more than half of world's wealth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new report issued by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse finds that global wealth inequality continues to worsen and has reached a new milestone, with the top 1 percent owning more of the world’s assets than the bottom 99 percent combined. Of the estimated $250 trillion in global assets, the top 1 percent owned almost exactly 50 percent, while the bottom 50 percent of humanity owned collectively less than 1 percent. The richest 10 percent owned 87.7 percent of the world's wealth, leaving 12.3 percent for the bottom 90 percent of the population.
- Whoa Canada
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Afghan media respond to Taliban threats against TV channels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In an alarming statement published on the group's website on Monday 12 October, 2015, the Taliban said the two TV channels are legitimate targets and no employee, anchor, office, news team or reporter associated with either station is safe henceforth.
- All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement.
- GOP Creates Perverse Online Voter Registration, Making It Harder for People to Vote
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The bill will ultimately reduce voting by senior citizens, people with disabilities and minorities.
- Horrid Carcass of Indonesia - 50 Years After the Coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Indonesia has matured into perhaps the most corrupt country on Earth, and possibly into the most indoctrinated and compassionless place anywhere under the sun.
- How Dogs Forge a Bond with Rio's Homeless That Is Life-Saving for Both
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Homelessness in Rio is, in many ways, virtually identical to how it manifests in other large cities: it entails unimaginable material and emotional deprivation, hopelessness, societal invisibility, and utter isolation. But one aspect of Rio's homeless population stands out: A huge number of them have dogs that were previously living as desperate, unwanted strays on the street.
- In the Matter of the International Community v Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In its first full week of a "new" get tough policy, almost 500 young Palestinian demonstrators were injured, shot and maimed, and at least three teens murdered in response to what Israel sees as a rising tide of "militant" resistance against the illegally occupied and, by now, almost completely annexed West Bank.
- Israel is a Terrorist State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned.
- Manipulating Reality: Facebook is Listening to You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One thing we have become all too used to is that our reality can be manipulated to create the appearance of something else entirely. Invading another country is defensive, rigged elections are passed off as democracy in action, more guns (or more nuclear weapons) ensure the peace, trade and foreign investment increase jobs at home. Orwellian logic has become commonplace.
- The Politics of Prisons and Prisoners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
They are getting ready to activate another super-max prison. Like Pelican Bay, Marion, and Florence, this prison will be dedicated to holding people in solitary confinement. They say it is for "the worst of the worst" , but we know it refers to political prisoners.
- US Dispatched a Murderous AC-130 Airborne Gunship to Attack a Hospital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Evidence continues to mount that the US committed a monstrous war crime in attacking and destroying a fully operational hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on the night of Oct. 3, 2015, killing at least 22 people including at least 12 members of the volunteer medical staff of Medicine Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), the French based international aid organization that operated the hospital.
- Why NGOs and Leftish Nonprofits Suck (4 Reasons)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
NGOs have proliferated like mushrooms all over the world. First deployed in social formations dominated by imperialism, they've now taken over the political scene in capital's base countries as well. They've become the hot new form of capital accumulation, with global reach and billions in revenue. So while ostensibly "non-profit," they serve as a pretty sweet income stream for those at the top, while fattening up large layers of the petite bourgeoisie and draping them like a warm wet blanket over the working class, muffling their demands.
- 'Israel is a terrorist state'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned. A wave of unrest has swept Palestinian towns in Israel over recent days, with repeated clashes with Israeli police in Nazareth, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Taibeh, Sakhnin, Rahat, Kfar Qassem and elsewhere. Dozens of protesters have been arrested.
- No Grades in Higher Education Now!
Is the Revolution any closer?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Author and social scientist Stuart Tannock has recently published a historical and critical overview of the practice of grading in education.
- Scenes From a Wonderful Parade Against the TPP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A quarter of a million people protested against the "Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership", TTIP, and its equally spurned Canadian sister, CETA.
- Turkey's Double Game and the US's Double Standards
What the bombings in Ankara tell us about Turkey's true motives in Syria.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On Saturday morning, in the Turkish capital of Ankara, two suicide bombers targeted a Kurdish-Turkish trade union peace march, killing over a hundred civilians and wounding hundreds more.
- Turkey's Tiananmen in Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
At 9:30 Saturday morning Turkish citizens opposed to their government’s war policies gathered at the Ankara Train Station for a demonstration organized by a broad alliance of organizations.
- Welcome to the Orwellian world of Wildrose, where keeping your promises makes you a liar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Notwithstanding the unexpected election of a New Democratic Party majority government in Alberta last May 5, 2015, it's pretty obvious a lot of Albertans -- especially the business crowd in Calgary -- still don’t really get this democracy thing.
- The Demonology School of Journalism
Putin and the press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his politics and persona. There is an article (or several articles) every day in which he is personally stigmatized as a dictator, authoritarian, czar, 'former KGB operative' and Soviet-style ruler; anything but the repeatedly elected President of Russia.
- The Bro Job: Why 'Straight' Men Secretly Have Sex With Each Other
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The term "bro job" generally refers to sex acts taking place between heterosexual men. The phenomenon was recently explored by Dr. Jane Ward in her book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, who suggests it's a lot more common than most people may think.
- A moment in the polling station
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I’m in the queue waiting to vote in the advance poll in the federal election. I’m ambivalent, as always when I vote, since I don’t support any of the political parties, but I want to get the vile Harper Conservatives out.
- Opinion: It's gettin' hot in here... so take back all your carbon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Africa rapidly rising temperatures foreshadow increased drought, famine and disease. The most vulnerable populations -- of which millions are smallholder farmers -- need solutions, and they need them now.
- The White Man in That Photo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith's rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and it certainly deceived me for a long time.
- America's Latest War Crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The best that Nobel Peace Laureate President Obama can do after the US bombs and destroys a hospital in Afghanistan, killing 22 people, including 12 volunteer doctors from Doctors Without Borders, is to say, "We're sorry"? No wonder people around the globe hate the US.
- Children Suffer as World Bank's Borrowers Upend Their Lives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Evictions, loss of family income and other hardships associated with dams, roads and other projects can be especially harmful to young people. The bank's social and environmental safeguards forbid sudden, strong-arm evictions. But as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Huffington Post and other media partners revealed in April, the bank is failing to enforce those rules, with devastating consequences for adults and children who live on or near land targeted for development.
- Class Struggle at Air France
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On Monday, about 100 employees stormed an Air France management and union official meeting that was discussing dramatic job cuts. As the negotiations had been making no progress, the staff became angry, and tussled with some company officials.
- The End of Academic Freedom in America: the Case of Steven Salaita
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the years I spent at Columbia University, there was always some professor or another coming under attack from the Israel lobby. But no matter the intensity of the witch-hunt, I was always proud to see my employer stand up for the free speech rights of the faculty.
- Even Wars Have Rules: a Fact Sheet on the Bombing of Kunduz Hospital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Doctors Without Borders is calling for an independent fact-finding investigation to ascertain the truth about the events that led to the killing of our colleagues and patients by US.airstrikes on one of our hospitals in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
- Israelis Shoot Motionless Arab Woman - Video
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the age of phone cameras, we have become increasingly used to photos and videos of Palestinians in the West Bank being shot by soldiers in unjustifiable circumstances.
- Mouths Wide Shut: Obamas War on Whistleblowers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Obama administration has been ruthless in its prosecution of whistleblowers.
- The Six Most Disastrous Interventions of the 21st Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On October 2, 2015, President Barack Obama, alluding to Russia's decision to launch air strikes in Syria, told reporters at the White House that for Russia to view the forces targeted "from the perspective they're all terrorists [is] a recipe for disaster, and it's one that I reject."
- These Salvadoran Women Went to Prison for Suffering Miscarriages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For many expectant mothers in El Salvador, a largely Catholic Central American country of around 6 million, pregnancy losses -- unexpected, frightening, and tragic -- have been declared intentional and criminal. Some of these mothers are doing hard time.
- WikiLeaks Reveals How the US Aggressively Pursued Regime Change in Syria, Igniting a Bloodbath
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 2010, WikiLeaks became a household name by releasing 251,287 classified State Department cables. The essays that make up The WikiLeaks Files shed critical light on a once secret history.
- The Canadian Elections: Cover-Up and Steal (Again)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The opposition parties in Canada's 2015 federal election are sticking to a careful PR-driven script, refusing to even mention the fact that Stephen Harper's Conservatives broke the law and committed fraud in winning the 2006, 2008, and 2011 elections. The mainstream media and the political parties scrupulously ignore this reality.
- Genes of Most Ashkenazi Jews Trace Back To Indigenous Europe, Not Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A genetic study of Ashkenazi Jews shows a "whiter" heritage drawn more from prehistoric Europe than from the Levant, home to the modern state of Israel.
- Harper's Relationship With the Jewish Defense League Is Disturbing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With Canada's federal election less than two weeks away, Levitan addresses a highly topical matter: the Conservatives' close relations with the controversial Jewish Defense League (JDL).
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
Elections
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
- Canadian Voice of Women wants to Make for Space for Peace this election
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadian Voice of Women wants to Make for Space for Peace this election. National peace organization calls on leaders to take pledge for peace and supports its twelve priorities.
- Harvard's prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Prisoners participating in Bard College initiative to provide them a liberal arts education beat Ivy League students who won national title only months ago.
- ISIS Slave Market Puts Women and Girls on Same List as Cattle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I am thinking of the price list leaked out from the ISIS Sex Slave Market that included women and girls on the same list as cattle. ISIS needed to impose price controls as they were worried about a downturn in their market.
- Mercenary of Reaction
Lynton Crosby in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lynton Crosby has a full schedule. He is the modern electoral PR hitman for parties in dire straits. He is hired to stir the pot of resentment and undermine hopes for change. His very existence suggests that democracies are shadows of their actual function, operating on traditional platforms of populism when required.
- A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian Facilities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. has repeatedly attacked civilian facilities in the past. This is a sampling of such incidents since the 1991 Gulf War.
- TPP: Big Pharma's Big Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We still don't know all the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal tentatively agreed to on Oct. 5 by negotiators from 12 Pacific Rim countries, but already critics are slamming it for many reasons, including its generous concessions to the pharmaceutical industry.
- TPP is "Worst Trade Agreement" for Medicine Access, Says Doctors Without Borders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] will…go down in history as the worst trade agreement for access to medicines in developing countries, said Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a statement following the signing of the TPP trade deal.
- US Lies and Excuses for Bombing Hospital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Here is the US changing its story for the FOURTH time of why it launched an air strike on the Doctors without Borders hospital in the Afghan town of Kunduz at the weekend, massacring at least 22 patients and hospital staff.
- Why Is the U.S. Refusing an Independent Investigation If Its Hospital Airstrike Was an "Accident"?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Geneva , Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demanded a formal, independent investigation into the U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz. The group's international president specified that the inquiry should be convened pursuant to war crime-investigating procedures established by the Geneva Conventions and conducted by The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission.
- Bombing Hospitals: 22 People Killed by US Airstrike on Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A group of activists living in Baghdad would regularly go to city sites and string large vinyl banners between the trees outside these buildings which read: "To Bomb This Site Would Be A War Crime." We encouraged people in U.S. cities to do the same.
- The Canadian Election and the Global Climate Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The environmental stands of all the main parties in this election amount to climate change denial.
- The James Brown Theory of Black Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After decades of frustration with what Selma filmmaker Ava DuVernay calls "white saviour" narratives, antiracist progressives appear to have settled on an ideologically more appealing alternative - what Adolph Reed calls the James Brown Theory of Black Liberation.
- October 19, 2015 is Voting Day: Are You Registered To Vote?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Check, update or complete your voter registration at elections.ca or call Elections Canada at 1-800-463-6868. You can register in advance until October 13 at 6 pm local time. After that, you must register when you vote.
- 170,000 iconic pictures of Depression-era America released by Yale (Photos)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gallery with pictures of the Great Depression in the US, depicting the everyday lives and struggles of people.
- Shades of Grey -- A Left Chapter look at strategy, tactics and endorsements in the 2015 election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With just under two weeks to go until election day, anti-capitalist leftists are in something of a quandary.
- Top 5 Reasons Eaters should be Worried about Obama's New Trade Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a wide-ranging deal that would expand corporate rights across member states to the detriment of worker rights, the environment, and public health.
- The Volkswagen Scandal Wasn't Exposed by Regulators, but by Two Engineers Working at a Small Non-Profit Lab
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
German automaker Volkswagen was recently exposed for perpetrating a massive deception by installing a small device on as many as 11 million diesel-powered vehicles designed to cheat emissions tests.
- Wangari Maathai was not a good woman. Kenya needs more of them.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
25 September, 2015 marked four years since the passing of Kenyan environmentalist and feminist icon, Wangari Maathai. In Kenya, the celebrations were notably muted as her standing in the country has been ambiguous. Maathai challenged the notion of Kenyan women, who are forced to pretend to be "good" to satisfy societal expectations.
- Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Contemporary history is neither a series of random occurrences nor the predetermined plaything of a small cabal of super-empowered conspirators. The truth is somewhere in-between.
- Grace Lee Boggs, Legendary Activist, Dead At 100
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Boggs spent her life actively supporting causes ranging from civil rights and labour to the Black Power and feminist movements.
- Grace Lee Boggs R.I.P.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Grace Lee Boggs, founding member of the Johnson-Forest Tendency (where her party name was Ria Stone), has died at the age of 100 in Detroit. She was born on June 27, 1915 and passed away October 5, 2015.
- CNN and the NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated the Afghan Hospital Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Much of the world spent the last 48 hours expressing revulsion at the U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. It was quite clear early on that the perpetrator of the attack was the U.S., and many media outlets and other organizations around the world have been stating this without any difficulties.
- Fantasy technology won't stop climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Climate negotiators are promising 'negative emissions' using a risky and unproven technology called BECSS. It's the wrong way to go.
- Global Coalition to Facebook: 'Authentic Names' Are Authentically Dangerous for Your Users
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Facebook claims its practice of forcing users to go by their "real names" (or "authentic identities" as Facebook spins it) makes the social network a safer place. In fact, the company has often claimed that the policy protects women who use the social media platform, even when faced with community advocates pointing out that the policy facilitates harassment, silencing, and even physical violence towards its most vulnerable users.
- GMO Propaganda and the Sociology of Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In August of 2014, the website Gawker revealed documents that demonstrated the lengths to which the global chemical giant Monsanto would go in order to control the narrative about their products – in particular, their genetically modified crops. While we all like to believe that our scientific/rational brains see through the transparent marketing, public relations rhetoric exists because it greatly sedates critical thought.
- The internationalist case against the European Union
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For the first time in a generation Britain will vote on its membership of the European Union. How to vote in that referendum is a difficult choice for anyone on the left. Since the 1990s the anti-EU camp has been dominated by the chauvinist and racist right, initially on the Thatcherite wing of the Tory party, but now enjoying separate and increasingly powerful representation in the shape of the UK Independence Party. But anyone who contemplates therefore voting Yes in the referendum is confronted with the reality of the EU as a neoliberal club currently busy nailing the people of Greece to the cross of austerity.
- Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After the US airstrikes that hit an MSF (Medecins Sans Frontières) hospital, many news outlets have depicted the event in a way that evades any American responsibility.
- Monsanto and Its Promoters vs. Freedom of Information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Next year, the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary as one of the finest laws our Congress has ever passed. It is a vital investigative tool for exposing government and corporate wrongdoing.
- No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans' Privacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The spread of knowledge about the NSA's surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers in U.S. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple: especially non-U.S. customers who have discovered how weak the legal protections over their data is under U.S. law.
- Nuclear War And Corbyn - The Fury And The Farce
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The British media is outraged that La bour leader Jeremy Corbyn won't press the nuclear button under any circumstances.
- Parasites in the Body Economic: the Disasters of Neoliberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Michael Hudson discusses his new book, "Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy."
- The Radically Changing Story of the U.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital: From Mistake to Justification
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When news first broke of the U.S. airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the response from the U.S. military was predictable and familiar. It was all just a big, terrible mistake, its official statement suggested.
- Sosialisme Otoritarian atau Libertarian?
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Two faces of reformism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In our last issue we advised the radical left in Britain to be open to the sudden fissures that the crisis of the British state can…unexpectedly open up, perhaps making possible a qualitative advance. And the unexpected came very quickly, and in a particularly surprising form.
- Up against the clock: Climate, social movements and Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The time frame is incredibly short. The problem is not one for future generations but for our generation, those of us who are alive now. If we continue to produce greenhouse gas emissions at the rate we have been we will have used up the carbon needed to take us to 2°C warming in the next 30 years.
- Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal -- Help Us Tell Washington How You Feel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Trade negotiators from the U.S. and its 11 Pacific Rim partners announced their agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) today, concluding the final round of closed negotiations in Atlanta and marking the culmination of seven years of secrecy.
- Why did Syriza fail?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How has Syriza ended up this way? This is a question that is tormenting a big part of the left and that all the forces that situate themselves on the left must answer.
- For true liberation, Black Lives Matter is not enough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A movement that held true to a goal of liberation would challenge the fundamental assumptions of social, economic, and political organization under capitalism.
- Having the Hard Conversations
Jane McAlevey on Fight for 15, labour's crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An interview with labour organizer Jane McAlevey on labour's crisis of strategy and the difference between organizing and mobilizing. McAlevey discusses what ails the labour movement, problem with the terms "public" and "private" sector, and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file.
- Israel's new police chief emerges from shadowy world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Palestinian minority in Israel worried by top cop's twin-track as interrogator for secret police and hardline settler.
- NDP campaign enters panic mode
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If in politics a week can be a lifetime, a month can be an eternity -- especially in an election campaign.
- Activists Arrested at ArborGen GE Trees World Headquarters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new organizing initiative called "GE Trees Fall" launched with a four day GE trees action training camp outside of Asheville North Carolina, over September 24th to the 27th, 2015.
- Earning a Profit from Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As evidence mounts that a warming world is hurtling toward the point of no return, the plan of the world's governments is to make adjustments to the ability of corporations to profit from polluting. Short-term profits continue to be elevated above the long-term health of the environment.
- Israeli exports hit hard by Palestinian boycott, World Bank says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has exacted a major cost on Israel's exports to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Even though the World Bank's report has modestly recognized so, they have failed to address any trace of occupation.
- Pesticides, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Acceptable Death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's 33 out of every 100 -- more than one-in-four Americans die from cancer. These figures come from Dr. Joseph Weissman, a professor of medicine at UCLA. Weissman reckons that a fair slice of this explosion in cancer mortality can be laid at the door of petro-chemicals, particularly those used by the food industry.
- A Useful Prep-Sheet on Syria for Media Propagandists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
State Department talking points on Syria for cable news anchors.
- Big media versus the people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look how "Big Media" shapes public attitudes, the economy, culture, leisure and education, and how governments have developed close relationships with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest.
- Getting Jobbed
The real face of welfare reform
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A report on the impacts of the US welfare reforms of the 1990s under the Clinton administration.
- Lifting as we Climb
A progressive defense of respectability politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A defense of the morality and utility of respectability politics for black americans.
- Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Socialist thought is re-emerging at the forefront of the movement for global ecological and social change.
- The Money Crisis: How bankers grabbed our money -- and how we can get it back
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A historical analysis exposing the flaws in the system that led to financial crisis.
- Poor Housing
A Silent Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Across Canada, there is a severe shortage of decent quality housing that is affordable to those with low incomes, and much of the housing that is available is inadequate, even appalling. The poor condition of housing for those below the poverty line adds to the weight of the complex poverty they already endure.
- Seven Points Not on the Arab Media Agenda – What Is There to Celebrate?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As media experts plan to establish an 'Arab Media Day', Baroud criticizes in seven points the censorship and repression of Arab journalism and media.
- The unspun Jeremy Corbyn
Nobody expected a veteran, rebel leftwing MP to be elected to lead the UK labour Party. It's going to be hard for him to manage his own
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look at the rise in popularity of Jermey Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, and the challenges he faces from the broader British public and from within his own party.
- Volkswagen and the Quandary of Hidden Code
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After Volkswagen's emissions-rigging scandal, Blunden states that this company is not the only one engaging in the practice of secretly modifying technology. Rather, systematic hidden codes are embedded in society and promoted by both companies and governments.
- Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bond exposes three prevailing falsehoods about logging that the U.S. Forest Service disseminates.
- Adblockers and Innovative Ad Companies are Working Together to Build a More Privacy-Friendly Web
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Eckersley and Toner talk more about the coalition between tracker and ad-blocker companies that will respect a 'Do Not Track' policy.
- America's Capitalist Religion has Little Room for Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The US mainstream press accuse the Pope of being leftist. Evidence? Well, they make the claim that he is leftist because he supports the theory of global warming. My guess is that the Pope also supports the theory of gravity, which, like global warming, has a great body of scientific evidence to support it. But is science now a part of the leftist realm of influence?
- A Brief History of Penis Worship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- British journalists face five years in prison for filming without permit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the prosecution of British journalists Rebecca Prosser and Neil Bonner, who were arrested by the Indonesia navy in the Malacca Strait on 28 May for filming without a press visa and whose trial began yesterday.
- Canadian military explored plan to fully integrate forces with U.S.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Canadian military effort to formally create integrated forces with the US for expeditionary operations included a plan to fully integrate military forces.
- Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations
Processes of Creative Self-Destruction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The authors examine the intricate relationship between corporations and climate change, while also looking at how corporations shape political and social responses to climate change.
- Joe Oliver: Sign the ClimateFast Pledge!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fast and Vigil at Finance Minister Joe Oliver's office. 7 am to 7 pm, Thursday October 1st, candlelighting 7 pm. ClimateFast members will hold a fast and vigil for climate action outside the office of Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver
- Online Ad Company Adopts New 'Do Not Track' Standard for Web Browsing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Adzerk Joins Coalition Delivering Stronger Privacy and a Way Forward in the Ad Blocking Impasse
- Press freedom dealt a serious blow as two AFP reporters are attacked by Israeli soldiers in Nablus
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Condemnation of the appalling attack on two AFP reporters by Israeli soldiers and calling for end of impunity enjoyed by Israeli army which undermines freedom of information.
- The Realpolitik of President Jimmy Carter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- The Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pilger discusses the challenges that we encounter as Western governments and media actively seek to supress any political consciousness and independent thought.
- RSF calls for release of six journalists sentenced to life imprisonment
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While Egypt's president has just claimed on CNN that his country enjoys unprecedented freedom of expression, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) points out that tomorrow a court will begin hearing the appeals of six unjustly detained journalists
- RSF tells Netanyahu attitude of Israeli soldiers towards media is unacceptable
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In response to recent cases of violence against journalists by members of Israel's security forces, Reporters Without Borders writes to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asking him to end the climate of impunity enjoyed by the Israel Defenc
- Shatila: Remembering the Massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Shatila is probably the most well-known of all the Palestinian refugee camps. In September of 1982, a local Christian militia, known as the Phalange, aided by its Israeli allies, entered Shatila and bordering Sabra, engaging in an orgy of torturing and killing that lasted several days.
- Single-Payer Health Care and the Case Against Clicktivism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What’s the next step in the campaign for single-payer universal health care in the United States? Single Payer Now's Don Bechler says we have to hit the streets.
- Supremacy, oppression, and power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is the structures of domination and power, that create racism, sexism, etc., in order to justify the existence of unequal wealth, power and the oppression that goes with them. Racism didn't create slavery and the slave trade; racism was created to justify slavery. US/NATO aggression against the Middle East and the Islamic-majority countries aren't a result of Islamophobia; Islamophobia was born out of the need to justify imperialist aggression.
- Turkey: Kurdish daily attacked and 32 journalists interrogated
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The offices of the Kurdish daily newspaper Azadiya Welat and Kurdish news agency DIHA in Diyabakir (Turkey) have been attacked on 28/09/2015 by police forces and 32 journalists and media workers were taken into custody for interrogation
- US-Funded NGO in Syria Uses Old Photo to Claim Civilian Death in Russian Airstrikes
Group Lashes Russian Official on Twitter for Noting Picture Wasn't Real
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The "White Helmets" organization, heavily funded by the US State Department, has claimed that Russia killed 33 civilians in its attacks. The NGO attached a photo to the story which was pointed out to be from an incident five days prior and not related to Russia.
- Zunar targeted again under Malaysia's Sedition Act
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly criticizes the Malaysian governmen's continued attack against freedom of expression, following the investigation into political cartoonist, Zunar's latest book.
- Agroecology leading the fight against India's Green Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For the women farmers of Tamil Nadu life has long been a struggle, all the more so following the advent of 'Green Revolution' industrial agriculture. So now women's collectives are organising to restore traditional foods and farming methods, resulting in lower costs, higher yields, improved nutrition, and a rekindling of native Tamil culture.
- Learning Activism
The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice.
- Police Taser and Beat Innocent Disabled Vet, Hold Quadriplegic Wife at Gunpoint, Demand She Stand
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Mr. and Mrs. Hayes filed a lawsuit against the Delaware state police for raiding their home. Officers were looking for their nephews, who faced a charge for possession of the drug paraphernalia.
- Tomorrow on NY Radio We'll Be Dropping a Bomb on Facebook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I've been asked to speak for Narco News and the nonprofit Fund for Authentic Journalism, and I'll announce that we're taking our 27,000+ Facebook users to Tsu as our response to Facebook and Instagram owner Mark Zuckerberg banning links to his upstart competitor last weekend.
- The Big Secret That Makes the FBI's Anti-Encryption Campaign a Big Lie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
McLaughlin discusses how hacking techniques and their increasing use are justified in a prevalent way by the American government.
- Brainless in Washington
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Washington's IQ follows the Fed's interest rate -- it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations. Washington's failures are everywhere visible. We can see the failures in Washington's wars and in Washington's approach to China and Russia.
- Bubbles Always Burst: the Education of an Economist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Spouting ostensible free market ideology, the pro-creditor mainstream rejects what the classical economic reformers actually wrote. One is left to choose between central planning by a public bureaucracy, or even more centralized planning by Wall Street’s financial bureaucracy. The middle ground of a mixed public/private economy has been all but forgotten, denounced as "socialism." Yet every successful economy in history has been a mixed economy.
- Lobbyists Mourn House Speaker John Boehner's Departure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
House Speaker John Boehner’s surprise resignation on Friday was reason to celebrate for members of his own party who often complained that he let corporate lobbyists exercise undue influence over Congress. For lobbyists, Boehner's announcement was a reason to mourn.
- 10 Ways Monopoly Airlines Use 'Calculated Misery' to Make Flying an Increasingly Overpriced Nightmare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the three months of last quarter, America's commercial airlines collectively made $5.5 billion, up 53 percent over the same period a year before and the highest tally since the pre-Recessionary days of 2007. And yet, customers have never been more unhappy.
The airline industry profits by having you pay extra to be treated like a human being.
- After the Sands
Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After the Sands outlines a vision and a road map to transitioning Canada to a low-carbon society. Despite its oil abundance, with no strategic reserves, Canada is woefully unprepared for the next global oil supply crisis. There's no good reason for Canadians to use much more oil per capita than people in other sparsely populated, northern countries like Norway, Finland and Sweden -- nations that use 27 to 39 percent less oil per person. In After the Sands, Alberta-based political economist Gordon Laxer proposes a bold strategy of deep conservation and a Canada-first perspective to ensure that all Canadians have sufficient energy at affordable prices.
- The Alinksy Method: a Critique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Alinsky approach involved focusing on local issues and not asking basic questions about the economy or about broader social structures.
- Markets Gone Mad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Until recently, stocks had been on a tear that pushed valuations into the stratosphere. Volatility stayed low because Bernanke's easy money and QE made investors more placid, serene and mellow. They ventured further out on the risk curve and took more chances because they were convinced that the Fed "had their back" and that there was nothing to worry about. Then things began to fall apart.
- Profiled
From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users' Online Identities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Amid a renewed push from the U.K. government for more surveillance powers, more than two dozen documents being disclosed by The Intercept reveal for the first time several major strands of GCHQ’s (Government Communications Headquarters) existing electronic eavesdropping capabilities.
- Selling Modernity: How Global Greenwashing is Destroying Tribal People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (APECO) in Casiguran, the Philippines, is a 12,923 hectare area currently being developed into a self-sufficient commercial hub and special economic zone.If completed, APECO will strip 3,000 small farms and indigenous Agta households of their land.
- Ten Reasons to Oppose the Saudi Monarchy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During the discussion on the Iran nuclear deal, it has been strange to hear US politicians fiercely condemn Iranian human rights abuses while remaining silent about worse abuses by US ally Saudi Arabia. Not only is the Saudi regime repressive at home and abroad, but US weapons and US support for the regime make Americans complicit. So let's look at the regime the US government counts as its close friend.
- Beijing imposes its propaganda beyond its borders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As Chinese President Xi Jinping continues a week-long official visit to the United States that began on 22 September, Reporters Without Borders condemns China's policy of exporting its information control and censorship model to the four corners of the world.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
Voter Suppression
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
- A Secret War in 135 Countries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Turse discusses the U.S. global engagement strategy of covert operations conducted on every continent but Antarctica.
- Turkey's journalists call for solidarity in struggle for their right to report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During a conference hosted by the Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) and the Journalists Association of Turkey (TGC) leading journalists from across the political spectrum united in condemning the surge in attacks on press freedom led by the governmen
- The Power of a Dollar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Microcredit is nothing more than a socially validated way for financial elites to exploit the poor.
- Yemen as Laboratory: Why is the West So Silent About This Savage War?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What is at stake in Yemen that far more systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions than in any of the recent wars which Western powers have supported in the Arab world (Iraq, Syria, Libya and Gaza) are met with resounding silence? For six months there has been a blockade of food and fuel, and management of aid (even that through the UN) as part of war strategy, bombing of civilian, historical, educational, religious and medical targets, destruction of infrastructure from roads to electricity and water, and use of prohibited weapons.
- Canada's Election Needs Outside Observers To Ensure Fairness: Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada needs outside observers to monitor the federal election for fairness due to the rise of big money, nasty attack ads and new voting laws, says a report based on a survey of civil society groups.
- Racist Terror, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
African-Americans have been murdered by white mobs, vigilantes, and "law enforcement" from the time of slavery to, quite possibly, this morning. The fundamental reason for the killing of African-Americans by whites has been fear by many whites of all classes that the existing rules of racial hierarchy, that is, white supremacy, are endangered.
- Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs. Them
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Deep Diversity explores how the interactions with individuals different from us are strongly influenced by things happening below the radar of awareness. Choudhury argues that "us vs. them" is an unfortunate but normal part of the human experience due to reasons of both nature and nurture.
- Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA's Efforts to Overthrow Syria's Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
FAIR has noted before how America's well-documented clandestine activities in Syria have been routinely ignored when the corporate media discuss the Obama administration's "hands-off" approach to the four-and-a-half-year-long conflict.
- Benign State Violence vs. Barbaric Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The US and UK target for assassination civilians that allegedly have a connection with ISIS. Such operations are performed without a trial. Peppe discusses how the governments of these countries justify one form of extrajudicial killing while demonizing the murders that ISIS commits.
- Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part Two
Marxism vs. the Myth of "White Skin Privilege"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The victory of the socialist revolution in this country will be achieved through the united struggle of black and white workers.
- Gambian community project helps women turn waste to worth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the level of waste rising fast in Africa, the Gambia's first recycling training centre is teaching women to use rubbish as a means of economic empowerment. The training gives hard-working women another option as they struggle to earn enough money for their families.
- On Imperialism and Refugees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The call to "open the borders" and its variants are hopelessly utopian. The modern nation-state arose as a vehicle for the development of capitalism and will remain the basis for the organization of the capitalist economy until the world capitalist order is shattered through a series of workers revolutions. Policing its borders is vital to the very existence of the capitalist state power. Moreover, "open the borders" can have a reactionary content, from advancing imperialist economic penetration of dependent countries to obliterating the right to national self-determination.
- A comment on John Holloway's 'Read Capital: The First Sentence, Or, Capital starts with Wealth, not with the Commodity'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
John Holloway has written an article entirely devoted to the first sentence of Marx's Capital, a sentence which he claims is key to the whole book. Ulli Diemer thinks Holloway is misguided.
- Corbyn and confronting media power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Corbyn may be right not to respect a media establishment that has shown little signs of respecting him but he urgently needs a strategy with which to confront it.
- Harper's Stolen Majority: Voter Suppression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Beit Zatoun is sponsoring a talk by Prof. Michael Keefer on Conservative voter suppression in 2011 and 2015. The talk is at Beit Zatoun in Toronto of Friday October 2.
- Important Win for Fair Use in 'Dancing Baby' Lawsuit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A federal appeals court in San Francisco today affirmed that copyright holders must consider whether a use of material is fair before sending a takedown notice. The ruling came in Lenz v. Universal, often called the 'dancing baby' lawsuit.
- The Leap Manifesto
A Call for a Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We start from the premise that Canada is facing the deepest crisis in recent memory. so we need to Leap.
- Renewable Energy
Cleaner, Fairer Ways To Power The Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Few people doubt the threat of climate change and the urgent need to conquer fossil fuel addiction. But can renewable sources of energy ever be sufficient to provide modern societies with a decent quality of life? This book is clear. They can. And it outlines the strategies to break the barriers to a 100% renewable world.
- TIFF's corporate mentality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) tries to prevent anyone from handing out flyers to people standing on the sidewalk waiting for a film.
- Turkey and its Kurds at war: Recep Tayyip Erdogan's personal quest for survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Examining the ongoing civil war between the Turkish government and Kurds, focusing especially on the recent plight of Cizre, a south eastern town with a massive Kurdish population. The author criticises the Turkish government which waged war against its own citizens in the Kurdish regions of the country.
- With Virtual Machines, Getting Hacked Doesn't Have To Be That Bad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lee explains how to install and use a virtual machine, a fake computer running inside the real computer.
- Can Mulcair work a miracle and gain unlikely victory?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The big sleeper in the campaign that could mean victory for the Conservatives depends on whether hundreds-of-thousands of people who favour the NDP or the Liberals can manage to vote. According to the Council of Canadians, the so-called Fair Elections Act makes it more difficult for at least 770,000 people to vote.
- Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism.
- Popular Protest in Palestine
The History and Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Popular Protest in Palestine provides an overview and analysis of the role and significance of unarmed civil (popular) resistance in the Palestinian national movement. The main focus is on the contemporary popular resistance movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), but it is prefaced by a historical review of the thread of unarmed civil resistance that has run throughout the history of the Palestinian liberation struggle.
- Thoughts about the "college-educated left"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, in the neo-liberal phase of capitalism, neo-liberal ideology is dominant in the universities. Neo-liberalism denies the idea of class, denies that there are any alternatives to capitalism, and rejects so-called ‘grand theories’ which view capitalism as a historical period with a beginning and an eventual end.
- Women and Socialism
Essays on Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
More than forty years after the women's liberation movement of the 1960s, women remain without equal rights. If anything, each decade that has passed without a fighting women's movement has seen a rise in blatant sexism and the further erosion of the gains that were won in the 1960s and 1970s. This fully revised edition examines these issues from a Marxist perspective, focusing on the centrality of race and class. It includes chapters on the legacy of Black feminism and other movements of women of colour and the importance of the concept of intersectionality. In addition, Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital explores the contributions of socialist feminists and Marxist feminists in further developing a Marxist analysis of women's oppression amid the stirrings of a new movement today.
- Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution
Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Richard Müller, a leading figure of the German Revolution in 1918, is completely unknown today. As the operator and unionist who represented Berlin's metalworkers, he was main organiser of the 'Revolutionary Stewards,' a clandestine network that organised a series of mass strikes between 1916 and 1918. With strong support in the factories, the Revolutionary Stewards were the driving force of the Revolution. By telling Müller's story, this study gives a very different account of the revolutionary birth of the Weimar Republic. Using new archival sources and abandoning the traditional focus on the history of political parties, Ralf Hoffrogge zooms in on working class politics on the shop floor and its contribution to social change.
- Keys, comb and a plant: Palestinians tell of their past through cherished belongings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The first national museum for the geographically dispersed and exiled Palestinian people is taking shape, not only physically but conceptually. The goal is "to connect the Palestinians and present different narratives to the world of who we are, where we come from and what we aspire." Since the Israeli occupation authorities prevent many Palestinians from travelling to their homeland, the Palestinian Museum seeks to become the hub connecting a network of institutions in Jordan, Beirut, Gaza, Haifa and elsewhere.
- The past belongs to everyone: British Library calls on public to help piece together history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As the British Library thrusts itself into the digital age, more than a million images from its archives are available online. And it wants the public's help to expand what is known about them.
- Stephen Harper's Covert Evangelicalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How an apocalyptic strain of Christianity guides Stephen Harper's policies and campaigning.
- What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.
- The Age of Finance Capital -- and the Irrelevance of Mainstream Economics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Despite the fact that the manufacturers of ideas have elevated economics to the (contradictory) levels of both a science and a religion, a market theodicy, mainstream economics does not explain much when it comes to an understanding of real world developments. Indeed, as a neatly stylized discipline, economics has evolved into a corrupt, obfuscating and useless -- nay, harmful -- field of study.
- Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. has been warring with the Islamic State (IS) for more than a year now. The centerpiece of that war has been an ongoing campaign of bombings and air strikes in Syria and Iraq, thousands upon thousands of them.
- The Amazon tribe protecting the forest with bows, arrows, GPS and camera traps
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With authorities ineffective, the 2,200-strong Ka'apor, in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, are taking on the illegal loggers with technology and direct action. Now the Ka'apor are seeking support through NGOs and the media.
- Contest: Guess the date of Harper's next 'terrorist plot'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the polls suggesting that the Conservatives might be headed for defeat in the next election, Stephen Harper and his inner circle are undoubtedly searching their bag of dirty tricks for something that will turn things around.
- Contest: Guess the date of Harper's next 'terrorist plot'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What are the odds that a 'terrorist plot' will be 'uncovered' in the late stages of the election campaign, so that Harper can spend the final days of the campaign talking about terrorism, terrorism, and more terrorism?
- Invisible War Crimes - The Corporate Media On Yemen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Anyone struggling to understand the violent upheaval in Yemen this year might be tempted to consult the country's 'most important source of news' -- the BBC.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
Labour Day issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
- How We Changed Toronto
The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
- Potential Conservative Environment Minister?
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It’s a pity that the Conservative candidate caught peeing into a customer's coffee cup has resigned. He’d make a perfect Environment Minister in the Harper government.
- Harper's Worst Offense against Refugees May Be His Climate Record
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Middle East drought between 2006 and 2011 was without precedent since modern record keeping, killing over 80 per cent of livestock and driving up local food prices. Already poor populations had to contend with higher temperatures that dried soil and failed rains during the normally wet season due to weaker winds from the Mediterranean. A key long-term driver of this unfolding humanitarian catastrophe is climate change. And on that front, Canada’s record of contributing to this crisis is far more significant than our wretched record so far in resettling Syrian refugees.
- The Measure of a Revolutionary: Remembering Eugene V. Debs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Debs was an articulate, far-reaching critic of American society, staunchly anti-capitalist and opposed to both Democratic and Republican parties, which he saw as controlled by Wall Street. In his five campaigns as the Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, Debs excoriated the economic exploitation of workers, including the then rampant abuses of child labor, with rare oratorical skill. He advocated for unions in all major industries and promoted a vision of socialism as grassroots economic democracy. In a deeply racist, patriarchal society, he was also staunchly anti-racist and pro-women's rights. When war hysteria swept the country, Debs openly defied the warmongers to oppose U.S. entry into World War I. He did so not as a pacifist, but because he saw the world war as an inter-imperialist dispute among the ruling classes of competing capitalist nations.
- US accuses China of 'using sea to hide its submarines'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. Navy is demanding billions of dollars in extra funding to counter the latest Chinese technical innovation. China, it seems, has come up with the devious idea of hiding its submaries under the sea. Darn, why didn't we think of doing that?
- Is intersectionality just another form of identity politics?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Feminist Fightback has for many years described itself as seeking to practice an 'intersectional' form of feminism, whereby we argue that the struggle for gender liberation must take account of, and join with, struggles against all other forms of oppression and exploitation around the axis of class, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism etc. We began to use 'intersectional' in place of 'socialist feminist' in about 2007-8 because we felt that the latter term implied an interest in gender and class but did not give due emphasis to race. We continued to be inspired by a variety of Marxist and class-struggle anarchist currents, and we did not feel these to be in contradiction to a commitment to intersectionality.
- Israel hopes 'lost tribes' can boost Jewish numbers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Facing Palestinian majority, Israeli officials seek way to loosen legal definition of 'Jew' so millions more can qualify for immigration.
- Work Overload: Time for a Union Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Talk to workers in any sector, in any workplace and sooner or later they’ll get to their frustrations with their ever-increasing workloads: ‘I’m struggling’, they’ll lament to fellow workers or anyone ready to listen, ‘to just do the job, never mind do it well’. And yet even though few work-related issues seem to generate more passion, the relentless intensification of every-day work life rarely surfaces as a union priority. Why?
- Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part One
The Roots of Black Oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The purpose of this talk is to motivate a Marxist materialist program for the fight for black freedom as opposed to the idealism embodied in both black nationalism and guilty white liberalism, including the concept of “white skin privilege,” which falsely substitutes individual psychology for struggle against the racial oppression rooted in the capitalist profit system. We fight for black freedom on the program of revolutionary integration including mobilizing the working class against every manifestation of racial oppression. This approach is counterposed to liberal integration, which is premised on the utopian notion that equality for black people can be attained within the confines of this class society founded on black oppression.
- Come Again? Second Thoughts on My Ashley Madison Affair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- What America can learn from Europe's high-speed trains
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Adler examines the lagging state of high-speed rail technology in America while analyzing Germany's approach to transit and urban planning as a model for improvement.
- EU diplomats reveal devastating impact of Ethiopia dam project on remote tribes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A controversial World Bank-funded scheme to dam a major Ethiopian river and import up to 500,000 people to work in what is planned to be one of the world's largest sugar plantations has led to tens of thousands of Africa's most remote and vulnerable people being insensitively resettled. According to reports by two teams of British, American and EU diplomats who visited the resettlement areas in the Lower Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia last year, the lives of 20,000 Mursi, Bodi and other semi-nomadic tribespeople are being "fundamentally and irreversibly" changed by the mega-project.
- Tracking Harper's 9-year-long assault on unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper has been Prime Minister of Canada for almost a decade. In that time, the system of protections that were put in place by decades of advocacy by labour organizations and unions has been partly dismantled. The attacks have been extremely strategic. Ground Zero for these attacks has been the House of Commons, where piece after piece of legislation has taken aim at unions and collective bargaining.
- Anger over China's Deadly Workplaces after Warehouse Explosion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A series of chemical explosions on August 12, 2015 at a warehouse in the northern city of Tianjin is shining a spotlight on dangerous workplace conditions and precarious employment relations in China.
- Enbridge Line 9 Work Disrupted as Demonstrators Demand an End to Tar Sands, Fracking
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Opponents of Enbridge's Line 9 Tar Sands and fracking pipeline are in Port Hope at the site of testing operations of the controversial pipeline.
- Fish habitat protection waning under Harper government, analysis finds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A statistical analysis of the Conservative government's changes to environmental laws and procedures suggests Ottawa has "all but abandoned" attempts to protect Canada's lakes and rivers.
- Silence on police carding of White working-class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
a majority of the people who are carded are Whites. The cops in the city of Hamilton and other municipalities have pointed to this fact to make the incorrect claim that carding is not racist. Why haven’t we universally raised class profiling to a similar level as racial profiling?
- Strong voter registration campaign could mean the end for Harper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The primary objective of Stephen Harper's absurdly-named Fair Elections Act is to prevent hundreds-of-thousands of Canadians from voting for the NDP, Liberals, Greens, etc. But efforts to help people to register to vote are not as strong as they could be. There needs to be close co-operation among groups to make sure that as many people as possible - particularly people in some 70 ridings where the Conservatives are vulnerable - have the identification they need to vote.
- Between the Power and the Dream
Leon Trotsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Paul Le Blanc's Leon Trotsky.
- The Brussels lobbyists
Major firms seek to influence EU laws for thire own advantage long before they reach the European Parlament
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look at the lobbyists who target the bureaucrats who control research budgets and make decisions for the EU's technical agencies.
- Capitalism vs. Democracy in Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The governments of Europe are indifferent to public protest, strikes and mass demonstrations, and don't care about the opinion or the feelings of the population; they are attentive - extremely attentive - only to the opinion and the feelings of the financial markets, and their employees, the ratings agencies.
- China: Workers Rising?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Lu Zhang's Inside China's Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance and Eli Friedman's Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China
- Flight and Freedom
Stories of Escape to Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Authors present a collection of thirty interviews with refugees, their descendants, or their loved ones to document their journeys of flight. The stories span two centuries of refugee experiences in Canada.
- Greece, Austerity & Europe's Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Easily lost in these political gyrations is the immense suffering of the Greek people. Unemployment continues to be 25% for the general population and 60% for younger people. One result has been that 300,000 Greeks, or 3% of the total population, has emigrated in the past few years.
- Horizons for a New Left
The Next New Left: A History of the Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Alan Sears' The Next New Left: A History of the Future.
- Household Worker Organizing, Its Lessons for Labor Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Domestic work is representative of a paradigmatic shift in labour, as the conditions of labour for other workers seem to converge with and more closely resemble those of private household workers.
- I am not that Woman in a burqa
A Palestinian novelist remembers the liberated, educated women of her life, and how their freedom has been, and is being, curtailed.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh discusses growing up as a girl and woman in Arab culture, and how Arab women are represented in Western culture.
- Joelito's Big Decision
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Story of ten-year old Joelito, who learns about the struggle for economic justice as he heads toward the door of MacMann’s Burger Restaurant for his regular Friday-night family dinner.
- Making It Visible to Ourselves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Cheryl Harris reflects on Ferguson and the current and persisting issues Black people are facing in the U.S.
- Memory as paying business
Getting a battlefield, the site of tragedy or a memorial museum onto Unesco's World Heritage List is now a shrewd way to increase tourist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look at how memorials and sites of great tragedy are now being exploited for financial gain as tourist destinations.
- Mexico's Deepening Crises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The "democratic transition" has brought little democracy and great disappointment. And the "war on drugs" has not diminished the production and export of drugs but increased violence and provided political cover for the government's escalation of repression.
- Neoliberalism and the New Lynching
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I don't think it's a coincidence that they would raise mass Black and Brown incarceration as being a counterinsurgency tactic. I think we've seen that out there on the streets, out there in Baltimore and Ferguson lately.
- NY Public Workers Under Attack
Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City's Public Employee Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Richard Steier's Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City's Public Employee Unions.
- NoNonsense Globalization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Explains and examines globalization from all angles - and explores strategies for redesigning the global economy in the common interest.
- On Bernie Sanders' Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We strongly disagree with Bernie Sanders' approach of running in the Democratic primary and his pledge to support the party nominee. However, it would be a mistake for the left not to recognize the enormous significance and potential inherent in the millions of people rallying around his campaign looking to fight against corporate America and what they perceive as the hijacking of the democratic process.
- Ontario Teachers Face Austerity Drive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Although conditions for teachers and students in Ontario, and Canada more broadly, remain far better than they are for their counterparts in the United States, concessionary austerity demands similar to those being more aggressively advanced in the United States have been rolled out in one guise or another across Canada too.
- Poisoned Fruits of Austerity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The most dramatic advance of the far right is that of the National Front in France. It is not unusual that such forces prosper, with some working-class support, in the absence of well-articulated progressive alternatives.
- Racist Terror, Then and Now: Many Ways to Die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
African Americans have been murdered by white mobs, vigilantes, and "law enforcement" from the time of slavery to, quite possibly, this morning.
- Rise and Fall of "Proletarian Art," Part II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A historical overview and analysis of working class art during the twentieth century, including Mike Gold, Philip Reisman, and Raphael Soyer. [Part 2 of 2]
- Slavery and the American Revolution
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Gerald Horne's The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
- Weed Whackers
Monsanto, glyphosate, and the war on invasive species
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On a Friday evening in January, a thousand people at the annual California Native Plant Society conference in San Jose settled down to a banquet and a keynote speech delivered by an environmental historian named Jared Farmer. His chosen topic was the eucalyptus tree and its role in California's ecology and history. The address did not go well.
- Why Black Lives Matter Is Game Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Cleveland Black Lives Matter Convening was a "game changer" because it made clear the Movement is long term. Whether its next step will add a call for a break with the two-party system, time and struggle will tell.
- In Paraguay's remote north guerrillas are still at large, armed and dangerous
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the heart of South America, a relative latecomer to armed struggle is running rings around the authorities – provoking dark mutterings that the state itself is complicit in the group's existence. The Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) have killed more than 50 people in the last two years but some wonder if the government is really trying to defeat them.
- What Black Lives Matter means for Labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An account and analysis of the centrality of the Black freedom struggle to the working class movement as a whole, arguing that the struggle for Black liberation is a precondition for human liberation generallyand recognizing the deep historical thread connecting the centuries-old struggle for Black freedom in the U.S. and the struggle to organize the working class to fight for workers' power.
- The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A compilation of contributions from WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, WikiLeaks section editor Sarah Harrison, and a team of journalists, professors, and writers. The book is full of eye-opening scholarly analysis of the diplomatic cables made public by the WikiLeaks group, focusing on the 2010 - 2011 'Cablegate' disclosures. It takes on a huge amount of data and delivers a thorough introduction to the narratives of U.S. policy that the cables reveal.
- The Great Canadian Tax Dodge
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is estimated that between 100 and 170 billion dollars leaves Canada every year, untaxed. Much of it is siphoned off to Canadian-made offshore tax havens. "The Great Canadian Tax Dodge" documents the birth of the Canadian Tax Fairness movement and examines the issue of tax avoidance, exposing the sophisticated corporate strategies and tax loopholes commonly used to legally avoid tax.
- Nature's last refuge: climate change threatens our most fragile ecosystem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An Arctic voyage through the awe-inspiring Northwest Passage shows that, with oil drilling in the far north on the way, rapid action is needed to protect the region.
- Palestine overwhelmed by Illegal American Immigrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Israel illegally annexed part of the Palestinian West Bank to its district of Jerusalem and then settled it with squatters, not only Israeli but also American.
- In an endless war on terror, we are all doomed to become Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Jeff Halper's new book sheds light on the arms industry, arguing that Israel is now the go-to nation for armies and police forces around the world.
- The new colonialism: Greece and Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
According to Jack Rasmus, aA new form of colonialism is emerging in Europe. Not colonialism imposed by military conquest and occupation, as in the 19th century. Not even the more efficient form of economic colonialism pioneered by the U.S. in the post-1945 period, where the costs of direct administration and military occupation were replaced with compliant local elites allowed to share in the wealth extracted in exchange for being allowed to rule on behalf of the colonizers. In the 21st century, it is 'colonialism by means of financial asset transfer.' It is colony wealth extraction by colonizing country managers, assigned to directly administer the processes in the colony by which financial assets are to be transferred. This new form of colonialism by direct management plus financial wealth transfer is now emerging in Greece and Ukraine.
- Canada's prime minister wants to make it harder for people to vote against him
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper, who won by an uncomfortably small margin in the last election, has passed laws designed to keep voters who oppose him from the polls.
- Free Speech in an Age of Identity Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Transcript of Malik's TB Davie Memorial lecture on academic freedom at the University of Cape Town.
- US pressured Norway to arrest & extradite Snowden, seize all devices - documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The US repeatedly asked Norway to detain and deport whistleblower Edward Snowden if he tried to enter its territory in the aftermath of his leaks on mass US global surveillance, Norwegian media revealed citing formal requests.
- Western hypocrisy over convictions in Russia of Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kol’chenko
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Shapinov advocates against the Western disregard for hundreds of criminal cases against oppositionists in Ukraine.
- When Will the Media Really Get Polyamory?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Why do the media so often miss the mark when they write articles or do a feature on polyamory? Why do so many approach the subject with a ready-made idea of what they are looking for?
- Alarm sounded as TransCanada set to drill in Bay of Fundy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An open letter was released by 20 groups in New Brunswick opposed to TransCanada's plans to begin drilling in the Bay of Fundy. The procedure has the potential to hurt resident's foundations and drinking water, along with the natural environment.
- Towards a two-tiered knowledge society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the Conservative government's actions to reduce Internet access and library access to a large portion of the population.
- The Catastrophic International Consequences of the Capitulation of Syriza and the Criminal Responsibility of Mr. Tsipras
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Syriza's betrayal comes at a very critical historical moment, when the racist extreme right is advancing almost everywhere in our continent, which already makes immediate and direct the threat that many of the citizens Europeans disappointed by Syriza will fall prey to this racist and neo-fascist self-proclaimed "anti-systemic" extreme right.
- Sources HotLink - August 26, 2015
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Read about unethical corporate behaviours and the impotence in the SEC in regulating the U.S. stock exchange. In media, we find more evidence to support what we already suspect: Fox News is heavily biased. International trade and copyright laws are exploited to the detriment of disabled persons and a civil rights group has taken an ideological about-face. For marketers, publishers and content creators, we feature a guide to viral advertisements and an article expressing the need and some basic guidelines for data security. We also feature a book on Internet censorship.
- Against Charity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Snow criticizes the growing social movement 'Effective Altruism', which is characterized by calculating where expendable income is best spent and by encouraging the relatively affluent to channel their capital accordingly.
- Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (American Empire Project)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Examination of the perils of American military bases overseas.
- The Conflict Shoreline
Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The village of al-'Araqib has been destroyed and rebuilt more than seventy times in the "battle over the Negev," an ongoing Israeli state campaign to uproot the Bedouins from the northern threshold of the desert. Unlike other frontiers fought over during the Israel–Palestine conflict, however, this threshold is not demarcated by fences and walls but advances and recedes in response to cultivation, colonization, displacement, urbanization, and climate change.
- Household Workers Unite
The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2016
Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labour, feminism, and organizing.
- Ashley Madison's Owners Give In to Temptation To Misuse The DMCA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ashley Madison's owners have been sending numerous DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notices to platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and others in an attempt to stop the dissemination of millions of names and email addresses of the site's users.
- Email from a Married, Female Ashley Madison User
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The private lives and sexual choices of fully formed adults are usually very complicated and thus impossible to understand -- and certainly impossible to judge -- without wallowing around in the most intimate details, none of which are any of your business. That's a very good reason not to try to sit in judgment and condemn from afar.
- The Age of Imperialistic Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There is no question that wars and military threats have replaced diplomacy, negotiations and democratic elections as the principal means of resolving political conflicts. Throughout the present year (2015) wars have spread across borders and escalated in intensity.
- Breaking the Media Blackout in Western Sahara
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Zurutuza describes how the Moroccan authorities repress journalists and media coverage of occupied Western Sahara.
- Silent blight in a countryside of empty homes and shut shops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Young people are leaving rural areas of Europe for the cities at a time when birth rates are at historic lows. As the countryside empties, should rising immigration be seen as a solution, not a problem?
- Think California's drought is bad? Try Palestine's
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While Israelis water their lawns, irrigate crops and swim in Olympic-sized pools, Palestinian communities a few kilometers away face drought and water scarcity issues. Their roughly equal proximity to water resources theoretically allows for equal consumption.
- The Secret History of Jaywalking: The Disturbing Reason It Was Outlawed - And Why We Should Lift the Ban
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Mangla narrates the origins of jaywalking and the reason why it was made illegal.
- The Devil Is In the Details: How Patients' Mental Health Data Is At Risk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It seems like "Patient doctor confidentiality" doesn’t apply to other doctors. Overly diligent doctors are free to snoop around in the psychiatric medical records of their patients. As if that weren't bad enough, non-psychiatric doctors can highlight this psychiatric history on their patient's medical records. For Julia, doctors will only ever know her as the "woman with bipolar disorder". Not the "mother with a master’s degree".
- Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor known for doggedly investigating a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing, was targeted by invasive spy software downloaded onto his cellular phone shortly before his mysterious death. The software masqueraded as a confidential document and was intended to infect a Windows computer. An investigation by The Intercept indicates that this targeting was likely not an isolated event.
- MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
MI5 targeted the Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing for 20 years, listening to her phone conversations, opening her mail and closely monitoring her movements, previously top secret files reveal. The files show the extent to which MI5, helped by the Met police special branch, spied on the writer, her friends and associates.
- Once Again, Megaupload User Asks Court for His Files Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When the government seized Megaupload's assets and servers, Goodwin, like many others, lost access to video files containing months of professional work. After years he hasn't been able to get them back.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
- Romania's 'occupy forests' movement demands clampdown on corporate crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A growing protest movement is demanding strong controls on international investors and logging companies buying up Romania's forests. In its sights is Austria-based Schweighofer, which stands accused of criminal malpractice and accepting illegal timber shipments. The popular outrage stirred up by corporate misdeeds is now stimulating a wider democratic revival.
- The Black Belt Communists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During the Great Depression, black sharecroppers and the Communist Party waged war against tenant farming in the South.
- India's acid attack victims unite against the horror of their past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Last year, 349 people in India, mostly women, had acid thrown on them in deliberate assaults. A groundbreaking cafe allows some of them a new start. Sheroes (run by an NGO in the city of Agra, home of the Taj Mahal) is a rare beacon of hope where the aim is to help change perceptions of the survivors of acid attacks and to allow them to regain some confidence.
- The Puritanical Glee Over the Ashley Madison Hack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
High school students have long read The Scarlet Letter, the 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne set in a Puritanical Massachusetts town in the mid-17th century. As The Atlantic noted in 1886, "the punishment of the scarlet letter is a historical fact." To see just how current is the mentality driving the scarlet letter, observe the reaction to the Ashley Madison hack.
- What publishers should do to implement data privacy protection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With advancing technology, increased cloud integration and general increased reliance on vulnerable networks, keeping information away from skilled 'hacktivists' and tech-savvy malicious misfits is becoming harder by the day.
- Why Al Jazeera will not say Mediterranean 'migrants'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There is no "migrant" crisis in the Mediterranean. There is a very large number of refugees fleeing unimaginable misery and danger and a smaller number of people trying to escape the sort of poverty that drives some to desperation.
- Canada's top medical journal says Harper is undermining public health care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal features an editorial written by Deputy Editor Dr. Matthew Stanbrook slamming the Harper Conservatives for weakening public health care in Canada. "For much of the last decade, Canadian federal health policy has been conspicuous by its absence," Stanbrook says, adding "in recent years, the federal government has neglected [its health care] responsibilities, even when courts have ordered them to do otherwise." The Conservatives are undermining and under-funding Canada's public healthcare system, spurning collaboration with the provinces and essentially removing the federal government from the health care business, Stanbrook suggests.
- The Organised Suppression of Kurdish Journalists in Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It has been nearly 120 years since the first Kurdish newspaper, 'Kordestan' was published – a publication which did not in come into existence here in Kurdistan, but in exile in Egypt, its later life being in Europe. In 1909, 'Kordestan' was banned from publishing by the Ottoman Empire. Despite the ban being placed over a century ago, with its founders and journalists having been arrested and prosecuted, it seems that even today the fate of Kurdish journalism is intertwined with that of 'Kordestan'.
- Sympathy for Stephen Harper: Imagine that everyone you trusted had lied to you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
You will be familiar with the picture we have created of him: suspicious, paranoid, controlling, a leader who trusts no one, leaves nothing to others, insists on taking a hand in even the smallest matter. Well, you'd be suspicious, paranoid and controlling, too, if everyone around you was lying to you all the time.
- Think the Left Won the Culture War? Think Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the recent AshleyMadison leak and Gawker.com's notorious naming and shaming of an obscure, married publishing executive, deBoer questions who really won in this culture war.
- Agroecology as a Tool for Liberation: Transforming Industrial Agribusiness in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"We say that every square meter of land that is worked with agro-ecology is a liberated square meter. We see it as a tool to transform farmers''social and economic conditions. We see it as a tool of liberation from the unsustainable capitalist agricultural model that oppresses farmers."
- Game of trolls: the hip digi-kids helping Putin's fight for online supremacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The inner workings of St Petersburg's "troll factory" have been exposed by Lyudmila Savchuk, a former employee.
- The Peruvian "Stalker Law" Will Be Reviewed By Congress, We Can Still Stop It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bogado and Rodriguez discuss the new decree in Peru known as "Ley Acosadora", or "the Stalker Law", allows warrantless access to Peruvians' location data and creates a new power for the government to track the movements of vulnerable mobile and Internet users.
- "Sovereign" Deportations: The Dominican Republic deportations cannot occur without US blessing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
People born to undocumented Haitian parents in the Dominican Republic have left under threat of violence. "Voluntary" deportations have had a strong US influence given the political and economic power that the North American country exerts on the island.
- Australian Court Bans “Surreal” Copyright Demands from Dallas Buyers Club, Case Shows Need For Reform of US Copyright Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Ethiopia's Zone9 Bloggers Head Back to Court After 15 Months Behind Bars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Five members of Ethiopia's Zone9 blogging collective expect to learn their fate this Wednesday, August 19, 2015, when a panel of three judges will meet at Addis Ababa's Lideta High Court to rule on whether the defendants will walk free or or face another round of trial.
- Human Rights Protections Weaken as Tunisia Fights Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Tunisian government is cracking down on civil and political rights as it fights a rise in Islamist insurgency, in the aftermath of the deadliest terror attack in the country's history.
- The Long Sad Slide From Leading Civil Rights Organization to Anti-Black Lives Matter Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When you place someone on the seat of power, it can corrupt them.
- Russian Censors Falsify Evidence Against Newspaper to Uphold Ban on Political Coverage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Almost a year ago, the Kremlin's media watchdog agency, Roskomnadzor, warned a series of news outlets against publishing reports about a protest that took place in Siberia on August 17, 2014. Last weekend, in an appeals case by one newspaper against the government, state censors finally revealed specifically why they banned several news stories last year about the rally in Siberia.
- Scott Walker's False Promise of Racial Unity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Scott Walker's solution for racial injustice? Ignore it. Acknowledging systemic problems like the documented wave of police killings of unarmed black men, or the racial wealth gap, or disparities in sentencing and incarceration, creates "discord."
- White and Guilty of the Crime of History?
No. I'm Not Going to the Reeducation Camp
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I don't think I’m White. I think I am a human being. I don’t know what it is like to be rich and in the top 20 percent of money makers in the USA. I know that I'm color-labeled as White and class-labeled as Middle by the identity and false consciousness hunters that roam the American landscape.
- Why the federal government must lead in health care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For much of the last decade, Canadian federal health policy has been conspicuous by its absence. During that time, the federal government has walked away from collaborating with the provinces through the Council of the Federation and declined to renew the First Ministers’ Accord on Health Care; dithered on public health measures of glaringly obvious benefit, such as tobacco control and asbestos elimination; ignored and disbanded expert advisory panels on health issues; weakened the authority of the public health agency; muzzled scientists; eliminated the long form census, the best source of information on regional disparities relevant to health; and eroded research support, while increasingly tying what remains to business interests rather than health benefits.
- A year after James Foley and Steven Sotloff murders, more awareness of risks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Journalists who regularly cover violence are considered a hard-boiled bunch. But a year ago this month, even the toughest were crying. There was no emotional body armour to deflect the horror of the beheading videos of freelancers James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and other Westerners held hostage in Syria by the self-styled Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL, or IS.
- Iranians Coordinate a Global Event to Support the Iranian Nuclear Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A group of ten to fifteen people dressed in Israeli Defence Force (IDF) t-shirts and waving Canadian, Israeli and IDF flags slowly encircled a large group of Iranians holding posters reading "#SupportIranDeal" and "we choose peace".
- Rising Up Against Police Violence, From the Black Panthers to #BlackLivesMatter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I turned away more than once while watching Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. I averted my eyes from the screen when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's nefarious mug first appeared. I turned away once more when the charismatic and admirable Fred Hampton was first shown, knowing that eventually he would be murdered by Chicago police and federal agents.
- Godavari: and the police still await an attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- Kalliasseri: In search of Sumukan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The village that battled on all fronts, fighting the British, local landlords, and caste.
- Kalliasseri: Still fighting at 50
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When the God of the Hunters sheltered the communists in Kerala from the Raj.
- The last battle of Laxmi Panda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- New Documents and Reports Confirm AT&T and NSA's Longstanding Surveillance Partnership
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reports today in the New York Times and ProPublica confirm what EFF's Jewel v. NSA lawsuit has claimed since 2008 -- that the NSA and AT&T have collaborated to build a domestic surveillance infrastructure, resulting in unconstitutional seizure and search of of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of Americans' Internet communications.
- Nicaraguans Fight to Save Land and Sovereignty from Canal Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There has been a popular storm gathering to protest the proposed cross-Nicaragua canal.
- Panimara's foot soldiers of freedom - 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- Puerto Rico's default is fine, as long as Wall Street is repaid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On August 1, 2015, Puerto Rico defaulted on part of its enormous $72 billion debt, paying back only $628,000 on a relatively small $58 million loan that was due at the start of the month. The default, which marks the most serious credit event in US public bond markets since the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy in 2013, has led many to draw obvious comparisons to Greece – and understandably so.
- Sherpur: big sacrifice, short memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- Sonakhan: When Veer Narayan died twice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Chhattisgarh, Veer Narayan Singh sought no charity, but gave his life fighting for justice
- When 'Salihan' took on the Raj
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- Zombie neoliberalism threatens Ecuador's 'citizen's revolution'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and social movements behind Ecuador's "Citizens' Revolution" are engaged in yet another battle against the South American country's elites.
- ARTICLE 19 to UN Watchdog: Whistleblowers and Journalists' Sources must be protected
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
ARTICLE 19 has responded to the call for comment on the protection of journalists' sources and whistleblowers, made by the UN special rapporteur on the right to freedom of expression.
- Biodiversity is the best defence against corn pests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Farmers' first line of defence against pests is the ecosystem in and around their fields. With widespread or indiscriminate use of pesticides essential biodiversity is lost - and the result is more frequent and serious infestations, and a decline in food security.
- Cue Collective Eye Roll: Harper Appoints Kinder Morgan Consultant to Pipeline Regulator
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The purpose of the National Energy Board, like any regulator, is to be unprofitable. In fact, over half of NEB's board members are pipeline mommies, a.k.a. oil industry professionals.
The NEB refuses to take climate change into consideration in their review, even though scientists have made clear that more pipelines will lock us into a very hot, very grim future.
- Hong Kong must identify, prosecute the mastermind of 2014 attack on journalist Kevin Lau
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Hong Kong to work quickly and efficiently to identify the mastermind of the February 2014 attack on newspaper editor Kevin Lau Chun-to and ensure there is full justice in the case. Two men identified as Yip Kim-wah and Wong Chi-wah were found guilty today of "causing grievous bodily harm and stealing a motorcycle" in the assault, but have refused to say who ordered the attack, reports said.
- Journalists and media outlets hounded as tension mounts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Journalists in Danger (JED) are worried about a decline in the environment for journalists as Democratic Republic of Congo holds local elections, starts early campaigning for national elections, and overhauls its system of government.
- Romania faces $2.56bn claim for failed gold mine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources is seeking over $2.5 billion damages from Romania after it rejected a vast gold mine at Rosia Montana.
- "Shawkan" in very poor health after two years of provisional detention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders calls for Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid's immediate release and the withdrawal of all the charges against him at his next court appearance on 17 August, three days after he will have completed his second year
- South African Copyright Review is Overdue, Pioneering, and in Parts Completely Absurd
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In our campaign against the TPP's Copyright Trap, we are fighting back against a proposal to extend the term of copyright in six countries around the Pacific rim from 50 to 70 years after the death of the author. But there is one country that is currently proposing to extend the copyright term to last even a bit longer than that. To be precise, as part of a wholesale review of its Copyright Act, South Africa is proposing that copyright should last... forever. This goes one better than Jack Valenti of the MPAA asked for -- he only asked Congress to extend copyright to last forever less one day.
- Two years since Rabaa massacre, impunity still reigns in Egypt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On this day two years ago, the Egyptian army and riot police launched a deadly onslaught on supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured.
- Why a Future Ride in a Self-Driving Car Could Be a Trip to Advertising Hell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There's nothing marketers love more than a captive audience. And people don't get any more captive than when they're sitting in a car. That's a powerful motivation for companies developing automated cars, beyond the technical innovation that has made such a vision possible.
- After "Grossly Distorting" UN Views on the Internally Displaced Ata-Manobos, the Philippine Military Apologizes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Human rights activists and politicians have criticized the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for distorting a statement by Chaloka Beyani, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs).
- Canada After Harper
His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
- Ethiopia: Hacking Team Lax on Evidence of Abuse
Leaked Documents Show Need to Regulate Surveillance Sales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Italian spyware firm Hacking Team took no effective action to investigate or stop reported abuses of its technology by the Ethiopian government against dissidents.
- Forced to Love the Grind
Passion is the new workplace requirement - and one that should be resisted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In this world, legendary figures are the ones who remain in the office for one hundred hours straight, working through their children's musical recitals and 104-degree fevers. The idea is that workers become superhuman through the refusal of self-care. This phenomenon isn't merely depressing; it's outright dangerous.
- Fourteen organizations of the Greek Left call for mobilizations around the country against the new memorandum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The full text of the call signed by the leading figures of the 14 organizations of the Greek radical Left.
- My Journey from Racism
And how we can best end it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A white individual's experience of racism growing up in America in the 1940's and 1950's.
- San Diego's Facial Recognition Program Shows Why We Need Records on Police Use of Mobile Biometric Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The New York Times has a story out on how San Diego police use mobile facial recognition devices in the field, including potentially on non-consenting residents who aren't suspected of a crime. One account from a retired firefighter is especially alarming.
- SEC Admits It’s Not Monitoring Stock Buybacks to Prevent Market Manipulation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- What We Don't Know Will Hurt Us: Ignorance In The Information Age
Canada Has Changed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The war on knowledge is a war on the health of Canadians. We need a government that will embrace the information age and use evidence to improve our lives. We need a government that has the health of Canadians as its greatest priority. Ten years in, it’s clear that that government is not Stephen Harper’s.
- Argentina: lack of ID leaves hundreds of thousands living in the shadows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A survey conducted between October and December 2011 found that the births of 1.6% of children under 17 (168,000) were not registered. The survey was conducted by the Catholic University Social Debt Observatory and the Instituto abierto para el desarrollo y estudio de políticas públicas (Iadepp), a group dedicated to the analysis of public policies.
Birth registration is a hurdle for many families in marginalised communities even though documents are needed to access healthcare, justice and education.
- As Turkey Bombed Anti-ISIS Fighters, It Hired Lobbying Firm Tied to 2016 Candidates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On July 24, 2015, Turkey launched a massive military campaign that included sweeping attacks against Kurdish forces as well as minor strikes on Islamic State positions south of Turkey’s border. Just five days later, the Turkish government inked a contract to hire a team of prominent lobbyists to add to its already formidable army of influence-peddlers in Washington.
- CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over 60 inmates at New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
- CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over 60 inmates at New York's Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
- Ecuador's New Indigenous Uprising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ecuador's Indigenous movements have launched an uprising to challenge the government's opposition to bilingual education and its support for an extractive-based economy.
- Greece and Tsipras' policy: Provoking a split with the working class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An interview with Panagiotis Lafazanis.
- Hillary Clinton on the Sanctity of Protecting Classified Information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It turns out that at least two of the emails which traversed Hillary Clinton’s personal email account and server were "top secret," according to the inspector general for the Intelligence Community. To describe that as reckless is an understatement given that, as AP notes, "There is no evidence she used encryption to shield the emails or her personal server from foreign intelligence services or other potentially prying eyes." The FBI has now taken possession of that server.
- Honduras: Garifuna communities resist eviction and theft of land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pristine beaches, clear Caribbean waters, coral reefs, fertile land ... such is the homeland of the Garifuna people, writes Jeff Abbott. It's so lovely that outsiders are desperate to seize ever more of their territory to develop for mass tourism, oil palm plantations, illicit drug production ... and the land grabs have the full support of Honduras military government, backed to the hilt by Uncle Sam.
- How the 'SlutWalk' Has Transformed the Rape Culture Conversation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is amidst this wider rape culture, and the ways feminists are fighting back, that SlutWalk not only emerged, but exploded as a global grassroots movement. What is significant about SlutWalk is not the premise; after all, women have been protesting against sexual violence for decades. What is striking about SlutWalk was its ability, despite its feminist roots, to capture the mainstream media's attention.
- IS and climate change - an inconvenient truth for Republicans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
US Democratic presidential contender Martin O’Malley sparked controversy last month by saying that the conditions for the rise of the so-called Islamic State (IS, also known as Isil, Isis or Da'esh) were set by the impact on Syria of climate change, which drove farmers from their land into slums around cities and created extreme poverty.
- The Pentagon's Half-Billion-Dollar Drone Boondoggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rivalry between the Army and Air Force over Predator drones may have cost the Pentagon over $500 million in wasteful spending, according to a report released under the Freedom of Information Act.
- Sources HotLink - August 12, 2015
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue features articles that are centred around the theme of the big overpowering the small; through physical violence, deception, law and slander. Those who are powerful have always exerted their strength to control the thoughts and behaviours of the weak. In the past, it was straightforward -- through force. In modern times, however, this control is much less obvious. For our marketers and public relations specialists, we offer guides in internet marketing: one article on the current state of internet communications and another article on search engine optimization. Also included in this issue is a film about corporate abuse of power and a book on news stories that stand the test of time.
- Stemming the tide together: Soil, not oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We are living in a rapidly changing world. The changes that we are witnessing have not come about by accident; they have been carefully orchestrated and the price has been dire. Today, a handful of corporations and entities control the global supply of food, water and other resources. They operate without any sense of responsibility and the space for people to seek redress is becoming continually more constricted.
- GM cotton really is helping to drive Indian farmers to suicide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new study finds that Indian farmers in rain-fed areas are being driven to suicide from the increased cost of growing Bt GMO cotton varieties that confer no benefits to them. The extra expenses arise from buying new seeds each year, along with increased chemical inputs, while suffering inadequate access to agronomic information.
- Marx & Engels papers completely available online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The original papers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, World Classics, are digitized and now online accessible. The papers can be consulted from anywhere and by anyone who logs into the catalogue website of the International Institute of Social History. Access is open and free.
- Opposition radio and TV station's regional office ransacked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about an attack on a regional branch of Viva, a radio and TV broadcaster owned by former transitional President Andry Rajoelina, the leader of the opposition party Mapar.
- Revolution and counter-revolution in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A large part of the Western left and radical media have written off the struggle against the totalitarian Assad regime in Syria as irretrievably lost. Effectively, for them, the counterrevolution has triumphed. And alongside them, there are also those who never supported the revolutionary uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in the first place.
- Something to Offer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Eugene V. Debs was one of the country's most prominent socialists when the socialist movement was a major force in American politics. Unlike many in his party, Eugene V. Debs believed the struggle for black equality was critical to realizing the promise of socialism.
- Turning an issue into a campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As an organizer, your goal is not just to help members solve their workplace problems but to help them build collective self-confidence and power. A campaign is just a series of steps that help people focus on a common issue, identify a solution, and build pressure on the person with the power to solve the problem.
- Victory for the Press: Germany Drops “Treason” Investigation of Digital Rights Blog (But Investigation of Sources Still Ongoing)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After much public outcry, the treason investigation into German blog Netzpolitik.org was paused late last week. Yesterday, we were glad to hear that it had been officially dropped.
- Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go?
War, Sunny Side Up, and the Summer of Slaughter (Vietnam and Today)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Let me tell you a story about a moment in my life I'm not likely to forget even if, with the passage of years, so much around it has grown fuzzy. It involves a broken-down TV, movies from my childhood, and a war that only seemed to come closer as time passed.
- Zapatista Communities: "Resistance and Rebellion Are Our Weapons"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From May 2nd to May 9th the Zapatistas hosted a tribute to fallen comrades, a celebration of resistance, and a seminar to "provoke thought, reflection, critique." This article presents some of the words of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés in the event.
- Agbogbloshie: Ghana's 'trash world' may be an eyesore - but it's no dump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Most accounts of Agbogbloshie, the e-waste site in Accra, Ghana, persistently miss the point. Far from being a simple 'dump' for the world's trash, it is a huge recycling operation that pays for the wastes it receives, employs thousands of young men who would otherwise lack jobs, and plays a huge role in the national and global economy.
- The Failed Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The failure of Syriza in Greece, and the timidness of other left-social-democratic parties and formations tells us that we must learn the dangers of political shortcut and focus on building radical movements outside of government.
- Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled
The Tyee's full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have racked up dozens of serious abuses of power since forming government in 2006. From scams to smears, monkey-wrenching opponents to intimidating public servants like an Orwellian gorilla, some offences are criminal, others just offend human decency. Here are 70 instances of abuse of power by the Stephen Harper government.
- IPI World Press Freedom Hero Mazen Darwish released from prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Renowned Syrian journalist Mazen Darwish, the International Press Institute's 2015 World Press Freedom Hero, has been freed after spending nearly three-and-a-half years behind bars on spurious terrorism charges.
- On the shocking death of Azerbaijani journalist Rasim Aliyev
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety is in shock over the murder of our longtime employee and board member, current Chairman Rasim Aliyev. On August 8, 2015, unknown persons beat Aliyev to within inches of his life. He died several hours later in a hospital after doctors failed to provide necessary medical treatment.
- The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stromberg dissects socials attitude regarding public transit in the United States, where infrastructure in most cities was designed with automobile dependency in mind, thereby causing transit to be been viewed and designed, as a form of social welfare rather than a public utility.
- Revolutionary Greece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The small town of Distomo is just 150 kilometers from Athens, positioned in the heart of Greece, literally squeezed between two great world heritage sites: Delphi, the cradle of the European democracy, and a stunning Byzantine monastery of Hossios Luckas. But Distomo is much more than some picturesque village surrounded by mountains and history.
- Two arrested five years after journalist's disappearance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Free Media Movement (FMM) welcome the arrest of two former military officials over the disappearance of Prageeth Eknaligoda. The IFJ and FMM urge the government to ensure the investigation is thoroughly completed and all those responsible are brought to justice.
- Public Transit Struggles in London and Toronto: P3s, Transit Workers and Alternatives
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Using the fight against transit privatization practices in London, England, Rosenfeld presents a model for reform in Toronto that prioritizes rider concerns such as reduced fares and increased accessibility.
- Religious extremists murder fourth blogger in Bangladesh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly deplores the murder of Niladri Chattopadhyay on August 7 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The IFJ demand immediate action from the Bangladeshi Government to end the continued and systematic attacks on freedom of expression in Bangladesh.
- Cyber-security workshop held successfully, despite police harassment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns repeated attempts by local police to harass and interrupt a digital security workshop that RSF and Defend the Defenders (DTD), a Vietnamese human rights group, successfully organized for 23 Vietnamese rights activists near Hanoi last weekend.
- Donald Trump Says He Can Buy Politicians, None of His Rivals Disagree
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Donald Trump bragged Thursday night that he could buy politicians — even the ones sharing the stage with him at a Republican presidential debate.
- Greece: Was, and Is There, an Alternative?
The Left confronts Greece's financial crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Addresses three major aspects of the Greek crisis of 2015: the debate over strategy and program within and around Syriza and how that was reflected in the months since the January election; the prospects for a recovery and revitalization of the Greek left in the coming period; and some promising initial reactions to the Greek events in the European left.
- International rights groups call for release of seriously ill Chinese journalist Gao Yu
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fifteen human rights and press freedom organizations are urging Chinese President Xi Jinping to immediately release seriously ill journalist Gao Yu from prison. In a letter, the organizations also called for the release of all those held for the peaceful expression of their political views and in need of medical attention, as well as access to adequate medical care for all prisoners.
- Are Americas Games a Nuclear Weapons-free Zone?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ground Zero to Global Zero: Hope After 70 Years will commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Every August the Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Day Coalition organizes
- Medical Privacy Under Threat in the Age of Big Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Medical privacy is a high-stakes game, in both human and financial terms, given the growing multibillion-dollar legal market for anonymized medical data. The threats to individuals seeking to protect their medical data can come externally, from data breaches; internally, from "rogue employees" and others with access; or through loopholes in regulations.
- Conserving soil: precious, finite and under threat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Human existence relies on healthy soils. But all over the world soils are being lost and degraded by inappropriate land use, reducing their capacity to produce food and store water, nutrients and carbon. Sustainable land management must be incentivised to conserve this essential resource.
- 5 Ideas that Really Matter But FOX Won't Address Them in the Presidential Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Iimportant issues – issues that affect millions of American families – are going unacknowledged entirely in the current election campaign.
- IFIC Congratulates OBSI's New Ombudsman and CEO
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) issued a statement today congratulating Sarah P. Bradley on her appointment as the next ombudsman and chief executive officer of the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI).
- Indigenous Community Wins Land Rights Victory in Guatemala After 200 Years of Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Success is rare among indigenous peoples' struggles for land rights in Guatemala. But the nearly 300 Poqomchi' Maya families that make up the Primavera communities in the department of Alta Verapaz have just won a significant victory.
- International press freedom organizations call on Burundi authorities to investigate attacks on journalists and human rights defenders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Press freedom, media development and human rights organizations denounce the continued attacks on and threats to journalists, media workers and human rights defenders in Burundi, most recently the serious incidents in which human rights defender Pierre Claver Mbonimpa survived an attempt on his life while journalist Esdras Ndikumana was the victim of a brutal attack by police and intelligence officials.
- The Biggest Threat to Mexican Journalists Aren't Drug Cartels Anymore
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Northern Mexico and the drug cartels have dangerous reputations; especially for journalists. This should come to a surprise to no one. This year, however, the danger seems to have shifted in both location and source. Of the six journalists that were killed in Mexico this year, all of them were killed in the south; most likely at the hands of police officers and politicians.
- China's Cyberspying Is 'on a Scale No One Imagined' -- if You Pretend NSA Doesn't Exist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stories about cyberespionage -- like the data theft at the US Office of Personal Management believed but not officially stated to have been carried out by China -- are weird. For one thing, they include quotes about how "we need to be a bit more public" about our responses to cyberattacks -- delivered from White House officials who speak only on condition of anonymity.
- Foodies and farmworkers: Allies or enemies?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fred Magdoff reviews Labor and the Locavore. Can the 'buy local food' movement support both sustainable farming and justice for farmworkers?
- Give Us the Ballot
The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. Give Us the Ballot tells this story for the first time.
- Toronto Will Not Wait Until 3 Minutes to Midnight
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On Thursday August 6, 2015 at the Church of the Holy Trinity (10 Trinity Square, behind the Eaton Centre), Torontonians and their international guests will join to say "Not This City, Not Any City". Canadian Co-president of Parliamentarians for
- How Iran Used WikiLeaks to Attack a Human Rights Defender
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In their latest attempt to discredit "terrorist" human rights defenders, Iran has accused and slandered Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, of accepting bribes. Though the issue has been resolved, Iran's crusade against human rights activists neither began nor ended with Shaheed and Shaheed isn't the biggest fish they are frying -- not by a long shot.
- Koch Political Machine Focuses on "Freedom" to Pollute and Pay Less Taxes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Billionaire conservative activist Charles Koch on Sunday likened his political efforts to the struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass, saying that "we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back."
- Outsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters have named eleven companies that have won millions of dollars in contracts to plug a shortage in personnel needed to analyze the thousands of hours of streaming video gathered daily from the remotely piloted aircraft that hover over war zones around the world.
- Puerto Rico Is an Artificial Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
CounterSpin interview with Ed Morales on Puerto Rican debt crisis.
- Report: Hundreds of Civilians Killed by U.S.-Led Bombing of ISIS in Iraq and Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new report from a group of journalists and researchers says that hundreds of civilians have died during airstrikes by the U.S. and other nations fighting the Islamic State, a marked contrast to the Pentagon’s official admission of just two civilian deaths.
- Europe's Moment of Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Greek Premier Alexis Tsipras' acceptance of an "austerity package" on July 13, which contained measures rejected by the Greek people in a referendum barely a week before, represents not just an abject surrender by the Syriza government, or a sign of contempt on the part of German finance capital for the Greek electorate; it marks a decisive turning point for Europe (and indeed for the rest of the world), and the end of the road for a whole way of thinking on the Left, especially the European Left.
- Social Democracy or Revolutionary Democracy: Syriza and Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lebowitz discusses the construction of Syriza, its Thessaloniki Programme, and the potential for revolutionary democracy in Greece.
- A Camera on Every Cop
Taser International cashes in on police misconduct
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On December 1, 2014, after several months of protests against police brutality that began with the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, President Obama pledged $75 million in federal funds to help purchase 50,000 police body cameras.
- A century of sugar and tears
Guadeloupe has bulit a slavery memorial centre on the site of a gigantic sugar refinery, believing it's necessary to acknowledge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Present day Guadeloupei s coming to terms with a grim past through the Caribbean Centre of Expression and Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade (MACTe), a new museum and memorial built symbolically on a waterfront site associated with slavery, segregation and conflict.
- Fire Ants Are Being Laced with Homosexual Chemtrails to Bite Christians And Convert Them To Homosexuality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The homosexual chemtrail concoction contains a high concentration of gay endorphins. Sources confirm that several exclusive gay clubs collected the spent sweats of late-night homosexuality, then sent them to a laboratory where in-vitro techniques were used to create this potent new form of biological homosexual chemtrail. Various Christian neighborhoods in Texas have been reporting a sharp increase in these chemtrail laced fire ants and the CDC is reporting a higher incidence of homosexuality in Texas. This is all likely part of Obama’s Jade Helm invasion, but the Texas Chaper of the Christian Defense League suggests homeowners spray all of their doorways with bug guard and be vigilant in not becoming victimized by one of these ants.
- Fire Ants Are Being Laced with Homosexual Chemtrails to Bite Christians And Convert Them To Homosexuality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fire ants are being laced with homosexual chemtrails and then dumped in neighborhoods with higher per capita rates of Christianity. The homosexual chemtrail concoction contains a high concentration of gay endorphins. Sources confirm that several exclusive gay clubs collected the spent sweats of late-night homosexuality, then sent them to a laboratory where in-vitro techniques were used to create this potent new form of biological homosexual chemtrail.
- In the Shadow of the Storm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ten years ago this month, on the day Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, I was at Camp Casey, an informal encampment outside George W. Bush's Crawford ranch, listening to a group of veterans talk about their opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. By chance, it was also the day my first feature for Harper's Magazine went to press, an essay about how people react in the wake of major urban disasters.
- Old Poison, New Battles
The ongoing struggle for voting rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Bombs explode outside offices of two newspapers in Ecuador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This morning, Fundamedios condemned the explosion of two pamphlet bombs. One across the offices of the newspaper El Universo and the second at the entrance of the state-controlled newspaper, El Telégrafo. "We must condemn violence wherever it comes from."
- How to Dismantle the NHS in 10 Easy Steps
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The story of how the British National Health Service (NHS) has been gradually converted into a market-based healthcare system over the past 25 years. This process is accelerating under the Coalition government and the very existence of a National Health Service is in danger.
- How China's Online Civilization Army Turned a Youth Street Fight into a Patriotic Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A bystander would tell you that it was just a fight between two teens but, watching the news from home, you'd think it was a patriot defending his country. This is a story about a propaganda campaign that turned into a fist fight which was subsequently manipulated into a more effective propaganda campaign. If there's a story to be spun, China will be there to spin it.
- "Yes, We're Corrupt": A List of Politicians Admitting That Money Controls Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Schwarz gives a list of examples where politicians acknowledge that money has an impact on what they do.
- Any future for Burundi's media after presidential election?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Burundi's privately-owned radio stations are still silent although President Pierre Nkurunziza succeeded in forcing the country to hold an election giving him a third term. Reporters Without Borders calls for the rapid and unconditional reopening of the media and guarantees for the safe return of all journalists who fled abroad.
- For NYT, US Labor Abuses Abroad Are a Thing of Decades Past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Does foreign investment make the US economy more vulnerable? Apparently the New York Times believes it does.
- Why Greece Doesn't Matter
We have to stop talking about Greece. What must emerge from the calamity of SYRIZA-ANEL is a renewed call for democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Change in Greece will not come from short-term strategies and tactics of seeking power, but from a long process of coordinated and planned immanent critiques. This political organization will not aim to represent itself in the machinery of parliament -- where the watchful eyes of the IMF and ECB will determine policy -- but will emerge from an organized movement comprising the disenfranchised, the working class, and the intellectual vanguard. It will not compromise. It will instead operate under an ideology for an emancipatory alliance of humanity removed from the spreadsheet, removed from the NATO, and removed from free-market directives. It will not seek to claim power in an election, it will be given it by the people themselves when the movement is ripe.
- The anguish of migrants in Macedonia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Milevska talks about the difficulties that migrants and refugees have to endure as cross Macedonia in their way to Western Europe.
- IFJ condemns killing of third Syrian journalist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today condemned the killing of Syrian journalist Thaer al-Ajlani who died covering fighting between the Syrian army and rebels in Jobar, east of the capital, Damascus.
- Nigerian media seek to cope with Boko Haram threat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This spring, everyone who knew of Adeola Akinremi's plans to travel to northeast Nigeria to report on the tens of thousands displaced by Boko Haram told him to be extremely careful. Some urged him not to go at all. But Akinremi, features editor of the independent daily ThisDay, was set on telling the victims' stories and he set out for Adamawa state the first week of May.
- Ostula and Mexican Army Hold to Clashing Versions of Recent Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Mexico, the independent investigation agency SubVersiones has published a compilation video that chronologically shows what events that took place on July 19, 2015, in the indigenous Nahua community of Santa María de Ostula. That day ended with a child dead and four people wounded.
- Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Wallace describes the rise of Ebola, connecting its outbreak to capital-driven shifts in land and changes in the agroeconomic context.
- The Syriza Dilemma
What would constructive pressure on the Syriza government look like?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The radical Syriza government was elected in January 2015 based on its promise to try to bargain a better deal than the severe neoliberal austerity imposed through the memoranda signed by previous governments. At the same time, it promised to remain in the eurozone monetary system, in which Greece’s financial system is embedded, as well as within the framework of the European Union, into which its economy has been integrated.
- TPP Undermines User Control and That's Disastrous for Accessibility
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) threatens all users' ability to access information and participate in culture and innovation online, but it's especially severe for those with disabilities or who otherwise depend on content in accessible formats. That's because it doubles down on broken policies that were heavily lobbied for by Hollywood and other major publishers that impede the distribution of accessible works.
- US: The State Murder of an Activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The murder of Sandra Bland, an activist with the Black Lives Matter movement, exposes the impunity of U.S. police.
- Anatomy of a Copyright Coup: Jamaica's Public Domain Plundered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A bill extending the term of copyright by an additional 45 years -- almost doubling it, in the case of corporate and government works -- sailed through the Jamaican Senate on June 26, after having passed the House of Representatives on June 9.
- Mastermind behind murder of human rights lawyer, journalist, sentenced to life in prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the sentencing to life in prison today of a Russian nationalist leader in connection with the 2009 fatal attack on human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, in which Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasiya Baburova was also killed.
- Three journalists suspended after hosting Ugandan opposition leader on radio show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Three journalists were suspended over hosting an opposition presidential hopeful who is also the former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader, Dr. Kizza Besigye, on Baba FM radio, without permission from the radio management. The radio was switched off about 15 minutes into the hour-long talk show, in which Besigye was to discuss his political campaign in Busoga.
- Changes to voting system leave Canada worse off
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How did we end up with this convoluted and discriminatory method of voting when we once had perhaps the best method in the world - door-to-door enumeration and no hard-to-get voter ID requirement?
- How Boko Haram Is Changing International Politics in Western and Central Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two suicide attacks on June 22 in Maroua, northern Cameroon, left several people dead and many others wounded. Ten days earlier, 15 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a crowded market in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad. The attack came exactly three weeks after a similar bombing claimed the lives of 27 people in the same town.
- NBC News Releases the Long-Awaited Trailer for its Summer Horror Film About ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
ISIS now officially poses a bigger threat to the "U.S. homeland" than the one posed by former title-holder Al Qaeda.
- Tunisia charges editor with complicity in terrorist attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Tunisian authorities should drop charges against an editor accused of complicity in the June 27 terrorist attack on Sousse beach that killed at least 39 people.
- UN slams UK surveillance law, calls for privacy reforms in Canada, France and Macedonia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In yet another blow to the UK's surveillance proponents, the UN Human Rights Committee has criticised the British legal regime governing the interception of communications, observing that it allows for mass surveillance and lacks sufficient safeguards.
- Sources HotLink - July 22, 2015
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue features articles on censorship and violence. Closer to home, we look at media and public interpretations of the Charleston massacre. Overseas, we explore brutal police tactics and violent suppression of free expression. For our marketers, feature an expert interview on the current state of print media. Following the tone of the interview, we also feature a guide on incorporation social media into your marketing strategy. Also featured in this article, is a book on environmental exploitation and a movie on worker exploitation.
- Mental Illness Doesn't Explain Mass Violence -- but Neither Does 'Islamic Extremism'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the latest mass shooting in Chattanooga, corporate media followed the usual pattern of being ready and willing to label violence as "terrorism" so long as the suspect is Muslim.
- Pakistan: Intelligence agency sought to tap all communications traffic, documents reveal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Every government seems to want to spy in Pakistan. The US National Security Agency (NSA) tapped the fibre optic cables landing in Karachi, among others, and used 55 million phone records harvested from Pakistani telecommunications providers for an analysis exercise. The United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had a store of SIM keys from Mobilink and Telenor networks, two of the country's biggest providers.
- The Sad Story of Canadian Geographic
Former employees say the nature magazine became a paid mouthpiece for oil companies and others.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Staff at Canadian Geographic magazine report that it publishes articles financed and vetted by companies without disclosing it as sponsored content.
- Barter Networks: Lessons from Argentina for Greece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"How did Argentina survive their economic crisis?"; "Are they doing better now?"; "What happened to the factory takeovers?"; "Did millions of people really participate in the barter network? Did they actually invent new money?" These are some of the many questions I have been asked by Greeks, especially over the past few weeks, related to their economic crisis and the potential for self-organization and survival.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for June 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - July 17, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending June 30, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.22 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM
- Leaders who publicly threaten journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As a state leader, public criticism is inevitable. How you deal with it, however, is entirely up to you. When journalists put leaders in a negative light, they can choose to correct their mistakes or the can choose to respond with violence and repression. They can also react emotionally with insults, defamation and racism. This is the state of global leaders who, instead of permitting the freedom of speech, decide to slander journalists who were just doing their job.
- Ruthless Power and Deleterious Politics
From DDT to Roundup
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The mix of power and politics in the proliferation of pesticides from DDT to Roundup.
- Defamation cases quashing press freedom in Indonesia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI) in expressing strong concern for a growing number of criminal defamation charges against the media and public officials. The IFJ and AJI express concerns for the impact such charges have against freedom of expression and call on the government to ensure such charges do not become a tool to silence critics.
- Investigation Reveals 'Environmental Ruin' And Workers Rights Abuses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Broken promises to impoverished communities, serious environmental concerns and poor health and safety records linked to Australian mining companies have all been revealed by Africa’s largest ever collaborative journalistic investigation.
- Syriza and Sanders: "Just Say 'No'" to Neo-liberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Hopes for Syriza's negotiations with the banking troika in the EU simmered and even boiled over among elements of the left, especially after the vaunted "No" referendum vote suggested that the Greeks would not succumb to another wave of austerity measures but would instead stand firm, even if this meant potentially leaving the EU. We have seen these hopes dashed by the subsequent "negotiations," in which Tsipras seemed to have negotiated backwards, arriving at an agreement that was worse than the one rejected by the Greek voters in the referendum vote.
- UK Fracking Task Force calls for improved safety standards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A report by the UK Task Force on Shale Gas has called for greater safety and transparency measures to be implemented before widespread fracking occurs across the country.
- Argentina Replaces Columbus Statue with Indigenous Heroine
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bolivian President Evo Morales’ visit to his Argentina counterpart Cristina Fernandez Wednesday will focus not only on bilateral agreements between the two nations, but also South America's independence history. The two South American leaders will inaugurate a monument to independence heroine and South American guerrilla military leader Juana Azurduy. The 15-meter high (52 feet) bronze statue has been erected outside the presidential palace in Buenos Aires in the place that a monument to Christopher Columbus once stood.
- Free Speech - Earth Liberation Front Press Office April 5, 2001: Communications Equipment Seized by FBI Released 14 Years Later
Returned Objects: A Multimedia Art Installation
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gallery Note: This installation was displayed in Buffalo's ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery from the 15th to the 26th of July 2015. It received, due to the subject matter and the absurdity of the FBI holding these objects for 14 years, good print media coverage in Buffalo, NY. The opening of the show was packed, and former Earth Liberation Front Press Officer, Leslie James Pickering – now co-owner of Burning Books in Buffalo – and Civil Rights attorney Michael Kuzma, both spoke.
- Bangladesh volunteers learn to make a life-or-death difference in a disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse, civilians - often first on the scene of disasters in poorer countries - are being trained to support emergency teams.
- The Canadian Social Gospel: 1880-1960
What is the social gospel?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What is the social gospel? It is an attempt to apply Christianity to the collective ills of an industrializing society, and was a major force in Canadian religious, social and political life from the 1880s to the 1960s.
- Chinese Efforts to Quash Human Rights Campaigns Rippling Out of Control, says PEN
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A string of disappearances and arrests of over 100 human rights lawyers in China in the past week is the boldest move yet in Beijing's sprawling campaign to destroy China's human rights movement.
- The problem of Greece is not only a tragedy. It is a lie.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
According to John Pilger, the leaders of Syriza are revolutionaries of a kind - but their revolution is the perverse, familiar appropriation of social democratic and parliamentary movements by liberals groomed to comply with neo-liberal drivel. Like the Labour Party in Britain and its equivalents among former social democratic parties such as the Labor Party in Australia, still describing themselves as “liberal” or even “left”, Syriza is the product of an affluent, highly privileged, educated middle class, schooled in postmodernism.
- Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Schilis-Gallego discusses Australian mining companies' involvement in violence and human rights violations in Africa.
- Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A pattern of links between mining activities and deaths, disfigurement, environmental destruction and displacement suggests a troubling track record for Australian companies seeking wealth from Africa's minerals.
- IFIC Welcomes Two New Members
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - July 10, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that Botica Capital Management Inc. and TWMG Inc. have become members of IFIC, effective today.
- A window to hell in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Spending the day of 17 August in Khuzaa was like peering through a window to hell. But what we witnessed in the landscape of apocalyptic oblivion paled in comparison to the experience described to me by two Palestine Red Crescent volunteers who had attempted to break through the Israeli military cordon during the siege of the town.
- Fighting On All Fronts
Popular resistance in the Second World War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gluckstein explores the impact of mass popular movements during World War Two.
- A Practical Guide to Tackling Factory Hazards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of a "Workers' Guide to Health and Safety", a comprehensive work of ten years, which organizers can use to empower workers and "encourage" bosses to do the right thing.
- The Gaza Platform
Resource Type: Database
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Gaza Platform is an interactive map of attacks by Israeli forces on Gaza between 8 July and 26 August 2014. It enables its users to explore a vast collection of data, collected on the ground by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), as well as Amnesty International, during and after the conflict.
- How the British Government subjected thousands of people to chemical and biological warfare trials during Cold War
Historians had previously thought that such operations were much less extensive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During the Cold War, the British Government used the general public as unwitting biological and chemical warfare guinea pigs on a much greater scale than previously thought, according to new historical research.
- Shell-Shocked
On the Ground Under Israel's Gaza Assault
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Operation Protective Edge, launched in early July 2014, was the third major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in six years. It was also the most deadly. By the conclusion of hostilities some seven weeks later, 2,200 of Gaza's population had been killed, and more than 10,000 injured. In these pages, journalist Mohammed Omer, a resident of Gaza who lived through the terror of those days with his wife and then three-month-old son, provides a first-hand account of life on-the-ground during Israel’s assault.
- Surveillance company Hacking Team's relationships with repressive regimes exposed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A 400 gigabyte trove of internal documents belonging to surveillance company Hacking Team has been released online. Hacking team sells intrusive hacking tools that have allegedly been used by some of the most repressive regimes in the world.
- Agrica's Tanzania Rice Scheme Has Devastated Local Farmers, Say NGOs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A flagship rice plantation in Tanzania run by UK investors has allegedly destroyed the livelihoods of local smallholder farmers, driven them into debt and impacted the local environment, according to a new report published by the Oakland Institute.
- If the 'product' is wrong, a rebrand won't help Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Cook discusses Israel's attempt to rebrand itself. Specifically, he addresses "hasbara", translated as "public diplomacy", a campaign that calls for Israelis to justify and defend any policy regarding occupied territories.
- IFJ and EFJ oppose media restrictions in the newly-enacted Spanish Public Security Law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have joined their Spanish affiliates FAPE, FESP, FSC-CC.OO. and ELA-Gizalan in criticising the Public Security Law
- Luxemburg, Müller and the Berlin workers' and soldiers' councils
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rose reviews and discusses two important books about the German Revolution, "Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement", and "The German Left and the Weimar Republic: A Selection of Documents".
- Manoeuvres from above, movements from below: Greece under Tsipras
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Syriza left is at a crossroads. For all the belief that Syriza is a different kind of party, one that transcends the division between reform and revolution and therefore should be the home for the entire left, its left faces exactly the same problem as the reformist left in social democracy -- the trap of impotence. This article is written in the spirit of offering an alternative, around which the left as a whole can unite.
- New National Security Law in China suppresses media freedom: IFJ says
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses strong concern for the National Security Law that was passed by the Chinese National People's Congress yesterday, on July 1, 2015.
- 'But the banks are made of marble' -- how banks screw the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Across Africa, western Asia and Latin America in the 1980s, the growth of per capita GDP was brought to a halt. This was not a recession, it was a severe depression. And its cause was reckless lending by banks in the ’70s. A decade earlier, the euro currency had been invented. US dollars deposited in non-US banks and held there to avoid restrictions of US laws became negotiable financial instruments. These formed the basis for an unregulated market specialising in short-term loans.
- Ecuador: Mass marches defend democracy amid coup plot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
President Rafael Correa called a rally on July 2, 2015 in defence of democracy and the pro-poor Citizens' Revolution his government leads after plans by the right-wing opposition for a violent coup were exposed.
- The Gladys We Never Knew
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
According to the Vital Statistics Act document entitled ''RETURN OF DEATH OF AN INDIAN,'' Gladys Chapman was 12 years, 10 months, and 12 days old on April 29, 1931, when she died in Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. Occupation of the deceased was listed as ''Schoolgirl.'' On her death certificate, Dr. M.G. Archibald reported ''acute dilation of heart'' as the cause of death, with tuberculosis as the secondary cause. The duration of death was “several days.”
- Ecuador Fights against Elitism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is great news for majority of Ecuadorian citizens -- but a terrible nightmare for the 'elites'.
Lately, in Ecuador, right-wing 'elites' are continuously protesting against the administration, accusing it of corruption and other ills.
- Laos After the Bombs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos. The horrendous effects are still being felt.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2015
Greece and thd debt crisis
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Our spotlight this issue is on the debt crisis facing Greece. To understand the crisis, one has to look beyond the mainstream media to alternative sources of information. We've done that, with articles that set out to analyze the nature of the debt burden that has been imposed on the citizens of so many countries, not just Greece. Also: celebrating Grace Lee Bogg’s 100th birthday.
- The Riot That Changed Canada
How rampagers against Asians in Vancouver helped launch a famous PM
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The race riots of September 1907 have been Vancouver's embarrassing little incident for over a century. Most of us know very little about them, and still less about the consequences -- which, Julie Gilmour shows us, were immense and persist to this day.
- This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste - and it's leaking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising sea levels caused by climate change could cause 111,000 cubic yards of debris to spill into the ocean.
- What Does It Mean to Call Dylann Roof a 'Terrorist'?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It would have been unfathomable a year ago for the phrase "white terrorism" to be used by the mainstream media. This shift in discourse is just one effect of the post-Ferguson moment in which there is a halting national discussion of systemic racism. Terminology matters because changing ideological frames is part and parcel of changing policies, institutions, and structures.
- Amnesty International Responds to U.K. Government Surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A British tribunal admitted on Wednesday that the U.K. government had spied on Amnesty International and illegally retained some of its communications.
- ARIPO Protocol is a tool for foreign takeover of Ghana's agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ghanaian citizens have so far prevented the passage of the Plant Breeders Bill, a UPOV-91-compliant law that would strip Ghanaian farmers of their rights to their own seeds. But there is worse coming from the African Regional Intellectual Property Association (ARIPO). To Ghana’s great credit, and despite determination and pressure from the G7, USAID and its contractors, despite the willing and enthusiastic cooperation of Ghana’s ministers, Attorney General, and both major political parties, Ghana has refused to pass a farmer destroying, sovereignty busting, UPOV law.
- Challenging the 'refugee-victim' narrative
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With looming refugee and forced migration crises in the Mediterranean, Kenya, Burma, Syria, Burundi and elsewhere hitting international headlines, public attention is rightfully drawn to those people immediately affected by war, poverty, and persecution. For many, internally-displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, and asylum-seekers are above all unfortunate souls, devastated, and stripped of their humanity by seemingly never-ending civil wars, dictatorships and economic stagnation at home.
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration in Toronto August 6th, 2015
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
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Toronto's Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Day Coalition presents "Ground Zero to Global Zero: Hope After 70 Years" to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Thursday August 6, 2015 (Hiroshima Day) at The Church
- Israel seizes Flotilla ship to Gaza and deports 2 Human Rights advocates to Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two Canadians, Robert Lovelace and Kevin Neish, who were on board the Freedom Flotilla III boat Marianne, headed towards Gaza when it was seized by Israeli forces early Monday morning, are returning to Canada today. Israeli forces used an electric
- Seed freedom!
A last chance to thwart the great African seed grab
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Nineteen African nations meet this week (July 2015) in Arusha, Tanzania, to finalise a 'plant protection' protocol that would open up the continent's seeds to corporate interests, taking away farmers' rights to grow, improve, sell and exchange their traditional seeds, while allowing commercial breeders to make free use of the biodiversity in traditional seeds to sell them back to farmers in 'improved' form.
- Albert Woodfox, Gary Tyler
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First Published: 2015
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Albert Woodfox, Gary Tyler - two examples among many of what the racist and bureaucratic "carceral state" in America is about.
- Art and Aesthetics on the Left
An interview with Andrew Hemingway
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Andrew Hemingway is an art historian and Professor Emeritus at University College London. His books include Artists on the Left. American Artists and the Communist Movement 1926-1956 (Yale University Press, 2002) and The Mysticism of Money: Precisionist Painting and Machine Age America (Periscope Publishing, 2013).
- The Black Infinity Complex
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We're a group of UCLA grad students, and our vision of the Black Infinity Complex is inspired by the boundlessness and sustainability of Black creativity and imagination. It's a collective of organizers coming together as a liaison to create a united front of existing structures of grassroots organizations and community institutions, and organizers like you, or scholars.
- Boricua's Revolutionary Inspiration
Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921 (Book Review)
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Kirwin R. Shaffer's Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921.
- Brazil: Journalist Evany José Metzker Murdered While Investigating Drugs and Child Exploitation in Minas Gerais
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Capital Crimes of Fashion
Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion (Book Review)
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book Review of Tansy E. Hoskins' Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion.
- Deborah Cunningham, 1945-2015
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Deborah Cunningham was an ADAPT activist and Executive Director of the Memphis Center for Independent Living (MCIL). When she died on May 7, the movement lost a tireless, creative, committed activist, feminist and thinker.
- Detroit's Foreclosure Disaster
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In early 2015 the Wayne County Treasurer's office announced that 62,000 Detroit properties were slated for foreclosure, with probably 38,000 occupied. This could result in the displacement of as many as 100,000 Detroiters, or about one seventh of the city's population.
- Drug War Winners and Losers
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First Published: 2015
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A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism."
- Drug War Winners and Losers
Drug War Capitalism (Book Review)
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
State officials are portrayed as wholly separate from criminal groups. To the contrary, Paley shows that the worlds of state officials, large business interests and drug lords are in fact thoroughly integrated. Far from being inimical to business investment and the modern state, illicit drug economies and drug-related violence are simply a part of capitalism-as-usual.
- From Ferguson to Baltimore
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Combined with racial profiling, combined with the practice of predatory profiling and predatory policing, police departments are using parking and traffic tickets as a revenue base to increase their budget. All these bring us to a place where police violence is rampant. The more contacts you have with the police, the more possibilities you have of being subject to a violent interaction.
- Greece again Can Save the West
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The 'Greek crisis' is not about debt. Debt is the propaganda that the Empire is using to subdue sovereignty throughout the Western world.
- How Photography Can Destroy Reality
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It may be that some of the great philosophical work of our time is taking place, hidden and unheralded, in the field of image forensics. Where but under the scrutiny of digital experts who draw a line separating false representations of the world from truthful ones are contemporary questions of perception and reality brought so keenly to bear? Who but these detectives of the real pursue as explicitly-- as intricately-- our crime wave of the fake, the contrived, the uncanny, the exponential image?
- Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An excerpt from John Smith's book "Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century", in which he examines the relationship between the core capitalist countries and the rest of the world in the age of neoliberal globalization.
- Israel Continues to Cripple Gaza with its Sea Blockade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Jerusalem Post reports that the Swedish boat Marianne with 18 passengers has been "interdicted" by Israeli commandos 85 miles from the Gaza coast and towed to Ashdod. The three other vessels in the flotilla turned back and another big-hearted mission ended "with a whimper". Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon called his operation to deprive desperate, poverty stricken Gazans a "success". The Marianne‘s passengers would be be deported. "There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza," he added.
- John Reed Clubs and Proletarian Art - Part I
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The writings of Marx and Engels provide no support for the idea, frequently associated with Marxism, that the movement of the working class to emancipate itself from capitalism and build a classless society requires a proletarian or revolutionary art as an aid to its struggles.
- Let Them Eat Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The winds are changing for the energy giants. And so the black plumes of smoke emitted by the climate deniers in an attempt to provide cover for the coal, oil and gas industry have already been refined.
- Life After Death for Labor?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Stanley Aronowitz's book "The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement."
- Life After Death for Labor?
The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers' Movement (Book Review)
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In his new book, veteran labour activist/academic Stanley Aronowitz offers a critique of what is wrong with the labour movement in the United States, as well as a 10-point manifesto for the steps "Toward a New Workers Movement."
- A Majority Black Police Force - It's Not Enough
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Although 61% oF Detroit's police force is Black - and headed by a Black police chief - between 1995-2000 police shot 47 people; from 2009-14 there were 18 additional shootings. Perhaps the most publicized case has been the SWAT-like raid on a home that resulted in the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, killed as she lay sleeping on the couch next to her grandmother.
- Mass Incarceration for Profit
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the face of growing public criticism and improved technologies, companies like Securus search for new ways to remain competitive while marketing themselves as providers of a quality service that keeps the public safe. Yet with the involvement of global financial houses in the prison industrial complex, the pressure mounts to produce value for shareholders. Ultimately, this systematically incentivizes mass incarceration. While we often hear about the activities of private prison providers like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, corporate interests are immersed in every aspect of criminal justice.
- Moral Appeals Aren't Enough
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The wonderful thing about Black Lives Matter is that they're saying you cannot use moral suasion to win this. You've got to disrupt, and make sure that things don't work in order to make the demand for change.
- The Movement Has a History
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First Published: 2015
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I was born in the '70s in East Oakland. All of our parents are Panthers, or Black Power organizers, or organizers. We come out politicized.
- Our Movement Is Global
an interview with Alice Ragland
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Against the Current interviewed Alice Ragland, who has been central to organizing Black youth in Cleveland against the police murder of Tamir Rice, the 12-year old shot to death two seconds after the police arrived at the park where Rice was playing with a toy gun.
- Paradoxes of Politics
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Is there a viable presence for genuine independent politics, whether it’s a political party formation or broader coalition? What's needed is a force embracing the rising social insurgencies around race and national oppression, mass incarceration, immigrant rights, Fight for Fifteen, confronting the environmental disaster and endless imperialist wars - along with labor's traditional economic issues - capable of attracting thousands or tens of thousands of activists out of the corporate two-party trap.
- Pioneers of Women's Liberation
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Hal Draper's book "Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism."
- Pioneers of Women's Liberation
Women and Class: Toward a Socialist Feminism (Book Review)
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Hal Draper (1914-1990) was both a master polemicist and an erudite scholar of Marxism and of socialist history, often combining these talents in withering critiques of alternative analyses. These qualities are fully manifested in Women and Class: Towards a Socialist Feminism, now released by the Center for Socialist History, a collection of essays some of which were written in connection with his multivolume Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution.
- Police Violence in the Spotlight
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Our investigation concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that CDP [Cleveland Division of Police] engages in a pattern or practice of using unreasonable force in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
- The Prophet Alarmed
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Tariq Ali's book "The Extreme Centre: A Warning."
- The Prophet Alarmed
The Extreme Center: A Warning (Book Review)
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Review of Tariq Ali's The Extreme Center: A Warning. In The Extreme Center, Ali gives more than just a pungent and entertaining smack-down of corruption in British politics.
- A Recipe for Killing a School System
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The level of corruption and willingness to subject children to unproven educational methods is shocking, all the more so given that Detroit has more children living in poverty than any of the country's 50 largest U.S. cities.
- Reflections After Ferguson
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First Published: 2015
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I am a white man with a Black son. I did not have or get him young and fill his head with illusions of diversity and colorblindness, the way some white parents do. I met him when he was a young teen, living in the housing projects, well on his way to having a reality-based world view built around the urban litany of poverty, gangs, drugs, murder, jail, dysfunctional schools and police abuse - and very much not about diversity and colorblindness.
- Research Shows Internet Shutdowns and State Violence Go Hand in Hand in Syria
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First Published: 2015
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When an oppressive regime blocks Internet access during social unrest, violence usually follows. This is a pattern that has become famous with the Arab Spring but is the violence that follows a response to the repression of free speech? Or is the repression of free speech a means to another end? New research suggests the latter. Using Syria as a case study, it seems that governments blackout the Internet as a means for security forces to gain some tactical advantage when they violently engage protesters.
- The Silencing Act and Mumia Abu-Jamal
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Revictimization Relief Act, which my lawyers at the Pennsylvania ACLU have appropriately dubbed the "Silencing Act," allows victims of personal injury crimes (and family members or prosecutors acting on their behalf) to petition a judge to stop criminal offenders from speaking or acting if their speech or action "perpetuates the continuing effect of" that crime, including by causing "mental anguish."
- South Africa's short memory
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First Published: 2015
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The migrants so recently attacked in South Africa almost all came from neighbouring countries that paid a high price in death and ruin for supporting anti-apartheid struggles.
- Wall Street and the Greek Financial Crisis
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Michael Hudson and Bill Black zero in on some of the key elements of the crisis. They point out that it is not really 'Greece', let alone the Greek people, who have contracted this debt and who have been bailed out until now.
- When workers' own time begins
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First Published: 2015
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Marx took a long view of realizing freedom in a positive sense. Capitalism, in Marx’s day, used up three generations of workers in a single generation of working days without time limits. The struggle for the eight-hour day spread across the U.S. after the victory over slavery in the Civil War. Marx then traced the generations-long struggle for a normal working day.
- Will climate chaos reign in the Anthropocene?
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
To judge by many accounts of climate change, the twenty-first century will gradually become a warmer, stormier, and less biodiverse version of the twentieth. There's an unspoken assumption that the Anthropocene will be less pleasant than the Holocene, but not fundamentally different, and that the transition will be smooth.
- A Window on Indigenous Life
Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Space of Andean Life (Book Review)
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book Review of Andrew Canessa's Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Space of Andean Life.
- XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google for the World's Private Communications
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The NSA's XKEYSCORE program, first revealed by The Guardian, sweeps up countless people's Internet searches, emails, documents, usernames and passwords, and other private communications. XKEYSCORE is fed a constant flow of Internet traffic from fiber optic cables that make up the backbone of the world’s communication network, among other sources, for processing.
- Harper's Rule Breaking Rush to Crush Unions
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Is there anything more undemocratic than Canada's most tainted organization -- the Conservative-controlled Senate -- breaking its rules and then overturning its own Conservative Speaker's ruling, all to hurriedly impose anti-union legislation before the federal election? That's what happened last week with Bill C-377, an odious private members' bill shepherded from beginning to end by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's own office, passed by Parliament's Conservative majority and sent to the Senate for approval.
- The Hijacking of the Marianne by "The Pirates of the Mediterranean"
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the early hours of the morning (local time) of June 29th, three Israeli Navy ships intercepted and hijacked a Swedish flagged ship, the Marianne av Göteborg on route to Gaza in the State of Palestine.
- Istanbul's LGBT pride march violently disbanded by police
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As Americans celebrate a momentous step forward for the LGBT movement, Turkish gay pride marchers were met with rubber bullets and water cannons from the police. While uncharacteristic of the police force, these violent acts are, unfortunately, in line with the general atmosphere in Turkey. There is an ever-growing epidemic of violent homophobia and transphobia in the country.
- Keep our front gardens green!
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First Published: 2015
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It's time to halt the loss of the nation's front gardens to dreary paving, writes Jenny Jones. Green gardens protect against floods, provide homes for wildlife, keep cities cool in summer, and help us all feel happier. Now, with 7 million gardens already paved over, we must protect those that remain.
- Neoliberalism against capitalism?
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First Published: 2015
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Neil Davidson on how the current neo-liberal project has been almost too successful as a ruling class strategy, creating a form of capitalism which endangers the long-term security of capital itself and edges society ever closer to barbarism.
- Protect Students from Corporate Data-Mining in the Classroom
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First Published: 2015
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Across the political spectrum there is debate as to whether data should be collected about students.
- Report from the Pvt. Manning Contingent at SF Pride, June 2015
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Sunday, June 28th started out cloudy, as one might expect in San Francisco, but the sun eventually came out, making it a good day for the Gay Pride event -- and a good day to honor Whistleblower Chelsea Manning. There was to be a parade, and one of the units would be the Pvt. Manning Contingent.
- Sources HotLink - June 30, 2015
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
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Propaganda, the suppression of free speech and campaigns against whistleblowers are global problems. Propaganda occurs in North America just as it happens everywhere else. This week, we focus on violations closer to home. American whistleblowers, western mainstream "news" propaganda outlets and how the people are fighting back from within the system. Our items of the week feature a website, book and topic focused on the theme of censorship. For our marketing enthusiasts, we include a book on upholding media relations along with guides to building effective internet and social media marketing campaigns.
- What Justice Breyer's Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty's Defenders
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First Published: 2015
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Just after 2 a.m. on Monday, June 29, 2015 -- some seven hours before the U.S. Supreme Court would reject the latest challenge to the death penalty in Glossip v. Gross -- former death row prisoner Glenn Ford died in Louisiana. Ford, 65, left prison with stage four lung cancer in 2014, after spending almost 30 years facing execution for a crime he did not commit.
- Al-Jazeera cameraman killed in shelling in Syria
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Al-Asfar was a 19 year old cameraman who was killed by artillery fire as he was covering the war in Syria. Whether or not he was deliberately targeted remains a mystery.
- Florida Man, Accused of Terrorism Based on Book Collection, Set Free
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Robertson had been incarcerated since 2011 on charges of tax fraud and illegal gun possession. After his arrest and subsequent conviction, prosecutors sought to add a 'terrorism enhancement' to his sentence.
- Greece and the Future of European Democracy
Disfunction in the Eurozone
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Tariq Ali, author of "The Extreme Center: A Warning". Discussion addresses the current economic situation in Greece and the European Union's role in it.
- The Greek Debt Crisis and Crashing Markets
A New Mode of Warfare
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Greece has indeed become an example. But it is an example of the horror that the eurozone's monetarists seek to impose on one economy after another, using debt as a lever to force privatization selloffs at distress prices. In short, finance has shown itself to be the new mode of warfare. Resisting debt leverage andfinancial conquest is as legal as is resisting military invasion.
- Honduras Bleeding
The Coup and Its Aftermath
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
June 28 marked the six year anniversary of the military coup in Honduras -- the day that a democratically elected left wing government was ousted by a US-backed, US-trained cabal of generals and right wing politicians and landowners.
- Israel Intercepts International Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Israeli Navy has intercepted the Swedish boat "The Marianne", part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, in International waters at 05:11 AM Gaza time (GMT +3) and forced it to redirect to the nearest Israeli port of Ashdod. The coalition was on its way to Gaza to deliver aid. In a statement immediately afterward, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition accused the Israeli government of “state piracy in international waters."
- Kyrgyzstan: Anti-LGBTQI law passes second reading
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First Published: 2015
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News that a law which will restrict positive discourse around sexual orientation has been passed in a second reading by the Kyrgyzstan parliament is deeply disappointing, PEN International and Central Asian PEN said today. PEN called on the Parliament not to pass the bill at its final reading.
- 17 journalists charged with contempt in Myanmar
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South East Asia Journalists Unions (SEAJU) strongly criticizes the charges filed against 17 journalists in Myanmar (Burma) by the government.
- Slavery, Genocide, Abuse: The Dark Side of Asia's 'Tiger Economies'
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First Published: 2015
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From declining worker protections to violent labour trafficking and ethnic cleansing, the dark underbelly of Southeast Asia's "tiger economies" is on full display this year.
- Spirit of Truth and Reconciliation already broken
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is clear that the outcome of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has at best, no consequence for the present lives of the First Nations peoples of Canada.
- Who Are the 5.5 Million Facebook Fans of Chinese State Newspaper People's Daily?
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Facebook has been banned in China for six years yet the Facebook account for Chinese State Newspaper People’s Daily has over 5.5 million fans. What is a state run newspaper doing on a social network that none of its consumers can access? Or, better yet, how does a state run newspaper have 5.5 million fans on a website that none of its consumers can access?
- Don't be fooled: 'media watchdogs' are Israeli propaganda tools
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Consider yourself very lucky if you have never heard of "UK Media Watch" (formerly called "Comment is Free Watch" – CiF Watch), "BBC Watch", "HonestReporting" and "Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America" (CAMERA).
- John Locke Against Freedom
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First Published: 2015
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John Locke's classical liberalism isn’t a doctrine of freedom. It's a defense of expropriation and enslavement.
- No Child Left Un-Mined? Student Privacy at Risk in the Age of Big Data
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Chideya discusses the implications of the compilation of big data trails containing information about children's performance in school.
- Orwell's Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Novels may be the best medium for describing a distopian world in which everyone is under constant surveillance.
- Tory right-to-buy plan threatens mass selloff of council homes
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Speculators circle as London councils could be forced to sell every new house they build, warns housing expert.
- Greece: A no vote against blackmail
Now is not the time for academic debates. It is time for struggle
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Our response to the blackmail of the lenders is that the struggle against austerity will not be governed by concerns about the euro system or by the consent of the rulers of Europe. the response should include stopping debt repayments to the lenders, with the goal of cancelling a majority of the debt; carrying out measures to improve the life of workers and poor; and financing all of this with heavy taxes on corporations and the rich, renationalizing large public enterprises and putting the banks under social control.
- Editor of Chinese website, missing for a month, arrested on anti-state charges
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An editor and secretary-general of a human rights group in China has been was abducted and charged with "inciting subversion of state power" by the Chinese government. The chinese government is infamous for using this charge to silence dissenting journalists.
- Freedom Flotilla III sets sail: #NextPortGaza
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, June 27th 2015 (4 am in Gaza), four boats of the 2015 the Freedom Flotilla III set sail from their final European points of departure. Through nonviolent resistance they will challenge the illegal blockade of the Palestinian Gaza strip
- Freedom of speech, assembly, protest? All are nixed by new police powers
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First Published: 2015
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UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This represents a serious breach of our Common Law and Magna Carta rights.
- In more innocent days, you could write about cocks and not be misunderstood
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The BBC has changed Titty for Tatty in a remake of Swallows and Amazons. Much children's literature is a hazard for double entendres.
- Israeli War Crimes? Who, Us??
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The concept of "war crimes" is dubious. The biggest crime is starting the war in the first place. This is not the business of soldiers, but of political leaders. Yet they are rarely indicted.These philosophical musings came to me in the wake of the recent UN report on the last Gaza war.
- The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Usually, when we say "American slavery" or the "American slave trade," we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But North America was a bit player. From the trade's beginning in the 16th century to its conclusion in the 19th, slave merchants brought the vast majority of enslaved Africans to two places: the Caribbean and Brazil. Of the more than 10 million enslaved Africans to eventually reach the Western Hemisphere, just 388,747 -- less than 4 percent of the total -- came to North America.
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration in Toronto August 6th, 2015
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto's Hiroshima Day Coalition presents "Ground Zero to Global Zero: Hope After 70 Years" to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Thu August 6, 2015 (Hiroshima Day) at The Church of the Holy
- Hostile climate for Dominican media since start of 2015
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The first half of 2015 has been arduous for journalists in the Dominican Republic, with physical attacks, threats, prosecutions and a murder. Freedom of information is also weakened by continuing impunity for crimes of violence against media personnel and the concentration of media ownership in few hands.
- The ICC is now an instrument of imperialism
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Rome Statute is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC was to be an international tribunal and intergovernmental organisation that would prosecute all individuals for international crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- The Jewish Voice for Peace Attack on Alison Weir: JVP Loses Its Balance
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- The Parliament Streetcar (Deceased)
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A history of the Parliament streetcar route in Toronto, including the eventual closure of the route.
- World Press Trends: What's behind the statistics?
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Technology will always dictate the dominant form of communication. Just as the printing press took over written letters and the internet is taking over the printing press, desktop internet will soon be replaced by mobile internet. Marketers, whose primary job is to communicate, will always choose the most effective platform; meaning that traditional press will receive less advertising over time. In an interview, Milo Milosevic describes how the traditional press is dealing with this shift in technology and revenue.
- Charleston Massacre Media Coverage: Recognizing the Crime, Downplaying the Causes
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dylann Roof is a white male who killed nine people; targeting African Americans. Elliot Rodger was a white male who killed six people; targeting women. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (The Boston Bomber) is a non-white male who killed three people; targeting Americans. According to the media, only one is a terrorist. Can you guess which? Why is that that the media is so hesitant to call some people terrorists when they clearly are?
- Concern regarding the brutality of Montréal police against journalists
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
CJFE and the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) are deeply concerned by the brutal actions taken by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) to impede the work of journalists in the city over the last three years. The assault, detention, and arrest of reporters by the Montréal police is in violation of freedom of the press, as cited in Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as Section 3 of the Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. To address these issues, CJFE and CAJ would like to arrange a meeting with you and SPVM Chief Marc Parent to discuss police policy on journalists covering protests in order to come up with a solution to end the existing practices.
- Detroit celebrates Grace Lee Boggs' 100th birthday
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First Published: 2015
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About the weeklong celebration of the life of Grace Lee Boggs, radical activist, political theorist, and revolutionary.
- On Atena Farghadani and the longstanding repression of artistic expression in Iran
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It all started with a harmless political cartoon posted on Facebook. What followed was extreme retaliation to say the least; imprisonment, and physical abuse. Unfortunately, this is not an extraordinary story for artists in Iran.
- Pentagon rewrites 'Law of War' declaring 'belligerent' journalists as legitimate targets
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Pentagon has released a book of instructions on the "law of war," detailing acceptable ways of killing the enemy. The manual also states that journalists can be labeled "unprivileged belligerents," an obscure term that replaced "enemy combatant."
- Secretive contract reveals Ontario and Border Services jointly responsible for detention injustice
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The End Immigration Detention Network is releasing a secretive contract between the Ontario and Federal government which shows joint responsibility for immigration detention violations. Ontario has denied the existence of this agreement
- Cape Town's death industry: 'If you’re buried here, it's as if they threw you away'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Xhosa people make up the vast majority of Cape Town's black population, spending most or all of their lives in the South African city. Saverin narrates why the people living there don't want to be buried there.
- The 'Civic Death' of Dominicans of Haitian Descent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Imagine being born in a country and then being told you have no rights as a citizen; that you're not wanted there. That is exactly what has been happening to Dominicans of Haitian descent.
- Don't Blame the Media for the Charleston Murders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Featherstone argues that blaming the media for the Charleston Murders is an easy way to avoid doing any real thinking.
- MP & Mayor Launch The New Talking Book Library
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The new Talking Book Library has been launched, providing hundreds of audio books for free! Read more about it, or visit the Talking Book Library online at www.talkingbooklibrary.org
- OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing 'Trade' Under the TPP?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
- Another journalist burnt to death in India
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) strongly condemn the brutal murder of a journalist in Madhya Pradesh on June 19. The killing is the second burning death of a journalist in India
- Beyond the Spectacle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Our initial reaction to the Rachel Dolezal story was: what's the big deal? America has always been a land of shape shifters, and if she isn't stopped for "driving while black" or followed while shopping, and if her sons are not targeted by cops, then how is she different from the politician who is Italian on Columbus Day and Irish on Saint Patrick's Day?
- IFJ, UNESCO and UNWomen release report on women journalists across the Asia Pacific
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), UNESCO and UNWomen, released Inside the News: Challenges and Aspirations for Women Journalists in Asia and the Pacific. The report documents the issue of Gender Equity in the Media Industry
- Ontarians outraged by Wynne's acceptance of award from Israel lobby group
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ontarians representing eight organizations have voiced their strong opposition to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's acceptance of an award from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), to be presented at a gala this evening.
- Police Shootings, Helicopter Crashes and Bystanders With Cameras: Weighing the Rights of Accidental Journalists'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Accidental Journalist are everyday people who stumble across something news-worthy. Most commonly, these accidental journalists report on those who abuse their power.
- Pope Francis' Call to 'Hear Both the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor' Resonates in the Philippines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After Pope Francis' well publicized statement on the ecological crisis, his visit to Hurricane-stricken Philippines was met with applause and amazement. It's not everyday that a Pope breaks conservative conventions so publically.
- Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The National Security Agency and its British counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters, have worked to subvert anti-virus and other security software in order to track users and infiltrate networks, according to documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
- Spies Hacked Computers Thanks to Sweeping Secret Warrants, Aggressively Stretching U.K. Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
British spies have received government permission to intensively study software programs for ways to infiltrate and take control of computers. The GCHQ spy agency was vulnerable to legal action for the hacking efforts, known as "reverse engineering," since such activity could have violated copyright law. But GCHQ sought and obtained a legally questionable warrant from the Foreign Secretary in an attempt to immunize itself from legal liability.
- Those devious foreigners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. media (with help from the U.S. Navy PR department) has exposed another sneaky trick invented by wily Chinese. It seems that they may be hiding their submarines under the sea. "Why didn't we think of that?" appears to be the question the always-probing American media are asking.
- Uber Plans to Track Users Should Not Be Allowed, Says Privacy Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A formal complaint has been filed against Uber, the car ride company, by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a non-profit advocacy group. The NGO says Uber plans to use their smart phone app to access user's locations at all times, and to send advertisements to user's contact lists.
- Golden Veneer: How McDonald's Empty CSR Promises Failed Workers at Taylor Farms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The report documents systematic and serious violations of workers' fundamental rights protected under international labor standards and McDonald's own Supplier Code of Conduct to freely associate and bargain collectively at Taylor Farms. Further, it finds that McDonald's approach not only failed to prevent or remediate grave violations of workers' rights, it helped undermine workers' free exercise of their rights.
- Building the Ark - small scale farming in Poland for a green future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Poland is the front line for Europe's small scale family farming, under assault from the EU regulations, corporate agribusiness, and a hostile government. A popular campaign is fighting back from its base deep in the Polish countryside, a small organic farm that's developing new green technologies to enhance the sustainability of small farms everywhere.
- Muslims, Jews and Christians imposing an imagined past, with disastrous results
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The truth is that there are millions of people – Muslims, Jews and Christians and others – who not only still idealise a religiously imagined past, but want, in one way or another, to import that past into the present – and not only their present but everyone else's as well. Whatever one might think of the teachings of the Bible and Quran, this is a highly problematic desire. In fact, it is downright dangerous.
- A novel oasis: why Argentina is the bookshop capital of the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Buenos Aires alone has more bookstores per person than any other city in the world - just enough for inquisitive Argentinians to indulge their literary cravings.
- Reflecting on the plight of African journalists on World Refugee Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two Ethiopian writers in exile; two victims of the repression of freedom of speech.
- Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google over Surveillance of WikiLeaks Volunteer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Obama administration fought a legal battle against Google to secretly obtain the email records of a security researcher and journalist associated with WikiLeaks.
- Activists denounce conditional Leave to Open for Enbridge Line 9
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A coalition of environmental and Indigenous solidarity activists has condemned the decision by the National Energy Board to grant Leave to Open for the controversial Line 9 reversal project.
- EFF Report Charts Companies on Next Frontier of User Privacy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Annual Survey Delves Deeper into Practices of Apple, Google, Twitter, and More
- Eritrea - last in the World Press Freedom Index for the past eight years
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails this week's report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea. The report says some of the human rights violations by President Issayas Afeworki's government, which include the arbitrary detention
- Hunger-Striking Friends of Man Who Died in Immigration Custody Speak Out
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One week after the death of a 39 year old, Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan at the hands of Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), immigrants imprisoned without trial or charges along with their families, and friends are refusing food today inside and out
- IFJ and EFJ condemn continuing attacks against journalists in Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemn several attacks against journalists that took place in Diyarbakir, Turkey, in the past few days.
- IFJ hails the strike of Egyptian colleagues denouncing the stifling press freedom in the country
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) hailed the strike action taken on 10 June by Egyptian journalists in response to the call made by the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate's (EJS) Freedom Committee, to stop work in protest
- Kazakhstan: Investigative reporter held arbitrarily in northeastern city
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns investigative reporter Yaroslav Golyshkin's arbitrary detention for the past month in a prison in the northeastern city of Pavlodar and calls on the judicial system to guarantee his right to due process.
- "Progressive" Obama: He's Melting, He's Melting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Beneath progressive pretentions, Barack Obama the national political phenomenon has never been anything other than a tool of the US corporate and financial ruling class.
- Refusal to Call Charleston Shootings 'Terrorism' Again Shows It's a Meaningless Propaganda Term
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In February 2010, a man named Joseph Stack deliberately flew his small airplane into the side of a building that housed a regional IRS office in Austin, Texas, just as 200 agency employees were starting their workday. Along with himself, Stack killed an IRS manager and injured 13 others. The attack had all of the elements of iconic terrorism, but it was explicitly declared inapplicable by media outlets and government officials alike.
- Saudi king urged to pardon blogger on third anniversary of arrest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the third anniversary of Raif Badawi's arrest, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its call to Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz to demonstrate clemency and pardon this young blogger.
- Threats, attacks, obstacles, jail: what's coming between us and the Rohingya story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While images of the suffering of Rohingya migrants circulated around the world, local journalists and politicians faced restrictions in trying to report on and speak out on the issue.
- Twelve of the world's most beautiful bookshops
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From an underground carpark in China to a converted theatre in Argentina, take a look at some of the most stunning bookshops around the world.
- Will the government's counter-extremist programme criminalise dissent?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From 1 July, a broad range of public bodies - from nursery schools to optometrists - will be legally obliged to participate in the U.S. government’s Prevent policy to identify would-be extremists. Under the fast-tracked Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, schools, universities and health service providers can no longer opt out of monitoring students and patients for supposed radicalised behaviour.
- Fight to Defend Trans Fats Funded With Dark Money
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A conservative Washington think tank that opposed a federal ban of trans fats has also actively campaigned against climate science and environmental regulation, and is funded by secret donors.
- Kenyan Blogger Bogonko Bosire is Still Missing, Nearly Two Years After His Disappearance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two years ago, a Kenyan blogger went missing. As a critic accusing government officials and celebrities of corruption, foul play is very much suspected. Kenyans have turned to social media to revive the search for Bogonko Bosire.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2015
Corruption
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Corruption - or at least some types of corruption - are much in the news, with the ongoing scandals in the Canadian Senate and the recent U.S. targeting of the Swiss-based football federation FIFA for alleged bribery. In this issue, we look at these and other forms of corruption. Diana Johnstone writes about the double standards displayed by U.S. institutions, which happily target enemies and rivals, while ignoring the much greater corruption that underlies the power structures in Washington. We feature an article detailing how much money U.S. Senators received from corporations prior to their vote on the TPP negotiations, as well as materials on criminal conduct by some of the world's biggest banks, and an article on the work of investigative journalists in exposing corruption.
- The Whistleblower's Tale
How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA-- and Lost Everything
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This is how it ended for Jeffrey Sterling. A former covert officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, Sterling sat down in a federal courtroom with a lawyer on either side, looking up at a judge who would announce in a few moments whether he would go to prison for the next 20 years.
- Why Facebook Failed Our Censorship Test
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If you click around Facebook's "Government Request Report," you'll notice that, for many countries, Facebook enumerates the number of "content restrictions" the company has fulfilled. This is a sanitized term for censorship.
- Jeremy Hon of Richmond Green Secondary School Lives in Poverty for a Week
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"Poverty should not be an issue that limits people. It shouldn't hold them back." Jeremy Hon of Richmond Hill works to make a difference for those living in poverty in Malawi.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for May 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending May 31, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.23 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM in
- The strategic defeat of Recep Tayyib Erdogan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The author examines the causes of historic electoral defeat of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party AKP. The author emphasises the two recent events: The Gezi rebellion in Istanbul and the Kobane defence in Western Kurdistan. The author asks and attempts to answer "the reason why was that this defeat had taken so long to be registered in action even permitting Erdogan to climb to the presidency of the republic in August 2014."
- Stuxnet-Like Digital Attack on Iran Nuclear Talks May Have Come from Israel, Security Researchers Say
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Moscow-based technical security company Kaspersky Lab last week revealed evidence of a new cyber attack on both its own network and those of several European hotels that hosted nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 (US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) last year.
- Talking Book Library Grand Opening
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
All Media invited to attend the Grand Opening of the Talking Book Library THIS SATURDAY in Stouffville, ON. The Talking Book Library provides free audio books to those with print disabilities across Canada.
- Egypt's civil society facing renewed government crackdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If the Egyptian authorities are successful in their attempt to prevent non-governmental organisations from working, independent civil society in Egypt risks being wiped out.
- Former TV Producer Mostafa Azizi Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison in Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced Mostafa Azizi, a former Iranian television writer and producer imprisoned since February 1, 2015, to eight years in prison, according to his son, who spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.
- From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As is ever clearer and ever more important to note, race politics is not an alternative to class politics; it is a class politics, the politics of the left-wing of neoliberalism. It is the expression and active agency of a political order and moral economy in which capitalist market forces are treated as unassailable nature. An integral element of that moral economy is displacement of the critique of the invidious outcomes produced by capitalist class power onto equally naturalized categories of ascriptive identity that sort us into groups supposedly defined by what we essentially are rather than what we do.
- Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Outrageous Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Civil asset forfeiture violates civil and property rights, not to mention fundamental notions of justice. Now, finally, it's under increasing fire.
- Dominican Republic to be 'Socially Cleaned' in two days
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In two days about a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism. At issue is a ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic to strip away the citizenship of several generations of Dominicans. According to the decision, Dominicans born after 1929 to parents who are not of Dominican ancestry are to have their citizenship revoked. The ruling affects an estimated 250,000 Dominican people of Haitian descent, including many who have had no personal connection with Haiti for several generations.
- The Sunday Times' Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst - and Filled with Falsehoods
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it's hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they've learned no such lesson. That tactic continues to be the staple of how major U.S. and British media outlets "report," especially in the national security area.
- What's Wrong with Cultural Appropriation? These 9 Answers Reveal Its Harm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A liberal feminist view of "cultural appropriation."
- Where Does ISIS Get Those Wonderful Toys?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Indeed where do ISIS and al-Qaeda get those wonderful toys we so often see these days triumphantly bedecked with black flags? The ultimate source of virtually all of the jihadists' gear are the deep pockets of the United States government and its client states. Uncle Sam is the veritable Bruce Wayne of Jihad. This was basically admitted in a recently disclosed Defense Intelligence Agency report. But anyone who bothered looking into it could have known this long ago, even if restricting one's self to mainstream sources.
- Investigative Reporters Held Abitrarily in Northeastern City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A reporter has being held on arbitrary charges in Kazakhstan. Reports Without Borders believes that he is being held as a scapegoat for a rape that took place in a governor's residence.
- Sex Workers in Nicaragua Break the Silence and Gain Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After living in the shadows, thousands of Nicaraguan sex workers have broken their silence, won support from state institutions and gained new respect for their rights.
- An Alternative for SYRIZA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In order to regain sovereignty, a country has to exit not only the EZ, if a member, but the EU itself. Liberated from the noose of the EU treaties and regulations, Greek people will have the freedom to follow a sovereign monetary and fiscal policy and form trade and international alliances to the best of their interests.
- Pakistan: 'Son, you brought electricity to the village and added 15 years to my life'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A micro-hydro programme bringing sustainable energy to a region of Pakistan ravaged by conflict and floods has won an Ashden award for lighting the future.
- Prostitution ban won't hit England, 'too many politicians' visit sex workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Northern Ireland’s sex trade ban has left prostitutes in fear of "danger and poverty." In an in-depth interview with RT, one sex worker challenged the idea of the law spreading to England, claiming "too many" influential people visit prostitutes.
- Boycott BP's Baku games
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Baku, the oil capital of Azerbaijan, is set to host the 2015 European games. However, it's not just fun and games in this city. Azerbaijan is a country famous for oppressing freedom of speech, abusing journalists and keeping political prisoners. Furthermore, the main sponsor for the European games is oil tycoon BP. The 2015 games are a slew of political and environmental controversies.
- "I think the dead are with us": John Berger at 88
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A brief biography and recounting of a meeting by the author with the late author John Berger.
- The LAWG Library and Archives: A personal reflection by Caese Levo, LAWG's Librarian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From early research projects the Latin American Working Group Library evolved. The Library is a unique collection of material that reflects the areas of research undertaken by the LAWG staff and collective over the years. While always focusing on Canadian connections – especially government and corporate interests – the collection is especially strong on the countries of the Dominican Republic, Chile, Brazil and Central America.
- Russian Oligarch Wanted to Turn My Joke Into Reality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One of my core political beliefs is that there would still be a Soviet Union if they'd been smart enough to have two communist parties that agreed on everything except abortion.
Obviously that's a joke about the U.S., where we have two capitalist parties that largely agree on everything.
- Six Facts from Sudden Justice, A New History of the Drone War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars, a new book by London-based investigative journalist Chris Woods, traces the intertwined technological, legal and political history of drones as they evolved on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the covert U.S. targeted killing campaign.
- Western Narrative of Crimea a Pack of Lies Born of Failed Policy and Historical Ignorance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Western line on Crimea is so absurd that it actually requires mass historical ignorance to be believed.
- Big Oil's Ethical Violence
BP and the Armed Suppression of Dissent in Colombia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
To challenge impunity is not just to attempt to confine abuses to the past. It serves to expose crimes committed, to preserve memory of the past within the present, and to highlight contradictions between corporate recognition of rights and an economic model that has implied the systematic violation and dispossession of workers and populations around the oilfields. It is part of a process of re-building communities and social organisations wiped out by the violence.
- Fracking Firm Encourages Industry to Imitate Taco Bell's Twitter Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Oil and gas companies are steadily increasing their footprint on social media, hiring specialized public relations firms and developing "visual shorthand" infographics that can be shared easily on Facebook and Twitter.
- Proposed Torture Ban Includes New Transparency and Oversight Mechanisms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The US senate has approved the ban for government torture. Along with this move, they have also implemented transparency and oversight policies into government agencies like the NSA and FBI.
- Reflections on a whistleblower: Two years after Snowden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two years after Snowden, the international state of surveillance and the ranks of whistleblowers both continue to grow.
- Time to Jail Auto Executives?
Still Unsafe at Any Speed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rather than allowing automobile industry debacles to float by without inspiring systemic change that will save lives, criminal prosecutions should become an integral part of -- even a priority for -- both federal and state governments.
- The Dignity of Chartism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Groundbreaking studies of Britain's first major working-class movement.
- Police Violence Against Native People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In April 1974, three white high school students from Farmington, New Mexico murdered three Navajo men, Benjamin Benally, John Harvey, and David Ignacio. The brutal murders were nothing new in Farmington, where white high school students had been known to sever the fingers of inebriated Navajo men and display them proudly in their lockers at school.
- Sources HotLink - June 9, 2015
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue features many stories related to the themes of journalistic standards and censorship. With increasing pressure from corporations and governments, reporters are finding it more and more difficult to report on issues that affect powerful interests. The problem lies not only with top-down pressure and control, but also with journalists themselves. Journalists often frame their stories to support particular narratives or points of view. Also in this issue: books, movies and other resources related to the theme of censorship, journalistic integrity, and acess to information.
- Beating Uncle Sam at His Own Game
The Skirmish in the Spratlys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Washington has thrown down the gauntlet in the South China Sea. If Beijing wants to preserve its independence and surpass the US as the world's biggest economy, it's going to have to meet the challenge, prepare for a long struggle, and beat Uncle Sam at his own game. It won’t be easy, but it can be done.
- Brazilian deaths highlights need for safety training
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The dangers that journalists face is Brazil is old news. The most recent deaths of two reporters have once again shown the sire situation for media workers in the South American country.
- Is Canada's government trying to kill off the wild salmon?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Matthews discusses how the Canadian government's actions and legal changes threaten the wild salmon.
- The Passing of Ronnie Gilbert
A Great Woman Has Died
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ronnie Gilbert, an original member of the legendary folk group, the Weavers, has died .
- The Perpetual Punitive Machine Backfires
Not Very Smart
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Our nation has a penchant for creating unnecessary complexity and obstacles for its people in areas such as the tax, health insurance and student debt miasmas. The prison industry adds to this with what it euphemistically calls "collateral consequences."
- Tea Party Oddsmaker Has Best Campaign Finance Reform Idea Yet (Really)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Liberals always say we need to get money out of politics. But there are three big problems with that: (1) the Supreme Court has made it near-impossible without amending the Constitution; (2) no matter what barriers you erect, money will always find ways to influence politics; and (3) maybe most importantly, politics costs money.
- Media Lessons from Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The LA Times editors want Snowden imprisoned, but not the leakers whose leaks make the U.S. government look good, much of which gets laundered in that particular paper.
- An ageing population isn't the reason for stunted economic growth - austerity is
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the 2015 World Economic Outlook, for example, the IMF says: "Potential employment growth is expected to decline further in advanced and emerging market economies compared to pre-crisis rates. This is a result of demographic factors negatively affecting both the growth of the working population and trend labour force participation rates."
But the reality is somewhat different. The IMF analysis is based on 16 countries that excludes more than one billion people from the African continent where half of the population is either 20 years of age or younger.
- The Big Lie at the Heart of the Myth of the Creation of Israel
An Interview with Lia Tarachansky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lia Tarachansky's heart-wrenching documentary, On the Side of the Road, reveals the Big Lie at the heart of the myth of the creation of Israel.
- Combat Proven: The Booming Business of War in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Arms fairs in Israel showcase the latest products the profitable Israeli weapons industry manufactures - and the demos are the perfect place to show those products off.
- Humanity in the Capitalist Cul-de-sac
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As a result of 200 years of capitalism, humanity is deep in a very dangerous cul-de-sac which could result in barbarism on an unprecedented scale.
- Inaugural Golden Oldies Football Festival
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Golden Oldies World Football Festival will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, in October 2016.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
Residential schools
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.
- Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe are the root causes of war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Civil war in Syria is the result of the desertification of the ecologically fragile Syrian steppe, which began in 1958 when the former Bedouin commons were opened up to unrestricted grazing. That led to a wider ecological, hydrological and agricultural collapse.
- Censored book about corruption in Angola now available on RSF site
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is facilitating access to 'Blood Diamonds: Corruption and Torture in Angola,' the book by Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais that is censored in his country.
- Defender of the Forests
Bonnie Phillips vs. the Timber Beasts, Gang Green and the Big Foundations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Veteran forest advocate Bonnie Phillips passed away on May 4, 2015 in Olympia, Washington. This article is based on her final interview.
- EFF Battles Abuse of Site-Blocking Court Orders
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal court in an emergency hearing and a written filing this week to block the recording industry's move to force Internet infrastructure companies into becoming copyright police with far-reaching
- Mississippi Family Faces Jail Time for Cheering at High School Graduation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When Ursula Miller attended her niece's high school graduation from Senatobia High School in northwestern Mississippi last month, she didn't expect to leave with an arrest warrant. But in a prime example of excessesive criminalization, Miller and three others were charged with disorderly conduct for cheering on their relatives during the ceremony held at Northwest Mississippi Community College.
- RSF backs Moroccan NGO targeted by interior ministry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It’s ironic. Moroccan journalists and human rights activists who have been the targets of government spying would be justified in bringing complaints against the authorities over the violation their privacy.
- RSF backs newspaper under attack from President Erdogan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns Turkish government pressure on the newspaper Cumhuriyet, which is under judicial investigation for publishing alleged evidence that Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) delivered arms to Islamists.
- Sad anniversary for Eritrean press freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dawit Isaak, a journalist with Swedish and Eritrean dual nationality who used to work for the Eritrean newspaper Setit in Asmara, is spending his 5,000th day in prison today, May 2, 2015. He has never been sentenced or even charged.
- Solar heat - transforming rural enterprises around the tropics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Solar energy is not just about electricity. It's also about heat - and three innovative projects highlighted by the Ashden Awards are showing how solar heat can dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of food processing and farming, while helping agricultural businesses increase profits.
- TTIP will legalize cancer-causing chemicals banned by EU, trade union warns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Britain could be flooded with harmful chemicals currently banned in the European Union if the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal is signed next week, a trade union has warned.
- Very Mention of Snowden's Name Makes Prosecutors Tremble
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has become such a powerful symbol of government overreach that federal prosecutors in a terror case in Chicago are asking the judge to forbid defense attorneys from even mentioning his name during trial, for fear that it would lead the jury to disregard their evidence.
- Victory: Photo Hobbyist Prevails Over Junk-Patent Bully
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Patent bully Garfum has abandoned its lawsuit against an online photo hobbyist, just one day after a federal judge set the date for a face-off in court against lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
- Saudi Arabia's Yemen Strategy: Divide and Destroy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While eleven weeks of airstrikes and a punitive naval blockade have laid waste to much of Yemen, most people remain resolute and what is a distinctly Yemeni sense of humour is intact. This is despite the fact that more than 2000 people have been killed, over half of whom are civilians, and billions of dollars of infrastructure have been destroyed since the Saudi led "Operation Decisive Storm" began on March 25, 2015.
- Some Israeli Leaders Do Sometimes Tell The Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Still today, 48 years on, there are relatively few people who know the whole truth about how Israel set the stage for war in June 1967 to grab more Arab land. The single most decisive event that made war inevitable happened on Thursday 1 June, four days before Israel launched its attacks. What was it?
- Wikileaks releases 'largest trove of docs exposing secret TiSA trade deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
WikiLeaks has published 17 secret documents related to a controversial trade agreement currently being negotiated behind closed doors between the US, EU and over 20 WTO members.
- Auditing the Greek Debt: Unity of Place, Time, and Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The recent debt currently being claimed presents features that make it irregular, illegitimate, illegal, unsustainable, and even odious. Allegedly Greek debts that were accumulated before 2010 were already to a large extent illegitimate and/or illegal.
- Crossing Rafah
Heading to Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- The Forgotten Massacres
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fifty years ago, in 1965, hundreds of thousands of Indonesian communists were slaughtered -- all with the support of the US. For decades, this version of the mass killings of 1965–66 has been reinforced by state propaganda and parroted by Western experts who saw the "spontaneous" eruption in murderous violence as confirmation of pre-existing racist ideas about fanatical and irrational "orientals."
- 40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People
It's Not Just About Crime!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Quigley provides a list of reasons why the majority of prisoners in US jails are Black and poor people.
- The Israeli War Crime That Goes Unmentioned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Here set out in black and white in the Israeli media is a moral conundrum that western politicians, diplomats and international human rights organisations are resolutely failing to address -- and one I have been highlighting since 2006.
- The Politics of the California Drought
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As if in compensation for a historic drought, California is being deluged by expressions of grim satisfaction that it is finally getting its comeuppance for environmental sins. Judgement was especially swift after California Gov. Jerry Brown imposed a 25 percent reduction in water usage for urban areas. The media asked if this is "The End of California?", as well as declaring "So Long, California," and "Dust Bowl 2.0."
- A quick note on neoliberalism and state capitalism
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The key to understanding neo-liberalism, in my opinion, is power, not ideology.
- Still Surviving: Reconciliation Through Everyday Rebellion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Residential school survivors rebuild through small acts of hope and resistance.
- The Tragedy of the Commodity
Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining oceanic environments throughout the world. Marine ecosystems are in a crisis that is global in scope, rapid in pace, and colossal in scale. Longo, Clausen, and Clark explore the role human influence plays in this crisis, highlighting the social and economic forces that are at the heart of this looming ecological problem.
- University for Counterinsurgency and Imperialism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The United States has set aside one day in the year, Memorial Day, to remember those who died in military service. For the University of California-Irvine that is not enough. After reading the Chancellor's message of May 2015, a number of observations and questions came to mind.
- Why Police Kill So Often
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The FBI reports 404 civilians were killed by police in 2011. All were listed as "justifiable homicides." Under more intense questioning, it was then revealed that figures are not actually kept for "unjustified" police murders and, remarkably, their statistics rely exclusively on incidents self-reported by the cops.
- How do you stop a pipeline when one family owns both the oil and the media?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pipeline opponent’s op-ed rejected by Irving-owned newspaper in New Brunswick.
- Interview with Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Bahraini activist Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.
- Loitering With Intent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Government propaganda, the news media, and Hollywood movies characterize drones almost exclusively as high-flying hunter-killers and all-seeing information machines. In fact, more than 90 percent of the world's drones are small, short-range, and unarmed. Only about 5 percent of the drones operated by the U.S. government are as large as manned airplanes. Predators, which garner so much of the public’s attention, make up an even smaller subset -- there are just a few hundred worldwide.
- Millennials and Political News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Obama has often been dubbed 'the first social media president' but this title has more implications than you think. This report looks at the sources of political news across generations. Spoiler alert: Millennials get significantly more news from Facebook than local television.
- Muddying the waters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The by-products of aluminium extraction have been poisoning the Mediterranean for almost 20 years. But the closure of the plant that produces them would cost jobs in an underemployed region.
- Narrative of the dispossessed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Discussion of conspiracies tends to be polarised: people see them everywhere, or nowhere.
- The Need is Still Great in Nepal
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Nepal's recent earthquake has shaken the nation with devastating, long-term effects. As the world seems to return to it's regular pace, Emmanuel International is working to support those in Nepal who are still reeling from the quake.
- Pakistani Journalists Left in Limbo Amid Vicious Media War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pakistani journalists working for BOL Network, a Pakistani media outlet co-owned by journalists, protest against the license cancellation of this organization. Protesters complain against violations of their rights.
- Poisoning the Democratic Well
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Opponents of so-called free trade deals have always struggled with the question of why these international treaties don't generate more alarm and vocal opposition from Canadians. These treaties, after all, trump all other Canadian authority to make laws -- provincial legislatures, Parliament, the courts and even the Constitution.
- A Polite Coup
Why one of Asia's most open societies keeps turning to military rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As military coups go, Thailand's putsch on May 22, 2014, was rather polite -- no mass imprisonments, no stadiums full of students tortured and shot. The toppled prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was detained for only three days. Before the coup, there had been months of street clashes between loyalist "red shirts" and opposition "yellow shirts," and now General Prayuth Chan-ocha's junta promised to "restore happiness to the people."
- Reclaim the Power! Climate protestors rout security with UK-wide fossil fuel strikes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The fossil fuel industry and its political backers have been left reeling by an unprecedented series of direct action strikes against targets across the country to protest at continuing investment in and official support for fossil fuels, inaction over fuel poverty and the systematic neglect of renewable energy despite the global climate emergency.
- Shooting Down Man the Hunter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sooner or later in conversations about who we are, who we have been, and who we can be, someone will tell a story about Man the Hunter. It's a story not just about Man but about Woman and Child too.There are countless variants. In every version, women are baggage that breeds.
- Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea
Following the trail of BP's oil in the Gulf of Mexico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One morning in March of last year, I set out from Gulfport, Mississippi, on a three-week mission aboard the U.S. Navy research vessel Atlantis.
- TTIP: the Corporate Empowerment Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. "Free trade" is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.
- Ugandan TV Personality Sacked After Her Nude Photos Appear Online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On May 21 Anita Kyarimpa, popularly known as Anita Fabiola, the host of a reality dating TV show Be My Date on Nation Media's TV channel NTV Uganda, had nude photos leaked onto social media. Subsequently Anita was forced to resign.
- We must start 'shaming' those who lie to us, destroy our climate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Given how powerless ordinary folk and public interest groups have become, I would like to see people embarrass the hell out of those who take advantage of the public by lying to us, cheating us, or destroying our priceless environment.
- Where the conspiracies are real
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
US expansionism in Latin America, sometimes violent, sometimes discreet, played such a large role in shaping the history of the continent that many still see the "black hand" of Washington behind every obstacle faced by progressive governments.
- Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future
Summary of the final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The summary of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the product of a five-year process of hearing from survivors and compiling evidence. The report calls the schools agents of "cultural genocide" responsible for enormous abuses and lasting damage. It calls for education and reconciliation; according to commission head Murray Sinclair, "The survivors need to know that, having been heard and understood, that we will act to ensure the repair of damages is done."
- Odia Wikipedia Set to Celebrate 13 Years of Volunteer Contributions
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Odia Wikipedia, one of the first of several Indian language Wikipedia projects, is ready to celebrate 13 years of free knowledge contribution on June 3.
- California turns to fake grass in response to drought
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Despite objections from environmentalists, artificial turf is growing in Calinfornia.
- India's killer heatwave - a deadly warning of the world we face, without climate action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As delegates prepare for the Bonn climate talks, India is being struck by extreme heat with a long-delayed monsoon season and a death toll of thousands. If this is an indicator of the warming world to come, it's giving us all the reasons we could possibly want to act decisively before it's too late.
- A Nation of Millennial Entitlements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A student twice sued Misericordia College because she failed a nursing class. Why do significant numbers of people believe they are entitled to get the credentials they want even if they don't have the qualifications required?
- Communism and the Family (Part Two)
The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The family is the primary institution through which bourgeois ideology in its various forms is transmitted from one generation to the next.
- South Korean Activists' Extraordinary Struggle to Save Jeju Island
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
South Korea's Jeju Island is a popular tourist destination full of spas, resorts, golf courses, sandy beaches, waterfalls and hiking trails. But if you really want to get rejuvenated, skip the tourist hotspots and go directly to the village of Gangjeong to support the extraordinary community that has been opposing the building of a naval base since 2007.
- Stalinists and Artists in the U.S. "Red Decade"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
New York University's recent art show, "The Left Front: Radical Art in the 'Red Decade,' 1929-1940," was a bittersweet experience. In the present period, with successful workers struggles few and far between, the pro-working-class images -- photos, movies of mass May Day parades in New York City, pictures of Great Depression misery, protests, strikes, the fight against Jim Crow segregation -- were, of course, moving. But there was something wrong with this picture. It wasn’t the individual artworks themselves, but the sentimental, prettifying view of and narrow focus on the U.S. Communist Party (CP).
- BBC defends reality show involving poor, dubbed 'Hunger Games'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Britain's Hardest Grafter will pit 25 of Britain's lowest-paid workers against each other for cash prize in series it claims is a 'serious social experiment'.
- Emails Reveal Dairy Lobbyist Crafted 'Ag-Gag' Legislation Outlawing Pictures of Farms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Across the country, legislatures are responding to whistleblowers and activists who have exposed inhumane and at times unsanitary practices at farms by passing laws that criminalize the taking of photos or videos at agricultural facilities. Farming interests have publicly backed the campaign to outlaw recording: in fact, dairy industry lobbyists actually crafted the legislation that was later introduced by lawmakers.
- Inside NSA, Officials Privately Criticize 'Collect It All' Surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As Members of Congress struggle to agree on which surveillance programs to re-authorize before the Patriot Act expires, they might consider the unusual advice of an intelligence analyst at the National Security Agency who warned about the danger of collecting too much data.
- Legendary Journalist in Private: 'It Is All Fraudulent, All of It, Everywhere'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Politico recently ran a fantastic historical profile of journalist Theodore H. White by the writer Scott Porch... he wrote to a close friend on August 31, 1960 during the Kennedy-Nixon campaign: … it is all fraudulent, all of it, everywhere, up and down, East and West. The movies, radio and state and books and TV — all of them are fraudulent"
- Netizen Report: Rights at Risk Under Trans-Pacific Trade Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement may soon become reality after years of high-level trade deliberations that have been held almost entirely behind closed doors.
- U.N. Report Asserts Encryption as a Human Right in the Digital Age
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Encryption is not the refuge of scoundrels, as Obama administration law-enforcement officials loudly proclaim – it is an essential tool needed to protect the right of freedom of opinion and expression in the digital age, a new United Nations report concludes.
- Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the deadline for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. In Nigeria however, forest and farmland continue to be destroyed.
- First Look Media Publishes Warrant 'Canary,' Releases Software for Managing Canaries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today The Intercept’s parent company, First Look Media, published a warrant "canary" -- a statement that attempts to assure readers that the company has not been compelled to comply with a secret government order like a National Security Letter. In addition to this, First Look is publishing AutoCanary: simple, free, open-source software to easily create and manage warrant canaries.
- Golden Silences in the Propaganda System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Propaganda shapes the flow of information in many different ways, including, obviously, the choice of the news fit to print, its placement, and the selection of authorities to make those facts credible. But equally important, and implicit in news choices, especially where there are political interests at stake and possible varying interpretations of the news, is omitting facts and ignoring sources that call the chosen (often official) perspective into question.
- Here's how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Documenting the corruption of the U.S. political system.
- Peter Greste talks to INSI about media safety
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After 400 days in Jail and public outcry, an Australian journalist has been released from a prison in Egypt. In his interview, Gretse emphasised the importance of making journalism safety a global conversation.
- Ten demonstrations that changed the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It's worth remembering that mass marches have been crucial to all the most important struggles.
- Tsleil-Waututh First Nation rejects Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kinder Morgan's pipeline project proposes almost 1,000 kilometres of new pipeline to carry diluted bitumen from Edmonton to Burnaby. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation announced that the project would not be allowed to proceed on the Nation's territory. It also released a scathing report on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion, outlining the project's risks to health and environment.
- Huge Pipeline Company Kinder Morgan Hired Off-Duty Cops to 'Deter Protests' in Pennsylvania
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kinder Morgan, the self-proclaimed "largest energy infrastructure company in North America," paid $50,000 for off-duty police officers from a Pennsylvania department to patrol a controversial gas pipeline construction site. The hiring came after a request from the corporation for uniformed officers that could "deter protests and prevent delays."
- Lies, damned lies, and energy statistics - why nuclear is so much less than it claims to be
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It's odd how often the contribution of nuclear energy is overstated by mixing up 'energy' and 'electricity', while a similar trick understates the importance of renewables like wind and solar. Even odder is how the mistake always seems to go the same way, to make nuclear look bigger than it really is, and renewables smaller. Welcome to the nuclear 'X factor'!
- Mel Hurtig's new book designed to oust prime minister Stephen Harper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Article on author Mel Hurtig and his new book criticizing Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper and his government.
- Up Ghost River
A Chief's Journey Through The Turbulent Waters Of Native History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting trauma, and the spirit he rediscovered within himself and his community through traditional spirituality and knowledge.
- Media freedom in the Pacific - a double-edged sword
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The issue of media freedom in the Pacific has come to the fore following recent international calls for Indonesia to allow foreign journalists access to West Papua and President Joko Widodo declaring a lifting of restrictions.
- Israel will imprison soldier, 19, for publicly criticizing the occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Israeli government is imprisoning Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Shachar Berrin for criticizing its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.
- Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Segregation is here, just look at Israel's legal system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Although segregated buses provide a clear and obvious picture of discrimination, applying different laws to individuals living side by side may prove to have far greater legal, ethical and strategic consequences for Israel.
- Ghana's women farmers resist the G7 plan to grab Africa's seeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sharing and saving seed is a crucial part of traditional farming all over Africa. Governments, backed by multinational seed companies, are imposing oppressive seed laws that attack the continent's main food producers and open the way to industrial agribusiness.
- Oversight Report on FBI's Use of Patriot Act Highlights Need for Intelligence Reform at Crucial Moment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We've all heard about the NSA mass surveillance scandal permitted by the Patriot Act but this is not the first time the NSA and other fedral agencies have violated our rights.
- Pipeline Company Paid Pennsylvania Police Department to 'Deter Protests'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Between June and October 2013, Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, paid a local Pennsylvania police department more than $50,000 to patrol a controversial pipeline upgrade. The company requested that the officers, though officially off-duty, be in uniform and marked cars. Kinder Morgan's aim, according to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal, was to use law enforcement to "deter protests" in order to avoid "costly delays."
- Six Banks Pay $5.6 Billion in Fines for Foreign Exchange Manipulation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Six major international banks – Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Union Bank of Switerland (UBS) – have agreed to pay $5.6 billion in fines for rigging global foreign exchange markets.
- With limited independent press, Ethiopians left voting in the dark
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In a country where journalists are often imprisoned or exiled for 'inciting terrorism', Ethiopians are finding it difficult to stay informed for the upcoming election.
- Africa's Worst New Internet Censorship Law Could be Coming to South Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Only once in a while does an Internet censorship law or regulation come along that is so audacious in its scope, so misguided in its premises, and so poorly thought out in its execution, that you have to check your calendar to make sure April 1 hasn't come around again.
- Al Jazeera Journalist Responds to U.S. Labeling Him Aa Qaeda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A journalist is supposed to cover all sides of the story but when one does so with Al Qaeda, he is labelled a terrorist.
- The casual sexism of being a female journalist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One or two prejudicial remarks might not mean much but add several hundred together and it can weigh down your confidence. Women in journalism can attest to this fact.
- Climate Change Poses Huge Challenge To The Coast Guard, But Fox News Would Rather Dismiss It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Climate change and national security are no laughing matters but Fox News thinks it's hilarious when you pair the two together. The scientific community would disagree with Fox News.
- The end of hasbara? NYT readers question US support for apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The New York Times published a remarkable discussion yesterday. Alongside an article about Israel cancelling a plan to segregate buses going to the West Bank so as to keep Palestinians off settlers' buses, it published readers' comments, and in both the editors' selection and the readers' selection, the comments were running against Israel.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
A Healthier Planet
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
- Pakistani Company Accused of Running Fake Degree Scam Has a History of Silencing Critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On immoral companies and small voices. A Pakistani company has been silencing accusations of illegality through the intimidation of big law suits.
- Fabricated attacks by Colombian journalists mask real dangers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In a profession climate of threats, criminals and corrupt politicians, two journalists attempted to capitalize on the situation by sending fake death threats to their fellow reporters.
- Fox Attacks Obama For Calling Climate Change An Immediate National Security Threat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
President Obama annouced that the climate change crisis is a matter of national security and Fox News mocked the claim by saying that the statement detracts from 'real threats'
- Investigative Journalist found beheaded in Minas Gerais
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A journalist who was investigating child prostitution and drug trafficking in Brazil has been found murdered.
- Media Spike # 54 –Channel your customer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Even with the introduction of the internet, the staying power and reach of television is unparalleled. This is why marketers still drool at the thought of television marketing.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for April 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - May 19, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending April 30, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.22 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM i
- In Mexico, reporters struggle to cover unrest over missing students
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Students have been kidnapped and mass graves have been uncovered but, with all the self-censorship of domestic journalists, Mexico will soon forget.
- In Search for Truth, CMD Files Public Records Lawsuit Against Scott Walker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Governor of Wisconson is being prosecuted for altering public records on Wisconson State University.
- Marikana massacre: the untold story of the strike leader who died for workers’ rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 2012 a strike at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa ended when police opened fire, killing 34 miners. Investigations have revealed one rebel leader died trying to broker a peaceful solution.
- Media freedom and regulation in Timor Leste
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While free speech and press is legally free in East-Timor, every journalist knows that true freedom is nowhere to be seen. Journalists are regularly beaten, intimidated and regulated by the upper class.
- Police actions in Ferguson, U.S. interfere with freedoms of assembly, press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Though the majority of the Ferguson protests were peacful, the police still responded with overwhelming military force. Journalists were one of thier specific targets.
- Return: A Palestinian Memoir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Having grown up in Britain following her family's exile from Palestine, doctor, author and academic Ghada Karmi leaves her adoptive home in a quest to return to her homeland. She starts work with the Palestinian Authority and gets a firsthand understanding of its bizarre bureaucracy under Israel's occupation.
- Russia Launches 'Predictive System' for Monitoring Protest Activity Online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Russian government is implementing a monitoring system which will identify and monitor protest groups and network on the Internet through analyzing blogs and social media.
- Finally! Victory for Free Speech in Garcia v. Google
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Free speech must remain free; regardless of how nasty the message may be. This is a story about the peservation of free speech and the abuses of copyright law.
- Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, equivalent to $10m a minute every day.
- Governments Giving Fossil Fuel Companies $10 Million a Minute: IMF
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Mine Wars Museum Opens, Revives Lost Labour History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Mine Wars museum opens in Matewan to revive West Virginia’s labour history.
- Monsanto's Worst Fear May Be Coming True
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Chipotle restaurant chain decides to make its product lines GMO-free -- a trend that may be a threat to Monsanto's goal of controlling the food industry.
- Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank's little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million, a Salvadoran delegation is in Canada to discuss how this arbitration process threatens democratic decision making, public health and the environment here and beyond.
- Communism and the Family (Part One)
The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Replacing the family with collective institutions is the most radical aspect of the communist program and will bring about the deepest, most sweeping changes in daily life, not least for children.
- Concocting a Crime-Ageddon to Promote Police Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Manhattan is overrun with criminals and nobody is safe! -- or that’s what certain tabloids and newspapers would have you believe. Through the use of misleading statistics and extraordinary exceptions, the Mayor of New York has been successfully depicted as 'soft-on-crime' even though the city's crime rate is at an all-time low.
- Fishers and Plunderers
Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fishers and Plunderers focuses on the exploitation of fish and fishers alike in a global industry that gives little consideration to either conservation or human rights. In a business characterized by overprovisioned vessels and shortages of fish, young men are routinely trafficked from poor areas onto fishing boats to work under conditions of virtual slavery. Poverty and debt push many towards piracy and drugs -- although the criminality linked to the industry extends far beyond any individual worker, vessel, or fleet. Fishers and Plunderers provides strong evidence of industry-wide crimes and injustices and argues for regulations that protect the rights of fishers across the board.
- How to Fight Western Propaganda
Time for a Creative Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The western propaganda apparatus is enormously efficient and effective. It is also brilliant in how it ensures that its inventions get channeled, distributed, and accepted in all corners of the world. The system through which disinformation spreads, is incredibly complex.
What are we, who oppose the regime, supposed to do?
- The Life, Loves, Wars and Foibles of Edward Abbey
Monkeywrenching the Machine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fifty-three years ago, long before I had heard of Edward Abbey and Abraham Polonsky, I saw a film titled "Lonely are the Brave" that was based on Polonsky's adaptation of Abbey's novel "The Brave Cowboy".
- Not Everyone in Nepal Is Happy with the Indian Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After the earthquake, the Indian Army was quick to mobilize their relief effort. However, Nepalese have come to question whether the PR motivations outweigh the humanitarian impulse.
- Oil CEO Wanted University Quake Scientists Dismissed: Dean's E-Mail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The billionaire CEO of Continental Resources told a dean at the University of Oklahoma that he wanted earthquake researchers dismissed.
- Sudden closure of loggers' museum leaves workers high and dry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Employees at the Loggers' Life Museum in Grand Falls-Windsor were shocked to learn the site is permanently closing, just days before it was set to open for the summer season.
- Time to celebrate real heroes, like the one just lost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If you want to meet the best Australians, meet Indigenous men and women who understand this extraordinary country and have fought for the rights of the world's oldest culture. Theirs is a struggle more selfless, heroic and enduring than any historical adventure non-Indigenous Australians are required incessantly to celebrate.
- Bahrain Court Upholds Six Month Sentence Against Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab Over Tweet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Nabeel Rajaba has been sentenced to prison for a tweet accusing the Bahrain security agencies for incubating ISIS combatants.
- War crime: NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya. Since then, the country's water infrastructure has only deteriorated further.
- Living in the Crosshairs
The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Abortion is a legal, common, and safe medical procedure that one in three American women will undergo. Yet ever since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, anti-abortion forces have tried nearly every tactic to eliminate it. Legislative and judicial developments dominate the news, but a troubling and all-too-common phenomenon -- targeted vigilante action against individual abortion providers -- is missing from the national discussion, only cropping up when a dramatic story like the murder of an abortion provider pushes it to the forefront.
- New extremism laws would stifle free speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
New and vaguely defined counter-extremism laws threaten freedom of speech in the UK. Anyone who disagrees with the government can, theoretically, be banned from media exposure.
- Shot and gassed: Thousands of protected birds killed annually
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reveal has obtained never-before-released data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service showing more than 300 species of migratory birds -- from red-tailed hawks to American kestrels, turkey vultures to mallard ducks -- have been killed legally across the United States since 2011 to protect a wide range of business activities and public facilities under what’s called the "depredation permit" program.
- 'Wrong as Often as Right' Is Good Enough When Reporting on an Official Enemy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When reporting on enemy states, Washington Post would rather use misleading and flashy headline. A North Korean general has supposedly been executed by anti-aircraft weapons but he could just as well be safe and sound.
- Anthropocene Boosters and the Attack on Wilderness Conservation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A number of academics, commentators, and groups argue that humans have so completely modified the Earth that concepts such as 'wilderness' or 'nature' have become meaningless, and that therefore there is no point in talking about 'preserving' wilderness or natural areas. The idea of 'nature', they say, is just a human cultural construct. Those advancing these ideas use different progressive-sounding labels, such as "pragmatic environmentalists" or "green postmodernism," but their message is that we should forget about wilderness conservation and just get on with the business of 'managing' the planet for human benefit. Not surprisingly, corporate and industry leaders have been jumping on the bandwagon.
- Brazil's MST Pays Tribute to Landless Workers Killed by Police in 1996
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Landless workers occupy farms in Brazil to reclaim a sense of justice. The month of April - called "Red April" pays tribute and remembrance to the Landless Workers Movement's fallen comrades of the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre.
- The Edge Becomes the Center
An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The groundbreaking oral history that tells the stories of New Yorkers effecting and affected by gentrification
- From Slavery to Debt-Bondage: Big Tobacco's Addiction to Cheap Labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Cigarette manufacturers and leaf buyers perpetuate a global system of inequity that bolsters corporate profits at the expense of those who labor at the bottom of the tobacco supply chain. It is long past time for that system to end, and be replaced by a more fair tobacco trade that respects the workers who harvest this toxic crop.
- Latin America's Social Policies Have Given Women a Boost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Although they do not specifically target women, social policies like family allowances and pensions have improved the lives of women in Latin America, the region that has made the biggest strides so far this century in terms of gender equality.
- US Still Seeks Jail for 'Fighter' Captured at 15 in Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The good news is that a judge in Canada has had the courage and good sense to uphold the release from jail on bail of Omar Khadr, a native of Canada who was captured as a child soldier at the age of 15 in Afghanistan by US forces back in 2002.The bad news is that Khadr, who spent 13 years in captivity, most of them in America's Guantanamo hellhole, should never have been imprisoned in the first place.
- The Wars on Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the past month, the Pentagon, PBS, and the for-profit press took a three pronged approach to the Vietnam Wars: (1) praise the returned troops and promote the notion of a home-country stab in the back; (2) highlight the evacuees and the US heroes of the April ‘75 evacuations; and (3) focus on the post-war babylift and the Vietnamese babies now grown up.
- Land Grabbing
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Farmland is becoming more and more valuable and scarcer. Every year we lose about 12 billion hectares of farmland through soil sealing. After the financial meltdown in 2008 the global financial capital discovered the business segment of global farmland. Through land grabbing the rich of the world want to secure access to the world’s most important resources. Consequently, instead of farmers, profit is put before soil. If we don’t stop the raids, we will destroy our livelihood.
- Ottawa cites hate crime laws when asked about its 'zero tolerance' for Israel boycotters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Blaney's office cites 'comprehensive' hate laws for new zero tolerance plans.
- Breaking the silence -- only in the Letters’ page
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Time to break silence on Gaza assault. So writes Dr.Miriam Garfinkle in Sunday’s Star. Both the Star and the Globe did not mention the story of the Israeli Defense Force's carte blanche to basically shoot anything that moves and they did.The rules of engagement seemed to be non-existent -- 500 children massacred to begin with
- Naomi Klein: To fight climate change we must fight capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Naomi Klein, the author of "This Changes Everything."
- Time to break silence on Gaza assault
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Previous reports from such groups as Physicians for Human Rights Israel have indicated clearly that civilians were indiscriminately targeted, including in hospitals and ambulances. Testimonies from soldiers given to Breaking the Silence give further evidence to the extreme criminal actions of the Israeli army last summer. The silence in North America media on this report is deafening. Even Israeli media has reported it. The suppression of the truth does not serve us well. It’s time for the North American media to break its silence.
- Capitalism is the West's Dominant Religion
Reflections on the Religion of the Market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Welton describes capitalism as the dominant religion in the West, where Economics is the new theology of this global religion of the market and consumerism its highest good.
- The Myth of Peaceful Protest
The Patronizing Intransigence of Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Johnson discusses how peaceful protest is depicted as the way to speak out, and any kind of disorder or defiance of authority is presented not only unacceptable, but unnecessary.
- Profiting from Gaza Children's Agony
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The shocking decision by the government-owned New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) to NOT divest from Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL), manufacturer of white phosphorus, blatantly violates the NZSF Responsibilities and Standards for Human Rights.
- Renewable Energy isn't a Shortcut to Reversing Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Denmark has distinguished itself as the country moving the fastest toward the eventual replacement of fossil fuels. Its goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 is laudable, but the assumption that this path will reverse global warming while otherwise continuing business as usual, is unrealistic.
- Semantic Warfare: Words as Guided Missiles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over half a century ago, the South Korean government banned the word "labour" from the Korean language. This is the back story.
- Ukraine Is Banning 'Communist Symbols' and the Kremlin Is Peeved
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ukraine is pushing to erase all evidence the Soviet Union and its defeat of Nazi Germany from its history books.
- A Zapatista 'Seminar' in Chiapas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the outskirts of San Cristobal de las Casas, famed colonial center of the southern state of Chiapas, over a thousand people from all over Mexico and beyond are attending a weeklong seminar "Critical Thinking Confronting the Capitalist Hydra." It was conceived and organized by the Zapatistas, the Chiapas-based armed insurgency.
- French surveillance law passes National Assembly, but it's not the last word
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After the Chalie Hebdo and Hyper Catcher killings, the French National Assembly authorized clandestine intelligence operations for mobile devices and the internet. While the french patriot act has already been set in place, so too are movements to repeal these laws.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
Urban agriculture and local food production
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
- Pakistani journalist Muhammud Rasool Dawar under threat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
War correspondence has always been difficult. This is even more the case for journalists embedded with the Pakistani Army who are expected to do their job amidst heavy censorship and treats from criminals, militants and the government alike.
- The Computers are Listening
How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Top-secret documents from the archive of Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.
- Costa Rica's Energy Nearly 100 Percent Clean
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Arguedas Ortiz describes how Cost Rica's energy supply is based almost totally on clean sources.
- How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The author provides an overview of how bicycle use has monopolized the streets in Amsterdam to create an overall safer and environmentally city.
- How ExxonMobil's Spending Bonanza Helped Two British Climate Sceptics Set-Up An International Free Market Think Tank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Roger Bate and Julian Morris of the British free-market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), decided to catch ExxonMobil's gravy train across the Atlantic as they began working for US think tanks.
- Increasing Legal Suppression of Freedom of Thought and Expression in So-called Free and Democratic Societies
As evidence for increasing totalitarianism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
That freedom of speech is the foundational individual right for a truly democratic system to exist or emerge. And that this freedom must be defended without compromise, and without bias against any particular view, no matter how distasteful or disturbing the particular view might be to some or most people.
- Intag's Recurrent Nightmare: Adding Up The Costs Of Ecuador's Mineral Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Intag is situated in Northwestern Ecuador. In the 1990s Bishimetal, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi, found evidence of a large copper deposit lying in the bowels of the biodiverse Toisan Range. In 1997 it was forced to abandon the project. In 2012 CODELCO, Ecuador’s state-owned mining company moved to revive the project as part of a government to government agreement. The nightmare returns.
- UN Battle to 'Shame' Israel Over Abuse of Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Palestinian solidarity groups have taken to social media to step up the pressure on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to include Israel for the first time on a "shame list" of serious violators of children's rights.
- Breaking the Silence: Army Deliberately Targeted Civilians in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers, harshly slammed the Israeli army for its operational policy during last summer’s attack on Gaza, saying it led to "immense and unprecedented harm to the civilian population and infrastructures in the Gaza Strip."
- Future dustbowl? Fracking ravages Great Plains land and water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The fracking boom has caused massive vegetation loss over North America's rangelands, as 3 million hectares have been occupied by oil and gas infrastructure and 34 billion cubic metres of water have been pumped from semi-arid ecosystems.
- Gunning for destruction in Gaza: 'You want to see people in pieces'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
36,000 artillery shells, tank shells, mortars, anti-tank missiles and munitions, alongside an ubiquitous use of armored bulldozers, razed streets and districts to the ground during last summer's Gaza war. According to a newly published Breaking the Silence report, this is exactly what the Israeli army wanted.
- The Meaning of the Paris Commune
What can the Paris Commune offer to present struggles for emancipation?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Kristin Ross about her new book, Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune.
- Samples of Israeli Horrific Brutality and War Criminality in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Israeli group Breaking the Silence issued a report this morning containing testimony from Israeli soldiers about the savagery and criminality committed by the Israeli military during the attack on Gaza in the summer of 2014.
- America's trailer parks: the residents may be poor but the owners are getting rich
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It's an unusual but potentially lucrative investment: Warren Buffett is prompting people to attend Mobile Home University, a 'boot camp' in trailer park ownership.
- Diary of Prison and Torture
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Mohamedou Ould Slahi's 'Guantánamo Diary.'
- France’s libraries discovering a new lease of life beyond just books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Seminars, events and cafes are helping some formerly staid institutions reinvent themselves as social 'third spaces' beyond work and the home.
- Amnesia and the Armenian Genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A century after the methodically planned, organized, and executed destruction of the Anatolian Armenians, this article revisits the causes of this genocide and recognizes its importance for understanding the present.
- Canada for the People!: A Study of the Social Gospel in Canadian History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
United Church of Canada's relation with the social gospel and the criticisms of the Social Gospel movement
- Canada's Creeping Police State
Capitalist Repression and War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Conservative Harper government’s Bill C-51, the "Anti-Terrorism Act 2015," is a sweeping attack on free speech and other civil liberties. The bill targets publications, web postings and even private conversations sympathetic to causes that the capitalist rulers deem to be "terrorism." It authorizes the CSIS secret police to go after any activity that "undermines the sovereignty, security or territorial integrity of Canada" or interferes with the country's "economic or financial stability." And you don't have to actually do anything; the bill provides for "preventive detention" of individuals who the police claim "may commit" an offense.
- Capitalism as Robbery
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Review of Peter Linebaugh's 'The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance."
- The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929: A Review
Upholding the Revolutionary Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929 examines the founding, development and degeneration of the Communist Party (CP) in the United States in the broader framework of the struggle for international proletarian revolution. Available in both paperback and hardcover, this fully indexed book, with extensive footnotes and references, will be of enduring value as a reference work for avowed socialists as well as scholars of communism. It is also a fun and interesting read and belongs in the toolkits of everyone seeking a coherent revolutionary program and lessons on building an organization.
- The Courage of Cooperation
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book Review of Jessica Gordon Nembhard's ' A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice.'
- The Crisis of World Labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Both the size and composition of the world working class have changed dramatically over the past four decades. But these massive shifts are not reflected in the strength of workers' organizations.
- Cuba: A New Era
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The normalization of U.S.-Cuba political relations was possible due to the changed geopolitical situation, Obama, and the Cuban diaspora being open to dialogue.
- Decaying social order shows need for philosophy, revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2015-2016.
- Doublethink Squared
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. continues to ally with several conflicting parties in the Middle East.
- The Frameup of Purvi Patel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Purvi Patel is accused of "feticide and neglect of a dependent" after suffering a miscarrage in Mishawaka, Indiana.
- Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, better known as "Freedom Summer," brought in volunteers to help with attempts to register Black voters who had long been prevented by chicanery and terror from doing so. At the same time, in view of the miserable conditions in the state's segregated public schools, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) planned to create "freedom schools" in which volunteers (mostly the whites from the North) would, that summer, teach Black young people in subjects ranging from basic education to Black history and leadership skills.
- From the right-wing to the revolutionary left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Tom Wetzel answers the question 'How were you radicalized?'.
- Inside the European Cataclysm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During this second Thirty Years War, from 1914-1945, Europe experienced an extraordinary fusion of conflicts.
- Intermarriage: A threat to Jewish continuity? Or an opportunity?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, most Jews in the US and Canada are personally touched by intermarriage within their immediate families. According to the Canadian 2011 National Household Survey, within the Jewish population of 392,000, 26% of Jewish spouses/partners
- May Day: workers of the world unite and take over -- their factories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The co-operative movement is giving employees the chance to rebuild shuttered livelihoods.
- Middle East Imperial Meltdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How U.S. drive for "stability" in the Middle East produces the opposite, and how these crises feed back into the peculiarities of U.S. domestic political culture.
- The Murder of Walter Scott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A video capturing the murder of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man killed by a white police officer, has gone virtal.
- Non-Movements as Social Activism
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Asef Bayat's 'Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East.'
- Rasmea Odeh's Sentence/Appeal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rasmea Odeh, A Palestinian activist and Chicago community leader, faces 18 months in federal prison and deportation, following her March 12, 2015 sentencing in Detroit for "unlawful procurement of naturalization."
- Social Movements and the Left
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of 'Social Movements and Leftist Government in Latin America: Confrontation or Cooptation,' edited by Gary Prevost, Carlos Oliva Campos, Harry E. Vanden.
- Soft Power and the Case of Iraq
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, pundits have touted the desirability of pursuing "soft power" as a supplement to military action in Iraq and other parts of the Muslim world.
- Tribes, Rights and Justice in India
Interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sara Ahrahms interviews Indian writer and commentator Shashank Kela, author of 'A Rogue and Peasant Slave: Adivasi Resistance, 1800-2000.'
- The Two-Party System, Part IV
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"Progressive" institutions, organizations, and ideologues have clung tenaciously to the faith that the two-party system remains an eternal, ultimately unchallengeable reality.
- University of Wisconsin's "Budget Crisis"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over $300 million in cuts to the University of Wisconsin system lead students and staff to speculate on the the future of the university.
- Unmasking The GMO Humanitarian Narrative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Genetically modified (GM) crops are going to feed the world. Not only that, supporters of GM technology say it will produce better yields than non-GM crops, increase farmers' incomes, lead to less chemical inputs, be better suited to climatic changes, is safe for human consumption and will save the lives of millions. Sections of the pro-GMO lobby are modern-day evangelists who denounce, often with a hefty dose of bigoted zeal, anyone who questions their claims and self-proclaimed humanitarian motives.
- What's Next for Cuba?
Interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Janette Habel conducted by Jerome Latta and published online by the Left Front in France, December 26, 2014.
- Why Spain's new gag law is threat to free flow of information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Spain plans to ban demonstrations in front of government buildings on the basis of 'disturbing public safety'. The people of Spain refuse to accept this censorship and move to repeal the law by the end of the year.
- Widodo's lifting of ban on foreign media in Papua is step in right direction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Journalists and citizens celebrate freedom of press and speech as a 50-year blackout of international media is lifted in Papua, Indonesia.
- The World Bank Group's Uncounted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people, forcing them from their homes, taking their land or damaging their livelihoods.
- Cowardly Firing of Australian State-Funded TV Journalist Highlights the West's Real Religion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A TV sports commentator in Australia, Scott McIntyre, was summarily fired by his public broadcasting employer, Special Broadcasting Services (SBS), because of a series of tweets he posted about the violence committed historically by the Australian military.
- TransCanada Keystone 1 Pipeline Suffered Major Corrosion Only Two Years In Operation, 95% Worn In One Spot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Documents obtained by DeSmogBlog reveal an alarming rate of corrosion to parts of TransCanada's Keystone 1 pipeline. A mandatory inspection test revealed a section of the pipeline's wall had corroded 95%, leaving it paper-thin in one area (one-third the thickness of a dime) and dangerously thin in three other places, leading TransCanada to immediately shut it down.
- Why the penis is having a moment in men's fashion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fashion has found a new obsession: nude men, specifically men with their penises out.
- In praise of tigers, conservation heroes of the Sundarbans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The presence of the tigers is the world's greatest mangrove forest vital to its survival, writes Joydip Kundu. It's the fear of the tiger that deters people from entering the forest to cut its trees and hunt its wildlife - and so these majestic predators protect its fisheries, and guard millions of people in south Bengal from the rising seas.
- Will ANC government ever prosecute South Africans in Israeli Army?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When South African security services prevented a Cape Town girl from boarding a plane allegedly to join ISIS, many South Africans were pleased but at the same time surprised at how swift the reaction of our security services were. How come the same reaction is not applied to South African Zionist Jews serving in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF)?
- Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed: 1990-2015
The Kingpin Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The "kingpin strategy" refers to the elimination of the kingpins dominating cartels. Cockburn analyzes how this method was used by the U.S. government, how it failed to work in the "drug war," and how its adoption, in the form of targeted assassinations in the "war on terror," has similarly been a failure.
- AUSTRALIA: Some reflections on the Anzac Day 'cyber-lynching' of a journalist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The right of free speech v. the rightnot to be offended. A sports commentator has been fired over things he said on twitter, things unrelated to his job.
- Fractured Land
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Fractured Land, we follow Caleb Behn, a young Dene lawyer who may become one of this generation's great leaders, if he can discover how to reconcile the fractures within himself, his community and the world around him, blending modern tools of the law with ancient wisdom.
- An intergenerational event connecting women committed to a new and better world
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Women Building Connections Gala Dinner, May 14, 2015
- The Messenger
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Documentary. A powerful reflection and intimate investigation that reaches from the northern point of the Boreal Forest to the base of Turkey's Mount Ararat to the urban streets of New York. As songbirds take flight and fight to survive in our changing world, The MESSENGER delivers a visually thrilling ode to the beauty and importance of these imperiled creatures.
- Obama's role model to journalists — Dorothy Thompson — turned against Zionism and was silenced
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dorothy Thompson, whose truly stellar career ended in false charges of antisemitism made by Zionists.
- La Prenda
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Documentary. Every day, a child is abducted in Guatemala, a country with a rate of impunity of 98%. Female victims and survivors hope to stem the tide of forced emigration from Guatemala, a country where too many women are still seen as "prendas." Also Known As: The Pawn.
- Choosing Our Future
Dr. Zofia Pakula Spring 2015 Lecture Series
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Deep Web
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A documentary that explores the history and context of the world that these darkened online areas burgeoned from. Focusing on the recent court case of the alleged founder of the online market Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, it's a far more complex and multifaceted story than the media portrays. Deep Web investigates the greater implications for how we will all experience the internet in the future.
- Deutsche Bank Pays $2.5 Billion Fine For Interest Rate Rigging
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay out $2.5 billion fine to settle U.K. and U.S. government investigations into allegations of fixing global interest rates, months after 6 other banks paid out $4.3 billion on similar charges. Activists say that the banks should have faced criminal charges.
- Ontario Surtax Amendments Ensure Fair Treatment for Investors in Mutual Fund Trusts
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - April 27, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) welcomes amendments announced by Minister Sousa in Thursday's budget (http://www.ontla.on.ca/bills/bills-files/41_Parliament/Session1/b091.pdf) that will prevent a p
- People Power
The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a "prophet of power to the people," someone who "has possibly antagonized more people . . . than any other living American." People Power introduces the major organizers who adopted and modified Alinsky's vision across the United States.
- Citizen-Journalist Fined for Telling the Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The story of an injunction against against a journalist who dared to tell the truth.
- The War against The Lancet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
"An Open letter to the people of Gaza" triggered a furious reaction within Lancet, with complainants suggesting that the publication has sided with the forces of "anti-Jewish bigotry".
- Zionists Seek to Silence the Lancet and Secure the Dismissal of its Editor, Richard Horton
Response to the Complaint to Reed Elsevier, Publishers of the Lancet, by Professor Sir Mark Pepys and 395 Colleagues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The involvement of 396 senior researchers in a mass effort to force Reed Elsevier to withdraw the letter is the latest in a series of heavy-handed interventions to stifle media coverage of the Israel-Palestine issue and should be resisted.
- A Diet of Austerity
Class, Food and Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Deals with the reasons why the working class is blamed for climate change, and what it can actually do about it.
- Professors for Israel try to Shut Down Lancet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Some 400 medical professors are blackmailing Reed Elsevier, publishers of The Lancet, by threatening to boycott its publications unless the company sacks editor Richard Horton - or as they duplicitously phrase it, "enforce appropriate ethical standards of editorship".
- Mass Surveillance is Driven by the Private Sector
The Lesson of Hacking Team's Malware
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A report published by Privacy International as well as an article posted by Vice Motherboard clearly show that both the DEA and the United States Army have long-standing relationships with Hacking Team, an Italian company that’s notorious for selling malware to any number of unsavory characters.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2015
Eduardo Galeano, Latin America, the Vietnam War
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark the death of Eduardo Galeano by featuring two of his books, as well as an article about his life and work. Galeano once wrote that he was "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." In his writing, especially Open Veins of Latin America and the mesmerizing Memory of Fire trilogy, Galeano contributed enormously to bringing alive, and keeping alive, the memories of Latin America, and especially of those whom he called the "nobodies" -- the people "who do not appear in the history of the world." Next week also marks the 40th anniversary of the final victory of the Vietnamese war of resistance against the American invasion and occupation.
- Remembering the Earth Day Wall Street Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 1989 the Greens held their national gathering in Eugene, Oregon. That was before they had entered national electoral politics, when they still focused on grassroots organizing, and what we now call 'movement from below.'
- The School Of The Americas Is Still Exporting Death Squads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Although rebranded as WHINSEC, the School of the Americas uses the same brutal tactics to destabilize governments in Latin America.
- Step Up, Canada! Campaign launches on Earth Day with Human Hashtags and Joint Statement to Federal Government
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Representatives of more than 25 civil society groups and other organizations across the country, ClimateFast, People's Climate Movement and Toronto350 will deliver a joint statement (attached) to the Government of Canada on Earth Day
- Brazil: Challenges of a Landless People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Brazil, to define oneself as landless implies agency and a commitment to a community made up of active subjects that are working towards the construction of their own history.
- China's Great Cannon: New weapon to suppress free speech online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Chinese censorship of the internet is a well known fact but the tactics that the Chinese government uses -- and how similar those tactics are to the ones used by the NSA -- points to an international state of cyberwarfare.
- How the New Flexible Economy is Making Workers Lives Hell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Whatever it's called – just-in-time scheduling, on-call staffing, on-demand work, independent contracting, or the "share economy" -- the result is the same: No predictability, no economic security.
- The Canadian Ministry of "Truth": "Reality Is Whatever We Say It Is"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The government and corporations operate as if truth and reality are what they say it is. Guerin analyzes and provides examples of this propaganda, including Canada's Bill C-51.
- How many more
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
New report shows killings of environmental activists are increasing, with indigenous communities hardest hit. Global Witness shines a spotlight on Honduras - the most dangerous country to be an environmental defender.
- Lead poisoning - fighting industrial pollution in Kenya is a dangerous business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lead poisoning from industrial pollution has imposed a terrible toll on Kenyans, and single mother Phyllis Omido is no exception -- lead from a nearby metal refinery badly damaged her own son's health. But it was when she decided to fight back against the polluters that a whole new realm of threats and dangers opened up.
- The most outrageous fraud ever perpetrated on the Canadian people
Can the Courts Liberate the Bank of Canada?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
You know the old aphorism -- "If a tree falls in the forest….?" Well, how about this one: if citizens win a significant victory in court against an autocratic government involving the fleecing of Canadians of billions of their hard-earned tax dollars and no one in the media actually covers it, did it really happen?
- Victory in Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Forty years ago on April 30, 1975, the Vietnamese peopl were finally victorious in the long just struggle for national independence and unification against the United States and its puppet regime in Saigon.
- Zapatista women explain things
A review of Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories by Hilary Klein (Seven Stories, 2015)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Plastics, tiny penises, and human evolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Setting aside the question of whether plastics (or obesity or carbonated corn syrup-laced beverages or the presence of step-dads or hormones in beef or any other factor) are behind changes in our patterns of sexual maturity, what about the possible future? Does evolutionary theory support the idea that xenoestrogens and other endocrine disruption could lead us limping to a kind of slow rolling human apocalypse?
- Chronicle of a death online: Hate campaign from Muslim fundamentalist groups from Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka and West Asia against a Muslim woman writer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The case of Tamil Nadu journalist who was victim of online 'rape' and 'murder', perpetuated by Muslim fundamentalists.
- Dogs really do love us: Study finds first evidence of inter-species hormone exchange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dogs are found to make use of the "lovers' hormone," Oxytocin, to sneak their way into our hearts. That’s the first time the mechanism was observed between species.
- In China's Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
China's relentless drive for minerals is wreaking havoc on pastoral lifestyles.
- Modi in Canada
What Canadians Should Know About Harper's New Guest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When Stephen Harper hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to Canada this week, they will be greeted with both adoring fans and with protests. Modi, an extremist Hindu nationalist, has a strong support base within a section of the Indian community. But his past comes back to haunt him. A human rights organization called Sikhs for Justice has appealed to the Canadian government to prosecute Modi for the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat.
- Owl in laundry basket
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto Wildlife Centre's rescue team re-nested this baby great-horned owl after Saturday's windy weather blew him out his tree, nest and all. We made him a new home, and with the help of local arborists Paul and Dan, affixed it high in the tree.
- The Politics of Repair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The politics of repair are often invisible, hidden by the idea that repair is no more than the mundane practice of putting what is broken or worn-out back in good working order.
- 21 States Will Take Away Your Driver's License If You Can't Pay Your College Loans, But Activists Are Fighting Back
A grassroots project in Montana is a blueprint for activism across the country
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Thanks to the work of local organizers pressuring lawmakers, Montana residents will no longer have their drivers licenses suspended if they fall behind on their student loan payments. This April, a Montana law that allowed the state to revoke licenses for that infraction was scrapped. However, in at least 21 states, similar laws remain on the books.
- Ernst & Young Pays $10 Million To Settle Lehman Brothers Audit Failure Lawsuit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ernst & Young, one of the Big Four auditing firms, has agreed to pay a $10 million to New York state to settle a lawsuit for overlooking accounting gimmicks by Lehman Brothers, the defunct Wall Street bank. The scheme allowed Lehman to hide billions of dollars in bad deals.
- Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank's Broken Promise to the Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The World Bank pledges to "do no harm." But over the past decade it has regularly failed to protect the world's most vulnerable people.
- How the World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The World Bank has broken its promise. Over the past decade, the bank has regularly failed to enforce its rules, with devastating consequences for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet, an investigation has found.
- Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World's Most Unusual Libraries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Improbable Libraries showcases a wide range of images and interviews with librarians who are overcoming geographic, economic, and political difficulties to bring the written word to an eager audience.
- World Bank Projects Leave Trail of Misery Around Globe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In developing countries around the globe, forest dwellers, poor villagers and other vulnerable populations claim the World Bank -- the planet's oldest and most powerful development lender -- has left a trail of misery.
- The right way to end terrorism
From armed resistance to jihadist networks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gresh discusses a way to end terrorism, by placing an emphasis on the term itself and the repercussions of its meaning and use.
- SA xenophobic attacks: A view from below
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The attacks on African migrants in South Africa are connected to oppression of poor black people in general. To prevent the poor from organizing and standing up to their real enemies, the state is tacitly encouraging violence against foreigners.
- Survival Strategies for Local Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In an attempt to draw readers and advertisers, the San Francisco Chronicle began printing on high-quality glossy paper in November, 2009. Its circulation had dropped by more than fifty per cent in less than a decade.
- We're facing a new Cold War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes.
- Battlefield America: The War on the American People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Police forces across the United States have been transformed into extensions of the military. Towns and cities have become battlefields, and the American people are now the enemy combatants to be spied on, tracked, frisked, and searched. For those who resist, the consequences can be a one-way trip to jail, or even death. Battlefield America: The War on the American People is constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead's terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself. In exchange for safe schools and lower crime rates, we have opened the doors to militarized police, zero tolerance policies in schools, and SWAT team raids.
- Can you really make a living by selling used books on Amazon for a penny?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Secondhand book sales online not only make millions but also offer demanding customers rare – or simply cheap – titles that might otherwise rot in landfill.
- For every 1,000 people killed by police, one officer is convicted of a crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Out of thousands of people killed by police in the United States since 2005, only 11 officers have been convicted of any crimes.
- Eduardo Galeano, ¡Presente!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
La Botz reflects on Eduardo Galeano's works and ideas.
- Africa rising? The economic history of sub-Saharan Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An overview of the economic history of sub-Saharan Africa since independence (around 1960 for most countries).
- Bureaucratic mass strikes: A response to Mark O'Brien
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The mass strike of 30 November 2011 (N30) was the broadest and biggest ever British public sector strike and involved the largest number of women workers in any British strike. Dave Lyddon comments.
- Improbable libraries: unusual places to bury your head in a book
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Alex Johnson looks at the imaginative forms the modern library takes.
- Israeli occupation damages Palestinian health, human rights group shows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Israeli group Physicians for Human Rights has released two reports documenting the deterioration of Palestinian health under occupation. Divide and Conquer documents the deterioration of Palestinian health in the West Bank and Gaza as the direct consequence of ongoing Israeli military occupation.
- The Biggest Source of Plastic Trash You've Never Heard of
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How plastic waste is used on the farm for agriculture.
- Iranians Are Much Talked About on Sunday Morning TV, But Never Heard From
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over the last couple months, the Sunday morning TV shows -- NBC's Meet the Press, CBS's Face The Nation, ABC's This Week, Fox's News Sunday, and CNN's State of the Union -- have focused on a deal with Iran as one of their principal topics. In doing so, they have repeatedly given a platform to fanatical anti-Iran voices.
- Marx rediscovered
A review of Heather A Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sheila McGregor states that Heather Brown has written an important study of Marx’s writings on women’s oppression. Brown situates her book in the current economic and political context, noting the role that women play both in the world economy and in recent tumultuous struggles such as the Occupy movement and, not least, in the revolutions in the Middle East beginning in 2011. At the same time, parts of Brown's book are contraditory and frustrating.
- New headaches for tar sands pipeline proponents as oil fouls Vancouver harbour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A bad turn of events for the local environment and for some of the oil barons targeting their entire planet in their climate-wrecking plans. That's an apt summary of the oil spill that has fouled the beaches and harbour of Vancouver BC beginning on April 8, 2015.
- Tianjin, China: a village 'land grab' protest spells trouble for the Communist state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rising anger by China's dispossessed (those displaced from their homes, villages and farms to make way for expanding cities and infrastructure) is posing a threat to the ruling regime. At the root of the problem is the state's inability to tackle endemic official corruption and deliver justice to its citizens.
- Air pollution may be damaging children's brains - before they are even born
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Aside causing respiratory and cardiovascular damage, air pollution has also an impact on the brains and nervous systems of unborn children whose mothers suffer high levels of exposure.
- Colombia - indigenous defender murdered in gold mining frenz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An indigenous leader in Colombia's 'gold belt' has been killed by unknown gunmen as tensions grow between indigenous communities and outside gold mining interests, many of them linked to illegal armed groups and the drug trade.
- Former Press Club President arrested in the Philippines
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) are dismayed by the arrest of a former president of the National Press Club by the Manila Police District (MPD).
- How Corporations and Law Enforcement Are Spying on Environmentalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In August 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit distributed an intelligence bulletin to all field offices warning that environmental extremism would likely become an increasing threat to the energy industry. The eight-page document argued that, even though the industry had encountered only low-level vandalism and trespassing, recent "criminal incidents" suggested that environmental extremism was on the rise.
- Human Rights Watch Sues DEA Over Bulk Collection of Americans' Telephone Records
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
EFF Lawsuit Challenges Drug Enforcement Administration Surveillance of International Call Records
- Islamic Republic urged to free all detained journalists and online activists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the wake of Iran's historic agreement with the United States on its nuclear programme, Reporters Without Borders calls on President Hassan Rouhani to keep another promise - the immediate release of all detained journalists and online activists
- Media concerns as "dictator law" replaces martial law in Thailand
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Journalists' organizations express strong concern over the issuing of a new order by the military regime to replace martial law.
- Omani authorities persecute online activists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The frequency with which bloggers and social network users are arrested and convicted in the Sultanate of Oman reflects the appalling state of online freedom of information and expression there.
- Rights activist arrested over tweet about prison torture
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns renewed efforts by the Bahraini authorities to censor online information, including leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab's latest arrest on 2 April and attempts to suppress information about the mistreatment
- Security agency raids Shabelle Media Network again, two held
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the latest raid by Somalia's National Security and Intelligence Agency (NISA) on Radio Shabelle and Sky FM, two Mogadishu-based radio stations
- Syriza and the crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Garganas Panos about the election victory of Syriza (the Coalition of the Radical Left) in Greece.
- Chevron Whistleblower Videos Show Deliberate Falsification Of Evidence In Ecuador Oil Pollution Trial
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Chevron lost the lawsuit filed against the company by Indigenous villagers who say Texaco, which merged with Chevron, left hundreds of open, unlined pits full of toxic oil waste in the Amazon rainforest. Nevertheless, the company attempts to retry the case.
- Ocean 'dead zones' are spreading - and that spells disaster for fish
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Oxygen levels in our oceans are falling, producing growing 'dead zones' where only the hardiest organisms can survive. The causes are simple: pollution with nutrient-rich wastes, and global warming. But the only solution is to stop it happening - or wait for 1,000 years.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2015
Resisting Neoliberalism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Resisting neoliberalism: "free markets" and "free trade" are an ideological cover for what is actually a form of state capitalism in which working people subsidize and bail out corporations and the rich. In this edition of Other Voices, and more extensively on the Connexions website, we look at both neoliberalism and the resistance to it. The version of capitalism which became dominant by the 1980s has been given the name neoliberalism. The term refers to the global economic restructuring which has taken place, and to the accompanying shifts in the structures of power under which local and national governments have seen their ability to act independently curtailed by international treaties and by institutions which owe their ultimate allegiance to corporate capital. The essence of neoliberalism has been an unending campaign of class struggle by the rich against the rest. Yet resistance continues, and indeed continues to grow.
- Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous Australian show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Indigenous Australians are calling for the objects on show at the British Museum's new exhibition to be returned.
- The Racket
A rogue reporter vs the masters of the universe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of immense proportions. The world as we know it is run by a squad of cigar-smoking men with big guns, big cash and a reach much too close to home.
- Resisting Neoliberalism
Introduction to the April 9, 2015 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Neoliberalism is a fraud. The so-called free markets and free trade which it pretends to promote are in fact controlled by giant corporations, and massively subsidized by workers and ordinary citizens.
- Video of Shooting Caught Police Propaganda Machine in Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A video supplied to The New York Times, showing the shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott at the hands of a South Carolina police officer, appears on first viewing to be the latest example of an unarmed black person killed unnecessarily by a white cop.
- Will El Salvador be forced to pay $301 million for valuing clean water over gold?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company's application for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it would cause.
- Tea Party's fake protestors for Big Sugar against Florida Everglades
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Tea Party of Miami put up a convincing demo last week to oppose a 'land grab' that would see 46,000 acres of sugar farm land restored for Everglades conservation. Just one problem - the 'protestors' were actors each being paid $75 for the two-hour shift.
- There is no Alternative Unless We Build One: Reinventing Socialist Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Social democratic parties surrendered the countervailing power they had acquired during the long post-war boom to the imperatives of international competitiveness. New parties of the left that originally positioned themselves somewhere between social democracy and communism lost their points of reference and have proven, thus far at least, unable to invent a socialism for a world after Soviet communism and social democratic welfare-states.
- 'Water man of India' makes rivers flow again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The revival of traditional rainwater harvesting has restored flow to rivers in India's driest state, Rajasthan - thanks to the tireless efforts of Rajendra Singh, recent winner of a Stockholm water prize.
- When Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence - The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The sudden cancellation of an academic conference on Israel, as well as the lack of outcry from 'mainstream' media, demonstrates once again the skewed limits to 'free speech' in 'advanced' Western democracies.
- When Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence – The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Israeli government works hard to shut down academic conferences on Palestine.
- Political Smears in U.S. Never Change: the NYT's 1967 Attack on MLK's Anti-War Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
John Oliver's Monday night interview of Edward Snowden -- which in 24 hours has been viewed by 3 million people on YouTube alone -- renewed all the standard attacks in Democratic circles accusing Snowden of being a traitor in cahoots with the Kremlin.
- Repair cafés are about fixing things - including communities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Repair cafés are a new global phenomenon that brings the two together, giving satisfaction to both, sharing skills, keeping stuff out of landfill, fighting 'designed obsolescence', and building communities sustained by mutual help.
- Vegetarians, ranchers and conscious omnivores of the world, unite!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Thinking people of all stripes are agreed in their opposition to cruel, exploitative animal farming. Cummins suggests moving beyond sterile 'meat-eater versus vegetarian' debates, and unite in their opposition to the daily atrocities of industrial agriculture.
- Worker activism is now the new normal as strikes and protests erupt across China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
China Labour Bulletin’s Strike Map logged record numbers of strikes and worker protests in the first quarter of 2015.
- Facebook, Google and McDonald's Canada to Deliver Keynote Presentations at the 2015 CFA National Convention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over 500 franchise industry leaders expected to attend Canada's premier franchise education and networking event from April 12-14 in Niagara Falls, Ontario
- Reclaiming Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While honouring the legacy of Marx and American communists, a new generation in the United States is organizing under the 'socialism' banner.
- Restrict antibiotics to medical use, or they will soon become ineffective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Antibiotics have saved hundreds of millions of lives since they came into use in the 1930s, but their power is running dry thanks to their massive use in factory farming, horticulture, aquaculture and industry.
- California drought: agribusiness, fracking untouched by water rationing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
California has responded to the drought by rationing water, with $500 fines for domestic 'water wasters'. But agribusiness and water-intensive industries like fracking remain untouched by the restrictions, even though they consume over 90% of the state's water.
- The Hand That Feeds
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A documentary portraying 12 undocumented immigrants who face an uphill battle and the threat of deportation when they take on the popular restaurant in New York City where they work.
- Israeli human rights organization highlights deterioration of Palestinian health under occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two reports from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel detail how Israeli occupation is harming the health of Palestinians.
- Israeli human rights organization highlights deterioration of Palestinian health under occupation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reports by Physicians for Human Rights - Israel document the deterioration of Palestinian health in the West Bank and Gaza as the direct consequence of ongoing Israeli military occupation.
- Toronto Council Moves to Protect City's Water from Pipeline Spills
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto City Council's motion asking for emergency shut-off values on either side of the City of Toronto's major watercourses reflects increased resident pressure on the city to defend us all against environmental hazards.
- Dagong Diary, Part 2: Proper Hiring Begins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The following is part 2 of a seven part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year.
- Attica: The Nightmare That Never Ends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Today, the incarcerated population in the U.S. has mushroomed to some 2.4 million, seven times the number in 1971, not least as a result of the racist "war on drugs." The prison population grew massively in the 1970s and 1980s in direct proportion to the sharp decline in unionized manufacturing jobs, a measure of how the bourgeoisie has deemed whole layers of the ghetto and barrio masses "surplus." Prisons and jails represent, in concentrated form, the brutality of this racist capitalist society, with severe dehumanization and oppressive conditions directed against an already marginalized and demoralized population.
- Deskilling and the Terrain of Social Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A look at why it is important to form an understanding of what it means to be 'skilled', and why capitalist economies waste a vast amount of human potential.
- Five journalists arrested in crackdown on independent media in Malaysia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of a total of five journalists in Malaysia in the past 48 hours with the aim of pressuring independent media to censor themselves and prevent them working freely.
- IFJ and FAJ demand release of journalist and lawyer jailed in Swaziland
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists and its African group, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), have together asked the release of Bheki Makhubu, editor of The Nation-Swaziland, and his lawyer Thulani Maseko
- IFJ Mediterranean unions demand action to combat intolerance and protect journalists rights and security
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and affiliates from the Mediterranean called for a new regional campaign to promote a strong professional journalists culture across the region that reinforces the independence of journalists
- RSF fully supports journalists suing Ferguson police
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Arrests of journalists while gathering information and covering demonstrations are inadmissible in the country of the First Amendment.
- Abolish High School
Easy Chair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Solnit says that we need to recognize that high school doesn't work for most young people, and suggests abolishing it.
- Chávez and the Communal State
On the Transition to Socialism in Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bellamy Foster examines Chávez's El Golpe de Timón (“Strike at the Helm”) speech where he insists on the need for changes at the top in order to promote an immediate leap forward in the creation of what is referred to as “the communal state.”
- The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919 - 1929
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Author documents the positive contribution of the Comintern (Communist International) in its early revolutionary years and its decline under Stalin.
- Government Action towards Ukraine Pose Danger to Canadians
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) are convinced that the actions and stated policies of the Canadian government towards Ukraine pose a danger to Canadians and the world. By supporting the present Ukrainian regime with non-lethal military
- Libya's second civil war
From armed resistance to jihadist networks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
With the events that led to Gaddafi's fall, a civil war between local groups and rival militias started in Libya. Four years later IS has appeared, and the country seems on the brink of collapse.
- New Checklist from IFIC Helps Dealers with 2015 CRM2 Requirements
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto - April 1, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has released a new document aimed at helping dealers prepare for Client Relationship Model Phase 2 (CRM2) rules coming into effect in 2015. Prepared by IFIC with input from
- Respect, not restraints, for workers in Thailand's seafood industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A report on a year-long investigation into forced labour in the global seafood supply chain in Thailand.
- VOW Women Concerned by Rising Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As members of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace we are extremely concerned about the threat to our future from runaway temperature rise as a result rising carbon dioxide emissions in our atmosphere.
- Bhopal's Fight for Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In December, 1984, unknown poisonous gases burst out from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located in a vicinity of the city of Bhopal in central India. The plant, scheduled for possible closure, was understaffed, not maintained adequately, and had already seen prior deaths from exposure to leaks.
- Crossing a chasm slowly, in ten small steps? Sustainable living demands big changes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A call to re-engineer our infrastructure, re-imagine society and re-think the ways we live for disruptive, transformative change - rather than tinkering at the margins of 'normality'. Transitioning to sustainability will require profound changes in our everyday ways of living, particularly in westernised countries. It requires changes that are much more significant than simply doing the things that we currently do, but more efficiently.
- Gideon Levy Interview
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An interview with Israeli journalist Gideon Levy. 28 minutes.
- Euro Banks vs. Greek Labor
Varoufakis is Proposing Austerity on the Banking Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Michael Hudson, professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City about the current economic situation of Greece.
- Global water crisis causing failed harvests, hunger, war and terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The world is already experiencing water scarcity driven by over-use, poor land management and climate change. If we fail to respond to the warnings before us, major food and power shortages will soon afflict large parts of the globe.
- Strange Convergence
Billie Holiday and Ethel Rosenberg at 100
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If Billie Holiday and Ethel Rosenberg were alive, they'd both celebrate their 100th birthdays this year. At first glance they may seem an unlikely couple, but a closer look reveals surprising parallels.
- Toronto's Annex Chess Club welcomes spring with 'Spring is Sprung' tournament
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Round 1 of Toronto's Annex Chess Club five-round Spring is Sprung tournament starts at 7:30 pm. Annex Chess Club always welcomes new members. Players who can't make it for the first round can still join the tournament in subsequent rounds.
- Algerian authorities step up harassment of print media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Last week saw another attempt by the president's office to intimidate the opposition media, exacerbating what has been a difficult climate for the Algerian press since President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's reelection in April 2014.
- Carving up Africa - aid donors and agribusiness plot the great seed privatization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An elite group of aid donors and agribusiness corporations plan the takeover of Africa's seeds, replacing traditional seed breeding and saving by small farmers with a corporate model of privatized, patented, genetically uniform and hybrid seeds.
- Guatemala: Officials prevent indigenous radio station from reopening
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the continuing persecution of community radio stations in Guatemala, where the mayor of Santa Eulalia, in the western department of Huehuetenango, forcibly prevented members of the indigenous Mayan community
- Human rights organisations alarmed by bill that will give surveillance agencies dangerous new powers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Privacy International, Amnesty International, FIDH, the French League for Human Rights and Reporters Without Borders are alarmed by the expansive surveillance powers to be granted to surveillance agencies contained in a French bill.
- International Coalition Launches 'Manila Principles' to Protect Freedom of Expression Worldwide
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An international coalition launched the 'Manila Principles for Intermediary Liability' today - a roadmap for the global community to protect online freedom of expression and innovation around the world.
- Journalists convicted of defamation in Myanmar
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Myanmar Journalists Association (MJA) are outraged by the conviction of two journalists on charges of defamation.
- Lawyers, Activists Urge Ontario Courts to Step in on Immigration Detention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An innovative legal challenge is trying to force the Federal government to justify imprisonment of immigrants in a provincial court for the first time. The End Immigration Detention Network and lawyers for two long-term immigration detainees will
- Leaders urged to intercede on behalf of Saudi blogger
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders calls on the international community to maintain pressure on the Saudi authorities, who alone have the power to overturn the inhumane sentence passed on Saudi blogger Raif Badawi.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
- Passphrases That You Can Memorize - But That Even the NSA Can't Guess
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A passphrase is like a password, but longer and more secure. In essence, it's an encryption key that you memorize. Once you start caring more deeply about your privacy and improving your computer security habits, one of the first roadblocks you'll run into is having to create a passphrase. You can't secure much without one.
- Thai military leader threatens to execute journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Journalists, Thailand (NUJT) deplores the comments made by Thai military junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha against journalists.
- Three emblematic victims of Syria's ruthless censorship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the eve of a long-delayed decision in the trial of Mazen Darwish, the head of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), and two of his assistants Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call for their release.
- Dagong Diary, Part 1: Job Hunting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Part 1 of a seven-part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year.
- Google's Ridiculous AdSense Morality Police Strike Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The morality police at AdSense argued that this news story -- which was about a legal dispute concerning the video -- somehow violated AdSense's terms against putting the ads on content including "strategically covered nudity" and "lewd or provocative poses." Apparently, the AdSense team has no "newsworthy" exception to these idiotic policies.
- Greece's Golden Dawn: Fascists at the Gate
The party is deeply rooted in the political culture of Greece.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While Golden Dawn -- with its Holocaust denial, its swastikas and its Hitler salutes—looks like it might inhabit the fringe, in fact the organization has roots deep in the heart of Greece's political culture.
- Letter from Ecuador - where defending nature and community is a crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ecuador's president attacked eco-defender Carlos Zorrilla in TV broadcasts for resisting a new copper mine in an area of pristine forest, and opposing the advance of oil exploration into the Amazon. Zorilla seeks international support for him and his battle for land.
- Some Things NPR Doesn't Tell Its Listeners About the "Iranian Nukes" Controversy
Lost in the Spin Zone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Norr looks at Benjamin Netanyahu's speech in the Congress regarding Iran's nuclear program. Aside from the lack of coverage by media, he discusses the undisputed facts that are essential to understanding the situation, for instance Israel having nuclear weapons.
- Cambodia: local people risk everything to defend national park sold off to highest bidders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia's biodiversity hotspots. Now indigenous people are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off to developers for logging, plantations, casinos and hotels. Local communities are defending themselves and their land.
- On "Sweet," "Yellow Head," and "Two-Spirit"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Podemos: The People’s Hopes and Adaptation to the Regime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Since the victory of Syriza in the general elections in Greece on 25 January, all eyes have turned to Spain in expectation of a "contagion". The fact that Spain will go to the polls for general elections at the end of this year brings this prospect even more alive.
- Documents Reveal Canada's Secret Hacking Tactics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's electronic surveillance agency has secretly developed an arsenal of cyberweapons capable of stealing data and destroying adversaries' infrastructure, according to newly revealed classified documents. Communications Security Establishment, or CSE, has also covertly hacked into computers across the world to gather intelligence, breaking into networks in Europe, Mexico, the Middle East and North Africa, the documents show.
- Reclaiming Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The article reflects on the history and apperance of socialist movements from early 20th-century Russia, to today in the United States. It argues that the term "socialist" in a modern conception is dependent on a legacy of communist movements.
- Anishinabe Women, Youth & Elders Hold Ceremony, Public Event on Lake of the Woods, March in Kenora for World Water Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Grassroots Indigenous Water Defence host event at McLeod Park to raise awareness about threats to local waterways, in solidarity with Indigenous communities protecting water around the world.
- Bangkok's Big Brother is watching you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Abigail Haworth charts the rise of General Prayuth Chan-ocha and his despotic regime.
- Swazi writers still in jail a year later
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A year has passed since the respected journalist Bheki Makhubu was jailed in Africa's last absolute monarchy. Reporters Without Borders is appalled by his unjustified two-year prison sentence for contempt of court.
- Bangladesh and the shrinking space for free thinkers: 'Don't call me Muslim, I am an atheist'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Writer Taslima Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 when extremists threatened to kill her for criticizing Islam, and has been living in exile since. Her country has, in recent times, seen many intellectuals expelled or killed. In this interview, she speaks about the shrinking space for free thinkers in Bangladesh and says that Islam cannot be exempt from the critical scrutiny that other religions undergo.
- Pig Iron Bob
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the 75th anniversary of the Dalfram Dispute in Australia, reenactments capture the waterside dispute where 180 men prevented pig iron being loaded onto ships bound for the Japanese war machine.
- ADCO Kids Helping Kids Walkathon to take place May 4 to 15
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From May 4 to 15, independent licensed child care programs belonging to the Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario will participate in a province-wide fundraiser benefiting Ontario's four regional children's hospitals.
- Cops Charge Black Activist with "Lynching"
Defend Maile Hampton!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On January 18, 2015, Maile Hampton, a young black woman and member of the ANSWER Coalition, was leading chants at a Sacramento, California, protest against a pro-cop rally. An online video shows the cops violently attacking several protesters, slamming a woman against a cop car and repeatedly throwing a man to the ground. While both were being handcuffed, the crowd chanted to let them go. Five weeks later, Hampton was arrested at her home. She now faces up to four years in jail on charges of felony "lynching"! A law supposedly intended to criminalize the extra-legal murder of black people, Mexicans and others by the racist terrorists of the KKK and their ilk, is now wielded by the police against those who actively protest the modern-day legal lynchings carried out by the cops.
- Jewish Voice for Peace conference - what solidarity looks like
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When a Palestinian woman went to this Jewish group's annual conference, she found a growing movement of Jews and other allies.
- Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (Part Two)
Police Terror and Black Oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Formal, legal inequality in the South was susceptible to reform. But getting rid of the economic and social reality that is black oppression in America -- from de facto segregation and poverty to police brutality -- is not subject to reform because it is integral to the capitalist system.
- Conservationist murders threaten Costa Rica's eco-friendly reputation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The murder of Jairo Mora, who was trying to protect endangered turtle eggs, was the latest in a string of crimes against environmentalists in the country. Many worry activists will stay away if poachers continue to go unpunished.
- Israel's racist elections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I didn’t expect any good from the elections to the Israeli Knesset. Its results are decided a priori by the definition of the voters’ register.
- Obama's Double-Standard On Russia: He Attacks Russia, Then Condemn's Putin For Defending Russia From His Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Obama overthrew the legal Government, and replaced it by this illegal one. But now he criticizes Putin as if he were the aggressor instead of the defender here. And Obama demands that the Soviet dictator's forced transfer of Crimea to Ukraine be legal and that Putin's defense of Crimeans' democratic self-determination in response to that coup be considered illegal.
- Occupy agriculture! Polish farmers sit in for land and freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
At the heart of Poland's capital, Warsaw, farmers have founded a flourishing encampment known as the 'Green City', writes Julian Rose. It's a focus of protest against the sell-off of their land to agribusiness, the arrival of GMO crops, and the imposition of a failed 'Western' model of farming that's creating huge corporate profits while debasing food and bankrupting small farmers.
- Starbucks is a national joke: Why its #RaceTogether campaign is so self-righteous
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
University of Pennsylvania's Adolph Reed tells Salon why the corporation's new gambit is neoliberal self-parody
- TransCanada Whistleblower Spurs New Probe of Pipeline Giant's Safety Record
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Based on evidence provided by a whistleblower, Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) is investigating pipeline giant TransCanada for safety-code violations.
- Women up in Arms: Zapatistas and Rojava Kurds Embrace a New Gender Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Resistance and strength manifest like weeds through cracks in Chiapas, Mexico and transnational Kurdistan where the respective Zapatista and Kurdish resistance movements are creating new gender relations as a primary part of their struggle and process for building a better world. In both places, women's participation in the armed forces has been an entry-point for a new social construction of gender relations based on equity.
- Brazil's right-wing protests: A warning to the working class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Right-wing protests in Brazil called for the overthrow of Workers Party. While the number of participants was likely to be inflated for political reasons, the protests underscore the intense class polarization, as well as the political dangers posed to the working class.
- The Cross and the Sword: The Making of a Christian Taliban in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The recruitment point for volunteers in Dmytro Korchynsky's holy war is located in the basement of a building in central Kiev, on Chapaev Street, in what used to be a billiard club. Anyone can sign up, and the location isn't secret -- its address and phone number is on the Internet.
- David Graeber's Utopia of Rules: Why Deregulation Is Actually Expanding Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review: David Graebe, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy.
- Engineering consent for fracking: Chris Smith and the 'astroturf' consultancy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Edelman, the global PR group, has a history of 'consent engineering' for the fossil fuel industry in North America.
- Google Disables All Ads on Antiwar.com (Updated)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Gordon Campbell on the Vanuatu cyclone and media 'disaster porn'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Campbell discusses the Vanuatu cyclone and how it has become a 'disaster porn,'a process that occurs when media exploits someone else's misery so that it look attractive as a form of entertainment.
- Mall of America Security Catfished Black Lives Matter Activists, Documents Show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Documents indicate that security staff at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota used a fake Facebook account to monitor local Black Lives Matter organizers, befriend them, and obtain their personal information and photographs without their knowledge.
- Peasant Sovereignty?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Spain-based international agrarian organization, Grain, reported that small farmers not only "feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland," but they are also the most productive farmers on Earth.
- The time has come for France to own up to the massacre of its own troops in Senegal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The truth about a massacre of sub-Saharans who fought on the French side in World War II must be acknowledged.
- The uncounted: why the US can't keep track of people killed by police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After a year of high-profile police killings, calls for a national database have gained traction. But how would that work? Tom McCarthy investigates the challenges for law enforcement and government officials alike.
- The Veggie Pride Talk I Didn't Give
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For the first time in many years, I've declined an offer to be the lead speaker at the annual Veggie Pride Parade in NYC’s Union Square Park. I learned the hard way that although the cheers have been loud, the local vegan/animal rights scene wasn't actually hearing me. Since I've opted to no longer howl into an echo chamber, I'll share my thoughts here instead.
- Edits to Wikipedia Pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo Traces to 1 Police Plaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Wikipedia content can be freely changed by anyone. Unfortunately, this also seems to mean that Wikipedia can be freely censored. A police department is under investigation for altering pages related to cases of police brutality which they were involved with.
- Health Care and Immigration Policies that Kill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Cuts to Canada's Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), severely curtail access to health-care services for refugee claimants and refugees. Many beneficiaries and practitioners were already critical of the original IFHP because it provided inconsistent access to health care and many services were not covered. The situation only worsened after the cuts.
- NSA trying to map Rogers, RBC communications traffic, leak shows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.S. National Security Agency has been trying to map the communications traffic of corporations around the world, and a classified document reveals that at least two of Canada’s largest companies are included.
- Occupy Amazonia? Indigenous activists are taking direct action - and it's working
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The native peoples of the Amazon are employing the tactics of the Occupy movement against oil companies, gold miners and illegal loggers. Lacking the protection of the state, they fight their own battles. Recent campaign successes owe much to outside support.
- Public's Access to Government Records Faces Roadblocks Aplenty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Legally, all governent documents in the United States are supposed to be publicly accessible. It seems, however, that there is a work-around censor. Documents that prove embarassing to the organization or its members are effectively censored through bureaucratic inefficiency.
- What's Scarier: Terrorism, or Governments Blocking Websites in its Name?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The French Interior Ministry ordered that five websites be blocked on the grounds that they promote or advocate terrorism.
- Zeroing out Zero Tolerance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Urban districts are increasingly doing away with harsh, no-excuses discipline -- a tactic that was once seen as the only way to address misconduct at big, high-poverty schools.
- Chinese authorities must come clean on air pollution film ban
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned by the decision by the Cyberspace Administrative and Central Propaganda Department of China to ban the online documentary Under the Dome and the closing down of a number of websites.
- Grassy Narrows Protestors Remain Firm in Message: No Logging in Grassy Narrows Territory
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kenora Today, Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation Youth groups, Band Councilors, Drum Groups, Elders and others, are engaging in a multi-stage protest against logging in their territory.
- IFJ launches gender campaign for Asia-Pacific's women in media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates have begun a campaign of gender action and discussion aimed at recognizing the vital role of women in the media and the need for rights and representation in decision-making roles.
- Rail disaster strategy lacking
Re: Rail disaster plan falls short, critics warn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A rail disaster strategy should include an actual plan to save lives and the environment. It is impossible to compensate lost lives and damaged environment from highly toxic damaging crude oil and radioactive substances that are being transported.
- The Sting: How the FBI Created a Terrorist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Informant-led sting operations are central to the FBI’s counterterrorism program. Of 508 defendants prosecuted in federal terrorism-related cases in the decade after 9/11, 243 were involved with an FBI informant, while 158 were the targets of sting operations.
- The Orwellian Re-Branding of 'Mass Surveillance' as Merely 'Bulk Collection'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Just as the Bush administration and the U.S. media re-labelled "torture" with the Orwellian euphemism "enhanced interrogation techniques" to make it more palatable, the governments and media of the Five Eyes surveillance alliance are now attempting to re-brand "mass surveillance" as "bulk collection" in order to make it less menacing (and less illegal).
- Tobacco Gun for Hire James Enstrom, Willie Soon and the Climate Deniers Attack on Merchants of Doubt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Climate denier Fred Singer, scientist working for tobacco companies, asks whether it would make sense to file a lawsuit to try and stop the release of the new documentary, Merchants of Doubt – a film tracing the tactics used by Big Tobacco to spread misinformation.
- Canada's Proposed Anti-Terrorism Law
An Assessment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A Statement to the Standing Committee on National Security & Public Safety regarding the dangers Bill C-51 poses to many of Canada's democratic freedoms.
- Collateral Freedom: RSF Unblocks 9 Censored Sites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
To combat online censorship, Reporters Without Borders is unblocking access to 9 news websites in order to make them available in the 11 countries where they are currently banned.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
Organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
- Snowden's NSA Leaks Catalogued In First Searchable Database Of The Surveillance Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadian journalists and researchers have teamed up to create the world's first fully-searchable index of the classified documents revealing NSA surveillance leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
- The biggest threat to a free society is freedom of speech, says Canada’s Public Safety Minister
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's "Public Safety" Minister Steven Blaney says that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only Germany hadn't suffered from an excess of freedom of speech.
- Sequencing fraud on 9 CIBC Visa cards like 'Groundhog Day' for Ottawa man
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Alex Pavlovic has been living what he calls "a Groundhog Day with the bank," after his CIBC Visa card was compromised and cancelled nine times in just a few months — sometimes before Pavlovic could activate or use it — and no one could explain why.
- Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
History of drone warfare, a development in military technology that has its origins in long-buried secret programmes dating to US military interventions in Vietnam and Yugoslavia. Cockburn follows the links in a chain that stretches from the White House, through the drone command center in Nevada, to the skies of Helmand Province.
- Letter to the Lithuanian Government on Banning Russian Government-Controlled TV Channels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This is an open letter to the Lithuanian government. While broadcasts from Russian-controlled television channels may be propagandistic, banning them would be a violation of basic human rights and ultimately ineffective.
- Documents Shine Light on Shadowy New Zealand Surveillance Base
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The documents, revealed Saturday by the Sunday Star-Times in collaboration with The Intercept, show how closely New Zealand has worked with the NSA to maintain surveillance coverage of the region. The files also offer an unprecedented insight into the Waihopai base, exposing how it's been integrated into a global eavesdropping network.
- Five wins for feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Every activist has at some point been told that activism is pointless today, that it achieves nothing and hasn’t since the 1970s. Others say that there's no point to feminist activism in particular because we already have gender equality. A quick look at the issues feminists are struggling for, and the wins we've had recently, show that neither claim is true, nor are they likely to be for some time.
- It's Nato that's empire-building, not Putin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two sides are required for a New Cold War — and there is no obvious need for an adversarial system in post-Soviet Europe.
- Bangladeshi Tribals Evicted For Tea Plantation Expansion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A Bangladeshi company has been accused of using armed men to evict ethnic minority communities in order to expand a tea plantation in Sreemangal in northeastern Bangladesh.
- Downward spiral continues for Honduran media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The first two months of 2015 have very disturbing for journalists in Honduras. Five years after a 2009 coup détat, it is still one of the western hemisphere’s most dangerous countries for media personnel and respect for freedom of information continues to decline.
- International Women's Day: How surveillance is used to assert control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Looking at some of the ways surveillance technologies can be used to control women and how the fight for women's equal rights and for privacy have more in common than you might think.
- It's here, and it's growing: the self-assembling Coalition of the Radical Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The progressive left is drawing together diverse strands that encompass the fight for social and racial justice, the right to work, health, clean air and fresh water, and our freedom to be alive and thrive on this our one planet.
- Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (Part One)
Police Terror and Black Oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Police reform is a hoax and a hustle. Federal investigations go nowhere and the Democrats are simply the soft cops of the capitalist system. There is no road to black liberation and the liberation of all working people short of workers revolution.
- Reading Paine from the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A biography of the revolutionary Thomas Paine.
- The Rise of British Imperialism: Capitalism and Slavery (Part Two)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A presentation on the developments that made Britain the first modern imperialist power.
- Children of SA liberation icons condemn Israeli apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The children of South Africa's anti-apartheid heroes speak out against Israeli apartheid, supporting the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel and denouncing the Jewish state's brutal colonial occupation of Palestine.
- 'A Conspiracy Of Silence' - HSBC, The Guardian And The Defrauded British Public
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Journalist Nafeez Ahmed has delved deeper into the HSBC scandal, reporting the testimony of a whistleblower that reveals a 'conspiracy of silence' encompassing the media, regulators and law-enforcement agencies.
- 'A Conspiracy Of Silence' -- HSBC, The Guardian and the Defrauded British Public
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An investigator and anonymous whistleblower talk about the suspicious lack of coverage and attention to the HSBC tax evasion scandal. This article talks about the scandal itself and criticizes the British liberal media.
- Cricket, the war game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Wherever England went, the army went. Wherever England left, cricket stayed. Schorr discusses the legacy of cricket after the British Empire travelled around the globe conquering territory.
- Honourable Friends? Parliament and the Fight for Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From the NHS to corporate tax evasion, from climate change to immigration, Honourable Friends? tells the story of 5 years in Westminster and offers bold and practical suggestions for a fairer British political system.
- Life sentence for fighting Africas last colonial power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kenworthy talks about the systematic violence, abusive treatment and torture that political prisoners and activists undergo in Western Sahara.
- Tar sands campaigners are Canada's new 'terrorists'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's Harper government has targeted as a new crime being a member of an 'anti-Canadian petroleum movement', and equating such a stance with terrorism.
- Under the Radar, Big Media Internet Giants Get Massive Access to Everything About You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Internet and digital media are becoming a pervasive and manipulative interactive surveillance system. U.S. online companies, while claiming to be supporters of a democratic Internet, are working to have an unlimited and unchecked power to "shadow" us online.
- What Was Missing From Coverage of Netanyahu's Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reading the lead stories on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress about Iran in five prominent US papers – the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today (all 3/3/15) – what was most striking was what was left out of these articles.
- The East India Company: The Original Corporate Raiders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For a century, the East India Company conquered, subjugated and plundered vast tracts of south Asia. The lessons of its brutal reign have never been more relevant.
- Edward Snowden's Warning to Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Whistleblower Edward Snowden talks about Bill C-51 and the weak oversight of Canada's intelligence agencies.
- Holy Anal Beads! Christian Sex Industry Is Kinkier Than You'd Think
The market for Christian sex toys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sex is important to Christian couples. So long as you're heterosexual and married, you’re encouraged to have as much of it as you want.
- India's Daughter
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The story of the brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi of 23-year-old medical student Jyoti Singh, which sparked outrage and protests in India, a country beset by extreme poverty and gender inequality.
- Revolutionary roots of women's suffrage: Finland 1906 - an International Women's Day tribute
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Eric Blanc traces the revolutionary roots of the suffrage victory of Finnish women. He focuses on the autonomous activities of the League of Working Women.
- The "Snowden is Ready to Come Home!" Story: a Case Study in Typical Media Deceit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Most sentient people rationally accept that the U.S. media routinely disseminates misleading stories and outright falsehoods in the most authoritative tones. But it's nonetheless valuable to examine particularly egregious case studies to see how that works.
- Three Verona artists at the Grace Centre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Why Not Have Sex With People Who Aren't Your Partner?
Infidelity is treated as selfish, while monogamy is celebrated. But what's so great about living in self-denial?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Although open relationships are not as shocking a concept today as they were 50 years ago, they’re still regarded with overwhelming skepticism and even disdain. The usual assumption is that polyamorous people are selfish, immature, incapable of commitment, and their primary relationship is therefore doomed to failure.
- Chomsky on Cuba: After Decades of U.S. Meddling & "Terrorism," Restoring Ties is Least We Could Do
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Aaron Maté did an interview with Noam Chomsky on Democracy Now!. They talked about the thawing of U.S.-Cuba relations and U.S. meddling in Cuba.
- Farmer Cooperatives, Not Monsanto, Supply El Salvador With Seeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the face of overwhelming competition skewed by the rules of free trade, farmers in El Salvador have managed to beat the agricultural giants like Monsanto and Dupont to supply local corn seed to thousands of family farmers. Local seed has consistently outperformed the transnational product, and farmers helped develop El Salvador’s own domestic seed supply–all while outsmarting the heavy hand of free trade.
- I Was a Streetwalker for a Night
I did it for science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I became a prostitute for a night. Not a high-class escort (the logistics seemed too daunting for an amateur like me) just a regular hooker out on the street. I had no clue what to expect exactly, but that's what made it all so exciting.
- Patriotic Betrayal
The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A multilayered, mystifying exposé of how the CIA infiltrated and ultimately directed the U.S. National Student Association in thwarting international communist goals from 1950 to 1967.
- Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Two-Tier Justice System for Leaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
David Petraeus, the former Army general and CIA director, admitted today that he gave highly-classified journals to his onetime lover and that he lied to the FBI about it. But he only has to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor that will not involve a jail sentence thanks to a deal with federal prosecutors.
- The Weaker Sex? Violence and the Suffragette Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fern Riddell investigates the campaign of terror orchestrated by the Edwardian suffragette movement before the First World War and asks why it has been neglected by historians.
- Are Your Devices Hardwired For Betrayal?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Firmware-based attacks are real and their numbers will only increase. Cooper discusses the potential consequences if we don't address this issue now.
- Escalation is when Palestinians lose self-restraint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Who is to blame for the escalation?
- Japan Is Getting An Anonymous Whistleblowing Platform, But Will Journalists Use it?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In a country with a strong anti-whistleblower sentiment and strict state-secret laws, a university professor has created an annoymous whilstleblower website.
- Somebody Needs to Tell The NY Times: Israel Has The Bomb
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The NY Times has talked about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's coming speech at which he will raise the alarm about Iran producing a bomb. Nevertheless, Israel has had the bomb since 1967 and it is counted as the world's 6th nuclear state.
- UK Media Regulator Again Threatens RT for "Bias": This Time, Airing "Anti-Western Views"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The U.K. Government loves to lecture the world about infringements of liberty generally and press freedom specifically. It does so as it threatens to revoke the broadcasting license of a media outlet for broadcasting "anti-western" views and other perspectives at odds with the U.K. Government, all while shielding (and venerating) the equally virulent biases from pro-state television in the U.K.
- Why Israel's Netanyahu Is So Desperate to Prevent Peace with Iran
The distinguished professor lays bare Israel's motives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For both Prime Minister Netanyahu and the hawks in Congress, the primary goal is to undermine any potential negotiation that might settle whatever issue there is with Iran, says Noam Chomsky.
- You Should Really Consider Installing Signal, an Encrypted Messaging App for iPhone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
App maker Open Whisper Systems took an important step today with the release of a major new version of its Signal encrypted calling app for iPhones and iPads. The new version, Signal 2.0, folds in support for encrypted text messages using a protocol called TextSecure, meaning users can communicate using voice and text while remaining confident nothing can be intercepted in transit over the internet.
- Beginning a New Era
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Obama may succeed where previous U.S. administrations -- such as Nixon's and especially Carter's -- failed in their attempts at reestablishing diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba.
- Bigotry in the Guise of Secularism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The murder at Charlie Hebdo and the Paris kosher supermarket have unleashed a wave of attacks on French Muslim communities, their culture and religion.The analysis by Carmen Teeple Hopkins helps explain the background of the present dangers and tragedies.
- Blacklisted
The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction companies resorted to in their attempt to keep union activists away from their places of work.
- Blue Betrayal
The Harper government's assault on Canada's freshwater
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadians have long taken their water heritage for granted. This is largely due to the myth that there is an abundance of water. While it is true that compared to many other parts of the world Canada is blessed with water, it is false that there is water to waste or sell.
- A Case of Police Violence Against Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The police torture of a woman at Kalamadanga village, in the Bardhaman district of West Bengal, is a grim reminder that "normalization" of state violence, particularly violence on women, has continued unabated regardless of which party is in power.
- China: Rise and Emergent Crisis
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Au Loong Yu's 'China's Rise: Atrength and Fragility.'
- December 17: Sources, Results & Prospects
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After 50 years, Washington has had to recognize that if it wants any influence in Latin America, the road to Latin America leads through Havana, not around it.
- Defend Reverend Pinkney
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An appeal hearing is scheduled for February 24, 2015 regarding the imprisonment of Reverend Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, MI. The American Civil Leaders Union has filed an "Amicus Curiae Brief" in support of Pinkney.
- Eslanda Robeson's Journey
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A book review of Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, by Barbara Ransby.
- Feminism, Marxism: Marriage or Divorce?
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A book review of Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism
By Cinzia Arruzza.
- Fifty Shades of Pulp
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book review of Paula Rabinowitz's 'American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street.'
- The Fourth Branch
How the CIA infiltrated student politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Article about the CIA's influence and control over the National Student Association, a relationship that was kept secret for years.
- Frank Fried (1927-2015)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Frank Fried, a revolutionary U.S. socialist, passed away on January 13, 2015.
- From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Miners inspired Marxist-Humanism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The dialectic of the 1949-50 Miners' General Strike, as it transformed from a Lewis-authorized strike that already had lasted some six months into a challenge to John L. Lewis himself, laid the ground for new ways of thinking.
- A Grand Juror Speaks
The inside story of how prosecutors always get their way
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lewis-Kraus recounts his inside story as a member of a grand jury in New York.
- Greece: postmodernism in power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Yanis Varoufakis, the Finance Minister in Greece’s Syriza government, shows where postmodernist attacks on Marx lead politically. This self-declared "erratic Marxist" states forthrightly that the task of today's Left is to save capitalism from itself, which requires "forging alliances with reactionary forces."
- Hillary Clinton and Corporate Feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Feminist enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is reflective of a profound crisis of U.S. liberal feminism, which has long embraced or accepted corporate capitalism, racism, empire, and even heterosexism and transphobia.
- Honoring the Socialist Mary Marcy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Withe the centenary of World War I underway, it does us well to recall the remarkable socialist militant, Mary Marcy (1877-1922).
- Jobs, Ecology, and Survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lars Henriksson presents some thoughts about solving the old contradiction between jobs and the environment, ilooking specifically at the auto industry.
- Marx and the Family Revisited
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A book review: Marxism and the Oppression of Women Toward a Unitary Theory, by Lise Vogel.
- Mobile homes can't move on
Trailers are the cheapest available homes in the US, but thire owner - tenants are always at risk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The challenges and vulnerabilities facing mobile home owners and tenants is examined.
- The Murder of Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh, 32 years old, a mother, poet and member of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, was gunned down January, 2015 24 by black-clad snipers who were seen on video pointing rifles in her direction
- The Praxis Affair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups before it was eventually disbanded.
- The Praxis Affair
There's a reason we put limits on spying within Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This is a cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups before it was eventually disbanded, its spying responsibilities handed to a newly formed Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
- Pushing Back Civil Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An examination of the roll back of civil rights in the context of police violence against African Americans.
- The Spy Who Fired Me
The human costs of workplace monitoring
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kaplan discusses the growing practice of employers monitoring the internet use of their employees.
- The Two-Party System, Part III
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This perceived marriage of "progressive" change and the Democratic Party grew from conditions that prevailed from the 1930s through the 1960s. The next half century sustained this faith less through positive policies than by comforting images. Integral to this has been the rise of a warfare state with its own logic. The implications of both have made a two-party political order unchanged by the end of either World War II or the Cold War.
- Vermont Healthcare Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An overview of legislation in Vermont to publicly fund health care.
- A Victory and Some Risks
Statement from the Fourth International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It is necessary to create the conditions of democratic debate in all the popular organizations in Cuba.
- Women Under the Gun, 2015
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A discussion of violence against women.
- Workplace Violence: Silent Epidemic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Workplace violence ranges from threats and curses to murder. Spitting on bus drivers is so common in New York City that their union won them DNA kits last year, to collect saliva.
- Workshop Talks: Reclaim our labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lin discusses the precarious conditions under which healthcare labourers work.
- World Charter of Free Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A charter for the democratization of communication.
- Under the Dome
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A self-financed Chinese documentary film by Chai Jing, a former China Central Television journalist, concerning air pollution in China. It is narrated by Chai, who presents the results of her year-long research mostly in the form of a lecture.
- Venezuela: US, elite launch new attacks on democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Venezuela is facing new attempts to subvert its democracy and roll-back the pro-poor process of social change known as the Bolivarian revolution.
- The worst thing for a journalist is being cut off from his audience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Slovenian investigative journalist, writes about his experiences of working under pressure while he was investigating irregularities in the organs of repression.
- Atheist blogger hacked to death with machetes in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.
- Boiling Point: Why Do We Let Big Oil Send Workers to Their Deaths?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Refinery workers endure precarious labour conditions, yet the current system protects the companies economic interests. Recently, workers have started to mobilize.
- Clapper Calls for Arming Ukrainian Forces: Who Would That Actually Empower?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long said that the Ukrainian coup of last year, and the subsequent regime in Kiev, is driven by ultra-nationalists, fascists, and even neo-Nazi factions. The Russian TV outlet RT also frequently refers to "the active role far-right groups have played on the pro-government side in Ukraine since the violent coup of the last year."
- Details Of Tax Avoidance Schemes For Wealthy HSBC Clients Revealed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A cache of secret documents has thrust HSBC into the limelight for helping international clients dodge taxes.
- Entertaining facts: what the news media do with expert information about environmental risks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This research aims to clarify why there is such a difference between expert understandings of the environmental risk of global warming and climate change, and social world understandings.
- Fossil Fuel Industry's Global Climate Science Communications Plan in Action: Polluting the Classroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Fossil Fuel Industry promotes a plan in U.S. schools to address global climate change. Their plan includes denial, doubt and promoting the merits of fossil fuel.
- '100 years to repair Gaza': Oxfam says blockade remains, aid almost non-existent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reconstructing Gaza could take an entire century, if Israel doesn't stop the siege, leading charity Oxfam warned. And that's just the time frame for essential projects. The NGO's regional director calls the situation "deplorable."
- "Gestapo" tactics at US police 'black site' ring alarm from Chicago to Washington
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Politicians and rights groups call for inquiries into interrogations at Homan Square. Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces questions as top supporters examine abuse.
- How Europe cancelled Germany's debt in 1953
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The 1953 London Debt Accords show that European leaders know how to resolve a debt crisis in the interests of justice and recovery. Article discusses four key lessons for Greece's debt crisis today.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
Ukraine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
- Why Does the FBI Have to Manufacture its Own Plots if Terrorism and ISIS Are Such Grave Threats?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Article talks about FBI's terrorism strategies and their manipulation of information.
- Why the rise of fascism is again the issue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism.
- Arboricide in Palestine - olive orchard destroyed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Israeli settlers in Palestine's South Hebron Hills last week cut down an orchard of 36 olive trees, in the latest attack of a decades-long war against Palestinian culture and survival in which has seen the cutting, burning and bulldozing of over a million olive, fruit and nut trees.
- CSE monitors millions of Canadian emails to government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's electronic spy agency collects millions of emails from Canadians and stores them for "days to months" while trying to filter out malware and other attacks on government computer networks.
- Netanyahu goes nuclear ... now wait for the fallout
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has spent years trying to convince the international community and Israelis that Tehran is racing towards building a nuclear bomb, when evidence presented by his own spies show the opposite.
- Political activist Ken Stone takes CSIS to task for alleged harassment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What is it like to be targeted by Canada's spy agency? Veteran anti-war and environmental activist Ken Stone knows firsthand and is willing to talk about it.
- Why I'm Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft
I'm putting more trust in communities than corporations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gillmor discusses how we are losing control over the technology tools that once promised equal opportunity in speech and innovation.
- Drone Strikes and the Sanitization of Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Van Dongen discusses the terminology that the drone campaign employs, in which the CIA and the Obama administration gloss over death and destruction of drones in Pakistan, Afganistan and Yemen.
- From a UK MP to Secret German Tax Investigations: Swiss Leaks Video Reports
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Along with dozens of print and online media partners, a number of broadcast journalists produced video packages that reached millions of viewers all around the world. Here are some samples from the United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany.
- The Danger of Being Neighborly Without a Permit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Three years ago, The Los Angeles Times published a feel-good story on the Little Free Library movement.The idea is simple: A book lover puts a box or shelf or crate of books in their front yard. Neighbours browse, take one, and return later with a replacement.
- Mossad contradicted Netanyahu on Iran nuclear programme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Spy cables reveal that Mossad concluded that Iran was not producing nuclear weapons, even though Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu told the UN the opposite.
- New Countries Seek HSBC Data and Undeclared Cash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A number of other countries have also announced new or expanded investigations variously into the bank's Swiss clients named on the French lists, into HSBC itself, and into the response from national regulators who may have had access to the data, or knew about it but did not request it.
- Airport expansion
Re: Billy Bishop expansion plan needs real scrutiny
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Toronto Island airport in its present configuration is already harmful to public health. Any expansion would contribute to climate change by increasing emissions and air pollution and decreasing green and recreational space.
- The long struggle of the Palestinians in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An excerpt from the book "Chief Complaint: A Country Doctor's Tales of Life in Galilee." The essay talks about Palestinian social, economic and territorial displacement.
- Montreal: Campus Feminists Fail to Gag Marxists
For Women's Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The logic of feminism is class collaboration. It also means relying on the bourgeois state to "defend women." The role of the capitalist state is to defend the interests of the capitalists. It has nothing to do with ending the misery of the oppressed.
- The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the mass killing of the "Euromaidan" protesters and police in the Maidan area of Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 20, 2014.
- SYC Defends Marxism at Finkelstein Talk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Toronto Star Supports the Perpetrators of War Crimes in Ukraine
Crazed Warmongers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto Star has distinguished itself for supporting the fundraising projects of Ukraine's extreme-right parties and militias.
- Why the Western Media Pushes for War on Russia
Operation Get Putin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Author discusses the reasons why the western 'mainstream' media have sharply increased their campaign against Russia and President Putin.
- The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
- The RCMP versus the 'anti-petroleum movement'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's political police serve the oil industry, citing lobbyists and rightist demagogues to slander environmental activists as potential terrorists.
- Spiked: Fighting In-House Censorship When Media Managers Can't Handle The Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Working in mainstream print media can be very frustrating. Between the corporate and editorial red tape and censorship, it might be more worthwhile to become an independant journalist.
- Destroyed by the Espionage Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Story of why Stephen Kim, former U.S. State Department expert, was imprisoned for an Espionage Act charge.
- Thousands Join Legal Fight Against UK Surveillance — And You Can, Too
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Thousands of people are signing up to join an unprecedented legal campaign against the United Kingdom’s leading electronic surveillance agency.
- The Age of Acquiescence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has largely vanished.
- Bill C-51: A Legal Primer
Overly broad and unnecessary anti-terrorism reforms could criminalize free speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, would expand the powers of Canada's spy agency, allowing Canadians to be arrested on mere suspicion of future criminal activity.
- Researchers Find 'Astonishing' Malware Linked to NSA Spying
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Security researchers have uncovered highly sophisticated malware that is linked to a secret National Security Agency hacking operation.
- The struggle of Venezuela against 'a common enemy'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
John Pilger discusses the reasons that the United States continues to work continuously to overthrow Venezuela's left-learning government. The U.S. government makes absurd claims that Venezuela poses a grave 'threat' to the United States, but the truth is the opposite: the U.S. government poses a grave threat to Venezuela and its people.
- Ethiopia: stealing the Omo Valley, destroying its ancient Peoples
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A land grab is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by foreign corporations.
- Hailed as a Model for Successful Intervention, Libya Proves to be the Exact Opposite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Advocates of the U.S. intervention in Lybia regard the event as a proof of success. Greenwald discusses why things are working in the opposite way.
- Inside the Rapidly Growing Cam Industry That's Changing the Porn Industry as We Know It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The camming industry, also known as the live content industry, has blown up in the past few years. And it’s unique in the fact that it’s all but carved a space for every kink out there.
- Citizens worldwide mobilize against corporate water grabs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The US and other governments are pushing a failed model of water privatization, but water is a human right, not just a commodity to be traded for profit or monopolized by corporations. Citizens and communities are fighting back to reclaim their water commons.
- Did the US Accidentally Give the World's Most Powerful Cyberweapon to Terrorists?
Sony Hack: Made in America?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- EFF Files FOIA Suit Over U.S. Marshals' Spy Planes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to shine light on the U.S. Marshals Service's (USMS) use of small aircraft mounted with controversial cell-phone tracking systems.
- IFJ Welcomes Release on Bail of Al Jazeera Journalists in Egypt
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today welcomed the release on bail of Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, imprisoned in Egypt since December 2013.
- Land and seed laws under attack as Africa is groomed for corporate recolonization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Across Africa, laws are being rewritten to open farming up to an agribusiness invasion - displacing millions of small cultivators and replacing them with a new model of profit-oriented agriculture using patented seeds and varieties.
- New standards aim to protect freelancers at risk
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A global network of freelance journalists, news media companies, advocacy organizations, and journalist safety groups today released a set of guidelines for freelance journalists working dangerous assignments and news organizations
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
SYRIZA
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
- Prying Eyes? Sovereign Has You Covered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Got a few million bucks you want to protect from the tax man, a nosey spouse or a greedy business acquaintance? Sovereign Management & Legal Ltd. says it has the answers.
- World Radio Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
February 13 is World Radio Day, a day to celebrate radio as a medium; to improve international cooperation between broadcasters; and to encourage major networks and community radios alike to promote access to information, free, independent and pluralistic media.
- Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Free Information
His Blood is on the Hands of the US Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It’s been just over two years since computer prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was the target of a merciless witch-hunt by the Department of Justice, ultimately choosing death over 35 years behind bars for the crime of releasing information. As someone who transformed the way we all use and love the internet, Aaron should have gotten a medal of honour, not a death sentence.
- Citizens Mobilize Against Corporate Water Grabs
A Human Right, Not a Commodity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
New Jersey became the latest state to subvert democracy by authorizing the fast-track sale or lease of water utilities without public notice, comment, or approval. The controversial decision highlights the intensifying struggle over who owns, controls, and profits from the most precious - and threatened - resource on Earth.
- Fire as U.S. Policy
Burning Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- No Weapons to Ukraine
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is deeply concerned about the civil war in Ukraine in which thousands of civilians and soldiers, as many as 50,000 according to a credible German source, have already been killed.
- Bank's Services for Arms Dealers in Conflict with Its Own Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
HSBC Private Bank, operating out of famously neutral Switzerland, was a financial conduit for business operators and criminals who fueled and financed some of Africa's bloodiest wars and most corrupt arms deals.
- Files Open New Window on $182-Million Halliburton Bribery Scandal in Nigeria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
British lawyer facilitated bribes through secret Swiss HSBC accounts in his name and names of family members; revelations may place Nigerian government under pressure.
- High-school youth to rally outside Ontario prison on Family Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
High school aged youth from Peterborough and Toronto are changing the way they celebrate Family Day (February 16th) this year, rallying outside a maximum security prison in Lindsay, Ontario.
- I was "part of a terror organization," says Israeli pilot turned activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Interview with Yonatan Shapira, former Israeli air force pilot and current supporter of the Palestinian-led call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
- Monsanto monarch massacre: 970 million butterflies killed since 1990
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A shocking statistic released by the US Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday summed up the plight of the monarch butterfly: Since 1990, about 970 million of the butterflies – 90 percent of the total population – have vanished across the United States.
- TV News in the Age of the Super Anchor
Why Brian Williams is Just the Tip of the Scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Super Anchor is often more actor than reporter. His or her role is to give the story a certain imprimatur, which it doesn’t always deserve. Much of the real work, digging, and investigation is done by others.
- Wretched US Journalism on Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The most dangerous violation of journalistic principles has occurred in the Ukraine crisis, which has the potential of a nuclear war.
- Diamond Dealers in Deep Trouble as Bank Documents Shine Light on Secret Ways
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Belgium, centre of the world diamond trade, charges HSBC's Swiss Private Bank with fraud; many dealers under investigation around the world.
- Is Peace or War at Hand?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Roberts discusses the outcomes of the meeting in Moscow between Merkel, Hollande, and Putin as a result of Washington's aggressive position toward Russia.
- NEB's green light for Line 9 sacrifices waterways, public health and the climate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The National Energy Board (NEB) gave the green light to Enbridge Inc.'s contentious Line 9B pipeline on Feb 6, 2015, despite the company's failure to make necessary safety improvements. The decision means that critical safety measures will not be implement.
- Sex Work Advocates Make Their Voices Heard While Ontario Considers Harmful New Sex Work Laws
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sex worker advocates insist that Ontario Attorney General Meillleur must meet with them and consider the mounting opposition to the misguided laws.
- U.S. Government Buys Surveillance Technology To Track Drivers in Real Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Local government officials have the ability to track individual drivers in the U.S. in real time and take pictures of the occupants of their vehicles, with new "truly Orwellian" technology purchased from companies like Vigilant Solutions, according to new documents uncovered by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
- Banking Giant HSBC Sheltered Murky Cash Linked to Dictators and Arms Dealers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Team of journalists from 45 countries unearths secret bank accounts maintained for criminals, traffickers, tax dodgers, politicians and celebrities. Secret documents reveal that global banking giant HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who channeled mortar bombs to child soldiers in Africa, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws.
- Explore the Swiss Leaks Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Swiss Leaks project is based on a trove of almost 60,000 leaked files that provide details on over 100,000 HSBC clients and their bank accounts. Explore the data to see how different countries compare, and find out more about some of the clients of the bank.
- 500 rabbis urge Israel to stop demolition of Palestinian homes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over 500 rabbis from Israel, Britain, the US and Canada have called on the Israeli prime minister to stop demolishing Palestinian homes.
- Layers of Privacy on Swiss Bank Accounts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The files behind the Swiss Leaks project provide a rare glimpse inside the secretive world of a Swiss private bank, revealing a number of ways HSBC could help build layers of privacy around a client's wealth.
- The Most Terrifying Pressures Occur in Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ivancic narrates his prosecution by the Croatian government, which is one of the many examples of violence against Feral journalists.
- New Law, New Loophole, New Business for Giant Global Bank HSBC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Selling ways to shield wealth from tax authorities - and setting off investigations the world over of both the bank and clients.
- 100,000 Clients, $100 Billion: The Swiss Leaks Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The files at the foundation of the Swiss Leaks project are based on data secreted away by Hervé Falciani, a former HSBC employee-turned-whistleblower. He turned the data over to the French government in 2008 and its tax authority launched an investigation.
- The Real 'Housewives' of HSBC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Housewives accounted for more than 7,300 of the clients listed by profession in HSBC's files, outweighing two other categories that suggest no paid compensation. "Without profession" and "student" together added up to fewer than 4,000.
- 60 Minutes: Stolen Data Shakes Swiss Banking to its Core
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
60 Minutes' Bill Whitaker investigates the biggest leak in Swiss banking history and examines HSBC's business dealings with a collection of international outlaws.
- 'Standards Were Significantly Lower Than Today:' HSBC's Response
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Swiss Leaks project is based on a trove of almost 60,000 leaked files that provide details on the names, professions and value of assets of over 100,000 HSBC clients.
- The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The barbarism we condemn is the barbarism we commit. The line that separates us from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is technological, not moral. We are those we fight.
- Whistleblower? Thief? Hero? Introducing the Source of the Data that Shook HSBC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Hervé Falciani’s long, strange journey from bank computer expert to jailed fugitive to candidate for office to spokesman for whistleblowers.
- Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists
The Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A history of the Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party -- the largest Maoist organization to arise in the US -- from its origins in the explosive year of 1968, its expansion into a national organization in the early seventies, its extension into major industry throughout early part of that decade, the devastating schism in the aftermath of the death of Mao Tse-tung, and its ultimate decline as the 1970s turned into the 1980s.
- The Right-Wing Doesn't Want to Talk About Christian Atrocities, So Let's Talk About Christian Atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
History is full of atrocities committed by Christians for Christ, against not just other religions but against Christians themselves.
- Book Review: This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Book Review of "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible" by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
- The Fallujah Option for East Ukraine
The Real Reason Washington Feels Threatened by Moscow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Washington needs a war in Ukraine to achieve its strategic objectives.
- The Fiery Cage and the Lynching Tree, Brutality's Never Far Away
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
They burned him alive in an iron cage, and as he screamed and writhed in the agony of hell they made a sport of his death. After listening to one newscast after another rightly condemn the barbaric killing of that Jordanian air force pilot at the bloody hands of ISIS, I couldn’t sleep.
- Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While the conflict with Russia heats up in the east, life for most Ukrainians is marred by corruption so endemic that even hospitals appear to be infected.
- What is Lost in Poles' Memories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Trukhachev reflects on Polish attempts to re-write the history of the Second World War.
- #DomesticExtremist trend mocks UK police surveillance of protesters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Non-conformists across the UK are taking to social media to declare themselves #DomesticExtremists in a bid to raise awareness about secretive police powers.
- Florida Sheriff Tells Drivers to Run over Street Protesters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Sheriff of Florida's Palm Beach County tells residents to use their vehicles as weapons against protesters who may be blocking their path.
- Four years later, still a graveyard of Chinese youth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In 2014, on the eve of China's national day celebrations, scenes recalling those of four years ago appeared in Chinese headlines. Foxconn became known to the world four years ago when thirteen of its young workers jumped to their deaths in quick succession.
- Information increasingly a rare commodity in Nigeria
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is alarmed about the glaring gaps in domestic news coverage in Nigeria in the run-up to the 14 February presidential election, especially in the northeastern state of Borno.
- Monsanto Crops Pushing Monarch Butterfly to Verge of Extinction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Herbicide-resistant genetically modified crops have brought the iconic monarch butterfly to the brink of extinction, according to a new report by the Center for Food Safety.
- Palestinian civil society condemns Canadian government disinformation and repression against boycott movement
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of Palestinian civil society organisations that leads the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, has condemned the Canadian government's ramped up disinformation campaign
- Putin Prefers a Bad Peace
From Syria to Donbass, Russians Endorse Peace, Americans Push for War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Putin can't cut off and forget about Donbass -- his people would not allow him anyway. A cautious man, he does not want to go to an open-ended war. So he has to navigate towards some sort of peace.
- Religious leaders urged to sign Declaration on Freedom of Expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As part a campaign called "Freedom of expression has no religion," Reporters Without Borders is calling on leaders of all religions in France to sign its Declaration on Freedom of Expression.
- Two out of Three Investigative Journalists in US Believe They're Being Spied On
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the wake of the NSA mass surveillance scandal, a vast majority of investigative journalists believe that the U.S. government is spying on them, and large numbers say that this belief impacts the way they go about their reporting.
- The US/EU Manufactured Egyptian Nightmare has Arrived
The Ogre of Egypt Now Wants a Mandate for Wholesale Slaughter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Article on the internationally-financed regime of Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt.
- Burning Victims to Death: Still a Common Practice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The latest ISIS atrocity - releasing a video of a captured Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive - prompted substantial discussion yesterday about this particular form of savagery. It is thus worth noting that deliberately burning people to death is achievable - and deliberately achieved - in all sorts of other ways.
- Conundrum - Syriza, Democracy And The Death Of A Saudi Tyrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It's always a tricky moment for the corporate media when a foreign leader dies. The content and tone need to be appropriate, moulded to whether that leader fell into line with Western policies or not.
- Israel's road signs policy 'erases memory of place'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Israeli authorities have long banned the Palestinian Authority (PA) from putting up its own road signs that refer to Palestinian towns and villages.
- It's The Blind Partisanship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Why did the peace movement grow large around 2003-2006 and shrink around 2008-2010? Military spending, troop levels abroad, and number of wars engaged in can explain the growth but not the shrinkage. Those factors hardly changed between the high point and the low point of peace activism.
- Selling Sexual Services: A Socialist Feminist Perspective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The current debate about sex work among feminists generates more heat than light. Accusations of bad faith fly back and forth across the two sides, research findings are mobilized to undercut the other side even when the research itself is limited by its methods and scope, different sex worker voices are authorized by each side as either genuine or manipulated, depending on whose position those voices seem to support.
- The Sociopath as Hero
Clint Eastwood's War Prayer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
American movie audiences have long loved violent heroes. Edwards discusses the box office hit of the moment, 'American Sniper', and the implications of the Hollywood War Porn industry.
- The Devil Is Here in These Hills
Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labour struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were 50,000 mine workers, the nation's largest labour union, and the legendary "miners' angel," Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis verging on civil war that stretched from the creeks and hollows to the courts and the US Senate.
- Facebook Shut Me Down
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Peled describes how Facebook shut him down after he exposed an Israeli plant.
- The US arming of Ukraine and the danger of World War III
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Obama administration wants to arm the right-wing regime in Ukraine with billions of dollars in advanced weaponry, which may spark a direct conflict between the US and Russia, two nuclear-armed powers, and ignite a Third World War.
- Battle Over Google Subpoena Threatens Critical Online Free Speech Protections
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A high-profile battle over whether Google must respond to an unusual and dangerous subpoena raises fundamental concerns about federal free speech law and the protections it affords hosts of online content.
- China's Media War: Censorship, Corruption & Control
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) yesterday released the seventh annual China Press Freedom Report, CHINA'S MEDIA WAR: Censorship, Corruption & Control.
- Coalition of organizations call for the reinstatement of long-form census
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
CJFE and 10 other organizations call on the Canadian government to pass Bill C-626 and reinstate the mandatory long-form census.
- Head of Burundi's most popular commercial radio station arrested
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns leading radio journalist Bob Rugurika's arbitrary detention for the past week and the charges brought against him, which include complicity in the murder of three Italian nuns last September.
- The IFJ condemns the brutal murder of Mexican journalist Moises Sanchez Cerezo, from Veracruz
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Moises Sanchez Cerezo, editor of La Union, was found killed after 24 days without news of his whereabouts. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) urges the Mexican authorities to solve all the responsibilities for the murder.
- The IFJ mourns the killing of two journalists in Iraq
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional affiliate the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate (IJS) have today condemned the killing of the Iraqi photographer Adnan Abdul Razzaq, allegedly murdered by the Islamic State (IS) in Mosul.
- January's Stupid Patent of the Month: A Method of Updating "Grass" in Video Games
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
U.S. Patent 8,529,350 - January's Stupid Patent of the Month. The patent -- titled "Method and System for Increased Realism in Video Games" - is owned by Utah-based troll White Knuckle LLC.
- Keeping It In The Human Family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What socialists set out to prove is that not only has "human nature" changed many times in the past but that there is no such thing as a static human nature. We are products of our environment, particularly of the economic system in which we live.
- New counterterrorism law in China deadly for online press freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses strong concern over the National Security Law Bill which is soon to be considered by the Standing Committee of National Congress in China in March, 2015.
- Police Raid Zunar's Office and Confiscate Books
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Malaysian cartoonist Zunar, on a speaking tour in England, got word in the early hours of Wednesday, January 28, that his office in Kuala Lumpur was being raided by police.
- Russia: the IFJ and the EFJ call for the release of Sergei Reznik
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and their Russian affiliate, the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) call for the release of imprisoned Russian journalist and blogger Sergei Reznik.
- Six Eritrean journalists released after nearly six years in prison
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Six Eritrean journalists (Bereket Misghina, Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu and Basilios Zemo of Radio Bana, Meles Negusse Kiflu), who had been held since a wave of arrests in February 2009, were released probationally.
- Sri Lanka to reopen investigation into 2009 murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Wickrematunge, the founder and editor of The Sunday Leader, was assassinated in January 8, 2009. According to reports, the new Sri Lankan government decided to reopen the investigation.
- Well-known Azerbaijan journalist gets five years on absurd charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The latest victim of the crackdown that the authorities began last summer is the well-known journalist Seymour Khazi, who was sentenced to five years in prison on a trumped-up charge of aggravated hooliganism at the end of a sham trial yesterday.
- After the oil spill: ode to the Yellowstone River
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the face of environmental atrocities like the recent spill of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, quiescence be damned! To stop more of the same, we must reclaim from the corporate-captured state the rights of commons and community to decide on how local resources are used.
- Crossing the River of Fire
The Liberal Attack on Naomi Klein and This Changes Everything
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Naomi Klein's book "This Changes Everything" on climate change and its political enviroment.
- Execution of Paris Communards Foreshadowed Mass Murders of 20th Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The short-lived Paris Commune of 1871 lasted only a little more than two months before being ruthlessly crushed. A new book by Yale Professor John Merriman, "Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune," provides a remarkably detailed account of an armed uprising that rejected oligarchical government.
- Forgotten February In The United States Of Aggression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Since it appears so many folks need reminding that "USA" has always stood for "United States of Aggression," here are a forgotten few from February’s Files.
- The Great Republican Land Heist
Cliven Bundy and the politicians who are plundering the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Cliven Bundy and other politicans have seized public land and ravaged the area as they exploit it for their economic purposes.
- The tragedy of being a girl in India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
India is the "most dangerous country in the world in which to be a girl". This is stated in a controversial United Nations finding based on a range of distressing social statistics rooted in gender and caste prejudice, much of which can be traced back to 18th century colonialism and the destructive 'divide and rule' methodology employed by the British.
- The War of the World
Easy Chair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Solnit reflects on the environmental destruction that the world has been experiencing since the Second World War.
- Gunman as Hero, Children as Targets, Iraq as Backdrop
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
American Sniper, directed by Clinton Eastwood about Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle,
is not only the latest blockbuster but also a war propaganda.
- Life Support for Labor?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Debate Over how to save the labour movement suffers from a serious deficit of books written by organizers. Rarely do we get an entire book by someone who has been organizing for four decades, and is still actively engaged with union members, staff and leaders.
- Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the 1970s, Teresa Rankin kept her sexual orientation private while organizing textile workers at J.P. Stevens in North Carolina. When the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) offered her an organizing position in a small town in Virginia, Rankin, turned down the opportunity fearing isolation due to her sexual orientation.
- Red state, red power: Nebraska's publicly-owned electricity system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Republican Nebraska's energy is all publicly owned or cooperative, and prices are among America's lowest, with great service standards and a strong commitment to renewables. Decentralised and locally accountable, this could be the model that replaces inefficient, unresponsive monopolies - both nationalised and corporate.
- Shaping 20th Century America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stating that "The world must be made safe for democracy,” president Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany on April 2, 1917. The United States formally entered World War I four days later.
- Unions and the Road to Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The familiar model of union struggle has been ineffective in attempts to change capitalism. I will try to explain why unions have not shaken capitalism's foundations. The explanation will point to the failure to challenge inequalities in returns to labour and capital from production.
- The Way of the White Cloud
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In his search for alternatives to consumerism and industrialism, Jules Pretty travelled around the world to find surviving nature-based cultures. In this extract from his book 'The Edge of Extinction', he tells of the Tuva people of the Siberian steppe - proud of their traditions and closeness to the land, but very much part of the modern world - strictly on their own terms.
- Is Democracy Dead In The West?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This is the "New Democracy." It is a resurrection of the old feudal order. A few super-rich aristocrats and everyone else serfs obliged to support the ruling order. The looting that began in Greece has spread into Ukraine, and who knows who is next?
- Russian aggression and the BBC's drums of nuclear war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The drums of war are beating on the BBC and other mass media, writes Oliver Tickell -- naked propaganda about fictitious 'Russian aggression' intended to soften us up for a war that could wipe out life on Earth. We must refuse to fall for the endlessly repeated lies, and tell our politicians that our highest priority of all is peace.
- Spanish Peacekeeper Is the Latest Example of Israel Killing United Nations Personnel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On January 28th a barrage of Israeli artillery fire struck near the South Lebanese village of Ghajar, killing United Nations peacekeeper Francisco Javier Soria. Soria, 36, was a Spanish citizen deployed with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, a peacekeeping mission tasked with maintaining the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon in the occupied Golan Heights.
- The American Sniper Was No Hero
Assassin-for-Hire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Despite what some people think, hero is not a synonym for competent government-hired killer.
- Deep time: Aboriginal stories tell of when the Great Barrier Reef was dry land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Stories told by Australia's Aboriginal peoples tell of the time, over 10,000 years ago, when the last Ice Age came to an end, and sea levels rose by 120 metres. The narratives tally with the findings of contemporary science, raising the question: what is it about Aborigines and their culture than so accurately transmitted their oral traditions across thousands of generations?
- Feral Journalism - Rewilding Dissent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Media censorship from corporations and politicians are distoring our view of reality but most of us aren't so far gone that we can't recognize the need for non-corporate media.
- Killing the Messenger 2014
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over the year of 2014, many reporters haev been victimized, injured and killed. This report looks at the circumstances behind some of the deaths and raises awareness for the general lack of impunity behind reporter deaths.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
Land seizures and land take-overs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a Syrizia government. From the archives, there are interviews about the 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, an article about anti-dicrimination fighter Viola Desmond, and the publication, in 1929, of All Quiet on the Western Front.
- The seed saving rebellion is growing - and banging at the Commission's door
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A year ago today, Europe-wide protests defeated an EU regulation that would have outlawed many seed saving activities. Now growers are taking matters into their own hands, saving and developing open-pollinated seeds - and campaigning for a seed regulation that supports them, not the monopolist seed corporations.
- US Announces Support of Neo-Nazis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pentagon officials confirmed last week that US troops will deploy to Ukraine in the spring to help build the Ukrainian National Guard. In addition to sending US troops, Washington has already sent heavy military equipment and has earmarked $19 million for Ukrainian forces. The Ukrainian National Guard includes the Azov Battalion, a pronounced neo-Nazi group that has reportedly been involved in the recent violence in Ukraine.
- Why Can't Public Transit Be Free?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pinsker analyzes perceptions of what "free" means when it comes to fare-free transit and how the public's worries regarding what type of people such an offer would attract is standing in the way of implementing progress.
- Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada's leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users' file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents. The covert operation taps into Internet cables and analyzes records of up to 15 million downloads daily from popular websites commonly used to share videos, photographs, music, and other files.
- How to Leak to The Intercept
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Leaking can serve the public interest, fueling revelatory and important journalism. Here are instructions for how to leak safely.
- Mass surveillance program in Canada revealed on International Data Privacy Day
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This morning Canadians learned of Levitation, a surveillance program run by Canada’s Communications Securities Establishment (CSE), which monitors documents being uploaded and downloaded on file-sharing websites around the world.
- Nigerian farmers face destitution from 300 sq.km land grab backed by UK aid
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Farmers in Nigeria's north eastern state of Taraba are being forced off lands they have farmed for generations to make way for US company Dominion Farms to establish a 300 square kilometre rice plantation.
- The Petulant Entitlement Syndrome of Journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Jonathan Chait’s denunciation of the "PC language police" provoked intense reaction: much criticism from liberals and praise from conservatives.
- This is how a police state protects "secrets": Jeffrey Sterling, the CIA and up to 80 years on circumstantial evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Under Fire: Documentary details attacks on journalists during Gaza offensive
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the summer of 2014, Israel launched a military operation on Gaza dubbed "Operation Protective Edge". By the time Israeli forces withdrew from the strip, 17 journalists were confirmed dead. No one has been held accountable for their deaths so far.
- Unite and Fight
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The flim Pride isn’t just excellent labour history. It’s a reminder of what real solidarity looks like.
- Israeli Defense Force fires 43 elite reservists for protesting 'persecution' of Palestinians
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Israeli military has dismissed 43 members from the elite intelligence 8200 unit. In September 2014, they wrote an open letter protesting Israeli covert activities towards Palestinians, particularly the 2014 military operation in Gaza Strip. In the letter, written in the wake of the Operation Protective Edge, the 10 officers and 33 soldiers wrote that they "refused to take part in actions against Palestinians and refuse to continue serving as tools in deepening the military control over the Occupied Territories."
- Kill The Messengers
Stephen Harper's Assault on Your Right to Know
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ottawa has become a place where the nation's business is done in secret, and access to information - the lifeblood of democracy in Canada - is under attack.
- Labor Law Won't Save Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The strike is still labour's strongest weapon.
- Onetime Antiwar, Environmental Protester Veers Into the Seamy World of Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
While most American-born activists who become involved in defending Palestinian rights avoid becoming overt anti-Semites even while steadfastly criticizing Israel, Kenneth O'Keefe is not one of them.
- SYRIZA's 40-point program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Here is the official program of the Greek coalition of the radical left, SYRIZA, which won the elections of January 2015.
- Torture If You Must, But Do Not Under Any Circumstances Call the New York Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Monday’s guilty verdict in the trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling on espionage charges -- for talking to a newspaper reporter -- is the latest milepost on the dark and dismal path Barack Obama has traveled since his inaugural promises to usher in a "new era of openness."
- Why Bosses Hate Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Unions vastly improve the wages and working conditions of their members. No wonder they're still under attack.
- Will the Greek elections strengthen the hands of the Global South?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The endorsement of a leftist party is a vote against global lenders imposing governance prescriptions on countries in crisis. If Greece successfully pushes back against its lenders, it will open the door to countries of the Global South to restructure their relationships with lenders such as the World Bank and IMF.
- Secret 'BADASS' Intelligence Program Spied on Smartphones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
British and Canadian spy agencies accumulated sensitive data on smartphone users, by piggybacking on ubiquitous software from advertising and analytics companies, according to a document obtained by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.The document outlines a secret program run by the intelligence agencies called BADASS.
- 7 shocking facts about Saudi Arabia under ‘modernizing’ reign of King Abdullah
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Taken aback by the fulsome praise the recently deceased King Abdullah has garnered from world leaders, RT has decided to assess whether his record stands up to scrutiny.
- What austerity has done to Greek healthcare
"What I witnessed appalled me - and brought tears to my eyes"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The shocking 'austerity'-imposed destruction of Greece's once proud healthcare system is a key reason Greeks have turned to Syriza, finds London GP Louise Irvine in an eye witness account.
- Death By A Thousand Cuts: Earth Enters The 'Danger Zone'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
2014 was the warmest year on record for the world; possibly the warmest in 5000 years. Even worse, this warming will soon double the pollution levels of our planet. Meanwhile, corporate media couldn't care less.
- Lancashire County Council under pressure from fracking lobbyists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lancashire County Council is coming under intense pressure from fracking lobbyists to approve two controversial shale gas sites in the county, a week after its own planning officers recommended refusal.
- Ferguson and After: Where Is This Movement Going?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The movement that has erupted after non-indictments of the cop killers of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and of Eric Garner in New York City, one further fed by relentless continued police killings of black and brown youth on a weekly basis around the country, is without doubt the deepest social movement to emerge in the United States in more than forty years.
- Greek lesson: let's show some initiative on the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Kevin Ovenden provides some suggestions on initiatives that the European Left can take to deliver practical solidarity to the people of Greece.
- Trust can fix our future: lessons from the simplicity of island life on Palau
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After spending twelve days on a small island in Palau without the ample resources of modern life in developed cities, Andrew Broadbent ponders the crucial role trust will - and must - play in restoring our communities.
- Greece's solidarity movement: 'it's a whole new model - and it's working'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Citizen-run health clinics, food centres, kitchens and legal aid hubs have sprung up to fill the gaps left by austerity – and now look set to play a bigger role under a Syriza government.
- Nieman Reports: What’s the difference between activism and journalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As technology changes how news is gathered and delivered, should journalism continue to be sharply distinguished from activism and other kinds of free speech? An extract by Joel Simon from his new book on global media freedom addresses this question.
- The Police and the 1918-19 German Revolution
A Correction to Our Militant Labour Pamphlet
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After the SPD took the helm of the government, Emil Eichhorn, a member of the left wing of the USPD, became the Berlin chief of police, acting on the false view that this arm of the bourgeois state could be transformed into a revolutionary instrument. On 4 January 1919, the Prussian Ministry of the Interior dismissed Eichhorn in a deliberate provocation.
- Tom Tomorrow Collection Donated to The OSU Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dan Perkins donates "Tom Tomorrow Collection" to The Ohio State University Libraries'
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
- How the CIA made Google
Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet - Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
How the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain "information superiority.'
- Is Marxism Eurocentric?
This reading of Marx is virtually hegemonic in some branches of academia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Many activists today first encounter Marxist ideas in and around college campuses, where certain interpretations of Karl Marx and Marxism have solidified into a sort of conventional wisdom. One of these is the idea that Marxism is "Eurocentric" -- and therefore has little to say to the mass of people in the 21st century globalized world. This reading of Marx is virtually hegemonic in some branches of academia.
- It Runs in the Family
On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It Runs in the Family is a book about how parents can create lasting and meaningful bulwarks between their kids and the violence endemic in our culture. It posits discipline without spanks or slaps or threats of violence, while considering how to raise thoughtful, compassionate, fearless young people committed to social and political change-- without scaring, hectoring or scarring them with all the wrongs in the world.
- Journalist Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A Dallas, Texas court has sentenced journalist Barrett Brown to 63 months behind bars for links to the hacktivist collective Anonymous.
- Penises on the fashion catwalk - a flesh flash too far?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The sight of men's genitals at the Rick Owens menswear show in Paris on Thursday caused a bit of a stir on the front row.
- Accredition of journalists violates press freedom, says Philippine union
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in strongly criticizing the provision in House Bill 362, which seeks to amend Republic Act (R.A.) 53 "Sotto Law" to narrow the parameters of journalism by forcing the issue of accreditation.
- Authorities ramp up pressure on media over banking disclosures
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission has imposed fines of up to 80,000 euros each on several newspapers for disclosing information about the banking sector. Reporters Without Borders deplores this political attempt to silence news organizations
- Bangladesh extends block to online voice and messaging services
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has ordered Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and mobile phone operators to block access to online voice and messaging services including, WhatsApp, mypeople and Line, while Viber and Tang
- Censorship not a solution to terrorism, IFJ & Pakistan media reject guidelines
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) expresses its strong concern over new press guidelines for Pakistan's television and print media.
- Charlie Hebdo And The War For Civilisation
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
There is so much more that could be said about just how little passion the corporate media have for defending the right to offend. Anyone in doubt should try, as we have, to discuss their own record of failing to offend the powerful.
- Chinese media worker detained for three months without charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly criticizes the illegal detention of a Chinese media worker for three months without reason and threats to a German journalist that her visa would be revoked for not assisting police
- Concern about blogger's condition after second flogging postponed
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is relieved that the Saudi authorities have postponed blogger Raif Badawiâ's second session of 50 lashes on medical grounds but is very concerned about his health and urges the authorities to abandon this barbaric punishment altogether.
- Cory Doctorow Rejoins EFF to Eradicate DRM Everywhere
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Leading digital rights champion and author Cory Doctorow has rejoined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to battle the pervasive use of dangerous digital rights management (DRM) technologies that threaten users' security and privacy.
- Dangerous comments by pope on freedom of expression
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the extremely disturbing comments about freedom expression that Pope Francis made to journalists last week, in which he put respect for religion and faith above free speech and even defended the possible use of violence when religion is mocked.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for December 2014
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending December 31, 2014, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.14 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM increased by $142 billion
- IFJ and EFJ Call on Macedonian Authorities to Grant the Permanent Release of Journalist Kezarovski
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional group, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), together with their members in Macedonia the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (ZNM) and the Trade Union of Macedonian Journalists
- Journalist paralyzed in attack dies a decade on, waiting for justice
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in expressing our deepest sympathies over the tragic death of a senior journalist, paralysed in 2005 following a failed assassination
- Journalists and media attacked during general strike in Nepal
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates, the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) and the Nepal Press Union (NPU), in condemning several incidents of attacks on journalists and media workers during the general strike
- Justice Department finally stops harassing New York Times reporter
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that New York Times reporter James Risen will not be called to testify in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer charged with leaking classified information for book about the CIA published in 2006.
- Niger police attack media instead of protecting them
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that privately-owned media were attacked by police during demonstrations in Niamey on 17 and 18 January although President Mahamadou Issoufou has assured the international community he is committed to media
- RSF and JDS urge new president to end violence against journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the wake of Sri Lanka's 8 January presidential election, Reporters Without Borders and Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) call on the new president, Maithripala Sirisena, to end the policy of violence against journalists
- Subsidizing Contractor Misconduct: Alma's Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Story of Alma Aranda, employee at the customer call center operated by Verizon Communications, where she works an eight-hour shift fielding questions about billing statements or complaints about Internet service from the company.
- Ken Greenberg on Island Airport Expansion and Shared Values
People sometimes get amnesia - we forget the battles we fought to get where we are
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We are once more on the verge of making one of those decisions that comes along every generation that will have a profound impact on the shape of the city.
- Appel aux candidatures pour la Bourse d'etudes commemorative Sarah Beth Therien
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Day Care Owner/Operators Welcome New Wage Enhancement for Staff
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
ADCO members were pleased by the announcement of wage enhancement funding for RECEs working in all licensed child care settings, hope it signals Provincial recognition of the importance of licensed programs that are run as small businesses.
- Wealth: Having It All and Wanting More
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in a few important economic sectors, including finance and insurance and pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Companies from these sectors spend millions of dollars every year on lobbying to create a policy environment that protects and enhances their interests further.
- Mass extinction for Earths oceans probable, comprehensive study says
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The first comprehensive study of its kind has determined that ocean life is facing mass extinction from human activity. But the record damage is still reversible – unlike our impact on land. American scientists say the effects can be mitigated.
- Assassination Nation
Drones and Targeted Killing
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Since the use of killer drones by the United States began, more than 3500 people have been killed. Many of those killed were civilians. The number of civilians killed depends on how one counts civilians.
- A Fetid Wind of Racism Hovers Over Europe
Je Suis Charlie Chaplin
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
After Charlie Hebdo's assassinations, is it obligatory to identify oneself with the victims' actions? Must people be Charlie because the victims were the incarnation of the 'liberty of expression'?
- From Libraries to Climate Change
Why Cindy Milstein Believes Anarchism is More Relevant Than Ever
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Anarchism as a word to capture a set of ethics and political philosophy is more interesting to me, Milstein says.
- How to Organize
15 Key Points
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
I would like to share with you this list of points on organizing. I'm by no means an expert organizer, but I have gained some experience in the past decade. This list is not definitive or faultless. If you think I got it wrong, or if you have more points to add, let me know.
- Intolerance, Saudi-Style
With Friends Like These...
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What all of those victims of the Saudi criminal justice system have in common is that their offenses related strictly to intellectual activities and not physical violence.
- Police Behavior and Neoliberalism
Explaining Bill de Blasio's Inaction
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One of the more important questions spinning out of the recent confrontation between NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Police Force has been why, in the face of public disobedience by the force, has there been no attempt by the mayor's office to prepare ground for significant changes in police policies.
- Striking Fear in Paris
Waving in the First Row
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
By committing two attacks, the three Islamic radicals managed to spread panic throughout France.
- Working Hard in America's Twilight Economy
The Gleaners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Over in the west side of town, gleaners hustle toward the recycling center on Peralta which will pay them cash for their collected goods. They push and pull their rusty supermarket carts filled with bottles, cans and odd goods toward the building before the steel rollup door rumbles down and ends that day's possibility of cash transactions.
- How "Hate Crimes Against Police" Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime Statutes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Hate crime legislation lent legitimacy to a 40-year carceral program that has wrought immense damage on communities of colour. In an ironic twist, the police - who've been the main enforcers of this program - now want to invoke these laws for their protection.
- Method and Madness
The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014), have resulted in the deaths of some 3,700 Palestinians. As Norman G. Finkelstein sets out in this concise, paradigm-shifting new book, an examination of Israel's motives reveals a state whose repeated recourse to savage war is far from irrational. Rather, Israel's attacks have been designed to sabotage the possibility of a compromise peace with the Palestinians, even on terms that are favorable to it.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 15, 2015
Workers' Health and Safety
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The topic of the week is Workers' Health and Safety. Articles on why environmentalists should support working class struggles; whistleblowers; the appalling death rate from U.S. drone strikes; the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris; and what humanity could learn from Bonobos. The feature from the archives is Traces of Magma. The International Labor Rights Forum is the group of the week, and Silkwood is the film of the week.
- Social justice is the only solution to global warming
The Climate is Ripe for Social Change
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
South African activist says only an alliance between unions and social justice movements can stop capital from destroying planetary life.
- Charlie-berte : liberons l'information !
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Les syndicats de journalistes (SNJ / SNJ-CGT / CFDT-Journalistes), avec leurs Fédérations FIJ (internationale) et FEJ (européenne), saluent les quelque quatre millions de citoyens qui ont participé aux marches et rassemblements dimanche à Paris
- Death on the Bakken shale
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
North Dakota's fracking industry has the highest worker fatality rates in the US. Why are so many dying and who should be held responsible?
- Death threats for pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily in Hong Kong
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Hong Kong Journalist Association (HKJA) condemn death threats against a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong.
- Fair Trade gold mining in the highlands of Peru
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Most gold mining in Peru causes serious environmental damage, but there is one exception - a Fair Trade certified mine close to the world-famous Nazca Lines. Now it's up to us to demand Fair Trade gold from the jewellery trade, rewarding responsible producers and expanding the market for new Fair Trade gold miners.
- Une famille réfugiée rom est menacée de déportation vers des violences néo-nazies en Hongrie dans deux semaines; la déportation séparera la fam
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Une famille réfugiée rom habitant à Montréal depuis trois ans pourrait être déportée avant la fin janvier, ce qui forcerait les membres de la famille à retourner vers un pays où ils ont fait face à des violences racistes avec leur fille
- Hamburg newspaper firebombed after reprinting Mohammed cartoons
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by last nigh's arson attack on the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper after it published several Mohammed cartoons as a tribute to the Charlie Hebdo journalists who were murdered last week.
- How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Verizon advertising partner Turn is using Verizon Wireless's UIDH tracking header to resurrect deleted tracking cookies and share them, forming a vast web of non-consensual online tracking. The tehcnology makes it impossible for customers to control their online privacy.
- The IFJ supports its affiliate in Tunisia in its search for the two Tunisian journalists missing in Libya
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The IIFJ has declared its full support to the National Trade Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) in its efforts to investigate the claim made by the Islamic State (IS) in its efforts to investigate the claim made by the Islamic State (IS) in Libya
- Journalists prosecuted for covering murder case involving president's relatives
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal defamation proceedings against two independent Korean journalists, Kim Ou-joon and Choo Chin-woo, that have been under way for more than a year.
- NAFTA's Chapter 11 Makes Canada Most-Sued Country Under Free Trade Tribunals
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
According to a new study, Canada is the most-sued country under the North American Free Trade Agreement and a majority of the disputes involve investors challenging the country's environmental laws.
- Obamas Sordid Record on Censorship and Secrecy
Blindfolding the Republic
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Obama’s failure to attend the Charlie Hebdo march in Paris and the condemnations of this press freedom omission.
- Roma refugee family facing deportation to neo-Nazi violence in Hungary in two weeks; deportation will separate family
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Roma refugee family settled in Montreal for over three years could be deported before the end of January, forcing them to return with their ten year old daughter to a country where they faced racist violence.
- Tribute to leading news site that was forced to close
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders pays tribute to Uznews, ten years after its creation. This leading independent news website closed down last month.
- The Turn-Verizon Zombie Cookie
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Discussion of Verizon's "supercookie," a header that tracks mobile subscribers, even if they have opted out, cleared their cookies, or entered private browsing mode.
- Why are we afraid of naming and confronting capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Many critics of capitalism suggest that capitalism is not the main problem in the world. They do not want to appear, in the eyes of the people and the ruling elite, as too radical or 'ideological'. But the forces for social change must embrace revolutionary engagement with robust ideological clarity: Capitalism is the problem.
- Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie That You Can’t Kill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An online ad company called Turn is using tracking cookies that come back to life after Verizon users have deleted them. The information retrieved contains customers' habits on their smartphones and tablets.
- Je Suis Charlie - But I Have Others
"Brothers, Our Town is Burning!"
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We must work to close gaps, clasp hands and work together for a better world. We dare not forget those countless bloody deeds recorded largely in dusty archives - and their urgent lessons! I may well join in with "Je suis Charlie!" but must add: "I am Gul Rahman! I am Abu Zubaydah! I am Charles Horman and Ken Saro-Wiwa! I am Ghassan Kanafani and Victor Jara!"
- American White Separatist Finds Shared Values with Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If America and Israel have "shared values," as their elected leaders often claim, then how can so many Americans reject ethnocracy in their own country, but support what is happening inside Israel?
- Canada's campaign to block NAFTA's oil sands tailings pond probe slammed by critics
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reactions to the federal government's attempts to stop NAFTA's environmental oversight commission from investigating environmental damage caused by tailings ponds in Alberta's oil sands came fast and fierce from critics.
- How the Great Food War Will Be Won
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Thus the necessary shift in perception is to see that, as in most wars, the crucial struggle in the food war is the one inside people's heads. And that the great food war will be won by the side that understands that and uses it best.
- Message Development: Rules of Engagement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This blog is an instructional guide for dealing with media. It gives tips on how to speak in front of the reporter, organizing your message, what to say and what not to say.
- Atlanta: Notes on the Politics of Respectability
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Atlanta, Black politics is contained by the churches and civil rights officialdom in a way that is very peculiar compared with anywhere else I have lived.
- Activism: Marathon or Sprint?
#shifthappens
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The 1% are killing the planet partly because the elite players have chosen to look no further into the future than the next fiscal quarter. Meanwhile, our culture exists to train and condition the 99% to maintain an equally narrow perspective.
- Arab newspapers around the world react to Charlie Hebdo attack
Resource Type: Drawing
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Arab newspapers around the world react to Charlie Hebdo attack
- As rivers re-open to shipping, oil threat to Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest continues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest, home of incredibly rich biodiversity, is under unprecedented threat, writes ASMG Kibria. The recent oil tanker capsize on the Shela river puts the forest at risk of widespread biodiversity loss, but just this week, the authorities re-opened the Shela river to shipping with no restrictions on hazardous cargoes.
- Hands Up, Fast Food!
The Fight for $15
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Fast-food workers and supporters gathered late Tuesday evening to shut down the Phillips 66 convenience store in St. Louis. They chanted "hands up don't shoot" and did a die-in in remembrance of Mike Brown and Eric Garner.
- How Israel Covers Up Its Ugly Racial Holy War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As the incitement to violence by Israeli leaders ramped up, so did racist attacks by Israeli citizens.
- If Paris Killers Had Western Media on Their Side
Flip the Script
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Imagine if the Charlie Hebdo killings had been reported on in a slightly different manner, say in the manner that drone strike killings are reported.
- In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Numerous writers thus demanded: to show "solidarity" with the murdered cartoonists, one should not merely condemn the attacks and defend the right of the cartoonists to publish, but should publish and even celebrate those cartoons. "The best response to Charlie Hebdo attack," announced Slate's editor Jacob Weisberg, "is to escalate blasphemous satire."
- The Internet: a Giant Job-Killing Machine?
Andrew Keen's "The Internet is Not the Answer"
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Andrew Keen's The Internet Is Not the Answer is the most frightening book I have read in years (perhaps in my lifetime), as frightful as the conservative Supreme Court justices and the deniers of climate change.
- Is the Islamic State Really Such a Psychological Enigma?
A Bizarre Excursion Into the Surreal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The costly debacle known as the Iraq War put the US government in a tough spot that's now exacerbated by the rise of the Islamic State in Anbar Province and western Syria.
A recent New York Times story referred to the Islamic State (also ISIS or ISIL) as a "conundrum" - "a hybrid terrorist organization and a conventional army."
- Maximum Horror
Where One Feeds on the Other
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
It was a horrific event. It was condemned in most parts of the world and most poignantly by many cartoonists. Those who planned the atrocity chose their target carefully. They knew that such an act would create the maximum horror. It was quality, not quantity they were after. The response will not have surprised or displeased them.
- Moral Clarity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Shatz discusses the underlying meaning and implications of the slogan 'Je suis Charlie', an expression that became widespread after the shootings at the Charlie Hebdo's (French satirical magazine) office.
- NYC Cop Backlash
Amid Protests Against Racist Police Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Weeks of mass protests that erupted after the policemen who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner got off have left cops across the country seething. These hired guns of the capitalist rulers are howling over any criticism of how they do their job, which in racist capitalist America does include terrorizing and killing unarmed black people. Leading the pack in New York City are the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) and its ilk, which have seized on the December 20, 2014 killing of two Brooklyn cops to further push their agenda of bonapartism: that is, to stand above the law as judge, jury and executioner.
- Police and the American Mind
From "Broken Windows" to the "Thin Blue Line"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Making sense of the events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York, by understanding two concepts. Firstly, the police believing themselves to be the thin blue line between civilization and chaos. Secondly, the "broken windows" theory of policing.
- Q&A: On the Untouchable 'Lords of Secrecy'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Horton, a lawyer, journalist and human rights advocate, makes the case in his book, Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Foreign Policy, that because the public is allowed to know so little, it has effectively been cut out of national security decisionmaking.
- Ranchers, the Real Eco Terrorists?
Malice Toward Wildlife
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Analysis on acts of "eco-terrorism" on public lands and towards wildlife.
- Three U.S. Lies About Israel and Palestine
The Last Guest at the Table of Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For decades United States' spokespeople, from presidents to members of Congress, have, with a straight face, told the most far-fetched lies about Israel and Palestine. Such things as Israel having a moral army, despite its ongoing genocide of men, women and children, or proclaiming it the only democracy in the Middle East, regardless of the institutional racism so prevalent there, have been staples of U.S. proclamations and news conferences.
- Unmournable Bodies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
More than a dozen people were killed by terrorists in Paris this week. The victims of these crimes are being mourned worldwide: they were human beings, beloved by their families and precious to their friends.
- What is Going On in Spain?
The End of an Era and the Beginning of Podemos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Something is happening in Spain. A party that did not exist one year ago, Podemos, with a clear left-wing program, would win a sufficient number of votes to gain a majority in Spanish Parliament if an election were held today.
- When History Knocks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Naomi Klein is a longtime movement and media icon, a gifted synthesizer and popularizer who, over the past two decades, has been a leading chronicler of anti-corporate, anti-globalization, and anti-capitalist social movements.
- Je Suis Charlie? It's a Bit Late
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Hardly had news begun filtering out about the Charlie Hebdo shootings, than there were those suggesting that the magazine was a 'racist institution' and that the cartoonists, if not deserving what they got, had nevertheless brought it on themselves through their incessant attacks on Islam. What is really racist is the idea only nice white liberals want to challenge religion or demolish its pretensions or can handle satire and ridicule. Those who claim that it is ‘racist’ or ‘Islamophobic’ to mock the Prophet Mohammad, appear to imagine, with the racists, that all Muslims are reactionaries. It is here that leftwing ‘anti-racism’ joins hands with rightwing anti-Muslim bigotry.
- Leave most fossil fuels in the ground, or fry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For the world to meet its climate goals, a third of the world's oil, half its gas and 80% of its coal must stay underground.
- New copyright law is already being abused to threaten Canadian Internet users with ridiculous penalties for downloading
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Less than a week after new copyright rules went into effect in Canada, ISPs are already receiving notices from Big Media giants that contain misleading and threatening statements, according to top copyright expert Professor Michael Geist.
- Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On Wednesday, 12 human beings were massacred in Paris. The motivation for the attack, it appears, was retaliation for the typically religiously offensive cartoons published by the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. But if you listen to our leaders, they weren't the real targets here. It was something ineffable and harder to define: freedom of speech.
- Slain cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo were allies of anti-nuclear movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Several of the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo were close allies of the French anti-nuclear movement, even providing cartoons to the French anti-nuclear network.
- Some Reflections on the Recent New York City Struggles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Moving from specific events toward a larger understanding of the recent national wave of struggles, several questions remain: are the recent mobilizations in NYC part of the movement signified by #blacklivesmatter and its vague tactical imperative (#shutitdown)?
- A tale of two farming conferences: the future is 'real' and organic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Lord Krebs, self-appointed spokesman for industrial agriculture, used the Oxford Farming Conference to attack organic systems for causing more climate change - a claim as demonstrably false as it is ludicrous, writes Peter Melchett. But across the city, the upstart 'real farming' conference was showing the way to a cleaner, greener and healthier future.
- Hashtag Activism Isn't a Cop-Out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Using twitter is not just 'lazy activism'. It projects the voices of the small and it shows governments what the people truely support.
- IFJ Condemns Killings of Media Staff in Shocking Attack on French Magazine Charlie Hebdo' Office in Paris
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today joined its French affiliates -- SNJ, SNJ-CGT and CFDT -- in condemning the shooting that has taken place today at the offices of the French satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
- In Dresden, PEGIDA meets opposition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
PEGIDA's quick growth derives largely from the many fears, especially in eastern Germany, about the scarcity of decent, steady jobs, about constant rent hikes and dwindling hopes about having enough to live on when they retire. Echoing past fascists, today's "pied pipers" try to deflect such fears and resentment against refugees.
- Klein vs. Klein
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This Changes Everything is a book capacious enough to allow Naomi Klein two positions at once. But a real climate-justice movement will at some point have to make choices.
- Oakland After Ferguson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Already #BlackLivesMatter protests in Oakland are being likened to the sustained unrest following the videotaped murder of Oscar Grant by cops. But this time something is different.
- Philadelphia: The PPD's Strategic Response to the Movement Against Police Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A rebellion first began in early August 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police murder of black teenager Mike Brown. Militant solidarity protests spread across the country, and have since intensified following the non-indictment of the cops who killed Brown (also, Eric Garner in NYC). This wave of protests against the police represents the largest, most radical movement in this country since the 1960s.
- Report From Chicago
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
When the failure to indict Darren Wilson was announced about 200 Chicagoans marched from police headquarters at 35th and Michigan to Lakeshore Drive, and we confounded the cops by moving from southbound lanes to northbound.
- RWB appeals to media outlets to publish Charlie Hebdo cartoons
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In response to today's shocking attack on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that cost 12 lives, Reporters Without Borders issues an international appeal to media editors to begin publishing Charlie Hebdo's cartoons tomorrow.
- This Is What War Does
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Modern war is mass killing of civilians, always and everywhere, a practice which evolved in World War II and has done nothing but progress in that direction since. Even when they aren’t the actual targets, as in America’s nightmarish assassination-by-drone project, large numbers of dead or mangled civilians are the unavoidable consequence.
- Today's media language a little too much like 1984's Newspeak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canada is not Orwell's imaginary society where peoples' every thoughts and ideas are controlled by The Party, but our own powerful elite has pushed our media closer to censorship and a propaganda-feeding machine than I ever imagined possible.
- Trans-Canada sues US for $15 billion over KXL refusal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The US government is being sued for $15 billion for its cancellation of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline last year in order to combat climate change. The legal challenge under NAFTA sends a warning to all countries contemplating similar 'free trade' agreements.
- Another brutal year for journalists in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) express deep concerns over the miserable condition of journalists in the country as the IFJ's annual List of Journalists and Media Staff Killed in 2014 puts Pakistan as the most dangerous country with 14 killings.
- Farmers join to save the seeds that feed us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Farmers and growers in south-west England have united to reclaim the lost skill of seed saving. They are determined to grow, develop, share and disseminate open-pollinated seeds, and oppose EU laws granting commercial plant breeders a legal monopoly on the seeds that sustain our lives.
- FBI harassing fossil fuel activists in the Pacific northwest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A grassroots movement of eco-activists is achieving unprecedented success in challenging fossil fuel developments in the Cascadia region of the US's Pacific northwest, writes Alexander Reid Ross. And that has attracted the wrong kind of attention - from local police, FBI and right-wing legislators determined to protect the corporate right to exploit and pollute.
- From an IN Correspondent Overseas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Insurgent Notes corresponent questions what has happened to the class struggle in the United States.
- Greenpeace 'peer review' climate sting's first scalp?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A leading member of the climate change-skeptic Global Warming Policy Foundation has resigned from his post in the wake of a Greenpeace investigation that exposed its phoney 'peer review' process. But he insists: 'nothing going on here!'
- A Grim Very Tale: The Kehoe Paradigm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the 1920s two employees of GM working in the research lab discovered that the addition of tetraethyllead - TEL - to gasoline would reduce engine 'knock'. It would take sixty years to stop industry from adding TEL to gasoline. During that time the lead contamination in the environment - globally - was raised by hundreds of times. Billions of tons of lead was dispersed into the environment.
- Los Angeles: Hands Up, Fight Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A basic and incomplete chronological overview... Protests and marches continued throughout the fall in Los Angeles, linking the Ezell Ford, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Antonio Martin murders together.
- The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor Poeple, Not 'Serve and Protect'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the history and origins of policing in the US.
- With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Criminal cases for online political speech are now commonplace in the UK, notorious for its hostility to basic free speech and press rights. As The Independent's James Bloodworth reported last week, "around 20,000 people in Britain have been investigated in the past three years for comments made online."
- The challenge of Podemos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The emergence of so-called populist parties as a response to increasingly discredited political elites is a European-wide phenomenon. In most cases these parties have emerged on the right, if not the far-right. Not so in the Spanish state where Podemos, after barely ten months in existence, appears to be undermining the whole political set up in place since the end of the Franco dictatorship in the late 1970s.
- Food industry must get behind 'right to know' on GMO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The citizens 'right to know' campaign about GMOs has put the food industry on the defensive, big time. But that only creates the impression they have something to hide. if GMOs are as great as they claim, they should be only too glad. It's time they switched sides and got with the people they feed.
- ISIS and counter-revolution: towards a Marxist analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The article analyzes ISIS from a Marxist perspective and explores the Iraqi context in which ISIS first set down roots. Alexander further examines the interaction between the defeat of the Syrian Revolution and the consolidation of Nouri al-Maliki's authoritarian rule in Iraq.
- Make 2015 the Year of the Bonobo!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We humans have much to learn from our kissing cousins, the peaceful, empathic, playful, sensual and highly sexual Bonobo. Rather than play out the myth of ancestral 'killer apes', better follow the 'Bonobo Way', and extend our love to all living beings and Earth herself.
- The mass strike in the First World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The mass strikes of the First World War displayed all the characteristics earlier described by Rosa Luxemburg. City and trade-wide strikes; national strikes; street fighting; demonstrations; the raising of economic demands and political demands, and of both.
- Radical Islam, Nihilist Rage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Muslims are not the only religious group involved in perpetrating horrors. From Christian militias in the Central African Republic reportedly eating their foes to Buddhist monks organizing anti-Muslim pogroms in Myanmar, there is cruelty aplenty in the world. Nor are religious believers alone in committing grotesque acts. We need to ask why political rage against the West takes such nihilistic forms today. And why has radical Islam become its principal vehicle?
- Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Essential reading for ecosocialists. Paul Burkett shows that humanity's relationship to nature is central to Marx’s critique of capitalism and vision of socialism.
- When will Palestinians learn? Turning to international law isn't the answer - just ask America and Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Throw an old dog a bone and sure enough, he'll go chasing after it. So it is with "Palestine's" request to join the International Criminal Court.
- Who's the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the US?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens' online access – but it's the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty.
- Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. How these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of public funds -- at a time when all other public funding is being subjected to massive cuts.
- We Are All Ayotzinapa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Report on the kidnapping and murder of students in the Mexican state of Guerrero.
- About Canada: Women's Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Introduces readers to some of the many women who changed Canada through their efforst to secure greater equality.
- The Above
Field of Vision
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Kirsten Johnson’s The Above a U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.
- African-American Self-Defense
Guns and the Freedom Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A Review of "This Noviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Cvil Rights Movement Possible" by Carles E. Cobb. Jr.
- After the Last River
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Vicki Lean has crafted a stunning documentary about the community of Attwapiskat and its stories of risistance, following the impact that diamond mining and decades of government underfunding have had on the environment and the community.
- The Age of Aquiescenence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? Fraser sets out to solve that mystery.
- Alberta Oil and the Declince of Democracy in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If reliance on oil production undermines democratic participation and governance in Canada, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in other industrialized nations?
- Altered Genes, Twisted Truth
How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
- Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People
History and Memory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This study of the Congress of African People (CAP) combines historical research and analysis with the author's first-hand experience with the organization, providing the first historical narrative of a consequential player in the Black Power Movement.
- Anti-African Racism in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A collection of articles by David Sheen chronicling the racist attacks against non-Jewish African asylum-seekers in Israel.
- Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The right to religion comes with a corresponding right to be free from religion.
- The Art of Flying
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Watch the magnificent and hypnotic imagery of starlings and their flying patterns in the Netherlands countryside, in a rare season where they stayed North, instead of migrating.
- Beyond The Broken Window
William Bratton and the new police state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Assistant chief Paul McDonagh was the man with the unenviable task of explaining the Seattle Police Department's drone program to the public. In October 2012, a lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed that the department had secretly purchased a pair of camera-equipped Draganflyer X6 drones two years earlier. Soon after, McDonagh stood in a local community center before a roomful of citizens, who were shouting "shame" and "murderer" and "no drones, no drones, no drones!"
- Bikes vs Cars
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Bikes vs Cars is a documentary about the bike and what an amazing tool for change it can be. It highlights a conflict in city planning between bikes, cars and a growing reliance on fossil fuels.
- Birdie
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Birdie, who sleeps in trees and sells fruits and vegetables on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, loves the two abandoned dogs he now lives with. In Heloisa Passos' film, Birdie reads the minds of his two best canine friends.
- Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Pulitzer prize-winning book about the origin of ISIS.
- Canada's Toxic Chemical Valley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
About the effects of "Chemical Valley" in the Aamjiwnaang-Sarnia area.
- Canadian Lies
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A parody song aimed at Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
- The Canadian Oral History Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A collection of work in oral history by Canadian scholars.
- Capitalism & Climate Change
The Science and Politics of Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An excellent primer, from a radical perspective, on what the ecological crisis is about and what is causing it.
- Captive Market
Why we won't get prison reform
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The American prison system isn't broken; it's working exactly as designed. Seven million people may find their lives constrained, but according to the metrics that make America hum, their time served is also value added. Critics who mistake mass incarceration for a failure of social justice are oblivious to a stronger governing principle: Criminal justice is a business, and business is good.
- Children of the Broken Treaty
Canada's Lost Promise and One Girls's Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Angus provides chilling insight into how Canada denies First Nations children their basic human rights.
- The Chinese Working Class in the Global Capitalist Crisis
Revolutionary Mass Strike or a New Bureaucratic Containment?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
By 2012, there were upwards of 100,000 “incidents” of popular unrest per year, ranging from strikes to riots to confrontations with local authorities over rural land seizures and real estate development. 2014 saw the highest number of strikes (12,000) ever, quite outside the control of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the discredited state-sponsored union. The regime has thus far been successful in keeping these struggles dispersed and localized, aimed at local authorities rather than the central government. Environmental destruction, pollution and health hazards are also increasingly at issue.
- Christians at risk across the globe
Pope has warned of a 'form of genocide' as threat of persecution grows, reports
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Christians are facing growing persecution around the world, fuelled mainly by Islamic extremism and repressive governments, leading the pope to warn of "a form of genocide" and for campaigners to speak of "religioethnic cleansing".
- Climate Insurgency
A Strategy for Survival
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Twenty-five years of human effort have failed even to slow climate change, let alone reverse it. Climate Insurgency lays out a strategy for protecting the earth s climate: a global nonviolent constitutional insurgency. This short book starts with a brief history of official climate protection efforts from above and non-governmental ones from below that explains why climate protection has failed so far. Then, it proposes a global nonviolent insurgency for climate protection to overcome that failure.
- The Communist International and U.S. Communism
1919 - 1929
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
For most commentators the Comintern's role in the development of American Communism is wholly negative. Zumoff challenges this narrative.
- Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Story of women's involvement in the Zapatista movement, the indigenous rebellion that has inspired grassroots activists around the world for over two decades.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II
Economic Writings 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This volume contains a new English translation of Luxemburg’s most important book, The Accumulation of Capital (1913) as well as her response to its critics. Taken together, they constitute one of the most important Marxist studies of the globalization of capital.
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2015
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Connexions mirror site
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This is a backup/mirror site for Connexions.org.
- Containment
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Containment is a thoughful observational essay filmed in Fukushima, weapons plants nuclear storage facilities and deep underground exploring the present and future challenges of nuclear wast storage.
- Continental Cultural Communication
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of "Africa Speaks, America Answers" written by Robin D.G. Kelley.
- Daughter of the Lake
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Follow the powerful journey of Nelida a young Andean woman able to communicate with the spirits of the water. Nelida's fight takes her from the frontlines of resistance against gold mining in her village, to law school in Lima in efforts to save her community in the court system.
- Debunking Barrick
2015 Update
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A updated annual report of the 2013 publication titled Debunking Barrick. The report outlines the abuses by the mining company Barrick Gold and the many communities around the globe that are affected by its operations.
- Dismantling Democracy
Stifling Debate and Dissent in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent.
- Displaced In The D. R.
A country strips 210,000 of citizenship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Even before Juliana Deguis Pierre became famous, or infamous, any Dominican who saw her would have guessed that she was of Haitian descent. Her dark skin, wide nose, and what is, in the Dominican Republic, called pelo malo -- "bad hair" -- immediately identify her as the child of Haitians, even though she was born in the Dominican Republic and has never been to Haiti.
- Disturbing the Peace
The Use of Criminal Law to Limit the Actions of Human Rights Defenders in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The first part of this report briefly reviews the criteria for recognizing the status
of human rights defenders, the development of the legal status of human rights
defenders and the legal tool formulated to protect them and allow them to
protect and promote these rights internationally. The second part of the report
focuses on the common practice of using criminal law to harm defenders, and
examines how human rights defenders in Israel are criminalized. The report
provides examples of cases that have taken place in Israel and in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories (OPT) in recent years, in which the authorities used criminal
law against defenders in an effort to restrict their freedom and limit their ability
to take action.
- Don't Waste Any Time In Mourning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the many accolades Pete Seeger received in the days, weeks, and months after his death, there was often something missing -- as absent in tributes from admirers who share his revolutionary politics as in those aiming to reclaim him for respectability.
- Dr. Mike Carr passes at 73
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dr. Mike Carr, community activist, academic and teacher, passed away amongst his Cuban family in Havana Cuba.
- The Drone Papers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military's assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a whistleblower, offer an unprecedented glimpse into Obama's drone wars.
- Encyclical Letter Laudato Si' of the Holy Father Francis on the Care for our Common Home
Pope's statement on environment and exploitation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together; we cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation.
- Esraa's Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The illustrated children's book Esraa's Stories tells the tale of a girl who loves to write stories, and one day chooses to write about what everyone misses most from the camp in Syria. Through book distribution Kitabna seeks to develop reading, writing, and teaching skills with young people in refugee camps.
- EuroZone Profiteers: How German and French Banks Helped Bankrupt Greece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We should be clear: almost none of the huge amount of money loaned to Greece has actually gone there, says Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and a Nobel Prize winner in economics. It has gone to pay out private-sector creditors – including German and French banks.
- The Extreme Centre
A Warning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Since 1989, UK politics has become a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the 'market', a competition now fringed by unstable populist movements. Tariq Ali looks at the people and the events that have informed the consistent victories for the Extreme Centre.
- The Failure of Nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Failure of Nonviolence examines most of the major social upheavals following the Cold War to reveal the limits of nonviolence and uncover what a diverse, unruly, non-pacified movement can accomplish. Critical of how a diversity of tactics has functioned so far, this book discusses how movements for social change can win ground and open the spaces necessary to plant the seeds of a new world.
- Fatal Extraction
Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Australian-listed mining companies are linked to hundreds of deaths and alleged injustices which wouldn’t be tolerated in better-regulated nations. The stories are from people across Africa, and are rarely heard outside their communities.
- Feminism Unfinished
A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
History of American women's movements. Starting from the 1920s, authors review a century of these social movements.
- The First Green Wave
Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
O'Connor focuses on the first wave of activism -- the result of postwar ecology -- that originated in the late 1960s.
- A Folklorist of Black America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Beuxw Conforth's book, "African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics:The Larry Gellert Story".
- For Workers' Climate Action
Climate Change and Working-Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new collection of articles and reviews on the fight against dangerous climate change, capitalism and workers' organisation and struggle. Urges the left to reach out to climate activists to make the case that being "anti-capitalist" is important but not enough.
- The Formula: How To Make A Video Go Viral
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Many people fail to realize that Youtube is also a social media platform. You use videos to get your message out and you read comments to get feedback and consumer interactivity.
- Foucault and Neoliberalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Michel Foucault has a reputation, especially in the academic world, as a radical. This collection of essays explores another, less acknowledged, side of Foucault's thinking: his embrace of some key elements of neoliberalism.
- Fractured Land
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A Canadian feature documentary film profiling the Dene activist Caleb Behn as he goes through law school and builds a movement around greater awareness of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on First Nations lands.
- Free Public Transit
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This video focuses on accessibility when it comes to public transit in Tallinn, Estonia and how transit issues intersect with social justice issues.
- Freedom takes over from law and order
A squatted barracks is the HQ of Slovenia's underground scene, discovers.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Across the river from the old-town of central Ljubljana - a delicate maze of cobbled streets, medieval fortifications and colourful churches that characterise the many cities of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire - lie the dozen or so dilapidated buildings that make up what has become known as Slovenia's second capital. On first glance, it is hard to believe it's actually occupied. There are no signs directing visitors to its gates: the rubbish-strewn streets are eerily empty in the daylight, the graffiti covering the walls unread. But after dark, it becomes the focal point of the country's alternative culture scene.
- Frontier Films
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Frontier films Inc. was a non-profit organization formed in March 1938 out of the Worker's Film and Photo League and Nykino, meant to continue the tradition of producing films for social change in a documentary format.
- The German War
A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945. Citizens and Soldiers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Global Warming's Unacknowledged Threat - The Pentagon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Pentagon has admitted to burning 350,000 barrels of oil a day (only 35 countries in the world consume more) but that doesn't include oil burned by contractors and weapons suppliers. It does, however, include providing fuel for more than 28,000 armored vehicles, thousands of helicopters, hundreds of jet fighters and bombers and vast fleets of Navy vessels.
- Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A documentary film about the Church of Scientology, based on Lawrence Wright's book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief (2013).
- Gratitude
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Essays written by Oliver Sacks in the last few months of his life.
- Guantánamo Diary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Slahi's diary recounting his life as a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
- Harperman
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Harperman is a song lampooning Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stepehn Harper, written and performed by Ottawa scientist and folk singer Tony Turner. Singing the song got him suspended from his job as a habitat planning scientist with Environment Canada.
- Headscarves and Hymens
Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A condemnation of the repressive political, cultural, and religious forces that reduce millions of women to second-class citizens.
- Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Book Review
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One afternoon earlier this year, I stepped into the carriage of a Cairo metro train. I was on the way home from interviewing female students - all of them devout, veiled Muslims - who had been snatched off the street and sexually assaulted by police for protesting against the military regime. It was hard for them to speak openly about the attacks for fear of shaming their families and destroying their own chances of marriage.
- A History of the Barricade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On the historical evolution of the French barricade, from the Wars of Religion to the Paris Commune.
- How Much Does Climate Change Change?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything.
- How Much Does Climate Change Change?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.
- How to ruin a good display
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck, Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ravensbruck is a camp relatively unknown because it doesn't fit the Holocaust narrative. The hundreds of survivors' stories in this account bear witness to the terrifying heterogeneity of Nazi crimes.
- In Vietnam War US deliberately bombed hospitals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Dunbar-Ortiz challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them.
- Insurrectional Black Power
CLR James on Race and Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
During the exhilarating and dangerous late 1960s and early 1970s, no world historical figure of older generations had a more militant defense of Black Power than CLR James. But it was always a vision within a context, and after all these years have passed (along with James himself who died in 1989), the context remains crucial.
- Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Gordon Corera's book takes us through the labyrinth of cyber-espionage, the development by American intelligence of "computer network attack" and realisation by its adversaries, hackers, that the secret services had created "a large attack surface" that rendered it vulnerable.
- International Development: Illusions and realities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Explores the myriad shapes of development, and argues for an organic approach driven by the people it's meant to benefit.
- ISIS-Turkey Links
Research Paper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Is Turkey collaborating with the Islamic State (ISIS)? Allegations range from military cooperation and weapons transfers to logistical support, financial assistance, and the provision of medical services. Columbia University's Program on Peace-building and Rights assigned a team of researchers in the United States, Europe, and Turkey to examine Turkish and international media, assessing the credibility of allegations.
- Keystone XL opponents need a jobs program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The victorious Keystone campaign also exposed the perennial Achilles' heel of those who are fighting against climate change: We are often painted by our opponents and perceived by the public as caring more about the environment than about jobs. The neglected half of the job for environmental advocates is to ourselves become the voice for job creation. We need to develop robust programs to put unemployed pipefitters, teamsters, and others back to work. Indeed, the prerequisite for every environmental campaign should be a plausible and detailed jobs program. The sustainability movement must be a voice for workers, students, and others who want to both save the earth and promote appropriate economic development.
- Killing the Host
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments.
- The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Norman Geras sets out to interrogate and refute the myths that have developed around Rosa Luxemburg's work.
- Life Support for Labor?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of the book "Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress" written by Steve Early.
- The Living Seed
Part 1 of The Living Farms series
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Testimonies of farmers, seed savers, agronomists and scientists from across India and abroad form the basis for their compelling investigation of GMOs, organic farming and the future of agriculture.
- Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A report documenting the lynching of millions of African Americans from the Civil War until the Second World War. The work maintains that America's legacy of racial terror must be more fully addressed if racial justice is to be achieved.
- The Man on the Operating Table
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Baynazar Mohammad Nazar was a husband and a father of four -- and a patient killed during the attack on the MSF hospital in Kunduz. This is his story.
- March to Freedom, 1963 and Beyond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Charles Simmons recounts his participation in the Walk to Freedom with Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963.
- Marxism and Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Why are women more often to be found on the sticky floor of low pay than above the glass ceiling where the rich reside? Why is there an assault on the gains of the women's movement? As austerity bites and new debates about oppression rage, Judith Orr steers a path through the history and future of the fight for women's liberation.
- Merchants of Doubt (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Inspired by the book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Merchants of Doubt takes audiences on an illuminating ride into the heart of American spin, lifting the curtain on a secretive group of pundits-for-hire who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities - yet have the contrary aim of spreading maximum confusion about well-studied public threats ranging from toxic chemicals to pharmaceuticals to climate change. 1 hr 36 min.
- Midnight in Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Mike Marqusee: A contender for the living
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Mike's humane socialism and his ability to express sophisticated ideas in an accessible way has enriched the left in the UK and elsewhere.
- Mike Marqusee's columns: a look back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As we remember Mike Marqusee, Nick Dearden highlights some of Mike's most timeless writing in Red Pepper
- Mining: Extracting the Future
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A publication on the negative impact of the mining industry on local communities and the environment. Articles include a look at the opening of Canada's North to industry, mining exploitation in Peru and targeted assassinations in Mesoamerica, Indigenous Water Defence, and the efforts of mining companies to excerpt influence and undermine accountability.
- Mobile Friendly Web Design – Does It Really Matter?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The times are changing. With the advancement of mobile technology, marketers not only have worry about how many people visit their website but also with what device. An effective internet marketing campaign relies on consumers feeling comfortable with your website. As more and more people begin to browse the internet on their smartphones, it's become imperative that websites become mobile-friendly.
- My Brother's Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Risking their own freedom, many African Canadians returned to the United States to participate in the Civil War and fight for the rights and liberty for all.
- Naked at Lunch
The Adventures of a Reluctant Nudist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- The name's changed; the game's the same
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Google cannot even claim that much - at heart, it remains an advertising company that happens to employ a lot of computer scientists.
- Network like a Pro
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One of the highest ranking reasons that attendees identify for visiting an exhibition or event is their ability to connect with high value people. This rationale is at the heart of any trade event which has buyers and sellers from a broad geographic reach under one roof for a finite amount of time. Networking always has been and will continue to be what trade shows are all about.
- The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage From the Cold War to Global Terror
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
What good timing for these books on espionage, just as ISIS - fruit of the worst "intelligence" lie of recent history, the Blair-Bush excursion into Iraq - surges on and spies for Britain and the US are said to be moving from Russia and China after revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The British GCHQ is caught illegally spying on human rights groups and the American NSA bugging heads of state, including French president Francois Hollande.
- Nine decades of non-violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- 95% of Police Killings in 2015 Occurred in Neighborhoods With Incomes Under $100,000 ref 56685
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- No Cheers For Anarchism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A successful movement requires compromise, organization, and yes, even leadership, to actually get things done, none of which appeal to anarchists.
- Nonviolent Communication
A Language of Life, 3rd Edition: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The latest edition of the communication guide that has sold more than 1,000,000 copies. An enlightening look at how peaceful communication can create compassionate connections with family, friends, and other acquaintances, this international bestseller uses stories, examples, and sample dialogues to provide solutions to communication problems both at home and in the workplace.
- On China's 1989 Tiananmen Upheaval
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The bourgeois media falsely portray the events in the spring of 1989 as a movement for capitalist counterrevolution under the banner of Western-style "democracy." The social explosion was triggered by protests initiated by students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, which increasingly drew in groups of workers and spread throughout the country. Far from seeking a return to capitalism, Chinese workers overwhelmingly directed their anger at the sharply rising economic inequalities, rampant corruption and inflation encouraged by Deng’s program of "building socialism with capitalist methods."
- On the Move: A Life
Will Self
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Oliver Sacks, the eminent neurologist and writer, whose many books have done perhaps more than any other body of work to explain the mysteries of the brain to a general readership, is a strong supporter of the "narrativity" theory of the human subject. Suitably enough - given this is an autobiography - Sacks restates the notion here: "Each of us...constructs and lives a "narrative" and is defined by this narrative." Elsewhere he asserts: "I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going with our powers of language, consciousness of self, and autobiographical memory."
- Out of the Closet and Into Print: Gay Liberation Across the Anglo-American World
PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 2015
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Palestinian Memory and Hope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A group of activists are working to create a Nakba Museum of Memory and Hope in Washington, D.C. The project aims to tell the Palestinian refugee story, one that has been silenced or ignored for too long.
- Panimara's foot soldiers of freedom - 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Rural Indians were both the foot soldiers of freedom and the leaders of some of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings ever seen. Countless thousands of them sacrificed their lives to rid India of British rule. And many who lived through great suffering to see a free India were mostly forgotten soon after. From the 1990s onwards, p. Sainath recorded the lives of several of the last living freedom fighters.
- Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA'S Secret Campaign to enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The revelations that the National Security Agency secretly gathered information on millions of us at home while the Central Intelligence Agency systematically tortured prisoners overseas have made it tempting to assume that such arrogant excesses are somehow novel. But Karen Paget's Patriotic Betrayal brings to life a similar scandal from half a century ago. It's a scandal that has great relevance today.
- Pete Seeger, Musical Revolutionary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On Seeger's banjo was printed the motto: "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It to Surrender." With these words, Seeger plainly stated that he intended to use music as a means to facilitate social change. He believed that music held the potential to help people understand their troubles and to take action to change repressive circumstances.
- Planned Parenthood under siege
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Women, especially poor women, have already been severely impacted by an avalanche of laws that effectively strip them of being able to obtain what is a legal medical procedure. The Republican vow to defund Planned Parenthood would mean $500 million cut from two programs aimed at helping poor people: 75% from Medicaid; and the rest from Title X—the federal family planning program that serves poor Americans.
- Plutocracy
Political Repression In The U.S.A.
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Income inequality has become a key hot button issue in the modern day political spectrum. While these economic and class divides seem more pronounced than ever before, the impressive new documentary Plutocracy: Political Repression in the USA reveals that the core of these struggles pre-date the beginnings of the industrialized labor force. The long and painful journey towards achieving worker rights and fair wages has been marked by violence, discrimination, and inhumane exploitation.
- The Politics of Everybody
Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Holly explores the concepts of 'man', 'woman', and 'other' in the present political context. The book also attempts to reconcile queer theory and Marxist analysis.
- The Politics of Mass Incarceration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An interview with activist and author James Kilgore about his book, "The Politics of Mass Incarceration."
- Project La Macaza: A study of two Canadian peace protests in the 1960s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Published in In Worth Fighting For: Canada's Tradtion of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror, Laura Campbell, Michaell Dawson and Catherine Gidney eds. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015
- Puffin Patrol
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Follow famlies and passionate environmentalists on Newfoundland's Puffin Patrol. It is spring on the North Atlantic and millions of puffins are making their way home to breed. They spend 8 months of the year living alone at sea, but they are extremely social when they return to land. On Gull Island, just south of St. John's, Newfoundland, it is breeding season for over 300,000 pairs of North Atlantic puffins.
- Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Smith's review of a book published on the history of LGBT activisim within the labour movement.
- Quote Banners - Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- The Radical Life of Rosa Luxemburg
A graphic novelization of the revolutionary life and legacy of "Red Rosa"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An excerpt from Red Rosa, a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg.
- Rasmea Odeh's Long Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A report of Palestinian community leader Rasmea Odeh's arrest and ongoing immigration problems.
- Read Capital: The First Sentence, Or, Capital starts with Wealth, not with the Commodity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
John Holloway claims that Marx, in Capital, does not start with the commodify.
- Rebel Youth
1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Reckoning with Apocalypse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Jacqueline Foertsch's book, "Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America" on issues of race within the anti-war movement.
- Reclaiming the Don
An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Illuminates the impact of the Don River Valley on Toronto's development and unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city.
- Red Love Across the Pacific
Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and follows its trails throughout the twentieth century.
- Requiem For The American Dream
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In his final long-form documentary interview - filmed over four years - Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality. Tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority, Chomsky lays bare the costly debris left in its wake: the evisceration of the American worker, disappearance of the living wage, collapse of the dream of home ownership, skyrocketing higher education costs placing betterment beyond reach or shackling students to suffocating debt, and a loss of solidarity that has left us divided against ourselves.
- Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The actual lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley intersected only briefly, for Wollstonecraft died of septicaemia in 1797, shortly after giving birth. Yet as Charlotte Gordon's book makes clear, Shelley's life was inextricably bound to the mother she never knew.
- Rural India - a living journal, a breathing archive
The everyday lives of everyday people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Project on rural India consisting of an archive which depicts its diverse and complex countryside.
- Saudi Royal Family: Protecting VIPs, While Letting Ordinary Pilgrims Die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the wake of a stampede in Mecca which killed close to 1,000 Haj pilgrims, it is being reported that the columns of pilgrims ran into each other because Saudi police had closed off key roads in the vicinity so as to accommodate VIPs who are whisked through without having to mingle with the masses.
- SEO and Press Releases
How to Drive Search Visibility While Following Google Best Practices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The times are changing. With the advancement of mobile technology, marketers not only have worry about how many people visit their website but also with what device. An effective internet marketing campaign relies on consumers feeling comfortable with your website. As more and more people begin to browse the internet on their smartphones, it's become imperative that websites become mobile-friendly.
- Shadow of a Giant
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This documentary focuses on the toxix legacy of arsenic, the final byproduct of the Giant gold mine, which used to feed Yellowknife's economy.
- Shadow Sovereigns
How global corporations are seizing more and more power over our lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Global corporations now demand control over decisions affecting labour laws, finance, public health, food and agriculture, safety regulations, taxes and international trade and investment. They even claim the right to private tribunals where they can sue governments for passing laws that could harm their present or future profits.
- Shaping 20th Century America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Part of an ongoing series on the centennial of World War I.
- Slick Water
Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Mot Powerful Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A story of abuses by the fossil fuel industry and governments, telling the story of fracking rhough the lens of a legal battle to expose the truth. Nikiforuk raises stark questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with mining low-grade oil and gas formations, and the future of democracy.
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
As Ronson makes clear, all these people's punishments by far outweighed the gravity of their so-called crimes.
- Socialism ... Seriously
A Brief Guide to Human Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Socialism Taken Seriously
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt's book "Taking Socialism Seriously".
- Socialist Register 2015
Volume 51, Transforming Classes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2015
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Southern Insurgency
The Coming of the Global Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Southern Insurgency The Coming of the Global Working Class (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review of Immanuel Ness's book Southern Insurgency The Coming of the Global Working Class.
- Struggles in Logistics in Italy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A sketch based on conversations in October 2015 with militants in and around the small Italian union SI Cobas (Sindicato Interprofessionale/Comites di Base), which has carried out and won militant strikes over the past few years with mainly immigrant logistics and warehouse workers.
- Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Traces the growing use of armed drones. Woods examines the multiple legal and ethical issues that surround the drone wars.
- Suffragette (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Suffragette is a 2015 British historical period drama directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan. The film stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, and Meryl Streep.
- Swiss Leaks: Murky Cash Sheltered by Bank Secrecy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) offered services to clients who had been unfavourably named by the United Nations, in court documents and in the media as connected to arms trafficking, blood diamonds and bribery. HSBC served those close to discredited regimes such as that of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, former Tunisian president Ben Ali and current Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad. The bank repeatedly reassured clients that it would not disclose details of accounts to national authorities, even if evidence suggested that the accounts were undeclared to tax authorities in the client’s home country.
- A Tate Gallery for the New Left
Portraits, Landscapes, and Abstracts in the Revolutionary Activism of the 1950s and 1960s
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A review essay on Ernie Tate's two-volume memoir on Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s.
- The Theology of Consensus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Consensus decision-making has dominated social movements for forty years. Let’s try something different. Outside of small-group settings, consensus process is unwieldy, off-putting, tiresome, and ineffective. Many inclusive, accountable alternative methods are available for making decisions democratically. If we want to change the world, let's pick ones that work.
- They Know Everything About You
How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Government and corporate surveillance; defence of privacy and democracy.
- They Will Have to Kill Us First
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
They Will Have To Kill Us First: Malian music in exile is a feature-length documentary following musicians in Mali in the wake of a jihadist takeover and subsequent banning of music. Music, one of the most important forms of communication in Mali, disappeared overnight in 2012 when Islamic extremists groups rose up to capture an area the size of the UK and France combined. But rather than lay down their instruments, Mali’s musicians fought back.
- This Benevolent Experiment
Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in the United States and Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A multi-layered comparative analysis of indigenous boarding schools in the US and Canada.
- This Changes Everything
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, the film presents portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Klein suggests that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
- Through Blood & Sweat
A Remembrance Trek across Sicilly's World War II Battlegrounds
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Tomorrow (Demain)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A French documentary film built on the premise of showcasing climate change solutions rather than a focus on problems and catastrophe.
- Tomorrow's Battlefield
U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
U.S. military is fighting shadow wars in Africa and claims that Africa is the "battlefield of tomorrow".
- The Toronto Carrying Place
Rediscovering Toronto's Most Ancient Trail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Glenn Turner retraces the ancient portage from Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe and discucsses its role in the history of southern Ontario.
- Travel from Daejeon to Sejong by bike (Watch it from the air)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Aerial view of the bicycle road between Daejeon and Sejong, both cities are located 2~3 hours south of Seoul. Solar panels not only generate power but also provide protection to cyclists from sun and rain. Taken by a drone camera in fall.
- The Two-Party System, Part II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The second part of an overview of the history and origins of the two-party system in the United States.
- Unions and the Road to Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A discussion of the labour movement's ineffectiveness against combatting capitalism.
- The use of encryption tools and the protection of anonymity online as safeguards for freedom of the press
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
David Kaye is the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of expression. In his latest report, he stressed that governments are obligated to protect encryption tools and guarantee the anonymity and privacy of users so as to safeguard the right to freedom of expression online.
- Voices of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Paris Commune of 1871 has been the subject of numerous interpretations. Voices of the Paris Commune contains a selection of eyewitness accounts providing a fascinating range of opinions on this historic event.
- Vulnerable get lost in 'secret' Chicago prisoner warehouse
Mainly black detainees interrogated without access to attorneys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
At least 3,500 Americans have been detained inside a Chicago police warehouse described by some of those arrested as a secretive interrogation facility, records reveal.
- Wall Street's Think Tank
The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Council on Foreign Relations is the most influential foreign-policy think tank in the United States, claiming among its members a high percentage of government officials, media figures, and establishment elite. For decades it kept a low profile even while it shaped policy, advised presidents, and helped shore up U.S. hegemony following the Second World War.
- War Against the People
Israel, The Palestinians and Global Pacification
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Governments today are waging a 'war against the people' -- whether 'securitization' against asylum seekers in Fortress Europe, 'counterinsurgency' in Afghanisation, or the subliminal war of policy and surveillance arising everywhere. Israel's contribution to this is key: exporting the high-tech weaponry, security systrems and methods of pacification perfected on the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
- The Ward
The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The story of the growth and destruction of Toronto’s first 'priority neighbourhood.'
- We Are All – Fill in the Blank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
We should condemn violence and terror, and defend freedom of the press. We should do so on the basis of consistent principles -- in contrast to the mainstream media and politicians, who condemn acts directed at 'us' but condone or ignore crimes committed by 'our side'.
- We Believe the Children
A Moral Panic in the 1980's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations, and unfounded fears for the safety of children.
- We Call Them Intuders: Financing Canadian Mining in Africa
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
If you live and work in Canada, chances are you're connected to Candian mining companies through your savings, taxes, CPP contributions, RRSPs and other investments. We Call Them Intruders travels from Canada to Africa and back again to unearth stories from people negatively impacted by some of Canada's largest international mining projects.
- We're Going to Run This City
Winnipeg's Political left after the General Strike
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Explores the dynamic municipal politics thqt came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
- What do you say when you don't know the answer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
One of my personal pet peeves happens I ask a sales person a question and they don't know the answer but give one of two responses:
1. They shrug their shoulders and go on and talk about something else, or
2. Invent an answer and then present it with absolute conviction.
- What Does Science Tell Us About Race?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Six points about the complex relation between scientific research and the reality of human group differences.
- What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multinational agreement that, among other things, threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement.
- What's Behind Detroit Happy Talk?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A critical analysis of Detroit's so-called recovery from bankruptcy.
- Whose Lives Matter in America?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A discussion of Black Lives Matter and the murders of African Americans.
- Why the Right Loves Privilege Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Right deploys privilege politics to avoid class politics, obscuring where the real power lies in our society.
- Why U.S.-Style Health Reform Does Not Work and What to Do about It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ending the corporate domination of healthcare is part of breaking the domination of the corporate class over our government and our lives. The task is to organize a mass movement that refuses to treat healthcare as a commodity.
- Why We Can't Breathe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On police racism and violence against blacks.
- The Wikileaks Files
The World According to US Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
An introduction by Julian Assange exposes the ongoing debates about freedom of information, international surveillance, and justice. With contributions by Dan Beeton, Phyllis Bennis, Michael Busch, Peter Certo, Conn Hallinan, Sarah Harrison, Richard Heydarian, Dahr Jamail, Jake Johnston, Alexander Main, Robert Naiman, Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Linda Pearson, Gareth Porter, Tim Shorrock, Russ Wellen, and Stephen Zunes
- Wilson's Open Door to World War I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Discussion of the underlying reasons for the United States' participation in World War I.
- Workers' Guide to Health and Safety
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Accessible guide to occupational safety. Provides essential tools to support employees, health promoters and union organizers in their efforts to create safer and healthier workplaces.
- Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity
Tackling climate change in a neoliberal world
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Paul Hampton, a Marxist trade union researcher in Britain, addresses the role of workers in the climate justice movement, as well as the tasks of revolutionaries.
- The world is my country
A Visual Celebration of the People and Movements that Opposed the First World War
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The First World War centenary (2014-2018) is being accompanied by a tidal wave of events, exhibitions, TV series, books and commemorations. However, one key aspect of the War’s history is receiving little or no attention: the history and stories of the people and organisations that opposed the conflict, and took action to stop it.
- Youth and Interfaith Dialogue -- A Directory of Organizations
Resource Type: Database
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
This compilation of organizations – all of them currently engaged in youth and interfaith work in the Greater Toronto Area – was created as a networking tool to facilitate and empower communication between local interfaith initiatives. In addition to the main directory, you will find educational resources, potential global partners, and other useful information.
- The Snowden Hoax
How a Lie Traveled Around the World Before the Truth Could Get Its Boots On
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
- Anishinaabe Water Ceremony to be held near Tracks to Protect from Oil and Gas Spills, other Industrial Threats
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
the Grassy Narrows Women's Drum Group will be hosting a traditional Anishinaabe Water Ceremony near the CN Mainline at Mile 106 near Highway 671 between Kenora, Ontario and Grassy Narrows First Nation in Treaty # 3.
- Annex Chess Club Dog Days Tournament
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
At Annex Chess Club, we’re celebrating the summer heat with our Dog Days Swiss. Running from August 17 to September 21, this regular club tournament is in three sections by CFC rating: Crown, Under-1800, and Under-1500.
- Another arrest in growing crackdown on 64Tianwang website reporters
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns this week’s arbitrary arrest of Yang Dongying, the latest victim of the Chinese government’s systematic persecution of citizen-journalists working for 64Tianwang (64Skynet), a news website run by the cyber
- Anthony Bellanger appointed new IFJ General Secretary
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Anthony Bellanger, a French national and trade unionist, was appointed as the new General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
- Arrested in Thailand for carrying safety vest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) in calling for the immediate release of a dual Hong Kong-Canadian journalist arrested at Bangkok airport on Sunday, August 23.
- Ayotzinapa delegation to testify before civil society and policy makers about human rights crisis in Mexico
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Ayotzinapa delegation to testify before civil society & policy makers about human rights crisis in Mexico. Family members & representatives of 43 missing students touring Canada calling for end to state violence and lack of accountability in Mexico
- Beirut riot police use violence against journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the many cases of violence against journalists by security forces in recent weeks in Beirut during demonstrations in protest against the collapse of garbage collection.
- British cyber-activist sued by Thai fruit company
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Thai pineapple processing company Natural Fruit and the Thai judicial authorities to abandon the three defamation cases still pending against British human rights defender Andy Hall
- Cameroonian authorities confuse journalism with spying
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Two journalists - freelance investigative reporter Simon Ateba and Radio France Internationale correspondent Ahmed Abba - are being held illegally by the Cameroonian authorities, who claim that their journalistic work constituted spying.
- Canadian Franchise Association Announces Finalists for the 2015 CFA Awards of Excellence in Franchising
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Canadian Franchise Association is pleased to announce the 12 finalists for the 2015 CFA Awards of Excellence in Franchising.
- Cartoonist Zunar could get 43 years in prison for nine cartoons
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns well-known cartoonist Zunar’s trial on a sedition charge for posting nine of his cartoons on Twitter, and urges the Malaysian authorities to stop harassing him judicially and psychologically.
- Celebrating Canadian Multiculturalism Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Canadian Multiculturalism Day is a day to recognize and acknowledge Canada's rich diversity and significant contributions many ethnocultural communities have made and continue to make to the development of our great country, Canada.
- Chinese authorities continue attempts to control media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists expresses concern regarding the recent directive issued to the Chinese media regarding reporting of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
- Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), privacy company Disconnect and a coalition of Internet companies have announced a stronger “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting for Web browsing - a new policy standard that, coupled with privacy software
- Competition period opens for this year's Sarah Beth Therien Memorial Scholarship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Competition opens for the annual Sarah Beth Therien Memorial Scholarship for Canadian youth who serve the cause of safety.
- CPJ welcomes release of Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste, who was serving a seven-year prison sentence in Egypt for "conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood," was deported today, according to Egypt's state-run news agency.
- Currently in Turkey: online censorship, attacks against media and detention of journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and its European organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (IFJ), jointly call on the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to immediately lift all bans against news organisations
- EFF Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Over Warrantless Searches of Hotel Records
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a challenge brought by hotel owners against a Los Angeles city ordinance that allows police to access guest registers without consent, warrant, or
- EFF Sues Justice Department for Records About FBI’s Plans for Rapid DNA
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI to gain access to documents revealing the government’s plans to use Rapid DNA.
- EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has won its four-year Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over secret legal interpretations of a controversial section of the Patriot Act.
- Election fraud? Council of Canadians launches "VoteWatch" election fraud reporting service
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Council of Canadians is launching VoteWatch, a service to report voter suppression Canadians may experience or witness.
- Federal Election: Canadian Ethnocultural Council provides information about when, where and ways to vote
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
On behalf of Elections Canada, the Canadian Ethnocultural Council is doing outreach to inform voters about when, where and ways to vote.
- Feds waited 15 years to act on tainted tap water in Grassy Narrows daycare
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Feds waited 15 years to act on tainted tap water in Grassy Narrows. Daycare water had possible carcinogens above limit in 1999: Health Canada data. Chief Fobister calls on all candidates to make clean water commitments.
- Filipino journalist gunned down on way to work
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in condemning the murder of a Filipino journalist on the central island of Luzon.
- Fourth blogger on radical Islamist hit-list hacked to death
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Niloy Neel, a secularist blogger and activist who had been threatened by Islamist militants, was hacked to death today in his Dhaka home by five intruders armed with machetes.
- Gambia Authorities use trial to continue persecuting radio journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing harassment of Teranga FM radio manager Alagie Sisay, who is being tried in Gambia on charges of sedition.
- Government directive restricts media reporting in China
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses strong concern for a directive issued by China’s media regulator on June 19, restricting reporting about China’s Stock Exchange.
- Grassy Narrows declares state of emergency over unsafe drinking water
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Grassy Narrows declares state of emergency over unsafe drinking water. Turbidity exceeded limit by 120x, uranium and possible carcinogens found in samples.
- Harassing journalists is election campaign strategy in Guatemala
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders urges Guatemala’s political class to respect the freedom of journalists to work as they see fit.
- Helping to make Calgary a suicide-safer community
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Four Calgary Organizations have partnered to launch a campaign promoting suicide awareness, intervention skills training, and resources for those in distress. The campaign begins September 10th—celebrated each year as World Suicide Prevention Day
- Hundreds Expected at Rally to Mark Two Weeks since Alan Kurdi’s Death
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Marking 2 weeks since the deaths of Alan, Ghalib and Rehana Kurdi, Torontonians are joining cross-Canada campaign that has coordinated rallies, marches and forums in over 25 cities.
- Hungarian police violence against foreign journalists covering refugee crisis
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that the Hungarian police have obstructed foreign media coverage of the refugee crisis on the border between Hungary and Serbia and, in particular, that they have on three occasions in the past week
- IFIC Announces Board of Directors for 2015-2016
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON – September 10, 2015 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) is pleased to announce its board of directors for the 2015-2016 year.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for February 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending February 28, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.22 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM increased by $76.5 billion
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for January 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending January 31, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.18 trillion.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for July 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON – August 19, 2015 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending July 31, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.24 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for November 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - December 22, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending November 30, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.23 trillion. Year-to-date, indust
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for October 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON - November 19, 2015 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending October 31, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.23 trillion. Year-to-date, industry
- IFIC welcomes completion of technology upgrades that pave the way for better investor disclosure
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Investment Funds Industry of Canada welcomes the announcement by FundSERV that it has completed important network upgrades that pave the way for investors to receive clear, new information about the cost and performance of their mutual funds.
- IFJ and EFJ ask for a full investigation into attacks on media workers by Police at a demonstration in Armenia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have together condemned the actions of Armenian police who attacked and briefly detained at least 10 media workers
- IFJ and EFJ condemn "outrageous" 7.5 year jail sentence for Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have today condemned the sentencing of Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova to 7.5 years in jail
- IFJ and EFJ launch a conference to tackle press freedom and labour rights in Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) and the Journalists Association of Turkey (TGC) jointly host the two-day international conference in Istanbul
- IFJ and EFJ urge Turkey to release two UK journalists facing terror charges
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have today backed their affiliate in Great Britain and Ireland, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), in urging the Turkish authorities to immedia
- IFJ backs Univision’s journalist booted out of Donald Trump’s press conference over immigration policy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists has supported its US affiliate The NewsGuild-CWA in condemning the attitude of the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, after he ordered the removal from his press conference of Univision
- IFJ calls on Israeli authorities to allow PJS senior official travel out of Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on Israeli authorities to allow a senior official of its affiliate the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate (PJS) to travel out of the Gaza strip to Ramallah.
- IFJ Condemns First Media Killing of 2015 in Yemen
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Yemeni Journalists' Syndicate (YJS) have today condemned the killing of Al-Masirah TV channel correspondent Khalid Mohammed al Washali
- IFJ condemns killing of journalist in Mozambique
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the killing of Paulo Machava, a senior Mozambican journalist who was shot dead this morning in the capital Maputo by unknown gunmen.
- IFJ launches global campaign to promote International Press Card
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today launched an international campaign to promote the International Press Card (IPC), a global press pass delivered by the Federation and widely recognised by public officials in more than 134
- IFJ urges accountability for deliberate targeting of journalists in 2014 summer Gaza war
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) today called for accountability for the deliberate targeting of journalists during the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza strip
- IFJ urges Hamas to release a Palestinian journalist held incommunicado
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today backed its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS), in urging Hamas to immediately release Palestinian journalist Shadi Ahmad Shaker Shaheen
- Israeli security forces use violence against journalists in East Jerusalem
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the violence used by Israeli police against journalists covering the clashes between security forces and Palestinian protesters that have been taking place in and around the plaza in front of East Jerusalem’s Al-A
- Journalist arrested over Facebook post in Bangladesh
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) in expressing serious concern over the arrest and detention of a journalist in Dhaka over a Facebook post.
- Journalist missing after investigative report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) express serious concern following the disappearance of Indian journalist Chayan Sarkar in West Bengal.
- Journalists' safety in Ukraine: IFJ/EFJ deplore five casualties in Kiev protest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European organisation the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) back their Ukrainian affiliates the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) and the Independent Media Trade Union
- July 5: Thousands to march in Toronto for Jobs, Justice and the Climate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
March on July 5 comes on eve of the Pan American Climate and Economic Summits
- Kazakhstan Misusing Court Order to Censor Online Newspaper
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Online news publisher Respublika has asked a federal judge in New York to clarify that officials in Kazakhstan can’t use a U.S. court order in a battle over leaked emails to censor news stories that are critical of the Kazakhstan government.
- Keep it in the Ground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A campaign by The Guardian newspaper to stop climate change by keeping fossil fuels in the ground, featuring a series of articles on different aspects of the issue across the world.
- Media coverage curtailed after Burkina Faso coup
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the situation in Burkina Faso, where the soldiers who staged a coup d’état yesterday have silenced most privately-owned radio and TV stations and are controlling the state-owned national TV broadcaster, RTB,
- Media Release - IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for March 2015
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON – April 17, 2015 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending March 31, 2015, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry totalled $1.22 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM
- Members of Mishkeegogamang First Nation organize Toronto furniture drive in context of ongoing housing crisis
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the face of an ongoing housing crisis, members of Mishkeegogamang First Nation and union local CUPE 3903 are organizing a second drive to bring an 18-wheeler truck full of furniture, tools , building materials and youth sports equipment
- New anti-terrorism law takes Egypt into Orwellian territory
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns a ban on media reports that conflict with official accounts of armed attacks and operations by Jihadi militants. The ban is part of an anti-terrorism law that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified yesterday
- New code of conduct lets Pakistani journalists ... censor themselves
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the restrictive nature of a new code of conduct for radio and TV stations that was drafted by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), an information ministry offshoot, and took effect
- New multimedia report exposes discriminatory immigration policy
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
A new multimedia project sheds light on the drastically changed landscape for immigrants under the Harper government. Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration launches today at http://www.neverhome.ca
- New Street-Level Surveillance Project Tracks Spying Technologies Used by Local Law Enforcement
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
EFF Web Portal Provides In-Depth Resources About License Plate Readers, Biometric Collection, and Other High-Tech Surveillance Tools.
- One year on: #FindMoyameenaa
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Maldives Journalists Association (MJA) express solidarity with the Maldivian media community as they mark the one year anniversary of the disappearance of local journalist
- Online newspaper editor gunned down on Maputo street
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is alarmed to learn that Paulo Machava, the well-known editor of the online Diario de Noticias newspaper, was gunned down on a Maputo street today against a backdrop of tension for media personnel in Mozambique.
- Onlinecensorship.org
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Onlinecensorship.org seeks to encourage social media companies to operate with greater transparency and accountability toward their users as they make decisions that regulate speech. We’re collecting reports from users in an effort to shine a light on what content is taken down, why companies make certain decisions about content, and how content takedowns are affecting communities of users around the world.
- Only Seven Days Left to Save The Humber River Clean-Up: Founder Seeking Local Business Sponsors
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Founder seeking local business sponsors for Humber River clean-up
- Outrage as Al-Jazeera retrial ends with three-year jail terms
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the three-year jail sentences that a Cairo court, after many postponements, finally passed today on Al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Peter Geste, who were convicted of disseminat
- Pakistan issues restrictive Code of Conduct for Electronic Media
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in expressing serious concerns over restrictive provisions of the newly introduced Code of Conduct for Electronic Media.
- Pakistani journalist killed in his home
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) deplores the brutal murder of a Pakistani journalist in Jaffarabad in Balochistan province on Sunday June 28. The IFJ calls on the Pakistani government to take immediate action to bring the assailan
- Photojournalist slain in Mexico City after fleeing threats in Veracruz
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled to learn that photojournalist Rubén Espinosa Becerril has been found murdered in Mexico City, to which he fled in early June after receiving death threats in the southeastern state of Veracruz.
- Presidential pardon for Al Jazeera journalists jailed on "terrorism" charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders welcomes today’s presidential pardon for Al Jazeera English journalists Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, who had been imprisoned since late August after being convicted of working without permission, broadcasting
- Privacy Badger 1.0 Blocks the Sneakiest Kinds of Online Tracking
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Privacy Badger 1.0, a browser extension that blocks some of the sneakiest trackers that try to spy on your Web browsing habits.
- Refugee Rights Groups Denounce Canadian Government Complicity in Migrant Deaths, including Kurdi Brothers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Migrant and refugee rights groups are demanding that Minister Alexander and Prime Minister Stephen Harper answer for the deaths of Galip Kurdi, five, and his three-year-old brother Aylan, after it was revealed that their application for private refug
- Religious extremists murder fourth blogger in Bangladesh
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly deplores the murder of Niladri Chattopadhyay on August 7 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Reporter gunned down three days after presidential license to kill
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the situation in South Sudan where President Salva Kiir, speaking at a news conference, threatened to have journalists murdered if they "work against their country" and where reporter Peter Moi was gunned dow
- Reporters Without Borders solidary with journalists from netzpolitik.org
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is shocked that the German Public Prosecutor General is currently considering treason charges (Landesverrat) against two German journalists who run the blog netzpolitik.org.
- Richard McGowan New Chairman of CCRDA
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Richard McGowan has been declared the new chairman of the CCRDA Board of Directors. The CCRDA raises up to $750 million each year for their efforts to end poverty and provide relief, rehabilitation and developmental services for hurting nations.
- Sex and Gender: A Beginner's Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
An introductory overview to contemporary debates in sex and gender.
- Shooting attacks on media personnel leave two dead, two wounded
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by a spate of attacks on media personnel in Pakistan that has left two dead and two wounded in the past 24 hours.
- Sudanese journalist held without charge in Saudi Arabia, fears extradition
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders has learned that Walid Eldoud Elmakki Elhussein, a Sudanese journalist resident in Saudi Arabia since 2000, has been held without charge for the past six weeks and, according to his family, could be extradited to Sudan.
- Taken Offline: New EFF Project Shines Light on Coders and Bloggers Imprisoned For Online Free Expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched the Offline project, a campaign devoted to digital heroes - coders, bloggers, and technologists - who have been imprisoned, tortured, and even sentenced to death for raising their voices online
- Targeted violence against journalists by police dispersing protest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns targeted Armenian police violence against journalists at dawn yesterday in Yerevan, when the authorities used force to disperse a sit-in by large crowd of demonstrators protesting against electricity price hikes.
- Toronto Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Addresses the World
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
2015 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Torontonian Setsuko Thurlow, will broadcast her message of peace around the world. A retired social worker with the
- Turkey: Dangerous surge in censorship liable to exacerbate crisis
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
In the latest alarming development for freedom of information in Turkey, prosecutors in the Istanbul district of Bakırköy today began investigating one of the country’s biggest media groups, DoÄŸan, for alleged terrorist propaganda.
- TV journalists attacked by Indian railway police
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists – India (NUJI) in strongly criticizing the attack on journalists from a local television channel by local police in Bhubaneswar, Odisha of India
- Use Existing Levers to Spark Higher Retirement Savings Levels: IFIC
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Toronto, ON – September 9, 2015 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) is urging the government of Canada to use its resources to encourage more Canadians to save through existing workplace and individual voluntary retirement saving pl
- Well-known Syrian cartoonist died in detention after being tortured
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is stunned to learn that well-known Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan died in detention in 2013, less than a year after his arrest in October 2012, and that his death was almost certainly the result of having been tortured by t
- What can you do if you feel your employers request is illegal, immoral , contrary to your conscience or religious beliefs
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Employment Lawyer Shelley Brown outlines what can you do if you feel your employers request is illegal, immoral, contrary to your conscience or religious belief.
- Will Claudia Duque obtain justice?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns judicial obstruction in the case against the former deputy head of the Colombian intelligence agency DAS, Jose Miguel Narvaez, and two other former intelligence chiefs on charges of psychologically torturing
- Women Building Connections Gala Dinner
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
Celebrating Mother’s Day for Peace the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) will hold a gala dinner, “Women Building Connections” on Thursday, May 14th, 6:00 pm at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club. Five outstanding women, Jean Augustine, Kim P
- Zaina Erhaim of Syria named 2015 Winner of Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Published: 2015
he Peter Mackler Award, the US branch of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and Agence France-Presse are pleased to announce that Syrian journalist is the 2015 winner of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism.
- The dangers of reactionary ecology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2104
Influential metaphors for understanding the environment serve as a bridge between traditional conservatism and outright ecofascism. Here we want to look at how ecological ideas can be deployed to support deeply reactionary politics.
- Other Voices Introductions
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2014
Published: 2021
Introductions to the Other Voices newsletters from July 2014 through to the end of 2021.
- Regent Park story not so simple
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Individuals and families already marginalized by poverty, poor health and barriers to accessing services, are being further marginalized by displacement.
- Radical Digressions 7
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014
Published: 2017
- The Search for General Tso
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2017
A quest to understand the origins of this ubiquitous, spicy red chicken dish and to explore the history of Chinese-American food.
- Confronting Injustice
Social Activism in the Age of Individualism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2016
Confronting Injustice is a call for collective action against the social causes of poverty and climate change, written by a socialist organizer for activists.
- How the People's Climate March Became a Corporate PR Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I've never been to a protest march that advertised in the New York City subway. That spent $220,000 on posters inviting Wall Street bankers to join a march to save the planet, according to one source. That claims you can change world history in an afternoon after walking the dog and eating brunch.
- Like a Dull Knife: The People's Climate "Farce"
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Even in a top-down format, one hopes the upcoming march could draw much-needed attention to the climate movement.
- The Two Apartheids
What are the similarities and differences between South African apartheid and the Israeli system?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2015
- Marxism and the Fight Against Native Oppression in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2015
Our political tendency has always emphasized the need to combat the special oppression of Natives, blacks, women and others. Such oppression is intimately connected with the “normal” capitalist exploitation of the workers and must be fought by means of the class struggle. Most of our opponents on the left these days reject historical materialism, just as they reject the perspective of working-class revolution and instead push variants of Native cultural nationalism and "ecosocialism."
- The Rise of British Imperialism
Part I: The Protestant Reformation to the English Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2015
Russell Stroker of the Trotskyist League goes back to the origins of the world capitalist system in the 16th century to explain how imperialism emerged out of the political and economic logic of capitalism.
- RWB publishes 2014 round-up of violence against journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is today publishing its round-up of abuses against journalists in 2014. According to RWB’s tally, 66 journalists were murdered this year, bringing to 720 the number of journalists killed in connection with their work in the past 10 years. A total of 119 journalists were kidnapped this year. Forty journalists are currently being held hostage.
- Gray Mountain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2015
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track -- until the recession hits and she is downsized, furloughed, and escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, all for a slim chance of getting rehired. In a matter of days, Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia.
- Israel's anti-African dragnet tightens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The past year saw some of the most ruthless Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza since the territories were occupied in 1967. Israeli political leaders incited violence against Palestinians and soldiers and civilians carried out these commands, while the government’s parallel war on African refugees raged on.
- Polish farmers threaten uprising over opencast coalmine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Heinz unites with farmers in rebellion against plan to build a vast lignite mine and power plant on farming land in western Poland.
- Sources News Release Archive 2014
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
News releases from 2014.
- Saudi Star To Restart Rice Project on Disputed Anuak Lands in Ethiopia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Saudi Star Agricultural Development plans to spend $100 million in a rice export project in Gambella region of Ethiopia despite allegations of human rights violations surrounding the "villagization" program.
- The bird that travels 29,000km a year
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Rufa red knot's epic annual migration from Tierra del Fuego to the Canadian Arctic risks being grounded by climate change.
- One year in jail and still no justice for Peter Greste
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its Australian affiliate, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) in calling for the immediate release of Australian journalist, Peter Greste, who will today mark 365 days in an Egyptian jail.
- Disused oil and gas wells wells a major source of methane
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Long-disused oil and gas wells in the US have been found to be a 'significant' source of the super greenhouse gas methane. The climate impact of oil and gas is underestimated, as this long term impact is not included in existing calculations.
- Diaries reveal Jewish suffering during Holocaust in Hungary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Diary reveals how doctor hid Jewish boy and his aunt from Nazis in her Budapest home during the late stages of the Second World War.
- IMF policies contributed to the Ebola outbreak, weak response to it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Policies advocated by the IMF have contributed to underfunded, insufficiently staffed, and poorly prepared health systems in the countries with Ebola outbreaks.
- Origins of the police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Examining the creation of the first police forces, which took place in England and the US in just a few decades in the mid-19th century. And explaining that they were not brought into being to prevent crime or protect the public, but primarily to control crowds: the working class, white and black.
- IFJ calls for media freedom as Sri Lankan presidential election approaches
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the government of Sri Lanka and state forces to ensure media freedom and the safety of journalists as the country's Presidential Election approach next month.
- Cuba - A Personal Reflection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A brief history of the revolutionary period in Cuba's history told through the author's experiences.
- Female journalist attacked covering political protests in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned by the growing number of attacks against female journalists in Pakistan in recent months. On December 8, 2014, a female journalist was attacked covering a political rally in Faisalabad.
- IFJ/AJI condemn police intervention in Jakarta Post blasphemy matter
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI) (Alliance of Independent Journalists, Indonesia) in criticizing and rejecting the naming of the chief editor of the Jakarta Post as a suspect in a blasphemy case.
- IFJ Condemns Deaths of Five Syrian Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has declared December a deadly month for Syrian journalists as five more colleagues die in the first half of the month.
- IFJ condemns political cadre rampage against reporters in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) strongly condemn the attacks against journalists by the protestors of the Pakistan Teheek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Karachi, in Sindh province in Pakistan.
- IFJ/EFJ Condemn mass Arrest of Turkish Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists and its regional group, the European Federation of Journalists, today condemned the shock raid on Zaman newspaper and Samanyolu TV media resulting in the arrest of at least 31 persons including journalists.
- IFJ and FAJ Welcomes African Court's Landmark Decision in Favour of Freedom of Expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) have welcomed the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights' landmark decision of 5 December in the case of journalist Issa Lohe Konate
- IFJ urges Imran Khan to call for end to attacks on media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has urged Imran Khan, the leader of one of Pakistan's opposition parties, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), to stop attacks against journalists during PTI demonstrations against the government.
- JED and RWB Ask To Stop Threats Against Journalist Jean-Paul Bisila
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned about the threats that have been made by Jean Bamanisa, the governor of the Congolese northeastern Province Orientale, against Jean-Paul Bisila, a journalist with the Radio Okapi branch in the city of Bunia.
- Massacre witness ambushed in the Philippines
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in expressing concern over the attack on yet another witness in the trial against those accused of the Ampatuan Massacre.
- One Group Has a Higher Domestic Violence Rate Than Everyone Else - And It's Not the NFL
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In families of police officers, domestic violence is two-to-four times more likely than in the general population -- from stalking and harassment to sexual assault and even homicide.
- Police withdraw protection to senior journalists' leader despite threats for life
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses its serious concerns towards the safety of the senior leader of the IFJ affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), in Lahore, Pakistan after the Punjab Police decided to
- Press Freedom, Free Expression Still Under Threat in Indonesia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An international delegation visiting Indonesia last week raised concerns about the current state of media freedom in the country, calling on the Widodo administration to take a new approach towards freedom of expression. Criminalisation of online spe
- RWB supports legal action against secrets law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders regrets that on 10 December, 2014, when the entire world was celebrating the 66th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Japanese government allowed a draconian law on state secrets, one that violates the constitution and limits media freedom, to take effect.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 18, 2014
The Commons
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
From its beginnings, one of capitalism's prime imperatives has been an all-out and never-ceasing assault on the Commons in all its manifestations. Common land, common water, public ownership -- anything rooted in the ancient human traditions of sharing and cooperation is anathema to an economic system that seeks to turn everything that exists into private property that can be exploited for profit. This issue of the Connexions Newsletter focuses on the Commons.
- The Grinch Who Closed Child Care Programs
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario (ADCO) is inviting parents to join Operation Grinch at bill10.ca to send a strong message to Education Minister Liz Sandals to stop the closure of more child care programs in Ontario.
- E2014: A Basic (Chilling) Forensic Analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Any comparative forensic analysis is only as "good" as its baselines. In Landslide Denied — our archetypal post-election comparative forensics study, in which the "red shift" (the rightward disparity between exit poll and vote count results) was identified and measured — a critical component of the analysis was to establish that the exit poll respondents accurately represented the electorate.
- Asbestos revealed as Canada's top cause of workplace death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Asbestos exposure is the single largest on-the-job killer in Canada. Since 1996, almost 5,000 approved death claims stem from asbestos exposure, making it by far the top source of workplace death in Canada.
- The Once and Future Great Lakes Country
An Ecological History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A passionate, wide-ranging history of the landscapes around the Great Lakes.
- American drought: California's crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
California is undergoing its worst drought in a generation. Chris McGreal explains how it is affecting the state.
- Product of Mexico: Child Labor
In Mexico's fields, children toil to harvest crops that make it to American tables
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
About 100,000 children under 14 pick crops for pay at small- and mid-size farms across Mexico, where child labor is illegal. Some of the produce they harvest reaches American consumers, helping to power an export boom.
- The Logic of Torture
It's About Domination, Not Intelligence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Torture seems to have been as bureaucratic as any other government program, with the interrogators more obsessed about memos and ass covering and obscure turf wars than stopping the progress of ticking time bombs. Like all the other Beltway drones, the CIA’s team kissed up and kicked down, sucking up to their superiors while they tortured men to death.
- Product of Mexico: Company Stores
Company stores trap Mexican farmworkers in a cycle of debt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The company store is supposed to be a lifeline for migrant farm laborers. But inflated prices drive people deep into debt. Many go home penniless, obliged to work off their debts at the next harvest.
- 10 most shocking facts we found in CIA torture report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The so-called "torture report" released by the U.S. Senate this week contains only a fraction of the findings on how the CIA aimed to gather intelligence from detainees through interrogation. Still, it contains more than a few shocking revelations.
- This is NOT Recognition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As the recognition by European countries of a so called "State of Palestine" continues, it is becoming obvious that this is nothing but an old colonial trick dusted and reused. In the triangular relations between the Europeans, the colonial regime in Palestine – Israel, and the Palestinians, all remains the same.
- Torture Report Reveals CIA's Manipulation of US Media
Agency Used Classified Information As Currency For Deception
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In essence, the CIA operated as a propaganda machine, utilizing classified information as part of a larger effort to deceive the American public about the shortcomings of its torture program.
- Torture and the Violence of Organized Forgetting
A Form of Moral Paralysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture, it becomes clear that in the aftermath of the loathsome terrorist attack of 9/11, the United States entered into a new and barbarous stage in its history, one in which acts of violence and moral depravity were not only embraced but celebrated.
- The Complicity of Psychologists in CIA Torture
What the APA Knew
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen are two psychologists who played central roles in designing and implementing the CIA’s torture program. Now we also know how lucrative that work was for Mitchell and Jessen: their company was paid over $80 million by the CIA.
- EFF Joins Dozens of Groups in Call for Transparency in Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has joined dozens of civil society groups from around the world in calling for the release of the secret text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) -- a massive proposed trade agreement
- IFIC CMSA/PCMA Submission Focusses on Systemic Risk Deficiencies
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has filed a submission on behalf of the investment funds industry that identifies a number of concerns with consultation drafts of the Capital Markets Stability Act
- The New Cold War Policy Has Backfired
How the US Created Its Own Worst Nightmare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The world’s geopolitics, major trade patterns and military alliances have changed radically in the past month. Russia has re-oriented its gas and oil trade, and also its trade in military technology, away from Europe toward Eurasia. The result is the opposite of America’s hope for the past half-century of dividing and conquering Eurasia: setting Russia against China, isolating Iran, and preventing India, the Near East and other Asian countries from joining together to create an alternative to the U.S. dollar area.
- Obama Administration Muzzling Its Scientists
Just Like Canada's Harper Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Muzzling of scientists matters because they make policy decisions with real-world impacts on society.
- Wind offers a healthy way to generate power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions at a pace and scale that experts agree is necessary to avoid increasing catastrophic effects of global warming, we need a mix of renewable energy. Wind power will play a large role.
- British journalist convicted of contempt for questioning death toll
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked by the Bangladesh court's conviction this week of Dhaka-based British journalist David Bergman on contempt for questioning the official death toll of 1971 liberation war.
- Can We Criticize Foucault?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Since his death in 1984, Michel Foucault's work has become a touchstone for the academic left worldwide. But in a provocative new book published in Belgium last month, a team of scholars led by sociologist Daniel Zamora raises probing questions about Foucault's relationship with the neoliberal revolution that was just getting started in his last years.
- Chinese authorities restrict journalists access to information
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly criticizes the actions of Chinese authorities, withholding news of a case of public concern until after midnight in order to obstruct non-Mainland media from conducting further investigations.
- How the Obama Administration Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
US nuclear policy is undermining our safety and national security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he famously pledged to place nuclear disarmament at the center of his national-security strategy. Why, then, we must ask, is the Obama administration moving forward with an ambitious nuclear-weapons modernization program that could dramatically raise the threat of nuclear war?
- IFJ and EFJ alarmed by the creation of 'Orwellian' information ministry
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) are alarmed by the creation of a government body to control information and the media in Ukraine.
- IFJ and EFJ Sign a Memorandum with the Council of Europe to Create an Online Safety Platform for Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists' (IFJ) president, Jim Boumelha, signed yesterday a Memorandum of Understanding with the Council of Europe to promote the protection of journalism and safety of journalists.
- The IFJ and its US affiliates mourn the killing of US photographer in Yemen
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The IFJ and its affiliates worldwide condemn this latest barbaric outrage and send their condolences to Luke's family. Like many other photojournalists, he decided to live amongst the men and women whose lives and suffering he wanted to portray.
- Journalists attacked covering student protests in Makassar, Indonesia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On November 13, hundreds of police raided the Makassar State University over protests with students. A number of journalists were covering the raids when they to came under attack. Iqbal Lubis from Koran Tempo had his memory card from his camera taken.
- Product of Mexico: No Way Out
Desperate workers on a Mexican mega-farm: 'They treated us like slaves'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A raid exposes brutal conditions at Bioparques, one of Mexico's biggest tomato exporters, which was a Wal-Mart supplier. But the effort to hold the grower accountable is looking more like a tale of impunity.
- Shut down the tarsands
Re: Pipeline projects need a rigorous review process,
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Present emissions are already too much and carbon released from extreme extraction such as the tarsands, experts say, will tip the planet over to become uninhabitable. The health impacts from such extraction is also unacceptable, suffered by indigenous people and workers, and the local environmental costs are huge. We need to find a better way for our world and we need to do it now.
- Tsunami, 10 years on: the sea nomads who survived the devastation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thailand's indigenous sea gypsies predicted the waves that swept their villages away in 2004, and most of them escaped unharmed. Now they are facing a new threat to their centuries-old way of life: tourism and the encroaching modern world.
- Why Sharing is a Common Cause that Unites Us All
The Common Cause
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The demand for sharing wealth, power and resources is at the heart of visions for a better world. In fact, the principle of sharing is often central to efforts for progressive change in almost every field of endeavour. But this basic concern is generally understood and couched in tacit terms, without acknowledging the versatility and wide applicability of sharing as a solution to the world’s problems.
- Brooklyn Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Tonight, December 8, Lebron James came through on his promise to wear an "I Can’t Breathe" T-shirt during the warm-ups before the Cavaliers game with the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn.
- Israelis rattled by search for truth about the Nakba
First 'truth commission' avoids issue of reconciliation as veteran Israeli fighters due to confess to 1948 war crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The first-ever "truth commission" in Israel will feature confessions from veteran Israeli fighters of the 1948 war who are expected to admit to perpetrating war crimes as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homes. The commission is the culmination of more than decade of antagonistic confrontations between a small group of activists called Zochrot, the Hebrew word for Remembering, and the Israeli authorities, as well as much of the Jewish-Israeli public.
- The Nature of Police, the Role of the Left
Learning From Ferguson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Iit would be hard to deny that the police are a racist institution par excellence. They kill young Black, Latino, and Native people at a disproportionately higher rate than white youth, and the institution itself descended from the patrols created to capture fugitive slaves in the South and police urban immigrants in the North.
- The new conquistadors making their presence felt at COP20 in Peru
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A new report released at COP20 by CEO, the Democracy Center and Transnational Institute shows how corporations causing social and environmental destruction in the Andes and Amazon are driving climate change, whilst enjoying influential seats at the climate-negotiating table.
- Police Say Tasering 8-Year-Old Native American Girl Was Justified
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The mother of an 8-year-old Native American girl is suing police who maintain that they were justified in using a taser on the child. The family lives in Pierre, South Dakota and belong to the Rosebud Sioux community. Four police officers decided that this young girl who had a small paring knife was "a danger to herself," requiring them to taser her.
- Washington’s Frozen War Against Russia
Frack the EU!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For over a year, the United States has played out a scenario designed to (1) reassert U.S. control over Europe by blocking E.U. trade with Russia, (2) bankrupt Russia, and (3) get rid of Vladimir Putin and replace him with an American puppet, like the late drunk, Boris Yeltsin.
- Waterloo woman finds NEB e-mail lauding public's inability to question pipelines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A Waterloo "citizen investigator" finds NEB memo boasting about Harper government changes at pipeline hearings designed to speed project approvals.
- Dealing with PTSD in the newsroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Post-traumtic stress disorder doesn't just affect combat veterans and victims of war. Approximately 20% of war correspondants are diagnosed with PTSD.
- Major powers tailored Serbian media legislation for 'Balkan CNN'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Regardless of different EU policies on the issue among different EU member states, the Serbian media practice to date does not leave room for optimism.
- 10 Reasons I Don't Have a Credit Card
Why Cash is Better
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The ability of cash and checks to compete with the credit card industry and its strict controls on merchants. This obvious point becomes less obvious when one takes into account the expanding exclusion of cash/check payments due to the overwhelming expansion of goods and services that you cannot buy unless you have a credit card or a friend with one whom you can reimburse.
When sending some types of express mail, renting a car, or paying for the services of airlines/trains or hotels, you either cannot pay with cash/check or it is a real hassle of inquiries and conditions. The overall trend is to limit more and more what legal tender can actually buy in America because of exclusionary fine print contracts (see faircontracts.org).
- Product of Mexico: Harsh Harvest
Hardship on Mexico's farms, a bounty for U.S. tables
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Farm exports to the U.S. from Mexico have tripled to $7.6 billion in the last decade, enriching agribusinesses, distributors and retailers. But for thousands of farm laborers south of the border, the boom is a story of exploitation and extreme hardship.
- In the battle of people vs. pipelines, round one went to the people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Last Wednesday I was arrested. I crossed a police line intended to mark the area where Kinder Morgan plans to drill into a mountainside as part of the survey work for an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline to carry diluted bitumen from the tar sands to the ocean.
- Over 60 organizations and agencies call for non-enforcement of C-36 and support full decriminalization of sex work
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Over 60 organizations and agencies call for non-enforcement of C-36 and support full decriminalization of sex work.
- The Death of the Fourth Estate
8000 Channels With One Corporate Message
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
According to a recent Gallup survey, only 40 percent of Americans believe what they read in newspapers. After scanning today’s tabloids, one only wonders why the percentage is that high.
- Evidence of Viking/Norse Metalworking in Arctic Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An object that was found by archaeologists a half-century ago has now been recognized as further evidence of a Viking or Mediaeval Norse presence in Arctic Canada during the centuries around 1000 A.D.
- Kill a Black Kid and Get Rich
An American Disgrace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is America folks. Where you can kill a black kid and justified or not (NOT!) you will then become a millionaire through interviews and book deals and film rights. This is your capitalist system at work. No laws that make this illegal. A cop can actually kill someone on purpose if he wants, because cops get away with almost anything, with the knowledge that they can then quit their awful jobs and become rich.
- Resisting State Violence
Justice Or Just Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
None of the ambiguities that surrounded Mike Brown’s killing are present in the grotesque spectacle of Eric Garner’s murder. By now the whole world has watched the man die at the hands of police without betraying a trace of belligerence. The failure to indict Pantaleo and the officers who pinned Garner down as he repeatedly yelled, “I can’t breathe” is a reminder that antiblackness is not a technical problem and therefore cannot be remedied with a technical solution.
- War by media and the triumph of propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The world is facing the prospect of major war, perhaps nuclear war -- with the United States clearly determined to isolate and provoke Russia and eventually China. This truth is being turned upside down and inside out by journalists, including those who promoted the lies that led to the bloodbath in Iraq in 2003. The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an "invisible government". It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.
Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the high claims and low purpose of fake objectivity? And why are they not taught that the essence of so much of what's called the mainstream media is not information, but power?
- Long Jail Term for Website Editor Critical of Military Coup
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders condemns a Bangkok military court's political use of Thailand's lese-majeste legislation to sentence a journalist critical of the military, Thai E-News editor Somsak Pakdeedech, to nine years in prison on 24 November.
- New online platform launched to protect journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has joined forces with the Council of Europe (CoE) and media freedom partner agencies, in launching a new online 'rapid reaction' platform for journalists under threats.
- Practicing Hope
He's Just 17
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It seems like teachers want to do the right thing and, along with most white people, they don’t want to say the wrong thing about race (or class or LGBT or adoption or disabilities) so they just don’t bring it up. Most white folks I know here don’t see any evidence of racism unless someone points to specific incidents or talks through the issues, like Driving While Black or Shopping While Black. Even then, some of my white friends, and many of my students, get exasperated, “Racism is so old-school,” I’ve been told. They don’t want to believe that racism exists. This essay is for them, and for my kids.
- Sharing as our common cause
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A call for sharing underpins many existing initiatives for social justice, environmental stewardship, true democracy and global peace. On this basis, STWR argues that sharing should be more widely promoted as a common cause that can help connect civil society organisations and social movements under a united call for change.
- Why the Guardian axed Nafeez Ahmed's blog
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Nafeez Ahmed’s account of the sudden termination of his short-lived contract to write an environment blog for the Guardian is depressingly instructive – and accords with my own experiences as a journalist at the paper.
- Constraints on Expansion - Island Airport Master Plan Reveals Fatal - Facilities Can't Cope with Existing Volumes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Toronto Port Authority yesterday released its new 'Master Plan' for the Island Airport. "This isn't so much a 'plan' as a list of unsolvable problems." said Brian Iler, Chair of CommunityAIR.
- "A kind of super-stress": The Experiences of a Temporary Agency Worker in Montreal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Immigrant's experiences reflect the difficulties faced by temporary agency workers in Montreal.
- Level up: how PlayStation infiltrated youth culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Twenty years ago, new games consoles began appearing in nightclub chillout rooms, subversive TV ads and cutting-edge style magazines. Keith Stuart and Steve Boxer describe how Sony created the PlayStation generation based on the underground culture.
- Palestine is not an environment story
How I was censored by The Guardian for writing about Israel's war for Gaza's gas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
After writing for The Guardian for over a year, my contract was unilaterally terminated because I wrote a piece on Gaza that was beyond the pale.
- Shlomo Sand banned from speaking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Shlomo Sand, author of The Invention of the Land of Israel, The Invention of the Jewish People, and most recently How I Stopped Being a Jew, was prevented from speaking at the University of Nice.
- Why Not Jail for Corporate Criminals?
When Regulation Fails to Restrain Corporate Villainy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It's time to focus on corporate criminal prosecution. Get rid of deferred and non prosecution agreements. Criminally charge corporations and their top executives.
- Chas Abel Photo Service “Photo Finish”
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
CHARLES (CHARLIE) ABEL May 7, 1926 – November 24, 2014. Charlie was a dynamic businessman and president of Chas Abel Photo Service for almost forty years. The “Photo Finish” sign was a landmark for countless drivers on the Gardiner Expressway for decades. Charlie was a loving husband and father, a proud and generous grandfather and great-grandfather and always a devoted and loyal friend. He loved his place on the lake, fishing, boating, good wine, Stan Freeberg, big band jazz, boggie-woogie piano and, above all, the singing of Frank Sinatra. We will all sorely miss his warmth, his stories, his strong opinions, his sharp sense of humour, his good advice, his unwavering support – but most of all, just him. Visitation Sunday, November 30th from 3 to 7 p.m. and memorial service Monday, December 1st at 3 p.m. at the Turner & Porter “Peel” Chapel, 2180 Hurontario Street, Mississauga. Reception after the service at 5 p.m. at Delta Meadowvale, 6750 Mississauga Road North (Mississauga and Argentia). In lieu of flowers, donations to the Credit Valley Hospital Foundation would be warmly received.
- Gassing the American People
Fracking Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Last year the World Health Organization said over 7 million people died from air pollution, making it the largest killer on the planet – killing almost 80 times more people in one year than died of poison gas over the 4 years of WWI.
- "I have a concern about firearms. Who can I call?"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Canada Safety Council has released a video PSA publicizing a national hotline Canadians can call with non-emergency firearms safety concerns.
- The Illusion of Debate
Consensus for the People that Matter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A recent article in FAIR reviewed the findings of its latest study on the quality of political “debate” being aired on the mainstream networks. It studied the run-up to the military interventions in both Iraq and Syria. Perhaps the arbiters of the study intended to illustrate what we’ve learned since the fraudulent Iraq War of 2003. Well, it appears we’ve learned nothing.
- J'ai des inquietudes à propos des armes à feu. Qui puis-je appeler? »
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Le Conseil canadien de la sécurité rediffuse son message d'intérêt public pour que les Canadiens sachent qui appeler en cas d'inquiétude à propos d'armes à feu.
- What needs to happen to save and rebuild the CBC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Can the CBC be saved and restored? Probably. But it will take some time and some good luck, as well as some heavy duty political lobbying. It is important that CBC supporters, including those who have fallen by the wayside during the destructive Harper years, unite behind some common goals and pressure the two opposition leaders to commit themselves to restoring the Corporation to its proper role in the country.
- Why We Need A "No Compromise" Climate Movement
Between Empire And Its Subjects
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Successful campaigns against strip mining in the Appalachians have included peaceful legal tactics like petitioning, letters to the editor, education, marches and protests, as well as civil disobedience, industrial sabotage, armed defense of Appalachians’ property and other tactics that are viewed as insurrectionary and violent by today’s mainstream environmentalists.
- A Chinese alternative
Social democracy by the union route
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Dongfang discusses how changing undemocratic Chinese business enterprises, through active labour unions, would also change the social structure of the country.
- Gateway to Freedom
The origins of the Underground Railroad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An essay on the origins of the Undeground Railroad, excerpted from Foner's book 'Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad'.
- Inventing the future
A tradable commodity in the huge, globalised ideas market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Experts and writers are competing publicly to offer their visions of what is to come in the future.
- Not Worth The Risk
A Community Report on the Line 9 International Energy Board Hearings
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline – a 38 year old pipeline that is almost identical in build and age to the Line 6B pipeline that ruptured into the Kalamazoo river – seeks to gain approval to reverse its flow, increase its capacity, and carry a dangerous heavy crude known as dilbit, or diluted bitumen. Line 9 runs through sensitive ecosystems and important farmlands throughout Southern Ontario and Quebec, and passes within 50 km of over 9 million people, including 18 First Nations communities.
- Paul Burkett's Marx and Nature Fifteen Years After
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Revisiting the content and contributions of Paul Burkett's book 'Marx and Nature', considering the changes in historical context and perceptions of environmental issues since its original publication.
- War Photography at the Tate Modern
Receding into Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If photography is a record of suspended death, a suggestion that the subject is both frozen in time and rendered lifeless in the broader sense of things, then the nature of war is, in many ways, a perfect medium to capture it. It delves into a grim subject more fitting of the dry morgue than the lively art studio.
- Why Not Jail?
Industrial Catastrophes, Corporate Malfeasance, and Government Inaction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Analyzes five industrial catastrophes that have killed or sickened consumers and workers or caused irrevocable harm to the environment. Steinzor recommends innovative interpretations of existing laws to elevate the prosecution of white-collar crime at the federal and state levels.
- Burnaby Mountain battle: our notes from the courts, the woods and 100 arrests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
History unfolded on Burnaby Mountain. This is the Vancouver Observer's account of what we saw.
- The Bizarre Compulsion of Black Men to "Reach for their Waistbands"
Waistband-Reaching Syndrome Could Get You Killed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If police accounts are to be believed, there is a bizarre urge among young, unarmed black men to provoke their own murder by "reaching for their waistbands" when cops are aiming service revolvers at them.
- Save the corporations… I mean children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When Save the Children chose to bestow the Global Legacy Award on Tony Blair, the charity inadvertently revealed the dark underbelly of NGO activity.
- The Shoot First Mentality of American Police
Ferguson, Reconsidered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The US justice system is no longer concerned with justice, but with the careers of prosecutors, punishing the powerless, and protecting the powerful. As justice has largely departed the justice system, it is hardly surprising that police lack any concept of justice.
- Which Way the Wind Blows
The Conditions of Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Billions of tons of air, moving relentlessly over the ground at 10 to 30 miles an hour (and at times gusting to higher speeds) shapes the new growth twigs, the twigs grow into limbs, the limbs become the secondary trunks and all bend to the direction of the wind. Where does the wind come from – this universally shaping presence?
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The theme for this issue, and the topic of the week, is Climate Change. Groups and websites engaged in the fight for action on global warming and climate justice are featured. Book of the week is Magdoff and Foster's "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism." In addition to articles on climate change, there are articles on Ebola, corporate tax evasion, and state terrorism, as well as a 1971 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
- The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries by Jeremy Seabrook – review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of the book "The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries", an account of the clothing industry and the exploitative conditions that workers undergo as they work for international firms.
- Militarism degrades, disrupts and destroys democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As the Canadian government plays at fighting wars in Iraq/Syria and in eastern Europe, we see daily examples of how militarism ultimately degrades, disrupts and destroys democracy.
- Save the Fat Cats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Very few charities are in any sense independent any more. Save the Children Fund gets 176 million pounds – over half its income - in grants from various governments, including over 80 million from the British government. That compares to 106 million in donations from the public. In 2012 over 70 million pounds was spent by Save the Children UK on its own staff costs.
- 84-year-old ex-librarian arrested protesting Kinder Morgan, calls NEB a "sham"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Barbara Grant criticized the NEB hearings of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion as a "sham" and spoke out about the danger before crossing the police line to be arrested. At 84, she's the oldest person arrested on Burnaby Mountain so far.
- Review: 'Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s - Ernest Tate, A Memoir'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ernie’s modesty leads him to describe his work as a memoir. It is that, but it is much more than that. It is rich in political lessons that apply to today’s circumstances and issues.
- Death Train: the earliest art to expose horror of concentration camps
The Mexican art collective Taller de Gráfica Popular used lino prints to transmit an explicit, committed political message
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Mexican art collective Taller de Gráfica Popular used lino prints to transmit an explicit, committed political message. A member of the collective, Leopoldo Mendez, working in 1943, was probably the first to depict the Holocaust.
- The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Many fracking chemicals are known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors or other classes of toxins. Studies carried out during the ongoing fracking boom, uncovered serious adverse effects including respiratory, reproductive, and growth-related problems in animals and a spectrum of symptoms in humans that they termed “shale gas syndrome”.
- US drone strikes kill 28 unknown people for every intended target
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
US drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan have killed as many as 1,147 unknown people in failed attempts to kill 41 named individuals, a report by human rights charity Reprieve has found.
- Rising suicide rate for Indian farmers blamed on GMO seeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Monsanto, which has just paid out $2.4 million to US farmers, settling one of many lawsuits it's been involved in worldwide, is also facing accusations that its seeds are to blame for a spike in suicides by India farmers.
- A History of Political Terror
The Ritual of Beheading
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Decapitation is a public ritual of political theatre that dates from ancient times. It is designed not simply to gruesomely kill a victim, but to send a powerful message to adversaries, both local and foreign. It is designed not simply to gruesomely kill a victim, but to send a powerful message to adversaries, both local and foreign.
- Jerusalem: the Unholy City
A Long and Checkered History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Jerusalem is called "the City of Peace". This is a linguistic mistake. True, in antiquity it was called Salem, which sounds like peace, but Salem was in fact the name of the local deity. It is also a historical mistake. No city in the world has seen as many wars, massacres and as much bloodshed as this one. All in the name of some God or other.
- Middle class would go to jail for what big corporations are allowed to do
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Effective Government issued a report on November 18 which revealed that seven of the 30 largest US corporations paid more money to their CEOs last year than they paid in US federal income taxes. US corporations have enough profit to grease the wheels of Washington DC to have legislation that benefits them, and their workers which are becoming fewer and fewer, are shouldering the tax burden.
- The Punishment of Cuba
The USA as Judge, Jury and Executioner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For years American political leaders and media were fond of labeling Cuba an "international pariah". We haven’t heard that for a very long time. Perhaps one reason is the annual vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the resolution which reads: "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba".
- Secrets of the UK Nuclear Bomb Tests Revealed
The "Forgotten" Uranium Isotope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Secret documents released reveal valuable evidence about uranium in fallout.The documents show that fallout from atmospheric nuclear testing contains enormous amounts of uranium. This should be no surprise as nuclear bombs contain a lot of uranium, and most of it remains unfissioned after a nuclear explosion.
- Washington Plays Russian Roulette
Seeing Red
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The propaganda attack against Putin equating him with Hitler is so extreme that you have to think that the Russians cannot believe their ears and cannot trust the United States anymore under any circumstances.
- What Really Happened to the Wobblies
Macho Bravado, Disunity and Repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Many young radicals find the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) the most congenial available platform on which to stand in trying to change the world.
- Anti-snooping app: Amnesty & partners unveil tool that detects surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In collaboration with privacy and civil rights organizations, Amnesty International launched Detekt, an app that enables people to scan their devices for traces of surveillance spyware, created with activists and journalists in mind.
- Capitalism is failing the planet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If we continue with capitalist business as usual, there will be disastrous consequences for humanity. Capitalism is in unavoidable conflict with environmental sustainability because of three key features that are inherent to the system.
- Explaining Burma's missing 9 million people - evaporation, or genocide?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Burma nearly one in five people is not alive who was expected to be alive based upon a modest estimate of the 2% population growth rate. Despite its significance, the figure is met with silence.
- Former NDP Comms Director Key Strategist on Edelman Energy East Astroturf Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
TransCanada has bought some unlikely support for the company’s public relations astroturf offensive aimed at winning support for the Energy East pipeline.
- How to Encrypt the Entire Web for Free
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The benefits of using HTTPS are obvious when you think about protecting secret information you send over the internet, like passwords and credit card numbers. It also helps protect information like what you search for in Google, what articles you read, what prescription medicine you take, and messages you send to colleagues, friends, and family from being monitored by hackers or authorities. But there are less obvious benefits as well.
- Russia Invades Ukraine: Again. And Again. And Yet Again
The Missing Burden of Proof
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- U.S. Firms Accused of Enabling Surveillance in Despotic Central Asian Regimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
U.S. and Israeli companies have been selling surveillance systems to Central Asian countries with records of political repression and human rights abuse, according to a new report by Privacy International. The U.K.-based watchdog charges that the American firms Verint and Netronome enable surveillance in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
- Chances Are the FBI Has Files on Your Favorite Human Rights Activist
A Safe Bet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If you have ever openly challenged and mobilized against the structural inequality of capitalism and concomitant imperialism, you definitely have an FBI record.
- Decoding Harper's Terror Game beneath the Masks and Diversions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Stephen Harper is the most deeply reviled Prime Minister in Canada's history. On the world stage, he is the servant of Big Oil boiling oil out of tar-sands to destroy major river systems and pollute the planet with dirty oil, while his attack dog John Baird leads the warmongering and bullying of nations like Iran and Syria.
- Ecosocialism: Why greens must be red and reds must be green
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ian Angus argues for a movement based on socialist and ecological principles, to save humanity and the rest of nature from capitalist ecocide.
- Freedom of information in decline for past two years in Iceland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
What with an interior ministry official seeking jail terms for two journalists in a criminal libel prosecution and major budget cuts for public TV and radio stations that the ruling coalition has accused of bias, the past two years have seen a marked decline in freedom of information in Iceland, one that began with the financial crisis in 2008.
- Gulf-Bound Tar Sands for Export?
Follow the Oiltanking Trail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The U.S. Senate failed to get the necessary 60 votes to approve the northern leg of TransCanada‘s KeystoneXL pipeline, but incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already promised it will get another vote when the GOP-dominated Senate begins its new session in 2015.
- The KXL's Big Fail
An Empty Victory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Keystone XL bill failed to pass Congress. The Big Fail marks a huge success for groups who have been struggling to expose the KXL for the dirty policy it represents. The actions taken on the day of the vote, including disrupting the Senate vote in the chamber and blocking Senators Bennet (D-Col.) and Carper (D-Del.) from leaving their offices, speak to the dedication and tirelessness of the movement to stop the pipeline.
- Metastasizing of the Police State of America
NY Times Report Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The latest news on the burgeoning police state in the US -- a page-one investigative report in the New York Times disclosing that at least 40 agencies of the US government from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Supreme Court (!) are using undercover agents to spy on and even to entrap law-abiding American citizens -- suggests that we have passed the tipping point.
- TransCanada hires controversial PR firm to derail opposition to Energy East pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There are now multiple news articles that report Calgary-based TransCanada hired the controversial public relations firm Edelman in an attempt to derail growing public opposition to its proposed 1.1 million barrels per day Energy East tar sands pipeline.
- Fake grassroots advocacy part of TransCanada's plan to silence Energy East critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Documents show plans to "pressure" pipeline critics by working with third parties and industry-funded grassroots advocacy groups in favour of Energy East.
- 58 dead, 5 years, 0 justice in The Philippines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is joining its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) as they launch their week-long campaign to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre in Maguindanao, in the Philippines and calls on journalists and the media to join in the campaign for justice against the single biggest massacre of journalists in history.
- No More Missouri Compromises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I do have some ideas about the larger set of circumstances that resulted in Michael Brown’s murder and some suggestions for things that might be done to bring the fight where it needs to be fought beyond the streets of Ferguson.
- On Media Outlets That Continue to Describe Unknown Drone Victims As "Militants"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Most large western media outlets continued to describe completely unknown victims of U.S. drone attacks as "militants" -- even though they (a) had no idea who those victims were or what they had done and (b) were well-aware that the term had been "re-defined" by the Obama administration into Alice in Wonderland-level nonsense. They count the corpses and they're not really sure who they are.
- Reclaim the power! Democratic energy must replace corporate capture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Democratising energy would save thousands of lives a year in Britain alone -- releasing us from the clutches of corporate utilities, and building an energy commons in which we are all owners and participants, no longer captive, exploited consumers. More than that, it would be a big step forward in saving the planet.
- The Red Menace
A Striking Gallery of Anti-Communist Posters, Ads, Comic Books, Magazines & Films
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
By its very nature, propaganda distorts the truth or tells outright lies. It targets our basest impulses -- fear and anger, flight or fight. While works of pure propaganda may pretend to make logical arguments, they eliminate nuance and oversimplify complicated issues to the point of caricature. These general tendencies hold true in every case, but nowhere, perhaps, is this gross exaggeration and fear mongering more evident than in times of war.
- RE/MAX Cashes in on Israel's Illegal Settlements
End the sale of Settlement Properties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Israeli government’s recent announcement that it had authorized the building of another 1,000 settlement homes in East Jerusalem left the US government seeing red, with State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki calling the settlement activity 'illegitimate' and 'incompatible with the pursuit of peace.' But the announcement must have left the US-based real estate giant RE/MAX “seeing green,” ready to cash in on the sale and rental of more illegal settlement homes.
- Ten Illegal Police Actions to Watch for in Ferguson
Crackdown on the Constitution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When the Michael Brown verdict is announced, people can expect the police to take at least ten different illegal actions to prevent people from exercising their constitutional rights. The Ferguson police have been on TV more than others so people can see how awful they have been acting. But their illegal police tactics are quite commonly used by other law enforcement in big protests across the US.
- Bobby Hutton's Hands Were Up
The Search for Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has catalyzed intense U.S. anti-policing/ police demilitarization movement activity, with Ferguson serving as an urgent training ground and meeting point for anti-policing thinkers, writers, artists and activists.
- Democracy Works in Haiti
From the Bottom Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Haiti’s successful rebellion flew in the face of the order of empires built on slavery, colonisation, subjugation and dispossession.
- Edelman's TransCanada Astroturf Documents Expose Oil Industry's Broad Attack on Public Interest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Edelman strategy documents and work proposals outline a "grassroots advocacy" campaign plan to build support for TransCanada's Energy East pipeline as well as to undermine public opposition to oil and pipelines generally. Documents obtained by Greenpeace detail a desperate astroturf PR strategy designed by Edelman for TransCanada to win public support for its Energy East tar sands export pipeline. TransCanada has failed for years to win approval of the controversial border-crossing Keystone XL pipeline, so apparently the company has decided to "win ugly or lose pretty" with an aggressive public relations attack on its opponents.
- How the U.S. Department of Justice Makes Murder Respectable, Kills the Innocent and Jails their Defenders
Redefining "Imminent"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In order to justify its global assassination program, the Obama administration has had to stretch words beyond their natural breaking points. For instance, any male 14 years or older found dead in a drone strike zone is a 'combatant' unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving him innocent.
- The Persecution of Julian Assange
The Farcical Siege of Knightsbridge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The siege of Knightsbridge is a farce. For two years, an exaggerated, costly police presence around the Ecuadorean embassy in London has served no purpose other than to flaunt the power of the state. Their quarry is an Australian charged with no crime, a refugee from gross injustice whose only security is the room given him by a brave South American country. His true crime is to have initiated a wave of truth-telling in an era of lies, cynicism and war.
- The political economy of hunger
Why is there hunger? It's nothing to do with a lack of food.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The fact there's enough food to feed everyone has slowly been acknowledged amongst the ruling institutions. The intuitive answer to this question is that there must be a lack of food. This explanation comes in two flavours. Chronic hunger is typically explained by the Malthusian argument that population growth perennially outstrips food production. Acute hunger, such as famines, is typically explained in terms of Food Availability Decline, such as crop failures due to drought.
- Profiting from Christian Credulity
Manufacturing the Jesus Legend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A brand-new book, entitled The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus’ Marriage to Mary the Magdalene, is receiving a lot of attention. How could it not? The authors of the book declare that it proves that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married, with two children. The media eats this stuff up.
- We must keep the Arctic clean, wild and free!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Arctic is a special place, teeming with life, but it is under threat like never before -- not just from climate change, but from oil drilling, industrial fishing and shipping, as receding ice creates now commercial opportunities. We must designate an Arctic Sanctuary where nature can reign undisturbed.
- $88 billion a year in subsidies for climate disaster
Global governments spend more than double what energy companies invest to find new regions for oil and gas drilling, despite climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Despite pledging in 2009 to phase out public subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, G20 countries have disregarded those promises and are currently spending $88 billion a year in taxpayer money to fund the discovery of new gas, coal, and oil deposits around the world.
- Gate A-4
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning my flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement: "If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4 understands any Arabic, please come to the gate immediately." Well -- one pauses these days. Gate A-4 was my own gate. I went there. An older woman in full traditional Palestinian embroidered dress, just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing. "Help," said the flight agent. "Talk to her. What is her problem?"
- The siege of Julian Assange is a farce - a special investigation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Article on Julian Assange's ongoing persecution by the US government.
- Palestine, Israel and 'Rockets'
The Increasing Isolation of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It is with increasing frustration that one hears about Israeli atrocities in the West Bank, only through the skewed lens of the corporate-owned media.
- Sex and Consent on Campus
"Yes Means Yes" Law: Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Amid an ongoing debate over sex and consent on college campuses, in September California passed "affirmative consent" legislation, which was followed by a slew of similar initiatives nationwide. The pretext is to curb a purported epidemic of sexual violence and have college administrations come clean on reporting sexual assault complaints. But legislating one form of consent as the only acceptable variant and branding all else as assault -- as these new policies do -- means that these administrations now have even greater power to enforce what is acceptable sexual activity among students.
- SFU scientist worries she'll lose home, over Kinder Morgan lawsuit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
She was the woman everyone on Burnaby Mountain was waiting for. The accidental media star -- SFU professor Lynne Quarmby -- was immediately surrounded by cameras as she gave her reaction Friday to the injunction brought down against her and other pipeline protesters. She vowed to continue her fight.
- Tensions in the Arctic
The Big Chill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Tensions in the region arise from two sources: squabbles among the border states -- Norway, Russia, the U.S., Canada, Denmark (representing Greenland), Finland, Iceland, and Sweden -- over who owns what, and efforts by non-polar countries-- China, India, the European Union and Japan -- that want access. The conflicts range from serious to somewhat silly.
- The Walls the West Won’t Tear Down
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall, lethal borders remain. We must dismantle them.
- Arab Media on the Brink
The Age of TV Jokers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the last year or so in Egypt, much of what has been achieved in terms of carving space for alternative voices in the Egyptian media was quickly and decisively reversed.
- Global Health Watch 4
An Alternative World Health Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Global Health Watch, now in its fourth edition, is widely perceived as the definitive voice for an alternative discourse on health and healthcare. It covers a range of issues that currently impact on health, including the present political and economic architecture in a fast-changing and globalized world; a political assessment of the drive towards Universal Health Coverage; broader determinants of health, such as gender-based violence and access to water; stories of struggles, actions and change; and a scrutiny of a range of global institutions and processes. It integrates rigorous analysis, alternative proposals and stories of struggle and change to present a compelling case for a radical transformation of the way we approach actions and policies on health.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
- Climate Crisis, the Deindustrialization Imperative and the Jobs vs. Environment Dilemma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
So long as we live under capitalism, today, tomorrow, next year and every year thereafter, economic growth will always be the overriding priority till we barrel right off the cliff to collapse.
- How Big Oil Plans to Win Ugly in New York
Leaked Transcript from PR Maven Shows Energy Companies will be Told to Make the Fight Against Fracking Opponents Personal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A PR firm well known for its hardball tactics in defense of Big Tobacco will deliver the keynote address at tonight’s Independent Oil and Gas Association conference.
- How Protests Against Israeli Bombing of Gaza Stopped Zim Ships
With Longshore Workers Support
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Protests against the Israeli bombing of Gaza erupted around the world but none had a more powerful impact than picketers in the port of Oakland, California in August and September.
- Saudi authorities continue witchhunt against netizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two more cyber-activists are now behind bars including one who was given another jail term on 3 November, just two days before Raef Badawi, a blogger and human rights activist serving a 10-year jail term, was awarded the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Prize in Strasbourg.
- Son of Stuxnet: The Digital Hunt for Duqu, a Dangerous and Cunning U.S.-Israeli Spy Virus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Unfriendly fire: The casualty of war Ottawa would rather forget
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On this Remembrance Day, I am remembering one Canadian peacekeeper in particular — someone the Harper government probably prefers to forget. Major Paeta Hess von Kruedener was killed (along with three other UN observers) by the Israelis in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war
- Whale songs: shanties drag mysteries of whaling life back from the deep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A new album of songs chronicling the lost culture of whaling reminds new audiences a forgotten way of life.
- The Margins and the Center: For a New History of the Cultural Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Repost of an informative reflection on the lessons to be learned from China's "Cultural Revolution" in light of China's grim political situation circa 2014, centered on a review of Yiching's Wu's pathbreaking new book, Cultural Revolution at the Margins.
- This video and article are essential to understanding Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli police shot 22-year-old Kheir Hamdan, and subsequently published a false statement about the details of the incident. Cameras that documented the incident reveal that their account was a lie.
- 'Incapacitating' chemical weapons threaten a new arms race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
December's meeting of the Chemical Weapons Convention offers the opportunity to control very dangerous and often fatal chemical agents deemed 'incapacitating'.Currently a legal gray area, it's essential to bring the development and use of these substances before a full blown arms race breaks out.
- Look back in joy: the power of nostalgia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Long considered a disorder, nostalgia is now recognised as a powerful tool in the battle against anxiety and depression. Researchers prove that looking back can improve the outlook for today and tomorrow.
- Meet The Folks On The Front Lines Of Fracking In California
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The oil and gas industry has worked very hard to push the narrative that fracking is completely safe, and that any opposition is led by a small group of full-time activists.
- A Network of Indigenous Language Digital Activists in Mexico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Internet has emerged as a space where many in Mexico can communicate online using indigenous languages, as well as to create new digital content instead of being just consumers of content.
- Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Rick Berman, the king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements. Berman specializes in setting up pro-corporate front groups to attack grassroots citizen groups. Berman advocates and practises a range of dirty tactics and propaganda techniques.
- Judge approves Detroit bankruptcy plan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The more than yearlong bankruptcy case in Detroit concluded Friday with a US judge sanctioning a savage restructuring plan for the city, which creates a new precedent for an assault on public workers throughout the United States.
- Community Police in Guerrero's Costa Chica Region to Celebrate 19 Years of a Better Way to Combat Crime and Corruption
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The same southern Mexican state where 43 students were disappeared is also home to a grassroots movement that shows how people can police themselves when the state becomes criminal.
- Darknet Sweep Casts Doubt on Tor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When news broke of Silk Road 2.0’s seizure by law enforcement a lot of people probably wrote it off as an isolated incident. Silk Road 2.0 was the successor to the original Silk Road web site and like its predecessor it was an underground bazaar for narcotics, fueled by more than $8 million in Bitcoin transactions and operated as a hidden service on the Tor anonymity network.
- Grand Council Treaty #3 supports Grassy Narrows in their stand for mercury justice and their stand against clear cut logging
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Chiefs of Treaty #3 First Nations in assembly voted unanimously to support Grassy Narrows First Nation in their demands for mercury justice and an end to clear cut logging on their Homeland.
- Israeli Company 'Doing Good' Using Luxembourg Outpost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The international business and philanthropic group led by Israel's richest woman includes a Luxembourg subsidiary that shares its address with more than 1200 other companies, and uses complex financial structures like internal loans and hybrid tools, according to analysis of secret tax documents by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
- #KMFace photos mock Kinder Morgan claim that facial expressions are a form of "assault"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Anti-pipeline protestors took to social media to post their best #KMFace, following Kinder Morgan's court case against residents this week, where the company's lawyer stated that the protestors' angry snarls are "not just intimidation," but "actually assault."
- Ontario finally allows Red Cross investigation of immigration jails, but deaths and indefinite imprisonment continues
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
End Immigration Detention Network welcomes the decision to allow Red Cross access to Ontario’s provincial prisons for the first time since 2008. However, the lack of any real oversight of prison conditions of immigration detainees adds to the dire
- Reporters Without Borders - TV5Monde Prize for Press Freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The 2014 Reporters Without Borders - TV5Monde Prize for Press Freedom has been awarded to Mexican journalist Sanjuana Martínez, Liberian newspaper FrontPage Africa and Saudi blogger Raef Badawi.
- The rise and rise of sexology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Christopher Turner examines some of the objects found in the Institute of Sexology and finds that the pioneers of the study of sex were not just campaigners but political activists and collectors.
- World condemns impunity while another Pakistan assassination takes toll to 14
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) deplore the brutal assassination of a journalist in Sindh province yesterday and demand the immediate arrest and persecution of the
- Burkina Faso: climate change, land grabs, and revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The economic tensions between local producers and international powers that have contributed to the revolutionary dissatisfaction with the establishment in Burkina Faso can be found in virtually any country subject to the harsh and cruel conditions of the global land grab and the crisis of climate change.
- "Delegitimize Zionism," says Israeli filmmaker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An interview with Israeli filmaker Lia Tarachansky, whose film "On the Side of the Road" confronts the reality of the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and examines how Israelis deal with that past today, how it is taught to youth, as well as which facts are included or deliberately ignored.
- 'Enough is enough!' Corruptopolis board game satirizes sleazy Spanish politicians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A Spanish student has created a new board game, Corruptopolis, satirizing the corrupt practices of Spain's economic and political elite. In Corruptopolis, players work in teams to answer questions about major corruption scandals to have rocked Spain over the years.
- Becoming Natalie Davis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As a young historian, she treated obstacles as things to understand rather than to skirt. The attitude persisted during her entire, stellar career.
- Explore the Documents: Luxembourg Leaks Database
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
ICIJ's Luxembourg Leaks investigation is based on a confidential cache of secret tax agreements approved by Luxembourg authorities, that provide tax-relief for more than 340 companies around the world. These private deals are legal in Luxembourg.
- Gates Foundation 'feeds the world' with corporate agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Gates Foundation is spending half a billion dollars a year to 'feed the world', most of it aimed at Africa. But as GRAIN discovers, it is imposing a model of high-tech, high-input 'green revolution' farming, complete with GMOs, agro-chemicals and a pro-business neoliberal agenda, all in in alliance with corporate agriculture.
- Harper government silences pain of Gazan children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This past summer Israel's advanced military bombarded the tiny, impoverished and overpopulated Gaza Strip for a third time in six years...Nowhere was safe as schools, hospitals and mosques were targeted...Ignoring pleas from hospitals, health-care workers, the Ontario government and a petition by over 40,000 Canadians, his government refuses to grant the 100 visas Dr. Abuelaish needs.
- The IPCC report: Between nightmare and revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro says the latest IPCC report has sounded an alarm that we must not ignore. Only radical change can avert climate disaster.
- Israeli Cease Fire Violations and Media Propaganda
The Conquest of Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Israeli conquest of Palestine has always been a difficult issue for Western mainstream media to cover. The difficulty lies not in the task of reporting the facts on the ground and transmitting an accurate depiction of them to the public, but in refraining from doing so.
- Leaked Documents Expose Global Companies' Secret Tax Deals in Luxembourg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Pepsi, IKEA, FedEx and 340 other international companies have secured secret deals from Luxembourg, allowing many of them to slash their global tax bills while maintaining little presence in the tiny European duchy, leaked documents show.
- A touch of Newfoundland entices holiday shoppers in Verona
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One table stood out for me – it was laden with cozy and colorful knit booties that their creator, local Verona painter Elaine Farragher, calls Newfoundland thrummed slippers.
- Tricks of the Trade
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
They are everyday brand names, products and services we all know and use -- but where does all the money go and how much tax do these companies pay? Find out some of the strategies many corporations use to drastically cut their tax bills.
- 'War crimes': Israeli bombs wiped out entire families in Gaza, Amnesty says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel used disproportionate military force during its summer operation in Gaza. Entire Palestinian families were killed when their homes were leveled by Israeli bombs falling with no warning and for little military gain, Amnesty International said.
- Why American Financial Markets Have No Relationship to Reality
An Economic House of Cards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The bullion banks (primarily JP Morgan, HSBC, ScotiaMocatta, Barclays, UBS, and Deutsche Bank), most likely acting as agents for the Federal Reserve, have been systematically forcing down the price of gold since September 2011. Suppression of the gold price protects the US dollar against the extraordinary explosion in the growth of dollars and dollar-denominated debt.
- Conflict and Climate: Changing Course NOW
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) present Conflict and Climate: Changing Course NOW, Sunday, November 9, at 9:30 a.m. at Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Rooms 308/309.
- Court Upholds Ruling to Reinstate Refugee Health Care
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Health for All welcomes the Federal Court of Appeal's decision to uphold a ruling from earlier this summer demanding that the Conservative government reverse its 'cruel and unusual' cuts to refugee health care.
- EFF Fights for Common Sense, Again, in DMCA Rulemaking
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed six exemption requests with the U.S. Copyright Office today, part of the elaborate, every-three-year process to right the wrongs put in place by the Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
- EFF to Librarian of Congress: Let Car Owners Look Under the Hood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The reach of copyright law has expanded so far that it now threatens people's ability to repair their own cars and protect them against malware. Yesterday, EFF launched a legal campaign to fend off that threat.
- FAJ Calls on African Union and Governments to Protect Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Federation of African Journalists has called on the African Union to adopt the resolution on the safety of journalists in Africa and the African Governments to end impunity for all crimes against journalists.
- IFJ & SEAJU call for investigation into journalist murder in Myanmar
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the South East Asia Journalist Unions (SEAJU) in calling for a thorough investigation into the murder of a journalist detained by the Burmese Army in Myanmar early last month.
- Investigative journalist receives threats from EU Kosovo mission
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An investigative journalist with the Kosovan newspaper Koha Ditore, says he was directly threatened by members of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (Eulex) over his reports that senior mission officials were suspected of corruption.
- Reporters Without Borders condemns the hunt for French journalists’ confidential sources
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by Indian authorities' brutal search, aimed at members of the Karen community in the Andaman Islands, for those who helped two French documentarians gain access to the prohibited lands of the Jarawa tribe.
- P. Sainath has won the World Media Summit Award
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
P. Sainath is the winner of World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence 2014 in the Public Welfare category. The WMS awards are described as the "first comprehensive news awards covering multiple media formats, including press, photo, video and integrated media to honour “truth, objectivity and excellence” in journalism".
- SEAJU calls for recognition of Labour laws and 'right to form' in Thailand
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The South East Asia Journalist Unions (SEAJU) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have called for urgent attention to the current labor situation facing journalists in Thailand.
- SEAJU & IFJ call on new Indonesian President to tackle country’s impunity record
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the South East Asian Journalist Unions (SEAJU) in urging Indonesia's government to push for justice for journalists killed in the line of duty.
- SOS Alternatives to Capitalism: A discussion with Richard Swift
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Montreal Serai had the opportunity to discuss SOS: Alternatives to Capitalism – a handy, slim compendium of vital, essential thoughts and discussions on the concept of an alternative economy and society – with Richard Swift.
- Investment Funds Industry Launches Online Magazine to Educate Investors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Canada's investment funds industry is launching an online magazine - http://informedinvestor.ific.ca - to educate investors about current and upcoming changes in the industry.
- The Leading Terrorist State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
"It's official: The U.S. is the world's leading terrorist state, and proud of it." That should have been the headline for the lead story in The New York Times on Oct. 15, which was more politely titled "CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels."
- Making a Sow's Ear from Palestinian Protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The recent decision by the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) to place a pig's head in what was assumed to be the kosher section of Woolworths, and then, in fact, turned out to be the halal section, could be written off as a mere "fail of the week."
- 100 years ago: Two calls to struggle against the world war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, 100 years ago, two Russian socialist leaders, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky, published antiwar manifestos that greatly influenced the international socialist response to the conflict.
- The No State Solution: Institutionalizing Libertarian Socialism in Kurdistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In what many outside of the territory are referring to as the Rojava Revolution, a major shift in political philosophy and political programmatics has taken place in Kurdistan.
- Beat off the vulture's swoop
The judge who took an economy hostage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Emerging economies need to issue their state bonds in financial centres where the law blocks vulture funds from profiting from financial woes. New York is off the list.
- Democracy rezoned
Republicans fix polls in US elections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
By employing techniques that take advantage of the extreme polarisation of the US electorate, the Republican Party is able to fix polls.
- From Sykes-Picot to "Islamic State": Imperialism's Bloody Wreckage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When the Jihadist group Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) changed its name and declared the establishment of the Caliphate, it did so with the release of a promotional video entitled "The End of Sykes-Picot." This was a reference to the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that marked the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of two zones of influence, British and French.
- Mass Incarceration and the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thompson opens up a discussion regarding the American criminal justice system and why incarceration does not lead to rehabilitation back into society.
- The Middle East's "World War"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The editors compare the reasons driving the United States' involvement in Iraq and Syria with those behind the decision to invade Afghanistan.
- Off the Land
What subsistence really looks like
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Short essay on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation and their subsistence activities.
- Otherwise Occupied / The genius of Israeli evil: It poses as concern
How to murder human beings without using an explosive or a knife, how to empty them from within
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli evil is not at all banal. Abundant in inventions and innovations as well as in age-old techniques, it trickles like water and bursts out from hidden places. But unlike floods, it does not reach an end, and it affects some while being invisible, undetectable and non-existent for others. The genius of Israeli evil is in its ability to disguise itself as compassion and concern.
- Russia's other October revolution
How did we get from perestroika to Putin?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Explaining contemporary Russia as the product of Boris Yeltsin's insistence to enforce a neoliberal economy.
- Two Years After the CTU Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In light of the Chicago Teachers Union's strike that changed the discourse on education in the United States, Bartlett analyzes the persisting problems with public education systems, such as school closings, privitization, and poor allocation of funding.
- We've got our eye on you
US wants to control, and own, the world online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Edward Snowden not only told the world about US state surveillance of national and personal secrets, he reminded us that almost all the companies surveying us for commercial gain are American.
- Why a Killer Cop is Not Arrested
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Miah analyzes the grand jury system and police conduct in the United States to explain why the large number of African Americans killed by police are considered justifiable homicides in court.
- Bringing Books and Seeking Peace in Colombia
Bringing Peace to a Beleaguered Country
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A teacher, two donkeys, and a big pile of books are working to enrich the lives of the children in a small community in Colombia.
- Detained journalist murdered by Burmese Army
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the murder of missing journalist Aung Kyaw Naing by the Burmese Army earlier this month.
- Don't watch RT!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As RT UK launches, attacks on the channel in the British media have stepped up. The latest is a piece by Mr. Cyril Waugh-Monger, a very important newspaper columnist for the NeoCon Daily, a patron of the Senator Joe McCarthy Appreciation Society and author of 'Why the Iraq War was a Brilliant Idea' and 'The Humanitarian Case for Bombing Syria.'
- Fascism, American-Style
One-Step from the Third Reich?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Unbeknownst to most Americans the United States is presently under thirty presidential declared states of emergency. They confer vast powers on the Executive Branch including the ability to financially incapacitate any person or organization in the United States, seize control of the nation’s communications infrastructure, mobilize military forces, expand the permissible size of the military without congressional authorization, and extend tours of duty without consent from service personnel.
- The FBI Can Bypass Encryption
Why Cyber Security is a Magic Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Governments fall short in efforts to combat impunity in journalists' murders
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ninety percent of murderers walk free, threatening press freedom, CPJ report finds
- The great Hallowe'en pumpkin rescue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Every Hallowe'en the UK throws away enough pumpkin to make 360 million portions of pumpkin pie, soup, or cake - a shocking waste in these hungry times. Hence a bold new initiative to rescue all those pumpkins from landfill, and turn them into delicious food we can all enjoy as part of our seasonal festivities.
- Harper, The Ottawa Shooter, and Selling of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The sensationalized media coverage of the police and military responses to the violent actions of one or more shooters in the Canadian capital of Ottawa Canada on Oct. 22 was truly global in scope. Among the newspapers that used on their front pages dramatic photographs of the elaborate militarization on Canada’s Parliament Hill were the New York Times.
- IFIC Announces Board Appointments (October 31, 2014)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada is pleased to announce its board members and executive for the 2014-15 year.
- IFJ Demands Full Investigation Following Israeli Police Attack on Photographers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned an attack by Israeli police on photographers near Silwad in the West Bank on Sunday, 26 October. According to reports, Israeli police fired rubber bullets at the photographers at close
- IFJ and SAMSN call on Pakistan Prime Minister to end culture of impunity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South Asian Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) have joined the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in marking November 2 as a National Day of Action Against Impunity in Pakistan.
- Journalist detained for reporting on political corruption in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) express concerns over the detention of a senior journalist and blogger in tribal area of Waziristan, Pakistan.
- Journalists are not informants
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two Cameroonian journalists face military court charges of failure to report a destabilization plot. Journalists Felix Cyriaque Ebole Bola of the daily Mutations and Rodrigue Tongue of Le Messager, were charged following a 28 October military court
- The Media and the Paranoid State
Das Bild to FoxNews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In 1975, West Germany was often under varying degrees of lockdown. Roadblocks were set up at autobahn exits and identification was checked; groups of heavily armed police were seen in city centers holding machine guns and looking menacing; and airports were under armed guard. The reason given for this military-like presence was the existence of a leftist terror group known as the Rote Armee Fraktion.
- Mexico: Community Police and the War on Drugs
Self-Defense vs. Vigilantism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Various "self-defense" groups or “community police” have emerged in rural areas, mainly in the states of Guerrero and Michoacán. The embrace of such "alternative security" schemes by nearly all of the left is rooted in a sub-reformist liberal perspective. As long as capitalism is not overthrown, any group dedicated to "fighting crime" will act as an auxiliary of the capitalist state and will have, in the final analysis, a fundamentally reactionary character.
- More from the Greatest [sic] Generation
This is What We Are Up Against
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Nazi-CIA connection is ancient news but is finally getting play some seven decades later when it’s safe to file it under "Mistakes, well-intentioned." Here’s my “scoop”: The Nazi-CIA connection should be filed under "Policy, standard operating."
- NATO Expands to Border of Russia, Then Blames Russia for Being On NATO's Doorstep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Russia at the gates? US State Dept, Pentagon grilled over NATO expansion. Watch the video or read the transcript: with clowns like these, it is no wonder that the USA has lost wars in Viet Nam, Afganistan, Iraq, etc.
- No to Crackdown on Prostitution!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In eight years, the Harper Tories [Conservative Party under Prime Minister Stephen Harper] have waged war on pretty much everyone. Now it is prostitutes and their clients who, if the government has its way, are to be abolished.
- Oil and Gas Industry's "Endless War" on Fracking Critics Revealed by Rick Berman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Leave it to Washington's top attack-dog lobbyist Richard Berman to verify what many always suspected: that the oil and gas industry uses dirty tricks to undermine science, vilify its critics and discredit journalists who cast doubt on the prudence of fossil fuels.
- Reflecting on the International Day to Protect Journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution (A/RES/68/163) of December 18, 2013 on The Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity. This landmark Resolution - the first of the General Assembly on the issue -- "condemns unequivocally all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers".
- South East Asian Media Unite to Combat Impunity, Censorship and Wage Insecurity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The South East Asian Journalists Unions (SEAJU) have taken a united stand to combat the rampant state of impunity for journalist attacks in the region and to bring their unions together to advocate on the common issues central to the craft.
- UN Day to End Impunity: Governments Must Protect Media Workers as Attacks Spiral Out of Control
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists is marking the inaugural UN Day to End Impunity by calling on governments worldwide to address the issue of impunity for violence against journalists as intimidation, abuse and violence of media workers
- The X-Rated Free Market
On Pornography, Royal Spermatozoa and the Free Market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Is the pornography market the only free one? The question might seem provocative. Or a gross oversimplification. But it might also shed some light on certain points, namely those related with the political shaping of markets.
- The American Deep State
Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Scott makes a compelling case for a hidden "deep state," a second order of government behind the public or constitutional state, that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies.
- Canadian lawyers and Chevron's court battle over environmental damage in Ecuador
Iler, Kirsten
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A storm of controversy erupted amongst Canadian lawyers when the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) decided to intervene in Chevron's appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. The appeal is part of Chevron's battle against Ecuadorian Indigenous peoples who seek to enforce a massive court judgment against the company for environmental damage in Ecuador.
- Good for the gander? As Alaska warms, a goose forgoes a 3,300-mile migration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Scientists have documented that increasing numbers of black brant are skipping that far southern migration and staying in Alaska instead. Fewer than 3,000 wintered in Alaska before 1977. In recent years, however, more than 40,000 have remained north, with as many as 50,000 staying there last year, during the most ice-free winter that Izembek had seen in more than a decade.
- I'm Bengali and I'm black - in the same way that my parents were
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Asians may be seen as a distinct today but in the 1980s they and other immigrants identified as Black due to common struggles with racism and discrimination.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
Refugees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
- Canada: Decoding Harper's Terror Game.
Beneath the Masks and Diversions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Stephen Harper is the most deeply reviled Prime Minister in Canada’s history. On the world stage, he is the servant of Big Oil boiling oil out of tar-sands to destroy major river systems and pollute the planet with dirty oil, while his attack dog John Baird leads the warmongering and bullying of nations like Iran and Syria targeted by the US-Israeli axis.
- Canada's Largest Franchise Show Returns to Vancouver
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Aspiring entrepreneurs can find out how to become small business owners at The Franchise Show in Vancouver on November 8 & 9, 2014
- The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) Helps Small Businesses Become National Brands at Full-Day Seminar
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
CFA's How To Franchise Your Business Seminar in Vancouver on November 10 guides entrepreneurs to become successful franchisors.
- The Intractable Marginality of the Activist Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Strikes are only one form of struggle, and perhaps less and less important as the years pass. But the disappearance of strikes is not an anomaly. It reflects a pattern of diminishing overall levels of oppositional social mobilization. Although there aren't (as far as I know) statistics on it, it is obvious that levels of social struggle generally, in the Canadian state, are lower now than at any time since written records have been kept.
- Landowner refuses to surrender property for Energy East pipeline
A landowner fights a big corporation for his forest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Rick Verge was shocked when a TransCanada land agent knocked on his door in Titusville, N.B., last year and offered him $1000 to conduct a land survey in exchange for his signature. He refused. He said the land agent showed him a photo in a brochure of what his land would look like after TransCanada was finished with construction.
- Obama's Hypocritical Crusade Against Extremism
Will the Feds Soon be Targeting People With a "Bad Attitude"?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In his speech last month to the United Nations, President Obama summoned foreign leaders to join his "campaign against extremism." Obama has repeatedly invoked the "extremist" threat to justify attacking abroad and seizing more power at home since taking office in 2009. But the president's own record makes it tricky for him to pirouette as the World Savior of Moderation.
- Recyclers Battle Waste Management... and the Teamsters Union
With Friends Like These
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It’s 4 AM. The air is cold and damp on 98th Avenue in deep East Oakland, down along the San Francisco Bay’s industrial waterfront. This is a hard geography of concrete and dust and pot-hole riddled roads latticed by train tracks. Much of the earth is landfill, crowded for miles with scrap metal yards, bakeries, machine shops, and warehouses.
- This is Your Ocean on Acid
The Big Picture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
More than 40 percent of the world’s oceans are heavily impacted by human activities with few areas — if any — left unaffected by anthropogenic factors. This means we humans (and what we deem civilization) have played a primary role in the despoiling of the waters of the earth. The relentless quest for profit, however, has distracted us from the plight of the deep blue sea and how it impacts all forms of life.
- Under Israeli Apartheid, Palestinians Cannot Ride Israeli Buses
Never Equal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has officially banned Palestinians from traveling on Israeli-run public transportation in the West Bank. The new apartheid law dictates that Palestinians cannot take buses that go from central Israel to the West Bank.
- How Rich Are the 400 Richest Americans?
And What They Do With Their Money
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
According to Forbes, a leading business magazine, the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans has now reached the staggering total of $2.3 trillion. This gives them an average net worth of $5.7 billion – an increase of 14 percent over the previous year.
- IRS seizes hundreds of perfectly legal bank accounts, refuses to give money back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Internal Revenue Service has been seizing bank accounts belonging to small businesses and individuals who regularly made deposits of less than $10,000, but broke no laws. And the government is refusing to return all the money taken. The practice - called civil asset forfeiture - allows IRS agents to seize property they suspect of being tied to a crime, even if no charges are filed, and their agency is allowed to keep a share of whatever is forfeited.
- On Morality and Moralism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Comments in a discussion about moralism at the recent Battle of Ideas conference.
- Political Prisoners in the Sacrifice Zone of Empire
Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky.
- Watch your attachments: Microsoft Office bug lets hackers take over computers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A dangerous new security vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft's Office software, threatening to hijack users of virtually every existing version of Windows. The bug in question affects programs like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel – and could allow an intruder to gain access to and control over a user's entire computer.
- Why Do Banks Really Want Our Deposits?
Hint: It's Not to Finance Loans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Many authorities have said it: banks do not lend their deposits. They create the money they lend on their books.
- Latin American progressives and environmental duplicity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Left wing governments across the Americas are faced with a dilemma - high social spending programs financed by income from destructive mining and hydrocarbon extraction - or a slower but sustainable development path that puts ecology, equity and justice first. Their answer - a constant pushing back of the resource frontier.
- Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond; Political Prisoners In The Sacrifice Zone Of Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky.
- Uruguay's legalization of marijuana leads the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Next year Uruguay will create a state marijuana monopoly. Supplying high quality product in limited per person quantities, and at controlled prices that undercut the black market, the initiative will safeguard public health, cut off funds from criminals, and finance social programs. So why don't we all do it?
- AIG shareholders sue government claiming their $182 bn bailout wasn't favorable enough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Another round of death threats for journalists in Sri Lanka workshops
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) in condemning death threats issued to journalists in Columbo.
- Australian media outraged by failure of justice to Balibo Five
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists joins the Australian Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance in condemning and expressing strong outrage over the Australian Federal Police (AFP abandoning their war crimes investigation into the murder
- Economics As If Future Generations Mattered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We have turned a corner on climate change-- a wrong turn-- and it is happening more rapidly than we have predicted. Climate change is already disrupting society, ecosystems, and national economies. We have altered so much of our Earth that we now threaten our own survival.
- Germany and Britain: Memory and Myopia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ernst Barlach was one of Germany's great expressionist artists of the early twentieth century. A virulent nationalist in the run-up to the First World War, Barlach found that his experience of the Western Front stripped him of his jingoism. Much of his subsequent work explored the sorrow and suffering that he saw as the human condition.
- Ghana's farmers battle "Monsanto law' to retain seed freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ghana's government is desperate to pass a Plant Breeders Bill that would remove farmers' ancient 'seed freedom' to grow, retain, breed and develop crop varieties - while giving corporate breeders a blanket exemption from seed regulations. But the farmers are fighting back.
- Here come the thought police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared his intention to fast-track legislation expanding CSIS and police powers of “surveillance, detention and arrest.”
- Justice and Freedom Must Prevail for Macedonian Journalist Tomislav Kezarovski
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Macedonian authorities must ensure that all the 'absurd' charges against the journalist Tomislav Kezarovski are dropped so that justice and freedom of expression can prevail.
- Murderers of Paraguayan Journalist, Pablo Medina Velasquez, Must Be Punished
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation has joined its regional group, the Federation of Journalists in Latin America and the Caribbean (FEPALC), to express its deep shock at the murder of Paraguayan journalist, Pablo Medina Velasquez.
- Pakistan suspends ARY News TV licence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
in strongly critcising the decision by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PERMA) to suspend the broadcasting license of ARY News TV channel
- Prisoners' Pictures review -- exploring science and propaganda amid conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A photography exhibition in Frankfurt examines first world war propaganda attempts to stir revolt among Muslim soldiers.
- Protect Yourself from Electronic Spying with Surveillance Self-Defense
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched its updated "Surveillance Self-Defense" report, a comprehensive how-to guide to protecting yourself from electronic spying for Internet users all over the world.
- Ebola: don't blame the bats!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Bats serve as a natural reservoir for the Ebola - but we cannot blame them for the epidemic. In Ghana alone people eat over 100,000 fruit bats a year as 'bushmeat', yet the country has escaped the epidemic. Much more research is needed to discover the mechanisms of transmission, and to devise effective, appropriate interventions.
- The Forgotten Coup
How America and Britain Crushed the Government of Their "Ally" Australia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Across the political and media elite in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died. His achievements are recognised, if grudgingly, his mistakes noted in false sorrow. But a critical reason for his extraordinary political demise will, they hope, be buried with him.
- How I Became Radicalized
It Can Happen To Anyone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I’m not exactly sure when I became radicalized, but it was sometime in the mid 1980s. I purposely use the term radicalize because, with the rise of globalized insurgency in general and al Qaeda and now ISIS in particular, the word has become a favorite in the media, especially for those on the right.
- Licensed Child Care Owners Respond to Ombudsman's Report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the wake of Ombudsman's report on unlicensed care, licensed child care operators caution legislators not to paint all child care programs with the same brush. Bill 10 won't fix broken child care system, they say, urging amendments.
- Reflections on a violent day in Ottawa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
After a long day focused on these gripping events in the nation's capital, I have to wonder if this direct experience of fear and trauma will force us to examine our own addiction to violence as the solution to conflict. Last week's events provide us with an opportunity to reflect on our insidious contribution to the climate of hate, and the chance to disengage from our increasingly militarized culture.
- Sources HotLink - October 23, 2014
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Featuring George Lakoff's book Don't Think of an Elephant, persecution of journalists in various countires, the BBS as a propaganda outlet, and articles on what makes a good story and what is public relations.
- UN urged to recognize cultural significance of Palestine posters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An interview with Palestine Poster Project founder Dan Walsh, recorded by the Institute for Palestine Studies, gives a in-depth look into the history and contents of this collection of 10,000 posters.
- Why Pro-War Pundits Are Always Wrong
Always Erasing the Victims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There is no shortage of men and women – but mostly men, typically white – willing to write 800- to 1,000-word editorials on the need for Decisive Action or Continued Resolve in Whereverthehellistan. Some of these people are historians, some are journalists, but all have attained material success in the field of arguing about war without ever once having to go through the trouble of being right.
- The Berlin Wall: Another Cold War Myth
A Response to Economic Sabotage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
November 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. The extravagant hoopla began months ago in Berlin. In the United States we can expect all the Cold War clichés about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny to be trotted out.
- Blackwater Founder Remains Free and Rich While His Former Employees Go Down on Murder Charges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A federal jury in Washington, D.C., returned guilty verdicts against four Blackwater operatives charged with killing more than a dozen Iraqi civilians and wounding scores of others in Baghdad in 2007.
- Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That 'A Terrorist' Attacked Its Soldiers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The national mood and discourse in Canada is virtually identical to what prevails in every Western country whenever an incident like this happens: shock and bewilderment that someone would want to bring violence to such a good and innocent country, followed by claims that the incident shows how primitive and savage is the “terrorist ideology” of extremist Muslims, followed by rage and demand for still more actions of militarism and freedom-deprivation.
- Secwepemc Tribes Fight New Mines and Old Laws in British Columbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Indigenous activists burned down a bridge in British Columbia, Canada, to prevent Imperial Metals from starting a lead and zinc mine on the lands of the Secwepemc peoples. Local tribes say that the mine may severely impact the one of the largest remaining sockeye salmon populations in the world.
- Ten ways your nonprofit can start - or might already be - delivering content marketing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is a list of several ways in which non-profits can promote their message. This article also contains some information on the effectiveness of each method. There are some tips on creating a marketing plan as well.
- Bolivians Demand Justice for 2003 Gas War Massacre
Thousands March in El Alto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thousands of people marched in El Alto, Bolivia on October 17th, 2014 to demand justice for the 2003 massacre of over 60 people during the country’s Gas War under the Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (Goni) administration. Sanchez de Lozada is currently living freely in the US, and marchers demanded he and others in his government be brought to Bolivia to be tried for ordering the violence.
- The Death of a Reporter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Serena Shim, who leaves behind a family that includes her two young children, found herself chasing the truth in a highly charged situation.
- Financial Terrorism
The Wonga Payday Lending Experiment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Keeping people poor in a world of seedy abandonment. Borrowing at phenomenal rates. Loan sharks running wild, dressed by the language of assistance and salvation. All of this should be the stuff to be binned and repelled by governments, but in an age when governments forfeit, rather than affirm responsibility in the face of the economy, the phenomenon of Wonga, a deferred deposit loan operator, has come to thrive. Private indebtedness has become both a condition and a lifestyle.
- From Israel to ISIS
Harper's 'Orwellian' Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It’s getting difficult to remember a time when the Canadian Parliament actually tried to make principled decisions regarding foreign policy and our place in the community of nations.
- How the UAE Tried to Silence a Popular Arab Spring Activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Earlier this year (2014), as a wave of counterrevolution and repression continued to roll back popular democratic uprisings across the Middle East, one of the Arab Spring’s most popular online activists found himself sitting in a jail cell.
- Questions for the APA Board Regarding Claims in James Risen's Book "Pay Any Price"
Colluding With the CIA on Torture?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In his new book Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, James Risen, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter, documents apparent collaboration between (American Psychological Association) APA leadership and the CIA to support psychologist participation in torture.
- Saudi Arabia: Imprisoned editor Raef Badawi to be flogged 1,000 times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
According to PEN’s Information, Raef Badawi, who was sentenced by a Saudi Arabian court to 10 years in prison, 1,000 lashes , a fine, a 10-year travel ban and 10-year media participation ban for “insulting Islam” and “founding a liberal website”, will be flogged 1,000 times in November 2014.
- Surprise: U.S. Drug War In Afghanistan Not Going Well
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A new report has found the war on drugs in Afghanistan remains colossally expensive, largely ineffective and likely to get worse. This is particularly true in the case of opium production, says the U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
- 31 Years After the U.S. Invasion of Grenada
A Lovely Piece of Real Estate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As I'm sure everyone knows, we're fast approaching the 31st anniversary of a truly momentous American victory — a crucial military operation that not only warmed Ronald Raygun's cold, cold heart but was also deemed film-worthy by the former mayor of Carmel, California.
- Digital Media Asia Awards, hackathon and conference drive innovation in news media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
WAN-IFRA's rolling series of global digital media events will come to Asia in November when Digital Media Asia 2014 brings publishers and editors together with hackers, designers, producers and other new media professionals to explore the latest tr
- EFF Launches IFightSurveillance.org and Counter-Surveillance Success Stories
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Sites Highlight How Opponents of Mass Surveillance Around the World Lead by Example
- Ethiopia Should Free Journalists from Jail and Exile
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the Africa regional group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), has today called on the Ethiopia Government to free all journalists jailed and to allow the exiled journalists to come back
- Hungarian journalists work in climate of self-censorship, fear
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On a rare mission to a European Union country, a CPJ delegation led by board member Kati Marton was in Hungary this week to meet with journalists, media lawyers, managers, rights defenders, policy analysts, and government officials to discuss Hungary
- IFJ Calls on Korean Government to Reinstate Dismissed YTN and MBC Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its Korean affiliate, the Journalists Association of Korea (JAK) to express its continued anger at the case of the reporters who have been dismissed from YTN and MBC
- Indian Journalist Offers Harsh Critique of Globalization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Kurdish paper distributor gunned down in southeastern Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Kadri Bagdu's death follows a week of violent rioting sparked by fighting in a Kurdish city near the Syrian border
- New Zealand journalist harassed by police to name sources
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate the EPMU New Zealand in criticising the police harassment of an investigative journalist Nicky Hager and has called on police to abandon their harassment and investigation
- Reporter shot dead while investigating illegal logging
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Cambodian journalist Taing Try was shot dead yesterday while investigating illegal logging in the southern province of Kratie with five other journalists. Three suspects have been arrested.
- RWB calls on Turkish judiciary to drop charges against German photojournalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Turkish judiciary to immediately drop all charges against the three German journalists arrested in Diyarbakir on Saturday and allow them to continue their work without restrictions.
- Self-censorship concerns in Hong Kong after bashing of journalist and protesters
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned that Hong Kong police beat up a journalist and brutally attacked a pro-democracy protester while breaking up a demonstration. With pressure mounting on media in its coverage
- Shadow Facts About Shadow Government
The Era of "Tiny Wars"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Tom Engelhardt keeps churning out great books by collecting his posts from TomDispatch.com. His latest book, Shadow Government, is essential reading.
- Stop harassment and legal action against leading investigative journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Azerbaijani authorities should immediately lift the travel ban imposed on Khadija Ismayilova and cease all legal proceedings against her. Against the backdrop of the unprecedented crackdown on civil society, Khadija Ismayilova's arrest on crimi
- Supreme Court of Pakistan to indict TV chief and anchor for contempt
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in expressing deep concern over the legal course against ARY News channel's CEO and its anchor over a broadcasting of a program that challenged
- 39 years on and still no justice for Balibo Five
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) expressing strong concern that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) hasn’t yet asked Indonesian authorities to help prosecute
- World Digital Media Awards Honour 'Best of the Best'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) honoured eight news media companies on Tuesday with the inaugural World Digital Media Awards, which recognise publishers who have created ground breaking digital products that engage
- Wrenched
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Wrenched captures the passing of the monkey wrench from the pioneers of eco-activism to the new generation who are carrying Edward Abbey's legacy into the 21st century. The fight continues to sustain the last bastion of the American wilderness - the spirit of the West.
- Data Secrecy Company Accused of Sharing Information with Media and Military
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Whisper -- a new social network that claims to provide anonymity -- has been accused of secretly tracking users. The allegations were made by the Guardian newspaper, provoking renewed scrutiny of a multitude of data privacy claims made by software companies.
- FBI director wants access to encrypt Apple, Google users' data, demands law 'fix'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The FBI director has slammed Apple and Google for offering their customers encryption technology that protects users’ privacy. "Deeply concerned" James Comey wants to push on Congress to "fix" laws to ensure police can still access private data.
- Israel ignoring "tectonic change" in public opinion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
World public opinion is important. More than that, it is vital. The British parliament’s resolution may be non-binding, but it expresses public opinion, which will sooner or later decide government action on arms sales, Security Council resolutions, European Union decisions and what not.
- The Anti-Semitic and Pro-Terror Myths
The Politics of Distraction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Past victimization does not excuse current victimizing. Because Jews in Europe had to carry identification cards, use separate streets, live in segregated neighborhoods, etc., does not justify Israel in forcing Palestinians to suffer these same indignities.
- California Leads the Way in the "Block the Boat" Movement
Fighting the Occupation on the West Coast
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In organizing theory, activists often emphasize the importance of formulating what they call an "escalation plan." When pushing for social change, they explain, it is important that one's methods of exerting pressure on power slowly grow in strength, not remain stagnant. Block the Boat is the next step in the escalation plan of US Palestinian solidarity activists. The idea of Block the Boat is quite simple: Hundreds of activists organize a protest in a local dock and prevent Israeli ships from unloading cargo.
- Ethnic Cleansing by All Means: The real Israeli 'peace' policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This policy of ethnic cleansing, by different means since 1948, is a consensual issue in Israel and thus leaves very little hope for peace and reconciliation. The current Israeli left, the self-acclaimed 'peace bloc', is willing to oppose new settlements but refuses to acknowledge the historical injustice inflicted on Palestinians in 1948 and denies displaced Palestinians their right to return to their homes and their homeland.
- Eye in the Sky
Surveillance and the Art of Arnold Mesches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Round about the turn of this century Arnold Mesches, who is neither monk nor medievalist nor Christian, began illuminating manuscripts from the world that long since had killed God but appropriated or accommodated to a version of His all-seeing eye. The manuscripts in question: Mesches’ FBI file, 1945 to 1972.
- The FBI Director's Evidence Against Encryption Is Pathetic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
FBI Director James Comey gave a speech Thursday about how cell-phone encryption could lead law enforcement to a “very dark place” where it “misses out” on crucial evidence to nail criminals. To make his case, he cited four real-life examples — examples that would be laughable if they weren’t so tragic.
- Follow the Truth Brings Vision TV Conspiracy Show to Life
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For the first time anywhere in the world, a unique TED-style conference based on the popular TV hit, The Conspiracy Show, investigating the dramatic rise in conspiracy theories - from documented White House cover-ups around extraterrestrial visits
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for September 2014
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for September 2014 - Toronto, ON - October 16, 2014 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending September 30, 2014, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds ind
- My Last Talk with Gary Webb
"I Knew It Was the Truth and That's What Kept Me Going"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The 'Dark Alliance' series in the Mercury News came under fire by other news organizations, and the paper’s own investigation concluded the series did not meet its standards. Mr. Webb resigned a year and a half after the series appeared in the paper. He then published his book, 'Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.'
- New Seeds, Old Pesticides
A Farmer on 2,4-D and Next Gen GMOs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I doubt very many people have ever heard or seen a "tank mix." Simply put, it is a mix of several crop chemicals used together to control a variety of weeds. I have not looked into a swirling mix of chemicals in a crop spray rig for probably 20 years – that's about how long it has been since we have used any herbicides on our farm.
- Overlooking the Obvious With Naomi Klein
Climate, Capitialism and the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The lesson that Naomi Klein overlooks seems clear. Climate chaos is just one DEVASTATING symptom of our dysfunctional society. To survive catabolic capitalism and germinate an alternative, movement activists will have to anticipate and help people respond to multiple crises while organizing them to recognize and root out their source.
- PEN Honduras appeals to Supreme Court in final attempt to halt ban on practising journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Journalist and founding member of PEN Honduras, Julio Ernesto Alvarado, is appearing along with other journalists and PEN Honduras members before the Constitutional Section of the Supreme Court of the country in a final attempt to fight the reinstatement of a 16-month ban on practising journalism.
- 'Shariafication by stealth' in the UK
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2104
Access to justice is being denied in the UK in the shadow of neoliberalism and religious fundamentalism. Minority women are being denied the right to participate in the wider political community as citizens rather than subjects.
- What 'Democracy' Really Means in U.S. and New York Times Jargon: Latin America Edition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One of the most accidentally revealing media accounts highlighting the real meaning of "democracy" in U.S. discourse is a still-remarkable 2002 New York Times Editorial on the U.S.-backed military coup in Venezuela, which temporarily removed that country’s democratically elected (and very popular) president, Hugo Chávez.
- New Zealand Cops Raided Home of Reporter Working on Snowden Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Agents from New Zealand's national police force ransacked the home of a prominent independent journalist earlier this month who was collaborating with The Intercept on stories from the NSA archive furnished by Edward Snowden. The stated purpose of the 10-hour police raid was to identify the source for allegations that the reporter, Nicky Hager, recently published in a book that caused a major political firestorm and led to the resignation of a top government minister.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014
Arms Trade
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature in Other Voices is the Film of the Week: to start off, we spotlight The Corporation, an exploration of the dominant institution of our time. Plus: Lying to ourselves about the air war, Karl Marx's critique of modern agriculture, and a challenge to Montreal's anti-protest bylaw.
- Revealed: how Whisper app tracks ‘anonymous’ users
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The company behind Whisper, the social media app that promises users anonymity and claims to be “the safest place on the internet”, is tracking the location of its users, including some who have specifically asked not to be followed.
- The Salaita Affair
Lessons Heard and Lessons Learned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Professor Steven Salaita was to begin his new faculty appointment in Fall 2014 as a tenured Associate Professor in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His appointment was vetted through the multi-layer levels that are a mainstay of North American universities faculty appointment process. However, on August 1, 2014, the chancellor of UIUC Phyllis Wise informed Salaita that he did not have a faculty job at UIUC. The storm this di-hiring created amongst North American academics was unprecedented.
- The Vanishing of the Aral Sea
From Lake to Wasteland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively. New satellite images from NASA show that, for the first time in its recorded history, its largest basin has completely dried up.
- Who Supported the Khmer Rouge?
How the US Backed a Regime of Unrivaled Barbarism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With the conviction of former Khmer Rouge officials Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea for crimes against humanity, the subject of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 received a small amount of attention in the Western mass media. What the media failed to mention was how the Khmer Rouge was maintained as a military and political force long after its fall from power.
- ISIS and the IDF: Canada's Double Standard
Who are the Real Terrorists?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Why can westerners join the Israeli Defense Forces while westerners joining Islamic State are despised and killed? In what sense is the IDF scenario any less reprehensible than the IS one?
- Scientists refute lower emissions claim for fracking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As advanced technology triggers the boom in extraction of natural gas, a new study warns that market forces mean the cheaper fossil fuel could replace not just coal, but also low-emission renewable and nuclear energy.
- Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru's forest but timber finds global buyers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum.
- Inside El Salvador's Military Blacklist
The Yellow Book
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Yellow Book (Libro amarillo) is a 270 page document from 1987 that the National Security Archive in Washington DC made public on September 28th, 2014. The Yellow Book includes 1,975 photographs that the Salvadoran Armed Forces and the State Department of Intelligence of El Salvador used to catalogue people as “terrorists” and “enemies” of the state. The Yellow Book is the only military document that has been made public to this day.
- The Lie Machine
The Media and the TTIP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests. Consider, for example, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnership.
- Pay Any Price
Greed, Power, and Endless War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The book examines what Risen calls the "homeland security industrial complex", the effects of the War on Terror and the resulting financial malfeasance during the American occupation of Iraq.
- Broad consensus that violent media increases child aggression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2015
It seems that children can not only learn violence from adult role models but also through the media.
- Chevron Wins Ecuador Arbitration But Money May Go To Amazon Communities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Dutch Supreme Court recently upheld an arbitration tribunal judgment requiring the Ecuadorean government to pay Chevron $106 million for breach of contract. Ironically, activists say Ecuador is now free to hand this money to indigenous communities who have sued the oil giant for pollution in an unrelated case.
- Cuba leads fight against Ebola in Africa as west frets about border security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The island nation has sent hundreds of health workers to help control the deadly infection while richer countries worry about their security – instead of heeding UN warnings that vastly increased resources are urgently needed.
- Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are the latest in a long line of international free trade agreements. But why are they bad for the majority of people and the planet and what are the justifications given by politicians, economists and big corporations for pushing them? This fanstastic comic explains.
- 'Hostile to privacy': Snowden urges internet users to get rid of Dropbox
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Edward Snowden has identified Dropbox and other services as 'hostile to privacy." He urges web users to abandon unencrypted communication and adjust privacy settings to prevent governments from spying on them in increasingly intrusive ways.
- Palestinians torn over contact with Israelis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A Palestinian university’s decision to bar from its campus an Israeli journalist and outspoken critic of the occupation has exposed a growing rift among Palestinian activists about the merits of contact with Jewish Israelis.
- Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use “physical subversion” to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
- Lise Vogel and the politics of women's liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of Lise Vogel, Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory.
- Boston Pizza to Share Expert Insights at CFA's How to Franchise Your Business Seminar
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
CFA's How To Franchise Your Business Seminar in Toronto on October 30 guides entrepreneurs to become successful franchisors
- Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim and El Salvador's struggle against corporate impunity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity.
- Over 120 Opportunities to Discover as Canada's Largest Franchise-Only Show Returns to Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With over 100 franchise opportunities and experts, aspiring entrepreneurs can find out how to become small business owners at The Franchise Show in Toronto on October 25 & 26, 2014
- When oil is more important than life
Oil exploitation leaves trail of pollution and death in the Peruvian Amazon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The dumping of oil waste into the waters of the Marañón, Corrientes, Pastaza and Tigre rivers and the Amazon forest is producing fatal consequences for the local population, mostly to the Kukama ethnic group. The responsible are well-known oil companies, but the Peruvian authorities have not acted with timeliness, making them responsible as well. For years, victims have protested against pollution and violence, but the oil business has always had the upper hand.
- Fracking company teams up with Susan G. Komen, introduces pink drill bits "for the cure"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Twiga Farm: The story of a Kenyan land grab
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014, the residents of Twiga Farm marched through the streets of Nairobi to hand in a petition to the National Assembly. Their demand was an investigation in the unlawful eviction from their lands, the Twiga Farm, and recognition of their right to return.
- Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It has now been revealed that California regulators with DOGGR permitted hundreds of wastewater injection wells and thousands more wells injecting fluids for 'enhanced oil recovery" into aquifers protected under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
- Israel's occupation is more complex than a genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli officials were caught in a revealing lie late last month as the country celebrated the Jewish New Year. Shortly after declaring the most popular boy’s name in Israel to be "Yosef", the interior ministry was forced to concede that the top slot was actually filled by "Mohammed".
- Mois national de la securite communautaire et de la prevention de la criminalite: Entretenez de bonnes relations de voisinage
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Le Mois national de la securite communautaire et de la prevention de la criminalite qui se déroule et le Conseil canadien de la securite aimerait encourager tous les Canadiens à aller à la rencontre de leurs voisins.
- National Community Safety and Crime Prevention Month: On Being Neighbourly
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
November is Community Safety and Crime Prevention Month, and the Canada Safety Council reminds Canadians that one of the most powerful defences against crime is a resilient and caring community of neighbours.
- Responsabilite lors des sorties scolaires - une voie à double sens
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
À l'occasion de la Semaine nationale de la sécurité scolaire qui a lieu cette année du 17 au 23 octobre, le Conseil canadien de la sécurité tient à rappeler aux parents de participer activement à la gestion des risques d'incidents lors des so
- Love in the Time of Israel's War on Africans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Sheen discusses the unchecked popular hostility and racism towards Africans in Israel.
- Millions Missing From DEA Money-Laundering Operation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
At least $20 million went missing from money seizures by law enforcers, critical evidence was destroyed by a federal agency, a key informant was outed by a US prosecutor — contributing to her being kidnapped and nearly killed — and at the end of the day not a single narco-trafficker was prosecuted in this four-year-long DEA undercover operation gone awry.
- Time to Unfence our view of Migration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Instead of pretending that fence-building will solve anything, it is high time that we 'unfence' our views of migration. On the one hand, this means seeking other, more humane responses to human movement, including orderly refugee resettlement. On the other, it means not seeing migration as a self-contained 'problem' in need of a security response - but rather as an intrinsic part of a world inexorably on the move.
- The Comic Book Simplicity Of Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The referendum campaign on Scottish independence heightened many people's awareness of the pro-elite bias of the 'mainstream' news media. The grassroots power of social media in exposing and countering this bias was heartening to see. But the issue of independence for Scotland is just one of many where the traditional media consistently favour establishment power.
- John Holt: Homeschooling Pioneer and Visionary Progressive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The stereotype of homeschooling as the haven for conservative, religious ideologues overshadows the movement's radically progressive roots. One of the movement's foremost pioneers, John Holt, was an egalitarian atheist who explicitly opposed patriarchy, corresponded with progressive thinkers including Paul Goodman and Noam Chomsky, and helped initiate the still emerging children’s rights movement.
- Headscarf ban turns France's Muslim women towards homeworking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Headscarf ban in French public service jobs turns many Muslim women towards self-employed e-trading.
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Minneapolis Teamster strikes overlapped with a similarly hard-fought 83-day strike by West Coast longshoremen and maritime unions, a battle that culminated in a four-day general strike in San Francisco. Both strikes were part of a wave of labour struggle that swept the country as the working class, shaking off the paralysis that had accompanied the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, began to fight. What distinguished these two strikes, along with one by auto parts workers in Toledo, from other 1934 labor battles is that they won big.
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
A Review and Commentary by E. Tanner (Part Two)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review and dicussion of Bryan Palmer's in-depth study of the truckers strikes in Minneapolis in 1934.
- Drawing a line in the tar sands
A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The fight over the tar sands is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time. The very active tar sands struggle is no less than a life-and-death battle for the future of the planet. It is a battle that pits these peoples' movement against the largest and most destructive industrial project -- a project driven by the big the most profitable and powerful transnational energy corporations.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 2, 2014
Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This issue of Other Voices looks at why so many people deny or ignore the very real and very near threat of climate change. We also look into the ways on how NGOs tame and undermine grassroots movements. Other Voices also shares an article detailing how a $182 billion bail-out of tax-payer money was not enough for one bank. Finally, in this issue, we look into the horrors of American slavery and how it shaped the United States into the economic power it is today.
- Rebuilding communities: a type of resistance
Communities in the Amazon resort to constitutional rights to recover territories granted to mining companies.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Tundayme, a parish located in the Cordillera del Cóndor in Ecuador's southern Amazon, the indigenous and peasant communities have decided to recover the territories of abandoned or forcefully evicted communities in order to oppose mining megaprojects. The first few steps have been successful, but they fear that the government and the affected companies will respond aggressively.
- The 'Yellow Book' of the Armed Forces
Confidential document of military top officials reveals persecution of government opponents during armed conflict.
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The existence of a document, the 'Yellow Book', used by the El Salvador military to identify and target those believed to be opposed to the regime, has been revealed. Many of the individuals named in the document were subsequently killed, or arrested, imprisoned, and tortured.
- Author Donald Gutstein reveals extent of Stephen Harper revolution in new book Harperism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada (James Lorimer & Company Ltd.), Gutstein makes the case that neoliberalism is far more sinister than simply having a desire for smaller government. A central tenet of his new book is that Harper is undermining democracy by marshalling the power of government to create and enforce markets where they’ve never existed before.
- Can Civilization Survive "Really Existing Capitalism"? An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On the occasion of the release of his latest book, Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013, Noam Chomsky gave an exclusive and wide-ranging interview to C.J. Polychroniou.
- Devil and the deep blue sea: how Mediterranean migrant disaster unfolded
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Desperate migrants from Gaza and Syria tell how they put themselves at the mercy of people smugglers in their voyage to cross the Mediterranean.
- The Emergence of Marx's Critique of Modern Agriculture
Ecological Insights from His Excerpt Notebooks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Examining Marx’s notebooks, one realizes that he first attained a truly critical and ecological comprehension of modern agriculture in the middle of the 1860s. Although Marx was at first optimistic about the positive effects of modern agriculture based on the application of natural sciences and technology, he later came to emphasize the negative consequences of agriculture under capitalism precisely because of such an application, illustrating how it inevitably brings about disharmonies in the transhistorical “metabolism” (Stoffwechsel) between human beings and nature.
- Israel’s Fascistization of Judaism
A Nation in Authoritarian Lockstep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Opinion: Lakota values soar with the eagles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the defense of eagles, people came together. In respect of them, they remembered their values. In sight of them, they felt the pride of a nation.
- Opinion: We must hear - and heed - the nightingale's warning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
These threatened species continue to sing, but their songs aren't poetic or musical -- they are alarm songs. The good news is that when we listen to the birds, when we notice their diminished presence and when we change our behaviour even slightly to accommodate their needs, they respond spectacularly.
- You Are Not Alone Across Time
Using Sophocles to treat PTSD
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Article on "Outside the Company," a theatre company that performed in a project called Theatre of War, where actors played the Greek drama "Ajax" by Sophocles.
- China hopes to revive the Silk Road with bullet trains to Xinjiang
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
China hopes high-speed rail link will help pacify Xinjiang province.
- Everyone on the Bus: Rider-Driver Alliances
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Kann sheds light on the increasingly desperate state of transit in Detroit as number and frequency of buses and entire routes are experiencing increasing cuts and riders join in a union with drivers to protest these affairs.
- Americas Radical, Underground Climate Change Countermovement
Smoking Out the Kochs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The year is 2050; rising seas have inundated Miami, America’s most recent ghost city since Detroit. A deadly heat wave scorches Chicago, killing thousands of elderly, and a mega-drought has farmers in the Southwest on their knees, praying for relief, as a dreadful dustbowl blankets the fields. America goes hungry.
- Brazil's highest court takes stand against prior censorship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders hails last week's ruling by the Federal Supreme Court overturning a ban on distribution of the latest issue of the leading national newsweekly Istoe, which a lower court had ordered at the request of Cid Gomes, governor
- Christian Evangelicals Increasingly Support Palestinian Human Rights
David Brog, the Attorney Behind CUFI
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Support for Israel is eroding among American evangelical Christians, with only 30 percent in a recent survey stating support for Israel above Palestinians.
- ClimateFast Annual Fast and Vigil Sept 28-Oct 2 - Conversations and Action on Climate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For the third year in a row dedicated ClimateFasters are holding vigil on Parliament Hill, carbon fasting or food fasting, Hungry for Climate Leadership. Canada’s failure to take responsibility for our contributions in destabilizing the climate is
- Hong Kong police use force to block reporting of pro-democracy rallies
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has strongly criticised the abuse of power by Hong Kong Police when they attacked journalists, students and citizens at pro-democracy demonstrations on September 27 and 28, 2014.
- Illegal logging behind deaths of indigenous leaders
Assassination of forest defenders highlights extensive network of logging and the illegal timber trade.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
"In the forest, the silence at night is absolute," says Sara, a settler who owns a plot of land in the middle of Peru's central jungle. "But suddenly, at 9 p.m. you start hearing chainsaws in the distance. I get up immediately and go quietly with my gun and my dogs to see where they are cutting down my trees. But I don’t find the loggers. They hide. In the morning I find felled trees and cut planks that they were unable to take away."
- Migrant Justice Groups Call for Overhaul of Immigration Detention after Secret Red Cross Report Released
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Migrant justice coalition the End Immigration Detention Network (EIDN) is calling for an end to maximum security imprisonment of immigrants without trial or charges after a secret Red Cross report on deplorable detention conditions became public.
- A perilous journey: Seabird runs gauntlet of hazards on 40,000-mile annual trip
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Right around now, flocks of sooties are finishing up their summer vacations feasting in the rich, upwelling currents of the Northern Pacific and are heading south to breed. En route, they'll run a gauntlet of manmade obstacles in the ocean: fisheries that deplete their prey and snare them with hooks and long lines, drifting continents of trash and noxious industrial spume.
- Security laws attack Australia's press freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) in describing the National Security Legislation Amendment Bill No 1 an outrageous attack on press freedom in Australia.
- 2014 Toronto Junior Chess Championship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Toronto Junior Chess Championship starts October 20, 2014, at the Annex Chess Club.
- 2014 Toronto Women's Chess Championship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Toronto Women's Chess Championship starts October 20, 2014, at the Annex Chess Club.
- Washington’s Secret Agendas
Imperial Rot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One might think that by now even Americans would have caught on to the constant stream of false alarms that Washington sounds in order to deceive the people into supporting its hidden agendas.
- When Deep States Collide
Turkey's Hesitancy Exposes Its Agenda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It's no secret that members of the so-called coalition against ISIS have been less than enthusiastic about substantive military action as the bulk of the airstrikes so far have been executed by the United States.
- Food Chains
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm labourers in the United States.
- For an easy win on carbon emissions - cut global trade!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If the world's leaders really cared about climate change, there's one easy way to reduce emissions -- drop the obsession with increasing trade, and all the pollution that goes with it. A world based on local production, consumption and finance will be a better one for people and the environment.
- Lying to Ourselves About the Air War
The Killers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Most US citizens have never been subjected to an air raid. They have never heard the roar of planes flying high above them while an air raid siren wails, its whine competing with the planes’ roar and piercing the audio centers of the brain making sequential thought difficult if not impossible. Nor have they heard the sound of bombs — canisters filled with high explosives and fire — whistling as they fall through the air toward their targets on the ground. Nor have most US citizens ever sat in a bomb shelter wondering if their homes will survive the aerial assault they are hoping to survive themselves.
- Obama's House of Cards
Will Russia and China Hold Their Fire Until War Is the Only Alternative?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Barak Obama's September 24 speech at the UN is the most absurd thing I have heard in my entire life. It is absolutely amazing that the president of the United States would stand before the entire world and tell what everyone knows are blatant lies while simultaneously demonstrating Washington's double standards and belief that Washington alone, because the US is exceptional and indispensable, has the right to violate all law.
- Toward the Agro-Police State
You'll Need an iPad if You Want to be a Farmer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The main problem with precision agriculture -- and the hype that surrounds it -- is the faulty assumptions that it rests on. The problems of agriculture are not caused by a lack of technology, or even by a lack of productivity (overproduction has as a matter of fact been a more frequent problem for farmers). The root problems are political and economic in nature.
- Denver students stage mass walk-out over US history 'censorship'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Hundreds of Denver-area high school students walked out their classrooms in a mass protest against what they call an attempt to censor their history curriculum by refocusing it on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and obedience.
- New generation: Growing up reading Rachel Carson, scientists unravel risks of new pesticides
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Like biologist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring warned about the devastating effects of DDT, a new generation of scientists is trying to figure out if new pesticides -- which are being used in ever-increasing numbers, quantities, and combinations -- are harming living things they’re not intended to kill, including birds.
- Sources HotLink - September 25, 2014
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Items include increasing government control of the Internet and other media, as well as the violence faced by journalists globally. We also present articles regarding the journalistic coverage of the Ray Rice abuse scandal and the importance of women in top editing jobs. The featured topic of the week is cancer.
- 24 reasons ISIS are wrong: Muslim scholars blast Islamic State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A large group of Islamic theologians addressed the head of the Islamic State in an open letter, articulately accusing the movement of practices that have nothing to do with Islam, even rejecting the extremists’ right to call themselves jihadists.
- The weird afterlife of the world's subterranean 'ghost stations'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With plans afoot to transform disused London tube stations into tourist attractions, Drew Reed digs into how they get abandoned in the first place and what could become of them in the future.
- Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Is our inability to tackle climate change the fault of politicians? Corporations? Governments? Or is it because that's the way our brains have evolved, able to hold six contradictory ideas at once, and believe them all?
- Gary Webb: Vindicated
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Family Members of the Intrepid Investigative Journalist — Soon To Be Immortalized By An Upcoming Hollywood Movie — Share Their Story With The World.
- Magnum force cops: 'If you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
US law enforcement is increasingly using military weapons for everyday tasks. Instead of hiding behind heavy armor, they should be building trust with the community, Peter Bibring, attorney for the ACLU of Southern California, told RT.
- Obama Launches an Illegal War in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
President Obama’s decision to bomb Syria stands in stark violation of international law, the UN Charter, as well as the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
- Pirate Fishing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An interactive online game from Al Jazeera places users in the role of an investigative journalist uncovering the story of illegal fishing operations off the coast of Sierra Leone.
- The Purpose And The Pretence - Bombing Isis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Traditionally, claims that an Official Enemy is uniquely Evil rise to a deafening crescendo just prior to an attack on that enemy.
- Scary! Annex Chess Club hosts the "Frankenstein" Chess Tournament
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Annex Chess Club in Toronto is kicking off its “Frankenstein” chess tournament on September 29. The Annex Club regular features ‘themed’ tournaments: the “Frankenstein” tournament wryly acknowledges the occasions, familiar to most chess p
- Tungsten: The perfect metal for bullets and missiles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Imagine a lump of iron the size of a tennis ball. Weigh it in your hand. Now let it drop on to your foot. How does that feel? Now imagine an identical object three times as dense. How would that feel if you dropped it? Would you ever walk again?
- The Occupation's Dark Underbelly Exposed
The Revelations of the Israeli Refuseniks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A letter signed by 43 veterans of an elite Israeli military intelligence unit declaring their refusal to continue serving the occupation has sent shockwaves through Israeli society.
- Scrambling birds' brains: Could this toxic algae offer clues to human diseases?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In humans, researchers suspect that a neurotoxin may be linked to Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a lethal neurodegenerative disease that destroys parts of the brain. No one knows whether any human neurological diseases are related to the bird disease, but new clues about the poisoned birds are emerging.
- Eating your ethics: Halal meat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Halal ritual slaughter has raised huge controversy in the UK press. But the far greater issue is farm animals' entire quality of life - as reflected in the Qu'ranic principle that meat must be 'tayyib' - good, wholesome and from well-treated, healthy animals. Is this something we can all agree on?
- I think explicit consent laws are a mistake
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I want to talk a little bit about the burgeoning movement for explicit consent laws. These laws change the typical standard from "no means no" to "only yes means yes." As the article puts it, "Students are now required to have 'unambiguous communication and mutual agreement' -- that's verbal consent - before sexual acts, or risk consequences."
- ISIS Destroys Memorial & Church of Armenian Genocide in Der Zor, Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
ISIS has destroyed the on-site monument to the Armenian people who perished in the deserts of Der Zor in the Genocide of 1915. The church and memorial contained irreplaceable bones of the martyred dead.
- NGOs Are Cages
How Capitalists Control Mass Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We really need to understand the methods used by NGOs to undermine radical political organizing efforts and divert us into political dead ends.
- The Carbon Underground: reversing global warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As millions join in climate marches and other actions around the world, the mainstream focus on energy is missing the 55% of emissions that come from mismanaged land and destroyed forests. The key is to replace industrial agriculture worldwide with productive, regenerative organic farming that puts carbon back in the soil.
- Academic Fraud and the Ponzi Scheme of 'Higher Learning'
Higher Education in Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It’s sad to say, but U.S. higher education increasingly resembles a pyramid scheme. The schools at the top continue to compete for elite students, by appealing to prospective applicants via the creation of a slew of amenities (the "climbing wall" phenomenon) and offering a unique college "experience." Non-elite colleges and universities are the losers in this process, fighting with each other for a dwindling number of state tax dollars amidst huge increases in tuition costs.
- Arsenic-Laced Coffee is Good for You
Would You Like Sugar With That?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Environmental Protection Agency, in 2013, identified about 1,000 chemicals that the oil and gas industry uses in fracking operations, most of them carcinogens at the strengths they shove into the earth.
- Germany's African Genocide
The Namibia Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
How outrageous, how heartbreaking, how truly grotesque! Windhoek City – the capital of Namibia – is, at one extreme full of flowers and Mediterranean-style villas, and at the other, it is nothing more than a tremendous slum without water or electricity.
- How Stieg Larsson Exposed the Swedish Far Right
Kicking the Hornets' Nest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
But after reading Jan-Erik Pettersson’s “Stieg Larsson: the real story of the man who played with fire”, I felt a keener loss, that of a man who I never met but now miss as a comrade in the fight against a decaying capitalist system.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 19 2014
Spying, terrorism, and protest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Coverage of spying, terrorism, and protest. Articles on how the ISIS (Islamic State group) comes to be using American weapons; the U.S. government's secret plans to spy for American corporations; the insidious power of propaganda; how to spot and defeat disruption on the Internet, and steps to sustainable livestock production. Topic of the week is War Crimes; book for the week is Berkeley: The New Student Revolt, and website of the week is LabourStart.
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Minneapolis Teamster strikes overlapped with a similarly hard-fought 83-day strike by West Coast longshoremen and maritime unions, a battle that culminated in a four-day general strike in San Francisco. Both strikes were part of a wave of labour struggle that swept the country as the working class, shaking off the paralysis that had accompanied the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, began to fight. What distinguished these two strikes, along with one by auto parts workers in Toledo, from other 1934 labor battles is that they won big, establishing union representation for masses of previously unorganized workers and opening the road to the upsurge later in the decade that forged the industrial unions of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Key to the victory of all three strikes was the leadership provided by "reds" -- labour militants who considered themselves socialist or communist.
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
A Review and Commentary by E. Tanner (Part One)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review and dicussion of Bryan Palmer's in-depth study of the truckers strikes in Minneapolis in 1934.
- How the Media Gets It Wrong
On Asking the Wrong Questions and Mapping Media Dead Zones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Mass murder by botulism: Surge in Great Lakes bird deaths driven by invaders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The botulism bacterium "is the most toxic natural substance on Earth. Just one gram could kill off like two million people. And for these birds it's essentially just widespread food poisoning."
- The Anti-Empire Report #132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Each of you I’m sure has met many people who support American foreign policy, with whom you’ve argued and argued. You point out one horror after another, from Vietnam to Iraq. From god-awful bombings and invasions to violations of international law and torture. And nothing helps. Nothing moves this person. Now why is that? Are these people just stupid? I think a better answer is that they have certain preconceptions. Consciously or unconsciously, they have certain basic beliefs about the United States and its foreign policy, and if you don’t deal with these basic beliefs you may as well be talking to a stone wall. The most basic of these basic beliefs, I think, is a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the United States does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well.
- Canada more at risk from environmentalists than religiously inspired terrorists: RCMP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Recent RCMP report warns that Canada's energy sector is more at risk from domestic environmental extremists than from religiously inspired terrorist organizations like Al Qaida and ISIS.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for August 2014
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Toronto, ON – September 16, 2014 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending August 31, 2014, assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.13 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM
- An Indigenous People's History of the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
- Investment Funds Industry Leaders Gather to Explore Global Insights, Canadian Viewpoints
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Media Advisory – 2014 Leadership Conference – Canada’s pre-eminent networking and information event for the mutual funds industry, with international experts and Canadian industry leaders is taking place on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at The Car
- Is Israel singled out for its human rights violations?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Some people assert that human rights activists and the international community are disproportionately – and unjustifiably – focusing their attention on the Jewish state. They are "ignoring" human rights violations elsewhere — Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Chad, wherever — in order to unfairly vilify Israel. This bias, the argument usually goes, is motivated by anti-Semitism.
- Life in Timbuktu: how the ancient city of gold is slowly turning to dust
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Mali's ancient city is disempowered, suffering the effects of desertification and slowly disappearing. Despite this, little is being done to ensure the city has a future.
- The So-Called Scientific "Consensus": Why the Debate on GMO Safety is Not Over
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Biotechnology seed companies, aided by advocates from academia and the blogopsphere, are using their substantial resources to broadcast the myth of a "scientific consensus" on the safety of GMOs, asserting that the data is in and the debate is over. The public relations campaign, helped along by industry groups, has caught the attention of some of the most visible news outlets in the country, with biotech advocates portraying GMO critics as akin to climate change deniers, out of step with science.
- Twisted beaks: Scientists exploring mysterious deformities focus on new virus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Today, deformed beaks have been discovered in more than 2,500 of Alaska's chickadees, or 6.5 percent of captured adults, and in 29 other species in south central Alaska. For crows, the disfigured beaks are even more prevalent, at 17 percent, the "highest rate of gross deformity ever documented in a wild bird population," according to the USGS.
- National Liberation and Bolshevism Reexamined
A View from the Borderlands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A view from the Czarist empire's borderlands obliges us to rethink many long-held assumptions about the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, as well as the development of Marxist approaches to national liberation, peasant struggle, permanent revolution, and the emancipation of women.
- Film Review: Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of the provocative documentary Revolutionary Medicine, which tells the story of the first Garifuna hospital, in Honduras.
- Technocreep
The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
"Technology is rapidly moving into our bodies," writes cyber expert Keenan, "and this book gives a chilling look ahead into where that road may lead us -- on a one way trip to the total surrender of privacy and the commoditization of intimacy." Keenan presents a definitive dissection of privacy-eroding and life-invading technologies, coming at you from governments, corporations, and the person next door.
- IFJ Led Delegation Visits Gaza to Provide Solidarity and Support to Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Leaders of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), and a number of leading Egyptian journalists have concluded a two-day solidarity visit to journalists in Gaza
- Independent journalism pays off with truth and results
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A highlight perhaps because our journalistic effort covering the people and politics of Alberta’s oil sands, as well as the industry’s pipeline and tankers offshoots into B.C., is one of Kickstarter’s most funded journalistic endeavours. 741 people like you pledged $53,040 and powered up this project!
- The journalists who never sleep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Automated 'robot writers' could soon be personalising daily data feed.
- Malaysian website reporter arrested and charged under Sedition Act
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Malaysiakini news website reporter Susan Loone is facing a possible three-year jail term under the 1948 Sedition Act following her arrest in George Town, the capital of the northwestern state of Penang, Malaysia.
- Turkey's parliament approves even more Internet censorship and surveillance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Turkey: Government agency given more power to block websites and gather user data.
- Breaking the last taboo - Gaza and the threat of world war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Pilger discusses the attack on Gaza and the denial of justice to Palestinians. He warns against the threat of a new world war growing by the day.
- 5,000km Unicycle Ride for Climate Action Culminates on Parliament Hill
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Campaign calls for political action and unity to address climate change as Parliament reconvenes.
- The hunt for Spinosaurus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A chance meeting in Morocco and a trip to Milan joined pieces of the Spinosaurus, the world's first semi-aquatic dinosaur.
- 'Poison pill' privatisation contracts could cost £300m-£400m to cancel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Taxpayer stands to lose millions if probation contracts are cancelled.
- Sources HotLink - September 11, 2014
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Featuring Micahel Riordon's Bold Scientists: Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science, plus China continuing attempts to control and regulate media in Hong Kong, and attempts to free three imprisoned Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt.
- The Aftermath of Israel's Latest Assault on Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On August 26, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed upon, bringing a fragile end to a war that killed 2,150 Palestinians (mostly civilians) and 73 Israelis (mostly soldiers). Since then Hamas has not fired a single rocket, attacked an Israeli target, or done anything to break the terms of the ceasefire.
- Azov fighters are Ukraine's greatest weapon and may be its greatest threat
The battalion's far-right volunteers' desire to 'bring the fight to Kiev' is a danger to post-conflict stability
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Azov battalion, a volunteer militia that has been doing much of the frontline fighting in Ukraine's war against Russian-speaking rebels in the east, may pose a serious threat to the Ukrainian government and the state itself. Many of the battalion's members belong to neo-Nazi groups or adhere to neo-Nazi ideology.
- Hamas Rocket Launches Don't Explain Israel's Gaza Destruction -- Israeli Forces' Manipulated Figures and Fake Evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel and its supporters abroad have parried accusations of indiscriminate destruction and mass killing of civilians in Gaza by arguing that they were consequences of strikes aimed at protecting Israeli civilians from rockets that were being launched from very near civilian structures.
- Hollywood's Gary Webb Movie and the Message that Big Media Couldn't Kill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Gary's email arrived quite by surprise. I knew about his Dark Alliance series, five years prior, documenting the CIA's trafficking of cocaine to fund paramilitary squads in Central America. I also knew he had been pummeled by corporate media and had lost his job over it. "They're trying to turn you into me," he said, “but you can win because you don't have a boss who can sell you out."
- Metal madness: Lead doesn't just poison birds, it scrambles everything they need to survive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It's well-known that high levels of lead kill birds. But now it's becoming clear that amounts commonly encountered by waterfowl and raptors can mess up their digestion, brains, hearts, vision and other body processes critical for their survival in the wild.
- Researcher loses job at NSF after government questions her role as 1980s activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Valerie Barr was 22 and living in New York City in 1979 when she became politically active. A recent graduate of New York University with a master’s degree in computer science, Barr handed out leaflets, stood behind tables at rallies, and baked cookies to support two left-wing groups, the Women’s Committee Against Genocide and the New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence. Despite her passion for those issues, she had a full-time job as a software developer that took precedence.
- The Astounding Violence Of Israeli Colonialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Recently the world watched the horrific violence perpetrated inside Gaza, as 2,159 Palestinians - including 577 children, 263 women and 102 elderly - were killed during Israel's Operation Protective Edge over the course of 50 days. Zionist supporters, as usual, managed to rationalize the killing by blaming the victims, best exemplified by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nauseating claim that Hamas "want(s) to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because ... they use telegenically-dead Palestinians for their cause."
- A Brief History of Women in Quebec
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A Brief History of Women in Quebec examines the historical experience of women of different social classes and origins (geographic, ethnic, and racial) from the period of contact between Europeans and Aboriginals to the twenty-first century to give a nuanced and complex account of the main transformations in their lives.
- Ceasefires in Which Violations Never Cease
What's Next for Israel, Hamas, and Gaza?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On August 26th, 2014, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) both accepted a ceasefire agreement after a 50-day Israeli assault on Gaza that left 2,100 Palestinians dead and vast landscapes of destruction behind. The agreement calls for an end to military action by both Israel and Hamas, as well as an easing of the Israeli siege that has strangled Gaza for many years.
- Medical programs for homeless
Re: Too stigmatized to find a doctor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Community health centres provide services for homeless.
- Rosa Luxemburg on the Socialist Civic Virtues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One of Rosa Luxemburg's most striking and least well-understood contributions was to draw on the classical "republican" notion of "civic virtue," as a vital part of her analysis of working-class democracy.
- Terrorism, COINTELPRO, And The Black Panther Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Bill C36: A Dangerous Way Forward
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Ottawa this week between September 9-11th, sex workers, sex worker rights organizations and allies of sex workers will be appearing as witnesses before the Senate's Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee to speak to Bill C36
- China's tightening grasp on Hong Kong's press freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply worried that Hong Kong’s media managers lack sufficient independence to face ongoing political pressure from China.
- Dairy - the case for greener, healthier, lower performing cows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With supermarket milk cheaper than spring water, it's time to rethink the modern dairy industry. It's not just the milk that's become a throwaway product - the high-octane Holstein cows that produce it are also in the knackers yard after just two or three lactations, the living waste of a loss-making, environment-trashing industry.
- IFJ calls on Pakistan government, political parties to respect media rights
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued letters to Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, and opposition leaders Imran Khan, of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT)
- IFJ/EFJ Stand in Solidarity with Russian Journalists to Remember Fallen Colleagues
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have sent a message of solidarity and support to their affiliate, the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ)
- IFJ-FAJ Delegation Urges Egyptian Prime Minister to Release Al-Jazeera Jailed Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists welcomes the meeting this morning in Cairo between an IFJ-FAJ delegation and Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab to discuss the imprisonment of the three Al Jazeera journalists
- Loon, interrupted: Chicks dying, social chaos. Is their comeback unraveling?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It’s a scenario playing out across North America -- loons are raising fewer chicks to fledgling stage than they were two decades ago. Researchers suspect that hormone-disrupting pollutants such as flame retardants may have eroded the birds' delicate social structure and contributed to a mysterious drop in Squam Lake’s loon population. In other parts of the Northeast, scientists have implicated acid rain and mercury in declining numbers of chicks.
- Made in the USA: Report Shows ISIS Using US Arms from 'Syria Rebels'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
From the moment the US began sending lethal arms to Syrian rebel factions, there was a chorus of people expressing fears that those arms would end up in the “wrong hands,” and US officials insisted they were going to carefully vet everyone who got those weapons.
- The Other 9/11
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Whether or not activists will ever mount a serious threat to U.S. hegemony and propaganda remains to be seen. One thing is certain, however: Without such organizing, action, and sacrifice, there will be many more wars and interventions and many more lies told to obscure the truth about them.
- The Price We Pay
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This documentary, inspired by Brigitte Alepin's book La Crise fiscale qui vient, shines a light on the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens.
- Then and Now
1934 Strikes, Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference (Part Two)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Second part of an analysis on the differences between strike action today and that of six years ago during the onset of the economic crisis.
- Then and Now Part Two
1934 Strikes -- Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In 1934, four years into the Great Depression, the victory of three citywide strikes -- centered on the Teamsters in Minneapolis, auto parts workers in Toledo and longshoremen in San Francisco -- would open the door to a mass upsurge of working-class struggle and the organization of powerful industrial unions.
- The U.S. Government's Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Throughout the last year, the U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that it does not engage in economic and industrial espionage, in an effort to distinguish its own spying from China's infiltrations of Google, Nortel, and other corporate targets. Turns out that isn't true.
- Bold Scientists
Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Accounts of scientists working in the public interest despite powerful opposition.
- The CIA's Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
- The Insidious Power of Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
To study the effects of political propaganda in what used to be called the 'free world' there could hardly be a better time than now. We are living through an instance of insidious propaganda that has clean contours. It fills a common need. In a period of large-scale slaughter and other man-made disaster the morally conscious person can do with some clear categories of good and bad, desirable and despicable.
- Loss of night: Artificial light disrupts sex hormones of birds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Around the world, scientists seeking to answer that question have gathered mounting evidence that city lights are altering the basic physiology of urban birds, suppressing their estrogen and testosterone and changing their singing, mating and feeding behaviors. One lab experiment showed that male blackbirds did not develop reproductive organs during the second year of exposure to continuous light at night.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 4, 2014
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Information about the Connexions Alternative Media List and the Labor Film Archive. Articles on corporations spying on non-profits, workplace deaths, Monsanto and Ukraine, and liberal environmentalism. Topic of the week is Violence Against Journalists. Book of the week is Bold Scientists.
- Fake cell phone 'towers' may be spying on Americans' calls, texts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
More than a dozen 'fake cell phone towers' could be secretly hijacking Americans' mobile devices in order to listen in on phone calls or snoop on text messages, a security-focused cell phone company claims. It is not clear who controls the devices.
- Missing Russian journalist Andrey Stenin confirmed dead in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Russian journalist Andrey Stenin, missing in eastern Ukraine for a month, has been confirmed dead, RIA Novosti, the news agency where he worked, reports. He was in a vehicle traveling in a convoy of escaping civilians when it came under heavy fire.
- Toxic gulls: Quebec's contaminated bird colony offers clues about flame retardants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Research on Deslauriers and in Canadian laboratories indicates that flame retardants are altering birds’ thyroid hormones, reducing their clutch sizes, damaging their eggs, changing their behavior, shifting their gender ratio toward males and weakening their bones.
- Ukraine: the Ugly Truth
Kiev's War Against Freedom of Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The US State Department has given its support to the military operation undertaken by Kiev in Donbass.
- The Zero-Sum Game of Perpetual War
Why the Deep State Always Wins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Readers with a morbid sense of curiosity can visit a web site called NukeMap that allows visitors to witness the devastation caused by nuclear weapons of varying yields on a city of their choosing.
- Allan Sekula, Against the Grain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A tribute to the photographer, film-maker, cultural theorist, political activist, and Marxist intellectual, Allan Sekula.
- An alternative media list
Getting the news - and getting behind the news
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2017
A selective list of English-language alternative media.
- August 1914 and World War I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Smaldone analyzes the political circumstances during WWI to explain why socialism as an international movement failed to take hold and ultimately collapsed.
- Death in the Eagle's Shadow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Loewenstein details the circumstances surrounding her friend Anwar Za'aneen's death by an Israeli drone in Gaza, to highlight the severity of the dangers that Palestinians must live with in everyday life.
- De-colonizing North America
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of King's "The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America," and Dunbar-Ortiz's "An Indigenous People's History of the United States."
- Detroit: Your Pension and Your Life!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Amidst the ongoing bankruptcy of Detroit, workers are faced with having their pensions involuntarily reduced.
- Ferguson on Center Stage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Miah examines race relations in Ferguson, Missouri after the recent police murder of Michael Brown as a result of racial profiling and police brutality.
- Florida's sugar barons grow fat on subsidies, diabetes and Everglades destruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Big Sugar is the new Big Tobacco, writes Alan Farago - lethal to human health, wreaking environmental devastation, gouging huge public subsidies, and with the political clout to stop First Lady Michelle Obama from breathing a word against it. Only an alliance of green, health and taxpayer campaigners can kill the beast.
- Fred Ho, Presente!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A tribute to saxophonist, composer, and revolutionary Marxist activist Fred Ho, who was an active member of the Jazz and radical left-movements.
- A Green New Deal for New York
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Green Party outlines its revised goals for their campaign plan in the election for governor and lieutenant governor of New York.
- Is Water a Human Right in Detroit?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Feeley examines the questionable actions of the Detroit Water and Sewage Department's recent decision to shut-off the water of residents with outstanding bills, a process that penalizes the large portion of the population that is low-income in a city that is undergoing bankruptcy.
- Making the Rulers Obey
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of "Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements" edited by Clinton Ross and Marcy Rein.
- Military Emancipation
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of Levine's "The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South," and Oakes's "Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865."
- One Historian's Journey
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of "A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics, and Labor" by Nelson Lichenstein.
- One Step Up, Three Steps Down
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In an interview with author Barbara Garson, Against the Current examines the economic meltdown surrounding the Occupy movement and the effect it has had on working-class Americans.
- Our Planet, Our Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In response to recent activist activity regarding climate change in New York City, the editors examine the dimensions of the global environmental crisis and how to confront it.
- Palestine's Unfolding Horror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Weissman interviews Dr. Hisham Ahmed regarding the Israeli bombing of Gaza in 2014, its underlying causes, and possible impact on the political prospects for the future of Hamas and Israel.
- Piketty on Capital and Inequality
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas Piketty.
- A place in the sun
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An extract from Laurent Cordonnier's futuristic novel 'La Liquidation.'
- Putin on the Ritz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Forgive the word-play; colossal demonization notwithstanding, I’ll go with Putin and Russia over Obama, the US, Rasmussen, Cameron, friends and allies everywhere. America has an unerring nose for smelling Fascism and quickly joining ranks. Today Putin used the political “F” word correctly, and for that I honor him.
- Resisting the New McCarthyism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Against the Current interviews Professor Abdulhadi regarding recent accusations by the rightwing McCarthyist AMCHA Initiative that she secured university funding on a false pretext of attending a conference in Beirut. It is believed that this accusation is part of a greater objective targetting pro-Palestinian activities.
- Return of the Evil Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
You have to hand it to them. The United States media machine is unequaled at producing and disseminating misinformation. It begins in the bowels of the State Department or White House or Pentagon and is filtered out through the government’s front organizations, otherwise known as Mainstream Media (MSM).
- Spotlighting Inequality and Injustice
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Swerdlow reviews Naison's "Badass Teachers Unite!", Heckman's "Giving Kids a Fair Chance", and Marsh's "Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality" in order to discuss whether more education is the solution to income inquality in the United States.
- Tailbacks in Panama
China sponsors rival east-west canal routes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Despite the expansion works in the Panama Canal, the number and size of ships are getting too large for it. Other Latin American countries, backed by China, want some of the action.
- Toward Energy Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As energy systems are beginning to transition towards greener alternatives to fossil fuels, a debate surrounding its production emerges.
- Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault
The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU's expansion eastward and the West's backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine -- beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 -- were critical elements, too.
- How the NSA Helped Turkey Kill Kurdish Rebels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On a December night in 2011, a terrible thing happened on Mount Cudi, near the Turkish-Iraqi border. One side described it as a massacre; the other called it an accident.
- More chance of dying from work than going to war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Going to war may seem one of the most hazardous ordeals on the planet, but perhaps not. The International Labor Organization (ILO) says there is more chance of dying from work than fighting for your country on the battlefield.
- Police State: US Government-Funded Database Created to Track "Subversive Propaganda" Online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The creation of the Truthy database by Indiana University researchers has drawn sharp criticism from free-speech advocates and others concerned over government censorship of political expression.
- In Scotland or Catalonia, the pitch is for difference without much difference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the referendums in Scotland and Catalonia, the idea is for bracing, defining change that won't be greatly noticed.
- The liberal climate agenda is doomed to failure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Liberal environmentalism represents a dangerous delusion, writes Scott Parkin - that 'playing nice' with Earth-destroying corporations and politicians can yield results worth having. Radical change on climate will only result from bold, confrontational direct actions against the fossil fuel industries and their apologists.
- Losing Toronto: How Olivia Chow and the left may be giving away an election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As we head into the Labour Day weekend that may be accurately deemed to be the start of the homestretch of Toronto's very long mayoral and council election season, the news is not good for leftists or progressives in the city.
- Organizing "The Organized"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For many years, American unions have been trying to “organize of the unorganized” to offset, and, where possible, reverse their steady loss of dues-paying membership. In union circles, a distinction was often made between that "external organizing" – to recruit workers who currently lack collective bargaining rights – and "internal organizing," which involves engaging more members in contract fights and other forms of collective action aimed at strengthening existing bargaining units.
- Poisoned: A dying bald eagle and its healers fight for a second chance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Nearly three-quarters of the 22 lead-poisoned birds that had reached the Teton Raptor Center in recent years either died or were so far gone they had to be euthanized. But this eagle had so far survived what could have been a lethal dose.
- Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie
One After Another After Another
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery.
- White privilege masquerades as anti-racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Why does a demonstration of hundreds of people against "anti-Semitism" in Toronto seem more like a march for white supremacy than a rally against racism?
- Biology Fortified, Inc. misleads the public on GMO safety
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Heavy metal songs: Contaminated songbirds sing the wrong tunes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Scientists have long known that mercury is a potent toxicant: It disrupts the architecture of human brains, and it can change birds' behavior and kill their chicks. But after extensive research in Virginia, scientists have shown that mercury also alters the very thing that many birds are known for -- their songs.
- Israeli Company Targeted by Oakland Blockade Imports Ammunition Into US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli-owned shipping company Zim, the target of recent port blockades organized by Palestinian solidarity activists in California, is importing millions of rounds of small arms ammunition into the United States each year.
- The Jihadis Return
ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Though capable of staging spectacular attacks like 9/11, jihadist organizations were not a significant force on the ground when they first became notorious in the shape of al-Qa'ida at the turn of century. The West's initial successes in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan weakened their support still further. Today, as Middle East commentator Patrick Cockburn sets out in this new book, that's all changed. Exploiting the missteps of the West's wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, as well as its misjudgments in relation to Syria and the uprisings of the Arab Spring, jihadist organizations, of which ISIS is the most important, are swiftly expanding.
- Several journalists attacked while covering Freedom March in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Committee to Protect Journalists calls on all sides to respect the role of journalists and media workers covering an anti-government demonstration in Pakistan. Journalists from various news outlets have been attacked while covering the Freedom March
- Sources HotLink - August 28, 2014
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Featuring news on Internet freedom and censorship, killings of journalists by the Israeli military, and a cross-Canada ride for climate action.
- Turkey, enemy of the Internet?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The 9th annual Internet Governance Forum will be held in Istanbul from 2 to 5 September. Reporters Without Borders will be there to denounce the increasing violations of freedom of information in Turkey and to argue that respect for this freedom
- TV presenter slaughtered in Bangladesh
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) deplore the slaughter murder of a television host in Dhaka on Wednesday night, August 27.
- Empty nests of the North: "Massive chick deaths" in seabird colonies; climate, oceanic changes blamed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Iceland, circled by the food-rich currents of Atlantic, Arctic and polar waters, is the Serengeti for seabirds. But the nests have gone empty in the past few years, and colonies throughout the North Atlantic are shrinking.
- Factory and Lab: Israel's War Business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel invests more money in research than most other countries -- and in no other place are research institutes, the defense industry, the army and politics as interwoven. The result is a high-tech weapons factory that successfully exports its goods globally.
- The Latin Americanization of U.S. Police Forces
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A call to white Americans to unite with suppressed minorities who are incarcerated daily, killed in the streets, and who hold little political power against these militarized police forces.
- Media spies put all journalists in danger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The increasing tendency of the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies to disregard previous prohibitions against the use of journalists as agents puts every legitimate reporter around the world in jeopardy.
- The Picket of the Zim Piraeus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Sanctions & the Dollar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The recent round of sanctions aimed at Moscow over the crisis in the Ukraine could backfire on Washington by accelerating a move away from the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. While in the short run American actions against Russia’s oil and gas industry will inflict economic pain on Moscow, in the long run the U.S. may lose some of its control over international finance.
- The Fun of Empire: Fighting on All Sides of a War in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Now the Obama administration and American political class is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the failed “Bomb Assad!” campaign by starting a new campaign to bomb those fighting against Assad – the very same side the U.S. has been arming over the last two years.
- Osprey whisperers: Deciphering decades of clues from the sea hawk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ospreys tell a story, and Elliott, Lee and the other scientists who track them are trying to decipher their messages. For more than two decades in North America, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, the osprey has revealed disturbing tales about DDT, PCBs, pulp mill dioxins, flame retardants, stain-resistant compounds, urban runoff, mining wastes, prescription drugs, mercury and more.
- Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - Book Review
Edward E. Baptist’s "The Half Has Never Been Told"
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of Edward E. Baptist’s examination of slavery, presented in an entirely new way, extensively through the voices of the slaves themselves.
- Ultra-Zionists protest Muslim-Jewish wedding saying miscegenation is 'gravest threat to the Jewish people'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As even mainstream Israeli politicians threaten the Palestinians of Gaza with ethnic cleansing and genocide, Israel's far-right figures take to the street to rile up racist supporters and to chase Palestinians out of public spaces and enforce racial-religious separation.
- Corporations Spy on Nonprofits with Impunity
Dow Chemical vs. Greenpeace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Here's a dirty little secret you won't see in the daily papers: corporations conduct espionage against US nonprofit organizations without fear of being brought to justice.
- NATO - New York Times Convoy Fabrications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On Saturday, the entire humanitarian convoy of 227 trucks crossed back into Russia without incident after having successfully delivered its contents to the Luhansk distribution centre. The unwavering round trip project from Russia surmounted considerable bureaucratic delays and political obstacles including wild assertions that the convoy’s true purpose was to ‘smuggle weapons’ to the east Ukraine rebels.
- Tim's + BK = $ for Canada right? Wrong! (in one table)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Big news today that Burger King, a US company, is planning to buy Tim Horton's, a Canadian one. This is another in a string of 'tax inversion' deals where US corporations move their corporate headquarters from the US to elsewhere to avoid US taxation. They don't actually change anything or move anyone outside of their accounting fairyland. Instead, they just check some different boxes on their income tax forms and 'poof' save millions in taxes.
- Winged Warnings: Built for survival, birds in trouble from pole to pole
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Globally, one in eight -- more than 1,300 species -- are threatened with extinction, and the status of most of those is deteriorating, according to BirdLife International.
- Monsanto and Ukraine
GM Food, Ukraine and the Return of Hill + Knowlton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under terms of their $17 billion loan to Ukraine, will force that country to permit genetically-modified (GM) crops and genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.
- A Hundred Years Gone: The Sack of Louvain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Marie-Therese Delcom sits at an outdoor cafe in the Belgian town of Leuven, rustling through faded family photos from the First World War. In one of them, her paternal grandfather is digging his own grave, invading German soldiers standing at the ready.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014
Killings by Police
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel's leading role in undemining international law; and Marinaleda, a town in Spain attempting to create alternatives based on democracy, co-operation, and mutual aid. Group of the Week is Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.
- We Blocked The Boat - Oakland 2014
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For four days straight the San Francisco Bay Area community blocked the Israeli ZIM ship from unloading at the SSA. And today, we salute the rank and file workers of ILWU local 10 for standing with us against Israeli Apartheid by honoring our pickets.
- Black market boom lays bare a social divide in Colorado's marijuana market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Inside Colorado's black market for pot, segregation and resentment flourish.
- Army Detonates Two Homes In Hebron, Seals One With Concrete Blocs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli soldiers wired and detonated two Palestinian homes in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and sealed the home of a third Palestinian with concrete. A Palestinian home was also demolished in occupied East Jerusalem.
- The Crisis in Investigative Journalism
The Case of James Risen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Investigative journalists are the vanguard of the so-called Fourth Estate, bearing the formidable task of watchdogging the other three estates
- Globalizing Gaza
How Israel Undermines International Law Through "Lawfare"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
At the same time as it engages in repeated massive military assaults on a primarily civilian popuation in Gaza, Israel is also engaged in an ongoing assault on international humanitarian law by a highly coordinated team of Israeli lawyers, military officers, PR people and politicians. It is an effort not only to get Israel off the hook for massive violations of human rights and international law, but to help other governments overcome similar constraints when they embark as well on “asymmetrical warfare,” “counterinsurgency” and “counter-terrorism” against peoples resisting domination. It is a campaign that Israel calls “lawfare” and had better be taken seriously by us all.
- Marikana, Gaza, Ferguson - 'You Should Think of Them Always As Armed'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In colonial wars the occupying power invariably reaches a point where it has to acknowledge that its true enemy is not a minority - devil worshipers, communists, fanatics or terrorists - subject to external and evil manipulation, but the people as a whole. Once this point is reached every colonised person is taken as a potential combatant and the neighbourhood and the home are cast as legitimate sites of combat.
- Missouri's Legacy of Violent Racism
Quantrill's Raiders Come to Ferguson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
What is clear about the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri is that the cop murdered Michael Brown pretty much in cold blood. What is also clear is that if Michael Brown was a suspect in this shoplifting case and regular procedures were followed, then he should have been arrested and gone to court. What is less clear is whether or not this killer cop will ever see justice.
- Palestinian Arrested After Filming Settlers Throwing Stones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Yesterday, August 17, 2014, at approximately 5:30 PM in the old city in al-Khalil (Hebron), settlers from the illegal settlement of Beit Hadassah threw rocks and water at Palestinians living on Shalala Street.
- US farm fatalities: An unpublicized epidemic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Hundreds of agricultural workers, including many child labourers, die in farming accidents across the US each year. With an official workplace fatality rate of more than 21 per 100,000, farming is the most dangerous occupation in America. It is also among the lowest paid and least regulated.
- Eyeless in Gaza
Locked in an Embrace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The trouble with war is that it has two sides. Everything would be so much easier if war had only one side. Ours, of course.
- The ICC Must Investigate Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
The Credibility of the Court is at Stake
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Regardless of the efforts of Israel or its closest ally, the United States, to prevent the International Criminal Court from seeking justice for the Palestinians and international aid workers killed and wounded in Gaza, the Court has a duty to at least open an investigation. The credibility of the ICC hangs in the balance. No individual who violates international law should escape justice. If Israeli officials are not investigated for possible war crimes in Gaza, then the tragic lessons learned from the last century about failures in international criminal justice and the consequences of inaction will have been in vain.
- The Right-to-Farm Scam
Third Wave Corporatocracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When Monsanto’s home state of Missouri passed the “Right to Farm” on August 5, 2014 the third noose of corporate control tightened around the neck of the US. Unlike the first two steps of corporate domination of public life, this was a constitutional amendment that would block the state legislature or voters from passing future laws for environmental protection, animal welfare or labeling of contaminated food. This third wave corporatocracy could well spread across US and globally as it becomes a new form of mass disenfranchisement.
- When Water is a Commodity Instead of a Human Right
The Agony of Detroit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The shutoff of water to thousands of Detroit residents, the proposed privatization of the water system and the diversion of the system’s revenue to banks are possible because the most basic human requirement, water, is becoming nothing more than a commodity.
- Review: Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam (2013)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Review of Nick Turse's book Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam.
- After the massacre: life in South Africa's platinum mining belt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two years ago 34 striking miners in South Africa were shot dead by security forces. The ensuing cover-up was a national scandal. Will the wage protests herald a major force for change and loosen the African National Congress' grip on power?
- An Online Tracking Device That’s Virtually Impossible to Block
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
- The Threat of Just-in-Time Scheduling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One of the most unnoticed labour trends in the past few decades has been the rise of "just-in-time scheduling," the practice of scheduling workers' shifts with little advance notice that are subject to cancelation hours before they are due to begin.
- Gaza: Whole Villages Have Been Wiped Off the Map
A VIsit to Khuza'a
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I’m writing now from my home, but I still feel dizzy from shock and nauseated by the sights and smells on my visit to Khan Younis and Khuza’a.
- Police Militarism in America
In Many Communities Cops are the Terrorists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The apparent murder by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, of Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black youth who was shot a number of times while he was allegedly on his knees with his hands up in the air, pleading “Don’t shoot, I’m not armed,” is exposing everything that is wrong with policing in the US today. What we need today is community resistance to police abuse, and a demilitarization of policing.
- The Need for Clear Demands at the Peoples' Climate March
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In New York City on September 21st, a major climate march is planned. It will take place two days before UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's UN Climate Summit -- a one-day closed door session where the world's "leaders" will discuss "ambitions" for the upcoming climate conference (COP20) in Lima Peru.
- The United States and Torture
We Tortured Some People and Probably Still Are....
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two of the things that governments tend to cover-up or lie about the most are assassinations and torture, both of which are widely looked upon as exceedingly immoral and unlawful, even uncivilized. Since the end of the Second World War the United States has attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders and has led the world in torture; not only the torture performed directly by Americans upon foreigners, but providing torture equipment, torture manuals, lists of people to be tortured, and in-person guidance and encouragement by American instructors, particularly in Latin America.
- Agri-Terrorists Accuse Seed Bank of Agri-Terrorism
The Terror of GMOs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Since their beginnings, the USDA and state departments of agriculture have heavily subsidized, and acted as the enforcement arm of, the corporate agribusiness crime syndicate, terrorizing people who presume to feed themselves without paying tribute to their corporate crime lords.
- America's Recruitment of Nazis -- Then and Now
Any bastard, so long as he's anti-communist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The most prominent feature of the Nazi political philosophy was extreme anticommunism and particularly fanatic hatred of the USSR. That hatred set the world ablaze, and, yet, after the war, the Nazi administrators, chief intelligence officers, generals, police chiefs, and intellectuals of that regime of hatred and war were recruited to continue their work in the bosom of our secret National Security State, advising, influencing, and promoting our foreign policy in the Cold War. Did that policy change with the fall of the Berlin Wall? No, it intensified -- still absolutist, still aggressive, still dedicated to political warfare. Russia is still in our crosshairs.
- Police want right to see medical records without consent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Police want new and expanded rights to access medical records and other confidential data without an individual's consent.
- Responding to capitalist disaster, in 1914 and today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
World War I began 100 years ago. Today's ecosocialist movement has much to learn from the revolutionaries who campaigned to stop that catastrophe.
- Bolivian reality versus the 'extractivism' debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Some left critics of progressive governments in South America point to differences between 'pro-extractivists' and 'anti-extractivists.' Federico Fuentes says that framework hinders real understanding of the issues.
- Cotton trade: where does your T-shirt grow?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Growers of the world's most important non-food crops are learning how to raise it without harmful chemicals.
- DAM LINE 9! Concert! Saturday Afternoon August 9
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Blockaders have arranged for 'Tunes Against the Tar Sands' to take place from 5pm until 7:30 pm Saturday, August 9. Activists Have Confirmed Several Musical Acts to Play Show at Blockade Site.
- Washington Threatens The World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The consequence of Washington’s reckless and irresponsible political and military interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has been to unleash evil. The various sects that lived in peace under the rule of Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad are butchering one another, and a new group, ISIS, is in the process of creating a new state out of parts of Iraq and Syria.
- Israel's atrocities in Gaza prompt unprecedented political fallout
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
"Carnage" in Gaza – "the killing of children and the slaughter of civilians". Not the words of a Palestinian spokesperson but rather French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Australia's FM Julie Bishop condemned what she called "shocking" and "indefensible" incidents, with "hundreds of innocent people" killed.
- Size matters: What Berlin's rapid transit would look like in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Young contrasts her experiences using the transit systems in Berlin and Toronto so as to offer ideas for improving the TTC's comparatively underwhelming service.
- Size matters: What Berlin’s rapid transit would look like in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Berlin has about 600,000 more people than Toronto and encompasses about 250 more square kilometers, so it's reasonable to expect there to be more subway lines. But not this many: Berlin has 25 subway and urban rail lines; Toronto has three – four, if you include the Scarborough RT. That's 403 kilometres of track in Berlin, compared to Toronto's 68.3 km.
- Then and Now
1934 Strikes, Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference (Part One)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Today, six years after the onset of the biggest economic crisis since the Depression, what remains of organized labour in the U.S. continues to be a one-sided class war while strike action is at a historic low. What accounts for the difference between then and now?
- Then and Now Part One
1934 Strikes- Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In 1934, four years into the Great Depression, the victory of three city-wide strikes -- centered on the Teamsters in Minneapolis, auto parts workers in Toledo and longshoremen in San Francisco -- would open the door to a mass upsurge of working-class struggle and the organization of powerful industrial unions.
- Bangladesh Journalist attacked with harpoon at home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) in condemning the attack on journalist Nasrul Anwar on August 2.
- Bill Clinton's Most Abominable Freedom Fighters Uncloaked
Return to Kosovo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Unfortunately, Bill Clinton will never be held liable for killing innocent Serbs or for helping body-snatchers take over a nation the size of Connecticut. Clinton is reportedly being paid up to $500,000 for each speech he gives nowadays. Perhaps some of the well-heeled attendees could flourish artificial arms and legs in the air to showcase Clinton’s actual legacy.
- China Deprives Uyghur Prisoner Right to Legal Counsel
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned that undue political pressure has been applied to a defence lawyer to make her withdraw from defending a Uyghur scholar accused of separatism.
- Community radio host's 12-year-old son killed in shooting
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The son of radio La Calentana Mexiquense's founder and presenter, Indalecio Bentez Mondragon, was killed on the night of 1 August when masked gunmen fired on Benez's car at the entrance to the community radio station, located in his home
- Emergency Rally at TSX today - Imperial Metals Mount Polley Tailings Spill
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In response to the devastating Mount Polley Imperial Metals tailings spill in the Secwepemc Territory in BC earlier this week, Secwepemc Women Warrior Society Member Kanahus Manuel and allies are gathering at the Toronto Stock Exchange to voice
- Enraged hacker resorts to aggressive methods against French journalist and website
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Gregory Chelli, a French hacker living in the Israeli city of Ashdod, has been using extraordinarily aggressive methods to harass Benoit le Corre, a journalist with the French news website Rue89
- The evidence that Israel deliberately targeted hospitals and ambulances
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Amnesty International has published evidence that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) specifically targeted hospitals, health workers and ambulance personnel during the attack on Gaza.
- 40 people stage 'die-in' in front of Israeli consulate in Toronto - Friday August 8, 8:30 am
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Canadians call on government to end weapons sales to Israel. At least 40 people are disrupting rush hour traffic on one of Toronto's busiest roads this morning in protest against Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
- "A Hideous Atrocity": Noam Chomsky on Israel's Assault on Gaza & U.S. Support for the Occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Hideous. Sadistic. Vicious. Murderous. That is how Noam Chomsky describes Israel’s 29-day offensive in Gaza that killed nearly 1,900 people and left almost 10,000 people injured. Chomsky has written extensively about the Israel/Palestine conflict for decades.
- IFJ expresses concern for Afghanistan's media after spate of threats and attacks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Afghanistan Independent Journalist Association (AIJA) in expressing concern over a series of recent threats and intimidations issued at journalists
- Jail terms for defaming officials online under new law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Madagascar's National Assembly has quietly adopted a cybercrime law that provides for prison sentences for anyone insulting or defaming a state representative online. Debated and passed without anyone knowing
- Mounting evidence of deliberate attacks on Gaza health workers by Israeli army
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An immediate investigation is needed into mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza, which have left six medics dead, said Amnesty International as it released disturbing testimonies from doctors, nurses, and ambulance personnel working in the area.
- Palestinian media death toll reaches 13
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
12 Palestinian journalists and one media worker have been killed since the start of Operation Protective Edge.
- 13 Journalists Killed in Gaza: Palestinian Protest Rally Demands End Attacks
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), to express its outrage and condemnation at the 13 media workers who have to date been killed in the Gaza region.
- What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?
They Made Them Do It....
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Let’s do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and after years of conflict, all that was left of Israel was the Gaza strip. Assume for a moment that instead of Palestinians, over 1.8 million Jews were crammed into the 11 mile Gaza strip and the state of Palestine, subsidized and supported by a superpower, was administering the calories to the Jews in Gaza, keeping them to a limit of 2,300 a day.
- Health experts question handling of songbird-killing Superfund site
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Health experts are questioning the Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan state officials for their decades-long delays in cleanup of a Superfund site that is killing songbirds in yards, possibly leaving people at risk, too.
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day 2014
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
From Despair to Hope: Preventing Catastrophic Harm marks the 69th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Wednesday August 6, 2014 (Hiroshima Day) at Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto City Hall.
- Ian Birchall reviews Ernie Tate's 'Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s'
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Anyone who was active in Britain's Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (VSC) in the late 1960s will remember Ernie Tate, whose energy and enthusiasm made such a contribution. Now, 45 years later, he has published two volumes of memoirs from the 1950s and 1960s.
- DAM LINE 9! Occupation of Line 9 Construction Site Begins
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Individuals from affected communities throughout south-western Ontario have interrupted work on a section of Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline. Activists stopped the work this morning, asserting that Line 9 poses a danger to people, animals, land, and water
- Scholarship recipient announced
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Canada Safety Council is very pleased to announce Ellie Donohue-Miller of St. Catharines, ON, as the 2014 recipient of the Sarah Beth Therien Memorial Scholarship.
- Toronto's Mayor for Peace
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The 69th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be marked in Toronto in the midst of a municipal election. Toronto, a member of Mayors for Peace since 1983, is part of a global movement of solidarity between cities working
- The Ballad of Rivka and Mohammad
A song for Gaza
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Could You Be the Victim of a Copyright Scam?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Some tips for avoiding scammers that try to make people pay them money for supposed copyright infringement.
- Eyeless in Gaza
Israel's Deceptions
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A single incident at the weekend – the reported capture by Hamas on Friday of an Israeli soldier through a tunnel – illustrated in stark fashion the layers of deception Israel has successfully cast over its attack on Gaza.
- Gaza: Israeli Soldiers Shoot and Kill Fleeing Civilians
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli forces in the southern Gaza town of Khuza’a fired on and killed civilians in apparent violation of the laws of war in several incidents between July 23 and 25, 2014. Deliberate attacks on civilians who are not participating in the fighting are war crimes.
- New Stops Planned for Toronto, Kingston, on 5,000km Unicycle Ride for Climate Action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Joseph Boutilier returns to Canada for home stretch to the Nation's Capital
- The Attack on the People of Gaza
Go ahead and stop us...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
According to the conventional wisdom, the purpose of Israel’s assault on Gaza is self-defense, i.e., to stop rocket fire and to destroy “terror tunnels”. However, the facts include repeated attacks on hospitals, an open air market, UN schools designated as safe refuges, playgrounds, zoos, Gaza’s only power plant, etc.) by means of high-tech “smart weapons”, and these attacks are inconsistent with the notion of self-defense. These are calculated, deliberate attacks on civilians and the numbers speak for themselves: about 80% of Israel’s victims are non-combatants, including at least (for now) 318 kids.
- Australian court imposes generalized news blackout on bribery case
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
WikiLeaks has revealed the existence of a blanket gagging order applying to all citizens and news media throughout Australia.
- Call for release of jailed Pakistani journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in urging Afghanistan government to pardon the Pakistani journalist jailed for crossing the border into Afghanistan without complete documentation.
- Eighth Journalist Killed in Gaza: Israel Must Answer for Crimes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two Palestinian journalists were killed while reporting in a market in Gaza yesterday – an appalling incident which means eights journalists have now lost their lives since the Israeli bombardment of the region began nearly one month ago.
- Every Israeli Missile Strike is a War Crime
The Experts' Verdict
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When are going to hear Human Rights Watch or the United Nation’s Navi Pillay stop talking about proportionality or Israel’s potential war crimes, and admit Israel is committing war crimes by definition – right now, as you read this?
- The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire
The Wages of Hubris and Vengeance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel is in the grip of a kind of collective schizophrenia. Not only its governors but the majority of its Jewish population have delusions of both grandeur and persecution, making for a distortion of reality and inconsistent behaviour. Israeli Jews see and represent themselves as a chosen people and part of a superior Western civilization.
- Gaza and the Press
Dress the Gaza Situation Up All You Like, But the Truth Hurts
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The latest bloodbath in Gaza, which is being so graphically covered by journalists that our masters and our media are suffering a new experience: not fear of being called anti-Semitic, but fear of their own television viewers and readers – ordinary folk so outraged by the war crimes committed against the women and children of Gaza that they are demanding to know why, even now, television moguls and politicians are refusing to treat their own people like moral, decent, intelligent human beings.
- IFJ condemns dismissal of respected Indian journalist and activist
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Condemning the illegal dismissal of respected union leader Geetartha Pathak from the Assam Bani
- IFJ and SAMSN condemn threats to Sri Lankan journalist
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) join Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) in strongly condemning death threats issued to Sunil Jayasekara, convener of Free Media Movement.
- Israel's Exterminatory Impulse Toward Gaza
A Protracted Genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Disproportionate power yields the psychopathology of sadism.
- Moral bankruptcy of capitalism': UK's top public doctor shames western society over Ebola
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Western countries should tackle drugs firms' "scandalous" reluctance to invest in research into the virus which has already killed over 700 people in West Africa, the UK's top public doctor said, adding, “They'd find a cure if Ebola came to London.”
- National Press Club awardee held for past 18 months in Bahrain
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Call for the release of the internationally-known Bahraini photographer Ahmed Humaidan
- Palestinian Journalist and Teenage Daughter are Latest Victims of Israeli Attacks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
International Federation of Journalists has issued a renewed demand for safety and freedom of journalists in Gaza to be upheld following news of today’s latest media violations, including the killing of a Palestinian journalist and his daughter
- The Pariah State
A Short History of Israeli Impunity
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Hasbara has elevated the manipulation of language to a new plateau. This is a qualitative leap. Moving beyond the difficulty of seeing the stye in our own eye, the Hasbara upends linguistic conventions. Black becomes white, evil is translated into righteousness. Victims of murderous ethnic cleansing become terrorists. The conventions of language go completely out the door. Mass murder is self defense. The Great Wall is a barrier or a mere fence. Land grabs are voluntary relocations into disputed territories.
- Pro-democracy website closed amid claims of commercial pressure and threats
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned about press freedom in Hong Kong after a pro-democracy news website was suddenly closed.
- Record Label Lawsuit Could Jeopardize Online Content Communities
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of advocacy groups have asked a US federal appeals court to block record labels' attempt to thwart federal law in Capitol v. Vimeo—a case that could jeopardize free speech and innovation
- RWB Americas correspondents voice support for colleague Dina Meza, still threatened in Honduras
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders’ correspondents in the Americas have written to the Honduran authorities urging them to finally provide protection to RWB's correspondent in Honduras, journalist and human rights defender Dina Meza
- SAMSN 2014: Impunity, Gender and Digital Safety key focus areas for South Asia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN), a network of IFJ affiliates and partners in the region, in its commitment to work towards ending the environment of impunity and minimizing attacks
- Stop Sneaky Online Tracking with EFF's Privacy Badger
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a beta version of Privacy Badger, a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that detects and blocks online advertising and other embedded content that tracks you without your permission. See https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
- To the family of the one thousandth victim of Israel's genocidal slaughter in Gaza
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is 2014 — the destruction of Gaza is well documented. This is not 1948 when Palestinians had to struggle hard to tell their story of horror; so many of the crimes Zionist committed then where hidden and never came to light, even until today. So my first and simple pledge is to record, inform and insist on the truth. But surely this is not enough. I pledge to continue the effort to boycott a state that commits such crimes.
- Two journalists among 17 killed in Israeli raid on Gaza market
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two Palestinian journalists were killed July 30 in an Israeli air raid on a crowded market in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
- US Provides Israel Weapons Used on Gaza
Blood on American's Hands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The United States exported to Israel a substantial amount of the same types of weapons Israel is using to kill Gazans. For example, in 2013, the United States sent Israel at least $196 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters, a category that includes F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters, both of which Israel is currently using to attack Gazan homes, offices and farmland. Between January and May 2014, the United States had already exported $92 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters.
- Lenin: Yes! Leninism: No?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It is currently a commonplace on the left and not-so-left to announce that Leninism is dead. Indeed, one might wonder why it is necessary to keep repeating the point. Nobody is writing articles to explain that alchemy or social credit are dead. The enthusiasm to bury Leninism tells us that this is something that people want to be dead.
- Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Earlier this week the Times of Israel published a post, written by American Yochanan Gordon, titled "When Genocide is Permissible," which concludes with the following question:
"If political leaders and military experts determine that the only way to achieve its goal of sustaining quiet is through genocide is it then permissible to achieve those responsible goals?"
- Costa del Cam Ranh
250,000 Russian budget tourists hit Vietnam's beaches
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Expat Russian entrepreneurs, budget Russian tourists, and a government hoping the post-Vietnam war exiles will come back home rich to retire: Vietnam is a demonstration model for change.
- How much for your data?
What you whistle in the shower
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Rapacious financialisation risks turning everything we are and have into a productive asset. And the foremost asset is our personal data, mined by digitalised technology.
- Introduction to the Israel Lobby
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Israel lobby is one of the most powerful and pervasive special interest groups in the United States. It consists of a multitude of powerful institutions and individuals that work to influence Congress, the president, academia, the media, religious institutions, and American public opinion on behalf of Israel.
- Latin American coups upgraded
These days the military go back to their barracks
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The classic Latin American coup used to put the military in direct command and control of a country. That doesn’t work well on the world stage, and is being replaced by more clever manipulation, however the same people end up in power.
- The Price of Books, The Value of Civilization
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I have come to think that books occupy this valuable position in our civilisation because they are the only medium for thick descriptions of the world that human beings possess. By ‘thick’ description, I mean an extended, detailed, evidence-based, written interpretation of a subject. If you want to write a feature or blog or wikipedia entry, be it about the origins of the first world war; the authoritarian turn in Russia; or the causes and effects of the 2008 financial crisis, in the end you will have to refer to a book. Or at least refer to other people who have referred to books. Even the best magazine pieces and TV documentaries – and the best of these are very good indeed – are only puddle-deep compared with the thick descriptions laid out in books. They are ‘thin’ descriptions and the creators and authors of them will have referred extensively to books to produce their work.
- Reign of Error
The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, an incisive, comprehensive look at today's American school system that argues against those who claim it is broken and beyond repair; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the privatization movement that is draining students and funding from our public schools.
- This is Genocide
On Israel/Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
To call what is going on in Israel and Palestine a “conflict” is to partake in the racist and blatantly false narrative that is being pushed by Israel. When one side fights with stones and homemade rockets, and the other side fights with a military backed by the full force of the United States military industrial complex, it is not a “conflict.” When civilian casualties – including hundreds of children – amass on only one side, it is not a “conflict.” When one side sets up with lawn chairs and popcorn to watch and cheer as their government bombs another country, it is not a “conflict.”
- Bug spotting: Germans hold 'nature walks' to observe rare NSA spy
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
'Nature' walks leading protests against digital surveillance.
- Canada's journalists cowed into silence while colleagues die in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Rami Rayan, a young Palestinian photojournalist, was the latest reporter to be killed. He was among at least 16 people reportedly killed after an Israeli air strike on a crowded market during a supposed four-hour "truce." The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), which claims to be "the national voice of Canadian journalists", has been noticeably silent. If you check the CAJ's website you won't find so much as a perfunctory statement denouncing the killing of their colleagues in Gaza. Instead, the top item on its website is a story written by members of the association's 'ethics' committee about that old saw: reporters getting too close to their sources.
- Canada's Pro-Israel Zealots
Racist at Its Core
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
From a left-wing community once at the forefront of struggles against racism, unconditional support for Israel has turned a significant proportion of Toronto Jews into promoters of hatred against "Arabs" and into allies of right wing, bigoted, homophobic Christian Bible literalists.
During 15 years of activism in Montréal, Ottawa and Vancouver I haven’t seen anything equivalent to the racist, militarist pro-Israel movement experienced recently in Toronto. And sadly the quasi-fascistic organization driving the charge seems increasingly enmeshed within a community that once led the fight against racism and fascism in the city.
- The Children of Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A poem
- Gaza - is annexation Israel's 'permanent solution'?
The real estate of Gaza would be an additional boon - and a highly valuable one, releasing 365 square kilometres of prime development land,
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As Israel pursues its war on Gaza with ever-increasing ferocity, and with 25% of Gaza's people forced from their homes, what's the final objective? It's unthinkable that Israel's aim is to 'cleanse' the territory of its people, seize its vast gas reserves, and annex some of the Med's hottest real estate. Isn't it?
- Gaza: water crisis grows as Israel targets essential infrastructure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel's war on Gaza has seen the systematic and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure essential for human survival. This represents an apparently deliberate 'cutting off of life support' to those that survive the bombardment now under way.
- It's Raining Bombs and Shells
A Doctor's Notes From Gaza
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I’m still alive. I don’t know what this means, but I can say that most of the time I can still walk and do some work with people who need help. It all depends on my luck. And here, for people living in Gaza, luck means how close to you the bombs fall from Israel’s tanks, planes, or warships. Some hours it’s raining bombs. Americans say “It’s raining cats and dogs.” In the new Gaza idiom, we say “It’s raining bombs and shells.”
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 31, 2014
Truth, justice and reconciliation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Articles on truth, justice and reconciliation efforts in countries affected by civil war or internal conflict; Bone Collectors: the fate of the remains of Australian aboriginal people stolen from their burial grounds and dispersed to museums; the Galway children's mass grave; and Which came first: Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence? The topic of the week is the Israeli military.
- Thousands imprisoned, some executed, based on false FBI lab reports
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A major inquiry conducted by the US Justice Department (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has found hundreds instances in which FBI forensic units charged with gathering data on cases involving violent crimes provided false information. The doctored FBI lab reports led to the imprisonment of thousands of innocent people, some of whom were executed, according to a report in the Washington Post.
- USA: Stop arms transfers to Israel amid growing evidence of war crimes in Gaza
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The US government must immediately end its ongoing deliveries of large quantities of arms to Israel, which are providing the tools to commit further serious violations of international law in Gaza, said Amnesty International, as it called for a total arms embargo on all parties to the conflict.
- Israel's Gaza backlash targets Arab minority
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel's large Palestinian minority is facing an unprecedented backlash of incitement and violent reprisals as Israeli Jews rally behind the current military operations in Gaza, human rights groups and political activists have warned.
- Pesticide safety research shouldn't be left to the pesticide companies
If the research is to command public confidence, independent controls need to be maintained at every step.
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Pesticide companies are responsible for assessing the safety of their products - and this situation cannot continue. The research should be carried out independently, subjected to peer review, and published.
- Recruiting To Kill - It Is Not Just An Israeli War On Gaza
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
To some, US secretary of state John Kerry may have appeared to be a genuine peacemaker as he floated around ideas during a Cairo visit on 25 July about a ceasefire between Israel and resisting Palestinian fighters in Gaza. But behind his measured diplomatic language, there is a truth not even America's top diplomat can easily hide. His country is very much involved in fighting this dirty war on Gaza that has killed over 1,050, injured thousands more, and destroyed much of an already poor, dilapidated space that is barely inhabitable to begin with.
- Rio Tinto's 'sustainable mining' claims exposed
Rio Tinto uses its sustainability reporting to bolster the argument that it is a responsible company and therefore entitled to a license to
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Global mining giant Rio Tinto markets itself as a 'sustainable company'. But serious failures in its reporting, and its attempt to hold an Australian indigenous group to ransom, reveal a very different truth: the company is driven by a reckless pursuit of profit at any cost.
- The Cultivation of Hate
The Lies Grow More Audacious
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts.
- Gaza Crisis: Far-Right Israelis Chant 'There's No School Tomorrow, There's No Children Left in Gaza!'
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Right-wing Israelis have been filmed chanting "There's no children left there [in Gaza]" and "Gaza is a cemetery" in celebration of their military's attacks on Gaza.
- Hunger strike launched by Grassy Narrows mercury survivor at Queens Park
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A former Grand Chief of Treaty 3 and respected Grassy Narrows Elder is launching a hunger strike at Queens Park today to demand justice for mercury survivors. Steve Fobister Sr., a leader in the fight for indigenous rights and mercury justice
- Lancet: an Open Letter for the People of Gaza
The Massacre Must Stop
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A public letter from doctors and scientists to stop the massacre.
- Stakes rising for Israel as rockets reach airport
Temporary air blockade of Israel reveals deeper issues to its citizens
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel’s effective loss of its only international airport for a couple of days last week — and the cloud of uncertainty that continues to hang over its operation in the future — has deeply unsettled Israelis.
- WikiLeaks, Corruption and the Super Injunction
Suppression and Information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Australia, whose institutions still pride themselves on an antiquated obsession with aspects of English gagging, suppression orders do retain a certain mystique. They certainly do in the Australian state of Victoria, which is said to throw “suppression orders around like confetti”.
- Cambodia: indigenous protests repel dam builders - so far
We don't need any compensation because we are staying here on the lands of our ancestors. Our children will never forgive us if we move.
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Since the 1980s Cambodia has lost 84% of its primary forests, and the remote Cardamom mountains are the country's last great natural treasure. Just the place for grandiose dam projects? 'No way!" say indigenous people and young eco-activists.
- "Gaza is a graveyard," sing joyful Israeli youths
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This video shows an Israeli mob actually singing in celebration of children’s deaths in the style of a soccer fans’ song: “In Gaza there’s no studying, No children are left there, Olé, olé, olé-olé-olé.”
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration in Toronto August 4th- 10th, 2014
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Toronto's Hiroshima Day Coalition presents FROM DESPAIR TO HOPE: PREVENTING CATASTROPHIC HARM to mark the 69th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Wednesday August 6, 2014 (Hiroshima Day) at Nathan Phillips Square
- How Israel Spins War Crimes
The Secret Report That Helps Israelis Cover Atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas rocket and mortar fire. But on television and radio and in newspapers, Israeli government spokesmen such as Mark Regev appear slicker and less aggressive than their predecessors, who were often visibly indifferent to how many Palestinians were killed.
- Israel/Palestine Lexicon For Mainstream Media
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If you are writing for mainstream media, you need to learn special uses of words and phrases that are specific to Israel/Palestine. If you use common usage, you will run into confusions, paradoxes, and hostile responses from pro-Israel people. Please follow these guidelines and you will have no problems with editors, politicians, or organized pro-Israel groups. For each phrase, this guide will present first (a) the common usage, and then (b) the specific Israel/Palestine usage that you must use in order to write for major US (and UK and Canadian of course) media (NYT, Toronto Star, BBC, CBC, etc.)
- It's not just radicalised Islamists - what about foreign fighters who flock to the IDF?
Is the Government interested in UK citizens who have been fighting in Israeli uniform in Gaza in the past couple of weeks?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Let us hope and pray that no UK citizens have been involved in such terrible deeds. But it wouldn’t be a bad idea, would it, if the lads in blue had a friendly word with them when they arrive back at Heathrow – and insist on knowing exactly what they were up to when they wore another country’s uniform.
- Joint Declaration by International Law Experts on Israel's Gaza Offensive
The International Community Must End Israel's Collective Punishment of the Civilian Population in the Gaza Strip
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, the targeting of objectives providing no effective military advantage, and the intentional targeting of civilians and civilian houses have been persistent features of Israel’s long-standing policy of punishing the entire population of the Gaza Strip, which, for over seven years, has been virtually imprisoned by Israeli imposed closure.
- The new strikes in China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An article by "friends of gongchao" describes the development of strikes in China in recent years as well as the strike at Yue Yuen shoe factories in Dongguan, South China, in April 2014.
- 1934: American workers in revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In 1934 three mighty strikes brought the bosses and bankers to their knees and ushered in a new era of labour-capital relations in the United States writes Sean Ledwith
- Palestine, War and the Lethal Role of Journalists
Two Films by John Pilger
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
John Pilger first made the film ‘Palestine Is Still The Issue‘ in 1977. It told how almost a million Palestinians had been forced off their land in 1948, and again in 1967. Twenty five years later, in 2002, John Pilger returned to the West Bank of Jordan and Gaza, to make another film, giving it the same title. The film asks why the Palestinians, whose right of return was affirmed by the United Nations more than half a century ago, are still caught in a terrible limbo – refugees in their own land, controlled by Israel in the longest military occupation in modern times.
- The Pattern (Musically Annotated)
From the Annals of Occupation
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The war of words heats up. Israeli and US leaders are all over the airwaves, saying Israel has a right to defend itself and that Hamas is responsible for all deaths on both sides. The news organizations feel they have to have some reporters in Gaza for a change. They keep trying to spin the news in Israel’s favour, but once they’re showing even a little bit of the reality on the ground, it all starts looking really bad for the Israelis with each new dead Palestinian child buried beneath the rubble.
- Relevance of Hannah Arendt's "A Report On The Banality Of Evil" To Gaza
Self-Deception, Lies And Stupidity
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Hannah Arendt, philosopher, writer, academic of Jewish heritage, went to Jerusalem in 1961 to cover the trial of Eichmann, one of the actors in the Final Solution, for the New Yorker magazine. Her account of the trial became a basis for the book, Eichmann In Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil.
- Songbirds dying from DDT in Michigan yards; Superfund site blamed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The neighbourhood's songbirds are being poisoned by DDT, a pesticide that was banned in the United States more than 40 years ago. Lethal concentrations were found in the birds' brains, as well as in the worms they eat.
- Watch: Al Jazeera’s "Massacre at Dawn" Gives Glimpse of Horror in Shujaiya
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Thinking that the footage contained in Massacre at Dawn is just a fraction of the horror makes it even worse. No wonder Israel prevented media from covering the brutality that our people endured there.
- Gaza, Israel and 'Human Shields'
The People Putting Innocents in Danger are the Israelis
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
What does it mean to use human shields? Employed by the Germans and Japanese in the Second World War, the tactic is premised on an underlying trust in your enemy’s humanity. It appeals to the compassion and mercy of the combatant that they not slaughter the innocent in order to avenge their target. The ‘shield’ is not the human bodies surrounding the ‘guilty’ party, the shield is the clemency that mankind instinctively affords the innocent. The shield evaporates only when confronted by an enemy who is not merely a fellow solder locked in a power battle, but a psychopath unconcerned with the pain of others.
- Grassy Narrows exposes government neglect of mercury survivors
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thirty Grassy Narrows First Nation people will travel 1,800 km to Toronto to demand justice for mercury poisoning survivors, clean water, and respect for indigenous rights.
- Israeli Forces Must Be Held accountable for Attacks on Journalists in Gaza, says IFJ
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined increasing international calls for the Israeli government and its forces to be held accountable for the atrocities that are being carried out against journalists covering events in Gaza.
- Obama food aid ravages Third World farmers
Despite uplifting rhetoric, Obama is perpetuating a program that sabotages foreigners' self-sufficiency
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The US taxpayers who finance foreign food aid surely believe they are feeding starving people. But the truth is the reverse - it is undermining indigenous agriculture in recipient countries - creating famine and chronic malnutrition, while sabotaging self-sufficiency.
- Russia Bashing: Hatred, Hysteria and Humbug
A Tale of Three Aircraft Tragedies
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It’s OK for the US to shoot down an Iranian airliner and kill 290 people — there’s never been an apology to the Iranian people for that war crime — but when there’s an opportunity to claim, to shriek, to propagandise at cyclone-level, that a disaster has occurred in which there just might be the tiniest chance to blame Russia, then there is clamour for investigation.
- The Seminole-African Alliance
World News Trust
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Native American Indian people that comprised the Seminole Nation grew out of the Creek Nation in Florida. Multilingual and diverse, the Seminoles (from a word meaning “runaway”) became infamous for intermingling with runaway slaves from Georgia and the Carolinas… slaves that built prosperous, free, self-governing communities since 1738.
- Catch your dreams - utopia is possible!
While Marinaleda has its flaws, it reminds us that alternative economic models are not only possible, they already exist.
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Amid Spain's general depression, Marinaleda - an Andalucian town sometimes dubbed the 'communist utopia' - is bucking the moribund trend with a heady mixture of direct action, community-level democracy, cooperation and mutual aid.
- Dijon adapts its urban thinking to the needs of an ageing population
The French city is at the forefront of an urban network aiming to actively improve the lives of its older residents
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Dijon, a city in France is taking an innovative approach adressing the needs of it's ageing population. Research has suggested that movement, and minimizing isolation are the leading methods in the slowing of ageing, and are the forefront of thought while implementing novel changes to the city center.
- Google doesn't want you to limit its ability to follow you around the internet
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Behind our screens, tech companies are racing to extract a price for what we read and watch on the web: our personal information.
- Open Letter by 50 Israeli Army Reservists on Why They Refuse to Fight in Gaza
Petition By Israeli soldiers and reservists
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- When BBC Calls, Don’t Answer..
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Published: 2014
In any event, my advice to the media savvy, is that if you have caller ID, and you can tell that it is BBC calling, don’t bother answering. I hope I have the good sense to follow my own advice should the phone ever ring again!
- 'Disgustingly Biased' - The Corporate Media On The Gaza Massacre
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The bias in failing to report the brutalisation of a trapped, impoverished people under occupation is staggering.
- Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza - Debunked
Israel claims that it is merely exercising its right to self-defense and that Gaza is no longer occupied. Here's what you need to know about
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Published: 2014
Israel has killed almost 800 Palestinians in the past 21 days in the Gaza Strip alone; its onslaught continues. The UN estimates that more than 74 percent of those killed are civilians. Israel does not deny that it killed those Palestinians using modern aerial technology and precise weaponry courtesy of the world’s only superpower. In fact, it does not even deny that they are civilians.
- London, Ontario peace and human rights advocates occupy office of Conservative MP
Sources News Release
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Five London peace and human rights advocates are now occupying the office of the Conservative MP for London North Centre.
- Mobilizing Temporary Migrant Workers
A Compendium of Forms and Preliminary Discussion
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Published: 2014
While labour migration has been a recurring phenomenon in human history, what is new in the post-1970 period of restructuring in the world capitalist economy is the increased use of temporary migrant labour by employers around the world. The widespread rise of employer use of temporary migrant workers in various economic sectors internationally can be dated from circa 1990.
- Radio programme a beacon of hope for Afghans searching for lost relatives
In Search of the Missing tries to track down some of the 1 million people who have disappeared during three decades of war
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An Afghani radio station has started a semi-weekly segment entitled "In Search of the Missing", aimed at reuniting missing loved ones. Citizens are invited to call the 10-year-old radio programme and leave a 20 second message reaching out to their loved ones.
- Armed robbery in Gaza - Israel, US, UK carve up the spoils of Palestine's stolen gas
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Israel desperately covets Gaza's gas as a 'cheap stop-gap' yielding revenues of $6-7 billion a year, writes Nafeez Ahmed. But first Hamas must be 'uprooted' from Gaza, and Fatah bullied into cutting off its talks with Russia's Gazprom.
- Continuous protest at Israeli consulate in Toronto starts July 24
Sources News Release
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On July 24 people of conscience including Muslims, Jews, and Christians, are coming together at the Israeli consulate in Toronto for a three day continuous vigil to call attention to the frightening slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza
- The government owns your DNA. What are they doing with it?
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Some US states have created biobanks of genetic material left over from patient screening tests, with specimens potentially used for purposes that have not granted informed consent, bringing up disturbing ethical and privacy concerns.
- Sources HotLink - July 24, 2014
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Featuring news on imprisoned journalists in Egypt and Burma, the bias in media coverage of Israeli deaths versus Palestinian death, newspaper closures in Canada, and topic-fo-the-week focuses on Gaza, Surveillance, and Prostitution.
- Israel's War Against Gaza's Women & Their Bodies
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As Gaza is pummeled, the level of anti-Palestinian racist incitement from top Israeli political, religious and cultural figures continues to ring at peak pitch, and has taken on a dangerous misogynistic tone.
- Now it's Israel's IDF Leveling Gaza
Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto
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Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto, Now it’s Israel’s IDF leveling Gaza.
- Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
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Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
- The Telegenic Dead
A poem
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Published: 2014
- The deafening silence around the Hamas proposal for a 10-year truce
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Western media have ignored the proposal from Hamas and Islamic Jihad for a 10-year-truce on the basis of 10 - very reasonable - conditions.
- If Gaza's Dead Were America's Dead
Imagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...
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Imagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...
- Why Israel Needs Anti-Semitism
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It would be ironic indeed if fear of Muslim neighbors in Paris suburbs should lead French Jews to move to a country totally surrounded by millions of hostile Muslim neighbours.
- The Arrest and Detention of Amer Jubran
This is Not News
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Amer Jubran might sit indefinitely in detention without charges. Or he may be brought up at any time and charged with “terrorism” before the State Security Court, a rubber stamp court. If so, his lawyer might be told the charges a day or two before the sham trial, which then leads to inevitable conviction–a mere formality. Only a concerted political campaign that gets widespread international attention can make any difference. It’s up to us to create enough visibility to make that possible.
- On 'Human Shielding' in Gaza
How the Israeli Army has Tried to Justify Striking Civilian Areas
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
All fighting within cities and all bombardments of urban spaces, even the most “precise and surgical”, is a potential death trap for civilians. Consequently, the permeation of war into cities inevitably transforms their inhabitants into potential human shields.
- Netanyahu's Operation Stupidity
Who is Winning in Gaza?
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Who is Winning in Gaza? Which must be answered, the Jewish way, with another question: how to judge?
- The rise of data and the death of politics
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Why is it that the infomation collected from our ever-smarter devices can only measure effects, and not deal with causes?
- Gaza headline absurdly inaccurate
Re: Palestinians flee Gaza as ceasefire pleas fail
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First Published: 2014
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Targeting civilians is always wrong. We speak out against Hamas when it does so, but our Canadian government applauds the Israeli government when it does so on a much greater scale. As human beings, as Canadians, as a Palestinian and Jew, we condemn this horrific collective punishment.
- I, spy: Edward Snowden in exile
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Guardian interviews Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked thousands of classified documents to media outlets. Snowden shares his views on the events that have occured since his exile, and describes his life in Moscow.
- Bethlehem: 'No matter how many olive trees they destroy, will will plant more!'
The destruction of these ancient trees is the destruction of both the history and future of the Palestinian people.
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Since 1967, Israeli soldiers and 'settlers' in occupied Palestine have destroyed 800,000 olive trees in an attempt to force Palestinian farmers from their land, writes Megan Perry. 'Our response to this injustice will never be with violence, and we will never give up and leave.'
- Gaza: Israel's $4 billion gas grab
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The purpose of Israel's escalating assault on Gaza is to control the Territory's 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas - and so keep Palestine poor and weak, gain massive export revenues, and avert its own domestic energy crisis. If Palestinians develop their own gas resources, the resulting economic transformation could in turn fundamentally increase Palestinian clout.
- Guernica, 1937 / Gaza, 2014
Only the Insignias Change
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I invoke the Guernica example, not for spurious comparison or analogy, but because its occurrence is inscribed in the very DNA of modern historical oppression, in this case possessing precisely the same elements of overwhelming force on a largely defenseless population, in this case, having less to do with stopping rockets than a) terrorizing a people into abject submission, and b) testing out aerial warfare to soften an enemy and perhaps even clear the way for ground action—beyond consolidating settlement gains in the territories, also serving notice on Iran and whomever else (viz., Arab democracy) is viewed as a real or potential threat down the road.
- It's not just the bees! 'Neonic' pesticides linked to bird declines
The higher the imidacloprid concentration the more severely the bird populations dropped.
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Published: 2014
A study published today in Nature shows a strong correlation between concentrations of a popular neonicotinoid pesticide in water, and bird declines. Regulators are under pressure to tighten up, but the industry still claims there's 'no substantiated evidence'.
- The Monster That Israel Helped Create
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There is a terrible irony in Israel’s current assault on Gaza. More than 200 Palestinians have died in an onslaught supposedly aimed at weakening Hamas and degrading its capacity to fire rockets into Israel. It was Israel itself, however, that helped Hamas to power in Gaza.
- NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children
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Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been ordered by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 17, 2014
Gaza
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Topic of the week is Gaza, which was under attack by Israel as this issue appeared. Articles on surveillance capitalism, the tactics and successes of the movement for same-sex marriage in the United States, and profiles of alternative archives. Website of the week is Democracy Now!
- Six Nations and allies Interrupt work on Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Individuals from Six Nations and their allies have interrupted work on a section of Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline. The work stoppage began around 10am Thursday morning. Individuals involved asked workers to leave.
- Gaza: Israel bombs water and sewage systems
If this situation continues Gaza residents will be subjected to a humanitarian crisis even worse than the immediate one of trying to survive
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Israel's armed forces have destroyed vital water and sewage infrastructure in their bombing campaign of the besieged territory. This constitutes a severe breach of the 1977 Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the part of Israel and all those conceiving, planning, ordering and perpetrating the attacks.
- Israeli calls for Palestinian blood ring at fever pitch
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First Published: 2014
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Concerned humanists may have hoped that when a group of Jewish Israelis confessed to kidnapping and killing Muhammad Abu Khudair, a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem — forcing him to drink gasoline and torching him to death from inside his body — that top Israeli legislators and rabbis would have been horrified at what their revenge rhetoric had triggered.
- Israel's War Echo Chamber
Lost Voices of Dissent
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For several days now, some of my neighbours have suggested that the time has come to “destroy them”- meaning either Hamas or Palestinians – “once and for all”. Government ministers, members of Knesset and leading media commentators have also been consistently pouring oil onto the fire. Indeed, it seems the only vocal criticism against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is that he is too soft on the Palestinians. There is no public debate about the necessity of another war, but only about how punitive Israel should be.
- Journalists and civil society must join forces to engage the public with health news
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A call for journalists to reach out to a broader audience and "team up" with civil society in orer to force attention onto topics that matter. "Exploring ideas that move the audience to think and act."
- Which is more important - what to sell or where to sell it?
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Recent research sought to determine which variable determined the greatest circulation results: frequency, zip code, or offer price.
- Zoia Horn, librarian jailed for not testifying against protesters
Zoia Horn refused to testify against antiwar activists accused of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger.
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Zoia Horn refused to testify against antiwar activists accused of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger.
- Chomsky, Pilger and Loach call on BBC to reflect reality of Gaza's occupation
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Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Ken Loach are among 45,000 signatories who have signed an open letter to the BBC calling on its journalists to reflect the reality of Gaza’s occupation while reporting on Israel’s current assault.
- Cynicism, Israeli National Policy
From Victim to Super-Mensch
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel has become the worst-case scenario of the degradation of Torah, and worst-case scenario of what was once the deep unadulterated humaneness of worldwide Jews.
- Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet
Is GCHQ awesome and 100% legal?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]” sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be “extremist.”
- India, Where Corporate Socialism is a Growth Industry
$608 Billion in Write-Offs
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Published: 2014
It was business as usual in 2013-14. Business with a capital B. This year’s budget document says we gave away another $88.6 billion to the corporate needy and the under-nourished rich in that year.
- Israel showed restraint in Gaza before attacking? You must be kidding
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli journalist Amira Hass, writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, demolishes some myths.
- Native advertising: What is it, and why now?
Call it a breakthrough or sellout, native advertising has ushered in a new era of customer-centric advertising defined by unlimited bandwidt
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Native advertising is the act of placing ads in the middle of an article. It has become far more common these days. This article outlines why.
- Total recall: Print and digital magazine ads equally memorable
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Ads in print and online versions of magazines are enjoyed equally between formats. Also ability to remember the ads is equal in both formats.
- Activist Endurance
A Look Back at the 2004 RNC
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Even in the face of urgent, ecocidal issues, dissent is a marathon, not a sprint. With authentic solidarity, a daily ego check, and an enduring willingness to evolve, we can each find our pace and help make a difference.
- The Atrocity
Where's the Outrage Over a Boy Burnt to Death?
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First Published: 2014
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Bombs are raining on Gaza and rockets on Southern Israel, people are dying and homes are being destroyed...Again without any purpose. Again with the certainty that after it’s all over, everything will essentially be the same as it was before.
- Which came first? Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence?
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Since US media are reporting the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza as though it is a defensive action, I thought I would set the record straight. Israeli forces shelled and invaded Gaza BEFORE the rockets began. Rockets were fired only after numerous Palestinians, including many children, had been killed.
- Gaza's Torment, Israel's Crimes, Our Responsibilities
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First Published: 2014
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It is important to understand what life is like in Gaza when Israel’s behavior is “restrained,” in between the regular manufactured crises like this one. When Israel is on “good behavior,” more than two Palestinian children are killed every week, a pattern that goes back over 14 years. The underlying cause is the criminal occupation and the programs to reduce Palestinian life to bare survival in Gaza, while Palestinians are restricted to unviable cantons in the West Bank and Israel takes over what it wants, all in gross violation of international law and explicit Security Council resolutions, not to speak of minimal decency.
- In Brazil, football has taken a hit, but not as much as press freedom
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is using the 2014 World Cup in Brazil as a peg for an awareness campaign about the constant violations of freedom of information and violence against of journalists in Brazil.
- Canadian hands involved in Gaza bombings
Details on Canadian complicity in Israeli apartheid
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Aside from sustained Conservative diplomatic cheerleading for Israel, one key element of Canada's implication less in the public eye but very important, is the key role that many Canadian companies are playing in creating the military devices and technologies now involved in carrying out the deadly bombing raids in Gaza.
- Five Burmese mediamen sentenced to hard labor
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Five Burmese media workers are sentenced to 10 years hard labour for violating Burma's State Secrets Act.
- Five journalists get ten-year jail terms in Burma for 'violating state secrets'
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the latest in a series of reverses for media freedom in Burma, a court in the central region of Magway today sentenced five newspaper journalists to ten years in prison with hard labour on charges of violating state secrets.
- Germany: Are online user comments protected by press freedom laws?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A local newspaper in the western German city of Darmstadt is at the centre of a legal case that will measure whether readers’ comments are protected by Germany’s press freedom laws.
- Grassy Narrows' fight for rights and against clearcut logging continues despite legal setback at Supreme Court
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The leadership and members of Grassy Narrows are disappointed by today’s Supreme Court of Canada decision refusing to recognize the special role that the federal government has in protecting our Treaty 3 from provincial and corporate actions.
- How Social Movements Can Win More Victories Like Same-Sex Marriage
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The rapidly expanding victory around same-sex marriage defies many of our common ideas about how social change happens. This was not a win that came in measured doses, but rather a situation in which the floodgates of progress were opened after years of half-steps and seemingly devastating reversals. It came about through the efforts of a broad-based movement, pushing for increased acceptance of LGBT rights within a wide range of constituencies.
- IFJ urges China's media regulator to withdraw new rules
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
International Federation of Journalists urges China’s major media regulator to withdraw new rules which will interfere with journalists’ right to work and prevent media workers from properly exercising their duties to report in the public interes
- The Mississippi Summer Project 50th Anniversary Reunion
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Greenwood was the place where the first major cracks in the wall of Mississippi racism were broken open.
- Newspaper revenue experiment throwdown: Crowdfunding versus underwriting
Crowdfunded beats might not work, but there are good reasons for newspapers to give them a try
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Article weighing the pros and cons of acquiring funding through crowdfunding versus underwiting for newspapers.
- On Israel, Ukraine and Truth
The Return of George Orwell and Big Brother's War
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As advanced societies are de-politicised, the changes are both subtle and spectacular. In everyday discourse, political language is turned on its head, as Orwell prophesised in 1984. "Democracy" is now a rhetorical device. Peace is "perpetual war". "Global" is imperial. The once hopeful concept of "reform" now means regression, even destruction. "Austerity" is the imposition of extreme capitalism on the poor and the gift of socialism for the rich: an ingenious system under which the majority service the debts of the few.
- The Revolving Door at Human Rights Watch
An Open Letter to Kenneth Roth
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- China puts Tibetan writer and husband under house arrest amid Kerry Visit
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Chinese Authorities placed Tsering Woeser and her husband, Wang Lixiong, under house arrest on July 9 during US Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to China.
- Deciphering Capital: Marx's Capital and its destiny
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Callinicos tackles the question of Karl Marx's method, his relation to Hegel, value theory and labour.
- Global data journalism resources
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An list of resources that have been compiled by IJN using their readers' suggestions. This list is organized by country, and covers a variety of subtopics under data journalism.
- Israeli airstrike destroys press car, killing Palestinian media worker
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The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Israel Defense Forces' airstrike on a car clearly marked as a press vehicle in Gaza City in early July, 2014.
- Terrifying tweets of pre-Army Israeli teens
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On Thursday, July 10, 2014, I entered the Hebrew word for "Arabs", ARAVIM, into Twitter and searched for uses of the word over the previous few hours. What I found was young Israelis proclaiming their desire for all Arabs to die and in some cases be tortured to death.
- The True Gaza Backstory
It's About Land, Stupid
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How come all those Palestinians – all 1.5 million – are crammed into Gaza in the first place? Well, their families once lived, didn’t they, in what is now called Israel? And got chucked out – or fled for their lives – when the Israeli state was created.
- The Flood From the North
Washington's Role in Triggering the Child Migrant Crisis
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
International law and basic morality demand that the children of Central America are treated with the care and dignity that they and previous generations have been robbed under several decades of US foreign and immigration policy. Achieving this end would require overcoming the convenient myths of power and the culture of indifference in which they take root.
- Forward Secrecy Brings Better Long-Term Privacy to Wikipedia
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Wikipedia readers and editors can now enjoy a higher level of long-term privacy, thanks to the Wikimedia Foundation's rollout last week of forward secrecy on its encrypted connections.
- From Somaly Mam to ''Eden'': How Sex Trafficking Sensationalism Hurts Sex Workers
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Most activists, regardless of ideology, are trying to do the right thing. But when it comes to human rights and sex work, doing the right thing is often much more complicated than calling the cops or donating 75 cents a day to a starving child on TV.
- Gawker's so far successful experiment in making office chat public
Are group chat rooms a waste of time or essential to running a modern newsroom?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Article describing the events that led up to the creation of a space, called Disputations, where journalists and other newsroom members can share their opinions (often on unimportant topics).
- The Global Battle for Free Speech
WikiLeaks: Bringing the First Amendment to the World
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Since 2011, waves of global uprisings have been erupting as never before. The crisis of representation helped spawn decentralized movements as a manifestation of people’s aspiration to take the reins of their own destinies. For many, the presumption of legitimacy of their governments has been crumbling. What triggered this widespread global crisis? WikiLeaks was a game changer. Their publication of disclosed documents along with established media reaction showed the true face of liberal institutions and the waning effectiveness of the politics of representation.
- A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad
Making a Break for Freedom During the Era of Mass Incarceration
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This radio documentary is the third segment in Truthout's serialization of Chris Moore-Backman's Bringing Down the New Jim Crow based on Michelle Alexander's book of the same name. The series explores and gives voice to the continuing struggle for racial justice in the United States during the era of mass incarceration.
- A Range of Abuses
The Invisible Deaths of Lebanon's Migrant Domestic Workers
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Migrant domestic workers generally get very little protection from the Lebanese government and remain under-reported in the media, while the deaths of these workers are rarely discussed in the news. Despite the high incidence, domestic workers’ deaths are not investigated or documented by the Lebanese authorities.
- And More Fraud Is in the Works
Virtual Economy's Phantom Job Gains are Based on Statistical Fraud
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Washington can't stop lying. Don't be convinced by a recent job report that it is your fault if you don't have a job. Those 288,000 jobs and 6.1% unemployment rate are more fiction than reality.
- Battle to Preserve Palestine's History Rages in New Novel
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of Radwa Ashour's novel The Woman from Tantoura: A Modern Palestinian Novel (American University in Cairo Press, 2014).
- Destroyed by Violence
War, Not Deserting, Is Demoralizing
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Morale is destroyed by war. War’s objective reality always blows to smithereens not just the civilians it is supposed to protect, but the political, economic and chauvinistic rationalizations that get soldiers to kill in the first place.
- The Failure Of The Left
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Leftists have been late to the party when it comes to raising the alarm on climate change. The reliance on corporate media makes it difficult for anyone questioning the narrative of consumerism and progress to get their message out.
- Israeli army deliberately targeting news professionals
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Continuing confrontations in the Palestinian Territories and many cities in Israel are marked by Israeli authorities’ flouting of basic rights, including freedom of information.
- Israelis have the Upper Hand when it Comes to Vengeance
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As Human Rights Watch warned, Israel’s recent actions – mass arrests; armed raids; the killing of Palestinians, including minors; lockdowns of cities, house demolitions; and air strikes – amounted to “collective punishment”, international law’s euphemism for revenge, against Palestinians. In the face of the enduring violence of Israel’s occupation, and the licence it provides soldiers to humiliate and oppress, ordinary Palestinians have a stark choice: to submit or resist. Ordinary Israelis, on the other hand, do not need to seek revenge on their own account. The Israeli state, military and courts are there every day doing it for them.
- Let's talk about Gaza, Sderot and the racist valuation of lives
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A frank discussion about everything we don’t mention when talking about rockets and bombs and Gaza. Let’s talk about fear, about poverty, about angst and about racism.
- More than 40 journalism groups urge president to stop excessive controls on public information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
46 journalism groups (as of July 8) supported a letter that was signed by 38 groups urging U.S. President Obama to stop excessive controls on public information.
- Nazeeha Saeed - Raising her voice for journalists in Bahrain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Nazeeha Saeed was detained and tortured for 13 hours while covering the 2011 uprisings in Bahrain along with her colleagues. She is now raising awareness for journalists in Bahrain.
- New Bank Leak Shows How Rich Exploit Tax Haven Loopholes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The identities of thousands of wealthy offshore clients of a major Jersey, Channel Isles private bank have been leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The data leaks reveal how the very richest families dip in and out of British jurisdiction as it suits them, exploiting what academic experts call Jersey's 'fictitious space.'
- 2014 Fellowship of Reconciliation with Dr. Peter Phillips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Dr. Peter Phillips delivered a keynote address at the 2014 Fellowship of Reconciliation’s event in celebration of their 100th anniversary, covering several topics, including corporate media propaganda.
- A View from Gaza
This Is a Brutal Attack, Not a "Military Operation"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Gaza, recent Israeli military attacks by sea, air and via artillery shells are not part of a war or a military operation though it may look so. It is collective punishment and it is a brutal attack against all Palestinian people, and mainly civilians are paying the price.
- Virtual Economy's Phantom Job Gains are Based on Statistical Fraud
And More Fraud Is in the Works
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Washington can't stop lying. Reports of job gains are more fiction than reality.
- Designing a journalism curriculum for millennials
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This article explores what skills are needed to succeed in freelance journalism, and about how some universities are adjusting their curricula to adapt to this rising form of journalism.
- Jewish Groups' Whitewash of Israeli Racism Ensures It Will Fester
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As news spreads of the circumstances surrounding last week's murder of 17-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdair, many international observers are responding with incredulity.
- Selling the Silver
The Enclosure of the UK's Fisheries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Fishing quotas were meant to conserve stocks and support fishing communities. But they have achieved the reverse - rewarding the most rapacious fishing enterprises and leaving small scale fisherfolk with nothing.
- A Shameful Situation
Millions of Soldiers and Veterans in Serious Trouble
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Millions of US soldiers and veterans are in serious trouble, in the areas of suicide, homelessness, unemployment, poverty, disability, medical care, and mental health.
- The Sledgehammer Worldview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The U.S.-U.K. invasion of Iraq was a textbook example of aggression. Apologists invoke noble intentions, which would be irrelevant even if the pleas were sustainable. The destructive consequences of such aggression are clear, as evidenced in numerous historical examples of violent imperialism.
- Kavita Krishnan: 'Women's Liberation, Everyone's Liberation'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Kavita Krishnan, a socialist organizer and a well-known international spokesperson for the movement against sexual violence in India, speaks on sexual violence, everyday sexism, protest, solidarity, and public space in India.
- America's Use of Terror in Vietnam
The Evil That Was Phoenix
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There’s a reason the CIA wanted to prevent the publication of Douglas Valentine’s 1990 book, The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam. This masterwork is more than an exposé of the US pacification program in Vietnam the book is titled after. It is an indictment of a cynical and bloody plan to kill Vietnamese.
- Five tips for creating a more gender-balanced newsroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A discussion the state of gender equality in the newsroom. Provides tips on how to improve gender balance.
- India - Now Nuclear and Environmental Dissent is a Crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In modern India any form of dissent from the neoliberal corporate model of development is being criminalised. Opponents of nuclear power, coal mines, GMOs, giant dams, are all under attack as enemies of the state and a threat to economic growth.
- Israel does not want peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Rejectionism is embedded in Israel's most primal beliefs. There, at the deepest level, lies the concept that this land is destined for the Jews alone.
- Let's Just Pretend
We Didn’t Offshore Manufacturing?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Is an iPhone made in China and exported to Europe a U.S. export? Is an Apple executive a manufacturing worker? Yes, and yes. At least those could become the answers if a new proposal afoot among some in the administration is allowed to take effect. Federal agencies grouped under the bland-sounding Economic Classification Policy Committee (ECPC) are proposing to radically redefine U.S. manufacturing and trade statistics. The proposal would deceptively deflate the size of reported, but not actual, U.S. manufacturing trade deficits, while artificially inflating the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs overnight.
- We Must Support Detroit's Fight for the Right to Water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Detroit is shutting off water to 40% of residents to prepare the water system for a corporate buyout. Residents are organizing to resist the water shuttoffs, anti-democratic rule and the demands of Wall Street - but they need our help.
- Borneo's Killer Dams
Mega-Dams in Sarawak Threaten Indigenous Tribes with Ethnocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Sarawak, Malaysia, is home to thousands of endemic species, forty indigenous groups, and one of the largest transboundary rainforests remaining in the world. The state is also suffering from one of the world's highest rates of deforestation; only 5% of its primary forests remain. Now, Sarawak's forests and their inhabitants face another threat: the damming of its rivers for hydroelectric power.
- First half of 2014 sees more magazine launches than closures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
MediaFinder, the largest online database of American and Canadian publications is reporting that in the first half of 2014, 93 magazines launched and 30 closed.
- Newspapers in Canada versus USA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Newspapers Canada has released a one-page Fact Sheet outlining some of the key differences between the Canadian and U.S. markets.
- Nine tips for talking with potential investors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Tips on how journalists, or teams of journalists can generate interest from venture capital are provided.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Connexions is pleased to announce the publication of Other Voices, the new bi-weekly Connexions newsletter.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2014
Surveillance
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The first issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter. Topic of the week is Surveillance. Articles on climate politics, 21st-century land grabs, and the destruction of Canada's science libraries. Plus items from the Connexions Calendar and Seeds of Fire.
- Scientists Write: EPA, Ban 'Agent Orange' Herbicide Mix and GMO Crops!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thirty-five distinguished scientists urge the US-EPA not to register new mixtures of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate, intended for use on herbicide-tolerant GMO crops. Approval of the herbicide mixtures would endanger both human and environmental health.
- Torontonians lose a vital weekly newspaper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Grid, an award-winning Toronto weekly newspaper, was shut down in early July 2014.
- Neonicotinoids are Poisoning Entire Farmland Ecosystems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The widespread use of neonicotinoid insecticides is causing a neurotoxic overload afflicting entire farm ecosystems from earthworms to bees, other pollinators and birds. A collapse in food production may inevitably follow.
- Seven Reasons Police Brutality is Systemic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Darrin Manning's unprovoked "stop and frisk" encounter with the Philadelphia police left him hospitalized with a ruptured testicle. Neykeyia Parker was violently dragged out of her car and aggressively arrested in front of her young child for "trespassing" at her own apartment complex in Houston. A Georgia toddler was burned when police threw a flash grenade into his playpen during a raid, and the manager of a Chicago tanning salon was confronted by a raiding police officer bellowing that he would kill her and her family, captured on the salon's surveillance. An elderly man in Ohio was left in need of facial reconstructive surgery after police entered his home without a warrant to sort out a dispute about a trailer. These stories are a small selection of recent police brutality reports, as police misconduct has become a fixture of the news cycle.
- Some Deaths Really Matter
The Disproportionate Coverage of Israeli And Palestinian Killings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israeli deaths matter much more than Palestinian deaths. This has long been a distinguishing feature of Western news media reporting on the Middle East. The recent blanket coverage afforded to the brutal killing of three Israeli teenagers highlights this immutable fact.
- Some deaths really matter - The disproportionate coverage of Israeli and Palestinian Killings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Documening that the deaths of Israelis is far more heavily weighted than those of Palestinian deaths, garnering more media coverage.
- Toronto Talks Transit with Herman Rosenfeld
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Herman Rosenfeld speaks about transit issues in Toronto, and the campaign for good affordable public transit
- US Intimidated by Its Own Mercenaries
A Silence on Atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
So much for transparency, civil liberties, and prosecuting the crimes of a predecessor (the cardinal rule of presidents, at least this one, cover-up WAR CRIMES past and present, a solemn command of the National Security State). Silence and deniability, in all matters large and small, characterize the responses of United States government and private principals.
- Are we journalists first?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Authors address a longstanding debate about whether and when a reporter can intervene in a story. Real accounts are provided as examples.
- Election and Revolution
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of two volumes by August H. Nimtz: "Lenin's Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels Through the Revolution of 1905" and "Lenin's Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917".
- Foreclosure Is Blight!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Using her experience working with the Detroit Eviction Defense group, Feeley examines the current housing crisis in Detroit and offers insight into how to combat evictions, foreclosures and underwater mortgages by combining legal defense with direct action.
- Galileo's Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In celebration of the 450th anniversary of Galileo's birth, this article examines the famous scientist's life, contributions, and relevance today.
- Imagining Socialism in Our Lives
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of "Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA" edited by Francis Goldin, Debby Smith and Michael Steven Smith.
- Inside Venezuela's "Proceso"
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of "Who Can Stop the Drums?: Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela" by Sujatha Fernandes.
- John Handcox, "Sharecropper's Troubadour"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Robin Lindley interviews University of Washington labour history professor Michael Honey regarding his biography about singer and labour activist John Handcox.
- Kinder Morgan's $136 million pipeline 'war chest' to be paid by Canadians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In what an economist calls an "unfair" decision, the National Energy Board has allowed Kinder Morgan to build a $136 million 'war chest' to fund its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion application through shipping surcharges. The charge, called a "firm service fee", allows Texas-based pipeline company Kinder Morgan to offload the cost of the pipeline application to Canadian shippers.
- Let England's wild beavers be!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A family of wild of beavers has established on an English river for the first time since Henry VIII. But now the Government has decided to trap them and consign them to captivity in a zoo or wildlife centre. Defenders of wilderness are now demanding: keep our wild beavers free!
- Minneapolis 1934 Strike Revisited
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of "Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934" by Bryan D. Palmer.
- Richmond: Company Town or People's Town?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Feeley delves into the problematic dynamics surrounding the election campaign in Richmond, CA whereby the city's dominant corporation, the Chevron oil refinery which carries a long history of environmental concerns with it, could potentially have a greater hand in municipal decisions if one of its candidates are elected.
- The Ruins of War, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The editors provide an overview of the United States' involvement in WWI and how the country's imperialist dynamics have grown since then despite anti-war, labour, and socialist efforts.
- Solidarity and Contradiction
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of "Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa" by Yuichiro Onishi.
- Surveillance Capitalism
Monopoly-Finance Capital, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Digital Age
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A massive corporate sales effort and military-industrial complex constituted the two main surplus-absorption mechanisms in the U.S. economy in the first quarter-century after the Second World War, followed by financialization after the crisis of the 1970s. Each of these means of surplus absorption were to add impetus in different ways to the communications revolution, and each necessitated new forms of surveillance and control. The result was a universalization of surveillance, associated with all three areas.
- Tribune of the People
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of "Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution" by Clifford D. Conner.
- 21st Century Limited
The lost glory of America's railroads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 201
An essay on Armtrak's railroads gradual decline due to the Republican politicization of train travel.
- Utopia and Anti-Utopia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In response to the recent popularity of dystopian series "The Hunger Games," by Suzanne Collins, Hubler examines the genre of dystopian and utopian fiction.
- VA Care is for Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Data production takes priority over concrete patient care itself in the new healthcare assembly line, as evidenced in the Veteran's Administration scandal.
- World War I and Its Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ruff anaylzes the effect that WWI had on the world's imperial powers, shifting the hold on dominance between countries and transforming economies into different forms of war state capitalism.
- Millennials love reading digital magazines on their smartphones
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Data collected on digital magazine reading habits of those aged 18-34 is provided.
- Diminishing residential schools abuse?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Simple Tools to Sort the Tweets from the Trash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In this first part of a three-part series, social media and web research specialist Henk van Ess provides some practical hints for how to de-clutter your Twitter stream and keep your timeline relevant and under control so those newsworthy updates don't get lost in a flood of information.
- Simple tools to sort the tweets from the trash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Social media and web research specialist Henk van Ess provides outlines things you can do to decrease the likelihood of missing newsworthy tweets in twitter feeds, part 1 of 3.
- Champion of Chinese Farmers' Rights Jailed for Forging Official Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Villagers pack the court to applaud woman given two years in prison for trying to prevent land grabs and illegal demolition.
- Television news cuts at CBC will hurt Canadians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Canadian Association of Journalists expresses its concern over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s decision to reduce its workforce in coming years by up to 1,500 employees.
- Will GM Crops Collapse the Food System?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Often when a technology is introduced one never considers why it was introduced or what future events and connections may be put in motion. Clearly the trend to global crop production and marketing has changed the face of agriculture. Now we are left to decide if it was a good thing, this world changing shift in crop production brought about by GM crops.
- The Agrarian Question in the Russian Revolution
From Material Community to Productivism, and Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This article was conceived as Part One of a three-part series which would be: 1) the revolutionary epoch 1917–1923, and the ultimately disastrous international influence of the Russian Revolution, illustrated in the cases of the very early French, German, Italian and US Communist Parties; 2) the failed return of the “vanguard party” (Trotskyism, Maoism) in the period from 1968 to 1977 and 3) the ongoing recomposition of the world working class, and forms of worker organization and self-organization, today and tomorrow.
- By Any Means Necessary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of Dave Hann's book Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-fascism (Zero, 2013).
- The Changing History of the First World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The war the Tories and their favourite historians would like to spin is one where nationalism was triumphant and where workers and soldiers did their duty for their country. For other historians, the war is a patchwork of fragmented experiences and stories with no “grand” explanation. A truly historical materialist understanding of the war must be able to encompass and learn from the detail—whether of battles or strikes, psychological trauma or the assassination of royalty—and weave it into a world in which the development of capitalism brought about the bleakest and most horrifying catastrophe. And it must be able to explain how the material experience of that catastrophe drove millions to question and to revolt and to present the system as a whole with the most profound threat of its existence.
- Classical Marxism and the Question of Reformism
Gluckstein, Donny
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A central issue for our movement is whether to work towards a complete revolutionary overturning of capitalism and the state that protects it, or rely on partial methods of struggle. This choice is obvious in places such as Egypt or Greece, but applies with equal force to Britain where defence of the welfare state and living standards can mean waiting for the next election or relying on self-activity from below. This article will focus on the response of Marxists during the first quarter of the 20th century to this question.
- Defusing George Orwell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of Robert Colls' book George Orwell: English Rebel (Oxford University Press, 2013).
- The Great Schism
Socialism and War in 1914
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This article sketches the limitations of Second International Marxism before outlining the strengths and weaknesses of Lenin’s alternative.
- Millions in poverty get less coverage than 482 billionaires
New FAIR study documents TV news' lack of interest in poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
FAIR uses data from CBS, ABC, and NBC to conduct a study on how much the media reports on poverty, concluding that there is not very much coverage of people in poverty.
- Thunder on the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The paradox of the present situation is that capital is weak—but the radical left is much weaker. Alternatively, capital is economically weak, but much stronger politically, less because of mass ideological commitment to the system than because of the weakness of credible anti-capitalist alternatives.The present moment — a protracted crisis of the capitalist system — should offer a more favourable terrain for the anti-capitalist left to put forward alternative perspectives.
- Prime Minister Harper - Keep working to free Fahmy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Canadian Association of Journalists condemns the conviction of Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian journalist who served as Al Jazeera’s acting bureau chief in Cairo, to seven years in prison for terrorism-related crimes.
- Senators introduce bipartisan FOIA amendment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two senators crossed party lines in support of legislation that would strengthen the current Freedom of Information Act and diminish agencies’ excuses for withholding documents.
- The Shape We're In: How Junk Food and Diets are Shortening Our Lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Speaking to behavioural scientists and industry experts, yo-yo dieters and people who have gone under the knife, Boseley builds a picture of an obesogenic society. She argues that it is time to fundamentally change the way we live.
- Special Report: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An examination of how countries around the world affected by civil war or internal conflict have approached justice.
- CPJ condemns harsh prison sentences for Journalists in Egypt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
CPJ talk about its opinions on the sentencing of 3 journalists to long prison sentences in Egypt on terrorism-related charges.
- Heil Hipster
The Young Neo-Nazis Trying to Put a Stylish Face on Hate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Inside the tote-bag friendly, "Harlem Shake"-happy world of Germany's "nipsters".
- The reckoning: the future of the Venezuelan Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
he core of Chávez’s programme was to achieve state control of the oil industry, negotiate for an appropriate level of royalties, and use that income for social and economic development. The rhetoric remains largely the same today; but the reality bears very little relation to that promised future.
- You Can’t Force-feed Occupation to those who Crave Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Israel wants to believe that through force of will it can keep the tide of accountability at bay in the occupied territories. But belligerent occupations – especially ones where no hope or end is in sight – engender evermore creative and costly forms of resistance. A physical act of resistance can be temporarily foiled. But the spirit behind it cannot be so easily subdued.
- Review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. Vivek Chibber challenges the post-Marxist framework of the Subaltern Studies group.
- A Walk for Mother Earth sets off from Kanehsatake
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A Walk for Mother Earth aims to draw attention, both provincially and nationally, to the serious environmental impacts of oil sands pipelines sprawling from Alberta to different corners of North America.
- Argentina is Right to Stand up to Greedy US Vultures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Although in a precarious position after a US court ruling on debt repayments, Argentina must put its economy and people first.
- Britain took more out of India than it put in -- Could China do the same to Britain?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Large parts of India's economy were destroyed by British technology in the 1800s, and by deals that favoured British shareholders. Today, it's China that holds that kind of power.
- Canadian Court to the Entire World: No Links For You!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ordered Google to remove entire domains from its search results — a decision that could have enormous global implications on free expression. This is the latest of several instances of courts claiming dangerous jurisdictional overreach, where they have applied local laws to remove content on the Internet.
- Deprived of income, Azerbaijani paper is forced to stop publishing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One of Azerbaijan’s leading independent newspapers, the Russian-language Zerkalo (Mirror), has been forced to stop publishing because government control of the advertising market and distribution networks has deprived it of the income it needs to keep operating.
- World cup coverage highlights importance for Journalists' security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Article detailing the trials and tribulations journalists faced leading to the start of the World Cup in Brazil, and calls for measures to improve conditions for mediapeople in the future.
- Assange completes second year in Ecuadorean embassy in London
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has just completed his second year under permanent British police surveillance in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he sought refuge to avoid extradition to the United States via Sweden and a possible death sentence there.
- Bad Day for Bad Patents: U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down Abstract Software Patent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank today, striking down an abstract software patent. Essentially, the Court ruled that adding “on a computer” to an abstract idea does not make it patentable. Many thousands of software patents — particularly the vague and overbroad patents so beloved by patent trolls — should be struck down under this standard.
- IISH in Archives Portal Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Archival materials at the IISH are now accessible through Archives Portal Europe. The portal provides access to information on archival material from the inventories of hundreds of archival institutions in Europe. The user can search in 39,323,587 descriptive units linked to more than 141,000,000 digital objects from 397 institutions.
- Ugandan journalist’s damning account of UAE media censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Emirati English-language newspaper The National fired Ugandan journalist Yasin Kakande for writing an autobiographical novel describing the conditions of migrant workers and media censorship in the United Arab Emirates.
- Violating confidentiality of sources, police raid magazine for recordings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Riding roughshod over journalists’ right to protect their sources, prosecutors and intelligence officials raided the Warsaw headquarters of the weekly magazine Wprost in an attempt to seize recordings that are embarrassing the ruling party.
- Where Was God When Israel Deported African Refugees?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
After 60,000 sub-Saharan Africans, Christian and Muslim, sought refuge in Israel from political persecution and ethnic cleansing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a multi-pronged campaign to expel them all.
- Will Full Encryption Sideline Google's Targeted Ads?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Mining personal data to deliver targeted ads is the lifeblood of Google’s business—and of many other online firms. But what if that data dries up at the source?
- Blair: Bombing Iraq Better. Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The authors critique the British media's coverage of a new essay by Tony Blair which attempts to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.
- Downtown East residents and community organizations say, TAVIS is not welcome in our neighbourhood
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Residents & community organizations held a press conference to demand an end to police sweeps in Downtown East, to stop police harassment of those who live here and to let the police know they are not going to let them roam the streets with impunity
- Seeding Data Journalism in Panama
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Journalist talks about a need for data-driven journalists. She highlights her experience teaching teams how to do this in Panama in time for the Panama elections.
- The Bone Collectors
A Brutal Chapter in Australia's Past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The remains of hundreds of Aboriginal people, dug up from sacred ground and once displayed in museums all over the world, are now stored in a Canberra warehouse. When will they be given a national resting place?
- Learning from our History
Ernie Tate's Memoir of His Early Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Richard Fidler reviews political activist Ernest Tate's two volume Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s: Ernest Tate, A Memoir.
- The Loneliest Library in the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
At 73, P.V. Chinnathambi runs one of the loneliest libraries anywhere. In the middle of the forested wilderness of Kerala’s Idukki district, the library’s 160-books — all classics — are regularly borrowed, read, and returned by poor, Muthavan adivasis.
- The Mother Behind the Galway Children's Mass Grave Story
'I Want to Know Who's Down There'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It was amateur historian Catherine Corless's painstaking research that brought news of the children's mass grave in Tuam to the world's attention. She tells how her search for the truth turned her life upside-down.
- Some Basic Propositions about Sex, Gender, and Patriarchy
New Books Highlight the Debate between Radical Feminism and Transgender Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Within feminism there has been for decades an often divisive debate about transgenderism. With increasing mainstream news media and pop culture attention focused on the issue, understanding that feminist debate is more important than ever.
- Tor is for Everyone
Why You Should Use Tor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
EFF recently kicked off their second Tor Challenge, an initiative to strengthen the Tor network for online anonymity and improve one of the best free privacy tools in existence. This is great news, but how does it affect you? To understand that, we have to dig into what Tor actually is, and what people can do to support it.
- Ida B. Wells
A Black Woman's Fight Against Lynch Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Born a slave in 1862 in the middle of the Civil War, Ida B. Wells was in the forefront of the fight for black rights in the post-Reconstruction era -- a time of widespread lynch-rope terror when black people, although not returned to slavery, were being solidified as a race-colour caste at the bottom of American society. She refused to accommodate racist reaction in any way and so was anathema to those like Booker T. Washington and his apologists who repudiated militant struggle against the racist status quo.
- America's Repugnant Republicans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There is a qualitative difference between today’s Democrats and Republicans. That difference does not lie in the potential to pursue policies that negatively impact the world. The difference is in their attitude toward policy and action as such. While both parties are often dangerously wrong, the Republicans are wrong in a demented ideological fashion. As such, they really are more repugnant than the Democrats.
- The Battle of Orgreave
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Battle of Orgreave on 18 June, 1984, saw the establishment carry out a mighty state-organised riot, a conspiracy to trap striking miners and unleash brutality on a scale never experienced before in an industrial dispute in Britain.
- Solidarity Economies: A Guerrilla War against Capitalism
An Interview with Nicolás Cruz Tineo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Capitalism is based on the philosophy that man is inherently evil and selfish. But solidarity economies suggest something different: that we are human, we cooperate with one another, we love, we struggle for the love of humanity, and that the future of our planet, our life, is based on our having a culture of brotherhood, sisterhood, collaboration, cooperation. It is an economy of love.
- Australia: Socialist Alliance's 'International Political Perspectives' Resolution
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Resolutions adopted by the 10th National Conference of the Socialist Alliance, June 7-9, 2014.
- Sun and Shadows
How an Island Paradise Became a Haven for Dirty Money
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Seychelles, a thousand miles from anywhere, is an offshore magnet for money launderers and tax dodgers. A look at this corruption-haunted archipelago shows how the offshore secrecy system has grown — and where it's going.
- G4S To End Israel Prison Contracts Following Protests
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
G4S, the Anglo-Danish security contractor, has agreed to withdraw from prison work in Israel after activists disrupted the company annual general meeting for the second year in a row. The company is also under fire for ill-treatment of detainees in the UK, including the death of an Angolan man.
- The World Cup and the Corporatization of Soccer
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Huge global sporting contests, their boosters promise, will transform the nature of the host country. The billions South Africa poured into hosting the World Cup were touted by some as a form of development. The result? The month-long euphoria of the contests was followed by the hangover of dealing with an expensive unused or underused stadium infrastructure scattered across that developing country. Host countries pay FIFA for the privilege of hosting the competition, then foot the bill for most of the tournament, while FIFA takes most of the revenues.
- The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility.
- Forgotten Graffiti Sheds New Light on Long, Hot Journeys to Vietnam
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Inside a rusting former US army ship, historians found vivid details of the hopes and fears of soldiers bound for war.
- Vodafone Reveals Existence of Secret Wires that Allow State Surveillance
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a 'nightmare scenario'.
- Why I'm on the Picket Line
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Teacher Tara Ehrcke talks about why she voted to strike in Greater Victoria, British Columbia: The "public" in public school shouldn't mean just providing a building, with some tired teachers to deliver a curriculum, the success of which is measured by standardized tests. A good public school system should provide high quality opportunities to every single child. While our public schools have many wonderful programs and many dedicated teachers, the sad truth is that there are also overcrowded classrooms, children falling behind, and a workforce exhausted from trying to fill in the gaps.
- Working for The Man
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The author describes her brief experience at a now infamous language school in London, where she encountered blatant sexism.
- The Anxious Worker
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The author looks at the contemporary conditions of work and examines how these give rise to anxiety and depression.
- Genetic Testing of Citizens Is a Backdoor into Total Population Surveillance by Governments and Companies
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The new Chief Executive of the National Health Service (NHS) in England, Simon Stevens, was recently reported arguing that the NHS must be transformed to make people’s personal genetic information the basis of their treatments.
- An Alternative to 'Safe Spaces'
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Mike Macnair argues that 'safe spaces' aren't liberating -- and proposes an alternative.
- Try and find Narnia in the wardrobe: inside the work of a research specialist
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Paul Myers is an internet research specialist working in the U.K. media. He talks about the role of the researcher in the investigative story and tools journalists can use.
- Another journalist murdered in Honduras, no end to violence in sight
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that community radio journalist Hernán Cruz Barnica was murdered near Dulce Nombre, a town in the western department of Copán, on the evening of 28 May.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation to Court: There's No Doubt the Government Destroyed NSA Spying Evidence
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a federal court today that there was no doubt that the government has destroyed years of evidence of NSA spying -- the government itself has admitted to it in recent court filings.
- The European Elections from a Left Perspective
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Preliminary analysis, country-specific results and reports on the electoral eve, video statements of the left-wing candidates and our correspondents as well as evaluations in the aftermath – and all of this with a particular focus on the Left.
- Free Speech Groups Issue New Guide to the International 'Necessary & Proportionate Principles'
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
EFF and ARTICLE 19 Urges Governments to Preserve Fundamental Freedoms in the Age of Mass Surveillance
- IFJ Condemns Israeli Forces' Threat To Censor Palestinian Newspapers
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the actions of Israeli soldiers who forced their way into the Ramallah headquarters of the press, publishing and distribution company, al Ayyam, Wednesday 28 May, 2014.
- Jailed immigrants begin historic boycott of Detention Reviews
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Immigration detainees at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Central North Correctional Centre in Penetanguishene and Toronto's Metro West Detention Centre are starting a historical month-long boycott of their detention reviews
- Newspaper editor gunned down on Benghazi street
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders condemns in the strongest terms newspaper editor Muftah Bu Zeid's murder in Benghazi. Gunmen in a car shot Zeid three times in the head and abdomen shortly after he got out of his own car.
- Sex workers decry government consultation on prostitution
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Maggie's - Toronto Sex Workers' Action Project, along with sex workers and other experts, question the legitimacy of the federal government online consultation around prostitution in Canada.
- Toronto's Annex Chess Club kicks off Summer tournament
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Annex Chess Club in Toronto is kicking off the 'Celebrate Summer' chess tournament on June 2. Over 50 Toronto chess players are expected for the event, which runs at a pace of one game per week for five weeks.
- Uzbekistan Rediscovers Lost Culture in the Craft of Silk Road Paper Makers
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A Samarkand craftsman revives thousand-year-old paper production methods in Central Asian workshop.
- When media bosses censor their own journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders condemns the censorship of Suelte la lengua (Talk freely), a programme that Canal 6 TV has not broadcast since 15 May without any explanation from its CEO, Paul Misselem.
- Woman journalist found with throat cut in southern Libya
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that Naseeb Miloud Karfana, a TV journalist based in the southern city of Sabha, was murdered on 29 May.
- Galway historian reveals truth behind 800 orphans in mass grave
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There is a growing international scandal around the history of The Home, a grim 1840's workhouse in Tuam in Galway built on seven acres that was taken over in 1925 by the Bon Secours sisters, who turned it into a Mother and Baby home for "fallen women." The long abandoned site made headlines around the world this week when it was revealed that a nearby septic tank contained the bodies of up to eight hundred infants and children, secretly buried without coffins or headstones on unconsecrated ground between 1925 and 1961.
- He's a right royal knockout
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
At the Invictus Games Harry will be centre stage in his uniform - no, not the Nazi one - as the Warrior Prince. Yeah, right.The PR story will be about a princely "hero" who served "on the front line" in Afghanistan. Except "Harry Wales" actually spent his four months in Afghanistan entirely at Camp Bastion, several hundred miles from the Helmand "front line" .
- The injustice industry
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There is a major legal business in corporate lawsuits against governments, seeking either a change in proposed legislation to suit corporate demands, or compensation. Under TTIP, European governments could face the same claims.
- Keeping us in the dark
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The TIPP negotiations are being conducted almost in secret, with governments and the European Parliament deliberately denied essential information. However, business lobbyists can access all areas, and do.
- Our Lives are Militarised
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Sam Walton examines the PR strategy of placing soldiers at civil society events.
- Our Words Are Our Weapons
The Feminist Battle of the Story in the Wake of the Isla Vista Massacre
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It was a key match in the World Cup of Ideas. The teams vied furiously for the ball. The all-star feminist team tried repeatedly to kick it through the goalposts marked Widespread Social Problems, while the opposing team, staffed by the mainstream media and mainstream dudes, was intent on getting it into the usual net called Isolated Event. To keep the ball out of his net, the mainstream's goalie shouted “mental illness” again and again. That “ball,” of course, was the meaning of the massacre of students in Isla Vista, California, by one of their peers.
- Popular Movements Toward Socialism
Their Unity and Diversity
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The following reflections deal with a permanent and fundamental challenge that has confronted, and continues to confront, all popular movements struggling against capitalism. By this I mean both those of movements whose explicit radical aim is to abolish the system based on private proprietorship over the modern means of production in order to replace it with a system based on workers’ social proprietorship, and those of movements which, without going so far, involve mobilization aimed at real and significant transformation of the relations between labor and capital. Both sorts of movements can contribute, in varying degree, to calling capitalism into question; but they also might merely create the illusion of movement in that direction, although in fact only forcing capital to make the transformations it would need to co-opt a given set of working-class demands.
- Practical Approaches to Non-violence
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The Quaker group Turning the Tide works with communities in the UK and Kenya to help different groups and organizations develop their own nonviolent approaches to radical change and social justice. Edward Dingwall catches up with staff member Steve Whiting on the Turning the Tide's aims and methods.
- Putting the Arms Industry on Trial
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Sean Douglas and other activists are prosecuting two companies that promoted torture equipment in the UK.
- Shirkers and Conchies
How Governments Tried to Silence WWI Resisters
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Peace activists faced enemy treatment but left a legacy of perserverance, writes Tim Gee.
- Talking About Organizing
A Series
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is an active online archive of commentaries and stories, first published in Our Times, about the experience of union organizing: what works and what doesn't. It's also the place where you'll find Our Times' columnist Derek Blackadder's WebWork series archived -- articles about online resources for union activists.
- Ten threats to Americans
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Ten contemporary social, economic and political issues posing threats to American citizens.
- Ten threats to Europeans
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Ten contemporary social, economic and political issues posing threats to European citizens.
- Toddler suffers severe burns from Atlanta, Georgia police raid
A police raid on a home in Atlanta resulted in the serious injury of a 19-month-old child
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A police raid on a home in Atlanta, Georgia early Wednesday morning has resulted in the serious injury of a 19-month-old child. Police entering the home threw a stun grenade that fell in the playpen of the sleeping child and exploded in his face.
- Utopia: A confronting but politically flawed documentary
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Utopia, the latest documentary by veteran journalist and filmmaker John Pilger has shown at selected venues across Australia with a television screening on SBS. The feature-length work, which exposes shocking social conditions in Australia’s remote indigenous communities, opened last November in Britain to mostly praiseworthy reviews.
- An apology for the Danish cartoon crisis
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One of the leading forces in the 2005–06 prophet Muhammad cartoon controversy, Danish Muslim activist Ahmed Akkari, now regrets his role as agitator and reveals a larger, more deliberate, and more vicious conspiracy behind the crisis than previously known.
- Christian Høgsbjerg, C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain (2014)
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Scholarship on CLR James, the Pan African and independent socialist, often takes the tone of a thin cultural studies where political insight is minimal and factual detail rooted in archival sources is negligible. Grasping James’s role in intellectual and social movement history requires resisting the tendency to group him narrowly in the fields of “Marxism” or the “Black radical tradition.” These are invented frameworks, shorthand which obscures a limited knowledge of James’s actual innovation and creativity, in contrast to other representative figures, but also mystification of the reality of elite party politics and the self-directed liberating activity by ordinary people in insurgent movements regardless of color.
- The Dark Side of the Territory
Hong Kong's Caged Lives
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In a place that values freedom and respect, the legacy of “caged homes” creates a stark and chilling contrast.
- Forget The Propaganda From Big Agritech, The Key To Reducing Poverty And Ensuring Food Security Lies With Small Farmers
Small farms produce most of the world's food
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A new review carried out by the organization GRAIN reveals that small farms produce most of the world’s food. However, they are currently squeezed onto less than a quarter of the world’s farmland. The world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of the rich and powerful. If we do nothing to reverse this trend, the world will lose its capacity to feed itself.
- Marx and Engels Belong to the Workers of the World
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Lawrence & Wishart, the British publisher of the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (MECW), has compelled the Marxists Internet Archive to remove free digital versions of this 50-volume treasure from its Web site. This step is meant to further the publisher’s pursuit of private, profitable licenses with paying customers.
- The Menace of Boko Haram and Fundamentalism in Nigeria
Sexual Slavery, Sexual Terrorism and the Context of the Kidnapping
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
‘I will sell your girls in the market.’ - Abubakar Shekau. From time to time in the life of a society, one episode or a series of episodes shock the social system and brings to the fore long festering sores that need resolution. The kidnapping of over 200 young girls and the depravity of those who proclaimed that these youths would be sold into sexual slavery are one of such episodes. The statement about selling the girls in the market brought out the deep contradictions of Nigerian society and called for firm and clear resolution of the questions of slavery, exploitation, sexual violence, male oppression and the manipulation of religion to serve the needs of particular sections of the looters and zealots of Nigeria.
- An Ode on Whistleblowers and Revolutionaries
Give Thanks
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Published: 2014
May 27th marked exactly four years of prison time for whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
Four years for releasing documents disclosing torture and abuse by US and allied forces: rape, whippings, electric drills used on body parts, waterboarding, beatings, murder. Four years for disclosing previously unreported civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan – deaths that number in the tens of thousands. Four years for pulling back the fog of war and exposing US wars abroad for what they are - not the clean, surgical, tactical operations that we hear about on the news but dirty, bloody, and filled with the bodies of innumerable civilian victims: the bodies of men, women, and children who did nothing more than appear in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the ‘wrong’ skin color and the ‘wrong’ god.
- 100 Best Non-Fiction Books (in Translation) of the 20th Century... and Beyond
A CounterPunch Reading List
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As the clock clicked down on the arrival of the new millennium, Alex and I were bemused at the spate of “100 best of the century lists” pouring forth. The lists were predictable and not many of the entries remained on our groaning shelves. So we decided to compile our own catalogue of the best books written in English and, later translated into English, during the 20th Century. We spent weeks whittling it down to roughly 100 titles for each.
- The Pope at Herzl's Grave
Patagonian Dreams
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
During his short visit to Israel, Pope Francis laid a wreath on the grave of Theodor Herzl.
That was not a usual gesture. Foreign heads of state are obliged to visit Yad Vashem, as did the pope, but not the grave of Herzl.
- Swimming in Shit
Against the Current
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Why is it the case that in a city that is almost entirely built on islands – a city literally surrounded by water – are there so few places to swim and cool off?
- The Whistle-Blower as Deep Mole
Spying on Malfeasance
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There’s an intriguing idea based loosely on the turn-of-the-century union practice of "salting" a workplace. Salting consists of union activists secretly hiring into an anti-union shop in order to promote unionism from within.
- Why Green Capitalism Will Fail
Staying in the Environmental Frying Pan Only Gets Us Hotter
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Green capitalism is destined to fail: You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results. We can’t shop our way out of global warming nor are there technological magic wands that will save us. There is no alternative to a dramatic change in the organization of the global economy and consumption patterns. Such a change will not come without costs — but the costs of doing nothing, of allowing global warming to precede is far greater.
- Left Gun Nuts
Opposition to Gun Control Comes from Many on the Left Also. Here's Why They're Wrong
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the aftermath of the Isla Vista massacre, we can expect the far Right to vehemently oppose any renewed call for gun control. They will tout the supposedly Constitutional right of Americans to keep and bear arms.
- On the ethics of immigration
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Your investment in Chevron will never be safe!
Humberto Piaguaje traveled from Ecuador's rainforest to Texas to deliver this Open Letter from Texaco's victims to Chevron-Texaco shareholde
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We are those who Chevron is constantly trying to silence. We come to you, the shareholders, looking for the most basic empathy and respect we deserve as human beings. We ask but a minute of your time to read this brief letter in its totality.
You have been told - and will be told again and again - that the trial in Ecuador is but a fraud. However, no one has been able to deny the damage oil drilling has done to our land and lives. A great many of us are sick; others have already passed away.
- The Corporate Welfare Bank of the United States
The Elites and the Ex-Im Bank
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Over the past few weeks, the American business lobby and in particular the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have come out in force to support the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. These groups and their puppets in Washington insist that the Ex-Im Bank is good for American small businesses and supports job growth, that failing to reauthorize will harm the overall economy. Conscious of the political atmosphere, the Bank’s supporters have carefully avoided some ugly facts about this vehicle for corporatist cooperation.
- Pakistan: Another young woman killed by her family for marrying without their consent - Stoned just a few yards from the Lahore High Court
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious alarm and disgust over the murder of a young woman, who was killed by her family in a manner like stoning to death, close to the Lahore High Court for marrying without their consent.
- We Are The Soil
The Asian Age
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We are made up of the same five elements — earth, water, fire, air and space — that constitute the Universe. We are the soil. We are the earth. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. And it is no accident that the words “humus” and “humans” have the same roots. This ecological truth is forgotten in the dominant paradigm because it is based on eco-apartheid, the false idea that we are separate and independent of the earth and also because it defines soil as dead matter. If soil is dead to begin with, human action cannot destroy its life. It can only “improve” the soil with chemical fertilisers. And if we are the masters and conquerors of the soil, we determine the fate of the soil. Soil cannot determine our fate.
- Lawsuit Against Google Highlights Mining of Student Data
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Children have become lucrative targets for data mining companies, according to a study by Politico magazine. Just weeks after Google settled a lawsuit for selling student data for advertising, the publication revealed an entire industry devoted to marketing data gathered from Internet applications offered to students and their teachers.
- Lawsuit Against Google Highlights Mining of Student Data
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Children have become lucrative targets for data mining companies, according to a study by Politico magazine. Just weeks after Google settled a lawsuit for selling student data for advertising, the publication revealed an entire industry devoted to marketing data gathered from Internet applications offered to students and their teachers. Many modern software companies offer free tools to everyone like email, games and search engines that come with strings attached. Google is perhaps the best known because it offers students an entire suite of applications from calendars to chat services and data storage. In return the company has made money by selling personal information gleaned from users for targeted advertising.
- Mexico - Subcomandante Marcos Steps Down: What's Next for the EZLN?
Subcomandante Marcos, announced he ending his role as the group's spokesperson and military commander.
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In stepping down, Marcos pointed to demographic changes in the thirty-year old organization as new younger, indigenous leaders stepped forward replacing an older largely mestizo leadership, several of whom came out of the student and guerrilla struggles of the 1970s and 1980s.
- Most US drone strikes in Pakistan attack houses
Drone strikes in Pakistan
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First Published: 2014
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Domestic buildings have been hit by drone strikes more than any other type of target in the CIA’s 10-year campaign in the tribal regions of northern Pakistan, new research reveals.
- The Social Cost of GMOs
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ecological economists such as Herman Daly write that the more full the world becomes, the higher are the social or external costs of production. Social or external costs are costs of production that are not captured in the price of the products. For example, dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico that result from chemicals used in agriculture are not included as costs in agricultural production. The price of food does not include the damage to the Gulf.
Food production is a source of large social costs. Indeed, it seems that the more food producers are able to lower the measured cost of food production, the higher the social costs imposed on society.
- Challenging a Militarized Police State in the US
From Policing to SWAT Teams
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) and other law enforcement agencies cracked down on protestors March 30, 2014, the city’s finest rolled out a military-style force. Equipped with gas masks, body armor, batons and automatic rifles, they deployed officers on horseback, a SWAT Team and a pair of armored vehicles. After confronting shouting protestors, the APD released tear gas, which seeped into campus dormitories.
- Climate Change As A Weapon Of Mass Destruction
The 95% Doctrine
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Confronting the Cult of Objectivity
Education in Crisis
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As the end of the semester draws near on campuses across the country, I thought I’d reflect on one of the largest threats to academic freedom in this country. I’ve long labeled this threat the “cult of objectivity,” represented in a variety of different pathologies that afflict students, faculty, and administrators.
- 1,000 Days of Syria – Turning War Journalism into a Game
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
How an American journalist is attempting to tell the story of Syria’s conflict through an online adventure game.
- Taking Back What's Ours
The Struggle of the Townspeople of Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The morning sun was just above the horizon when San Cristóbal’s cobblestone streets and colonial houses gave way to crumbling pavement and deep green cornfields. Our combi, a small minibus bursting with passengers, wound its way downwards out of the highlands of Chiapas, down into the warmer climate of the lowland valleys.
- Cecily McMillan and the Police State
Justice is Dead in Amerika
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Cecily McMillan is an Occupy protester who was seized from behind by a goon thug cop–a goon thug with a long record of abuse of authority – by her boobs. One was badly bruised. Cecily McMillan’s elbow reflexively and instinctively came up, and Cecily was arrested for assaulting a goon thug. The goon thug was not arrested for sexually assaulting a young woman.
- The Coming Humiliation of Stephen Harper?
A Political Psychopath
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The federal government, that is Stephen Harper, is expected to announce its long anticipated decision on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline sometime in June. The decision could well determine whether or not the Conservatives can win the 2015 election.
The momentum of opposition to the pipeline – and perhaps more importantly to the hundreds of supertankers that would move tar sands bitumen to Asia – is clearly growing in both B.C. and the rest of Canada.
- Follow the Money, Part 3 - Big Oil and Calgary's School of Public Policy
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If it disseminates pro-free market studies like a right-wing think tank, and if it courts Big Oil money like a right-wing think tank, and if it recruits conservative scholars like a right-wing think tank, then it probably is a right-wing think tank.
- Follow the Money, Part 4 - Who Owns the National Post?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It"s no secret that Postmedia Network, publisher of the National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun and other major Canadian dailies, is hemorrhaging money.
- Follow the Money, Part 5 - The Tobacco Papers Revisited
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Michael Walker, former executive director of the Fraser Institute, long denied that institute directors — the people who fund the institute’s work — can tell researchers what to do.
According to this rosy view of the think tank’s mission, Big Oil directors from Calgary, for instance, don’t tell Fraser Institute researcher Kenneth Green to produce studies denying global warming or proving that the Keystone and Northern Gateway pipelines are crucial for Canada’s economic survival. Green does these on his own because that’s what his research indicates.
- Follow the Money, Part 6 - Obesity: A new role for second-hand-smoke-causes-cancer deniers
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The tobacco industry has shifted its doubt-manufacturing operations to countries like Russia, Indonesia and China, where the incidence of smoking — and cancer — continues to rise. But other industries with deep pockets need to manufacture doubt about the health risks of their products.
- In Memoriam, Gabriel Kolko
b. Paterson, Aug. 17, 1932-d. Amsterdam, May 19, 2014
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- And The May Uprising Continues
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Remembrance of the brave women and men of Gwangju, responsible for sowing the seeds of democracy in the Republic of Korea while opposing the infamous martial law and dictatorship. Ten days, starting from May 18, 1980, they made the streets theirs, challenging the might of the State. As the historic May Democratic Uprising is witnessing its 34 th anniversary, Gwangju is celebrating and reminding herself to keep the memory of resistance alive, resistance against oppression and injustice that their heroes had upheld.
- Antarctica's Accelerating Ice Collapse
Massive Sea Level Rise in Decades
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Imagine Antarctica. Imagine an island, with mountains, peaks, ridges, and valleys. Imagine further that a thick layer of ice covers, not only the surface of the island that lies above the sea but also an extensive portion of the perimeter that is beneath the sea. The peaks are higher above sea level than on any continent. In winter, the sea freezes because temperatures drop to less than -80 degrees Celsius (-112 degrees Farenheight), and the island’s area grows to about 10 million square miles. In summer when some of the ice melts, the ice cover remains on average more than a mile thick, although the overall surface area of the island shrinks to about five million square miles. Even in summer, however, the island is still larger than Europe or Australia. It is Antarctica, and it is impossible to imagine.
- Direct Action Gets Results
Taking on the Enemy Directly
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We are conditioned to think of "activism" as getting someone else to do something. We plead with elected officials and bureaucrats, prodding them to take action. But the best and most effective activism is when we take matters into our own hands and solve our problems -- or strike at our enemies -- ourselves.
- In Ten Years, We Will Have Zero Privacy
Spying on Consumers
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When we consider the “progress” that has been made in the ability to delve into the private lives of consumers, it’s terrifying. They know where we shop, where we vacation, what we buy, what we read, what we watch on television, and what we visit on the Internet.
- National liberation and Bolshevism reexamined: A view from the borderlands - An analysis of the socialist debates on the national question up through 1914
A view from the Czarist empire's borderlands obliges us to rethink assumptions about the revolutions of 1905 and 1917
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The following paper analyzes the socialist debates on the national question up through 1914. I argue that an effective strategy of anti-colonial Marxism was first put forward by the borderland socialists, not the Bolsheviks. Lenin and his comrades lagged behind the non-Russian Marxists on this crucial issue well into the Civil War.
- The "Ralph Nader" Illusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ralph Nader (see his RT interview video here) is providing a kind of leadership to the many Americans who are fed up with our dictatorship of the rich and who want a much more equal and democratic society. Nader's main attraction today is his "convergence" theme, by which he means that the great majority of Americans, on the order of 80%, want a more equal and democratic society whether they currently consider themselves to be on the "right" or on the "left."
- South America: How ‘Anti-Extractivism’ Misses The Forest ForThe Trees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A recent spate of high-profile campaigns against projects based on extracting raw materials has opened up an important new dynamic within the broad processes of change sweeping South America. Understanding their nature and significance is crucial to grasping the complexities involved in bringing about social change and how best to build solidarity with peoples’ struggles.
- Coughing up coal
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
India is rivaling China -- in its plans to consume coal. India is aggressively expanding construction of coal fired power plants to meet growing energy needs. Emissions from coal power plants were linked to 80,000 - 150,000 premature deaths in India between 2011 and 2012 alone and to a wide range of diseases from cancers, to respiratory and cardiovascular disorders. Singrauli -- an industrial hub in north central India -- embodies the tragic human toll that a largely unregulated coal industry can extract.
- Mass murder in a Turkish coal mine
Over 300 miners have been killed by a system that values fossil fuels and profits above the lives of those who are paid poverty-level wages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Think about the last time you reached the top of a mountain one mile high. Now think about descending that distance below the surface of the earth, foot by dark foot, far below all life, light or oxygen. You go down there to dig.
- Video shows unprovoked, cold-blooded killing of Palestinian boys by Israeli forces
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This shocking video shows the unprovoked, cold-blooded killings of two Palestinian teenagers, 17-year-old Nadim Siam Nuwara, and 16-year-old Muhammad Mahmoud Odeh Abu al-Thahir on 15 May near Ofer military prison in the occupied West Bank city of Beitunia. Both boys were fatally shot with live ammunition.
- Europe's new faultine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Front National is expected to win next week’s European election in France; UKIP may well do so in Britain. Both parties combine a visceral hostility to immigration with an acerbic loathing of the EU, a virulent nationalism and deeply conservative views on social issues such as gay marriage and women’s rights. The problems that such parties pose for mainstream politics goes, however, far beyond the odiousness of their policies. What their success expresses is the redrawing of the political map in Europe, and in ways in which mainstream parties often do not understand. The new populists seem to thrive on different political rules to mainstream parties.
- Organic certification - inorganic bureaucracy
Today's certifiers arrive in patent leather shoes and get no further than the office - and this is meant to be an improvement?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- The NSA's Mantra
Collect It All
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is the world we’re living in now. One where privacy is quickly becoming a thing of the past – where the government collects our metadata using dragnet surveillance. Who you talked to, where, when, and for how long are collected with each and every phone call. Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Microsoft, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, and numerous other corporations partner with the NSA to subvert your right to privacy. The NSA has even been physically intercepting packages containing servers and switches, taking it from FedEx or the US Postal Service, opening the package, and planting a device that redirects information sent over these servers back to the NSA.
- Privatise Child Protection Services, Department for Education Proposes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Experts sound alarm over UK proposal to outsource children's services to private firms.
- Laying the Children's Ghosts to Rest
Canada's Home Children in the West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Between 1869 and the early 1930s more than 100,000 children were rounded up from the streets of Britain to be used as labourers in Canadian homes; often little more than slaves. Today there are two million or more descendants of what were derisively known in Canada as 'home children'. Writer and journalist Sean Arthur Joyce was shocked to learn in middle age that he was one of those descendants.
- The Price of Experience
Writings on Living with Cancer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Writer and political activist Mike Marqusee was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, in the summer of 2007. At first, disinclined to share his misery with others, he was reluctant to write about his illness. But he then came to realize that doing so provided a precious continuity with his life as a writer before contracting the disease, and a way of reaching out to a wider world that the illness made physically less accessible. Writing allowed him to address what he saw as a variety of insidious platitudes that surround cancer, often connected to the individualistic idea that the sufferer must be brave in battling the disease, with the inevitable corollary that those who succumb have, in some measure, brought it on themselves. And so Marqusee begins to write about his illness. Not just his own symptoms and feelings, but the responses of friends to the news that he is ill and the way these reflect broader social attitudes towards the sick.
- Thinking The Right Thoughts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There are always convenient news-hooks on which corporate journalists can hang their power-friendly prejudices about the West being 'the good guys' in world affairs. The authors provide examples from the British media.
- Unrecognized in the Negev
The Plight of Israel's Bedouin Citizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
At the break of dawn on 27th July 2010, the unrecognized village of Al Araqib was surrounded by 1,500 police officers clad in riot gear. Helicopters circled overhead as bulldozers razed homes and animal pens to the ground. It took 4 hours to demolish a village that was home to around 300 people, hundreds of sheep, dozens of goose, hens, pigeons and horses.
- Bill Gates and the Push to Privatize Public Education
An Interview With Mercedes K. Schneider
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- The Complete History of Nudism and Nudity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One version of the history of nudism, combining a detailed account of the modern period (post-1900) with extremely dubious notions about ancient history.
- The Earth vs. Monsanto
A Peoples' Tribunal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Here are a few brief notes about A People’s Hearing, held on 10 May 2014, in Greene County, Ohio, The Indivisible Living Entity of the Planet Earth v. Monsanto Corporation, Defendant.
- Human Rights Watch's Revolving Door to US Government
A Letter from Nobel Peace Laureates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Human Rights Watch characterizes itself as “one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.” However, HRW’s close ties to the U.S. government call into question its independence.
- Long jail terms for three bloggers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the long jail terms that three Saudi cyber-activists received this week. Blogger and human rights activist Raef Badawi's sentence for 'insulting Islam'; was increased by a Jeddah criminal court on appeal
- Psychiatry's Manufacture of Consent
The Chemical Imbalance Theory and the Antidepressant Explosion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Starting in the 1990s — despite research findings that levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin were unrelated to depression — Americans began to be exposed to highly effective television commercials for antidepressants that portrayed depression as caused by a “chemical imbalance” of low levels of serotonin and which could be treated with “chemically balancing” antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).
- Supreme Court to hear Grassy Narrows' legal case for Treaty rights and against clearcut logging
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On May 15 the Supreme Court of Canada will hear Grassy Narrows' legal case for Treaty rights and against clearcut logging. The case challenges Ontario's jurisdiction to unilaterally award logging and mining licenses on a vast tract of Treaty 3 land
- Take This Job and Shove it
Authentic Journalism Draws a Line in the Sand in the Alamo City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On May 1, International Workers’ Day, I walked into my publisher’s office mid-afternoon, after he finally came into work that day, and resigned as editor-in-chief of the San Antonio Business Journal, a position I had held for 20 years.
The Alamo, located in the heart of downtown San Antonio, is an old, rather small former Spanish mission that has been around for some 300 years. The San Antonio Business Journal, by contrast, was launched a little more than 25 years ago — with Bill Conroy serving as editor-in-chief for 20 of those years.
During that period, the newspaper was always profitable and I never had to fire a single person. Consequently, I had a kickass veteran reporting staff, most of them there at least 10 years — a rarity in the news business today. Ironically, then, I was the first person I ever fired, and it was due to two primary reasons.
The first is as old as the newspaper industry itself, and baseball for that matter. When a coach of even a winning baseball team has a philosophical disagreement with a new general manager, over players or strategy, the coach almost invariably loses, and is out of a job. The same scenario holds true in the newspaper industry.
- A World War is Beckoning
Break the Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis”, as if the truth “never happened even while it was happening”.
- From Mass Strike to New Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Jeremy Brecher examines where and how mass strikes have progressed into the working class attempting to run society in its own interests and the lessons we can learn from them.
- Libertarian communism: an introduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A short introduction to what we at libcom.org refer to as communism or libertarian communism, what it is and why we think it is a good idea.
- No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Glenn Greenwald recounts his 10-day trip to Honk Kong where he acquired the Snowden Files. Additionally, Greenwald discusses the NSA's unprecedented abuse of power, as well as the media's habitual avoidance of adversarial reporting on the government and their failure to serve the interests of the people.
- What Will the World Inherit From GE Salmon?
Uncharted Waters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It’s true; about 50 percent of the fish we eat are farmed. There is good reason for this as, one by one, the world’s commercial fisheries collapse through overfishing. According to FAO (2010), 70% of the world’s large commercial fisheries have either failed or are not far from it.
- A crisis requires leadership, not just managing image and public relations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When a crisis strikes, you can't just manage in the normal manner, you also have to exercise effective crisis leadership. Too often executives see their role during a crisis as managing the organization's image and communicating with the public
- Call the Cops at Your Own Peril
Bullies in Blue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
“Live free or die” is the motto of the state of New Hampshire. I hope the residents are prepared to die, because living free is not what they do. NH is merely a cog within the Amerikan Stasi State.
- EFF Demands Release of More Secret Surveillance Court Rulings
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In a continuing campaign to uncover the government's secret interpretations of the surveillance laws underlying the National Security Agency (NSA)'s spying programs, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed another lawsuit
- Karen Stintz on Leaning In - politics, family, and work-life balance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Toronto mayoral candidate, Karen Stintz, joins the growing list of influential speakers for Lean In Toronto chapter events. Karen Stintz will discuss her political journey and participate in a question and answer period
- Let's Call Out Institutional Insanities
A Grotesque Inversion of Priorities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
What are the signs that an institution is clinically insane? For over thirty-five years I have been trying to persuade psychological and psychiatric specialists and their professional associations to take up this serious subject for study and corrective suggestions. Alas, to no avail.
- The NSA's Corporate Collaborators
Willing Accomplices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Emails published by Al Jazeera America, in addition to showing hi-tech executives and senior intelligence officials interacting on a casual first-name basis, reference a government program referred to as the Enduring Security Framework (ESF).
- The Real Cost of a Hamburger
The Ecological Consequences of Welfare Ranching
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Do you know what a Big Mac costs? If you say $2.50 or whatever the current price posted at the McDonald’s restaurant may be, you are vastly under-estimating the real price. That’s because $2.50 does not reflect the genuine cost of production. Every hamburger price tag should include a calculation of animal suffering, human health costs, economic and ecological subsidies. None of these bona fide costs is included in the price one pays for a hamburger (or other meats eaten by consumers for that matter).
- Videos and Photos of the Odessan Massacre
Why It Was Done
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
For the first time in history, an organized massacre of civilians has been filmed by many people from many different angles and perspectives while it was happening, and is documented in extraordinary detail in “real time,” the perpetrators having no fear of any negative consequences from their endeavor, and even cheering and celebrating the tortures and deaths as they were being imposed upon the helpless victims. The perpetrators were unconcerned, because what they were doing was what the government (which the U.S. had imposed upon their country and which U.S. taxpayers had spent more than 5 billion dollars to bring about there) had wanted them to do, and had helped to organize them to carry out. These people were just having fun, like a party to them, nothing really serious at all.
- The Birth of a National Anti-Nuclear Movement
A Chapter from the Oral History of How the No Nukes Movement (1973-1982) Saved the United States and Maybe the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
“The year 1973 was the worst year for nuclear power,” Bill McGee, a retired nuclear industry spokesman, told us when he agreed to be interviewed for this book. “It’s just astonishing when you look back on it. When we built the Yankee Atomic plant in Rowe, Massachusetts, in 1960, everybody thought it was a great idea. It was there because Senator Jack Kennedy said, ‘Please build it here.’ Presidents, senators, congressmen, local people—all thought it was great. And we built six other plants. New England had, prior to 1972, seven plants making one third of the electricity in New England. And everybody thought it was a great idea. What happened?”
- The Great Spreadsheet Blunder
Reinhart and Rogoff: One Year Later
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It has been a bit more than a year since the Excel Spreadsheet error that shook the world. For those who may have missed it, in April of 2013, Thomas Herndon, a University of Massachusetts graduate student in economics, found an error in the calculations of Harvard Professors Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff on the relationship between government debt and economic growth.
- National Road Safety Week: Put the Odds on Your Side
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This National Road Safety Week, May 13 - 19, 2014, the Canada Safety Council is aiming to raise awareness that vulnerable road users make up a disproportionate amount of traffic collisions and deaths, most of which are entirely avoidable.
- The Politics of Food and Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The global food crisis is tightly connected to global poverty, climate change, ecological destruction, migrant workers, imperialism, health and the super-exploitation of workers.
- Semaine nationale de la securite sur la route : Mettez toutes les chances de votre
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
à l'occasion de la Semaine nationale de la sécurité sur la route, qui se déroulera cette année du 13 au 19 mai, le Conseil canadien de la sécurité cherche à sensibiliser la population au fait qu'un nombre disproportionné de collisions et de
- Canadian Women Voice Concern: Imminent Threat of War
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is gravely concerned about a growing threat of a war between NATO and Russia both of which are powerfully armed with nuclear weapons. We have deep concern for the Ukrainian people who are suffering and dying
- Canadian group not dealing with major free expression issue
Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We need to address how corporate-owned mainstream news organizations restrict the freedom of journalists and prevent the public from having access to a wide variety of important news and opinion articles. This lack of balanced information affects everything from people having the information they need to decide how to vote to all of us better understanding how power is exercised in our communities. The censorship consists of banning some topics and discussions and filtering out stories and ideas that do not fit the current mainstream media agenda.
- 2013-14 Review of Free Expression in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Evaluates people, policies and institutions that help and hinder freedom of expression. The 2013-14 Review of Free Expression in Canada contains feature articles about some of the most pressing areas of free expression, such as access to information, digital surveillance, and the failure to protectwhistleblowers. Also: a Report Card and Cross-Canada Reports.
- Anarchism in the Rear-view Mirror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is not an attack on the militancy of our libertarian comrades. This text is an attempt to clarify our practices to avoid repeating the historical mistakes of the labor movement, addresses the comrades who are beginning to make a synthesis between Marxism and anarchism.
- Badass Teachers Unite!
Reflections on Education, History, and Youth Activism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Mark Naison exposes how dominant education Reform policies destabalize low income communities.
- The Education Deform Fraud
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Book Review of "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools" By Diane Ravitch.
- A Fossil Fuel Exit Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ekeland analyzes climate activist Hansen's climate change exit strategy and why it has not been supported or pursued by political and environmental groups.
- A Fossil Fuel Exit Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A complete transition away from fossil fuels is necessary within a few decades. The question is how to construct an exit strategy that will accomplish this. James Hansen has provided a starting point for a realistic climate-change exit strategy.
- Freedom Schools: The Curriculum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Oppenheimer analyzes the curriculum taught in the 1964 Freedom Schools, which were designed to help Black students understand oppressive American social structures in and to think about them critically.
- Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Oppenheimer provides a historical overview of the events leading up to and surrounding the 1964 Freedom Summer, when organizers worked to register Black voters in segregationist Deep South in the United States.
- Freedom Summer Remembered
Interview with Walter Kaufmann
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Finkel interviews retired community college teacher Walter Kaufmann about his experiences in the Freedom Summer project and teaching in the Freedom Schools.
- "Greater Israel" in Real Life
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Book Review of "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel" by Max Blumenthal.
- In the Wake of Carnage
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Book review of "Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru" by Kimberly Theidon.
- Kerry's Propaganda War on Russia's RT
When specialists insist that war with Russia is "not unthinkable" precipitated by events in Ukraine, one should take note
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Secretary of State Kerry, who has bumbled through a string of propaganda fiascos on Ukraine, decries Russia's RT network as a "propaganda bullhorn" that Americans should ignore - just trust what the U.S. government tells you, an idea that ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern rejects.
- Lean & Mean Health Care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Chern examines the Affordable Care Act from the perspective of being an industry and how this will regulate, standardize, and consolidate the healthcare system.
- The Maypole's Revolutionary Heritage
Time to Replant Trees of Liberty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- The Minimum Wage Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In a discussion of the debate over the minimum wage increase in the United States, Miah advocates for a socialist mentality and a focus on individual rights in order to provide an economic solution to the decline of the middle class caused by capitalisim.
- Notes on the Current Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The editors debate the subjectivity of international law as the United States publically denounces Russia's seizure of Crimea yet condones Israel's occupation of Palestine and treatment of its people.
- Nothing Left
The long, slow surrender of American liberals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On the gradual decline of the U.S. liberal-left party and its principles.
- Reinterpreting the Cotton Kingdom
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Book review of Walter Johnson's "River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom."
- Reintroducing Sarah Wright
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Karageorgos places Wright's novel "This Child's Gonna Live" about the experience of Black women's triple oppression within a historical context to analyze her critique of Black nationalism.
- Remembering Mississippi, 1964-65
Interview with Claudia Morcom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Feeley and Finkel interview Morcom about her work in Mississippi during Freedom Summer 1964 and subsequently from September 1964 through October 1965, as Southern Regional Director for the National Lawyers Guild's program of legal assistance for civil rights workers.
- Revolutionaries in the a Time of Retreat
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Book review of "Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922" edited and translated by John Riddell.
- Steady Hands for Freedom
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Book Review of "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC" by Faith S. Holsaert, et. al
- Transit Irony: The More You Rely on It, the More They Cut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Transit ridership is at its highest since 1956, with 10.7 billion trips in 2013, according to the American Public Transportation Association. This is despite widespread cuts to bus and rail service -- and rising fares. The 2008 economic crisis started the pinch, but federal and local officials have continued to squeeze.
- Transit Irony: The More You Rely on It, the More They Cut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Winslow discusses the transit situation in Pittsburgh, where officials are implementing a series of budget cuts and fare hikes without improving service to the large number of riders who depend on the service.
- The University & the Security State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Gasser examines the implicit political agendas behind the offers of funding given to American universities by the Department of Homeland Security to research the "cognitive science of terrorisim."
- Update on Detroit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Feeley provides an update on the economic situation in Detroit as the city declares bankruptcy and is suffering from foreclosures, evictions, pension and funding cuts.
- A Witness to Destroying Schools
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Book Review of "Schoolhouse Shams: Myths and Misinformation in School Reform" by Peter Downs.
- Another Successful American Propaganda Effort
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
American political figures like to talk about "American Democracy". The truth is, there is no "American Democracy", it is something that our rulers like to foist upon the World stage much like parents like to tell their children about Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny. It's fiction made in order to keep their "children" in line.
- Building people power in Toronto: Next Steps
A discussion document on strategy for advancing the organization of people's struggles in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
BASICS was launched in 2006 to serve the immediate purpose of building a fight against gentrification in Lawrence Heights. As our paper’s readership grew in this and other communities, our membership did as well, ultimately extending our organization’s coverage and connection to many more issues facing the most exploited, precarious, and brutalized sections of the working class in Toronto.
- First Nations' anti-Keystone XL alliance years in making
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Indigenous organizers say Reject and Protect gathering in DC marked the culmination of years spent building solidarity across nations and across borders, and that more will be on the way.
- Glyphosate is a disaster for human health
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Extensive, long running evidence for the cancer-causing effects of glyphosate, and other toxic impacts, have been ignored by regulators. Indeed as the evidence has built up, permitted levels in food have been hugely increased.
- Attacks Against Palestinian Journalists Must End, says IFJ
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the Israeli government to identify and punish the Israeli soldiers who carried out a brutal attack on a journalist in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh on Sunday 27 April, 2014.
- Defending The Defensible: Jewish And Palestinian Boycotts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Oh dear, poor Israel. Poor Israel - the world's 4th largest nuclear military power. Poor Israel - the serial war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of aggression violator. Poor barbaric Israel is being picked on by the non-violent Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which champions, out of simple human decency, Palestinian inalienable rights under international law.
- EFF Urges Appeals Court to Reconsider Dangerous Copyright Ruling
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to order Google to take down the controversial "Innocence of Muslims" video while a copyright lawsuit is pending.
- FCC Wants to Give Corporations Their Own Internet
The New Proposal Mocks Net Neutrality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When a federal court trashed its “net neutrality” compromise policy in January, the Federal Communications Commission assured us that the Internet we knew and depended on was safe. Most activists didn’t believe federal officials and this past week the FCC demonstrated how realistic our cynicism was.
- Healing the Dark Legacy of Native American Families
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) - educational issues among indigenous families.
- Holding The Silent Killers Of Environmental Destruction Accountable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The findings of the most recent IPCC report are sobering. We have 15 years to mitigate climate disaster. It is up to us to make a major transition to a carbon-free, nuclear-free energy economy within that timeframe. Big Energy and our plutocratic government are not going to do it without effective pressure from a people-powered movement.
- Judicial persecution of Bahraini news providers continues
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the five-year jail sentences that a court passed today on the photographer Hussain Hubail and the cyber-activist Jassim Al-Nuaimi. Seven other activists received similar sentences.
- The Morality Police in Your Checking Account: Chase Bank Shuts Down Accounts of Adult Entertainers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the latest example of a troubling trend in which companies play the role of law enforcement and moral police, Chase Bank has shut down the personal bank accounts of hundreds of adult entertainers.
- New Crackdown on Media is Step Towards Authoritarism in Ethiopia, Says IFJ
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the appalling treatment of media by authorities in Ethiopia after a number of journalists and media workers were detained in the country last week.
- Nine news providers arrested on charge of inciting violence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the arrests of a total of nine journalists and bloggers at the end of last week on a charge of inciting violence.
- Reporters Without Borders and Torservers.net, partners against online surveillance and censorship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders and Torservers.net have joined forces to create and maintain 250 additional relays for the Tor network.
- Trade in Ecosystem Services. When payment for environmental services delivers a permit to destroy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The payment and trade of ‘environmental services’ is a trend promoted by the financial sector, the multilateral banks, conservationist organizations, governments and other institutions under the false argument that calculating the monetary value (or price) of natural functions like water purification, storage of carbon in vegetation and soils, the scenic beauty or biological diversity of a place will somehow help conserve Nature. This new advance of capital seeks to make visible for financial markets new aspects of Nature not yet dominated by capital. This publication looks at the concept of ‘Payment for Environmental Services’ in its current cloths; examines some of the claims made by those who argue that putting a price on Nature is the only way to save Nature; shows who some of the actors are, and what motivates their interest
- Win Tin's fight for press freedom and democracy goes on
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened to learn of the death of the dissident journalist Win Tin in Rangoon. Burma has lost one of its staunchest defenders of democracy and freedom of information.
- Glyphosate found in breast milk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A pilot study of American mothers' milk has found levels of the herbicide glyphosate around 1,000 times higher than allowed in European drinking water. Campaigners are demanding a ban on the use of glyphosate on food crops.
- Keystone Cops
TransCanada Cultivates Close Ties With Nebraska Police Agencies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Since August 2011, the Nebraska Information Analysis Center (NIAC) – one of more than 70 Department of Homeland Security “fusion centers” – and TransCanada Corporation, the company behind the Keystone XL Pipeline, have shared information about anti-pipeline protesters, Nebraska landowners, and opposition to the project.
- The Only People Making Money Off the Seal Hunt Are Anti-Sealing Campaigners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Audla presents the perspective of Inuit communities who depend on the seal hunt.
- US Military Globalization
Interlocking Spheres of Influence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Americans are implicated in deceit and denial, purchasing their comforts and self-righteousness at the expense of the collective human privation their military and paramilitary forces, their CIA operatives and private contractors, their support of repressive regimes and death squads have brought to much of the world’s population.
- The Working-Class Mini-Revolts of the Twenty-First Century
Low-Level Insurgencies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The start of the twenty-first century has seen a continuing decline in union membership and strikes. But it has also seen the emergence of unpredicted mini-revolts.
- Corporate Canada pays low taxes but contributes in 'lots of other ways'
Canada's corporate tax rate has been repeatedly cut for more than a decade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Canadians for Tax Fairness did an analysis of the top 60 companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and found only four companies paid the full corporate rate. More than half paid less than 10 per cent, and 13 firms paid less than five per cent. Corporate shills claim that's OK because they contribute in 'other ways.'
- Without Intellectual Property Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As the saying goes, though: when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. For the World Intellectual Property Organization, it may seem like creativity and "intellectual property" are inextricably linked. That's not the case. In the spirit of adding to the conversation, we'd like to honor all the creativity and industry that is happening without a dependence on a system intellectual property.
- Campus Activism Against NSA Spying is Growing Fast
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
EFF has been on the road, traveling to cities and towns across the country to bring our message of digital rights and reform to community and student groups. And while we had the tremendous opportunity to talk about our work and our two lawsuits against the NSA, the best part of the trip was learning about all of the inspiring and transformative activism happening everyday on the local level to combat government surveillance and defend our digital rights.
- The Dirty Hand of the National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela
Agents of Destabilization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Anti-government protests in Venezuela that seek regime change have been led by several individuals and organizations with close ties to the US government. The National Endowment for Democracy “NED” and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have channeled multi-million dollar funding to Lopez’s political parties Primero Justicia and Voluntad Popular, and Machado’s NGO Sumate and her electoral campaigns.
- Ethiopia's seed banks - under threat from G8 plan to 'develop' Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ethiopia leads the way in preserving crop seeds by engaging farming communities in the effort, and making the exchange of seeds part of village life and culture, reports Claire Provost. But now it's all at risk from a G8 plan to open Africa to corporate agriculture.
- Forty years after the portuguese Carnation Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On the eve of April 25, 1974, Portuguese society was smouldering from contradictions accumulated in half a century of dictatorship. At the heart of these contradictions was a war that lasted thirteen years, to hold on to the African colonies of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe. This conflict conditioned the whole of national life, because of the social suffering caused by the mobilization of two hundred thousand men, a tenth of the working population (a human cost equivalent to twice that of Vietnam), because of the wave of migration driven by hunger and the war, and because of the impossibility of a military solution, the only one contemplated by the regime.
- Israel's War on African Refugees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Isral implements public policies that support a racist agenda. In the past twenty-four months, the country has deported thousands of non-Jewish Africans and the Netanyahu government has declared that it will not rest until the remaining 50,000 are expelled.
- The Politics of Pachamama
Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
While many economies and citizens have benefitted from the state’s larger involvement in the extraction of these resources, extractivism under progressive governments, as it had under neoliberalism, still displaces rural communities, poisons water sources, kills the soil, and undermines indigenous territorial autonomy.
- Rage, Race and Violence on the Western Range
The Origins of the Rancher Insurrection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ranchers have openly defied federal environmental regulations, built private roads and water structures on public lands and used bellicose tactics to hold off enforcement actions by rangers from the Forest Service and the BLM.
- A Response to Lawrence and Wishart
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Lawrence & Wishart, who hold the copyright for the Marx Engels Collected Works, have directed Marxists Internet Archive to delete all texts originating from MECW.
- When Joan Baez Listened
Do Try This at Home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I have a bat in my belfry about reaching out to people who dislike us and with whom we disagree but without whom no serious “grass roots movement” is possible. That is, by talking to anti-choice zealots, Obamacare haters, Tea Party crazies, racists etc. The notion of our crossing over the ideological abyss seems odious to a lot of people I know who see The Other Side as a bunch of RedNeck Ignorant Morons. That rigid mindset will get us far, yes? On the other hand there’s the “Joan Baez tactic”.
- Young Iraqis hope the Written Word can Reinvigorate a New Generation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An informal lending library uses literary heritage to remind young Baghdadis they don't need to emigrate to escape daily travails.
- Old Wine, Broken Bottle
Ari Shavit's Promised Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
My Promised Land by Haaretz journalist Ari Shavit has been one of the most widely discussed and lavishly praised books about Israel in recent years. It has garnered encomiums from a broad spectrum of influential voices, including Thomas Friedman, David Remnick, Jonathan Freedland, Jeffrey Goldberg, Franklin Foer, and Dwight Garner. Were he not already inured to the logrolling that passes for informed opinion on this topic, Norman Finkelstein might have been surprised, astonished even. That’s because, as he reveals with typical precision, My Promised Land is riddled with omission, distortion, falsehood, and sheer nonsense.
- 5,000KM Unicycle Ride for Climate Action Passes 2-Week, 500km Milestone
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Unicycle Ride for Climate Action Approaches Paulson Summit, Castlegar BC
- Sounding the alarm on environmental issues comes at a steep price
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On 20 April 2014 Human Rights Watch issued an urgent call for information on the whereabouts of Thai activist Por Cha Lee Rakchongcharoen, known as "Billy". The prominent ethnic Karen activist has been involved in a lawsuit with authorities over land use at a national park in Thailand. Locals have faced intimidation from park officials, and an activist connected to Billy's network was killed in 2011 after helping Karen villagers report on alleged abuses, illegal logging, and poaching committed by park officials.
- What do You Stand For?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Carol Faull will be addressing the Women's Leadership Forum on the importance of knowing and aligning with your organization's core values.
- In the US: Imagining Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Book review. This welcome book, Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA, is an important and unique attempt to bridge that gap between the obvious and mass apathy. As an argument for socialism, presented from multiple angles in short essays by some thirty contributors, it is persuasive, passionate, and at times eloquent.
- Brazil Puts the Arts in the Pockets of the Poor with New Cultural Coupon Scheme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The government hopes $20 Vale Cultura voucher will encourage poorest Brazilians to sample wider range of cultural pursuits.
- Use the entire spectrum to watch and listen, not just the part you're used to
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
You have to get out of your normal means of seeing and hearing in order to become aware of the wider world around you.
- Biggest Strike In China's History Enters 6th Day: Police Arrested Organizers, Workers Battle SWAT Troops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The largest strike in China's history has entered the sixth day, defying state attempts to repress workers struggling against economic and social injustice. Police arrested several organizers of the strikers at the Yue Yuen factory, which produces shoes for Nike and Adidas.
- Journalistic Autonomy in Denmark. A Study
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A new study that looks at the subject of autonomy in the Danish media found that journalists in Denmark feel they have nearly complete freedom to make important choices concerning their work and the content they produce.
- After Occupy: Economic Democracy for the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A comparison between social democracy and economic democracy in terms of both social justice and economic efficiency. Malleson examines the main institutions of the economy -- workplaces, the market, and financial and investment industry -- looking at democratic possibilities in each.
- How to build a complex, controversial interactive graphic - in six different languages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Deforestation of Central America Rises as Mexico's War on Drugs Moves South
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Swaths of Central American rainforest are affected by 'narco-deforestation', caused by landing strips and roads built by and for drug traffickers.
- EU External Freedom of Expression Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
WikiLeaks released the second draft of EU Human Rights Guidelines on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Online and Offline. Article explains, and identifies problems.
- Investment Funds Industry Welcomes Canada's Financial Literacy Leader
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) released a statement today on behalf of its members, welcoming the appointment of Canada's first financial literacy leader.
- Understand the Israeli – Palestinian Apartheid In 11 Images
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
All the graphics are from the site Visualizing Palestine, a site dedicated to creating informative and impactful graphics about the troubled region.
- How Sleeping Swifts Keep To Their Course At 10,000 Ft
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Swifts routinely fly to 10,000 ft at night-time, around 4,000 ft higher than previously thought. Swifts are also able to navigate through different wind speeds while sleeping, automatically adjusting their flight to stay on a specific course.
- IFJ Convenes International conference on Media, Armed Conflict and Hate Speech
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is organising a conference on media, armed conflict and hate speech on 25 April 2014 in Brussels.
- Filthy, deadly mayhem in India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Along with the choking fumes and piles of putrid waste, sound systems and a constant bombardment of honking horns from cars, lorries and screaming buses assault residents and the unprepared in towns and cities throughout India.
- A New Language is the Number One Imperative for a New Left Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Socialists “use words few people know to make arguments few people understand to fight for causes few people recognise on people who don’t care.”
- BP oil spill: Concerns for long-term health of workers 4 years later
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
33,000 involved in study examining oil spill related health effects.
- Ukraine: Lies and Realities
Will the Government Listen?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two beautiful Slavic sisters, Ukraine and Russia, pitched against each other: long hair flying in the wind, gray-blue eyes staring forward accusatively, but in the same time with anticipation and love
- Vision decisions: continuity fields, and why we miss subtle visual changes
MIT neuroscientist's research suggests how we see is a function of the brain's attempt to manage the world's visual chaos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
What you are seeing at the present moment is not a fresh snapshot of the world but rather an average of what you've seen in the past 10 to 15 seconds.
- We’re A’ Jock Tamson's Bairns*
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A nation is not a natural community that existed before the state, but that it's the other way round: the state existed first and then proceeded to impose on those it ruled over the idea that they formed a “nation”.
- Why US Fracking Companies Are Licking Their Lips Over Ukraine
From climate change to Crimea, the natural gas industry is supreme at exploiting crisis for private gain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The way to beat Vladimir Putin is to flood the European market with fracked-in-the-USA natural gas, or so the industry would have us believe.
- Canadian Franchise Association Announces 2014 Franchisees' Choice Designees
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Winners announced during gala awards presentation dinner at the 23rd annual CFA National Convention in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
- Commercialisation: The Antithesis Of Sharing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Sharing is the key to solving the world’s problems’. Such a statement is so simple that it may fail to make an appeal, so we must go much deeper into this subject if we want to comprehend what this means.
- Drone
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This documentary covers diverse and integral ground from the recruitment of young pilots at gaming conventions and the re-definition of "going to war", to the moral stance of engineers behind the technology, the world leaders giving the secret "green light" to engage in the biggest targeted killing program in history, and the people willing to stand up against the violations of civil liberties and fight for transparency, accountability and justice.
- Follow the Money, Part 2 - Barrick Gold's Peter Munk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Fraser Institute awarded Barrick Gold chairman Peter Munk its T.P. Boyle Founder's Award at a gala dinner in Toronto in 2010. This is the think tank's most prestigious award, which it gave to Munk "in recognition of his unwavering commitment to free and open markets around the globe and his support for enhancing and encouraging democratic values and the importance of responsible citizenship." Equating "free and open markets" with "democratic values" is a long-standing neoliberal marketing mantra.
- Libertaria: A Libertarian Paradise
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Most people have never heard of Libertaria (not to be confused with Liberia), so let discover a little bit about this most interesting nation. It is a veritable libertarian paradise. With a population of fifty million people and plentiful natural resources, Libertaria is truly blessed.
- Little Kickers Wins Grand Prize in 2014 Canadian Franchise Association Awards of Excellence in Franchising
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Prestigious award presented during gala awards presentation dinner at the 23rd annual CFA National Convention in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
- Warrant Canary Frequently Asked Questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A warrant canary is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that a service provider has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received. The following are some frequently asked questions about warrant canary.
- What the Tamiflu Saga tells us about Drug Trials and Big Pharma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We now know the government's Tamiflu stockpile wouldn't have done us much good in the event of a flu epidemic. But the secrecy surrounding clinical trials means there's a lot we don't know about other medicines we take, says Ben Goldacre.
- BRICS [Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa] and the tendency to sub-imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Despite their anti-imperialist potential, BRICS states have promoted neo-liberal and imperialist practices that facilitate capital accumulation, resource extraction and expansion of their markets. But growing popular unrest against exploitation, ecological destruction and neoliberalism in the BRICS countries may lead to a different, anti-imperialist, course.
- CIA used Doctor Zhivago as a Literary Weapon during the Cold War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Newly declassified documents reveal the CIA published Boris Pasternak's Nobel-winning novel to sow unrest among Soviets.
- The Cochabamba Water War of 2000 in 2014
Today's Betrayers Will Not Erase Our Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Today's betrayers will not erase our memory: Fourteen years ago we won, today it seems like we lost, but we have to rise again to win, and we already know how to do it. From April 4 to 14 in the year 2000 the so-called "Final Battle" was waged in Cochabamba, Bolivia to prevent the privatization of our water. It was part of a strategy designed by the people of Cochabamba in the "Water War" that started on November 12, 1999. Today, after fourteen years of this historic struggle, the people's demands are still the same: democracy, transparency, participation and an economic model that allows us all to enjoy the riches that our Mother Earth generously provides for the benefit of all.
- Conforming, Not Transforming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Brendan Eich, CEO of Mozilla Corporation, the technology company that, among other things, is responsible for the Firefox browser, resigned after it was revealed that in 2008 he had given a $1000 donation to Proposition 8, the Californian campaign against gay marriage.
- Kitimat mayor flash mobbed by 'No Enbridge' protesters at Haisla basketball game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In an increasingly explosive political climate in the Kitimat area over a controversial vote on the Northern Gateway pipeline, the Mayor of Kitimat was flash mobbed by a group of mostly First Nations people, donning "No Enbridge" shirts at a Haisla girls basketball championship on Sunday.
- Largest Urban Cable Car Soars Over 'Desperate' Commuters of La Paz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The La Paz region's new cable car system will transform the lives of commuters between La Paz, Bolivia and the mountaintop of El Alto, who currently have to zigzag up the slope in horrible traffic. But will everyone be able to afford it?
- The New Struggle for Public Transit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In an argument against privatization of Toronto's transit system, Rosenfeld draws on Booth's examination of the ongoing situation in London since the city had turned over responsibility of planning, operating, and budgeting transit to private companies and have since suffered from economic decline and inefficiency.
- Voter Suppression in Canada
Harper's (Un)Fair Elections Act Could Spark Voter Surge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Harper government seems intent on proving to its detractors that things can always get worse. They’ve one-upped themselves with the farce called the Fair Elections Act.
- CIA Torture Architect Breaks Silence to Defend 'Enhanced Interrogation'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The psychologist regarded as the architect of the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” program has broken a seven-year silence to defend the use of torture techniques against al-Qaida terror suspects in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
- Failed Cuban "Twitter" Project Designed By U.S. Government Contractors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
ZunZuneo - a now defunct social media platform similar to Twitter – was designed to undermine the Cuban government by two private contractors: Creative Associates International (CAI) from Washington DC and Mobile Accord, a Denver based company.
- Fill the gap: Ontario should insure injured migrant workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We want to sound the alarm over the unjust federal and provincial immigration and health policies that are based on the exploitation of human labour and xenophobia. Migrants increasingly enter Canada to work under temporary foreign worker programs through which they are denied equitable access to services while still being required to pay taxes.
- A Philosophy of Walking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B - the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble - and reveals what they say about us.
- Why the Vikings Were Feared
Nazis of the North
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Journalism is said to be the first draft of history, but it is often disappointing to find that the second or third drafts, by historians, move little further in establishing the truth about what happened.
- The Workers United Are Not Always Defeated
We Should All Learn From It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Working people around the world are in worse straits than they have been for decades. Unemployment is rampant and real wages are stagnant.
- The Anti-Empire Report #127
Indoctrinating a new generation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Is there anyone out there who still believes that Barack Obama, when he’s speaking about American foreign policy, is capable of being anything like an honest man?
- Call Climate Change What It Is: Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Social unrest and famine, superstorms and droughts. Places, species and human beings – none will be spared. Welcome to Occupy Earth.
- China: Mass protests challenge polluters
Resistance to rapid industrialization by poisonous industries led to pitched battles between residents and police in many cities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In spite of a media blackout, protests in the Chinese city of Maoming against a PX (paraxylene) plant have proceeded for the past week. In March 2014 a thousand citizens took to the streets in protest, followed a few days later by 20,000 occupying the area around the government building.
- Ethiopia's 'slow genocide' in the Omo Valley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A 'slow genocide' is unfolding in Ethiopia - one driven by greed rather than hatred.
- Metadata Is More Intrusive Than Direct Listening Of Phone Calls Says Snowden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Government monitoring of “metadata” is more intrusive than directly listening to phone calls or reading emails.
- An Ode To Seasons For Peter Matthiessen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When human survival is continuously being threatened by varieties of anthropogenic injuries (ecological, economic, social), our capacity to think about the non-human animal become very limited indeed. Nevertheless, it is our ethical obligation to also consider their survival as well.
- Striking a Blow for Disarmament in Maine Shipyard
Fury Punches Out Early
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have protested America’s bloated, out-of-control military, and millions more are outraged that the US spends upwards of $1 trillion a year on war and preparing for war.
- Frame of Reference and Journalistic Integrity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A criticism of the article, "Journalism and the Illusion of Objectivity" by Michael Holtzman, challenging Holtzman's claims on the nature of objectivity and bias in reporting.
- Alberta - tar sands emissions linked to health damage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A report by Alberta's energy regulator links emissions from tar sands oil production with serious health impacts that have forced families to flee their homes in the Peace River region.
- France Remains Faithful to Food as Meals Continue to be a Collective Affair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In France, life is dominated by three shared meals, and it's taboo to break the ritual, writes Anne Chemin.
- In refuge on Refugee Rights Day: The Awan family story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On a day where we remember migrant and refugee struggles for freedom, dignity and security and recommit to fighting ongoing injustice, we highlight the struggle of the Awan family.
- A Marxist view of ecology and human history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review on Martin Empson's "Land & Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History."
- Mass Incarceration and Capitalism
The Violence of Economic Exploitation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On the intersections of race, class, capitalism, and social repression via mass incarceration in the United States.
- 30 Days For Freedom
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
30 Days for Freedom highlights the plight of jailed journalists worldwide by focusing on 30 individuals currently imprisoned because of their work.
- Toronto's Annex Chess Club welcomes Spring with new tournament
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Annex Chess Club in Toronto kicks off a new chess tournament on April 7, called the Welcome Spring Swiss. Over 50 Toronto chess players are expected for the event, which runs at a pace of one game per week for five weeks. Rounds take place on Mondays
- Ukraine, a Fascist Coup?
A Photo Essay
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The 2014 Ukraine coup and aftermath, in photos.
- Would Saul Alinsky Break His Own Rules?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the wake of Occupy, some community organizers are interested in questioning the old divide between "movements" and "organizations" — and in harnessing the power of both. On the life and evolving legacy of the late Saul Alinsky, founding father of modern community organizing in the United States.
- The Blue Engine Behind Fracked Gas Exports PR Blitz
"Our Energy Moment"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Behind nearly every major corporate policy push there’s an accompanying well-coordinated public relations and propaganda campaign. As it turns out, the oil and gas industry’s push to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) plays the same game, in this case via the industry-led PR blitz "Our Energy Moment".
- The KKK and Other Grassroots Movements
Venezuela isn't as divided as its right-wing opposition would have you believe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A sign of a real revolution is its knack for conjuring a counter-revolution. To the extent that the Bolivarian Revolution has problems, the solution to them won’t come from chats with those looking to overthrow it, but rather the organization of workers trying to fulfill its potential. There can be no neutral ground between those two positions.
- NO SOCIAL JUSTICE WITHOUT FREE SPEECH
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Fredrik deBoer, who teaches at Purdue University in Indiana, recently wrote a passionate polemic about the way that what he calls the ‘social justice left’ has abandoned the struggle for free speech, and indeed take up the struggle for censorship.
- Razor Wire, Prison Cells, And Black Panther Robert H. King's Life of Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An interview with filmmaker Ron Harpelle.
- UK 'aid' is financing a corporate scramble for Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The corporate power-grab will be disastrous for the small-scale farmers who feed at least 70% of Africa's people.
- The problem of the one-day strike: a response to Sean Vernell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An overview of the wave of strikes that took place over the issue of pensions across public sector trade unions between March 2011 and June 2012.
- The Struggle of the 'Mill Girls'
Class Consciousness in Early 19th Century New England
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This article traces the development of class consciousness of and the antagonism between capitalists and the Lowell and Lawrence "Mill Girls" in the earlier half of the 19th Century in New England.
- What’s wrong with privilege theory?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This article takes a critical look at some of the theories of privilege and concepts of intersectionality (the interaction of multiple oppressions) that increasingly dominate battles for liberation. These ideas are not new, but have grown in influence in recent years.
- Badass Teachers Unite! Reflections on Education, History, and Youth Activism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Collection of essays on education and youth activism draws from Naison's research on Bronx History and his experiences defending teachers and students from school reform policies which undermine their power and creativity. Naison's focus is identifying teaching and organizing strategies that have worked effectively in New York, and could be implemented in impoverished communities elsewhere.
- A Bigger Prize
How We Can Do Better Than the Competition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The competitive nature of everyday life has damaged our ability to work together. Heffernan outlines why and how it doesn't have to be that way.
- The Fall of the House of Dixie
The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
History of the lasting impact of the Civil War on America. Originally undertaken to preserve the status quo, it turned into a second American Revolution that upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South.
- The Fall of the House of Dixie
The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Story of how the American Civil War upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended.
- 40 years ago: the grandeur and the limits of the Portuguese Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Portuguese Revolution plunged its roots in the crisis of the Salazar regime. A fascist dictatorship based on a reactionary ideology which would serve as inspiration for the Vichy regime, the Estado novo (“New State”) presents original features in comparison with the fascist regimes of Mussolini and Hitler, features that help to explain both its longevity and its weakness at the moment of its crisis in the early 1970s.
- The New Face of the Radical Right?
Amerika's Would-be Pravy Sektor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Political Research Associates agreed that Anarchist Nationalism "could become the new face of the radical right" in the USA. Attempting to mix subcultural anarchist mores with a cross-cutting class analysis that hinges on racial separatism and ancestral traditions, such as tribalism, Anarchist Nationalism demonstrate a worrying tendency of reactionaries to co-opt radical language in attempts to gain control over large popular fronts.
- The Next New Left: A History of the Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Next New Left explores the challenge of activist renewal in the age of austerity. Over the past few decades, state policy-makers and employers have engaged in a massive process of neoliberal restructuring that has undermined the basis for social and labour movements. In this book, Alan Sears seeks to understand the social environment that made activist mobilization possible -- and was largely taken for granted -- during the twentieth century.
- Principles for Troublemakers
How to Fan the Flames
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The authors outline some trouble-making movement-building principles that should be the hallmarks of the labour movement.
- SOS Alternatives to Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An investigation of the alternatives to capitalism, including socialism, anarchism and deep ecology.
- The West's Looting of Ukraine Has Begun
Shackled by the IMF
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It is now apparent that the "Maidan protests" in Kiev were in actuality a Washington organized coup against the elected democratic government. The purpose of the coup is to put NATO military bases on Ukraine's border with Russia and to impose an IMF austerity program that serves as cover for Western financial interests to loot the country. The sincere idealistic protesters who took to the streets without being paid were the gullible dupes of the plot to destroy their country.
- Enduring Security
Volunteer Fire Departments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ralph Nader on the history, structure, and challenges faced by the United States' volunteer firefighters, who make up two-thirds of the nation's fire-fighting force.
- Intelligence is a comprehensive approach to analyzing and understanding the external business environment
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Business intelligence as it's currently conceived is focused primarily on analysis of internal data and information. In reality, though, intelligence should be focused on understanding the EXTERNAL environment in depth and in scope. The idea is to
- The Mill Hill, Natural Communism, And The Loray Mill Strikes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There are no less than six books on the Gastonia Loray Mill strike of 1929. There are scores of papers, hundreds of opinions and a common conception that although the strike itself was a failure, it led to better working conditions for many workers that followed.
- The Deceptive Use of the Phrase "Peaceful Protests" in Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Venezuelan opposition and much of the media use the term "peaceful protests" to distinguish gatherings of protesting students and other young people from the more violent actions.
- Dr. Miriam Garfinkle: Public Health Will Be Loser if Jets Win
Toronto Physician Highlights Negative Health Effects of Planned Island Airport Expansion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The serious health and safety impacts and risks arising from the continually expanding island airport are of paramount concern. The negative impacts of this scheme -- increased air pollution in an already highly polluted area, massively increased traffic and congestion in an already congested area, serious concerns about water quality, noise pollution, fuel transport and storage and the risk of planes taking off and landing within a few hundred metres of homes and schools are clear and unacceptable.
- The Faces of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Worker Movement
It's important to remember that every movement is larger than any one man.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Prior to the release of the film "Cesar Chavez: An American Hero" by director Diego Luna, this article takes a brief look at the American labour leader and civil rights activist who, along with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW). The story includes photographs from the Walter P. Reuther Library Photo Archive at Wayne State University.
- The Fleets That Throw Away More Fish Than They Land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Fishing vessels operating off the coasts of Florida and California and in the Gulf of Mexico routinely dump more fish overboard than they bring to shore, a report says.
- The Floods of Forgetfulness
A Brief History of Logging, Floods and Landslides
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In thousands of stories about the recent floods in the U.S. Northwest, only one mentioned any possible connection between logging and floods.
- Journalism’s Search for Metaphor and Meaning
Barking Dogs and Sinking Ships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Journalists often aren’t alert watchdogs, but limiting the profession to the role of a barking dog is a dead-end anyway.
- This is about systems – the food system, the capitalist system and the socialist system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is about systems – the food system, the capitalist system and the socialist system.
- Ukraine's IMF Deal
Heading Toward a Greece-like Depression?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On March 27, 2014, the IMF released the broad outlines of its terms and conditions for loans and other measures for the Ukrainian economy. What those terms and conditions mean is less a rescue of the Ukrainian economy than the onset of a Greece-like economic depression for the Ukrainian populace.
- Academic Freedom in Conflict
The Struggle Over Free Speech Rights in the University
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A look into the changing landscape of the academia, in which government, judges and major donors threaten academic freedom.
- Follow the Money, Part 1 - The Weston Family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
You've seen him in television ads hyping President's Choice dessert ideas, naming fake supermarkets after enthusiastic customers, sitting down with moms around the kitchen table and talking to President's Choice farmers on their hormone-free farms.
- How "Extreme Levels" of Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm
Roundup Contamination of GMO Soybeans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Surprisingly, almost no data exist in the scientific literature on herbicide residues in herbicide tolerant genetically modified (GM) plants, even after nearly 20 years on the market. The authors' research, however, demonstrates that roundup Ready GM-soy accumulates herbicide ingredient residues and also differs markedly in nutritional composition compared to soybeans from other agricultural practices, while organic soybean samples show a more healthy nutritional profile than both industrial conventional and GM soybeans.
- Whose problem?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Regarding interactions between the police and mentally ill.
- Why Does It Matter If Heidegger Was Anti-Semitic?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The publication of the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s “Schwarzen Hefte” (“Black Notebooks”), written between 1931 and the early nineteen-seventies, is likely to cause an uproar.
- NATO and Serbia, 15 Years On
The Bombs that Failed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As Ukraine’s situation accelerates with actions of sanctions, annexations, coups and counter-coups, it is worth noting how another compact was firstly dissolved and then subsequently tortured in the 1990s. The trends are similar – the moralising, the external interference, the bullying of powers extraneous yet obsessed with holding the levers of a disintegrating country. On NATO, the Yugoslavian Federation, and the Kosovo bombings.
- Water Apartheid in Palestine
A Crime Against Humanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ayman Rabi on the 2.1 million Palestinians who suffer an artificial water scarcity deliberately created and sustained by Israel’s military occupation and the private Israeli water company Mekorot.
- When Clearcuts Kill
Logging and Landslides
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn on the linkages between corporate logging and deadly landslides and the broader corporate mantra of privatizing profits and socializing the losses.
- BDS: Non-Violent Resistance to Israeli Occupation
Is Israel Running Scared?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An outline of the extent and support/opposition of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid, including a discussion of claims that the campaign is anti-Semitic.
- Democracy or Corporatocracy? The choice is ours.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Newly assertive citizens and consumers are putting the world's most feared and powerful corporations on the defensive. Now is the time to press home our advantage.
- How NGOs Failed Afghanistan
"They Killed Every Incentive to Farm"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On the failures, opportunities, and complications of international aid with a particular focus on Afghanistan. Includes a discussion of a successful canal-building effort in Lower Shabelle province, Somalia -- a project run not by NGOs but a local al-Qa'ida affiliate.
- Lettuce Picking and Left-Wing Organizing
A Bottom Up View of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Early reviews Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in The Fields of California by Bruce Neuburger, who spent much of the 1970s as a lettuce- and agricultural product picker during the heyday of the United Farm Workers (UFW).
- Slavery, Cotton and Imperialism
When Slave-Owners, Tied to a Globalized Economy, Turned to Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Whitney reviews River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson, on cotton production and slave ownership in the Mississippi River Valley prior to the U.S. Civil War.
- The Strategy of the Venezuelan Opposition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The strategy and tactics of the Venezuelan opposition is a replay of events that took place leading up to the coup against Hugo Chávez on April 11, 2002 and is similar (although in some ways quite different) from the script that has been used in the Ukraine and elsewhere.
- Build your command presence to maximize your ability to influence others positively
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
'Command presence' is a term that is used in the military to denote the degree of respect, admiration, and confidence that people have in a leader.
- Cross-Canada unicycle trip will promote Unity for the Climate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
5,000-km cross-Canada unicycle trip calls for political action on climate change and related issues.
- The Dependent Generation
Half Young European Adults Live with their Parents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Almost half of Europe's young adults are living with their parents, new data suggests – a record level of dependency that has sobering social and demographic implications for the continent.
- The Hate Preachers Fueling Sectarianism
Al Qaeda's Second Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On the public support systems, media presence, and propaganda of a second wave of fundamentalist jihadist organizations.
- Regime Change in Ukraine and the IMF's Bitter "Economic Medicine"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the days following the Ukraine coup d’Etat of February 23, 2014, leading to the ousting of a duly elected president, Wall Street and the IMF -- in liaison with the US Treasury and the European Commission in Brussels -- had already set the stage for the outright takeover of Ukraine's monetary system.
- War is Over - Now Serbs and Bosniaks Fight to Win Control of a Brutal History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Serb nationalists are striving to suppress reminders of atrocities committed in the name of separatism, mostly against the country's Muslims (known as Bosniaks) and to construct an alternative history in which Serbs were the principal victims. Many Bosniaks and outside observers fear that this refusal to come to terms with the past means there are few guarantees that such acts will not be repeated.
- Camus in the Time of Drones
The Long-Distance Executioners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
What would Albert Camus, the great moralist of the 20th century and essayist on the barbarity of the death penalty, think about the latest innovation in administrative murder, Obama’s drone program, a kind of remote-control gallows?
- Crimea, El Salvador & the Fight Against Public Participation
Policing "Irresponsibility"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On the Obama administration's disregard for democracy and public participation. Examples include the administration's silence on the coup against democratically-elected Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych and its threats to withhold development aid from El Salvador unless the winner of its presidential elections, the FMLN’s Sánchez Cerén, adopts right-wing economic and social policies.
- How Syria's Secular Uprising Was Hijacked by Jihadists
Al Qaeda's Second Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On Syria's descent into a sectarian civil war.
- On the Cowardice & Irrelevance of Social Science Scholars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The stakes are too high for scholars to continue down this path of irrelevance.
- A Step Toward Justice in the Long "War on Terror": Uruguay Offers to Welcome Guantanamo Detainees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Under the Presidency of José “Pepe” Mujica, Uruguay has made a number of international headlines in recent years for progressive moves such as legalizing same sex marriage, abortion and marijuana cultivation and trade, as well as withdrawing its troops from Haiti.
- Ukraine and Yugoslavia
When Will Americans Come to Their Senses?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Much of public opinion seems to accept the notion that the villain of the Russia-Ukraine story is the Russian president, who is accused of engaging in unprovoked aggression against Crimea – even though he was responding to one of the most blatant provocations in history. Johnstone outlines why this is not the case.
- Women and the Pakistani Left: Can the Awami Workers' Party imagine a new basis for struggle in the cause of women's liberation?
Can the Awami Workers' Party imagine a new and more concrete basis for struggle in the cause of women's liberation?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We condemn the co-option of the question of women’s emancipation by neo-liberal forces through the de-contextualized celebration of Women’s Day as another opportunity to further the neo-liberal development agenda.
- Women's Oppression and the Struggle for Liberation
A Marxist Analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Society's mores and culture-on questions of marriage, the family, the roles of men, women and children-are not preordained, but must be studied in their man-made historical context. Emancipation means putting an end to the economic system of capitalism. Thus, for Marxists, the liberation of women cannot be separated from the liberation of all the exploited and oppressed.
- Gay Propaganda
Russian Love Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Gay Propaganda brings together original stories, interviews and testimonial, presented in both English and Russian, to capture the lives and loves of LGBT Russians living both in Russia and in exile today. The book is a provocative riposte to Russia’s recently passed and ill-defined ban on "homosexual propaganda."
- IFIC Congratulates New Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada issued a statement today congratulating the Honourable Joe Oliver on his appointment as Canada's minister of finance.
- The South's Inner Civil War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The best kept secret in US history is the resistance of southerners, and especially southern non-slaveholding whites, to the slaveholders during the Civil War. W.E.B. Du Bois, in Black Reconstruction in America, told the story of black resistance.
- The U.S.’s Terrorism Double Standard
The Vicious Campaign Against Cuba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
During the last 50 years, the United States has suffered from a constant stream of vicious terrorist acts.
- AP Blasts "Russian Propaganda War" Over Ukraine
Herding the Media Sheep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Peter Leonard’s March 15 Associated Press report is entitled: “Russian propaganda war in full swing over Ukraine.” “This is Ukraine today,” he begins, “at least as seen by most Russian news media: the government is run by anti-Semitic fascists, people killed by opposition snipers and the west is behind it all.”
- The British Warrior Who 'Matured with Age'
A Kuffiya for Tony Benn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Long before the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment campaign inched slowly from the fringes of global solidarity with Palestinians to take center stage, Tony Benn had been advocating a boycott of Israel with unrestricted conviction, for years.
- Killing Trend - The Cruise Missile Liberals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
News that 2015 might turn out to be the first year since 1914 when British troops will not be fighting a war somewhere in the world appeared to come as a shock to many.
- Marxism and Feminism in the student movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The ideas of Feminism have traditionally found support in universities, and these ideas are currently enjoying a surge in popularity amongst students. At a time when the ideas of Marxism are also finding a growing echo in the student movement, what attitude do Marxists take towards different feminist ideas? How far are these schools of thought compatible? What are the points of contention between them? And what does it mean to call yourself a "Marxist-Feminist"?
- Nukes Now: Obama Worse Than Reagan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
President Obama released his fiscal 2015 budget March 4. Ready for this? It asks for considerably more money (in constant dollars) for nuclear weapons maintenance, design and production than Reagan spent in 1985, the historical peak of spending on nukes: $8.608 billion, not counting administrative costs.
- The Rise of Vermont's Fracked Gas Battle: Communities Organize Against Pipeline Plans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Nate and Jane Palmer's farm sits in a clay plain basin adjacent to one of the many wetlands in Monkton, a rural Vermont community known for, among other things, its annual salamander migrations and amphibian road crossings.
- Why US Journalists Have Blood on Their Hands
Turning Ukrainian Fascists into "Freedom Fighters"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Hey U.S. mass media journalists: A large number of you writing in outlets like CNN, Fox News, New York Times, and Washington Post have blood on your hands.
- Barrett Brown case: 11 of 12 counts dismissed
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders greets with relief federal prosecutors' decision to drop nearly all criminal charges against Barrett Brown, a contributor to The Guardian and Vanity Fair.
- Free Key Rights Defenders: Government Arbitrarily Holds Darwish, Colleagues Despite UN Demands
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The government of Syria should immediately and unconditionally release the arbitrarily detained human rights defender Mazen Darwish and his colleagues Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Ghareer, 55 human rights organizations said today.
- India's Rice Warrior Battles to Build Living Seed Bank as Climate Chaos Looms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Rice conservationist Debal Deb grapples with 'mindless Indian elite' to reintroduce genetically diverse, drought-tolerant varieties
- 'Stable' NE Greenland ice sheet is melting away
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A new study has found that the NE section of the Greenland ice sheet - thought to be stable due to the extreme cold - has been losing ice since 2006 with increasing speed. And that has huge implications for global sea level rise.
- Ukrainian putsch creates economic and political turmoil in Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The intensifying conflict between Russia and the West over the US-backed, far-right coup in Ukraine is creating economic and political turmoil within Russia. The economy faces growing pressures as the Kremlin attempts to rally popular support and suppress opposition in its confrontation with the West.
- US-EU sanctions against Russia: A barely veiled threat of war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In his speech on March 17, 2014 announcing sanctions against Kremlin officials in retaliation for the Russian-backed referendum in Crimea supporting secession from Ukraine and affiliation with Russia, US President Barack Obama made clear that the United States and its European Union (EU) allies would use all means necessary, not excluding military action, to humiliate and crush Russia.
- Why the War on Terror Went Wrong
Al Qaeda's Second Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Al-Qa’ida-type organisations, with beliefs and methods of operating similar to those who carried out the 9/11 attacks, have become a lethally powerful force from the Tigris to the Mediterranean in the past three years.
- The Forgotten Coup
How the Same Godfather Rules from Canberra to Kiev
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Washington’s role in the fascist putsch against an elected government in Ukraine will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore the historical record. Since 1945, dozens of governments, many of them democracies, have met a similar fate, usually with bloodshed.
- How Big Tobacco's lobbyists get what they want from the media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With cigarette packs on the agenda, the BBC must be asked why it lets thinktanks argue the tobacco companies' case without revealing who their paymasters are.
- Learn to 'specialize' in being a generalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There is a famous essay by philosopher Isaiah Berlin, The Fox and the Hedgehog. In it he distinguished between authors who are 'hedgehogs,' that is who see the world through one big idea, and 'foxes,' who tend to see things through multiple
- The Myths of 'Green Capitalism'
A system based on the accumulation of capital without restraint will require unsustainable growth, however cleverly we measure our ecologica
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Environmental politics in the U.S. appears hopelessly polarized. Liberals and progressives try to sustain and occasionally strengthen environmental legislation, while those on the right are unalterably opposed, even seeking to defund core institutions such as the EPA.
- CRUCIBLE: Neoliberalism in SEA: A Critical Turn in Philippine South
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Neoliberalism as a frame in understanding domestic issues.
- Curitiba: the Greenest city on Earth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Eco-savvy urban planners have been studying Brazil's seventh largest city for decades.
- Behind the Lies About Venezuela's Protests
John Kerry: the Belligerent Diplomat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
US Secretary of State John Kerry recently called on the Venezuelan government to end the "terror campaign against its own citizens."
- The Blossoming of Idle No More
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The First Nations-led movement Idle No More emerged in Canada in December 2012 to protest legislation that threatened both the rights of First Nations and environmental protections. The movement has since spread into the U.S. and beyond – and has become one of the central voices in the struggle for Indigenous and ecological justice.
- Canadian journalist and activist killed in Syria
Ali Mustafa, In Memoriam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I will never forget when I first met Ali Mustafa. It was September 2012, during my first year at York and just before I joined Students Against Israeli Apartheid (Ali was a former member), where he did a talk on his visit to Egypt.
- The FBI's Secret Meetings With TransCanada, Inc.
Guardians of the KXL Pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On April 4, 2012 the FBI held a daylong “strategy meeting” with TransCanada Corporation, the company building the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, according to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal through a Freedom of Information Act request.
- Hungary Law Requires Photographers to Ask Permission to Take Pictures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Civil code that outlaws taking pictures without permission of everyone in the photograph is 'vague and obstructive' say critics.
- RIP Tony Benn. Tireless and inspirational fighter for peace, justice and equality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The loss of Tony Benn is a loss for our whole movement. He was a good friend to the Stop the War Coalition, of which he remained president to the end. One of his last speeches was at the Stop the War international conference on 30 November 2013. He was a socialist, someone with a deep commitment to social change, who was principled to the end.
- Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
David Harvey examines the internal contradictions within the flow of capital that have precipitated recent crises. He contends that while the contradictions have made capitalism flexible and resilient, they also contain the seeds of systemic catastrophe.
- A Short History of Spam
Coming to an Inbox Near You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Objects can talk in cartoons and fairy tales: toys tell their stories. Now our domestic appliances have begun to speak, and they would like to sell us pills and porn, and for us to give them our bank details.
- Barrett Brown's Partial Victory: Crowd-Sourcing and Crowd Support
If They Drop These Charges, Why Aren't They Dropping All of Them?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Federal prosecutors last week dropped several of the most significant charges facing Internet activist and journalist Barrett Brown — charges that could have drawn a jail sentence of 105 years.
- Chile's Student Movement Leads the Way
Progressive Prospects for Michelle Bachelet's Second Term
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
“I want to pay special homage to my father and to all those who gave their lives in the fight to recover democracy,” an emotional Isabel Allende said upon taking office as the Senate President.
- Lakota vow: dead or in prison before we allow the KXL pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On February 2,7 2014 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement activists joined in a four-directions walk to commemorate Liberation Day, an event to mark the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. As they do each year, four groups gather to the north, south, east and west and then walk eight miles until converging on top of Wounded Knee, where they honour the fallen warriors and the tribe’s rich history of resistance.
- Recycling is not enough! Sharing is the way to achieve a circular economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Mariale Moreno discusses how can we reduce our ever increasing throughput of raw materials. She suggests lowering consumerism and making things last.
- WikiLeaks, Ukraine and NATO
A Relentless March to Russia's Doorstep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Is the Russian occupation of the Crimea a case of aggressive expansionism by Moscow or aimed at at blocking a scheme by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to roll right up to the Russia’s western border?
- The many shades of Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When is an invasion not an invasion? When is sovereignty not sovereignty? When is an unelected regime more legitimate than an elected government? The answer, it seems, is when we are discussing Ukraine.
- Ukraine Between 'Popular Uprising for Democracy' (Canadian Government) and 'Fascist Putsch' (Russian Government)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
That movement is characteristic of the present period which has seen a series of similar popular uprisings – in the Arab countries, but also in the former Soviet territory – (Georgia in 2003, Ukraine in 2004, and Kirgizstan 2005). An atomized population is fed up with the political regime. It mobilizes through the social media, but without a clear programme. The fruits of the mass mobilization are then reaped by forces that are organized and that have a clear programme. The lack of a clear analysis and programme explains the role that fascist forces were able to play in the events. These forces rejected any compromise with the contested government, presenting themselves as unyielding adversaries, not only of the current leaders, but of the ‘system’ itself. And they call for a ‘national revolution.’ This intransigent position attracted demonstrators who were aware of the bitter fruits of the Orange Revolution and who did not understand the real meaning of the proposed ‘national revolution.’
- Dragon to Deliver Keynote Address at the 2014 CFA National Convention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Dragon' Den's Bruce Croxon among esteemed Keynote Speakers at Canada's premier franchise education and networking event from April 6-8 in Niagara Falls, Ontario
- Letter From Thailand II
Resource Type: Letter
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The wealthy businessman Thaksin Shinawatra was first elected in 2001. His fortune was built using family money and taking advantage of contacts he developed, a sort of cronyism that is de rigueur in Thailand.
- Mathematician Lee Lorch fought tirelessly against racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Civil rights activist Lee Lorch, who was barred from teaching mathematics in the U.S. for his battles against racism, has died at age 98.
- Notes on Alabama: Searching for the Ghost of "Big Jim" Folsom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Huntsville Free Clinic in Alabama is a Free Clinic that serves the poor and working class of Huntsville not covered by Alabama’s stingy Medicaid program. Many users of Free Clinic services work, but at jobs that don’t offer health insurance.
- Porn, Women's Rights and the Left
A Response to Gail Dines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
I believe that government belongs in health, education, welfare, social services, environmental protection and transport; but I do not believe that it belongs in our bedrooms.
- We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The black freedom movement is framed in popular memory as distinguished by nonviolent civil disobedience. Yet in multiple southern towns, black people used armed self-defense to protect their communities and lives.
- Bob Carty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Celebrating Bob Carty (1950 – 2014). Tribute given by John Foster on March 10, 2014.
- Celebrating Bob Carty (1950 - 2014)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Tribute given by John Foster at the pass of Bob Carty
- 50 Young Israelis Send a Letter to Netanyahu: "We Refuse to Serve in the Occupation Army"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We, the undersigned, intend to refuse to serve in the army and the main reason for this refusal is our opposition to the military occupation of Palestinian territories.
- Fire in the dark: the astonishing story of the Courrieres mine disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One hundred and eight years ago today, on March 10, 1906, an explosion and fire occurred deep underground in a coal mine owned by the Courrières mining company underneath the village of Billy-Montigny in northern France. A total of 1,099 miners died, including many children.
- Global report launched on violence and harassment against women in the news media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The core findings of a joint report on violence and harassment against women in the news media by INSI and the International Women's Media Foundtaion (IWMF).
- Months-long moving saga ends happily for Canadian couple
CBC News helps reunite couple with belongings they say were held hostage by Mega Moving and Storage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two people who said their furniture was held as ransom by a moving company have been reunited with their belongings — more than six months after a move to Ontario from Nova Scotia.
- The 'Professorial President' And The 'Small, Strutting Hard Man'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Exactly what is happening in Ukraine is not easy to disentangle from corporate news media reports. The current crisis began in November 2014 when the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, withdrew from a cooperation agreement with the European Union to forge closer ties with Russia.
- Ali Mustafa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ali Mustafa was a Canadian freelance journalist and activist. He died with seven Syrians in an airstrike by the Assad government in the Hadariya neighbourhood of Aleppo on March 9, 2014.
- Debate: Two tactics in the fight against climate change
Should climate activists limit their demands to what's possible under capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The question of what demands ecosocialists should put forward in response to the climate crisis is a pressing one. The climate justice movement should demand a cap-and-trade policy, abandoning its traditional stance against carbon trading.
- Israel's War on Africans
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
72-minute slideshow about Israel's treatment of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers, given at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada on March 9, 2014.
- I will be nude, I will protest, and I will challenge you to your core!
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A nude woman is the antithesis of the idealised veiled and submissive woman. Whilst nude protest is not the only way to resist Islamism and the veil, it is a very modern, practical and appropriate way of doing so. It also challenges discrimination against women and a system which profits from the commodification and sexualisation of women’s bodies.
- Maybe we can all learn from smaller islands?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Europe's periphories are meant to be in a state of collapse - but not so the Shetland Isles, where it can be found a land of open skies, howling storms, historic traditions, and an active, growing community of notable individuals.
- Socialist Feminism in the 21st Century
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the 21st century, women of the working classes -- employed in the formal economy, the informal economy, working in the countryside or doing unwaged labour -- have entered the global political stage in an astonishing array of movements.
- The Anti-Empire Report #126
Ukraine
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When it gets complicated and confusing, when you’re overwhelmed with too much information, changing daily; too many explanations, some contradictory … try putting it into some kind of context by stepping back and looking at the larger, long-term picture.
- Getting the most out of Offshore Leaks data
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Baltimore became the world’s capital of data journalism in March 2014 as the National Institute of Computer Assisted Reporting (NICAR) convened its annual conference. A team from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) gave several presentations at the conference. In one of them, we explained how we analyzed the leaked 2.5 million files that resulted in the Offshore Leaks investigation. In this post, we describe how journalists and other researchers can best use this data to yield maximum results for investigations.
- Communities and Organizations Respond to National Energy Board Decision on Line 9
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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Communities and Organizations Respond to National Energy Board Decision on Line 9. WHO: Sarah Harmer, NEB intervener and musician, Vanessa Gray, Aamjiwnaang First Nations and Sarnia Against Pipelines, Marilyn Eriksen, Resident of Toronto Ward 24
- Rising Tide Toronto launches "Line 9 Pledge of Resistance"
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Rising Tide Toronto launches Line 9 Pledge of Resistance. Group encourages civil disobedience to stop pipeline approved by NEB.
- Agriculture: Steps to sustainable livestock
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With improved breeding and cultivation, ruminant animals can yield food that is better for people and the planet.
- Beginner's guide to improving online security
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Investigative journalists like the members of ICIJ are facing growing concerns about security. Our members often work with leaks or other materials requiring protection of sources, collaborate across borders with colleagues at risk for their physical safety, and communicate with devices and services open to surveillance or attack.
- Chevron Wins Latest Round in Ecuador Pollution Case
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the latest twist in a 21-year-old environmental pollution case, a U.S. federal judge Tuesday ruled that the victims of massive oil spillage and their U.S. attorney could not collect on a nine-billion-dollar judgement by Ecuador’s supreme court against the Chevron Corporation.
- Chronology of the Ukrainian Coup
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The current record of events indicates that the protests were organized by reactionary neo-Nazi forces intent on fomenting a major domestic crisis ousting Ukraine's government. As events continue to spiral out of control, here is the chronology of how the coup was engineered to install a government more favourable to EU and US goals.
- The Class Conflict in Venezuela
A Classic Struggle of Left v. Right
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The current protests in Venezuela are reminiscent of another historical moment when street protests were used by right-wing politicians as a tactic to overthrow the elected government. It was December of 2002, and I was struck by the images on U.S. television of what was reported as a “general strike,” with shops closed and streets empty.
- Does National Security Trump the Blue Whale?
Navy Mischief in the Pacific
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Exclusive excerpts from Ernest Tate's 'Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s'
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This new book by Ndongo Sylla is an insider's critique of the fair trade model as practiced by Fairtrade International (FLO, or Fairtrade Labelling Organizations). (The book has been translated from French, and I found the translation to be quite readable and engaging.) Based on his own experiences working for FLO, Sylla seeks to point out the flaws in the fair trade system. As with most research about fair trade, Sylla's focuses primarily on the fair trade coffee initiative. In the fair trade coffee system, cooperatives of small coffee growers pay thousands of dollars to FLO to join the network and for compliance fees. In exchange for ethical production, the growers receive a guaranteed minimum price for each pound of their coffee sold as "fair trade."
- Forbes 400 list of world's richest people highlights growth of social inequality
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First Published: 2014
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Forbes magazine published its 28th annual list of the world's wealthiest individuals and families on Monday. In all, the research team behind the Forbes Billionaires list found a total of 1,645 billionaires worldwide, with a combined net worth of $6.4 trillion, an increase of $1 trillion from 2013. The number of new billionaires, at 268, was the highest figure in the report's history.
- Fracking is the death spasm of a defunct economic order
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First Published: 2014
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Political support for fracking is not just about energy, writes Paul Mobbs. It reflects the greater ecological and resource crisis at the root of our current economic woes - and only postpones the essential shift to a new kind of economy.
- God's plan for climate change
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
How, and why, does the US Right and its evangelical 'Christian' wing campaign for mal-education, ignorance, corporate dominance, and the profligate consumption of fossil fuels?
- Richmond and Eminent Domaine
The Stone That Brings Down Goliath?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In a nearly $13 billion settlement with the US Justice Department in November 2013, JPMorganChase admitted that it, along with every other large US bank, had engaged in mortgage fraud as a routine business practice, sowing the seeds of the mortgage meltdown.
- Ukraine and the Great Asian Enclosure
Russia Crosses an Important Rubicon in the Crimea
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First Published: 2014
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The Cornerstones of Eurasia - When Pravy Sektor’s Dmitry Yarosh called on the Chechen liberation fighters to join Ukrainian nationalists in global struggle, he accented the North Atlantic’s energy politics better than anyone before him.
- Costa Rican Farmers Become Climate Change Acrobats
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
José Alberto Chacón traverses the winding path across his small farm on the slopes of the Irazú volcano, in Costa Rica, which meanders because he has designed it to prevent rain from washing away nutrients from the soil.
- GMOs show 'substantial non-equivalence'
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
New studies document substantial differences of GM maize and GM soybean from their non-GM counterparts, writes Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji - exposing a permissive regulatory regime that has failed miserably in protecting public health and safety.
- How Can the US Accuse Russia of Violating International Law?
Not Funny, But it's Still Hard Not to Laugh
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If you want to make moral or legal pronouncements, or to condemn bad behaviour, you have to be a moral, law-abiding person yourself.
- Mexican Protest Site Censored by GoDaddy -- with the U.S. Embassy's Help
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Mexican website 1dmx.org, was set up in the wake of a set of controversial December 1st 2012 protests against the inauguration of the new President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto. For a year, the site served as a source of information, news, discussion and commentary from the point of view of the protestors.
- Michelle Goldberg Goes to Washington
The problem isn't just voting for Democrats, it's letting a rightward-moving Democratic Party set the Left's political horizons
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The author defends his electoral position during the U.S. election, which was described by Michelle Goldberg as "electoral nihilism".
- Washington Seeks Regime Change in Venezuela
Agents of Destabilization
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Both the ongoing protests in Venezuela and the economic problems that the demonstrators are protesting against appear to have been orchestrated by the opposition in order to destabilize the country and bring down the government. Unable to gain power through the ballot box, the Venezuelan opposition has turned to unconstitutional means to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
- 'We are not from another planet': Justice 4 Cleaners campaign and the struggle for recognition
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First Published: 2014
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The ongoing struggle of the SOAS Cleaners for acceptable working conditions and equality in the workplace.
- America's corporate revolt against clean energy
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The US's fossil fuel industry is scared at the growth of solar power, and its ever-declining market cost. So it's fighting back, doing its best to quash solar growth by imposing new costs and restrictions.
- The Dark Side of the Ukraine Revolt
The Rise of the Quasi-Fascists
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
While most of the Western media describes the current crisis in the Ukraine as a confrontation between authoritarianism and democracy, many of the shock troops who have manned barricades in Kiev and the western city of Lviv these past months represent a dark page in the country’s history and have little interest in either democracy or the liberalism of Western Europe and the United States.
- Defender of the Rockies
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First Published: 2014
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For sheer guts, vision and results, a single organisation stands out among the US's environmental defenders - the Alliance for the Wild Rockies. Jeffrey St. Clair met its leader, Mike Garrity, winner of 2014's Grassroots Activist Award.
- The Intelligence Apparatus Is Checking Out Your "Intimate Body Parts"
Privates Eyes
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
According to the latest Snowden revelation, Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which works in close collaboration with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), has been intercepting and storing images of millions of Yahoo webcam-chat users in a program appropriately code-named "Optic Nerve."
- Learn from your mistakes and those of others
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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I spoke last Tuesday to the Associates of the Asper School of Business in Winnipeg. As I was preparing for the speech I came up with a list of over 20 key lessons I learned about leadership, strategy, planning, and discipline during my military and
- The Nature of War Has Changed
The Vicious Forces of Sectarian Strife
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First Published: 2014
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A new kind of war is developing. It is very different from the mass conflict of the First World War when governments mobilised millions of men and vast industrial resources. Wars have got smaller, but are equally and, on occasions, more vicious than in the past.
- No compassion on immigration
Re: Protesters seek accountability on immigration
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The compassionless attitude of our Canadian immigration authorities is becoming the increasingly default position. I commend the protesters who continue to articulate their rage against this.
- Protect our sacred water!
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The curse of Uranium has fallen once again on the Black Hills of South Dakota, ancestral home to the Lakota Indians - now fighting a massive mining project that threatens land, rivers and groundwater.
- Toronto's Annex Chess Club kicks off "Goodbye to Winter" tournament
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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Annex Chess Club in Toronto is starting a new chess tournament March 3, called the "Goodbye Winter" Swiss.
- Ukraine, Intervention, and America's Doublethink
High-Motor Propaganda
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First Published: 2014
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With the deployment of Russian forces into Crimea and eastern Ukraine, the US-NATO propaganda machine has kicked into high gear. Putin has been portrayed as a tyrannical aggressor, while the Obama administration and its European allies have attempted to stake out the moral high ground, declaring that peace, respect for sovereignty and international law should be the guiding principles. Naturally, such rhetoric warrants closer analysis.
- Ukrainian Hangovers
Russia, Crimea and the Consequences of NATO Policy
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Russia’s incursion (invasion if you prefer) into Crimea, with prospects for movement into Eastern Ukraine, is the culmination of US/NATO policy since 1991.
- What the Mainstream Misses: Observations on the Ukraine Crisis
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First Published: 2014
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Observations on the Ukraine events of February-March 2014 leading to the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych.
- The Many Roots of Christian Europe
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is a transcript of a I talk I gave yesterday at the LSE Literary Festival. My thanks to Arthur Bradley who also took part and responded to many of the themes I raised here and to Danielle Sands of the Forum for European Philosophy for organising the discussion.
- No child should be afraid to drink a glass of water ...
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First Published: 2014
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Nasser Nawajah wrote this open letter to Israel's economics minister Naftali Bennett - leader of The Jewish Home - about the water starvation suffered by Palestinians.
- Universities Being Used as Proxy Border Police, Say Academics
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First Published: 2014
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More than 160 academics have written to the Guardian to protest at being used as an extension of the UK border police, after universities have come under more pressure to check the immigration details of students.
- Cataloging as Radical Practice
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Explores the extent to which new technologies and institutional practices are offering opportunities for community input in building/correcting/amplifying catalogue records.
- The chemical dangers in food packaging
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The long-term effects of synthetic chemicals used in packaging, food storage and processing food could be damaging our health, scientists have warned.
- Defying Fundamentalism
Book Review
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism" By Karima Bennoune.
- Defying Fundamentalism
A review of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
To some people Islam has come to represent the ideology of liberation from the yoke of Western imperialism; to others it is a backward and inherently violent faith targeting innocent individuals indiscriminately.
- Dirty Water, Dirtier Practices
Ecuador's Battle with Texaco's Legacy Pollution
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First Published: 2014
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Texaco (now owned by Chevron) left polluted soil and ground water after 20 years of oil extraction in the Amazon in Ecuador. The legal claims and counter-claims over responsibility and reparation continue.
- Egyptian Women and the Revolution
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First Published: 2014
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Radwan focuses on the role women are playing in the Egyptian Revolution, their reasons for being active in the movement, and the repercussions they experience as a result of their involvement.
- Egypt's Revolution at Three
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Radwan examines the Egyptian Revolution and the rise of General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi after the ousting of President Morsi.
- Fighting fracking in Poland: the farmers resistance movement
An improverished farming community in Zurawlow is using creative tactics to stop Chevron's shale gas plans
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When Chevron arrived in Zurawlów, a small village in Poland's rural Grabowiec county, it was like a UFO landing in the open wheat fields. In June last year a high-tech surveillance caravan appeared in the village to stake the firm's claim to the shale gas below.
- Fish, Phosphates and Tomatoes
Morocco Exploits Western Sahara's Natural Resources
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First Published: 2014
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Morocco is making considerable profits from the land and waters of the annexed Western Sahara, and no external power, including the UN, has challenged this.
- Honoring Marta Russell (1951-2013)
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A tribute to the life and work of the late disability rights advocate Marta Russell.
- Inside Komen's NGOized Culture
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The authors analyze the monopoly that the Komen Foundation has over breast cancer research and how the process of "NGOization" has cultivated a consumer culture in how participants engage with the movement.
- It's War on the Poor
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First Published: 2014
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Miah analyzes the increase in numbers within the working poor class and the economic structures that keep them poor.
- Labour's lost leader
The legacy of Tony Benn
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
From an interview to Tony Benn - sometime in the mid-1990s - his point of view about how broad and profound was the defeat of both trade unionism and the democratic socialist left over the previous decade.
- Lineages of the Arab Revolt
Book Review
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of "Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East" by Adam Hanieh.
- The Lives of Amiri Baraka
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A tribute to the life of author and poet Amiri Baraka who was active in the American Black Arts movement.
- Mainspring of the Arab Revolt
A review of Lineages of Revolt by Adam Hanieh
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This book ought to be read — or better, studied — by every socialist interested in the Middle East.
- Not Your Father's Far Right
Populist Radical Versus Traditional Extremism
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
All over Europe, the new, populist far-right parties have become part of the political scene. They're not defined, as the old far-righters used to be, by what they want, but by what they don't want.
- A Political Witch-Hunt in the Name of "Academic Freedom": In Defense of the American Studies Association
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Wald provides insight into the American Studies Association's decision to boycott Israeli universities and defends the group's decision against the backlash given by the media and academia.
- Reproductive Rights Assaulted
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Feeley examines the lack of rights American women have in regards to reproduction, abortion, and access to contraceptives as legislations currently in place bar women from having full coverage or information regarding their options.
- Review: Defying Fundamentalism
A review of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Concerned with the rising Jihadist fundamentalism on one hand, and increasing discrimination against Muslims following 9/11 on the other, and having in mind the question repeated by many commentators — “Why don’t Muslims speak out?” — Bennoune documents the voices of Muslims in various ways victimized by Islamic fundamentalists.
- Searching for Sustainability
Book Review
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Review of "State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?" by the WorldWatch Institute.
- Socialist Feminism in the 21st Century
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Brenner analyzes socialism in the 21st century, with a new discourse of gender equality that focuses on transnational feminism, community alliances, the mobilization of members, and overcome the divisions between social classes.
- State of the "Recovery"
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First Published: 2014
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The editors provide an overview of current issues in American politics, such as the debate over minimum wage, Wall Street, immigration reform, the Trans Pacific Partnership and the need for economic recovery.
- Studies About Workplace Violence
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First Published: 2014
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A few published studies about workplace violence.
- Superheroes for the Empire
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Estébanez examines the parallels between pop culture superhero fiction and contemporary politics as writers are inspired to make implicit statements about current ideologies.
- Yes, There is an Alternative!
Book Review
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Review of "Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism" by Peter Hudis.
- Yes, There is an Alternative!
A review of Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism, by Peter Hudis
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First Published: 2014
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Peter Hudis has written a valuable analysis of what Marx said on a critical issue. In this sense it reminds me of Hal Draper’s volumes on Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution. Hudis’s subject matter differs from Draper’s in that it deals with what comes after the revolution, rather than with how we get there. It also differs in method: While Draper was centrally concerned with Marx’s politics, Hudis, writing in what’s called the Marxist-Humanist tradition, sees engagement with Hegel’s dialectic as an essential part of creating a Marxism adequate to ever-changing times.
- Be Careful What You Fight For
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
How do the few haves stay on top of the many have-nots? After generations of domination, the haves know how to do it pretty well. They know how to divide and conquer the have-nots. This is the secret of their power.
- Elected Representatives on the Wrong Side of History: Israel is a Criminal State
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has grown exponentially and gained legitimacy in many parts of the world, while the concept of Israel as an Apartheid state has gained much credibility. In Israel itself, debates that were unheard of a short while ago have entered the public discourse.
- How International Financial Elites Change Governments to Implement Austerity
Global War on the 99%
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Many countries around the world are plagued by all kinds of armed rebellions, economic sanctions, civil wars, “democratic” coup d’états and/or wars of “regime change.” These include Ukraine, Venezuela, Syria, Thailand, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Somalia and Lebanon. Even in the core capitalist countries the overwhelming majority of citizens are subjected to brutal wars of economic austerity.
- INSI publishes annual analysis of journalist casualties around the globe
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Analysis of journalist casualties from around the globe for the year 2013. Also provides raw data useful for data journalists.
- Let's Point a Satellite at GCHQ and the NSA, and See How They Feel
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Turning the tables on the spy agencies would be a fitting form of radical retaliation for their webcam prurience.
- National Day of Action - Petitions with 10,000 signatures delivered to Immigration Enforcement
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
National Day of Action with rallies in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and London. Petitions with 10,000 signatures to be delivered to Immigration Enforcement calling for civilian oversight and end to indefinite detention.
- The National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela
The Stealth Destabilizer
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As protests have been taking place in Venezuela the last couple of weeks, it is always good to check on the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the US Empire’s “stealth” destabilizer.
- On Academic Labor
How Higher Education Ought to Be
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An edited transcript of remarks given by Noam Chomsky on 4 February 2014 to a gathering of members and allies of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, PA.
- Optic Nerve
Millions of Yahoo Webcam Images Intercepted by GCHQ
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.
- Organizers Worth Their Salt
"Let's drink to the hard working people; Let's drink to the salt of the Earth"
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A few unions are recruiting salts these days, usually young people who apply for low-wage jobs in retail, hospitality, or logistics. But unions are reluctant to talk about salting, not wanting to alert management to look out for suspicious characters.
- Small is the New Big
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Vandana Shiva reminds us that the very future of food security in India (and indeed worldwide) lies in protecting and promoting the country's small farmers.
- State Banks Would Mean Jobs, Credit and Investment
Why Don't We?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One of the many problems with the current banking system is that your tax money helps fuel speculation. Unless there is a public bank that your local government can place deposits into, revenues are the playthings of big banks.
- Why we must stop this gay witch-hunt now
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
President Yoweri Museveni has done it. Against widespread expectation raised by his earlier pledge, the Ugandan leader turned around this week and signed into law the contentious Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed last December by a parliament his ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), controls.
- Adolph Reed Jr.: The Surrender of America's Liberals
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. talks with Bill Moyers about his provocative titled article in the March issue of Harper's Magazine, and why the left is no longer a significant force in American politics.
- New report details 'brutal' Israeli policies
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The first bullet struck 16-year-old Samir Awad in his left leg. He staggered away as fast as he could, but was too slow. A second round slammed into his left shoulder, exiting from the right side of his chest. Then, moments later, a third bullet penetrated the back of his skull and exited from his forehead.
- 9 things you need to know about Venezuela and the recent violence
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Behind the attempts to overthrow the Venezuelan government.
- Omar and the Checkpoint
The Essential Story that is Rarely Told
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Omar is a 7-year-old boy from Gaza. His family managed to obtain the necessary permits that allowed him to cross the Erez checkpoint to Jerusalem, through the West Bank, in order to undergo surgery. He was accompanied by his father. On the way back, the boy and his father were stopped at the Qalanidya checkpoint, separating occupied East Jerusalem from the West Bank. The father needed another permit from the Israeli military to take his son, whose wounds were still fresh hours after the surgery, back to the strip. But the soldiers were in no obliging mood.
- Teaching Workers
Education in the Name of Social Transformation
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Karl Marx’s famous dictum sums up my teaching philosophy: “The philosophers of the world have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” As I came to see it, Marx had uncovered the inner workings of our society, showing both how it functioned and why it had to be transcended if human beings were to gain control over their lives and labour.
- Did Somebody Say Fascism?
Waiting in the Wings of Ukraine
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As Marxist historians of fascism have long argued, fascism at its essence is an outcome of capitalism in crisis. The quintessential counterrevolutionary movement, fascism responds to capitalism’s invariable crises by redirecting potentially revolutionary threats to capitalism to nationalist, (relatedly) racist (or within Europe’s right today, “culturalist”), and militarist violence that preserves the basic material conditions of class society.
- Maidan, Ukraine ... Tahrir, Egypt ... The Square Symbolises Failure, Not Hope
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The lesson of Egypt for Ukraine is that defiant crowds may destroy an old regime – but they seldom build a new one.
- Stop hate rape!
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Hate crimes, homophobia and discrimination against queer people are global phenomena that are common practice. This situation is especially experienced in Africa and the Middle East where harsh and punitive legislation and policies are authorised and endorsed. The lack of democracy, or the protection thereof, also perpetuates extreme human rights abuses, which often takes the form of physical assault.
- A Taxonomy of Racism from Alvarado to Zimmerman
Thoughts on Hearing About the Jordan Davis Verdict from Guatemala City
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Last week our delegation from School of the Americas Watch made a visit to the Casa de la Memoria, or House of Memory, a new museum here in Guatemala City. What first caught my eye was a poster of early Spanish classifications of racial castes. It is the museum’s answer to the racist notion taught in schools here, that after the Spaniards arrival there was a ”mixing of cultures”, kind of like peanut meets chocolate, or hip-hop meets jazz, to produce something new and beautiful – Guatemalan, or at least Ladino, culture.
- Central American Women Put their Lives on the Line for Human Rights
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Solidarity is at the heart of an initiative that seeks to protect women activists facing harassment, death threats and violence.
- I have never felt disadvantaged being a woman reporter
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ritu Sarin is the investigations editor of the Indian Express group, and is the winner of several awards including the Ramnath Goenka Award and the Prem Bhatia award for excellence in journalism. ICIJ recently spoke to her about some of her most prominent investigations and her career as an investigative editor.
- The Brown Revolution in Ukraine
The Spectacle in Kiev
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Kiev is now patrolled by armed thugs from the Western Ukraine, by fighters from the neo-Nazi -Right Sector, descendants of Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian Quisling’s troopers, and by their local comrades-in-arms of nationalist persuasion.
- 8 Disturbing Photos of Instruments of Torture Used on Black People
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
8 disturbing photos of instruments of torture used on black people.
- The Fateful Collision - Floods, Catastrophe And Climate Denial
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An epic struggle is currently taking place that will determine the fate, and perhaps the survival, of our species.
- How to Jumpstart Your Union (Book Review)
A Guide to Fighting Back
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An invaluable book for any union activist. It details the successful 2010 strike by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), starting with the formation of CORE (Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators) back in 2008 when they had only 22 members; their election to union leadership positions in 2010 when their membership had swelled to 400; and their determination to maintain the struggle in the aftermath of the strike.
- Scandal of Europe's 11M Empty Homes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
More than 11 million homes lie empty across Europe – enough to house all of the continent's homeless twice over – according to figures collated by the Guardian from across the EU. Housing campaigners denounce the 'shocking waste' of vacant homes.
- Challenging Tar Sands at its Source
Grassroots Greens Versus Big Greens
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With fracking changing the US oil-production and consumption numbers so dramatically, it seems time to challenge the notion that tar sands – and the carbon released if tar sands production continues to climb – is the “make or break point,” an “endgame” whose development signifies “game over for the climate,” as stated several years ago by Dr. James Hansen. Tar sands development is no less extreme, of course, no less destructive, no less genocidal to those living in the affected areas. Shutting down the tar sands– completely, and not negotiated as a phase out nor leaving the corporations in power afterward – is more important than ever, and on as many fronts as possible.
- The contradictions and limits of localism
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Can co-ops and transition towns transform the world? The author of No Local explains why local counter-institutions won’t lead to revolutionary change.
- Defeat of Reconstruction and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Part Two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
During Reconstruction, black people fought to assert their American-ness. Throughout the South, it was blacks and their allies who would march, parade and celebrate the Fourth of July, but not out of gross and vulgar American patriotism. Rather, it was part of a struggle to uphold the ideals of freedom and liberty that came with the Civil War and the promise of equality that came with Reconstruction.
- Freedom...But to Do What?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Freedom. Everybody says freedom is such a very good thing that it's worth fighting for. But something so good and important deserves a clear meaning, no? Well, what is it?
- Operation Nazification
Of Empire and Government
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Annie Jacobsen’s new book is called Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America. It isn’t terribly secret anymore, of course, and it was never very intelligent. Jacobsen has added some details, and the U.S. government is still hiding many more. But the basic facts have been available; they’re just left out of most U.S. history books, movies, and television programs.
- Soon, the Battle for Venezuela
Open Letter to President of Venezuela
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
They are already sewing your funeral gown, Venezuela. They are now ready to welcome you back to that world of the lobotomized, destroyed nations that are fully submissive to Western political and economic interests – Indonesia, Philippines, Paraguay, Uganda, Kenya, Qatar, Bahrain, and almost the entire Eastern Europe. There are so many places like that – it is impossible to list them all.
- Venezuela and the Imperial Script, 2004 Edition
The Coup Last Time
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The minute some halfway decent government in Latin America begins to reverse the order of things and give the have-nots a break from the grind of poverty and wretchedness, the usual suspects in El Norte rouse themselves from the slumber of indifference and start barking furiously about democratic norms. It happened in 1973 in Chile; we saw it again in Nicaragua in the 1980s; and here’s the same show on summer rerun in Venezuela, pending the August 15 recall referendum of President Hugo Chávez.
- Leaked documents show how US authorities hounded WikiLeaks
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the US government’s persecution of WikiLeaks. Secret documents published by journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher show how the US and British intelligence agencies, the NSA and GCHQ, were used against the news leaks website and its founder, Julian Assange.
- Masking Tragedy in Ukraine
Sinister Illusions
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It is no secret that Barack Obama is one of the supreme illusionists of modern times. The disconnect between his words and his deeds is so profound as to be almost sublime, far surpassing the crude obfuscations of the Bush-Cheney gang.
- Obama Pushes for Regime Change in Venezuela
Once Again, South America Says No
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When is it considered legitimate to try and overthrow a democratically-elected government? In Washington, the answer has always been simple: when the U.S. government says it is. Not surprisingly, that’s not the way Latin American governments generally see it.
- What We Owe the Oak Ridge Three
Memo to Judge: Really??
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We’ve heard it from the bench in Oak Ridge city courtrooms and from state judges in Clinton, Tennessee. And on February 18 we heard it from a federal judge.
- An Analysis of 12F
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A discussion of the events, factors, and actors involved in the protests, deaths, injuries, and arrests in Caracas on Venezuela's annual 'Youth Day'.
- Bloodshed in Kiev
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Rob Jones looks at the different forces behind the Ukraine crisis.
- Forward to a mass workers' party in Southern Africa
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The conference of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), held in December 2013, was indisputably a momentous occasion in the struggle in South Africa. It epitomizes an extraordinary separation not only from the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest organisation of conservative ‘black’ nationalism, but also from the South African Communist Party (SACP), one of the last so-called communist parties from the Soviet era.
- Half of U.S. Farmland Being Eyed by Private Equity
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the United States will likely change hands over the coming two decades as older farmers retire, even as new evidence indicates this land is being strongly pursued by private equity investors. In the long term, this dynamic could speed up the already fast-consolidating U.S. food industry, with broad ramifications for both human and environmental health.
- Nuclear Weapons Spoilers Sentenced to Long Prison Terms
Injustice in Knoxville
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Three anti-war activists who easily snuck into what is touted as one of the United States' most secure nuclear weapons facilities were sentenced to long terms in federal prison on February 18, 2014.
- One Who Raged Against the Machine
Remembering Gerald Berreman
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Remembering anthropologist Gerald Berreman on the occasion of his December 2013 death. Barreman became an important voice of dissent in the 1960s and 1970s, speaking out against anthropologists’ interactions with the CIA and other intelligence agencies and championing openness in science.
- UK Pornstars Fight Back
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Stop Porn Culture circus represents a coalition of the loudest anti-sex and pro-censorship voices in the English-speaking world. Former pornstar Renée Richards calls on UK pornstars, strippers, models, sex workers and their supporters to take a stand and join us to protest against those who have, for so long, labelled and lied about the women in the sex industries.
- Africa's Farm Revolution - Who will Benefit?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A farming revolution is under way in Africa, pushed by giant corporations and the UK's aid budget. It will surely be good for the global economy, but will Africa's small farmers see the benefit?
- Notes on a Staggering ISO
The Slow Death of "Leninism"
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A critique of the International Socialist Organization and discussion of the decline of Leninism.
- Romania - a Peasants' Revolt against Fracking
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Earthquakes and poisoned wells are setting off a revolt against fracking in Romania, revealing deep fault lines between the rural heartlands and the urban political elite.
- Senegal Fears Its Fish May Be Off the Menu for Local Consumption
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Foreign fish processing factories are competing with traditional communities for a dwindling catch.
- Shedding light on the use of SWAT teams
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A new bill in Utah that would require the state's police agencies to report statistics about how and how often they use their SWAT and tactical teams has just unanimously passed a committee in the state's senate. The bill is part of a larger, fascinating police reform movement currently under way in Utah.
- Venezuela Under Attack Again
Economic Sabotage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A highly organized attack is once again being carried out against the democratic and popular government of Venezuela. It has involved monetary manipulations, economic sabotage, international media campaigns against the economy despite excellent economic indicators, defamation of the state run oil company, and deadly riots on the street.
- What's Really Happening in Venezuela?
Shadows of the Weimar Republic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An analysis of the 2014 civil unrest in Venezuela.
- What's up with Bosnia?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Since the beginning of recent struggles in Bosnia, many questions came from Western comrades about their character and what is actually going on. A lot of comrades were dissatisfied with media coverage which didn’t provide enough information.
- Crestfallen Lane may soon commemorate piece of Seaton Village history
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The neighbourhood’s lane-naming project recalls a sad-eyed horse who helped end the local scourge of diphtheria.
- Letter From Mexico: The Privatization of PEMEX
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In 2009, the Compañia Luz y Fuerza (or LyFC, Luz y Fuerza del Centro), a semi-state company providing electricity to Mexico City and some other states in the centre of the country, was disappeared on a moonless Saturday night.
- Reproductive Rights Assaulted in the US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This article focuses on the continuing assault on reproductive justice in 2013 in the United States, particularly at the hands of state legislators. Twenty-two states passed 70 new restrictions in 2013, adding to the more than 135 passed in 2011 and 2012. Dominant were restrictions on providers, bans on abortion after 20-22 weeks of pregnancy, and outlawing contraception or abortion coverage in various insurance plans.
- The Sochi Games, Homophobia and Western Media Hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Alastair Stephens looks at the hypocritical response of the Western media to the Sochi Games.
- Do You Play Video Games or Do They Play You?
Mass Culture for Profit
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Since the spread of smart mobile devices - smartphones and tablets - the video games industry has learned a lesson in economic Darwinism: develop your mobile business or face extinction. The growth of gaming on the move means a new global division of labour, and the industry is revising its profit margins.
- In the Shadow of the Fatwa
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Twenty five years ago not even death threats, bombings, and murders could not stop the publication of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. Today, all it takes is for one person to shout ‘offence’ for liberals to haul out the metaphorical burqa to protect our sensitivities. But in defending one's right to say what they wish, even if it is deemed by some to be offensive, what we are truly defending is the necessity for a plural world.
- Venezuela Threatened by Far-right Violence
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A statement by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network condemning the recent violent actions instigated by far-right sections of the opposition in various cities across Venezuela.
- Bias Towards Power *Is* Corporate Media 'Objectivity'
Journalism, Floods and Climate Silence
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Journalistic bias in favour of the orthodox Western-centric socio-economic perspective is often framed as "objectivity", and departures from the orthodox Western-centric socio-economic perspective are often dismissed as "ideological'. A review of the incidence and framing of climate change reporting illustrates this.
- Bosnia's Magnificent Uprising
Heralding a New Era of Class Politics?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Beginning in February 2014, mass protests led by workers, students, and other citizens, have rocked most major industrial cities in Bosnia. Whatever the current uprising is or is not, it is the largest mass outbreak of unalloyed class struggle revolt, untouched by nationalist poison, that we have seen in Bosnia since it was ripped to bits by Serbian and Croatian nationalists.
- Fighting King Coal in Indian Ocean paradise
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A $395 million coal fired power station is planned for Mauritius - bulldozed aver the wishes of the population, official advice and the environment ministry.
- How to Remove the Rich from Power and Abolish Class Inequality
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Here are step by step instructions for removing the rich from power and abolishing class inequality. The instructions, however, will be in reverse order.
- What would life be like if women really did rule the world?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The author writes about Oppressed Majority, a little film that asked men to walk in women's often objectified shoes.
- Perpetuating the Abu Ghraib Culture
The Harrowing Abuse of Iraqi Women
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The phenomenon of kidnapping, torturing, raping, and executing women is shockingly widespread within the Iraqi criminal justice systm, which continues the policies of the US miliary administration. If such a reality were to exist in a different political context, the global outrage would have been profound.
- Ukraine's Protest Movement
Is a 'Left Sector' Possible?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A conversation about the necessity and possibility of a "Left Sector" and its struggle for hegemony in the 2013-2014 Ukrainian protests is important not only in the contemporary Ukrainian context, but also for the future.
- War and Women's Rights
What Does the Future Hold for Afghan Women?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A discussion of the history, current status, and future of women's rights in Afghanistan.
- Best Government Money Can Buy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Revolving Door Syndrome in the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complex
- Big Oil's Chokehold on Canadian Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The fight against Big Oil corporatism may be the most important one you ever support.
- Canada's Largest Franchise-Only Show Returns to Toronto
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With over 100 franchise opportunities and experts, aspiring entrepreneurs can find out how to become small business owners at The Franchise Show in Toronto on February 22 & 23, 2014
- How to Franchise Your Business Seminar Helps Small Businesses Become National Brands
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
CFA's How To Franchise Your Business Seminar in Toronto on February 27 guides entrepreneurs to become successful franchisors
- Lenin 1917-18: the road to the authoritarian state.
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Lenin’s focus when he returned to Russia in 1917 was on the facts of the revolution, rather than outdated Bolshevik theory. He began with what was real, rather than an abstract possibility.
- The Lost Revolution
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A discussion of the Haitian revolution, read through the lens of Julia Gaffield's paper on the lost and found Haitian Declaration of Independence.
- Noah's ark was round – so the ancient tablet tells us
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Irving Finkel, curator of the British Museum's 130,000 Mesopotamian clay tablets, has spent 20 years investigating one that challenges the story of Noah and the flood.
- If you've lost or given up the initiative, then you're automatically in a defensive posture
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
You can give up the initiative willingly and go into a temporary or local defensive mode. This allows you to buy time to reorganize, rest, or reconstitute your resources. It also allows you to free up valuable resources to reassign them to higher
- Venezuela: The Political Economy of Inflation and Investment Strikes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This paper adopts a Marxian class analysis to dispute the orthodox critique of high inflation in contemporary Venezuela. It draws a parallel between the 2002-03 oil industry lock-out and the capital strike in the Venezuelan foodstuffs industry today. In each case, capital has suspended production to bid up the price of basic goods and create widespread shortages.
Orthdox inflation-targeting conceals the class antagonism of capital strikes and highlights the class interests that underpin monetarism. The paper concludes that socialised production is a viable alternative to neoliberal austerity.
- Campaign to Halt Female Genital Mutilation tops 150,000 Signatures
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Guardian-backed campaign calls on Education Secretary Michael Gove to launch initiative to protect girls from being mutilated.
- Honduras and Mexico: Open Season for Journalists
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Washington has long been at the forefront of an effort to promote cultural devastation, targeting journalists, artists, and independent thinkers more generally. This cultural ruin is a predictable consequence of U.S. support for repressive regimes.
- Laws Unto Themselves
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A frequent criticism of “free trade” agreements is that corporations are elevated to the level of a country. It might be more accurate to say that corporations are elevated above countries.
- Life Inside of the Song of History with Pete Seeger
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Remembering Pete Seeger, his music, and his impact.
- Problem Isn’t 'Patent Trolls'
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The problem isn’t “patent trolls.” The problem is patents.
- US-Sponsored Drug-Plane Operation Had Global Reach
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The ongoing investigation into the Gulfstream II jet that crashed in Mexico in the fall of 2007 with a cargo of 3.7 tons of cocaine onboard points to a corruption problem within the US bureaucracy and US intelligence agency complicity in the drug trade.
- The Fascist Threat
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Deep economic crisis, savage austerity, and social upheaval have polarised Greek society. One result has been the rise of Golden Dawn, responsible for brutal attacks on immigrants and left-wing activists. Christina Ziakka reports on the response of the political establishment – and why the left and workers’ movement must provide a genuine alternative.
- Defeat of Reconstruction and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Part One
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reconstruction was a tumultuous, brief and extraordinary period of American history defined by an unprecedented experiment in interracial democracy. It was an era of exceptional developments, all taking place simultaneously and impacting one another.
- Rio fare protesters seize main station and let commuters travel free
Riot police, teargas and stun grenades fail to stop passe livre movement taking over Central do Brasil train and bus hub
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thousands of commuters were shepherded through demolished ticket gates at the Central do Brasil station amid a violent confrontation over proposed fare rises that resulted in fires, arrests and disruption of transport networks. The station in downtown Rio echoed with police percussion grenades and the protesters' celebratory samba drumming as they seized control of the main bank of ticket machines.
Close to a thousand people joined the passe livre (free pass) march, sparked by the announcement by the city mayor, Eduardo Paes, that bus fires will rise from 2.75 reais to 3 reais (£0.75/US$1.25) on Saturday. That may seem cheap compared with London or New York. But for a daily commuter on a minimum monthly wages of 724 reais a month it leaves transport costs at more than a sixth of income."
- Rio fare protesters seize main station and let commuters travel free
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Watts discusses the economic and political impetus for the seizure of Rio de Janeiro's transit stations by the public in a protest against rising fare prices.
- Selling your Secrets
The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that the world of NSA mass surveillance involves close partnerships with a series of companies most of us have never heard of that design or probe the software we all take for granted to help keep our digital lives humming along.
- Torture, Democracy and Memory in Argentina
No Sugarplums for Christmas
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Black Sites across America
Health Care in US Prisons: a Human Rights Issue Hiding in Plain Sight
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There are 2.3 million people in US prisons in conditions that are often inhumane and at worst life threatening. The most striking aspect of this scene is the lack of decent medical care for prisoners, whether in solitary confinement or in the general prison population.
- How to Shape Your Competitive Space
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Shaping the battle space means that you don't just accept the situation as it is, but also try to influence and mould it so that you can exploit your strengths and put your competitors in a weaker position. In business, we need to apply the same pr
- Capture the popular imagination
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Sheila Coronel is the director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Last month, she was named as the next academic dean of the journalism school, a position she will assume in July. Prior to joining Columbia, Coronel founded the Phillippine Center for Investigative Journalism, where her reporting on corruption and graft by then-President Joseph Estrada helped bring about his impeachment and subsequent resignation. She recently spoke with ICIJ for its "Secrets of the Masters" series.
- Use guerrilla strategy and tactics if you're in a position of strategic weakness
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Guerrilla strategy is very misunderstood, sometimes even by military historians and strategists. In the simplest terms, guerrilla strategy is a combination of small-scale offensive tactics with a defensive strategy at the highest levels. Despite what
- Global inequality, illustrated, described, explained
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Global inequality depitcted through images and quotes.
- Pete Seeger was the best of us
Re: Folk music legend's spirit lives on at Brampton camp
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Pete Seeger was the best of the human spirit exemplifying hope and love and passion for social justice.
- Back to the Land in Romania
A Pig, Milk and Cheap Veg Against EU Agribusiness
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The EU sends Europeanisation agents across Romania to end subsistence farming and encourage agricultural competition. But those who have turned to self-sufficient farming because of austerity resist the world of the CAP.
- Blocking Public Participation
The Use of Strategic Litigation to Silence Political Expression
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Examines the different types of litigation and causes of action that frequently form the basis of SLAPPs (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation), and how these lawsuits transform political disputes into legal cases, thereby blocking political engagement.
- It's Complicated
The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In It's Complicated, danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media.
- The Real Cost of a Cheap Burger
Fastfood Workers Go Hungry: Is that the American Dream?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
America’s fastfood outlets are not restaurants but food systems serviced by cheap labour in de-skilled jobs — employees so badly paid that they need state aid and charity. They went on strike in North Carolina last summer.
- Tunnel Vision
Will the Air Force kill its most effective weapon?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Should the U.S. Air Force A-10 attack planes should be eliminated?
- Land Conflict and Injustice
Development in 'New India'
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On agrarian crisis and the commercialization of the countryside in India.
- The Problem With College Educated Revolutionaries
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The political views of college-educated activists are shaped by their experiences in an educational institution. They unknowingly impose these particular experiences on the movement and on working class people. They have played a crucial role in preventing any working class leadership from developing.
- The Ark Before Noah
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- India's Coal Inferno
100,000 Premature Deaths a Year and Rising
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As India pursues its aggressive path of coal-powered industrialisation, its leaders are showing themselves willing to sacrifice millions of people and huge swathes of the country to a dark and uncertain future.
- Ten Principles to Guide the Young Activist
Finding Happiness in Helping Others
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Tips for young activists. They say people who live for a higher cause are happier than those who don’t. May you always find your happiness in alleviating the pain of others by standing up for what is right and honorable.
- Advocates Argue Free Transit Benefits Us All
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Pablo analyzes the economic, environmental, and social benefits that a fareless public transportation system would provide Canadian cities.
- Austerity U
Preparing Students for Precarious Lives
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Policy-makers are introducing big changes to university systems under the banner of an austerity agenda. Globally common themes in this agenda include rapid increases in tuition fees, new models of university governance, new ways of teaching, a significant shift in subject matter, an attempt to depoliticize campuses, and major alterations in employment relations.
- Australia's Asylum Policy
Teenage Detainees' Plight Shines Light on Regime
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Human rights groups say Coalition's hardline approach to immigration flies in the face of international law.
- On the Importance of the Right to Offend
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
There is something truly bizarre that someone should become the focus of death threats and an international campaign of vilification for suggesting that an inoffensive cartoon was inoffensive. What gives the reactionaries the room to operate and to flex their muscles is, however, the pusillanimity of many so-called liberals, their unwillingness to stand up for basic liberal principles, their fear of causing offence, and their reluctance to call so-called community leaders to account. Such backsliding liberals need reminding of some basic points about liberalism, free speech and the giving of offence.
- Reclaiming the Commons in Appalachia
Property is Theft
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The extractive resource industry has a firm hold on the wild, wonderful, but wounded Appalachians. The use of eminent domain and compulsory pooling has robbed communities of their cultural and natural heritage. Capital is the authority of the Appalachian coalfields, and has created systemic poverty and mono economies. Instead of prosperity in the commons, the mechanism of authority has spawned tragedy.
- Ukraine and the Rebirth of Fascism
The Menace Across the European Continent
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The violence on the streets of Ukraine is far more than an expression of popular anger against a government. Instead, it is merely the latest example of the rise of the most insidious form of fascism that Europe has seen since the fall of the Third Reich.
- How Can I Keep From Singing
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Excerpts from an interview with Pete Seeger.
- Los Angeles Cops Should Release Automatic License Plate Reader Records, EFF & ACLU Argue in Opening Brief
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On Friday, EFF and the ACLU of Southern California filed the opening brief in their lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department for information on how the agencies are using Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR). They argue the departments are improperly withholding these records, keeping important information about this invasive surveillance technology from the public.
- Loss of Librarians Devastating to Science and Knowledge in Canada
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The closure of federal libraries and loss of specialized librarians impacts negatively on the state of science and knowledge in Canada.
- NSA, GCHQ mapping "political alignment" of cellphone users
New report reveals
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
New information made public by Edward Snowden reveals that the governments of the United States and United Kingdom are trawling data from cellphone “apps” to accumulate dossiers on the “political alignments” of millions of smartphone users worldwide.
- Pete Seeger: a Troubadour for Peace and Justice
Farewell to a Great American
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Pete Seeger is a man who stood up, lived live on his own terms and never stopped speaking out.
- Pete Seeger Was Folk Music
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Charles Seeger loved folk music. No folk musician more completely embodied this than Charles Seeger’s son Pete Seeger, who died Monday at 94. It’s difficult to imagine 20th-century music without Pete Seeger, but it would certainly sound much different, and much worse.
- Rest in Peace Pete Seeger, A True Progressive Hero
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the wake of his death, a look back at Pete Seeger's music and activism.
- Smartphone Game Data Targeted by NSA
Angry Birds Cited
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Millennial Media, a Baltimore based ad company, creates “intrusive” profiles of users of smartphone applications and games like Angry Birds, according to documents leaked to the media by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Such profiles have been exploited by intelligence authorities like the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), say investigative journalists.
- When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Amid all the tributes and accolades to Pete Seeger today, it’s easy to paper over the extent to which his career was almost destroyed by associations with communism and his refusal to testify to Congress about his time in the Communist Party.
- Fighting Big Oil's Cynical Arts Sponsorship
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A growing movement is opposing fossil fuel industry sponsorship of the arts. Pop-up protests and performances denouncing Shell, BP and others are winning the popular vote.
- Oil field fumes so painful, Alberta families forced to move
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Severe headaches, dizziness, rashes and loss of memory: all symptoms reported to a new hearing examining health effects of Alberta's rapidly expanding heavy oil industry.
- Peru: Amazon tribes sacrificed to gas project
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Peru has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of isolated Amazon tribes - who will be put at risk of a massive death toll or extinction from introduced diseases.
- Poor West Virginia? Think Again
Resistance in the Valley of Death
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia has once again put Appalachia on the map. This is what it usually takes. People have to not just die at the hands of the coal and chemical industry, they have to die dramatically. The long slow death spiral West Virginia has been in for over a hundred years is not news unless they do.
- Propaganda
'The Dominant Grand Narrative of Our Time'
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Today, it is clearer than ever to a growing number of people that there is something seriously wrong with 'the news'. The current system of planet-crushing propaganda relies on a mere façade of overall 'balance', 'reasonableness' and 'range of views'. In the UK, BBC News is the crucial foundation stone of this propaganda system, with the Guardian playing an accompanying role.
- Torture: Thou shalt not bear honest witness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
To date, only one person has been jailed in connection to the US torture program - the man who blew the whistle. His sentence must now be quashed and this true American hero set free and compensated.
- Why we must Never Forget
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Lindsey German charts how the Nazis were able to perpetrate their crimes by eliminating all effective and organised opposition.
- The Highlights of "ChinaLeaks"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reports by ICIJ and its partners revealing the secretive offshore holdings of China’s political and financial elite have generated a global wave of media coverage and an aggressive censorship campaign by Chinese authorities. These are some of the highlights of a worldwide selection of the original reports and ensuing media coverage.
- The biological basis of resilient cities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Biological systems offer design strategies for successfully adapting to an age of climate change and resource depletion. Insights from nature will be essential in creating a green and sustainable future for humankind.
- US food industry: labelling laws are 'unconstitutional'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A leaked document reveals plans by the US's Grocery Manufacturers Association to sue the first state that passes a GMO labeling law.
- China censors reports about elite's hidden funds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Access to the websites of Le Monde, The Guardian, Global Mail, El País and Süddeutsche Zeitung were blocked in China after they and other international media reported the results of research into the accounts held by members of the Chinese elite in offshore tax havens. The entire Chinese Internet also went down for several hours after these reports appeared online.
- Demonizing Edward Snowden
Obama Goes Beyond Orwell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Edward Snowden’s revelations have gone a long way to lifting the veil of secrecy and foul play that is the norm in capitalist America. He has hastened the time when BIG BROTHER’S rules of engagement — and all forms of ruling-class oppression — are brought to an end forever.
- From Maoism to Trotskyism
Recollections of a Participant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In 1968, a massive movement of radical students in the U.S. was attracted to Maoism. By 1972, the movement had already ruptured and was rapidly dissipating. What happened?
- Marshall humbled to step in as next premier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In contemplating the decision to accept the role of interim premier, Marshall said he began thinking of all of the other Newfoundlanders and Labradorians who never backed down when asked to commit their lives to the province.
- The Obliteration of Privacy
Snowden and the NSA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It’s remarkable how little outrage Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations have provoked in the American public. One often heard response is something like, “Well, I don’t have anything to hide, so I don’t care if the government is listening to what I say. And if they catch some terrorists, so much the better.”
- "Right to Life" Horror in Texas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A Texas hospital keeps a corpse hooked up to machines.
- Spread of knowledge in peril as Canada shuts federal department libraries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Ukraine Turmoil
Capitalist Powers in Tug of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The ongoing aim of the Western imperialists is to establish a client state on the border of Russia, which under the rule of capitalist strongman Vladimir Putin has increasingly become a thorn in their sides. And Ukraine would be a big prize. Its industrial base supplies the Russian market, and its Black Sea and Crimean peninsula territories are of strategic importance to the Russian military.
- Palm Oil company plan to slow deforestation 'another land-grab'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A palm oil company's 'forest conservation' programme in Indonesia has ended up being a second land grab, seizing resources from local communities' control.
- Protest Inc. - The Corporatization of Protest (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Review of "Protest Inc. - The Corporatization of Activism" by Peter Dauvergne & Genevieve LeBaron.
- "ChinaLeaks" Stories Censored in Mainland China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Chinese authorities move aggressively to block online access to news reports exposing the secrecy-cloaked offshore holdings of China’s political and financial elites.
- How we did Offshore Leaks China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A multinational team of journalists spent months combing through secret tax haven records revealing offshore holdings of China’s rich and powerful.
- Imagine
Living in a Socialist USA
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An anthology of essay's addressing misconceptions and fears about socialism by describing what socialism could look like in the U.S.A.
- ISIS bans music, imposes veil in Raqqa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) started imposing extensive restrictions in the [Syrian] province of Raqqa, in the northeast of the country. ISIS has banned smoking and music, imposed the full-face veil and closed all shops before and during prayer times. All this occurred after the organization managed to gain the upper hand in violent clashes with other Islamic groups fighting along the Turkish border in northern Syria.
- The Jordan Valley: stolen land, stolen childhood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Jordan Valley in the Palestinian West Bank is under active annexation to Israel - in breach of the 4th Geneva Convention. Victoria Brittain went there to explore what this means for the people of the Valley.
- Leaked Records Reveal Offshore Holdings of China's Elite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Close relatives of China's top leaders have held secretive offshore companies in tax havens that helped shroud the Communist elite's wealth, a leaked cache of documents reveals.
- Public space - we must defend our freedoms!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Laws handing sweeping new powers to police and private security to restrict access to Britain's public space will extinguish the diversity of civic life. Time for us to rediscover and defend our freedoms.
- Scientists Protest Canada's War on Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Harper government is closing libraries, trashing documents and firing thousands of scientists — while handing out billions in subsidies to oil companies.
- Clara Zetkin
Oppression, Class, and Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Lindsey German responds to John Riddell's article, 'Clara Zetkin in the Lion’s Den'.
- Clara Zetkin in the Lion's Den
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
John Riddell looks at Clara Zetkin a German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights and her fight for workers’ unity and feminism at a Comintern congress.
- Gas company: Amazon tribes vulnerable to 'massive deaths'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Amazon tribes in Peru's rainforest are at risk of 'massive deaths' from new diseases to which they lack immunity, gas company Pluspetrol admits - as it tries to expand its Camisea gas project into a Reserve for isolated indigenous people.
- Martin Luther King Jr's Radicalism Muted by MLK Archives' Corporate Sponsors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The MLK Archive, sponsored by JPMorgan Chase and Co., omits Martin Luther King Jr's speech delivered at Carnegie Hall on February 23, 1968 on the 100th anniversary of W.E.B Du Bois' birth. The speech is included in its entirety here.
- The remarkably talented Harmony Zhu
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
"Did you see the Canadian girl?" Garry Kasparov said to us. "Very impressive!". He was in Al Ain, paying a visit to the World Youth Championship, where a seven-year-old was dominating the under eight group. We check her out and found that Harmony Zhu is not just a great chess player. She is extremely talented in a completely different field – hint: nomen est omen... You will never guess!
- Towards a Marxist Critique of 'Privilege Theory'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A contribution by Tad Tietze to an ongoing debate on Marxism and 'privilege theory.'
- Washington and the Oil Industry Know the Truth About Climate Change
Short-Term Profits Trump Survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Climate skeptics in Congress, and oil and coal industry lobbyists like the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Coal Council (ACC) may be preventing any significant action in the US on reducing this country’s emissions of carbon into the atmosphere, but at the Pentagon, and in the executive suites of the oil industry giants, there is no doubt about the reality of climate change.
- CO2 Emissions are Being 'Outsourced' by Rich Countries to Rising Economies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Greenhouse gas output of China and elsewhere is increased by making goods that are then used in the US and Europe.
- NHS Patient Data to be Made Available for Sale to Drug and Insurance Firms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Drug and insurance companies will from later this year be able to buy information on patients once a single English database of medical data has been created. Privacy experts warn there will be no way for public to work out who has their medical records or how they are using it.
- The Nigerians Who Dare to Speak of Love as a Tide of Anti-gay Hatred Rises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A new crackdown on gender minorities has led to arrests and fears of mob violence. But a brave few are still fighting for sexual freedom.
- Appalachia Rising
Which Side Are You On?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On January 9, 2014, a dangerous toxin, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, leaked from a busted tank and into the Elk River in West Virginia. It is believed that nearly 7,500 gallons of the toxin made its way from the 40,000-gallon tank into the river. This is a story too often told in Appalachia.
- Farming Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A simple agricultural technique could release farmers from the grip of agrochemical corporations. With no patents, no royalties and no licensing fees, this system just benefits the farmers.
- How the NSA Infiltrated Mexico's Computers
A Cyber Invasion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
NSA internal information provided by former security consultant and whistleblower Edward Snowden once again shows that Mexico features prominently as a target for massive U.S. espionage.
- A Journalist’s Death in Oaxaca
The Murder of Crime Reporter Alberto López Bello
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the Americas to practice journalism.
- The Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
A Midwest Gothic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Bizarre and gruesome moment in the life of Lawrence, Kansas should give pause to us all when we consider the small and the large of our own lives.
- Just How Bad Is Yelp's Fake Review Problem?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
You're probably aware of multiple controversial issues surrounding Yelp reviews. There are several to choose from. You have some businesses accusing the company of holding positive reviews hostage (with advertising being the ransom). You have a court ordering Yelp to turn over the identities of anonymous Yelp reviewers. You have people paying other people to write fake reviews, whether it's negative reviews for competitors or positive reviews for their own business.
- They poisoned the river for a 'clean coal' lie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thousands of gallons of a toxic chemical used to produce “clean coal”, spilled into Elk River, leaving 300,000 with no water supply.
- IFIC Announces New Chair and Board Appointments
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The board of directors of The Investment Funds Institute of Canada is pleased to announce that Brian Peters (MD Physician Services Inc.) was elected chair of IFIC's board, and Sian Burgess (Fidelity Investments) was elected first vice-chair, effect
- Mumia on COINTELPRO Activists and Other Ordinary Heroes
The Linear Ancestors of Edward Snowden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Mumia Abu-Jamal was one of hundreds of journalists who received in the mail a packet of covertly-copied COINTELPRO documents. They were sent by eight activists who broke into FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania in 1971—and whose identities just became known last week. The papers detailed names and activities of individuals he knew well for years, living and working closely together in communal spaces, who were FBI informants.
- The Saints Go Marching Out as the Face of Islam Hardens in Pakistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Sufi-influenced tradition of Barelvism, with its shrines, music and meditation, is reeling under an ideological assault from severe, Saudi-funded Wahhabism, religious leaders warn.
- Six Key Digital Marketing Resolutions for 2014: Unified Marketing, Data Activism, More...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is a short guide (6 aspects) to digital marketing. The article puts heavy emphasis on the use of digital analytic tools and big data management.
- The Franchise Show Returns to Montreal for Franchise Entrepreneurship Week
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Aspiring entrepreneurs can learn how to become small business owners through franchising at The Franchise Show in Montreal
- Lack of regulation behind West Virginia water disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A chemical spill at the Etowah River Terminal, near Charleston, West Virginia, resulted in nearly 300,000 people in the state losing access to drinkable water. Since then, several reports have been released detailing the decades-long lack of regulation by state or federal agencies of the site responsible.
- Manifesto
10 Theses of the Leftist Opposition in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Replacing one set of politicians and oligarchs with another without overall systemic changes will not improve Ukrainian's lives. Instead, the Left Opposition Collective, a group of social and union activists, is proposing ten basic conditions for overcoming the economic crisis and ensuring Ukraine’s future growth.
- Officers caught on video beating California homeless man to death acquitted of all charges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two former Fullerton, California police officers, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, are found not guilty in the killing of Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old schizophrenic living on the streets.
- Possible Implications of Faulty US Technical Intelligence in the Damascus Nerve Agent Attack of August 21, 2013
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An analysis of US Intelligence reports on the chemical agent attack in Damascus in August of 2013, demonstrating several errors and inconsistencies in the intelligence data.
- Top Ten Examples of Welfare for the Rich
Making a Killing Off the Tax Code
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Here are the top ten examples of corporate welfare and welfare for the rich. There are actually thousands of tax breaks and subsidies for the rich and corporations provided by federal, state and local governments but these ten will give a taste.
- Transgender oppression and resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Miles discusses how socialists approach the question of fighting oppressions like transphobia is not an abstract matter. It goes to the heart of how we work with oppressed groups and individuals such as trans people and how we persuade them to become part of building a mass united working class movement to overthrow capitalism and create a socialist society.
- 20 Years Since the Chiapas Rebellion
The Zapatistas, Their Politics and Impact
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Chiapas rebellion led by the Zapatistas took place 20 years ago this month. What was the importance of the rebellion and of the Zapatistas? What was the impact at the time? And what has been its political legacy? What is the role of the Zapatistas in Mexico today?
- Edge Effect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
'Edge Effect’ is a Permacultural design prinicipal which uses edge and natural patterns for best effect.
- J. Arch Getty, Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars and the Persistence of Tradition (Yale, 2013) (Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Review of Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars and the Persistence of Tradition by J. Arch Getty (Yale, 2013).
- Museum and Gallery Curators Reopen the Cabinet of Curiosities Concept
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Stuffed pelicans, bell-jarred oddities and unicorn horns: the wunderkammer – or 'cabinet of curiosities' – is a macabre, colonial throwback. So why is it back in vogue?
- The Other Public Humanities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Among the conclusions frequently drawn about the heavily reported "crisis in the humanities" is that humanities departments are woefully out of touch with today's students, with the new economy, with the public at large.
- John Ball Was Right!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
John Ball was a leader of the English Peasant Rebellion of 1381, also known as Wat Tyler's Rebellion from the name of another of its leaders. Ball was a priest at a time when the feudal society consisted largely of "villeins" and "gentlefolk".
- Review: Chris Rhomberg, The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor (2012)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Review on Chris Rhomberg's book 'The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor.'
- Eric Marshall laments closure of namesake Fisheries library
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The government seems to be saying 'We want to exploit our natural resources, whether it's natural gas or oil sands, and basically to heck with environmental impacts.'
- Climate Activists Slapped With Terrorism Charges for Devon Energy Protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two climate activists who staged a protest at the headquarters of Devon Energy, a Fortune 500 company based in Oklahoma city, have been charged with a “terrorism hoax” after black powder drifted down from a banner that they unfurled.
- Hackers stole personal information of up to 70 million people, says Target
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Theives may have stolen customers' credit and debit card information and made unauthorized charges over the holiday season.
- "It's not just 2 pesos; It's the country:" Mexico City's #PosMeSalto Movement Protests Rising Transit Costs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The author surveys the 2 peso transit fare hike in Mexico within the context of the country's suffering ecomomy and low living wage to showcase why the decision is a mistake.
- Journalist gets seven-year jail sentence for decade-old articles
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders condemns the seven-year jail sentence that a Dhaka court imposed today on former magazine editor Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury in connection with articles criticizing Islamism a decade ago.
- Ordeal continues for journalists detained in Egypt
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday's announcement by the Egyptian authorities that they are extending the provisional detention of three Al-Jazeera journalists for another 15 days.
- Silence of the Labs
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Scientists across the country are expressing growing alarm that federal cutbacks to research programs monitoring areas that range from climate change and ocean habitats to public health will deprive Canadians of crucial information.
- The Anti-Empire Report #124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of historical and current American imperialist activities.
- Canada's Science Library Closures Mirror Bush's Playbook
Similar moves by US Republican president met sharp backlash from 10,000 scientists.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Harper government is now eliminating seven Department of Fishery libraries containing one of the world's most comprehensive collections of information on fisheries, aquatic sciences and nautical sciences.
- DFO Library Closures Anger Scientific Community
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When word first broke that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was closing seven of their libraries, government officials promised that there would be no loss of vital historical material. Today many are skeptical of those claims.
- Dialectics, nature and the dialectics of nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Based on Frederick Engel's Dialectics of Nature, Camilla Royle's article asks if nature can be understood dialectically.
- Fighters against apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Alan Wieder's book "Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid" is a triumph, describing his subjects with compassion and criticism.
- Freedom Summer, 50 Years After
The Power of Stories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In his memoir, Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers, Memories of Mississippi 1964-65, Jim Dann put to paper the stories from his time in Mississippi 50 years ago, working as a young college student for fifteen months in Sunflower County to establish Freedom Schools and to help register African-Americans to vote.
- A history of struggle - book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In his review of "Neil Faulkner, A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals", Stone posits that Neil Faulkner’s history is one which, in the classical Marxist tradition, is both profoundly internationalist, and which celebrates the self-activity of the exploited and oppressed and their potential to shape the future.
- How Greens and Labor can Win ... Together
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activists and the New South Wales Labourers Federation by Meredith and Verity Burgmann (UNSW Press, 1998).
- The internet, social media and the workplace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Upchurch argues that the impact social media has on social movements is overestimated. Instead, it is imperative to focus on the impact of communication technology in the workplace, at the point of production, if we are to fully understand its implications.
- Intersectionality and black communist women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Erik S McDuffie's book "Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism and the Making of Black Left Feminism" looks to an especially marginalised group, black women in the United States who joined the Communist Party.
- Once more on left reformism: A reply to Ed Rooksby
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Paul Blackledge replies to Ed Rooksby’s arguements about left reformism.
- A "Trot of the milder persuasion": Raymond Challinor's Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This essay aims to give a sense of Challinor's creativity as a Marxist historian and political activist. It suggests that The Origins of British Bolshevism perhaps reveals some of the limitations of Challinor's own slightly abstract and propagandist model of what "Bolshevism" represented. But it also signifies his distinctive and outstanding contribution.
- Europe's Leaders Visit Athens to Celebrate Their Failure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The start of Greece's six-month presidency of the EU was marked by a ceremony in the Greek capital attended by the EU commissioners. But protests were banned and there was no in-depth talk about the raging controversy over the bloc's handling of the Greek debt crisis and the renewed concerns about the vitality of the Eurozone.
- Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Science Journalism
Total Information Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Good journalism examines its sources critically, it takes nothing at face value, places its topics in a historical context, and it values above all the public interest. Such journalism is, most people agree, essential to any equitable and open system of government. The science media has somehow escaped serious attention. This is unfortunate because no country in the world has a healthy science media.
- German police declare parts of Hamburg "no-go zone"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Early Saturday morning, police in the northern German city of Hamburg declared the entire district of St. Pauli and large parts of Altona, Eimsbuettel and Sternschanze to be a "no-go zone." The announcement of such a broad "no-go area" is unprecedented in German post-war history. In such areas police officers are entitled to arbitrarily check and search any individual and demand they leave the zone.
- One in five Israelis lives in poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With just over 8 million people, Israel has over 1.7 million, more than 20 percent of the population, living below the poverty line, according to the latest report issued by the National Insurance Institute (NII) and the Central Bureau of Statistics. Issued in December, the figures relate to 2012 and will have worsened since then.
- PBS's Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913 commemorates Michigan's bitter labor past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
One hundred years ago, a major strike by copper miners was continuing in the Keweenaw Peninsula, which protrudes into Lake Superior in northern Michigan. In the middle of the months-long battle against intransigent mine owners, at least 73 people, mostly children, were killed in a horrific incident at a celebration on Christmas Eve in 1913.
- Winstanley’s Ecology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Largely forgotten for much of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the communist thought of Winstanley was rediscovered by German and Russian Marxists in the late nineteenth century.
- Battle of the Somme: the horrific epitome of the first world war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Thousands of men who went over the top that morning thought they would meet little resistance. 57,000 were dead or wounded by the end of the day.
- A contemporary account of the German pogroms of November 1938
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Shortly after the November 1938 pogroms, journalist and historian Konrad Heiden wrote a work entitled Night Oath, in which he gave a detailed account of the horrific events marking the transition from social discrimination to the systematic brutalization and persecution of Jews in Germany.
- Four Al-Jazeera journalists arrested arbitrarily in Cairo
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of four Al-Jazeera journalists by the Egyptian secret police in Cairo and calls for their immediate and unconditional release.
- Honduras and the dirty war fuelled by the west's drive for clean energy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The palm oil magnates are growing ever more trees for use in biofuels and carbon trading. But what happens to the subsistence farmers who live on the lucrative land?
- IFJ/EFJ Call on Montenegrin Authorities to Protect Media Freedom Following Attacks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have expressed their dismay after learning that an explosive device was discovered in the offices of the Vijesti daily newspaper in Montenegro.
- Israel's education system peddles intolerance and lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
John Kerry spent last week testing the waters with the Israelis and the Palestinians over his so-called framework agreement – designed to close the gaps between the two sides. But the issues he is trying to resolve appear more intractable by the day.
- A Short History of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
Challenging the Two Parties of Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party was the most successful labor party in United States history. The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Association, a grouping of associated unions and farmers, provided the organic connection between labor and the party.
- Undocumented Labour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Pregnant refugee and non-status women are facing growing difficulties in accessing pre & post-natal care. Some doula's in Montreal are helping to fix that situation.
- Undocumented Labour: Changes to refugee health care put women and babies at risk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Pregnant refugee and non-status women are facing growing difficulties in accessing pre & post-natal care. Some doula's in Montreal are helping to fix that situation.
- Voluntary Simplicity And The Steady-State Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Voluntary simplicity is most basically characterized by the practices of mindfulness and material sufficiency. Through bringing mindfulness to our daily lives, we seek the maximum of well-being achievable through the minimum of material consumption. Well-being applies to all life forms on Earth, not just people.
- What Is the Common Good?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Humans are social beings, and the kind of creature that a person becomes depends crucially on the social, cultural and institutional circumstances of his life. We are therefore led to inquire into the social arrangements that are conducive to people's rights and welfare, and to fulfilling their just aspirations - in brief, the common good.
- Why History Makes Us Important
Back to Bachima
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
History has been important to me for as long as I can remember. As a child I loved hearing my relatives tell stories about the past. However, it was not until I was older that I realized that the stories meant something; they were key to understanding the present; and why we are what we are. As my awareness increased, I became serious about the past so serious that it often got me into trouble.
- World War One and the rehabilitation of slaughter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Damaged by Iraq, ground down in Afghanistan, defeated over Syria, the jingoistic right are determined to rewrite the history of the First World War in an effort to rehabilitate imperialist war in the early 21st century.
- Would as Many as 1 Million Be Alive if the Media Had Done Its Job
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is a transcript of John Pilger's contribution to a special edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Today' program, guest-edited by the artist and musician PJ Harvey.
- Are We Being Driven Like Cattle?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As we stand in line for security checks at airports, we may have the distinct feeling that we are being herded like cattle. The purpose of the charade is not so much to prevent airliners from being sabotaged as it is to keep the idea of terrorism fresh in our minds.
- The future is agroecology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology - farming based on ecological principles, taking account of the interdependence of all living things.
- Not Your Mother's Electrolux
Planned Obsolescence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Documentary goes on to present new evidence on the school of engineers who were driven by the market and who were clearly interested in making the most disposable product that they could. Electrolux began selling its vacuum cleaners in the UK.
- Paraguay: Women at the Center of Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The headquarters of Conamuri is a gentle place that combines work with intimacy, like the campesino life that in some way it reproduces. The experience of Conamuri is great. They make their own rules and follow them in an educated way, not aggressively, but responsibly and with commitment. Although it may hurt, they tell us things to our face.
- Science and liberation
Science as human curiosity, as authority, and as business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The conservative movement’s attack on science has several prongs. Where they can attain government office, as in Canada, they use the highly effective tools of funding and de-funding, and regulation and de-regulation, to control government scientists and embolden private interests. The goal is to transfer power and resources from public services and public science to private institutions, while often appealing to moral and religious doctrines in the process.
- WikiLeaks: Conspiracy of Governance to the Courage to Inspire
The Moral Math of Our Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
WikiLeaks emerged into the limelight like a call to the conscience of humanity. They released secret documents revealing Kenyan government corruption, Iceland’s financial collapse, the criminality of US wars in the Middle East and more. Their very existence and what they revealed called into question the legitimacy of imperial power structures around the world.
- Bahrain: Well-known photographer held for past week, beaten
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of Ahmed Al-Fardan, an award-winning photojournalist who has been held without charge in Bahrain for the past week.
- First Journalist Killed in 2014: IFJ Condemns Murder of Pakistan Journalist Shan Dahar
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists has called on authorities in Pakistan to carry out an immediate investigation into the murder of journalist Shan Dahar (Odhor) in the Badha area of the country's Larkana district.
- Gambia: Bans lifted on two media, but much still to be done
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders takes note of a New Year's Day announcement by the president's office lifting bans on The Standard newspaper and Teranga FM community radio station. The bans had been in effect for more than 16 months.
- Great moments in satire: a love note to the haters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An article by Hugh Goldring about Great Moments in Leftism, a comic strip that highlights the often absurd nature of the radical left.
- Journalists persecuted by judges in Rostov-on-Don
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The release of Mikhail Khodorkovski, Pussy Riot and Greenpeace activists must not divert attention from the many other threats to fundamental freedoms in Russia.
- Legal Ruling Will Allow Rain Forest Indigenous Peoples to Pursue Chevron in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ontario Court of Appeal says communities of Ecuador affected by Chevron can enforce Ecuadorian rulings in Canada.
- Looking back in anger - The Miners' Strike 30 years on
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With new papers released by the National Archives about the Miners’ Strike Chris Strafford caught up with Harry Paterson, author of the upcoming book Look Back in Anger: The Miners’ Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 years on, to discuss what we have learnt.
- Peter Rosenthal’s passions for law and math make for a beautiful, if different, life
At 72, lawyer and professor is still in love with his two jobs and says he plans to work until he dies.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Peter Rosenthal has died several times. Once he died in court when his heart stopped. Each time doctors brought him back. Now he is dying a different death in front of a University of Toronto math class.
- "If not now, when?" On BDS and 'singling out' Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This is an edited version of a letter I've sent to a relative in the US who's been trying to figure out the BDS issue in the wake of the recent onslaught against the American Studies Association's decision to support the academic boycott.
- Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without Hypnosis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- 2013: Another Year Of Slaughter In Iraq Claims The Lives Of At Least 21 Media Professionals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Iraq , at least 404 media professionals have been killed since the US invasion in 2003, among them 374 Iraqis, according to The B Russell Tribunal statistics. The impunity in Iraq is far worse than anywhere else in the world.
- IFIC Congratulates New Chair of CIFSC
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada congratulates Reid Baker on his election as chair of the Canadian Investment Funds Standards Committee (CIFSC), effective January 1, 2014.
- Adjusting to a shrinking booth size
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When budget for exhibitions is slashed, booth size is often a factor that is reduced. Here are some ways one could deal with such a change.
- African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
To Anderson Abbott, the American Civil War was "a war for humanity," a battle "between civilization and barbarism." It was also a struggle that the first Canadian-born black doctor in present-day Ontario felt compelled to join as a surgeon in the Union army.
- Against Our Better Judgement
How the U.S. was used to create Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An account of how U.S. support enabled the creation of modern Israel, and of how U.S. politicians pushed this policy over the forceful objections of top diplomatic and military experts.
- Against the Grain: The British far left from 1956
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Against the Grain views the "far-left" as anything to the left of the British Labour Party. This includes the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), Red Action, the Socialist Party (SP), the SWP, other left groupings and anarchist groups.
- American Revolutionary
The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A documentary about the ideas and activism of 98-year-old Grace Lee Boggs, covering her lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labour to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. Boggs’s constantly evolving strategy -- her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her -- drives the story forward.
- Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Dixon examines the trajectory of efforts that contributed to the radicalism of Occupy Wall Street and other recent movement upsurges. He presents the histories and principles that shape many contemporary struggles.
- Are mobile show guides the way of the future?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Technology has made it possible to bring trade show exhibiting one step closer to being environmentally friendly by switching from paper to electronics. It is now possible to put the entire show guide on one user friendly app. This can also provide companies with "Big Data"
- Austerity Against Democracy
An Authoritarian Phase of Neoliberalism?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- The Battle for Justice in Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ali Abunimah takes a comprehensive look at the shifting tides of the politics of Palestine and the Israelis in a neoliberal world?and makes a compelling and surprising case for why the Palestine solidarity movement just might win. He provides an effective strategy for advancing the struggle for a just, single-state solution in Palestine.
- Beautiful Trouble - Pocket Edition
A Toolbox for Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Ideas for organizers.
- Bethune in Spain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
After getting divorced, being diagnosed with tuberculosis, and failing to introduce medicare to Canada, Norman Bethune left this country. In 1935, the Spanish Civil War began, and Bethune, who supported the Rupublican government during the war, was determined to offer his medical services. He went on to become recognized internationally as a surgeon and for creating and operating a mobile blood transfusion unit.
- Biggest rises and falls in the 2014 world press freedom index
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The 2014 World Press Freedom Index spotlights the negative impact of conflicts on freedom of information and its protagonists.
- Black History and the Class Struggle
#24
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- The Black War
Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Clements' book presents the Black War as a horrifying and brutal guerrilla war of attrition. It not only led to the virtual extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines, it also took many hundred colonial lives and impacted on every colonial family in Tasmania. Yet unlike the first world war, it is barely recognised today as a major event in Australian history.
- Black Workers, Fordism and the UAW
Book Review of Bates's "The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of Beth Tompkins Bates's analysis of how the automotive industry provided an opportunity for African Americans to fight for equal working rights, unionize, and forge an alliance with white workers.
- The Boats of Jamaica Bay
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Jamaica Bay, a natural, wetland area between Brooklyn and Queens, was devastated by Hurricane Sandy. This invisive doc shows the efforts of community to repair the damage done by the storm.
- The Bonobo Way
The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Author Susan Block writes: "The most revolutionary way bonobos use sex is for conflict resolution. It’s the main reason why these apes are my heroes."
- Born in Gaza
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Born in Gaza provides an intimate, deep look of how violence transforms the lives of ten children in Gaza.
- Breadking the Grid, Making Our Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Yang provides a reading of E.P. Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class" through the lens of contemporary and historical working-class revolutions and struggles.
- Cabbagetown museum gets new premises: leaves Farm in May
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Cabbagetown Regent Park Community Museum has a new home. Thanks to the generosity of a group of anonymous benefactors, the museum has acquired ownership of the property at 296 Gerrard St E.
- Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Capitalism Must Die! A basic introduction to capitalism: what it is, why it sucks, and how to crush it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Text combined with comics explain in simple terms what capitalism is, how it works, why it's irredeemable, and what we can do to end it.
- The Cat at the Wall
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The first English- language biography of Paul Otlet.
- Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book on literary censorship and the role that states have played in it.
- CitizenFour
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).
- The City Is Ours
Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Through the compilation of the local movement histories of eight different cities, including Amsterdam and Berlin, along with underdocumented cities such as Poznan and Athens, the City Is Ours paints a broad and complex picture of Europe's squatting and autonomous movements.
- Civil Rights, Poverty and Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Oppenheimer examines poverty in the United Stated during the 20th century and analyses the power structures that have prevented improvements to the basic living standards in American society.
- Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Mark Cocker describes the wildlife and weather close to the village of Claxton.
- C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A chronicles of the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C. L. R. James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. It reveals the radicalizing effect of this critical period on James's intellectual and political trajectory.
- A Code of Conduct for New Technology at Exhibitions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Though extremely helpful in almost every respect, technology can also result in the formation of some bad behavioural habits, including ignoring your visitors at trade show booths. Siskind provides a list of Do's and Don'ts with respect to technology etiquette at trade shows.
- Collective Courage
A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality.
- Command and Control
Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Schlosser uncovers the secrets about the (mis-)management of America's nuclear arsenal.
- Congo: Africa's oldest National Park under violent attack by UK oil company
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2014
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Contra Hardt and Negri
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- The Contradictions of Media Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Combining an evaluation of both previous literature and new research, the book seeks to establish an understanding of media power which does justice to the complexities and contradictions of the contemporary social world.
- The core qualities of an exhibit manager
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Exhibit managers have to deal with many discouraging events in their line of work. For this reason, successful managers tend to have series of specific character traits that help them cope with their work.
- Cowspiracy
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An examination of the livestock industry and how it contributes to animal extinctions, greenhouse gasses, and deforestation.
- Create a Meaningful and Memorable Trade Show Pitch - The Goldilocks Effect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An article outlining measures that can be taken that can help optimize your trade show pitch. The author emphasizes the importance of including "just the right amount" of information.
- Cutting through the clutter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Exhibitions can be overwhelming to visitors, as the amount of information is often overwhelming to them. Exhibitors need to consider this, and take measures to ensure that they can provide clear easily digestible information to the visitors. Siskind provides ways that one can achieve this.
- The Dark Horse
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Dark Horse is a 2014 New Zealand drama film written and directed by James Napier Robertson and starring Cliff Curtis and James Rolleston.
- Davy the Punk
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Bob Bossin's story of his father's life in Toronto's gambling underworld of the 1930s and 1940s.
- The Death and Life of American Labor
Toward a New Workers' Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Aronowitz narrates the decline of the American union movement, the workers' struggles in taking the long view of the labour movement, and how can unions revive.
- Decrease the no-show rate of pre-booked appointments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Here are some tried and true tactics that exhibitors have employed in the past that has helped reinforce the value in the meeting and greatly reduced the rate of no-shows.
- Disseminating information to trade show visitors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Distributing information to visitors of a trade show is often wasteful and unproductive. Here are some tips that can be used to improve returns.
- Do all booth staffers need continuing education?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If your booth staff does what they always did, they will get what you always got. If they want better results for your exhibition investment they are going to have to do something differently. Your investment in their continuing education can reap huge rewards.
- Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book that tries to understand why people are so prone to deny or ignore the reality of climate change.
- Down With Tory Crackdown on Prostitution!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Tories, who have slashed billions from social programs and caused immeasurable harm to poor and working-class women, have fraudulently promoted Bill C-36 as a way of protecting victims of "exploitation." In this they are backed by an unholy alliance of right-wing outfits like REAL Women of Canada and the feminist groups that make up the Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution.
- Drug War Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Drug War story throughout the entire region of Latin America and back to US boardrooms and political offices. This book chronicles how terror is used against the population to generate panic and facilitate policy changes that benefit the international private sector, particularly extractive industries like petroleum and mining.
- Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Senior draws on diverse sources such as journals, books, songs, sayings, literature and testimonies to answer questions surrounding those who went to Panama.
- Ease your way through international borders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
If you need to move product across international lines for your trade show, an ATA carnet can provide a means of doing so with less hassle. This article provides more information on this.
- Ecuador's Bitter Choice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Becker analyzes the politics behind the decision to extract petroleum from Ecuador's ecologically fragile Yasuní National Park.
- The Enemy Within
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In 1984, a conservative government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared war on Britain's unions, including the National Union of Mineworkers. The government began to close coal mines, threatening the industry, whole communities and a way of life. When 160,000 coal miners stood up for what they believed in, they began the longest strike in British history, the 1984-85 Minter's Strike.
- E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left
Essays and Polemics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Collection of essays advocating for humanistic and democratic socialism along with the value of utopian thinking in radical politics.
- Europe's Landscape Is Still Scarred by World War I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Slideshow of Photographer Michael St. Maur Sheil's "Fields of Battle-Lands of Peace"
- The E-Waste Tragedy
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The E-Waste Tragedy takes the viewer on a journey to Europe, China, Africa and the US, revealing a toxic global trade of electronic waste that makes its way illegally into lower income countries, destroying landscapes and endangering lives.
- Farmageddon
The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An investigation and implication of the global industrial farming industry.
- Farming Without Water
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This film explores Palestinian agriculture in the Jordan Valley in the context of limited access to water.
- Fed Up
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An examination of America's obesity epidemic and the food industry's role in aggravating it.
- Fifty years ago, Cassius Clay ‘shook up the world’ by winning the heavyweight title – and
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The victory of the underdog who became Muhammad Ali – and how it wasn't just sport's hierarchies that were rocked by it. On the night of February 25, 1964, the 22 year old Cassius Clay defeated the supposedly undefeatable Sonny Liston to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
- Find new display ideas with your Expo Eyes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Sometimes, looking at other exhibitions could give you a fresh perspective, and some insight on things you can do to improve your own, even if they are not in a similar area.
- Freak Out
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This qirky and fascinating documentary employs interviews, animation, archiwal footage and reenactment to reveal the untold story of the origins of the counter-culture movement that started over 100 years ago with a group of radical thinkers in Monte Verita in Switzerland.
- Free and Accessible Transit Now
Toward a Red-Green Vision for Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The free transit model makes public transit a right of all people, which would dramatically increase its use. While serving he vast majority of Torontonians and strengthening the public sector's role in meeting their needs, it would also address the special mobility requirements of the last mobile and most public-transit-dependent.
- Freedom National
The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Oakes revisits the process of emancipation and the forces behind the incentives and threats that eventually led to the end of slavery in the U.S.
- Freedom Now Vision Unfinished
Book Review of LeBlanc and Yates's "A Freedom Budget for All Americans"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Miah critiques LeBlanc and Yates' analysis of the Civil Rights Revolution, in light of the fact that the Freedom Budget issued during this time remains unfulfilled.
- Freedom Summer Remembered
Interview with Walter Kaufman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Walter Kaufman is a retired attorney, psychotherapist and former community college teacher living in Berkeley, California. He was a participant in the 1964 Freedom Summer, working in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Against the Current editor David Finkel interviewed him for the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer project.
- A fresh approach to recruiting booth staff
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Booth staff are an important aspect of exhibit quality. Provided are some challenges one may face with staff, and tips on how to improve quality of this aspect of exhibits.
- Fund It
IFEX Campaign Toolkit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Find the money to get the work done.
- Gamify my Booth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
With the rise of Genxers and millenials in trade shows today, sequestering visitors may require a radical change. Why not incorporate elements of games in your booth.
- Gazonto
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
What would Israel's attack on Gaza in 2014 look like if it took place in Toronto?
- A German Lenin?
Book Review of "In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi" edited by David Fernbach
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of the compiled writings of Paul Levi, a leading figure in the German Communist movement.
- Grasslands
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Grasslands is a meditation on the unique natural habitat of mixed-grass prairie throughout the four seasons, from the perspective of the ranchers, conservationists, and First Nations people invested in the ecological well-being of the region.
- Greece 1940s: A Revolution Betrayed
Fruits of Stalinist Class Collaboration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The sharp polarization of Greek society has brought the memories of the Civil War in the 1940s, where workers and peasants under the leadership of the Communist Party (KKE) opposed the Greek ruling class. Seven decades later, these events remain a living part of the consciousness of the working class.
- The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A sweeping, authoritative history of the expansion of slavery in America, showing how forced migrations radically altered the nation's economic, political, and cultural landscape.
- Harold Pinter: Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth & Poetics
Art, Truth & Poetics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A lecture given by the 2005 recipient of the Nobel Pize for Literature, Harold Pinter. The lecture reflects on the concept of "truth" in regard to a creative process.
- The harsh realities of lead follow-up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Obtaining lead information is suffering in quality. Following-up on those leads is also suffering, with two-thirds of follow-ups involing non-face-to-face methods. If your returns are suffering, it may be due to how you handle your lead follow-ups
- Hermitage Revealed
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is one of the largest and most visited museums in the world, holding over 3 million works of art in stunning architectural settings.
- The Hidden History of the Equal Rights Amendment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Origins and history of the debate over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Feminist supporters of the ERA had been divided over the issue of whether this legislation should be extended to men as part of the ERA or whether a "pure" ERA should be the goal of the feminist movement.
- How Human Rights Can Build Haiti
Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A cataclysmic earthquake, revolution, corruption, and neglect have all conspired to strangle the growth of a legitimate legal system in Haiti. But as How Human Rights Can Build Haiti demonstrates, the story of lawyers-activists on the ground should give us all hope.
- How I Stopped Being a Jew
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Sand, an Israeli historian, does not examine Judaism as a religion, but focuses on the question of Jewish ethnicity. Through historical and political analysis, Sand examines the implications of embracing the identity tag "secular Jew" in the 21st century. The crux of the issue for Sand is whether there is such an entity as secular Judaism.
- How to Jump-Start Your Union
Lessons from the Chicago Teachers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
How to Jump-Start Your Union tells how activists transformed their union and gave members hope. Readers will learn how to run for office, work with their communities, build stewards' networks, train new leaders, run a contract campaign, and strike.
- I Met Lucky People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Matras provides a comprehensive account of Romani culture, language, and history.
- Imagine
Living in a Socialist USA
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA is at once an indictment of American capitalism as the root cause of our spreading dystopia and a cri di coeur for what life could be like in the United States if we had economic as well as a real political democracy. It features thirty-one essays by revolutionary thinkers and activists on various aspects of a new society and, crucially, on how to get from where we are now to where we want to be, living in a society that is truly fair and just.
- The Impact of Colour in your Exhibition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The use of colour can make or break your trade show exhibit. This article outlines some factors one should consider before choosing what colours to use in an exhibit.
- In an era of wars and revolution: American socialist cartoons of the mid-twentieth century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The cartoons collected in this book depict US politics, workers' struggles, Jim Crow racism, the Roosevelt New Deal, and Stalinism at its height, as revolutionary socialists saw them at the time.
- Incorporate Surprise into Your Exhibition Plans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Including the element of surprise in your trade show exhibit can be an effective marketing strategy. Here are some ideas you can use to accomplish this.
- The Invisibility of Fascism in the Postwar United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Vials examines the use of the term "fascism" in post-war United States politics since the Tea Party have twisted its meaning to denote a left-wing phenomenon.
- Is the Swiss Health Care System a Model for the United States?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Is your booth staff ready for an attitude adjustment?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
While your gut instinct may be to focus on the sale, especially since there is tremendous pressure to perform, Siskind challenges you to focus on the relationship with the visitors instead. This may result in an increase in sale performance.
- Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Kneen describes his book as his “political theological autobiography.” The book is a personal life-story with a focus on the 1950s and '60s, coming from someone who was active in the peace and social justice movements in the USA and Canada over the past 5 decades or so. It starts with an inside story of the New Left and the peace and Civil Rights movements in North America, and the Prague-based Christian Peace Conference, and continues with his life as a farmer and writer in Canada.
- Kill the Messenger
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Land & Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Explores humanity's contradictory relationship with the environment: our role in destroying nature, and our potential to for positive change.
- Last Harvest
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Last Harvest follows the riveting journey of an elderly Chinese farming couple whose relocation is imminent as a result of China's controversial South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the largest of its kind in the world. Wang captures a remarkable and engaging human story at the intersection of connection and disconnection from land and culture and of old and new China.
- Lenin's Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917
The Ballot, the Streets - or Both
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Nimtz details Lenin's efforts to guide the electroal strategy of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in the Third and Fourth State Dumas.
- Lenin's Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels Through the Revolution of 1905
The Ballot, the Streets - or Both
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This book explores the time in which Lenin developed his attitude to electoral strategy, beginning with the Marxist roots of Lenin's politics, and then detailing his efforts to lead the deputies of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in the First and Second State Dumas, concluding with Russia's first experiment in representative institutions from 1906 to 1907.
- Lessons for the First-Time Exhibitor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Exhibiting works. All the data produced by industry associations backs this statement up. But what the research fails to mention is that profit does not come automatically. It is the result of lots of hard work and planning. If you are considering attending your first trade show here are a few pointers that will keep you on track.
- Letter Regarding Canada’s Extradition Law and the Case of Dr. Hassan Diab
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In light of the case of Hassan Diab, a Canadian citizen under threat of extradition to France, we, the undersigned, call on the Federal Minister of Justice to substantially revise current Canadian extradition law. We further demand that the Federal Minister of Justice refuse the request from France that Dr. Hassan Diab be extradited, a refusal that ought to have been rendered six years ago when this nightmare began.
- A Line in the Tar Sands
Struggles for Environmental Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to quite explicitly marry concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet.
- The Look of Silence
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Look of Silence (Indonesian: Senyap, "Silence") is a 2014 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer about the Indonesian killings of 1965–66. The film is a companion piece to Oppenheimer's 2012 documentary The Act of Killing.
- Making Their Own Freedom
Book Review of Rediker's "The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of Rediker's re-centering of The Amistad Revellion toward a bottom-up perspective from that of the African slaves involved.
- Manufacturing Bankruptcy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The authors analyze the politics behind Detroit's manufactured bankruptcy through an analysis of capitalism's expropriation of assets in order to produce wealth -- a process that is at the expense of the working-class majority.
- Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A narrative account of the Paris Commune.
- The Monkey's Voyage
How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In The Monkey's Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz describes a radical new view of how fragmented distributions came into being, arguing that different species were not simply constrained by continental fate but were rather the makers of their own geographic destiny.
- Montreal spends $110,000 on private lawyers to fight challenge to anti-protest bylaw
There's room for austerity around everything except repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As the city of Montreal tightens its belt-buckle and is cutting budgets, two Montrealers who are challenging the city's regulations around demonstrations are questioning the amount of resources the city is putting in to defend the bylaws.
- Much Has Been Said...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In the wake of Nelson Mandela, Finkel brings attention to contemporary political activists being imprisoned by their governments.
- Nelson Mandela's Long Walk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A look at Nelson Mandela's book, "Long Walk to Freedom" in the context of the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1980s.
- The 'Neverendum'? A History of Referendums and Independence
An overview of the history of independence referendums
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Next year's referendum on Scottish independence raises many questions. Do countries have the right to hold referendums? Should they hold them? Does the wording of the question determine the outcome? Who wins?
- New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class-Struggle Unionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book that compiles workers struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North.
- Noble Illusions: Young Canada Goes to War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Short book about how boys in the early twentieth century were conditioned to go to war.
- On E.P. Thompson's Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In a tribute to E.P. Thompson, Cohen gives insights into his work "The Making of the English Working Class" regarding its valuable focus on the self-activity and self-organization of the people.
- Onactasowin
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Onactasowin is a short story of three youth that highlights a vision for their community that is free of waste and deforestation.
- One River Many Relations
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Alberta Oil Sands are one of the world's most controversial industrial developments. They are the target of high profile protests and debate around the globe. One essential voice is largely excluded from discourse on the issue - the voice of downstream Indigenous communities.
- The Only Metric that Really Matters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A discution on what metrics are truly important with respect to trade show exhibitions.
- Organizing Immigrant Labour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Barriers to unionizing the smelter workers of Trail, British Columbia, during the Second World War.
- Organizing that Changed Mississippi
Book Review of Salter Jr.'s "Jackson Mississippi" and Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of two books about the Mississippi's civil rights movement in 1965 from the perspectives of an African-American female student and a Native American male professor.
- Our association recommends [censored]
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The CAJ recently sent a letter to the Treasury Board President (Tony Clement) on how the federal government can be more transparent and accountable.
- Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A global history of communisim in the twentieth century.
- Palestine Speaks
Narratives of Life Under Occupation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has been one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises for over four decades. In this oral history collection, men and women from Palestine—including a fisherman, a settlement administrator, and a marathon runner—describe in their own words how their lives have been shaped by the historic crisis.
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- Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Four essays making up a short book on where the history of media and technology overlap.
- Petition in Support of Letter: Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Plant, Pick & Eat It
Wenn ein Garten wächst
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A group of neighbours in Kassel, Germany come together to transform a public space into a community garden. The film explores both the positive human impacts of the initiative and the subsequent resistance by the city to allowing the garden to continue.
- Plant This Movie
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A documentary which encourages people to use green spaces to grow vegetables instead of grass. The film explores urban gardening in cities including Havana, Shanghai, Calcutta, Addis Ababa, Lima, New York, New Orleans, and London.
- Poison Spring
The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Vallianatos and Jenkins, after a 25-year stint at the Environmental Protection Agency, pull back the curtain on the watchdog agency's failure to guard public safety and monitor land use due to steady erosion of its enforcement practices.
- Police Terror in the Big Apple
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Scott exposes the realities of police brutality and the character of organized opposition in New York City.
- Populism: What, Why, How?
Preface to European Populism and Winning the Immigration Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Preface to a new book on European Populism and Winning the Immigration Debate.
- Postcolonial Thought's Blind Alley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Throughout the 20th century, the anchor for anti-colonial movements was, at least for the left, a belief that oppression was wrong wherever it was practised, because it was an affront to basic human needs for dignity, liberty, wellbeing. But now, in the name of anti-Eurocentrism, postcolonial theory has resurrected the cultural essentialism that progressives rightly viewed as the ideological justification for imperial domination. What better excuse to deny peoples their rights than to impugn the idea of rights, and universal interests, as culturally biased? No revival of an international and democratic left is possible unless we clear away these ideas, affirming the universalism of our common humanity, and of the threat to it from a universalising capitalism.
- Pride
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Based on a true story, the film depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners' strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign.
- The Pristine Coast
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Director Renyard has created a devastating account of how fish farms have upset the ecosystem on the West Coast. Styled like an essay, the film argues against unregulated aquaculture industries.
- The Promised Land
History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Promised Land presents the everyday lives of individuals and families in the Chatham-Kent area of Ontario and highlights early cross-border activism to end slavery in the United States.
- Protecting the Girl Child
Using the Law to End Child Marriage, Early and Forced Marriage and Related Human Rights Violations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The report states that child marriage of legitimizes human rights violations and abuses of girls under the pretense of culture, honour, and religion.
- Publicity and the Canadian State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A collection examining the state's relationship with public practices and the "permanent campaign," the constant search for politicians and their strategists for popular consent.
- QR Codes Can Create Greater Trade Show Impact
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Advances in technology are resulting in changes in ways we might traditionally do things. QR codes can now be used in trade shows to improve the way we disseminate information to booth visitors.
- Questions reveal the underlying needs of your trade show visitors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In order to establish a successful exhibition, it is important to prioritize the needs of visitor. An effective way to do this is by creating a list of questions that help booth staff get into the mind of their visitors. Siskind describes his ACTION approach.
- Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Today, fewer than 7% of American private-sector workers belong to a union and public employee collective bargaining has been dealt devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. This book argues that labour can be revived with social movement unionism that involves raising worker's expectations.
- The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Across the United States, fracking -- the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing -- is being touted as the answer to energy independence and a fix for a flagging economy. Drilling companies assure us that the process is safe, politicians push through drilling legislation without a serious public-health debate, and those who speak out are marginalized, their silence purchased by gas companies and their warnings about the dangers of fracking stifled.
- Rear-View Mirror: A Snapshot of Toronto Activist Art (1976-1996)
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A snapshot of Toronto activist art from the 1976 general strike to the 1996 Days of Action.
- Recommendations on the right to be forgotten
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On the problems for the protection of freedom of expression and the right to information posed by the right to be removed from search engine results and, more broadly, the right to be forgotten. Privacy and freedom of expression are fundamental rights of equal value. Whenever one conflicts with the other, a balance must be reached under a judge’s authority because, as a matter of principle, one cannot be given more importance than the other.
- Recording quality lead information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Advances in technology means that fewer people use manual lead sheets to record lead information. If you are going to use technology, ensure you have prepared for the problems highlighted in this article. Some times manual lead sheets are more effective.
- A Red Metamorphosis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The following essay has been written and published in response to increasing requests from researchers for information on the background and development of historian Terry Irving and his approach to history.
- Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Nadine Hubbs looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America's most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music. Skillfully weaving historical inquiry with an examination of classed cultural repertoires and close listening to country songs, Hubbs confronts the shifting and deeply entangled workings of taste, sexuality, and class politics.
- Reducing exhibit costs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The economy is in shambles, and trade show exhibition returns have taken a hit, often resulting in budget cuts to exhibits. Provided are a list of strategies that can be used to reduce exhibit costs.
- Reducing your exhibit's ecological footprint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Creating an exhibit can often be environmentally unfriendly. Here are some things you can do to ensure that your footprint remains reasonable.
- Remembering Mississippi, 1964-65
Interview with Claudia Morcom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Dianne Feeley and David Finkel from the ATC editorial board spoke with Judge Morcom about her work in Mississippi during Freedom Summer 1964 and subsequently from September 1964 through October 1965, as Southern Regional Director for the National Lawyers Guild’s program of legal assistance for civil rights workers.
- Resister
A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An insider's account of the antiwar and student protest movements of the sixties and a look at the prison experiences of Vietnam-era draft resisters.
- Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
About Zatoun, which brings Plaestinian olive oil to Canada.
- Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil - Korean text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Reve/cauchemar: Allende's Chile and the Polarization of the Quebec Left in the 1970s
MA Thesis,Queen's University, 2014
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir
Volume 1, Canada 1955-1965
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The first volume of long-time Canadian revolutionary socialist Ernie Tate's memoir.
- Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir
Volume 2, Britain 1965-1970
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The second volume of long-time Canadian revolutionary socialist Ernie Tate's memoir.
- Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The story of the building of a hospital in Ciriboya, Honduras -- an authentic, grass-roots, community development project, from the initial community meetings, the organized planning, the community defense committees, to the actual bricks, mortar and staffing. The viewer of Revolutionary Medicine is guided through the process in a series of compelling interviews with doctors, patients and community protagonists.
- Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements, including on efforts to increase the minimum wage for workers.
- The Rise of British Imperialism
Part II: Capitalism and Slavery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
On the ascent of Britain as the first modern imperialist power.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Economics for a New Socialist Project
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reading Marx’ Capital today leaves the same impression as reading Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital. One wonders whether Marx and Luxemburg really wrote their books more than one hundred years ago. If not for their historical references to English industrialization and nineteenth-century imperialism, one might think they were written as analyses of neoliberal globalization from the late twentieth century until today.
- Safety first at a trade show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Achieving great results at a trade show also includes the health and safety of all. Making sure everyone is doing their part is an important part of doing it right. Here are some tips on how to prepare for potentially hazardous situations.
- A Saga of Revolution
Book Review of Reiss' "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of Tom Reiss' biography of Alexandre Dumas, a largely underemphasized figure in the French Revolution and the slave trade during the 18th century.
- Sailing on the Bodacious Bowdoin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When floating history in the form of an 88-year-old Arctic schooner arrived in Corner Brook, residents took full advantage of public viewings and harbour sails offered at the conclusion of the Celebrating Bartlett 2009 Ports Program.
- Selma (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay, based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. of SCLC and John Lewis of SNCC.
- Book Review: Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
David Harvey has three aims in Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (SCEC). First and mainly he wants to schematically analyze the contradictions of capital, the 'economic engine' driving the particular social formation capitalism. Second, he seeks to draw-out that analysis's implications for anti-capitalist politics dedicated to creating a world substantially more democratic, egalitarian, and emancipatory than that which capital affords. Third, he aims to address what might cause the end of capitalism and, specifically, whether capital's internal contradictions progressively undermine its conditions of existence.
- Sexuality and capitalism
The Italian Renaissance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Revolutionary struggles against capitalism have raised, time and again, the issue of sexual liberation. Right at the start of capitalism, the English revolution of the 1640s and 1650s involved what historian Christopher Hill has called a “sexual revolution” against the old order.
- Shadow Government
Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
She's Beautiful When She's Angry resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement in the United States from 1966 to 1971. She's Beautiful When She's Angry takes us from the founding of NOW, when ladies wore hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women's liberation; from intellectuals like Kate Millett to the street theatrics of WITCH (Women's International Conspiracy from Hell!)
- Shock and Awe in Gaza
How the Media and Human Rights Groups Cover for Israeli War Crimes
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
This assualt on Gaza, like the earlier ones, will leave hundres of Palestinians dead, a majority of them civilians. It will end neither the siege nor the resistance to it. It will outrage public opinion around the globe. But our elities will carry on giving Israel financial, military and diplomatic cover, as they have now done for more than six decades.
- Silvertown
The Lost Story of a Strike That Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
In 1889, Samuel Winkworth Silver's rubber and electrical factory was the site of a massive worker revolt. The factory was notorious for oppressive working conditions and its largely unorganized, unskilled workers. Eventually they aligned themselves with the socialist-led "New Unionism" movement. This book narrates those events.
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
An examination of how we have come to understand the concept of extinction and how we have come to recognize our role in it.
- Slavery's Harrowing Reality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A review of the film "12 Years as a Slave" in the context of the literary genre of slave narratives.
- Socialist Register 2014
Volume 50, Registering Class
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2014
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
- Spokes on the Anti-Austerity Wheel: Building Movements That Can Move Beyond Reform
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When it comes to fighting the crisis of austerity cuts and financial recession, we need to focus on how to build fighting communities rather than simply reacting to the attacks.
- State of Power 2014
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A report with iinfographics and essays that expose and analyse the principal power-brokers that have caused financial, economic, social and ecological crises worldwide.
- Stop, Thief!
The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A collection of fifteen chapters on many different aspects of the commons, mostly from a historical perspective.
- The Story of Hurry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Fictional Story of Donkey who helps children in Gaza
- The Struggle Continues
Rudi Dutschke's Long March
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Published in In Student Protest: The sixties and After, edited by Gerald J, Degroot. New York and London: Routledge, 2014
- System Change Not Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Stopping climate catastrophe and winning a world of climate justice is a critical task of our generation -- and it will require a radical transformation of society and of our relationship with nature. This pamphlet examines the climate crisis, Canada's contributio, and the development of colonialism and capitalism that led us here.
- Thermonuclear Monarchy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Nuclear weapons as fundamentally anti-democratic power.
- Thieves in broad daylight
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Theft is a common occurence at exhibitions. Here is some advice on how you can prevent theft of your property and intellectual property.
- This Changes Everything
Capitalism vs the Climate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Klein says that climate change cannot be confronted unless we confront capitalism. She says that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better.
- This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Charles Cobb, a veteran civil rights activist who served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the American South, unfolds a powerful narrative about Southern grass-roots black individuals and groups who played essential roles in African-American resistance. He reveals how they acted to protect black people and their allies throughout the ages with the careful use of violent self-defense methods.
- Throw your Performance Metrics out the Window
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When front-line employees understand and embrace their company’s purpose – performance is enhanced. The article provides more informations and some examples.
- Tips to ensure a safe business trip
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Travel, which is usually an essential part of attending an exhibition, can add an element of danger for the unprepared. Here are a few suggestions to make your next business trip safer.
- To Live in the Age of Melting: Northwest Passage
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Using the classic Canadian song "The Northwest Passage", as its foundation, this film documents an environmentally friendly collaboration betweeen musician Evalyn Parry and visual artist Elysha Poirier.
- To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Many of us have come to believe that any complex situation can be solved by finding the right algorithm to fix it. Morozov argues that real-world problems can rarely be solved with technological solutions.
- Turn Your Booth into a Captivating Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Turning your exhibit pitch into a captivating story is an effective way to market your product. Here are some tips on how to do this effectively.
- 12 map points to help the NDP to find its moral compass (and for that matter, the Liberals, too)
Voters for Gaza: We Expect Better from the NDP!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
We believe silence is complicity, and think it is time for the NDP to find its moral compass and to end the deafening silence about Israel and the war crimes it is committing. The NDP, of all federal political parties, must speak out against the violence and rising civilian death toll in Gaza. We expect better from a party claiming a tradition of social justice, human rights and strong relationships to social movements.
- Under An African Sky
A Journey to Africa's Climate Frontline
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Author has been spending time in southern Mauritania for 20 years. This book is travel writing and commentary on how geo-politics and economics can affect individual lives.
- Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Nader discusses areas of convergence where liberals and conservatives can start working together for the public good.
- Until the Rulers Obey
Voices from Latin American Social Movements
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Collection of Interviews dealing with the wave of social movements throughout Latin America at the turn of the 21st century.
- Utopia
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Drawing on John Pilger's long association with the first people of his homeland Australia, Utopia is both an epic portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture, and an investigation into a suppressed colonial past and rapacious present.
Utopia tells a universal story of power and resistance in the media age driven by old imperatives and presented as liberalism.
- The value of face to face
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Advances in technology also mean a greater number of ways to communicate in non-face-to-face ways, and an unwillingness to fund trade show programs. Face-to-face are invaluable, and measures can be taken to improve likelihood of continuous funding of exhibition presence.
- Virunga
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A story about the Congo's Virunga National Park in the midst of armed conflict and commercial oil interests in the region. The primary focal points are the conservation efforts led by the park rangers.
- We Blocked the Boat: Oakland 2014
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Blocking Israel's ship from unloading in Oakland, California.
- Welcome to Resisterville: American Dissidents in British Columbia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
During the Vietnam War years, thousands of Americans fled north to seek refuge in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. While some of these migrants were draft dodgers avoiding conscription into the United States army, most were part of an emerging counterculture in search of a more egalitarian, humble, and peaceful society.
- What's in your Plan B?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When Murphy's Law decides to ply its magic to your trade show strategy you need a contingency. It’s called your Plan B. he following is a list of nine of the most common items to include in your Plan B.
- 'When I Go to Work, I Expect to Be Killed:' The Terror of Being A Fisherman in Gaza
Palestine Speaks: Voices from the West Bank and Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Approximately 4,000 Gazan fishermen rely on access to the open waters of the Mediterranean to make a living. Because of punitive restrictions imposed by Israel, the Gazan fishery has virtually collapsed. Over 90 percent of Gazan fishermen are living in poverty and dependent on international aid for survival. To pursue fish beyond the permitted range means to risk arrest, the confiscation of fishing boats, or even shooting by the Israeli navy.
- Where did the trade show profit go?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Capturing lead information at trade shows is a problem, with 69% of exhibitors not knowing how leads were being tracked. It is important to come up with questions that booth staff can use to focus their communication with visitors, and acquire better lead information.
- Why We Reject the "Constituent Assembly" Demand
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Our rejection of the call for a constituent assembly reflects both the historical experience of the proletariat and the extension of the Marxist program over the years.
- Will the Iran Deal Hold?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Finkel explores the underlying reasons behind Israel and Saudi Arabia's disapproval over the United States' nuclear weapon deal with Iran.
- The Wobblies in Their Heyday
The Rise and Destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World during the World War I Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
During World War I, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) rose to prominence as an effective, militant union and then was destroyed by a devastating campaign of repression launched by the federal government. This book documents the rise and fall of this important industrial labour organization.
- Worker Cooperatives and Revolution
History and Possibilities in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Wright believes that the 'solidarity economy', fits within a Marxist understanding of what is needed to bring about a grassroots transformation of the economy.
- The Yes Men Are Revolting
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A documentary film about The Yes Men, a culture jamming duo who use the aliases Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. The film follows their exploits as they prank various organizations and corporations who engage in climate change denial.
- "You Can't Kill a Revolution"
Book Review of Bloom and Martin's "Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A book review of Bloom and Martin's "Black Against Empire" and a look at the interpersonal relationships between the members of the Black Panther Party that allowed the group to gain support.
- Your Expo Toolkit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Any number of things can go wrong with your trade show exhibit. It is important to plan ahead so that you can deal with problems as they arise. Siskind provides a starter checklist you can use and build off to ensure that you are well equipped before your exhibition.
- What Are Your Options Now For Secure Email?
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
It's shockingly, disturbingly easy for the government to snoop on your emails. Here are your weapons in the fight for your email privacy.
- Fracking Hell
The environmental costs of the new US gas drilling boom
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved - hydraulic fracturing - is the focus of a bitter dispute over environmental damage and community rights.
- Achieve Professional Competence
Sources News Release
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In the next weeks I will be focusing on each of the 10 leadership principles I learned as an officer in the army. This the first of these principles.
- ADCO Responds to CCPA Report on Child Care Costs
Sources News Release
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CCPA Report raises important points, including the fact that Provincial policy can radically increase child care costs for families. Bill 10 is one example of this and is likely to make licensed child care more expensive across Ontario.
- Adjust structures and organizations to the evolving mission and situation
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How many organizations are still working within a framework that is no longer relevant to its new reality?
- Afghan court jails Pakistani journalist for four years
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in its criticism of the harsh prison sentence imposed on TV journalist Faizullah Khan and is demanding the Afghan government immediately review
- Afghanistan government vows to end impunity for crimes against journalists
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes the Chief Executive Officer of Afghanistan’s National Unity Government’s statement of intention to bring an end to impunity for crimes against journalists and media workers in the country
- An Open Letter to the Members of the Wassenaar Arrangement
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As members of the Coalition Against Unlawful Surveillance Exports (CAUSE), Reporters Without Borders, Amnesty International, Digitale Gesellschaft, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Human Rights Watch, Open Technology Institute
- Appeals Court Must Fix Dangerous 'Innocence of Muslims' Copyright Ruling
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of technology and free speech organizations are asking the United States Court of Appeals to fix a disastrously wrongheaded copyright ruling that required an online service
- AutoCanary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
AutoCanary is a desktop program for Windows, Mac, and Linux that makes the process of generating machine-readable, digitally signed warrant canary statements simpler. A warrant canary is the colloquial term for a published statement that a service provider has not received legal process that it is prohibited from disclosing to the public, such as a national security letter. Once a service provider receives a legal request that contains a gag order, the canary statement is removed. For more information, see EFF’s Warrant Canary FAQ: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq
- Beijing Police launch another online crackdown over APEC summit
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) urges the Board of Governors of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group to defend people’s right to free speech during the upcoming APEC meetings in Beijing.
- Boutilier crosses Alberta border on 5,000km unicycle trek for climate action
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Victoria-to-Ottawa unicycle ride passes first provincial milestone
- Canadian Franchise Association Announces Finalists for the 2014 CFA Awards of Excellence in Franchising
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Grand Prize winner to be announced at Gala Awards Presentation during CFA National Convention
- Canadian Franchise Association Announces Winners of the 2014 CFA Recognition Awards
Sources News Release
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Published: 2014
Booster Juice to be inducted into the CFA Hall of Fame during CFA National Convention, April 6-8 in Niagara Falls, Ontario
- Canadian Franchise Association Welcomes New Board of Directors Members
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Canadian Franchise Association Announces Appointment. CFA appoints Ken LeBlanc, Co-Founder, President and CEO of PropertyGuys.com, as Chair of CFA Board of Directors
- Canadian women activists enroute to the 58th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
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Twenty (20) women representing the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) will be in New York City from March 10th – March 21st. This year’s UNCSW theme is “Challenges and Achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals
- canfitpro combats obesity with a free educational resource
Sources News Release
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canfitpro launches a free webinar series to help Canadians better understand nutrition and healthy weight loss.
- canfitpro International Fitness and Club Business Conference and Trade Show
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Members of the media and the public are invited to attend the 21st annual canfitpro International Fitness and Club Business Conference and Trade Show taking place from Friday, August 8 to Saturday, August 9, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
- Caregivers, Filipino-Canadians Not Buying New Immigration Changes
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Current and former Caregivers will be outside the Federal Minister’ Offices at 150 King West, on Saturday, November 22nd 2014 at 3:00pm to condemn the cap placed on permanent residency for Caregivers.
- ClimateFast Hosts Cross-Country Unicyclist in Toronto on 5,000km Ride for Climate Action
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Joseph Boutilier nears Parliament Hill on homestretch of ride from Victoria BC
- Create the conditions for success
Sources News Release
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Published: 2014
Last week I gave a list of 10 lessons I learned about leadership, strategy, and management that I learned in my time in the Canadian Army and as a consultant, helping executives, entrepreneurs, and organizations to exploit change and achieve outstand
- Crises can be prevented and mitigated by take-charge leadership before they occur
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First Published: 2014
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The best time to prevent or mitigate a crisis is, not surprisingly, before it occurs. Most crises are smouldering, which means that they develop slowly but become apparent suddenly, just like a slow-burning fire that erupts into a conflagration seem
- EFF Calls Out DOJ for Failing to Provide Crucial Public Information in NSA Case
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Latest Filing in Jewel v. NSA Demands Documents Government Is Trying to Conceal
- EFJ Joins International Press Freedom Mission to Spain
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has taken part in a three-day international mission on press freedom in Spain from 1 to 3 December, carried out by six international media freedom organisations including the EFJ, the International Press I
- Electronic Frontier Foundation Fights National Security Letter Demands on Behalf of Telecom, Internet Company
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Legal Briefings Still Under Seal After Government Demands for Secrecy
- Electronic Frontier Foundation Urges Supreme Court to Crack Down on Patent Trolls
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Two Big Cases Could Protect Software Innovators – and Their Customers – From Patent Lawsuits
- European Court rules against Turkey in case brought by two journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders hails European Court of Human Rights ruling that Turkey violated the rights of two journalists, Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener, by keeping them in pre-trial detention for more than a year
- Field Trip Responsibility a Two-Way Street
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Oct. 17-23 is National School Safety Week and the Canada Safety Council reminds parents that they have a special role in helping to manage risks associated with field trips.
- Focus Your Limited Resources on Actions with the Biggest Payoff
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You can only have one main effort. You must align your strongest resources to the main effort, with supporting thrusts to either support the main effort directly, or to widen the field of manoeuvre for your main effort.
- Four years in prison for cyber-dissident Xu Zhiyong
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders deplores the four-year jail sentence that Beijing Intermediate Court No. 1 imposed on the cyber-dissident Xu Zhiyong on 26 January on a charge of gathering a crowd to disturb public order.
- Freedom and Safety of Journalists in Gaza Must be Upheld, says IFJ
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The International Federation of Journalists has demanded that Israeli forces respect the rights of journalists in Gaza and has issued a renewed appeal for journalists in the region to take all necessary safety precautions.
- Give clear and authoritative direction
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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SMESC stands for: Situation, Mission, Execution, Support, and Command and Signals. I’ve modified it for business and organizational use. Whether you’re giving formal direction or informal guidance, this format can be used as an aide mémoire
- Grassy Narrows requests environmental assessment of logging plan - Clearcutting will elevate mercury poison in fish
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Grassy Narrows First Nation is calling for a thorough environmental assessment of the newly approved plan for clearcut logging on their Territory - an important test of Ontario's environmental laws.
- Humanize Palestine
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Humanize Palestine attempts to restore the humanity that is often stripped away when Palestinians are reduced to calculative deaths, forgettable names, and burned and mutilated bodies, rather than people who shared loved ones, stories, dreams and aspirations.
- IFIC Congratulates New Superintendent of Financial Institutions
Sources News Release
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) issued a statement today congratulating Jeremy Rudin on his appointment as Canada’s new superintendent of financial institutions.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for April 2014
Sources News Release
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IFIC announces that for the month of April 2014, the Assets Under Management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.07 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM increased by $71.3 billion or 7.1%.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for February 2014
Sources News Release
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IFIC announces that for the month of February 2014, the Assets Under Management (AUM) for the mutual fund industry reached $1,045.2 billion. Year-to-date, industry AUM increased by $46 billion or 4.6%.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for July 2014
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending July 31, 2014, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.11 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM increased by $109.0 billion or 10.9%
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for June 2014
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending June 30, 2014, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.1 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM increased by $100.3 billion or 10.0%
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for May 2014
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month of May 2014, the Assets Under Management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry reached $1.08 trillion. Year-to-date, industry AUM increased by $82.9 billion or 8.3%.
- IFIC Releases Monthly Statistics for October 2014
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Toronto, ON – November 18, 2014 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that for the month ending October 31, 2014, the assets under management (AUM) for the mutual funds industry remained steady at $1.12 trillion. Year-to-dat
- IFIC Welcomes New Member and New Affiliate
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Toronto, ON – September 4, 2014 – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that Questrade Wealth Management Inc. has become a member of IFIC, and Northern Trust Company, Canada has joined as an affiliate, effective today.
- IFIC Welcomes New Members
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) announces that The Equitable Life Insurance Company of Canada and WhiteHaven Securities Inc. have joined IFIC as members, effective June 25, 2014.
- IFJ and EFJ Urge Belarusian Authorities to Drop Charges against Journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) join the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), their affiliate in Belarus, in asking the national authorities to drop the charges against
- IFJ and FAJ Give Support to Palestinian Journalists
Sources News Release
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A declaration in support of Palestinian journalists.
- IFJ Calls on Al Houthi Leader to End the Occupation of Yemeni Media
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on Abdulmalek Al Houthi, the leader of Ansar Allah Movement, to stop his incitement against Yemeni media and to withdraw his forces from media organisations they are currently occupying
- IFJ Condemns Sentences Given to Al Jazeera English Journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined the world community to condemn today’s verdict by a Cairo court in the case involving journalists from Al Jazeera English
- IFJ Conference Agrees Declaration to Stand Up Against Hate Speech
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) gathered journalists, academics, and freedom of expression experts together today for a conference onf Media, Armed Conflict and Hate Speech in Brussels.
- IFJ deplores cyber attack on pro-democracy news websites
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the massive cyber attack on a Hong Kong media group, which was clearly aimed at suppressing press freedom.
- IFJ Holds Three Days Safety Training for Journalists in Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its local affiliate the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate are organizing a three day safety training for local journalists in the city of Shikhan of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
- IFJ Marks on 25 November the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has marked 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which this year is focused on workplace violence in the media sector.
- IFJ Strongly Condemns Killing of Palestinian Media Worker Hamid Shihab
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has strongly condemned the killing of Palestinian media worker Hamid Shibab in Gaza on Wednesday 9 July.
- IFJ urges Facebook to reject outside influence
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) urges social media platform Facebook to uphold freedom of expression and say no to outside influence, after many Hong Kong account holders expressed anger at perceived interference.
- IFJ Welcomes “Ground-breaking” Decision by Singapore Court to Quash Order on Journalist’s Sources
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today welcomed the landmark decision of a Singapore Court of Appeal to overturn an order that a journalist should disclose his sources for an article he had written on his blog.
- IFJ Welcomes Release of US Journalist Theo Curtis in Syria
Sources News Release
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The International Federation of Journalists today joined its affiliates in the US in welcoming the release of Theo Curtis, the American journalist who was released on Sunday 24 August in Syria, while voicing concern for the safety of many others
- In Azerbaijan, media watchdog raided, equipment confiscated
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijani authorities to stop harassing the Baku-based media freedom group Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety.
- Individualized Naturopathic Care Reduces Presenteeism and Improves Cost-Savings for Employers, Study Shows
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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Adding naturopathic treatments to conventional care not only helps reduce cardiovascular disease among those at risk, but also reduces presenteeism and improves cost-savings for employers concludes a new study by the Canadian College of Naturopathic
- Internet Ungovernance Forum
Sources News Release
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Internet Ungovernance Forum is for those of us who demand free, secure, and open internet for the people! We're organizing the Internet Ungovernance Forum September 4-5 for people who demand that fundamental freedoms, openness, unity and net neutral
- Intimidation and Violence Against Palestinian Journalists Must End Now
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) to condemn a brutal attack by Israeli forces on a Palestinian TV crew in Shufat Refugee Camp, near Jerusalem.
- It's not just alcohol that impairs: National Safe Driving Week
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
December 1 to 7 is National Safe Driving Week, and the Canada Safety Council is reminding Canadians that it’s not just alcohol that impairs.
- Jailed and on trial for reporting human rights violations in Saudi Arabia
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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Waleed Abu Al-Khair, a human rights lawyer who has been held since April, is being tried on a range of charges that include “preparing, storing and transmitting information that undermines public order” and violating Saudi Arabia’s cyber-crime
- Jailed Pakistani journalist freed in Afghanistan
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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Welcoming a decision by the Nangarhar High Court in eastern Afghanistan this week to release a Pakistani television journalist imprisoned in the country since April 22, 2014.
- Journalist bashed to death in Andra Pradesh
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and it’s affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) condemn the brutal murder of a senior journalist in Guntur of Andra Pradesh, in south eastern India on early hours of Wednesday, November 26.
- Journalist severely injured in Afghanistan suicide bombing dies
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) are saddened by the news that a journalist who was severely injured in a suicide bombing two weeks ago in Kabul, Afghanistan has died.
- L'alcool n'est pas le seul en cause : la Semaine nationale de la sécurité routière
Sources News Release
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Cette année, la Semaine nationale de la sécurité routière se déroule du 1er au 7 décembre et le Conseil canadien de la sécurité rappelle à la population canadienne que l'alcool n'est pas le seul produit à altérer les facultés.
- Licensed Child Care Programs Disappointed In Amendments To Bill 10
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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Ontario's licensed child care centres fear that new Child Care Modernization Act will force more centres to close, further limiting parental choice and making child care more expensive.
- Lieutenant Governor to Honour Award Winners from the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada
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The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, 29th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, will present certificates and the medal of the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada on November 14.
- Mahjoub marks 14 years of being jailed without charge in Canada
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A Toronto father of two and refugee from Egypt, Mohammad Mahjoub is marking 14 years of his detention without charge. Mr. Mahjoub is held under a ‘security certificate’, a highly criticized part of the immigration law that allows the government
- Make sure your planning and discussions always end with a decision on specific action steps
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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There is nothing wrong with gaining input by holding meetings. However, you must always close any discussion with a decision on next steps and clear direction for who will do what, by when, with whom, and with what resources.
- Managing well is just as important for outstanding leadership as inspiration and transformational qualities
Sources News Release
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People often say that leadership and management are two different things. This is true in one sense, but in another it isn't.
- Manoeuvre around obstacles and resistance
Sources News Release
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Too often I find myself trying to take on an obstacle or resistance head on. I could be trying to convince one of my daughters that she should follow my (brilliant) advice. Or I could be in a meeting with a prospect or client. I also know that this
- Mobile and Emerging Platforms Are Focus of World Newspaper Congress
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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Paid content and all access strategies have proven that readers will pay for digital access, but what do they get for their money? Publishers are going to need more sophisticated strategies to maintain digital growth.
- Morocco Must Focus on Media Reform, not Attacking Women Journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called for the Moroccan government to promote press freedom and protect journalists in the country.
- National Day of Action Against Bill C36: Criminalization Costs Sex Workers’ Lives
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Across Canada, sex worker groups, along with organizations and individuals that support human rights and women's rights, are gathering to denounce the Conservative government's proposed bill (C36) to re-criminalize sex work.
- Nature, science & power
Questions need to be asked...
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014
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Here many questions will be asked, some answers attempted. This blog connects to a new book: Bold Scientists: dispatches from the battle for honest science, published in 2014 by Between the Lines.
- Ne mettez pas votre sécurité en veilleuse: Semaine nationale de la sécurité-incendie chez soi
Sources News Release
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À l'occasion de la Semaine nationale de la sécurité-incendie chez soi qui se déroule cette année du 24 au 30 novembre, le Conseil canadien de la sécurité encourage celles et ceux qui font la cuisine à la maison d'être vigilants afin d'évite
- New Behind-the-Scenes Video: Airship Flight Over the NSA Data Center
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The Internet's Own Boy Director Brian Knappenberger Releases Short Doc as Senate Introduces New Reform Bill
- New website enhances parent connection with Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, in Ontario, recently launched a new website to enhance connections and meet the needs of today's parents and students. The web has changed dramatically since their previous site was launched in 2006:
- New, Free Certificate Authority to Dramatically Increase Encrypted Internet Traffic
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is helping to launch a new non-profit organization that aims to dramatically increase secure Internet browsing. Let's Encrypt is scheduled to offer free server certificates beginning in summer 2015.
- On the 12th Anniversary of the Grassy Narrows Blockade We, the Women of Grassy Narrows Make a Statement
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We, the women of Grassy Narrows, make a statement on behalf of our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren on resource extraction on our traditional harvesting lands since time immemorial.
- One-Wheel Climate Ride Rolls Into Winnipeg
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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Cross-Canada Unicycle Ride for Climate Action Approaches Halfway Mark in Manitoba
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter
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First Published: 2014
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A newsletter with news and articles about current issues, as well as news from the realm of grassroots archives and people's history. Also featuring selected items from the Connexions Calendar, Seeds of Fire, book, film and website of the week, and news about the Connexions project.
- Pakistan media staff injured as TV vans attacked
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) strongly condemn the attacks on Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG) equipment of various television stations on Islamabad on Sunday November 30
- Politically-orchestrated trial ends in long jail terms
Sources News Release
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In a sign of the Egyptian regime’s increasingly totalitarian nature, a Cairo court today passed sentences ranging from seven to ten years in prison on Al-Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Adel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed.
- Practise for the vital moment of truth
Sources News Release
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Any mission-critical function or task can and should be analyzed and improved in this manner, both in terms of the process and in its actual execution. We must learn from the cat, and practise before the real game.
- Province-wide fundaiser continues despite the rain
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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ADCO Kids Helping Kids Walkathon in support of children's hospitals continues despite rainy weather. Across Ontario, the staff and children at licensed child care centres are walking to raise funds for Ontario's four regional children's hospitals.
- Put safety on the front-burner: National Home Fire Safety Week
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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November 24 to 30 is National Home Fire Safety Week, and the Canada Safety Council encourages home cooks to put safety on the front-burner. Follow simple tips to avoid getting burned by a cooking fire.
- Roy McMurtry to Deliver Keynote Address at CFA Franchise Law Day
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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Annual seminar highlights latest developments in Canadian franchise law and offers best practices for Canada’s franchise community
- Samba Protest at Toronto Immigration Jail Against Deaths in Custody, Immigration Raids
Sources News Release
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Friends, families and supporters of immigration detainees will be gathering at the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre (TIHC) calling for an overhaul of immigration arrest and detention practices.
- SEAJU calls on Malaysian Government to support press freedom
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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A free press is a fundamental feature of a vibrant and accountable democracy. An independent press acts as a disseminator of information as well as a check and balance of elected representatives and government.
- Social Media as a Civic Engagement Tool
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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Attend this workshop to learn the basics on how to use social media and web resources to stay engaged with your city and connect with others who share your interests.
- Sri Lanka muzzles NGOs and bans media-related activities
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) and Free Media Movement (FMM) in condemning the decision of the Sri Lankan government to ban civil society non-governmental organisations
- Steady erosion of media rights as Thai military tightens its grip
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The IFJ is deeply concerned about reports of increasing control by the Thailand Military Junta over news and information on radio, television, printed and online media.
- Strategies for digital realities showcased at International Newsroom Summit
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
World Editors Forum is teaming up with Online News Association for 13th International Newsroom Summit in Amsterdam in October, which will focus on synchronizing print and digital cultures to ensure growth in audience, engagement and loyalty
- Thai journalists call to revoke oppressive media laws
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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The International Federation of Journalists joins the Thai Journalists Association and National Union of Journalists, Thailand in calling on the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to immediately revoke the current oppressive media laws
- The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance: February 11, 2014
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On February 11, on the Day We Fight Back, the world will demand an end to mass surveillance in every country, by every state, regardless of boundaries or politics.
- Third AAWH Congress: Migration in Global History: Peoples, Plants, Plagues, and Ports - Call for Papers
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Third AAWH Congress: Migration in Global History: Peoples, Plants, Plagues, and Ports. Call for papers, deadline 1 October 2014
- Toronto to Get Hypnotized for the 11th Annual World Hypnotism Day, January 4, 2015
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
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Hypno Healing Institute is offering an open house and a workshop to celebrate the 11th Annual World Hypnotism Day. The public is invited to attend the event, which will be held Sunday, January 4, 2015. The open house is from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
- Tribute to EFJ co-founder Antonio Velluto
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has paid tribute to its co-founder, Mr. Antonio Velluto, who has passed away on Tuesday, 24 June, in Milan at the age of 81.
- 2014 Donbas status referendums
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Referendums on the status of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, parts of Ukraine that together made up the Donbas region, took place on 11 May 2014 in many towns under the administration of the Russian-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.
- UN body urged to take position on export of surveillance material
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
As the UN Human Rights Council continues its 26th session and a panel discussion is held today on corporate social responsibility, Reporters Without Borders urges the council to promote the adoption of clear and binding rules on online surveillance
- Unicycle Ride for Climate Action pauses for 24 hr. Fast
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
Unity for Climate Action unicyclist, Joseph Boutillier, enroute to Ottawa, joins hundreds worldwide in 24 hr Fast for climate action May 1st.
- What Are the Hot Trends in Franchising for 2014?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
FranchiseCanada goes inside the minds of today’s prospective franchisees to find out who they are and what they’re looking for in a franchise investment opportunity
- What We Can Learn from Military Discipline
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
When asked what they find most striking or typical in the military way of doing things, most people I’ve asked readily answer discipline, organization, or rigour. The military has a disciplined way of going about its business, and this is one of
- Young Nova Scotian Peacemaker heads to Sarajevo for international conference
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
(Antigonish) – A young peacemaker from Nova Scotia is on her way to attend an international peace conference this week. Margaret Skabar is a 21-year old student from Antigonish and will be attending Sarajevo Peace Event 2014. The conference is taki
- Zimbabwe: One step forward, three steps back for freedom of information
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Published: 2014
A decision by the Constitutional Court in favour of freedom of information should not overshadow the fact that three Zimbabwean news organizations have been raided by the police in the past few days.
- Inside the Operations of a Media-Suing Machine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- What's Wrong With Identity Politics (and Intersectionality Theory)?
A Response to Mark Fisher's "Exiting the Vampire Castle" (And Its Critics)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Identity, like an occupation, is a trap, because it curtails human potential and bars workers from participation in the social totality as fully developing individuals. Identities are reified social categories from which we should emerge, not within which we should be compelled to remain. The problem with identity politics, then, is that it is one-sided and undialectical. It treats identities as static entities, and its methods only serve to further reify those categories. It aims to liberate identity groups (or members thereof) qua identity groups (or individuals), rather than aiming to liberate them from identity itself.
- Al-Nakba
A series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures.
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
For Palestinians, 1948 marks the 'nakba' or the 'catastrophe', when hundreds of thousands were forced out of their homes. But for Israelis, the same year marks the creation of their own state. This series attempts to present an understanding of the events of the past that are still shaping the present.
- Connexions Quotations
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2017
A selection of quotations about social change, resistance, solidarity, and many other topics. Compiled by Ulli Diemer. Each quote has been turned into an image file.
- Pakistan: Bloody Origins of the Z.A. Bhutto Regime
Part Two: The Bangladesh War
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2014
The Pakistani military expected to put a quick end to the nationalist aspirations of the Bengalis. Just before midnight on 25 March 1971, Pakistani troops led by General Tikka Khan launched "Operation Searchlight," an orgy of killing directed against the civilian population of Dhaka and other cities and towns. Working-class and Hindu neighbourhoods in Dhaka were attacked with tanks, mortars and machine guns. Using prepared lists, soldiers went door-to-door gunning down Awami League activists. U.S.-supplied tanks led a military assault on student residences at the University of Dhaka. The students and teachers who were killed were dumped into a mass grave in the football ground.
- Pakistan: Bloody Origins of the Z.A. Bhutto Regime
Part One: Hidden History of the 1968-69 Workers Upsurge
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2014
Pakistan’s 1965 war with India over Kashmir -- a reactionary war in which the working class had no side -- was a key turning point in Bhutto’s career. The Pakistani military's poor showing provoked a bitter backlash against the regime among much of the population. Following the signing of a January 1966 armistice agreement in Tashkent, student demonstrations erupted in cities throughout the country. Despite being a principal architect of the war, Bhutto emerged as a national hero, denouncing the Tashkent accords (which he had helped negotiate) and accusing the regime of having given away at the peace table what the generals claimed they had won on the battlefield. In November 1967, Bhutto launched his Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) based on a combination of virulent anti-Indian chauvinism, "socialist" demagogy and paeans to Islam.
- Jailed by Israel for his cartoons, Mohammad Saba’aneh speaks out
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Mohammad Saba’aneh, who has a daily cartoon in the Palestinian newspaper al-Hayat al-Jadida, has published his work in newspapers across the Arab world. His cartoons are decidedly political, frequently criticizing Israel, the Palestinian Authority and mainstream Palestinian political parties. Targeted by Israeli occupation authorities for the opinions expressed in his art, he was arrested by Israeli occupation forces, and jailed.
- How Canada’s Prisons Killed Ashley Smith
A National Crime and Shame
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2014
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2014
A book on the Teamster's strike of 1934.
- The Irish Slaves: What They Will Never, Ever Tell You in History Class or Anywhere Else
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The first slaves imported into the American colonies were 100 White children. They arrived during Easter, 1619, four months before the arrival of a the first shipment of Black slaves. Mainstream histories refer to these labourers as indentured servants, not slaves.
- 108 Journalists Killed in 2013 to Test UN Day to End Impunity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued a desperate appeal for governments across the world to end impunity for violence against journalists and media staff after posting 108 killings for 2013.
- Secret Memo Casts Doubt on Feds' Claims for Science Library Closures
Goal stated is 'culling' research, not preserving and sharing through digitization
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A federal document marked "secret" obtained by Postmedia News indicates the closure or destruction of more than half a dozen world famous science libraries has little if anything to do with digitizing books as claimed by the Harper government.
- Syria, Iraq, Egypt most deadly nations for journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The conflict in Syria, a spike in Iraqi bloodshed, and political violence in Egypt accounted for the high number of journalists killed on the job in 2013.
- Don't forget Liu Xiaobo, held for the past five years
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its full support for Chinese free speech advocate Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize and his family and stresses the importance of his fight.
- IFJ Demands 'End Impunity' in Russia Following Memorial Day for Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has sent a message of support to its Russian affiliate, the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) following its annual Memorial Day which was dedicated to the memory of colleagues who have been killed.
- Malaysian government suspends critical newsweekly 'indefinitely'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders condemns Malaysian deputy home minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar’s decision on 19 December to suspend the weekly magazine The Heat “indefinitely” for allegedly violating the terms of its print permit.
- Golden Rice ignores the risks, the people and the real solutions
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
'Golden Rice' is being promoted by GM advocates as a solution to malnutrition. But Daniel Ocampo says it is for the 'target populations' in the Philippines and elsewhere to decide whether to accept the technology - and they don't want it!
- The Good War, Revisited
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor: What FDR Knew
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Each Pearl Harbor day offers a fresh opportunity for those who correctly believe that Franklin Roosevelt knew of an impending attack by the Japanese and welcomed it as a way of snookering the isolationists and getting America into the war.
- India : The United Tea Workers Front (UTWF) launched to break a vicious circle of poverty
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The United Tea Workers Front (UTWF) has been launched, primarily to raise the issue of a living wages and related matters in the forthcoming wage negotiations in North Bengal.
- Israel Has Been 'Singled Out' in the US for a Very Long Time
To whom much is given, much is expected
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The American Studies Association, the umbrella organization of academics devoted to the study of US literature, history and culture, recently voted to join the movement to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
- The Killings Fields of Gaza
Asymmetric Warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Revelations from Israeli sources such as ‘Breaking the Silence’ and ‘Physicians for Human Rights-Israel’ that the Israeli assaults on Gaza in 2008/9 (Cast Lead) and 2012 (Pillars of Defence) were planned many months ahead pose many questions about the real motives for the seven year siege and these massive attacks on a helpless concentration of impoverished and imprisoned people.
- When the Unimaginable Happened
Mandela: the Movie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Mandela: the Movie is a very accurate film, depicting what actually happened in South Africa, and one cannot help thinking about it again and again.
- Kalahari Bushmen unite to end oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Representatives of the Basarwa or Bushman peoples of Botswana step up their fight to end structural oppression of their communities.
- Migrant Workers Fight Exploitation in New Zealand
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Unite Union has dealt with several cases of extreme exploitation of migrant workers. It seems that some of the liquor shops around Auckland have been employing students from India and paying a pittance four or five dollars an hour, well below the legal minimum of $13.75 an hour.
- Abandoned in the Cold and Dark
Living Under Siege people of Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The world has forgotten Gaza, its women and children. The people of Gaza are being crushed under the Israeli blockade which severely restricts essential supplies coming into the strip. The blockade is as bad as the war; it’s like a slow death for everyone in Gaza.
- The nuclear renaissance is stone cold dead
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
2013 has been the nuclear power industry's annus horribilis and the nuclear renaissance can now be pronounced stone cold dead. The industry is finding it increasingly difficult to profitably operate existing reactors - especially ageing reactors requiring refurbishments - let alone build new ones.
- The Virtues of Mutiny and Desertion
Two Christmas Anniversaries
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Christmas Eve also marks the famous 1914 “Christmas truce” when British and German soldiers crossed No Man’s Land to shake hands, play soccer, exchange souvenirs and sing carols to each other. The High Commands and politicians on both sides swiftly put an end to that foolishness. The war went on killing many millions.
- Voices of Resistance to the Northern Gateway Pipeline
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The National Energy Board's Joint Review Panel (JRP) has just published its recommendation that the Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway to transport Alberta's tar sands oil to the northwest coast of British Columbia should be approved.
- Wild Socialism: All Power to the Councils! (Review)
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Review of Wild Socialism: Workers Councils in Revolutionary Berlin, 1918-1921 by Martin Comack (2012) and All Power to the Councils! A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918-1919 edited by Gabriel Kuhn (2012).
- Vulnerable Akron: the first great sit-down
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Akron, rubber manufacturing capital of the world. A drab Mid-Western industrial city of 255,000. A city with a hum, a throb, anodor all its own. It made the front pages in February, 1936. A strike had closed the largest tire factory on the globe, which had 14,000 employees.
- What to do with a tin of beans? Food banks, the left and the movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Acts of collective practical solidarity are a springboard to participation in campaigning against austerity and the Tory war on the poor.
- What's Driving Chaotic Dismantling of Canada's Science Libraries?
Scientists reject Harper government claims vital material is being saved digitally
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Scientists say the closure of some of the world's finest fishery, ocean and environmental libraries by the Harper government has been so chaotic that irreplaceable collections of intellectual capital built by Canadian taxpayers for future generations has been lost forever. Many collections ended up in dumpsters while others such as Winnipeg's historic Freshwater Institute library were scavenged by citizens, scientists and local environmental consultants. Others were burned or went to landfills.
- The Arc of Justice and the Long Run
Hope, History, and Unpredictability
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant far longer than that before some disturbance makes them germinate. Sometimes cause and effect are centuries apart; sometimes Martin Luther King’s arc of the moral universe that bends toward justice is so long few see its curve; sometimes hope lies not in looking forward but backward to study the line of that arc.
- The Battle of the Titans
Who is Pulling the Strings?
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This is not merely a fight between Israel and the US. Nor is it only a fight between the White House and Congress. It is also a battle between intellectual titans. Intellectual theories can seldom be put to a laboratory test. But this one can. It is happening now. Between Israel and the US a crisis has developed, and it has come into the open.
- The nightmare hidden within liberal Zionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Since the American Studies Association (ASA) announced this month that its members had voted overwhelmingly to endorse the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, the predictable outpouring of furious responses has been proliferating.
- Nurses' campaign delays controversial patient care model
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
BCNU President Debra McPherson says uncertainty continues
- Sources 72
The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A directory of contacts for journalists, editors, and researchers who need to reach experts and spokespersons to provide background information and comment on a wide range of topics.
- A Win for Sex Workers - A Win for Safety, Equality, and Justice
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Supreme Court of Canada has released a unanimous decision striking down all three prostitution laws, paving the way for more safety, justice and equality for sex workers in Canada.
- Aboriginal Entrepreneurs: The Under-Reported Story of This Generation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Aboriginal entrepreneurs and businesses were front and centre for me this past November as the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) launched a unique research study as part of our 2013-14 Aboriginal Business Survey.
- An account of my involvement with Solidarity - Bob Potter
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Bob Potter's previously unpublished 2004 recollections of his involvement in the libertarian socialist group Solidarity in the 1960s and 70s and some of its key figures like Ken Weller and Chris and Jeanne Pallis.
- Down Where Apartheid Lives
Where are the Condemnations of Australia?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
John Pilger documentary Australia - “discover what lies behind the sunny face” . Aboriginal people comprise barely three per cent of the Australian population. Unlike the US, Canada and New Zealand, which have made treaties with their first people, Australia has offered gestures often wrapped in the law.
- I wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I see its premise as flawed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Forty-four years ago this month, in December 1969, I quit my job as a manager of a bookstore in New York City's Greenwich Village and began to write the Anarchist Cookbook. My motivation at the time was simple; I was being actively pursued by the US military, who seemed single-mindedly determined to send me to fight, and possibly die, in Vietnam.
- Lessons from small shop organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A significant amount of organizing experience in the IWW comes from working in relatively small workplaces such as stand-alone single shops or franchises of multiple smaller shops. These places present their own set of difficulties and opportunities.
- Nudity & Nudism -- Two Essays
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Nudity is paradoxical - a bodily state that is seen as so banal or matter of fact that it is rarely given sustained conceptual or academic treatment, while all the while most societies subject it to intense regulation via customs, taboos, and laws. Nudity is customarily imagined as a “natural” state - since we are all born naked-and yet its powerful social and cultural regulation means that it is anything but simple or natural.
- Whose sarin?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. The Syrian army is not the only party in the country’s civil war with access to sarin.
- Witness to Betrayal: Scott Crow on the Exploits and Misadventures of FBI Informant Brandon Darby
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Scott Crow tells the story of his friendship with Brandon Darby, an anarchist militant and FBI informer.
- Toronto to Get Hypnotized for the 10th Annual World Hypnotism Day, January 4, 2014
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Hypno Healing Institute announces they will be offering an open house and a workshop to celebrate the 10th Annual World Hypnotism Day. The public is invited to attend the event, which will be held Saturday January 4, 2014. The open house is from 1:00
- Why environmentalists must support workers' struggles
Global Capitalism is the Real Enemy
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This is to specifically address class struggle as it relates to the ecological crisis. It will not address all the other (many!) reasons that working class struggle must be waged and supported.
- An Awkward Silence - Burying The Hersh Revelations of Obama's Syrian Deceit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
All governments lie, the US journalist I.F. Stone once noted, with Iraq the most blatant example in modern times. But Syria is another recent criminal example of Stone's dictum.
- Bicycle Use Booming in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
“I ride 43 km a day and I love it,” said Carlos Cantor in Bogotá, Colombia. “Five years ago I switched my car for a bike,” explained Tomás Fuenzalida from Santiago, Chile. They are both part of the burgeoning growth of cycling as a transport solution in Latin America.
- India - buried under stinking rubbish heaps
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Under the 'Incredible India' brand lurk millions of fast-growing piles of decomposing waste. As they await removal, polluting waters and stinking under the tropical sun, India is rapidy becoming the world's biggest rubbish dump.
- Race, Religion and Rounding Up Africans in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Israel has launched a wholesale roundup of African immigrants, whom members of the ruling parties call a "cancer" on the Jewish state. To circumvent court rulings against imprisonment without trial, the government has packed the refugees into a detention center in the desert. The aim is to convince the Africans "to give up all hope of a normal life in Israel" and go back where they came from.
- Why Vote for a Scottish State ?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Barry Biddulph takes a critical look at, The National Question-Some Basic Principles, by John Molyneux in the Irish Marxist Review and the application of these principles to Scotland by Keir Mckechnie.
- America's Own Political Prisoners
From Mandela to Oscar López Rivera
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Nelson Mandela's death has elicited a predictable outpouring of accolades. Glowing praise is now coming from American politicians as disparate as Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama. But this praise comes with the recasting, perhaps rebranding, of the amazing man that was Nelson Mandela.
- Archaeology and the Atom
The Nuclear Fallacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We have all heard of the city of Idu. Right? Thousands of families living there, carrying out their normal lives, government housed in lavish buildings, written documents, trade, religion, etc. Well, it was lost. A whole city lost. Idu flourished in the 13th century B.C. We knew it had existed from some ancient Assyrian records, but had no idea where it was. Archeologists finally found it last year, buried in northern Iraq.
- The Bankruptcy of the West's Syrian Policy
Factions on the Run
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The final bankruptcy of American and British policy in Syria came 10 days ago as Islamic Front, a Saudi-backed Sunni jihadi group, overran the headquarters of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) at Bab al-Hawa on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey.
- Gaza wrecked by storm, floods, acute cold, sewage overflows and power cuts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The UN has described the Gaza Strip as a 'disaster area' following the onslaught of Storm Alexa and called on the international community to lift the blockade and allow recovery efforts to proceed.
- The terrible legacy of Agent Orange and dioxin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Agent Orange was manufactured by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemicals to use as a herbicide and defoliant in the Vietnam War.
- Fracking hell: what it's really like to live next to a shale gas well
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2014
Nausea, headaches and nosebleeds, invasive chemical smells, constant drilling, slumping property prices – welcome to Ponder, Texas, where fracking has overtaken the town.
- The Mekong must run free!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Mekong is among Southeast Asia's greatest rivers, sustaining tens of millions from its abundant fisheries and its floodwaters which both irrigate and fertilise. But Nature's bounty, and beauty, are at risk from a series of 11 dams.
- Paradise of Untouchable Assets
Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Trusts held in the Cook Islands can put money beyond the reach of the American legal system.
- In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A slowly but steadily growing phenomenon in Jordan, urban agriculture has vast potential for reducing poverty and improving food security, and it has the added benefit of greening and cleaning up more rundown sections of cities.
- Marx and the Rift in the Universal Metabolism of Nature
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The rediscovery over the last decade and a half of Marx’s theory of metabolic rift has come to be seen by many on the left as offering a powerful critique of the relation between nature and contemporary capitalist society. The result has been the development of a more unified ecological world view transcending the divisions between natural and social science, and allowing us to perceive the concrete ways in which the contradictions of capital accumulation are generating ecological crises and catastrophes.
- Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Two leading activists of the fight against Apartheid, Ruth First and Joe Slovo, for the first time have received a comprehensive biography.
- Twenty-First-Century Land Grabs
Accumulation by Agricultural Dispossession
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Land grabs -- whether initiated by multinational corporations and private investment firms emanating from the capitalist core, sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, or state entities such as China and India -- are now in the news constantly.
- The Whack 'Em and Stack 'Em Mentality of American Cops
Killers on the Road
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Killings by police are not a negligible proportion of the United States' firearms death toll. The public apprehension that cops are often borderline psychotic, hair-trigger-ready to open fire on the slightest pretext, virtually immune from serious sanction, is growing apace, fueled by such incidents as the dog slaughter on an interstate.
- Deputation Opposing Island Airport Expansion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
It is absurd to have a major airport on a city's waterfront. The negative impacts -- air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, massively increased traffic, the risk of planes taking off and landing with a few hundred meters of homes and schools -- are clear and unacceptable.
- Everyone can be an investigative journalist. Everyone!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Inge Springe is the founder and director of the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism. Her stories have resulted in action against public officials and helped bring about changes in Latvian economic and tax policy.
- Everyone can be an investigative journalist. Everyone!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Inge Springe is the founder and director of the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism. Her stories for the center, which is also known as Re:Baltica, have resulted in action against public officials and helped bring about changes in Latvian economic and tax policy.
- IFJ/EFJ Condemn Latest Attack on Greek Journalist by 'Golden Dawn' Members
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have condemned the latest brutal attack against a Greek journalist by members of the Golden Dawn party, while also expressing concern that police did not stop the incident.
- IFJ/EFJ Concerned for Future of Staff at Ria Novosti Following Scandalous Closure
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have strongly condemned the decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin to abolish the country's state owned news agency RIA Novosti and Voice of Russia
- Immigration detainees re-start hunger fast; hundreds rally outside Lindsay jail
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Immigration detainees at the Centre East Correctional Centre, some of whom who have been indefinitely held for as long as seven years are calling for their release and an end to indefinite detention and maximum security incarceration.
- A million first steps
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into the Public Domain.
- Mundurukú Indians in Brazil Protest Tapajós Dams
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
10 Mundurukú chiefs and 30 warriors made the trek to the capital of Brazil to demand the demarcation of their territory and the right to prior consultation in order to block the Tapajós hydroelectric dam, which could flood several of their villages.
- Opposition growing against indefinite immigration detention in Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Canada has no limit on how long migrants can be held pending a deportation. When Canada can't deport migrants because of lack of travel documents or due to the political climate of home countries, these migrants become indefinitely detained.
- Pungesti, Romania: people versus Chevron and riot police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Pungesti is at the terrifying front line of Romania's resource war - where villagers are fighting off rapacious corporations and their private army of violent riot police, backed by corrupt politicians.
- Scaling the wall: what to do if you get stuck while reading Marx’s Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Lots of people who start Karl Marx's Capital get stuck somewhere in the early chapters of Volume 1. Here are some suggestions are made about how to get unstuck and read the whole book.
- Where's the Body Count from Shootings by the Police?
Protecting Killer Cops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
It estimated that in the United States in 2011 police shot more than 1,100 people, killing 607. However, the government refuses to keep track of the killings, so the exact number is unknown, and may well be higher.
- Japan's post-Fukushima 'secrecy' clampdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Japan's secrecy law, just passed by parliament, gives the government carte blanche to designate state secrets - and restrict information about anything it likes.
- Location Tracking: A Pervasive Problem in Modern Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
NSA is tracking people around the Internet and the physical world. These newly-revealed techniques hijacked personal information that was being transmitted for some commercial purpose, converting it into a tool for surveillance. One technique involved web cookies, while another involved mobile apps disclosing their location to location-based services.
- NSA Turns Cookies (And More) Into Surveillance Beacons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
These Google cookies - known as 'PREF' cookies - last two years and can uniquely identify you. The NSA is using this to enable remote exploitation (hacking into people’s computers) - an act aided by the ability to uniquely identify individuals on the Internet.
- To end the occupation, dissolve the Palestinian Authority
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Palestinians will not gain their freedom except through popular resistance, in which all segments of the Palestinian people are unified against the occupation, in an organized popular intifada. There will not be a popular intifada before the Palestinian Authority is dissolved, and a unified, principles-centered national leadership is formed.
- America Soon to Become a Corporate North Korea?
Stacking the Deck Against Working People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Given the power American corporations have, anyone who believes he couldn’t be turned into a North Korean is lying to himself.
- The Ecoterrorist and me
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Marie Mason is five years into a 22-year sentence for participating in non-violent - but highly destructive - actions with the Earth Liberation Front. David Rovics met with her at the Carswell Federal Women's Prison in Fort Worth, Texas.
- Madiba in Palestine
Apartheid Died on the Sharp Edge of Principles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The profound political ties between Palestinians and South Africans are quite strong, matched, perhaps, only by the deep connections to the black freedom movement in the U.S. Madiba’s death has generated an outpouring of mourning and remembrance from Palestinian activists.
- Marxism, ecology and human history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Land and Labour: An important new book explores humanity’s contradictory relationship with the environment: our role in destroying nature, and our potential to for positive change.
- NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using cookies and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.
- Ontario's Announcement to Fill the Refugee Health Gap a Win for Migrant Communities
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Health for All welcomes yesterday's announcement that Ontario will join Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, and Quebec in filling the gap left by federal cuts to refugee health care and send the federal government the bill.
- Police Attack Palm Oil Protestors in Sierra Leone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Sierra Leone police opened fire on a group of protestors who were demonstrating against a palm oil plantation in the southern province of Pujehun. The project is being developed by Societe Financiere des Caoutchoucs (Socfin), a French agri-business giant.
- Deputation to the Toronto Board of Health regarding proposed expansion of Island Airport
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The waterfront is a highly utilized collective space that we have highly invested in to be used for recreational activities that promote health and fit into the city's vision of increasing green space. Why would we destroy it with an expanding airport?
- Dismantling of Fishery Library 'Like a Book Burning,' Say Scientists
Harper government shuts down 'world class' collection on freshwater science and protection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Harper government has dismantled one of the world's top aquatic and fishery libraries as part of its agenda to reduce government as well as limit the role of environmental science in policy decision-making.
- Don't Blame Mandela for Our Failure
Believing the Champions of Neoliberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
South Africa believed the promises made by the champions of neoliberalism, and found itself ensnared in its web with no way out by the beginning of the next millennium.
- How to cover human development: A first-of-its-kind manual for journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Press Institute publishes the Reporter's Guide to the Millennium Development Goals: Covering Development Commitments for 2015 and Beyond, a first-of-its-kind manual for journalists on how to cover human development and remind the public of government commitments to meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals.
- Sex segregation in UK universities - a step forward for the Muslim religious right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The authorities of universities in the UK have made public their policy of bending to religious fundamentalists by condoning sex segregation on university premises. The education system is especially targeted, as controlling the minds of the youth is critical.
- Snowden document shows Canada set up spy posts for NSA
CSEC conducted espionage activities for U.S. in 20 countries, according to top-secret briefing note
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A top secret document retrieved by American whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals Canada has set up covert spying posts around the world and conducted espionage against trading partners on behalf of the U.S. National Security Agency.
- Climate politics must be as radical as the climate crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
If the climate action movement allows its goals to be shaped by what is permissible in a capitalist economy then it has already failed. To respond to the climate emergency, our politics must be as radical as our reality. Revolutionary changes needed for humankind to survive and thrive.
- On the nature and causes of environmental violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We need a much broader definition of violence than is allowed for by limiting its meaning to a physical and immediate brutal act of aggression, and one that includes an environmental dimension.
- The radical legacy of Nelson Mandela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In 1964, Nelson Mandela along with many other comrades in the struggle for the liberation of South Africa from racist white domination under apartheid was sentenced to life in prison. A voice for justice has gone silent. But the words and example of Mandela will live as long as people struggle against injustice and oppression.
- How Australian bank financed the heroin trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- How to See if Your Images are Being Used on Other Websites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
You just ran across your artwork, featured on a blog! Except, they hadn't told you they did it and you just happened to find out on your own. These situations are where my little image trick comes in handy. And it's free! Here’s the step-by-step.
- The Corporate Invasion
Government by Big Business Goes Supranational
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A new treaty being negotiated in secret between the US and the EU has been specifically engineered to give companies what they want -- the dismantling of all social, consumer and environmental protection, and compensation for any infringement of their assumed rights. Under the treaty, foreign companies could sue governments directly for cash compensation over earnings lost because of strict labour or environmental legislation.
- Empire of the Comanche
The Passing of Comancheria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The period of Comanche domination of Texas, New Mexico, Northern Mexico, and much of the American West between 1750 and 1850 is just a passing footnote in American and Mexican history, but it provides an interesting perspective on many important historical questions, notably the history of the Eurasian steppe and the role of violence in long-distance trade.
- Invitation to a Hanging
Pity the Executioner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A recently filed lawsuit suggests Texas execution officials were forced to engage in illegal activities in order to obtain a death dealing drug.
- Louisiana's For-Profit Prisons
How Long Jail Sentences for Trivial Offences Enrich Local Sheriffs' and Police Departments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In Louisiana, writing a cheque that bounces still carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, and the minimum sentence for a repeat burglary offender is 24 years without parole.
- Mandela the radical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Nelson Mandela will be celebrated principally for the dignity with which he emerged onto the world stage after decades in prison and for the forgiveness that he displayed towards his former enemies in forging a democratic, multi-racial South Africa from the poisoned legacy of apartheid.
- The Mandela Years in Power
Did He Jump or Was He Pushed?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
South Africa's democratization was profoundly compromised by an intra-elite economic deal that, for most people, worsened poverty, unemployment, inequality and ecological degradation, while also exacerbating many racial, gender and geographical differences.
- Mandela's art of 'understanding the enemy'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A senior correspondent reflects on decades of covering the savvy political operator who became an African icon.
- Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Mandela's Paradoxes Made His Journey Even Greater
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Mandela was in it to win it. He sought concrete, historic and “big” change, knew that it could not be achieved without the support of public opinion, and proved expertly flexible in, through trial and error, discovering what worked and what did not work, and embracing what did work.
- Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia
Killed Beaten Raped
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With few opportunities at home, millions of poor, desperate men and women from South East Asia and the horn of Africa migrate annually to Saudi Arabia. Vulnerable at home and vulnerable abroad where many are enslaved and badly abused, some killed.
- Nelson Mandela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Mandela was not alone. The struggle to liberate South Africa was a collective effort. Moreover it was the power of the most downtrodden, the workers in the factories, the poor in the community, working class women and youth that brought the Apartheid government, if not completely to its knees – at least to negotiate the terms of the end of their racist system.
- Nelson Mandela: A Dissenting Opinion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
It is an indication of what Mandela was up against that the man who fought so hard and long against a brutal apartheid regime was so completely defeated when he took power in South Africa. That was because he was no longer struggling against a rogue regime but against the existing order. As I suspect Mandela realised only too well, one cannot lead a revolution when there are no followers.
- Who was Nelson Mandela?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We should treasure the memory of the Mandela our rulers hated: the lonely, courageous, unbowed political prisoner, condemned for his resistance to racial oppression.
- Working To Honour Nelson Mandela's Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
As the world mourns the passing of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, his close friend and political stalwart Tokoyo Sexwale says much needs to be done to honour his legacy.
- Scientific journal retracts study exposing GM cancer risk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology appears to have violated scientific standards by withdrawing a study which found that rats fed on a Monsanto GM corn were more likely to develop cancer than controls.
- Scientists pledge to boycott Elsevier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Following the retraction of the Seralini et al scientific paper which found health damage to rats fed on GM corn, over 100 scientists have pledged in this Open Letter to boycott Elsevier, publisher of the journal responsible.
- Australian government orders ASIO raids to suppress East Timor spying evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Abbott governmen ordered Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and Australian Federal Police (AFP) raids on the homes and offices of a lawyer and former intelligence agency whistleblower involved in an international legal challenge to Australia’s spying on the East Timor government during maritime border talks in 2004.
- Bill to stifle flow of information poised to pass in Japan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned by a new state secrets bill before the Japanese parliament, which, if passed, would broaden the government's power to determine which information can be kept secret.
- Both pro- and anti-government demonstrators threaten media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders is very worried by the harassment of TV stations by both pro- and anti-government demonstrators in Thailand.
- Elements of a Concept of Socialist Transformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The concept of transformation, with the elements developed up to now, could be capable of advancing the process of creating a left that is up to the challenge of the great crisis of financial-market capitalism and today’s civilisation. Just like the Zapatistas, we will progress while learning - with the objective of overthrowing the total mode of production and life, of power and property relations, in order to go toward a solidary, socialist society, which puts an end to the exploitation of human beings and nature. The transformation of our very way of thinking is part of this progress.
- Five years since Canada's constitutional coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Five years ago today, Canada’s Conservative government used the arbitrary powers of the un-elected governor-general to shut down Canada’s parliament so as to prevent the opposition parties from defeating the government in a non-confidence vote.
- Global campaign aims to end violence against women journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) launches a global campaign to bring attention to the issue of violence against women journalists, and to call for an end to impunity for these crimes.
- IFJ Denounces Israeli Forces For Targeting Group of Photographers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the Israeli army for "deliberately targeting" a group of photographers covering skirmishes at Qalandia crossing between Jerusalem and Ramallah
- IFJ/EFJ Strongly Condemn Brutal Attacks Against Journalists in Ukraine
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have strongly condemned the brutal attacks by Ukrainian security forces against journalists covering the mass protests in Kiev.
- IFJ/EFJ Strongly Support Spanish Unions Against Brutal Closure of RTV Valencia (Nou) in Spain
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have strongly condemned the brutal closure, in Spain, of the public broadcaster Radio Televisio Valenciana (called Canal Nou in Valencian language).
- IFJ/FAJ Back Journalists Protest over Oppressive Media Bill in Kenya
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) are giving their full backing to journalists in Kenya in their battle against a contentious Media Bill that threatens press freedom in the country.
- Lobbying Elites: The Fast Track To Extinction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
As we evaluate the outcomes of the recent UN climate negotiations in Warsaw, one lesson that we are invited to learn, again, relates to our strategy for getting effective action taken on the ongoing climate catastrophe and other critical environmental.
- Radio host's murder highlights dangers for journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened by radio journalist Joash Dignos' targeted killing in Valencia City, on the southern island of Mindanao.
- Retracting Séralini Study Violates Science and Ethics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Giles-Eric Séralini, a professor of molecular biology at Caen University, led a toxicological study on GM maize and the Roundup herbicide which found an alarming increase in early death, large tumours including cancers, and diseases of the liver and kidney. What followed was a concerted worldwide campaign to discredit the findings.
- Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Giant corporations are employing highly unethical or illegal tools of espionage against nonprofit organizations with near impunity, according to a new report by Essential Information.
- Blockade Halts Megaload at Port of Umatilla
The Darkest Hour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Fifty activists with Rising Tide and members of the Umatilla and Warm Springs tribes held together to stop a megaload from embarking on its treacherous path. The struggle against the megaloads is a struggle against the tar sands and expanding fossil fuel infrastructure.
- Canada facilitated NSA spying on 2010 G8 and G20 summits
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Top secret US National Security Agency (NSA) briefing notes leaked by the former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden reveal that Canada’s Conservative government permitted the NSA to spy on the June 2010 G8 and G20 summits held in Huntsville, Ontario and Toronto.
- The Dreadful Legacy of UN Resolution 181
Sixty Years Later Global Support for a Palestine Grows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Approximately three quarters of a million Palestinians are refugees, offspring of the families who were forced into Syria and Lebanon when Zionist terrorists depopulated and destroyed Palestinian villages.
- Environmental justice activists successfully shut down Line 9 construction site in Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
At 6am this morning, members of Rising Tide Toronto successfully shut down construction for Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline in North Toronto. Five people, including two priests, locked down to equipment to prevent further work on this project.
- Iron Cagebook
The Logical End of Facebook's Patents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Lobbyists for the havens: ICIJ's guide to the offshore system's defenders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Across the world, tax havens are under attack. Leading global organizations like the G20 and OECD have put cracking down on offshore tax avoidance at the top of their agendas. Ambitious plans for automatic sharing of tax data between countries are in the works.
- New report documents "a living death" in US prisons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The American Civil Liberties Union has issued a massive report that meticulously documents the unconstitutional practice of life imprisonment without parole in federal and state prisons in the US.
- New York Times, Obamacare and the war on the elderly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
“On Dying After Your Time” by Daniel Callahan advances the notion that the burning issue vexing the US health care system is that people are living too long. The cost of keeping them alive, Callahan argues, is threatening a social catastrophe.
- Pro-European Union protests mount in Kiev
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Over 100,000 demonstrators protested in Kiev on Sunday to demand the resignation of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich. They were protesting Yanukovich’s abandonment of an association agreement with the European Union (EU.
- Snowden document confirms US-backed mass surveillance in Australia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The document obtained by the former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor confirms that the electronic surveillance agency, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), monitors the domestic population, as well as the people and governments of many Asian countries.
- Ukraine: what's going on, and what does it mean?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Some thoughts on the protests happening in Ukraine. Things are not completely what they may seem.
- What Comes Next: Towards a bi-national end-game in Palestine/Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Jeff Halper suggests that the best political system to express both the desires of the two national communities of Palestine/Israel for self-determination and of its individual citizens for democracy would seem to be a consociational democracy.
- Demanding an end to the crimes and abuses towards journalists and media workers in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Syrian journalists are now facing an increasing deadly threat since 2013: the Jihadists militias. Statement jointly signed by Syrian media, Syrian NGOs, leading international NGOs and high profile personalities.
- From Cave Paintings to the Internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media.
- The Googlization of the Far Right: Why Is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Google, the tech giant, has been funding a growing list of groups advancing the agenda of the Koch brothers. The policies advocated by some of the Google’s grantees are in stark contrast with the progressive image that Google has worked to promote.
- My Years at Wal-Mart
Making One Do the Work of Three
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Wal-Mart is but the largest wave in a rising tide, and, unless we stand together, united and with dignity, as a great levy for justice to hold and push it back, this tide threatens to drown us all.
- Purposely create turnover in your team to generate new ideas, novel perspectives, and refreshing attitudes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We need to shuffle our teams every once in a while. Everyone gets used to working together, and this is a good thing. But it's also salutary to bring in new blood and shake up existing patterns and habits.
- Reflections on the Corporate Security State
"He's nuts. Like out there."
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Wikileaks began releasing millions of emails from anonymous hacks of the intelligence firm Stratfor, a global intelligence provider. Stratfor staff are very interested in organizations such as the Rainforest Action Network (RAN).
- UK Ordered Destruction Of 'Embarrassing' Colonial Papers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Britain systematically destroyed documents in colonies that were about to gain independence, declassified Foreign Office files reveal. Operation Legacy saw sensitive documents secretly burnt or dumped to cover up traces of British activities.
- United Church of Canada Members Launch Campaign to Boycott Israeli Settlement Products
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine and Israel (UNJPPI), a Network of United Church of Canada members and supporters, is launching a campaign in cities across Canada to boycott products made in illegal Israeli settlements.
- Ads are coming to get you
Billions of pieces of data crunched to target your screen.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The amount of personal information we donate to the Internet giants, and their ability to monitor our every move, are now being fed to ad exchange sites that bid within milliseconds for the space on our screens.
- Ethiopia's stolen land.
'A common property of the nations and peoples'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Government plans to reform Ethiopia’s agriculture failed to consider the country’s peasant culture, subsistence farming and basic needs such as water to drink. Instead, it let the agrifood and financial giants take much of the most fertile land from peasant farmers.
- Glass buildings kill birds - architects must act!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Horrified at the giga-scale death of birds caused by collisions with trendy expanses of plate glass in modern buildings, James Fischer calls on architects to bring an end to the needless slaughter - and "save a billion birds"!
- Louisiana's profitable prisons
Inside America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Long jail sentences for trivial offences enrich local sheriffs' and police departments in the state of Louisiana -- and keep the local economy going.
- Burning History in San Salvador
Destruction of Historical and Human Rights Archives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On Thursday, Nov. 14, three armed men broke into the offices of Pro-Búsqueda. The attack on Pro-Búsqueda was not a random crime. We should be worried about what is happening in El Salvador.
- Day of Mourning Statement From Leonard Peltier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
It is yet another year. It seems like a thousand years ago but only a year in time in reality from the last time I dictated one of these statement for the day of mourning so, again, I want to say as last time, that I am honoured that you would want to hear my words.
- Deformities, sickness and livestock deaths: the real cost of GM animal feed?
Deformities, Sickness and Livestock Death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Feeding animals a diet containing genetically modified (GM) ingredients or more specifically feed made from GM soya and sprayed with the controversial herbicide glyphosate is responsible for deformities and other defects in pigs.
- The Exchange - Issue #3
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The third issue of The Exchange focuses on ongoing struggles to build effective resistance to austerity, and the attempts to build unity across the left. The exchanges here try to look to the problems of the left and wider social movements – to ask how we might go forward, how we might contribute to the enrichment and revival of communist ideas, and how our work, in the here and now, can help to develop the left as a strong and serious force.
- Fear of the People's History
England's Two Countries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
England is two countries. One is dominated by London, the other remains in its shadow. They were another nation with a different history, different loyalties, different humour, even different values. At the heart of this was the politics of class.
- Memory and Repression in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The raid on Pro-Busqueda happened three days after the Salvadorean Supreme Court heard testimony from survivors of a 1982 raid carried out by government forces.
- The Other Police State
Private Cops vs. the Public Good
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A revealing study on "Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits" written by Gary Ruskin confirms one’s worst suspicions about the ever-expanding two-headed U.S. security state. It details how some companies use the security apparatus, including questionable espionage tactics, against anyone who challenges their authority.
- Saudi Arabia's foreign labour crackdown drives out 2m migrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Ethiopian workers face hostility amid 'Saudisation' campaign to control foreign labour and get more Saudi citizens into work.
- Activist archiving in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
- Canadian university launches bachelor's degree in sports media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Ryerson University, one of Canada’s top journalism schools, has announced the creation of the country’s first bachelor’s degree specifically geared towards sports media.
- Gaza: Life and death under Israel's drones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There are many things to fear in Gaza. Drones are increasingly being used for surveillance and extra-judicial execution in parts of the Middle East, especially by the US. There are no statistics that detail the effect of the drones on Palestinians in Gaza.
- Privacy and the Right to Strike in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The neoliberal assault on labour has now entered its fourth decade. Equally concerning for the labour movement has been the long assault on the post-war labour freedoms to organize, bargain, and strike.
- The Very Future of Third World Agriculture Is at Stake
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Food security is simply a smokescreen to provide a cover-up for the global efforts being made to dismantle the very foundations of Third World agriculture. Putting more income into the hands of Third World farmers is not acceptable, as it makes developing country agriculture economically viable and therefore deals a blow to U.S. agribusiness trade interests.
- Biggest criminals write laws that make their crimes legal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Giannina Segnini discusses her bribery investigations that helped put two former presidents of Costa Rica in jail, and offers advice to aspiring investigative journalists.
- The biggest criminals write laws that make their crimes legal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Giannina Segnini is the director of the investigative team at La Nación newspaper in Costa Rica. This month she was awarded one of Latin America's most prestigious distinctions, the Gabriel Garcia Marquez award for excellence in journalism. In this interview, she discusses her bribery investigations that helped put two former presidents of Costa Rica in jail, and offers advice to aspiring investigative journalists.
- Libya's Hell, Enabled by Canadian Humanitarians
Who Will Protect Libyans Now?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
One of the darkest and most shameful chapters in Western military intervention continues to play out in spades in Libya. Recent news from Benghazi revealed that one of the (literally hundreds) of murderous militias opened fire on peaceful, white-flag-bearing protesters (protesting militias), killing at least 20 and wounding over 130.
- Link Removal Services & Notices -- The Newest Internet Scam?
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Forum discussion on link removal notices as a new form of scam.
- Oscar Lopez Rivera and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence
An Indomitable Spirit of Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Oscar López Rivera has served 32 years in the dungeons of imperialism for the crime of fighting for the independence of Puerto Rico as a member of the Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN). The continued militancy of Oscar López Rivera, after more than three decades of imprisonment, is a living testimony of the indomitable will to resist all attempts to break the combative spirit of a man, who has become a symbol of his people, yearning for freedom.
- Unmasking the Five-Eyed monster, a global and secret intelligence-sharing regime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Privacy International is proud to announce our new project, Eyes Wide Open, which aims to pry open the Five Eyes arrangement and bring it under the rule of law.
- Why Saying No to Toronto Airport Expansion Makes Sense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Saying no to the expansion of the Toronto Island Airport and introduction of jet aircrafts is the economical, ecological and socially responsible thing to do.
- The Check-the-Box Loophole
The Great Corporate Tax Shift
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Corporate taxes in America have been in decline now for more than three decades. Contrary to the drumbeat of corporate media throughout this year, and their false claims that US corporations are paying far more than their foreign capitalist cousins.
- Eyes Wide Open
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The recent revelations, made possible by NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden, of the reach and scope of global surveillance practices have prompted a fundamental reexamination of the role of intelligence services in conducting coordinated cross-border surveillance.
- Monsanto, the TPP and Global Food Dominance
Putting Profits Before Populations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment and our financial system will be in the hands of transnational corporations.
- Tax havens face crisis in wake of Offshore Leaks, report says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
ICIJ’s “Offshore Leaks” investigation has created a “crisis of confidence” for tax havens, damaging the offshore industry’s bottom line and its prospects for growth, a new report by a leading offshore services firm says.
- Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied on Porn Habits as Part of Plan to Discredit 'Radicalizers'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document. The document, provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, identifies six targets, all Muslims, as "exemplars" of how "personal vulternabilities" can be learned through electronic surveillance, and then exploited to undermine a target's credibility, reputation and authority.
- In Defence of Diversity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An essay on immigration.
- Journalist faced prison for posting media relations number
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Carlos Miller founder and publisher of Photography is Not a Crime, a leading blog about free speech and press rights in the U.S., Miller has made it his mission to publicize examples of government overreach and the suppression of journalists' and other newsgatherers' rights.
- Racism, capitalism and contradictions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Workers under capitalism have a dual existence: both as collective producers struggling against capital for control of the workplace, for hours and wages, but also workers compete as each other.
- Review: The Uses and Abuses of History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Review of "The Uses and Abuses of History" by Margaret Macmillan.
- Porter's corporate interests can't be allowed to trump public health
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The interests of corporations cannot be allowed to trump public health and safety. Pressure council to say no to jets.
- Another Vote on Washington's Anti-Cuba Policy at the United Nations
The Politics of Isolation
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Resolution A/68/L.6, sponsored by Cuba, passed this year, for the 22nd year in a row, with Washington once again in humiliating political loneliness. The vote this year was 188-2 in favor, with 3 abstentions. Washington’s formal political isolation over its anti-Cuba policy can hardly be more complete. Is it possible to imagine any significant political issue in world politics uniting so many disparate entities often in significant conflict with each other.
- ClimateFast Vigil for Climate Action, Remember Haiyan, Protest Inaction at COP 19
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
12:30 - dusk, Friday Nov 22nd, 511 Lawrence Ave. Office of Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver
Toronto climate activists will camp out today on the doorstep of Minister Joe Oliver's constituency office. They are fasting in solidarity with
- Criticism: An Abandoned Process
Blame the Greeks!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The art of criticism is yet another casualty of television, the Internet and individualism. The objective of criticism should be to improve something. That is the only way that changes and transformations take place. Formal and informal criticisms have been the centerpiece of every advanced society.
- Ethiopian Migrants Victimized in Saudi Arabia
Racism and Hate Running Through the Streets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The recent appalling events in Saudi Arabia have brought thousands of impassioned Ethiopians living inside the country and overseas onto the streets. This powerful worldwide action presents a tremendous opportunity for the people to unite, to demand their rights through peaceful demonstrations and to call with one voice for change.
- Exiting the Vampire Castle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This summer, I seriously considered withdrawing from any involvement in politics. Exhausted through overwork, incapable of productive activity, I found myself drifting through social networks, feeling my depression and exhaustion increasing.
- Mastering disaster: How to get the facts to cover humanitarian crises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In a midst of a humanitarian crisis like the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, information on the disaster pours to and from the media. The situation is in flux and the needs are great, and troubling fragments of news drop in continuously from on-the-ground reports, government briefings, humanitarian responders and social media. It’s often incredibly difficult to answer the basic questions: How many victims? How much destruction? Who will help pay for the emergency response and help with the recovery? Who has already donated money and resources?
- Moving 750 million pages of print archive to a new home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
For 82 years, researchers have made the journey to Colindale in north London, the home of the British Newspaper Library, a vast collection of almost every British newspaper published in the last 300 years. Across six floors and 50 kilometres of shelving sit not only the well-known national papers, but also a vast collection of now obscure regional titles.
- Opposition daily throttled financially by lawsuits and dirty tricks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The daily newspaper Azadliq, one of the few remaining opposition news outlets, is now in danger of succumbing to efforts to throttle it financially. Many members of Azadliq’s staff have been individually persecuted in connection with their work.
- Pirating Creativity
The MPAA Is Going After Schoolchildren
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) goes all-out enforce its “intellectual property” claims upon those who would dare share and distribute media.
- Roadblocks to Climate Activism
The Problem of Natural Localism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The consequences of global warming. The evidence for the evolving dire effects of building CO2 and other greenhouse gases is getting increasingly conclusive. We are a species influenced by natural localism, and therefore the majority of Americans, and others in the West as well, are not going to abandon a present full of profit and relative comfort as long as the sky is clear in their own local place and time. As to the future beyond their grandchildren, it simply does not seem real.
- The Sleepwalkers Are Revolting
The Right to Sleep, or...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Center for Disease Control’s finding that sleep deprivation has reached epidemic proportions has failed to generate significant public outcry.
- There’s Always a Class War Going On
An Interview with Chris Steele
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An excerpt from the second edition of Noam Chomsky’s OCCUPY: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity published by Zuccotti Park Press.
- UK: Walking a tightrope: Between the pro-Islamist Left and the far-Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Opposing Sharia and Islamism in the west is like walking on a tight rope most of the time -- thwarting attacks from the Left, refuting cultural relativism, preventing alliances with the far-Right, explaining the issues ignored by government and the media, mobilising support for secularism and citizenship whilst opposing racism and xenophobia, and making linkages with the many fighting Islamism on the ground in countries across the world.
- Unless Union Workers Can Strike, They're Dead
Level the Playing Field
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The strike is workers' only viable weapon. Why? Because it, and it alone, immediately affects the company’s profits. Without labour, they're crippled.
- Angel Beach Missionaries: Walking with joy for the Lord
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Two Presentation Sisters minister to 3,000 Cree First Nation people in Big River First Nation Reserve in Northern Saskatchewan
- Buddhist Pogropms and Religious Conflicts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Most observers would, rightly, reject the idea that there is something inherent in Buddhism that has led to the violence. Rather, most would recognize that the anti-Muslim violence in both Myanmar and Sri Lanka has its roots in the political struggles that have engulfed the two nations. The importance of Buddhism in the conflicts in Myanmar and Sri Lanka is not that the tenets of faith are responsible for the pogroms, but that those bent on confrontation have adopted the garb of religion as a means of gaining a constituency and justifying their actions.
- Exile Islands, Then and Now
Histories of Exploitation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The increasing number of asylum seeker arrivals to Australia – more than 15,000 in 2013 alone – has become such an issue that in July former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd took a new “hardline” stance, saying that no one arriving by boat would ever be allowed to settle there.
- Global Media Calendar Recognizes Professional Image Consulting Worldwide
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
McGraw Hill publication 'Chase's Calendar of Events', recognizes 'International Image Consultant Day' on November 23, 2013, sponsored by the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI), to honor the science and acumen of the image
- On Being Watched in the 60s
When Police Power was Embraced as a Form of Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There would seem to be the notion that the Sixties were the product of immaculate conception. In fact, they were more an act of conversion, conversion of the isolated, unfocussed, dispersed and inarticulate alienation of the 1950s into a mass movement with common language, direction, and rules.
- Porter's corporate interests can't be allowed to trump public health
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We are concerned that it will be the children who live, study and play less than 300 metres from the current airport in the high-rises, the Waterfront school, Little Norway Park, the daycare and community centre who will be most affected by the addition of jets. Consider that landings and takeoffs generate the highest emissions and that peak airport periods coincide with times children walk to and from school.
- Ventra Capitalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Zimmer discusses the problems arising with the recent implementation of the Ventra fare collection system for Chicago transit, a change that has been costly and inefficient for riders but profitable for corporations involved.
- Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.
- The Great Corporate Tax Shift
The $10 Trillion Heist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The great corporate myth-making machine has been hard at work of late, attempting to create the false impression that US corporations are increasingly uncompetitive with their foreign rivals due to the fact they allegedly pay higher corporate taxes.
- Media Control and Indoctrination in the United States
An Interview With Catherine Komp
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An excerpt from the just released 2nd edition of Noam Chomsky’s OCCUPY: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity.
- On the Warpath in Venezuela
Against the Bolivarian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Nicolas Maduro won Venezuela’s presidential election in April by a slim margin, a result still unrecognized by the U.S. government. Opposition demonstrations quickly spread, killing 13 people. Now his government faces municipal elections on December 8, and engineered social turmoil has returned.
- Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This report is an effort to document something about corporate espionage against nonprofit organizations. Law enforcement should prioritize investigating and prosecuting corporate espionage against nonprofits.
- Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Our findings reveal that western Eurasian genetic signatures in modern-day Native Americans derive not only from post-Columbian admixture, as commonly thought, but also from a mixed ancestry of the First Americans.
- Cairo puts its faith in ragpickers to manage the city's waste problem.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Egyptian Christian minority with tradition of turning a profit from recycling given official role in city's waste processing.
- Harper government's extensive spying on anti-oilsands groups revealed in FOIs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The National Energy Board, supposedly an independent federal agency, has directly coordinated efforts between CSIS, the RCMP and private oil companies against environmentalist groups and indigenous-rights activists.
- Vandana Shiva On Resisting GMOs: "Saving Seeds Is a Political Act"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Sarah van Gelder interviewed Vandana Shiva, renowned for her activism against GMOs, globalization, and patents on seeds and traditional foods.
- What privilege analysis doesn't provide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reading the ongoing debate on white skin privilege at SocialistWorker.org has author think about a recent fightback that took place where he works. It is a large, publicly funded hospital that cares for a patient population that is as racially and ethnically diverse as its workforce.
- Without Fear, Without Favor
The Future of Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Words “lifetime achievement” have a certain undertone. There is a hint that the work is finished.
- Climate Change as a Class Issue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Protesting PNC Bank in Pittsburgh financing of mountain-top removal (MTR) coal mining across Appalachia. MTR causes increased cancer rates and birth defects, as well as massive environmental degradation.
- Extraordinary Violence at 500 Pearl Street
The Sentencing of Jeremy Hammond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On Friday, November 15, 2013, extreme violence with malicious intent was meted out by Federal District Court Judge Loretta Preska in the sentencing phase of 28 year old hacktivist Jeremy Hammond before a chamber packed with friends, family, supporters and others.
- Failed neo-liberalism sees SA sleepwalking into a revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Two decades into democracy the outcomes of our economic system and its policy framework are unambiguous: increased poverty, increased inequality, increased unemployment, escalating costs of living and doing business. How else does one measure the success of any economic model if not on its ability to provide sustainable increases in the well-being to the majority of its citizens?
- Needed: 5% Participation to Overthrow Crony Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Erica Chenoweth, author of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, explains how to overthrow U.S. crony capitalism: “In raw numbers, movements generally achieve systematic change (i.e., in the +80% likelihood category) when they mobilize over 5 percent of the population. The Iranian Revolution, among the largest popular uprisings, achieved about 10 percent mobilization. In the US with 311 million people, this would mean between 15.5 million and 31.1 million people.”
- New law further restricts freedom of speech and freedom of the press in Hungary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU, or “TASZ” in Hungarian) has criticized a new law, enacted by the Hungarian Parliament. The new law punishes by up to three years in prison the creation and distribution of video or voice recordings made for the purpose of harming another person's dignity.
- Resistance to Reporting on Discrimination in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
To date, I have published over a hundred reports about anti-African racism in Israel. Some of these stories have been widely circulated, including a 10-minute video released last month that has been seen by more than three quarters of a million people. But, it would seem that the mainstream American media is consciously refraining from reporting on the story.
- Strong teamwork, cohesion, and a sense of satisfaction come from achieving great things together
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Last week I was involved a discussion about how to build strong teamwork and cohesion. Some of my interlocutors were convinced that adventurous activities for groups of employees are a good way to achieve this end. I don't deny that doing things
- 10 years in prison for circulating information in public interest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Jeremy Hammond, a 28-year-old WikiLeaks informant and cyber-activist linked to Anonymous, has become the fourth whistleblower to receive a long jail sentence this year in the United States.
- Why I Represent the New Orleans Immigrant Workers Who Committed Civil Disobedience
An Honor to Defend Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In the thirty six-years I have been a lawyer, I have seen many people take brave moral actions. I have represented hundreds in Louisiana and across our country who have been arrested for protesting for peace, civil rights, economic justice, and human rights for all. It is amazing to see people put their freedom on the line when they risk jail for justice.
- Bulgarian fascists run nightly patrols targeting immigrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, groups of fascists in paramilitary uniforms are conducting what they describe as ‘civil patrols’. The purpose of the patrols is to stop people in the street and then demand to see their identification or immigration documentation.
- Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years
His Idealism Remains at Large
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
28-year-old political activist Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release at the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York. This was the maximum sentence he could receive after his non-cooperating plea deal.
- Inside Avaaz - can online activism really change the world?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With 30 million members, Avaaz is an organisation with ambitions to save us all through technology.
- Why prairies matter and lawns don't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Prairies matter because of their immense root systems; dense, sprawling, complex biological systems that store one third of the world’s carbon and subsequently clean our future water as it precipitates from moisture-laden clouds onto diverse plant communities, and filters down through the mass of litter, roots, soil organisms, and soil horizons. Water quality always follows soil carbon levels, and prairies are the best soil carbon factories in the world. Lawns do not compare and never will.
- The Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Revelations about the long-term global, intrusive spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other allied intelligence apparatuses have provoked widespread protests and indignation and threatened ties between erstwhile imperial allies.
- Armed gunmen raid salvadoran human rights organization, burn archives
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Armed gunmen raid Salvadoran human rights organization Pro-Busqueda just months after abrupt closure of Archdiocese's human rights office, Tutela Legal. Human rights defenders see actions as effort to destroy war crimes documentation in light of Supreme Court challenge to Amnesty Law.
- Cancer is Capitalist Violence
Anthropology Against Oncology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
It’s been two decades since the publication of Martha Balsham’s landmark study, “Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority (1993).” Balshem, a hospital-based anthropologist, documented how a Philadelphia “lay community” rejected medical advice to stop smoking, eat fruits and vegetables and schedule regular screening tests. The working class community of Tannerstown (a pseudonym) instead blamed air pollution from highway traffic and nearby chemical plants, as well as fate, for their cancers.
- Narcs Versus Big Pharma
Behind the Meth Curtain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Communities in the heartland of America are fighting an epidemic of methamphetamine labs.
The driving force behind the scourge? Big Pharma.
- A Radical Vision for Victory
A Freedom Budget for All Americans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This remarkable book brings back into view a radical vision for victory within the mainstream, armed with the kind of expectation glimpsed briefly in the 2008 election race but this time without the support of a grassroots movement long since vanished.
- Gunmen torch vital records of rights group in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Gunmen in El Salvador early Thursday burst into the offices of a human rights agency that focuses on children missing from the country’s civil war, torching documents and taking away computers.
- When Does Criticism of Islam become Islamophobia?
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Basic points that undergird about the relationship between criticism, Islam and Islamophobia. We should stop being so obsessed by the distinction between legitimate criticism and Islamophobia, and start thinking about how an obsession with both Islam and Islamophobia distorts our culture and our debates.
- The Blockade Against Cuba: An Assault Upon Humanity's Conscience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On 29 October 2013, for the 22nd consecutive year, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) called for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. 188 states supported the Resolution, 2 voted against it, namely the US and Israel.
- Committees Of Correspondence: To Defend Freedom And Secure Good Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Two hundred and fifty years ago the people of America were subject to an unrepresentative government controlled by powerful commercial interests. They rebelled and formed their own government, which has now come to be controlled by powerful commercial interests. Once again, "these are the times that try men's souls." What lessons can we learn from history to help us through this crisis?
- Global Wealth Inequality, Illustrated
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A video for those who think capitalism is the way to end poverty.
- Canada's Austerity Agenda: It's About the Taxes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Austerity policies pose major threats to the public's health. Ronald Labonté argues that the austerity agenda in Canada stems not from a crisis in finances, but from a crisis in fair taxation.
- The Charlatanism Of Palestine-Denial
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Here we go again. On Israel and the US losing their UNESCO voting rights, ‘Israel's ambassador to UNESCO, Nimrod Barkan, ‘said in an interview that his country supports the U.S. decision [to suspend contributions], "objecting to the politicization of UNESCO, or any international organization, with the accession of a non-existing country like Palestine.
- How three Indian villages saved the Amur falcon.
A new grassroots conservation model takes root
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In the eastern Indian state of Nagaland, three villages worked together to save the Amur falcon from mass slaughter with the help of governments, green groups and the church.
- Mistaking Omniscience for Omnipotence
In a World Without Privacy, There Are No Exemptions for Our Spies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Given how similar they sound and how easy it is to imagine one leading to the other, confusing omniscience (having total knowledge) with omnipotence (having total power) is easy enough. It’s a reasonable supposition that, before the Snowden revelations hit, America's spymasters had made just that mistake. If the drip-drip-drip of Snowden’s mother of all leaks -- which began in June and clearly won’t stop for months to come -- has taught us anything, however, it should be this: omniscience is not omnipotence. At least on the global political scene today, they may bear remarkably little relation to each other. In fact, at the moment Washington seems to be operating in a world in which the more you know about the secret lives of others, the less powerful you turn out to be.
- Accountability is the willingness and obligation to answer for one's decisions and actions
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Today is Remembrance Day, when we salute the sacrifices and service of veterans and those who have served in the armed forces in war and peace operations. However, it is also a time to reflect on the accountability, or lack thereof, of leaders.
- After Typhoon Haiyan: The true face of the capitalist state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In times of disaster, the capitalist state shows its true face. In the Philippines, in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, thousands are dead, bodies lie uncollected in the streets, tens of thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed, and survivors are without food, water, shelter, medical care, or essential supplies. Meanwhile the police and the military are guarding stores "to prevent people from hauling off food, water" and other supplies.
- After Typhoon Haiyan: The true face of the capitalist state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In times of disaster, the capitalist state shows its true face.
- Globe's article on income gap really propaganda
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Journalist Barrie McKenna, writing in the main hyped-up article in the Globe’s Focus section on November 9, 2013, talks about how the gap in income between the rich and the rest of us is a serious problem that will hurt Canada for generations to come.
- Old-Fashioned Political Activism Doesn't Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
If you have ever read an article aiming to make you angry at some government or corporation by exposing some vile wrong-doing of it, then you've experienced at least one author's old-fashioned politcal activism. And if you've ever been asked by some organization, that avoids talking about the necessity and possibility of revolution, to attend a demonstration or sign a petition or vote against some particular governmental or corporate wrong-doing, then you've encountered an old-fashioned political activist organization. If you are, yourself, an old-fashioned political activist, as I once was, then this article is for you.
- Marxism and Anarchism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Remarks in our meeting in the London Anarchist Bookfair.
- Sylvia Pankhurst: War and Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Katherine Connelly's Sylvia Pankhurst’s activism during the First World War demonstrated her unwavering commitment to anti-imperialism - a thread running through all her activity for the rest of her life.
- The CIA's Memory Prison
A Perverse Logic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The U.S. government has ruled that the prisoners kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. cannot talk about their experiences because those experiences are the property of the U.S. government, which has classified them as secret national security information. This means the prisoners’ personal stories, recollections and experiences cannot be told in any open court, recounted to journalists or human rights groups, nor can they be heard by international bodies like the United Nations.
- Counter-Terrorism and Imperial Hypocrisy
Lessons from the Kidnapping of Abu Anas al-Libi in Tripoli
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Western governments word closely with 'terrorists' when it suits them, and then turn on them when the wind shifts.
- Deconstructing Mayor Rob Ford's fiscal record
The Star examines the claims behind Mayor Rob Ford’s $1 billion-in-savings boasts
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has repeatedly claimed to have saved taxpayers $1 billion - a figure that relies on creative definitions of "savings" and "taxpayers," exaggerations and omissions. Many of his other fiscal claims are also suspect.
- Theory and Practice of Idealism in Trotskyism and the ISO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We have come to conclusions there is a theoretical underpinning to the problems we (and others) experienced in the ISO, such as continually erroneous perspectives which rarely were assessed, a leadership method that emphasized cheerleading and exhortation over sober assessment of the challenges we are facing, a tendency to tail the liberals both politically and organizationally (opportunism), a growing separation between our Marxist theory and our practice (a hallmark of opportunism), a sectarian attitude towards the revolutionary left (other socialists and anarchists alike) and an intolerance toward ongoing political disagreement within the organization.
- Another journalist murdered a month before general elections
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The bullet-riddled body of Manuel Murillo Varela, a young freelance cameraman, was found in Tegucigalpa yesterday, exactly four months after journalist Anibal Barrow’s abduction and murder.
- Court strips national news agency of its licence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by a Moscow court's decision today to grant a request by the Federal Agency for the Supervision of Communications, Roskomnadzor, for the withdrawal of the news agency Rosbalt's licence
- Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in Atmosphere Reach New Record
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2012, continuing an upward and accelerating trend which is driving climate change and will shape the future of our planet for hundreds and thousands of years.
- IFEX network launches 2013 International Day to End Impunity Campaign
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
IFEX launches the third annual International Day to End Impunity campaign. And while there is a growing awareness of the problem of impunity and how it allows -- even exacerbates -- violations of human rights, the pressure needs to be kept up.
- IFJ/FAJ Stand by Journalists against a Draconian Media Bill in Kenya
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) today have brought their support to the journalists' fraternity in Kenya against a draconian media bill voted by the national assembly.
- IFJ Launches New Campaign in Iraq, Pakistan and Russia to End Impunity for Violence in Journalism
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With International Day against Impunity one month away, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today written to the leaders of Iraq, Russia and Pakistan to urge them and their governments to address the issue of impunity for violence.
- India: End Funding Restraints on Organizations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Indian government should vigorously investigate allegations that officials are using the law on foreign contributions to repress groups critical of the government. The government should amend the 2010 Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act
- Journalists are not Terrorists - Urgent Appeal of Life Sentences Given to Turkish Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Journalists are not terrorists - this is the powerful message the European Federation of Journalists is sending to the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Stand Up for Journalism Day following the life sentences given to five Turkish
- New wave of attacks on freedom of information
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and major leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood under way, Egyptian media workers are targets of attack. Freedom of information is threatened. Measures include military trials, arbitrary arrests
- Reclaiming the Future: A Feminist Perspective
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Toronto, Ontario - Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) will present Reclaiming the Future: A Feminist Perspective, a 3-day conference taking place November 8 and 9th at the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto, and 10th at Toronto Metro Hall
- Saudi journalist detained over outspoken newspaper columns
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders condemns the detention of Tariq al-Mubarak, a blogger and columnist who writes for the London-based Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat. He has been held by the Criminal Investigation Department for the past four days.
- White Poppies for Peace
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace will distribute free White Poppies in Toronto on Monday, November 11, 2013 at Yonge and Dundas on the southwest corner.
- Why socialism can be nothing else than 'real': Lessons from 'really existing socialism- - Part I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In this guest post, Sabina Stan from the Transnational Labour Project in Oslo critically questions this understanding and asks what the real lessons from 'really existing socialism' are for the understanding of today's capitalism.
- A Closer Look at Patent Troll Demand Letters: A Dangerous Problem that Must Be Fixed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We've been talking a good deal lately about the promising Innovation Act. And with good reason — it looks like the best chance we've had for real patent reform that would actually help those getting crushed by the patent system. The bill is not perfect, though, and has at least one glaring error: it does not address the serious harm that comes from patent troll demand letters.
- Complaints filed against telecom companies for their role in UK mass surveillance programme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On 5 November 2013, Privacy International filed formal complaints with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the UK against some of the world's leading telecommunication companies, for providing assistance to British spy agency GCHQ in the mass interception of internet and telephone traffic passing through undersea fibre optic cables.
- New wave of attacks on freedom of information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and major leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood under wa, Egyptian media workers are targets of attack. Freedom of information is threatened. Measures include military trials, arbitrary arrests, and abusive treatment in detention as Egyptian authorities maintain their campaign of repression.
- The NSA's Invasion of Google and Yahoo Servers
Your Email is Likely Being Monitored
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The American National Security Agency (NSA) has been intercepting information coming in and out of Google and Yahoo servers over non-public, internal network fibre optic lines. In December, 2012 alone, the program (revealingly called “MUSCULAR”) processed 181,280,466 Google and Yahoo records that included email, searches, videos and photos.
- State Law Breakers
Violating the Law While Enforcing the Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Police routinely break the law under the pretext of enforcing the law.
- NSA's Path to Totalitarianism
Ever-Shrinking Democracy in America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The American National Security Agency (NSA) appears as a “rogue” organization, extremism in the putative service of liberty. Or better, call it, stripped of all cosmetics, the unerring mark of a Police State, itself become identical with Fortress America, the National-Security State.
- Use drills to make critical procedures second nature
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The military has learned the hard way what any highly successful leader or artist has learned, that we need to develop the 'muscle memory' or basic drills and routines to the point where they become a habit, regardless of circumstances.
- Three Leaks, Three Weeks, and What We've Learned About the US Government's Other Spying Authority: Executive Order 12333
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The National Security Agency has been siphoning off data from the links between Yahoo and Google data centers, which include the fiber optic connections between company servers at various points around the world. While the user may have an encrypted connection to the website, the internal data flows were not encrypted and allowed the NSA to obtain millions of records each month, including both metadata and content like audio, video and text.
- Amazon - the future of retail?
A smile is the logo: we're not smiling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Amazon's warehouses are run like colonial enterprises - the staff are treated with contempt, paid badly, disciplined brutally, and set in competition against each other, often as temporary workers or on short-term contracts.
- Beating the blacklisters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A police raid exposing the scale of worker surveillance within the construction industry galvanised workers to take action. Ewa Jasiewicz speaks to those organising against the blacklisters.
- The Budget/Deficit Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Some serious ruling class intervention finally presented John Boehner an instruction he couldn't refuse: Get the Harry Reid-Mitch McConnell Senate deal to the House floor for a straight vote to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.
- Canary Islands vs. Big Oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Thousands of Canary Islands residents and activists have begun campaigning against Spanish oil company Repsol, and the potential oil spill that could devastate the wildlife and tourist and fishing industries.
- canfitpro supports CPR Awareness Month with accessible courses
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With 1 in 3 people being affected by Heart Disease in North America the chances of you being involved in an emergency situation are very high. Knowing how to react correctly in that situation has the potential to save a life and it could be yours!
- Dirty South
The Foul Legacy of Louisiana Oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On the workings and effects of the oil industry in Louisiana, including a particular focus on legacy lawsuits, through which landowners have sued companies for contamination of properties leased to produce oil and gas.
- Dream Worlds Here and There
Book Review of "2312" by Kim Stanley Robinson
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Short reviews Robinson's "2312," which concerns the state of a world three hundred years from now in which a twisted version of the dream "another world is possible" has come to pass, where nothing stops the daily grind of class oppression and ecological devastation but the sheer ruin of the Earth itself.
- E.P. Thompson: Feminism, Gender, Women and History
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Winslow reflects upon her experiences working with E.P. Thompson at the University of Warwick in 1969, especially in relation to his support for the women's liberation movement.
- Fighting impunity, but only in some cases
Is the International Criminal Court too Politicized?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
So far all the 20 prosecutions in the 11 years of the ICC’s existence have been brought over African conflicts. The US, China, Russia and Israel haven’t even signed up to the court, and actively seek exemption from it.
- Forging the Capital Security State
Book Review of Panitch and Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism"
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
"The Making of Global Capitalism" recounts how the United States came to rule and continues as the primary architect, coordinator and essential guarantor of the present empire of capital.
- GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Edward Snowden papers unmask close technical cooperation and loose alliance between British, German, French, Spanish and Swedish spy agencies.
- Harper's Seven-Year War on Science
Chris Turner's treatise on Tory anti-empiricism should spark outrage. But those in power won't see it.
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Home of the Whopper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Frank observes a fast-food worker protest in North Carolina and ponders the intersections of technological efficiency and worker redundancy, corporate wealth and de facto government subsidies, and company rhetoric and profits alongside workers' struggles for survival.
- Job makes us sick
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Corporations blame individual workers for their own state of health, which in reality is adversely impacted by unsafe work conditions individual workers have little or no control over. When management puts austerity and cost-cutting ahead of well-being, individual human beings pay the price.
- Lineages of Revolt
Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
While the outcomes of the tumultuous uprisings that continue to transfix the Arab world remain uncertain, the root causes of rebellion persist. Drawing upon extensive empirical research, Lineages of Revolt tracks the major shifts in the region’s political economy over recent decades.
- The Man Who Saves You from Yourself
Going Undercover with a Cult Infiltrator
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An account of the life and work of David Sullivan, a San Francisco-based private investigator who specializes in cults.
- Mexico in Labor's Crucible
Book Review of Roman and Arregui's "Continental Crucible" and Gomez's "The Collapse of Dignity"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
These two books deal in important and interesting ways with the question of building a real labour movement throughout North America.
- A Militant, "Minority" Union?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
At the AFL-CI0 convention in Los Angeles in September 2013, a small group of rank-and-file workers managed to alter the convention agenda -- by threatening to protest the presence of Kaiser Permanente, which happens to be their employer.
- Museum of the World and Image
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Challenges the "official narrative" that re-writes the Civil War as a struggle of "national security" against an "internal communist threat," manifested in the form of unions, student groups, human rights and refugee organizations, progressive Christian base communities, and the peasant insurgency of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
- The New "Politics from Below"
Book review of Raul Zibechi's "Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements"
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Zibechi's "Territories in Resistance" centres on the practices in Latin American movements, such as the Zapatistas and the Landless Workers Movement, analysing their strengths and weaknesses over time vis-à-vis the central governments that they helped bring to power.
- No Easy Victories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In today's "new Middle East" with its cauldron of Arab upheavals and the likelihood of longterm revolutionary processes, the United States cannot dictate terms unilaterally.
- NSA surveillance may cause breakup of internet, warn experts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Internet specialists highlight moves by Brazil, Germany and India towards creating separate networks in order to block spying.
- Obama, African Americans and War on the Working Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Malcom X's speech given nearly 50 years ago still remains valid today even in the age of the first African-American president and a sizable Congressional Black Caucus. While much has changed legally and socially -- upper-class African Americans can work and live almost anywhere if qualified -- much hasn’t changed for the working poor who are Black.
- On Syria Crisis and Prospects
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This article speculates and considers the probable outcomes and consequences that could result if a U.S. bombing campaign against Syria takes place.
- On the Perils of Imperialism
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Barak Obama's September 10, 2013 address, originally meant to mobilize Congress in support of an authorization for using military force against Syria, turned into a "life-saving" speech for Obama avoiding embarrassment and political defeat.
- The Passion of Richard Seymour
Book Reviews of "The Liberal Defence of Murder" and "UnHitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchen" by Richard Seymour
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The books of Richard Seymour skewer the predictable platitudes and puncture the sanctimonious pretensions of the "Pro-War Left," what was a transatlantic confederacy of journalists, public intellectuals, and bloggers that championed the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as a "humanitarian intervention."
- A Poet for Our Planet
Book Review of Friedman's "A Turnpike Utopia"
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Azure provides a review of Friedman's poems within the collection "A Turnpike Utopia" dealing with issues of AIDS, workers' rights, racism, and the mistreatment of immigrants.
- The Politics of Extractivism
Book Review of "Geopolítica de la Amazonía: Poder hacendal-patrimonial y acumulación capitalista" by Alvaro García Linera
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
García Linera's work is most certainly an expression of the dramatic changes in Bolivia and the "cultural and democratic revolution" Morales and his MAS party claim to have inaugurated.
- Roads to the Arab Uprisings
Book review of "The Journey to Tahrir" eds. Sowers and Toensing and "The Arab Revolts" eds. McMurray and Ufheil-Somers
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The strength of all the essays in these two collections is that the principal trends the authors analyzed have become critical background to recent events in Egypt and Syria during the summer of 2013, even as the nature of these events continue to shift.
- Save Our Unions
Dispatches From A Movement in Distress
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Steve Early, a union organizer for more than four decades, writes about the challenges facing the union movement in the United States.
- Thompson, William Morris and Ecosocialist Tasks
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Bernabe highlights E.P. Thompson's biography of William Morris and his theories regarding ecosocialism.
- ILO Finds Harper Tories Guilty of Breaking International Law (Again)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
ILO says the Harper government is guilty of contravening ILO conventions on Freedom of Association, The right to Organize and Collective Bargaining in its Bill C-33, Protecting Air Services Act of March 2012.
- Radical Jesus: A Graphic History of Faith
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Radical Jesus is arguably the first modern effort to convey through comic art the meaning of Jesus and his social message, not just in his own time, but also in the Radical Reformation, recent centuries, and in our own time.
- "Syrian people are asking for our solidarity. The local civilian councils are a good place for us to start"
Reporting From the Inside
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In 2013 Syria is on the verge of collapse. What began as a grassroots protest movement, inspired by revolutionary action in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere in the Middle East, is now a bloody civil war. As media headlines focus on the armed aspects of the battle against the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, there is a sustained popular resistance being waged in Syria that is not being fully reported.
- The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Governments these days are not content with agriculture that merely provides good food. In line with the dogma of neoliberalism they want it to contribute as much wealth as any other industry towards the grand goal of economic growth. High tech offers to reconcile the two ambitions – producing allegedly fabulous yields, which seems to be what’s needed, and becoming highly profitable.
- Is there a White Skin Privilege?
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The idea that all whites are privileged at the expense of Blacks is popular on the left -- but Bill Mullen makes the case that Marxism offers a better understanding of racism.
- Soapbox Rebellion
The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) which illustrates how the lively and colourful soapbox culture of the "Wobblies" generated novel forms of class struggle.
- The Corporate State of Surveillance
Opting Out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
America was founded on the ideals of personal liberty, freedom and democracy. Now mass spying, surveillance and the unending collection of personal data undermine civil liberties and our privacy rights. We find ourselves in the midst of an all-out invasion on what’s-none-of-their-business and its coming from both government and corporate sources. Snooping and data collection have become big business. Nothing is out of their bounds anymore.
- Crowd-pleasing Line Line-up at Markham Charity Music Concert
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Participation House, Markham announces its 2013 Students Helping Students Charity Music Concert Friday, November 8, 2013 at the FLATO Markham Theatre 171 Town Centre Blvd. Markham.
- How Human Rights Watch Covers for Companies in Colombia
Down Where the Death Squads Live
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Human Rights Watch fails to name the names in its recent report on Colombia entitled, “The Risk of Returning Home, Violence and Threats against Displaced People Reclaiming Land in Colombia.” And, this is much to HRW’s discredit.
- Like water, find a way to infiltrate your competition's defenses
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Infiltration is one of the most effective military manoeuvres for getting into the enemy's defences by sneaking in small parties to raid and built up forces for a surprise strike.
- Quebecers' right to protest restricted after 2012 "Maple Spring" in Canada
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In 2012, a massive student strike over tuition fee increases rocked Quebec and thousands took to the streets, marching in protest. In the aftermath, Montreal residents find that their ability to protest has been restricted, as the police employ increased powers to arrest and fine demonstrators.
- The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) Helps Small Businesses Become National Brands
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
CFA's How To Franchise Your Business Seminar in Toronto on November 4 guides entrepreneurs to become successful franchisors
- Canadians Can Become Small Business Owners Through Franchising
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With over 40 franchise opportunities and experts, aspiring entrepreneurs can find out how at The Franchise Show in Vancouver on November 2 & 3, 2013
- Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
One of the trends we've seen is how, as the word of the NSA's spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can defend themselves from surveillance online. With a few small steps, you can make that kind of surveillance a lot more difficult and expensive, both against you individually, and more generally against everyone.
- International Investment Funds Discuss How to Serve Investors Amid Increased Regulation, New Opportunities
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
TORONTO, ON - OCTOBER 24, 2013 - Leaders of the US$27.4 trillion global investment fund industry gathered in New Orleans this week to consider how to serve investors better in a world with new regulatory challenges and increased opportunities.
- What If ObamaCare was a Fighter Jet?
Prospering Through Failure
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Like the comically bad roll-out of the Affordable Care Act’s website, the long-delayed and often-rejiggered F-35 program is a costly disaster rife with technological snafus, software problems and repeated contractor incompetence.
- Class Struggle at the Waistline
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The obesity rate has soared not because lower income earners lack the knowledge to eat wisely, but because they have lost power over the economic conditions of their lives.
- Why is Canada Subsidizing Racist Property Restrictions?
The JNF's Bigoted Land Use Policy
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In Canada it is illegal to restrict the sale of property to certain ethnic or religious groups but many of our business people and politicians promote an organization that does exactly that in Israel.
- Working class cinema: a video guide
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Libcom.org's guide to working class films and TV shows, showing class struggles, revolutionary situations and everyday lives.
- Fracking Indigenous Country
Big Green, Sun Media and Elsipogtog
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Police attack the Mi’kmaq community of Elsipogtog in New Brunswick.
- The NSA's Spying Operation on Mexico
Systematic Eavesdropping on the Government
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The American NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. Three major programs constitute a massive espionage operation against Mexico.
- Torturing and Jailing Palestinian Children
Nightmare in the Occupied Territories
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
About 500-700 children are arrested by the Israeli occupation every year, according to Defense for Children International-Palestine. These children face a policy designed to kill their spirit and shut them down. It targets them physically and psychologically.
- Corporate Welfare in the Forest
Post-Fire Logging Loses Money and Damages the Health of the Ecosystem
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Forest Service is under extreme political pressure to log our national patrimony, whether it makes any economic or ecological sense. A good example of a needless, ecologically damaging, and economically wasteful logging proposal is the proposed $1.4 million Pole Creek post-fire logging sale.
- Delusions of the Tech Bro Intelligentsia
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With employees of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system on strike, the Silicon Valley tech elite has reminded us all that despite their enlightened Bay Area lifestyles, they are still, at root, a bunch of rich dudes. Corey Robin ably documents the reactionary politics and moral degeneracy of people who see themselves as heroic entrepreneurs and the people who get them to work as greedy parasites.
- No Scientific Consensus on Safety of Genetically Modified Organisms
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There is no scientific consensus on the safety of genetically modified foods and crops, according to a statement released by an international group of more than 90 scientists, academics and physicians.
- The Not-So-Secret History of Capitalism
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This is a coda to my review of Paul Collier’s book Exodus. I questioned the moral and social arguments that Collier employs to justify his arguments, and suggested that there is often a chasm between that evidence and Collier’s more contentious arguments, while many of his policy prescriptions are morally questionable.
- Spain's communist model village
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Marinaleda, in impoverished Andalusia, used to suffer terrible hardships. Led by a charismatic mayor, the village declared itself a communist utopia and took farmland to provide for everyone. Could it be the answer to modern capitalism's failings?
- The Drug Companies' Expansion Into Emerging Markets
Profit, Drugs, and International Markets
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Faced with declining prescription drug sales in the U.S., and having lost patent protection for many profitable drugs, the drug industry is relying increasingly in new markets such as China and other fast developing countries, such as those in Africa. That expansion, however, is oftentimes tainted by unsavory commercial practices.
- Federal police and New Brunswick government assault First Nations anti-fracking protest
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The RCMP launched a violent assault on a blockade protest against shale gas fracking in New Brunswick.
- Montreal revolutionaries, Canadian security and race: An interview with author David Austin
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Recently, Montreal writer David Austin published Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, a groundbreaking work that details the significant breadth and scope of Black Power activism in Montreal in the 1960s and 1970s.
- A Pervert's Guide to Zizek
Elvis is on the Screen!
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Full disclosure: I have written at least ten critiques of Slavoj Zizek over the years so I approached the new documentary “A Pervert’s Guide to Ideology” with some skepticism. Despite this, I found much of it entertaining and even a little enlightening. At two hours and thirty minutes, however, it begins to lose its charm especially since the film is essentially one long lecture by the man called the Elvis of cultural theory. As is the case with all super-stars, critical self-reflection goes by the wayside when adoring fans surround you all the time telling you how great you are.
- Physicists and the financial markets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Physicists have been lured into the financial market for decades, prized for their insights and data-crunching skills. But in a time of turbulence, flash crashes and high-frequency trading, can they really spot things that others miss?
- What Makes a Protest Violent?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The conversation about protest violence has changed but the essential reality remains: the State and its enforcers (public and private) determine what acceptable violence is and what isn’t. This determination is not arrived at according to the nature or degree of the violent acts; it is arrived at according to who is perpetrating said act.
- The working class, trade unions and the left: the contours of resistance
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Vernell talks about the attacks of the British government to stabilise capitalism, as well as the response of the working class.
- The Disappearance of Palestine
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The idea that a financial lifeline – whether Kerry’s plan or Netanyahu’s economic peace – is going to smooth the path to the conflict’s end is an illusion. Peace, and prosperity, will come only when Palestinians are liberated from Israeli control.
- Empire Building, the Debt Ceiling, the Budget Deficit, and the Samson Solution
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Raising the debt ceiling allows the State to keep borrowing and pay its billionaire creditors.Financing the budget deficit requires borrowing, which involves the sale hundreds of billions of dollars worth of US government bonds through Wall Street — but at a cost to the taxpayer. The common denominator is that the entire edifice of finance capital and all of its support structures depend on debt financing by the State. By borrowing and then taxing its citizens the Treasury extracts wealth from the vast majority of Americans.
- Inside Bahrain After the Crackdown
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An interview with Nada Alwadi, one of the journalists who reported honestly about the events on the streets of Manama, Bahrain’s capital, and in the rest of the small kingdom. She founded the Bahraini Press Association as a vehicle to fight for the right of journalists to report stories freely.
- Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as "infiltrators" by right-wing politicians and activists.
- It's Time to Put an End to Israel's "Don't ask-don't tell" Nuclear Policy
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Israel and its allies in the U.S. Congress continue to lobby against a deal that would meet Iran in the middle, insisting on a “zero-enrichment” policy that is a deal-breaker for Iran.
- Colombian farmers risk death to reclaim lost land
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The government wants to correct decades of 'land reform in reverse'. But powerful criminal, armed and business interests are ranged against the country's displaced peasants.
- Greece's Fascist Threat
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The increasingly bold Golden Dawn party has precipitated a political crisis in Athens whose resolution is far from certain. Golden Dawn, the largest fascist party in Europe and the third largest party in Greece, has grown rapidly during the economic crisis both by scapegoating immigrants, ethnic minorities and queer people, and offering basic necessities like food to Greek citizens impoverished by the country’s austerity program.
- How Tides Canada Controls the Secret North American Tar Sands Coalition
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Mainstream environmental groups are being positioned to make a bad deal on the Tar Sands.
- NEB Hearings start in Toronto today, here's what they won't be hearing
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A banner drop and a series of gagged protestors demonstrated what is being left out of the National Energy Board (NEB) hearings that are taking place this week in Toronto. The subject of the hearings is Enbridge's Line 9 reversal and expansion propos
- Profiles in Courage, and in the Lack of Courage
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The White House's press release of Malala's meeting with Barack Obama further diminished the import of her visit, and her remarkable courage, by failing to note that she had taken the opportunity of her visit to tell the president directly to his face that he should halt the drone attacks that he has been ordering on suspected Taliban “leaders” in western Pakistan — drone attacks that have often been calculated to kill not just targeted individuals but many innocent men, women and children in the vicinity of the blasts.
- Turning Blood into Money
Profiting from Killing
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Yotam Feldman’s documentary The Lab, released in August, is one of the most important exposés of the obscene rationale and execution of Israel’s hugely lucrative arms and security industries through the voices of some of its ex-military key operators: Amos Golan, Shimon Naveh, Leo Gleser, and Yoav Galant.
- Why We Should Not Forget Miriam Carey
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The ignominious and unnecessary public killing of Miriam Carey should be a human marker that triggers our cultural meaning machine to honestly consider what’s wrong with the picture of a howling pack of cops shooting down a troubled young mother … like a dog.
- Be prepared to move fast to take advantage of opportunities
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Business opportunities often go unexploited because companies and their leaders are not in a position to decide and act quickly. I've written about this in my book Brilliant Manoeuvres, but here is a quick list you can use as an aide
- How feminism became capitalism's handmaiden - and how to reclaim it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
As a feminist, I've always assumed that by fighting to emancipate women I was building a better world – more egalitarian, just and free. But lately I've begun to worry that ideals pioneered by feminists are serving quite different ends. I worry, specifically, that our critique of sexism is now supplying the justification for new forms of inequality and exploitation.
- Alice in Migraland
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The story of how undocumented students organized creatively and strategically and got the Federal Government to grant them legal status.
- L'Affair Miliband
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The demonization of Ralph Miliband raises a few issues avoided by both the Tory and the liberal press. These relate to Miliband’s own political views on Britain, its political institutions as well as the world at large; the context of the first Lord Rothermere’s addiction to Mussolini and Hitler and their English offspring in Britain (Oswald Mosley and gang but not them alone) right up till September 1939 and the question of patriotism and its compatibility with leftwing views.
- The Forest Mafia: How Scammers Steal Millions Through Carbon Markets
When the product is invisible, the cons are endless.
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
International law enforcement authorities and environmental advocates say that the carbon markets are extremely vulnerable to financial fraudsters, especially when it comes to forest projects. Their shell games can also be hard to spot. Authorities have concluded that up to 90% of all carbon trading in some countries was a result of fraudulent activities.
- Lessons From the Working Class
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Acuna tries not to romanticize the working class, but he considers them his teachers.
- The Software Freedom Movement
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Nicolson-Owens thinks that Alfredo Lopez’s article, "Stallman, FOSS and the Adobe Nightmare," gets some of Richard Stallman’s message wrong and ends up giving the open source movement credit for a freedom-based philosophy the open source movement disagrees with.
- Cops Are Now Less Cautious Than Soldiers In Iraq
Shooting Mirian Carey
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Police militarization is a hot topic lately, but American police are beyond anything contemplated by the American military. American police today appear unwilling to accept any risk whatsoever and seem willing to kill anyone and anything that could possibly be seen as a threat.
- Six Down, Four To Go! Dermatologists Happy to Welcome Ontario Tanning Ban
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Third time's the charm for the Ontario tanning legislation and the Canadian Dermatology Association couldn't be happier with the news.
- Against Anarchism
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A critical theory of the public sphere should incorporate neo-anarchism’s best insights, while rejecting wholesale anarchism. Neo-anarchism fails to sustain the tension between fact and norm required by a critical theory.
- Aircraft noise tied to higher heart disease risk
City planners need to consider noise when planning to expand or build airports
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Living in neighbourhoods with high levels of aircraft noise is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, U.S. and British research suggests.
- A Policy without a Conscience
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The tragedy and the horror of Lampedusa did not come out of the blue. Much of the responsibility lies with the policies pursued by European nations. The only policy that could prevent more tragedies like that is that no European politician will countenance: the liberalization of border controls, and the dismantling of Fortress Europe.
- First evidence of a 200-day non-stop flight in a bird
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
For several decades ornithologists have claimed that some swifts may stay airborne for almost their whole lifetime. Here we present the first unequivocal evidence that an individual bird of the Alpine swift (Tachymarptis melba) can stay airborne for migration, foraging and roosting over a period of more than 6 months. To date, such long-lasting locomotive activities had been reported only for animals living in the sea.
- 122 Nurses Replaced by Care Aides in Victoria
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
BCNU President Debra McPherson says patient care will suffer
- Review: Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Review of Staughton Lynd's "Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change", a book that by and large uses a story-based pedagogy rather than an analysis-based one. It walks through struggles that Lynd and his wife Alice have been involved in directly.
- Secret Sexual Fantasies
The Erotic Theater of the Mind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Your fantasies are always with you, playing hide-and-seek with your perceived realities, whispering wild ideas into your inner ear, showing movies in your mind, stirring your passions mysteriously, yet so powerfully. If you are imprisoned in any way–by your work, your family, your education, your religion, your government–your fantasies become your freedom. Sometimes your ability to fantasize is the only freedom you have.
- Surprise: Ashkenazi Jews Are Genetically European
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The origin of the Ashkenazi Jews, who come most recently from Europe, has largely been shrouded in mystery. But a new study suggests that at least their maternal lineage may derive largely from Europe.
- This Bird Can Stay in Flight for Six Months Straight
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A study has shwon that swifts came stay aloft for more than 200 straight days straight.
- The War on Terrorism ... or Whatever
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A brief survey of the War on Terrorism, a war that has become increasingly difficult to sell to the American public as one of pro-democracy "moderates" locked in a good-guy-versus-bad-guy struggle with an evil dictator, although in actuality the United States has fought on the same side as al Qaeda on repeated occasions before Syria.
- The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) Helps Small Businesses Become National Brands
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
CFA's How To Franchise Your Business Seminar in Toronto on October 24 guides entrepreneurs to become successful franchisors
- "Left Reformism" and socialist strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Rooksby talks about the renewed interest in radical left "big picture" questions of socialist strategy that represents a return to "important debates of the left largely absent over the last three decades." The major factors driving this are several years of deep capitalist crisis together with the almost total capitulation of social democratic parties across Europe to the austerity agenda, opening up a clear space to the left of these organisations.
- The problem with education? Children aren't feral enough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The 10-year-old Londoners I took to Wales were proof that a week in the countryside is worth three months in a classroom.
- The Rise of the Fast Food Worker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Where War Reporting Goes Wrong
A Diary of Four Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The four recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have been propaganda wars in which newspaper, television and radio journalists played a central role. In all wars there is a difference between reported news and what really happened, but during these four campaigns the outside world has been left with misconceptions even about the identity of the victors and the defeated.
- £1bn a month: the spiralling cost of oil theft in Nigeria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
It's a crime with international repercussions, and second only to the drugs trade for the money it earns. And it threatens to destabilise Africa's second-largest economy.
- Brazil: Balance Sheet and Prognosis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The government is taking advantage of recent events to invoke the danger of the right and to reinforce the left wing of the ruling group. Ten days after the “Rebellion of the Coxinhas” we can now draw up a balance sheet.
- Madagascar: At the Bottom of the Capitalist Abyss
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Madagascar is a country still too little known today and yet, in many ways, it is an emblematic victim of contemporary capitalist pillage. Set in the Indian Ocean, the size of France, with a population of more than 20 million people, Madagascar shows symptoms of advanced general degradation.
- Migration and Morality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Paul Collier's book Exodus has been welcomed as a humane and rational intervention in an often toxic debate. It seems to tell us more about the character of the contemporary immigration debate than it does about the merits of Collier’s arguments.
- Philip Mirowski, Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste (Book Review)
How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (Verso, 2013)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Philip Mirowski has written an important book, one well worth reading. Both an economist and an historian/philosopher of science, Mirowski is unusual in being highly attuned to the purging (long ago) of both economic history and the history of economic thought from the Anglo-American academic “economics” curriculum.
- The Singularity and Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
By definition, a singularity is something utterly peculiar unto itself, a species of being unmatched for its “this-ness.”
- The Struggle at Peugeot in France
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
When the management of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group announced, in early July 2012, that it was eliminating 8,000 jobs and closing the Aulnay plant near Paris (3,000 employees) in 2014, it caused a shock wave, well beyond the workers in the automotive sector.
- Susan Buck-Morss, Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (Book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The current global crisis has once again brought the questions of global struggle and world revolution into a position of importance. The basic questions posed are whether it is possible to build a “global Left” and how to rethink the idea of universal human liberation, which was the utopia once central to the left, and which has perhaps re-emerged once again.
- Yugoslav Self-Management: Capitalism Under the Red Banner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Yugoslav self-management is a unique historical experiment. Furthermore, it is one of the most interesting formations of, so called, real-socialism up to today, as Yugoslavia broke with the Soviet Union and initiated its own specific economic, political and ideological way.
- Bomb in hard disk sent to Italian newspaper journalist reporting on protests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A bomb concealed as a hard disk could have killed someone: 120 grams of explosive powder were pressed inside a hard disk, which also had a small cable for connecting it to a computer. It was addressed to our colleague Massimo Numa, who has been reporting for some time on Susa Valley and No TAV [High Speed train] issues.
- Migrant laborers building 2022 World Cup facilities worked to death in Qatar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Deprived of their pay for months at a time, migrant construction workers building the facilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are being worked to death under slave labour conditions.
- The "Not so Bright" Protégés and the Comrades that "Never Quarreled"
C.L.R. James's Disputes on Labor's Self-Emancipation and the Political Economy of Colonial Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Surveying C.L.R. James's shifting and evolving views on the making of national liberation struggles, whether in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, Eric Williams’s Trinidad, or Toussaint L'Ouverture's Haiti, which he was associated as anti-colonial activist and independent socialist historian, may lead observers to conclude he was either inconsistent in defending his most cherished ideals or, alternatively, strategically minded in specific historical moments.
- NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself.
- National School Safety Week: Healthy Homes, Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Children who are mindful of health and safety can have significant influence among their peers, and help to foster healthy school communities.A healthy lifestyle includes getting enough exercise, eating balanced and nutritious meals, and developing h
- La Semaine nationale de la sécurité scolaire : foyers heureux, écoles saines, enfants en bonne santé
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
À l’occasion de la Semaine nationale de la sécurité scolaire qui aura lieu cette année du 17 au 23 octobre, le Conseil canadien de la sécurité tient que les écoles sont des communautés d’enfants. Les enfants qui sont soucieux de leur sant
- Louisiana prisoner released after 41 years in solitary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Herman Wallace, who is dying of cancer, endured long legal battles after his 1972 murder conviction.
- 109 MPs sign CLIMATE PLEDGE, ClimateFasters close with Vigil on Day of Nonviolence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
ClimateFast committed to push Government for action on Climate Change. More MPs and citizens sign on.
- Back to the Fragments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Beyond the Fragments began life in 1979, as a pamphlet, and soon became the classic statement of socialist feminism in the form it took in Britain following the political explosion of May 1968. Its three authors — Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright — had spent much of the decade as members of organizations of the “libertarian” left such as the International Socialists, which in 1977 became the Socialist Workers Party. They were also centrally involved in the women’s liberation movement, and grew utterly frustrated by the male-dominated politics of both the Labour Party and Leninist groups.
- Content and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On the negatively changing nature of journalism and the press in the digital age, including four potential pillars of a reformed press that will restore the exchange value between news publications and their readers.
- A Contest of Ideas
Capital, Politics, and Labor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Collected essays and provocations from the preeminent labour historian.
- Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Blumenthal depicts a portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens.
- IFIC Launches New Website
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Toronto, ON - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has launched a new bilingual, accessible website, dedicated to providing industry insights and perspectives and in-depth, high-quality research findings from around the world
- A Kangaroo in Obama's Court
Will the Guantánamo Tribunal Execute a Man We Tortured?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Can a tribunal born of an impatient contempt for due process prove itself a legitimate institution of American law? On trial by military commission at Guantánamo's courtroom.
- Learning to struggle: my story between workerism and feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An account of an Italian Marxist feminist's experiences and development in the autonomist and feminist movements in Italy in the 1970s.
- Utopia in the Catskills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Proyect talks about "Utopia in the Catskills," an article published on July 20, 1947, which is about refugees who wanted to be farmers and made Woodridge, N.Y., into a prosperous farm-resort town with five co-ops.
- Particle Fever
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Particle Fever follows six physicists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider.
- We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Stephen emphasizes the crucial role of testimony in human rights work, indigenous cultural history, community and indigenous radio, and women's articulation of their rights to speak and be heard. She also explores transborder support for APPO (Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca), particularly among Oaxacan immigrants in Los Angeles.
- How to unearth public records: a global guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Among the most basic building blocks of powerful investigative reporting are public records – government documents that provide bulletproof evidence of anything from a change in water quality to the ownership of a company or tract of land. In the United States, Freedom of Information laws date back nearly half a century, and although there are growing obstacles, journalists generally operate under a presumption of the right to access. In most of the world, however, Freedom of Information laws are less than two decades old.
- 'The moral is to the physical as three is to one.' - Napoleon
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Apple just launched it's iPhone 5S and 5C. If ever we needed an example of how moral - i.e., psychological - factors can outweigh physical, material factors in business, then this is it.
- Beyond the Veil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The question of the Muslim veil seems never to leave the headlines for long. The latest controversies have erupted in Britain after a defendant in a criminal trial demanded the right to wear a niqab in court and a college attempted to proscribe it.
- Massive eavesdropping in Europe: international NGOs urge the Assembly to support the resolution
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
international NGOs urge the Assembly to support the resolution Massive eavesdropping in Europe
- Why I quit my job as an investigations editor in Egypt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Hisham Allam is an award-winning investigative reporter based in Cairo. He was an investigative editor for the El-Watan newspaper, but the recent crackdown on the Egyptian press has taken a toll on his freedom to report the truth. In this Secrets of the Masters interview, he describes his groundbreaking coverage of the Egyptian revolution and explains why he recently quit his job.
- China's stolen children: parents battle police indifference in search for young
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Tens of thousands of children are snatched and sold into slavery every year, but parents say they get little help with their search.
- Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Imagine getting injured at work, and instead of going to a hospital or seeing your health-care provider, you are deported from Canada.
- Diana Moeser Obituary
March 24, 1944 - September 18, 2013
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Negar la cobertura de salud a los trabajadores migrantes lesionados es vergonzoso
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- How not to grow a new town
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came the cheap neoliberal substitute of granting land titles -- and the speculation began.
- ClimateFast returns to Parliament Hill, Sept. 21 - Oct. 2, 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Fasters, Hungry for Climate Leadership, return to Parliament Hill to press Government for action on Climate Change
- I Am a Woman and a Human: A Marxist-Feminist Critique of Intersectionality Theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In the United States, during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a specific set of politics among the left reigns king. Today, you could go into any university, on any number of liberal-to-left blogs or news websites, and the words “identity” and “intersectionality” will jump out you as the hegemonic theory. But, like all theories, this corresponds to the activity of the working class in response to the current composition of capital.
- On Western Terrorism from Hiroshima to Drone Warfare
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Noam Chomsky, world-renowned dissident intellectual, discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek. The discussion weaves together a historical narrative with the two men's personal experiences which led them to a life of activism.
- The Biggest Lie
From Hiroshima to Syria, the Enemy Whose Name We Dare Not Speak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Whether or not Bashar al-Assad or the “rebels” used gas in the suburbs of Damascus, it is the US not Syria that is the world’s most prolific user of these terrible weapons.
- Obama's Obscenities on Syria
Obama Offers No Evidence Assad was Behind Poison Gas Attack in Damascus, Yet Defends Unprovoked War Anyway
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
President Obama did not give any compelling evidence to prove that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was behind the alleged Sarin attack on residents of a suburb of Damascus.
- Political Prisoners in the USA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A list of political prisoners in the USA (with links to support websites).
- Online initiatives abound at the Library of Congress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Card catalogues vanish from sight at the Library of Congress.
- Reflections on a Religion of Hate
Engaging in War Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Refelctions on US preparations to engage in more acts of war against yet another Middle Eastern country.
- The Unique Genius of Hong Kong's Public Transportation System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Examining Hong Kong's "Value Capture" approach to public transportation.
- 'Flooding the Zone' with Bullshit on Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In recent weeks, the Obama Administration has been embarked on a massive propaganda campaign they call “flooding the zone.” We hope to provide the most direct and systematic refutation of the Administration’s case for war in Syria.
- The NSA Has Effectively Destroyed Internet Privacy
Snowden's Latest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Whistle-blower Edward Snowden prove that the NSA, working with its British counterpart the Government Communications Headquarters has conducted an intentional and largely sucessful campaign to destroy all privacy on the Internet.
- #131+1: Voices in Movement An Oral History of the Mexican Youth Movement of 2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On May 11, 2012, in the heat of the presidential campaign, history took an unexpected turn: a video, the social networks, and marches and mass actions managed to bring a new moment of hope into the history of Mexico, and the Mexican youth surprised the whole world.
- Leave Yemen, US tells citizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The United States and Britain on Tuesday told their citizens to leave Yemen in the light of intelligence apparently gathered from overseas communications intercepts showing a serious but unspecified threat against western and US interests. The US was reported to have begun evacuating citizens immediately on military flights.
- Plan already disastrous
Re: City shocked by proposal to extend runway
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Having jet airports close to communities is dangerous and unhealthy.
- How A-historical Journalism Serves Power
A Calendar of Infamy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Contemporary journalism has a horrendous habit of considering history superfluous.
- Should Russia Attack Colombia?
Another Case for Military Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Debating the case on whether Putin should or should not attack Columbia. Will Russia follow the example of the US?
- Slavoj Zizek: Apologist for the social democratic turn of SYRIZA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The authors argue that Zizek's radical posturing is at odds with his reformist political stance.
- Internet Hackers and the Real Threat They Expose
Government and Corporations are the Real Problem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There were nearly ten major cyber attacks in August 2013 against very prominent targets such as The New York Times.
- Le Conseil canadien de la sécurité et Bridgestone lancent un site-ressource sur la sécurité au volant à l'intention des adolescents et des parent
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Le Conseil canadien de la sécurité s'est associé à Bridgestone Americas, Inc. pour créer le site Web www.teensdrivesmart.ca.
- The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937
Jeremy Brecher
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
210,000 auto workers joined the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) to take part in the strike but the A.F.L leadership however wanted no part in a strike, and managed to postpone it again and again. The workers won control over the rate of production, despite a union contract that conceded this authority to management.
- How Drug Courier Profiles Begot Terrorism Watch Lists
The Drug War and the Fourth Amendment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
More than a million names are now included on the catch-all terrorist watch list maintained by U.S. government agencies.
- Moving Beyond Keystone XL
Direct Action on Line 9
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Line 9, which is a pipeline that moves oil west towards Sarnia and the refining facilities there, is where a group of people walked onto the Canadian energy corporation Enbridge’s North Westover pumping station and occupied the facility on June 20th, 2013.
- Ukraine Is Not a Brothel
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Ukraine Is Not a Brothel is a 2013 Australian film directed by Kitty Green. The film debuted at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, although was not part of the competition.The documentary concerns the FEMEN movement, a feminist protest group originating from Ukraine.
- What is a Revolution?
A Total Mess
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Ever since the beginning of the Arab Spring there has been much talk of revolutions.
- Germ War: the US Record
Who Will Intervene?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The United States has exposed of hundreds of thousands of unwitting US citizens to an astonishing array of germ agents and toxic chemicals, killing dozens of people.
- The People Want
A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
"The people want . . .": This first half of slogans chanted by millions of Arab protesters since 2011 revealed a long-repressed craving for democracy. But huge social and economic problems were also laid bare by the protestors' demands.
- Debunking Obama's Chemical Weapons Case Against the Syrian Government
Fact and Fiction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The "U.S. Government Assessment of the Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013" is a poorly constructed attempt to justify the politically, militarily, and morally unjustifiable war against Syria.
- A Short History of Bio-Chemical Weapons
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Chronology between 400 BC and 2013 of bio-chemical weaponry and foreign policy.
- Syria, "Credibility" and Historical Amnesia
Grandpa Made Mustard Gas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The first casualty of war is truth. Comparison between WWII and the Syria situation.
- The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest. Thirty years on, the lessons of their occupation are as relevant as ever.
- The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Women in Greenham used their voice in order to advance the ordinary class, and their legacy lives on.
- Austerity American Style, Part 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An article on American ecomony and politics.
- "Calm Reflection" or Justice?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Afterthoughts on Justice and racism after the movie Fruitvale Station.
- Can People Get What They Want?
An interview with Gilbert Achcar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An interview with Gilbert Achcar.
- The Case for Critical Support
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Not all support need be unqualified, and Milton Fisk is supporting some cases critically.
- Challenging the Mississippi Fire Bombers
Memories of Mississippi 1964-65
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With a firsthand account of the details and thoughtful descriptions of key people on the front lines, author Jim Dann brings the historic period, the June 1964 civil rights struggle to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, back to life. He places those 15 months in Mississippi in the overall history of the struggle of African Americans for freedom, equality, and democratic rights in the South, the country, and throughout the world.
- Commemorating a Classic of History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A brief summary of the issue
- Communist Writing in Anti-Communist Times
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A book review of 'American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War.'
- East St. Louis As Detroit's Mirror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
East St. Louis, Illinois, in many ways a smaller Detroit.
- A Flawed Conception of Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A critique of E.P. Thompson's 'The Making of the English Working Class.'
- A Focus of Anti-capitalist Struggle?
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A book review of No Local: Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won't Change the World
- History as Argument
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On the argument of E.P. Thompson’s tremendous book, The Making of the English Working Class
- Immigration "Reform"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Some thoughts on the U.S. Senate's tortuous immigration reform bill.
- Life as a Terrorist
Uncovering my FBI file
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An essay about William Vollmann's uncovering of his FBI file.
- Looking Inside the Education Crisis
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A book review of The Future of our Schools:Teachers Unions and Social Justice by Lois Weiner.
- Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
- Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Anabel Hernández, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and says the 'war on drugs' is a sham. She's had headless animals left at her door and her family have been threatened by gunmen.
- Recovering the Centrality of Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Much of the intellectual left has lost the habit, the means or even the will to oppose capitalism not just in practice but in theory.
- Remembering E.P. Thompson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An article about E.P. Thompson
- The Roots of Academic Freedom
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A book review of 'Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge.'
- Suited Vandals Pillage Detroit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On the pillaging of Detroit.
- Tony Cliff as a Socialist Leader
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A book review of 'Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time.'
- The Troubled State of Labor
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A book review of The State of Working America
- Two Americas -- Where Racism Lives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The George Zimmerman case and racism.
- A Very Perfect Instrument
The ferocity and failure of America's sanctions apparatus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Essay on the U.S. system of sanctions and its international negative repercussions.
- A View from the Base
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In Atlanta there was a very serious discussion both in meetings and on the Spanish-language talk radio station beginning a week ago over whether we should continue to call on the Senators to vote yes. And at least for the Senate, we stuck with calling for a yes vote.
- Wadada's Suite of Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A review on Ten Freedom Summers a 4-CD box set by Leo Wadada Smith.
- We can't go on like this
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The legitimacy of capitalism as a way of organising society has been undermined; its promises of prosperity, social mobility and democracy have lost credibility. But there has been no radical change. The system has repeatedly come under fire, but it has survived. What has happened? What can be done about it?
- Wrong Answer
The case against Algebra II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Why force all students to take algebra, which most of them will never use in their future lives? Why not let those students who like math, take math?
- Kosovo: Where NATO Bombing Only Made the Killing Worse
The Big Lie: From Serbia to Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The NATO powers brandished the charge of genocide as justification for the bombing that destroyed much of Serbia’s economy and killed around 2,000 civilians, with elevated death levels predicted for years to come.
- Syria: MSF statements should not be used to justify military action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
MSF today warned that its medical information could not be used as evidence to certify the precise origin of the exposure to a neurotoxic agent nor to attribute responsibility.
- Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Consider this: the only beneficiaries from the atrocity were the rebels, previously losing the war, who now have Britain and America ready to intervene on their side. While there seems to be little doubt that chemical weapons were used, there is doubt about who deployed them.
- At the Escuelita Zapatista, Students Learn Community Organizing and Civil Resistance as a Way of Life
The Class Was Stopped Twice: The First Time to Emphasize the Importance of Discipline in Their Organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
From August 11-17, the Zapatistas brought more than 1,500 people into their communities to attend the Escuelita Zapatista, the Little Zapatista School. According to a February comunicado by the EZLN, in a class entitled Liberty According to the Zapatistas: Autonomous Government I, "our compas from the Zapatista bases of support are going to share the little we have learned about the struggle for freedom, and the [the students] can see what is useful or not for their own struggles."
- Beckoning Committed Climate Activists
Extreme Weather and Even More Extreme Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
It is evident the climate crisis is far more severe than most scientists had anticipated.
- In Blow to 'No Fly' List, US Judge Rules Air Travel Is a Right
Precedent Could Allow Fliers to Contest Travel Bans
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
US District Judge Anna Brown ruled that the ability to travel internationally by airplane is a constitutionally protected right.
- Killing Civilians to Protect Civilians
The Warped Logic of the Syrian Bombing Mission
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Obama administration will reportedly launch a military strike which would invariably kill civilians for the purpose of showing the Syrian government that killing civilians is wrong
- Lapdog media learns nothing, beats war drums again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Have we forgotten Judith Miller already? Or Colin Powell at the U.N.? Before attacking Syria, let's know the truth.
- Poverty saps mental capacity to deal with complex tasks, say scientists
Study suggests being preoccupied with money problems is equivalent to loss of 13 IQ points or losing a night's sleep
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
People who are poor expand so much mental energy on the immediate problem of paying bills or cutting costs that they are left with less capacity to deal with other complex but important problems.
- Preparing For More Slaughter in Syria
Moloch's Minions
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
it is likely that Western leaders will give the nod to launch the airstrikes that will kill a large number of human beings.
- Red Lines Drawn with Syrian Blood
The Problems With Obama's Case Against al-Assad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The US and its allies are likely to carry out an attack on Syria in the very near future whether or not Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons.
- The Subterfuge of Syrian Chemical Weapons
Investigating a Forgone Conclusion
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
UN independent commission is investigating whether or not chemical weapons were used in Syria.
- A Terribly Human Challenge
Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing"
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
To make the movie, Joshua Oppenheimer approached the regime’s henchmen and spent eight years interviewing some of these killers.
- US: Offensive Cyber-Warfare is Illegal... Unless We Do It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The US government declares that cyberwarfare directed against the US would be an act of war -- and, oh, by the way, that it is agressively engaged in cyberwarfare against foreign countries.
- A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Compilation and updates of many of Lichtenstein's most provocative and controversial essays and reviews. The author offers perspectives on the relationship of labour and the state, the tensions that sometimes exist between a culture of rights and the idea of solidarity, and the rise of conservatism in politics, law, and intellectual life.
- War With Syria and its Repercussions
A Smoldering Tinderbox
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Obama seems intent on going to war with Syria. The U.S. will be leading Europe, Arab and Israeli allies while pushing an already unstable Middle East into full fledged regional chaos, which could instantly take on an international character.
- Heroism Against the Machine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Human Rights Need Not Apply
America's Racist Links
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Americans, particularly Muslim Americans and Arab and Desi Americans have experienced overt discrimination first hand for over a decade.
- India is taking acid attacks more seriously
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Women campaign for courts and public to take notice of impact of devastating assaults.
- The Katrina Pain Index, 2013
New Orleans Eight Years Later
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Eight years after Katrina, New Orleans has lost about 86,000 people, and the city remains incredibly poor.
- Massacres That Matter - Part 1 - 'Responsibility To Protect' In Egypt, Libya And Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Where offending states fail to live up to this responsibility by inflicting genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity on their own people, the international community has a responsibility to act.
- Syria in the Crosshairs
The Kosovo Precedent
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Some high officials in the Obama Administration consider the 1999 war in Kosovo to be a precedent for justifying cruise missile strikes in Syria.
- The Dangers of Journalism 101
Journalists who don't run with the pack routinely face difficulty and danger
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Journalists who cover cutting edge material, the politics of repression or wars or covert operations have always been at risk. It’s part of the job and part of the joy of the job. The risk, the danger is all part of the rush that makes some journalists work.
- US Uses Past Crimes to Legalize Future Ones
Justifying the Unjustifiable
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The liberal warhawks are groping around for a pretext they can call “legal” for waging war against Syria, and have come up with the 1999 “Kosovo war”.
- Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Karima Bennoune interviews 300 people from 30 countries to report on a largely invisible group of people: Muslim opponents of fundamentalism. They remain largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.
- From the Red Power movement to Idle No More
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Red Power stands for mass, united, militant action. Red Power, like Black Power, set off a wave of action and a level of consciousness in both the indigenous and non-indigenous communities, which has never really ended.
- The Terrifying World of Electronic Monitoring
From Drone Strikes to Martha Stewart
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Electronic monitoring is about tracking and marking. The GPS technology that is trending in electronic monitors tracks people’s every movement with the purpose of marking them for punishment if they deviate from the program
- 13 Things the Government is Trying to Keep Secret From You
Constitutional Black Out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The President and the Government are intentionally keeping massive amounts of information about surveillance secret.
- Crimes and Punishment (or Not)
Manning Get's Slammed; A Mass-Murderer Got Sprung
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
William Laws Calley, a second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, was convicted of slaughtering 22 innocent men, women and children, including babies, during a day-long slaughterfest in which he and his men massacred over 500 unarmed Vietnamese.
- Egypt - Post Muslim Brotherhood and the Army
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
What Future for Egypt? Dr. Gouda Abdelkahleq will be speaking about current events in Egypt at Beit Zatoun in Toronto.
- Syria chemical warfare claims aim to provoke Western intervention
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The unsubstantiated charges that the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad carried out a chemical weapons attack outside Damascus killing large numbers of civilians have all the hallmarks of a staged provocation aimed at provoking Western intervention.
- Another journalist shot dead in Guatemala, fourth this year
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders and the CERIGUA Journalists Observatory condemn regional TV journalist Carlos Alberto Orellana Chávez's murder yesterday fifty kilometers away from Mazatenango.
- Awan Grandmother facing deportation despite physicians' warnings about her heart condition
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Mrs. Khurshid Begum Awan was informed today that she will be deported August 21 at 6pm. Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) agent Normand Lesperance issued the new ultimatum to the grandmother despite warnings from medical experts that her heart
- The Enthronment of Illogic
Daring to Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
It is not that the average U.S. citizen is incapable of critical thinking, but that there is little incentive to exercise it. He is suppressed, blocked from the free exercise of his principles and values.
- IFJ Condemns Killing of Egyptian Journalist in Damanhur
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists has condemned the killing on Monday night, 19 August, of Egyptian daily Al Ahram''s bureau regional chief, Tamer Abdel Raouf, shot by soldiers at an army check point
- IFJ/EFJ Call for Anti-Terrorism Law Review After Attacks on Freedom of British Media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have joined the National Union of Journalists (UK and Ireland), in condemning the detention of David Miranda and the destruction of doucments
- Snowden journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders is outraged that US journalist Glen Greenwald's Brazilian partner David Miranda was detained and questioned for 9 hours at London's Heathrow airport under the UK's Terrorism Act, and that his mobile phone, laptop
- Toronto community agencies need more support to serve undocumented residents
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Social Planning Toronto has released a report on challenges faced by community agencies and organizations serving undocumented immigrants in the city. The report shows that the need for support and the lack of formal organizational policies
- UK government's culpable persecution of Guardian
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We are deeply shocked by the British government's culpable persecution of the Guardian's journalists, Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire said today.
- What Bradley Manning Revealed
The Wikileaks Files
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
PFC Bradley Manning is a US Army intelligence specialist who released classified information to WikiLeaks.
- Noam Chomsky - Everyday Anarchist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Interview with Noam Chomsky.
- NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A threat of legal action by the government that could have stopped reporting on the files leaked by Edward Snowden led to a symbolic act at the Guardian's offices in London.
- Obama's Sinister Crackdown on the Press
Detention of Greenwald Partner in London Clearly Came on US Orders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
David Miranda was placed on such a watch list by the US because of his relationship with Greenwald and was detained and held, without access to a lawyer, for nine hours.
- So the innocent have nothing to fear? After David Miranda we now know where this leads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The destructive power of state snooping is on display for all to see. The press must not yield to this intimidation.
- Being an Organizer and Being an Activist is not the Same Thing
Community Organizers are the "Brain" that Injects Strategy into the Heart of a Successful Social Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There is a lot of confusion surrounding the role that organizers and activists play in social movements. Both roles have profound differences regarding their goals and the way they face problems within social movements.
- On Egypt
An interview with Gilbert Achcar
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An interview with Gilbert Achcar.
- School buses back on roads
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Drivers, prepare to stop - back-to-school season is here! The Canada Safety Council would like to remind motorists that yellow school buses are back on the roads this fall. Remain vigilant, patient and responsible so that everyone gets where the
- Sometimes you need to withdraw in order to come back stronger
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
One of the things I learned in the military and from my study of history is that you sometimes have to withdraw from a position of weakness where you can't win in order to come back stronger with a better chance of dominating the field of battle.
- Toronto-based Master Hypnotist and Trainer Reaches a Milestone Teaching her 60th Professional Hypnosis Training Class
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Debbie Papadakis, Certified Master Hypnotist, Trainer & Founding Director of Hypno Healing Institute, Toronto based Hypnosis Clinic & School, teaches her 60th class in Professional Hypnosis Certification Training.
- The FBI and the Myth of the Fingerprint
The Real Crime is in the Crime Lab
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Decade after decade people have been sent to prison for years or dispatched to the death cells, solely on the basis of a single, even a partial print. However the lab scandals threw a shadow over the FBI’s forensic procedures
- All Journalism Is 'Advocacy Journalism'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The claim that journalism 'traditionally' involves 'the dispassionate reporting of facts', that journalists are typically not 'advocates', was advocated by a paid employee of a media corporation, the Washington Post.
- Google: don't expect privacy when sending to Gmail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
People sending email to any of Google's 425 million Gmail users have no "reasonable expectation" that their communications are confidential, the internet giant has said in a court filing.
- The Nine-Hour Movement
How civil disobedience made unions legal
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
From today’s strike-first strategy of fast food workers in America, to the 1965 postal workers wildcat which ushered in public sector collective bargaining, civil disobedience has long been essential to breaking through legal barriers imposed on workers. The birth of Canada's labour movement was during a movement of mass civil disobedience in attempt to secure the nine hour workday.
- How to Overthrow the Illuminati
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This article explores the creation, migration and refutation of the Illuminati theory.
- America's Descent Into Madness
The Politics of Cruelty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible. Anti-public intellectuals promotes a culture of consumerism.
- New Offering from Richard Martin -- Laser Guided Coaching
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Introduction to the Laser Guided Coaching process, which provides the perspective and insight of a thoughtful and incisive advisor.
- New Offering from Richard Martin -- Precision-Strike Strategy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Using my 26 years of military command and leadership experience, I guide my clients from vague wishes and objectives to specific, concrete, and actionable plans.
- Undercover Agents Infiltrated Tar Sands Resistance Camp to Break Up Planned Protest
TransCanada and Department of Homeland Security Keep Close Eye on Activists, FOIA Documents Reveal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Law enforcement officials and TransCanad had been spying on a Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance training camp and were able to block some activists who had planned to block the gates at the company’s strategic oil reserves.
- China and India 'water grab' dams put ecology of Himalayas in danger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
More than 400 hydroelectric schemes are planned in the mountain region, which could be a disaster for the environment.
- Mayday, the 8-hour movement and the Knights of Labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Jeremy Brecher's account of the growth of the Knights of Labor union in the US, the agitation for a maximum 8-hour working day and the Chicago Haymarket events of 1886.
- A Social History of Wiretaps
Memory's Half-Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
American’s century-long distrust of electronic surveillance is shifting to Americans accepting and internalizing new levels of state surveillance.
- Altruism Can Be Contagious
Contagious Altruism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Altruism inspires more altruism, according to many studies.
- European Socialism, A Concise History with Documents
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An introduction to European socialism, which arose in the maelstrom of the industrial and democratic revolutions launched in the eighteenth century. Striving for sweeping social, economic, cultural, and political change, socialists were a diverse lot. However, they were united by principles asserting the social and political equality of all people.
- Unregulated oil fracking boom does permanent damage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We know about the dangers of pollution from fracking. But its lethal, long-term byproducts and the ease with which they leak or are dumped may be causing worse problems in a state that can’t even question them.
- The work of authentic journalists is the most important thing for social movements
How Mercedes Osuna became a rebel with a cause
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Not an activist, social organizer nor a defender: Mercedes Osuna would rather define her work as human labor, something that she has dedicated an entire life to. She was born in a place were true words are heard with the heart and she lived out her convictions at a young age.
- Privacy tapped out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
For over a century, Americans and their judiciary fiercely fought any attempt by security agencies and law enforcement to listen in on private electronic communications. Now they’ve stopped fighting, and the surveillance is out of control.
- Zero-hours contracts cover more than 1m UK workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Poll of more than 1,000 employers reveals controversial contract used far more widely in the UK than government data suggests.
- Ecosocialism as a Human Phenomenon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Two focal points configure this talk. The first denotes the structure of the world as it is, hurtling toward the abyss; the second concerns the world as I would have us struggle to bring about.
- Letter to Toronto City Council regarding jets at Toronto Island airport
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We are writing to express grave concerns regarding the proposal to expand the Billy Bishop Airport to jets. We are community health physicians and are extremely alarmed by the potential health harm of jets which will particularly impact the community that lives in such close proximity to the airport.
- Austerity American Style (Part 1)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Obama’s signing a token “Fiscal Cliff" tax agreement on January 1, 2013 raising taxes on only the wealthiest 0.7% households while effectively removing the Bush tax cuts from the deficit debate; the Obama administration and Republican radicals in the House jointly allowing the $1.2 trillion in 'sequestered' spending cuts to take effect on March 1; and then Obama's unilateral offer to the Republicans, within days of the sequestered cuts taking effect, to cut an additional $630 billion from Social Security and Medicare lead to a convergence between the Obama administration and House Republicans.The article looks into deficit cuttings negotiations and its results.
- Austerity chokes Canada's down-and-out, as Harper, Flaherty look the other way
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The exceedingly aggressive austerity cuts carried out by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty over the past seven years have come home to roost as millions of Canadians, depressed and without hope, are succumbing to its worst consequences.
- Austerity Is Not Colorblind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The myths about austerity convey that it solves deficits and debts, leads to economic growth and brings business confidence, but real statistics shows that, as an ideological tool, it is not colorblind.
- Changing Ecology and Coffee Rust
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
From Guatemala to Panama, governments are boosting aid to fight the fungus and keep workers from migrating to cities or north toward the United States. The article looks into the causes of the coffee ecosystem crisis and its consequences.
- Defending Public Education in Philadelphia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Philadelphia has a proud tradition of struggle around its schools dating back to the civil rights and Black Power movements. The African American churches also played a critical role. But this alliance proved short lived. While education organizing groups, advocacy organizations and, less frequently, unions have sought to work together on some campaigns, there has been no effort to develop a shared strategy and organizational vehicle for realizing it.
- Emptying the World's Aquarium
The dismal future of the global fishery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Essay on the fishery at the Sea of Cortez, Mexico and the implications of environmental conservation policies on the local fishermen's economy.
- A Freedom Budget for All Americans
Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animated much of the movement is often overlooked today. That vision sought economic justice for every person in the United States, regardless of race. It favored production for social use instead of profit; social ownership; and democratic control over major economic decisions.
- The Homeless Herd
An Indian village battles an elephant invasion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The struggle of villagers against elephants raiding theIR crops at Nohotia, India.
- Inside the Corporate University
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Recent corporate transformation of the university, the profit-driven research orientation and the direction of instruction to the requirements of the private sector discourages faculty from finding common cause with other constituencies. The article looks into problems of neoliberal university and how to help create a genuine university community.
- Obama: Human Rights Disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The presidency of Barack Obama has continued, consolidated and institutionalized the human rights catastrophe of its predecessor. It's frankly impossible to look at the string of atrocities without becoming enraged and it's also critical to understand why they're happening.
- The soundcloud city
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Cities are increasingly saturated with visual information -- advertising, instructions, prohibitions -- so smart marketing is shifting its attention to a new battleground in its quest for your attention -- your ears. Sounds are used to attract and repel, to inform and sell. Private companies and public services try to seduce customers through their ears, or to discourage non-target groups.
- Update: Chicago's School War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Chicago Public Schools took a hit on May 22, 2013 as the appointed Board of Education of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) voted to close 50 schools, of the 54 originally targeted for shutdown -- in the largest closing of public schools in U.S. history. This was done despite an outpouring of opposition, expressed by thousands of parents in more than 100 meetings mandated by state law to allow parental and community input into the process.
- Huge Global Coalition Stands Against Unchecked Surveillance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
More than 100 organizations from across the globe are taking a stand against unchecked communications surveillance, calling for the governments around the world to follow international human rights law and curtail pervasive spying.
- Manning verdict blow for investigative journalism and its sources
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders regards today's verdict in U.S. Army private Bradley Manning's trial as dangerous. Although acquitted of "aiding the enemy," he was found guilty of five counts of espionage and five counts of theft, for which he could
- How the FBI Turned Me On to Rare Books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
I have wanted to be a historian of hope. We can take heart from the fact that no matter how dire the situation, some will find means to resist, some will find means to cope, and some will remember and tell stories about what happened.
- Microsoft accuses Microsoft of copyright infringement, asks Google to scrub search links
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Over the past year, copyright holders such as Microsoft, the Recording Industry Association of America, NBC, Walt Disney, and others have started blasting Google with vast numbers of takedown requests. Copyright holders hit the search engine with 3.5 to 4.5 million takedown requests each and every week. Between January and July 2013, Google erased more than 100 million links from the web as a result of DMCA takedown requests.
- Archbishop of Canterbury embarrassed about church's financial link to Wonga
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Justin Welby 'irritated' to discover Church of England holds indirect £75,000 stake in payday lender he singled out for criticism.
- Nurses' president asks VIHA to hit pause on CDMR - calls for independent review
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Nurses' president asks VIHA president to hit pause on patient care delivery changes and agree to independent expert review.
- Twice Removed: Double Punishment and Racial Profiling in Canada
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Immigrants who commit criminal offences are punished twice: once when they're sentenced for their crime, and again when they are permanently removed from Canada, even if they had lived here since childhood.This is known as "double punishment."
- US drone strikes in Yemen cast a long shadow over life on the ground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Unmanned aircraft create refugees and resentment among civilians as remote provinces become a battleground.
- BC Nurses' Union President to join with advocates calling for federal action on healthcare at upcoming Premiers' meeting
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
BCNU President Debra McPherson, on behalf of the nurses of BC will be joining other medicare advocates at Niagara-on-the-Lake this week.
- Healthcare in China: GSK claims prompt crackdown on corruption
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Fallout of bribery allegations against British company shows the state wants to be seen to act to clean up murky system.
- Black Humanity on Trial in America, Again
The Killing and Trial of Trayvon Martin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the case of the killing of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, was one such incident that brought out the entire history of racism, racial profiling, white vigilantism and the realities that black people and their allies have to organize to change the system.
- "Não Nos Representam!" A Left Beyond the Workers Party?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Larrabure identifies why the participatory budgeting strategy of Brazil's Worker's Party and the city's government failed to decentralize unequality in land ownership and the economy, resulting in mass protests and demonstrations by the public.
- Organizations & Leaders' Critique of S.744
A statement by the Mexican American Political Association
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A statement by the Mexican American Political Association
- Protect your freedom and privacy; join us in creating an Internet that's safer from surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In order to defang surveillance programs like PRISM, we need to stop using centralized systems and come together to build an Internet that's decentralized, trustworthy, and free "as in freedom."
- You selling to me?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Individually targeted online marketing, based on unwittingly supplied consumer information and monitoring of online activities, is replacing conventional advertising media.
- First information is usually wrong, so don't overreact.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The rail disaster in Lac Megantic, Quebec is a terrible tragedy, but no sooner had it occurred that there were calls for everything from banning railways from passing through small towns, to preventing the shipping of oil by rail.
- The US v. Trayvon Martin
How the System Worked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, teenage pedestrian died and George Zimmerman walked because our entire political and legal foundations were built on an ideology of settler colonialism.
- Winning the Rank and File Soldiers in Egypt
An Historical Drama Unfolds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will wield power during and immediately after the current transition of the toppling of Mohamed Morsi.
- The American Way of Torture
The Rule of Law Went and Never Returned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians.
- And the Secret Word Is
The Deep Meaning of "Relevant"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Senators Mark Udall and Tom Wyden's secret about the operations of the N.S.A. was an interpretation of one word "relevant" in the Patriot Act by the FISA Court.
- The "human touch": the key to digging up court records
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The most important asset for a reporter is the "human touch." It means becoming familiar with all the sources in the field. It means that a special technique is necessary to reach my goal of obtaining documents. Drinking coffee or having dinner with my sources is vital to cultivating important conduits of information. It’s a technique that is not workable overnight. It’s a technique that requires patience and time: months, years.
- Israel's Indigenous Invaders
How Israel Justifies the Immanent Relocation of Thousands of Palestinian Bedouin by Characterizing Them as Invaders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
If implemented, the “Prawer Plan for the Arrangement of Bedouin-Palestinian Settlement in the Negev” will expel an estimated forty thousand Palestinian Bedouin from their current homes.
- Ancient Greece, the Middle East and an ancient cultural internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The ancient Greek world is being recast from an isolated entity to one of many hybrid cultures in Africa and in the East.
- Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.
- Youth Day 2013 - Press Conference
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Youth Day 2013 Press Conference, July 11, 2013 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm, Hard Rock Cafe, Toronto. Learn exciting details of July 21 Youth Day at Yonge Dundas Square, with 30,000 young people expected in attendance!
- Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Doussard demonstrates that the decline in wages and working conditions is anything but the unavoidable result of competitive economic forces. Rather, he makes the case that service sector and other local-serving employers have boosted profit with innovative practices to exploit workers that go far beyond wage cuts.
- The End of the "Leaderless" Revolution
A Global Fallacy and the Military Intervention in Egypt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
When movements don't have (or claim not to have) ideologies, agendas, demands and leaders, they can go in two directions: they can dissipate (as did Occupy), or serve the agendas of others. The end of the leaderless revolution does not mean the end of the Egyptian revolutionary process. But it spells the end of the fallacy that the people can take power without an agenda, an alternative platform, an ideology, and leaders.
- The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
When writer AD Harvey invented an 1862 meeting between Dickens and Dostoevsky, it was for years accepted as fact. So why did he do it – and why did he also create a series of fake academic identities?
- Success, sex, and morality in the tar sands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A glimpse of what life is like for a certified electrician who is one of three women among 500 employees working on a site in the tar sands.
- Airbrushing Barbarity
The Warped Language of Public Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Couching moral/political matters in technocratic language helps us forget the unpleasantness of the underlying incivility and brutality of political measures. Political discourse is fundamentally dishonest in that it airbrushes barbarity.
- Croatia's entry fee
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The country has a long coastline and history of sailors, fishermen and shipbuilders, but EU membership will probably put an end to one of its oldest industries. The yards had to be completely privatised before Croatia officially joined the EU on 1 July, 2013.
- Hard work, high pay in tar sands "hell"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
One man's life in the tar sands, as told to a stranger in a conversation on a plane.
- How Cars Drive Inequality
An Exclusive Form of Travel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Studies show that in car oriented cities are poor are less likely to rise the socioeconomic ladder than in transit and pedestrian oriented cities.
- Fair Shares of Food
Agriculture in an Age of Gadgets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Concern over lagging production has prompted a search for technological tricks that might revolutionize food production.
- Lawlessness is the New Normal
The Lust for Washington's Money
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
No country has been willing to stand up to Washington and to give Snowden asylum.
- What the Snowden Affair Reveals About US Journalism
Corporate Media shown to be Rank Propaganda Arms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The national corporate media is little more than unofficial propaganda arms of the US government.
- Where Syriza stands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Syriza leads the leftwing coalition in Greece, and the opposition to the external financial occupation of the country by the states and organisations that are at present keeping it from bankruptcy.
- Kuwait's citizens without rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Kuwait depends on the labour of foreign nationals, and of its underclass who do not have formal proof of nationality.
- Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia offer asylum to Edward Snowden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
President Maduro offers to protect NSA whistleblower 'from persecution by the empire' and rejects US extradition request.
- The Servility of the Satellites
The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Recent revelations confirm the completion of the transformation of the "Western democracies" into something else, an entity that as yet has no recognized name. The outrage against the Bolivian President confirmed that this trans-Atlantic entity has absolutely no respect for international law, even though its leaders will make use of it when it suits them. But respect it, allow it to impede their actions in any way? Certainly not. And this disrespect for the law is linked to a more basic institutional change: the destruction of effective democracy at the national level.
- Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Blackledge claims that, while it is of the first importance that revolutionaries welcome and work alongside these coalitions, it is also imperative that we maintain our political independence from them so that we are better able to struggle for an alternative beyond the limitations of their politics. This perspective demands a clear analysis of the nature of reformism.
- Who Is An Objective Journalist?
Agents of the Status Quo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The false dichotomy between journalists and activists.
- The National Security State Exposed
Obama v. Snowden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Snowden disclosed orders demanding that all of the nation’s internet providers allow for secretly conducted, and ongoing government sweep of phone calls, audio and video chats, e-mails, photographs, and other communications used daily by American citizens.
- NATO Sets Its Sights on Colombia
Trouble Brewing in South America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Colombian Defence Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón and the Deputy Secretary-General of NATO, Alexander Vershbow, signed an Agreement on the Security of Information which include future collaboration in matters of security, and facilitates the participation of Colombia in a number of NATO activities.
- BDS Campaign Sweeps UC Campuses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The 2012-2013 academic year has seen seven University of California campuses launch campaigns to divest university funds from corporations enabling oppression of Palestinians. The article outlines the roots of the campaign, its progress, and the pressures facing activists working to support Palestinian rights.
- The boss is spying
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The data mining by large U.S. corporations gets less attention than U.S. government surveillance. It goes beyond the tracking of every mouse-click, purchase and "like" registered by every consumer on the internet, and relies not only on sophisticated electronic devices, but on the currency of fear and sheer intimidation which would make a Big Brother tyrant proud, the kind depicted in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.
- Forget One Direction - We Need a New Direction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
If people think equality and social justice are unrealistic, then we really are lacking in imagination. When they try to tell you that our better-world ideals are unrealistic, tell them it's unrealistic to allow elite bankers to send tens of millions of people into starvation.
- The Implacable Russell Maroon Shoatz
Book review
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A book review of Maroon the Implacable The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz
- In the Valley of Conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The story of the Kashmiri Pandits, a minority group driven from their home in the beautiful but strife-torn Kashmir Valley, is rarely told by progressive media. Their suffering is part of Kashmir's continuing troubles.
- The Indiana "Subversion" Case 50 Years Later
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The case of the Bloomington Three began at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis with updates on the case appearing in the state and national press for several years. Alan Wald assesses the case as a foreshadowing of the mass radicalization of the late 1960s.
- Let us prey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Cheaply buying up 'bad' debt owed by countries in distress and aggressively suing for full payment plus compound interest -- that's the modus operandi of the secretive companies known as vulture funds.
- Marxism and "Subaltern Studies"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A review of Vivek Chibber's book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital.
- A Novel of Class Struggle & Romance
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A review of 'The Gleaming Archway' by A.M. Stephen.
- On Assata Shakur
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In one of those all too frequent outrages where the facts of the case mean nothing, the FBI has placed political refugee Assata Shakur, now 65, who has lived in Cuba since receiving asylum there in 1984 following her prison escape, on its "fugitive terrorist" list. Among other things, this deprives "terrorism" of any specific meaning.
- The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Culture and Communications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This is a hitherto unpublished chapter of Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, Monopoly Capital (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966). The text as published here has been edited and includes notes by John Bellamy Foster. The style conforms to that of their book. Part of the original draft chapter, dealing with mental health, was still incomplete at the time of Baran's death in 1964, and consequently has not be included in this published version.
- The Radicalness of the Accessory
Book review
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A book review of Accessorizing the Body: Habits of Being 1.and Exchanging Clothes:
Habits of Being 2. edited by Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz
- Remembering Medgar Evers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Transpacific Antiracism
Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This work introduces the social movements in black America, Japan, and Okinawa that formed Afro-Asian solidarities against the practice of white supremacy in the 20th century.
- Howard Wallace, 1936-2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Monsanto is buying up non-gmo seed companies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A positive trend in recent years is the growing number of gardening enthusiasts choosing to plant gardens using organic and/or heirloom seeds.
- Rail Bill Becomes Law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Bill C-52, giving shippers the right to a service agreement with their rail carriers is now law.
- Snowden, Surveillance And The Secret State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There is plenty to be said about living under a giant system of government surveillance. Just don't expect the corporate media to explore the full extent of what it really all means.
- Eavesdropping on the Planet
The Inalienable Right to Snoop?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Like a mammoth vacuum cleaner in the sky, the National Security Agency (NSA) sucks it all up: home phone, office phone, cellular phone, email, fax, telex … satellite transmissions, fiber-optic communications traffic, microwave links … voice, text, images … captured by satellites continuously orbiting the earth, then processed by high-powered computers … if it runs on electromagnetic energy, NSA is there, with high high tech. Twenty-four hours a day. Perhaps billions of messages sucked up each day. No one escapes. Not presidents, prime ministers, the UN Secretary-General, the pope, the Queen of England, embassies, transnational corporation CEOs, friend, foe, your Aunt Lena …
- If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?
Snowden Coverage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Edward Snowden leaks have revealed a U.S. corporate media system at war with independent journalism. Many of the same outlets that missed the Wall Street meltdown and cheer-led the Iraq invasion have come to resemble state-controlled media outlets in their near-total identification with the government.
- Breaking News: 20 Protesters Arrested at Tar Sands Blockade, Including those outside injunction zone
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Hamilton Police moved on to the #SwampLine9 protest action in Ontario this morning mass arresting almost everyone on site including activists further up the street and the police liaison.
- Empty Lectures About the Sanctity of the 'Rule of Law'
Washington Has No Sense of Shame
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
US is threatening Hong Kong, China, Russia and now little Ecuador with all manner of reprisals if they don't respect the "rule of law" and hand over whistleblower Edward Snowden to the US national security apparatus.
- Why the Ruling Class is So Upset About Edward Snowden
The Damage to Our Intelligence is Gut-Wrenching to See
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Is Snowden a hero, or a villain? The tiny power elite that controls the mainstream press and cable channels, the corporations that dutifully hand over meta-data to the state, the twin political parties, are sick to their stomachs that they’ve been so exposed.
- Brazil 2013: Mass Demonstrations, the World Cup, and 500 Years of Oppression
Bread, Circuses and Discontent
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Deep inequality lies in Brazil where the masses lack basic public goods. Billions of dollars being spent on the upcoming 2014 World Cup have triggered nation-wide mass demonstrations.
- Corporate money preventing all-out campaign to stop global warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Highly-regarded former Toronto Mayor David Miller says he is "very excited" about becoming the new President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund-Canada in September. But there are questions about whether the WWF is effective in its work and, moreover, why the WWF and other members of the global environmental movement have made such little progress combatting the most serious threat to earth - climate change.
- Edward J. Snowden and the Exposure of Voyeuristic Fascism
Self-Pacification of the American Citizenry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Snowden make a difference in the affairs of state in an environment where individuals do not appear to matter.
- Rafael Correa, the Press, and Whistleblowers
Corporate Control and Double Standards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There are claims of hypocrisy because of Correa providing asylum to whistleblowers however also passing a Communications Bill that detractors claim is a major blow to a free press.
- Thinking of Joining the ISO?
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
My goal in writing this is to encourage a fundamental re-thinking of “Leninist” party-building efforts in order to help end the unnecessary separation between the socialist movement and the working class that has blocked both movements from beginning to reverse the balance of class forces in America. I strongly believe such party-building efforts have helped perpetuate rather than undermine this crippling separation.
- Thinking of Joining the ISO?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A critical examination of the ISO’s methods, practices, and structures compared to those of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) which the ISO holds up as its organizing model, as well as some suggestions for a better, more effective political practice.
- Transpacific Partnership and Monsanto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has the potential to become the biggest regional Free Trade Agreement in history, both in economic size and the ability to quietly add more countries in addition to those originally included.
- The Emperor's New Penis
The Same Sexual Threats, the Same Silence for Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Right now the gender fundamentalists are doing their best to shut down dialogue. They've damaged books — books that don’t even mention their concern — pressured bookstores, and silenced speakers scheduled at universities. It should come as no surprise that they are using the final tactics of all fundamentalists: bullying, threats, assault. And they've done this with increasing frequency and intensity. How long does it take to see the pattern?
- How Israeli Apartheid is Coming Unstuck
Big Racists vs Little Racists
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Segregation is enforced in all the main spheres of life for Jews and Arabs: land allocation and housing, citizenship rights, education, and employment.
- Prisons Full of Innocents
The Big Lockup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The number of convictions and the lengths of sentences has increased and some men have been wrongly convicted of crimes they simply did not commit.
- What's the Sexual Health of the Nation?
Sex, Lies and the Great Recession
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
What happens to pleasure during a period of social crisis? Sex may be the best way to determine the true pulse of the nation.
- Lessons of the Snowden Revelations
You are the Target!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We in the Left have long worried about “police state tactics”. Now we have to confront the police state structure. It’s here and it can morph into a real police state with very little effort. Opposing and dismantling it should now be among our top priorities.
- Short Circuit: Towards an Anarchist Approach to Gentrification
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Gentrification, etymologically speaking, is a relatively new word, coined in 1964 by the English Marxist sociologist Ruth Glass.
- Spying by the Numbers
Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden many more people in the US and world-wide are learning about extensive US government surveillance and spying. There are publicly available numbers which show the reality of these problems are bigger than most think and most of this spying is happening with little or no judicial oversight.
- War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Free Press and the National Security State
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
During his election campaigns, Barak Obama promised the most transparent administration in U.S. history. Cynics can rejoice in the fact that the Obama administration has indicted more people for violating government secrecy than all previous administrations combined. This is the story of four whistleblowers who who traded their careers and life normalcy for slander, danger, legal prosecution and an opportunity to expose the crimes of the US government.
- Spell It Out
The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
David Crystal offers up explanations of how English spellling, while not simple, can be sensible if you look at the history of the language and its vocabulary.
- The story of symphysiotomy in Ireland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Symphysiotomy is a childbirth operation that effectively unhinges the pelvis. Ireland was the only country in the world to do these childbirth operations in preference to Caesarean section. Religious ideology and medical ambition drove the surgery. An estimated 1,500 women and girls, some as young as 14, had their pelvises severed, gratuitously, by senior doctors who believed in childbearing without limitation. Life long disability, chronic pain, mental suffering and family breakdown followed.
- The Chemical Weapons Pretext for War on Syria
The Latest Pack of Lies?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Washington is digging deep to conjure up a pretext for yet another war of aggression in the Middle East. The White House claims that the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against rebel fighters.
- Public Enemy Number One: the Public
Keeping Us in the Dark and Under Watch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Those in power use language to obscure meaning more often than to convey it. Their power depends on keeping us — the enemy — in the dark.
- The Syrian Target
Why Only an All-Out War Can Depose Assad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Syria is close to becoming the target of a major Western military intervention
- Fighting the poachers on Africa's thin green line
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Underpaid, ill-equipped and outnumbered, park rangers fight a one-sided war against vicious gangs of poachers. Hundreds have been murdered in the defence of endangered wildlife, and their deaths leave their own families in jeopardy. David Smith reports from Zambia.
- Apathy and Our Totalitarian Future
Watching Everything, Everywhere, All the Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The implication of the NSA scandal is this: encroaching totalitarianism can move slowly, in stages.
- Fighting Secrecy and the National Security State
An Interview With Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Co-Producer of WikiLeaks's "Collateral Murder" Video
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An interview with Iceland Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir of the Pirate Party on the status of the international struggle against government secrecy and surveillance.
- Inside the International Socialist Organization
Putting the Sect Into Sectarian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Intellectual conformity in such groups is not a function of bureaucratic measures such as expulsion. It is all about peer pressure.
- Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists
Green Scare Continues
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
TransCanada has colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska, labeling non-violent activists as possible candidates for “terrorism” charges and other serious criminal charges.
- The NSA Apologists
It's Not Snowden Who Betrayed Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The NSA controversy is about whether we should trust people with institutional power.
- Reform and Revolution at Left Forum 2013
Tension and Transformation
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This year’s Left Forum, held at Pace University in lower Manhattan was one of the largest gatherings in North America of the US and international Left.
- Surveillance and the Corporate State
Spying, Control and Murder Under the Imperial Presidency
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With all of the fear mongering the subject has received in recent decades, Americans have in fact had remarkably little to fear directly from ‘terrorism.’
- US and Israeli Intelligence
Practice of Torture
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Torture by US and Israeli intelligence agencies.
- How can you protect yourself from online snooping?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders has published an Online Survival Kit on its WefightCensorship.org website that has tools and practical advice that will allow you to protect your communications and data.
- IFJ/EFJ Call for Greek Government to Revoke Closure of Public Broadcaster
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Journalists' organizations call on the Greek government to immediately revoke their unprecedented decision to close down its public broadcasting station ERT.
- Media unions oppose closure of Greek public broadcaster ERT
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
UNI MEI calls for resistance to support Greek public service broadcasting, its workers and their union POSPERT
- The NSA and the Infrastructure of the Surveillance State
In Search of Real Liberty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The NSA’s surveillance and data-gathering activities illustrate the extent to which US intelligence seeks “full-spectrum dominance” in cyberspace.
- ADL Spies
The Strange History of the Anti-Defamation League
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
2013 marks the 20th anniversary of the exposure of a nation-wide spying operation run by the ADL that went back at least five decades.
- Bradley Manning and Adolf Eichmann
Are We All Really Bradley Manning?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Manning succeeded in accomplishing what Eichmann was tried and executed for failing to do; Manning refused to participate in the commission of crimes against humanity.
- Government Stonewalling and Possibly Spying to Shield Controversial Charity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Access to Information documents reveal that Harper's government has been pressuring the Canada Revenue Agency to protect the controversial charity Jewish National Fund (JNF) from public scrutiny. It has even promoted "monitoring" an anti-JNF event.
- Mongolia, Canada, Israel & the United States
Colonialism, Mining and Oil Shale: Don't Let the Genie Out of the Bottle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Genie Energy announces a deal they struck with the Petroleum Authority of Mongolia.
- Online Survival Kit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This Online Survival Kit offers practical tools, advice and techniques that teach you how to circumvent censorship and to secure yo communications and data. This handbook will gradually be unveiled over the coming months in order to provide everyone with the means to resist censors, governments or interests groups that want to courntrol news and information and gag dissenting voices. The Reporters Without Borders Digital Survival Kit is available in French, English, Arabic, Russian et Chinese. Published under the Creative Commons licence, its content is meant to be used freely and circulated widely.
- Capitalist Surveillance State: Everyone's a Target
Threatening Reporters, Spying on Public
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There is an inherent tendency for the state, which governs on behalf of a minuscule, ruthless class of obscenely wealthy exploiters, to attempt to amass ever greater power to control the population because it hates and fears the working people.
- Edward Snowden: Profile in Courage
Whistleblowing in the Name of the Constitution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
29-year-old former technical assistant to the CIA and employee of a defense intelligence contractor admitting to disclosing top secret documents about the National Security Agency’s massive violation of the privacy of law-abiding citizens.
- Government Secrets and the Need for Whistle-blowers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Whistle-blowing is vital, even more broadly than in government spying. Whistle-blowing is the moral response to immoral activity by those in power. What's important here are government programs and methods, not data about individuals.
- The Uprising in Turkey
Conservative-Neoliberal Alliance and Popular Resistance in Turkey
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Thousands are taking to the streets to oppose the current regime of old Islamic, anti-secularist values sitting comfortably with large scale US based Neoliberal capitalism.
- The Art of Lying
"Yes, That Was My Penis" and Other Ticklish PR Challenges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
People in the public eye should have learned enough from past blunders to come up with a different strategy when asked potentially damaging questions.
- The Corporate State and Manufactured Dependence
Sure, It Can Get Worse...It's Happening Right Before Our Eyes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The 'resistance is futile' mindset that supports plutocrats and the global corporations they own assumes the existing order is the only possible order and the costs of resistance are too great because 'they' have state power and unlimited economic resources on their side.
- Evil Takes the High Road
Wrapping a Policy of Global Domination in the American Flag
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
No heavens for those who live in one of the Muslim countries in which the United States is waging its preemptive global “war on terrorism.”
- Government Spying Aims to Silence Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
What the ruling class is aiming at, with these occasional "leaks" about its spying on us, is not so much to collect information about us but rather to make us feel so totally spied upon that we will be afraid to do or say anything we know the government doesn't want us to do or say.
- Let the People Know
Put Full Texts of Government Contracts Online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Openness in our government is essential for a healthy democracy
- Marching to Jerusalem
Searching for Dignity in Occupied East Jerusalem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
46 years ago, Israel seized East Jerusalem. Since then, Israel has undertaken measures to restrict Palestinian movement.
- Mkhuseli "Khusta" Jack and the Art of the Boycott
27 Years Later, a South African Organizer Looks Back at a Tactic that Hastened the End of Apartheid
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A key figure in organizing a consumer boycott was the young South African Mkhuseli (Khusta) Jack, who recently discussed his experiences in that campaign with students and professors assembled for the 2013 Narco News Authentic School of Journalism.
- Nurses condemn wheelchair fees
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Nurses are condemning plans by the Fraser and Vancouver Coastal Health authorities to charge their nursing home residents $25 a month to use a wheelchair.
- Obama defiant over NSA revelations ahead of summit with Chinese premier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
President says oversight of NSA surveillance programme should be left to Congress in comments criticising media 'hype.'
- Screening the Working Class
Movies We Love About Workers, Work and the Workplace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
List of movies featuring workers, work, and the workplace.
- Subversive Nun’s Sophisticated Plot to Incite Peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
83-year-old Catholic nun Megan Rice is facing 20 years in prison for breaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
- Surveillance USA
NSA and the PRISM Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The government is merrily going about its business of keeping tabs on you in virtually every conceivable way.
- There Is a War on Ordinary People, and Feminists Are Needed at the Front
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The problem with media-run "conversations" on gender is not merely the almost total absence of male participants, but the suppression of class. The bourgeois media club relegates and distracts from the fact that a full-blooded class war is under way.
- Three Things Young People Should Know to Save the World
Know Your Rights!
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Old people should know these things too. Energy seems better invested in trying to teach them to young people who have less to unlearn in the process.
- Turkey's Urban Uprising
The Struggle for Democracy against Inequality, Oligarchy, Oppression, and Tyranny
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In Turkey, a wave of urban uprisings had spread across the country, involving hundreds of thousands of protesters, in dozens of cities, met with massive state repression and violence, resulting in a few deaths and thousands of injuries and arrests.
- Bangladesh's exploitation economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Before the collapse of Rana Plaza, which killed over a thousand people, most of them textile workers, there was the fire that killed a hundred at the Tazreen factory. A major cause is western companies' greed for profits.
- Conversations with Lee Lorch
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Interviews with mathematician and civil rights activist Lee Lorch.
- Golden Dawn close to being added to 'predators' list
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders, which last visited Greece in September 2011 to investigate the collapse in the media environment and the future of journalism, is alarmed by the steady decline in respect for media freedom and firmly condemns the neo-Nazi
- IFJ Congress Holds Commemoration and Freedom Walk for Killed Journalists Across the World
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A special Freedom Walk to commemorate the 408 journalists across the world who have died in the service of their profession in the last three years was held in Dublin this evening.
- June 8, 2013: Sex Workers' National Day of Action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On June 8th sex workers and allies across Canada will hold actions in 6 cities across Canada in support of repealing prostitution laws currently being challenged.
- Just winning next election not enough for Liberals or NDP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
if there is a new government, it will come to power with the extreme right wing more entrenched than ever before.... Aggressive organizations are determined to maintain policies that tend to reward the rich and penalize the rest of us.
- The Prosecution and Persecution of Bradley Manning
Setting An Example
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The desire to strip Manning of careful intent has been a tactic of the government that is prosecuting him and the mainstream media who parrot their propaganda from the start.
- Humanity Imperiled: The Path To Disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That's been true since 1945. It's now being finally recognized that there are more long-term processes like environmental destruction leading in the same direction, maybe not to total destruction, but at least to the destruction of the capacity for a decent existence.
- Open Borders and the Tragedy of Open Access Commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
“Open borders” refers to a policy of unlimited or free immigration. I argue here that it is a bad policy. If you are poor and your country provides no social safety net, you move to one that does. If you are rich and your country makes you pay your taxes, you move (or at least move your money) to one that doesn’t. Thus safety nets, and public goods in general, disappear as they become both overloaded and underfunded. That is the “world without borders,” and without community. That is the tragedy of open access commons.
- Paulina González Uses Story Telling as a Tool of Civil Resistance
The organizer from south Los Angeles believes that you can touch peoples' hearts with stories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Paulina González believes that story telling is fundamental to succeed any social movement needs the support and dedication of a critical mass.
- The History Behind the Organizer of the Water War
Oscar Olivera remembers how the Bolivian people took back their land and their power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Many know Oscar Olivera as the voice and the organizer of the water war in Cochabamba in 2000. Others remember his experience as a factory worker.
- How a London court Repudiated Zionist Abuse of the Anti-Semitism Charge
Tribunal Blow to Israel's Advocates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Taunting and tainting opponents with the charge of anti-semitism is a long-standing Zionist ploy, familiar to everyone involved in the Israel-Palestine issue.
- Monsanto: Contamination By All Means Necessary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
What happens when you allow commercial interests free rein over a nation state's food and agricultural policies? Consumers and farmers end up paying the price.
- The Predatory Pedagogy of On-Line Education
New Techno-peasants of the Latifundia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Distance learning amounts to the erosion of the traditional face-to-face classroom.
- Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Don't leave your people guessing. If you want them to do something or to attain a certain outcome, tell them and give them a milestone to achieve it.
- The Sinicization Of Tibet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In 1950s, China incorporated Tibet into its territory and since then, it has began a major reform of all aspects of Tibetan life - social, religious, political and economic. The Tibetans had organised an armed resistance but it could not challenge the Chinese army. As a result of this, thousands of Tibetans fled from Tibet and seek asylum in nearby countries like India, Nepal and Bhutan where they have created refugee or exile communities. But other forms of resistance had been continued and is still continued by Tibetans in Tibet and in exile.
- Boracay islanders fear for their lives in battle with Philippine tourist trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Hotel security guard is charged with murder after shooting of spokesman for Ati people, who claim ancestral land rights.
- Why Cooperative Businesses Are Not the Answer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The problem with the worker-owned cooperative business economic model is that this model retains one of the most important defining characteristics of the capitalist model with which we are so familiar today: production of commodities to be sold for a profit in the market place.
- Arabs and Muslims After 9/11 - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Review of "Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation After 9/11" by Evelyn Alsultany and "Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism" by Nadine Naber.
- Bangladesh's exploitation economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Before the collapse of Rana Plaza, which killed over a thousand people, most of them textile workers, there was the fire that killed a hundred at the Tazreen factory. A major cause is western companies’ greed for profits.
- The H-Block Struggle - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Book review of "Smashing H Block: The Rise and Fall of the Popular Campaign Against Criminalization, 1976-1982" by F. Stuart Ross.
- Jerry Tucker, 1938-2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Jerry Tucker died last October 19, 2012 of pancreatic cancer, at age 73. A passionate advocate of workers’ rights, his career in the labor officialdom was hindered by his investing greater loyalty in the workers he represented than in the organizations for which he worked.
- Labor's Bitter Defeat in Detroit, Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Review of The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor by Chris Rhomberg.
- Promised Land
Will Brazil's rural poor ever inherit the earth?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Article on the historical rural poverty of the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
- Which strategy for the left?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Ed Rooksby, a supporter of the Left Unity initiative, recently put forward his view that a left government can play a key role in the fight for radical change. Mark L. Thomas argues this ignores the role of the state.
- Best Practices for the Social History Domain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Index page for the Best practices for the social history domain.
- Mes Aynak: Afghanistan's Buddhist buried treasure faces destruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Mes Aynak, a magnificent Buddhist city, is the most important archaeological discovery in a generation. But it is sitting on a vast copper deposit and is about to be destroyed.
- Corporate Spying on Environmental Groups
We Are Being Watched
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The surveillance of moderate environmental groups like GDAC comes at a pivotal time for the environmental movement.
- Food Justice: Monsanto, Factory Farming, And Beyond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
It starts with alternative vision: While the dominant hierarchy drowns in its own hypocrisy, fear, and greed let’s use our energy and passion to create -- occupy -- a whole new cultural model.
- GM crops: Hunger as the key to world domination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Weapons and energy resources are apparently insufficient for total control over the world's nations, power-hungry globalists like David Rockefeller have come up with the idea of using people's daily need for food as a means to achieve global dominance.
- Island nurses to rally at VIHA Board meeting
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
They want a halt to a scheme to reduce the number of nurses at Vancouver Island Hospitals, pending an independent review.
- Media Gets Targeted by Obama, Discovers No One Cares Except the Media
Welcome to the Freakshow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The news media has a role to play and it’s not entertainment. Instead of informing people what their government is doing abroad, news organizations are making up fiction about food stamps breaking the budget and digging through Michael Jackson’s grave.
- No to nuclear energy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
For over 50 years Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) has asked for the guaranteeing of the rights of future generations to a world free of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. VOW is concerned about nuclear energy being presented as safe.
- 'The Planet Can't Keep Doing Us A Favour'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With humanity's huge impact on the planet's climate becoming ever clearer, the claim of 'history in the making' is truly deserved.
- Privacy for the other five billion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Aadhaar is but one example of the development sector's growing fascination with technologies for registering, identifying, and monitoring citizens
- Yahoo's Tumblr, Google's Makani and Noah Cross's Future
Designing Software, Wings and Your Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Corporations, in seeking to control markets, become the custodians and designers of our culture and our future. For them, the future is a communication limited to outbursts and pithy comments, a data-base that includes all our personal information available to governments who request it or advertisers who pay for it and lives that are, in large part, directed toward consumption.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres -- 27 May 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
It's critical that managers and executives at all levels of a company identify what they control and what they don't. They must resolve to act on those things they control while influencing those they don't.
- Corporate Corruption And The Special Interest State
Regulatory Capture at the FCC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With Tom Wheeler's nomination, expect pro big-telecom policies such as ending net neutrality, further industry consolidation, limiting meaningful competition and increasing user fees, among other policies.
- The U.S. Press and Repression in the Obama Era
A New Awakening or Political Theater?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Obama administration’s is expanding its use of executive powers to intimidate and crush dissent had turned its focus on the U.S. press.
- Women's liberation: theory and practice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Fundamental change for women means challenging the priorities of a system based on profit, and that requires connecting women’s movements to the wider fight for change.
- Jewish Group Strongly Opposes Censorship at York University
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) Canada protests the York University administration's decision to revoke the student club status of Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) at York University until January 2014.
- Mali: Timbuktu's literary gems face Islamists and decay in fight for survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Daring by a dedicated few saved many manuscripts in Mali from Islamists.
- IFJ Condemns U.S. Justice Dept for Secretly Gathering Associated Press Records
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Newspaper Guild-CWA, in condemning the U.S. Justice Department for secretly gathering the phone records of Associated Press Journalists and called on the department
- IFJ Denounces Attempts by Freedom of Expression Group to Weaken Copyright Protection for Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today denounced a set of principles issued by Article 19 to unduly restrict creators' copyright protection.
- Police retain DNA from thousands of children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Some 120,000 gene samples have been taken in two years, as police forces argue they are acting within the law.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres -- 20 May 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A key role for every leader is mentoring and coaching his or her subordinates so they develop to their full potential.
- Seizure of AP phone records condemned as 'grave violation'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders regards the US Department of Justice's seizure of the records of thousands of Associated Press phone calls as an "extremely grave violation of freedom of information."
- Beyond a Boundary - 50th anniversary
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This year marks the 50th anniversary of CLR James’ wonderful, groundbreaking work Beyond a Boundary. Beyond a Boundary blends politics and memoir, history and journalism, biography and reportage, in a manner that transcends literary, sporting and political boundaries.
- Smallest Penis In Brooklyn Contest Inspired By Close Encounters With "Shockingly Tiny" Penises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This week, micro penis owners all over Brooklyn were given a jolt when Kings County Bar announced their first annual Smallest Penis in Brooklyn pageant -- the ultimate wet t-shirt contest for infinitesimal penises.
- Ukip: the battle for Britain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A exposé on Ukip, which wonders: is it a lunatic fringe or a sign of things to come?
- African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Story of the collection of African American folk music compiled by Lawrence Gellert. Compiled between the World Wars, the recordings were adopted by the American Left as the voice of the American proletariat, or "songs of protest."
- Building a Solidarity City
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A Solidarity City is the creation of a community that rejects a system that engenders poverty and anguish, not solely for immigrants and refugees, but also for other Montrealers confronting these same realities.
- Johanna Lawrenson: Organizing on the Run
Lawrenson and Partner Abbie Hoffman Ran the Guantlet of US Law Enforcement to Organize for Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In 1978, Johanna Lawrenson launched a social movement with a fugitive. Her partner was Abbie Hoffman, an experienced organizer who at the time was wanted by the FBI.
- GMOs: Fooling -- er, "feeding" -- the world for 20 years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2012
Myths and outright lies about the alleged benefits of genetically engineered crops (GE crops or GMOs) persist only because the multinationals that profit from them have put so much effort into spreading them around.
- Link Removal Requests: how not to do it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
I am receiving link removal request emails from a company who must be having problems with their Google rankings. They have either been notified by Google that they have links coming from bad websites, or taken the matter into their own hands. They have decided to clean up their back link profile in order to improve their rankings in the search engines.
- People's Assembly: we need unity to beat austerity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Argues that the People's Assembly is not merely a nice idea or a worthwhile event, but the main basis for co-ordinating resistance to cuts for some time to come.
- Two Struggles, One Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Mkhuseli “Khusta” Jack and Oscar Olivera met face to face and shared their stories of strategic organizing with the scholars and professors of the School of Authentic Journalism.
- US Civil Rights-Era Leader Mary King Says Successful Social Movements Expand Space for Other Struggles
Paper Penned by King Helped to Spark Modern Women's Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Mary King played an important role in helping to advance the struggle for women's rights.
- Organizer Renny Cushing Tapped the Power of Community to Pull the Plug on Nuke Plants
Clamshell Alliance Drew a Line in the Sand That the Nuclear Energy Industry Has Not Crossed to This Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
As one of the key figures in the Clamshell Alliance in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cushing was effective in organizing a movement that played a major role in freezing the construction of new nuclear power projects in the United States for decades.
- Who speaks for Jews when it comes to civil liberties and human rights?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) Canada strongly condemns the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) for sponsoring a Daniel Pipes lecture May 13.
- Business journalists go on the attack; demonize Atlantic seasonal workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s demeaning view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist attitude. Framed in disrespectful language, they’re promoting untested economic ideas that, if adopted, would seriously damage the economy – and the people – of the region.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres -- 13 May 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Often, the best intelligence comes from ˜troops in contact with the enemy. They can see what's happening and can provideground truth to corroborate or validate the opinions and assessments made through the intelligence estimation proces
- Under siege: North Dakota's last abortion clinic fights on
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
North Dakota's largest city, Fargo, is home to the last facility offering terminations. And as laws tighten across America, the pro-life movement is starting to scent victory.
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle
The Civil Rights Movement in the Rural South Reconsidered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Is it possible to both win substantial benefits for people who are on the lower rungs of the socio-economic status ladder while at the same time building forms of democratic people power that can continue to challenge the present political oligarchy and the economic plutocracy whose interests it generally serves?
- Outsourcing racism: Bill C-31, Prison Expansion, and the Detention of Immigrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, CBSA may arrest and detain a foreign national or permanent resident they deem a threat to public safety, a potential flight risk, unable to substantiate their identity, or a threat to “national security.” Despite the regular invocation of migrants as potentially dangerous and as “criminal,” in reality the overwhelming majority of detainees (94.2%) are held for reasons entirely unrelated to questions of security. Indeed, entire families, including young children, are currently imprisoned in Canadian detention centers.
- Racism and Sexual Violence in Indonesia
Where Fear Stalks the Streets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Indonesia, since 1965, performed three genocides fully backed by the West.
- The Radical Center and Armed Revolution
A Challenge for the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Poll shows 29% of registered voters in the U.S. believe armed revolution to ‘protect liberties’ may be necessary the self-appointed political ‘center’ went into full conniption in defense of the established order.
- Testimony of a Deportee
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Manuel Sanchez, member of Mexicans United for Regularization (MUR) and Action LGBTQ for Immigrants and Refugees (AGIR), was deported to Mexico on July 26, 2012. With the courage that he is known for, Manuel delved into his memories of that stressful period to raise public awareness about the harshness and violence of the criminalization that he experienced as a migrant.
- Threatened with Censorship and Ouster by PEN's Henchmen
Sign the Petition to Remove Suazanne Nossel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Nossel's appointment may be seen as the most visible and overt symptom of Western subversion that goes back to the very founding of the "human rights" NGO’s
- Yemenis Have Moms Too
Michelle Obama, Open Your Heart
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Abdurahman al-Shubati disappeared more than a decade ago, just 18-years-old and teaching abroad, separated from his family for the first time in life. Join us in calling on Michelle Obama to open her heart to the cries of Abdurahman’s mother and ask Barack to send those cleared home and to expedite the closing of Guantanamo.
- Candidates, MLAs back area nurses in their drive to protect patients
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
VIHA scheme to cut nurses at NRGH comes under fire at Nanaimo all-candidates meeting
- New All But Gluten Celebrates Receiving the Canadian Celiac Association's Gluten-Free Certification Mark
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
All But Gluten™ - a new line of great tasting gluten-free bakery products from Weston Bakeries is being launched during Celiac Awareness Month and can be found in the fresh bakery section of major retail stores across Canada. These products are cer
- Social Networking and the Death of the Internet
How Do You "Like" That?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Social Networking is, by its nature, a capture environment. The companies that offer the services, particularly Facebook, host your site and control all the information on it. Facebook — a group of linked pages on a giant website — is constraining and not very powerful. In order to use it, you have to use it the way they want you to and that’s not a whole lot of “using”. But there is a comfort in having one’s options limited, being able to use something without learning anything about it or making many choices about how you use it. That alluring convenience is a poisoned apple, however.
- 'This Madman Must Be Stopped'
Syrian Chemical Weapons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The White House claims that US intelligence assessed 'with varying degrees of confidence' that 'the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin'.
- ADCO Launches Province-wide Fundraiser for Children's Hospitals
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Members of the Association of the Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario, staff and children host ADCO Walkathon events to raise funds for children's hospitals across the province.
- Guadeloupe and Martinique threatened as pesticide contaminates food chain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Chemical once used on banana crops threatening livelihoods and public health by polluting soil and sea.
- IFIC Congratulates Ontario Chamber of Commerce on Comprehensively Addressing Retirement Savings
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Toronto, Ontario - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) congratulates the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) for addressing the crucial issue of retirement savings in a comprehensive policy resolution
- Just the Beginning of Canada's Filthy Tar Sands
A Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The technology used in Canada's tar sands will be used to open up other potential oil deposits that could more than double all know oil reserves. The disaster threatens to keep expanding.
- Librarians and Palestine
An Interview with Vani Natarajan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Working to preserve Palestinian records and memory in the face of deliberate destruction by Israel.
- Petitions next to useless in campaign to defend CBC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Pressure groups put a lot of effort into petitions, but the question is - does sending petitions have any effect. Are they just wasting everyone's time?
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres -- 6 May 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Never assume you're completely right about your enemy (or competitors) nor completely wrong either.
- May 5, 1818: Birth of Karl Marx
Seeds of Fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Marx breathes dialectics and revolution. For Marx, radicalism means going to the root, and Marx's radicalism seeks to go to the root of capitalism, to comprehend its essence dialectically, to understand its inherent contradictions - and the seeds of revolution it contains.
- Why parents should leave their kids alone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
What if the best thing we could do for our children is to set them free? Jay Griffiths explains why moden parenting often makes children miserable.
- 5,000 Canadians walk to honour and support families of workplace tragedy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Beginning May 4, more than 5000 Canadians will walk in support of families affected by workplace fatalities, life-altering injuries and occupational disease, as part of the annual Steps for Life - Walking for Families of Workplace Tragedy.
- Hugo Chavez and the Revolutionary Imagination
A Benevolent Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Chavez was one of the most important voices for peace in Colombia – a country ravaged by over 50 years of civil war. The revolution Chavez led in Venezuela is, without exaggeration, the most benevolent one in human history.
- Istanbul's Shameful May Day
Silencing the Masses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
"I was walking through the streets of Istanbul. Smoke and tear-gas bombs were exploding everywhere and people were running, pursued by police in riot gear". I lay for a while analysing my dream. It was May the first – International Workers’ Day.
- On Buddhist Fundamentalism
Hollywood, Please Take Note
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Four years after the brutal assault on the Tamil population and the killing of between 8—10,000 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army, there is trouble again. The saffron-robed fanatics, led by the BBS — Bodu Bala Sena: the most active and pernicious of Buddhist fundamentalist groups that have sprouted in Sinhala strongholds throughout the island— are on the rampage again.
- What's the Matter With That Union Boss?
The Real Yes Men
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Why do the most right-wing politicians and corporate news outlets always use the term “union boss”? Because the worst thing they can think of is to say the leader of a labour organization acts like a capitalist? Or the capitalist’s lackey?
- Why Workplace "Accidents" Happen
Safety Costs Money
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Many industrial and manufacturing companies resort to almost any means (some of them not entirely legal) to dissuade employees from joining a union because besides having to offer higher wages and improved benefits (and giving employees a voice in how they’re treated by management), they are required to provide a safe work environment. Safety costs money and every company is interested in saving money.
- Reasoning about terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The trouble with much of the discussion of terrorism today is that it misses a fundamental point about contemporary terror: its disconnect from social movements and political goals. In the past, an organisation such as the IRA was defined by its political aims. Its members were carefully selected and their activities tightly controlled. However misguided we might think its actions, there was a close relationship between the aims of the organization and the actions of its members. None of this is true when it comes to contemporary terrorism. An act of terror is rarely controlled by an organisation or related to a political demand. That is why it is so difficult to discern the political or religious motivations
- Anti-Capitalist Demonstration of May 1, 2013 in Montreal
Journée des Travailleurs et Travailleuses: Manifestation Anti-Capitaliste
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Montreal 2013: police state. Montreal's municipal goverment passes a bylaw that suspends the right of citizens to assemble unless they have received advance permission from police. Citizens who assert their right to assembly are kettled by police and arrested.
- Capitalism's violence, masses' revolt show need for total view
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
News and Letters' Draft Perspectives Thesis. Our age is in such total crisis, facing a choice between absolute terror or absolute freedom, that a revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, “inside” and “outside.”
- CFIQ elects new chair
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Board of Governors of CFIQ has elected a new chair. Claude Paquin (president, financial services - Quebec, Investors Group Financial Services) assumes the role following the departure of Stehane Langlois.
- Detroit: Restructured or Ravaged?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Apponted by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R), Kevyn Orr became Emergency Manager (EM) over the city of Detroit this March 28, 2013. The media repeat that he has 18 months to "turn the city around," but it's unclear whether anyone believes that's possible.
- Drinking Water Conference Takes Centre Stage in Ottawa, May 5-8
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Ontario water industry professionals meet in Ottawa, May 5-8
- El Salvador: Labor vs. P3
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An interview with Jaime Rivera about the Public-Private Partnership (P3) law that was proposed in early 2012l.
- The Flint Sitdown Comic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Is organized labour going extinct? Is the power of working class people a relic from a bygone era? The article looks into workers' "legal right" to organize and strike.
- Greece Nearing the Breaking Point
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The article looks into the cause of the Greek financial crisis, arguing that the Greek financial crisis stems from the same economic forces that sent the United States economy to the brink of fiscal collapse in 2008.
- Immigration and Racial Bias
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The immigrant debate, once again at the center of U.S. politics, was accelerated by the success of president Obama winning more than 70% of the Latino and Asian vote in the 2012 elections. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s call for all 11 million undocumented immigrants to "self deport" was a significant reason for his defeat. Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the country -- and growing rapidly -- and more and more of them vote.
- Independent Politics and Self-Determination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A inteview with Chokwe Lumumba about a project combining community organizing and electoral efforts in a changing South.
- Judging workers for control and profit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The computer with its air of objectivity has come to dominate human beings. The usurping of human judgment pervades all of society, from healthcare and education to manufacturing and the judicial sphere. Human empathy and understanding have been replaced by automated thinking that mimics the computer. Reclaiming our own minds is a step towards human freedom.
- Keystone and Humanity's Fate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With the desicion looming for the Keystone XL pipeline, what's really at stake for climate change, for human civilization, and for the environmental movement that's fighting to save the future? That tar sands development may determine "game over for the climate, in the phrase of NASA scientist and climate researcher James Hansen, is illustrated by data provided by environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben.
- Rebellion in India's Heartland - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Review of the "Days and Nights in the Heartland of Rebellion" by Gautam Navlakha.
- Stop-and-Frisk as a Policy of State Control Over Blacks and Latinos
Hobbes on Trial in New York City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Nicholas Peart is one of the plaintiffs in the federal class action lawsuit against the New York Police Department’s policy of stop-and-frisk, where officers use their power to roam the streets and stop, search and question people they believe may be connected to crime. Their allegation is that the application of this method is racially biased and unconstitutional.
- The Sussex University Occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Interview with Maia Pal during and immediately following the campus occupation against outsoursing at Sussex, England, which was broken up by the police on April 2, 2013.
- Tear Down These Walls - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Review of "Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel" by Reece Jones.
- Why it's time to realign the left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Ed Rooksby, one of the supporters of the call for a new radical left party to be formed in Britain, explains why he thinks the time is right to launch such a party and what its aims should be.
- New ALL BUT GLUTEN Baked Goods Launches During Celiac Awareness Month for Canadians on a Gluten-Free Diet
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
ALL BUT GLUTEN - a new line of great tasting gluten-free products from Weston Bakeries is being launched during Celiac Awareness Month. These products are certified by the Canadian Celiac Association's Gluten-Free Certification Program (GFCP) an
- China commits billions in aid to Africa as part of charm offensive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
China has committed $75bn (£48bn) on aid and development projects in Africa in the past decade, according to research which reveals the scale of what some have called Beijing's escalating soft power "charm offensive" to secure political and economic clout on the continent.
- In Spain they are all indignados nowadays
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The indignado protests that flared up two years ago have become a Spanish state of mind.
- Files that may shed light on colonial crimes still kept secret by UK
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Secret government files from the final years of the British empire are still being concealed despite a pledge by William Hague, the foreign secretary, that they would be declassified and opened to the public.
- What Motivated the Boston Bombers
Why It's Not a Chechen Thing, But All About the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Two young men, brothers who emigrated from Kyrgyzstan twelve years ago with their parents and sisters — high-achieving, “well-assimilated” immigrant men — planted bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring well over 250.
- Diaspora Jews Must Speak Out
Law in the Service of Discrimination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
No democracy, in today’s world, should have the “right” to speak for persons who are not its citizens, live thousands of miles away, and have not given their direct consent to be spoken for or “represented.”
- The Lockdown Society Goes Primetime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Michael Schwalbe ponders the influence on society of incorporating authoritarian jargon into everyday use, with specific reference to the use of 'Lock down' normalizing the concept of restrictions on movement in non-prison situations.
- Gene wars: the last-ditch battle over who owns the rights to our DNA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A US biotech company is fighting to protect the patents it took out on a test for a cancer-causing gene. Scientists say a win for the firm would set back a growing ability to detect diseases.
- The Bay of Pigs and Chronic Hubris
The Same Mistake for 52 Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
April 17-19 marks the 52nd anniversary of the US-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles, our proxies to try to overthrow the Cuban Revolution.
- Corporate Terrorism in West Texas
The Full Weight of Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Make no mistake, if it becomes clear that the Texas explosion was triggered by a terrorist attack, a la the Oklahoma City bombing, then Obama will begin talking about “the full weight of justice.”
- Ten of the best union songs of all time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2017
From Woodie Guthrie to Buce Springsteen, ten great songs written about workers or the union movement.
- Two Acts of Terror, Only One Investigation
The Real Terrorists are the Corporate Execs Who've Bought the Regulators
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Two acts of terrorism in the US this week, the first took place at the end of the historic Boston Marathon, when two bombs went off near the finish line, killing three and seriously injuring dozens of runners and spectators; the second happened a couple days later in the town of West, Texas, where a fertilizer plant blew up, incinerating or otherwise killing at least 15, and injuring at least 150 people, and probably more as the search for the dead and the injured continues.
- Glyphosate's Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup®, is the most popular herbicide used worldwide. The industry asserts it is minimally toxic to humans, but here we argue otherwise. Residues are found in the main foods of the Western diet, comprised primarily of sugar, corn, soy and wheat. Glyphosate's inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes is an overlooked component of its toxicity to mammals. (This article belongs to the Special Issue Biosemiotic Entropy: Disorder, Disease, and Mortality)
- Wind power opponents may be blowing hot air
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
When it comes to wind power, we have to be careful to ensure that impacts on the environment and on animals such as birds and bats are minimized, and we should continue to study possible effects on health. But we must also be wary of false arguments against it.
- None of the world's top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The notion of "externalities" refers to costs imposed by businesses that are not paid for by those businesses. Roberts argues that, although the term is useful in folding ecological concerns into economics, it has its downsides.
- America is a Smuggler Nation
Why Legal Trade is a Greater Threat to National Security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Smuggler Nation is not the oft told, routinely taught story of America’s emergence as a major nation and a global power, rather we come to see U.S. history as “the story of how smuggling – and the attempts to police it – have made and remade America, from the illicit molasses trade in colonial times to drug trafficking today,” as Peter Andreas observes in the book’s introduction.
- A Short History of Primitive Accumulation
From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In Capital, Smith’s concept of “original accumulation” appeared as a word that could mean either original or primitive. Then in the English translation of the English translation of Capital “primitive accumulation” first appears.
- In Defense of Amira Hass
Claiming the Right of Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Amira Hass is a reporter for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. She reports on Palestinian affairs in the occupied territories and, over the years, has come to understand the Palestinians’ plight from their own point of view.
- Stay Solid!
A Radical Handbook for Youth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This scrapbook-style collection of essays, excerpts, explanations, and images pushes back against a culture that relentlessly demands that kids give up their best ideals, abandon their hopes, forget their ethical objections to dominant life, soothe their rage, and accept their fates. From dealing with the cops to dealing with your peers, from school and community to drugs and sex, from race and class to money and mental health, Stay Solid! provides essential support for radically inclined teens who believe that it's possible for all of us to hang on to our values and build a life we believe in.
- The high price of cheap meat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A tiny percentage of the wrong animal passed off as beef in industrially processed food in western Europe? It’s a small misdemeanour set against the misuse of the world’s agricultural land to produce the luxury of meat.
- Climate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Global warming is exacerbating political instability as tensions brought on by food insecurity rise. With research suggesting the issue can only get worse we examine the risks around the world.
- Abbie's Road 1936-1989
Twenty-Three Years After His Passing, We Republish Abbie Hoffman's 1989 Obituary by His Student and Co-Conspirator
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
"There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning," he wrote while he was on the run. Of all his accomplishments, he would probably like to be remembered as the guy who levitated the Pentagon. But the real miracle of Abbie Hoffman was how he raised the collective spirit of our nation, and of the human race.
- Primitive Heterosexuality
Carnal Knowledge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- From mobilisation to resistance: Portugal's struggle against austerity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Portugal has been subjected to increasingly harsh austerity policies that have led the country into a recession of historic proportions, the result being mass impoverishment.
- Interview: Agriculture, class and capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Henry Bernstein, a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, has for decades been at the forefront of research into the class structure and political economy of agriculture.
- Israeli Property Theft is Nothing New
Is the Custodian of Absentee Property Awaiting the Absentees?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Lenin's "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Lenin’s famous pamphlet holds the key to unlocking the reasons why the October 1917 Russian Revolution failed to spread to the more advanced industrial countries in Europe.
- Marxism and women's oppression today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Times reflect how much in society in relation to women has changed, but also how much appears to have stayed the same.
- Marxism as if the planet mattered
A Return to Marx's Ecological Critique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels held that capitalism inevitably tears apart the natural conditions that sustain life. They argued capitalism's exploitation of working people, and the unsustainable exploitation of nature, were linked and part of the same process.
- Remembering a Vietnam Veteran
The Death of Sgt. Van Dale Todd
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Two in one?
A review of Donny Gluckstein, A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire (Pluto, 2012)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Second World War was and still is the example of the “good war”, a war that put an end to Auschwitz, a war fought not only by regular armies but also by mass movements of anti-fascist resistance.
- Will the Real Gwyn Morgan Please Stand Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Would You Believe That the United States Tried to do Something That was Not Nice Against Hugo Chávez?
The Plan to Destabilize Venesuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Wikileaks releases documents on U.S. efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
- The Last American Newspaper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Nostalgia is a particularly Bostonian pastime, and now almost anyone who ever set foot in that city over the past half-decade has another trigger for melancholy. The Boston Phoenix is dead, boys and girls. The Phoenix wasn’t merely the newspaper where I worked in my thirties. It was the place that gave me the time, space and freedom to evolve into who I would become for the rest of my life.
- The Two Faces of Class Struggle: The Motor Force for Historical Regression or Advance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
One of the most important and yet most neglected determinants of the outcomes of the economic crisis and resultant deepening of social inequalities and immiseration is the ‘class struggle’. In one of his most pithy metaphors, Karl Marx referred to class struggle as ‘the motor force of history’.
- Penis size does matter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Study suggests that penis length influences attractiveness about as much as height, a trait with a well-documented influence on male reproductive success.
- 20 Photos that change the Holocaust narrative
Resource Type: Photograph
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Some of the images you will see below may be disturbing to you. Some of them may inspire you. But in the end, they do one thing that we desperately need as a people: they tell the real story of the Holocaust. A story that goes beyond victimhood and into our present-day lives. And today, on Yom HaShoa, 2013, it’s about time that story got told.
- Where the free software movement went wong-and how to fix it.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Finley discusses the differences between Free Software and OpenSource software from a political perspective.
- Corporate India Versus Indigenous People
Violent in the Name of Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The state has more or less abandoned rural people (70% of the population) and turned the countryside over to corporate India. Mineral extraction, dam building, infrastructure projects, water appropriation and industrial farming make up their burgeoning business portfolios.
- The Man the Media Loved to Hate
The US Press and Hugo Chavez
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Chávez was a “classic petro-dictator”, a “charismatic demagogue” whose chosen successor guaranteed “that the combination of buffoonery and thuggery that Chávez pioneered will continue past his grave.”
- 150 Years Since the Emancipation Proclamation
Finish the Civil War!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Emancipation Proclamation was a pledge, a promise. It only freed slaves in areas that were not yet controlled by Union armies, true enough. But in that sense it was like the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which didn’t make any of the colonies free—it took a victorious war to free the colonies from British rule. The Emancipation Proclamation bound the defense of the Union to the destruction of slavery.
- When Madness Swept the Mediterranean
A Review of “Smyrna: the Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City”
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
What was so unique about this Mediterranean port in the Ottoman Empire, which even today, 90 years after the Destruction is still linked to a joie de vivre during the good times and dirges for the Destruction that came so suddenly in September 1922?
- The extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Secret records obtained by ICIJ represent the biggest stockpile of inside information about the offshore system ever obtained by a media organisation, and lay bare an extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways. The leaks illustrate how offshore financial secrecy has aggressively spread around the globe.
- Farming Under the Wall
Stories of Palestinian Farmers in the West Bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The difficulties of Palestinian farmers as their lands are placed behind the Wall.
- Prisoners of the War on Terror
Time to Give up "Hope" and Think About Active Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Status of prisoners of war in Guantanamo.
- A Big Victory for Labor in Mexico
How Mexican Workers Won Ownership of a Tire Plant with Three-Year Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Collective ownership of a factory in Mexico.
- How should we remember Ralph Klein?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Ralph Klein was one of Canada's most aggressive neo-liberals. Klein's true legacy is a string of anti-social policies and programs.
- Laura Flanders talks to Gar Alperovitz about What Then Must We Do?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Alperovitz says we may be witnessing the prehistory of the next American Revolution.
- What Then Must We Do?
Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Gar Alperovitzexplains why that the time is right for a revolutionary new economy movement, what it means to democratize the ownership of wealth, what it will take to build a new system to replace the decaying one — and how to strengthen our communities through cooperatives, worker-owned companies, neighborhood corporations, small and medium-size independent businesses, and publicly owned enterprises.
- The Internet, Capitalism, and the State - Book Review
A Review of Robert McChesney's "Digital Disconnect"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Robert McChesney's Digital Disconnect is an account of the internet's history and likely future within the context of corporate-dominated U.S. society.
- The Awakening
Ron Paul's generational movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Article on the upsurge of THE movement that Ron Paul (from the Republican Party) initiated. This 'Awakening' is characterized for its emphasis on peace and liberty.
- Digital Revolutions
Activism in the Internet Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Symon Hill on the role of the Internet in activism and social change.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2014
This No-Nonsense Guide looks deeper into the idea of economic growth – to trace its history and understand why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful.
- Plutocracy in America
Runaway Exploitation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Arguments for categorizing America as a plutocracy (a government of the rich and for the rich).
- Public Declaration: Solidarity against police repression in Montreal
We will not submit to the municipal by-law P-6
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With this public declaration, we assert our opposition to by-law P-6: we will continue to demonstrate without negotiating our demo routes with police, and we will systematically challenge all tickets that arise from this by-law.
- How To Verify Information and Debunk Myths Using Online Tools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Did Pope Francis play a major role in Argentina’s Dirty War? Reporters published photos of dictator Jorge Videla with a cardinal, allegedly with Jorge Bergoglio, the recently elected Pope Francis. But something was wrong with these reporters’ findings. Henk van Ess explains how the internet can help you to debunk the internet.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres - 25 March 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Leading from the front is needed to set the example, the tone, and the pace of an operation or project. On the other hand, once things are fully underway in the right manner, it is time to pass the baton to a trusted subordinate to continue with the
- Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most controversial thinkers. Now 84, he reflects on his life's work, on current events in Syria and Israel, and on the love of his life – his wife.
- How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front room
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A Leicester-based blogger's monitoring of weapons used in conflict has been taken up by media and human rights groups. Never having been near a warzone has not stopped him from breaking some of the most important stories on the Syrian conflict in the last year.
- Free public transport: from social experiement to political alternative? - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A book review of M. Giovannangeli and J. L. Sagot-Duvauroux's "Voyageurs sans ticket. Liberté, égalité, gratuité : une expérience sociale à Aubagne".
- If money is your object, journalism is the wrong industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Swedish investigative reporter Fredrik Laurin knows that power corrupts, but also that resistance in the form of journalism can have effect. In this material he shares how his team identifies good investigative stories, and the value of constant networking.
- Rise of the naked female warriors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
- 'Factivism' and Other Fairytales from Bono
The 'Inner Nerd' Gets It Wrong, Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A rebuttal to U2 singer Bono's claims regarding the 'imminent eradication of extreme poverty'.
- China's Cyber-War: Don't Believe the Hype
Net Threat Inflation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Addressing cyber-theft, U.S hypocrisy, and China.
- How Chavez Changed History for the Better
A New Kind of Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Hugo Chavez's impact on Venezuela.
- Too Big to Jail
Not Too Big to Resist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
US rich evade punishment while the poor are criminalized in the two-tier justice system.
- China's new leadership faces censorship challenge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
China's new leaders will face unprecedented challenges to controlling the media, even as journalists' efforts to test the system continue to carry great risk, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
- Enemies of the Internet 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders is releasing a Special report on Internet surveillance
- IFJ Welcomes Indictment of Former Security Operatives over Journalist's Torture in Colombia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Seven former members of the former secret service in Colombia, the Administrative Department for Security (DAS), face charges of - psychological torture and intimidation' inflicted on prominent journalist Claudia Julieta Duque
- US Prosecutors Turned a Blind Eye to Drone Code Piracy
They Chose Instead to Strap Digital Visionary Aaron Swartz to Their Buzzsaw
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old Internet activist and the co-developer of popular web tools like RSS feeds and Reddit, ended his life earlier this year at the end of a long battle with federal prosecutors in Boston — who had accused him of engaging in digital piracy.
- Hondurans Walk for Dignity and Sovereignty
Step by Step
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
About the Walk called 'Caminata Dignidad y Soberanía Paso a Paso' (Walk for Dignity and Sovereignty Step by Step), which culminated with over 400 people from various groups representing the social movements in Honduras reaching the National Congress in Tegucigalpa with various demands.
- A Microcosm of the Nation - Control Unit Prisons
Out of Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A review of 'Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons' by Nancy Kurshan.
- The Bias of Human Rights Watch
Promoting Injustice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The reports issued by Human Rights Watch over the past decade have increasingly exhibited a bias towards certain rights over others. More precisely, Human Rights Watch repeatedly focuses on political and civil rights while ignoring social and economic rights.
- Postering Revolution
Wheat Paste, the Marxist Glue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On the role of postering in the activist agenda.
- Osama Bin Laden, Bradley Manning and Me
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
As far as can be deduced, the government believes that the documents and videos that Bradley Manning gave to Wikileaks, which Wikileaks then widely distributed to international media, aided the enemy because it put US foreign policy in a very bad light.
- AIPAC's Doomsday Conference
It's the End of the World Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Iran, Israel, and the improbability of nuclear attack.
- 15 Benefits of the War on Drugs
Training Your Kid to be a Snitch (Against You)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Mocking the government's 'War on Drugs'.
- A Flame Gone Out - obituary
The Legacy of Stephane Hessel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Obituary for Stephane Hessel.
- Revenge of the Pomo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The repression (either physically or ideologically via social amnesia) of utopians by the Palmer Raids, McCarthyism, and now (certain varieties of) Post-Modernism has led us to a situation in which some search for authenticity in the wrong places. The gap between virtuous and misplaced authenticity is a symptom of repression, the loss of some deeper truths about solutions be they cooperatives, political mobilization, or honest journalism.
- Book Review: Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Book Review: The Condition of the Working Classes in England
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reveiw of Nicholas Comfort, Surrender: How British Industry Gave Up the Ghost, 1952–2012 (2012) and Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (2011).
- Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
Review of Frank Bardacke, Trampling Out The Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Bardacke tells the story of one movement’s evolution from grassroots obscurity to such (relatively little-known) successes as the Salinas Valley (California) general strike of lettuce pickers in 1979—a veritable mass strike in Rosa Luxemburg’s sense—and from there to the collapsed shell of a union nonetheless administering fourteen non-profits with millions in assets.
- C.L.R. James's Conflicted Intellectual Legacies on Mao Tse Tung's China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On the evolution of C.L.R. James’s thoughts about Maoism.
- The New Worker Organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Many, perhaps most, worker center–based organizing projects focused on workers in low-wage jobs, are conducted with the active support and, often enough, leadership provided by a variety of community-based organizations—with support from one or more unions.
- Postmodernism, the Academic Left, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Over the past fifty years, postmodern theory — an umbrella term generally used to refer to such diverse theoretical movements and paradigms as post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and others — has generally dominated most fields in the humanities and some in the social sciences. But the economic meltdown in 2008 and the subsequent chronic crisis in capitalism have dealt a fatal theoretical blow to the varied and nearly ineffable assemblage of perspectives that are often grouped under the rubric of “postmodernism.” postmodernism was indeed tragedy. It was tragedy for the massive amounts of “cultural capital” that it wasted; it was tragedy for the defrauding of intellectual integrity that it represented; it was tragedy for the abandonment of reality that it recommended. Further, like the financial fiasco, it was criminal.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres - 11 March 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Whenever you're creating a message, giving direction, or developing objectives and plans, aim to formulate them at a high school level. This isn't meant as an insult to the receiver, but rather as recognition that intentions and concepts must be simp
- Trotsky Reconsidered: Claude Lefort's Perspective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In spite of all the ink spilled that says the opposite, Trotsky may have been closer to Stalin than he was to Lenin. That’s the argument made by Claude Lefort (one of the leading members of Socialisme ou Barbarisme) in a 1948 essay, “The Contradiction of Trotsky.” He criticizes Trotsky for having over and over again pursued a conciliationist approach towards Stalin and failing to uphold what Lefort claims would have been Lenin’s positions if he had still been alive.
- The airport malls
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An airport is a zombie zone between two worlds. The retail spaces are seductive, yet you didn't choose to shop here. You didn't choose to be here. They are controlling you, guiding you, harassing you: will you be able to resist a purchase?
- Journalistic Malpractice at the Post and the Times
Rejecting the Offer of Evidence of US War Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Wikileaks source Bradley Manning is evidence that the USA’s two leading news organizations, the Washington Post and the New York Times, are not willing to report critically of the government.
- The Will of the People Doesn’t Mean Jack Shit to the Drug Warriors
Gangsters With Federal Pensions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The DEA vs. voter-approved marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado.
- The BBC's 'Bogeyman' Narrative on Hugo Chavez
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The changes in Venezuela, and throughout Latin America, over the past decade: the development of peaceful, democratic alternatives to the policies of neoliberalism; standards of living improved for millions of people following a process that has had popular, democratic support, are at risk of being written off as simply the actions of another 'anti-American' 'bogeyman' due to the media's relentless negative treatment of the Venezuelan government.
- The Environmental Movement at the Crossroads
Gang Green or New Green?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There is a growing culture of resistance in the environment movement
- The Last Post Files: Fighting subversion or protecting the government from embarrassment?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Last Post was one of the best alternative publications of the 1970s. While the small team of journalists was creating solid investigative journalism, the RCMP Security Service was keeping a close watch. One of its aims? Protect the government from embarrassment.
- The Chavez Legacy
The Revolution Within the Revolution Will Continue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Chavez was a leader who, in unity with the people, was able to free Venezuela from the grips of US Empire, brought dignity to the poor and working class, and was central to a Latin American revolt against US domination.
- Hugo Chávez and me
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Tariq Ali's thoughts on how Hugo Chavez, the late president of Venezuela, will be remembered by his supporters as a lover of literature, a fiery speaker and a man who fought for his people and won.
- Preparing for a Post-Chávez Venezuela
Not One Step Backward, Ni Un Paso Atrás
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Hugo Chávez is no more, and yet the symbolic importance of the Venezuelan President that exceeded his physical persona in life, providing a condensation point around which popular struggles coalesced, will inevitably continue to function long after his death.
- Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents.
- Digital Disconnect
How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The author argues that the sharp decline in the enforcement of antitrust violations, the increase in patents on digital technology and proprietary systems and massive indirect subsidies and other policies have made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism.
- US Still Fighting "Threat" of Liberation Theology
The Wikileaks Revelations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The assault on the Church in Colombia is both state policy of Colombia as well as the United States which is propping up that military with billions of dollars of assistance, and which views organized movements for social justice in Latin America as a threat to its economic domination of the region.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres - 4 March 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Let your competitors focus on their existing customers and products. That creates opportunities for you to manoeuvre around them.
- The oil war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Declassified documents now reveal what everybody, especially the Iraqis, always knew: the US invaded Iraq to secure its oil supplies for US and allied companies. It hasn't quite worked out as planned.
- The Torturer as Feminist: From Abu Ghraib to Zero Dark Thirty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
How “feminism” is used in service of the American empire.
- Bakken Business
The price of North Dakota's fracking boom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Manning the widespread fracking in the Bakken formation (North Dakota), and the environmental and social repercussions it causes.
- The Century of Rosa Parks
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Rosa Parks was a veteran militant of many civil rights battles long before she became an icon.
- China's Rise: Strength and Fragility
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Loong Yu examines in detail the road from the revolution in China, from a largely rural peasant country in 1949 to the present huge capitalist economy.
- Colombian Workers Injured and Fired
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The General Motors subsidiary in Colombia, Colmotores, fired over 200 workers who were injured on the job, ranging from spinal fractures to cancer.
- The Economic War Against Cuba: A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U.S. Blockade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Salim Lamrani explains the U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba: their origins, their provisions, how they contravene international law, and how they affect the lives of Cubans.
- The Evolution of Evolution - review
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A review of 'Darwin’s Ghosts' by Rebecca Stott.
- Feminism's March from Nation to Home - interview
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Johanna Brenner interviews Ninotchka Rosca.
- Giving Kids a Fair Chance
A Strategy That Works
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Argues for a refocus of social policy toward early childhood interventions designed to enhance both cognitive abilities and such non-cognitive skills as confidence and perseverance.
- Gun Control: Carnage in Context
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
What "the right to bear arms" means today is murkier in a society which is profoundly unorganized, exceptionally violent, highly racist, and with desperately inadequate care for the mentally ill.
- Immigration Reform: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The introduction of “immigration reform” legislation is a tribute first and foremost to the heroic activism of proud “Undocumented and Afraid” youth coming forward to demand their rights and refusing to live in the shadows.
- Indians, Leftists, and Rebellion in Bolivia - review
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A review of 'Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia' by Jeffery Webber.
- Inside the Capitalist Crisis
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The bi-partisan austerity offensive — corresponding to the logical of capitalist profitability and accumulation — continues.
- The Metaphors of Movements - review
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A review of 'Guerillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s Primitive and Industrial Rhetoric' by Ursula McTaggart.
- More Gridlock -- Or Worse?
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The corporate austerity offensive, which — despite all the complexities and frictions caused by partisan warfare and elements of political gridlock — is creating an ever more brutally unequal and unfair society.
- Occupy Cincinnati as a Case Study
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Occupy Cincinnati was "an event, not a movement." It is argued that viewing Occupy — both in Cincinnati and nationally — as a movement, causes it to be seen as something that is now over, diminishing its significance.
- Post-war Left Feminism - review
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A review of 'Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture' by Kathlene McDonald.
- Rallying to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Despite uncomfortably cold weather in Washington, DC the February 17 mobilization to stop the Keystone XL Alberta-U.S. tar sands pipeline drew a crowd conservatively estimated at over 20,000.
- Reproductive Justice Needed
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Many wonder why the fight to maintain legal abortion is still so heated forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Dianne Feeley points to attitudes about women that provide the political space for the right-wing’s attacks.
- The Shocking Savagery of America's Early History
Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation's Dark Ages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A discussion with reknowned historian Bernard Bailyn whose recent book "The Barbarous Years" examines a particularly violent period of America's early history which has since been almost erased.
- The Struggle Against Rape and Sexual Assault
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Soma Marik discusses how to advance the struggle against sexual assault in the wake of the bus gang rape of last December, which led to massive demonstrations throughout India.
- A Village Awaits Doomsday
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Jaideep Hardikar brings us the personal stories of ordinary people from across India who were displaced and made destitute by innumerable government and private initiatives.
- Voter Suppression Hits Mississippi
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Concerns regarding the polarization of voting in Mississippi between classses and actions taken with the apparent goal of suppressing the non-white opposition.
- What Is the "Working Class"?
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
I used to hold up signs about “Workers Power” at demonstrations. I rarely do that any more. This is because almost no one understands what “workers power” might mean. They also do not know what “worker” means.
- Witness Projection
How Ushahidi is mapping crises around the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Article about 'Ushahidi', an online platform that allows for real-time reporting on humanitarian crises anywhere in the world.
- Connexions: Perserving and Sharing People's History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A short overview of the Connexions project, including a statement of The Case for Grassroots Archives and the Connexions statement of values.
- Are our household appliances getting too complicated?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Tom Meltzer explains why function inflation is such a turn-off.
- How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With huge profits at stake, CCA and the Geo Group are pushing discreetly for enforcement-heavy immigration reform.
- River of Dark Dreams
Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an "empire for liberty" populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labour of slaves. River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands.
- Django Unchained, or, The Help: How "Cultural Politics" Is Worse Than No Politics at All, and Why
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On reflection, it's possible to see that Django Unchained and The Help are basically different versions of the same movie. Both dissolve political economy and social relations into individual quests and interpersonal transactions and thus effectively sanitize, respectively, slavery and Jim Crow by dehistoricizing them. The problem is not so much that each film invents cartoonish fictions; it's that the point of the cartoons is to take the place of the actual relations of exploitation that anchored the regime it depicts.
- Oxfam donates archive to the Bodleian Libraries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Oxford-based international development charity Oxfam has announced it has donated the organization’s archive, spanning the last seventy years, to the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries. Now, with a substantial grant from the Wellcome Trust, a four-and-a-half-year project is underway at the Bodleian to catalogue Oxfam’s extensive records and make them more accessible.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres 25 February 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Technology has always been a key factor in warfare. The side that is better able to exploit a new technology and do so faster and in greater numbers than potential or actual enemies will tend to prevail. The same applies in business.
- Groups need to investigate impact of damaging corporate media censorship
Freedom to Read Week 2013
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- India: Growing Inequality and Destructive Development
Misery for the Many, Benefits for the Few
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Under the careful guidance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund the Indian government has for the last twenty years or so, embraced market liberalization and the global market; garlanded corporations with all manner of subsidies and damned the poor to greater poverty, destitution, suffering and, suicide in the case of farmers.
- Monsanto vs. Vernon Bowman's Farm
The Fiction of Intellectual Property
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Monsanto’s entire case against Vernon Bowman — as with Percy Schmeiser — is that their profits will be negatively affected if they’e not empowered to dictate what Vernon Bowman does on his own land and with his own stuff. The relief they’re requesting is that the state should therefore so empower them.
- Deranging America
Drugged, Indebted, Armed-to-the-Teeth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A question worth asking: Who benefit from a more compulsive, hence more violent, population? Well, if you’re pushing eternal warfare, which we are, you’ll need a pool of nutcases who are willing to shoot anyone for any reason, or none at all, and more deranged oafs at home to go “Rah! Rah!” over any bombing run or drone hit. Are we going into Mali next? Why not? Where is it, by the way? There has never been a country fighting so many wars without a serious debate about any of them. And if you want people to buy first, think later, to rack up life-wrecking debts to satiate all ephemeral cravings, then you ply them with poison, flickering television and thumping music. You don’t want a population capable of deliberating, reflecting, thinking clearly or even listening attentively, much less reading, but one that can be jerked around by any sexy come-on or dumbed down slogan.
- Evil Traffickers and Innocent Children?
It's Not So Simple
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
One of the most pressing reasons why teenagers like Adri need to migrate for work is because there’s no other way for them or their families to access the money that is essential to life in any capitalist economy.
- The Globe and Mail as corporate apologists: behind the love affair with Barrick Gold
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In the rural highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), a Canadian gold mine operates amongst the Ipili people, who were one of the last major ethnic groups to be contacted by the Australian colonial administration of New Guinea, or "white man", in 1939. Since that date, Porgera was known for its rich gold deposits and eventually became the site of one of the largest gold mines in the world. Today, Porgera is a site of controversy, as it riches are overshadowed by stories of gang rapes and killings of the Ipili people at the hands of Barrick security and police.
- To Look and Communicate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We Zapatistas know that just as there are many worlds in this world that we inhabit, there are also many forms, modes, times, and places to struggle against the beast, without asking, nor hoping, for anything in exchange.
- Toward a Literacy of Rebellion
Compañeros of the Word
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The words dignity, dream, democracy, justice, struggle and liberty are among those central to the Zapatista vision, but perhaps it is the word compañero, the building block of the community and the organization, that holds and contains all of these other words in it.
- The U.S. Empire & Modern Day Christian Martyrs
80th Priest Killed in Colombia Since 1984
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
there has been almost no media coverage of the killings of the “two bishops, 79 priests, eight men and women religious, as well as three seminarians” killed in Colombia alone between 1984 and 2011.
- Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Information Freedom
They Can't Stop the Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Aaron Swartz was a target of a deliberately vicious, sadistic government campaign in which the federal government wanted to make his pain an example to the entire progressive techie community. What's more, his death was the outcome of a policy that is a threat to human freedom.
- Photographing Tragedy
What Victims Actually Want
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
What is the use of a photo when the human conscience has grown numb, and barely appreciates the artistic expression of the photo, not the moral and political crisis it represents?
- The Coup of Coups
Putting the Shah of Shahs on the Peacock Throne
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Literary lists: Proof of our existence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Katie Kitamura on why novelists are compulsive list-makers.
- Strictly Legal
The Caronia Decision and a Culture of Mercantile Nihilism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Caronia decision reveals an injustice system whose function is to provide legal cover for the excesses of the corporate elite. Caronia is a wake-up moment, announcing that the institutions and the philosophy that sustains it are broken, maybe beyond repair, and must be replaced now, while we’re still standing, by new social forms imbued with sane and humane values.
- The Empire's Shill
The Real Mission of the New York Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science.
- VAWA Must Pass to Protect All Women, Regardless of Race
The Fight Ahead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
No woman deserves to be beaten, raped, or killed, regardless of her race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.
- Filipino women take lead in resolving Mindanao conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Teresita Quintos Deles and Miriam Coronel Ferrer won over Islamic leaders who initially balked at dealing with women.
- Last Sparks From Tahrir Square
Tahrir Square Died, But Not the Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Once again, the prisons of Egypt are full. The hospitals are overflowing with injured men and women. But the fight, the ‘process’ goes on; it is not dying. Tahrir Square died, but the revolution is getting stronger.
- Freedom of Information Takes Another Hit in the United States
Keeping Americans Safe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The United States is a land of ill-informed sheep and the home of a bunch of cowards — cowards in government who are afraid of the truth and the open debate over facts and ideas, and cowards among the broader public who willingly allow these steady encroacments on our freedom in the name of “fighting terror.”
- LAPD Chickens Come Home to Roost
Why I'm More Scared of the Cops Than I Am of Christopher Dorner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- The Representation of Torture in the 'War on Terror'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A nation cannot claim to act to promote democracy and human rights whilst it kidnaps citizens the world over, places them in secret detention and tortures them.
- Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups.
- War on the seabed: the shellfishing battle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In the fertile inshore waters of the west coast of Scotland, a battle is brewing between small-boat fisherman and industrial trawlers.
- American Blowback
Cop-on-Cop Crime in LA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Apocalypse and the Left
Endgame or Business as Usual?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- The Forgotten Legacy of the Banqiao Dam Collapse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In 1975, after a period of rapid dam development, a perfect storm of factors came together to topple Henan Province's Banqiao Dam and kill an estimated 171,000 people. Today, on the cusp of another dam-building binge, some worry that factors which led to Banqiao’s collapse are re-emerging.
- The Police State is Real
It Has Happened Here
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States. So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document.
- Jousting With Toothpicks - The Case For Challenging Corporate Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A critic responding to a recent alert objected to our use of the term 'corporate journalist'. In fact the meaning of 'corporate journalist' could hardly be clearer: it describes someone paid to write for a corporation.
- Masters of the Internet
The Political Economy of Cyberspace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Internet’s unbalanced control structure provides an essential basis for US corporate and military supremacy in cyberspace. While the US government exercises an outsized role, other states possess scant opportunity — individually or collectively — to regulate the system.
- CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries 'offered covert support'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Report finds at least 54 countries co-operated with global kidnap, detention and torture operation mounted after 9/11 attacks.
- The Coup
1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In 1953, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency organized the overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next 26, the U.S. backed the unpopular, authoritarian shah and his secret police; in exchange, it reaped a share of Iran’s oil wealth. The blowback was almost inevitable, as this new and revealing history of the coup and its consequences shows.
- The Paranoia of The Superrich And Superpowerful
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The United States is in favor of stability. But you have to remember what stability means. Stability means conformity to U.S. orders. We “stabilize” countries when we invade them and destroy them.
- Archiving With May Day Rooms
From the Marx Memorial Library to Cold Bath Fields
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In our day, as the traces of our radical movements are being thrown into rubbish pits, as state sponsored “austerity” demands the commodification of every inch of space, and with sinister intent destroys the evidence of our past, its joys, its victories. Clear out the closets, empty the shelves, toss out the old footage, shred the underground press, pulverize the brittle, yellowing documents! Thus neo-liberalism organizes the transition from the old to the new; they must silence alternatives.
- The Good Intentions That Pave the Road to War
R2P and Genocide Prevention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- James Hansen and the Climate-Change Exit Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Hansen has provided the starting point for a realistic climate-change exit strategy aimed at keeping the increase in global average temperatures below 2°C (3.6° F), an amount that constitutes the planetary tipping point with respect to climate change.
- Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
- Cartoon Politics: Rupert Murdoch, The Pro-Israel Lobby And Israel’s Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Migrants' billions put aid in the shade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Money transfers from workers abroad to family back home have tripled in a decade and are three times larger than global aid budgets.
- American Military Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An interview with William Blum, a long-time critic of U.S. imperialism and the author of Killing Hope and Rogue State.
- Miko Peled to speak in Vancouver on ending the crisis in Israel-Palestine
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Peled provides a clear, optimistic perspective on the crisis and how to end it.
- Viola Desmond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The story of Viola Desmond's refusal to accept an act of racial discrimination, a stand that provided inspiration to a later generation of Blacks in Nova Scotia and in the rest of Canada.
- A user's guide to artspeak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There is now a name for the pompous prose used by art galleries: International Art Speak. You need to speak it to be a part of art culture.
- Toronto's Spadina Ave. when it was a quiet rural location
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- A New Name and a New Era
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We say goodbye to a 75-year era and say hello to a new beginning. The Ontario Association of Medical Radiation Technologists (OAMRT) has merged with The Ontario Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (OSDMS)
- Eyes Like Blank Discs
The Guardian's Steven Poole On George Orwell's Politics And The English Language
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2014
Poole's review of Orwell is itself a textbook example of the kind of alienated response described by Orwell, Fromm and Schmidt. Whereas Orwell's essay is the work of an impassioned, outspoken individual opposing 'the machine society’, Poole's article is the work of a corporate professional operating ‘within the confines of an assigned ideology’.
- Smuggler Nation
How Illicit Trade Made America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Peter Andreas shows that smuggling has played a pivotal and too often overlooked role in the birth, westward expansion, and economic development of the United States, while anti-smuggling campaigns have dramatically enhanced the federal government's policing powers. The great irony, Andreas tells us, is that a country that was born and grew up through smuggling is today the world's leading anti-smuggling crusader.
- The Institutionalization of Tyranny
When Victory Has Nothing to do With Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Republicans and conservative Americans are still fighting Big Government in its welfare state form. Apparently, they have never heard of the militarized police state form of Big Government, or, if they have, they are comfortable with it and have no objection.
- Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
How should a regulatory agency announce they have discovered something potentially very important about the safety of products they have been approving for over twenty years?
- The Return of COINTELPRO?
Time to Target the Real Terrorists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The FBI was using its offices and agents across the country as early as August 2011 to engage in a massive surveillance scheme against Occupy Wall Street. The documents show a government agency at its most paranoid.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvre for 21 January 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Businesses must be constantly on the lookout for threats from all quarters, even those that appear highly improbable or even impossible.
- Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An interview with the current head of Google Search, discussing some of the thought processes behind the current functionality of 'search' and some of its possibilites for the future.
- American Media Ignore Major Murdoch News Corp Scandal
Rupert's Misdeeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
America’s corporate news media love highlighting David-besting-Goliath stories…except apparently, when the fallen Goliath is major media mogul Rupert Murdoch – the billionaire owner of America’s caustic FOX News and other entities.
- Archives under siege: Ottawa gathering calls for national action
What We Have Lost, What We Stand to Lose: The Future of Archives and Archivists in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Report about a public meeting about the state of archives in Canada today.
- Genes, Cells and Brains
The Promethean Promises of the New Biology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An argument exposing how the bioscience industry has repeatedly failed to produce on its promises.
- Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information
Malicious Government Prosecution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy.
- Firearms safety: a Canadian success story
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Twenty years ago, the Canadian Firearms Safety Course (CFSC) was introduced in conjunction with new firearms legislation. A product of the best firearms training expertise from across Canada, the course teaches responsible use of non-restricted firea
- Kill Anything That Moves
The Real American War in Vietnam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Turse demonstrates that violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the American war against Vietnam. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of orders to "kill anything that moves."
- The Power of Idle No More
A Resurgent Radicalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The remarkable Idle No More movement is the biggest and most important national outpouring of grass roots aboriginal anger ever seen in Canada.
- Black against Empire
The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party.
- Death of a Hero
The General, The Media Adulation And The Forgotten Victims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
If all this glorification of a military commander had happened in the North Korean or the Soviet-era press, lavishly praising an 'original' who'd given years of 'patriotic service' in wars abroad, it would have rightly elicited scorn and ridicule amongst commentators here.
- Do Vegetarians Kill More Animals Than Meat Eaters?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A recent article published by an Australian scientist, however, contends that those who choose to eat all-plant diets are actually responsible for the death of more animals than those who eat them.
- The Franchise Show Comes to Montreal on January 19 & 20 during Franchise Entrepreneurship Week
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Franchise Show in Montreal will help aspiring business owners find their franchise match on January 19 and 20, 2013 during Franchise Entrepreneurship Week.
- Lincoln: A Review
Civil War, Not Compromise, Smashed Slavery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Lincoln—Steven Spielberg’s new movie reduces the abolition of slavery to so many parliamentary maneuvers.
- How To Make India Safer For Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
What’s to be done to make India, a country where women are veneered in the temple and beaten at home, safer for women?
- Lenin On The Need For Political Compromise
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Considering the nature of compromises and how to deal with them.
- An anniversary that Ottawa would prefer not to celebrate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A look back at Operation Ham with an op-ed piece and a reprinted article from 1978.
- The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine opens naturopathic teaching clinic at Brampton Civic Hospital
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine opens a naturopathic teaching clinic at Brampton Civic Hospital, the first such clinic within an Ontario hospital setting.
- Daughters of India Violated and Abused
A Woman's Lot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Widespread sexual abuse rapes the land and inflicts harm upon the women of India who are isolated from the emerging "New India".
- Mali, Wahabis, and Saudis
Following the Money
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The impact of the Wahabi movement in Mali.
- Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
The Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The double edged sword of declaring war and fighting "terrorism".
- Mental Illness in the Workplace
It Still Haunts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Palestinians and the Queer Left
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A book review of Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman.
- Putting Socialism Back on the Agenda
Daring to Hope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Is Socialism Capitalism's future?
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvre for 7 January 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There's a military dictum to the effect that time spent in reconnaissance is never wasted. Scouting parties are sent out to confirm the lay of the land, the presence and nature of enemy forces, the friendliness of the local population.
- Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw families from their homes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In the years of the housing boom, Spain's banks offered 100% mortgages. Now, while receiving millions in public aid, they are throwing people out of their homes. But there's a rebellion under way.
- On Democracy As A Good
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Is democracy good in itself? Exploring the impact of democracy during and after the Arab Spring.
- 2013 CIFSC Chair Announcement
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Toronto - The Canadian Investment Funds Standards Committee (CIFSC) has elected Brian Bridger, Director, Analytics and Data at Fundata Canada Inc. as its Chair for the coming year, effective January 1, 2013. Congratulations to Mr. Bridger.
- African Americans Ignored in the Age of Obama
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A truly equal and diverse United States is not possible unless all Americans come to grips with the origins of the race issue, its centrality to U.S. politics, and why African-American issues must be central to revitalizing the civil rights and labour movements — which also requires rebuilding the dream for full equality by direct action.
- Along the Shore: Rediscovering Toronto's Waterfront Heritage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Toronto area residents and visitors who are curious about the history of some of the city's outstanding waterfront features will like M. Jane Fairburn's Along the Shore. The book offers a trove of historical information about four areas of this urban metropolis that have retained their natural beauty, including the Scarborough Shore, the Beach, the Island, and the Lakeshore.
- Always with the Oppressed
A Farewell to Akiva Orr 1931 - 2013, Humanist, Radical, Heretic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In February 2013 I participated with a small group of Israelis and Arabs in bidding farewell to Akiva Orr.
- America's Deadliest Export: Democracy
The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Since World War II, the world has believed that US foreign policy means well, and that America’s motives in spreading democracy are honorable, even noble. William Blum, a leading non-mainstream chronicler of American foreign policy, argues that nothing could be further from the truth. Moreover, unless this fallacy is unlearned, and until people understand fully the worldwide suffering American policy has caused, we will never be able to stop the monster.
- Arab Uprising & Women's Rights: Lessons from Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The aftermath of the ''Arab Spring" revolutionary activity is bringing forth changes that run counter to the ideals and visions of the original change-seeking forces. Most notably, the swift turn in favor of Islamist parties in the wake of these uprisings -- for example, in Egypt and Tunisia -- while not unexpected, is worrisome indeed. For women in particular, a revolution whose mobilizing demands were freedom, democracy and social justice turned into a huge prison under the self-appointed guardians of Shari'a.
- Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2
People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947-2009
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A detailed history of uprisings in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, which place them in a global context.
- At the Dark End of the Street - book review
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance — A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle McGuire.
- Back to the 1920s?
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The state of the current Michigan Republican legislature and the implications for the Left.
- Before Ontario
The Archaetology of Province
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A lively and accessible introduction to Ontario's Aboriginal past, from the province’s leading archaeologists.
- Before Ontario
The Archaeology of a Province
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An accessible introduction to Ontario's Aboriginal past, from the province's leading archaelogists, before Ontario bridges the gap between the modern world and a past that can seem distant and unfamiliar, but is not beyond our reach.
- Birds & People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A book on the relationship between birds and humankind, with contributions from more than 600 bird enthusiasts from all over the world.
- Black against Empire
The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Black against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party.
- Black History and the Class Struggle
#23
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Blasphemy: Information Sacrificed on the Altar of Religion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There are far too many countries where news and content providers constantly face a very special and formidable form of censorship, one exercised in the name of religion or even God. And with increasing frequency, this desire to thwart freedom of information invokes the hard-to-define and very subjective concept of the “feelings of believers.”
This is a minefield. Reporters Without Borders has analysed it and offered its recommendations in a report entitled “Information sacrificed on altar of religion.”
- The Blunders of Our Governments
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
King and Crewe open our eyes to the worst government horror stories and explain why the British political system is quite so prone to appalling mistakes.
- Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Centuries of Bondage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Trudel discusses slavery as a part of colonial Canada since 1629, its continuation under the British regime and its official abolition.
- Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Hundred Years of Bondage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Few, if any, historians have studied slavery in Canada as thoroughly as Marcel Trudel has. While Trudel's work covers only French Canada, that does not mean slavery did not exist in English Canada, only that anglophone historians have not paid much attention to it.
- Canadian Estimate of Bird Mortality Due to Collisions and Direct Habitat Loss Associated with Wind Turbine Developments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Impacts on birds from the development and operation of wind turbines in Canada.
- Cancel The Apocalypse
The New Path To Prosperity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Describes how the relentless race for economic growth is not always one worth winning, how excessive materialism has come at a terrible cost to our environment, and hasn't even made us any happier in the process. Simms believes passionately in the human capacity for change, and shows how the good life remains in our grasp. While global warming and financial meltdown might feel like modern day horsemen of the apocalypse, Simms shows how such end of the world scenarios offer us the chance for a new beginning.
- Career advice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Career advice given by George Monbiot for those who have a genuine choice of careers, which means, regrettably, that it does not apply to the majority of the world’s workforce.
- The Central Park Five - review
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A review of 'The Central Park Five', a documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon.
- Chile: Of Movements and Mayors
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Chileans went to the polls on October 28, 2012 to elect mayors and city council.
- Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The problem with secrets is that they are eventually unearthed, resulting in uncomfortable revelations about the past. This is particularly upsetting when violence, abuse, and murder are involved -- but it's a necessary step in facing the truths of the present.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
Economic Writings 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
- Conan Shows Us That Main Stream Media Is Scripted
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A segment from Conan's show where dozens of news anchors are caught in the act of "reporting" the exact same story, the exact same way.
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2013
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Copyright infringement, extortion and scams
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Cuts and Closures at Canada's federal libraries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Federal libraries are an important part of Canada’s cultural heritage. These specialist libraries house some of Canada’s most important collections. Dozens of federal departmental libraries across the country have been closed or are destined for closure within the next year.
- Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The political and theoretical history of the relationship between feminism and Marxism.
- Deep Sea and Foreign Going
Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Brings You 90% of Everything
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A voyage through the shady world of international shipping, the hidden industry upon which our world turns and our future depends.
- The Devil's Breath: The Story of the Hillcrest Mine Disaster of 1914
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- The Dialectic of Monstrosity - review
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A review of 'Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism' by David McNally.
- Disinherited Generations
Our Struggle to Reclaim Treaty Rights for First Nations Women and their Descendants
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This oral autobiography of two remarkable Cree women tells their life stories against a backdrop of government discrimination, First Nations activism, and the resurgence of First Nations communities.
- The Empire in Decline
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An interview with Gilbert Achcar, professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.
- The End of Night
Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Paul Bogard illuminates the problems caused by a lack of darkness. We live awash in artificial light. But night's natural darkness has always been invaluable for our spiritual health and the health of the natural world, and every living creature suffers from its loss.
- The enduring relevance of Victor Hugo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
To understand the significance of Victor Hugo, one must begin at the end, with his death on May 22, 1885. His funeral attracted more than two million people, one of the largest mass mobilizations ever seen in Paris and more than the city's total population at the time.
- Eugene Genovese (1930-2012) - obituary
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
After his death last year at the age of 82, most obituaries of Eugene Genovese — the historian of American slavery whose masterpiece, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, was published in 1974 — stated that he traveled from left to right, from Marxism to conservatism.
- European Labour History Network - working group on Factory History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The founding meeting of the ELHN took place at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) on 12 October 2013. The forty scholars who gathered in Amsterdam, belonging to research institutions, archives and journals based in various European countries, felt the need to increase the cooperation among labour history scholars, share knowledge and (digital) material, create a platform for future collective research, and organize conferences and seminars.
- European Labour History Network - Working Group on Feminist Labour History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The founding meeting of the ELHN took place at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) on 12 October 2013. The forty scholars who gathered in Amsterdam, belonging to research institutions, archives and journals based in various European countries, felt the need to increase the cooperation among labour history scholars, share knowledge and (digital) material, create a platform for future collective research, and organize conferences and seminars.
- Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The fact that French and British settlers colonized Quebec is part of what makes it an interesting location for the discussion of race and social politics -- even more so because Montreal was a prominent site for the black power movement in the 1960s.
- Field Notes From a Hidden City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Woolfson examines the elements - geographic, atmospheric and environmental - which bring diverse life forms to live in close proximity in cities. She considers prevailing attitudes towards the natural world, urban and non-urban wildlife, the values we place on the lives of individual species and the ways in which humans and creatures live together in cities.
- Fifteen minutes of online anonymity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Making sure that your communications and data are confidential is not easy. Jean-Marc Manach, a journalist specialized in digital privacy and security, has an interesting alternative – how to have 15 minutes of online anonymity.
- Fight the Power!
A Visual History of Protest Among the English-Speaking Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Throughout history, ordinary people have risen up against oppression and injustice. Fight the Power visualizes 14 key moments in the last 200 years when people across the English-speaking world stood up and fought for a better life for all.
- Finding Vivian Maier
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A 2013 documentary film about the photographer Vivian Maier, written, directed and produced by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel.
- Forged
Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Keats uncovers what forgeries -- and our reactions to them -- reveal about changing conceptions of creativity, identity, authorship, integrity, authenticity, success, and how we assign value to works of art.
- Free transit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A pamphlet which gathers together a number of essays on the struggle for public transit. It emerges especially out of the urban context of Toronto. But the essays speak also to the wider crisis of public transit in North America, and the importance of this demand to an eco-socialist vision of feasible futures.
- Freedom indivisible: Gays and Lesbians in the African American Civil Rights movement
PhD Thesis, University of Nebraska, 2013
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- From "Triple Oppression" to "Freedom Dreams" - reviews
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reviews of 'Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995' by Cheryl Higashida, 'Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War' by Dayo F. Gore, and 'Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism' by Erik S. McDuffie.
- Gaza Calling
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
For over six years, two Palestinian families are split between the West Bank and Gaza; mothers and sons are forbidden from travelling the one-hour road that separates them. Witness the personal cost of Israel's illegal occupation.
- Genius of Common Sense
Jane Jacobs and the Story of The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A book for young readers on Jane Jacobs.
- Gone Wild
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The gorgeous Danube delta near the Black Sea is the setting for this true Rumanian tale of a government's attempt to capture wild horses because they might cause environmental damage to a forest.
- Held hostage by Big Pharma: a personal experience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Mike Marqusee looks at how drug firms can make huge profits from their state-enforced monopoly on an essential good.
- Historial Maps of Toronto
A collection of maps to amuse, delight and inform
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
- How Does the Subaltern Speak?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Vivek Chibber argues that postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril. Focusing particularly on the strain of postcolonial theory known as subaltern studies, Chibber makes a strong case for why we can -- and must -- conceptualize the non-Western world through the same analytical lens that we use to understand developments in the West. He offers a sustained defense of theoretical approaches that emphasize universal categories like capitalism and class. His work constitutes an argument for the continued relevance of Marxism in the face of some of its most trenchant critics.
- How the cops try to predict our next move
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
As civil dissent ramps up, UK secret police develop new modes of repression. Kevin Blowe reports on cops, kettles and a database profiling thousands of activists.
- How to locate a person held in the U.S. prison or immigration detention systems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Tracing the trail of prisoners incarcerated in the United States can be complicated, but the reward for patient and thorough searching is getting information that would have been much more difficult to find before the availability of online government databases. And equally important are the contact numbers on these web pages, which you can call to confirm or to request additional information.
- How to Publish an E-Book: the Ultimate Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Your definitive guide to formatting, uploading and publishing your long-form journalism as an e-book to the various digital marketplaces.
- How To Verify Information and Debunk Myths Using Online Tools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Did Pope Francis play a major role in Argentina’s Dirty War? Reporters published photos of dictator Jorge Videla with a cardinal, allegedly with Jorge Bergoglio, the recently elected Pope Francis. But something was wrong with these reporters’ findings. Henk van Ess explains how the internet can help you to debunk the internet.
- "Identity”" -- the bane of the contemporary Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Historically, identitarian ideology is a product of the failure of the Left. The various forms of identity politics associated with the “new social movements” coming out of the New Left during the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s (feminism, black nationalism, gay pride) were themselves a reaction, perhaps understandable, to the miserable failure of working-class identity politics associated with Stalinism coming out of the Old Left during the ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s (socialist and mainstream labor movements). Working-class identity politics — admittedly avant la lettre — was based on a crude, reductionist understanding of politics that urged socialists and union organizers to stay vigilant and keep on the lookout for “alien class elements.” Any and every form of ideological deviation was thought to be traceable to a bourgeois or petit-bourgeois upbringing. One’s political position was thought to flow automatically and mechanically from one’s social position, i.e. from one’s background as a member of a given class within capitalist society.
- If money is your object, journalism is the wrong industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Swedish investigative reporter Fredrik Laurin knows that power corrupts, but also that resistance in the form of journalism can have effect. In this Q&A he shares how his team identifies good investigative stories, and the value of constant networking.
- Ilo Ilo
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- I'm still waiting for my first car chase
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Stefaans Brümmer is the co-founder and managing partner of the M&G Centre for Investigative Journalism in South Africa. The M&G Centre, which is nicknamed amaBhungane, isiZulu for "the dung beetles,” is a nonprofit that produces public interest investigative reporting. In this interview, Brümmer discusses his groundbreaking corruption probe that culminated in the arrest of a national police commissioner, and the challenges he confronted in investigating a powerful law enforcement official.
- Improve your privacy and security on the Internet using Tor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This user manual contains information about how to download Tor, how to use it, and what to do if Tor is unable to connect to the network
- In 2011 the dacha gardens of Russia produced 40% of the nation's food.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
While many in the world are completely dependent on large scale agriculture, the Russian people feed themselves. Their agricultural economy is small scale, predominantly organic and in the capable hands of the nation's people. It's not just a hobby but a massive contribution to Russia's agriculture.
- Indefensible design: the high social costs of 'security'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The pedlars of gates, alarms and CCTV have an ever-growing business. It’s the community that pays.
- International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This document attempts to explain how international human rights law applies in the current digital environment, particularly in light of the increase in and changes to communications surveillance technologies and techniques. These principles can provide civil society groups, industry, States and others with a framework to evaluate whether current or proposed surveillance laws and practices are consistent with human rights.
- Investigating charities: How to search the finances of nonprofits and foundations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There’s good news from the U.S. on a research tool for digging into non-profits and private foundations. Why does this data need to be freed?
- The Kill Team
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An account of the aftermath of one American soldier's decision to turn whistleblower after his involvment in the Maywand District murders during the War in Afghanistan.
- Kvutza Memories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Labor and the Locavore
The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Gray examines one of the most vibrant local food economies in the country, the Hudson Valley. Based on more than a decade's in-depth interviews with workers, farmers, and others, the author depicts how the currency of agrarian values can serve to mask the labour concerns of an already hidden workforce.
- The Left and Immigration
A Major Challenge for a Different Vision of the European Union
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
After the latest drama in Lampedusa, where more than 350 immigrants, mostly Eritreans, perished 600 metres from the Italian coast, the immigration policies of the European Union and its member states are more than ever under scrutiny.
- The Left in British Columbia
A History of Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This comprehensive history of the left in British Columbia from the late nineteenth century to the present explores the successes and failures of individuals and organizations striving to make a better world.
- Left Out History - review
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A review of 'Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power' by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy.
- Left to Die: The Story of the SS Newfoundland Sealing Disaster
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
It was a cold April night in 1914 when Mary Crewe awoke from her sleep to see a ghostly image of her husband and son kneeling by her bed in an embrace. She knew immediately that the worst had happened -- her men had perished at sea on the annual seal hunt.
- Let the Fire Burn
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A history of the conflict of the City of Philadelphia and the Black Liberation organization, MOVE, that led to the disastrously violent final confrontation in 1985.
- A Letter to the Editors
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Since this letter was written, in the wake of the Colorado theater shooting, new massacres of course have occurred including the latest horror at Newtown, Connecticut, giving the issue ever greater urgency — The editors.
- Lettuce Wars
Ten Years of Work and Struggle in The Fields of California
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An account of ten years working as a farmworker in California and participating in the struggles over wages, working conditions, and unionization.
- A Life Beyond Imagination - review of Searching for Sugar Man
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A review of “Searching for Sugar Man”, Malik Bendjelloul directing.
- Lost, Stolen or Shredded
Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Gekoski explores in depth the greater questions tremendous losses of art raise - such as the rights artists and authors have over their own work, the importance of the search for perfection in creativity, and what motivated people to queue to see the empty space where the Mona Lisa once hung in the Louvre.
- Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A study devoted exclusively to Marx's perspectives on gender and the family.
- Media Names & Numbers 13th Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats.
- Medium7
Evidence of the Afterlife and Predictions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In the book Medium7: Evidence of the Afterlife and Predictions, renowned Canadian researcher and author Donna Smith-Moncrieffe shares insight from her journey to find truth about the nature of existence. Smith-Moncrieffe provides engaging case studies and uses rigorous scientific methods to determine the existence of an afterlife and the extent to which mediums can accurately predict the future. Through extensive interviews with ten gifted mediums and their clients, Smith-Moncrieffe reveals an in-depth look into how mediums interact with the spirit world and communicate with the deceased, how thoughts create reality, and how reincarnation impacts mankind’s existence.
- Metadata - your files talk for you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Few Internet users are aware that many file formats contain hidden data, or metadata. Text processing files or PDFs are likely to contain the name of the author, the date and time of the creation of the file, and often even part of its editing history.
- The 'Missing Heritability' of Common Disorders: Should Health Researchers Care?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Mississauga Portraits: Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This book is about a group of Mississaugans that few people who live in Mississauga, Ontario, today are likely familiar with. The people profiled are none other than a handful of the original inhabitants of much of the land that is now covered by the sprawling city of more than seven hundred thousand people in the Greater Toronto Area.
- Mississauga Portraits
Ojibwe Voices from Ninteenth-Century Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Mississauga Portraits presents a vivid picture of life in midnineteenth-century Aboriginal Canada and recreats the lives of eight Ojbwe who lived during this period - all of whom are historically important and interesting figures.
- Murdoch's Politics
How One Man's Thirst For Wealth and Power Shapes our World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
McKnight tracks Murdoch's influence, from his support for Reagan and Thatcher, his deal with Tony Blair and attacks on Barack Obama. He examines the secretive corporate culture of News Corporation: its private political seminars for editors, its support for think tanks and its global campaigns on issues like Iraq and climate change.
- Narcoland
The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Hernández explains how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet. She reveals the mind-boggling depth of corruption in Mexico's government and business elite.
- Never Forget You Have Only One Boss: the Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Find subjects where you can break new ground. Record key interviews on video or audio. And remember that a lot of your own faults can be overcome by sheer reporting effort. Stellar tips for investigative reporting from award-winning author and journalist Thomas Maier.
- The New Commune-ist Manifesto
Workers of the World, It Really Is Time to Unite
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The book starts with a question: If Karl Marx were alive today and asked to write a new edition of The Communist Manifesto, how would it be different from the original, composed 165 years ago?
- New website to assist crime and corruption investigations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
For journalists and civil society researchers seeking information to help expose organized crime and corruption across borders, there’s a new “Ghostbusters” to call on for assistance.The Investigative Dashboard, a research tool for cross-border investigations from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), is launching a redesigned web site, expanded databases for public searching and a new feature for subscribers that will help crack cases across the globe.
- No Land No Food No Life
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A film which explores sustainable small scale agriculture and the urgent call for an end to corporate global land grabs. This feature length documentary gives voice to those directly affected by combining personal stories, and vérite footage of communities fighting to retain control of their land.
- Northern Freedom Chronicles - book review
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Review of 'Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North' by Thomas J. Sugrue.
- Occupy the Workplace - review
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A review of 'Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present', edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini.
- Omar
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A thriller about betrayal, suspected and real, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
- On the Side of the Road
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Filmed over the course of five years, this documentary focuses on the collective Israeli denial about the expulsion and displacement of Palestinians in the wake of the 1948 war for independence.
- The Once and Future Great Lakes Country
An Ecological History
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Other Horrendous Acts
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Passage of the right-to-work-for-less bill is only one of several horrendous laws the Michigan legislature has enacted in the final days of its session.
- Over the Climate Cliff
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Grassroots activism must step up to solve the climate crisis, because capitalism is intrinsically unable to do so.
- The Patricias: A Century of Service
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There have been many books that have examined the various regiments of the Canadian Forces. But few have been written with the depth of expertise and wealth of imagery seen in The Patricias: A Century of Service.
- A People's Manifesto: Let's Roll Back Austerity and Claim Real Democracy!
Urgent common priorities for a democratic, social, ecological and feminist Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Europe stands on the edge of a precipice, looking into the abyss. Austerity policies drive the peoples of Europe into poverty, undercut democracy and dismantle social policies. Rising inequalities endanger social cohesion. Ecological destruction is worsening while acute humanitarian crises devastate the most affected countries.
- Philosophy of the GNU Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A collection of essays dealing with the ideas behind the GNU Project.
- Pink Sari Revolution
A Tale of Women and Power in the Badlands of India
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Narrating the story of Sampat Pal and the Pink Gang's fight for Sheelu, as well as for others facing injustice and oppression: a portrait of women grabbing fate with their own hands - and winning back their lives.
- Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
- A practical guide to protecting your identity and security when using mobile phones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Many activists have been tracked via their mobile phones. Assess the risk for your own activities given the practices used in your country, how high-profile your work is, and what others in your community have experienced.
- Privatising the Oceans
Fished out in our Lifetimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Long-range fishing with the backing of the EU deprives countries elsewhere in the world of employment and a crucial food source. And it is depleting the seas to the point of ecological collapse.
- The Radical Left in Europe
An Outline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An attempt to understand what unites the organisations of the new left and the nature of its radicalism.
- Recovering Nonviolent History
Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
- Renewal through Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Strikes are a major means of trade union self-assertion. A closer look at strikes in Germany reveals interesting trends and developments, indicating new approaches to trade union strategies and practices.
- Researchers find link between aircraft noise and heart disease
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Exposure to high levels of aircraft noise is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, two studies find. Researchers found increased risks of stroke, coronary heart disease, and cardiovascular disease for both hospital admissions and mortality, especially among the 2% of the study population exposed to the highest levels of daytime and night time aircraft noise.
- Ribbon of Type
Making National News: A History of Canadian Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Thanks to the books of Pierre Berton, the nineteenth-century struggle to build a railway to the Pacific and unite a new nation is well-known. Making National News explores a nation-building exercise that was perhaps even more crucial -- the establishment of a wire service to deliver news from coast to coast.
- Road Rocks Ontario
Over 250 Geological Wonders to Discover
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Presents detailed descriptions of over 250 of the most fascinating geological wonders of Ontario.
- Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997): Journalist, Communist, Intellectual
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This thesis explores aspects of the life, times, and career of Australian journalist Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997). During the Cold War, Lockwood was one of the best known members of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), variously journalist, commentator, author, editor, orator, pamphleteer, broadcaster.
- Save Our Waterfront
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
An architect, a doctor, a teacher & mother and a sailor tour Toronto Harbour and discuss the negative impacts the expansion of BIlly Bishop airport would have on the environment.
- Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Big players are taking unprecedented steps to stop offshore abuses, but financial crime fighters worry reforms don’t go far enough.
- Sending encrypted emails using Thunderbird and PGP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There are easy ways to ensure your Internet activities remain confidential.
- Shaping Histories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
During the last few years, a number of researchers have interviewed the authors regarding their politics and practice in relation to 'history'. In reflecting upon their individual 'historiographies', they have put the following together.
- SNCC Movement Worker Reflects
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Gloria House reflects on how SNCC saw the struggle of African Americans as linked to the struggles of colonialized people, and identified with liberation movements domestically and internationally.
- Socialist Register 2013
Volume 49: The Question of Strategy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This, the 49th volume of the Socialist Register examines the choices faced by the left today, the models of strategy available to it, and the innovations that are being made by groups as they organize in diverse settings.
- Sources 71
The Directory fo Experts and Spokespersons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A directory of contacts for journalists, editors, and researchers who need to reach experts and spokespersons to provide background information and comment on a wide range of topics.
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2013
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
- Sources News Release Archive 2013
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
News releases from 2013.
- The Spanish Revolution, Past and Future: Grandeur and Poverty of Anarchism
How the Working Class Takes Over (or Doesn't), Then and Now
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Looking at the Spanish Revolution, arguably the richest and deepest social revolution of the twentieth century.
- Sport, Peace and Development: International Worker Sport 1913-2013
A festschrift book in honour of International Workers and Amateurs in Sports Confederation (CSIT)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Sport is seen to play an important role as a promoter for peace and social integration in different geographical, cultural and political contexts.
- Spying on Democracy
Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase in surveillance of ordinary citizens and the danger it poses to our privacy, our civil liberties, and to the future of democracy itself.
- The Strike That Didn't Change New York
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Chicago teachers' strike was a victory for workers around the country. But how do we move from homegrown resistance to a national movement?
New York City's 1.1 million public school children were stranded without a ride, when eight thousand bus drivers walked off the job, sparking a month-long standoff between Local Amalgamated Transit Union 1181 and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
- Students, Austerity & Resistance
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Students have been part of an international wave of occupations, from Tahrir Square in central Cairo, to the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison, to the encampments of the Occupy movement all around the world. But students movements can falter, or fail to connect to the broader public. Activists need to look at the relationship of students to the system, and figure out the best way to build resistance to it.
- Tails: The amnesic Incognito Live System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Tails is an operating system like Windows or Mac OS, but one specially designed to preserve your anonymity and privacy.
- Tax is Not a Four-Letter Word: A Different Take on Taxes in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The contributors, leading Canadian practitioners and scholars, explore how taxes have become a political "no-go zone" and how changes in taxation are changing Canada. They challenge the view that any tax is a bad tax and provide broad directions for fairer and smarter approaches.
- The Terror Factory: The Isis Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism exposes how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror.
- Toolkit for a New Canada - 2013 Edition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimensionmagazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the second decade of the 21st century. The articles are short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
- Trade Unions: The Difficult Path to Solidarity in One's Own Interest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In both the ideals and the rhetoric of trade unions international solidarity plays a major role. Trade union practice, however, is first and foremost focused on the context of those nation-states, in which they were able to achieve their most important victories in the 20th century. It is those achievements within the national framework which are being undermined with the help of the EU and its institutions.
- The triumph of green hearts over sere
Reflections on student radicalism at Sydney University in the 1910s and the 1960s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In April 1910, thirty graduates and undergraduates met on the eve of the federal elections with the intention of establishing the University Socialist Society. The conservatives downtown were shocked. The next day, while the voters shifted to the left, and Andrew Fisher looked forward to leading his second Labor government, the Sydney Morning Herald called the formation of a socialist club at the University, ‘The Last Straw’...
- The UN did NOT create Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
UN General Assembly Resolution 181, the Partition Plan, was a recommendation that was to go to the Security Council. The resolution requested that the Security Council take it up. This never happened, and the partition plan has no force of law. Israeli propagandists, however, perpetrated the myth that the UN created Israel, and this interpretation was then been repeated by numerous others.
- Understanding Idle No More
Special Topics in Aboriginal Community Learning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A selection of readings related to the Idle No More movement, and to aboriginal struggles in Canada generally.
- The Village Against The World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Hancox recounts the fascinating story of Marinaleda villagers who expropriated the land owned by wealthy aristocrats and have, since the 1980s, made it the foundation of a cooperative way of life.
- Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
This technology allows the creation of an Internet tunnel (a virtual link) between two physical networks in different locations in a way that is transparent for users.
- VOW Calls on Governor General to meet with Chiefs - New Year New Relationship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Voice of Women delivers letter to Lieut Governor at Queen's Park today at 1 pm, Jan 1st calling on Lt Gov and Governor General to meet with Chief Spence and participate in a nation-to-nation meeting with Harper and provincial premiers
- Walmart: Black Friday and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The “Black Friday” strike at Walmart stores surprised and elated many on the left and activists throughout labour and allied movements.
- The War on Science
Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper's Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Do No Science, Hear No Science, Speak No Science -- that is the Harper agenda. And if this agenda is most evident and most pronounced in environmental science, that's simply because it is the field most likely to uncover evidence that the government's paramount goal -- to free the country's resource extraction industries from oversight in the name of rapid expansion -- is wrongheaded, reckless, and damaging.
- We Will Shoot Back
Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Akinyele Omowale Umoja argues that armed resistance was critical to the Southern freedom struggle and the dismantling of segregation and Black disenfranchisement. Intimidation and fear were central to the system of oppression in most of the Deep South. To overcome the system of segregation, Black people had to overcome fear to present a significant challenge to White domination. As the civil rights movement developed, armed self-defense and resistance became a significant means by which the descendants of enslaved Africans overturned fear and intimidation and developed different political and social relationships between Black and White Mississippians.
- What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
"What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm" was initiated by Jewish Voice for Peace as an investigation into the current state of thinking about one state and two state solutions, and the collection has been further expanded by Mondoweiss to mark 20 years since the beginning of the Oslo peace process.
- Wilfred Burchett's Retreat From Moscow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Between 1965-1968, journalist Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997) was the Moscow-based correspondent for the Communist Party of Australia’s (CPA) newspaper Tribune. A veteran journalist, Lockwood had become a leftist as the result of his front-line experiences covering the Spanish Civil War for the Melbourne Herald. A party member since 1939, his Moscow experiences contributed to him leaving the party in 1969. In these previously unpublished “Notes and Recollections”, drafted in the 1980s, Lockwood recalls his Moscow experiences, and his association with journalist Wilfred Burchett (1911-1983).
- Yes, But What Are You For?
Occupy Wall Street and its Evil Twin, the Tea Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reading all the accounts of Occupy Wall Street’s theorising in Zuccotti Park can send you to sleep: all academic prose and no real world action or demands. They also make explicit Occupy’s resemblance to its enemy, the Tea Party.
- ACPM National Conference will highlight retirement and generational issues
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
ACPM National Conference will highlight retirement and generational issues
- All organizations need strategy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
ALL organizations need strategy, whether they are big or small, in the private sector or public sector, profit or not for profit. Whether it’s in the military, business, government, or social sector, strategy is about asking and answering fundament
- Battle friction and uncertainty with simplicity and individual initiative
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
In the army, we always tried to keep our plans and their execution as simple as possible. There are two main reasons for this. First, the friction and uncertainty of any undertaking is directly proportional to the complexity of its implementation. Th
- BCNU thanks nurses for convincing the provincial government to sign Bill 18 into law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Enabling Licensed Practical Nurses to join other nurses in the same bargaining association will improve patient care by maximizing efficiencies and collaboration among nurses and with employers.
- Best Interest Standard Warrants More Study - IFIC
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Toronto, Ontario - In a submission filed today with the Canadian Securities Authorities (CSA), The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) calls for additional research on several key elements contained in the CSA Consultation Paper 33-403.
- Beyond Traditional Conflict Management
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The crisis that has been brewing as the US government approaches a shutdown of non-essential operations on October 1st shows that flexibility and compromise are required in negotiation in order to resolve conflicts.
- Big Victories Come From Small Wins, Says Strategy Expert Richard Martin
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We tend to aim for big, strategic victories, but most success actually comes by detailed operational planning, careful logistical preparation, and accumulation of numerous tactical wins.
- Boarding School Opens Doors for Ontario Girls
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Boarding School Opens Doors for Ontario Girls. The Bishop Strachan School (BSS) travels Ontario to meet potential students who qualify for enrolment into the unique Boarding program at Canada's oldest private girls school.
- Business Success Requires Boots on the Ground
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A fundamental principle of counterinsurgency strategy is that you need ‘boots on the ground.’ You can’t influence a population and secure ground and terrain, especially populated areas, without having troops constantly on the lookout patrolling
- Calgary Businesses Working to Quickly Recover from June 21 Flooding
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Calgary marketing firm Tenato Strategy is working to help businesses find the silver lining in the June 2013 flood -- through promoting urgently needed products, communicating with customers, and community involvement.
- Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine Offers Program Tailored to International Medical Graduates
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) is moving forward with bridge delivery of its naturopathic medical program, developed specifically for international medical graduates and scheduled to start in May 2013.
- Canadian Franchise Association's Official Franchise Show Comes to Toronto on February 23 & 24, 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
As Canada's premier franchise tradeshow, The Franchise Show (www.thefranchiseshow) connects prospective franchisees with some of Canada's leading franchise brands at the Toronto Congress Centre on February 23 & 24, 2013.
- Canadian Voice of Women calls on federal government to cut defence budget on Global Day of Action on Military Spending
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Monday, April 15th is the Global Day of Action on Military Spending and the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is calling on the federal government to redirect military spending to environmental and social needs. The Voice of Women is releasing a peti
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) sends Young women peacemakers to United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Five young women who attended the VOW's first Peacemaker Summer Camps in 2012 thanks to a generous grant from the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW ) have arrived in New York to take part in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
- Canadians Can Become Small Business Owners Through Franchising
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With over 100 franchise opportunities and experts, aspiring entrepreneurs can find out how at The Franchise Show in Toronto on October 19 & 20, 2013
- canfitpro and Atii Fitness Centre team up to bring fitness certification training to Iqaluit, Nunavut
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Canadian Fitness Professionals Inc. (canfitpro) is excited to be the official provider of group fitness and personal training certification for the Atii Fitness Centre in Iqaluit.
- canfitpro and Fitness Kickboxing Canada Inc. partner to bring MMA training to the Canadian fitness industry
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
canfitpro and Fitness Kickboxing Canada Inc. partner to bring MMA training to the Canadian fitness industry
- canfitpro Consumer Fitness + Wellness Show supports the Greater Vancouver Food Bank
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Join us for this two day event at the Vancouver Convention Center. You can expect a high energy event full of fitness experts, product demos, workouts, and incredible savings from local and national vendors.
- canfitpro International Fitness and Club Business Conference and Trade Show and Consumer Fitness + Wellness Show
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On August 14-18, 2013, canfitpro celebrates 20 years in the fitness industry.This year's annual conference and trade show features keynote address by Jillian Michaels, 400+ educational sessions, Sweat RX Championships, and much more.
- ClimateFast Brings IPCC Message Home To Harper
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
“We have five minutes to midnight.” This is a climate emergency and we have to take action immediately.
- ClimateFast Delivers Wake-Up Call to Harper
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
As IPCC findings are released ClimateFasters march to 24 Sussex to urge Harper to return Parliament to address this crisis. "You can't prorogue Climate Change, Mr. Harper!"
- ClimateFast Returns to Parliament Hill on Int'l Day of Peace - Hungry For Climate Justice
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
ClimateFast kicks off 12-day Fast and Vigil for Climate Justice on Parliament Hill with Opening Ceremony Sept. 21 @ 7 PM - Momentum building - as more Canadians and groups sign on!
- Closure of Rural Birthing Units Associated with Increased Costs / Worse outcomes 1 in 5 Rural Women have to travel to the city for Birth
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Shawville: A recent government report shows that 1 in 5 rural women now have to travel to the city for birth. The report finds that these women, unlike those who have the ability to deliver at the small town hospital, have increased rates of
- Competence Is the Heart of Leadership
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A common misunderstanding about leadership is that it absolutely requires charisma and personal “style.” These elements won’t harm leadership, but they don’t create it.
- Concentrate Your Forces for the Main Effort
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
There's a fine balance to strike between trying new things, staying on top of evolving products, markets, and technology, while concentrating forces for the main effort. That main effort should always be based on the company's core strength, the cent
- Creating and Sustaining the Offensive Mindset
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
A common understanding of offense is that it's all about attacking and taking an aggressive stance. This is true, but it's much more than that. It's a mindset that is centered on seizing and maintaining the initiative. If you've lost the init
- CSC and Bridgestone launch safe driving resource for teens, parents
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Canada Safety Council has partnered with Bridgestone Americas, Inc. to launch www.teensdrivesmart.ca.
- Day Care Operators Conference Will Focus On Supporting Children With Special Needs
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario (ADCO) welcomes journalists to cover keynote address about how child care programs can best support children with special needs, Friday, November 8, 1:30 pm, Delta Markham
- Demonstration against the forced transfer of 40,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
On Friday, July 5 at 4 PM, a demonstration will be held across the street from the Israeli consulate in Toronto, protesting the Israeli government’s plan to evict up to 40,000 Bedouin from their ancestral lands in the south of Israel.
- Embedded fee model under current regulatory structure serves Canadians well
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) submitted comments today on the Canadian Securities Administrators? (CSA) Discussion Paper 81-407 - Mutual Fund Fees. In its response, IFIC highlights the effectiveness of Canada's current regulatory
- Federal Budget a disappointment to nurses, patients, families
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Harper Conservatives fail to provide any leadership to protect and improve public healthcare in Canada
- Fraser Health Authority cutting mental health services
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Evening clinics will be phased out beginning September 1st in at least six centres – Surrey, Langley, New Westminster,Tri Cities, White Rock and Burnaby
- Freedom of Action Is Essential to Seizing and Maintaining the Initiative
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
With freedom of action, you can select the time and place to attack and keep your competitors off guard. It is an opportunity to diversify options which create dilemmas for competitors and additional ways around existing/potential obstacles to growth
- Fundraiser for the Canadian missions: Tastes of Heaven Gala, April 25, 2013
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Tastes of Heaven Gala 2013 - Join Catholic Missions In Canada at its 2013 Tastes of Heaven Gala and hear Sister Sheila Fortune, C.S.J., one of our Canadian missionaries from the Diocese of Corner Book and Labrador, speak on the
- Fundraising Concert at Beit Zatoun - Saturday, March 2, 2013 - Toronto
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Dynamic downtown Toronto community venue celebrates 3 years of arts and culture for peace and justice. Fundraising Concert on March 2, 2013 with some of Toronto's best world music artists. Beit Zatoun's annual open house / anniversary / fundraising
- Global Unions Call for Immediate End to Repression in Turkey
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Global Unions, collectively representing over 200 million union members, including in Turkey, stand in solidarity with the people of Turkey. Our organisations wish to reiterate their serious concern at the repeated use of brutal & excessive measures
- Historic convention to create largest private-sector union gets underway this weekend
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
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The founding convention to create a new union — Unifor — uniting more than 300,000 members from two of Canada’s largest unions will be held Aug. 31st and Sept. 1st at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
- IFIC CONGRATULATES GOVERNMENT OF ONTARIO ON BUDGET 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Toronto, Ontario - May 3, 2013 - The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) congratulates the Ontario government for reducing the provincial deficit to $9.8 billion in 2012-13.
- IFIC PROPOSES EXCLUDING CANADIAN FUNDS FROM PFIC RULES
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Toronto, Ontario - April 16, 2013 - IFIC has made a submission to members of the U.S. Congress to propose that Canadian mutual funds be excluded from the Passive Foreign Investment Company (PFIC) rules. Under PFIC, distributions to and redemption
- Industry Leaders Gather to Explore Global
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Toronto, ON – International experts and Canadian industry leaders will provide insights into the growing impact that developments in foreign jurisdictions are having on Canada’s investment funds industry at The Investment Funds
- Infiltration is a potent tactic on the battlefield and in business
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Companies often fail to appreciate the indidious undermining of their once-solid positions by a steady stream of competitors and their slightly “improved” or differentiated products.
- Investigative journalist gagged from speaking about his trial
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders is deeply troubled by a recent gag order placed on American investigative journalist Barrett Brown and his defense team, as he faces prosecution for charges related to his work.
- Jewish human rights group condemns U of Manitoba Student Union attack on freedom of speech
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
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Independent Jewish Voices responds to Israel supporters' attack on freedom of speech.
- Jewish human rights group supports Israeli Apartheid Week
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
IJV responds to critics' criticism of Israel Apartheid Week, insisting that Israel be held to the same standard as every other country when it comes to international law and human rights.
- LCBO stores raise funds for Threads of Life
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
LCBO shoppers can support families affected by workplace tragedies, April 28 through May 25, by dropping their coins in the counter coin boxes.
- Lead By Example
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
These days, we have business and political leaders, athletes, clergy, educators and others in positions of influence and authority acting unethically. Many do not appear to understand that this directly undermines their credibility and ability to lea
- Lengthy prison term for Bradley Manning
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders condemned the 35-year prison sentence meted out today to U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning on charges including 10 counts of espionage and theft.
- Lieutenant Governor to honour award winners from the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, will present the certificates and the medal of the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada to 12 publisher/editors of Newspapers, 2 publishers of Magazines, 5 journalists
- Merchant Navy Veterans Day of Remembrance Ceremony
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Merchant Navy Veterans Day of Remembrance Ceremony. September 8, 2013, National War Monument, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Join us as we recognize the contributions and sacrifice of the Canadian Merchant Navy.
- Merle Levine Academy (MLA) Makes Learning Accessible
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Merle Levine Academy parents, students and teachers share highlights of what our 2012-2013 school year taught us.
- Nurses are encouraged with Throne Speech plan on seniors, primary healthcare
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
But they wonder about the depth of the government's commitment to improved patients' services and the social determinants of health, when balancing the budget seems to be its number one priority
- Nurses concerned budget provides little room for health authorities to keep the promise to improve nurse staffing for safe patient care
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Pressure to do more with less will force nurses to deal with increased overcapacity in hospitals and under-funded needs, such as mental health, community, homecare and seniors' services.
- Nurses demand independent review of Nanaimo cuts to nursing care
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The public is now being urged to sign a petition to protect safe staffing
- Nurses Demand Release of Analysis of New Care-model Impacts on Patients
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
VIHA's refusal to disclose evidence triggers FOI request targeting evaluations of impacts on patient safety and health outcomes
- Nurses disappointed with Vernon hospital announcement
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Nurses disappointed with Vernon hospital announcement. New Polson tower will result in only 14 new beds when at least 30 more beds and more nursing staff are needed.
- Nurses Send a Message to Health Authority CEO
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Keep the Promise of Safer Care through Safe Staffing at Women's and Children's Hospital
- Nurses to deliver message to BC Cabinet Friday 10:30 am
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Nurses will be delivering a message Friday asking the provincial government to Keep the Promise to listen to nurses and improve healthcare for British Columbians by signing Bill 18 into law.
- Nurses union convention kicks off Tuesday morning (March 5)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
More than 400 nurses from around the province will be gathering at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver starting tomorrow (March 5) for the annual convention of the BC Nurses' Union.
- Nurses urge BC Liberal Cabinet to sign nursing bill into law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Nurses today delivered six gigantic postcards covered with voters' signatures to the provincial Cabinet office in downtown Vancouver, urging the government to do the right thing to improve health care in BC by signing Bill 18 into law.
- PCs - The Beginning of the End
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Most people don't need a powerful desktop or laptop computer for everyday tasks. Email, messaging, reading news, talking on the phone or through video conferencing, scheduling activities, budgeting, etc., they can all be done on mobile devices.
- Richard Martin Recommends Going for the Jugular
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Disable your opponent's centre of gravity -- his unique source of balance and strength--and do so quickly and with resolve when you have a window of opportunity.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvre - 15 April 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
People are not mushrooms; they don't grow best in the damp and the dark. You have to let in the light so they know what is happening, why it's happening, and what needs to be done, both individually and collectively.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvre - 8 April 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
When I was a young platoon commander in the army, I had a commanding officer who told us that the true measure of leadership success was to be respected, not liked. When you're respected, you influence through competence and ability, and likeabilit
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvre 4 February 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Complaining isn't necessarily a sign of bad morale. In fact, the opposite is quite often true. If people stop talk, that's when you should be worried.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres 11 February 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
The first and most important principle of war, and the only sure road to victory, is offense. Defense should only be used as a temporary measure while doing everything possible to (re)gain the initiative.
- Royal Thai Navy sues two journalists for quoting Reuters report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal defamation charges brought against Alan Morison, an Australian journalist based in the southwestern province of Phuket who edits the news website Phuketwan, and Chutima Sidasathian, a Thai journalist.
- Science of Mediumship Event
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Science and the afterlife meet at an event where author and afterlife researcher Donna Smith-Moncrieffe shares the findings from her recently released book, Medium7. Experience spirit inspired readings from three of Canada's renowned mediums.
- Shape the Battlefield to Create Conditions for Success
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
If you’re passive, you get passed. You have to take the offensive in order to (re)gain the initiative and keep it. That is the essence of offense. But too many companies are content with the status quo and stay passive in the face of societal, econ
- Swamp Line 9! Stopping the Expansion of Enbridge’s Line 9
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We are digging in and occupying Enbridge’s North Westover Pump Station in the Beverly Swamp. We have done this to stop construction in preparation for the reversal of their Line 9 Pipeline to carry toxic diluted bitummen from the Alberta Tar Sands
- Toronto passes municipal Access Without Fear policy after marathon debate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Toronto City Council becomes the first city in Canada to pass an Access Without Fear policy at the municipal level.
- Toronto woman fasting in solidarity with the people of the Philipines
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Lyn Adamson, co- chair of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is fasting this week for climate justice in solidarity with the people of the Philipines. Adamson says “I will be fasting in solidarity with Yeb Sano and all those suffering in the Phillip
- Use Experience to Learn Systematically
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Just like military forces, companies and other types of organization should be disciplined about conducting after action reviews.
- VOW distributes White Poppies Today
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace will distribute free White Poppies in Toronto on Monday, November 11, 2013, 5:00pm at Yonge and Dundas on the southwest corner.
- We Learn Best By Doing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
We learn best by doing, making mistakes and gaining minor wins in the heat of battle. Theoretical learning is necessary, but it only provides a framework to build practical experience.
- What Are the Hot Trends in Franchising for 2013? CFA identifies 6 sectors creating and maintaining growth into the New Year
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Published: 2013
Canadian Franchise Association's FranchiseCanada magazine's exclusive January/February cover story on franchise trends uses years of data to let Canadians in on the franchise sectors that have been experiencing impressive year-over-year growth betw
- But Did You See the Gorilla? The Problem With Inattentional Blindness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The most effective cloaking device is the human mind.
- Notebooks 1936-1947
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2019
Victor Serge - writer, novelist, revolutionary -- left the Soviet Union in 1936 and spent the rest of his life in exile, first in France, then in Mexico. His notebooks, written in the years of fascist and Stalinist ascendency, combine grief at the state of the world with resilience, curiosity, steadfast adherence to his principles, and a love of life and culture.
- Health care is for everyone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The proposed cuts to health coverage for refugees by the Harper government are misinformed and mean-spirited. They will most certainly have a devastating impact on refugees who are already in a vulnerable state of physical and mental health.
- Sources News Release Archive 2012
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
News releases from 2012.
- Connexions Twitter
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2012
Published: 2017
The Connexions Twitter page.
- Little Black Book of Scams
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2012
Published: 2017
A Government of Canada guidebook to increase awareness of the array of scams that target Canadians, who have lost millions of dollars to the activities of scammers through online, mail, door-to-door and telephone scams.
- 6 Modern Societies Where Women Literally Rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2016
An article about 6 female-led societies that thrive in the real world today.
- The Barnardo Boys
Thousands of British 'Home Children' were shipped to Canada as child labourers in a plot right out of Dickens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Between 1868 and the 1930s, more than 100,000 destitute children in Great Britain were shipped off to Canada. An estimated two-thirds of the Home Children, as they were known, were under the age 14.
- Why the Web Needs Perfect Forward Secrecy More Than Ever
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
If a server is configured to support forward secrecy, then a compromise of its private key can't be used to decrypt past communications.
- Returning to Chess
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2014
Rediscovering chess after years of not playing.
- Taking it Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2014
C. Wright Mills' role in development of public intellectuals and New Left.
- The Case for Grassroots Archives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
- A Marxist History of the World: Making the future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Historian Neil Faulkner concludes A Marxist History of the World by looking at what that history can tell us about the possibility for radical social change.
- A Marxist History of the World part 105: The 2008 Crash: from bubble to black hole
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The financial crisis represents the end of an era in which greed and casino-madness had been given free rein by market deregulation and rising debt.
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2022
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- John Kerry and Me
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Experiences in community organizing and electoral organizing.
- Enemies
A History of the FBI
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2013
A history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations.
- Intimate Enemies
Violence and Reconciliation in Peru
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2013
Theidon explores how Peruvians are rebuilding both individual lives and collective existence following twenty years of armed conflict. A compilation of stories and dialogues of Peruvian peasants and Theidon's own experiences to encompass the broad and varied range of conciliatory practices.
- Pharmageddon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2013
David Healy's comprehensive argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine is an indictment of problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities.
- "Our Path Doesn't Depend on Media Coverage"
The Zapatistas and Their Coming Strategy Together with Mexico's Original Peoples
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Communiqué from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee-General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army.
- America’s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff
How Today’s Fiscal Austerity is Reminiscent of World War I’s Economic Misunderstandings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An exploration of how today’s fiscal austerity is reminiscent of World War I’s economic misconceptions.
- FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers
US Intelligence Machine Instead Plotted with Bankers to Attack Protest Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Dcuments show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011.
- Foreclosures and the Police State
Hernandez Family Foreclosure Sparks Anti-Eviction Outrage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The story of the Hernandez family, who became local heroes in their determination to keep their Van Nuys home from foreclosure.
- 2013 Unoccupied
Sun Tzu's Messages to the Occupy Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The ”Occupy” movement has apparently receded into the long night. The structural challenges remain the same, and opposition is still needed. What has been exposed as fruitless, however, is the idea of occupying parks in chaotic sieges that signify nothing.
- How to Grow Up Under Occupation
A Childhood Under the Nazi's
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Rochat illustrates the effect adult wars and occupations have on children, and how the relative safety of the Anglo-Saxon world make it hard to comprehend what effect these wars have on children in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan and so many other countries under attack.
- Schoolhouse Shams
Myths and Misinformation in School Reform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Written by a parent and school board member, who first embraced many of the ideas of the modern school reform movement, Schoolhouse Shams lays bare much of the mythology and misinformation that underpin many of the failed school reform policies of the last decade. Many of the top strategies of the highly publicized school reform movement already have been tried out in St. Louis with disastrous results. Along with demonstrating the failure of school reform prescriptions to improve education, the experience of St. Louis demonstrates that the ideological premise of the reform movement, that a focus on providing opportunities for private profit-taking will necessarily improve schools, is both wrong and conflicts with the ideals of democracy, accountability, and justice.
- Zapatista March
The Deafening Silence of Resurgence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The voiceless and the faceless are saying listen up! There is a forgotten Mexico here, a Mexico that is starving and disparate and the march, a silent march is an emblematic message in and of itself.
- Doing Time for Peace
Moral Lights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Hundreds of Americans, young and old, are regularly going to prison, sometimes for months or years or decades, for nonviolently resisting U.S. militarism.
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace Statement to Stephen Harper in support of Chief Theresa Spence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) Urges Prime Minister Harper To Meet With Attawapiskat First Nation Chief.
- Cruel Harvest
U.S. Intervention in the Afghan Drug Trade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Mercille argues that the United States is not concerned about waging a real war on drugs, and that alleged concerns about narco-terrorism mostly act as pretexts to justify occupation. The United States in fact shares a large part of the responsibility by supporting drug lords, refusing to adopt effective drug control policies and failing to crack down on drug money laundered through Western banks.
- Terror in a Christmas Tree
Israel Tries to Ban Non-Jewish Celebrations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Who would imagine that Israeli Jews could be so intimidated by the innocuous Christmas tree?
- Chomsky on Civil Liberties, Obama and the Future of Progressive Politics
Left of Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Interview with America's premier political dissident Noam Chomsky.
- A Marxist History of the World part 106: The Second Great Depression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Four years after the beginning of the crisis, the neoliberal elite is trapped by the contradictions of the system on which its wealth depends.
- DID YOU HEAR IT? It's the sound of their world ending. It's that of ours resurging.
Communique from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Communiqué of the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee – General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Mexico.
- How the Colombia Trade Agreement Accelerates Human Rights Abuses
U.S.-Colombia Mass Displacement Policy Succeeding
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would lead, indeed by design, to the immiseration and mass displacement of rural peoples, especially Indigenous and Afro-Colombian. The article explores the displacement of indigenous peoples in the last year.
- Police State India
Robert Clive and the Forbidden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Describing security-mania in India.
- Science, Myth, and History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The story of ‘Kennewick Man’ - the debate around a 9000-year old skeleton and what it reveals about current ideas of culture, race and science.
- Sources 70
The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A directory of contacts for journalists, editors, and researchers who need to reach experts and spokespersons to provide background information and comment on a wide range of topics.
- Why the Washington Post Killed the Story of Murdoch’s Bid to Buy the US Presidency
Carl Bernstein Caught in the Matrix
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Attacking Gun Culture at Its Source
No Justice, No Peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
When you rob people of their self-respect and sense of control over their own lives, use them as means to your own ends, and treat them like garbage, don’t be surprised if you don’t like the destructive methods they choose to assert their sense of self. By all means let’s feel sympathy for the innocent victims when the worm turns — but let’s also never forget who set things in motion.
- Facebook bans developer of F.B. Purity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Shirley Farlinger (Obituary)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Obituary for Shirley Farlinger, 1930-2012.
- Syrian Minority Fear the End of Fighting More Than War Itself
Persecution of the Christians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
If the opposition National Coalition, recognised by 130 countries as the legitimate government of Syria, does ultimately take power then its most effective fighting force will be Jadhat al-Nusra, with an ideology similar to al-Qa’ida. It is prospects like this that fill Syrian Christians with alarm.
- Facebook forces Instagram users to allow it to sell their uploaded photos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Move means pictures could be used in advertising, with all payments going to social media giant.
- The Illusion of Democracy
Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate ‘weirding’, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green movement, human rights groups, campaigning newspapers, peace activists, strong-minded academics, progressive voices?
- Intimidation of journalists who investigate military dictatorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Journalists in chile have been threatened because they have been covering very sensitive subjects that directly concern the intelligence agencies.
- Miners' strike: senior officer was 'appalled' at conduct of other police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A senior police officer breaks ranks to describe how he and others were "appalled" at the behaviour of colleagues during the 1984-85 miners' strike in the UK, as calls mount for a fresh inquiry into the policing of the dispute.
- How Private Prisons Profit From the Criminalization of Immigrants
Lobbying for Lock-Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
How a nation uses its power to deny a person’s freedom has always been a critical measure of authoritarian rule. Massive incarceration based on race, ethnic origin or nationality, political beliefs, class, sexual orientation, age or other inherent characteristics is a form of tyranny. Yet few people realize that this is happening on an enormous scale in the United States.
- An Interview With Noam Chomsky on Obama's Human Rights Record
Nothing Can Justify Torture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
America's human rights record under the administration of President Obama and the military intervention policies that have seen increased use during the Arab Spring.
- Massacres Under the Looking Glass
The ICC and Colombia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The International Criminal Court (ICC) just published its Interim Report on Colombia. In the Report, the ICC explains that Colombia has been under preliminary examination by the ICC since June 2004. The military carried out its most notorious violations while under the ICC’s Clouseau-like scrutiny.
- Won't Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria's WMD 'Threat'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2013
Reading about crimes of state over many years, it is tempting to try to fathom the mind-set of political leaders. What actually is going on in their heads when they order sanctions that kill hundreds of thousands of children? What is in their hearts when they wage needless wars that shatter literally millions of lives? Similar questions come to mind as the US and UK governments once again raise the spectre of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ to demonise a target for ‘regime change’, this time in Syria.
- Anti-Science: Left and Right Together?
A Systematic Attack on Rationality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The suggestion that left and right thinking may be converging on matters scientific will, no doubt, be offensive to some on the left. After all, the right chooses myth over evolution, and oil profits over climate science.
- A Brief History of Superpowers
The Neck Irons of Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
From the Congress of Vienna of 1815 to the Congress of Berlin in 1878 to the “Allies” invasion of Russia in 1918 to the formation of what became the European Union in the 1950s, the great powers of Europe and the world have gotten together in grand meeting halls and on the field of battle to set the ground rules for imperialist exploitation of Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, to Christianize and ‘civilize’, to remake the maps, and to suppress revolutions and other threats to great-power hegemony.
- Disputed Territory
The green economy versus community-based economies
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A story of the peoples of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil, looking at what happens when so-called "green economy" projects move into the area, clearning the forest, and taking over the land.
- EU: Enact Controls on Digital Weapons Trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Unregulated Export of Powerful Surveillance Tools Threatens Internet Freedom. Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch call on the European Union to enact new controls on Internet surveillance and censorship technologies. Repressive governments use these technologies to enable human rights violation.
- 9th Annual World Hypnotism Day with renowned, award-winning Consulting Hypnotist in Toronto on January 4, 2013
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Celebrate World Hypnotism Day on January 4 2013 with Master Hypnotist Debbie Papadakis. Fri., Jan. 4 Debbie will host an open house at 1:00pm and workshop Transform Yourself Into a Prosperity Magnet at 6:30pm at the Hypno Healing Institute.
- The Vertical Farming Scam
Wrong on So Many Levels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Vertical farming would involve using the floorspace of tall urban buildings for growing food plants through largely hydroponic methods. This is envisioned as a way to integrate food production with dense human populations, increase production per unit of land area, protect crops against pests without the use of chemicals, and take vulnerable agricultural soils out of production by relocating crops to cities. It can, in fact, achieve none of these goals.
- Votescam
The Stealing of America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Are American elections stolen? The Colliers' infamous 25 year investigation, begun in Dade County, Florida, 1970, reveals the origins of today's insider vote-rigging cartels, with their fingers on the electronic keys that control democracy.
- The Case of Oscar Lopez Rivera
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Examing the criminal case against and incarceration of Oscar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican activist and organiser charged and convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1980.
- Migrant rights activists denounce Canada's Federal Government for stripping away Employment Insurance benefit for migrant workers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Migrant worker advocates are angered and shocked to learn that the Federal Government is once again attacking one of Canada's most vulnerable populations.
- A Marxist History of the World part 104: 2001: 9/11, the War on Terror, and the New Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Al-Qaida terror attacks allowed the great powers to justify new imperialist wars to safeguard the interests of global capital.
- Seeds of Death: Unveiling The Lies of GMOs
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An exposition of the massive public health dangers associated with genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
- Convicts, Collateral Damage, and the "War on Drugs"
The Real Crime is the War Itself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Two recent court cases in southern California provide insight into the identity of those smuggle drugs across the international boundary between the two countries. But more importantly what they do is highlight how the ludicrous “war on drugs” produces casualties of many sorts.
- Pfizer's Elixir of Youth?
Tamoxifen Makes Women Live Longer (Says Manufacturer of Tamoxifen)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
It was a great moment in Pharma funded physician “education.” At a symposium at the American Psychiatric Association’s 2010 meeting called “Mood, Memory and Myths: What Really Happens at Menopause,” two Wyeth/Pfizer funded speakers tried to resurrect the benefits of cancer-linked hormone therapy. But the mostly-female audience was having none of it: what can we do about our “tamoxifen brain” from the cancer we already have, they wanted to know.
- Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left
Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Ever since the 1990s, and especially since the Kosovo war in 1999, anyone who opposes armed interventions by Western powers and NATO has to confront what may be called an anti-anti-war left (including its far left segment).
- Ecosocialism and the fight for free public transit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Mass transportation is intimately tied not only to the physical form of cities, but to the deeper social structures of imperial capitalism. A campaign for free public transit can be an important part of a broader fight to restructure society along ecosocialist lines.
- Justice, Peace and the Israeli State
Rule by Ruthless Force
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
International Law and the creation of a world body to aid in the direction of nation states to live in peace and justice under defined conditions such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charters of the UN suggests that Israel must change, it must recognize that it is not the sole determiner of world events, that it has lifted its beliefs beyond those that exist elsewhere in the world and it must, therefore, reverse its direction to become one with its neighbors and all the nations of the UN.
- The War Crimes of a Sergeant, the War Crimes of a Nation
A Double Standard of Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
It is alleged that on the evening of March 10-11, 2012, US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales left his base in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, fully armed and loaded, and murdered 16 civilians in a nearby village.
- How Millions of Farmers are Advancing Agriculture For Themselves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The world record yield for paddy rice production is not held by an agricultural research station or by a large-scale farmer from the United States, but by Sumant Kumar who has a farm of just two hectares in Darveshpura village in the state of Bihar in Northern India. His record yield of 22.4 tons per hectare, from a one-acre plot, was achieved with what is known as the System of Rice Intensification (SRI).
- Squatters are not home stealers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The criminalising of squatters in Britain is part of a Europe-wide backlash. But with at least 10% of the world population squatting, can they really be a menace to society?
- What the American Media Won't Tell You About Israel
The savage punishment of Gaza traces back to decades ago.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.”
- A Marxist History of the World part 103: 1989: the fall of Stalinism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The revolutions of 1989 represent great victories for mass action, but they were limited in effect.
- Banks Are "Where the Money Is" In The Drug War
Big Lenders Face Few Hard Consequences for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Man of the largest banks in the world have been accused of failing to comply with anti-money laundering laws — thereby enabling, collectively, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of suspicious transactions to move through the banking system absent adequate monitoring or oversight.
- Freedom National
The destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery.
- Noam Chomsky: Palestine 2012 - Gaza and the UN resolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An analysis of the political context of Gaza since the first free elections in the Middle East were held.
- The Red and the Black
Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In this essay, I start from the common socialist assumption that capitalism’s central defects arise from the conflict between the pursuit of private profit and the satisfaction of human needs. Then I sketch some of the considerations that would have to be taken into account in any attempt to remedy those defects.
- The Wrong Solution To The Wrong Problem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
What is it to have free press?
- Free Trade and Economic Imperialism
Economic Progress Toward Ecological Suicide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Looming global environmental catastrophe renders the last several hundred years of Western economic theory dubious, if not outright suicidal. Economic ‘progress’ that increases dependence on unsustainable economic practices produces catastrophe in increasing proportion to the benefits that even proponents claim will result.
- Give Us Our Money Back!
How Harper Protects Canada's Tax Cheats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
There is a class of people and corporations in this country whose illicit financial practices have an enormous negative impact on the country and its citizens. Yet the law and order regime of Stephen Harper barely plays lip service to the issue of tax evasion through tax havens. While Harper cuts billions from government programs in the name of deficit reduction, he refuses to go after billions of dollars in revenue lost to tax evasion and avoidance every year.
- Health Ministry backs off on punitive parts of flu shot policy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Following a strong union campaign, the government has agreed to focus on education to encourage workers to be immunized
- How 7 Historic Figures Overcame Depression Without Doctors
Drugless Antidotes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
While Sylvia Plath and Ernest Hemingway received extensive medical treatment for depression but tragically committed suicide, other famously depressed people — including Abraham Lincoln, William James, Georgia O’Keeffe, Sigmund Freud, William Tecumseh Sherman, Franz Kafka, and the Buddha — took different paths.
- Nurses to Fraser Health: Come clean on drug company ties, funding for flu vaccine study
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The study involving Novartis Pharmaceuticals is headed up by Fraser's chief medical health officer, a key figure driving the policy to force healthcare workers to take the flu vaccine or wear a mask
- When Plutocrats Blame the Poor
Hard Times Redux
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The image of the self-made man has always been a fiction concocted for the edification of the poor, not a concrete policy prescription, as should be clear by now from the behavior of our very own ‘self-made’ caste of plutocrats.
- Gaza: What Would Lincoln Do?
Sasha, Malia: Tell Your Parents About Sara al-Dalou!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The point of invoking Lincoln is not to guess what he might do in Obama’s shoes, but to reflect on what he did when forced to balance political calculus, the rule of law, and moral and humanitarian considerations.
- The Humiliation of Bradley Manning
Kangaroos Missing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
It is a bitter irony that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, whose conscience compelled him to leak evidence about the U.S. military brass ignoring evidence of torture in Iraq, was himself the victim of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment while other military officers privately took note but did nothing.
- What Really Happened in Gaza
Israel Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The official storyline is that Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense on 14 November, 2012 because, in President Barack Obama’s words, it had 'every right to defend itself.' The facts, however, suggest otherwise.
- The Drug Store in American Meat
We're Eating What?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Food consumers seldom hear about the drugs oestradiol-17, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate and the names are certainly not on meat labels. But those synthetic growth hormones are central to U.S. meat production, especially beef, and the reason Europe has banned a lot of U.S. meat since 1989.
- What If America's Leaders Actually Want Catastrophic Climate Change?
Thinking the Unthinkable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Our leaders, political and corporate, may be puerile, egocentric greed-heads, but they are not stupid. They surely for the most part recognize that the Earth is heating up and heading at full speed towards ecological, social and political disaster. How else to explain, then, their astonishing unwillingness to take action?
- Paula Broadwell, Whistleblower
It's More Than a Sex Scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
We await the follow-up to Paula Broadwell’s assertion that two prisoners were being held at the CIA “annex” near the consulate in Benghazi at the time of the assault that left Ambassador Christopher Stephens and three other Americans dead.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The bridgehead principle is crucial for expanding business, as it provides a notional and physical anchor point in the new territory. Whether the intention is to expand the range of products in an existing market, or to extend the market of an exist
- Are US Troops Targeting Journalists?
Incidents Raise Suspicions on Motive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
It is dangerous in the extreme to be a journalist covering America’s wars, at least beginning with Vietnam.
- A Marxist History of the World part 102: What is neoliberalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The ‘free-market’ theory provides a pseudo-scientific justification for the greed and poverty endemic to the system, and the main beneficiaries are the global mega-corporations of neoliberal capitalism.
- Micro Militarism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The author explains why the introduction of military messages and advertisements in the everyday lives of the public is troubling and harmful to society.
- The Politics of the Exodus Myth
Pillar of Superstition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Cook provides conclusions that would suggest that the Bible as the word of God is rather a fabrication created for the masses for political, religious and cultural reasons.
- Yoda fundraising for Luke Skywalker donors
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Here's a wonderful TEDx talk by Nancy Duarte. It's about giving presentations, but you'll see how it applies to fundraising too. Early on, she makes a point that's so very important for presenters: You are not Luke Skywalker. You are Yoda.That is, you aren't the hero in the room. The people you're talking to are the heroes. You're the little wise-man who equips the hero to be a hero.
- Bangladesh factory fire: brands accused of criminal negligence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Clean Clothes Campaign, along with trade unions & labour rights organisation, is calling for immediate action from international brands following the fire in Dhaka Bangladesh which killed over 100 workers.
- Grassroots archive information sheet
About your archive - collection - resource centre - library
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Connexions is working on a project to help network grassroots archives and collections of materials about activist and radical history. If you have a collection of social justice materials in your basement/locker, etc., and would like to participate in an exploration of co-operative archiving and/or searching for shared space, please fill out this form and email it to Connexions.
- Imperialism, the Cold War and the Creation of Pakistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The true intent of the partition was to detach Pakistan from India, create a militarily strategic foothold aimed at the Soviet Union and maintain control over the oil fields of the Middle East.
- Why Israel Desires to be Hated by Palestinians
Gaza 2012: On the Use and Abuse of Hatred and Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Israel desires to be hated by Palestinians. By provoking violence Israel has not merely managed to divert the limelight from its apartheid nature. It has also managed to convince that, as Joseph Massad of Columbia University once captured, it has the right to occupy, to dispossess and to discriminate, namely the claim that the apartheid premise which founds it should be put up with and rationalized as reasonable.
- The Rise of Fascism in Greece
Waiting is Not an Option
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In Germany, Spain and Italy (and elsewhere) in the early 1930s during those troubled times, unemployment was high, Left alternatives were weak, resentment against others oozed in the streets, and terrible insecurities pushed nominally good people, the middle classes, into supporting the forces of hatred and nationalistic fervour.
- Canadian Voice of Women demands an immediate ceasefire
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace supports the United Nations demand for an immediate ceasefire. VOW is calling on the Canadian government & all opposition parties to act immediately to stop this bloodshed and end the offensive & the siege of Gaz
- In Defence of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
On Jacques Berlinerblau's book How to Be Secular.
- International Board Experiences Iowa During Strategic Planning Retreat
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
AICI Board of Directors met in Des Moines to plan the strategic direction for their Association. AICI President Kimberly Law, AICI CIP of Vancouver, says, "One of the primary topics was, how to increase industry credibility through global reach."
- Enough With the Just In Time Schedules, Say Retail Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Employers increasingly use part-time scheduling to decrease costs and crush attempts at worker organizing. Scheduling software now cuts shifts into chunks as small as 15-minutes. Last-minute schedule changes result when the software predicts customer traffic based on the weather forecast or recent sales patterns. Most retail workers now don't know their schedules a week ahead of time, and often have shifts added or cancelled at the last minute. Erratic scheduling can also make it impossible for parttime workers to hold two jobs, because they never know when they will be available.
- Housebroken
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
There’s a second environmental crisis, just as potent as the first.
- Israel's 'right to self-defense' - a tremendous propaganda victory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
By supporting Israel's offensive on Gaza, Western leaders have given the Israelis carte blanche to do what they're best at: Wallow in their sense of victimhood and ignore Palestinian suffering.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The essence of manoeuvre is the process of bringing to bear one's strengths against the weaknesses of opponents. By extension, manoeuvre also requires the ability to avoid or coopt resistance and exploit the weaknesses or opportunities that appear on
- A Marxist History of the World part 101: The Long Recession
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
By the early 1970s, the levers of state economic management had stopped working and the world economy entered a long period of stagnation.
- Israel's attack on Gaza is a 'Pillar of War Crimes', says Jewish human rights group
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Jewish human rights group criticizes Israel's latest attack.
- African odysseys turn to the south
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Fewer than 5% of African migrants now want to reach Europe or America. They’re looking instead to neighbouring countries, or the continent’s dreamland, South Africa. It’s a long, hard way there, and they may be no better off if they reach it.
- Withdraw coercive flu shot policy: nurses
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The BC Nurses' Union is demanding BC health employers immediately withdraw their punitive policy on flu shots for healthcare workers, in light of scientific reviews questioning the credibility of the studies they're using to justify it.
- Academics, Students, Community Members Slam Carleton U Attempt to Stifle Class Discussions and Academic Freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Coalition of academics, students and community members rejects Carleton University administration attempt to stifle discussion of issues related to Israel, Palestine and the Middle East.
- Meme Wars
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Meme Wars presents a new way of looking at our world that challenges and debunks many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics and brings to light a more ecological model. The book is image-heavy and full-color throughout,
- Don't Be Scammed Into Removing Links
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
There may be a new competitive sabotage scam going around the SEO industry around link removals: emails advising webmasters to ask other sites to remove good and legitimate links to their websites.
- Retail Workers Fight 'Just in Time' Scheduling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
On-call shift scheduling is rough on a largely part-time and female work force trying to keep up with families, school and second jobs. Some workers are asking for better terms.
- Gypsies who went nowhere
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The EU misclassification of Roma as inherently itinerant has done considerable, and continuing, damage to groups of often deeply rooted people.
- A Marxist History of the World part 100: 1968-1975: the workers' revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
As the crisis of capitalism spread around the world, the working class took centre stage – but the revolt did not result in successful revolution anywhere.
- Call it as it is
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Now is the time to see that most of our problems are the result of the insatiable greed of the very few. And to say so, clearly and repeatedly. It’s the only way to start changing towards reality.
- National Home Fire Safety Week: Woodstove and wood-burning fireplace safety
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This National Home Fire Safety Week, the Canada Safety Council is focusing on safe practices and reminding fireplace and woodstove users to think about safety before starting any fires.
- Disappearance of Darkness
Photography at the End of the Analog Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A look at the decline of the print photography industry.
- National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada Award Recipients 2012
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Recipients of 2012 award winners at the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada.
- Richard Martin's Monday Brilliant Manoeuvres
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Active, covert threats will continue to grow, and companies must be on the lookout for attacks not just from direct business competitors, but also from actual and potential opponent groups.
- Impressions of Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world's largest open-air prison, where a million and a half people, in the most densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often savage terror and arbitrary punishment.
- A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep ends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world.
- Some pumpkin recipes
Turn your Hallowe'en pumpkins into delicious and nutrious food
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
What is really unfortunate about the tradition of pumpkin carving is the waste of food as the vast majority of these pumpkins are destined for destruction. Pumpkin is a highly nutritious vegetable. The seeds and the flesh are packed with vitamins and nutrients. There are wonderful pumpkin recipes around and pumpkin actually is very tasty.
- Protests, Prosecution And Punishment In Saudi Arabia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Saudi Arabia is experiencing protests, prosecution and punishments.
- The Different Faces of 'Popular Resistance' in Palestine
Manipulating History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Apparently, 'popular resistance' has suddenly elevated to become a clash of visions or strategies between the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and its rivals in Gaza, underscoring an existing and deepening rift between various factions and leaderships.
- The Indefinite Detention of the Progressive Voter
The Politics of Continual Servitude
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Earlier this year President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law. It allows for the indefinite detention without trial for any U.S. citizen deemed to be a terrorist or an accessory to terrorism.
- Journalist arrested, authorities urged to respect his rights
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Kostas Vaxevanis, the editor of the Greek weekly Hot Doc and producer of the national TV programme Koutis Tis Pandoras (Pandora’s Box), after he published a list of around 2,000 suspected tax evaders.
- Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27).
- Against Fundamentalism and Imperialism - Review
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A view of the inside forces in Pakistan.
- The Amistad Rebellion
An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An account of the Amistad slave ship rebellion told for the first time from the slaves' perspective.
- A BDS Movement That Works
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In 2005, a call was issued for global nonviolent resistance to occupation through acts of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.They had three goals: an end to occupation and return to the pre-1967 Green Line, equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and recognition of the Palestinian right of return.
- Chicago Teachers Strike Back
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Chicago Teachers Union stage a walkout that leads to an improved contract.
- Final Blow to Affirmative Action?
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The current state of affirmative action in the United States.
- How to Rig an Election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Election fraud in the United States in the era of computerized voting machines controlled and programmed by far-right corporate executives.
- Letter to the Editors
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The argument for sweatshops comes not only from “free market” ideologues but sometimes from voices of establishment liberalism. An argument against.
- A Marxist Ecological Vision
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The questions facing environmental activists, and socialists in particular, range from the sheer scale of the environmental disasters already underway to the problems of beginning a transition from a system organized around massive consumption of fossil fuels, vast megacities and global agribusiness.
- Murfreesboro Islamic Center Opens
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Regarding the Murfreesboro "mosque wars".
- The Next Four Years
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Regarding the 2012 American Presidential election.
- Obituary: Eric Hobsbawm: 1917-2012
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An obituary for Eric Hobsbawm.
- Obituary: Flint Sitdowner: Olen Ham (1917-2012)
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Obituary for Olen Ham.
- Political Developments in South Africa
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An excerpt from the South African journal Amandla! regarding current political events in South Africa.
- Resistance in China Today
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Cases of resistance in China continue to grow.
- Resistance in China Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Cases of Resistance in China continue to grow. Protests both large and small are extremely frequent. These range from workers’ protests against unpaid wages and demands for labor rights to protests against corrupt officials and environmental abuses. While these struggles have often been brought to a swift end through repression, they have also frequently led to protestors being granted concessions.
- The Revenge of History
The Battle for the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A critical account of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
- The Russian Revolution Revisited - Review
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2102
A review of 'The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History' by John Eric Marot.
- Sasha and Emma
The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A biography.
- South Africa After Marikana - Interview
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Suzi Weissman interviews Leonard Gentle.
- The Struggle in Balochistan
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The complicated situation that is modern Pakistan.
- Subversive Viewing/Viewing Subversives - Review
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Reviews of 'Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship' by Jonathan Auerbach and old 'War Femme: Lesbianism, National Security, and Hollywood Cinema' by Robert J. Corber.
- Their "Recovery" and Ours - Review
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A review of 'Obama’s Economy: Recovery for the Few' by Jack Rasmus.
- Toward Revolution and Collective Leadership - Interview
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An interview with Andrés Antillano. Bolivia.
- Venezuelan Elections: Latest Step in the Long Road
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
"The elections are a mix," the Argentine-Mexican Marxist Guillermo Almeyra suggests, "between a legal and democratic process of conflict resolution, a disguised and mediated, but sharp, class struggle, and a dispute within the Bolivarian process itself — between a bureaucratic-technocratic caste which is securing itself inside the government, Hugo Chávez who maneuvers in a bonapartist fashion, and, finally, the popular struggle to build elements of popular power."
- When Will We See Tanks in Barcelona?
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The current situation in Spain regarding an independent Catelonia.
- Afghanistan: the Smell of Defeat
Cut-and-Run Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The United States hasn’t liberated Afghanistan. It hasn’t rebuilt Afghanistan. It hasn’t removed the warlords from power, curtailed opium production, established strong democratic institutions, or improved life for ordinary working people. The US hasn’t achieved any of its strategic objectives.
- Colombia's Agent Orange?
Roundup Not Ready
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A core element of U.S. anti-drugs policy in Colombia has been the destruction of coca fields by aerial chemical fumigation thus impacting the cocaine trade at its source. The continuation of this policy is based on three core myths: (1) That fumigation can target coca fields with pinpoint accuracy; (2) That the chemical used is harmless to humans and the environment; and (3) that aerial chemical fumigation is an effective method of eradicating coca cultivation.
- Looking Back on Occupy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A look at the Occupy movement and its relevance today.
- Tombstone
The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A look at 'the great famine', a concealed result of the Great Leap Forward in China.
- The Day the Internet Died
An Oral History of the Egyptian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
When Hosni Mubarak Shut Off Cell Phones and the Internet in January 2011 Was the Moment When More Egyptians than Ever Went Out into the Streets.
- Destruction of Labor History Archives at Ruskin College, Oxford
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The archives of Ruskin College, pioneer institution of working-class education, have been partly destroyed, on the instructions of the college principal and despite protests and an offer from the Bishopsgate Institute to take everything.
- I'm Omar Saad and I will not be a soldier in your army
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Omar Saad, a young (Druze) Palestinian musician from the Galilee has received a summons to the Israeli army. The Druze citizens of Israel are forced to enlist in the Israeli military, since 1956, when conscription law applied to Druze men (not to other Palestinians).
- Black Teachers' Revolt of the 1960s
Educational Apartheid in Chicago
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Chicago's educational apartheid has a history which includes the racial segregation of its schools, the allocation of resources on an unequal basis and second class treatment for teachers of color. It was Jim Crow North. But there was also resistance, a resistance which grew into a powerful social movement during the 1960's.
- Outsourcing in India and the US Election
Thus Spake the Cyber-Coolies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
When Romney criticized outsourcing in his election campaign, he broke with Republican tradition. Outsourcing had been one of the few topics in which both parties appeared to genuinely disagree on, the one issue in which the underlying class dynamics of the pro-business Republicans and labour-backed Democrats were laid bare.
- Poetry and Latin American Revolution
Written in Blood and Dreams
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A discussion about the poetry, and about the songs, that have had such a decisive influence on the changes and revolutions in South America.
- Russell Means: Warrior for the People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The life of Russell Means, Lakota warrior for the people whose stance of never backing down inspired a generation of Native American rights, was celebrated on Wednesday, Oct. 24, in Kyle, South Dakota. Means' piercing words and clarity of style on American Indian rights, placed him at the forefront of the struggle of the American Indian Movement that spans four decades.
- What Really Happens When a City Makes Its Transit System Free
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Grabar analyzes the free transit system in Châteauroux, supported by a similar case in Aubagne, to provide a realistic view of how well transit can function fare-free.
- The Age of Hell
Entrenching Murder as the American Way
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Washington Post has just laid out, in horrifying, soul-slaughtering detail, the Obama Administration’s ongoing effort to expand, entrench and “codify” the practice of murder and terrorism by the United States government. The avowed, deliberate intent of these sinister machinations is to embed the use of death squads and drone terror attacks into the policy apparatus of future administrations, so that the killing of human beings outside all pretense of legal process will go on, year after year after year, even when the Nobel Peace Laureate has left office.
- National Senior Safety Week: Drug Safety for Seniors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Many older Canadians are on multiple medications to treat a wide spectrum of ailments and improve quality of life. But without taking proper precautions, these life-saving and life-improving drugs can cause sickness and premature death.
- When War Passes for Foreign Policy
Who Will Pay the Price?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
“Take the profit out of war,” said activist Kevin Zeese, “and you take out war.” His audience was made up mainly of U.S. war veterans gathered in New York to observe — and protest — the 11th anniversary of the conflict in Afghanistan.
- Guatemala: Peaceful Resistance in the Face of Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Anti-mining activist speaks out for first time since being shot.
- Israel's starvation diet for Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Israel’s calculating of daily caloric needs shows how it manages the lives of Palestinians in Gaza in almost microscopic detail.
- Bad Pharma, Bad Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
‘The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal’, from Ben Goldacre's new book, Bad Pharma presents a disturbing picture emerges of corporate drug abuse.
- A Marxist History of the World part 98: The Vietnam War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
How an army of peasant guerrillas managed to defeat US imperialism in a full-scale war.
- The Welfare State of America
A manifesto on building social democracy in the age of austerity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A movement to expand the welfare state has the potential to foster a new majoritarian Left coalition. Republicans know this -- that’s why they manipulate the way welfare is perceived at every turn. The reality is that 96 percent of Americans have benefited from government programs, but the Right works hard to hide that fact.
- Corporations profiting out of food crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The small group of food multinationals that monopolise the world food market are positioning themselves to take full advantage of the crisis: the latest food price hikes threaten to drive more people back into hunger.
- Preparing for a Digital 9/11
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In recent years, in one of the more dangerous, if largely undiscussed, developments of our time, the Bush and then Obama administrations have launched the first state-planned war in cyber space. First, there were the "Olympic Games," then the Stuxnet virus, then Flame, and now it turns out that other sophisticated malware programs have evidently followed.
- Follow the Money, Find the Leader
Billion Dollar Candidates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The point is not whether Barack Obama wins re-election as President. The point is not whether Mitt Romney can win. The point is that you can’t dream of contesting without a billion dollars. That figure merely ensures you can run, not win.
- The Pentagon's New Plan to Confront Latin America's Pink Tide
Panetta Down South
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was in Uruguay recently, where he spoke of the need to strengthen the southern hemisphere’s police forces. This proposed policy has a precedent, almost unknown in this country, but potentially indicative of what awaits Latin American governments willing to cooperate with their northern neighbor’s defense establishment.
- Rooms with a View of Russian Artistic History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Discussing the challenges for the small historic museums seeking to establish themselves in St. Petersburg.
- How I Became a "Recovering Documentary Filmmaker" and Learned to Reach a Wider Public
The School of Authentic Journalism Saved My Life: Your Donations Make It Possible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A look into the way that the The School of Authentic Journalism guides journalists and organizers to reach wider audiences.
- Selected Archive Projects
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A list of some archive projects concerned with grassroots movements for social justice.
- Canadian government 'knew of plans to dump iron into the Pacific'
Chief executive of company responsible for controversial geoengineering test implicates several departments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
As controversy mounts over the revelations that an American businessman conducted a massive ocean fertilisation test, dumping around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off Canada's coast, it has emerged the Canadian government may have known about the geoengineering scheme and not stopped it.
- Create a Banner Using Gimp
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A very simple tutorial teaching you, how to create a banner using Gimp.
- After the Arab spring, the struggle continues on a university campus
A dispute between a secular academic and conservative Islamists threatens the peace at a Tunisian university
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A university administrator takes a stand against religious extremism.
- Austerity and Resistance: Lessons from the 2012 Quebec Student Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The student strike in Quebec has ended, in a rather clear victory. After a seven month-long struggle — the longest of its kind in Quebec history — students have won a cancellation of the proposed tuition hike, a pledge to repeal the infamous Law 78 that had criminalized demonstrations, and the ouster of Premier Jean Charest and his Liberal government.
- Book Review: Eric Leif Davin, Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914 - 1960 (2010)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Book review on Eric Leif Davin's Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland 1914-1960.
- Book Review: John Eric Marot, The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History (2012)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This is a book review concerning a very important book, one of the very few books published since 1991 on the “Russian Question” that will compel people (this reviewer included), long wedded to different characterizations of the post-1917 or post-1929 Soviet regime, to think through their commitments.
- Book Review: Michael D. Yates, ed., Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back (2012)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Book review on Michael Yates Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back.
- Humanity Once Came to the Cliff's Edge of Total Self-Annihilation -- Let's Make Sure It Never Happens Again
Revisiting the catastrophe that almost was
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba until the crisis was officially ended -- though unknown to the public, only officially.
- Letter From Mexico City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A letter from a Mexican comrade about the specifics of the “neo-liberal” phase of capitalism in Mexico since the 1970s, and the role in it of Carlos Salinas, as Mexican president from 1988 to 1994, and subsequently.
- Marikana A Point of Rupture?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
South Africa, despite 18 years of majority rule, continues to be one of the most unequal societies on an increasingly unequal planet and is in crisis. Around half the population, mostly black Africans, live below the poverty line. Almost half of all black African households earned below R1670 a month in 2005–06, while only 2 percent of white households fell in that income bracket.
- MoD staff and thousands of military officers join arms firms
Guardian research in the aftermath of the 'jobs for generals' scandal shows extent of links between MoD and private sector
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Conflicts of interests are brought to light as senior military personnel depart the military and transition into the private sector side of the military industrial complex.
- Notes Towards a Critique of Maoism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Maoism was part of a broader movement in the twentieth century of what might be called “bourgeois revolutions with red flags,” as in Vietnam or North Korea. To understand this, it is important to see that Maoism was one important result of the defeat of the world revolutionary wave in 30 countries (including China itself) which occurred in the years after World War I. The major defeat was in Germany (1918–1921), followed by the defeat of the Russian Revolution (1921 and thereafter), culminating in Stalinism.
- Once Again on Education: Beyond Ordinary Leftism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An article exploring elements of education in the USA.
- Preliminary Observations on the Chicago Teachers' Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An insight into the Chicago's teacher strike and its victories.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
To win in war and in business requires seizing and maintaining the initiative; going on the defensive only buys time to consolidate a position, withdraw, reorient or reconstitute one's forces.
- Silences on the Suppression of Workers Self-Emancipation: Historical Problems with CLR James's Interpretation of V.I. Lenin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
CLR James believed one of his major intellectual legacies was the clarification of the wisdom of V.I. Lenin. However, James's readings fail in making Lenin's role in history and politics transparent. James's Leninism attempts to reconcile the validity of workers self-management and the aspirations of a political party to seize state power. This is in conflict with James's own genuine and original political legacy: clarifying the direct democratic gathering forces which will create the new society.
- The State and the Social Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The article deals with the systematic, pervasive web of containment of social struggles and class conflict developed by the Brazilian Workers' Party (Partido do Trabalho, or PT) over decades, beginning in the 1980s, and culminating in its ten years in state power since 2002, first under Lula (2002–2010) and now under Dilma Rousseff (2010–).
- SYMPOSIUM: Truth and Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Insurgent Notes invited members of Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) that we were able to contact and individuals of organization that we knew had been influenced by one or more of the aspects of STO's theory or practice to respond to a series of questions.
- The Common Swift - Anything but Ordinary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Most adult swifts spend almost their entire lives in the air. Except for breeding, adult swifts will typically eat, drink, sleep, and mate while flying. During nesting season, swifts are known to fly at least 560 miles per day. Many times, large groups of swifts – up to 2000 birds – will form feeding parties. These feeding parties position themselves over wetlands – lakes, river deltas, flooded areas – where small flying insects are commonly found. One of the ways in which swifts are able to fly for such long distances without landing is that they have the ability to sleep while in flight. In order to be able to sleep while flying, swifts can enter a state called unihemispheric slow-wave sleep.
- A Marxist History of the World part 97: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The reforms that Fidel Castro introduced after the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship were real, but they were bestowed from above and straitjacketed by poverty.
- Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
- Addiction and Mental Illness... The Stakes are High but the Opportunity is Great
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This week's release of the ground-breaking study 'Opening Eyes, Opening Minds: The Ontario Burden of Mental Illness and Addictions Report' provides a shocking perspective on the impact that mental illness and addiction has on the health and liv
- Seven pilot sites join national digital library project with Knight Foundation funding
Project will engage communities in local history
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Canada's Spy Groups Divulge Secret Intelligence to Energy Companies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Documents raise fears that info on environmentalists, indigenous groups and more shared with industry at biannual, secret-level, briefings.
- A Dangerous Lack of Rigor
Cross Examine Authority
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Explores two recent events reveal the lack of rigor that has come to pervade our public sphere: the failure of the UN (or anybody else) to question seriously the case for war against Iran, and the first presidential “debate.”
- One of the Greatest Environmentalists of the 20th Century
Barry Commoners RIP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Dr. Barry Commoner, equipped with a Harvard PhD in cellular biology, used his knowledge of biology, ecosystems, nuclear radiation, public communication, networking scientists, political campaigning, and community organizing to become the greatest environmentalist in the 20th century.
- Border Vigils
Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A look at immigration controversies, focusing on the migrants' circumstances.
- A comment on Greece and Syriza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This analysis is a rebuke to the notion that there is nothing between the far left and social democracy. That diagnosis may have been appropriate in the period of revolutionary growth beginning in 1968. This period, marked by the long-term decomposition of once dominant social democratic parties, is quite different.
- Germany's lost Bolshevik: Paul Levi revisited
A review of David Fernbach (ed), In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings by Paul Levi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Paul Levi’s name is almost unknown today outside a small community of specialised historians. But in the years 1919 and 1920 he was well known in Germany and abroad as the chair of the young Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He would become the most controversial figure in the German Communist movement. He was mainly responsible for building the KPD from a relatively small organisation in early 1918 into a truly mass party.
- Overwrought Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the twentieth century. You could say that they experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism -- think of it as the real “American Century” -- from World War I to the end of the Cold War, with time off for a destructive stalemate in Korea and a defeat in Vietnam too shocking to absorb or shake off.
- The Persecution of Wikileaks
Burning the Messenger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
There is a landmark case, actually more of an affair, involving the US government and WikiLeaks, the online organization that provides anonymity for sources to leak information. The US feels it has leaked too much information about the wrong country, the US.
- Shooting to Kill Immigrants on the Mexican Border
A Border Agent Fired First at Immigrant Smugglers?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Sometimes it takes a small tragedy to call attention to expose a much bigger one.
The small tragedy happened when Nicholas Ivie, a US Border Patrol agent, was shot dead on a dark night in rough terrain along the border with Mexico in Arizona, a state that has been obsessing about illegal border crossers coming into the US from Mexico seeking jobs.
- Trampling Out the Vintage
Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An of the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers and its most famous and controversial leader, Cesar Chavez.
- The Ballot and the Bullet
Election Diary, Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The 2012 Venezuelan election, like Chávez himself, is the result of something far more profound that has been developing for decades, and which has accelerated considerably in recent years.
- "Chavs", class and representation
A review of Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Chavs traces the rise of an offensive caricature of the working class: a racist hooligan, an alcoholic thug; women unable to control their vaginas, men unable to control their fists; brainless, feckless scroungers-working class people, as represented by the term chav, are nothing more than parasitic growths on society. Jones demonstrates how the figure of the chav is used to deflect blame away from the structures that create inequality onto individuals.
- In perspective: John Holloway
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
John Holloway’s Change the World Without Taking Power (2002), like that other key text of autonomist post-Marxism, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri’s Empire (2000), cut with the grain of the global anti-capitalist mood at the beginning of the millennium. More than this, Holloway’s book was the focus for important debates on the international left and deserves praise both for emphasising the link between socialism and human self-activity and for criticising the idea that the capitalist state can be used to bring about socialist change.
- Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
With the quadrennial presidential election extravaganza reaching its peak, it’s useful to ask how the political campaigns are dealing with the most crucial issues we face. The simple answer is: badly, or not at all. If so, some important questions arise: why, and what can we do about it?
- A Marxist History of the World part 96:1956: Hungary and Suez
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
1956 was a year of war, revolution, and disillusionment – a year after which nothing could ever be quite the same again.
- Indonesia's last nomadic sea gypsies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Vanishing stocks from dynamite fishing and cyanide threatens centuries-old culture of Sulawesi's gypsy sea people.
- Media Professionals Programme Launched in Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has just launched a new Media Professionals Programme for South East Asia, a groundbreaking leadership initiative to help mid-level media managers
- Adivasi Movements in India: An Interview with Poet Waharu Sonavane
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Waharu is a Bhil Adivasi, long-time poet and activist. Since the 1970s, he has been organizing for Adivasi self-sufficiency among his community near his hometown in western India.
- Even Blinder
With 19 states deprived of exit polls, the blind are even blinder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
According to the "father of exit polling," the late Warren Mitofsky, exit polls are intended solely for academic analysis of voting patterns and opinions (e.g., what did 25 to 34 year-old white males regard as the most important issue?) and not as any sort of check on the validity of the votecounts. Unless, of course, you are anywhere else on Earth (other than America), where exit polls are routinely employed, often with the sanction of the government of the United States, as just such a check mechanism, and have frequently led to official calls for electoral investigations and indeed electoral re-dos.
- 14 Years of Injustice
Time to Free the Cuban Five
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Five Cubans fighting terrorism in south Florida have served 14 years of prison, more than enough time for the US public to learn from its media about the horrific injustice done by the US government to these Cuban men. But the media has barely touched the grotesque frame up of the Cuban Five.
- The Make-Believe Crisis in Iran
More lies and Misinformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Iranian nuclear program scenario has been in place for years and is becoming tedious, but we now seem to have arrived at a new plateau of mass hysteria thanks to the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign. Why?
- Passion, Perversion, and Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Folson Street Fair is the centerpiece of a growing number of gatherings of formally illicit or deviant sexual practices that are taking place across the country. In the 2012 election, sexuality - especially abortion and homosexuality - is a critical issue. The election is about values, a choice between two ethical standards. Once again, Americans have to choose between the humane, the secular, and the religious.
- 10 Shocking Incidents of Police Brutality Caught on Tape
Finally, a Reason to Like CCTV
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The internet is full of videos exposing police officers’ use of excessive physical force when trying to apprehend or detain “potential criminals”. Every year in fact there seems to be an increase in YouTube video uploads, video views, and news stories depicting this type of injustice.
- The Unbelievable Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement And Punishment for as Little as Reading a Book
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The majority of those in solitary confinement were given the punishment for nonviolent, low-level offenses such as having unauthorized books or disobeying an order or growing their mustaches too long.
- Year of the Strike
A Short Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A short story about a boy's money-making scheme during the year his father and other workers go on strike at the town glass factory.
- America Likes Democracy, Except In Venezuela
Chavez in the Crosshairs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Venezuelans can be sure that their vote counts. The government in Venezuela has done everything to increase voter registration and participation.
- Climate Fast: Rae Signs, Will Mulcair Sign? Environment Minister Kent is a No Show
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Climate Fasters end their 12 day fast, tired but elated as pledges of support continue to flow in. Solidarity vigils held in Toronto, Halifax and Salt Springs.
- On the Second Coming of Religion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The question we should ask is not just: ‘What is it about religion that makes people believe or behave in certain ways?’ It is also: ‘What is it about contemporary societies that draws many people, both religious and non-religious, towards nihilistic, narcissistic, anti-modern forms of belief?’
- Our Land, Our Lives
Time Out On The Global Land Rush
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In the past decade an area of land eight times the size of the UK has been sold off globally as land sales rapidly accelerate. This land could feed a billion people equivalent to the number of people who go to bed hungry each night. In poor countries, foreign investors have been buying an area of land the size of London every six days. With food prices spiking for the third time in four years, interest in land could accelerate again as rich countries try to secure their food supplies and investors see land as a good long-term bet.
- Radical Simplicity And The Middle Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A description of what a life of radical simplicity might look like suggesting radical simplicity is appealing, provided that the transition was anticipated and widely negotiated.
- Le site denonciateur RCILeaks.Org gagne sa bataille en Islande pour la liberte de paroles contre une firme immigrant investisseur canadienne
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Le site irreverencieux canadien RCILeaks.Org et son fournisseur de services internet islandais OrangeWebsite.com, ont gagne un combat judiciaire sans precedent sur la liberte d'expression a la Cour de district de Reykjavik.
- Whistle blower site RCILeaks.Org wins Icelandic free-speech court battle against Canadian immigrant investor firm
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Irreverent Canadian corporate whistleblower site RCILeaks.Org, and its Icelandic internet service provider OrangeWebsite.com, have won a landmark free speech court battle in the Reykjavik District Court.
- Whose Archive? Whose History? Destruction of Archives at Ruskin College, Oxford
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A repository of lived experience of the trade union and labour movement of the twentieth century is being deliberately trashed.
- The Marketing Hierarchy of Trust
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
How many people or organizations have marketing strategies that boil down to self-serving claims of greatness? How effective are these LinkedIn profiles, ads, websites, TV commercials, or billboards? Talking about how great you are doesn't sound good
- Palestine Freedom Battle "will be won": Interview with Author Miko Peled
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An interview with Miko Peled, the Israeli author of The General’s Son.
- A Short History of Black Voter Suppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Right's organized movement to suppress the votes of African Americans and Latin Americans, and the urban and rural poor by means of the passing of voter ID (Poll Tax) laws in states receives no mention in the dominant media.
- Why Opposing Islamophobia is not a Defense of Extremism
Standing Up Against Knee-Jerk Discrimination and Xenophobia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Recent events have generated a lot of debate about Islam, Muslims, free speech and Islamophobia. Unfortunately, much of that debate has fallen back upon rather tired arguments about not only what "Muslims are like" but also how those who oppose Islamophobia are somehow defending repression or appeasing extremists.
- The American Way of Eating
Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Why do working Americans eat the way we do? And what can we do to change it? To find out, McMillan went undercover in three jobs that feed hte U.S., living and eating off her wages in each. Reporting from California fields, a Walmart produce aisle outside of Detroit, and the kitchen of a New York City Applebee’s, McMillan examines the reality of the American food industry.
- Arab Jews vs. Palestinians: Israel's Refugee Pawns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Israel's attempt to compare Arab Jews to Palestinian refugees.
- Bob Rae to Visit ClimateFast
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In the final hours of their 12 day Fast, Climate Fasters welcome more MP's, bringing the total to 18 so far to sign the pledge board. Bob Rae and Nathan Cullen expected later today.
- Barry Commoner 1917-2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Barry Commoner, biologist, environmental, socialist, humanist, and one of the central leaders of the anti-nuclear-testing movement, dies at 95. He is particularly remembered for the “Four Laws of Ecology” he laid out in his book The Closing Circle: (1) Everything is connected to everything else. (2) Everything must go somewhere. (3) Nature knows best. (4) There is no such thing as a free lunch.
- Day 12 of the Fast - Still Hungry for Climate Change
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Fasters Enter Day 12 of Climate Fast hungry, tired, but jubilant as pledges begin to roll in. Solidarity is growing all across Canada, with vigils in Halifax, Toronto, and Salt Spring Island, BC.
- The Ice Melts Into Water
Arctic Ice Melt, Psychopathic Capitalism And The Corporate Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Last month, climate scientists announced that Arctic sea ice had shrunk to its smallest surface area since satellite observations began in 1979. An ice-free summer in the Arctic, once projected to be more than a century away, now looks possible just a few decades from now. Some scientists say it may happen within the next few years.
- New Gluten-Free Agency - Experienced Marketers and Gluten-Free Experts Collaborate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An innovative Toronto communications agency has formed to fill an important gap in the gluten-free market. Comprised of healthcare, nutrition and advertising consulting professionals, The Gluten-Free Agency offers a complete package of marketing
- Eric Hobsbawm 1917-2012
Historian in the Marxist tradition with a global reach
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The historian Eric Hobsbawm dies at 95.
- A Marxist History of the World part 95: Oil, Zionism, and Western Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
British support for the Zionist movement led to the foundation of Israel in 1948. In conjunction with US imperialism, the Israeli state is an enduring source of oppression in the Middle East.
- Classic Book: Frankenstein
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A look at the continuing relevance of Mary Shelley's classic to debates about science, technology and nature today.
- Community Organising - A New Part of the Union
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A look at Unite’s community union organizing.
- Copyright policies threaten internet use in Panama and Colombia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
After years of being one of the most progressive regions in the world in terms of balanced copyright policy, Latin America is unfortunately sliding into copyright maximalism, enacting increasingly restrictive copyright enforcement measures into their federal laws.
- Paraguay: A well-rehearsed coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The story behind the overthrow of Paraguayuan President Fernando Lugo.
- US Military Brands Assange, WikiLeaks As "The Enemy"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Secret US Air Force documents reveal that the American military has branded WikiLeaks and its editor Julian Assange as "the enemy", placing them on a legal par with Al Qaeda and threatening them with the same treatment: indefinite detention without trial, and death.
- Why Are We The Good Guys?
Reclaiming Your Mind From The Delusions Of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that we are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement. But the prevailing view is that the West is essentially a force for good in the wider world. Why Are We The Good Guys? is a provocative challenge of this false ideology.
- Why The Language of the Commons Matters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Our very language for identifying problems and imagining solutions has been compromised. We may have many unattractive human traits fueled by individual fears and ego, but we are also creatures entirely capable of self-organization, cooperation, a concern for fairness and social justice, and sacrifice for the larger good and future generations.
- The Rain On Our Parade
A Letter To My Dismal Allies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
O rancid sector of the far left, please stop your grousing! Compared to you, Eeyore sounds like a Teletubby. If I gave you a pony, you would not only be furious that not everyone has a pony, but you would pick on the pony for not being radical enough until it wept big, sad, hot pony tears. Because what we're talking about here is not an analysis, a strategy, or a cosmology, but an attitude, and one that is poisoning us. Not just me, but you, us, and our possibilities.
- Anti-Yiddish Riots: September 27, 1930
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A mob of several thousand Jews protested outside the Mograbi Theater in Tel Aviv on this date in 1930 against the screening of one of the first feature-length Yiddish-language talkie movies,“My Jewish Mother”.
- Collective Memory, Archives, and the Connexions project
Michael Riordon interviews Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An interview with Ulli Diemer about the Connexions project, collective memory, and the importance of archives and the challenges faced by those who work to preserve them.
- How Israel Abuses Africans
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Part 2 of 3 - interview with community activist Rami Gudovitch about state-sponsored Israeli racism towards non-Jewish Africah asylum-seekers.
- Nestlé: Malevolent Corporation Capitalizes on Global Water Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Demand for water is outstripping supply at an accelerating rate. Nestlé’s goal is to shift government policy away from providing public municipal water supplies to people, and toward a dependency on bottled water to provide basic drinking water.
- 9 Things to Track in Social Media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Is Social Media actually paying off? Is it worth the effort? To answer this question, you would need to have numbers to back up your claims. Do you?
- Bad Pharma
How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own drugs, which distort and exaggerate the benefits by design. When these trials produce unflattering results, the data is simply buried.
- 8 key questions and answers about the Margaret Wente plagiarism scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
After a disconcerting summer that saw prominent American journalists accused of plagiarism and fabrication, Canada is currently in the throes of its own high-profile ethics scandal. A series of concerns have been raised about Margaret Wente, national columnist with The Globe And Mail.
- Racism in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Reports of anti-African race riots in Tel Aviv in May finally broke western media silence over one of the most contentious issues facing the state of Israel in recent years: the arrival of tens of thousands of asylum-seekers from sub-Saharan Africa.
- US Consulate Killings - Spontaneous Religious or Planned Political?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
On September 11, four Americans, including the US ambassador, were killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The following day, the BBC's Lunchtime News reported that the killings were part of 'disturbances' which were 'linked to an anti-Islamic video'. The BBC's News at Six explained that the US ambassador was killed 'in a protest'. This was mild language indeed given that the consulate had been attacked with assault rifles, hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.
- A Marxist History of the World part 94: End of Empire?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In spite of the imperialist powers' attempts to cling on to their colonies, formal empire was finished by the late 1970s. But this was not the end of imperialism.
- Six Nations and Dundalk Fight Corporate Crap
Why We Should All Support Their Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Dundalk is situated at the highest elevation in Ontario, the headwaters of both the Grand and Saugeen rivers, and sits on land deeded to the Six Nations through the Haldimand Proclamation of 1763. Despite the ecological importance of the region and the outstanding land claim, the municipal council and a corporation are attempting to force through a plan to build a “bio-solids” processing facility just a stone’s throw from the town.
- In Defense of Free Speech
It's Easier to Blame Bad Filmmakers Than to Address Massive War Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The answer to speech you disagree with is … (drum roll) … MORE SPEECH.
- Why It’s Ethical to Eat Meat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Eating meat in specific circumstances is ethical; eating meat raised in other circumstances is unethical.
- A Do-It-Yourself Guide to SEO
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
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- Billionaires & Ballot Bandits
How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Could a close presidential election in the United States come down to contested states or even districts -- and an election decided by vote theft? It could happen, says Greg Palast.
- Islamophobia, Left and Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
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Should Muslims be worried about rising Islamophobia? Of course they should! Anti-Islam bigotry is becoming a key element of the revival of the far Right – a Right that doesn’t merely slander Muslims but also takes action against them.
- Landmines still exacting a heavy toll on Vietnamese civilians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
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37 years on, unexploded bombs continue to ruin lives in the former wartime frontline regions of Vietnam.
- Peel Region's Decision to Close Child Care Centres Will Increase Access to Care
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2012
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Peel Region's decision to withdraw from the direct delivery of child care servies will increase access to licensed care by making more funds available to families in need of fee subsidy.
- Why Are We The Good Guys? - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
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One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that ‘we’ are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement. But the prevailing view is that 'the West' is essentially a force for good in the wider world. Why Are We The Good Guys? is a provocative challenge to this false ideology.
- FBI Continues To Foil Its Own Devised Terrorist Plots
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
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It seems there's a new pattern showing itself every time I read a news report in which the FBI proudly announces it foiled a terrorist plot. That pattern goes something like this: hear that a huge explosion was averted and lives were saved, find out the plotter was an American citizen, find out he was under investigation by the FBI for several years, and then finally find out that it was the FBI that egged on the suspect and built his "bomb" for him. In other words, the only way these things could become less impressive is if the FBI actually decided to quit finding these loner folks to urge into violence and just built their own physical straw man to parade in front of the cameras.
- The Man Who Was Chemically Tortured
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The torture of David Hicks at Guantanamo.
- A Marxist History of the World part 93: Maoist China
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After the revolution of 1949, the Chinese Communists resorted to state capitalism to force the country’s industrialisation. The consequences were disastrous.
- Little regard for poor countries
Re: Factory fires fill 314 in Pakistan
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The lack of regard for the poorer countries in our world and their citizens, including workers, continues.
- Here We Go Again
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One thing should be clear. The violence across the Muslim world in response to an American anti-Islamic film has nothing to do with that film. Yes, The Inocence of Muslims is a risibly crude diatribe against Islam, but the violence is being driven less by religious fury than by political calculation. In Libya, Egypt and elsewhere, the crisis is being fostered by hardline Islamists in an attempt to seize the political initiative in a period of transition and turmoil. The film is almost incidental to this process. The real struggle is not between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between different shades of Islamists, between hardline factions and more mainstream ones.
- Mass Incarceration and Black Oppression in America
The New Jim Crow and Liberal Reformism
Resource Type: Article
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The singular focus on mass incarceration as the embodiment of racial oppression has a purpose: it poses the fight for black freedom as a matter of "dismantling" that system, much as the civil rights movement dismantled Jim Crow. But mass black incarceration is both a symptom and a means of enforcing the special oppression of black people that is fundamental to American capitalism
- False positives: fraud and misconduct are threatening scientific research
High-profile cases and modern technology are putting scientific deceit under the microscope
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Better detection tools and a rising retraction rate suggest scientific fraud may be widespread.
- Moken nomads leave behind their 'sea gypsy' life for a modern existence
Brought to the world's attention by the 2004 tsunami, the seafaring tribe is struggling to reconcile tradition and modernity
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The Moken, deep-sea divers off Thailand, find their way of life threatened by modern trawlers and voracious property developers.
- How to See If Your Photos Are Being Used On Another Site
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
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This trick will allow you to do a "Reverse Image Search" for any photo from your blog, or any photo you've uploaded on the internet, to see a list of all the other sites where this photo appears.
- Criminalizing Truancy
Should Kids be Jailed for Skipping School?
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American jurisdictions are increasingly turning to the criminal justice system to deal with truancy. Students and parents are being fined, and in some cases jailed, for missing school.
- Unlawful Dissent
New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
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The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
- America: Becoming a Land Without Farmers
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In rural America fewer than 3 percent of farmers make more than 63 percent of the money, including government subsidies. The results of this emerging feudal economy are everywhere. Large areas of the United States are becoming impoverished farm towns with abandoned farmhouses and deserted land. More and more of the countryside has been devoted to massive factory farms and plantations.
- The Mortal Sea
Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
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Reveals the long history of warnings against overfishing and that the sea is not an 'infinite resource'.
- A Marxist History of the World part 92: The Great Boom
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In the first three decades after the war, the world economy experienced unprecedented growth rates and falling unemployment. But the boom rested on unstable foundations.
- Canada's Only All-Franchise Show Comes to Vancouver September 22 & 23, 2012
Sources News Release
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The Franchise Show, produced by the Canadian Franchise Association, runs in Vancounver on September 22 & 23, 2012. Western Canada's Only All-Franchise exhibition with exceptional franchise brands and free educational seminars about franchising.
- Incarcerated Inside Israel
Palestinians Tortured and Isolated
Resource Type: Article
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Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care, such is the Israeli judicial system and prison confinement experienced by Palestinian men, women and indeed children.
- On Describing the Other
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My criticism is not primarily about Judith Butler’s style; it is principally about the substance of her arguments and, more broadly, of poststructuralist arguments. I am not opposed to ‘difficult’ writing. There are many philosophers with whom it repays to work through the difficulties, the obscurities and the obtuseness; Hegel, for instance, even Heidegger in parts. Butler, in my eyes at least, is not such a philosopher.
- A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
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Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places.
- Why aid projects in Palestine are doomed to fail
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So long as aid in Palestine remains detached from the everyday realities of occupation and operates on the aggressor’s terms, it will continue to be ineffective.
- BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored
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Anyone using file-sharing service BitTorrent to download the latest film or music release is likely to be monitored, UK-based researchers suggest. A Birmingham University study indicates that a file-sharer downloading popular content would be logged by a monitoring firm within three hours.
- The Oil Road
Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
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A look at a particular oil pipeline and its history, both locally and as a part of the global oil industry.
- Intellectual Charlatans & Academic Witch-Hunters
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Butler’s work has always divided critics. While some view her as a courageous and innovative thinker, others view her as an intellectual charlatan.
- World's conservation hopes rest on Ecuador's revolutionary Yasuni model
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A plan to preserve the most biodiverse region on Earth from oil exploitation has put Yasuni national park at the frontline of a global battle between living systems and fossil fuels. But enthusiasm is cooling and this bold project may now be at as much at risk as the wildlife itself.
- A Marxist History of the World part 91: The Cold War
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The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away.
- All Over the Map
A Revolution in Cartography
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On the effects of the digital revolution in cartography, including a discussion of Ken Jennings' Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks and Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas.
- American Poetry's "Labor Problem" - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 160
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Book review of 'Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry' by John Marsh.
- A Bend in the Labyrinth - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 160
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Book review of 'The Century’s Midnight: Dissenting European and American Writers in the Era of the Second World War' by Clive Bush.
- The Brutal Tragedy at Marikana
Against The Current vol. 160
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The following statement, “A Brutal Tragedy that Never Should Have Happened,” was issued by the editors of Amandla! immediately following the August 16 shooting of striking miners.
- Chicago Teachers' Strike Looms
Against The Current vol. 160
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Whether or not the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) will strike this September is an open question. But the issues they raise are gaining national attention.
- The Common Language of Adrienne Rich
Against The Current vol. 160
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Eminent poet, essayist, lesbian and feminist Adrienne Cecile Rich died on March 27, 2012.
- The Co-operative Revolution
A Graphic Novel
Resource Type: Book
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To celebrate the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives, The Co-operative Group has created a graphic novel, depicting the history, scale and diversity of co-operation.
- Crisis in the Eurozone
Resource Type: Book
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A controversial call to break up the Eurozone and stop the debt crisis.
- Faruq Z. Bey, 1942-2012
Against The Current vol. 160
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Faruq Z. Bey, the recently deceased saxophonist, poet and visionary, was at the heart of a tremendous ensemble in the 1970s and ’80s called Griot Galaxy.
- Further on Marikana Miners
Against The Current vol. 160
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The circumstances surrounding the mass murder in Marikana, and the political wildfire it unleashed for the African National Congress and the trade union movement, are the subject of an ongoing discussion within the South African and international left. Background material on the South African political climate.
- General Strikes, Mass Strikes
Against The Current vol. 160
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Inspired by the boldness of the movement, activists of Occupy Oakland issued a “call for a general strike” in that city for November 2 — a sign of the movement’s radicalism and its sense of where social power lies.
- The Green Party Campaign
Against The Current vol. 160
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War, civil liberties and racism aren’t even part of the Democratic-Republican debate. When addressing issues of the economy, the two major parties present competing versions of austerity for the working class. The Green Party is showing that their party is willing to confront these issues head on.
- Invaluable History and Important Lessons - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 160
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Book review of 'The Party: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988. A Political Memoir. Volume 2: Interregnum, Decline and Collapse, 1973-1988' by Barry Sheppard.
- The Left and South Africa's Crisis
Against The Current vol. 160
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An interview with Brian Ashley, the editor of the South African journal AMANDLA!
- Letter to the Editors
Against The Current vol. 160
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An emergency room physician explains why he supports Roe v. Wade and consequently does not support Mitt Romney.
- The Life and Memory of Elizabeth Catlett
Against The Current vol. 160
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In January 2011 The Bronx Museum presented “Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists” to explore what art historian Isolde Brielmaier describes as the “beauty, aesthetic excellence, conceptual strength, and inventive stance of Catlett’s work throughout time.”
- Mapping the African-American Literary Left - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 160
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Book review of 'The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960' by Lawrence Jackson.
- Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: 'I don't scare easily'
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Lydia Cacho is one of Mexico's most fearless journalists. Her investigations have led to attempts on her life, and now she has been forced to flee her country. What next?
- The Only Game in Town
An Unlikely Comeback for Dying Newspapers
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First Published: 2012
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Private newspaper owners have vaulted themselves into a historically unique situation, which enables them to sculpt the news to serve their personal interests while circumventing the costs that come with true adverserial journalism.
- Social Movements in South Africa
Against The Current vol. 160
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First Published: 2012
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Investigation into the current political movements in South Africa.
- The SP's Roots and Legacy: In the American Grain - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 160
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Book review of 'American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W.E.B. Du Bois' by Mark W. Van Wienen.
- Supreme Court Storm Clouds
Against The Current vol. 160
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Editorial regarding the politics surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court and its position for the coming 2012 election.
- SWP: Long March to Oblivion - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 160
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First Published: 2012
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Book review of 'The Party: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988. A Political Memoir. Volume 2: Interregnum, Decline and Collapse, 1973-1988' by Barry Sheppard.
- There Was a Country
A Personal History of Biafra
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
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A coming of age account, set against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War, or the Biafran War, of 1967-1970.
- A "Tunisia Moment" Coming?
Against The Current vol. 160
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A prominent commentator and a brother of the former president, Moeletsi Mbeki caused a major stir last year when he announced that South Africa is headed for a “Tunisia Moment.”
- Why Race Matters in the 2012 Elections
Against The Current vol. 160
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We sometimes hear that the drive by the Republican Party and the far right to "suppress the vote" -- attempting to ensure the election of a Republican president and win control of the Congress -- is just hardball politics, not about race or racism. Yet the primary target is people of color.
- Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
Sources News Release
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Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
- The modern US army: unfit for service?
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Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is as likely to be a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit.
- Abortion and Conscience
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I am as in favour of a woman’s right to abortion as I am hostile to Creationism. I recognize, however, a fundamental difference between insisting that all biology teachers teach the theory of evolution and forcing a doctor to perform an abortion against his or her will. I recognize, too, a fundamental difference between defending a woman’s right to choose and insisting that this includes the right to compel a doctor to perform an abortion. Not to recognise such distinctions is to distort the very idea of morality.
- Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents
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First Published: 2012
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Morgan Marquis-Boire works as a Google engineer and Bill Marczak is earning a Ph.D. in computer science. But this summer, the two men have been moonlighting as detectives, chasing an elusive surveillance tool from Bahrain across five continents.
- How to Start a Magazine
The Basics
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A list of practical suggestions for starting a magazine via several frequently asked questions by new and would-be publishers.
- Alternative Media is an Absolute Necessity!!
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By now most people that have been paying close attention to the traditional media and made some attempt to look at other sources know that the traditional media is controlled by corporate interests and they’re financed by commercials that create a strong bias not to expose the corruption of those that advertise with them.
- On Translating Securityspeak into English
In the Land of False Cognates
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The Security State has its own language: Securityspeak. Like Newspeak, the ideologically refashioned successor to English in Orwell’s “1984,” Securityspeak is designed to obscure meaning and conceal truth, rather than convey them.
- Rachel Corrie's Death is Not Merely "Regrettable Accident"
Sources News Release
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IJV condemns Israeli court decision absolving army of responsibility in death of Rachel Corrie.
- Israeli Muppet New Spokesman for Israel's Potential War on Iran
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- A Marxist History of the World part 90: The Second World War: resistance
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Large parts of Occupied Europe were liberated by local resistance movements. But the potential for a revolutionary transformation was smothered at birth.
- The village where people have dementia -- and fun
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First Published: 2012
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How is society to look after the ever-growing number of people with dementia? A curiously uplifting care home near Amsterdam may have the answers.
- Liberties and Commons for All
Preface to the Korean Edition of Magna Carta Manifesto
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Liberties and Commons for All expresses two aspects of the ancient English Charters of Liberty; first is the restraint on political power of the King, second is the protection of subsistence in the commons.
- The Dark Side Of The "Green Economy"
Why some indigenous groups and environmentalists are saying no to the "green economy"
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Just a few years ago, the term "green economy" referred to economies that are locally based, climate friendly, and low-impact. But since the global economic meltdown began in 2007, the green economy has come to mean something more akin to the wholesale privatization of nature.
- The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism
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First Published: 2012
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Four years ago, a barely noticed Pentagon document, leaked by WikiLeaks, described how WikiLeaks and Assange would be destroyed with a smear campaign leading to "criminal prosecution". We are witnessing the implementation of that plan.
- Religous Freedom and Authoritarian Atheists
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First Published: 2012
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Many contemporary atheists adopt an unpleasantly authoritarian stance. Many now demand, in the name of ‘reason’ or ‘science’, state restrictions or bans on views that might cause ‘harm’. It is a strange attitude for those who supposedly believe in free speech and free thought.
- Scattered Sand
The Story of China's Rural Migrants
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce — “scattered sand,” in Chinese parlance — and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.
- 'The Man Who Knew Everyone' - Gore Vidal Through The Eyes Of The One Per Cent Press
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First Published: 2012
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Since Gore Vidal's death the corporate media have had nothing serious to say about his political dissent warning against the dominance of corporate power. As Vidal himself put it: ‘The bullshit just flows and flows and flows, and the American media is so corrupt and so tied into it that it never questions it.’
- 'Toronto' Is An Iroquois Word
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The author tries to make the case that southern Ontario is historically Haudenosaunee (Iroqouis) territory. She conflates the term 'Iroquoian,' meaning the larger language and cultural grouping, with the narrower term 'Iroquois,' which refers specifically to the Five (later Six) Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. In doing so, she tries to make it seem that the Huron who inhabited much of Southern Ontario until they were invaded and destroyed by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in the 1640s, were just another branch of the Iroquois Confederacy. She dismisses the Anishinabe, who moved into southern Ontario after defeating the Iroquois Confederacy in the late 1600s, as latercomers whose oral histories, and claims to Southern Ontario should not be taken seriously.
- A Marxist History of the World part 89: 1941-1945: barbarism in a world gone mad
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First Published: 2012
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The Second World War was characterised by primeval savagery. Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Militarist Japan waged war with unprecedented brutality, but the ‘democracies’ also committed terrible war crimes.
- Independent Jewish Voices commends United Church for finalizing stand against Israeli occupation
Sources News Release
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IJV supports United Church for taking courageous stand against Israeli occupation.
- Jewish human rights group applauds United Church decision on Israeli settlements
Sources News Release
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IJV applauds United Church decision to boycott settlement products.
- Canada's Largest Fitness Event - canfitpro Consumer Fitness + Wellness Show in Toronto
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2012
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See Simon Whitfield, in his first public appearance following the 2012 London
Olympics, at the canfitpro Consumer Fitness + Wellness Show presented by Oxygen Magazine on Saturday, August 18, 2012.
- Chatting with Chomsky
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First Published: 2012
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The linguistics professor, political theorist and activist discusses the Occupy movement, Obama’s first term and the economic crisis in Europe.
- Slavery still shackles Mauritania, 31 years after its abolition
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First Published: 2012
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Rigid caste system and ruling elite have enabled a centuries-old practice to continue into the 21st century.
- Why truck driving is one of the deadliest jobs in America
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First Published: 2012
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What incredibly important profession combines horrible hours, bad pay, and a poor lifestyle? Truck driving. This is a job that destroys so many lives that it could soon become unsustainable.
- How to Spot - and Defeat - Disruption on the Internet
The 15 Rules of Web Disruption
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First Published: 2012
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Over a number of years, we've found that the most effective way to fight disruption and disinformation is to link to a post such as this one which rounds up disruption techniques, and then to cite the disinfo technique you think is being used.
- A Marxist History of the World part 88: The Second World War
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First Published: 2012
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With the great powers fighting to defend their empires, the Second World War would re-divide the world between competing blocs of capitalists.
- Wade Michael Page and the rise of violent far-right extremism
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First Published: 2012
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The man who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was not just a crazed loner, but a vocal neo-Nazi – in fact, his white supremacist ideology reflected a growing form of extremism that expresses its strength through violence rather than at the ballot box.
- Bussy-Saint-Georges, the town with built-in religious harmony
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First Published: 2012
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Planners hope construction of a multi-faith district will bring together the citizens of a new town near Paris.
- Usain Bolt wins gold in 100 m final - brick-by-brick video
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First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Lego summary of 100 metre final.
- A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
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First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes – until German power became overwhelming.
- Out of Bounds
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First Published: 2012
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Why do we talk so much about hate speech these days? Largely because hate speech has become a way of rebranding extremist ideas to stress their moral content; in other words, of rebranding obnoxious political claims as immoral arguments. Where once we might have challenged such sentiments politically, today we are more likely to seek criminal sanctions to outlaw them.
- Cruise industry chafes at regulation that would help clean up Alaska's air
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First Published: 2012
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The cruise ship Sapphire Princess will emit the same amount of sulphur dioxide as 13.1m cars as it takes its guests from Whittier, Alaska to Glacier Bay and eventually Vancouver.
- From the Ruins of Empire
The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Pankaj Mishra's fascinating, highly entertaining new book tells the story of a remarkable group of men from across the continent who met the challenge of the West.
- In Defence of the Terror
Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A discussion about the causes and consequences of revolutionary violence, with the premise that dismissive disgust at bloodshed is an overly simplistic response.
- Occupation Diaries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An inside look at daily life in Palestine.
- Banacol: A company implicated paramilitarism and land grabbing in Curvarado and Jiguamiando
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This study focuses on the International Banacol Marketing Corporation’s actions in the Afro-Colombian and Mestizo communities’ collective territories of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó in the Lower Atrato region of Chocó, Colombia.
- America's Baleful Worldwide Pressure
The Way the Wind Blows
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The overweening arrogance of the United States in conduct of its foreign relations is evident throughout the world.
- Journalist serving 150-day jail term for insulting Hungarian far-right politician
Sources News Release
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Reporters Without Borders condemns the 150-day jail sentence that a Serbian journalist received for allegedly insulting a Hungarian far-right politician.
- The New Police Surveillance State
The Rising Price of Political Assembly
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First Published: 2012
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Police are increasingly being deployed to restrict if not prevent mass political actions, especially directed at the banks.
- South African journalists probed over scandal coverage
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2012
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South African authorities should immediately drop a criminal investigation against three newspaper journalists who have sought to report details on a multi-billion-dollar arms scandal, the Committee to Protect Journalists says.
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and SOURCES
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Stories turn out better with SOURCES.
- Broken Heartland
The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains
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Today, the idea of a return to nature, which a pair of academics named Frank and Deborah Popper, first described twenty five years ago in a scholarly article entitled "The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust," has become central to almost any conversation about the region's future.
- Greece: Syriza Shines a Light
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First Published: 2012
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Like a swan moving forward with relaxed confidence while paddling furiously beneath the surface, Syriza, the radical left coalition that could become the next government of Greece, is facing enormous challenges calmly but with intensifed activity.
- Hiroshima & Nagasaki Commemorations in Toronto
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2012
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Toronto's commemoration for the 67th Anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. 'TORONTO FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPONS-FREE WORLD' on August 9, 2012, 6:15 PM at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto (behind the Eaton Centre).
- A Marxist History of the World part 86: The Spanish Civil War
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First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In 1936, after General Franco had led an unsuccessful coup against a democratically elected government, revolution swept across Spain. Neil Faulkner explains why the workers were ultimately defeated.
- For journalists, danger lurking in your email
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First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Citizen Lab provided a disturbing look into the likely use of a commercial surveillance program, FinFisher, to remotely invade and control the computers of Bahraini activists. After the software installs itself onto unsuspecting users' computer, it can record and relay emails, screenshots, and Skype audio conversations.
- IFJ and EFJ Demand End to Pressure on Journalists in Ukraine
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), today demanded that the Ukraine President put end to the prosecution of online newspaper LB.ua and channel TVi.
- A United Lubicon Lake Nation Faces Continuing Threat of Canadian Unlawful Intervention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Lubicon Lake Nation have fought multi-national corporations, environmental devastation and attempts to divide and conquer them, walking away as victors and as international champions of Indigenous rights.
- A United Lubicon Lake Nation Faces Continuing Threat of Canadian Unlawful Intervention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
On Wednesday, July 26th the Nation was blindsided by the Government of Canada which met with a few people outside of Lubicon territory in what they declared was a meeting to discuss Lubicon issues.
- Why is everyone on the Internet so angry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A perfect storm engenders online rudeness, including virtual anonymity and thus a lack of accountability, physical distance and the medium of writing.
- Profit by Fiat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The current bond rigging scandal, in which banks colluded to rig bids on municipal bonds, was a scam that the banks learned from the mafia, who in turn learned it from the Rockfellers and tehri partners in crime.
- The Anti-Semitism That Goes Unreported
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Our grandparents knew that the order-enforcement authorities wouldn't intervene to help a Jewish family under attack; we know that the Israel Defense Forces, the Israel Police, the Civil Administration, the Border Police and the courts all stand on the sidelines, closing their eyes, softballing investigations, ignoring evidence, downplaying the severity of the acts, protecting the attackers, and giving a boost to those progromtchiks. The hands behind these attacks belong to Israeli Jews who violate international law by living in the West Bank. But the aims and goals behind the attacks are the flesh and blood of the Israeli non-occupation. This systemic violence is part of the existing order. It complements and facilitates the violence of the regime.
- The Careerists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colourless human beings.
- The Right Kind Of Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
When is an act of terrorism not terrorism? When the victims are officially sanctioned state enemies.
- Three Big Lies of the Super-Rich
Why Being in the Highest Class Doesn't Mean You're a High Class Person
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The conservative spin of the media is designed to protect the rich from challenge.
- Trying to change the world?
We can help.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Getting your story across is an uphill battle when you’re challenging the status quo.
SOURCES can help you get your message out.
- Why is India so bad for women?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Of all the G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. How is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world's largest democracy?
- Censorship? Haaretz Deletes Amira Hass Article On Surging Settler Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Israel’s Haaretz has mysteriously deleted a powerful article by Amira Hass headlined “The anti-Semitism that goes unreported,” about an unchecked upsurge in violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers.
- Destroying the Commons
How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
- A Marxist History of the World part 85: June 1936: the French general strike and factory occupations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In the mid-1930s French workers launched a wave of strikes and occupations. Neil Faulkner explains how the Stalinised Communist Party worked to contain this resistance.
- Censorship? Haaretz Deletes Amira Hass Article On Surging Settler Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Israeli newspaper Haaretz deleted a significant article by Amira Hass headlined "The anti-Semitism that goes unreported," about an unchecked upsurge in violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers. The original article by Hass is available on ZComm.
- Solving problems the Rob Ford way
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Berlin's oldest squatters in town defend threatened community centre
Pensioners take a stand against development of their comunity centre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Dozen of pensioners took over a community centre in the east Berlin suburb of Pankow last month after the local council said the building they had used as a community centre for 15 years had to make way for real estate development.
- US news media to be monitored to curb leaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A series of leak leads U.S. officials to take additional measures to stop the public from learning about government secrets.
- Should women have the right to go topless in public?
An Interview With NYC's Topless Activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Moira Johnston wants to "expand the vocabulary and definition" of breasts: "They can be non-sexual in any culture."
- 'The Death of Evidence' in Canada: Scientists' Own Words
Data distorted for 'propaganda' and other complaints against the Harper government made at last week's Ottawa rally
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Five Reasons the Super-Rich Need Big Government
The Real Welfare Kings and Queens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Taxes represent payment for society’s many benefits, which get bigger and better as people get richer.
- How Not to Get Eaten When the Dinosaurs Escape from their Cages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The risks of moving too quickly to occupy TV stations, and “Suggestions for Radicals” who are in for the long haul.
- A Marxist History of the World part 84: State Capitalism in Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
By the end of the 1920s, Stalin's party-state apparatus had become the dominant force in Russian society. A bureaucratic ruling class was formed, and all forms of dissent and resistance were treated as crimes against the state
- Sources: International Guide to the Best Sources and Experts
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- End the Prison-Industrial Complex, Now!
A Moral and Political Crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In both political and moral terms, ending this prison industrial complex system is an imperative. As in the 1950s and 1960s, we must organize, mobilize and go into the streets. The existing system is the problem, not the solution.
- In Remembrance of Things Lost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
It’s astonishing that I actually have to make an argument (and a losing one at that) against murdering children, but this is the reality we ourselves have given birth to.
- The Meaning of Mondragon
Fantasties and (Possible) Realities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
We can apply lessons learned from the extensive experience of worker self-management to encourage their unrealized radicality.
- Through the Labyrinth of Steel Doors
A Weekend in Texas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Visiting a friend in a Texas prison.
- Information Overload
Driving a Stake Through the National Security State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Here’s an idea. Let’s all start salting all of our conversations and our written communications with a selection of those 300 key words. If every liberty-loving person in America virus were to do this, the NSA would have to employ all 15 million unemployed Americans just to begin to look at all those transcripts!
- The Syrian opposition: who's doing the talking?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The media have been too passive when it comes to Syrian opposition sources, without scrutinising their backgrounds and their political connections. A nightmare is unfolding across Syria, in the homes of al-Heffa and the streets of Houla. And we all know how the story ends: with thousands of soldiers and civilians killed, towns and families destroyed, and President Assad beaten to death in a ditch.
- A village about to be demolished
A glimpse into occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Susiya is a microcosm of life for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. Palestinians living in the little village of Susiya and elsewhere are under constant threat of demolition, expulsion and forced relocation.
- The Strategy and Organizing Behind the Successful DREAM Act Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Undocumented youth have shown that ordinary people build extraordinary people power, even in the United States.
- The mass graves of Kashmir
India's dirty war unmasked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses.
- Deconstructing The Locavore's Dilemma
A response to Pierre Desrochers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The book 'The Locavore's Dilemma' constructs a straw man argument while ignoring what the locavore movement really has to say.
- A Marxist History of the World part 83: 1933: The Nazi seizure of power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
By the early 1930s, the German ruling class was determined to use the Nazis to make the world safe for German capital. But the fascist victory was not inevitable – it resulted from the failure of those who opposed fascism.
- How far will Media Council go to eliminate Klubradio?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that Hungary's Media Council (NMHH) has rejected opposition radio station Klubradio's bid to keep its Budapest commercial radio frequency.
- Malaysian Blogger held under draconian Official Secrets Act
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed to learn that the blogger Syed Abdullah Hussein Al-Attas is being held under the Official Secrets Act.
- No Heroes in Montreal -- Why Endless Protest Does Not a Movement Make
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
No matter what you've taken to the streets to oppose - no matter how just your cause - your message gets lost when you don’t engage the community, you don't exercise discipline, or you just start acting like assholes.
- Chinese shrine seeks stock-market path to financial nirvana
Zhejiang's Mount Putuo is latest sacred site to contemplate listing, prompting alarm over commercialisation of Chinese culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Mount Putuo in Zhejiang is the latest of several religious sites whose administrators have announced plans for a multimillion-pound stock-market flotation.
- Meander
East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish River
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Jeremy Seal travels down the Meander river and through the history of Turkey in this travelogue.
- The Gates Foundation's Leveraged Philanthropy
Corporate Profit Versus Humanity on Three Fronts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Gates' leveraged philanthropy model is a public-private partnership to improve the world, partly through targeted research support but principally through public advocacy and tax-free lobbying to influence government policy. The goal of these policies is often to explicitly support profitability for corporate investors, whose enterprises are seen by the Gates Foundation as advancing human good. However, maximum corporate profit and public good often clash when its projects are implemented.
- The Birth of Medicare
From Saskatchewan's breakthrough to Canada-wide coverage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An account of the history of medicare in Canada, from its birth in Saskatchewan to its adoption nation-wide.
- Beyond Solidarity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The American sociologist Richard Sennett has explored themes of class and social exclusion for more than 40 years. Horatio Morpurgo speaks with him about his recent book Together: The Rituals, Pleasure and Politics of Co-operation.
- The Black Panthers in Portland - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Portland's Black Panthers, the fourth in the Dill Pickle Club’s 10-part Oregon History Comics series, briefly recounts the highpoints in the local organization’s revolutionary activism — the founding of the Portland chapter, police harassment and court cases, and the breakfast program and free clinics.
- Immigrant Youth Victory!
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
President Obama’s directive removing the threat of deportation from hundreds of thousands of young people is a tribute to the heroism of those who have come out as “Undocumented and Unafraid.” It’s still a long way from stopping the terror affecting immigrant communities — but under an administration that frankly has been a disgrace and disaster for civil liberties, human rights and due process, this victory shows the power of well-rooted and courageous activism to make a positive difference.
- Including Women: The Establishment and Integration of Canadian Women's History into Toronto Ontario Classrooms 1968 - 1993
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Just Mobility: Postfossil Conversion and Free Public Transport
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In the face of a growing world population and metropolitan areas growing to accomodate them, Brie and Candeias analyze electric cars and free transit as alternatives to urban mobility.
- Kazakhstan's 99 per cent
Protests by Kazakhstan's oil workers in 2011 were crushed, but anger remains over huge inequalities of income and lifestyle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Kazakhstan could be among the world’s top 10 oil producers by 2020, but the Kazakhs who get the oil out of the ground don't benefit much from it. In May 2011 thousands of oil workers in western Kazakhstan began the biggest strikes since the country emerged from the breakup of the USSR.
- Letter on Trayvon Martin
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Living Under Occupation
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In her autobiography, Palestinian militant Leila Khaled calls the 1960s “America’s decade,” pointing to several spots around the world where the U.S. intervened against people’s struggles as evidence that the decade was not a cause for celebration.
- A Marxist History of the World part 82: The Hungry Thirties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Beginning with the Wall Street Crash in 1929, the world economy entered the Great Depression. The misguided policies that world leaders pursued ensured that millions of lives were torn apart.
- The Media's Dirty War on Occupy
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In media portrayals of a protest movement widely criticized for its broad message and vague demands, one picture of the Occupy movement remained consistent across various outlets: the protestors are filthy.
- Monsters of the Market
Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, this book links tales of monstrosity from England to recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marx’s persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. Reading across these tales of the grotesque, McNally offers a novel account of the cultural economy of the global market-system.
- Organizing Is About People - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
With God on Our Side is a very catchy book title, which may appear at first glance to be quite topical in that religion so dominates — and distorts, many would add — political discussion in this country. But if curiosity may initially draw the reader’s eye, the subtitle “The Struggle for Workers’ Rights in a Catholic Hospital” gives it away: This is a book about organized labor and workers.
- The Pensions Funding Gap
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A pension crisis of major dimensions is growing in the United States across all three forms of defined benefit plans (DBPs) — public, private single-employer, and private multi-employer plans. Corporate America and its political friends have begun to use the economic crisis that commenced in 2007 as an opportunity to initiate and expand yet another offensive, aimed at further undermining defined benefit pensions.
- Redemption Road
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A four-month-long walk on an ancient pilgramage route offers young offenders a different pathway. Adam Weymouth reports on the slow healing of Oikoten.
- Rolling Back Reconstruction
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The 'Reconstruction Amendments” — the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution — are targeted in many of the Tea Party and far-right Republican campaigns against the rights of immigrants and women, marriage equality and LGBT rights, and voting rights for African Americans and other minority ethnic groups.
- Soldiers of Solidarity - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
From 1998 to 2009, Gregg Shotwell put out a series of leaflets entitled “Live Bait and Ammo” for workmates in response to immediate threats. Gregg’s writings grew in popularity and spread to other plants as workers sought to answer the flood of company, media, and politicians’ propaganda that blamed autoworkers for the seeming implosion of the industry. In the vacuum left by the union, Gregg provided a union viewpoint.
- Swing of the Pendulum?
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The defeat of the Wisconsin recall of anti-labor Governor Scott Walker, along with the Republican jubilation that followed, demands a close examination of the state of U.S. politics. In the post-Citizens United era, it’s certainly true that unlimited Super-PAC funds from the likes of the Koch Brothers and other dark corners of “the one percent” lubricate the political machinery of the right wing’s “ground game,” savage media wars, lying attack ads and voter suppression campaigns.
- An Unfinished Revolution - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Review of An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln, by Robin Blackburn.
- Why Music Must Be Revolutionary -- and How It Can Be
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Music, and all artistic and creative expression, is intrinsic to and an essential characteristic of human species-being. Music is a form of language, a type of communication, a spiritual force, an aesthetic or artistic expression, social ritual, entertainment and recreational activity, and is socio-politically catalytic.
- City of London, Ontario First Municipality in Canada to sign the Women's Empowerment Principles
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
At a Gala Banquet at the Hilton Hotel in London, Ontario, His Worship, the Mayor of the City of London, Joe Fontana signed the Women's Empowerment Principles before members and guests of The Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women.
- Museum of Endangered Sounds enshrines audio from bygone era
Saved from the silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A website preserves outmoded electronic sounds that are lost to the world.
- My life as a bibliophile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
From school prizes to writing his own novels, the author reflects on his lifelong bibliomania and explains why, despite e-readers and Amazon, he believes the physical book and bookshops will survive.
- At the crossroads between 'Green Economy' and rights of nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Under the rhetoric of "green economy", capitalists are actually attempting to use nature as capital, proposing unconvincingly that the only way to preserve natural elements such as water and forests is through private investment.
- Beyond capitalist green economy: In defence of Mother Earth and the commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Democratic Left Front calls for action against destructive corporate interests that are driving the commercialisation and commodification of the natural environment.
- Characterising the period
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An analysis of the fundamental contradiction today is that between global capitalism and the system of nation-states. In this brief but sharp overview Nigel updates his analysis by bringing it to bear on the global economic crisis and the political reactions it is provoking.
- The false solutions of Rio+20
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Food production and people's sovereignty in Africa could be seriously compromised by carbon capture projects and the so-called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Plus (REDD+) mechanism.
- Les feux d'artifice au ciel!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- The life and times of Occupy Wall Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Occupy Wall Street (OWS), and the Occupy movement that rapidly spread across the country in late September 2011, marked a watershed moment in the re-emergence of mass struggle and radical politics in the United States.
- The rise and fall of the Jewish Labour Bund
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The history of the Bund, or Algemeyner Yiddisher Arbeter Bund in Rusland un Poyln (General Jewish Labour Union in Russia and Poland), is one riven with contradictions. It brought together tens of thousands of Jewish workers during its 52 years of existence in struggle against oppression and exploitation.
- The second coming of the radical left
Crunch-time for the eurozone?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Nearly five years after it started, the global economic and financial crisis shows no signs of resolving itself. On the contrary, in Europe it is taking a more virulent form, as the eurozone inches towards some kind of moment of truth. The slow motion catastrophe in Europe threatens to kill off the chronically weak recovery in the US.
- Twenty five years of revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The period since 1987 has been, in one sense, extraordinary in the sheer number of revolutions that have occurred. If one thing seems certain, it is that revolution is alive and well across the globe, and is indeed a very “normal” part of the political process in the modern capitalist world.
- Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The media response to Assange’s asylum request tells us much about the default brutality and reflexive herdthink of elite corporate journalism. The crucial importance of his achievements, of his cause, was deemed utterly irrelevant beside his allegedly unbearable personal failings.
- A Marxist History of the World part 81: The Roaring Twenties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Although the 'American Dream' became a reality for millions in the 1920s, it was built on shaky grounds - the huge speculative bubble that was building up on Wall Street was waiting to collapse
- Richard O'Dwyer: living with the threat of extradition
Student who set up website posting links to TV and film content fears being used as a guinea pig by Hollywood giants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Richard O'Dwyer's web-linking site would place him at the heart of the titanic running battle between the Hollywood giants – struggling to keep their beleaguered business model intact in the online era – and a new digital generation unwilling to play by the old rules.
- The First 20 Minutes: A Daily Social Media Diet
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Staying up to date with the world's activities could take all day if we let it. The first 20 minutes of your day can offer you a successful path to productivity. How do you spend the first 20 minutes?
- Volunteers/Interns with computer skills needed
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Connexion is looking for volunteers and interns with solid computer skills to help us develop our databases and online search capabilities. Areas where we need help include SQL databases, PHP, Linux, and HTML.
- National Day of Action against cuts to refugee health care
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
On June 30, 2102, refugees will face drastic cuts to their health insurance. Risking the lives of Canada's most vulnerable is unacceptable. There will be a National Day of Action June 18 in cities across Canada. Join us in protesting these cuts.
- When Chomsky Wept
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A portrait of Noam Chomsky.
- A Marxist History of the World part 80: Stalinism: the bitter fruit of revolutionary defeat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at the time when the Bolshevik regime turned in on itself and morphed into a mockery of its socialist ideals.
- December
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, this work presents a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept photographs for the darkest month of the year. It includes stories drawn from modern history and the contemporary moment, from mythology, and even from meteorology.
- Invitation to form Operative Groups YoSoy#132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
#YoSoy132 is against Enrique Peña Nieto, seeks the democratization of the mass media, and behaves as a peaceful movement.
- An Open Letter to CanLit about the Derogatory Term, "Small Press"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
We need the government to value Canadian publishing houses, and calling them “small presses” is not helping that cause.
- Stuxnet and the Bomb
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Over the past decade, US experts have strenuously warned about the ominous possibility of other nations, rogue states, or even terrorist groups attacking US infrastructure through the Internet. As it happens, however, it is the United States itself that has developed malicious software in secrecy and launched it against another country.
- DCMI Metadata Terms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Un nouveau cours en ligne gratuit intitue Une introduction au rayonnement est maintenant disponible sur le site web de l?Institut de radioprote
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Un nouveau cours en ligne intitule 'Une introduction au rayonnement' est maintenant disponible sur le site web de l'Institut de radioprotection du Canada, au www.radiationsafety.ca.
- Viral Video: Cracking the Code
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Who wouldn't want their video to go viral? With thousands, or sometimes millions, of views your message is shared across platforms and likely across continents. Yet, why are these videos so lucky? What do they do to deserve so much exposure?
- Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The searing account of Chris Hedges' and Joe Sacco's travels to sacrifice zones, those areas in the United States where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit, places that have been offered up for maximum exploitation in the name of profit and progress.
- A Marxist History of the World part 79: Revolt in the Colonies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The anti-colonial revolts of the early 20th century were inspired by radical ideas, but, as the examples of Ireland, India and Mexico show, history exacts a heavy price for political timidity.
- Bringing the Battlefield to the Border
The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in Arizona
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The U.S.-Mexican border has not only become Ground Zero for every experiment in immigration enforcement and drug interdiction, but also the incubator, testing site, showcase, and staging ground for ever newer versions of border-enforcement technology that, sooner or later, are sure to be applied globally.
- Canadian students strip in protest, clash with police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Thousands of men and women stripped to protest planned tuition hikes and embarrass the hosts of the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.
- One Thousand Years of Solitude
Life in the SHU
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Indefinite solitary confinement: a large-scale experiment in sensory deprivation and social isolation.
- Stuxnet on the Loose
Security for the One Percent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Suspicions that the Stuxnet computer worm was indeed developed by the United States and Israel has once again exposed American exceptionalism. Espionage and sabotage are presented as intolerable criminal transgressions, normally causing our elected officials and military leaders to erupt in fits of righteous indignation. That is, unless the United States is doing the spying and the sabotaging.
- Burying the Typewriter
Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Carmen Bugan reflects on what life was like growing up in Romania during the 1980's with a dissident father.
- Facing Facts in Wisconsin
Progressives and Workers Were Sold Out by Obama and the Democratic Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The time has long since come for labor and progressives to bolt the Democratic Party and coalesce around a new genuinely progressive, working people’s party.
- The Mexican Student Movement Is Younger & Faster than "Occupy"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
It has been decades since I have seen any march of this size include a pledge by participants with that much discipline and awareness that the march is about influencing public opinion (in other words, not about "us" but about everyone). It reminds more of the guidelines from the victorious struggles of Ghandi to win independence from colonial rule in India, the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 70s.
- Why People Vote Against Themselves
Wisconsin and the Collapse of Liberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The reasons people vote against their self-interest are numerous and varied but key to them is often a culture under great stress believing false promises being made to it by the powerful.
- Knowing Too Much
Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel is Coming to an End
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Norman Finkelstein studies the history of Jewish American support for Israel and how it is shifting.
- McGuinty invited to a Grassy Narrows fish fry at Queen's Park
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Today Grassy Narrows mothers are challenging Premier McGuinty to join them and their families in a traditional fish fry at Queen’s Park for a meal of their local fish cooked on an open wood fire.
- Social Sales: Shortening the Funnel
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The practice of using social media to actively seek sales is a long-debated topic among organizations. Social media is an effective tool to help the sales process, and one of the most effective strategies is to give something in order to get somethin
- Wednesday's Casseroles Night in Canada will include more than 100 locations: Quebec's 'Maple Spring' spreads
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A second Casseroles Night in Canada has been organized for Wednesday June 6 at 8PM.
- Western Uganda: crop-raiding elephants call for plan bee
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Attempts to stop the destruction of farmers' crops around Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park had failed until research into elephant reactions to bees provided an answer.
- Sex work: Solidarity not salvation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An ongoing debate is taking place in anarchist and feminist circles on the legitimacy of sex work and the rights of sex workers. The two main schools of thought are almost at polar opposites of each other. On the one side you have the abolitionist approach led by feminists, such as Melissa Farley who maintains that sex work is a form of violence against women. Farley has said that "If we view prostitution as violence against women, it makes no sense to legalize or decriminalize prostitution." On the other side you have sex worker rights activists who view sex work as being much closer to work in general than most realize, who believe that the best way forward for sex workers is in the fight for workers' rights and social acceptance and for activists to listen to what sex workers have to say. In this article I will discuss why the abolitionist approach discriminates against sex workers and takes advantage of their marginalized status, while the rights approach offer the opportunity to make solid differences in the labour rights and human rights of sex workers.
- A Marxist History of the World part 78: The First Chinese Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In 1927, the Chinese nationalists smashed the country's first working-class revolutionary movement – a defeat that would shape the whole subsequent history of China.Counterfire
- What Is Wrong With Multiculturalism? [Part 1]
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Thoughts about iimmigration, identity, diversity and multiculturalism.
- What's Wrong With Multiculturalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
My view is that both multiculturalists and their critics are wrong. And only by understanding why both sides are wrong will we be able to work our way through the mire in which we find ourselves.
- African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This book sets out to place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.
- Book Review: A Review of Mary Gabriel's Love and Capital and Some Thoughts Prompted by the Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In Love and Capital, published in 2011, Mary Gabriel makes a really good case that love was at the center of the life of the revolutionary named Karl Marx.
- Book Review: African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Conspicuously absent from the renewed and resurgent discourse amongst anti-capitalist forces and the popular imagination was sub-Saharan Africa, “black Africa,” the Africa of the eternal cycle of dictators, corruption, famine, “bad governance” and debt. African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions ambitiously sets out to remedy this and place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.
- Book Review: C.L.R. James, A History of Pan-African Revolt (1939,1969)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
What makes A History of Pan African Revolt enchanting is the thread of speculative philosophy that holds the assorted anecdotal historical commentaries on labor strikes, anti-racist rebellions, heroic personalities, and anti-colonial events together.
- Book Review: C.L.R. James, A History of Pan-African Revolt (1939, 1969)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A small and dangerous volume, this republication of C.L.R. James’s A History of Pan-African Revolt is a concise survey of Black freedom struggles in the United States, the Caribbean, and on the African continent from 1739–1969.
- Book Review: Marixism without Marx: Recent Interpretations of the Economic Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Paul Mattick’s, Business As Usual, and David McNally’s, Global Slump, each focuses on a single, primary aspect of Marx’s theory as a means to explain the current crisis. For Mattick, the point of entry into the economy is money; for McNally, it is competition. This propels them in very different directions, largely a function of how close to Marx they remain. Mattick’s book takes the form of an extended essay that warrants close reading. McNally’s lengthier treatment is both breezier and polemical.
- Book Review: Marxism without Marx: Recent Interpretations of the Economic Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Burdened with Debt Reloaded: The Politics ofr Devaluation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A series of defensive and sectional struggles at workplaces in the private sector reveal that the Greek industrial capital has already taken advantage of the new institutional framework of the “state of emergency” now ruling in Greece to prop up its profitability or just transfer its own debts and losses onto the workers.
- Chicken Game: Eurocrisis, Again.
Washington vs. Berlin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
How does one take an autonomous position against the European policies of social butchery without falling into nationalist, anti-German nostalgia or into rhetoric against “Anglo-Saxon speculation”? How do we put together struggles about rights, work and life with a constitutive struggle on the issue of debt, while avoiding any recourse to solutions “from above” to the risk of default?
- Class Struggle in Vietnam: From the Colonial Yoke to Wage Slavery for Global Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Struggles which have unfolded since the first big strike wave in Vietnam in 2006.
- Class Struggle in Vietnam: From the Colonial Yoke to Wage Slavery for Global Capital
Wildcat Strikes in Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An alternation of repression and concessions is only one element among many of the whole apparatus of control and domination by the CPV. In the last analysis, it is repression which wins out, ranging from direct military and police force to administrative detention, from constant surveillance of the conversations and writings of the population to an ever stricter control of the use of such modern means as cell phones and the Internet.
- Jurassic Park in France: The Return of the French Communist Party and the Melenchon Phenomenon
An Interview with Yves Coleman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
For the moment what preoccupies working class people in France is not so much the next elections but the euro crisis and the massive layoffs postponed by the bosses and the Right until after the elections.
- Make Sure You Don't Fall: Perspectives on the Recent Social Agitation in Chile, Part One
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Discontent and rage have always been there, but while Social Democracy was in power, the supporters of the regime -- well placed in the open spaces for action and thought in high schools, universities and companies -- were able to use them to channel protests into directions that did not endanger the political credibility of the ruling parties.
- Make Sure You Don't Fall: Perspectives on the Recent Social Agitation in Chile, Part One
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
To understand and make sense of the recent wave of social unrest in Chile, we have to refer to the history of the last half century of this country: the revolutionary upsurge that had its peak in late 1972, the destruction of the social movement after the military coup, the neo-liberal restructuring imposed by the Pinochet regime and the consolidation of that legacy by successive civilian governments.
- The March 29 Strike Against Labor Law Reform in Spain
Outline of the Conjuncture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The general strike of March 29, although it mobilized a good part of the population, apparently took place with more pain than glory. Once the day of the strike was over, everything seemed to continue as before: namely, the continuation of an aggressive policy against the wage-labor population, in an economic context characterized by recession.
- A Review of Mary Gabriel's Love and Capital and Some Thoughts Prompted by the Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
So much of what parades as Marxism has very little to do with Karl Marx. Mary Gabriel knows Marx and we know him better after we read her book.
- Somebody Else's Atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Atrocities commited by official enemies are routinely condemned, but atrocities for which our own country is responsible are rarely mentioned.
- Brazil's Quilombola Hit by Major Land Tax
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
For decades, marginalized ethnic communities in Brazil have fought for--and won--land rights. But this victory is turning into something of a poisoned chalice for some remote Quilombola communities, who are now facing a giant tax bill.
- Child Migrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An article in the June-July 2012 issue of Canada's history, about children sent from Britain to Canada.
- Goodbye Welfare, Hello Workfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The world’s richest countries are coercing their citizens to ‘donate’ their labour to big businesses and other organizations in return for welfare payments.
- In Mexico, Finally, a Revolt Against the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The summer will determine if the “I Am 132” moment becomes a movement and that’s why “Mexican Spring” is a poor choice of words for it.
- Literally Psyched
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First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Mercury poison: Grassy Narrows to release new report on devastating health impacts
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
50 years after dumping began governments refuse to acknowledge Minamata Disease.
- Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
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First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Preparing the Ground
Left Strategy Beyond the Apocalypse
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Richard Swift considers the fall -- and future rise -- of left politics.
- Saturday: Canadians stand against the Omnibus Budget Bill at 54 MP Offices
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This Saturday, at 54 confirmed locations across the country, Canadians will gather at Conservative MPs offices, and support locations, to voice their concerns about the Federal Budget Bill currently before Parliament.
- Tools That Might Help Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A list of ideas that different groups and social movements have suggested for inclusion in the Rio+20 Final Declaration. At the time of writing, only two -- Planetary Boundaries and the Ombudsperson for Future Generations -- appear to have much chance of getting into the official text.
- US was 'key player in cyber-attacks on Iran's nuclear programme'
Obama reported to have approved bid to target Tehran's nuclear efforts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Fresh light is shed on the rapid development of US cyberwarfare capability and reveal its willingness to use cyber weapons offensively to achieve policies.
- What Gandhi Says
About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
If there has been widespread recognition of Gandhi's role in developing the tactics underpinning the revolutionary upsurges of the past year, few have stopped to examine what Gandhi actually said about the relationship between nonviolence, resistance and courage. Norman Finkelstein, drawing on extensive readings of Gandhi's copious oeuvre and intensive reflection on the way that progress might be made in the seemingly intractable impasse of the Middle East, here sets out in clear and concise language the basic principles of Gandhi's approach.
- A world on workfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The world's richest countries are coercing their citizens to 'donate' their labour to big businesses and other organizations in return for welfare payments.
- CDT and Allies Take Aim at Government's Secret Protocol For Wireless Shutdowns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The U.S. government has a secret emergency protocol for initiating citywide shutdowns of cell phone networks? The CDT states that "The government should not have the secret, unchecked authority to turn off the networks through which we all communicate every day."
- Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In 1907, pioneering labour historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S. management had shown just one "symptom of originality," namely "playing one race against the other."
- Quebec's manifs casseroles are a call for order
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Seven Top Tips for Using QR Codes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The QR code connects the real world to the web and stimulates the social conversation. Randall Craig offers seven key considerations for using them.
- Countering the Israel Lobby's Dominance
Can Jewish Liberals Transcend the Wiesel Doctrine?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The distance between largely secular American Jews and the Zionist establishment is likely to widen. This will weaken the political power of the Israel lobby only if American Jews as a whole are prepared to announce unambiguously their antipathy to their self-proclaimed representatives.
- The NYT's Love Letter to Death Squads
Hymns to the Silence
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First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
It is, I confess, beyond all my imagining that a national leader so deeply immersed in murdering people would trumpet his atrocity so openly, so gleefully - and so deliberately, sending his top aides out to collude in a major story in the nation's leading newspaper, to ensure maximum exposure of his killing spree.
- Omar Barghouti And “Reverse” Racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Mexican President Calderón Hires US Propaganda Firm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Los Pinos retains Las Vegas-based R&R Partners to promote government’s successes as the bloody drug war rages on.
- The importance of dealing with Occupy's misogyny problem
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First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An account of some misogynist dynamics within the Occupy movement and the need to challenge them.
- A Marxist History of the World part 77 World Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In the five years after the First World War, revolutionary contagion spread around the world. It showed the extraordinary possibilities that arise when the masses become active in making their own history.
- The Woman Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Belinda Jack's history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired, explores what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages.
- Cut It Out: An Open Letter to Black Bloc Anarchists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Black Bloc tactics actually serve the cause of the 0.1%.
- Emilia-Romagna community in Canada shares condolences and solidarity with earthquake victims
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Emiliana Association of Ottawa is deeply concerned about the results of the earthquake in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.
- "I know it will not bring my Mom back but I know it would make her proud?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
"I know it will not bring my Mom back but I know it would make her proud? Stefanie Lawton is just one of hundreds of Saskatoon residents taking part in the annual Spring Sprint to support brain tumour research and patient programs.
- 30 years of hope to be celebrated at this year's Ottawa Spring Sprint for the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Every hour of every day, someone hears the words, "You have a brain tumour". Ottawa will mark 30 years of hope at the annual Spring Sprint for the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada on June 3, 2012.
- Professor's Work Shows People Power Trumps Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Erica Chenoweth’s research is taking the bang out of armed struggles.
- A Marxist History of the World part 76: Italy's 'Two Red Years'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Like Germany, Italy was on the brink of revolution in the summer of 1920, after the strains of imperialist war had levered open deep fractures in an unstable social order.
- Arrested For Being Legally Topless in NYC
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In New York City it is completely legal for women to be topless. Meet Moira Johnston - she walks around the Union Square area topless to exercise her legal right to be equal.
- Bing Liu: The Science of Detecting Fake Reviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The dark art of rigging reviews is widespread across the web and has even ensnared several content26 clients over the years. The temptation to post fake reviews is high for companies that sell products online. The going rate for a fake five-star review seems to be about $5. Think about it - a mere $500 could pay for 100 5-star reviews on Amazon or Yelp.
- Inside Halden, the most humane prison in the world
Amelia Gentleman visits Halden, the high-security jail in Norway
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First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A look into the flagship prison of Norway, where recidivism after two years is only 20%, and the focus is on rehabilitation rather than punishment.
- The Importance of Journalism and Communications to Social Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Remarks of Javier Sicilia to the School of Authentic Journalism.
- Javier Sicilia Calls Out to Alternative Media as a Force for Communication
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
At the 2012 School of Authentic Journalism, a poet reviews the first year of the movement against the drug war that he inspired.
- Canadian 'Pardons' No More
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
As a result of Bill C-10, the changes to the Criminal Records Act (CRA) have now come into effect. Specifically, the Pardon's program name, eligibility requirements and waiting periods, have been changed.
- Imagine a Stadium
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A plea for organization.
- Yes Men punk TPP and US Trade Ambassador with fake "Corporate Power Tool Award"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
US Trade Ambassador Ron Kirk was in Dallas to kick off a corporate power-event to drum up support for the foundering, secretive Transpacific Partnership, a secret treaty that builds on the work of ACTA to establishing punishing copyright laws that include mandatory surveillance and censorship. The Yes Men crashed the gala, taking the podium to present Kirk with a "Corporate Power Tool Award."
- A Marxist History of the World part 75: The German Revolution
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First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
At the end of the First World War, the epicentre of revolution moved from Petrograd to Berlin. Why did the German communists fail where the Bolsheviks had succeded?
- Too rich to queue? Why markets and morals don't fit
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First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Extract from Michael Sandel's new book, 'What Money Can't Buy' addressing how we are moving towards a society where everything is up for sale.
- Computer Volunteer Toronto Linux – SQL – PHP – Database
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Greetings from the Colony
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Belgium's dark colonial past is remembered in this story of a white Belgian official who abandons his Rwandan wife and sons in Africa, taking only his daughter back home. Decades later, she breaks the silence surrounding her upbringing.
- New from SOURCES: The SOURCES Job Board
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Media organizations and SOURCES members can now advertise their job openings for free on the Sources Job Board.
- The Age of Accountability is Now: Are You Prepared?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Questions of accountability and building a reputation of integrity in personal and professional relationships.
- Three Myths of Immigration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Kenan Malik sets out to explain to a Canadian audience, for whom multiculturalism has a very different meaning than it does to a European one, the contours of the European debate, as well as his disagreements with both sides. In particular he shows why both multiculturalists and many of their critics (particularly their rightwing critics) buy into the same set of myths about the history of immigration into Europe.
- A Life of Challenge to the Dogma of "Objectivity"
Richard Bell Is Practiced at Juggling Journalism, Advocacy and Politics
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First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Journalism, advocacy, politics: Are they completely different fields or aspects of the same game? Can someone actually do all three? Richard Bell has done them all and has lived to tell the tale.
- Six Media Companies Control 90% of What We Read, Watch and Listen to
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Vancouver Commemorates the Nakba, Calls for End to 64 Years of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A free community supper at a Vancouver church and a march are planned for May 15 and 19 to commemorate the Nakba and to call for Canada to support the right of refugees to return to their homes, and the end to Israel's displacement of Palestinians.
- The Waiting Room
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The film watches a Californian hospital for a full day, observing what patients and staff go through as they deal with the over-crowded, under-funded US health care system.
- Competitors Aren't the Only Threats
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
One of the things that I?ve noticed lately is just how vulnerable many companies (and other organizations) are to non-competitive threats. I?m not talking about the traditional corporate bogeymen of big government and big labour.
- Egypt's Aunt Peaceful
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Ghada Shahbender knows the Egyptian Revolution Didn´t Start in January 2011, because she was there seven years ago reminding the government ¨We Are Watching¨
- Price of Gold
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Mongolia is known for its original Nomad culture as well as the spectacular natural landscape. Since gold deposits have been discovered however, both are threatened.
- Smoke Traders
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Smoke Traders tells the story of the contraband tobacco trade and the effect on individual lives and communities from a Native perspective.
- The World's Most Fashionable Prison
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Fashion designer Puey Quinones works with inmates in a Philipine prison to teach them how to sew, work with fabrics and see their ideas go from sketch to finished product.
- Bangladeshi and Tibetan bloggers win Reporters Without Borders category awards
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Bangladeshi and Tibetan bloggers win Reporters Without Borders category awards.
- The Before, During, and After of a Social Media Customer Service Strategy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Using social media as a customer service tool is not a revelation these days. We have all seen customer service representatives from big name brands on Twitter. But these one-off initiatives rarely provide the support they are intended to provide.
- REMIX REVAMP RELAUNCH: POSS.CA - TORONTO'S ONLINE MAGAZINE FOR JOB SEEKERS
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Findhelp Information Services relaunches its successful online magazine poss.ca (www.poss.ca) with a new, exciting look and easy-to-use website features, reaffirming the mission of helping Toronto job seekers find employment.
- We Are Wisconsin
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
When a Republican Governor’s bill threatens to wipe away worker rights and lock out public debate, six (extra)ordinary citizens join the growing protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and spend the next twenty-six days building a movement that not only challenges the bill, but the soul of a nation.
- Who Cares?
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Rosie Dranfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex-trade workers. In this post-Pickton era where the unthinkable is now a gruesome reality, women voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future identification.
- Building Identify Through Struggle - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Socialists seeking to win support among working people in the United States today face twin obstacles. A conservative, pro-business officialdom, tied to the capitalist Democratic Party and opposed to any manifestation of working class militancy, dominates the labor movement.
- Campaigning for A Millionaires Tax
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In February 2012, the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) launched a simple, clear initiative to raise taxes on Californians with incomes greater than $1,000,000 per year. The folding of this campaign for the Millionaires Tax (MT), following a compromise with the governor, has been felt as a seismic shock for many activists in California.
- Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don't Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The way to achieve true regulatory reform is to give regulatory agencies less money, less authority, fewer people but more intelligent regulations. By dispersing regulatory authority, rather than concentrating it, we would make corruption more difficult and facilitate more sensible regulation.
- A Diversion We Don't Need
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
We know from our own experience that none of us wants to have the Diversity Of Tactics argument again. So why does it continue to happen? Because we radicals and anarchists have unintentionally become a Silent Majority, unwilling for whatever reason to prevent these ideologues, who are only a tiny handful of people with loud voices, from controlling the direction of our meetings.
- Egypt's Year of Revolution
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An interview with Carl Finamore, who went on a reporting trip to Egypt for ten days in 2011.
- Filmmaker "Gringoyo" Putting the Fun Back Into Revolution
Harnessing Humour to Build Video Viewership and Social Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
These satirical videos not only talk about movements, they are filmed in conflict zones in moments of political tension. Gringoyo moves in a very real world with the freedom of a cartoon.
- Flag, Fetish and Illusory Community
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Patriotism is usually understood as “love of country.” With the help of Marx’s theories of the state and of alienation, we explore what is meant by “love” and “country” in this definition. By viewing society as a contradictory relation between a social community, based on the cooperation required by the existing division of labor, and an illusory community dominated by the interests of the ruling economic class, it becomes apparent that the “country” which patriots love is not the country they actually live in.
- The Land Grabbers
The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
- Looking Back and Forward at Cuba - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Samuel Farber's book Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment takes its place among definitive works on Cuba alongside Hugh Thomas’s monumental 1971 Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom (1971), which (in 1700+ pages!) surveyed the island from its prehistory until the early period of The Triumph of The Revolution.
- Jean Paul Marat
Tribune of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Biography of Jean Paul Marat and his contributions to the French Revolution.
- Medicare Myths and Realities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.
- Melting Into Air? - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
We should begin by celebrating the glories of the Socialist Register, which has been presenting overviews of capitalism and its discontents since 1964 — even longer than Against the Current. Yet precisely because Socialist Register is a voice of “the left,” its contents can often reflect the frustrating obfuscations of that ill-defined body.
- The Murder of Trayvon Martin
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Popular anger, mass protests and leadership from Trayvon Martin’s parents, the African-American community and its organizations have exposed the racial divisions that run throughout U.S. society.
- Not a Carwash
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In the Albanian capital of Tirana, students, professors, activists and film lovers take to the streets when authorities attempt to redevelop the property of the city's only art house theatre for profit. The changing face of post-communist Albania is the backdrop for this classic battle between art, commerce, artistic passion and government indifference.
- Occupy Everywhere
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The decision by Time magazine to name “the protester” its Person of the Year was largely a response to the two major events that bookended 2011: the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement.
- Occupy Gardens hosts Potluck and Seed Planting at Queen's Park
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Occupy Gardens is hosting a Garden Party Potluck at Queen’s Park. Gardeners are gathered on the South lawn with seeds, plants, soil, music, and food to highlight the need for food justice in Toronto.
- Ocean of Life
How Our Seas are Changing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In this revelatory book, Callum Roberts uses his lifetime's experience working with the oceans to show why they are the most mysterious places on earth, their depths still largely unexplored, and shows how we can arrest and reverse the damage we are doing.
- Perspectives on Putin's Russia
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The demonstrations of December 10 and 24, 2012 in Moscow, in which tens of thousands of people took part, show clearly that the period of social passivity in Russia is nearing its end.
- Portuguese Workers vs. Austerity
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The General Strike of March 22, 2012 was the second called by the Portuguese trade unions since the IMF/European Commission/European Central Bank (“Troika”) intervened a year ago to impose austerity measures that almost forced the country to its knees. This is the third strike since the financial crisis took hold.
- Power and Pitfalls of Historical Fiction - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
When James Kilgore’s We are all Zimbabweans now first came out in 2009, the world economy was facing a deep recession. My first impression was that the book’s title referred to the globalizing of Zimbabwe’s 10-year economic crisis. In fact, Kilgore’s novel was referring to Zimbabwe’s attempt at reconciliation between white and black Zimbabweans after a brutal liberation war that killed 30,000 people.
- Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobil, Private Empire is the masterful result of Coll’s indefatigable reporting. A penetrating, newsbreaking study, Private Empire is a defining portrait of ExxonMobil and the place of Big Oil in American politics and foreign policy.
- Remembering David Montgomery
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
When the organization of American Historians met in Milwaukee in April, its program schedule included one very special session: a memorial tribute to David Montgomery. David, historian and political activist, died of a brain hemorrhage on Dec 1, 2011. He was 84 years old.
- Resistance After Foreclosure
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In 1973, in the class- and race-polarized city of Boston, City Life began as a socialist collective fighting against evictions and gentrification in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Over the years, it has evolved into a radical non-profit organization with a long history of doing tenant organizing and tenants’ rights work all across the city. City Life was able to avoid sectarian debates to maintain itself as a radical center for housing organizing.
- The Takeover of Motor City
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In early April the Detroit City Council and Mayor Dave Bing signed a “consent agreement” with Michigan Governor Rick Snyder that essentially turns over the city’s financial management to an appointed board.
- The War on Women--And Us All
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The war on women’s reproductive rights is being fought in the U.S. Congress, in state legislatures and in the courts, and played out in the media. This war seeks to restrict women’s ability to control their reproductive lives — with each law more outrageous than the last — under the excuse that they are “protecting the unborn.”
- What Choice in 2012?
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The outcome of the November 2012 election is clear: It will be the most vicious and racist in modern U.S. history, and by far the most expensive of all time. Are critical issues at stake in this political year? Absolutely, yes — but not the questions we’ll get to vote on.
- A Wisconsin Idea Resurgent
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
More than a year has passed since the mass protests of February-March 2011, at Madison and elsewhere across Wisconsin, erupted in response to Republican Governor Scott Walker’s effort to bust the state’s public employee unions.
- Banks got $114B from governments during recession
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Canada's biggest banks accepted tens of billions in government funds during the recession, according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
- Brain Tumours Don't Discriminate, Can Strike at Any Age: Amy's Story
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
(Hamilton, ON) The 'perfect blend of shy and outgoing,' pharmacy technician Amy Olsson was proud to be the mother of baby Evan and wife to her husband of seven years, Lars. The summer of 2010 was full of balancing the care of a one-year old and
- Guelph Brain Tumour Survivor Leads Community Effort to Raise Critical Funds for Patient Support and Research
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
When Guelph resident Tanya Lea was diagnosed with multiple brain tumours at the age of 40, she was shocked. Falling sick had been the furthest thing from her mind. An active and independent woman, she was scared but also determined to live the best
- One Kitchener-Waterloo Man's "Brain Tumour Adventure" Leads to Helping Others
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
(Kitchener-Waterloo) The past year and a half have been challenging for brain tumour survivor, Tom Moran, but that doesn?t slow him down on what he calls his, "BT [brain tumour] Adventure." Now, Tom's taking on the task of volunteering
- Science for Peace calls on the Canadian justice system to nullify the extradition order for Hassan Diab
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Science for Peace is deeply concerned about the egregious violations of Dr. Hassan Diab?s rights under the Canadian and French justice systems.
- Wadim
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The story of Latvians who sought asylum in Germany, their lives there, and the consequences when harsh immigration policies suddenly tear them apart in this critique of laws written and applied without regard for human consequences
- Inocente
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Inocente is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children.
- A Marxist History of the World part 73: 1917: the October Insurrection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Could Social Media Monitoring have Better Predicted the Results to the Alberta Provincial Election?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
New data shows that social media monitoring is far more current, and perhaps more reliable, than traditional polling. It's time for the media to start paying attention to new methods.
- G-Dog
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Unlikely gang expert Jesuit Father Boyle, known as G-Dog, creates Homeboy Industries, leading former gang involved youth to become a positive force in their communities.
- New Calgary Marketing Events Calendar
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
New Calgary Marketing Events Calendar launched - an industry consolidation of PR, marketing, social-media, communications and online marketing events in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Includes select national and international events of interest.
- Shadows of Liberty
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America and the public battle for truth and democracy.
- You are all suspects now. What are you going to do about it?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A state of permanent war has been launched by the United States and a police state is consuming western democracy.
- Booker's Place
A Mississippi Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In 1965, African-American waiter Booker Wright spoke out in a television documentary, outraging many white Southerners and resulting in his murder. Years later, the filmmaker's son returns to examine the repercussions of the interview on Wright's family and the community as a whole.
- Straphanger
Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A discussion of the major modern urban transport systems of the world.
- A Marxist History of the World part 72: February to October the rhythms of revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The situation of 'dual power' that emerged after the overthrow of the Tsar in February 1917 was marked by a series of major political crises.
- Jamie Oliver: 'Tell me Mr Gove, Mr Lansley. How can we stop Britain being the most unhealthy country in Europe?'
In the 10 years since opening his Fifteen restaurant, Jamie Oliver's campaigns have gone global. But his passion to improve British schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Jaime Oliver continues in his challenge to the educate people on healthy eating, with or without the British government's aid.
- The Revisionaries
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Revisionaries follows the attempts of a creationist Board of Education member to revise the science and history curricula to better suit a white, Christian nation.
- Sexy Baby
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Sexy Baby is the first documentary film to put faces to a seismic cultural shift: the cyber age is creating a new sexual landscape.
- 4 Ways to Measure your Social Media Success
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
How do you navigate the plethora of measurement options in Social Media? Randall Craig, Social Media and Web Strategist offers four effective ways of planning your campaign management.
- Tastes of Heaven Gala: April 19, 2012; Archbishop Sutton to receive 2012 St. Joseph Award
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An archbishop who saw the re-evangelization of the North in terms of presenting the Gospel in a form that answers today's need in poor and remote missions will receive Catholic Missions In Canada's St. Joseph Award April 19, 2012.
- They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
- It doesn't have to be either/or
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Canadian Council for Tobacco Control (CCTC) calls on the federal government to create a long term vision for the health of all Canadians not just for some.
- Living by the Clock of the World: Grace Lee Boggs' Call for Visionary Organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Grace Lee Boggs recently argued that activists should spend less time on protest organizing because it "leads you more and more to defensive operations" and "Do visionary organizing" because it "gives you the opportunity to encourage the creative capacity in people and it’s very fulfilling."
- CLR James, Frantz Fanon And The Meaning of Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A look at the Haitan Revolution and its place in history.
- New group urges progressives to build 'One Big Campaign' to take on Harper
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A campaign urging Canadian social activist groups to work together under one massive umbrella to take on the Harper regime and his right-wing supporters was officially launched today.
- A Marxist History of the World part 71: Dual power: the mechanics of revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The centuries old Russian monarchy was overthrown in a matter of days in February 1917. Neil Faulkner looks at the months of turmoil that followed.
- Afghan Young Women Protest Killing Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Afghan Young Women for Change (YWC) activists, holding placards which read 'where is justice?', take part in a protest denouncing violence against women in Afghanistan in Kabul on April 14, 2012. Some 30 Afghan women took to the streets of the capital Kabul against the killing of five Afghan women in less than a month in three provinces of the country.
- Escape from Camp 14
The first political prisoner born in a North Korean labour camp to make it past the fence and flee
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An excerpt from a book of the same title narrating the harrowing experiences of Shin Dong-hyuk. He is believed to be the only camp-born person to have escaped the North Korean prison labor camps that detain up to two hundred-thousand political prisoners.
- The March 29 Strike Against Labor Law Reform in Spain: Outline of the Conjuncture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The general strike of March 29, although it mobilized a good part of the population, apparently took place with more pain than glory. Once the day of the strike was over, everything seemed to continue as before: namely, the continuation of an aggressive policy against the wage-labour population, in an economic context characterized by recession.
- Rendition ordeal raises new questions about secret trials
Fatima Bouchar's story reveals involvement of the British government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Investigative reporting on the rendition (initiated by British intelligence officers) of Libyian Islamist militants who sought to oust Muammar Gaddafi.
- Senegal's fishing community will act on foreign fleets if government doesn't
Senegal's fisherman blame foreign trawlers for taking their catch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Annual catches by local fishermen in Senegal are down seventy-five percent from catches ten years ago, resulting in hunger and economic instability. Community leaders in Senegal are warning developed nations whose fleets trawl their waters that overfishing may lead to piracy as it has in Somalia.
- Swissport Ottawa ratifies New Agreement!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
IAMAW members in Ottawa ratify new agreement with Swissport by 95% Margin.
- Two Days of Bargaining = New Agreement = Happiness!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
IAMAW Local Lodge 1295 members ratify new contract by 100% margin.
- US has a new tool to control the masses
No one should want the state to have power to strip your clothes off. And yet that's what is happening, thanks to the supreme court
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Denouncing a new US Supreme court ruling that allows police to strip search any person who is placed under arrest for any offence at any time. Wolf says this state sanctioned sexual humiliation is a troubling anti-democratic development in a nation that is quickly expanding police powers.
- Tree-top vigil highlights destruction of Tasmanian forest
Miranda Gibson hopes to bring international attention to the unprotected status of the ancient forests that are threatened by logging
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
For more than three months, 30-year-old Gibson has been living high above the canopy floor that is the home to some of Australia's most threatened indigenous wildlife, including the Tasmanian devil and spotted-tail quolls.
- The Young Man Was
Part 1: United Red Army
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The start of a film trilogy that traces 1970s ultra left movements' turn to violence; Part One is based on the negotiations of the 1977 JAL hijacking, between the Japanese Red Army members on board the plane and the Dhaka control tower in Bangladesh.
- Sierra Leone: local resistance grows as investors snap up land
Farmers and activists more transparent about large-scale land deals with foreign firms and t
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Ten years after the end of civil war in Sierra Leone, the government is taking great pains to attract large-scale agribusiness investments, which it says will help boost exports and employment opportunites.
- Big Brother's Getting Bigger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Government surveillance and attacks on the privacy of American citizens were bad enough under the Bush regime but they are getting even worse during the Obama years.
- Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens. Here are thirteen examples of how some of the biggest government agencies and programs track people.
- Kurt Vonnegut and the American Police State
Just Say "Hi-Ho!" as They Strip Search You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The country seems to have crossed over a dark threshold. We are now a police state in all but name. Cops and wannabe cops are shooting innocent people and nothing gets done.
- A Marxist History of the World part 70: 1917: the February Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
As WWI turned into a protracted, bloody struggle the initial enthusiasm gave way to growing class tensions which exploded first in Russia's February Revolution.
- The Movement for Peace Marches On Against the Drug War
The Goal Is Clear: Peace With Justice and Dignity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The one-year anniversary of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, a grassroots groundswell against the drug war, played out March 28 in a small plaza in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City — absent the cameras and pens of the mainstream media.
- Why Do They Hate George Galloway So Much?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The ferocity of the attacks on George Galloway by the British commentariat is one of the most revealing outcomes of his victory in the Bradford West by-election.
- Pentagon Trained Terrorists In Nevada To Use Against Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Pentagon trained members of the dissident Iranian terrorist group M.E.K. in Nevada starting in 2005, after which they returned to Iran and may have engaged in covert activities, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh reports.
- Putting Syria Into Some Perspective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The 19th- and 20th-century colonialist-imperialist mentality is alive and well in the West.
- Data Mining You
How the Intelligence Community Is Creating a New American World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Joseph K., that icon of single-lettered anonymity from Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, would undoubtedly have felt right at home in Washington.
- When Populism is Dangerous for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
George Galloway’s stunning victory in last week’s Bradford West by-election afforded a rare opportunity to witness naked imbalance, establishment scorn of any challenges, and blatant anti-Muslim propaganda in the corporate British media.
- A Marxist History of the World part 69: The First World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how capitalism plunged humanity into an abyss of carnage, destruction, and waste without precedent, as mass production methods produced industrialised slaughter.
- No Local
Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won't Change The World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Local food, local business and buying local won't change the world. Challenging market priorities will. Greg Sharzer outlines why.
- The Passion of Bradley Manning
The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In May 2010, an intelligence analyst in the US Army's 10th Mountain Division was arrested on suspicion of leaking nearly half a million classified government documents, including the infamous "Collateral Murder" gunsight video and 260,000 State Department cables. After nine months in solitary confinement, the suspect now awaits court-martial in Fort Leavenworth. He is twenty-four, comes from Crescent, Oklahoma and his name is Bradley Manning. Who is Private First Class Bradley Manning? Why did he allegedly commit the largest security breach in American history? Is Manning a traitor or a whistleblower?
- Indonesia's Smoking Epidemic
An old problem getting younger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Cigarettes are a rite of passage for boys in Indonesia, where 70% of the adult male population smokes. Activists and health care professionals are advocating for age restrictions on tobacco products and a ban on tobacco advertisements.
- Kenyan grafitti artists target vulture politicians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A crew of Kenyan grafitti artists are making murals that urge citizens not to re-elect corrupt politicians who have a legacy of exploiting tribal differences to gain power.
- Lockdown London
The Olympics will see the UK's biggest mobilisation of security forces since the second world war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The projected expense of security at the upcoming London Olympic Games is $867m -- part of the booming 'security industry'.
- Scandal forces Cameron to give details on Tory donor dinners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Information has come to light that the British Prime Minister hosted private dinners in his official residences for wealthy donors.
- Doctors and Lawyers to Duncan: Tax us. Ontario is worth it.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Doctors and lawyers join forces to object to Ontario's budget.
- A Good Society Has its Price
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Canadian lawyers say tax us instead of creating greater inequity.
- How Communal Singing Disappeared From American Life
And why we should bring it back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Singing together as a comuunity building event has largely disappeared from American life.
- Interview - Greece: the struggle radicalises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Editor of the Greek newspaper Workers Solidarity on the latest developments in Greece.
- Pitfalls and radical mutations: Frantz Fanon's revolutionary life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In the 1960s and 1970s Fanon was the quintessential Third Worldist. He was taken up by movements that looked to guerrilla struggle in the countryside and in the newly independent Third World. His work became a manual to Maoists and the guerrilla intelligentsia predicting an imminent revolutionary wave that would overturn the world from the countryside.
- A Marxist History of the World part 68: 1914: descent into barbarism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In the summer of 1914 capitalism tipped humanity into an abyss of barbarism that would leave millions dead. Neil Faulkner looks at the First World War.
- Media Names & Numbers 11
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats.
- Understanding Harper's Evangelical Mission
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Signs mount that Canada's government is beholden to a religious agenda averse to science and rational debate.
- The Unsettling of America - book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A book review of The Unsettling of America by Thomas Berry.
- Journalists Rock! Journalism Sucks!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Working journalists often do the best they can within institutions that place severe limits on them, in much the same way that teachers struggle. Journalists and teachers rock. The problem is the corporate and corporatized systems within which they work. Corporate-commercial news media and corporatized school systems suck.
- Racist Violence is Used to Maintain an Unjust Social Order
From Trayvon Martin to Wall Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
While it would be gratifying and is socially necessary to bring Trayvon’s murderer to justice, the continuation of America’s system of racial oppression must also be ended or we just wait for the inevitable next wrongfully murdered black youth.
- Canada's Franchise Leaders Convene at the 2012 CFA National Convention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
500 franchise professionals from leading national and international brands, including Jim Treliving, Co-Chairman/Owner of Boston Pizza International and star of Dragons' Den, slated to attend.
- Constructing Consensus - The 'Victims-And-Aggressor Meme'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Independent Jewish Voices letter refutes Ambassador's claim Israel supports Christian Palestinians
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Jewish organization counters Israeli ambassador's Islamophobia. IJV states Israeli occupation, not Muslims, is cause of Christian Palestinian problems.
- Robots Kill, But The Blood Is On Our Hands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Killing individuals (and whoever is near them) has become the primary substitute in U.S. public policy for capture/imprisonment/torture. Torturing someone to death is not what former CIA General Counsel John Rizzo calls "clean." Blowing them and anyone near them into little bits is "clean." As Medea Benjamin documents, the United States has avoided detaining people, only to murder them with a drone days later.
- The absence of reconciliation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Namibian-born Horst Kleinschmidt provides challenging observations and personal family history linked to the colonial era. Urging both Germany and German-speaking Namibians to confront their past honestly, he offers examples of apologies made in similar circumstances, and guidelines for reconciliation and redress.
- The genocide in Namibia (1904-08) and its consequences
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The repatriation of human remains more than a century after they were taken to Germany from Namibia has evoked painful memories of colonial wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of German South West Africa.
- German denial of Herero genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Germans’ inhuman treatment of the Namibian delegation is only the most recent in a long history of injustice and disrespect towards African peoples. It is more than time, writes Saunders Jumah, for Africans to stand together, demand fair and equal treatment according to international law, and refuse exploitation by anyone.
- German-Namibian denialism: How (not) to come to terms with the past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Largely unnoticed by most Namibians, the local German-language daily Allgemeine Zeitung provides a forum for colonial apologetics. Reinhart Kössler and Henning Melber examine recent comments and readers’ letters in this newspaper, exposing the reactionary attitudes and privileging strategies that maintain the minority language as a barrier to national reconciliation.
- Germany's genocide in Namibia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Germany, which has done commendable remembrance work about the Holocaust, seems to have forgotten or deliberately buried its violent colonial past. A past that hides the first genocide of the 20th century.
- Return of stolen skulls by Germany to Namibia: Closure of a horrible chapter?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Namibia-Germany case is being keenly observed by other African peoples and states with unresolved issues relating to the colonial era.
- The significance of the repatriation of Namibian human skulls
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In October 2011, the skulls of Namibian ancestors were returned to their country of origin.
- Skullduggery and necrophilia in colonial Namibia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- IPI Board Expresses Unamimous Support for Israeli Journalist
Uri Blau Faces 7 Years in Prison under Espionage Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Uri Blau risks conviction under the Israeli Penal Code for being in possession of classified information without authorisation. The documents reveal Israel's use of death squads to assassinate opponents.
- Journalist's home searched, confidentiality of sources threatened
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Reporters Without Borders is stunned and alarmed to learn that police raided the home of Montreal reporter Eric-Yvan Lemay, taking his finger prints, his computer and the clothes he wore while visiting Montreal area hospitals last month for a story
- A Marxist History of the World part 67: Reform or Revolution?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The world Socialist movement was blown apart as its members supported the First World War. Neil Faulkner looks at how the question of reform or revolution lay behind the split.
- Preventing Kids From Becoming Cons
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Faced with increasing public anxiety about youth crime, two of North America's leading crime prevention champions have partnered to produce a groundbreaking conference where world renowned experts will discuss how we can prevent today's high risk
- You Can't Occupy This
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The U.S. government says the anti-protest bill was just a small tweak of the existing law. Don't believe it.
- Six Ways the Media Has Misreported Syria
How One-Sided Reporting is Facilitating Escalation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Western mainstream media’s coverage of the Syrian conflict has been mostly simplistic and black & white with a Hollywoodian good (opposition) and evil (Syrian government) story.
- Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- How Israel Stacks the Legal Deck
Court System Provides Little Justice for Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
To Palestinians, Israeli military courts are sites of repression, not houses of justice. Palestinian defendants facing trial in 2010 were found guilty in 99.74% cases.
- John Pilger: The dirty war on WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception is essential for starting an unpopular colonial war.
- A Marxist History of the World part 66: The Ottoman Empire and the 1908 'Young Turk' Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how the revolution that began in Turkey in 1908 initiated a process that would transform the middle east over the following two decades.
- The Microfinance Delusion
Marred by Wall Street-Style Greed, Profiteering, Client Abuse, and Market Chaos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
By celebrating self-help and individual entrepreneurship, and by implicitly discrediting all forms of collective effort, such as trade unions, social movements, cooperatives, public spending, a pro-poor ‘developmental state’ and – most of all – collective moves to ensure a more equitable redistribution of wealth and power, microfinance fits in well with the ideology of neoliberal policy-makers.
- Privilege politics is reformism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A critique of privilege politics, which the author sees as a demobilizing force that boils down issues of oppression into what happens between individuals.
- We Have Still Had It Up to Here: The Year a Movement Was Born
Mexico's Struggle to End the Drug War Is Unlike Any in the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The truth is that Mexican public opinion has never fully swallowed the fiction – believed by many in the United States – that the drug war is somehow about stopping drugs or their abuse. Almost everybody knows that it is primarily a means to enrich the pockets of corrupt politicians and police.
- What progressive groups must do to defeat, or stymie, the Harper regime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Canada’s progressive community needs to make some significant changes if it hopes to slow down the assault being carried out on the country by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives and their right-wing allies.
- The Selective Compassion of the Media & Human Rights Establishment
Ignoring the Victims of State Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
“Human rights” doctrine has devolved into a mere tool used by the U.S. to carry out its imperial aims, and many times by means (such as war) which cause many more human rights violations than they purport to solve.
- China suspected of Facebook attack on Nato's supreme allied commander
Beijing cyber-spies accused of using fake social networking accounts in bid to steal military secrets from the west
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Nato's most senior military commander has been allegedly been targeted in a Facebook scam designed to glean information about him from his colleagues, friends and family.
- Drug War-Related Homicides In The US Average At Least 1,100 a Year
Full Extent of Carnage Unknowable Because US Government Doesn't Track Violent Crime Linked To The War On Drugs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The stubborn resistance against entertaining any other options beyond a fundamentalist adherence to prohibition for dealing with drug use in the United States is cloaked in an arrogant denial of the human costs of the drug war and the possibility that ending it would lead to less, not more, death. The US, by some estimates now spends about $40 billion a year at home and abroad waging its war on drugs and has imprisoned currently up to 400,000 people on drug-related charges — the vast majority of them nonviolent offenders.
- Ken O'Keefe Embraces White Supremacist David Duke
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Credible Palestinian leaders reject racism, bigotry and conspiracy theories -- these have no part to play in a principled movement for justice and human rights. By endorsing David Duke and embracing him as a fellow activist, O'Keefe has besmirched these worthy, essential principles.
- Ken O'Keefe tainting campus Palestine activism with his anti-Semitic rant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Many people, including us, admired Ken O'Keefe's anti-war, anti-imperialist stance on the war and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and his bravery in the face of Israel's murderous attack on the Mavi Marmara aid ship to Gaza. However, none of this can excuse the unacceptable nature of his comments last week. We abhor anti-semitism not only for the damage it could do to Palestine solidarity activism, but because like all forms of racism it is immoral, inhumane, and grotesque. We stand against all forms of racism, including Zionism.
- Abortion, Infanticide, Humanity, Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Abortion is right, and infanticide is wrong, because there IS a moral boundary between the fetus and the newborn.
- The Ice House Winery Looks to Jim Treliving To Invest on CBC's The Big Decision
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Ice House Winery needs an injection of Jim Treliving Midas Touch. Canadians need to get behind our liquid gold story and vote for Jim Treliving to say yes to investing in The Ice House.
- Rapport de la Bande de Gaza pour Ouvrir l'Exposition d'Art pour Enfants
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Vancouver - Regard d'enfants sur Gaza comprend des uvres surprenantes et courageuses sur le papier en utilisant colorie, peintures et des marqueurs par les enfants qui ont survcu l'attaque militaire Operation Plomb Durci de 22 jours sur
- The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Dispatches from the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Michael E. Mann, lead author of the original paper in which the Hockey Stick graph first appeared, shares the story of the science and politics behind the controversy of climate change, and the implied threat to those who oppose governmental regulation and other restraints to protect the environment and planet.
- McDonald's Denies NYPD Deal to Give Happy Meals to Stop and Frisk Victims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
McDonald's denied participating in a campaign called "Three Strikes, You're In!" that rewarded New Yorkers who have been victims of NYPD's stop and frisk policies with a Happy Meal. The Yes Men have confirmed that "Three Strikes, You're In!" is a hoax.
- Guide to the John Campey "7 News" Collection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- A Marxist History of the World part 65: The 1905 Revolution: Russia's great dress rehearsal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how the Russian Revolution of 1905 helped Leon Trotsky formulate an answer to the century-old riddle of Russian history: what form must the revolution take in order to be victorious.
- Bodyrock.TV and the Lebert EQUALIZER
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
BodyRock.Tv is a free fitness blog (and world wide phenomenon) focused on helping people from all walks of life get into shape at home (or wherever you happen to be) and now using the Lebert EQUALIZER in their awesome workouts!
- Children's art from Gaza opens Mar. 9 in Vancouver with speakers on children's rights, post-traumatic stress
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Mar. 9 Vancouver opening of art exhibit created by children in Gaza features Barbara Lubin of Middle East Children's Alliance on children's rights and a video interview with Dr. Eyad el-Sarraj of Gaza Community Health Program with current news.
- From Google downwards, our digital masters must be watched
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Commentary on how the wielders of power who scrutinize our actions should be held in check, in the same way as politicians.
- Herman's House
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
'What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?' This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace, one of the Angola 3, and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary confinement.
- Revealed: government plans for police privatisation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Private companies could take responsibility for investigating crimes, patrolling neighbourhoods and even detaining suspects under a radical privatisation plan being put forward by two of the largest police forces in the country.
- Anatomy of the Oil States - book Review
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
It's taken for granted that the upheavals in much of the Middle East — and great-power decisions about which conflicts are worthy of “humanitarian intervention” and/or “regime change” — have a lot to do with oil and who profits from it. But understanding the dynamics behind the headlines requires more detailed and careful analysis. Adam Hanieh’s Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States is a welcome materialist contribution.
- Arab and Arab American Feminist Narratives - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Nearly ten years in the making, Arab and Arab American Feminisms gathers activists, artists and academics to give voice to the most rapidly changing and complex issues in the Arab world.
- Arab Detroit, Targeted Community
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Since September 11, 2001, the Detroit area’s Arab-American community has become a convenient source of media reports, an object of investigation by government agencies, and a target of hatred for Americans looking for someone to blame for the 9/11 attacks.
- Assessing the Battle of Longview
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
How does the Occupy movement connect with more militant segments of the workers’ movement?
- Assessing the hidden costs to families when a parent is in prison
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The federal government's omnibus crime bill, currently being debated by the Senate, has launched a widespread conversation in Canada about the justice and penal systems. While the commentary and analysis has covered a number of different perspectiv
- Atzmon's Mistaken "Identity" - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A review of The Wandering Who? by Gilad Atzmon.
- The big robo-calling question: will anyone go to jail?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Good investigative journalism could break this affair wide open, but will the owners of the Harper-friendly corporate media allow their journalists to go beyond normal reporting and do the hard work necessary to get to the very bottom of this dark story?
- Chicano Art vs. Censorship
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Chicana feminist artists have experienced protests, verbal attacks and even death threats for their reimaginings of the Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe since the 1970s.
- Chile: Return of the Penguins!
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The struggle to democratize Chile’s educational system has, for the first time since the country’s return to bourgeois democracy in 1990, challenged the very foundations of its neoliberal model.
- A Civil Tongue
South Sudan tries to learn English
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
South Sudan has proclaimed English its official language as part of an attempt to encourage economic growth.
- Drone Strikes? What's To Feel Bad About?
Really Sorry We Burned the Korans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Ernie Goodman's Long Struggle - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the Attica uprising, those four tense days of seizures and demands, negotiations and state violence that stunned the nation in September 1971. The rebellion involved over a thousand inmates who took control of the New York State facility and held 33 guards hostage in protest over inhumane living conditions and racial discrimination in the overcrowded prison.
- The Expo Files
Articles by the Crusading Journalist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Collected here for the first time are essays and articles on right-wing extremism and racism, on violence against women and women's rights, on homophobia and honour killings.
- The Expo Files
Articles by the Crusading Journalist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Collected here for the first time are Stieg Larsson's essays and articles on right-wing extremism and racism, on violence against women and women's rights, on homophobia and honour killings.
- Four Conferences on Matriarchy
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The growth of a diverse and broad international wave of feminism has led to the development of what has been called Modern Matriarchal Studies, which includes research both on ancient societies and on existing communal cultures.
- How Empires Fall
An Interview With Jonathan Schell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Jonathan Schell discusses non-violent activism.
- The New Monument on the Mall
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is the first devoted to an African American individual on the Washington Mall, a solemn civic space heretofore reserved for presidents and warriors.
- Poetry and Political Change - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
There is a tradition for engaged political poetry in America. A number of memorable writers come to mind, Walt Whitman, Kenneth Fearing, Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, John Beecher, Don Gordon, Thomas McGrath, Muriel Rukeyser, Meridel LeSueur, Olga Cabral, Adrienne Rich, Floyce Alexander, and others. There are also poets who write the occasional political poem.
- "Right to Work": Menace to Labor
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A year-long battle ended in January with Indiana becoming the 23rd “Right to Work (RTW)” state — and ominously for labor, now the wedge state for opening the rest of the industrial Midwest to RTW campaigns. In neighboring Michigan, the home state of the United Auto Workers, rightwing state legislators are pushing to follow the Indiana example in the name of “competitiveness.”
- SIU's Community of Resistance
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A solidarity rally to prepare for a joint strike.
- Somaliland: open for business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The self-declared independent state in the north-west corner of conflict-ridden Somalia has been an oasis of calm, and it is now seeking foreign investment.
- The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Paul Preston charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all ‘those who do not think as we do’ – some 200,000 men, women and children across Spain.
- Syria: Arab Solution Needed
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Of all the Arab regimes that have been toppled since the start of the Arab Spring last year, Syria’s Assad regime is the most dangerous. While it is impossible to quantify oppression and repression, the Assad regime has certainly surpassed its Tunisian, Egyptian, Libyan and Yemeni counterparts in its assault on the rights of its people and other Arabs over the years.
- Taking Socialism Seriously
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Raises essential questions about what socialism is and how socialists can reach it.
- The U.S.-Pakistan Co-dependency
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
After a cross-border NATO air strike in November resulted in the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers, Pakistan responded forcefully, closing the Af-Pak border to NATO traffic, expelling the U.S. military from an air base inside Pakistan, and boycotting the International Conference on Afghanistan.
- Using a Black Icon to Sell Apartheid
Israel's Chutzpah
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Apologists for Israel are now using fabricated 'quotes' from Martin Luther King to make it seem that King supported Israeli apartheid.
- Who Are the Control Rods?
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
After losing a war, one of the worst things that can happen to a society is for its people to be told it was a "victory." The inability or failure to learn the lessons of the United States’ defeat in Iraq enables the plunge into the next disastrous adventure: Can you say "Iran"?
- Who Speaks for the 99%
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The bitter truth about U.S. politics is that neither ruling-class party speaks for the working class or poor.
- With God on Our Side
The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Adam D. Reich tells the story of a five-year campaign to unionize Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, a Catholic hospital in California.
- Without Women, No Food Security
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In the countries of the Global South, women are the primary producers of food: the ones in charge of working the earth, maintaining seed stores, harvesting fruit, obtaining water and safeguarding the harvest.
- State and mafia take their cut as Italians develop gambling habit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Economic crisis and legalisation of slot machines help drive 20-fold rise in spending over a decade.
- Can You Pass The US Christian Right Quiz?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An understanding of the Christian Right, a loose coalition of politically conservative congregations and organizations, is critical to understanding the US. This quiz seeks to explore the political influence of the Christian Right, and to highlight the threat its radical fundamentalists pose to the majority of Americans who value pluralism and tolerance.
- A Letter To Other Occupiers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
We need to act within a wide strategic context, and engage in more than tactical exercises. We need to invite local people to join our ranks and institutions. We cannot hope to win the trust of others, especially others different from ourselves in class background, cultural preferences, race, or gender, unless we stay long enough to win that trust one day at a time. We must be prepared to spend years in communities where there may not be many fellow radicals. In thinking about our own lives, and how we can contribute over what Nicaraguans call a “long trajectory,” we need to acquire skills that poor and oppressed persons perceive to be needed.
- Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine Offers Program Delivery for International Medical Graduates
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) is initiating registration for a new bridge delivery of its naturopathic medical program, developed specifically for international medical graduates (IMGs).
- Children's art from Gaza to be shown in Vancouver in March
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Art created by children in Gaza after Israel's bombardment of Gaza in 2008 is to be shown in various locations in Vancouver Mar 9 - 16. Original show in Oakland, Ca. cancelled after pro-Israel groups protested.
- A Marxist History of the World part 64: What is Imperialism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how the growth of giant monopolies and the fusing of industrial, bank, and state capital created global competition - and the roots of World War I.
- Nothing Is Ever Won Without Organizing
Remarks to the First Nonviolence Training Session of the Mexican Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
All organizing begins with the telling of a story. When we listen carefully to somebody’s story, we learn what motivates him, what she is passionate about. Listening is the first skill and duty of a community organizer. Before we can get somebody to do something, we have to learn what he and she want, which is usually different than what we presumed they wanted.
- WikiLeaks Begins Publishing 5 Million Emails From STRATFOR
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part One
Contradictions of the Civil Rights Movement: A Marxist Analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
We describe the black population in the U.S. as an oppressed race-color caste. From their arrival in this country, the Negro people have been an integral part of American class society while at the same time forcibly segregated at the bottom of this society. Thus blacks face discrimination, in different degrees, regardless of social status, wealth or class position. Blacks are today still an integral and strategic part of the working class, despite unemployment and mass incarceration.
- Infiltration To Disrupt, Divide And Mis-direct Are Widespread In Occupy - Part I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This article describes public reports of infiltration as well as results of a survey and discussions with occupiers about this important issue.
- Mobile reserves could save marine species
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Mobile marine nature reserves have been advanced as a tool to protect highly mobile marine mammals such as seabirds, turtles and sharks. These would protect migratory routes and mating grounds during certain times of the year.
- One latrine at a time
Liberia's president is unusually frank as she agrees that toilets are fundamental to creating a healthier country
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Diarrhoea kills more children than HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined – and its main cause is food and water contaminated with human waste. Liberia's president is trying to change all that. Building latrines must be a key priority to promote health and sanitation.
- Panama's indigenous champion defies president's mining deal
Canadian-Korean consortium plans 30-year gold, silver and copper project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In Panama the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous community fights to keep a Canadian copper mining company off their land.
- ¡Vivan las Antipodas!
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky journeys to four antipodal communities and launches an exuberent travelogue of spaces with uncanny continuities and disturbing disjunctions.
- The Franchise Show Connects Aspiring Business Owners with Leading Franchise Brands
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Franchise Show, produced by the Canadian Franchise Association, connects aspiring business owners with leading franchise brands at the Toronto Congress Centre on February 25 & 26, 2012.
- How to Avoid the Dreaded 'UnLike'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
It's imperative that organizations reach these 'overconnected' fans with useful engagement because we all know that gaining a 'like' doesn't necessarily translate to gaining a fan.
- Osgoode Hall law students win 1st ever Twitter Moot
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The first-ever Twitter Moot concluded yesterday, with Osgoode Hall students taking the prize.
- Wildness
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The creativity and conflict that arises when queer avant-garde performance artists intersect with a community of transgender immigrant women at historic Los Angeles bar Silver Platter.
- Canadian Business Women Challenge Mayors acoss Canada to Proclaim March 18th, 2012 Equal Pay Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Canadian Business Leaders use credible research to build the business case for why "Women Mean Business in the 21st Century. Community and Business Leaders are invited to show their support by Proclaiming an Equal Pay Day on March 18, 2012.
- Mad, Passionate Love - and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Occupy movement had its glorious honeymoon when old and young, liberal and radical, comfortable and desperate, homeless and tenured all found that what they had in common was so compelling the differences hardly seemed to matter. Until they did.
- A moment at the pizza place
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
I’m waiting for a slice of pizza at La Festa, the pizza place across the street from my office, chatting with the owner. She’s originally from Eritrea, now settled in Canada.
- For the Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story - in pictures
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
During the Bosnian war, a group of men and women risked their lives to rescue thousands of irreplaceable Islamic manuscripts -- and preserve a nation's history. Amid bullets and bombs, this handful of passionate book-lovers safeguarded more than 10,000 unique, hand-written antique books and documents -- the most important texts held by Sarajevo's Gazi Husrav Beg Library, founded in 1537.
As the 20th anniversary of the start of the siege of Sarajevo approaches, a documentary airing tonight on BBC4 tells the story of this extraordinary bid to protect a nation's history. Here are a few of the film's most striking images
- A Marxist History of the World part 63: The Rape of China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at the impact of western imperialism's repeated and bloody attempts to control the wealth of China
- Office worker's survival guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The modern office is fraught with dangers. From the risk of getting fired, to stress, repetitive strain injury (RSI), mindnumbing boredom and more. This helpful guide from libcom.org will help you navigate these hazards to a happy work life, and perhaps a slightly better world.
- A Response to Norman Finkelstein
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A response to Norman Finkelstein's attack on the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Tilley says that Finkelstein's insistence that the movement has to adjust itself to mainstream public opinion is bizarre: "Since when do human rights campaigns adjust their arguments to please mainstream opinion? Changing mainstream opinion is their very task. If activists took mainstream opinion as the proper guide to moral action, we would never have had the anti-slavery abolition movement, or the women’s suffrage movement, and apartheid would flourish in South Africa to this day. Indeed, we wouldn’t have most human rights campaigns. The toughest ones, which are often the greatest ones, must often start small and grow slowly."
- Buoyant thinking for the future
Homes that float could provide a solution for often-flooded regions in Thailand
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Building amphibious homes in Thailand that are designed to weather the annual flooding.
- How to get the answers you want
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Drummond report is a typical instance of how to make sure you get the wrong answers by asking the wrong questions and appointing the wrong person to answer them.
- How to get the answers you want
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Ontario government appointed a high-profile banker, Don Drummond, to come up with recommendations about how the government should deal with difficult economic times. The results were predictable....
- Lessons of the Battle of Longview
ILWU Holds the Line Against Union Busting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Reflections on the battle fought by the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) against the giant EGT grain conglomerate.
- The Tragedy of Norman Finkelstein -- Time to Say Goodbye
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Norman Finkelstein seems to have moved from an anti-Zionist position to believing that the best we can do is create a Palestinian bantustan while Israeli remains as a state where Jews rule and Palestinians remain legally and economically oppressed.
- WiFi in Schools Controversy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
On behalf of the independent Radiation Safety Institute of Canada, radiation scientist Claire Cohalan responds to a live interview request on the subject of WiFi in Schools. Interview can be seen at: http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/wifi-concerns/
- Child Care Owners Urge Province to Act on Drummond Report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Child care programs speak out about consequences of Full-Day Kindergarten Program and suggest Government work with independent licensed child care sector--both private and non-profit--to find more affordable solutions for families.
- United in Anger
A History of ACT UP
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Examines the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic.
- American Decline in Perspective
Empire and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Honda Ontario Power Dealers Still Blowing Away Expectations With Showstopping Deals and Contests
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Honda Ontario Power Dealers maintain momentum, dovetailing multiple in-store and online events. At the end of January, one lucky winner rode a 2012 Honda TRX680F Rincon ATV home. Now, customers are saving on snowblowers until the end of February.
- The Torture Report
What the Documents Say About America's Post-9/11 Torture Program
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Sometimes the truth is buried in front of us. That is the case with more than 140,000 government documents relating to abuse of prisoners by U.S. forces during the "war on terror," brought to light by Freedom of Information Act litigation. As the lead author of the ACLU's report on these documents, Larry Siems is in a unique position to chronicle who did what, to whom and when. This book serves as a tragic reminder of what happens when commitments to law, common sense, and human dignity are cast aside, when it becomes difficult to discern the difference between two groups intent on perpetrating extreme violence on their fellow human beings.
Divided into three sections, The Torture Report presents a stunning array of eyewitness and first-person reports—by victims, perpetrators, dissenters, and investigators—of the CIA’s White House-orchestrated interrogations in illegal, secret prisons around the world; the Pentagon’s “special projects,” in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; plots real and imagined, and much more.
- Empire and Its Discontents
"Losing" the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- UN 'Travesty': Resolutions Of Mass Destruction - Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Far from bringing an end to the violence, UN Resolution 1973 unleashed overwhelming Western force in pursuit of regime change, in a war that was fought to the bitter end. To ensure the right outcome, Western and other powers supplied special forces and weapons, simply ignoring the resolution's call for 'strict implementation of the arms embargo' and 'excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory'. In short, the resolution resulted in a massive escalation in violence.
- A Marxist History of the World part 62: The Scramble for Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The imperial competition to control Africa spawned a predatory colonialism of mines, plantations, and machine-guns and propelled humanity towards industrialised world war writes Neil Faulkner.
- Occupy Oakland activists take up the question of decision-making
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Exclusionary strategies and tactics alienate those of us who are interested in a slower, more solid, more inclusive approach of mass movement building.
- Amazon defenders face death or exile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Ordinary Brazilians who report illegal logging face threats to their lives.
- The mathematical equation that caused the banks to crash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Black-Scholes equation was the mathematical justification for the trading that plunged the world's banks into catastrophe
- Call Me Kuchu
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.
- Stoking the False War Between Generations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The world seemed to change dramatically in 2011. On the global stage the democracy movement that started in Tunisia spread throughout the Middle East and beyond, eventually settling into tiny Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, just blocks from Wall Street. From there, Occupy Wall Street rippled out to become a global protest movement.
- Do the Greeks get it?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A word has to be said about the somewhat depressing character of the clash between reformism and ultraleftism in Greece. Radical youth might have a natural prejudice against the KKE and PAME because it is so compromised with class-collaborationist coalition building. But instead of trying to figure out a way to win the ranks of the CP to the revolutionary cause, it sees its membership as part of the problem and not part of the solution.
- George Carlin sums up class structure and the purpose media of divisiveness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Deadline extended for Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector nominations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The deadline to submit nominations for the Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector has been extended to February 17, 2012, at 11:59 p.m. EST. If you know an individual or a team that has made a significant contribution
- Is Stephen Harper displaying fascist-like tendencies?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Prolongation de la periode de mise en candidature pour le Prix d'excellence dans la fonction de controle secteur public
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
La date limite de mise en candidature pour le Prix d'excellence dans la fonction de controle secteur public au 17 fevrier 2012. Vous connaissez une personne ou une
- Chris Hedges and the black bloc
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
From its inception back in the European autonomist movements of the 1980s, the black-clad activists refuse to answer anybody outside of their ranks. Within the “affinity group”, everything is cool. Outside of it, who gives a shit? Ironically, this kind of elitism is not that different from the “vanguard party” posture which puts the needs of the sect above that of the mass movement.
- Polishing Putin: hacked emails suggest dirty tricks by Russian youth group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Nashi runs web of online trolls and bloggers paid to praise Vladimir Putin and denigrate enemies.
- Way Beyond Greenwashing: Have Corporations Captured Big Conservation?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The global organic food industry agrees to support international agribusiness in clearing as much tropical rainforest as they want for farming. In return, agribusiness agrees to farm the now-deforested land using organic methods, and the organic industry encourages its supporters to buy the resulting timber and food under the newly devised “Rainforest Plus” label.
- The Cancer in Occupy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists — so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property — is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state.
- A Marxist History of the World part 61: The Long Depression, 1873-1896
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner writes about the The Long Depression – an unprecedented economic slump which started the countdown to the First World War.
- Paul D'Amato and the Red Condom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Shaw Bans Video of Peace Activist Author's Book Reading
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Shaw Cable has banned the broadcast of a reading by Canadian author Michael Riordon from his book "Our Way to Fight: Peace-work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine." The reading was sponsored by the Victoria Chapter of Independent Jewish Voices Canada.
- Just Not Feeling the Love this Valentine's Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The six weeks before Valentine's Day is the highest period of divorces and break-ups for Canadians. My Support Calculator has seen a sharp increase in the number of people calculating spousal and child support payments in 2012.
- Fred Zierenberg, 1949-2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Designs on equality
City planning is a mechanism of discrimination - it mainly serves the able-bodied
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The idea of “universal design” is to stop creating public infrastructure that privileges one particular group, whether it’s car drivers, the able-bodied or those with paycheques, and start envisioning people with parallel but not identical mobility and sociability needs: children, teens, seniors, new immigrants, those on low incomes, parents, those with sports injuries or with physical and mental limitations, and those who care for any of the above.
- Wisconsin Uprising
Labor Fights Back
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A collection of accounts from the early stages of the Wisconsin uprising against the corporate world in the of spring 2011.
- All Politics is Local
Election night in Peru's largest prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Daniel Alarcon explores the internal politics of Peru's largest prison.
- canfitpro Brings Its Cutting-Edge Education to Edmonton
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
canfitpro hosts Edmonton's best fitness event - the Personal Training and Group Fitness Conference! The conference provides fitness professionals with access to a complete day of learning and skill development.
- canfitpro Toronto One Day Workshop with Paul Chek
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
canfitpro is pleased to feature Paul Chek in this exclusive one day workshop designed for personal trainers and group fitness instructors!
- Halifax-based technology firm inks deal with Canada's largest fitness certification organization - canfitpro
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Leader Interactive Technologies Ltd formally announced today that it has secured a long term contract with Canadian Fitness Professionals Inc. (canfitpro). canfitpro, which is Canada's largest fitness certification organization, will be utilizing
- Killing the Competition
How the new monopolies are destroying open markets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Barry Lynn discusses how today's markets have moved away from the openess they are supposed to represent.
- Some Assembly Required
Witnessing the birth of Occupy Wall Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Nathan Schneider describes his experiences inside the early days of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
- A Copy of Tucson's Banned Book List
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
People involved in the Mexican American Studies struggle in Tucson, Arizona recently compiled a list of the banned books from the district, as well as released a letter signed by many organizations expressing concern over First Amendment rights, given the Tucson Unified School District’s removal of these texts. Here is the letter and here is the list, also reproduced below.
- A Marxist History of the World part 60: The Paris Commune: the face of proletarian revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Franco-Prussian war produced the first proletarian revolution in history, and showed to the world for the first time what a workers’ state looks like.
- Neo-liberalism and the ongoing economic assault on ordinary Canadians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Two recent stories out of Ottawa underline the ongoing political and economic assault on ordinary Canadians. More Canadians are now working for low wages than at any time in decades, continuing a trend that began in the early 1990s, and Stephen Harper has announced major changes to retirement benefits -- including delaying Old Age Security(OAS) eligibility to age 67. What kind of society beggars those of its citizens who worked all their lives and now want to retire in dignity while privileging the rich and super-rich?
- Beyond the Sacred
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A transcript on Malik's talk "Beyond the Sacred" at a conference on blasphemy.
- Canned Dreams
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A simple can of ravioli propels this spectacular 30,000-kilometre, eight-country journey through all phases of food production and the far flung sources of international ingredients.
- How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the '1 Percent'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
I began to learn that the Swedes and Norwegians paid a price for their standards of living through nonviolent struggle. There was a time when Scandinavian workers didn't expect that the electoral arena could deliver the change they believed in. They realized that, with the 1 percent in charge, electoral "democracy" was stacked against them, so nonviolent direct action was needed to exert the power for change.
- Plunder in the Pacific
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Chilean legislators clear the way for legally binding international measures to protect threatened fish across the southern Pacific, after an ICIJ investigation.
- A Marxist History of the World part 59: The Franco-Prussian War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In this week's chapter of the Marxist History series Neil Faulkner looks at how Germany’s ruling elite brought about a bourgeois revolution ‘from above’.
- To Name The Unnameable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Discussing Salman Rushdie's non-appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
- Shit Students CAN'T Say (About Israel)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Inspired by the viral hit Shit Homophobic People Say -- that proved no spoofing is necessary -- Shit Students CAN'T Say is real video clips showing that criticism of Israel is being banned and repressed on campuses around the world.
- The Invisible War
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.
- The strike that led to Tahir Square
An act of courage that launched a revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Labour struggles at Egypt's largest cotton mill, starting in 2006, laid the groundwork for the revolution of 2011.
- We Are Legion
The Story of the Hacktivists
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A history of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age.
- Flags of Convenience
Corporate Anarchy on the High Seas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Maritime lawlessness isn’t confined to pirates. Thanks to a system of ship registration called ‘flags of convenience,’ it is all too easy for unscrupulous ship owners to get away with criminal behaviour
- A Marxist History of the World part 58: The Meiji Restoration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An event which would shape the history of the Far East until 1945, Japan’s bourgeois revolution ‘from above’ is explored by Neil Faulkner in this week's Marxist History.
- Neo-Racism in the Southwest
The (Mis)education of the Coming Majority
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
What is taking place in southern Arizona deserves our attention as the most fanatical episode in the war against public education.
- Selective Outrage - Iran And Libya
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Welcome to the World’s First Bunker State
Room for Jews Only in Israel’s ‘Villa in the Jungle’
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The bunker state is almost finished, and with it the dream of Israel’s founders is about to be realised.
- Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Richard Sennett contends that "living with people who differ -- racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically -- is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the tribe rather than of the city."
- Air Force Invades the Rocky Mountains
Sky Grab
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Communities throughout rural America are fighting to stop more Air Force flights overhead. In addition to New Mexico and Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arizona, Kentucky and Maine are some of the other states fighting intrusive low-level flights.
- America's Last Chance
One Against the Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The United States is rapidly being turned into a police state.
- The Newsfakers
Whose hands are behind those dramatic YouTube pictures?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
YouTube and blogs have made it easier than ever to fabricate events. The media are happy to run unsubstantiated reports and footage.
- The Terrorists that are and the Terrorists that Aren't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
When is a terrorist not a terrorist? When, apparently, he is 'our' terrorist.
- The November 2011 General Elections in Spain: Indignation Trapped in the Ballot Box
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The “outrage” expressed in the Spanish streets, deflated after the electoral ritual, is confronted with the limitations of the movement’s citizen-based abstractions (electoral reform, the affirmation of democracy, denouncing corruption, etc.) when confronted with the reality ( labor reform, social cuts) imposed by capital and its democratically elected administrators. Or, perhaps, indignation has completed its cycle and we are at the beginning.
- NYC Transit Workers' Fare Strike 2012: Can Occupy Open Horizons for a Frustrated Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Transit workers belonging to New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100 exhibit a familiar sight in the 21st century U.S. labor movement: broke, angry, slandered, disillusioned, directionless and top heavy.
- Occupy Atlanta: Privilege Politics of Popular Self-Management for the Post-Civil Rights City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Occupy Atlanta (OA) movement, like the OWS movement more generally, revealed a national response to the general economic crisis.
- Occupy LA: The Worst of the Best
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A report from the 2011 Occupy movement in Los Angeles.
- OWS and the working class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
As frustrating as this may sound to the left, who are justifiably excited over a revival of radical politics, many workers cannot see the movement’s relevancy to their own lives, yet still feel the pangs of the crisis perhaps more painfully than most.
- The Radicalization of Decolonize/Occupy Seattle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A report on Occupy Seattle 2011.
- Reports from the Occupy Wall Street Events of Mid-November
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Boom and Bust... Literally
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The richest country in the world is faced with literal “boom”—in the form of exploding sections of electric, gas and steam systems—and “bust”—in the form of collapsing roads and bridges—on a widespread and regular basis.
- Globalization of Capital, Globalization of Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Something has escaped the control of the Democrats, the NGOs, the SEIU and the left sects — of official society and those attempting its mere facelift — which will not be easily brought to heel. Hundreds of thousands of people who had never before been in mass mobilizations (or mobilizations of any kind) found themselves confronting the police, facing tear gas and pepper spray, going to jail and learning in the streets what can never be learned any other way.
- Letter from Baltimore
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Coming to grips with the impact of Occupy Baltimore means not just evaluating what the movement has been able to do or not do on its own terms but rooting its experiences in this larger picture of class decomposition and re-composition that in Baltimore followed in the wake of the same patterns of deindustrialization, suburban flight and disinvestment .
- Reflections on the New School Occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
On November 17th, 2011, the Study Center at 90 Fifth Avenue, an office building leased by the New School University, was occupied by participants in the all-city student assembly in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.
- The Sky is Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn
Class Struggle in the US from the 2008 Crash to the Eve of the Occopations Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
We can safely assert that for most working people, the "recession" has never ended, and is about to get worse.
- National Non-Smoking Week - January 15 - 21, 2012
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
NNSW - 35 Years Young - Observed for 35 years, NNSW is one of the longest running and most important events in the CCTC's ongoing public education efforts regarding the consequences of tobacco use. This year's theme is "Breaking up is hard to do"
- Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?
All the News That's Fit to Slant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In Al Jazeera’s early days in the mid and late 1990s, the channel took on taboo subjects and proudly challenged the status quo. In recent months, however, Al Jazeera has begun to change course. It has deviated from its journalistic responsibilities in Libya, and is now completely losing the plot with Syria. The channel is in urgent need to revisit its own code of ethics.
- The Next War on Washington's Agenda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
It could not be more obvious that Washington’s war preparations against Iran have nothing to do with deterring Iran from a nuclear weapon. So, what are the war preparations about?
- The black bloc and the Battle of Seattle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Cry for "Bread & Roses" Still Resonates
100 Years After the Lawrence Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
When worker solidarity prevailed over corporate power in the icy streets of Lawrence a century ago, it made the promise of a better life real for many. The Bread and Roses strike became a consciousness-raising experience, not only for textile workers and their families, but the nation as a whole.
- Occupy and the Urgency of Inclusiveness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Occupy is a social movement that purports to give expression to working class concerns in the absence of working class participation. Occupy has evolved into a form of organization that effectively excludes many who might otherwise participate, and, even worse, may ultimately result in a predominately middle class orientation over time.
- A Thousand Dildos For The Military Wives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A porn company says it can bring military families together with Internet-based sex toys.
- Psychologists' Collusion in Ongoing Illegal Detentions
The Status Quo of Torture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Business is Booming for the Prison Profiteers
The GEO Group Cashes In
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Though GEO (formerly Wackenhut) is hardly a household name, they are a major player in the private corrections sector, combining a self righteous amorality in profiting from human misery with a ruthless sense of just how to make a buck in this business.
- China's capitalism and the crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Coupled with spectacular growth rates since the late 1970s, China’s “soft landing” and apparent rapid recovery from the crisis appear to support claims made by some on the right and the left that the 2008 recession has been a catalyst for the core of capitalism shifting to the East and setting in motion a change in global geopolitics.
- The Egyptian workers' movement and the 25 January Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This article is an exploration of one of the fundamental processes that brought the revolution back to Tahrir: the rise of an organised working class movement.
- It Started in Wisconsin
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A collection of accounts of the first great wave of grassroots resistance to the corporate restructuring of the Great Recession in Wisconsin in the spring of 2011.
- The Occupy movement and class politics in the US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Occupy movement that began in New York in September 2011 and has spread with remarkable speed across the country represents a massive shift in the politics of the United States.
- Revolution against "progress": the TIPNIS struggle and class contradictions in Bolivia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Evo Morales's green light to a decades-old project to build a highway connecting Villa Tunari north to San Ignacio de Moxos through the indigenous territory and national park known as TIPNIS (Territorio Indígena del Parque Nacional Isiboro-Sécure), was the catalyst of his government's unpopular ratings.
- Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere
The New Global Revolutions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
From London to Cairo, Wisconsin to Tehran, Paul Mason charts new forms of collective action: fluid networks of agile, Twitter- and Facebook-savvy networks of youthful protesters. The events, says Mason, reflect the expanding power of the individual and call for new ways of thinking about political alternatives, elite rule and global poverty.
- A Marxist History of the World part 57: The American Civil War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
One hundred and fifty years ago North America saw the start of a revolutionary war fought between rival systems and opposing political ideologies. Neil Faulkner looks at The American Civil War.
- Israeli government pays students to spread propaganda online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Israeli government has launched a program to pay students to promote the Israeli agenda on Facebook and internet chatrooms.
- To get in shape gain SIXTEEN pounds.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
To get in shape gain SIXTEEN pounds. That?s right; simply add the two eight pound yellow steel bars called The Lebert EQUALIZER TM Total Body Strengthener to every workout.
- 12 Reasons You'll Be Hearing More About The Commons In 2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
"We Power" stands at the convergence of economic and cultural trends.
- The contribution of trees to our lives: it is time to take stock
French botanist Francis Hallé makes a case for the defence of trees as a powerful ally in saving the Earth's ecosystems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A reflection on the impact of trees in the world and the necessity of improving urban forestry out of self-preservation.
- French farmers will have to pay to use their own seeds
'Compulsory voluntary contribution' to seed companies extended to 20 more types of crops, and use of saved seeds for other crops banned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
French government to begin cracking down on enforcing plant breeders' rights -- farmers will have to pay to use farm-saved seed.
- The International Context of Global Outrage
Part I: Looking back on the movements that preceded the Arab Spring, the Indignados, and Occupy Wall Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- A Movement Without Demands?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
We claim that far from being a strength, the lack of demands reflects the weak ideological core of the movement. We also claim that demands should not be approached tactically but strategically, that is, they should be grounded in a long-term view of the political goals of the movement, a view that is currently lacking. Accordingly, in the second part of this text, we argue that this strategic view should be grounded in a politics of the commons.
- A Marxist History of the World part 56: The Indian Mutiny
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Indian Mutiny was the subcontinent’s first war of independence, with Indians of different ethnic and religious backgrounds fighting side-by-side despite the divide and rule fostered by the British.
- Occupy Oakland: The Port Shutdown and Beyond - All Eyes on Longview!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Occupy movement – and especially Occupy Oakland – has demonstrated remarkable resilience and an almost unprecedented ability to repeatedly mobilize mass actions against economic injustice and police brutality.
- Remembering Another Occupy
Anniversary of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike Wave
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- About Love
3 Stories by Chekhov
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- The Act of Killing
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A film is about the individuals who participated in the Indonesian killings of 1965–66.
- The Activists' Handbook
A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A guide to grassroots activism.
- American Autumn: An Occudoc
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Shot on the front lines and meeting spaces of the Occupy movement in NYC, Boston, and Washington, DC from the earliest days through the end of January 2012, American Autumn: an Occudoc is an inside looking out view of the occupy movement.
- American Jacobins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In a recent broadside against the Occupy movement, Alexander Cockburn assailed, among other things, “the enormous arrogance which prompted the Occupiers to claim that they were indeed the most important radical surge in living memory. Where was the knowledge of, let alone the respect for, the past?”
- The Angels' Share
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- The Angels' Share
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A bittersweet comedy about a Glasgow boy locked in a family feud who just wants a way out. When Robbie sneaks into the maternity hospital to visit his young girlfriend Leonie and hold his newborn son Luke for the first time, he is overwhelmed. He swears that Luke will not lead the same stricken life he has led.
On community service Robbie meets Rhino, Albert and Mo for whom, like him, work is little more than a distant dream. Little did Robbie imagine that turning to drink might change their lives - not cheap fortified wine, but the best malt whiskies in the world. What will it be for Robbie? More violence and vendettas or a new future with ‘Uisge Beatha’, the ‘Water of Life’?
Only the angels know...
[From distributor]
- Anthropologists, Spooks, and the Boys Who Went to War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- The Arab Spring, the West and Political Islam
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The contemporary Arab political system, until the recent outbreak of Arab revolutions, is the byproduct of a number of domestic, regional and global arrangements and developments in the post-World War II international order.
- Ask a Silly Question
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An inquiry into the polling and market industry. Through bogus street polls, we see how frequently people are willing to give opinions on subject matter they know nothing about.
- Be annoying, and don't give up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Bill Birnbauer, Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Monash University in Australia, shares the methodology and techniques which have served him best as an investigative journalist.
- Be careful of the "master narrative"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Maud Beelman, founding director of ICIJ and now deputy managing editor for investigations and enterprise at The Dallas Morning News, has a strategic four-part checklist which helps her prioritize which stories to go after. She shares them here, as well as the most important lessons learned over the years, and how to make the most of the limited time and resources you are given.
- Be inventive and patient
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Bulgarian investigative journalist and author Alexenia Dimitrova reveals how she uses Freedom of Information laws in several countries to uncover hidden secrets of the Cold War, how the imprisonment of her father spurred her on, and the rewards of patience.
- Be sure this way of life is something you are keen on, because it will eat up your time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The riches contained in this questionnaire with multi-award-winning investigative journalist Michael Bilton. Read on to learn details about his research methodology, and why a significant investment of time is the most critical component of each investigative report.
- Black History and the Class Struggle
#22
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Broadside: A Feminist Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A history of the groundbreaking Canadian feminist newspaper published between 1979 and 1989.
- Canadian Women & the Struggle for Equality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
When Stella Bliss applied for unemployment insurance in 1976, she found that she would not be entitled to benefits for another six weeks. Bliss had just had a baby and was therefore subject to a different section of the Unemployment Insurance Act than her male counterparts.
- The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Mander argues that capitalism is no longer a viable system: "What may have worked in 1900 is calamitous in 2010." Capitalism, utterly dependent on never-ending economic growth, is an impossible absurdity on a finite planet with limited resources.
- The Case for Grassroots Archives - Farsi text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Case study: a closer look at community partnerships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Chess and Sherlock Holmes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Sherlock Holmes' famous remark ‘Amberley excelled at chess – one mark, Watson, of a scheming mind’ appeared in ‘The Adventure of the Retired Colourman’ in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927).
- Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The days of human history.
- China in Revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Few in the West are aware of the drama unfolding in today’s “epicenter of global labor unrest.” A scholar of China exposes its tumultuous labor politics and their lessons for the Left.
- The CIA's Death Machine at Work (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In compelling detail, two leading civil rights attorneys — both leaders of the Center for Constitutional Rights (New York) — recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world’s most popular revolutionary, Ernesto Che Guevara. Using internal U.S. governmental documentation, only recently released, the authors use their forensic skills to analyze the evidence of the CIA’s involvement in the execution of a war prisoner captured alive.
- C.L.R. James' Visionary Legacy
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In order to understand the connection between Black History Month and revolution, we must explode the stifling separation between art and everyday life that bourgeois society everywhere seeks to impose on us.
- The Comedy is Finished
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Aging comedian Koo Davis, is kidnapped by five members of the People's Revolutionary Army.
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- A Convergence of Realities
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
What's striking the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement and its popular slogan “We are the 99 percent” is how much the central demand of the movement resonates with the Black community. African Americans with few exceptions are in the bottom 20% of income and wealth. Double digit unemployment is the norm in “good” economic times.
- Crime & Impunity
A pioneering report on sexual torture in Iranian Prisons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The first-ever comprehensive report on sexual violence and torture of women in Iranian prisons.
- Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914-1960
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Working people created a new America in the 1930s and 1940s which was a fundamental departure from the feudalistic and hierarchical America which existed before. In the process, class politics re-defined the political agenda of America as for the first and time in American history the political universe polarized along class lines. The author explores the meaning of the new deal political mobilization by ordinary people by examining the changes it brought to the local, county, and state levels in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and Pennsylvania as a whole.
- The Debate at Halle
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
There were two defining moments in the history of the international working-class movement in the first half of the 20th century. The first, by far the most discussed and written about for obvious reasons, was the revolution in Russia in October 1917 and its subsequent isolation and defeat. The second was the disaster in the German movement, which had been for half a century the model of a militant, socialist working-class movement, and the subsequent collapse of that movement in the face of Nazism.
- Debt: The First 500 Pages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
We need more grand histories, but 5,000 years of anecdotes is no substitute for real political economy.
- Detroit's Crisis -- Coming to You?
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
There are two realities to grasp about the current plight of Detroit. Reality one: Detroit is caught in a set of interlocking crises, from the level of the world economy and national political gridlock down to the viciously reactionary Michigan state government and the yawning divide between the city and suburban Detroit, that would severely challenge the most competent, the most visionary, the most energetic and most progressive city leadership.
- Detropia
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A documentary on the city of Detroit and its woes, which are emblematic of the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing base.
- A Doctor's Quest
The Struggle for Mother-and-Child Health Around the Globe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Recounting medical missions in half of the thirty countries in which she has worked for the past twenty-five years in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific -- from Darfur in Sudan to Papua New Guinea and Bhutan -- Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics, bureaucratic red tape, and corruption on the front lines as a doctor in mother-and-child health and HIV/AIDS.
- Don't Be Boring, Just Because You Have To Get the Facts Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Guardian's investigations editor lists the essential skills to get a journalism job, the right mindset for investigative reporters, and the most important lesson he's learned over the years.
- Downeast
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A foreign entrepreneur's plan to rehire employees from a closed down factory and reopen the plant for local lobster processing is met with resistance by obstinate fishermen, suspiscious of outsiders.
- Drone Warfare
Killing by Remote Control
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A comprehensive look at the growing menace of drone warfare, with an extensive analysis of who is producing the drones, where they are being used, who are "piloting" these unmanned planes, who are the victims and what are the legal and moral implications.
- An Education in Occupy
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Two months earlier, I had been sitting in class listening to an ILWU member talk about Export Grain Terminal’s (EGT) union-busting tactics in Longview, WA. “Great,” I thought, “but how can I help from the campus of a little college in Moraga, California?”
- Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An interview with Atef Said, a human rights lawyer and a political activist in Egypt before moving to the United States in 2004. He is the author of two books on torture under Mubarak.
- Email privacy
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Email privacy is the broad topic dealing with issues of unauthorized access and inspection of electronic mail. This unauthorized access can happen while an email is in transit, as well as when it is stored on email servers or on a user computer. In countries with a constitutional guarantee of the secrecy of correspondence, whether email can be equated with letters and get legal protection from all forms of eavesdropping comes under question because of the very nature of email. This is especially important as more and more communication occurs via email compared to postal mail.
- 'Equality Now!': Race, Racism and Resistance in the 1970s Toronto
PhD thesis, Queen's University, 2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Eradicating Extreme Poverty
Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A new approach to eradicating extreme poverty, contrasted with conventional "top-down" approaches.
- Espoir Voyage
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Like many young men of his country, Joanny travelled from Burkina Faso to the more affluent Ivory Coast in search of work and a better life. For many young Burkinabe men this emigration is a ritual and rite of passage — but Joanny never returned. Years later his brother, Burkinabe filmmaker Michel K. Zongo, decides to retrace his steps.
- The Evil of Humanitarian Wars
Iraq, Libya, Syria: We have no right to play God
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The West’s duty is not to intervene more but to intervene far less. We already massively arm tyrannies such as those in the Gulf so that they can protect the oil that we consider our birthright; we offer military, financial and diplomatic cover for Israel’s continuing oppression of millions of Palestinians, a major cause of political instability in the Middle East; and we quietly support the Egyptian military, which is currently trying to reverse last year’s revolutionary gains.
- Experimental Lakes Area Cuts
Resource Type: Digital Video File
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Rick's Rant for October 30th, 2012.
- Fictitious Capital and Contracted Social Reproduction Today: China and Permanent Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Once gain, as in 1914, capital requires, in order to survive as capital, a vast devalorization of all existing values, however great the destruction of human beings and means of production which that entails.
- Fighting Back: Sotheby's and OWS
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Forty-two teamster art-handlers at Sotheby’s auction house in New York City have been locked-out of their jobs for more than four months. Against the Current interviewed Sotheby’s shop steward David Martinez about what’s at stake, and how they’ve built links with the Occupy movement to fight back.
- Finding North
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A documentary that investigates incidents of hunger experienced by millions of Americans, and proposed solutions to the problem.
- Four Futures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Capitalism will end. Maybe not soon, but probably before too long; humanity has never before managed to craft an eternal social system, after all, and capitalism is a notably more precarious and volatile order than most of those that preceded it. The question, then, is what will come next.
- The Four Laws of Ecology and The Four Anti-Ecological Laws of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An exponential growth dynamic is inherent in capitalism, a system whereby money is exchanged for commodities, which are then exchanged for more money on an ever increasing scale.
- France: The NPA in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
France's new Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) is in crisis. While only two years ago many on the international left talked about the NPA as one of the brightest lights on an otherwise dim revolutionary horizon, today the Party is hemorrhaging members and struggling to stay afloat.
- Freedom Riders
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
When Hillary Clinton expressed dismay over gender segregation on buses in ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem — where women are forced to sit separately — she somehow neglected to mention the Jewish-settlers-only bus system in the Occupied Palestinan Territories.
- From "Occupy" to ...
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The question isn't whether the magnificent “Occupy” movement will continue after police action and the onset of winter have largely emptied the encampments. The righteous rage that made the movement possible, and the enormous social and economic crisis that made it necessary, are not going away anytime soon. Quite the contrary — capitalism’s inherent contradictions, made worse by economic policies in Europe and the United States that seem calculated to maximize the damage, pose the real possibility of a new global financial meltdown and potential world depression.
- From Oligarchy to the New Challenge of Global Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Most analysts and citizens of Western society suppose that we live in a democracy.
But is it really democracy – a system where the people rule and its representatives carry out the popular will? Or, do we live in an oligarchy disguised as democracy? Oligarchy: in others words, a system where a small, inner circle, makes the decisions they feel necessary.
- Fuck Love
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Gender and Sexuality
Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Stories, accounts and histories of the movements to overcome racism, sexism and poverty.
- Germany and Genocide in Namibia
Special Issue of Pambazuka News - #577 - March 2012
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Between 1904 and 1908 imperial Germany waged an atrocious and inhumane war of extermination against the Herero, Nama, Damara and San peoples in its former colony ‘German South West Africa’, now the Republic of Namibia.
- Gimme the Loot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Once the heroes of nations, pirates went from being state-sponsored champions to tolerated annoyances to the basest sort of criminals. Henry Morgan was knighted after plundering Panama in 1674; fifty years later hundreds of pirates were dangling from the gibbet at remote trading posts along Africa’s Gold Coast.
- Give Me Shelter
The Failure of Canada's Cold War Civil Defence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- The Global Intelligence Files
Resource Type: Database
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
On 27 February, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations and government agencies.
- Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Canadian labour leader. (1887-1918)
- The government's attempt to eradicate the travelling way of life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Elly Robson explores the deliberate criminalisation of the travelling way of life by Britian's coalition government.
- The Great Book Robbery
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
As Palestinians were expelled from their land in 1948, librarians from Israel’s National Library followed the militias as they forced their way into Palestinian homes. Their mission was to collect as many valuable books, manuscripts, photographs and artworks as possible – an estimated 70,000 books were seized.
- Great investigative reporters don't take no for an answer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The first thing to keep in mind about investigative journalism is that it’s not glamorous. (We can blame television with its “undercover” reporters and “hidden cameras” for this mistaken image.) It’s actually hard and often boring work. I have never pretended that I was anything other than a working reporter, nor chased a single guilty person down the street. But I did spend days poring over records in the House of Lords and devoted months trying to master the intricacies of accountancy, tax law and overseas trusts.
- Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
If consumption is the problem, as Ozzie Zehner suggests, then we need to shift our focus from suspect alternative energies to improving social and political fundamentals: walkable communities, improved consumption, enlightened governance, and, most notably, women's rights. The dozens of first steps he offers are surprisingly straightforward.
- Greening Capitalism? A Marxist Critique of Carbon Markets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Climate change is increasingly being recognized as a serious threat to dominant modes of social organization, inspiring suggestions that capitalism itself needs to be transformed if we are to ‘decarbonize’ the global economy.
- Hannah Arendt (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A 2012 German-Luxembourgian-French biographical drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta and starring Barbara Sukowa. The film centers in the life of German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt.
- Happy Hookers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Exploring the lives of sex workers and their would-be saviours.
- Hitler's Bestiary from the Inside
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Over a decade ago, I spent several months poring through the Martha Eccles Dodd papers at the Library of Congress. I was driven to research her life while working on a book about Left feminist culture and anti-fascist resistance in the McCarthy era. I had just read two of Dodd’s novels (Sowing the Wind and The Searching Light) and was driven to find out more about the sources of Dodd’s attraction to antifascist causes.
- How Laws Assault Queer People (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Queer (In)Justice is authored by Joey Mogul, a partner at the People’s Law Office in Chicago and director of DePaul University’s Civil Rights Clinic; Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and organizer who works on issues of police misconduct; and Kay Whitlock, an organizer and writer around structural injustices.
- How the Left has Won
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Capitalism was the unintended consequence of bourgeois revolutions, whereas socialism has been the avowed purpose, or at least a crucial component, of every revolution since 1911. This difference has become so important that when we think about the transition from capitalism to socialism, we take the short view: we look for ideological extremes, social movements, vanguard parties, self-conscious revolutionaries, radical dissenters, armed struggles, extra-legal methods, political convulsions – as if the coming of socialism requires the abolition of capitalism by cataclysm, by insurgent, militant mass movements dedicated to that purpose.
- How to Background a Person Using Lexis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
ICIJ reporter Kate Willson demonstrates how to background a person using public records on Nexis. Find state or local court records, criminal history, voter registration, property owned, divorce proceedings, neighbors, and more.
- How to investigate companies on Lexis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A video guide to searching the Lexis database for companies.
- How To Search Federal Court Records Using PACER
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A video introduction to the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system (PACER).
- How To Track Looted Wealth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The ICIJ’s Sheila Coronel shares how to investigate illicit money trails ahead of her Tracking Corruption Internationally presentation at the 2012 IRE conference.
- How To Use Simple Excel Functions for Data Analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In this series of video tutorials, ICIJ reporter Kate Willson demonstrates four basic yet essential Excel functions to assist with data analysis during investigative reporting.
- Immigration Is Good, Immigration Is Bad, Migration Is (a Fact)
A Human Drama in Three Acts and a Few Ideas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Immigration is bad – that is what the propagandists of populist politics are blazoning, in unison with their primitive media set on singing the same tune. Immigration is good, say the left, the greens and NGOs. I share the human-rights concerns and the socio-economic analysis of the second position, but would like to add a third and more fundamental one: immigration IS happening. Immigration is what is human, because only through migration could humankind spread from its places of origin in Eastern Africa to the entire globe. Only if we remember this can we tackle the phenomenon of migration adequately and develop an immigration policy suitable for human beings.
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- The Impossibilities of Reformism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
We would like to use this text to begin a dialogue with those comrades within social democracy who contend that the last 25, 15 or 5 years of bleak development is the result of a series of coincidences – poor leadership, international pressure, mistakes, cunning opponents, etc. – and we would instead propose a more fundamental explanation. The problems we face are problems that are inherent and unavoidable in the very reformist strategy that social democracy is built upon – in both its successes and its failures.
- In This Timeless Time
Living and Dying on Death Row in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An exploration of life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. In chronicling the lives and deaths of these prisoners in words and pictures, the authors document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day experiences of Death Row inmates in the official "nonperiod" between sentencing and death.
- The Inconvenient Indian
A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Intelligent Compassion
Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Introduction: Time, Age, Myth: Towards a History of the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Published in Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties, Lara Campbell, Dominique Clement, and Greg Kealey, eds. Toornto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2012
- The Invention of the Land of Israel
From Holy Land to Homeland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists.
- Israeli Apartheid Week: Call it as it is
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Researched, written, and edited by members of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, this pamphlet focuses on the role of Israel’s government, its military, and related corporations and organizations in a global industry of violence and repression. The states most involved with this industry profit from perpetual war and occupation across the globe while maintaining vastly unequal societies of their own.
- It pays to look beyond so-called ‘experts’ in the field
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
New York-based Jenny Nordberg discusses how she applies knowledge of human behaviour to her interviews, the thrill of finding disturbing things just under the surface, the pretentiousness of the term ‘investigative journalist’, and how global networks like the ICIJ help expose "juicy" stories.
- It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
First-hand accounts of the largest pro-labour mass mobilization in modern American history. In the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labour demonstrations in modern American history.
- Jean-Paul Marat
Tribune of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Biography of Jean-Paul Marat and an analysis of his role in the French Revolution. Conner emphasizes Marat's total identification with the struggle of the propertyless classes.
- Journalist Security Guide
Covering the news in a dangerous and changing world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This guide details what journalists need to know in a new and changing world. It is aimed at local and international journalists of varied levels of experience.
- Know who you’re working for and why you’re working
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Colombian ICIJ member Carlos Eduardo Huertas talks about the traits of a good investigative journalist, his experience with Wikileaks and why tackling the big, important themes – and sticking to them – matters.
- Krisis
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
By 2010, Greece was in an economic crisis and the society and people were shown to be deeply affected by the country's state.
- The liberal way to run the world - "improve" or we'll kill you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Since 1945, more than a third of the membership of the United Nations - 69 countries - have suffered some or all of the following. They have been invaded, their governments overthrown, their popular movements suppressed, their elections subverted and their people bombed. The death toll is estimated to be in the millions. This has been principally the project of the liberal flame carrier, the United States.
- Long Distance Revolutionary
A Journal with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The life and situation of Mumia Abu Jamal.
- Lost Nuke: The Last Flight of Bomber 075
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In a story seemingly drawn out of a Hollywood action script, the tale of America's first "broken arrow" - code for a lost nuclear weapon - is gripping stuff. The fact that the weapon disappeared over Canadian airspace makes this a unique chapter in Canadian aviation history.
- Make Art! Change the World! Starve!
The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice - Part I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Making the Future
Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Making the City
Women Who Made a Difference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Mama Illegal
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria and Italy as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.
- Martial Matters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A selection of commentaries on Australian martial experience at radical odds with mainstream Australian histories.
- Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932 and the Founding of our National Parks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- A Middle-Class Diversion from Working Class Struggle?
The New Zealand New Left from the Mid-1950s to the Mid-1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Published in Labour History, 103 (November 2012).
- The Migrations of Roma in the European Union
An Ethnic Minority as the Sport of European Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
France is sending Roma back to Romania, Roma are "voluntarily" leaving the country to go to Macedonia, Czech Roma are seeking asylum in Canada -- these headlines of recent years have repeatedly drawn the eyes of the public to the migrations of Roma in Europe. The resulting debates emphasise the legal status of migrants.
- Mission to Paris
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Late summer, 1938. Hollywood film star Frederic Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie. The Nazis know he's coming -- a secret bureau within the Reich has been waging political warfare against France -- and for their purposes, Frederic Stahl is a perfect agent of influence.
- Mumia Faces Life in Prison
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
On Wednesday, Decemerber7, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams held a news conference to announce that the city will no longer seek the death penalty against long-time political prisoner and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jama — convicted in a frameup trial for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
- My Freedom, Your Freedom
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Knowing nothing but drugs and violence since childhood, Kuebra and Salema have spent their adult years in and out of a Berlin prison, their experiences calling into question the effectiveness of incarceration.
- A Nation of Little Lebowski Urban Achievers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The religion of self-improvement is a way of redirecting criticisms or outrage from socio-economic structures back to the individual, imprisoning any reformist or revolutionary impulse within our own feelings of inadequacy – which is why the process of improving our nation’s schools has taken on the tone of a spiritual cleansing rather than a political reckoning. Now, instead of saying “our socioeconomic system is failing us,” an entire generation of children will learn to say, “I have failed myself.”
- The New Hate
A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
From “Birthers” who claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States to counter-jihadists who believe that the Constitution is in imminent danger of being replaced with Sharia law, conspiratorial beliefs have become an increasingly common feature of public discourse. In this exploration of the ideas and rhetoric that have animated extreme, mostly right-wing movements throughout American history, Arthur Goldwag reveals the disturbing pattern of fear-mongering and demagoguery running through American history.
- No story is worth dying for but some stories are worth taking a bit of risk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
ICIJ member Syed Nazakat of The Week talks about the risks and benefits of conflict reporting in "the most dangerous place on earth".
- Not a Philosophical Atheism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Not Quite "Ordinary Human Beings" - Anti-imperialism and the anti-humanist rhetoric of Gilad Atzmon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In our struggle against Zionism, racism, and all forms of colonialism and imperialism, there is no place for antisemitism or the vilification of Jews, Palestinians or any people based on their religions, cultures, nationalities, ethnicity or history.
- O Caso dos Arquivos de Movimentos de Raiz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- The Oakland Port Shutdown
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A personal account of the growing dialogue between the labour movement and the Occupy organizing, as seen by someone heavily involved in attempting to build these linkages.
- Obama signs police state legislation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Militarism and aggressive war abroad go hand in hand with authoritarianism and dictatorship at home.
- Occupy and Detroit's Crisis
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
What's the new center of gravity on the political landscape? Dan La Botz has provocatively remarked that Occupy Oakland’s November 2 shutdown of the Port of Oakland — one of the largest recent labor actions — was initiated from outside union structures. Earlier, in New York City, on the morning Mayor Bloomberg dispatched police to expel Occupiers from Liberty Park, 5,000 people — many city workers, transit workers and teachers — turned out, forcing him to back off.
- Occupy Isla Vista for the 99%
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Isla Vista is an unincorporated community within the Santa Barbara County, a gentrified ghetto on the sunny seaside of southern California packing 23,000 people within its meager 1.8 square miles. The core is composed of students studying at the nearby University of California, with a largely ignored community composed of Latino/Latina working-class and other permanent residents, including a houseless population.
- Occupy Portland Regroups
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Early on a dark and freezing Monday morning, December 12, 2011, more than 800 people descended on terminals five and six at the Port of Portland. Having announced their intention to occupy and shut down the port, the demonstrators arrived to find that the Port of Portland management had beaten them to the punch and closed the two terminals over “safety concerns.”
- The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The author tracks the development of Bolshevism from its inception in 1904 to the October Revolution in 1917. In the post-October period, the author, drawing on the work of Robert Brenner, shows that any NEP-premised programme of economic advance was destined to fail.
- Open up as much dialogue with reporters in other countries as possible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Paul Radu of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project walks his talk when it comes to sharing information and know-how. Here the Investigative Dashboard creator shares how he tracks down the money across borders.
- Our Great Lakes Commons
A People's Plan to Protect the Great Lakes Forever
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A booklet on the proposal to designate the Great Lakes and its tributary waters as a lived 'Commons' that will be protected by a robust legal and political framework.
- Our Harsh Logic
Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2010-2010
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Testimonies from more than 100 soldiers detailing the viciousness of Israel's military in the occupied Palestinian territories.
- Palestine in Israeli School Books
Ideology and Propaganda in Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
How are Palestine, and the Palestinians, portrayed in the Israeli school system? Nurit Peled-Elhanan argues that the textbooks used in the school system are laced with a pro-Israel ideology, and that they play a part in priming Israeli children for military service.
- The Party: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988
Volume 2: Interregnum, Decline and Collapse, 1973-1988
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Part Two of Berry Sheppard's political memoir-cum-history of the socialist movement in the United States.
- Paul Levi: A Luxemburgist Alternative?
A review of In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Among the adversaries of capitalism, some have argued that a revolution could have been achieved differently and better in the spirit of Rosa Luxemburg, who wrote a critique of the Bolsheviks’ undemocratic policies as early as 1918. Paul Levi, Luxemburg’s lawyer, briefly her lover, her follower, and from 1919 to 1921 her successor at the head of German Communism, was the first to defend a Luxemburgist alternative to Bolshevism.
- Peril from the Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Many serious observers hold that the crisis in Europe has not come to an end. With the restructuring of the Greek national debt and the enlargement of the European Stability Mechanism, only time was bought, yet the fundamental problems of over-accumulation2 and the imbalances of the current accounts among the members of the Eurozone still persist.
- Personal histories of the early CIO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Transcript of a talk given by 5 people who were involved in CIO organizing in the 1930s.
- The Police Riot at OccupyCAL
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
I remember as if it were just yesterday. I was linked in arms, peacefully protesting in support and solidarity with the students of UC Berkeley and my friend Meleiza. What I would soon have to witness would leave me traumatized and utterly disgusted.
- Police Violence and Media Coverup
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Among many tactics used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD ) to disorient, dishearten, and divide members of Occupy Los Angeles during our detention at city jails, one of the more insidious was denying us access to the news.
- Press for Conversion #66
Spring 2012
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In an effort to support the international Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, and the call for an arms embargo on Israel, COAT's two-part report exposes $1.5 billion-worth of CPP investments in 68 companies selling products and services for Israel's wars and the illegal occupation of Palestinian land.
- Press for Conversion #67
Fall 2012 - Profiting from Israeli Apartheid
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In an effort to support the international boycott, divestment, sanctions movement, and the call for an arms embargo on Israel, COAT's two-part report exposes $1.5 billion-worth of CPP investments in 68 companies selling products and services for Israel's wars and the illegal occupation of Palestinian land. (Part 2).
- Pushing Demands at OWS?
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A debate is going on about whether Occupy Wall Street should adopt a list of demands. A number of people I know and respect have supported the Demands Working Group in New York and have called for the General Assembly to adopt their list. The draft includes great demands — there is nothing I’ve seen that I don’t agree with, and I’ve worked hard for some of them for much of my life. Yet I keep thinking that pushing the list of demands is not the way to go right now.
- The Racketeer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A federal judge, Raymond Fawcett, has been murdered. One man, a former attorney, knows who killed Judge Fawcett, and why. But that man, Malcom Bannister, is currently residing in the Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland.
- Raising the Workers' Flag
The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
- Real Justice: Sentenced to Life at Seventeen
The story of David Milgaard
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
An examination of the David Milgaard case, a Saskatoon teenager who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for a crime he did not commit.
- Rebel Cities
From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Harvey places cities at the centre of an anti-capitalist resistance, asking how they might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sustainable ways.
- A reporter's trustworthiness and reputation for integrity is their greatest asset
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Sam Smyth of the Irish Independent and Sunday Tribune newspapers talks about the greatest threat to investigative reporting, and how he gets his stories.
- Resisting the State
Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In Resisting the State, Neigh draws attention to the broad range of struggles against the Canadian state, detailing the histories of these movements.
- Rethinking Marxism - Volume 24, Number 1
Special issue: Marxism and Nationalism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- The return of the Herero and Nama skulls: Coming to terms with a difficult history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In his analysis of the failure over more than two decades to deal with the genocide, Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari looks at the changing attitudes of Namibia’s SWAPO-led government and the role of the Namibian media as well as Germany’s evasive political posturing.
- Revealing the Secret World of Private Companies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
You’d think that getting the names of the shareholders of a company would be fairly easy. Such information should be routinely available.To be sure, there’s a wealth of information on listed companies. But good luck researching a private firm.
- Rooted in the neighbourhood: what happened to Spain's assemblies?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Oscar Reyes reports on the successes and setbacks of neighbourhood assemblies in Spain.
- Roots of U.S. Capitalism (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This is a thoughtful, learned, stimulating, challenging and altogether valuable volume. It reprints a series of reflections by the Marxist sociologist Charles Post on various aspects of the rise and evolution of capitalism in North America between the colonial era and the late 19th century.
- Rust Belt Resistance
How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Led by an unlikely cast of characters -- an uncommonly stubborn set of civic leaders, a conservative local newspaper publisher, and the city’s determined and progressive mayor—Lima refused to take its place quietly on the industrial scrap heap.
- Secret Service
Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A history of political policing in Canada.
- Slucaj za arhivsku osnovu
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Ovaj dokument ocrtava razlog za Connexions-ovu arhivu i knjižnicu, projekt baziran u Torontu koji cuva i dijeli informacije i dokumente vezano za osnovne pokrete za društvene promjene. Connexions sadržava fizicku arhivu materijala, kao i opsežnu online knjižnicu na www.connexions.org.
- Social Media and Investigative Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In this extract from the new book The Social Media (R)evolution: Asian Perspectives on New Media, ICIJ member Syed Nazakat outlines different ways investigative reporters are harnessing social media around the globe.
- Social Movements and Leftist Governments in Latin America
Confrontation or Co-optation?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Analyzes what is the position of the social movements after progressive governments take power.
- A Socialist in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Published in Kevin Henley's A life full of lies
- Socialist Register 2012
Volume 48: The Crisis and the Left
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- "Solidarity" Beats Austerity
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The tumultuous month of November 2011 marked the emergence of a powerful and widespread movement on public university campuses throughout California. Brutal police repression of Occupy encampments at UC Berkeley and UC Davis gained national media attention and sparked massive solidarity actions among social justice movements around the nation and the world.
- Solitary Confinement FAQ
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Solitary confinement is the practice of isolating inmates in closed cells for 22-24 hours a day, virtually free of human contact, for periods of time ranging from days to decades.
- Sources 69
The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons - Winter-Spring 2012
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2012
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Sources Jobs
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Jobs and internships for journalists, writers (including freelancers), media professionals, marketing, public relations professionals, students.
- Speaking of Success
Join your colleages in Sources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Stoning in Muslim Contexts: A Mapping Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This report locates where the punishment of stoning still exists, either through judicial or extrajudicial methods.
- The Streets Belong to the People
Expressway Disputes in Canada, c. 1960 - 75
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
PhD Thesis, McMaster University, 2012
- The Strike and Its Enemies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Like the progressive labour bureaucrats, today’s generation of young radicals have spent all of their formative years living in the era of capitalist realism — the era of There is No Alternative. And it’s perhaps for this reason that each tenet of the union bureaucrat philosophy finds its distorted mirror-image in the views of the young anti-union radicals. They tend to believe that middle-class intellectuals and full-time activists should take the lead role in strategy and that these groups do not have different material interests than rank-and-file workers. That building “communes,” rather than confronting capital, should be the movement’s main mission.
- The Struggle for a Different World
The 1971 Gastown Riot in Vancouver
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Published in Debating: Canada and Sixties, edited by Lara Cambell et al. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2012
- Subversives
The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Rosenfeld provides an account of the FBI’s secret -- and highly political -- involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr.
- Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A study of the role of the FBI in the postwar Red Scare, focusing especially on Ronald Reagan's long and creepy relationship with the FBI. It is also a fascinating account of the origins and development the New Left, and a powerful examination of how the FBI corroded due process and democracy.
- Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Teach for America, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher’s unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end-in-itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.
- There are no bad sources, only incompetent reporters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
There is no democracy without efficient institutions and too many journalists passively accept this state, says Portuguese investigative journalist and "troublemaker" Rui Araujo.
- This is what the Danforth looked like from 1908 to 1965
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Thoughts on a Timely Narrative for the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
"Without a story every battle is lost”, formulated the authors of the Wu Ming group, whose name demonstrators in Rome had on their shields which protected them from the police clubs. With the naming of great authors and narratives of world literature on their book shields they were indicating that power does not shy back from violently attacking even intellect and beauty.
- Tips for investigating the mining industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Here Marina shares her top tips on investigating the mining industry: from unearthing disclosure of litigation in company reports to checking who funds mining research.
- Toward the United Front
Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The proceedings of the last Comintern congress in which Lenin participated reveals a Communist world movement grappling to reconcile the goal of unifying workers and colonial people in struggle with that of pressing forward to socialist revolution.
- Trade Unions: International Solidarity in Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
International solidarity can be understood as cooperation between trade-union organisations that, by their nature, share the same objectives because they represent the workers of their countries. It takes on a special importance when the workers are employed by the same multinational company or in the same worldwide type of industry.
- Truth and Revolution
A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
In the 1970s and 1980s, as the movements of the sixties receded from view, the revolutionary left in the United States went through a series of profound political, demographic, and cultural transformations as it struggled to find its footing in a rapidly changing world. The unorthodox political agenda of the Sojourner Truth Organization represents a small but powerfully resonant thread running through this arc of history.
- Two Cheers for Anarchism
Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, this book offers a defense of an anarchist way of seeing - one that provides a unique and powerful perspective on everything from everyday social and political interactions to mass protests and revolutions.
- Two Months in LA's Solidarity Park
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Occupy Los Angeles was the largest of the “Occupy” encampments: In the space of two months, we grew from around 50 to nearly 500 tents. Our camp developed neighborhoods, tribes, collectives, a print shop, a library, a people’s university, a wellness center, a meditation tent, a kid’s village, and all sorts of fascinating community problems to go with them. This is the particular joy and struggle of being an occupation, and not a traditional group of community organizers; the internal conflict of a commune or a family was playing out simultaneously with our movement and message-building.
- Unearthing Canada's Hidden Past: A Short History of Adult Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Unearthing Canada's Hidden Past is an examination of the history of adult education and adult learning in Canada. The book focuses on learning that takes place in areas or situations not always associated with education such as workplaces, the home and community groups.
- Union Power: Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Details how work has been transformed in Ontario's Niagara region since the early 1820s. At that time, workers laboured fourteen-to sixteen-hour days constructing the original Welland Canal that connected Lake Erie with Lake Ontario.
- The Unknown Slave Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Though the planters had no difficulty reconciling the wealth they enjoyed and the price the slaves paid, the region’s black laborers did. By aborting their own children, poisoning livestock, lighting fires, and escaping to the cypress swamps, the slaves struggled to dilute, deflect, and if possible demolish slaveholders’ authority. Even open revolt was not beyond question. While it was a card that slaves played only rarely — planters tended to take a dim and deadly view of armed rebellion — the German Coast teemed with violent possibilities. The planters’ world rested on a powder keg to be ignited by the smallest of sparks.
- Untold History of the United States
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A 2012 documentary series directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone. The ten-part series is supplemented by a 750-page companion book, The Untold History of the United States, also written by Stone and Kuznick, released on Oct 30, 2012.
- Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball
The Best of Joe Bageant
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
25 essays by the self-proclaimed redneck socialist, edited by Ken Smith.
- The War of Northern Aggression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A leading Civil War historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America.
- We Were Children
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A 2012 documentary film about the experiences of First Nations children in the Canadian Indian residential school system.
- Weep Not Child
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The book follows the story of Njoroge, a young boy who seeks an education during the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. This tumultuous time period saw the emergence of Kenyan revolutionary groups against the British colonists.
- What's Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
We need to refuse the narratives of abjection that are routinely forced upon us. They only render us immobile creatures, begging for help. We are all neoliberals now. We're all selling our bodies, our lives, our stories to the media and to provide comfort to ourselves. Those stories have to be challenged and reworked or we lose sight of the larger story of economic exploitation, at our peril.
- Where to Occupy Next?
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
I truly don't want to be another sob story. But when the rare opportunity comes along to tell my story and affect many, like a stone cast into the water, it is necessary to at least attempt to grab the hearts of people who will listen.
- Who Killed Ekaru Loruman?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Climate change arrives in a world primed for crisis. The current and impending dislocations of climate change intersect with the already existing crises of poverty and violence. By this “catastrophic convergence,” I do not merely mean that several disasters happen simultaneously, one problem atop another. Rather, I am arguing that problems compound and amplify each other, one expressing itself through another.
- Why I Stand with Occupy
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Wisconsin Uprising
Labor Fights Back
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
A collection of essays describing the working class uprising that occurred in Wisconsin, in February and early March of 2011.
- Working People in Alberta: A History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Published: 2010
A history of the role of the empire of Islam in the cultivation of knowledge, specifically the Arabic contributions to science.
- ANHRI releases annual report on freedom of expression in the Arab world in 2011
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
ANHRI has released its annual report for 2011, under the title Freedom of Expression in the Arab World.
- Annonce des finalistes au Prix d’excellence dans la fonction de contrôle − secteur public
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
CMA Canada et CIPFA ont le plaisir d’annoncer le nom des finalistes 2012 au Prix d’excellence dans la fonction de contrôle – secteur public.
- Annonce des laureats du Prix d'excellence dans la fonction de controle - secteur public
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
CMA Canada et CIPFA du Royaume-Uni ont le plaisir d'voiler les laureats 2012 du Prix d'excellence dans la fonction de controle - secteur public.
- Another journalist slain, special mechanism for protecting journalists announced
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
JoseNoel Canales Lagos, a 34-year-old journalist who had worked for the Hondudiario news website for the past 12 years, was gunned down in the capital on 10 August, bringing the number of journalists killed in the past decade to 30.
- As Oda TV trial drags on, one journalist freed, four others begin 16th month in detention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Reporters Without Borders is outraged that only one of the five Oda TV journalists still in detention in Turkey has been released.
- Atom Bomb Survivors open Hiroshima and Nagasaki Exhibition in Toronto City Hall
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors Setsuko Thurlow and Joe Ohori to open the Hiroshima, Nagasaki Poster & Survivors' Artwork Exhibit at Toronto City Hall on Aug. 8, 2012 at 9 AM. They will be available for media interviews. Exhibit runs to Aug 11, 2012
- Attraction and Conversion: Ten Critical Factors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Have you built a social profile, only to find that you have very few friends? Maybe you have built a website, but have found that no one is calling? Or no one is buying? These top tips will help build traffic and convert them to customers.
- Binge Eating Disorder Deserving of More Recognition and Treatment Options
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Eating Disorders Awareness Week is February 5-11, 2012 and Bellwood Health Services is using this opportunity to raise awareness of Binge Eating Disorder - the most common but least talked about type of eating disorders.
- Brazilian journalist Konig in hiding after threats
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Brazilian authorities must immediately provide protection to journalist Mauri Konig, who went into hiding on Monday after receiving death threats related to his reports on police corruption.
- Building a Better Landing Page: Where your click lands you
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Unfortunately, the conversion to a sale does not happen as often as it should, because many advertisers are completely unaware of a simple concept called the 'landing page'.
- Call for demonstration in Paris on third anniversary of coup
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Defending human rights and exercising the right to impart or receive news and information can get you killed nowadays in Honduras. The favourite targets include NGO and union representatives, civil society activists
- Call to non-cooperation with IFHP cuts launched in Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Health care workers and other service providers refuse to comply with restrictions to the refugee health program and call for action.
- Canada fanning flames of war by cutting diplomacy with Iran -- IJV
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Canada should not cut diplomatic relations with Iran. It should help negotiate an end to the current crisis.
- Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine Celebrates 32nd Convocation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) will honour its 2012 graduating class at the College's 32nd convocation on Thursday, May 24, at the University of Toronto's Convocation Hall.
- Canadian Franchise Association Announces 2012 Franchisees? Choice Designees
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) (www.cfa.ca) announced the recipients of the 2012 Franchisees' Choice designation on April 2, 2012 at a gala awards presentation during the CFA National Convention in Niagara Falls
- Canadian Franchise Association Announces Winners of the 2012 CFA Recognition Awards
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) (www.cfa.ca) announced the winners of the 2012 CFA Recognition Awards on April 2, 2012. The awards were presented during a gala awards presentation dinner at the 21st annual CFA
- Canadian Voice of Women holds National Peace Conference in Toronto this weekend White Poppies Action - Call for Human Security not War
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) will be holding its annual conference and general meeting this weekend in Toronto. The conference entitled Revisioning Human Security and Building the Peace Movement starts Friday, Nov 9, 4:30.
- canfitpro International Fitness and Club Business Conference and Trade Show
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
canfitpro returns to Toronto this August with the world's best fitness event. Inspiring keynote presentation by Simon Whitfield. This is the most cutting-edge educational experience. Appearances by Brent Bishop, Tommy Europe and many more.
- canfitpro launches an inclusive register for fitness professionals
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Canadian Register of Exercise and Fitness Professionals, known as repscanada, is powered by canfitpro, and is an inclusive, ground-breaking, on-line resource that will increase the integrity of the fitness profession.
- canfitpro Vancouver One Day Event
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This highly-acclaimed session will give you the latest research on losing fat and keeping it off. Total Fat Destruction is the synergistic combination of attitude, nutrition, and exercise.
- Cauca's indigenous community radios appeal for help
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
As fighting between guerrillas and the army intensifies once again in the Cauca department in south-western Colombia, indigenous communities and their communications infrastructure are more than ever at risk and under threat of censorship.
- CCNM Hosts Holistic Mental Health Conference: Pathways to Empowerment
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, in partnership with Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, presents the inaugural Holistic Mental Health Conference June 21 & 22.
- Celebrating Multiculturalism Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Multiculturalism Day needs to be recognized and celebrated.
- Centre for Suicide Prevention (CSP) Announcement Cyberbullying + Suicide: How Do We Stop This?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Centre for Suicide Prevention (CSP) Announcement - Cyberbullying + Suicide: How Do We Stop This?
- Chalk River Machinists Sign New Deal with A.E.C.L.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
70 Machinists ratify new three-year deal with AECL.
- The Chomsky List
The Noam Chomsky Reading List
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Noam Chomsky Reading List is an unofficial site that uses references, taken from the notes in some of Chomsky's important works, to create book lists.
- Climate Fast News from The Hill
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
On DAY 10 of the Fast, climate activists, maintain their presence on Parliament Hill to call on the Government to take immediate action to confront the Climate crisis and ask for public to pledge their support.
- Connecting with Connected Consumers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
With third party recommendations and critiques being a front-line influencer in business, you would think that more organizations would mind their social networks and 'play nice' with consumers. Surprisingly, this is not the case.
- CPJ concerned about arrest of Mexican journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the arrest of prominent Mexican journalist Sanjuana Martinez Thursday in Nuevo Leon under unclear circumstances.
- Crowdsourcing 101
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
For the first time, the social web has allowed the opportunity for the unknown public to comment on others' ideas. The question now, though, is how to most effectively do this in the present climate.
- Cutting Out Brain Tumours: Kitchener-Waterloo Survivor Motivated to Find a Cure
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
If you need a haircut and want to help an important cause, the second annual Cutting Out Brain Tumours event on Saturday, June 10 is for you. Brain tumour survivor Stephanie Dorion has pulled together this unique day of hair styling, music, lunch and
- Deadliest year for journalists since Reporters Without Borders began producing its annual roundup in 1995
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
This year has been exceptionally deadly, with a 33 per cent rise in the number of journalists killed in connection with their work over 2011. The worst-hit regions were the Middle East and Northern Africa (with 26 killed), Asia (24 killed) and sub-Sa
- Deadly season for Canadian hunters
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Heartbreaking headlines from across the country are highlighting a rash of injuries and premature deaths because of unintended incidents involving firearms this fall hunting season.
- Dividing attention: The downside to multi-tasking
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
We rarely give our undivided attention to anything anymore. No one wants to develop a reputation for being disengaged, yet this is precisely where multitasking can take us. What can we do to avoid this possible outcome?
- Draconian cyber security bill could lead to Internet surveillance and censorship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Reporters Without Borders is deeply concerned with the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA), the cyber security bill now before the US Congress.
- Ecuador grants political asylum to WikiLeaks founder
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Reporters Without Borders takes note of Ecuador's decision to grant political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who sought refuge in its embassy in London.
- Editor, publisher charged with sedition in Bangladesh
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
CPJ is deeply concerned by sedition charges leveled against Mahmudur Rahman, the acting editor and majority owner of the Bengali-language pro-opposition daily Amar Desh and the paper's publisher, Alhaj Hasmat Ali.
- Edmonton Brain Tumour Survivor Giving Back Through Fundraising Efforts
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Edmonton brain tumour survivor is giving back through the annual Spring Sprint event (Ju for brain tumour research and patient programs. ?I want to do what I can,? Cheryl expresses. ?This was a life altering experience and I want a way to give
- Eight ways to Improve your LinkedIn Engagement
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Spending time on social media sites is a powerful way to stay connected to changes, trends, and updates. However, time spent on these social media sites quickly adds up. Even ten minutes per site each day could easily add up to the annual vacation
- Empowering Women is Good Business - a Canadian First
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
London Chamber of Commerce the first to sign the Women's Empowerment Principles being launched at the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women national convention to be held in London, Ontario Canada June 22 to June 24, 2012.
- Enhanced Jamieson e-Commerce Site Now Sells and Educates Consumers about Probiotics
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Jamieson Laboratories sees education as key in helping consumers understand and select probiotics for their health. An upgraded website from this leading distributor of natural health products offers in-depth information about probiotics alongside it
- Facebook: Billions Served
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Facebook announced that it now has one billion users. An astounding number. On the other hand, you or your organization may have but 1000 or 10,000. This singular measure of success is of little value, and can be misleading.
- Fasters Head to Court
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Day 11 of Fast - Three "Hungry for Climate Leadership" Fasters in Court - Climate Change Trial Begins in Ottawa Courtroom - Harper Government Accused of Dividing Canadians With Oil-Dominated Energy and Climate Change Policy.
- Federal government continues to receive failing grade on issue of free expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
For the third straight year, the federal government received failing grades from Canadian Journalists for Free Expression in a report card on freedom of expression in Canada.
- FEMEN activists protest against nuclear power
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
- Finalists announced for Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
CMA Canada and CIPFA are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2012 Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector.
- Fire and Forget Initiatives
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Military tacticians often talk about 'fire and forget' weapons. These are missiles and bombs that you can just aim at the enemy target and that are more or less able to guide themselves to the target without further human input. However, soldiers
- Fireworks in the sky!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Canada Safety Council (CSC) believes that the safest way to enjoy fireworks this Canada Day is to attend a fireworks show handled by professionals. If you decide to put on your own fireworks show with fireworks that you purchased at your local
- Five journalists attacked during protests against Conga mining project
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Five journalists were attacked and injured during violent protests against a proposed mine in the northern Cajamarca region of Peru, a day after the government declared a state of emergency.
- Focus on Newspaper Printing at World Publishing Expo
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) is offering a series of short conferences at the World Publishing Expo to help participants maximize the value of their printing operations.
- Four young Tibetans jailed for providing information about self-immolation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
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Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that more Tibetans, including a minor, have been given long jail sentences for trying to circulate information about the grave human rights situation in the Tibetan region
- Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois and Quebec Student Group Classe to Tour Canada
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, former spokesperson for Quebec student group CLASSE, will be embarking on a whistle-stop national speaking tour from the 29th of September to the 5th of October.
- GI Experts to Host Live Teleseminar On Probiotics, IBS, Celiac Disease and Gluten Sensitivity
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On Wednesday, February 1st at 8pm ET, world-renowned celiac disease experts, Daniel Leffler and Shelley Case, will conduct a public discussion online regarding probiotics and their role in gastrointestinal health. With the rising awareness of probiot
- Global Publication of Brilliant Manoeuvres - How to Use Military Wisdom to Win Business Battles
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Richard Martin proudly announces the global publication Brilliant Manoeuvres: How to Use Military Wisdom to Win Business Battles, which is now available through all major online retailers around the world.
- Governments Must Act for Sustainable and Equitable Recovery
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On this May Day, Global Unions call on governments to assume their responsibilities and join together to end the crisis. They need to create decent, sustainable jobs and stand up for the rights of people at work.
- Haaretz reporter reaches plea bargain with Tel Aviv district attorney
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Reporters Without Borders has deep reservations about yesterday’s announcement that a deal has been struck between the Tel Aviv district attorney and Haaretz reporter Uri Blau.
- Hungry for Climate Leadership - Day 9 of Fast for Climate Justice on the Hill
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It's Day 9 and the Fasters are hungry, but determined to convey the urgency of the crisis to our elected officials and asks them to end fossil fuel subsidies, put a price on carbon and develop a National Renewable Energy Plan.
- IAM Expands at Vancouver International!
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Machinists union attracts new members at Vancouver International Airport.
- IAM Welcomes NIU Members to the Family!
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IAM Welcomes 200 new members in North Bay.
- IAMAW Pursues Potential Aveos Investors!
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Union takes on leading role in finding solution to closure of Aveos Fleet Performance Inc in Montreal, Winnipeg, Mississauga and Vancouver affecting 2600 jobs.
- IFEX deplores three-year jail sentence given to Bahraini member Nabeel Rajab
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IFEX strongly denounces the three-year prison sentence handed down today to Nabeel Rajab, president of IFEX member Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), for his role in pro-democracy protests.
- IFEX launches 2012 Day to End Impunity campaign
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IFEX, the global network defending and promoting free expression, is proud to announce the launch of International Day to End Impunity.
- IFIC Ccongratulates Brandes - Leaders in Investor Education
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IFIC Ccongratulates Brandes - Leaders in Investor Education. The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) congratulates Brandes Investment Partners, winner of the 2012 IFIC Investor Education Award.
- IFIC Elects Directors for 2012-13
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has elected its board of directors for 2012-2013 at its annual meeting in Toronto. At the board meeting that immediately followed, Glen Gowland (Managing Director & Head, Canadian Wealth Management
- IFIC Requests Changes to Proposed FATCA Regulations
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has responded to a request for submissions by the U.S. Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding the proposed regulations relating to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.
- IFIC Stresses Domestic Regulation of Money Market Funds in Submission to IOSCO
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) has submitted comments on the consultation report Money Market Fund Systemic Risk Analysis and Reform Options issued by the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commission
- IFJ and EFJ Condemn Arrest of Journalist for Labelling Belarus President
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation, the European Federation of Journalists, today condemned the arrest of Andrzey Poczobut, journalist from Hrodna, Belarus.
- IFJ and EFJ Condemn Azerbaijan Call for 'Public Hatred' towards Independent Media
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Condemning the call by the Azeri government for a show of ‘public hatred' against independent media.
- IFJ and EFJ Slam Head of Russian Investigative Committee over Threats to Senior Journalist
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Call to investigate reports of threats made by the Head of the Russian Investigative Committee to a senior journalist of Novaya Gazeta newspaper.
- IFJ and EFJ welcome latest victory for protection of sources
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European group the Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have welcomed the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on 28 June in case of protection of sources brought by journalists
- IFJ Backs PJS Demand for Respect of Palestinian Journalists' Dignity after Security Check Incident in Jerusalem
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the Israeli authorities to respect the right to dignity of Palestinian journalists who work in the country.
- IFJ backs red-armband campaign after Tunisian journalists attacked
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The IFJ has strongly condemned the Tunisian government following the physical assault of at least 14 journalists in two separate incidents this week.
- IFJ Calls for an End to the Harassment of Journalists in Yemen
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the harassment and intimidation of journalists at the government-owned and army-controlled 26 September newspaper.
- IFJ Marks World Press Freedom Day by Calling for Release of Jailed Journalists
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates are marking this year's World Press Freedom Day by calling for the release of journalists held for their professional activities.
- IFJ Presses UN for Action on Media Killings after Violence Claims 106 Lives of Journalists and Media Staff in 2011
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The International Federation of Journalists urges UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to take drastic action against governments of the most dangerous countries for media after it published its annual list of 106 journalists and media personnel killed
- IFJ Safety Summit in Nuremberg Debates Media Safety Crisis
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The challenge of making journalism safer in the face of ever increasing violence targeting journalists and media workers has been addressed at a high-level IFJ event.
- IFJ Urges UN Human Rights Council to Act on Journalists' Summary Killings Report
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IFJ says recommendations by Special Rapporteur on extra judicial killings and summary executions to the United Nations Human Rights Council are a step in the right direction but urged the Council to hold states to their international obligations.
- IFJ Welcomes Resolution on Safety of Journalists Adopted by UN Human Rights Council
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The 21th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution calling for "States to promote a safe and enabling environment for journalists to perform their work independently and without undue interference".
- IFJ/EFJ Demand Release of Belarus Journalist Accused of 'Assisting Invasion' of Swedish Teddy Bears
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Demand the release of Anton Surapin, a Belarus journalist who was arrested on 13th July after he was the first to publish photos of Swedish teddy Bears that had landed on Belarus soil.
- IJV Canada endorses the Global March to Jerusalem
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IJV is joining with an array of international organizations and individuals to show our solidarity with the Palestinians, who are under increasing pressure from the Netanyahu government, which is actively working to Judaize Jerusalem.
- IJV condemns bus bombing, calls for negotiations with Iran to stop the violence
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Instead of pursuing a strategy of escalation in its relations with Iran, both Israel and Canada should be promoting negotiations without preconditions in order to defuse the situation.
- IJV endorses United Church Working Group call to boycott settlement products
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The United Church of Canada's Working Group on Israel/Palestine Policy's report has been attacked by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. IJV is supporting the right of the Church to make its own policy, free from intimidation.
- IJV supports United Church members' right to make their own decision on boycott, free from threats
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Jewish group stakes out position supporting United Church committee's call for action against illegal Israeli settlements in the form of boycott campaign, rejects pressure on Church from senators, pro-Israel lobbyists.
- Innovative Solution to Enhance Workplace Pensions Coverage
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The ACPM believes that Target Benefit Plans can be more appealing to employers and employees than some other retirement income arrangements and encourages governments to consider TBPs as a valuable retirement income option.
- International backing for Greek journalist in IMF row
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Threats by a senior official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Greece to cut off a newspaper's access to information after one of its journalists refused to reveal his sources have been condemned by the European Federation of Journalists.
- International Investment Funds Industry Calls for Closer Interaction with Regulators
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Cape Town, South Africa - Investment experts from around the globe converged on Cape Town, South Africa, this week to discuss the future of the international investment funds industry in an environment of burgeoning regulation with implications acros
- Internationally-renowned, Board Certified Hypnotist Receives 2012 Order of Braid
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Toronto, ON, August 15, 2012 - Debbie Papadakis, Founding Director of Toronto, based Hypno Healing Institute , Hypnosis Clinic and School, is inducted in the 2012 Order of Braid by the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH). The induction ceremony was he
- Investment Funds Institute of Canada 2012 Leadership Conference
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Investment Funds Institute of Canada 2012 Leadership Conference. October 3, 2012 ? 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Carlu, 7th floor, 444 Yonge Street, Toronto
- Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
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Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
- Jewish group rejects call for military response to Iran
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Confrontation with Iran should be defused via negotiations, not military confrontation.
- Jewish human rights group available for comment on United Church resolution to boycott Israel settlement
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IJV spokesperson available for comment on United Church boycott issue
- Jewish human rights group condemns Harper government's position on UN Palestine vote
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Some Canadian Jews are adamantly opposed to the Harper government's unquestioning support for what Israel is doing.
- Jewish human rights group to hold annual conference in Toronto this week
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Independent Jewish Voices' annual general meeting takes place this week in Toronto. It will feature a number of prominent guest speakers and address a range of issues related to the organization's mandate.
- Journalists in danger
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As the United Nations Human Rights Council prepared for its Universal Periodic Review of Pakistan, Reporters Without Borders expressed alarm over growing threats to journalists’ lives and safety in many regions of the country.
- Justice long overdue in Anna Politkovskaya murder
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As the sixth anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya's brutal murder nears, the Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned by the complete absence of justice in her killing despite government pledges to solve the crime.
- Leftwords Festival of Books and Ideas
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LeftWords is a free public event that celebrates and promotes the work of progressive Canadian and international writers and thinkers whose works appear in books and magazines by Canadian independent publishers.
- Les jeunes aidants au Canada : l'ombre et la lumiere
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Les jeunes font aussi largement partie de la prodiguation des soins aux seniors selon des chercheurs Canadiens. Plus de 12% des jeunes canadiens ...
- LinkedIn Endorsements: Reputation Transparency?
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Are you tired of learning new 'features' whenever one gets added to your favorite Social Media site? Or are you excited about the possibility that the new feature may unlock for you? The LinkedIn Endorsement feature holds fascinating possibiliti
- Living in a Social Bubble
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How much of the ambient social information you come in to contact with has been implicitly filtered? The act of only consuming "agreeable" content, consciously or not, reinforces your personal world-view. Too often we live in a social bubble.
- Lowest Bidder Fuels Patient Transfer Business in Ontario!
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The province of Ontario has turned to the broker system to operate its patient transfer service.
- Machinists Ratify New Deal with Bolger Steel!
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Machinists sign four-year deal with Bolger Steel in Cornwall Ontario.
- Make your Book a Kindle Best-Seller
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Want to know how to make your Kindle book a best seller? You'll want to attend this webinar - http://www.kathleengagetrains.com/kindle-cathleen
- Mind the Opinion Gap
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Is there a gap between what you say about your organization and what others say about it? There is nothing wrong with communicating with your audience, but communication is a two-way street and it may be your turn to listen.
- Miss Canada North America 2013 honours her father by supporting brain tumour cause
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When Jessica Laing was 14-years-old, her father Paul Miller was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Today, as Miss Canada North America 2013, she is lending her voice to the cause of action and awareness about brain tumours.
- National School Safety Week: Helping youth define 'normal' online
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Helping young people, parents and educators understand the true scope of cyber bullying, along with positive online behaviours, can change youths' views on what is normal behaviour online. This can be a starting point for cyber bullying prevention.
- Neskantaga First Nation Battles American Mining Goliath Cliffs in Toronto Mining Court
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The Neskantaga First Nation is taking their fight for proper First Nation consultation in the Ring of Fire to the Toronto Mining Court.
- Network of United Church Members Calls for Boycott and Divestment to End the Occupation
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Network of United Church members is advocating that Church members endorse boycott and divestment of Israeli products produced in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories at the Church's upcoming national conference in Ottawa.
- New Book Artfully Captures Evolution of Calgary's Commercial Real Estate
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New Book Artfully Captures Evolution of Calgary?s Commercial Real Estate. BOMA Calgary celebrates Calgary's designation as a Cultural Capital of Canada 2012. Launch event Open to Media on June 21, 2012.
- New Machinists sign first agreement with Vancouver ATS!
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News members of IAM at ATS in Vancouver sign their first agreement.
- New specialty shift focuses on alternative treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia
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The Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic (RSNC) at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine offers a new specialty shift designed to help patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM).
- News website harassed for investigating banking sector
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Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the proceedings that four banks have initiated through the Bulgarian National Bank against the news website Bivol.bg over an article about alleged bad practices by certain banks.
- Northern bishops to celebrate at Masses in Toronto parishes September 29 and 30, share mission stories with university students in GTA October 1
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Three bishops from the North will share stories about their missionary work on the weekend of September 29 and 30, as well as on Monday, October 1, 2012, on invitation of Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto.
- Online University of the Left
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An online center for Marxist and progressive learning. Our aim is to have a full curriculum, hundreds of faculty and tens of thousands of students. In addition to courses you can take for free in your own time, alone or with a group, we will also offer live courses in real time via video conferencing for a small fee.
- Peace Activist Spends Last Days Resisting War, Supporting Kim Rivera
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In the last days of her life, wheelchair bound and terminally ill, peace activist and author Shirley Farlinger will be in Nathan Phillips Square to hold a sign in support of Kim Rivera, the Iraq war resister currently facing deportation.
- Peggy Nash on NDP Policy on Nuclear Weapons Abolition
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MP Peggy Nash to outline NDP policy on nuclear weapons abolition in Toronto during the Hiroshima/ Nagasaki commemoration ceremony August 9, 2012 (Nagasaki Day) at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto.
- PEN International celebrates rights of all citizens to access information and truth
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A statement by Marian Botsford Fraser, Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee.
- Pizza Nova Wins Grand Prize In Canadian Franchise Association Awards of Excellence in Franchising
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The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) (www.cfa.ca) is pleased to announce that Pizza Nova is the Grand Prize winner of the 2012 CFA Awards of Excellence in Franchising and Gold Winner in the Category of Traditional Franchises - Mature/Established.
- Presenting the 100th Grey Cup Historical Trading Card Box Set.
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The Canadian Football League Players Association, Extreme Sports Cards, and Fantactics Sports and Entertainment Marketing Inc., along with support from the CFL and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, have created a 100th Grey Cup Historical Trading.
- Prison for press law violation in EU founding member
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Reporters Without Borders denounces as outrageous the sentencing of an Italian journalist to 14 months in prison on a libel conviction.
- Protection of Journalists' Sources and Materials
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Advice offered by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) to all journalists who are covering the Olympic Games which are due to start in London on 27 July 2012.
- Rabbi calls on United Church delegates to vote for boycott of settlement products
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Rabbi endorses Church boycott of products from illegal Israeli settlements
- Radiation Safety Institute of Canada Comments on Latest Radon Findings by Health Canada .
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On the basis of radon tests in some 14,000 homes and buildings across Canada, Health Canada scientists have found that many more homes than expected from previous surveys have radon levels above Canadian public health guidelines.
- Refocused American Chamber of Commerce Taking its Social Cues from New Digital Agency
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AmCham Canada Partners With Digital Agency SocialCues
- Reporters without Borders Prize for Press Freedom
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The 2012 Reporters Without Borders - Le Monde - TV5Monde Press Freedom Prize has been awarded to the Syrian journalist Mazen Darwish and the Afghan daily 8Sobh.
- Richard Martin Gives Strategies to Grow Revenues and Profit
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We're in the 'dog days' of summer, as they say in baseball, so I'll just offer eight quick ideas for boosting revenue and profit and that you can reflect on during your vacation.
- Richard Martin on Selecting Your Objectives for 2013
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Last month I wrote about one of the two fundamental principles that underlie all other principles of business battle: following the path of least resistance. The other is selection and maintenance of the aim or, simply, the principle of the objective
- Richard Martin On the Path of Least Resistance in Business
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To me, the essence of military wisdom is encapsulated in two fundamental principles. The first is the need to select and focus relentless on an overriding objective. The second is to follow to the greatest extent possible the 'path of least resista
- Richard Martin Shows How to Keep Your Goals on Track
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It's entirely possible to come up with a brilliant strategy, but it's another matter entirely to implement it successfully. One of the major challenges is what to do when the initial assumptions that underlie our plans prove to be inaccurate or
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres
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Top-down, nested hierarchical planning is critical for the full articulation of the organization's mission and for translation into purposeful action.
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres
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The military uses the principle of combined arms cooperation to balance the strengths and weaknesses of various arms and elements within a force. This creates synergy and mutual support. A well balanced combined arms force is more adaptable resilient
- Richard Martin's Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres
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An army on the offensive advances on a wide front to probe for weaknesses and gaps in enemy defenses, reinforcing small incursions to create breakthroughs. Similarly, a business in growth mode must widen the scope of its activities by trying many 'ex
- Riot police deliberately attack journalists covering street demonstrations
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Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns a new wave of deliberate attacks on reporters and photographers in Athens and calls on the security forces to immediately identify those persons within their ranks who were responsible.
- Rosaluxemburgblog
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A blog devoted to debate, publications and scholarship on the Polish-German Marxist Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919). The aim is to publicise and share articles, reviews and resources relating to Luxemburg's life, ideas and legacy.
- Sacred fire at Queen's Park marks 10 years of the Grassy Narrows logging blockade
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Grassy Narrows Blockaders and their supporters are celebrating the 10 year anniversary of what is now the longest running Indigenous logging blockade in Canada.
- Safety and Justice: Protecting Journalists in the Middle East and the Arab World
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Declaration adopted by the regional conference entitled " Safety and Justice: Protecting Journalists in the Middle East and the Arab World" held in Cairo , Egypt from 4 to 5 April.
- Second Wasaya Airways Agreement a Good Next Step!
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Second collective agreement brings members closer to industry wage equality
- Security Certificate Detainee Mahjoub Rallies with Supporters Marking Exactly 12 Years of Detention wit Charge
Sources News Release
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On June 26th, Mohammad Mahjoub and his supporters will gather to demand his immediate liberation and that of the other two men still held under security certificates.
- Seven Steps to Secure Successful Employment Using Social Media
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How can you use Social Media to find your next role? With so much activity online, where will your efforts have the most impact? Here are seven quick points to test yourself: how many of these steps have you really done well?
- Shifting your 'Social' Focus
Sources News Release
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Social media has taken over the world in many respects. But with all this attention in our online communities are we neglecting other opportunities?
- Signalling Your Social Media Intentions
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The language of vehicles is something we all assume is universal. It is designed to share the driver's intent with other vehicles on the road: signaling, honking, and flashing are all parts of this language. We assume that our own understanding of
- Six Nations Parents Bus to Toronto to Protest Lack of Books, Supplies and More in Schools
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Protestors will be outside Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada on Thursday demanding all funding & school supplies be delivered to schools at First Nations community. Schools are lacking necessary supplies & facing funding crisis.
- Six Reasons to Rebrand and What it Might Cost You
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Have you ever wondered why companies choose to rebrand? What is the defining moment that tipped the scales? And what are the potential costs and benefits?
- Social Media Check Box
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'We have that covered' is a very satisfying thing to say when you are asked what your organization is doing in the area of social media. Does your organization say this?
- Some Corporations Have all the Luck
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Looking at some of the most successful companies and their products, it's easy to say, "They were just lucky", but what are the real 'success factors'?
- Sources welcomes American Chamber of Commerce in Canada
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Sources welcomes a new member: The American Chamber of Commerce in Canada.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Sources News Release
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Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, a non-partisan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nations ECOSOC.
- Sources welcomes Eryl Court
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Sources welcomes a new member: Eryl Court, a peace activist and researcher, involved in the peace movement locally & globally for more than 40 years.
- Sources welcomes Hiroshima Day Coalition
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Sources welcomes a new member: The Hiroshima Day Coalition, a coalition of community and peace groups commemorating the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki while promoting nuclear disarmament.
- Sources welcomes Michael C. Chettleburgh - Astwood Strategy Corporation
Sources News Release
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Sources welcomes a new member: Michael C. Chettleburgh - Astwood Strategy Corporation: Leading North American speaker, strategist and thought leader on street gangs, organized crime, corrections and related criminal justice matters.
- Sources welcomes Tenato Strategy Inc.
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Sources welcomes a new member, Tenato Strategy Inc. Tenato specializes in business growth strategies that exploit dramatic advancements in online research as it relates to competitors, customers, and industry structures.
- Sources welcomes the Canadian Association of Home & Property Inspectors of BC - CAHPI(BC)
Sources News Release
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Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Association of Home & Property Inspectors of BC - CAHPI(BC).
- Sources welcomes The Vanier Institute of the Family
Sources News Release
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Sources welcomes a new member: The Vanier Institute of the Family. Vanier provides access to research data and an extensive network of specialists on family issues/family life.
- Stay Out of the Hot Seat!
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National Summer Safety Week: May 1 - 7, 2012
- StFX BBA Major in Accounting and Honours in Accounting programs accredited by CMA Canada
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CMA Canada, the world leader in shaping strategic management accounting? professionals to lead successful enterprises in the global marketplace has awarded, for a five-year period, the accreditation of the Bachelor of Business Administration, Major
- The Eulogy for Email
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If you are like most people who are flooded with junk mail, email has completely overstayed its welcome. In five years email will no longer exist, but what arrives in its place offers something revolutionary.
- The Franchise Show Comes to Toronto on October 20 & 21, 2012
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Published: 2012
The Franchise Show (www.thefranchiseshow.ca) runs Saturday, October 20 and Sunday, October 21, 2012 at the Toronto Congress Centre (www.torontocongresscentre.ca) at 650 Dixon Road.
- The Information Thief
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Have you ever 'borrowed' someone else's knowledge or reputation? Or has someone ever done this to you? With the social web in front of us, it is too easy to use others' information without their knowledge or permission - even if it is free.
- The Integration of 'Social'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Have you ever considered how the fullness of time completely changes our views? How has Social Media impacted business, and is it lasting change?
- The Irrelevancy of the Social Media 'Expert'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Anyone who professes to have some expertise in Social Media may be offended to learn that their 'expertise' soon won't matter, and is fast becoming irrelevant. As a long-term career choice there is a perilous future, and the short-term prospects
- Time to rethink Hormone Therapy for Menopausal Women--says Dr. Vivien Brown -women's health advocate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Time to rethink hormone therapy! New study indicates hormone therapy started soon after menopause appears safe and relieves many of the symptoms perimenopausal and menopausal women. Interview Dr. Vivien Brown
- Top Five Predictors of Healthy Aging- Hint!! Can you do squats?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
How well you age over the next ten years, depends on five predictors-including whether you can do squats. Dr. Brown also provides top tips on ways to create a healthy lifestyle.
- Toronto Joins in Solidarity with Ottawa Climate Fast
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Join with us on Oct. 2nd, in solidarity with the Ottawa Fasters to mark the final day of the Climatefast, Int'l Day of Non-Violence & Gandhi's birthday in a peaceful demonstration for action on Climate Change. 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM, Queen & John Sts.
- Training Truths from Richard Martin
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Training is critical to developing the skills, culture, and processes that will enable the organization to meet its strategic, operational, and tactical goals. Unfortunately, it is too often created and delivered as if it were an end in itself.
- Transportation Leaders Honoured by TAC
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) announced winners of its 2012 Canadian Transportation Awards (CTAP) at the closing banquet of the 2012 TAC Conference and Exhibition in Fredericton. Four awards were co-presented.
- Two Budgets But No Solutions For Ontario's Licensed Child Care System
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario (ADCO) calls on Premier Dalton McGuinty to recognize the impact full-day kindergarten will have on the financial viability of child care in Ontario, sees budget as a missed opportunity.
- Voiture et canicule ne se conjuguent pas!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Semaine nationale de la securite estivale du 1er au 7 mai 2012
- WACC and IFJ Launch Resource Kit to Strengthen Gender-Ethical Journalism
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) launch a new resource to promote gender ethical journalism.
- Waves of Strategy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
The major challenge in business strategy isn't so much in formulating one, but rather in implementing it and seeing it through to successful results. I've discussed one aspect in transforming strategy to action before, which is the method of nest
- Winners of Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector announced
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
CMA Canada and CIPFA announce the 2012 winners of the Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector.
- World renowned Board Certified Hypnotist is the first Canadian to receive the 2012 Life Diplomate in Hypnotherapy Award
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
Debbie Papadakis, Founding Director of Toronto's Hypno Healing Institute, Clinic/School is the first Canadian to be bestowed with the prestigious 2012 Life Diplomate in Hypnotherapy Awarded by the International Medical & Dental Hypnotherapy Assoc.
- Young Caring in Canada: Opportunity Gained and Lost
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published: 2012
When we think of people providing care to adults and seniors, we tend to picture an older family member in mid-to-late career or in retirement, yet researchers have found that approximately 12% of young Canadians aged 12-17 are 'young carers'.
- The Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity, the New Left, and the Hip counterculture in Toronto, 1965-1975
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2021
- Over 200 arrested at Ottawa tar sands protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Over 200 protesters objecting to the federal government's enthusiastic support for Alberta's tar sands and the Keystone pipeline XL were arrested Monday morning as they attempted to stage a sit-in in the House of Commons. The protesters wanted the chance to air their grievances with the environmentally reckless policies of the Harper-led Conservatives inside Parliament but were blocked from entering by fenced barricades and over 50 RCMP officers. The protesters were encouraged by hundreds of boisterous supporters as they passed the media scrum and calmly hopped over police barricades.
- À propos de Ulli Diemer/ Digressions radicales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2017
- An Illustrated Guide to Growing Food on Your Balcony
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2015
A booklet for people in the city who grow or want to grow plants in container. The information is meant to be basic enough for beginners and informattive enough to be a handy reference for even an experienced gardener.
- The Foreclosure-to-Rental Screwjob
Bernanke's Double-Whammy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The US government is preparing to bail out the banks once again.
- Should we 'take down' the banks or try to save the best of capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
If Canada is to rid itself of the destructive neoliberal Conservatives, perhaps the best that we can do, given present conditions, is to push the New Democrats and Liberals to embrace some aspects of traditional liberalism and combine those policies with some tough, new measures to protect the public.
- Conversation with an Anarchist
Democracy, Authoritarianism & Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2012
- What it Takes to Become a Chess Master
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2012
Practical exercies and test games.
- Big business censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Big business is almost entirely unaccountable. Some of the worst offenders are US corporations exporting harmful attitudes from the USA to the rest of the world. We suspect that some of them are driven by religious prejudices largely alien to Europe.
- Obama Crowned Himself on New Year's Eve
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Sources News Release Archive 2011
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
News releases from 2011.
- Complicating "White Privilege"
Class, Race and Images of Wilma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The most heavy-handedly enforced rule, and the one we, in the white privilege brigade, still seem determined to protect with the greatest earnestness, dictates that Nobody shall, during a conversation about white privilege, mention any identity that is not a racial identity or any oppression that is not racism. To my knowledge, there is no official rulebook governing conversations about white privilege. If such a rulebook did exist, though, I am sure that this rule would be printed in bold italics.
- How Israel Empowers Islamist Movements
Shukran, Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
If Islamist movements come to power all over the region, they should express their debt of gratitude to their bete noire, Israel. Without the help of successive Israeli governments, they may not have been able to realize their dreams. That is true in Gaza, in Beirut, in Cairo and even in Tehran.
- The Repression Strengthened Us!
Letter From Bolivia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- The sad, sad world of Israel's big-time liars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Stuart Littlewood views Israel’s propaganda minister, the self-confessed racist and squatter Yuli Edelstein, and takes a close look at the manual to which Edelstein and other Zionist propagandists work, the “Global Language Dictionary”.
- Selective Sympathy
War's Mayhem and Murder is Somehow Less Hard to Bear than the Humane Termination of an Injured Animal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
How strange that we as human beings can be so sensitive and warm-hearted about an animal, and yet can be so detached from reality and so compartmentalized in our emotions and our moral sense that we can simply dismiss as "collateral damage" the lives of tens, hundreds or even thousands of innocent men, women and children who, for cold, calculating geopolitical reasons of dubious merit, will be killed by our or our allies' actions.
- The Rise of the Tea Party
Where Did They Come From?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Tea Party has never been a genuine social movement or political outsider but rather an elite-dominated group that was closely linked to the Republican establishment from its inception.
- Charity nice, but no solution
Re: The coolest gift ever - ice time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
This kind of private generosity is fine but one must be clear that this is no funding model. We need a proper progressive tax system in which the rich pay their fair share.
- Confronting intimidation, working for justice in Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
If once you do not cave in, you discover that as time goes by, the ability of Zionist lobbies of intimidation around the world to affect you gradually diminishes.
- The 10 Dumbest, Most Offensive Political Ads in Recent Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Not a single election cycle goes by without some attempt to use fear of the "other" to win votes. Sadly, the results are sometimes successful.
- A Marxist History of the World part 55: The Making of the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The development of capitalism entails two complementary processes. The first, explored in MHW 54, is competitive capital accumulation. The second, explored here, is the making – and continual re-making – of the working class.
- The Whole World is Watching
Chinese Diggers?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Thousands of villagers at Wukan, in China’s Guangdong province, are protesting the theft of their communal land by a corrupt local government in collusion with developers.
- Occupy Giving Why do the 1% give less than the rest of us?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Nearly two thirds of Americans donate to charities each year. This year we will send more than $225 billion to charities. This year, when the stark divide between the 1% and the 99% has begun to inform our thinking and our approach, it might be instructive to examine the world of giving through that lens.
- The 1% of the 99% and an Anti-Capitalist Alternative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
What we need right now is for autonomous political organizing in both unionized and non-unionized workplaces, schools,and in the streets.
- Staff at 'Grinch' KPMG well looked after while advocating 'workers' comp' cuts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
KPMG – which operates across Canada and internationally – performs “hatchet jobs” for governments – often governments that don’t have the nerve to take the lead themselves when they want cutbacks.
- The media consensus on Israel is collapsing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common.
- The 10 Biggest Social Media Mistakes to Avoid in 2012
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
With 2011 coming to a close, we can start again in the new year with a clean slate - a brand new year with no mistakes. To help us avoid repeating the Social Media mishaps from 2011 are the top ten Social Media mistakes.
- Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Our lives are on our laptops – family photos, medical documents, banking information, details about what websites we visit, and so much more. Thanks to protections enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, the government generally can’t snoop through your laptop for no reason. But those privacy protections don’t safeguard travelers at the U.S. border, where the U.S. government can take an electronic device, search through all the files, and keep it for a while for further scrutiny – without any suspicion of wrongdoing whatsoever.
- Ethnic Cleansing of Invented People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Once we connect the dots it is not hard to see that the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is only a small part of the Israeli Palestinian issue. The greater issue is the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Zionist state. The way forward for Israelis and Palestinians alike is to oppose the ethnic cleansing by opposing all its manifestations.
- Lower classes quicker to show compassion in the face of suffering
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Researchers have found that people in the lower socio-economic classes are more physiologically attuned to suffering, and quicker to express compassion than their more affluent counterparts. By comparison, individuals in the upper middle and upper classes were less able to detect and respond to the distress signals of others.
- This bastardised libertarianism makes 'freedom' an instrument of oppression
It's the disguise used by those who wish to exploit without restraint, denying the need for the state to protect the 99%
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An argument against modern right-right libertarianism, using the concepts of positive and negative freedoms to illustrate.
- Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An unofficial record of the New York branch of the Occupy movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections.
- A Death Sentence For Africa
The Durban Climate Deal And Eight Corporate Media Unmentionables
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Carbon emissions, already at their peak, will continue to increase for at least the next eight years, pushing humanity closer to the brink of climate collapse. Rather than address the madness of a global system of corporate-led capitalism that is bulldozing us to this disaster, the corporate media mouthed deceptive platitudes.
- Ordering the vegetarian meal? There's more animal blood on your hands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The author contends that published figures suggest that, in Australia, producing wheat and other grains results in: at least 25 times more sentient animals being killed per kilogram of useable protein, more environmental damage, and a great deal more animal cruelty than does farming red meat.
- Occupy and the Tasks of Socialists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- A Great Aridness
Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States.
- Island of the Widows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Mysterious kidney disease in Central America.
- Immigrant cleaner leads revolt against Spanish mortgage trap
Aida Quinatoa leads the fightback as Ecuadoreans struggle to escape 'impossible' home loans in their adopted homeland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Ecuadorian woman using homeland courts to fight punitive morgage agreements in adopted homeland Spain.
- A new online course, "Understanding Radiation", is available for viewing on The Radiation Safety Institute of Canada's website.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A new online course, "Understanding Radiation", is available for viewing on The Radiation Safety Institute of Canada's website. This was developed in cooperation with the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).
- 'Taking back the media', effective campaigning required to empower Progressive Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Out of the Backyard: New Latin American and Caribbean Bloc Defies Washington
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The CELAC meeting comes a time when Washington’s presence in the region is waning. Following the nightmarish decades of the Cold War, in which Washington propped up dictators and waged wars on Latin American nations, a new era has opened up; in the past decade a wave of leftist presidents have taken office on socialist and anti-imperialist platforms.
- Where is politics?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
This question might seem odd to some. To seasoned libertarian communists, the answer 'everyday life' trips off the tongue without a second thought. But it seems like a productive question to work through in light of recent events, from the parliamentary expenses scandal to the August riots to the #occupy movement. So, where is politics?
- Conservative Frank Luntz Has Set a Trap for Progressives -- Here's How to Outsmart Him and Boost the Occupy Movement
Progressives' basic morality needs to be talked about over and over again, in every corner of the country.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Luntz doesn't want progressives pointing out that corporations govern our lives far more than any government does - and for their profit, not ours. He doesn't want any discussion of corporate waste, or military waste, which is huge.
- German autonomen: morality police
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
On the origins of "black bloc" tactics.
- Israeli Tree Campaign "Judaizes" Expropriated Land
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
This article explores the role of the JNF (Jewish National Fund) in expropriating Palestinian land. Focusing on the Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb, Lia Tarachansky interviews residents about their experiences.
- British study has the goods on corporate execs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A study published by the journal Psychology, Crime and Law tested 39 senior managers and chief executives from leading businesses and compared the results with the same tests on patients at Broadmoor hospital, where people who have been convicted of serious crimes are incarcerated. On certain indicators of psychopathy, the bosses' scores either matched or exceeded those of the patients; in fact, on these criteria, they beat even the subset of patients who had been diagnosed with psychopathic personality disorders.
- The Case of Occupy and the Longshoremen's Union
Who's Speaking for Whom?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Occupy Oakland should not be pretending to speak on behalf of Oakland's dockworkers, and should not be telling the dockworkers when and how they should strike. Occupy Oakland's actions are the opposite of democratic, and an affront to the basic notiions of worker's self-activity, workers' empowerment, and workers' control.
- Cover story: a year of beautiful books
Publishers are fighting back against the ebook tide with great designs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Publishers have started building their marketing strategies around form rather than content.
The article emphasises that the whole point of a good book design is to grab the attention of both the reader and bookseller.
- Climate Crisis - The Collapse In Corporate Media Coverage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
We find that Britain and the US - the two countries responding most aggressively to alleged 'threats' to human security in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya - are also the two countries least interested in responding to the very real threat of climate change.
- Focus and determination required: A call to all progressive organizations to unite under one big umbrella
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
We need a movement powerful enough to pressure corporate media owners into providing equal coverage, and with access to enough financing to support the development of alternative, independent media. If the progressive movement is to be successful in improving society, it is hugely important for it to be able to reach the general public with its information creating a balanced view of important issues in Canada.
- How Canada's corporate media framed the Occupy movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Occupy movement occupied two parallel, rarely intersecting universes in the corporate media. In one, described frequently in the Toronto Star, occasionally in the Vancouver Sun and Globe and Mail and only once in the National Post, Occupy is a worldwide movement created in response to the growing gap between the one percent at the top of the income-and-asset pyramid and the 99 percent below.
- Meet the Fokkens
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A documentary on Louise and Martine Fokkens, 69-year-old twin sisters who have worked as prostitutes in the red-light district in Amsterdam for over 40 years.
- Talk at panel at School of Social Work
Can 'good' Jews be critical of Israel?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
There are has been an endless road to dissillusionment and enlightment from my original days of Zionism. The Wall, the invasion of Gaza, the incarceration of thousand of Palestinians including children, the night raids against those practising non-violent resistance, the blind eye to the destruction of olive trees by Israeli settlers..... the spraying of high velocity water guns on Gazan fishermen... Israel has indeed shown itself to be absolutely brutal and arrogant and a rogue state not caring to comply with international law. But my identity as a Jew is strengthened because I know that this path of criticism is joining voice with many other Jews: The shministim, the refuseniks, who refuse to serve in the army.
- The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners, and for the last 30 years America’s business entrepreneurs have found a lucrative way to cash in on the incarceration surplus: private for-profit prisons.
- The "Decent Left" and the Libya Intervention
A Reply to Michael Bérubé
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Western elites were perfectly comfortable with Gaddafi’s oppressive rule, including his use of torture. These states only broke with Gaddafi when his hold on power tottered, in response to the Arab Spring, and he ceased to be useful. He was no longer viewed as a reliable protector of Western access to Libya’s oil resources.
- 451 at Zuccotti Park
"Where man starts by burning books he ends up by burning people."
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The books at Zuccotti Park were hauled away in dumpsters belonging to the sanitation department. The pretext of the destruction was "cleaning" the park which, the Mayor said, was filled with "filth". This is the rhetoric of Mein Kampf.
- Libya
From Colony to Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Provides the background to the Libyan revolution by discussing its history from colonization up through the 2011 rebellion/foreign intervention that ousted Mu'ammar al-Qadafi.
- South Africa: Early Years of the Communist Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A brief history of the beginnings of the Community Party of South Africa.
- They Found Nothing. Nothing.
The IAEA, Iran And ‘Fantasy Land’
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
What is so breathtaking is that the apparent consensus on Iran, like the case against Iraq, is a fraud.
- 5 Broken Cameras
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank whose lands are being systematically seized to make room for illegal Israeli settlements. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat's cameras, the low-cost film documents Bil'in's weekly protests against land seizures by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers. Neighbors are killed in the protests and demolition equipment mars the landscape while the filmmaker captures his infant son's rapid loss of innocence, heralded by his first words: "wall" and "army."
- Occupy Movement a valuable partner
'Idea' to build a united Canadian progressive
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The progressive community must learn it has to confront power with power – something we don’t do well in Canada. It seems enough to most Canadians to simply point out that something is wrong, and leave it to someone else to shoulder. This doesn’t cut it any more. We need to stop being nice, and start fighting harder!
- The People's Police Commission
Trial By Amateur Video
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Now we have a people’s police commission of our own. It’s called amateur video. And it will do to criminal scum like Lt. Pike what a whole world of police commissions, pretending to act on our behalf, couldn’t.
- The Return of the Albuquerque Death Squads
Police War on the Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
APD is at war with the poor because it has come to equate any expression of poverty or drug addiction not as an effect of structural inequality, but rather as another opportunity to dispose of what its officers call “human waste.” Like elsewhere being poor, suffering from a mentally illness or battling a drug addiction is a crime.
- Support the New Freedom Riders
End US Support for Israeli Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Palestinian Freedom Riders are seeking their rights to be treated as equal human beings free to move about in their own land.
- The Swing of That Truncheon Thing
The Nature of the Beast Revealed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Historically, police violence is a fact of life in every society. In a society based on a capitalist economy, the police serve those that have the most money and property. When the authorities and their policies are under attack, the police will always be called in to protect them. No one should be shocked when the police act brutally. There is a reason the most thuggish of the uniforms are often the ones called to disperse angry crowds.
- Undercover officers knew of plans for downtown mayhem during G20
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- A Marxist History of the World part 54: What is Capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In this critical chapter of his world history, Neil Faulkner explores capitalism and what it means from the Industrial Revolution to the present day.
- Violence Goes to College
Are We Going to Hell?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The priorities of the campus are clear. An Assistant Professor earns an annual salary in the low $60,000 range; a Lieutenant in the campus safety department (the man who fired the pepper gas, for instance) brings home $110,000.
- The Look of Love
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
First there was a film about banana workers saying the Dole Food Company had made them infertile. Then Dole attacked the filmmakers. Now it's time for a new film!
- Pipeline follies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
There are many of us Canadians who are totally outraged by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's policies on the environment - and particularly the tar sands devastation of the indigenous peoples.
- Independent Jewish Voices Toronto protests Jewish National Fund's role in Bedouin home demolitions
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Toronto chapter of Independent Jewish Voices is calling for an end to the Jewish National Fund’s role in evicting Bedouin citizens of Israel from their homes in order to expand Jewish settlement.
- The Next Step for Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Buildings, Occupy Workplaces
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The occupation movement needs to build on the creative militancy in the streets of thousands of people (as shown in Oakland, Portland, Seattle, New York and elsewhere) to reach out to that large majority which sometimes seems, a block or two from the street battles, to be going about business as usual. The growing number of anti-eviction and anti-foreclosure actions has made that outreach.
- Notes on the Fly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2012
A report from Occupy Wall Street
- A critique of anti-assimilation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In this piece, Gayge Operaista critiques how anti-assimilation politics of many radical queer tendencies ignores class struggle, and recasts queer liberation in terms of the class struggle, countering the worst excess of identity politics with an introduction to models of class struggle.
- 'Upstanding Citizens' Escape Justice in Tory 'In-and-Out' Scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The "In-and-Out" Scandal: Case should have proceeded against 'Upstanding citizens'.
This is a story about illegal activities, deceit and lying involving an overzealous group of Canadians who seemed prepared to do just about anything to accomplish their mission – win a federal election.
- Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The authors have assembled and catalogued all Carleton Watkins' known mammoth-plate photographs, including views of Yosemite, San Francisco, and the Pacific Coast. The work will contribute not only to a fuller understanding of this pioneering photographer but also portray the barely explored frontier in its final moments of pristine beauty.
- How The Oligarchy Gets Politicized
A Short History of Elite Responses To Political-Economic Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The political activism of the elite is striking in times of crisis, when the latter takes the form either of severe economic contraction or of working-class militancy, or both.
- A Marxist History of the World part 53: What is Marxism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In his latest instalment, Neil Faulkner explores the complex history of Marxism - and how capitalism produced its own gravediggers.
- Shining a light on the black bloc, part 1: Italian autonomism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The combination of autonomist thuggery and Red Brigade terror had a lot to do with the implosion of the Italian left. While the Italian bourgeoisie was ready to carry out a repression even if the left had been far more intelligently organized, this was no excuse for carrying out tactics calculated to drive the average working class person into the arms of the government in the name of “security”. Revolutionary politics is really a project that is designed to win people to a cause. This involves patient explanation. Once someone develops a revolutionary consciousness, there is little that the state can do to vanquish it. A broken window can easily be replaced, but a revolutionary mind is permanent.
- Then Again
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Diane Keaton's autobiography, Then Again, is a memoir of family, dreams, and the bonds that tie us to those we love the most.
- UK urged to prevent vulture funds preying on world's poorest countries
Campaigners demand Jersey legal loophole be closed as financiers seek $100m from the DRC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Britain is being urged to help close down a legal loophole that lets financiers known as "vulture funds" use courts in Jersey to claim hundreds of millions of pounds from the world's poorest countries.
- Vulture funds await Jersey decision on poor countries' debts
26 companies hope to double $1bn haul
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Pressure grows to end trade that has made $1bn for speculators but has been blamed for delaying recovery of war-torn countries.
- Wealth, Illth, And Net Welfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Wellbeing should be counted in net terms -- that is to say we should consider not only the accumulated stock of wealth but also that of "illth;" and not only the annual flow of goods but also that of "bads." The fact that we have to stretch English usage to find words like illth and bads with which to name the negative consequences of production that should be subtracted from the positive consequences, is indicative of our having ignored the realities for which these words are the necessary names.
- Throwing Out the Master's Tools and Building a Better House
Thoughts on the Importance of Nonviolence in the Occupy Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Diversity of tactics does not mean that anything goes and that democratic decision-making doesn't apply. If you want to be part of a movement, treat the others with respect; don't spring unwanted surprises on them, particularly surprises that sabotage their own tactics -- and chase away the real diversity of the movement.
- From 1960s New Left to Trotskyism
Recollections of a Participant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
What I am going to do today is talk about the 1960s—the last time there was serious social struggle in the U.S.—and why some of us concluded that struggle, even quite militant struggle, is not enough.
- Canada's right-wing media monopolies move further right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Canadian news media landscape has changed dramatically since the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications released its underwhelming report on the state of Canadian media in 2006.
- FEMEN Protests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Haaretz reporter Uri Blau facing up to seven years in prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Journalist faces heavy jail sentence for using classified military papers to document human rights abuses and murders by the Israeli military.
- How to uncover your family's military roots
Digitized records help Canadians leaf out family tree military history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Researching a family's military history used to be a real challenge, but as more and more paper archives go digital and are transferred to the internet, it's becoming possible for anyone to leaf out a family tree in surprising detail by using a few tricks and knowing where to look.
- Absurd charges brought against reporters covering Occupy Wall Street movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement’s protests and marches are not only exposed to police brutality but also to a sort of judicial lottery when detained. The situation varies from state to state, according to local laws, but the freedom to report news and information is being violated almost everywhere, not only for professional journalists but also for bloggers and for activists who want to cover the protests themselves.
- Crisis in the encampments: Can the Occupy movement be saved from itself?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The question now is whether the Occupy movement can survive as an effective force for political and social action. The decision made some time ago to set up permanent encampments is turning out to be a disaster and is taking attention away from other more productive activist events.
- Politics without Democracy, Democracy without Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The aim of the Occupy movement is to create a big tent, to represent the 99%, in the name of democracy. But democracy requires not big tent politics, but the very opposite. It requires the drawing of political lines, the engaging in political conflict, the making of political choices.
- The Prophet
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Gary Tarn takes audiences on an imagistic journey form Serbia to Lebanon, weaving the poetic prose of Kahil Gibran with a unique soundtrack to create a cinematic exploration of love, life and loss.
- Tasers: 'If officers have a new toy, they like using it'
Tasers in the Line of Fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Tasers are part of the modern police's arsenal. But how safe are they and why are the guidelines for their use so vague? By 2011, Amnesty International had recorded 450 deaths after a Taser firing.
- Migration
Changing the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The author discusses the increasing trend of migration in the modern world, its causes and effects, and peoples and governments responses.
- Querying Young Chomsky
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Chomsky offers observations on what a desirable society might look like from the perspective of the heritage of libertarian socialist or anarcho-syndicalist or communist anarchist views.
- The Situationists and the Occupation Movements: 1968/2011
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- 23 Mind-Blowing Facts About Income Inequality In America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- The Ambassador
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Danish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover with a diplomatic passport to expose the blood diamond trade in Africa.
- A Marxist History of the World part 52: The 1848 Revolutions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Even when progress is reversed, some hard-won gains are permanent. Neil Faulkner examines how the counter-revolution in 1848 failed to entirely turn the clock back.
- Occupy's A**hole Problem: Flashbacks from An Old Hippie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Watching the OWS organizers struggle with drummers, druggies, sexual harassers, and racists brings me back to a few lessons we had to learn the hard way back in the day, always after putting up with way too much over-the-top behavior from people we didn’t think we were allowed to say no to. It’s heartening to watch the Occupiers begin to work out solutions to what I can only indelicately call the a**hole problem.
- A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street
The Tangled Purse Strings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Undemocratic movements are vulnerable to being taken over by a vocal minority or a chraismatic individual.
- The Radical Camera
New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Artists in 'the Photo League', active from 1936 to 1951, were known for capturing sharply revealing, compelling moments from everyday life.
- The Stones Cry Out: The Power of the Occupation in the City Square
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Gathering in the city, taking strength from its history, remembering its past and our past, we stand firm.
- Is 'urban fiction' defined by its subject – or the skin colour of its author?
Black writers see 'urban fiction' as ghettoising their work.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Why are black authors of urban fiction treated differently from white novelists of the same material? Carlene Thomas-Bailey speaks to self-published black authors in the US who complain of 'seg-book-gation'
- Domestic reality does not match bold words on Internet freedom of expression
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The U.S. government gives lip service to online free speech but simultaneously acts in ways to drastically limit freedom of expression.
- It Doesn't Matter to Them If It's Untrue. It's a Higher Truth.
The Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The lies used to justify the US/NATO attack on Libya.
- Big Three Auto Contracts: Lowlights of 2011
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
By the end of October, autoworkers at the Big Three will have approved their 2011-2015 contracts. Since Ford was the most profitable corporation, and one that had avoided bankruptcy, it was the logical corporation for the UAW to target. During the economic crisis Ford workers voted down a round of concessions that would have suspended their right to strike until 2015, so by bargaining first at Ford the union could have maximized its potential power to put an end to the concessions.
- Bolivia's Growing Crisis
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A confrontation between the government of Bolivian president Evo Morales and a part of his indigenous social base is leading to a serious political crisis. A violent police assault on indigenous community protests against a road being built through their self-governed Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) have led to a growing confrontation.
- Bolivia's Uncertain Revolution
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Bolivia under the presidency of Evo Morales has become a favorite topic among progressives and social democrats, who have likened his ascendency to the nation’s highest post as nothing short of revolutionary. The buzz around Morales, a long time social movement figure and the first Indigenous president of the Andean nation has only lost a little luster since his election almost six years ago.
- The Boomerang Is Almost Home
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
It should never be forgotten that while colonization, with its techniques and its political and juridical weapons, obviously transported European models to other continents, it also had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the West, and on the apparatuses, institutions, and techniques of power.
- Carl Oglesby: A Mentor & Leader
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In my lifetime I’ve heard two speakers whose unadorned eloquence and moral clarity pulled my heart right out of my chest. One was Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, speaking from the roof of the Busy Bee Market in Andersonstown in Belfast the apocalyptic day that hunger striker Bobby Sands died.
- Class & Race in A Modern Catastrophe: Lessons of Katrina
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophic disaster that resulted in over eighteen hundred fatalities, the displacement of at least 1.2 million people, and economic losses that are not yet finally accounted, but may approach $100 billion. Approximately 2.5 million residences were damaged by the category three storm that made landfall on the morning of August 29, 2005.
- Crisis in the EU: From the Periphery to the Center
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The crisis of 2007-2009, coming from the U.S. core of the globalized system, the crisis that threatens the weak links of the euro, and the third crisis that started to affect Eastern Europe in 2009 have a major common point. Whether we are talking about the United States, Greece or the Baltic States, these crises are the repercussions of profoundly unbalanced growth.
- Dollarization, Democracy & Daily Life in Zimbabwe
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Satellite TV is big in Zimbabwe; owing to the limited and propagandistic programming on state-sponsored Z-TV, and the travails of night travel on a decaying road network, just about every house in Harare, from the poor/working class Mbare township to the luxury suburb of Burrowdale, sports a dish that brings South African soapies, Al Jazeera and, most importantly, the latest in reality TV to living rooms across the land.
- A Family, A Tragedy, A Movement (book review)
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
This book is a gripping account of a fire and a shooting. Yet it is so much more. The lives of James and Annie Hickman, the tragic death of their four children, and James’ trial after shooting their landlord, form the center of Joe Allen’s book. But Allen constructs his narrative with the vivid stories of those who came together around the Hickman tragedy as his building blocks.
- The food rush
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Commodity speculators have moved into food - with dire consequences for the world’s poorest.
- Has Europe's Crisis Peaked Yet?
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A discussion with Eric Toussaint, president of the Committee for Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) in Belgium.
- History, Theory, Politics & Invisible Man
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Paul Heideman's spirited critique of my review of Barbara Foley’s Wrestling with the Left testifies to the reach of Foley’s study. That the politics of Ellison’s novel would be up for debate in a journal like Against the Current would be unthinkable without Foley’s efforts. In multiple articles going back more than a decade, and culminating in Wrestling, Foley challenges the consensus critical position that Invisible Man was made possible by Ellison’s clean break from the left, and that the novel offers an objective and accurate critique of U.S. Communism.
- In Memory of Carl Oglesby
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Forty-six years ago this November, then-SDS president Carl Oglesby stood on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and told those assembled to protest the war in Vietnam that the men who were responsible for that war were not evil, they were “trapped in a system.” They were, like Antony had told the crowd of those who had killed Caesar, “all honorable men.” Indeed, they were all liberals.
- Latin America's Pink Tide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Current governments in Latin America – not quite red and hardly cresting the wave – are discovering that policies of redistribution, for which they were elected, now have limits.
- Looking North for Labor Revival?
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
It isn't news that the U.S. labor movement is in profound crisis, and has been for some time. Readers of this magazine are by now all too familiar with the symptoms: waves of concessionary contracts, eroding labor laws, vicious government and employer attacks, defeated strikes, the precipitous decline in union membership.
- Memories of [my] Syndicalism
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A handful of friends, old and new, have asked me about the path that my ideas and activities have taken me, some 50 years after I happened across a civil rights picket line in my hometown of Champaign, Illinois in the summer of 1960. The following is a radical memory unusual in some ways, but with many similarities to the memories of my New Left contemporaries in the outcome.
- The Obama Reality Disconnect
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
There is a sharp reality disconnect in the Black community. On the one hand, the Black population continues to support the first African-American president, Barack Obama, by more than 90%.
- On Troy Davis
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A letter to the editor by Theresa El-Amin, regional director of the Southern Anti-Racist Network.
- A Revolution's Heritage (book review)
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
S. Sándor John's Bolivia’s Radical Tradition explores in detail the emergence in Bolivia of what became the strongest Trotskyist tradition in the Americas, thanks in large part to militant tin miner unions.
- Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline!
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Keystone XL is a proposed 1700-mile pipeline that would transport tar sands oil (also called oil sands) from Alberta, Canada into the United States, crossing six states from Montana to Texas and Louisiana. The proposed pipeline, which has a price tag of $7 billion, would add to the extensive existing network of oil pipelines, carrying tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
- A Theater for the Poor
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Each phase in the nine-year-history of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) now reads like a chapter from a cautionary tale for future generations of young radicals.
- Three Years After "Yes We Can"
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
No, he didn't. That’s the epitaph on the tombstone of liberal and left-wing hopes that greeted the historic election of Barack Obama in November 2008. Did anyone imagine then that the election itself, more than anything he’d do in office, would be the high point of the Obama presidency? Or that three years later, the power of “Yes we can” would be the eruption of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) spreading to one city after another — essentially nothing to do with President Obama?
- The UN & the Future of Palestine
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
“You can't make this stuff up,” the Prime Minister of Israel lectured the UN General Assembly. Binyamin Netanyahu was referring to the history of Libya under Qaddafi, and Iraq under Saddam Hussein, chairing UN Commissions on Human Rights and Disarmament respectively.
- Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A look at kingdoms that no longer exist and how their presence and disappearance affects history.
- Wrestling with Ellison
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Nathaniel Mill's review of Barbara Foley’s Wrestling With the Left (ATC 152, May-June 2011) raises a number of very important issues for understanding the politics of Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece, and by extension 20th-century African-American literature as a whole. In particular, Mills’ criticisms of Foley’s neglect of potentially liberatory moments in the text foregrounds the crucial issue of how revolutionary critics should go about the task of investigating novelistic politics.
- A Marxist History of the World part 51: The origins of the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Capitalism's industrial revolution gave birth to its own gravediggers, argues Neil Faulkner as he examines the rise and fall of Chartism.
- Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Civil liberties group raises concerns over Met police purchase of technology to track public handsets over a targeted area.
- A freedom that we can't afford
Rightwing thinktanks profess a love of freedom, but their refusal to reveal who funds them is deeply undemocratic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Freemarket thinktanks vastly outnumber those arguing for public spending. The author suggests that these thinktanks allow corporations to exert influence on public life without showing their hand, he advocates for legislation that would insure their funding is transparent.
- Global effects of GM crops questioned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Twenty Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups have published a damning study, saying that GM (genetically modified) crops have failed to increase yield, while requiring farmers to increase their dependence on herbicides and pesticides.
- Hi-tech gives hope to low-tech sounds
A New York blogger's love of obscure African tape recordings has brought forgotten artists to global attention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
New York-based ethno-musicologist Brian Shimkovitz blogs about African popular music, which is rarely heard outside its region of origin. He is credited with increasing the listenership of these obscure artists abroad with his blog, Awesome Tapes from Africa.
- Pham Binh's historical survey of demands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Crayons of Askalan
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In 1975, at the age of fifteen, Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adaw is sentenced and confined in the high security prison of Askalan, Israel for fifteen years. With the help of his fellow prisoners and their families, he manages to stay alive by smuggling in colour crayons and smuggling out his allegorical artwork done on pillowcases, so it finds its way to the outside world.
- Independent Review of Exposure of Workers to Alpha Radiation at Bruce Power Reactor Released
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The independent review by the Radiation Safety Institute of Canada of exposure of workers to alpha radiation at Bruce A Restart, Reactor Unit 1 has been completed and released. http://www.brucepower.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/RSIC-Final-Report
- Top 3 Tips to Build a Social Media Reputation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Responsiveness and reliability are the two most important determinants of service quality. While most of us understand this implicitly in the real world, our behavior in the world of social media is often completely different.
- See the Ability: National Down Syndrome Awareness Week is November 1-7, 2011
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS) is proud to announce National Down Syndrome Awareness Week (NDSAW), November 1-7, 2011. National Down Syndrome Awareness Week celebrates the lives of Canadians with Down syndrome.
- Workshop: Getting Our Message Out (October 29)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Workshop: Getting Our Message Out: How can progressives become more effective in presenting and communicating our messages?
- Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we're hooked on it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
We are subjected to ever more pervasive messages to consume, encouraging dissatisfaction. Yet this column depends on it.
- Another Immoral Adventure
US Troops to Uganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
When we support brutal governments in foreign countries – be it through aid, training, or troops on the ground – there are real and lasting consequences for the people who live there. There are many reasons to oppose the US incursion into Uganda (the risk of blowback, the chance of escalation, the furtherance of the imperial presidency, the financial cost, the practical fact that we can’t intervene everywhere, and so on), but the most important argument is moral.
- "Business Leaders Shaping the Future of Health and Safety in BC" Conference
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
CEOs and senior executives will discuss and agree upon BC’s first Health and Safety Charter pledging their commitment to improving health and safety in their own companies and lead by example.
- Destroying Estonia
The One Per Cent’s New/Old Solution to Economic Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Many economists and financial press writers mimic children on amusement park rides. They think their austerity policies are “steering” their vehicle rather than being guided by underlying structural forces.
- Fury Mounts Among Greek People
"Do you think we are the parasites of Europe?"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Nobody trusts the government or the opposition because people blame them for starting the crisis in the first place.
- Homeless in America
Throw Them Out With the Trash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
What the Occupy Wall Streeters are beginning to discover, and homeless people have known all along, is that most ordinary, biologically necessary activities are illegal when performed in American streets — not just peeing, but sitting, lying down, and sleeping.
- A Marxist History of the World part 49: The French Revolution - Themidor, Directory and Napoleon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In his third chapter on the French Revolution, Neil Faulkner discusses the contradictions of bourgeois revolution - but celebrates the gains it won.
- A Marxist History of the World part 50: The Industrial Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Frederick Engels was sent to Manchester, centre of the Industrial Revolution, to dispel his radicalism. Instead it made him the revolutionary he is remembered as today, Neil Faulkner explains.
- The Myth of Greek Profligacy
Destroying the Livelihoods of Thirteen Million People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The top 20 per cent of the income distribution in Greece pay virtually no taxes at all, the product of a corrupt bargain reached during the days of the junta between the military and Greece’s wealthiest plutocrats. No wonder there is a fiscal crisis.
- Taking liberties: When elite representatives define 'national security'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Most reporters assigned to the national security beat are not physically embedded within the RCMP and CSIS in the way those covering the occupation of Afghanistan seem to become stenographers for the Canadian military. But they tend to write as if they were, buying the assumptions created and sustained by those who benefit most from them while generally ignoring the fact that these agencies have a historical profile that reads "pathological liar."
- Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- "Radon Daughter Exposure in Mines- The Risks and the Regulatory Requirements"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Presentation to Mining Legislation Review Committee, Sudbury
- Counter Power
Making Change Happen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves." This book sets out to demystify the power dynamics of social change.
- Journalist fights the Obama administration over its sources
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders is asking the Department of Justice to withdraw the appeal it issued yesterday against New York Times reporter James Risen to force him to testify about his confidential sources.
- Media control and intimidation a reality for 5.5 billion, says WAN-IFRA
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
This year, 44 journalists have already been murdered, says the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), which launched a review of press freedom around the world during World Newspaper Week
- Social Media: The Question of Regulation and Moral Panic
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In the wake of demonstrations and riots organized through social media channels, the notion of regulating these channels has become increasingly more persuasive in the hopes of either preventing riots altogether or sourcing some responsibility.
- La Societe des comptables en management du Canada (CMA Canada) presente son Conseil d'administration 2011 2012
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
MISSISSAUGA (ONTARIO), le 18 octobre 2011. – La Société des comptables en management du Canada (CMA Canada) est heureuse de présenter les membres de son Conseil d’administration 2011 2012 et souhaite la plus cordiale bienvenue à Mme Cassandra Dorring
- Britain's Own Pravda-Style Propaganda
Ten Years Of 'Involvement' In Afghanistan
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Imagine Britain had been invaded and occupied by armed forces from another region of the world with China, for example, as a significant ‘partner’ in the ‘coalition’. Imagine tens of thousands of Britons had been killed, and millions had fled as refugees. This is how the Chinese state broadcaster might report the invasion ten years hence:
'It’s ten years this week since Chinese forces first became involved in Britain, and more than five years since they assumed responsibility for south-east England. So what's been achieved in that time?'
These were the actual words that presenter Fiona Bruce used on the flagship BBC News at Ten:
'It’s ten years this week since British forces first became involved in Afghanistan, and more than five years since they assumed responsibility for Helmand province. So what's been achieved in that time?'
- Here's What Shakespeare's Plays Sounded Like With Their Original English Accent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In this short documentary, linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal, look at the differences between English pronunciation now and how it was spoken 400 years ago. They answer the most basic question you probably have right now — How do you know what it sounded like back then? — and they discuss the value of performing Shakespeare’s plays in the original accent…
- Suck It Up: Using Our Pride Against Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- American Autumn Part 2
Occupy Wall Street: Organizing the Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- The Awakening in America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The dynamic of social movements is far more important than their ostensible ideological positions. Revolutions arise out of complex processes of social debate and interaction that happen to reach a critical mass and trigger a chain reaction — processes very much like what we are seeing at this moment. The “99%” slogan may not be a very precise “class analysis,” but it’s a close enough approximation for starters, an excellent meme to cut through a lot of traditional sociological jargon and make the point that the vast majority of people are subordinate to a system run by and for a tiny ruling elite.
- 12 most absurd laws used to stifle occupy movement
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Here are 12 desperate and unsuccessful measures the authorities are using to discourage, deter and crack down on peaceful protests.
- 12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
As Occupy Wall Street protests spring up in cities across the country, authorities are thinking up creative ways to contain this peaceful and inspiring uprising. Although laws and municipal ordinances vary from city to city, there is a consistency in the tactics being used to stifle the movement.
- France: EFJ Concerned by Threats against Journalists after TV Report on Palestine
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The European Federation of Journalists expresses its support to journalists and unions at France 2 following threats made against the public channel's presenters over a television programme on the potential creation of a Palestinian state.
- France: EFJ Concerned by Threats against Journalists after TV Report on Palestine
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The European Federation of Journalists expresses its support to journalists and unions at France 2 following threats made against the public channel's presenters over a television programme on the potential creation of a Palestinian state.
- The Mau Mau uprising against British imperialism
Kenya's independence struggle in the 1950s
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In Kenya the colonial rulers imprisoned in concentration camps a large proportion of the million and a half Kikuyu people, the country’s largest ethnic group. The Mau Mau rebellion was essentially a peasant-based revolt of the landless Kikuyu people against colonial rule that had dispossessed them of their lands, the basis of their existence. Although it was ultimately defeated, the uprising forced an end to colonial rule.
- Reporters arrested, roughed up while covering Occupy Wall Street protests
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The often violent response to the Occupy Wall Street campaign that is growing in the United States and elsewhere is affecting the freedom to inform. Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of reporters in recent weeks, especially in New York.
- With My Heart in Yambo
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Twenty-four years ago director Fernanda Restrepo's two teenage brothers disappeared. A year later, the family finally learned the worst possible news: the brothers had been kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the Ecuadorean police, and then dumped. Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family’s story, and documents yet one more search in Lake Yambo, where the boys’ bodies were dumped.
- Gay Rights: A World of Inequality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In the 82 countries that still criminalize homosexuality, new NGOs are taking a top down approach to making change. They are liaising with top ranking officials and establishing global legal networks to challange criminalization on the grounds that it contravenes intenational human rights law.
- I am Occupied/Yo Soy Occupado
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- My politics in brief
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- On "Occupy Wall-Street" and the Demobilizing Interpretation of Postwar American Protest Politics
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Adams discusses the Occupy Wall Street protests.
- Who owns Papua New Guinea's Resources Boom?
Where tribes own the land
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Tribal people in Papua New Guinea fight to retain control of their communal lands in the face of 'development'.
- Autonomy zone on Wall Street?
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Prefigurationists argue that they can create self-contained, self-governing societies as pockets of autonomy within the capitalist system. While the goal of creating a democratic decision-making process and remaining independent of the mainstream political system is necessary to create a movement that challenges the entrenched power of Wall Street and the corporate elite, the goal of constituting an autonomous authority within capitalism is impossible and can lead to some dangerous illusions.
- Awards 2011 - National ethnic press and media council of Canada
Sources News Release
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The National ethnic press and media council of Canada announces its 2011 awards. The Award winners will be recognized on Friday, October 28, at 6 pm, in the Lieutenant Governor’s Suite, at the main legislative building at Queen’s Park.
- Bias in the Eye of the Beholder
"Liberal Media" Misperceptions in the American Mind
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In a time of economic instability, growing poverty, and chronic income and financial insecurity, Americans are increasingly critical of a governing system that they feel has failed in providing for their basic needs. This general distrust, however, can at times manifest itself in ignorant and destructive ways. So it is with the “liberal bias” claims, which misdirect public attention away from the very real bi-partisan, official source bias of the media, and toward some mythic media conspiracy to marginalize conservatives in favor of an “elite liberal agenda.” We should be careful to acknowledge this reality next time we hear friends, family, or acquaintances lamenting the “liberal media elite.”
- How the US government secretly reads your email
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Secret orders forcing Google and Sonic to release a WikiLeaks volunteer's email reveal the scale of US government snooping.
- I AM NOT MOVING
Short Film - Occupy Wall Street
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A message to the people that find themselves in a position to be part of the government that is representing the people. Do you want to be like all the other oppressive states around the world oppressing the freedoms and speech of the people
- "No one represents us": the 15 May movement in the Spanish state
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On 15 May 2011 thousands of people, mainly young, demonstrated all over the Spanish state under the slogans "For real democracy now" and "We are not commodities in the hands of politicians and bankers". The demonstrations explicitly rejected the participation of political parties or trade unions.
- Queer theory and politics
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Queer theory and politics originated in the 1990s and continue to be influential today. This article traces the development of queer theory and politics, and assesses their claim to provide a radical alternative to what they see as the LGBT mainstream.
- Robert Wedderburn: race, religion and revolution
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As a Scottish-Jamaican “mulatto” radical preacher and leader of working class movements in 19th century London, Wedderburn has been identified as a “linchpin” of the “Atlantic Working Class” — that group of amorphous, multi-ethnic, subaltern peoples linked by the ocean in suffering and resistance around the Atlantic continents of Africa, the Americas and Europe.
- When Push Comes to Shove
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When the police are ordered to move against the OWS demonstrators, we must move to counter the police. Our response should be that workers in all different kinds of jobs act immediately to interrupt business as usual-regardless of what union leaders say or do. For example, transit workers should refuse any request to assist in the transport of individuals who are arrested. Truck drivers should refuse all deliveries to city agencies-other than those providing health care or emergency services. The more interruptions, the better!
- A Marxist History of the World Part 48: The French Revolution - The Jacobin Dictatorship
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In his latest instalment, Neil Faulkner explores the rise of the Jacobin dictatorship and the ever-present threat of counter-revolution in 18th Century France.
- Traite du Savoir-Vivre for the Occupy Wall Street Generations
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Once upon a time, twenty thousand people descended on Wall Street, the capitol of capital, occupied it nonviolently, and won exactly what they demanded. This is not a fairy tale. It really happened. This is the story of how it happened.
- Radiation Protection for Surgical Assistants
Sources News Release
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“Radiation Protection for Surgical Assistants” - Presentation
- Radiation Safety in the Workplace Webinar
Sources News Release
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“Radiation Safety in the Workplace” Webinar - October 18, 2011
- Unload and Lock your Firearms – Store Them Safely!
Sources News Release
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In many parts of Canada, especially rural areas, firearm ownership is relatively high. Firearms can be used for hunting, sport or for protection from wildlife. No matter what a firearm is used for, taking all safety precautions can prevent fatalities
- Occupy Wall Street vs. Kingian Methods
Where are the Demands?
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The students, the labour unions, the working poor, the immigrants, the activists all over the country should come up with the solutions and make the demands. There can be dangerous consequences in organizing efforts when there is no clarity. It’s often a matter of life and death.
- Peace Out
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
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Charles Wilkinson explores the costs of damming, fracking, and extracting, and how they implicate every gas tank and light switch in this country.
- The Deadly Costs of Muslim Sectarianism
Sunni v. Shia
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First Published: 2011
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A war of extraordinary brutality is being waged across the Muslim world which is largely ignored by the media. It is a war in which victims are assassinated or massacred with no chance to defend themselves. Most of those who die are poor people murdered in obscure places without the world paying any attention.
- A Marxist History of the World part 47: The French Revolution - Storming of the Bastille
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In the latest of his series on the Marxist understanding of history, Neil Faulkner explores revolution and counter-revolution in 18th-Century France.
- Mining companies funded Indonesian abuses
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Two mine operators have cosy ties with the Indonesian military, who have a long history of human rights abuses.
- The Politics (and Anti-Politics) of Occupy Wall Street
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At present, the occupation reveals a lot about where people's politicization begins in the United States.
- Filipino Maids for Export
'Always be Punctual and Don't Count the Work You are Doing'
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Twelve percent of the Philippines’ GDP comes as remittances from nationals abroad. Many of those are maids, sent all over the world into domestic service to support their children back home. The Philippines government is even training them in servitude.
- Germany goes for sustainable capitalism
Greens now just ‘neoliberals on bikes’
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The Greens are likely to be a major part of the next German government; few seem to have noticed that they’ve already been a substantial part of its regional governments for years.
- Guided by Voices
Oral historians are giving a voice to refugees fleeing trauma and persecution in their homelands
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- Maybe 99% is a bit much, but...
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It is a fact that over the last couple of decades, much of the growth in total income in the U.S. has gone to the upper reaches of society.
- The Secret Lives of Terrorists
Struggles that Change Little in the Real World
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European groups who took part in violence in the 1970s and 80s did not gain the wide popular support they had hoped for. Interest in terrorism has grown since 9/11, but the motivations for it are not well understood: the transition from radicalisation to violence is neither systematic nor inevitable.
- World Without Ice
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56 million years ago a mysterious surge of carbon into the atmosphere sent global temperatures soaring. In a geologic eyeblink life was forever changed.
- The Nuts and Bolts of Occupy Wall Street
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- Revolutionary Women in the Paris Commune
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The Women’s Union was one of the most politically advanced expressions of revolutionary working-class consciousness in the Commune. It was able to lead and organize the widespread popular ferment among women.
- Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
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Document accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011.
- The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian
A Thought Police for the Internet Age
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The Guardian includes some fine reporting and occasionally insightful commentary. Possibly because it is farther from the heart of empire, it is able to provide a partial antidote to the craven coverage of the corporate-owned media in the US. Nonetheless, it would be unwise to believe that the Guardian is therefore a free market in progressive or dissident ideas on the left. In fact, quite the contrary: the paper strictly polices what can be said and who can say it in its pages, for cynical reasons we shall come to.
- Grand narratives
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Those who reject 'grand narratives' have simply bought into the hoariest grand narrative of all, the one which says that capitalism is all-powerful and eternal.
- The "Anarcho-Liberal"
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The diversity of the global justice movement is undeniable, but to the extent its prominent intellectual voices represented broader trends, we can see the crystallization of a new type of radical that would come to prominence on the Left. The reconfiguration of the Left at the end of the twentieth century created a void. The “anarcho-liberal” filled it.
- Mistranslating Marx? The "idiocy of rural life"
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One often hears the criticism that Marxism was from the beginning an extreme modernizing philosophy that looked with complete disdain on rural existence. Did not Marx himself in The Communist Manifesto, it is frequently asked, refer to "the idiocy of rural life"? Here a misconception has arisen through the mistranslation of a single word in the English translation of the Manifesto. In fact, Marx's criticism of the isolation of rural life then had to do with the antithesis of town and country under capitalism as expressed throughout his work.
- Oil-sands protesters descend on Parliament Hill
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The Council of Canadians and Greenpeace Canada hold a rally featuring a civil disobedience sit-in against the tar sands on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, September 26, 2011.
- Ottawa Action Against Tar Sands
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More than 200 people risked arrest on Parliament Hill in the largest climate-related civil disobedience action in Canadian history. The rally and the civil disobedience remained peaceful through the day-long event on the Hill. The main message of the action was to urge Prime Minister Harper to turn away from a destructive tar sands industry and start building a green energy future that promotes climate justice, respects Indigenous rights and prioritizes the health of the environment and communities.
- Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster: A 'realistic' answer to the ecological crisis
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Resolving the ecological crisis is incompatible with capitalism. We must build a movement that works against capitalist logic with the aim to overcoming it in favour of a properly sustainable and egalitarian form of society.
- Big firms to get hotline to ministerial 'buddies'
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Plans are under way to give the heads of the UK's 50 top companies a hotline to individual government ministers. The Department for Business said the idea - designed to boost investment - had been welcomed by the companies.
- The Futile Undertaking of Palestinian Statehood
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Eventually a state that represents all its inhabitants on the basis of equality and genuine respect and dignity for all its citizens is one that the world will some day celebrate, not a phony declaration that legitimizes the oppressive nature of one and confers false hope on the other.
- Shifting the frame: Communicating progressive ideas
Sources News Release
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How can activists make an effective case for social justice in an atmosphere of cutbacks & belt-tightening? Connexions' Ulli Diemer leads a discussion Sept 24 on how to build on shared values to communicate a positive vision for change.
- Why Kosovo But Not Palestine?
The Right to Exist
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Barak Obama pretends that he is vetoing UN recognition of a Palestinian state because it did not come about as a result of negotations. But meanwhile the US has recognized Kosovo, which came into being without negotations, and in violation of international law.
- Canadian First Nations, US-based Tribal Governments and Indigenous Advocacy Groups Endorse Mass Civil Disobedience Action to Protest Canadian Tar Sand
Sources News Release
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Canadian First Nations, American Indian Tribes, Territorial, Provincial and Federal First Nations Governments and Advocacy groups have added their support for a rally featuring a civil disobedience sit-in against the tar sands on Sept 26 in Ottawa.
- The changing meaning of race
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If the proverbial anthropologist from Mars were to land in Britain today, he would probably regard us as schizophrenics when it comes to the question of race. He would find a population within which there is a general consensus that racism is morally abhorrent and yet is keen to define itself in terms of its ethnic or racial background.
- Who Speaks for the Climate?
Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change
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First Published: 2011
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This book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public explore how the media portray climate change and how they shape the spectrum of possibilities for policy action. Providing a bridge between academic research and real world developments, Boykoff makes sense of media reporting of climate change.
- Dene Nation Becomes Part of International Accord Opposed to Keystone XL Pipeline
Sources News Release
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Dene Nation Becomes Part of International Accord Opposed to Keystone XL Pipeline.
- Parking officers sometimes ticket wrong culprits
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- Israeli airline pilots and crews trained to give talks promoting Israel in US cities
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The main Israeli-owned airline, El Al, in collaboration with the Jewish Agency, the group 'Stand With Us', and the Israeli Foreign Ministry, has launched a campaign to send Israeli pilots and flight crews to speak in US cities promoting Israel.
- Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power
Community Organizing in Radical Times
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First Published: 2011
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Historians of the civil rights movement of the late 60s have often held classist views of those who actually protested and fought for civil liberties by depicting the poor and working-class as lazy racists who did nothing, when in fact poor and working-class radicals inspired the civil rights movement.
- Good Accounting is M.I.A
City budget system is obsolete: daycare is as much a capital item as bridges
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The author calls on Toronto's city hall to recognize that environmental and social programs are a kind of infrastructure in that they create stakeholders in the community. He advocates that the municipal budget treat these as such and consider them an investment rather than an expenditure.
- Lies Rob Ford has told
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- A Call to McGill University and the Universit de Montral to Support Freedom of Expression
Sources News Release
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we the undersigned, enjoin the authorities of McGill University and the Universit de Montral to endorse freedom of expression by publicly dissociating themselves from the censorship towards which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Wor
- Politics and the Prayer Warriors
Dominionism Hits the Big Time
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Dominionism is a totalitarian movement within Christian evangelicalism that aims at taking over the centers of power—law, culture, government and the like—and establishing a dictatorship. Once having gotten power, Christian Dominionists would then impose their religious practices on the rest of America.
- US and Colombia Escalate Attacks on Liberation Church
In the Lion's Den
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The war on liberation theology.
- A Marxist History of the World part 46: The American Revolution
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In 1764, Americans thought of themselves as British subjects of King George III. By 1788, they would, by their own decisions and actions, have made themselves the free citizens of a new republic forged in revolution and war.
- Six True Things Politicians Can’t Say
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- Hudak's PCs play with fire by playing the 'foreign' card
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Tory Leader Tim Hudak has either tapped into a deep vein of voter resentment against recent immigrants, or taken a detour -- possibly a U-turn -- that has thrown his campaign off course after two years of meticulous preparations. I can't recall ever seeing the normally mild-mannered Hudak more impassioned than when he railed against "foreign workers' in stump speeches across Eastern Ontario. Speaking to relatively sparse crowds of predominantly white, rural, older Progressive Conservative supporters, he claimed they were being disadvantaged by a nefarious Liberal affirmative action scheme to help outsiders.... Yet after reaching out to cultural communities for two years, and boasting that he's translated his platform into 15 foreign languages, Hudak has changed his tune. He still extolls his own Slovak roots, but stresses that his grandfather arrived here without much English or money -- and never took handouts.
- McGuinty demands Hudak apologize for ‘foreigners’ comments
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Dalton McGuinty is demanding Tim Hudak apologize for deriding a Liberal plan to help new Canadian professionals as a perk for “foreign workers” or “foreigners.” ... Vic Gupta, the Tory candidate in Richmond Hill, said his party has nothing to apologize for because the scheme is an “insulting” example of “affirmative action.”
Hudak, however, is not backing away from his choice of words.
“We’ve lost so many jobs. This notion that the Liberals had an idea that to pay $10,000 to a company to hire foreign workers ahead of anyone else . . . well, no matter how you cut it, it is an affirmative action program that is unequal and unfair and I stand against it,” the PC leader said in Hamilton.
- Zuccotti Park's Burgeoning Micro-Neighborhoods May Indicate Deeper Divisions
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- The Toronto Declaration (Toronto Stop the Cuts)
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First Published: 2011
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- 1493
Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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First Published: 2011
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Alternate title in the United Kingdom: 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World. A study of the Colombian Exchange -- the biological cross-proliferation between the eastern and western hemispheres and its ripple effects through history.
- Save the feature before it explodes
Several films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1920s are being fully restored
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Nine films Hitchcock directed during the 1920s will be restored by archivists at the British Film Institute before the volatile nitrate reels combust. The film archivists' work and the hirstory of the profession are chronicled in this article.
- Companies that cooperate with dictatorships must be sanctioned
Sources News Release
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Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal cooperation that exists between many western companies, especially those operating in the new technology area, and authoritarian regimes.
- Shifting the frame – and getting our message out
Sources News Release
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Beit Zatoun offers two workshops to help progressive communities and organizations better develop and communicate their message using the general media. Sat. Sept 24 & Sat. Oct. 29, 2011.
- Venezuela from Below
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A review of Venezuela: Revolution as Spectacle by Rafael Uzcategui
- A Marxist History of the World part 45: The Enlightenment
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First Published: 2011
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What gave the Enlightenment its subversive, politically corrosive character was its critique of institutions and practices which appeared comparatively irrational in the light of modern thinking, argues Neil Faulkner.
- Libya and the World We Live In
The Holy Triumvirate
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The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO and the European Union — recognizes no higher power and believes, literally, that it can do whatever it wants in the world, to whomever it wants, for as long as it wants, and call it whatever it wants, like “humanitarian”.
- The 9/11 Conspiracists: Vindicated After All These Years?
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First Published: 2011
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The 9/11 conspiracists seize on coincidences and force them into sequences they deem to be logical and significant. Their treatment of eyewitness testimony and forensic evidence is whimsical.
- Why anger is all the rage
The internet has made critics of us all. But why do so many commenters exploit the anonymity of chatrooms to promote hatred.
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Anonymity in the online community has its proponents and detractors, the author interviews the founder of wikipedia and a facebook employee about the importance of moderation in social media. He comes to the conclusion that many of the extremist opinions espoused online would not be published if their authors had to attach them to their names.
- ER certainties: death and co-pays
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First Published: 2011
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Our society has made choices that dehumanize all of us. Dehumanization is felt inside and outside the shop floor. The HMO's bottom line is not about how well the patient's illness is treated, but how to minimize costs. They remind us employees daily that we're a business. The corporate ethos is the survival of the business above all, over anyone else's survival.
- Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon
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First Published: 2011
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In this disturbing and wide-ranging account, acclaimed journalist Juliette Volcler looks at the long history of efforts by military and police forces to deploy sound against enemies, criminals, and law-abiding citizens. During the 2004 battle over the Iraqi city of Fallujah, U.S. Marines bolted large speakers to the roofs of their Humvees, blasting AC/DC, Eminem, and Metallica songs through the city's narrow streets as part of a targeted psychological operation against militants that has now become standard practice in American military operations in Afghanistan. In the historic center of Brussels, nausea-inducing sound waves are unleashed to prevent teenagers from lingering after hours. High-decibel, "nonlethal" sonic weapons have become the tools of choice for crowd control at major political demonstrations from Gaza to Wall Street and as a form of torture at Guantanamo and elsewhere.
- Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power
Community Organizing in Radical Times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The story of some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s, in a deeply sourced narrative history.
- The Island President
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First Published: 2011
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Jon Shenk’s The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced -- the literal survival of his country and everyone in it.
- The poor against the poor
'Up for it to cause havoc' on the streets of London
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First Published: 2011
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The August riots in England may foreshadow far worse: they are the result of almost 30 years of deliberate destruction of a way of life and work that had a place for even the least-educated of young urban men.
- Selective indignation on the streets of Israel
Who are 'the people' and what is social justice?
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First Published: 2011
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Middle-class Israelis, aware they have lost social security and affordable housing, are protesting by pitching tents and demonstrating in city streets. But will they demand equality for all? For now, they seem intent only on their own lost privileges.
- Social geography of a night of plunder
‘Up for it to cause havoc’ on the streets of London
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First Published: 2011
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In London last month every local uprising, or as a notice in a closed Clapham pub read, ‘social unrest’, had different origins and manifestations. And very few of them were riots.
- The Tundra Book
A Tale of Vukvukai, The Little Rock.
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Stunning photography and senstive direction capture the fascinating culture of Indigenous reindeer herders and their struggle for survival in Russia's Arctic Circle, one of the harshest, and most beautiful, environments in the world.
- The anniversary of the Internet; a look back and a leap forward
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Within a single lifetime we invented the television, put a man on the moon, and launched the Internet. A lot has been accomplished in a very short amount of time. Each discovery or invention seems to have taken less time and have a greater impact
- The Inquisition of Climate Science
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming. Lawrence Powell's book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk.
- An Inspiration Named Chubby
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Theodore Fontaine's memorr of his 12 years in a residential school.
- After Residential School, My Path to Healing
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Theodore Fontaine's memoir narrating the 12 years he spent in a residential school.
- Cherokees Vote: Slave Descendants Expelled
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Supreme Court of the Cherokee Nation has upheld a 2007 tribal decision to kick thousands of descendants of black slaves out of the tribe.
- Entitled to Everyone’s Opinion: Social media ‘Comments’
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Variety is the spice of life. Varieties of food, clothes, books, jobs, etc. are what allow us to express ourselves. We voice our opinions. We gain understanding from hearing others’ opinions. However, in the corporate world this voice is often unwant
- Independent Jewish Voices Canada establishes new chapter in Victoria
Sources News Release
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Announcement of new Independent Jewish Voices chapter in Victoria, British Columbia.
- Indian agribusiness sets sights on land in east Africa
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First Published: 2011
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Indian investors plan to spend $2.5bn on acquiring vast tracts of cheap farming land in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda.
- Researchers To Present Exclusive, "Disturbing" Interviews With 9/11 Pentagon Witnesses in Toronto
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, American researchers will appear live at The Royal cinema in Toronto to present exclusive interviews with eyewitnesses to the act of mass murder that took place at the Pentagon that day.
- Rethinking The Idea Of 'Christian Europe'
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First Published: 2011
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Looking to the traditional, moral and identity platform of Christianity in Europe.
- A Marxist History of the World part 44: Wars of empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The English Revolution transformed Britain into a capitalist economy engaging in geopolitical competition. Neil Faulkner looks at how Britain became the dominant global superpower of the 19th Century.
- Citizen Activism Challenges Protected Media Oligopoly
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The issue of news and information is playing a central role in this upsurge of citizen unrest in Chile.
- What's the blogging point? Seven reasons to blog... one reason to not
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Many individuals and organizations have jumped on the blog bandwagon. Most of them do not even know why. Deciding on a strategy helps clarify the reason for the blog itself and gives focus to the writing.
- The Left's Crisis
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First Published: 2011
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It was indicative of the left's sorry lack of ambition in the crisis that its calls for salary limits on Wall Street executives and transaction taxes on the financial sector were far more common than demands for turning the banks into public utilities.
- The Left's Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
It was indicative of the left's sorry lack of ambition in the crisis that its calls for salary limits on Wall Street executives and transaction taxes on the financial sector were far more common than demands for turning the banks into public utilities.
- The pleasure principle
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Wilhelm Reich invented 'the Orgasmatron' and claimed that better orgasms could cure society. Then the FBI got involved.
- A progressive dialogue on the future: Six questions for leftists
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
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Leftists don't spend enough time or energy working on important strategic questions. If we could resolve a handful of these, even tentatively, and try out some solutions, we would be far more successful. Here are six from my list of the most important questions, as well as my answers, which by their very incompleteness and inadequacy should suggest that more people should work on them.
- America in Decline
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First Published: 2011
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- Carl Lichtenstein
1942 - 2011
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Obituary for archivist for the Prometheus Research Library.
- The Tent Intifada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The bug that had spread from Tahrir Square in Cairo to Del Sol in Madrid now landed in Tel Aviv. The slogan coined in Cairo, "Social Justice!" became the main slogan in Israel.
- Theses for Discussion - Korean text
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Bolivia: WikiLeaks Expose US Conspiracy
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Recently released United States embassy cables from Bolivia have provided additional insight to the events leading up to the September 2008 coup attempt against the Andean country’s first indigenous president.
- How Change Happens: A Three-Fold Strategy
To build a new economy, we must work on three fronts
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The power of authentic culture stories gives civil society the ultimate advantage in the contest for the human future. Stories alone will not, of course, bring down the institutions of Empire. Nor should we welcome the inevitable chaos that the collapse of Empire will bring if we have not first laid a foundation of the new rules, relationships, and institutions of a New Economy.
- Iceland's Loud No
Can't Pay Back, Won't Pay Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other economies?
- Indonesia: light sentences for deadly attack threaten religious tolerance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An Indoensian court sentenced 12 Islamist militants to three to six months imprisonment yesterday for the attack on members of the Ahmadiyah minority group in Cikeusik last February, which resulted in three deaths.
- The Tragic Ironies of Breivik's Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
We need to challenge neo-fascism and anti-Muslim bigotry, just as we need to challenge Islamism. But in both cases we also need to keep a sense of perspective about the nature of the threat.
- A response to Paul LeBlanc’s “Marxism and Organization”
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
We need to be flexible tactically and organizationally while remaining steadfast on our goals.
- Riding a wave of economic growth
Asian charities, awash with cash, are filling the gap left by the west
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Asian charitable organizations have grown in number and capacity in recent years, partly filling the gap left by western organizations and donors that have been crippled by the recession.
- Le CEC transmet ses condolances a la population de la Norvege
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Le Conseil ethnoculturel du Canada transmet ses plus sinceres condolances a la population de la Norvege. Nous partageons leur chagrin a l'occasion de cette immense perte et de ce deuil.
- Backwards Thinking: Does Your Social Media Strategy Fit?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Most people find reading through an endless list of functions is both irrelevant, and incredibly dull. In other words, it’s a colossal waste of time. The opposite seems to be true when it comes to social media “strategic plans”.
- Anavex presents data on neuroprotective evidence for ANAVEX 2-73, lead compound for Alzheimer's disease
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) is pleased to provide a summary of its second poster presentation at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) held in Paris, entitled Preclinical development of new tetrahydrofur
- Avoiding the Cut: Social Media ROI in Perspective
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In response to a tight economy, most organizations face a financial call-to-action: reduce the expenses, tighten your belts, and cut-cut-cut. Financial management will explain that revenues no longer support the level of expenditure, so either sales
- A Marxist History of the World part 43: Colonies, slavery, and racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Capitalist contradictions were most evident in the 18th century, when the wealth of the merchant-capitalist class of Britain’s port-cities was contrasted with the untold human misery of the slaves, ramping up the historical significance of racist ideology.
- Laughing at the People of Walmart While Class Warfare Rages in America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
What is it that POW and the TSG are really selling? Conformity, my friends. You there, in your comfortable suburban house or your hipster urban condo pad, yes, you are one of the cool people. You’d never be caught dead out in public dressed like one of these freaks.
- A Marxist History of the World part 42: The Army, the Levellers, and the Commonwealth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at how even the most radical bourgeois forces, if they are to preserve their property and status, must break the momentum of the movement that has brought them to power.
- Madrid barrio expels 'racist' police patrols
Jeering crowds chase away officers who try to detain immigrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Community protests police practice of racial profiling: the protests have been dubbed the "indignant" movement.
- Norway lets fathers do their share
Paternity leave law has helped to create a quiet revolution in childcare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In Norway, twelve weeks of the forty six weeks of paid parental leave is reserved for the father. If he chooses not to take the leave the time and money is forfeit. The legislation is designed to promote equality in the household as well as the job market and has been adopted in Iceland, Germany and Portugal.
- Dignite attacked: one Canadian on board Gaza-bound French boat
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Organizers of the Canadian Boat to Gaza (CBG), the Tahrir, lost contact with the French flagged boat Dignité from the Freedom Flotilla II, at 10:10AM local time when the boat was in international waters north of Arish, Egypt.
- Interpol’s Red Flag
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Interpol's Red Notices used by some to pursue political dissenters, opponents.
- Zizek and Linksfaschismus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
I’m not sure there’s a clearer index of the basic intellectual dysfunction of the anglo-american theoretical left than the persistent popularity of Zizek and his work.
- Anavex to present at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (“Anavex”) (OTCBB: AVXL) today announced that new data on ANAVEX 2-73, the company’s lead compound for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) currently in Phase I clinical trials, will be presented in two poster sessions at the 2011 Alzh
- Reporting on Sexual Violence
Quick tips on covering sexual violence, from preparation to writing the story.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma provides information on how to cover sexual violence, from preparation to writing the story.
- Zizek and the Gaza Flotilla
Doing a Full Monty for Tel Aviv
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
As long as we misunderstand the importance of Palestine for the world’s future, we shall be trapped in an endless “Middle East Crisis”.
- Social Media Innovation: Promotion vs. Prevention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Every town has them: outdated laws. With little or no relevance in today’s society, we see such rules as silly and ineffective. Laws such as: ‘no throwing abandoned hoop skirts onto the street’, or ‘No walking backward while eating chestnuts’ are rel
- Among the Dead Cities
Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The author looks at the bombings of German and Japanese civilians during WWII, and asks whether they were justified or a crime against humanity.
- Vanishing Lifeline
Water is essential, but Earth's growing population are draining supplies and wells are running dry.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Water supplies in the Middle East and north Africa are built on an environmental Ponzi scheme. The UN estimates that by 2025 two thirds of the world's population will face water shortages. Aid for the water shortage crises has drastically declined in the past decade as is seen as "unsexy" causes.
- Why I quit my job
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Anavex rapidly advances ANAVEX 2-73 for Alzheimer's disease, Phase I clinical trial progressing well
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (“Anavex”) (OTCBB: AVXL) has commenced the 30 mg dose step in its ongoing Phase I clinical trial to evaluate ANAVEX 2-73, the company’s lead drug candidate for Alzheimer’s disease. This is the third of six potential dose
- The University of New Brunswick Bachelor of Business Administration, Honours in Accounting Program accredited by CMA Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
CMA Canada, the world leader in shaping strategic management accounting® professionals to lead successful enterprises in the global marketplace, has awarded for a five-year period the accreditation of the Bachelor of Business Administration, Honours
- Marxism and organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- A Marxist History of the World part 41: 1640-1645: revolution and war in England
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The attempt to impose Absolutism by Charles I led to a revolutionary civil war in which the King would be executed - Neil Faulkner looks at the English Civil War.
- Class Dismissed
Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Argues that poverty and inequality in the United States cannot be solved through education, as it does not address the established social structures that create these conditions.
- Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and inequality in the United States can be solved through education. Marsh shows that education has little impact on poverty and inequality, and that our mistaken beliefs actively shape the way we structure our schools and what we teach in them.
- 'Independent' currency hit by fraud
More than nine million dollars of online cash was stolen this weekend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Bitcoins are mined as a result of intensive calculations carried out on PC's throughout the world. Political hackers have been accused of the theft and the future of the currency remains unsure.
- The Information Front: The Canadian Army and News Management during the Second World War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In wartime, capturing the hearts and minds of the citizenry is arguably as important as victory on the battlefield. The Information Front explores the Canadian military’s use of public relations units to manage news during the Second World War. These specialized units were responsible for providing sufficient and positive news coverage to Canadians at home. This fascinating study traces the transformation of an emergent PR organization.
- Line in the sand: Africa's 'green wall' aims to stop desert's growth
Villagers will help establish 15km-wide swath of trees as a nature reserve
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Great Green Wall is a pan-African plan to halt desertification through reforestation.
- Nearly $2 Trillion Purloined from U.S. Workers in 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The upward redistribution has remained as hidden as possible. The forms it has taken—as bonuses, bloated salaries, elephantine stock options, padded consulting fees, outsized compensation to boards of directors, sumptuous conferences, palatial offices complete with original artwork, retinues of superfluous “support” staff, hunting lodges, private corporate dining rooms, regal retirement agreements, and so on—defy exact categorization. Some would appear as profit, some as interest, some as dividends, realized capital gains, gigantic pension programs, retained earnings, or owners’ income, with the remainder deeply buried as “costs of doing business.”
- Remembering the Paris Commune
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Marking the anniversary of the revolt that led to the establishment of the world's first workers’ government, the Paris Commune of 1871. The Paris Commune has always had a special place in the hearts and minds of revolutionaries, and can inspire today’s activist generation with the potential for "power to the people."
- The unrecognised truth behind that 'spontaneous' Belfast riot
Violence was planned by manipulative, self-interested individuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An analysis of sectarian violence in Belfast between the loyalists and republicans and the international media coverage of this violence, which often frames it as political.
- What Great Recession?
Global report finds nearly 11million 'cash millionaires'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The richest people on the planet have now recouped the losses of the 2008 world markets crashed. High Net Worth inidviduals have at least one million in readily available funds, and there are more of them than ever before.
- US police smash camera for recording killing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Increasingly police are concerned about police misconduct being recorded.
- Israeli government openly threatens journalists planning to sail with Gaza flotilla
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Israeli government’s attempts to intimidate journalists who plan to travel with a flotilla of ships that will set sail in the next few days in an attempt to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
- Know Your Rights!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Your computer, your phone, and your other digital devices hold vast amounts of personal information about you and your family. This is sensitive data that's worth protecting from prying eyes - including those of the government.
- Debunking the Fraser Institute's Latest Crusade: Teacher Merit Pay
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Fresh from the triumph of successfully promoting its fallacious school report card, this time in Alberta, the Fraser Institute is already scheming to peg teacher pay to student test scores and create a market for teachers. We should remember that the institute's success with school rankings would not be possible without over-the-top support from the corporate media.
- Uk needs modern mosques
The third generation of British Muslims still don't have mosques that teach compassion and citizenship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An Islamic woman's opinion column mourns the lack of modern mosques in England. She discusses her search for a place where her children could learn Arabic and how to read the Qu'ran without facing violence or being forced to cover their faces or change their hair.
- Freedom Flotilla II – Stay Human
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
People from across Canada are rallying in support of the Canadian boat to Gaza which is part of the international convoy Freedom Flotilla II.
- A Marxist History of the World part 40: The causes of the English Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at the how the unresolved contradictions in English society and the attempt to establish Continental-style absolutism led to the execution of the king, and the establishment of a bourgeois republic.
- Goodwill, The City of Toronto and the Greater Toronto Hockey League partner to make hockey more accessible.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Goodwill and the GTHL partner to make hockey more accessible
- Athenians Teach a New Lesson in (Workers) Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Popular Assembly at Syntagma has been able to go beyond democratic discussion to democratic decisions but the construction of real workers democracy is still under way. While thousands take part in the assembly, there are five million living in Athens and millions more in the rest of Greece. To democratically include all these millions requires a system of delegation, in which delegates from neighborhoods and workplaces attend city-wide assemblies and delegates from these attend a nationwide assembly.
- Getting the message out: Media and beyond
An introduction
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Pharmageddon: how the US got hooked on prescription drugs
White House declares prescription drug abuse in US 'alarming' as thousands flock to Florida – the home of oxycodone pill mills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An investigation into the underground trade of oxycodone, a widely abused prescription drug. Ninety-eight percent of prescriptions in the United States come from southern Florida, where doctors at "pill-mills" can see up to one hundred patients in a sitting.
- Three Northern missionaries receive 2011 St. Joseph's Award May 5 at Tastes of Heaven gala
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Three missionaries serving in the Canadian North received the 2011 St. Joseph’s Award at Catholic Missions In Canada’s Tastes of Heaven Gala May 5.
- "A book is not a bomb" says fact-finding mission
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders urged the Turkish government today to prove it supports the media freedom it proclaimed during the recent election campaign.
- A Marxist History of the World part 39: The Thirty Years War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Between 1618 and 1648 Germany was wrecked by insecurity, depopulation, disruption to trade, the destruction of property, and military plundering. Neil Faulkner looks at The Thirty Years War.
- Workmates: direct action workplace organising on the London Underground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An online pamphlet detailing resistance in the late 1990s by London Underground employees to outsourcing via a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme. Workers organized outside the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) to form a new collective, dubbed the Workmates.
- Goldstone Recants
Richard Goldstone Renews Israel's License to Kill
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
On April 1 2011, in the pages of the Washington Post, the international jurist Richard Goldstone dropped a bombshell. He effectively disowned the massive evidence assembled in the United Nations' report carrying his name that Israel had committed multiple war crimes and possible crimes against humanity in Gaza during its 2008-9 invasion.
Israel was jubilant. “Everything that we said proved to be true,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crowed. “We always said that the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] is a moral army that acted according to international law,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak declared. “We had no doubt that the truth would come out eventually,” Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman proclaimed. The Obama administration used the occasion of Goldstone’s recantation to affirm that Israel had not “engaged in any war crimes” during the Gaza assault while the U.S. Senate unanimously called on the United Nations to “rescind” the Goldstone Report.
- The silencing crime: Sexual violence and journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Few cases of sexual assault against journalists have ever been documented, a product of powerful cultural and professional stigmas. But now dozens of journalists are coming forward to say they have been sexually abused in the course of their work.
- Chavs
The Demonization of the Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An analysis of Britain's working class and the sociopolitical attitudes regarding them.
- Michael Lebowitz's "The Socialist Alternative" - Book Review
Proyect, Louis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- How to Create a Horizontal Dropdown Menu with HTML, CSS and jQuery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Les organizations sont constituees de personnes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Dans l’infolettre du mois dernier, j’abordais la nécessité d’être spécifique lorsqu’il s’agit de formuler une stratégie et de planifier sa mise en œuvre. Je faisais remarquer qu’une des clés du succès consiste à désigner une personne responsable de c
- Science and Innovation for a Better World: Media Piracy in Emerging Economies
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In a panel discussion at IDRC on June 3, three internationally renowned experts will discuss the implications of media piracy for the global economy. Media Piracy in Emerging Economies editor Joe Karaganis, from the American Assembly at Columbia U
- How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister history.
- ANAVEX 2-73 advances Phase I clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) is pleased to provide an update on its ongoing Phase I clinical trial to evaluate ANAVEX 2-73, the company’s lead candidate for Alzheimer’s disease. After reviewing all the safety data from the firs
- A Marxist History of the World part 37: The Counter-Reformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at how the Reformation was followed by a counter-revolutionary response which involved a dogmatic reassertion of Catholic orthodoxy: the Counter-Reformation.
- How Agriculture Can Provide Food Security Without Destroying Biodiversity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
According to conventional wisdom, the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte has achieved something impossible. So, too, has the island of Cuba. They are feeding their hungry populations largely with local, low-input farming methods that enhance the environment rather than degrade it. They have achieved this, moreover, at a time of rising food prices when others have mostly retreated from their own food security goals.
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.
- Google can't be trusted to look after our books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The author warns that Google's lack of accountability to the public could put its digital collection in jeopardy should it become too expensive to maintain. He argues that the protection of cultural resources should be in the hands of the public sector.
- A Marxist History of the World part 36: The Reformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Reformation after 1521 tore apart church and state. Neil Faulkner looks at how the new social forces formed inside late medieval Europe helped undermine the thousand year domination of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Anavex comments on new Alzheimer's disease diagnostic guidelines
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (“Anavex”) (OTCBB: AVXL) today commented on new diagnostic criteria and guidelines for Alzheimer’s disease published recently by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Alzheimer’s Association, which have been updated
- Life in Stills
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A photo shop owner and her grandson join forces to save the shop and the nearly one million negatives that document Israel's defining moments.
- Adding Value, FUSE Marketing Group Offers Clients a Third Sellout Seminar on Facebook Credits
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Future-forward marketing agency from Toronto hosts information sessions for eager clients online, explaining the opportunities surrounding the only currency to be used soon on Facebook.
- A Marxist History of the World part 35: The new colonialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Portuguese and Spanish overseas empires founded at the beginning of the 16th century were soon followed by Dutch, English, and French empires. Neil Faulkner looks at how the transformation of the world by European colonialism began.
- Experienced Rider Training Symposium - Canada, May 2011
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Fdration Internationale de Motocyclisme has invited the Canada Safety Council to host the Experienced Rider Training Symposium this year. This is the first time in its history that the Symposium will be hosted in North America.
- A Revolutionary Marxist History of May Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The revolutionary heritage of May Day
- Get your head out of the clouds
If we allow our personal data to be stored in giant electornic centres, we deserve what we get
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Appraising the risks to personal data held in cloud computing systems.
- Naturopathic Medicine Week: Maximize Your Kids' Wellbeing with Healthy, Active Living
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Be Your Best Self is one of the many services provided by the team at the RSNC. Join us on Monday, May 9 at 6 p.m. to learn more about naturopathic medicine at our special meet-and-greet information session, Meet the New RSNC Interns.
- Tearing Away the Veils: The Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
At the dawn of the twentieth century, there were workers who were ready to die with the Communist Manifesto. At the dawn of the twenty-first, there may be even more who are ready to live with it.
- 'This Time We Went Too Far'
Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza, the Israeli invasion of December 2008 was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions: In the 22-day-long action 1,400 Gazans were killed, several hundred on the first day alone. And yet, while nothing should diminish Palestinian suffering through those frightful days, it is possible something redemptive is emerging from the tragedy of Gaza. For, as Norman Finkelstein details, the profound injustice of the Israeli assault was widely recognized by bodies that it is impossible to brand as partial or extremist.
- Fear of the Facebook "Fan"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
How do you use your Facebook Fan page and what does that say about your organization? Most organizations are gutless and spineless, are you?
- A Marxist History of the World part 34: The new monarchies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at how the transition from feudalism to capitalism introduced a new model of unified states, centralised government, royal armies, internal repression and national-dynastic wars.
- A Marxist History of the World part 38: The Dutch Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
For more than 40 years, with wildly fluctuating fortunes, the Dutch Revolution of 1566-1609 took the form of a protracted popular war of national defence against the Spanish Empire.
- Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The authors maintain that industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can't fix it, and shopping — no matter how green — won’t stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful. It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruitment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and underground action. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play.
- Jews and the Civil Rights Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Goodwin's Way
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
'Goodwin's Way' is a short documentary examining the life and struggling legacy of BC labour martyr Ginger Goodwin, who's politics and untimely death as a WWI draft-dodger continues to cast a shadow of controversy over the community of Cumberland.
- Air safety pinned on isolated controllers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The problem of acute fatigue among air traffic controllers has been known. It was studied by sleep scientists genuinely concerned about the workers and public safety. Studies have shown that the kind of shift scheduling to which controllers are subjected affects behavior in the same way several alcoholic drinks would. That is especially true of constant shift changes and stacking eight-hour shifts as close together as possible, like working five shifts in three days.
- The Information Sage
Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Militant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War. Through their continuing activism on issues from the politics of timber licenses to global questions of war and peace, these workers bridged the transition from an Old to a New Left.
- No Fooling - Corporations Evade Taxes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Closing corporate loopholes so that corporate income tax revenues in the United States match the 3.4% of GDP collected on average by OECD corporate income taxes would add close to $200 billion to federal government revenues—more than five times the $39 billion of devastating spending cuts just made in the federal budget in 2011. Returning the corporate income tax revenues to the 4.0% of GDP level of four decades ago would add close to $300 billion a year to government revenues.
- Ours to Master and to Own
Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Traces the historical tradition of worker control and organization.
- Revolution and counter-revolution take world stage
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2011-2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Revolution and counter-revolution have forced their way back to the center stage of history. First in Tunisia, then in Egypt, revolutions have opened up tremendous new possibilities and spread the fire of their passion from Libya and across the Arab world to Iran, Europe, the U.S. and China. Counter-revolution has reared its head in many forms as well.
- Thailand: Police close a dozen community radio stations, carry out arrests
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders condemns the closure of a dozen community radio stations linked to the opposition “Red Shirts” in a major police operation yesterday in Bangkok and the surrounding provinces.
- 2011 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize awarded to Vietnamese publisher Bui Chat
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Bui Chat, founder of Giay Vun publishing in Vietnam, has been named as the recipient of this year's IPA Freedom to Publish Prize for his exemplary courage in upholding freedom to publish.
- Why aren't people voting?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
There is much ado about "voter apathy", with a focus on young people, who in creative and desperate ways are urged and "mobbed" to vote. Unfortunately, much of this effort is barking up the wrong tree: unless we can guarantee that hundreds of thousands of Canadians who are eager to vote can actually do so, we are subjecting them to a nasty piece of Catch 22 where the victims of voter obstruction get the blame for being apathetic and not doing their civic duty.
- 51 Filmmakers Protest Hot Docs Collaboration with Israel
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
51 Canadian filmmakers issue a statement of protest to Hot Docs documentary film festival stating that they are deeply disappointed to learn that Hot Docs has decided to partner with the Israeli organization CoPro Documentary Marketing Foundation.
- A Marxist History of the World part 33: The class struggle in medieval Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Despite dominating western Europe in the 11th century by the 14th century Feudalism was faced with a crisis that generated a wave of revolutionary struggle. Neil Faulkner looks at the causes and outcomes.
- Anavex: First-In-Human Dosing Commenced in ANAVEX 2-73 Clinical Trial for Alzheimer's Disease
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (OTCBB: AVXL) today announced that the first healthy human volunteers have been initially dosed in its Phase I clinical trial to evaluate ANAVEX 2-73, the company’s lead compound for Alzheimer’s disease.
- A Challenge to Canada’s Wealthiest 0.1%
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- 5 Ways to Ensure Your Site Is Accessible to the Visually Impaired
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
John Rees draws on the experience of recent mass movements and past revolutions to suggest ways in which the left can maximize the effectiveness of all those who want to transform society.
- A Marxist History of the World part 32: Lord, burgher, and peasant in medieval Europe
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Feudalism is often portrayed as a stagnant system where little changed over centuries. The reality was a system that was more dynamic and productive than anything before it argues Neil Faulkner.
- 25 years after Rajneeshee commune collapsed, truth spills out
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In a nearly unbelievable chapter of Oregon history, a guru from India gathered 2,000 followers to live on a remote eastern Oregon ranch. The dream collapsed 25 years ago amid attempted murders, criminal charges and deportations.
- Nuclear opponents have a moral duty to get their facts straight
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
My request to Helen Caldicott was a simple one: I asked her to give me sources for the claims she had made about the effects of radiation. Helen had made a number of startling statements during a television debate, and I wanted to know whether or not they were correct. Scientific claims are only as good as their sources.
- Annonce des finalistes de la troisième cérémonie annuelle de remise du Prix d’excellence dans la fonction de contrôle - secteur public
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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CMA Canada et CIPFA ont le plaisir d’annoncer le nom des finalistes au Prix d’excellence dans la fonction de contrôle – secteur public, qui est décerné pour la troisième anné.
- A Marxist History of the World part 31: Crusade and Jihad
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Crusades lasted 200 years and represented the most extreme expression of the futile violence inherent in western feudalism - a murderous attack on the Middle East by western feudal thugs under the banner of religion.
- To The American Media: Time To Face The Reality Of Election Rigging
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First Published: 2011
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The gruesome truth is that American elections can be rigged and are being rigged because the American media treats election rigging as something that -- all evidence notwithstanding -- could never happen here. Period, end of story, move on.
- 'Evil' is in reality a lack of empathy
It is one of humankind's strongest emotions; its absence lies at the root of human cruelty. How can we study it?
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A psychopathologist reframes the debate around 'the root of evil' by attributing it to a lack of empathy.
- A Marxist History of the World part 30: The rise of western feudalism
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Following the collapse of the Roman Empire Western Europe became a politically fragmented region of warring states from which a radically new social, military, and political order developed.
- Evidence Meltdown
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The green movement has misled the world about the dangers of radiation.
- The American right is trapped in a hyperbolic and dysfunctional world
To have credibility within the Republican party is to have none outside it.
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
On the Republican primary race and the problem of credibility that socially conservative candidates who mobilize the Republican base will face in a general election regarding their appeal to centrist voters.
- Christians on the Left: The Importance of the Social Gospel in the Canadian Social Democratic Tradition
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
This article looks at the history of the Canadian social democratic movement and highlights the preponderant role played by leftist Christians. Finding their inspiration in a social interpretation of Christ's message, these Christians became heavily involved in the process of creating a new political party, clearly to the left of the political spectrum, and helped shape its discourse.
- Deadly Secret
A 1940s whistle-blower uncovers hidden evidence linking asbestos to cancer
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Women and Class
Towards a Socialist Feminism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Draper situates the origins of the modern feminist movement in the revolutionary movements of the nineteenth century.
- Anavex Screening Healthy Volunteers For Phase I, First-In-Human Clinical Study in Alzheimer's Disease
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) has announced screening of the first healthy volunteers for the Phase I clinical study of ANAVEX 2-73, its lead compound for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. ANAVEX 2-73 is the first of a new
- Prescription for Survival
A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The crisis in Japan has refueled the rigorous global debate about the viability of nuclear power.
- US military taps 'sock puppets'
Fake personas on social websites to manipulate and influence opinion
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A new $2.76 million dollar 'counter-terrorism' initiative to create a pro-America online presence using fake online personas is underway. These interventions will not be conducted in English or on American sites, but will be Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Pashtu speaking "sock-puppets".
- Literacy Outside the Box
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Frontier College student art show proves there is more to literacy than reading and writing
- Waterous Workers See the Light and Join the Machinists!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Machinists expand their membership at Waterous Power Systems as parts and service personnel join Local Lodge 1722
- Anavex Receives Approval to Commence Phase I Clinical Trial in Alzheimer's Disease
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) has announced that its clinical trial application (CTA) for ANAVEX 2-73, the company’s lead compound for Alzheimer’s disease, has been approved by the German regulatory health authority, BfArM. The
- Gros Morne Photos March 2011
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Gros Morne, Newfoundland, March 2011.
- Elections 2011 - New Board
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada - Elections 2011 - New Board
- Machinists Take Air Canada to Court!/Union says company breached Air Canada Public Participation Act
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Air Canada's largest union - IAMAW take the company to court to breaching the Air Canada Public Participation Act - tied to compasny decision to sell off aircraft overhaul centres in Montreal, Winnipeg and Mississauga - job loss 3200!
- Public Health students examine the disease of Occupation, joined by founder of Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Graduate students from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health are calling for discussion on the ongoing occupation of Palestinian territories. The Public Health Social Justice Collective challenges medical and public health practices.
- Rescue Capsule used at the San Jose Chilean mine
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Canada Science and Technology Museum invites members of the media to a preview of the Rescue Capsule used at the rescue of thirty-three miners at the San Jose Mine in Copiap, Chile.
- Hamas forces attack journalists covering Gaza protest
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Hamas security forces attacked local journalists covering a peaceful demonstration calling for Palestinian national unity on Tuesday. At least one journalist was taken to the hospital after being beaten.
- Think Green
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Organize Anything has come up with a list of green tips to help stage and sell your home.
- In support of Israel Apartheid Week
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Rather than attacking Israel Apartheid Week, our leaders should be supporting it.
- More than 100 rights organisations urge UN to oppose defamation of religions
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
More than 100 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to urge member states at the United Nations Human Rights Council session this month to renegotiate defamation of religions resolutions that make criticising religion a crime.
- International Women's Day Centenary sees largest ever activity
Sources News Release
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March 8 sees the highest level of global women's activity ever witnessed as groups celebrate the International Women's Day centenary.
- "If I Had Only Known" - Abuse Project Engages Newcomer Communities
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Family Service Toronto has chosen the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day (March 8, 2011) to launch a series of publications for its If I Had Only Known project - a groundbreaking initiative that engages newcomer communities in the develop
- Anavex appoints Dr. Jeffrey Cummings to its Scientific Advisory Board
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. has announced the appointment of Dr. Jeffrey Cummings to the Scientific Advisory Board as a clinical expert. The Scientific Advisory Board works closely with the company to support development of the Anavex product pipeline
- The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor
Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Steve Early explains why and how the 2008-2010 battles within the progressive wing of the U.S. labour movement occurred.
- Expulsion of two Spanish journalists deals blow to freedom of expression
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Spanish journalists Paco Gómez Nadal and Pilar Chato agreed under pressure to be repatriated yesterday, after being arrested during a demonstration by indigenous groups outside the parliament building in Panama City in protest against a mining law.
- "Muscling in on the media" – a Reporters Without Borders look at organized crime
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders has released a thematic report on what is now the single biggest threat to media freedom – organized crime.
- New Orleans' Police Death Squads
Against The Current vol. 151
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An interview with Malcolm Suber, a New Orleans community activist and fighter for justice, and a former candidate for city council. Against the Current asked him to comment on the struggle around murders by police during Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing fight over police brutality.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change
The Science, The Solutions, The Way Forward
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An accessible and friendly pocket-sized overview of climate change, combining all the basics with the latest facts and analysis.
- Publish It Not!
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
How Israel controls the way the international 'liberal' media portray its illegal and vicious occupation of Palestine and why the media allow them to get away with it.
- The school funding debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The great divide in public schools reflects the increasing divide in Ontario and Canada.
- You For Sale
Promoting Yourself to the Highest Bidder
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Article about how to market oneself to potential employers while on the job hunt.
- The Sticking Point
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A client finds her "sticking point" - the point when she's organizing where she can't move forward.
- The Three Levels of Leadership
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
One of the challenges many managers and leaders face is in understanding the distinctions between levels of leadership. Though there is a common basis of theory and practice, the requirements of tactical leadership are quite different from those
- Get Ready To Read With Teach My Preschooler & Read Across America!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Teach My Preschooler, the newest award winning all-in-one learning kit from Teach My uses a combined approach to encourage early reading & parent child interaction.
- FOCAL to launch new Mapping Migration from the Americas website
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), in partnership with the International Migration Research Centre (IMRC), has developed interactive, web-based maps to display information about the flow of temporary foreign workers from Latin America
- Anavex appoints Dr. Rachelle Doody to Scientific Advisory Board
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) has announced the appointment of Dr. Rachelle Doody to the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) as a clinical expert. The SAB works closely with the company to support development of the Anavex product
- Brazilian woman finds alligator behind sofa
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Sex.com takes crown as world’s most expensive domain name
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- 30 Extra Technicians and Assembly Line Workers at Solgate Inc.
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Due to a dramatic increase of demand from both distributors and investors, Solgate Inc. hired 30 technicians and machine operators to join their team and add a second 8 hour shift to try and meet the increasing demand for solar panels.
- Tip, Tip, Tip
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Do you ever wonder if you are over-tipping or under-tipping, or be tipping at all? You are not alone. Lots of people are unsure how much to tip the bell hop or the tour guide. They usually end up tipping way too much or not enough.
- Boart Longyear May Implement HPWO in New Deal!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Early negotiations produce new 3 year deal with possible implementation of HPWO programme and more jobs in North Bay Ontario.
- Machinists Break New Ground with Moduline!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
reduced work week for senior members age 55 or orlder or those with 30 or more years service employed by BC modular home builder..first in BC
- Messier-Dowty Machinists Ratify New Deal!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
All job classifications at aircraft landing manufacturer now protected under new agreement with IAMAW.
- New Kingsway Arms Agreement Considered a Gem!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
retirement care workers in Bowmanville, Ontario east of Toronto now have IAM pension plan plus improvement in other benefit areas.
- Glutenfreeda Granola Recipe Earns Top Ranking With Real Simple Magazine Taste Test
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Manufacturers of quality gluten-free foods are delighted that respected magazine, Real Simple, agrees their product is delicious.
- Anavex adds Dr. Paul Aisen to Scientific Advisory Board
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (OTCBB: AVXL) has announced the appointment of Dr. Paul Aisen to the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) as a clinical expert. The SAB works closely with the company to support development of the Anavex product pipeline
- Anavex strengthens management team with addition of VP, Clinical Development & Medical Affairs
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) announced the addition of Dr. Angelos Stergiou to the executive management team in the role of Vice President, Clinical Development & Medical Affairs. Dr. Stergiou has extensive medical and clinical
- Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) Identifies Hot Sector Trends in Franchising for 2011
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A recent analysis of emerging trends in franchising by the Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) (www.cfa.ca) provides a glimpse at the hottest sectors for 2011.
- Internet 'kill switch' easy target in Egypt
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Plan A Dream Vacation
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
We dream of travel in February and Organize Anything has come up with 5 easy tips and ideas to think about when planning your dream vacation.
- Sources welcomes Chateau des Charmes Wines
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Sources welcomes a new member: Chateau des Charmes Wines. Founded in 1978 by Canadian wine industry visionary, Paul Bosc, this family winery continues to innovate with pioneering viticultural research.
- Sources welcomes Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Sources News Release
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Sources welcomes a new member: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
- IFIC Announces Changes to Its Statistics Reporting
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
TORONTO – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today announced changes to its mutual fund statistics reporting that will provide investors with relevant and timely information related to asset classes and Canadian Investment Funds Standard
- Social Media drives wine sales to raise charitable funds
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Queens Quay LCBO store was the site for a cheque presentation to Meal Exchange Executive Director Dave Kranenburg. $13,000 was raised through bottle sales of Generation Seven wine, a new label from Niagara wine industry pioneer Chteau des Charmes.
- A Marxist History of the World part 29: The peculiarity of Europe
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First Published: 2011
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Why Europe? Why was it that the second great transformation in human existence - the development of capitalism and industrial society - was pioneered on the western edge of the Eurasian land-mass?
- Google a great painting
Project allows users to get a close-up view of works from 17 museums
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First Published: 2011
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Google's Art Project allows viewers to browse works from 17 museums including the Metropolitcan Museum, MoMA, The National Gallery, Tate Britain and others in super-high resolution.
- Independent Jewish Voices Joins Call for Global Protest
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Calls for women of the world to unite behind the popular resistance of Palestinian women in defence of their land, rights and dignity
- IFJ Condemns Return to State Censorship after Journalist's Expulsion in Russia
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The international Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today accused Russia of stepping back into the shadows of censorship and political intolerance after The Guardian's Moscow correspondent Luke Harding was expelled from the country.
- IFJ Highlights Media Safety Crisis at International Conference on Somalia in UK
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on representatives of the international community to give priority to measures to protect journalists in Somalia.
- Sources welcomes Teach My
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Sources welcomes a new member: Teach My.
- Sources welcomes Yves Potvin
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Sources welcomes a new member: Yves Potvin, President and Founder of Garden Protein Int., Entrepreneur, Category Innovator.
- From Portugal to Egypt: a Cautionary Tale
The Anti-Empire Report
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The events in Egypt cannot help but remind me of Portugal. Here, there, and everywhere, now and before, the United States of America, as always, is petrified of anything genuinely progressive or socialist, or even too democratic, for that carries the danger of allowing god-knows what kind of non-America-believer taking office.
- Handcuffed and herded
My big Alpine adventure with Switzerland's police
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A journalist at the World Economic Forum Summit is detained and intimidated along with protestors by Swiss police.
- Protesters cast shadow over US billionaires' rally in the sun
Koch brothers to host rightwing politicians and business leaders to discuss how to influence politics
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Koch brothers' annual rally of rich Americans and rightwing media figures was hosted to raise money for anti-government think tanks and climate change denial. This year a counter rally was orgnaized by Common Cause.
- Mubarak's third force terror tactic
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
President Mubarak unleashed his 'personal' thugs in a failed attempt to silence protestors seeking an end to his regime.
- Tahrir: Shock and awe Mubarak style
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Don't Get Stuck in a Groundhog Day of Bad Habits
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Seven easy steps to streamlining your home office.
- Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Fisk joins protesters atop a Cairo tank as the army shows signs of backing the people against Mubarak's regime.
- Traffic Noise Increases the Risk of Having a Stroke, Study Suggests
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Exposure to noise from road traffic can increase the risk of stroke, particularly in those aged 65 years and over.
- Understanding the Egyptian Uprising For Democracy, Report from the Ground
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
After decades of autocratic rule, state propaganda, institutionalized government corruption, police brutality, and suppression of basic freedoms, frustrated Egyptians are taking to the streets seeking change and demanding democracy, dignity, and civic reforms.
- I Did It For Science: Bartending at a Sex Party
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
What are those clothed civilians thinking while serving drinks to half-naked swingers in the moments just before and after coitus? I decided to find out by stepping behind the bar at an NYC sex club one Saturday night.
- Anavex comments on President Obama's signing of National Alzheimer's Project Act into law
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) today commented on President Obama’s signing of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA) into law. The passage of this landmark legislation lays the foundation for the first coordinated national
- A Marxist History of the World part 27: New World Empires: Maya, Aztec, and Inca
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The early civilisations of the Americas were limited by its geography - in only two areas did urban revolution occur and civilisations develop: in parts of Mesoamerica, and in the Central Andes.
- There are hundreds of reasons to quit... what's yours?
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
January 16 – 22 is National Non-Smoking Week (NNSW) 2011
- Citizenship and Immigration cuts to racialized organizations are unconscionable
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
NARCC condemns the cuts to community organizations by Citizenship and
Immigration Canada. The cuts to organizations that specifically serve racialized newcomers to Canada in Toronto, Ontario are unwarranted.
- Complexity Made Simple: HR Enters the Dragon's Den at Conference 2011
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Vancouver - The role of HR in business has evolved. In fact as the key connection between People, Passion and Profit grows more apparent the HRevolution is well under way. What is emerging is a new HR: professionally-designated, strategic, and potent
- Alzheimer’s Weekly names ANAVEX 2-73 the number one most promising trial drug in Alzheimer's disease and Anavex’s Phase I clinical program as "Trial
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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ANAVEX 2-73 has been named 2010’s “most promising trial drug” by the editorial staff at Alzheimer’s Weekly.
- Anavex files Phase I regulatory submission for ANAVEX 2-73 in Alzheimer's disease
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Anavex Life Sciences Corp. has filed regulatory submission for ANAVEX 2-73 with the German Health Authority, BfArM, and the local Ethics Committee of Saxony to begin clinical studies for ANAVEX 2-73, its lead compound for the treatment of Alzheimer
- IFJ Reports Heavy Media Loss to Violence after 97 Journalists Died in 2010
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The International Federation of Journalists warns that journalists and media personnel remain prime targets for political extremists, gangsters and terrorists as it announced that at least 94 journalists and media personnel who were killed in 2010.
- Justice department ordered Twitter to hand over details of users linked to WikiLeaks
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders deplores the US Department of Justice’s apparent determination to prosecute WikiLeaks and its leading supporters.
- New Online Business for Those On Gluten-Free Diet Launches with 'Win 4 Weeks of Gluten-Free Meals' Contest
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Now anyone interested in a gluten-free diet can sign up to win 4 weeks of healthy, gluten-free meals. 30 lucky winners will be selected by livefreeda.com: 10 in February, 10 in March, 10 in April!
- Letter to Mayor Ford regarding funding for Immigrant Women's Health Centre
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The health work done at Immigrant Women's Centre is high quality care involving all aspects of immigrant women's reproductive health.
- Fuck Hamas! Fuck Israel! Gaza youth offers up a cry of despair
Rapid global reaction to cyber-manifesto surprises its drafters
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A group of Palestinian youth put out a manifesto that calls for an end to divisive party politics in Gaza and the West Bank. The youth want peace and freedom.
- A Marxist History of the World part 26: Africa: cattle-herders, iron-masters, and trading states
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at the early civilisations in Africa and how geography ensured the continent would develop differently from Eurasia.
- A Marxist History of the World part 28: The cycles and arrows of time
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In Part 9 of A Marxist History of the World, we paused to discuss ‘how history works’. It would be useful to pause again to review some general lessons of the history of the ancient and medieval civilisations we have looked at since.
- Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
The Anti-Empire Report
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- About Connexions - Farsi
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- About Connexions - Japanese
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- About page for Diemer.ca
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- Acerca de Connexions
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First Published: 2011
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Connexions es un proyecto canadiense creado para conectar a las personas que trabajan por la justicia social, con información, recursos y otras personas.
- African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An inclusive account of the source of popular discontent and an insight into the struggle for democratization, from the popular uprisings in Northern Africa all the way into the heartland of the African continent.
- Alternative and Activist New Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative or marginal views, share their own DIY information systems and content, and otherwise resist, talk back to, or confront dominant media culture. Today, a lively and contentious cycle of capture, cooptation, and subversion of information, content, and system design marks the relationship between the mainstream ‘center’ and the interactive, participatory ‘edges’ of media culture. Five principal forms of alternative and activist new media projects are introduced, including the characteristics that make them different from more conventional media forms and content. The book traces the historical roots of these projects in alternative media, social movements, and activist art, including analyses of key case studies and links to relevant electronic resources.
- American Dreamers
How the Left Changed a Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
History of the radical left in the United States from the abolitionists to anti-globalization activists. The author sees the left as historically championing a pluralist spirit that runs counter to the "born capitalist" American society.
- American Uprising
The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Historian Daniel Rasmussen reveals the long-forgotten history of America’s largest slave uprising, the New Orleans slave revolt of 1811, offering new insight into American expansionism, the path to Civil War, and the earliest grassroots push to overcome slavery.
- The Arab Revolts Against Neoliberalism
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Aroma protest: Toronto: Eaton Centre. December 2011
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First Published: 2011
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Aroma Espresso Bar is part of an Israeli-owned chain. One of Aroma's branches is in Ma'aleh Adumim, a large Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories. Anti-apartheid activists have called for a boycott of Aroma as part of a larger movement by Palestinian civil society to find non-violent means to end the occupation and apartheid.
- As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil
The Impossible Life of Mary Benson
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The biography of Mary Benson, the lesbian wife of the Head of the Church of England at the end of the 19th century. She was loved for her wit by Tennyson, Henry James and Browning. This is the story of an unsung woman and an intellectual history of her time.
- A Back-up Objective for the B to C Exhibitor
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The opportunities that may be slipping through your fingers are with those attendees who are not ready to buy your product or commit to the appointment and need more time before placing an order.
- BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The case for a rights-based BDS campaign against Israeli occupation and apartheid.
- Believing is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An exploration of photgraphy's complex connection to the real world.
- The Betrayal
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The filmmaker's personal journey to confront her past, baring her soul to those most hurt by her troubled youth when she ricocheted from far-left radicalism to neo-Nazi fascism out of a desperate need to belong.
- Beyond the Fields
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
There is a strong historical link between the United Farm Workers in its heyday and myriad forms of progressive activism today. UFW alumni, ideas, and strategies have influenced Latino political empowerment, the immigrant rights movement, union membership growth, and on-going coalitions between labor, community, campus, and religious groups.
- The Big Thirst
The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A journalistic account of the secret life of water.
- Black bloc attack on massive trade union demo in October 2011
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
For most of the public, it is difficult to tell the black bloc from neo-nazi skins, and that is one of its problems.
- Black History and the Class Struggle
#21
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Body Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Chicago's Club Gouge attracts an eclectic audience, from bohemian types to Ukrainian mobsters to young men just back from the war. And tonight, V.I. Warshawski is in the crowd too. The edgy stage show stars the Body Artist, who invites uadience members to draw on her naked flesh.
- Boom for whom? The Canadian Impacts of the Tar Sands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A summary of the devasting impacts of the tar sands as they affect the different regions of Canada.
- Broken Circle
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A two-part excerpt from Theodore Fontaine's book Broken Circle, a memoir of surviving the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School in Manitoba -- and pursuing his own path to healing.
- Canada's Other Red Scare
Rights, Decolonization, and Indigenious Political Protest in the Global Sixties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 2011
- Captivity
118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An account of a peace activist kidnapped while leading a peace delegation in Iraq.
- Childhood Under Siege
How Big Business Ruthlessly Targets Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An exploration of the corporate manipulation and exploitation of children and childhood and society's (lack of) response.
- Chocolate Nations
Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Speculation, pests, political corruption, taxation, land rights, civil war and the IMF are forces at play in this investigation of cocoa agriculture and export in West Africa.
- The CNT in the Spanish Revolution Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A comprehensive history of the years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain when the so-called 'Generation of '36' rose up against the oppressive structures of Spanish society.
- Connexions Archive home page
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Connexions Archive & Library is Toronto-based project dedicated to keeping alive the rich history of grassroots movements for social justice.
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2011
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Czech text
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Consensus decision-making - Arabic text
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Consensus decision-making - Japanese text
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Consensus decision-making at NATO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
All NATO decisions are made by consensus, after discussion and consultation among member countries.
- Culhane, Claire - Spanish text
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Abolicionista de las prisiones.
- Dark Market
Cybethieves, Cybercops and You
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Investigative research into a hackers' cybermarket where cyberthieves exchange tricks and tips. The author finds the individuals who founded the site and also tackles the problem of policing these crimes which are undertaken across so many jurisdictions the thieves are virtually impossible to prosecute.
- Debt: The First 5000 Years
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Graeber traces the history of debt from ancient societies to modern economic crises, arguing that debt has often driven revolutions and social and political change.
- Destroying Libya's Welfare State
NATO's Great Victory
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
For NATO, its corporate allies, and its media mouthpieces, such prosperity for workers simply will not do. We live in a world where austerity for the workers is the order of the day – for those in Libya, Greece, Italy, Spain, Great Britain and the U.S. as well. And those who stand in the way of such austerity measures, whether they be a nationalist government in Libya, Communists in Greece or Occupiers in the U.S., must be dealt with accordingly – by violent reaction.
- Ulli Diemer - Brief Bio
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Ulli Diemer is a Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- Drought
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
As a result of the persistent drought, an entire community prepares for an inevitable exodus from their homeland in northern Mexico.
- The Ecological Rift
Capitalism's War on the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through the delicate fabric of the biosphere. The economy and the earth are headed for a fateful collision -- if we don’t alter course.
- Ecology and Socialism
Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The current environmental movement is at an impasse, stuck on false panaceas like cap-and-trade, cutting individual consumption (“live other so that others may simply live”), and outright reactionary “solutions' that revolve around some form of population control (as if the number of people on the planet was the problem rather than the nature of the relationship between said people and the planet). Williams does an excellent job debunking these notions with a plethora of factual information and empirical data.
- Enlightening Disillusionments
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Memoirs of an Israeli whom the Zionist dispossession and oppression of the Palestinians turned into a humanist and therefore anti-Zionist.
- False Prophets of Peace
Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Honig-Parnass unearths the central role played by the Israeli Left in laying the foundation for the colonial settler project and its campaign of dispossession.
- The Field of Magic
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Field of Magic is a docu-poem about people living for over two decades in Buda forest near the closed down Kariotiške.s dump, 40 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. A result of four year’s work, the film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers in telling the story of a dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily rhythm, peculiar way of life, every-day joys and sorrows.
- The First Grader
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
About a former Mau Mau soldier who goes to school to learn to read at the age of 84.
- Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis & Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Global Slump analyzes the global financial meltdown as the first systemic crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. It argues that – far from having ended – the crisis has ushered in a whole period of worldwide economic and political turbulence. In developing an account of the crisis as rooted in fundamental features of capitalism, Global Slump challenges the view that its source lies in financial deregulation.
- GMOs, Glyphosate & Tomorrow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Any time you have a single gene in so many different crops, especially a gene that impacts the normal resistance and defense mechanism in the plant, and you spread that same vulnerability across so many plants, you should anticipate a high level of vulnerability.
- The Greater Toronto Workers Assembly: A Hopeful Experiment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
We are living in a kind of transitional era, where the old forms of working class organization and politics are sorely in need of a replacement, and the theoretical and practical bases of those replacements are still in the process of being born. The Greater Toronto Workers Assembly is one attempt to create a working class institution that tries to address this crisis within the class and on the left on the level of a city, in this case, Toronto.
- Guide to Archival Resources for Labour History at York University
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A guide designed to assist the researcher in locating the fonds and collections that can be of value to their research in the different fields of Labour History in York University Archives and Special Collections.
- Harlem is Nowhere
A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Harlem as a race capital has been subject to representational overload. The author's memoir/social history attempts to free the neighbourhood from this burden and reveal its more obscures figures.
- Le Havre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Hell No
Your Right to Dissent in 21st-Century America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In the Age of Terrorism, the United States has become a much more dangerous place—for activists and dissenters, whose rights are all too frequently abridged by the government. A report on government attacks on dissent and protest in the United States, along with a readable and essential guide for activists, teachers, grandmothers, and anyone else who wants to oppose government policies and actions
- How to Start a Revolution
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A documentary on the work and ideas of Gene Sharp, a theorist of non-violent revolution.
- In Bad Faith: What's Wrong with the Opium of the People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- In Defense of Grand Narratives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The postmodernist attack on Marxism conflates the crudities of “Marxism-Leninism” with the thought of Marx himself. Its critique of Enlightenment rationality fails on its own terms, but it also fails to discern Marx’s break with his Enlightenment forebearers. Marx’s goal — the emancipation of the human individual from need and the flowering of “rich individuality” — is not that of rationalism, Hegelianism or classical political economy.
- Injustice: Why social inequality persists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Dorling examines who is most harmed by social injustices and why, and what happens to those who most benefit.
- Inside 15M: 48h with the indignants
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- The Internet's Unholy Marriage to Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The economic context points to the paradox of the Internet as it has developed in a capitalist society. The Internet has been subjected, to a significant extent, to the capital accumulation process, which has a clear logic of its own, inimical to much of the democratic potential of digital communication, and that will be ever more so, going forward. What seemed to be an increasingly open public sphere, removed from the world of commodity exchange, seems to be morphing into a private sphere of increasingly closed, proprietary, even monopolistic markets.
- It Happened on the Way to War
A Marine's Path to Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A Marine's journey from starting a participatory development NGO in the slums of Nairobi to serving five years in the military in Bosnia and Iraq.
- The Jacobin Spirit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Jai Bhim Comrade
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
India’s Dalit (oppressed) castes were abhorred as “untouchables”. The film, shot over 14 years follows the music of protest of Maharashtra's Dalits. In an age of increasing bigotry and superstition, it is both a record of recent history as well as eloquent testimony to a tradition that has survived amongst the subaltern for thousands of years.
- The Kid with a Bike
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Lake Erie Photos
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Photos of Rondeau, Point Pelee, and Long Point.
- Lenin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Let Them Eat Diversity
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Alter Benn Michaels says that “'left neoliberals' are people who don’t understand themselves as neoliberals. They think that their commitments to anti-racism, to anti-sexism, to anti-homophobia constitute a critique of neoliberalism. But if you look at the history of the idea of neoliberalism you can see fairly quickly that neoliberalism arises as a kind of commitment precisely to those things."
- Letter to the Next Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The problem of agency is especially relevant to what remains of the Left today, and it is the part of C. Wright Mills’ Letter to the New Left that is the most problematic.
- Liberty's Exiles
American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A global history of the Loyalist diaspora.
- The Litigators
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Living "Illegal"
The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Lockdown High
When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Schools in the U.S. are increasingly imposed unprecedented restrictions on students' rights, dignity, and educational freedom. In what is being called the school-to-prison pipleline, the police and practices of the juvenile justice system, including so-called "zero tolerance" policies, are pushing students out of schools.
- The lost movie theatres of Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Photo essay.
- Love and Capital
Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A biography of Karl and Jenny Marx.
- The Magic of Reality
How we know what's really true
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Making Forms Perform
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A good form is one that is easy to complete from the user perspective, but not the technical perspective. One area frequently missed during testing is how user-friendly and accessible the form is.
- The Man Who Recorded the World
A Biography of Alan Lomax
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Documentarian of the folk culture of American life,, Lomax was diligent and tireless in preserving the irreplaceable vernacular cultures that have fallen into the past.
- Martov and Zinoviev
Head to head in Halle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A new chapter in understanding the significance of a congress that shaped the 20th century European workers’ movement.
- Miss Representation
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.
- Monsieur Lazhar
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Moral Poverty and the Riots
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Because the right has appropriated the arguments about moral failure, many on the left have rejected moral arguments altogether. The left talks much about the social and economic impact of neoliberal policies. But little about their moral impact. Such willful blindness is dangerous. Morality is as important to the left as it is to the right, though for different reasons. There can be no possibility of a political or economic vision of a different society without a moral vision too. Moral arguments lie at the heart of our understanding of social solidarity, and of the distinction between notions of social solidarity and pious rightwing claims of ‘we’re all in it together’.
- More bad news from Israel
How BBC and ITV report on Israel/Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The authors ask that the media give an accurate account of the perspectives of both sides to the conflict. Presently, both BBC and ITV tend to present the Israeli version of events as fact, while the Palestinians have only ‘claims’ or ‘beliefs’. This is an expanded and updated edition of Bad news from Israel, 2004.
- Moving Beyond Notes on the Back of Business Cards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Business has moved beyond taking lead information on the back of a business card. To be truly successful at your next show give some serious consideration to the technology you will use to record contact information.
- Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same "moral panic," invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called "Ground Zero mosque."
- Nation Maker
Sir John A. Macdonald: His life, Our Times. Volume Two: 1867-1891
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Neither Allah, Nor Master!
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A cinematic exploration of secularism in the Muslim country of Tunisia before and after the deposition of Ben Ali.
- Never Neutral
On Labour History/Radical History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- The Next American Revolution
Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Why revolution is not only possible and necessary, but in some places already in the making.
- No Debate
The Israel Lobby and Free Speech at Canadian Universities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
During 2008-2009, Israel lobby organizations made concerted efforts to block a planned conference on statehood for Israel and Palestine at Toronto's York University. Thompson probes the facts and context of the case and explores the meaning of academic freedom in Canada.
- No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way
Voices from Symphony Way
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Accounts from Symphony Way pavement dwellers, joined together in an anti-eviction campaign, living in shacks insisting that the government provide permanent housing.
- On the day Yafa's refugees return
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A video prepared especially for the exhibition "Towards the Return of Palestinians Refugees" presented at the gallery of Zochrot in September 2011. In the video, filmed in the refugee camp of Balata in Nablus, Yaffa refugees speak of return to the city from which they had been expelled in 1948.
- One Fine Day
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The documentary One Fine Day, shows six people from different cultures and religions who all, through a small nonviolent act, have had a significant and positive influence on society. Director Klaas Bense investigates how frustration can be turned into positive actions. He looks at what one single individual can achieve, and the often severe, personal consequences.
- One Story, One Song
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Organizing Around Transit: At the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
For the older big cities in North America, public transit is critical to their daily functioning. Organizing among workers and riders on public transit has a strategic importance.
- The Origin of Our Species
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An introduction to our knowledge of human evolution.
- A Paperless Exhibit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Within five years trade shows will be completely paperless is a prediction I heard at a recent conference.
- The Power of Nonsense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Slavoj Žižek's diagnosis of late capitalism is of genuine interest. His remedies, however -- dictatorship and terror -- are a disgrace.
- A Primer on Immigrant Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The struggle for immigrant rights is one of the most important struggles of our time, and it occurs under a working-class banner.
- Public relations at a trade show: A little effort goes a long way
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The media is constantly on the look-out for interesting stories, and not just the ones everyone else is covering. So, being big is not the panacea to PR; being prepared with a well thought-out plan is.
- Le Quattro Volte
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Rediscovering Radical History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
This essay studies the early days of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Society (ASSLH).
- Restless Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A collection of narratives and visual art that strive to capture the essence of life in the city. For the author, the urban dweller is a wanderer, a people watcher, a daydreamer attuned by virtue of his life in the metropolis to potentially transformative experiences.
- The Right Place to Exhibit - A Strategic Approach
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Finding the right show is difficult. Don't jump at the first opportunity that knocks on your door. You have lots of choices. Take your time and do your homework. The right show is a blend of audience, cost and logistics. Good event selection is a solid base upon which the rest of your exhibit program is built.
- The Rise of the Tea Party
Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A socio-political analysis of the Tea Party that probes its history, organizational structure, membership, ideological coherence, and relationship to the mass media.
- ROI or ROO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Exhibiting is part of the marketing process and doesn't always lend itself easily to comparing dollars received against dollars spent. Marketing looks at other issues such as branding, generating leads, customer engagement and so on and whether these tasks have been completed successfully determines the success of the marketing exercise.
- Saving Face
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Every year in Pakistan, there are at least 100 people attacked with acid -- the majority women. Many more go unreported. This documentary Saving Face is the story of two survivors of such attacks — their battle for justice and their journey of healing. Saving Face follows their personal stories and that of the nation of Pakistan as it attempts to tackle this vexing social problem.
- Scarlet Road
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Scarlet Road follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specializes in a long over-looked clientele – people with disability.
- The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Stephen Jay Gould was not only a leading paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, he was also a humanist with an enduring interest in the history and philosophy of science. The extraordinary range of Gould’s work was underpinned by a richly nuanced and deeply insightful worldview. Richard York and Brett Clark engage Gould’s science and humanism to illustrate and develop the intellectual power of Gould’s worldview, particularly with regard to the philosophy of science.
- Setting Goals and Objectives That Focus, Motivate and Stimulate your Trade Show Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The trick to getting your trade show program off on the right foot is to spend time well before you take any other steps to decide exactly what you want your exhibit to accomplish and how you will measure your results.
- Sex Before the Sexual Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
On the experience of marriage among the working and middle classes in Britain between the end of the first world war and the early 1960s. It does not cover the experience of gays and lesbians, bisexuals, or heterosexuals who did not marry.
- Shoot the Messenger
WikiLeaks: Journalism or Espionage?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
In setting up WikiLeaks, Julian Assange wanted to bring to light secret agreements between countries. That he succeeded is clear from the number of companies and governments who have tried to shut him down.
- Slavs and Tatars Presents Molla Nasreddin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Molla Nasreddin was an Azerbaijani magazine published from 1906 to 1930 in Azeri, a Turkish dialect. Named after a traditional figure of fun, the text and numerous illustrations lampoon hypocrites of the period in the clergy and the government. It has been reissued by a group of artists called Slavs and Tatars.
- Smoking Typewriters
The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Describes the emergence of an underground press in the 1960s. Writers and participants reflected the spirit of cultural and political protest and encouraged the development of the New Left's highly democratic "movement culture".
- Smoking Typewriters
The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Provides an examination of the underground press in the 1960s; offers new interpretation of the New Left and explores the origins of 'zines and new media.
- So Much Aid, So Little Development
Stories from Pakistan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An explanation of why so much international aid gets "wasted", with a focus on Pakistan.
- Socialist Register 2011
Volume 47: The Crisis This Time
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Someone's Watching You!
From Micropchips in your Underwear to Satellites Monitoring Your Every Move, Find Out Who's Tracking You and What You Can Do about It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An expose and explanation of the little-known secret surveillance programs run by both the public and private sectors, including practical steps on how to keep your private life private.
- Soundbitten
The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Sobieraj argues that activist groups' efforts to get media attention for themselves and their concerns often ends up undermining their capacity to communicate with ordinary people.
- Sources 68
The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons - Summer-Fall 2011
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2011
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Sources (portal for journalists and writers) - Wikipedia article - Russian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Staying Relevant in a Changing World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The trick is to focus your exhibit plans around the question, "What is most relevant to my customers?" If you are not sure then you need to do the research. We are entering a new era where many of the rules and techniques that worked so well in the past are no longer producing results.
- Strategies of Resistance: Challenging the Cultural Disempowerment of Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The article deals with the strategies used to advance women’s rights in the face of culturally justified disempowerment.
- A Strategy for Antiwar Organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
There is a paradox here: The organized antiwar movement’s effectiveness has declined, even while public opinion polls showed that antiwar sentiment among the public as a whole has grown steadily. A movement which declines while opportunities for growth are becoming more favourable is a peculiar one indeed.
- Survivors: The Animals and Plants that Time Has Left Behind
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A naturalist and paleontologist chronicles the biological relics of ancient species that still thrive on our Earth. This is a natural history of evolved species and their ancient cousins that exist today.
- System Change Not Climate Change
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A website with multimedia resources intended to educate and inspire people to take collective action for climate justice.
- 10 City Blocks
Survival Sex Trade in the Downtown East Side
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
For women working the sex trade in Vancouver's notorious downtown east side, a "bad date", has nothing to do with awkward conversation or a lack of chemistry. Living in a world that most of us know little about, six survival sex trade workers share their struggles with addiction, mental and physical health concerns, and the fear of violent assault, through gritty and often shocking, candid interviews.
- To Interpret the World and To Change It
Interview with David McNally
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Published in Socialist Studies, 71/2 (Spring/Fall 2011)
- To the Ends of the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A history of Scotland's diaspora, and a critique of some of the myths that surround it.
- Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
An expose of the environmental and human costs of turning tomatos into an industrial product.
- Tomboy
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A 2011 French drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma.
- Trotskyism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Two helpful bits of data for your exhibition program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
As you are gathering the R.O.I information, it will be helpful to also look at two additional bits of factors: Your success ratio and your sales and buying cycles. Both are intertwined and will help you immensely.
- 2011 Spanish protests
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A series of ongoing demonstrations in Spain.
- Ulli Diemer - Brief Bio - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Una diferente forma de democracia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Under the Red Star (Punatähden alla)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Under the Red Star (a.k.a. Big Finn Hall), is a feature length docu-drama, in Finnish and English, about the vibrant culture and politics at the heart of Canada’s most significant worker’s hall, in Thunder Bay.
- An Unfinished Revolution
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A study of Marx's analysis of the American Civil War as a conflict about slavery, not tarrfifs. Marx saw the north as a bourgeois republic, and the south as expansionist.
- The Unnatural History of the Sea
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A history of the commercial fishery and an update on its precarious and untenable siituation. The age old delusion that the sea is an inexhaustible resource has resulted in a fishing arms race that could spell extinction for some species.
- Urbanized
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
- U.S. Government Assassination Plots
An appendiex to Killing Hope, by William Blum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or planning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the Second World War.
- The Video Activist Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Explains the basic skills and know-how required for those beginning video activism,as well as a wealth of ideas on video strategies to those with some prior experience, and numerous examples of contemporary video activism from around the world.
- 'Vietnam: It's our war too'
The Antiwar movement in Canada: 1963 - 1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
PhD Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 2011
- Website Woes: Are you making these mistakes?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Even the most simple website can be difficult to navigate, and I'm regularly frustrated by sites hosted by major media or large corporations that are annoying for one reason or another.
- What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
- What We Got Away With
Rochdale College and Canadian Art in the Sixties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
MA Thesis, Concordia, 2011
- Where Heaven Meets Hell
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.
- Whose side are you on? The mundane decline of labour history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The following polemical intervention by Humphrey McQueen is published as a contribution to understanding the nature, and practice, of radical history.
- Why We Loved the Zapatistas
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
It would be absurd to admonish the Zapatistas for failing to overcome generations of poverty in a single sweep, but is it too much to ask their privileged supporters abroad to pay more attention to the material conditions in Chiapas and less on the innovative ways they use their laptops to conjure “resistance”?
- Wikipedia: Biographies of living persons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
This page documents an English Wikipedia policy, a widely accepted standard that all editors should normally follow.
Editors must take particular care when adding information about living persons to any Wikipedia page. Such material requires a high degree of sensitivity, and must adhere strictly to all applicable laws in the United States, to this policy, and to Wikipedia's three core content policies:
* Neutral point of view (NPOV)
* Verifiability (V)
* No original research (NOR)
- Work
Capitalism. Economics. Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
About work in capitalist society.
- Working in the Shadows
A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting, and lax government enforcement — while telling the stories of workers forced to live with chronic pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour.
- Writing History: A Professor's Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Yellow Press (auch Regenbogenpresse oder Boulevardjournalismus)
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Your Customer Profile 1
Part 1 - The Value of Creating a Customer Profile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
- Your Customer Profile 2
Part 2 - How to Create a Customer Profile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Do you know your customer? I don't mean whether their name is Antonio or Jessica, but rather, do you understand who they are as people and what motivates them?
- Activist Toolkit (rabble.ca)
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A wiki-style of resources for activists.
- Airport Security, Devastating cuts = Devastating Consequences!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
CATSA budget cuts threaten airport security across Canada says IAM
- Anavex advances second lead compound; initiates scale-up manufacturing of ANAVEX 1-41
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp., (“Anavex”) (OTCBB: AVXL) today announced the initiation of scale-up manufacturing of ANAVEX 1-41, its lead compound for a range of important neurological diseases and a potential back-up compound to ANAVEX 2-73 in Alzheime
- Anavex appoints Dr. Christopher Shackleton as an advisor
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) today announced the appointment of Dr. Christopher Shackleton as an advisor to the Company.
- Anavex presents data on potential dual utility of ANAVEX 2-73 in both amyloid and tau pathology
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) is pleased to provide a summary of the first of two poster presentations at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) held in Paris, entitled “The novel aminotetrahydrofuran deriva
- Anavex raises $1.575 million
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) is pleased to announce that it has raised US$1,575,000.00 through the exercise of warrants. Funds will be used to continue the Phase I clinical trial of ANAVEX 2-73 the company’s lead drug candidate
- Another day of violence against journalists covering protests
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the fact that, although clearly identified, many journalists were attacked by police officers while covering yesterday’s anti-austerity protests and strikes in Athens.
- Another Expansion at Pearson for Machinists!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Machinists continue to add to their membership at Pearson Airport with the addition of 90 security workers known as Ambassadors who assist passengers in the customs and security scrrening areas of the airport
- Appel de candidatures pour le Prix d’excellence dans la fonction de contrôle – secteur public 2012
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
À compter d’aujourd’hui, nous acceptons sur le site www.prixfonctioncontrole.com les mises en candidature pour le Prix d’excellence de la fonction de contrôle – secteur public 2012. Le programme de récompenses
- Article on Monitoring Personal Occupational Exposures to Radon Progeny and Long-Lived Radioactive Dust
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Article on Monitoring Personal Occupational Exposures to Radon Progeny and Long-Lived Radioactive Dust
- As CUSO-VSO turns 50, International volunteering continues to evolve
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
While many Canadians still travel abroad, CUSO-VSO also sends volunteers from developing nations, and recruits from North American diaspora communities and some businesses.
- Athabasca University’s Faculty of Business Bachelor of Commerce – Accounting Major program accredited by Certified Management Accountants of Canada (C
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
ATHABASCA, AB -- (September 13, 2011) – Certified Management Accountants of Canada (CMA Canada), the world leader in shaping strategic management accounting® professionals to lead successful enterprises in the global marketplace has awarded
- ATS Ratifies First Agreement with Machinists!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
First collective agreement for 65 ramp and aircraft grooming workers at Calgary International Airport.
- Be Sun Smart
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Sun Safety information for the summer, to be used in part or whole. It has been estimated that 60% to 70% of the skin cancers could have been prevented by adopting a healthier lifestyle. Information on understanding UV, SPF, UPF and much more.
- Bearskin Machinists Ratify New Deal
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A new five year agreement with Bearskin provides a 7.6% wage increase in the first year of the agreement.
- BOATsmart! urges Canadians to break bad boating habits in advance of long weekend
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
First annual BOATsmart! Awareness Day aims to put a stop to the more than 100 boating fatalities and 6,000 non-fatal injuries that occur each year in Canada by promoting safe, enjoyable and educated boating on Tuesday, May 17, 2011.
- BPW Canada Presents Commendation on Human Trafficking
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Member of Parliament Joy Smith receives Commendation from the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women for her tireless work to combat Human Trafficking.
- BPW Canada Urges the Government of Canada to Maintain the Long-gun Registry
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Professional Women, speak out in support of the long-gun registry. Over the past decade, 71% of spousal homicides involved rifles and shotguns.
- Brain Tumour Survivor Supporting June 4 Spring Sprint
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Life can be demanding and full of surprises at every corner. For Michelle Chang, this clich became reality when she started having double vision in 2008. She did not realize that this single symptom would soon lead to a brain tumour diagnosis.
- Canada Votes: The Ethnic Issue
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Canadian Ethnocultural Council (CEC) is pleased that, in this federal election, all political parties are considering the importance of the ethnocultural population in the election process.
- Canada’s medical radiation technologists launch the Image of Care campaign
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
This week, the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists (CAMRT) and its provincial member associations launch a rebranding initiative that will change the way medical radiation technologists (MRTs) are recognized throughout the medical
- Canada’s only Americas think-tank to wrap up projects and close at end of September | FOCAL mènera à bien ses projets et fermera ses portes fin septem
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
FOCAL, an independent think-tank created by an Act of Cabinet in 1990 to advance Canadian interests in the Americas, will cease operations at the end of September, when all obligations to funders are fulfilled.
- Canadian Boat to Gaza announces the delegates who will be aboard the Tahrir
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Before the end of June, the Canadian ship Tahrir will join the Freedom Flotilla 2
Stay Human, carrying civil society delegates from coast to coast, international partners, and journalists from a range of media organizations.
- Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine Celebrates 31st Convocation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) will honour its 2011 graduating class at the College’s 31st convocation on Friday, May 27, at the University of Toronto's Convocation Hall.
- Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine’s new service provides greater accessibility to aspiring naturopathic doctors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine has joined forces with other accredited naturopathic colleges to offer the first centralized application service for naturopathic medical (ND) school applicants.
- Canadian Health Professionals Support Flotilla 2 and its Mission to Break the Siege of Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Canadian health professionals join with people from across Canada in support of Flotilla II, the fleet of boats carrying over one thousand courageous people aiming to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
- Canadian Mushroom Farmers Donate $60,000 to the Breast Cancer Society of Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Mushrooms Go PINK! Canadian mushroom growers and their employees are justifiably proud of their donation of $61,129 to the Breast Cancer Society of Canada, exceeding their fundraising goal by 150%.
- Canadian Music Week - Media-Marketing & Promotion Panel - Beyond 3.0
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Momentum Media Marketing's Peter Diemer to moderate Canadian Music Week panel.
- Canadian Sugar Institute comments on Statistics Canada Health Report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Sugars consumption among Canadians of all ages is moderate and well below government recommendations.
- canfitpro and YogaFit® join forces to bring yoga training to the Canadian fitness industry
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Canadian Fitness Professionals (canfitpro) is now working with YogaFit® as their preferred Yoga Training Provider. Both companies share a common goal to make yoga accessible to all Canadians in a practical, and user friendly format.
- canfitpro brings its Personal Training and Group Fitness Conference to St. John's, NL
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
canfitpro invites fitness professionals from Atlantic Canada to come experience a full day of hands-on, cutting edge fitness education with St. John's best presenter line-up including Shelly McDonald, Chris McGrath and Jessica Keats with YogaFit®
- canfitpro Consumer Fitness + Wellness Show returns to Toronto with more celebrities and experts!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
canfitpro announces the return of it's Consumer Fitness + Wellness Show in Toronto on August 20, 2011. Fitness celebrities include; Tosca Reno, Richard Simmons, Brad Schoenfeld, Silken Laumann, Dr. Natasha Turner and many more!
- canfitpro hits Vancouver with two days of high quality fitness education
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Fitness professionals have access to the best international presenter line-up that includes featured session presenter Tommy Europe, incredible new education and programming, and a trade show filled with amazing deals.
- canfitpro kicks off 2012 in Montreal with Personal Training, Group Fitness and Aquafitness Conference and Trade Show
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
canfitpro returns to Montreal with over 100 sessions of the newest and most updated fitness education. Fitness professionals have the opportunity to network and learn with hundreds of other like minded individuals who teach and promote fitness.
- Catch 22 - A Voter Powered Campaign to Defeat the Harper Conservatives
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
A national public interest group opposing the Harper government has named 40 ridings across the country where Conservatives won by small margins and could be defeated by strategic voting.
- CCNM Studying Systemic Barriers and Naturopathic Approaches to Health Care in Transgender Population
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Research being conducted by the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) will examine barriers to health care in transgender populations and determine means to improve their experiences with naturopathic medical care.
- CEC Extends Sympathies to the People of Norway
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Canadian Ethnocultural Council extends deepest condolences to the people of Norway. We share in their sorrow at this moment of great loss and grief.
- CEC mourns the loss of Jack Layton
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Canadian Ethnocultural Council, (CEC) its members and supporters are saddened by the passing of the Honourable Jack Layton, Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition and Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada.
- Celebrate World Hypnotism Day with internationally acclaimed hypnotist in Toronto at Open House Gala and Workshop on January 4, 2012
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Debbie Papadakis, BCH, CI, renowned hypnosis expert, teacher and founder of Toronto?s Hypno Healing Institute www.hypno-healing.com invites you to celebrate World Hypnotism Day , January 4, 2012 by joining her at two special events. Global events
- Certified Management Accountants of Canada (CMA Canada) announces the 2011-12 Board of Directors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
MISSISSAUAGA, ON (October 18, 2011) -- CMA Canada is pleased to announce the members of the 2011-12 board and extends a warm welcome to Cassandra Dorrington in her role as chair, and Lorri Lowe in her role as vice chair. The new board was approved at
- CMA Canada accredite le programme de baccalaurat specialis en administration des affaires avec majeure en comptabilit de l'Universit du Nouveau-Br
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
CMA Canada, qui fait figure de chef de file sur la scne internationale en prparant des professionnels de la comptabilit de management stratgique grer des entreprises dans le contexte de la mondialisation, a accrdit pour une priode de cinq a
- CMA Canada and CIPFA announce final call for nominations for the 2011 Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
CMA Canada and CIPFA has announced a final call for nominations for the third annual Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector. The deadline to submit nominations is Friday, February 18, 2011.
- CMA Canada presente le nouveau CMA magazine
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
CMA Canada a procede au nouveau lancement officiel de son magazine. Sous un nouveau nom, celui-ci arbore une allure contemporaine entierement repensee et propose un contenu redactionnel moderne et concurrentiel qui stimule la reflexion.
- CMA Canada recevra un trophe Or dans le cadre des Prix Canada pour lexcellence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
MISSISSAUGA (Ontario), le 19 septembre 2011. – L’Institut national de la qualité décernera un trophée Or à La Société des comptables en management du Canada (CMA Canada) dans le cadre des Prix Canada pour l’excellence. CMA Canada reçoit cette distinc
- CMA Canada reveals the new CMA magazine
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
CMA Canada has re-launched its magazine to include contemporary, competitive and thought-provoking editorial content, a fresh and bold new look, and a new name.
- CMA Canada to receive the Canada Awards for Excellence gold trophy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
MISSISSAUGA, ON -- (September 19, 2011) – CMA Canada has been selected by the National Quality Institute (NQI) as a recipient of the gold trophy within the Canada Awards for Excellence for having fully met NQI’s Quality Criteria, with documented over
- Concussion Law supported by the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Concussion Law supported by the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association
- Conflicted About Conflict?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Conflict isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
- CPCCA report threatens Canadians democratic rights, free speech
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The report by Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-semitism uses the false threat of a growing anti-semitism to justify measures in fact intended to eliminate criticism of Israel but threaten Canadians democratic rights and free speech.
- CPRS Announces Newly Accredited Public Relations Professionals
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
CPRS welcomes 21 accredited members from across Canada in 2010
- CUSO-VSO turning 50 - does international volunteering still work?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
On June 6th, CUSO-VSO turns 50. Since 1961, more than 15,000 CUSO-VSO volunteers have contributed to a world of solutions in more than 70 countries in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific.
- Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 201.
- Dernier appel de candidatures pour le Prix d’excellence dans la fonction de contrôle – secteur public de 2011
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
La Société des comptables en management du Canada (CMA Canada) et le Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) font un dernier appel de candidatures pour le Prix d’excellence dans la fonction de contrôle – secteur public, qui est
- Dignite delegates deported by Israel
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Canadian Boat to Gaza Update. The Freedom Flotilla 2 delegates from the Dignite-Karama have been deported by Israel, including Stephan Corriveau of the Tahrir, who arrived back in Canada Wednesday.
- Dignite on the Last Leg of Voyage to Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Small French ship carrying a message that cannot be silenced.
- Discover the Opportunities in Franchising at The Franchise Show in Vancouver, November 5 & 6, 2011
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Produced by the Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) (www.cfa.ca), The Franchise Show in Vancouver is Western Canada's largest all-franchise show designed to help attendees learn more about franchise opportunities and the franchise industry.
- Dr. Bonner's launch of new book: An Ounce of Prevention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Join us for Dr. Bonner's launch of his new book: "An Ounce of Prevention - Negotiating your way through Damage Control and Crisis Response" May 10th, 2011 5:30 PM - 7:30PM, The Toy Factory, Liberty Village, 43 Hanna Ave., Suite 41, Toronto.
- Dr. Lynette Gillis honoured as a Fellow for lifetime achievement in workplace training and development
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Canadian Society for Training and Development recognies Dr. Lynette Gillis as a Fellow of the society for a lifetime of achievement in workplace training and development.
- Dr. Robert Cantu invited to lecture at the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association Annual National Conference in Banff.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The CATA and its members are committed to raising awareness of the importance of identifying head injury (concussions) and implementing appropriate management and return to play protocols when they do occur so athletes can safely participate in sport
- Dynamic downtown Toronto venue to celebrate one year of arts and culture for peace and justice
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Beit Zatoun ( House of Olive), an art gallery and culture space in downtown Toronto, is celebrating its first anniversary! Already, Beit Zatoun has made its mark on the landscape, having been adopted by Toronto's activist and culture community.
- Easy-to-Prepare Glutenfreeda Gluten-Free Oatmeal Recipe a Hit With Supermarket Guru, Phil Lempert
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Influential and Respected Food Reviewer Rates ‘Instant Oatmeal Variety Pack’ from Glutenfreeda Gluten-Free Foods an 89 out of 100.
- EFJ Alarmed by Restructuring in French, German and British International Public Broadcasters
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Today the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the European group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), expressed its concerns over restructurings and downsizing taking place in major public broadcasters in Europe.
- Egypt: Military police arrest blogger for criticizing armed forces
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that Maikel Nabil Sanad, a blogger and conscientious objector, had been arrested by the military police for allegedly defaming the armed forces in his blog.
- Every workout needs a good BUDDY!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Just like a great workout partner, the Lebert BUDDY SYSTEM™ can keep you working at a higher level of intensity and keep you on your toes!
- Experts urge Canadian leadership to ban nuclear weapons
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Canadian government should join a new international effort to construct a global legal ban on all nuclear weapons, concluded disarmament experts meeting in Ottawa.
- Extradition request for dissident journalist is "illegal and absurd"
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders today denounced as “illegal and absurd” the efforts of the Tajik government to get dissident journalist Dodojon Atovulloev forcefully returned to Tajikistan from his exile in Russia and Germany.
- Fairfield Workers Ratify First Agreement!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Hotel workers ratify first collective agreement.
- Finalists announced for third annual Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
CMA Canada and CIPFA are pleased to announce the selection of finalists for the third annual Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector.
- Finding the G Spot: A Sassy, Sensible, Entertaining Approach to Finance
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Finally, finance has received a much needed makeover! Finding the G Spot is a “keep it simple” approach to finance, with a refreshing short story within each chapter. This book is bold, humorous and sassy.
- Fitness Icon Trish Stratus appearing at the canfitpro Consumer Fitness + Wellnes Show Aug 20th
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Trish Stratus has joined the amazing line-up of fitness experts at the at the biggest and best fitness show in Canada! Trish will appear at the Sweat Equity booth for autographs and photo opportunites and present an interactive Q & A.
- Fitness professionals have access to the best fitness conference in Calgary hosted by canfitpro
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
canfitpro is hosting the largest fitness conference in Calgary, providing all fitness professionals with access to Calgary's best presenter line-up, incredible new programming, and a trade show filled with amazing deals on fitness products.
- Five Tips from BC Learning Leader - View training as an investment, not a cost
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) is recognizing the CEO of Commissionaires BC, Allen Batchelar with a Learning Leader award this week, along with 15 others.
- Freedom of Expression awards go to Ciudad Juárez and Novaya Gazeta blogs
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Ciudad Juárez, en la sombra del narcotráfico, a courageous blog about drug cartel activities, government repression and police corruption in northern Mexico, is the jury choice in the “Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom” category of this year
- Freedom of Expression Day
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada is celebrating the "Freedom of Expression Day" this year, with a weekly exhibition of the member publications of the Ethnic Press of Canada.
- French boat Dignite of the Freedom Flotilla II leaves Greece
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The French boat “Dignite/Karama” (Dignity) left the Greek island Kastellorizo around 8:30PM local time on Saturday July 16, 2011, heading south.
- French journalists released after being held hostage for 18 months
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Reporters Without Borders is delighted by today’s release of French journalists Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier and their Afghan interpreter Reza, who were abducted by a Taliban group on 29 December 2009.
- French judge dismisses French journalist’s complaint against Israeli military
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that a French judge has dismissed French journalist Jacques-Marie Bourget’s complaint against the Israeli authorities because a lack of Israeli cooperation prevented him from pursuing the investigation.
- Give the Gift of Learning this Holiday Season with Teach My!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Little ones can unwrap a world of knowledge with award winning Teach My learning kits.
- Glutenfreeda Foods Kicks Off Celiac Awareness Month, Donating $30,000 in Gluten-Free Foods to Food Banks
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Delicious and Healthy Gluten-Free Foods, Typically Sold to People On a Strict Gluten-Free Diet, to Benefit Anyone in Need in the Greater Omaha Region
- Government neglect and ignorance about climate change
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Academics from universities throughout Canada are demanding immediate, informed and responsible action on climate change. Parliament convenes, following the complete omission during the current election process of any discussion on climate change.
- Green Connections hosts Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party Presents Five-Point Plan for Ontario's Future at Green Connections Meeting.
- Green Globe and Green Key Global Launch Joint Marketing of Apple App
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Green Globe Certification and Green Key Global jointly announce the inclusion of Green Key certified hotels & resorts in the Green Globe App for Apple mobile devices
- Harnessing Critical Mass; How to promote organizational momentum
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Ripe with commonalities, Google, Apple, HP, Facebook, and General Motors have many shared qualities: capitalization in the billions, American ingenuity, the best in their day. And each has made a substantial investment in the area including General
- Have a Safe, Fire-Free Holiday Season
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November 24th – 30th is National Home Fire Safety Week, and Canada Safety Council encourages all Canadians and their families to make fire safety a key component in any holiday plans. Whether it is ensuring the Christmas tree is properly watered
- Honda Ontario Power Dealers Ride Into Toronto Motorcycle Show With More Daily Prizes and Deals
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Honda Ontario Power Dealers kick off a great deal at the Toronto Motorcycle Show on the new Honda 2011 CRB250R and 2011 CBR250RA motorcycles. Meanwhile, a contest drawing 181 valuable prizes, including the grand prize 2011 Honda TRX680F Rincon ATV
- Honduras: Joint appeal for end to persecution of community and opposition media
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The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters for Latin America and Caribbean and Reporters Without Borders appeal again for an end to the hostility toward community and opposition media in Honduras.
- How Sweet It Is
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Beat the winter blahs by hosting a dessert party! These simple tips will ensure you host the soiree of the season and provide a great pick-me-up for you and all your friends.
- How to Engage Followers in Social Media without Selling
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What's wrong with selling through social media? Absolutely nothing, but most followers do not want to be continuously sold to. How do you offer more engagement without the sales pitch? There are many ways to engage and many layers of engagement.
- Human Traffickers and Exploitive Extraterritorial Practices - Focus of Bill C-310
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BPW Canada supports the Private Members Bill C-310 and commends Mrs. Smith on her hard work and tenacity in pursuing this Bill before the House. We urge all citizens to call upon their Parliamentarians to support the Bill.
- IFIC Appears Before House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance: Pre-budget Consultations
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TORONTO – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) appeared today before the House of Commons Standing Committee (the Committee) with respect to the Pre-budget Consultations. Appearing on behalf of IFIC were Debbie Pearl-Weinberg, General Tax
- IFIC Comments on Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations
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TORONTO – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released two submissions related to the draft Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations (the Draft Regulations), which were made pursuant to Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (the Act).
- IFIC Comments on the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)
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TORONTO – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) submitted a comment letter to the United States Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in response to their Notice 2011-34, which was published on April 8, 2011
- IFIC Issues Pre-Budget Recommendations: Achieving Fairness in Taxation and Retirement Funding Options
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TORONTO – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released its recommendations to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (the Committee) in respect of the 2012 budget. IFIC’s pre-budget submission makes three recommendation
- IFIC Releases 2011 Report on the Value of Advice
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TORONTO – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released its second report on the value of advice – The 2011 Value of Advice: Report (the 2011 Report) – that provides additional quantitative evidence on the durable values that advice,
- IFIC Supports the Recommendations Outlined in the Report of the Task Force on Financial Literacy
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Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) President & CEO Joanne De Laurentiis issued a statement today supporting the report of the national Task Force on Financial Literacy – Canadians and Their Money: Building a Brighter Financial Future.
- IFJ Backs Photojournalists' Fight Back against Arbitrary Ban in London
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London based photographers staged a Flashmob outside the city hall in London on World Press Freedom Day to denounce arbitrary restrictions on their work in the city where banning of photography in many public spaces is enforced by private security.
- IFJ Backs Silent March in Colombia to Denounce Threats against Journalists
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today backed the appeal of its affiliate in Colombia, the Federación Colombiana de Periodistas (FECOLPER) for a silent march throughout the country on World Press Freedom Day.
- IFJ Blames Hamas for Political Interference after Take-Over of PJS Office in Gaza
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today accused the Hamas administration in Gaza of attempting to destabilize the leadership of the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS).
- IFJ Condemns Internet Censorship in Jordan
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The International Federation of Journalists today accused the Jordanian government of stifling calls for democratic change after the country's intelligence service disabled a news website & removed a letter to the King demanding political reforms.
- IFJ Demands Pakistan Bring Journalist’s Killers to Justice
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and journalists around the world in condemning in the strongest terms the brutal murder of journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad in Pakistan.
- IFJ Joins Call for Release of Palestinian Journalists Held in Israel
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today joined the call by its affiliate in Palestine, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), and Al Jazeera for the immediate release of journalist Samer Allawy.
- IFJ Joins Condemnation of Mindless Violence against Journalists in Cameroon
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its African group, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), in condemning the brutal attack and subsequent arrests journalists who were covering a demonstration in Cameroon.
- IFJ Marks Fifth Anniversary of Politkovskaya’s Murder with new Russian Database on Attacks on Journalists
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The International Federation of Journalists and its affiliate, the Russian Union of Journalists marked the fifth anniversary of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya with the launch of its ‘Russia – Conflicts in the Media’ database.
- IFJ to Hold 'Journalism in Shadow of Anti-Terror Laws' Conference on Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks in US
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European Group, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) are holding an international conference to mark the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington in 2001.
- IFJ to Hold Regional Meeting in Morocco over Media Reforms in Arab World and Middle East
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is organising in Casablanca, Morocco, from 12 to 14 April a regional meeting to discuss an agenda for media reforms in the Arab World and the Middle East in the wake of recent protests for political c
- IJV Demands That Canada's Mainstream Jewish Groups Condemn Spate of Racist, Anti-Democratic Laws Passed By Israeli Parliament
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IJV says that if Canada's mainstream Jewish organizations really believe in democracy, they will condemn the laws passed recently by the Israeli parliament.
- Il y a des centaines de raisons d’arrêter de fumer… Quelle est la vôtre ?
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La Semaine nationale sans fumée (SNSF) a lieu du 16 au 22 janvier 2011
- Independent Review Of The Exposure Of Workers To Alpha Radiation At Bruce A Restart, Reactor Unit 1 Bruce Power, ON
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The Radiation Safety Institute of Canada has released its final, independent review of the exposure of workers to alpha radiation at Bruce A Restart Reactor Unit 1 at Bruce Power in Ontario, Canada.
- International Acclaim For Books By Hamilton, Ontario Publisher
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The latest release from Bridgeross, Prose To Go: Tales From A Private List, has been hailed by South African reviewer Lois C. Henderson writing in the New York Journal of Books as “a life-enhancing experience.”
- International media does not escape violence unleashed by Mubarak supporters
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Reporters Without Borders unreservedly condemns today’s shocking attacks on BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, Al-Arabiya and ABC News journalists by Mubarak supporters who were reportedly accompanied by plainclothes police.
- Internet assault on investigative journalist
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A far-right wing group in Uruguay has mounted an Internet attack of intimidation on a journalist who specializes in investigations into the crimes of the dictatorship that ran the country between 1973 and 1985.
- iPhone App Revs New Honda Contest Higher With Grand Prize ATV, Gas Cards, Plus 120 Other Prizes
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In their fall promo, Ontario Honda ATV dealers use a new mobile app to promote the grand prize 2011 Honda TRX680F Rincon ATV. Plus the dealers welcome new prize partners, Pioneer Energy and Ontario OUT OF DOORS Magazine.
- Is the Cloud for the Birds?
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If you read the business or technology press, you’ve probably heard about “the cloud”. And if you believe the ad copy, just about any problem can be solved merely by “putting it on the cloud”. Can this really be true? Is the hype even close to real
- Israeli settler destruction of 1000s of trees hits Palestinian olive harvest
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Israeli settlers’ destruction of Palestinian olive trees will reduce this year’s harvest by an estimated USD $500,000 as 7,500 olive trees were destroyed in acts of settler violence, Palestinian and international aid & development organizations say.
- Jail terms upheld for Shiite opposition members, trials of photographers begin
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Reporters Without Borders condemns a special court’s decision in Bahrain on to uphold the prison sentences that were passed on 14 members of the Shiite opposition.
- Jenny Peto speaks at UBC, downtown Vancouver on Palestinian rights, threats to academic freedom
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Jenny Peto, whose Master's thesis was attacked in the Ontario legislature for being anti-semitic, is speaking in Vancouver on Fri. at UBC and Sat. at SFU Harbour Centre on the growing threats to academic freedom around Israel and Palestine.
- Jewish group challenges Harper's knee-jerk support for Israeli government
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The Canadian government should be promoting a resolution to the conflict in Israel and Palestine, based on international law -- not backing Israel with unquestioning support regardless of what it does.
- Jewish group gives Pseudo Parliamentary report failing grade
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Ottawa, Ontario July 7, 2011. Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) today gave the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (CPCCA) an overall failing grade on its long-overdue report.
- Jewish human rights group welcomes democratic upsurge in Egypt
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Independent Jewish Voices Canada views the ongoing uprising of the Egyptian people against the dictatorial regime of President Hosni Mubarak as a positive development for Egypt and the rest of the Middle East.
- Jewish solidarity group condemns attacks on synagogues, school and mosque
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Attacks on all religious and ethnic groups must be condemned.
- Joining a gym won't get you fit. Unless...
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In January many decide to join a gym. But research shows that more than half the people will not make it to swimsuit season. Why? Because their goal was to join a gym, and once they signed up- they met their goal!
- Journalists under physical assault in Egypt
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Supporters of President Hosni Mubarak have begun violently attacking journalists reporting on the streets of Cairo today, a shift in tactics from recent media censorship.
- Journalist’s Murder Underscores Impunity in the Philippines
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in condemning the murder of dwEB-FM radio commentator Romeo Olea in Camarines Sur province on June 13.
- Juggling Social Media: Which ball can you drop?
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At what point did social media take over? Likely, when companies embarked on social media the extent of the commitment was yet unknown. It seems that each year or lately each month, more and more social media activity is layered on, all for a dubious
- Last X-Ray Safety Office (XSO) Course for 2011
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The last X-ray Safety Officer Course for 2011 takes place November 15-17 in Toronto. Details at www.radiationsafety.ca.
- Lauren Potter to speak at the 2011 Canadian Down Syndrome Society Annual
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The Canadian Down Syndrome Society is thrilled to announce that self-advocate Lauren Potter will be a keynote speaker at the 2011 Conference in Vancouver, BC! Lauren Potter plays cheerleader, Becky Jackson, from the hit television show Glee.
- Le Bateau Canadien Pour Gaza Presente Quelques Un-e-s des Delegu-e-s qui Seront a Bord du Tahrir
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D’ici la fin juin, le bateau canadien Tahrir se joindra à la Flottille de la Liberté II - Rester humains. Des délégué-e-s de la société civile provenant de tous les coins du pays, des partenaires internationaux et des journalistes de divers médias
- Le bateau francais Dignite-Al Karama est sorti des eaux grecques
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Le bateau franais Dignite-Al Karama a quitte l'Ile de Kastellorizo en Grece, vers 20h30 heure locale, aujourd'hui 16 juillet 2011, en direction du sud.
- Le blocus de Gaza s’etend jusqu’aux cotes grecques!
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Alors qu’il tente de prendre la mer, le Bateau canadien pour Gaza, le Tahrir, est retenu en Grèce.
- Le Reseau Education-Medias procede au lancement d'un outil aidant les ados a devenir des cybercitoyens avises et en securite
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Le Reseau Education-Medias procede au lancement d'un outil aidant les ados a devenir des cybercitoyens avises et en securite.
- Le Tahrir finira par naviguer
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Nous nous rendrons par mer, par les airs et dans les medias jusqu' ce que cesse le blocus et que la Palestine soit liberee.
- Le Tahrir, le bateau canadien pour Gaza de la Flottille de la liberte II, levera l’ancre aujourd’hui
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Beneficiant du soutien de la societe civile grecque et du public partout au monde, le Tahrir prend la mer aujourd’hui.
- Learn about naturopathic medicine from the interns at the Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic!
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We’re introducing our crop of new interns at a special meet-and-greet information session on Monday, May 9, beginning at 6 p.m. The RSNC team can help the entire family—from newborns to seniors—with acute and chronic conditions.
- Les technologues en radiation medicale du Canada lancent leur campagne : Limagerie au cur de votre sante
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Cette semaine, l’ Association canadienne des technologues en radiation médicale (ACTRM) et ses associations provinciales membres lancent une initiative de renouvellement de leur image de marque qui changera la façon dont les technologues en radiation
- Lloydminster Spring Sprint May 29 Brings Together Brain Tumour Survivors
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Veronica Bailey has traveled a wild emotional and physical journey that has taken her from comfortable retiree to brain tumour survivor and research fundraiser. This Sunday Veronica will participate in the Lloydminster Spring Sprint.
- Local Author Selected to Contribute to Bestselling Series
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Debbie Papadakis, Board Certified Hypnotist & Trainer, Founder of the Toronto based Hypno Healing Institute is featured in the bestselling Adventures In Manifesting series by lska Publishing.
- Machinists Buck Pension Trend!
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Machinists defy national trend and hang on to their defined benefit penasion plan as well as turn away all employer concessionary demands in obtaining new agreement with Arnprior Aerospace.
- Machinists Ink New Deal with Dettson!
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New deal with a new employer - makes all the right moves, creates joint labour relations commitee and reactivates Health and Safety Committee.
- Machinists make Significant Gains at Kal Tire!
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Workers at Kal Tire in Sparwood BC make significant financial gains in new 3-year deal. These workers repair damaged truck tires for the mining industry. The tires valued at $100,000 each can have there lifespan expanded by 20% with these repairs!
- Machinists Ratify First Agreement with Empire Living!
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IAMAW answers concerns of retirement home workers in new contract. Workers wanted seniority provisions when they joined the IAMAW in February 2011. This new agreement delivered on that promise!
- Machinists Ratify New Deal with Hobart!
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Contract language improvements, increased pension contributions by the employer and new weekend shifts highlight this agreement
- Machinists ratify with Bombardier CTM!
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Machinists members sign six year deal with aviation tube maker Bombardier CTM
- Media Awareness Network Launches Tool to Ensure Teens are Safe and Wise Cybercitizens
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Media Awareness Network (MNet) today launched MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students. This engaging interactive resource helps teens develop critical thinking skills that can be applied to their online lives.
- Memory of Much Loved Aunt Motivates Montreal Brain Tumour Researcher
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Dr. Tommy Alain, a McGill brain tumour researcher is doubly motivated to be successful because he lost his Aunt to a brain tumour. On June 4, Dr. Alain is taking this support to Parc Angrignon for the annual Spring Sprint for brain tumour research.
- Monitoring Online Mass: Four Key Areas to Watch
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With the search engine being the modern encyclopedia, you expect to find answers to all your questions in a few short clicks. Presumably there is an answer to every social media question that comes up. This, however, is never the reality.
- Mount Royal University Bachelor of Business Administration – Accounting Major program accredited by Management Accountants of Canada (CMA Canada)
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CALGARY, AB -- (September 14, 2011) – Certified Management Accountants of Canada (CMA Canada), the world leader in shaping strategic management accounting® professionals to lead successful enterprises in the global marketplace has awarded, for a five
- Mount Saint Vincent University Bachelor of Business Administration (Accounting Major) Program accredited by Certified Management Accountants of Canada
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HALIFAX, NS -- (June 22, 2011) – CMA Canada, the world leader in shaping strategic management accounting® professionals to lead successful enterprises in the global marketplace, has awarded for a five-year period the accreditation of the Bachelor ofC
- Mount Saint Vincent University Bachelor of Business Administration (Accounting Major) Program accredited by CMA Canada
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CMA Canada, the world leader in shaping strategic management accounting® professionals to lead successful enterprises in the global marketplace, has awarded for a five-year period the accreditation of the Bachelor of Business Administration (Accounti
- Mushrooms Go PINK for breast cancer
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Canadian mushroom farmers making contribution to the Breast Cancer Society of Canada from every pound of mushrooms sold September 13 to November 15, 2010. Cheque presentation taking place Monday January 17
- National Road Safety Week - Make driving safely your number one priority!
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National Road Safety Week kicks off the 2011 safe summer driving season. Make sure to always take precautions while you are out and about. Keep your eyes on the road and on other road users. Be vigilant of your surroundings at all times.
- NATO attacks on national TV headquarters and installations in Tripoli
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Reporters Without Borders condemns NATO airstrikes on the Tripoli headquarters of the state-owned national TV broadcaster Al-Jamahiriya and two of its installations.
- Naturopathic Medicine Week: Supporting Wellness with Complementary Cancer Care at the Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic
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Learn more about the adjunctive cancer care shift and the RSNC at our special meet-and-greet information session, Meet the New RSNC Interns taking place on Monday, May 9 beginning at 6 p.m.
- Naturopathic Medicine Week: Use naturopathic medicine to help optimize your health as your get older
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The RSNC team can help the entire family—from newborns to seniors—with acute and chronic conditions. Learn more about naturopathic medicine and the RSNC at our special meet-and-greet information session, Meet the New RSNC Interns
- New Classifications and Language Highlight Burrard Deal!
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Two new classifications and two long overdue language changes to disciplinary clauses are the higjhlights of this agreement.
- New Executive elected
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New executive elected for the Canadian Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
- New FlatJacks Chicken Snacks Launch With Contest to Win Cash, iPods, Macs and Other Flat Prizes
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After twice winning Canadian family food awards for their chicken strips, Janes Family Foods introduces FlatJacks with the Jack Be Quick contest and videos about a flat, hard-to-catch chicken.
- New Glutenpro Website has Products that Test for Celiac Disease and Help People Live Gluten Free
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Comprehensive information resource, glutenpro.com launches with new products for people with celiac disease and those on a gluten free diet.
- NGO gains access to Guantanamo documents but double standard still prevails
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Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release of Department of Defence documents on 2 March that shed light on the Bush administration’s policies on the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
- Nominations for the 2012 Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector now open
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Nominations are now being accepted at www.comptrollershipaward.com for the 2012 Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector. In its fourth year, the award program recognizes the success of federal public servants
- Northern bishop to speak at Alexandria-Cornwall parishes, schools Feb. 12-20
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Bishop Reynald Rouleau, O.M.I., of Chuchill-Hudson Bay, to speak at Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall parishes and schools Feb. 12-20, 2011.
- Notice of vacancy for IFJ Deputy General Secretary/EFJ General Secretary
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) are seeking to appoint an IFJ Deputy General Secretary who will also serve as the EFJ General Secretary, based in Brussels.
- Olympic Medalist Cheryl Bernard Joins Brain Tumour Survivors and Family Members in Vancouver this Weekend
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Vancouver Spring Sprint
5km walk and run for walkers, joggers and runners.
Dates: Sunday, May 29, 2011: Check-in: 10:00 a.m. & Start: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Burnaby Lake East, Rowing Pavilion, Burnaby, BC
- Ontario Honda Motorcycle And ATV Dealers Show How to Get Facebook Credits or Music Download in Contest
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The Honda Summer Lovin’ Event, time-limited rebates on motorcycles and ATVs across Canada, gets even more love in Ontario with Facebook Credits, music downloads, and a draw for a Honda VT750 RS motorcycle.
- Organizations Are Made Up of People
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In last month’s newsletter I wrote about the need for specificity in formulating strategy and in planning for its implementation. I pointed out that a key to success is the need to put someone in charge of its implementation.
- Organize Anything Top 10 Organizing Products 2011
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The 2011 Organize Anything Top 10 List has been released! Check out the list of our "must haves" for 2011.
- Ottawa Law Student Honouring Father's Memory by Raising Awareness About Brain Tumours
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An Ottawa law student by day and volunteer by night, Mireille Renaud is determined to turn pain into a purpose. Join Mireille and hundreds of other Ottawa brain tumour patients and supporters on Sunday, June 5 at Andrew Haydon Park for Spring Sprint.
- Our *new* Lebert Fitness Youth Strength and Conditioning DVD is out!
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Lebert Fitness Youth Strength and Conditioning shows educators, personal trainers and phys-ed teachers 3 Strength and Conditioning programs with the EQUALIZER™ and BUDDY SYSTEM™.
- Palestinian Freedom Riders to Board Settler Buses to Jerusalem
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Palestinian activists will attempt to peacefully board segregated Israeli public transportation in the occupied West Bank to travel to East Jerusalem in action reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement's Freedom Rides to the U.S. South.
- Palliative care pioneer Dr. John Seely receives posthumous honour from CCNM
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Palliative care champion Dr. John Seely will receive an honorary doctor of naturopathic medicine diploma from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine at its 31st convocation ceremony on Friday, May 27.
- Payfirma Signs Sutton Group – West Coast Realty
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Vancouver-based merchant account provider Payfirma signs Canada’s largest real estate brokerage to fully integrated payment processing contract.
- Personal Impact International and Civility Experts Worldwide Join Forces through Strategic Alliance
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Kimberly Law, AICI CIP founder of Personal Impact International, announces a partnership with Civility Experts Worldwide, a leader in civility training. Kimberly is the President of the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI), and is
- Prohibition of Polygamy Up-held
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The Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women is pleased to learn that the constitutionality of Canada’s criminal prohibition of polygamy has been upheld by the Supreme Court in Vancouver. In a decision by Chief Justice Robert Bauman the
- Quality Public Services Also Needed in Media, Say IFJ and UNI MEI on World Public Service Day
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Today the International Federation of Journalists and its European group the European Federation of Journalists, together with UNI Global Union Media Entertainment & Arts (UNI-MEI) expressed their joint support to strong public service in media
- rabblepedia
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An encyclopedic-like section containing definitions and descriptions of organizations, people and things related to activism.
- Radiation in The Workplace Podcast
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Radiation in The Workplace Podcast - a joint venture of The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) and the Radiation Safety Institute of Canada
- Radiation Safety In the Workplace Podcast, Part II
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The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS), in collaboration with the Radiation Safety Institute of Canada, has just released Part II of a special two-part mini-series Podcast on radiation in the workplace. In this episode
- Radiation Safety Institute of Canada Announces 2012 Course Dates
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The Radiation Safety Institute of Canada has announced its training schedule for 2012.
- Rally in support of French journalists held hostage for past 18 months
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Reporters Without Borders continues to press for the release of the only journalists currently held hostage anywhere in the world, French TV reporters Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier, who were kidnapped exactly a year and a half ago.
- Rare Brain Tumours Inspire Survivor to Support Community
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Dan Reddick is one of the many Guelph residents supporting May 14th's efforts to raise funds for brain tumour research and patient programs this Saturday morning at the Guelph Arboretum.
- Record-breaking Funds Raised for Brain Tumour Patients across Canada
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An outstanding 5,800 brain tumour patients and their supporters from across Canada have come together and raised a record-breaking $1.5 million for critical brain tumour research and patient programs during the recent Spring Sprint fundraising progra
- Reporters Without Borders opens bureau in Tunis
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Reporters Without Borders opened a bureau in Tunis on 12th October. Its staff will have the job of raising media freedom violations with the Tunisian authorities and helping to build and develop stable, professional and independent media in Tunisia.
- Richard Martin on how to bypass obstacles while keeping a watch on them
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Whenever I’m working on a project, whether one of my own or for a client, I find that obstacles and resistance tend to crop up. It is easy to become distracted by these hindrances to progress. At a minimum they can be minor irritants, but they can al
- Richard Martin says businesses need Corporate Robustness
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I’ve been saying this for years now, but it bears repeating: No one can predict what will happen next. However, the solution isn’t to try to create more certainty, because that doesn’t exist. The only solution is to build what I’m now calling “Corpor
- Roll Call of Loss and Tragedy Continues, Says IFJ Report of Media staff Killed in 2010
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today published the full report of journalists and media staff killed during 2010, saying that 94 media fatalities last year demonstrate the increasing risks facing journalists around the globe.
- Science et innovation, cls d'un monde meilleur : Le piratage des medias dans les economies emergentes
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A l'occasion dun debat d'experts organise au CRDI le 3 juin, trois experts de renommee internationale aborderont les implications du piratage des medias pour l'economie mondiale. Joe Karaganis, le directeur de la publication du rapport Media Piracy
- Seasons UV High Tech Swimwear for Kids Changes Color When the Sun Shines, Warning Parents to Apply Sunscreen
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Seasons UV 50 ++ UPF Solar Guard clothing reacts to sun exposure by changing colors. When white turns to blue parents are reminded it’s time to reapply sunscreen to exposed skin. The hotter the sun gets the darker blue it turns.
- Self-centered Social Media: A Reminder for Organizational Alignment
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A certain percentage of daily time is allotted to “doing” social media. This may mean checking your Facebook Wall to see what your friends are doing, or maybe joining a conversation in a LinkedIn group. Perhaps you are clicking on links from people
- Shadow of 9/11 Attacks Hangs over Journalism, Says IFJ on World Press Freedom Day
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) marks this year's World Press Freedom Day by focusing on the legacy of the terrorist attacks on 11 September in New York and Washington ten years ago.
- Sheep-Shearing Weekend at the Canada Agriculture Museum
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Spring is a special time at the Canada Agriculture Museum, where lambs are born and sheep are shorn. Visit the Museum during the May long weekend, and discover the amazing world of wool!
- Shock and Outrage at Murder of Senior Journalist in Mumbai
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked and outraged at the daylight murder of Jyotirmoy Dey, senior journalist and special investigations editor with the afternoon daily Midday, in the western Indian city of Mumbai.
- Sixteen Business Leaders Recognized for Their Support of Learning in the Workplace
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Many senior business leaders understand that investment in human capital aligned to business goals has a direct impact on the bottom line. CSTD recognizes sixteen senior business leaders as part of Learn@Work Week.
- Small Steps,.Big Changes
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Tackling big projects can be daunting. We've come up with some tips and tricks on how to break a project down and take it one step at a time.
- Social Media Best Bets: Stacking the deck against organizational risk
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With such a broad range of threats to protect against, how might one embed a social media security mindset within an organization?
- Social Media Cleansing: A Closer Look at our Profiles
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Everybody knows Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. Users talk about connecting with family, networking with colleagues, and meeting new contacts. Social media sites allow this to happen, and much more. The question is, do you want them to?
- Social Media Damage Control: Preventing the Viral Crisis
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Social media is a fabulous tool to broadcast the positive, but when others start repeating, re-tweeting, and adding to a negative message, the problem can become a crisis. This crisis can quickly spiral out of control leaving a company's reputation d
- Social Media Migration: The risk of changing venues
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Migrating a social media group from one venue to another, whether it be from a Group to a Page or a completely new platform altogether, risks the possibility of member abandonment. Randall Craig offers tips to make this migration easier.
- Social Media Real Estate: The matter of location
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With so many Social Media sites out there, it may be challenging to know where or how you should you spend your time. It used to be simple, but social media is far more complicated today. How do you know which venues will give you the biggest return?
- Social Media Tactical Tips: Managing Customer Relationships and Experiences
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How does social media help improve sales? It depends how you use it. Randall Craig offer 4 simple tips to improve an organization's customer relationships and experiences using social media.
- Social Media Tug-o-War: Organizational Views that Confuse
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Many organizations look at social media one of two ways: We need to block social media because it destroys productivity, or we need to spend significantly on social media because we need to “join the conversation”. Both views are overly simplistic.
- Social Media: Does the (whole) Company Good
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It is unfortunate that the marketer, advertiser, and PR personnel of the world are typically the "owners" of social media within an organization. The development of relationships is critically important in just about every organizational department,
- Sources Website maintenance and upgrading July 15 - 17
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The Sources website server, hosting www.sources.com and sister websites, including www.sources.ca & www.hotlink.ca, will be undergoing technical upgrades on the weekend of July 15-17. During this time, the website will be down for a period of time.
- Sources welcomes BOATsmart! Canada
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Sources welcomes a new member: BOATsmart! Canada. BOATsmart! Canada promotes the safe, enjoyable and environmentally friendly use of Canada's waterways.
- Sources welcomes canfitpro
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Sources welcomes a new member: canfitpro. canfitpro is the largest provider of education in the Canadian fitness industry.
- Sources welcomes Christian Labour Association of Canada
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Sources welcomes a new member: Christian Labour Association of Canada. CLAC is an independent Canadian labour union representing thousands of workers in a wide range of industry sectors.
- Sources welcomes CSTD
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Sources welcomes CSTD, Canada's professional association representing more than 2,500 workplace learning professionals.
- Sources welcomes Dollars & Sense
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Sources welcomes a new member: Dollars & Sense. Jenn Killins is a financial planning expert; speaker and media personality. She focuses on the key principles of Financial Planning, summed up by Goals, Dreams, Needs & Wants.
- Sources welcomes Lakehead University
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Sources welcomes a new member: Lakehead University. Lakehead University is one of Canada's comprehensive medium-sized universities.
- Sources welcomes Lebert Fitness
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Sources welcomes a new member: Lebert Fitness. Lebert Fitness Inc. a Canadian company and global leader in the development of innovative fitness and bodyweight training tools.
- Sources welcomes Novus Health
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Sources welcomes a new member: Novus Health. Novus Health provides members with the trusted health information they need to make informed health decisions, empowering them to better navigate Canada's complex health care system.
- Sources welcomes OrangeWebsite
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Sources welcomes a new member: OrangeWebsite. OrangeWebsite is an Icelandic web hosting service provider. Most of our clients are foreign journalists, bloggers, leakers and publishers.
- Sources welcomes Payfirma Corporation
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Sources welcomes a new member: Payfirma Corporation. Payfirma is an independent Canadian provider of electronic and mobile payment acceptance and financial technology solutions.
- Sources welcomes The Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women
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Sources welcomes a new member: The Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women. BPW Canada is a non-sectarian, non-profit and non-partisan women's organization.
- Sources welcomes United Nurses of Alberta
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Sources welcomes a new member: United Nurses of Alberta. UNA is the union of over 20,000 Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses and Mental Health Workers in Alberta.
- Sources welcomes World Vision Canada
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Sources welcomes a new memer: World Vision Canada. World Vision is a relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.
- Sources welcomes Yonge Street Mission
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Sources welcomes a new member: Yonge Street Mission. Toronto's Yonge Street Mission has worked with people living with poverty for more than 115 years.
- Stop Predicting, Start Experimenting
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It’s becoming more and more obvious to me that the real secret of success isn’t in making accurate predictions then acting on them. Instead, it’s in experimenting with various approaches and reinforcing those that seem to be working.
- Strategy Requires Specificity
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Strategy always gains from specificity. It’s even more important to be specific when planning and conducting the implementation of the strategy. A key role of the strategic leader is to move from general assertions to specific expressions of intent
- Substantial setback for press freedom in Egypt
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A new requirement by the Egyptian military that local print media obtain approval for all mentions of the armed forces before publication is the single worst setback for press freedom in Egypt since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.
- Sudbury Family Raising Funds for Brain Tumour Research in Honour of Lost Husband, Father and Community Leader
Sources News Release
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Join Sudbury brain tumour survivors and their families at this weekend's Spring Sprint at College Boreal. Together, they will walk, run and sprint in support of brain tumour research and patient programs at 11am, Sunday, June 12.
- Sun, Helmet and Eye Safety Tips to Help Parents Keep Their Kids Safe This Summer
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Seasons UV 50 ++ UPF Solar Guard Clothing, Real Kids Shades and Tail Wags Helmet Covers offer ideas and products to help make summer play safe.
- SURVEY FINDS ONTARIO PATIENTS SAY NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE REDUCES USE OF PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS AND EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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A new survey commissioned by the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine reveals that almost half of Ontarians treated by naturopathic doctors report naturopathic medicine has helped reduce their use of prescription drugs.
- Talk of the Town: Strategic Buzz Marketing Techniques
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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When we hear the buzz of current topics and conversations, we do not think of it as marketing, we consider the topic noteworthy and continue the conversation. We never know how much professional help from marketers it got along the way.
- Teach My Baby & Dads Boost Baby Brain Development
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First Published: 2011
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With Father’s Day around the corner, research shows dads can facilitate early learning.
- Teach My Baby - Tired of Coochy, Coochy, Coo - Try Reading To Your Baby!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Wondering if you should read to your young baby? Think your little one is too young to understand the concepts?
- Teach My Baby® - The Smart Baby Shower Gift - Give The Gift Of Learning!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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With baby shower season around the corner, friends & relatives will look for a baby shower gift with meaning. Why not give the gift of learning with the Teach My Baby All-In-One Learning Kit for babies 6-18 months.
- Teach My Baby® - The Smart Baby Shower Gift - Give The Gift Of Learning!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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With baby shower season around the corner, friends & relatives will look for a baby shower gift with meaning. Why not give the gift of learning with the Teach My Baby All-In-One Learning Kit for babies 6-18 months.
- Teach My Celebrates ‘Screen-Free’ Week April 18-24
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Children are spending too much time with screens—and it's not good for them. For this reason, Teach My is pleased to recognize Screen-Free Week!
- Teach My Learning Kits & Boy Talk!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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All little ones benefit from building strong communication skills but research shows that boys get the biggest boost!
- Teach My Learning Kits - Let's Talk Numbers!
Sources News Release
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Research Shows Preschoolers Benefit From Number Talk At Home!
- Teach My Preschooler - Finalist in Red Tricycle's Most Awesome Preschooler Must Haves Contest!
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First Published: 2011
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After 20,000 nominations were cast by moms and dads over a 4 week period, Teach My Preschooler, the award winning all-in-one learning kit from Teach My is a finalist in Red Tricycle's Must Haves Contest!
- Teach My Preschooler New All-In-One Kit Makes Home Preschooling A Snap!
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Get Ready To Read, Write, Count to 100, Add & Subtract, All In One Kit! Teach My Preschooler is the newest all-in-one learning kit from Teach My. With long wait lists and tightened budgets, many parents will choose to home preschool this year.
- Teach My Preschooler Observes International Literacy Day, Sept 8, 2011
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Teach My Preschooler is pleased to observe International Literacy day and help raise awareness for a very serious issue.
- Teach My Toddler – Pretend Play & Rainy Days!
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First Published: 2011
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Stuck inside on a rainy day with your toddler? Introduce some pretend play! According to Scholastic.com, young children learn from imagining and doing. The Teach My Toddler Learning Kit has all of the tools to ‘play school’.
- Teach My, Award Winning Learning Announces New Products!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Sections and Add-Ons by Teach My let customers create their learning experience!
- Teach Your Baby Using Real Photos!
Sources News Release
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It is easier for babies to learn about real objects from photographs than from illustrations.
- The blockade of Gaza reaches the shores of Greece!
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As it attempts to sail, the Canadian Boat to Gaza, the Tahrir, blockaded in Greece. Greek coast guard are now on board the Tahrir attempting to arrest Sandra Ruch, Jewish Canadian member of the Canada boat to Gaza Steering Committee.
- The Canadian Athletic Therapists Association (CATA) and KineMedics are proud to announce that June is National Athletic Therapy Month (NATM)
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Throughout the month of June the CATA is committed to raising public awareness on the prevention and management of head injuries (concussions) in sport. The CATA and its members are skilled in identifying head injury (concussions) and implementing ap
- The Canadian Boat to Gaza (CBG), the Tahrir, to set sail today as part of Freedom Flotilla II
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With the support of Greek civil society and people from all around the world the Tahrir is casting off from Greece today.
- The Canadian Ethnocultural Council receives government funding for a project on diabetes in high-risk ethnic communities.
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The Canadian Ethnocultural Council, (CEC), is pleased to announce it that it has received funds for a two-year project on "Early Detection of Diabetes in High-Risk Immigrant Ethnic Communities".
- The Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) Welcomes Five New Members to the College of Fellows
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The Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) is pleased to announce five new members to the College of Fellows.
- The CATSA Cuts – They Save Money While We Save Lives!
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First Published: 2011
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Canadian Air Transport Security Agency cuts service provider funding resulting in the layoff od 126 air port screeners in Vancouver BC. Passenger Security is at risak, worker fatigue greatly increased.
- The Cost of 'free' Social Media
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First Published: 2011
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We all enjoy the free photo sharing, free newfound friends, free professional connections, and free social gaming that social media offers us. But there is a price to pay for everything and this 'free'dom comes with a cost.
- The Franchise Show Returns to Toronto on October 22 & 23, 2011
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The Franchise Show, produced by the Canadian Franchise Association, is Canada's largest all-franchise show and runs October 22 & 23, 2011 at the Toronto Congress Centre.
- The Law of Subtraction
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Seven easy steps to make more time in your life.
- The Social Media Engagement Index
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Every organization – and individual – can find themselves somewhere on the three-tier Social Media Engagement Index. Identifying where you are may point out the good – and bad – habits, and may more easily define your presence. Where are you?
- The Tahrir Will Sail Again
Sources News Release
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We will keep coming by sea, by air, by land and in the media until the blockade collapses and Palestine is free.
- Think Inside the Box
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Moving house can be a stressful and exhausting process. Follow these six easy steps to relieve some of the stress of the big day.
- Three Tips to Keep Your Followers Engaged
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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It can be a frustrating experience to have read a blog post or listened to a presentation, only to find that you are unable recall what was written or said. This can be even more frustrating if you are the one who wrote it.
- Three Top Tips for Improving Social Media ROI
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First Published: 2011
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When looking at their corporate social media initiatives, many senior executives wonder why there isn’t a better return on their investment. Is there a special ingredient that can guarantee to improve any social media campaign? Yes there is – sort of
- Time for Action to Free Hostage Journalists in Afghanistan after 500 Days of Captivity, Says IFJ
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European group the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today joined events marking the 500 days of captivity of two French journalists, Hervé Guesquières and Stéphane Taponier.
- Top 10 Tips on How to Get Found in a 'Social' World
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First Published: 2011
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They say that seven points of contact are needed to make a sale. These touch points can be anything: a commercial, email, telephone call, brochure and so on. But how do you build these points of contact? In a world where customers do not want to be
- Top Twitter Tactics to Leverage your Job Search
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Searching for your next role? More and more social media is being used to post job vacancies, source candidates, and screen prospective recruits. These strategies are all well and good on the side of the corporation, but what about on the side
- Torkin Manes’ Associates Take to the Streets to Help the Homeless
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From May 29 to June 2, the associates of Torkin Manes LLP are delivering food and clothing to homeless people throughout the city from 6:00 pm to midnight through the Canadian Jewish humanitarian and relief organization Ve’ahavta.
- Toronto District School Board “twinning” with injustice, says Jewish group
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First Published: 2011
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Jewish solidarity group asks Toronto School Board to reconsider its links to joint project with the Jewish National Fund.
- Toronto Web Firm, Soft Gravity Uses Its Own Software Development To Launch Its Site Faster
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Nearly 1½ years after opening, Toronto website and software development specialists, Soft Gravity use their timesaving new technology to build their own site.
- Trial of Irina Khalip begins in Belarus
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for the Belarusian government to drop all charges against Irina Khalip, the Minsk-based correspondent for the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, who has been imprisoned since December.
- 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal
Wikipedia article
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The 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal (also known as the Robocall scandal, Robogate, or RoboCon) is a political scandal stemming from events during the 2011 Canadian federal election. It involved robocalls and real-person calls that were designed to result in voter suppression.
- Uganda: Ten reporters injured by security forces while covering opposition leader’s return
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At least 10 Ugandan and foreign journalists were physically attacked by soldiers yesterday while covering opposition leader Kizza Besigye’s return to Uganda from Kenya.
- University of Prince Edward Island Bachelor of Business Administration (Specialization in Accounting) accredited by CMA Canada
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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CMA Canada, the world leader in shaping strategic management accounting® professionals to lead successful enterprises in the global marketplace, has awarded for a five-year period the accreditation of the Bachelor of Business Administration (Speciali
- Vancouver Image & Etiquette Expert joins Stephen M. R. Covey, Brian Tracy & Tom Hopkins in New Book!
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Success experts Stephen M. R. Covey, Brian Tracy, Tom Hopkins and Kimberly Law along with other industry leaders share their secrets for success in Bushido Business, just launched. Vancouver Image Expert, Kimberly Law has already had great feedback
- Vancouver Image-Maker at the Helm of International Association
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First Published: 2011
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Kimberly Law, AICI CIP, Vancouver Image and Etiquette Advisor takes the helm as President of The Association of Image Consultants International (AICI), the largest industry Association for Image & Etiquette Consultants in the world.
- Wasting your time on social media: Four rules for social media ROI
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Using social media as a corporate tool can yield some excellent results, but too many businesses waste time doing activities that yield very little results. Randall Craig defines four guidelines that make for a more productive social media investment
- What a Difference a Year Makes: Young Woman Faces Battle with Brain Tumours Head On
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Erin Voss, her family and friends are supporting this weekend's Spring Sprint in support of brain tumour research and patient programs. Join them on Sunday at Waterloo Park, Westmount Road Entrance at 9:00 am.
- Who has your back on the road this winter?
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
December 1st to 7th is the 56th National Safe Driving Week and the Canada Safety Council encourages all Canadian drivers to take added precautions on the road throughout the winter months. Being prepared is the best way to ensure for safe winter driv
- Who wouldn't "like" to get something in return?
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Everyone has heard of 'give to get' and most people use this phrase in their networking. Forwarding leads and prospects is just one way of doing this. This theory works in the world of social media as well.
- Will Facebook take over the world?
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First Published: 2011
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Perceived as a time-waster and on-line haunt for teens and twenty-somethings, the reality is that it has grown well beyond the original confines of social networking. And when it busts out of its walled garden completely, it will have profound implic
- Windsor Family Raising Funds and Awareness about Pediatric Brain Tumours
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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Join Windsor parents Karen Metcalfe and Brett Lumley along with their daughter McKenna, a brain tumour survivor at the June 4th Spring Sprint at Riverside Sportsman Club.
- Winners announced
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First Published: 2011
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National winners of Legion's Essay, Poetry and Poster Contests.
- Winnipeg Athlete Overcomes Brain Tumour and Dedicates Time to Finding a Cure
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Life-long Winnipegger and one time golf pro Scott Chudley has added more to his already full plate: coordinator for the June 5 Spring Sprint. He has good reason for this added committment, he is one of the 55,000 Canadians affected by a brain tumour.
- With Supercross Coming to Toronto March 26, Only Honda Ontario Power Dealers Are Selling Discounted Tickets
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
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AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, Exclusively Partners with Honda Ontario Power Dealers, Who Offer up to 30% Savings on Supercross Toronto Seats.
- Workplace Conflict Expert interviewed for CBC series on Workplace Harassment
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Ruth Sirman, Mediator and Workplace Conflict Expert is interviewed by Julie Ireton along with others for this investigative CBC Series about the apparently escalating incidence of harassment in the Canadian Federal Government.
- Workplace Radiation Safety Presentation
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
The Radiation Safety Institute of Canada, will be making a presentation today, November 1st, via videoconference on "Workplace Radiation Safety" for the District 3 Occupational Health and Safety group meeting in Vancouver.
- Worm Harvest Party
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Ever been to a Worm Harvest Party? Want to learn more about how worms will help solve our current garbage crisis? Worms are nature’s original recyclers. Red Wigglers are going to play an ever-increasing role in waste management and soil production.
- Worms provide answer to current garbage woes
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Earth Day is around the corner. Want to learn more about how worms will help solve our garbage crisis? Worms are nature’s original recyclers. Red Wiggler worms are going to play an ever-increasing role in waste management and soil production.
- Young Hockey Player Inspires Community to Support Brain Tumour Research
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
Thirteen year old Michael Rumsby and his family are just some of the many people supporting May 14th's efforts to raise funds for brain tumour research and patient programs this Saturday at 10:00 am at Dalhousie University's Wickwire Soccer Field.
- ZeitagTO
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2011
Published: 2011
When you’re out and about in a city, do you ever wonder what it looked like forty, fifty, a hundred years ago? Zeitag TO pinpoints where you are on an interactive city map of Toronto and displays historical photographs nearby. In the downtown core, where photographs exist close together, you can create your own walking tour of the past. Farther afield, on the Toronto Islands or out beyond the first subway line, images show a way of life now completely gone. The first in a planned series of apps for sites around the world, Zeitag TO includes more than five hundred photographs of the city dating from the nineteenth century to the 1980s. Each is shown with the date and street.
- Did You See the Gorilla? An Interview with Psychologist Daniel Simons
How our intuitions lead us astray
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
If you've spent any time on YouTube over the last few years, you've likely seen the video of the invisible gorilla experiment. The researchers who conducted that study, Dan Simons and Chris Chabris, didn't realize that they were about to create an instant classic -- a psychology study mentioned alongside the greats, and known well outside the slim confines of psych wonks.
- Super Salad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Overheard in a coffee shop.
- S0urces Twitter
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2017
Sources.com, the place to find experts & sources. Reach the media with your message, send out news releases, publicize events, raise your profile, spotlight your expertise, get publicity. Follow @S0urces.
- Vote as the Class You Are, Not the Race You Aren't
Scott, Frank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Many upper middle-professional class members of society who truly wish for a more just nation are either helpless to, totally incapable of, or have little desire to confront real power or create social transformation beyond electing one or another member of their class to represent their interests on the board, the council, the congress or at the White House. And that class includes more multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-racial and gender fluid people than ever before. Hooray?
- Grassroots media relations
A short introduction to media relations strategies for activist groups
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
Published: 2017
A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
- Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2016
Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
- Americans talk about love: How we chose an open marriage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Bowe presents an American couple's conversation revealing their history of polyamory.
- The Problem of the Democratic Opposition Organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2014
The basis for this proposal is an attempt to address the classic dilemma of the broad democratic opposition. In summary it is the need for a competent professional cadre to implement the changes needed, combined with the maintenance of a democratic and effective membership control of this 'elite'.
- More Than Wordle... Ten Other Word Cloud Generators ... Providing Unique Features
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Fatal Assistance
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
Published: 2012
Documentary of the failures of aid to post-earthquake Haiti.
- Hands on the Freedom Plow
Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2012
A collection of personal stories of women working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
- Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2012
Investigative reportage on how private interests and lobbies in America use hired gun scientists to spread doubt and misinformation. The media's binary understanding of balanced repoting has given these individuals a soapbox and allowed the public to believe there are divisions in the mainstream scientific opinion on global warming where none exist.
- Connexions Archive Case Statement
In search of a new home for the Connexions Archive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Working together to secure a future for the past
- The War on Unhappiness
Goodbye Freud, hello positive thinking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A report on the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in Anaheim, California.
- Ex-UPEI prof avoids jail on child endangerment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
Published: 2011
A documentary film on the life and times of folk singer-songwriter Phil Ochs.
- Talking to the Enemy
Faith, Brotherhood and the (Un)making of Terrorists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2011
An anthropologiest explores the social ties and values of terrorists, studying militancy from a social science point of view. He uncovers that terrorists become radicalized through their social networks, the author dubs these group dynamics "organized anarchy".
- Why Boycott Aroma?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2011
Our boycott call is part of a larger movement by Palestinian civil society to find non-violent means to end the occupation and apartheid.
- Cheap clothing proves far too dear
The death of workers in Bangladesh are just the latest tragedy that springs from the west's addiction to fashion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
In Bangladesh one hundred workers died in a garment fire, a common occurence plaguing a workforce that already has the distinction of being the "most poorly paid in the world". The author investigates the market forces that drive the terrible conditions and compensation for workers in this export industry.
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2010
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Framing the Sixties
Corporate Media Shadows and the 1960s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
What Really Happened to the 1960s is a look at the role the media played in the presentation and interpretation of the struggles of the 1960s. Simultaneously, it is a consideration of the meaning of democracy in a society where the media is owned by corporations and elites who consider democracy antithetic to their hegemony.
- Sources News Release Archive 2010
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
News releases from 2010.
- Obama and the Boy in the Metal Box
The Incarceration of John Walker Lindh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Clemency for John Walker Lindh would open up to public scrutiny an outrageous injustice that high officials in the Bush administration deliberately perpetrated on an American citizen after the 9/11 attacks. It would expose how they covered up their illegalities by betraying the legal professionalism of the Justice Department and by imprisoning their victim behind prison walls for half his life.
- The Absurdity of Hi-Tech Servitude
What You Sacrifice to Hold a Job in the New Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
In terms of "jobs," war is evidently a burgeoning growth-industry. Back in the "Homeland," the demands of "internal-security" offer new openings for countless other "surplus-persons" in need of some "employment"—as law-enforcement and anti-terrorism personnel, prison guards—or prison inmates.
- A Marxist History of the World part 25: Chinese History's Revolving Door
Door
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner examines China's imperial history, where for two millennia political revolution did not lead to social transformation, but simply to the replacement of one dynasty by another.
- The Techno-Fantasies of Evo Morales
The Consequences of Modernization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
There are two different Evo Morales: the one who makes international eco-proclamations and the one, at home, who is pushing dams, uranium excavation, cell towers, and mega-highways.
- Capital's War on the People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
It is time to change the parameters of the debate, from “when or by how much social spending should be cut?” to “why should the people pay for something they are not responsible for?”
- IFJ Condemns Closure of Al Jazeera in Kuwait
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today accused Kuwaiti authorities of intimidating the media after they closed down Al Jazeera's office in the county on Monday.
- IFJ Condemns ‘Shocking' Violence on Journalists in Belarus
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today accused authorities in Belarus of "violent bullying and intimidation" of journalists covering a peaceful protest in central Minsk yesterday.
- Journalist Abdolreza Tajik, 2010 press freedom prize winner, is freed from prison
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders today welcomed the release on bail last evening of journalist Abdolreza Tajik, winner of the organisation’s 2010 press freedom award, after his family put up bail for a third time.
- Mining Peru
Canada's New Territory?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
In Peru, 40 percent of conflicts involving local communities are over mining. The majority of the mining sector in Peru is owned by Canadian corporations.
- New version of Reporters Without Borders Chinese-language website goes online
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders is today launching a new version of its Chinese-language website www.rsf-chinese.org in order to provide better information to Chinese-speakers.
- Obama's Liberty Problem
Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order will threaten the liberty of every single US citizen who is not in Guantanamo because it will damage the due process guarantees which have built up over the years to protect each one of us.
- Reporters Without Borders to host WikiLeaks mirror site
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders has opened a mirror website for the US diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks. Its address will be wikileaks.rsf.org.
- United Nations urged to insist on respect for media freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders urges the UN Human Rights Council and other international bodies to pay close attention to the press freedom situation in Côte d’Ivoire.
- Australia Rejects Israeli-Ordered Media Censorship
A Little Justice for Al Manar TV
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Australia rejects politically motivated censorship attempts.
- CanMediate International Gives Free Course as Fundraiser for United Way
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
CanMediate International is hosting its popular, interactive session Discover Your RQ™: Your "Relationship and Resolution Quotient™" in Kanata, Ontario on Thursday, January 6th, 2010, at The Country Inn and Suites. This event is being offered free of charge.
- PFC Bradley Manning, Patriot
Why Manning was Within His Rights to Give Secrets to Wikileaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Predicting Torture
The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Bradley Manning is charged with leaking classified documents to Wikileaks and faces a court martial. The conditions of his confinement are extreme, and amount to torture.
- Eight Gifts That Don't Clutter
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Wondering what to give someone who doesn't have a lot of space to store large gifts? These eight gift ideas are fun and easy to give, and are a personal way to spread holiday cheer this Christmas.
- Insisting on Humanity
The Plight of the Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
It is important that we preserve the distinction between the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian people, who have held on to their rights for so many years, and unleashed two of the greatest expressions of people's power and resolve: the First Uprising of 1987 and al-Aqsa Intifada of 2000. A whole population taking on the self-celebrated "greatest army in the Middle East" is hardly "powerless". The Palestinian people have printed themselves on the practical discourse of this conflict, and they have proved themselves to be powerful players in determining their own fate.
- The World: A Beginner's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A comparative/historical sociological review of the world.
- Free Trade is a Christmas Grinch!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The IAM says NAFTA is a joke after Electrolux annoucies it will move its Montreal plant to
Tennessee because of $632 million in incentives plus free land for a new plant!
- Sources welcomes The Arthritis Society
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: The Arthritis Society. The Arthritis Society is the primary source of information and education for people living with arthritis in Canada.
- Keep Your White Christmas Green
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Helpful hints to make sure that your gift to the planet this holiday season, is a green one! Fun and creative ways to cut down on your waste this Christmas.
- A Marxist History of the World part 24: Hindus, Buddhists, and the Gupta Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
More than half a millennium separated the fall of India’s Mauryan Empire in the late 3rd century BCE (before the common era) from the rise of the Gupta Empire in the early 4th century CE (common era). Economic and social change during the interval altered the foundations of imperialism.
- The sex work debate - a response to Jess Edwards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Contribution to the debate on sex work which has been taking place in the International Socialism journal.
- Cotton-pickin trade
US and European growers receive government subsidies while farmers in Mali struggle to survive on 300$ a year
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Inequity in the global tradiing system of cotton means that farmers in West Africa struggle to survive. International prices have been driven down by subsidies and disproportionately disadvantage the poorest producers. The author inteviews these farmers and investigates the benefits of fair trade cotton in West Africa to the producers and their communities.
- Ignorance and Courage in the Age of Lady Gaga
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
It can be safely said that cultural ignorance consists of the rational, sensible questions that never get asked. But it also includes the weird ones that are. For instance, one of the questions asked regarding tasering school kids is: What is the allowable weight range of a child to be tased? (Taser manufacturers say 60 pounds.) Somehow, by this geezer’s prehistoric reasoning, that sounds like the wrong question.
- Rabbis say 'no housing for Arabs'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Hundreds of Israeli rabbis have signed a religious edict forbidding Jews from renting or selling homes to Arabs.
- Signs of Change
Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Drawn from an exhibition at Exit Art, a cultural center in New York City, Signs of Change is a visual archive of more than 350 posters, prints, photographs, films, videos, music, and ephemera from more than twenty-five nations.
- Unacceptable police violence against journalists covering demonstrations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Greek authorities to publicly condemn cases of police violence against journalists during the demonstrations of the past few weeks and to give the police clear instructions not to use violence against media.
- Restrictions on China Jailed Nobel Laureate and Supporters Must Cease
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for China's authorities to lift blanket bans and restrictions around imprisoned human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and his supporters.
- Sources welcomes Cathy's Crawly Composters
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Cathy's Crawly Composters.
- Sources welcomes the Canadian Ethnocultural Council
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Ethnocultural Council. This non-profit, non-partisan coalition of national ethnocultural umbrella organizations represents a cross-section of groups across Canada.
- Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom.
- Call for UK judicial impartiality after Julian Assange’s arrest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Following WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest by the British police today, Reporters Without Borders urge respect for his defence rights despite the extreme tension surrounding this case.
- IFJ Condemns United States "Desperate and Dangerous" Backlash over WikiLeaks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the political backlash being mounted against the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and accused the United States of attacking free speech after it put pressure on the website's host.
- Information Terrorists?
The Vile Campaign Against Julian Assange and Wikileaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
WikiLeaks is under concerted attack from the US government. Also under attack by the US government is the whole idea of freedom of thought and of information. It needs to be clearly understood that the attacks on WikiLeaks by the US government could as easily be used against news organizations and political organizations.
- Truth in Chains
The Arrest of Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Tell a truth that discomforts power, that challenges its domination over our lives, our discourse, our very thoughts, and you will be destroyed. No institution, public or private, will stand with you; the most powerful entities, public and private, will be arrayed against you, backed up by overwhelming violent force. This is where we are now. This is what we are now.
- WAZ-IFJ Prize for Courage in Journalism Goes to a Team of Hungarian Authors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The WAZ Media Group and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) will present the team of Hungarian authors József Gelei (50) and László Murányi (54) the "WAZ-IFJ Prize for Courage in Journalism 2010".
- WikiLeaks appeals for help as attacks are stepped up
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
As the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks comes under mounting cyber-attacks and as hosting companies continue to withdraw their services, it is appealing to its supporters around the world to create mirror sites.
- The WikiLeaks wake up call
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Will a backlash against the WikiLeaks phenomenon have significant implications for the future of the Internet?
- New Student Journalism Award for Excellence in Lung Cancer Reporting
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Canadian Lung Association and Lung Cancer Canada, in partnership with the Global Lung Cancer Coalition (GLCC), are launching the first Canadian Lung Cancer Student Journalism Award to recognize excellence in student reporting on lung cancer.
- Extremism goes mainstream
Across Europe far-right parties are gaining power by forming coalitions while liberals have failed to find a coherent response
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Right wing extremist parties that attempt to stir up racial and ethnic prejudices have been gaining support during the recession in Europe. In Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy liberals already form coalition governments with such parties. Both centre right and centre left political leaders across Europe are coming together to form a coherent response.
- From Wikileaks to TSA
Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
We have to remind the American people of what they once knew but seem to have forgotten: that they don't want BIG government, or SMALL government; they don't want MORE government, or LESS government; they want government ON THEIR SIDE.
- Bright Frenetic Mills
Easy Chair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Chronicling the decline of the print media industry and the rise of market driven online content mills, the author speculates about professional standards in journalism and how they might have a hope of being upheld.
- Organizing with Love: Lessons from the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Great organizing campaigns are like great love affairs. You begin to see life through a different lens. You change in unexpected ways. You lose sleep, but you also feel boundless energy. You develop new relationships and new interests. Your skin becomes more open to the world around you. Life feels different, and it’s almost like you’ve been reborn. And, most importantly, you begin to feel things that you previously couldn’t have even imagined are possible.
- Press for Conversion #65
December 2010
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Canada's hidden involvement in the Iraq War.
- For International Volunteer Day (Dec. 5) – profiles of Canadian volunteers at work overseas
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
CUSO-VSO recognizes its volunteers abroad on International Volunteer Day (December 5, 2010). In every corner of the developing world, volunteers work shoulder-to-shoulder alongside committed people who, with limited resources, are facing down poverty
- The National Security State Cops a Feel
Taking Off the Gloves (Then Everything Else)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
It's finally coming into focus, and it’s not even a difficult equation to grasp. It goes like this: take a country in the grips of an expanding national security state and sooner or later your "safety" will mean your humiliation, your degradation. And by the way, it will mean the degradation of your country, too.
- A Marxist History of the World part 23: The Abbasid Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Islam created a single overarching allegiance throughout the Arab-ruled world yet the Middle East came to be a divided region of weak and unpopular states. Neil Faulkner looks at the conflicts that lay behind this process.
- Crescent School pilot project - adjustable height desks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Crescent School is at the forefront with adjustable height desks in Grade 3 and Grade 7 classrooms. Part of a pilot project, the use of innovative equipment at Crescent supports the School's commitment to research and development in boys' education.
- A Marxist History of the World part 22: Arabs, Persians, and Byzantines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner describes the rise and explosive spread of the third great monotheistic religion, where compassion, charity, and protection became moral imperatives - Islam.
- Insurers Test Data Profiles to Identify Risky Clients
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Data-gathering companies have such extensive files on most U.S. consumers—online shopping details, catalog purchases, magazine subscriptions, leisure activities and information from social-networking sites—that some insurers are exploring whether data can reveal nearly as much about a person as a lab analysis of their bodily fluids.
- The Suffragettes, Black Friday and two types of window smashing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Article on 'Black Friday' with refections on why the Suffragettes attacked property back in 1910 and whether the tactic helped the movement.
- Decision not file charges in CIA video destruction deals new setback to right to information
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The decision not to file charges against any of the CIA officers who destroyed 92 videos of interrogations in secret CIA prisons has dealt a new blow to the search for truth in a matter of public interest and to the public’s right of access.
- What's your default Conflict Blueprint™? CanMediate's Ruth Sirman to appear on Roger's Daytime-Ottawa
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
How do you react when you find yourself embroiled in a conflict? Our reactions can lead to success or failure to resolve the conflict. Ruth Sirman discusses our default Conflict Blueprints on Roger's Daytime-Ottawa on Wednesday, November 17, 2010
- Zimbabwe: Bill would restrict public access to official information
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders calls for the withdrawal of a bill about to be submitted to Zimbabwe's parliament which would allow the authorities to block public access to official documents including judicial decisions, new legislation & public records.
- Solgate Reports High Volume Interest After Harper's Visit
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Prime Minister’s visit to Solgate Inc. increases interest from distributors and investors from around the globe for a Vaughan manufacturer of Solar Panels.
- A Marxist History of the World part 21: Huns, Goths, and Romans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner charts the transformation of the Huns from tribal nomads into continent-straddling militarists.
- The Origin of America's Intellectual Vacuum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A profile of Chandler Davis, a blacklisted mathematician who served six months in jail for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- Continental Service Agents Join Machinists!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Continental Airlines Service Agents at Toronto's Pearson Airport wanted the protection and better wages afforded by union membership so they turned to the largest union in air transport in North America - the IAMAW.
- Debate with the International Socialist Organization Continued
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
From a libertarian socialist point of view, the "self-emancipation of the working class" can't happen unless the working class builds organized mass movements that they control, such as labor organizations. This is the fundamental basis of syndicalism as a revolutionary strategy.
- Machinists Continue to Grow with OPT
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The IAMAW now represents more Patient Transfer Medical Attendants in Canada than any other union with the addition of 55 members at the Ontario Patient Transfer station in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
- A Marxist History of the World part 20: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner examines how the three great monotheistic religions produced by the contradictions of the ancient world owed their extraordinary power to their origins in the myths and rituals of the oppressed.
- Message to Research in Motion - Wake Up!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Research in Motion (RIM) is the world’s number one provider of secure data communications for corporate clients. Their systems are so secure that governments in many countries rely on them for their own mobile data and voice needs.
- A city that forgets its history is condemned to delete it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
John Ralston Saul, author and a self-proclaimed “public intellectual,” has taken it upon himself to rescue Baldwin and LaFontaine from obscurity.
- The future is now. Nurse practitioners gather in Toronto to discuss their ever-expanding contributions to health care in Ontario
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Nurse practitioners (NPs) from across the province are gathering in Toronto this week to embrace a new era of health care at the annual Nurse Practitioners’ Association of Ontario (NPAO) conference.
- Jason Kenney’s “anti free speech” conference sponsorship to be exposed on Monday
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is sponsoring an international conference of the ‘Inter-Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism’ (ICCA). The press conference will shed light on the threat that this initiative poses to freedom of speech.
- Learn to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain at Bob Greene's Free Teleseminar, November 8
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Spaces limited for celebrity trainer’s live online Q&A, sponsored by gardein™
- Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario searching for best health-care reporting of 2010
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
As the year draws to a close, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) wants reporters, editors and producers to enter their best work in the 13th Annual Awards for Excellence in Health-Care Reporting.
- Healthier Workplace Leads to Healthy Returns
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
You know that the key to a long and happy life is good health, but it also makes good business sense. Consider this: Physically fit employees not only take fewer sick days, they also are more productive and that helps to keep your bottom line health
- Media Literacy Week Calls on Canadians to Explore Gender Representation in Media and its Influence on Young People
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Media Awareness Network (MNet) and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) marked the launch of Canada’s Media Literacy Week today by highlighting the need for parents, educators and youth to talk about the ways that gender is portrayed in media and
- "Autonome Nationalisten"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Die "Autonomen Nationalisten" send eine aesthetisch-stilistische and strategisch-aktionistische Neuerung im deutschen Neonazismus. Durch die Adaption linker Codes und Inszenierungsformen hat er sein Auftreten modernisiert.
- Major health and environment organizations call on government to eliminate public exposure to BPA
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Thirteen of Canada’s leading health and environmental organizations call on the federal government to eliminate key sources of public exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), citing links between even low exposures to the chemical and major chronic diseases.
- A Marxist History of the World part 19: Mother-goddesses and power-deities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at how the growth of private property altered the position of women - from occupying a central role in society to suffering what Engels called ‘the world historic defeat of the female sex’.
- New Co-op fixes what’s wrong with investing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Investing should be safe, simple, and low cost. This growing Co-op helps Canadians get fair returns with reduced costs and capital loss. Investing on your own couldn't be easier.
- Queering the Cold War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A review of the book 'The Canadian War on Queers' and its examination of how homophobia, national security, and queerness unfolded in Canada during the Cold War.
- Curiouser and curiouser
Tea Party members aren't foaming at the mouth racist bigots
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A journalist travels to the first National Tea Party Convention in Tennessee as a delegate and finds the other delegates privately share his disdain for the racism and conspiracy theories the group fosters. He describes the delegates as average voters baffled by Obama's health care bill and economic policies.
- Raising a Digital Generation: Media Awareness Network Launches New Tutorial for Parents
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Media Awareness Network (MNet) today released e-Parenting Tutorial: Keeping up with your kids’ online activities, an online resource to help parents better understand and become actively involved in their children’s online lives.
- Building Safer Communities
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
November is National Crime Prevention and Community Safety month, and the Canada Safety Council advises you, and all Canadians to get to know your neighbours better. By building stronger communities, we build safer communities.
- Book Review: "Anarchism & Socialism: Reformism or Revolution?" by Wayne Price
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- A Marxist History of the World part 18: The Crisis of Late Antiquity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner explains how the Roman Empire entered its terminal crisis as its military imperialism came up against geographical, economic, and sociological barriers to expansion.
- A Web Pioneer Profiles Users by Name
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
An online tracking company builds extraordinarily intimate databases on people by tapping voter-registration files, shopping histories, social-networking activities and real estate records, among other things.
- Just My Type
A Book About Fonts
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Some history and analysis about fonts.
- Chevron's $80 million ad campaign gets flushed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A day-long comedy of errors, and Chevron's waking nightmare, began when Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch, together with the Yes Lab, pre-empted Chevron's multi-million dollar "We Agree" ad campaign with a satirical version of their own. The activists' version highlights Chevron's environmental and social abuses -- especially the toxic mess the oil giant has left in Ecuador, which Chevron has been attempting to "greenwash" for years.
- Cranking It Out, Old-School Style: Art of the Gestetner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Before photocopiers took over the short-run end of copy making, messy and relatively inexpensive machines called dittos, mimeographs and Gestetners ruled the earth.
- The Koch Empire and Americans for Prosperity
More Tentacles Surface at Rightwing Front Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Tracking to funding of extremist right-wing groups.
- No longer a real newspaper, new Globe betrays Canadians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The new tarted-up, glossy, colour Globe and Mail is many things, but it is not a real “news paper.”
- Investing in Quality Public Services - Best Alternative to Austerity Cuts
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
In the face of widespread cuts to public services, leaders of private and public sector trade unions, municipal governments and civil society groups have made a joint commitment to work together to promote investment in quality public services.
- Police raid silences Chiapas community radio station
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Police and judicial authorities in the southeastern state of Chiapas must explain a raid on Radio Proletaria, a community radio station in the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, in which arrests were made and the station was summarily dismantled.
- Sources welcomes Family Service Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Family Service Toronto. FST is a non-profit social service agency offering a wide range of counselling and support programs in 12 locations across the City of Toronto.
- Sources welcomes Feldstein Family Law Group
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Feldstein Family Law Group.
- Sources welcomes the Seriously Free Speech Committee
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: the Seriously Free Speech Committee. The SFSC is committed to free expression of views on Israel/Palestine.
- The fruits of protest
Russia has shelved plans to break up the historic Pavlovsk seed bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Pavlovsk open air seedbank in St. Petersburg maintains 12,000 species of fruit trees, berries, and flowers. Plans to auction off the land have been placed on hold after protests.
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario to Present the 2010 National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada Awards
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, will present the Awards of the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada to media from different ethnic communities.
- Saving past is first step to the future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The archives of southern Sudan are all currently housed in a tent donated by USAid. Many documents have been damaged due to the poor storage facilities. The Rift Valley Institute, a non-profit research group and scholars from Oxford plan to digitize and find a permanent home for the collection in the near future.
- Machinists Expand in Hospitality Sector Again!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Machinists Union organize another Ontario hotel, the sixth hotel in the past two years
- Jewish group criticizes Minister's decision cancelling invitation to prominent Imam
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
IJV is critical of Peter McKay's decision to cancel speaking invitation to Imam Zijad Delic
- Time or Task- You Choose How to Get Things Done
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
When it comes to adding things to the To Do list think in terms of describing your goal as a time or a task. Remember we can’t do a project. We have to break it down in to smaller manageable pieces.
- Machinists Ink New Deal with Finning!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
After several months of tough bargaining, the IAMAW has new agreement with Finning International.
- Spying and lying about the left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A company hired by the state of Pennsylvania has spied on left-wing, antiwar and student groups.
- Anarchists Unite with Big Brother Against Reds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Campus anarchists support administration censorship of Trotskyist literature.
- A Marxist History of the World part 17: The Roman Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the Roman Revolution - a complex, distorted, century-long process of class struggle.
- Creating Holiday Banners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
It’s always nice if you can tie your shop banner and inventory together so that people get an idea of what you are selling. But for some shops, that may not be possible. So in this post, we’ll address creating a banner using holiday images available on the web.
The danger in using graphics from the web is that most free graphics are NOT free for commercial use. You must read the fine print and refine your Google searches. The best search I found that yielded the most results was “free commercial use graphics Halloween” but even some of those sites were non-commercial use only.
- Did my Mom Ever Run?
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Documentary about Maureen Wilton Mancuso.
- Hamas, Hezbollah, and so-called 'resistance' against Zionist imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Imperialism, as Lenin states, is more progressive than the fanatical religious tendencies that fight to resist it. But to be clear, this does not amount to an endorsement of U.S. or Israeli policies of aggression. All that it means is one should not support tendencies that are even more wretched than foreign, imperialist domination, simply in the name of national self-determination.
- The hidden history of Bob Rae's government in Ontario
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Canada Gives partners with Credential to offer Donor Advised Fund Wealth Management Services
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Donor Advised Funds are a new way to make philanthropy and a legacy count by creating an endowment that helps fund charities for today and tomorrow. Credential has just signed a partnership agreement with Canada Gives to offer Donor Advised Funds.
- IFJ Marks Fourth Anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya Murder by Call for Justice
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today marked the fourth anniversary of the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya by urging the Russian authorities to ensure justice for her and her long-suffering family and colleague
- Confidence in Mutual Funds Continues to Rise: IFIC Survey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
TORONTO – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released the results of the fifth wave of its annual survey of mutual fund investors in Canada entitled Canadian Investors’ Perceptions of Mutual Funds and the Mutual Fund Industry 2010
- Take the Ten Minute Challenge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
When you only have a few minutes before going to lunch, attending a meeting, or leaving for an appointment, it often seems useless to start any important or involved task. On average this “transition time” can add up to about 40 minutes a day.
- A Marxist History of the World part 16: Roman Military Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Rome represented a unique fusion of Greek-style citizenship with Macedonian-style militarism. The result was the most dynamic imperialist state in the ancient world.
- A Vegetarian Contest to Veg Out With gardein™ and a Kindle™
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Plant-based food producer, gardein™ is giving away Kindles loaded with vegetarian recipes, plus free coupons, each week throughout October, Vegetarian Awareness Month
- Chastity Cage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A device which encloses the male genitals to prevent stimulation and erection.
- IFJ Backs Indian Calls for "Peace and Tolerance" in Media Reports of Religious Dispute
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for journalists to play their part in keeping the peace in India where there are fears of community violence in a long-running religious dispute.
- IFJ Calls on Unions to Confront Crisis of Gender Bias in the News
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)calls for a new debate in newsrooms over reporting gender issues and gave its backing to a global campaign to combat sexist reporting.
- Mental Health Documentary Opens CCNM's Annual OpenHouse
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Mental illness is an increasingly pressing issue for Canadians. More than 1 in 5 Canadians will be diagnosed with a mental health disorder in their lifetime, and millions of dollars will be spent on health care and prescription drugs to treat these
- Naturopathic Open House Explores New Wellness Frontier
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
CCNM invites you to attend our annual Open House on Saturday, October 2, from noon to 4:30 p.m. Join us to learn about naturopathic medicine, how to manage stress, how to prevent and manage diabetes and attend a very special screening of the mental
- Malaysian cartoonist faces sedition charges
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrest of Malaysian cartoonist Zulkifli Awar Ulhaque, also known as Zunar, a contributor to the popular news site Malaysiakini and author of a new collection of political cartoons.
- A Marxist History of the World part 15: The Macedonian Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the defeat of the democratic empire centred around Athens in a protracted counter-revolution led by Greek aristocrats, Macedonian kings, and Roman viceroys.
- Public Health Forum Brings Together Public Health and Planners to Build Ideas for Healthier Communities
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The OPHA Fall Forum, September 28 -29, will bring together public health professionals, politicians, and planners to take action on the built environment to create healthier, more equitable and more sustainable communities.
- Canadian Jewish Organization Salutes Jewish Boat to Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Jewish organization endorses Jewish boat to Gaza to provide relief from Israeli siege.
- Fanning the flames of intolerance
The burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes.
- A Marxist History of the World part 14: The Greek Democratic Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the radical participatory democracy which began in Athens between 510 and 506 BCE and spread to virtually every city-state in the Aegean.
- I was wrong on veganism
Traditional livestock production makes ecological sense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
An environmental reporter reviews the environmental impacts of meat production in the developed world. He finds that First World meat production is incredibly wasteful but that this is not a requirement of livestock rearing so much as an entrenched practice, and offers suggestions for greening the industry.
- A Marxist History of the World part 13: China: the Ch'in Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of the Ch'in Empire - short-lived, created by conquest and terror and characterised by extreme centralisation, military-style exploitation, and murderous repression.
- Marx, Bakunin, and the question of authoritarianism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Marx characterized the International as "a bond of union rather than a controlling force" and considered it "the business of the International Working Men's Association to combine and generalize the spontaneous movements of the working classes, but not to dictate or impose any doctrinary system whatever."
- The Rise of the Green Left
Inside the Worldwide Ecosocialist Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Climate change and other ecological ills are driving the creation of a grassroots global movement for change. From Latin America to Europe, Australia and China a militant movement merging red and green is taking shape.
- A Little Paranoia Can Help
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Risks come in many shapes and sizes, but they have one thing in common. You have to identify or imagine them before you can do anything about them.
- Tight and Bright: How Decluttering Your Language Improves Communication
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
How Decluttering Your Language Improves Communication
- A Marxist History of the World part 12: India: the Mauryan Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the growth of the Mauryan Empire which at its zenith encompassed almost the whole of what is today India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
- Midnight on the Mavi Marmara
The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Eastern Mediterranean, Monday, May 31st, 2010, 4.30am: Israeli commandos, boarding from sea and air, attack the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sails through international waters bringing humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes, nine peace activists are dead, shot by the Israelis. Scores of others are injured. The 700 people on board the ships are arrested and transported to detention centres in Israel, and then deported.
- Once more around the Bloc
Tactics, democracy, and mass politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Black Bloc tactics are deeply undemocratic -- and they don't work.
- Photo Exhibit: Hyphen Islam-Christianity - Beit Zatoun Toronto - September 11, 2010
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
An exhibition of 60 stunning photographs from Lebanon opening on September 11, at Beit Zatoun TORONTO. Hyphen Islam-Christianity brings together two religions, two cultures, respecting each other's differences and contributions.
- Dr. Cameron Durrant named one of PharmaVOICE's 100 most inspiring people in the pharmaceutical industry for 2010
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) announced that Dr. Cameron Durrant, the company#s Executive Chairman, has been named by PharmaVOICE as one of the 100 most inspiring people in the pharmaceutical industry for 2010.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 11: Western Asia: the Persian Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the centuries following 1000 BCE when the scale of civilisation and empire exploded as the productivity of iron tools boosted the surpluses available to Iron Age empire-builders.
- CanMediate International's Ruth Sirman to participate in social impact project to reduce conflict in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Organization Development World Summit 2010 in Budapest, Hungary launched the 'Social Impact - Leave your Development Footprint' project that will bring together OD practitioners from around the world.
- The Best OCR Tools for Converting Images to Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- A Marxist History of the World part 10: Men of Iron
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The constant rise and fall of Bronze age societies was a product of their wasteful, crisis ridden nature. But in the barbarian periphery around 1300 BCE an industrial revolution had begun that was to transform the world.
- A Village Grows on Markham Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- The Secrets in Israel's Archives
Evidence of Ethnic Cleansing Kept Under Lock and Key
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Israel has extended the time limit for releasing documents in its archives to 70 years, to prevent disclosure of evidence of widespread ethnic cleansing. The state's chief archivist says many of the documents "are not fit for public viewing" and raise doubts about Israel's "adherence to international law," while the government warns that greater transparency will "damage foreign relations."
- Bully-Proof Your Workplace - Ruth Sirman to Speak on CTV /A Morning Ottawa
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Harassment and bullying, sadly, are too common in many workplace environments. Ruth Sirman, Mediator and Workplace Conflict Expert, will be appearing on CTV /A Morning Ottawa on Wednesday August 18, 2010 at 7:20 am to discuss this issue.
- Conflict knows no boundaries - CanMediate International's Ruth Sirman at World Summit in Budapest, Hungary
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Conflict in organizations is inevitable. Will it be a positive or negative experience? CMI's president Ruth Sirman will speak at the OD World Summit2010 in Budapest Hungary on Surviving Resolution Resistant Super-Conflicts in organizations.
- A Marxist History of the World part 9: How History Happens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The complex societies that emerged from the division of society into classes also created societies that were wasteful, violent, stagnant and crisis prone. Understanding why is the key to how history happens argues Neil Faulkner.
- Oil Sands Workers Don't Cry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Toughing it out in the cold, isolated, male world of mobile workers in Alberta's oil patch.
- IFJ AND FEPALC Back Launch of Manifesto on Media Democracy in Paraguay
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates in South America to help the Union of Journalists of Paraguay (SPP) launch its manifesto on the democratisation of media.
- How the Tar Sands Threaten Canada's Economic Fate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The $200-billion tar sands energy mega-project has not only changed Canada's economic life but also diminished the nation's economic diversity and resilience.
- A War on Wikileaks?
Unhinged at the US State Department and Pentagon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
If the state fails to make any sense - not surprising - it is because it is has no intention of doing so. The state is appealing to something more visceral with all of this posturing: fear. It wants to strike fear into the minds and bodies of people working with Wikileaks, or anyone else doing such work, and anyone contemplating leaking any classified records. Fear is its greatest weapon of psychological destruction, with proven success at home. The outcome the state hopes for is greater self-censorship and greater self-monitoring.
- Anavex appoints contract research organizations to initiate Phase I/IIa clinical programs, regulatory strategies in Alzheimer's disease
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Anavex Life Sciences Corp signs a definitive master services agreement with Genesis BioPharma Group and ABX-CRO Advanced Pharmaceutical Services to begin clinical studies and regulatory filings for its lead compound for the treatment of Alzheimer#s.
- Journalists Condemn French Crackdown on Roma and Warn Over Rise of Racism
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Journnalists condemn French crackdown on Roma and warn that it will encourage xenophobia and intolerance.
- Do Life Insurers Have Too Much Risk?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Last week Canada#s biggest life insurer Manulife announced a major quarterly loss due to the poor stock market and low bond yields. Most of the analysis and management commentary centred on the hope that the markets could rebound favourably to Manuli
- The Hand of a Master Architect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A huge and previously unknown trove of archival material from Philip Johnson’s architectural practice — including his hand-drawn sketches for towers that helped define postmodern architecture — is to be put up for sale by one of Johnson’s former partners, who has had them in storage for years.
- Shock and Au-sterity
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Scared to death that all the lights were about to go out after pulling the plug on Lehman Brothers, the bourgeoisie rolled up its sleeves, girded its loins, crossed its fingers, and reached deeper than deep for that thing of all things, that relation of all relations that is the life of all lives for the bourgeoisie—OPM, other people’s money.
- Bully-Proof Your Workplace - CMI's Ruth Sirman on Rogers Daytime Ottawa
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Workplace bullying can significantly impact on the ability employees to get the job done. Ruth Sirman, Mediator and Workplace Conflict Expert, will be appearing on Rogers Daytime Ottawa on Monday August 9, 2010 at 11:10 am to discuss this issue.
- A New Type of Political Organization?
The Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Keeping the Record Straight: About Noam Chomsky's Trip to the Middle East in May 2010
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Sites Feed Personal Details To New Tracking Industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time. The tracking files are the leading edge of a new industry of data-gatherers who are in effect establishing a new business model for the Internet: one based on intensive surveillance of people to sell data about, and predictions of, their interests and activities, in real time.
- Is It Bullying? Is It Harassment? Is It Abuse Of Authority Or Is It Effective Management Designed To Get A Difficult Job Done?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
So has Mr. Elliott created or contributed to a negative and toxic atmosphere in the RCMP? Or is he getting the job he was hired to do done # but rattling a few chains by stirring up a hornets nest in the establishment? It's a tough question.
- Tunisian journalist in desert prison could die from untreated asthma attacks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukadous has been in extremely poor health since police arrested him on 15 July to begin serving a four-year jail sentence for covering protests in the Gafsa mining region of Tunisia.
- Uyghur journalist and website editor sentenced to fifteen years in jail
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged at the harshness of a 15-year prison sentence handed down to journalist Gheyret Niyaz by a court in Urumqi, in Xinjiang province, China.
- A Marxist History of the World part 7: The Spread of Civilisation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the spread and development of ancient city civilisations around the world, each governed by a new ruling class of priests, city-governors and war-leaders.
- Land of Impunity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there's no justice in Britain.
- Rejoinder to Criticism of Chomsky: Asset or Liability?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
One can learn much more about Chomsky’s actual views from the real Chomsky than from reading about some imaginary Chomsky which some critics have manufactured.
- Human rights defender held in Saudi Arabia since mid-June on charge of 'annoying others'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Sheikh Mekhlef bin Dahham al-Shammari, a writer, human rights activist and social reformer who was arrested in Saudi Arabia on 15 June.
- IFJ Condemns Violence against Photojournalists by Israeli Military in West Bank
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Israeli authorities to investigate violence by its soldiers in the West Bank who attacked a group of local photojournalists last week as they were covering demonstrations in the area.
- Internet addiction driving South Koreans into realms of fantasy
Government caught between promoting gaming and restraining its use in world's most wired nation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Two million South Koreans are thought to be addicted to Internet games as the government struggles to deal with the problem.
- Science for Peace Opposes Cancellation of the Long-Form Census
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The decision to cancel the long-form census represents an attack on evidence-based research and is undemocratic. Science for Peace urges the government to reverse the decision.
- Sources welcomes Dr. Cameron Durrant, MD, MBA, Alzheimer's Disease and Pharmaceuticals/Biotech Expert
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Dr. Cameron Durrant, MD, MBA, Alzheimer's Disease and Pharmaceuticals/Biotech Expert.
- Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about the battle.
- Violence, arrests and censorship in all four corners of India
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns a wave of violence and censorship against the media in various parts of India in the past few weeks.
- Workplace Bullying
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Where do workplace bullies come from? Is it possible that school yard bullies become workplace bullies? In my experience as a mediator, there are some scarily similar realities to what happens on the playground and in the corporate boardroom!
- Wrongful Dismissal, Denial and Deflection - The Impact on Employees and the Organizational Culture
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The PSLRB ruling in the D. Tipple/PWGSC case gives us a look at the reality in PWGSC, the Federal Public Service and any organization where the culture is risk-averse and focused on blame-storming, denial and deflection. What is the cost of this?
- CBP Recommends to Canadian Government to Adopt a 'No One Left Behind' Mentality when Entering the Digital Age
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
CBP contributes its submission on Improving Canada#s Digital Advantage
- Thrilling New Drink and Snack Pairing Helps Beat the Heat - In Style
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Record-breaking temperatures do little to slow wine lovers and foodies. In the Niagara Region, N#Icewine Slushies are making a splash, while Salsa Fresca riceworks# is the perfect partner for food pairing.
- Authorities turn their sights on microblogging
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about a new crackdown in China on social-networking tools, especially microblogging services.
- IFJ Condemns Bleak Manifesto of Newspaper Publishers in Face of Crisis
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns a call from newspaper publishers for more job losses in journalism across the globe.
- IFJ Condemns Murders of Journalists in Mexico
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists today said impunity which is fueling violence against journalists has reached intolerable levels in Mexico after two more journalists were murdered in a single day last week, bringing to 12 the number
- A Marxist History of the World part 6: The First Ruling Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the rise of the first ruling classes as the surplus created through the increasing productivity of human labour allowed a section of society to live without producing.
- What Those Who Killed the Tar Sands Report Don't Want You to Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Why did a parliamentary committee suddenly destroy drafts of a final report on tar sands pollution? Here's what they knew.
- Jamie Oliver, Julia Child and now, Thanks to riceworks, you?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
New cookbook for charity to feature top 50 recipes submitted in online contest.
- Focus on Honduran crisis, Haiti and more in the July-August issue of FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
This edition draws together analysts, policy-makers and development practitioners to look into current issues in Honduras, Haiti and Central America among others on themes such as democracy, energy, trade and multilateralism.
- Are the police doing their job?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
It makes no sense to demand that the police 'do their job.' The job of the police is to protect the wealth and power of the ruling elite against any challenge.
- A Marxist History of the World part 5: The Rise of the Specialists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Early Neolithic economy was doomed by insoluble contradictions. Technique was primitive and wasteful. Society lacked reserves against natural disaster and hard times. Virgin land ran out as old fields were exhausted and populations grew.
- A Marxist History of the World part 8: Crisis in the Bronze Age
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Why did Bronze Age empires rise and fall amid crisis and war? And why did this contradictory social form simply replicate itself over long periods of time? Neil Faulkner looks at the evidence.
- What isn't wrong with Sharia law?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
To safeguard our rights there must be one law for all and no religious courts.
- In the Aftermath of the G20: Reflections on Strategy, Tactics and Militancy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The tactics of the Black Bloc make it clear that, for them, it is more important to smash windows than to try and march with thousands of workers and engage them in arguments about how to move struggles forward or that the problem is capitalism. How radical is it to trash a few windows? For us, radical is about workers gaining confidence and consciousness to fight back, not just at work, but in solidarity with others. Radical is about developing a sense of mass power, organising based on moving others into struggle, winning others to challenge the power in their workplace or community collectively, beyond the individualization of our society. Radical is about going to the roots of the system - not trashing its symbols.
- The Food Bubble
How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- SNCC's 50-Year Legacy
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Celebrating SNCC's legacy.
- A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
An exploration of Nigeria, with focus to the effect the oil industry has had on the country.
- Tea Party in the Sonora
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
For the future of Republican governance, look to Arizona.
- Honduras: Rule of law and civil liberties founder in year since coup
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Joint statement on the first anniversary of the 28 June 2009 coup d#état in Honduras.
- Press Conference: First Hand Accounts of Mass Arrests and Intimidation in Toronto
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Alternative Media Centre, Toronto Community Mobilization Network and Movement Defence Committee will hold a joint press conference to present first hand accounts of the events that have been taking place in recent hours.
- What will Queen Elizabeth Snack on During the Canada Day Pageantry?
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Monarch and Prince Phillip in Ottawa same time as riceworks crisps contests launch.
- How the 'black bloc' protected the G20
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The black-clad mob in Toronto has left a lot of people not only in the general public but in the wider nonviolent social/global justice movements in Canada feeling disgusted, demoralized and dispirited. Just the result you want if your goal is to marginalize and stifle dissent. The blocistes, in other words, are the most effective tool on the ground for silencing the valid concerns of the broad social movements.
- Reporters Without Borders unveils first-ever 'Anti-Censorship Shelter'
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders today launched the world#s first #Anti-Censorship Shelter# in Paris for use by foreign journalists, bloggers and dissidents.
- CCNM student wins Bob's Red Mill Intercollegiate Cup Scholarship
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Nicole Papineau, a third year student at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) quipped about quinoa to win a scholarship as part of the Bob#s Red Mill Intercollegiate Cup.
- Jewish group to Layton: Investigate Israel/Palestine with Neutral Hosts
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The NDP should reject the invitation of the Canada-Israel Committee to host or facilitate a trip by Jack Layton and caucus members to Israel, says Independent Jewish Voices # Canada. They should be guided by party neutral to the conflict.
- Why illegalism is stupid
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Doing illegal things makes us look like criminals in the minds of most people.
- How to Make Drop Down Menus in a Web Page
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- A Marxist History of the World Part 4: The origins of War and Religion
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of War and Religion in the Early Neolithic world.
- This Week's LOTTO MAX $50 Million Jackpot Can Be A Problem for Gamblers
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The LOTO MAX jackpot has many Canadians purchasing their #winning# tickets, however many are gambling with money they cannot afford to lose.
- Why Cash is King (Again)
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Last week, the Wall Street Journal pointed out that cash reserves in US companies are at the highest levels since 1952.
- Kyrgyzstan faces humanitarian crisis as Uzbeks flee slaughter
Kyrgyzstan shaken by ethnic slaughter
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Kyrgyzstan is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis after more than 100,000 minority Uzbeks, fleeing Kyrgyz mobs in the south of the country, gather on the Uzbekistan border.
- Cross Country Cure - Cyclists Crossing Canada for Breast Cancer Research
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
From British Columbia to Newfoundland, Cody Howard and Shaun Fantauzzo's tour accross Canada is dedicated to Cody's mom who is a two time breast cancer survivor and other members of their families that have battled cancer.
- Sharia Law in Britain -- A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
One Law for All says that Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals are in violation of UK law, public policy and human rights.
- Jewish Group Condemns 'Feeding Frenzy' Surrounding Libby Davies
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Independent Jewish Voices - Canada condemns what it calls a 'feeding frenzy' around NDP Member of Parliament Libby Davies. The story is no longer what Libby Davis said but the mania surrounding it.
- Connexions Archive Information Sheet
Working together to secure a future for the past
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Looking for new space for the Connexions Archive and those who work on it.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 3: The Neolithic Revolution
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
In part three of Neil Faulkner's Marxist history series he reveals how the advent of farming lead to primitive communistic societies who through land depletion and scarcity of resources would be forced into global war.
- Why the French Hate Chomsky
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Chomsky's criticism is laden with facts, a substance that seems to elicit ennui among contemporary French thinkers. No doubt the importance of the essay in the French educational system has bred a world of 'philosophers' whose skill at manipulating fact-free ideas was the guarantee of a distinguished career. If the social object is to entertain, then the French school reaches its goal -- mystification is often far more entertaining than straightforward descriptions of reality. On the other hand, if the object is to help readers reach their own understanding of reality, especially political reality, then their first need is to be provided with the basic relevant facts, which most people do not have time to ascertain through their own research. Thus Chomsky is useful to citizens by providing them with the raw material to develop their own ideas in a way that the purveyors of ready-made but flimsily supported ideas are not.
- Jewish group rejects B'nai Brith censorship of Manitoba high school exam
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
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Independent Jewish Voices (Canada) condemns Manitoba Education Minister Nancy Allan for caving in to a demand to censor a question on the province's Grade 12 final Language Arts examination. IJV-C also condemns B'nai Brith Canada for suggesting
- Veiled Values
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
It is important to defend liberal social values, the secular society and the heritage of the Enlightenment. But we cannot do so by promoting illiberal policies.
- Hypocrisy Reigns
Don't Forsake the Struggle
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
When Israel labels as "terrorists" the ship passengers who offered some resistance to the Israeli invaders, who points out that the passengers who resisted the 9-11 highjackers on the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania are called "heroes"?
- The State as Protection Racket
Chapters in the History of Daylight Robbery
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The debate about the current global economic "crisis" is obscenely counterintuitive and illogical to the point of incoherence. Who is willing to 'follow the money"? This dictum appears utterly forgotten, despite recurring astronomic fraud perpetrated by US corporations.
- FOCALPoint: Focus on education challenges in Latin America, improving quality in Bolivia and Venezuela
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The June edition of FOCALPoint focuses on education challenges in Latin America. It highlights the need to improve quality after significant advances were made in broadening access. Regional perspectives on challenges ahead are complemented by views
- Deepak Chopra's Appeal
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The rich New Age guru claims he can fly and halt aging. Why do people listen? What does he say to a skeptic?
- Has All That Risk Caught Up With BP?
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
BP's woes in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are consistent with its longstanding culture of risky behaviour and gambling.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 2: The Upper Palaeolithic Revolution
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
In the second of his regular series Neil Faulkner reveals the incredible innovation and adaptability of our ancient ancestors, their unique combination of language and imagination and how cultures formed to fit the different environments in which early societies lived and worked.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 1: The Hominid Revolution
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
In the first of a regular series, Neil Faulkner charts the evolutionary development of modern day humans from primitive apes to socially co-operative human beings.
- What do your best customers smell like?
7 critical things you should know about your customers
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
If you want more 'best customers' then know how to find them. Describe your best customers and post it on your office wall. It's like a wanted poster for good customers. If you know what you are looking for you are more likely to find it.
- 3 Polarizing Branding Secrets from Death Cigarettes
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Branding is about creating powerful emotions - both love and hate. Figure out who you want to love you. Have you noticed that the strongest brands have lots of enemies?
- Celiac Disease And Gluten-Free Diet Experts Go Online To Inform The Public
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Dietitian and Author, Shelley Case, RD and Dr. Daniel Leffler to host live webinars in June and July.
- Five Steps to Build a Personal Brand Like Harry Houdini
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
What's important to know is that Houdini did not strive to build a brand. He worked to generate paying customers. All the publicity stunts he did were for the purpose of getting paying customers. Branding was a byproduct.
- IFIC Responds to FSCO's Request for Comments on its Proposed Statement of Priorities
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
TORONTO # The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today reported that it has
submitted a response to the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) in respect of its
request for comments on its proposed 2010 Statement of Priorities
- Jewish-Canadians Decry Canada's Open Door to Israeli PM Netanyahu
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Independent Jewish Voices finds it abhorrent that the Canadian Government is extending a warm welcome to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Canada on May 30/31. An honest and responsible government would instead indict Mr. Netanyahu for war crimes.
- So You Think It's Easy to Lead During a Crisis?
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
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Decision-making and leading during a major crisis - such as the current catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico - is difficult and stressful for a leader.
- Closet Questions - Should it Stay or Go?
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Stumped as to what to keep and what to get rid of? Try asking yourself these questions to help you define what should be in your closet:
- Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish in conversation with Rick Salutin at Beit Zatoun in Toronto - June 4, 2010
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Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish in conversation with Rick Salutin at Beit Zatoun in Toronto - June 4, 2010
Dr. Abuelaish, known as "the Gaza Doctor," is the author of the bestselling book, "I Shall Not Hate."
- Apple's Brilliant Application of Timeless Military Strategy Principles
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Apple's highly successful introduction of the iPad back in April illustrates two important principles of military strategy.
- The Greeks Get It
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Here's to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse. They know what to do when they are told their pensions, benefits and jobs have to be cut to pay corporate banks, which screwed them in the first place. Call a general strike. Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out. Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare: the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat. The Greeks, unlike most of us, get it.
- No surrender in Greece
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A member of International Workers Left (DEA), reports from Athens on the May 20 general strike and workers' growing radicalization.
- Journalism and 'the words of power'
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
- Tough Love
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Attorney Emily Schaeffer immigrated to Israel to defend the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank. 'I guess most Israelis would view me as a traitor,' she says, 'but I don't intend to keep quiet just because I came from afar'
- Sticky Do's and Don'ts
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
We sure have a love affair with adhesive notes. Expanding from the original yellow square note pad, they now come in many colors, sizes, shapes, and specialty varieties (super sticky, page tags, divider tags.)
- Analysis finds crime stories dominate Los Angeles newscasts
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Religious Freedom and Human Rights
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Religious Freedom and Human Rights seminar June 21 sets table for G8 reflections.
- Des employés de l'Agence du revenu du Canada obtiennent le Prix d'excellence dans la fonction de contrôle - secteur public
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
CMA Canada et le CIPFA félicitent Michel Bernard, Mary-Lee Clarke et Joan Reade de l'Agence du revenu du Canada, qui ont obtenu le deuxième Prix d#excellence dans la fonction de contrôle − secteur public.
- Dreaming of a Good Night's Sleep - 8 Tips to Create a Restful Sleep
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
To maximize productivity for the following day, it is important to start off on the right track. Preparing yourself for your day#s events begins with a good night#s sleep. If you are tired of tossing and turning, follow these 8 tips to enjoy
- Pay attention, it's a circus out there! National Road Safety Week: May 21 - 27, 2010
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
During National Road Safety Week the Canada Safety Council wants you to take precautions while you are out and about. Keep your eyes on the road and on other road users. Be vigilant and stay aware of your surroundings at all times.
- Celebrating the World's Freedom of the Press Year
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada is pleased to announce that is organized the annual ethnic press exhibition from Monday May 10th to Sunday May 16, 2010.
- Herb/Drug Interactions: What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Can combining prescription antidepressants and herbal medicine put your life at risk? Misconceptions abound when it comes to combining herbal medications and conventional drugs. Naturopathic doctors can help.
- Reporters without Borders works on all fronts
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
World Press Freedom Day, 3 May, is an occasion for Reporters Without Borders to reaffirm the values it defends, the right to inform and the right to access information, without which democracy is impossible.
- Thanks a Million!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Breast Cancer Society of Canada (BCSC) would like to thank Mark#s Work Wearhouse for their rewarding eight-year partnership, which has resulted in more than $1-million being gifted to breast cancer research initiat initiatives across Canada.
- Daytona Beach Florida Revs Up For Hypnosis Week! Hypno Expo '10 May 26th - 31st, 2010
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Debbie Papadakis has been welcomed back to speak at the IMDHA, Hypnosis Conference beginning at the Daytona Beach Hilton Hotel from May 26th-31st, 2010.
- IFIC Comments on Manitoba Consultation Paper on Retirement Income System
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
TORONTO # The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today published its submission to Manitoba#s Minister of Finance related to a request by Manitoba for comments on its consultation paper.
- IFJ Releases Press Freedom Report for South Asia
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in association with the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) will officially release the eighth annual report on press freedom in South Asia at a regional event on May 3.
- Joel Osteen: the new face of Christianity
Through the eye of the needle
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A profile of the most succesful pastor in America, Joel Osteen, one of those who preach 'the prosperity gospel'.
- May Day 2010: Jobs, Justice and Public Services - Getting the Economy to Work
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
May 1, 2010 - On today of all days, trade unionists around the world demand fresh steps to reform the global economy in favour of social justice, investment in jobs and fairness in society. This is no time for business as usual.
- Online Video Gaming - When Does It Become A Health Hazard?
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The recent launch of the popular gaming television series, Pure Pwnage, reflects a growing interest and devotion to gaming culture which healthcare professionals find worrisome. Obsessive preoccupation with gaming is a growing health concern.
- Safe Drinking Water
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Drinking water specialists from across the province gather at Caesars Windsor, May 2 -5, for the Joint Annaual Conference & Trade Show of the Ontario Water Works Association (OWWA) and the Ontario Municipal Water Association (OMWA).
- Get Ready for the Spring Thaw - Regain your Refrigerator
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Here#s a different sort of spring thaw and one you can do yourself. Get prepared to clean out your fridge and freezer. This process is a hot idea with refrigerator rules that will save you money and time.
- Big Names Fight For A Big Cause at Upcoming Breast Cancer Research Fundraiser
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Attendees include world-famous boxers, entertainment personalities and reputable businesses as Dewith's Boxing Studio joins forces with the Breast Cancer Society of Canada for a gala event Toronto, Ontario April 21st, 2010 - Celebrities across
- Media Advisory: Global Issues and Local Solutions: Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Jeff Rubin is joining a stellar line-up of business leaders, visionaries and HR experts at the BC Human Resources Management Association#s (BC HRMA) 48th Annual Conference: New World#New Ideas # People, Passion, Profit. Rubin, the best-selling author
- Canada-Mexico Initiative identifies policy options to energize bilateral relationship
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Experts gathered to develop policy options to scale up Canada-Mexico ties at a meeting in Ontario. They were convened under the Canada-Mexico Initiative chaired by Hon. Bill Graham and Mexican Senator Rosario Green to dialogue with policy-makers.
- The Rules of Disengagement: Ending Conversations Gracefully and Tactfully
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Do you ever have trouble ending a telephone conversation? Do you need to speak to someone but worry because it always turns into a long drawn out conversation on topics you would rather not speak about? Do people come in your office and you can't
- Sun Care, Be Aware - National Summer Safety Week: May 1 - 7, 2010
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
During National Summer Safety Week the Canada Safety Council encourages you to protect yourself in the sun all summer long. Always apply plenty of sunscreen before going outside, whether it's sunny or cloudy, hot or cool. Make sure it has a sun
- Know Your Digital Rights, Photographers
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- The futility of activism using violence as catharsis
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The anarchist practitioners of violence are fundamentally elitist. They do violence because it makes them feel good, and they don't care about the fact that it undermines the real work for social change that movement activists are doing.
- B.C.'s Human Resources Association Announces Finalists For Provincial Awards
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The BC Human Resources Management Association (BC HRMA) is proud to announce the finalists for the provincial professional awards.
- Sakharov Network requests Chinese dissident Hu Jia's release
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Sakharov Network calls on the European Parliament#s president and the countries of the European Union to take energetic action to obtain the release of imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia.
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- VIP: Very Inventive Procrastinator
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Many of us think we have conquered procrastination and have become efficient workers. This may be true for some of us, but when it comes to procrastination we may have just become a little more creative. You may just be a V.I.P. # Very Inventive Pro
- The Global War on Tribes
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The point is not that all tribal peoples pose an egalitarian alternative to neoliberal capitalism. Some (such as Indigenous peoples) certainly do have strong egalitarian principles, but many other tribal peoples -- such as in the new conflict zones -- certainly do not (particularly toward women). The salient point is not that all tribal cultures are paradise, but that they are not capitalist, and neoliberal capitalism cannot stand anything other than Total Control.
- The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The mass mobilization of black people in the Southern civil rights movement, and the subsequent Northern ghetto rebellions, disrupted and challenged the racist American bourgeois order. It shattered the anti-Communist consensus and it paved the road for the mass protest movements that followed—against the U.S. dirty war in Vietnam, for the rights of women, gays, students and others.
- Book Release: "GIS in Hospital & Healthcare Emergency Management"
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
New book on the use of GIS in hospital and healthcare emergency management, with a chapter by a Canadian law student.
- English Defence League: new wave of extremists plotting summer of unrest
Growth of anti-Muslim group raises fears of street violence
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A profile of the supporters and the protests of the English Defence League, a right wing anti-Islam group of mostly white, young British men, many of them mobilized through their soccer clubs.
- IFJ Demands Probe into Iraq Media Deaths After US Army Film Exposes Killing of Unarmed civilians and Journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Call for an investigation into the actions of the United States army which has been implicated in killings of journalists in Iraq following the release of a shocking video film of a helicopter gunship attack on civilians including two media staff.
- Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military information.
- More than 3,500 petition Iran to free journalists, writers
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
More than 3,500 concerned people from around the world are petitioning Iran#s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, to immediately release dozens of journalists writers, and bloggers currently imprisoned in the country.
- The anti-racism boom
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Racism is dangerous and harmful, but attempts to pass rules against it can sometimes do more harm than good.
- 'Whiteness' workshop helps expose your inner racist
White & guilty
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- White & guilty: 'Whiteness' workshop helps expose your inner racist
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
While politically correct campus activists often come across as smug and single-minded, I realized, their intellectual life might more accurately be described as bipolar -- combining an ecstatic self-conception as high priestesses who pronounce upon the racist sins of our society, alongside extravagant self-mortification in regard to their own fallen state.
- Future-Proofing Canada's Retirement Income System
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
IFIC makes four recommendations in its response to B.C. Consultation Paper
- Notebook: Toward a Second Haitian Revolution
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A historical review of economic policy in Haiti since its independence, and the impact of its smallholder's disposession by US policies that sought to 'liberalize' the economy. The author advocates investment in subsistence farming rather than spending foreign aid on foreign imports in the wake of the earthquake.
- Anticapitalism and Climate Justice
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The current crisis raises the urgent need to change the world from below and do so from an anticapitalist and radical eco-socialist perspective. Anticapitalism and climate justice are two struggles which must be closely linked.
- The internet's cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the world
A generation of political activists have been transformed by new tools developed on the internet.
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Internet activists speak about censorship, the democratising impact of open source technology, and the importance of oportunities for anonimity in a post 9-11 world.
- Met police face legal action for 'kettling' of protest teenagers
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Police in the UK are being sued for using violence against students during a tuition fees protest by three minors who suffered injuries. They claim they were falsely detained and denied medical assistance. Their lawyers believe the police violated the European convention on human rights.
- Scammers Using Mock Copyright Lawsuit Threats To Get People To Download Malware
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
With companies like Digiprotect, Davenport Lyons and ACS:Law busy sending out tens of thousands of so-called pre-settlement letters that threaten people (often on very little evidence, if any) of copyright infringement, but allow them to pay up to avoid a lawsuit, is it any surprise that out-and-out scammers are jumping into the game as well?
- The price of one lie is the loss of many truths (TM)
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Does a 4000-year-old law harm us today? You bet it does. Names coming out of that law are in our language today and are being used everyday.
- Fundamentalists target Twitter and Facebook in unprecedented move
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders deplores the ruling by an Islamic court ordering a Nigerian human rights group, the Civil Rights Congress, to close its blog and stop hosting debates on Twitter and Facebook about the use of amputation to punish theft.
- Human Rights Council resolution on blasphemy
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by a resolution condemning #defamation of religions# which the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted on 25 March.
- Join the SOURCES Affiliate Program
Earn 20% every time you refer a new member to SOURCES
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- Beer, pizza & racism
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Are Canadian university campuses hotbeds of discrimination, or are new studies using anecdotal evidence to paint an unfairly racist picture?
- The Teabagger Anti-Socialist Purity Pledge
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Black Liberation and the Fight for a Socialist America
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
From slavery to convict labour, from the chain gang to the assembly line, American capitalism has been built upon the lash-scarred backs of black labour. Any organization that claims a revolutionary perspective for the United States must confront the special oppression of black people and their forced segregation at the bottom of capitalist society and the poisonous racism that divides the working class and cripples its struggles.
- 'No' hesitation - Simple Techniques to Help You Say No
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
How often have you found yourself unable to say #no# to someone? It isn#t easy turning down an invite or request. After all, it may mean a lost opportunity or bad feelings, personally or professionally. But if you say yes too often you may wind up
- Political activists call for inquiry after revelations about undercover police
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Protest groups that were targeted by infiltrators plan legal action to obtain access to police files after disclosures by Officer A.
- Who does that server really serve?
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2013
On the Internet, proprietary software isn't the only way to lose your freedom. Service as a Software Substitute, or SaaSS, is another way to let someone else have power over your computing.
- The Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides: An inconvenient truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
It is the genocide deniers -- the rulers and lobbies of the U.S., Turkey, Israel, and Azerbaijan -- who are the ones impeding progress. Their denial, duplicity and audacity do not mean that the genocides# victims and their heirs have been defeated. Denying the truth does not invalidate it. Fictional Turkish #reconciliation# initiatives foisted upon Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks will never take the place of genuine atonement and restitution, which are necessary for true progress to be made.
- IFJ Condemns Spate of Journalists' Murders in Honduras
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today expressed fresh concern over the media crisis in Honduras following three murders in two weeks targeting media.
- Oscars of Charities: Online Contest Unveils Semi-Finalist Winners
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Popular Snack Maker Announces Semi-Finalists To Share $60,000 in Prize Money for "Show Us Your Goodness" Online Charity Contest
- Iranian women's rights activists win first Reporters Without Borders netizen prize with support from Google
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders has awarded the first #Netizen Prize# to the Iranian women#s rights activists of the Change for Equality (www.we-change.org) website.
- U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy Wikileaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
This document is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. ``The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out''. It concocts a plan to fatally marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses ``trust as a center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insiders, leakers or whisteblowers'', the report recommends ``The identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistlblowers could potentially damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions from using the Wikileaks.org Web site''.
- Like to find some money? It pays to get organized.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A poll by the US based National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) found that an impressive 78% have found money or un-cashed checks during an organizing project and a fairly remarkable 26% of respondents have found $1000 or more.
- Thinking Haiti - Special Edition of FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Thinking Haiti - Special Edition of FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas. This edition draws together analysts, policy makers, development practitioners and diaspora representatives to offer insights into the challenges of rebuilding Haiti.
- For a movement that unites us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Activists organizing against cuts and tuition hikes at New York City's Hunter College issue an open letter calling for respect and freedom of expression.
- Launch of Middle East Gender Study Marks International Women's Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Women journalists representing 15 journalists# unions of the International Federation of Journalists from across the Arab World and Middle East gathered in Al Manama-Bahrain to mark International Women#s Day.
- How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Is Israel an Apartheid State?
Rhetoric or Reality? Summary of a Legal Study by the Human Sciences Research council of South Africa
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Do Israel's practices in occupied Palestinian territory, namely the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law?
- Soutien Apport aux Pays Africains Francophones
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Le Centre Pearson pour le maintien de la paix (CPMP) a obtenu un appui financier de prs de 3,5 millions de dollars du Ministre des Affaires trangres et du Commerce international (MAECI) du Canada afin de mettre sur pied, en collaboration avec
- Support for Africa's French-Speaking Countries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre has received close to $3.5 million from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada (DFAIT) to execute a project, in collaboration with the Francophone Research Network on Peace Operations (ROP)
- How to promote your expertise with news releases, articles, and FAQs
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Publishing articles and news releases that spotlight your expertise is one of the very best ways to build your credibility & attract positive attention. As a SOURCES member you have Free access to an extremely effective tool for doing exactly that.
- Marx versus Bakunin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A group that launches, or even refocuses, an independent news media project - or raises money for just about any public-interest activity - will probably have success in fundraising if it does the proper research and targets a unique audience. It will need to demonstrate that it offers an important public service, such as providing in-depth coverage of local political, economic, and social issues not covered adequately by other media.
- Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
In Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror, Daniel Francis provides an overview of the response of the Canadian state and elite to the postwar labour revolt.
- IFJ Condemns Arrest of Russian Editor after Exposure of Police Corruption Sparks Raid
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the arrest of Valery Smetanin, Editor-in-chief and Galina Yablokova and her son Alexej Yablokov, two founders of the Ivanovo-Press weekly in central Russia.
- Photographer Ibrahim Jassam freed after US Army held him for 17 months without explanation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release today of Iraqi photographer, Ibrahim Jassam, of Reuters, who had been held by the US military since his arrest on 1st September 2008.
- B'Tselem demands a halt to baseless assault by Rights and Democracy chair
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
B#Tselem has written to demand that Board members of the Canadian organization Rights and Democracy stop maligning B'Tselem's name.
- US military must explain why marines censored Haitian photographer
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Homère Cardichon, a photographer working for the daily Le Nouvelliste in Haiti, had his camera confiscated by US marines while covering a demonstration by disgruntled residents outside the US embassy in the Port-au-Prince.
- Canada's Largest All-Franchise Show Comes to Toronto on February 20 & 21, 2010
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Franchise Show, Canada's most trusted franchise-only tradeshow, runs Saturday, Feb. 20 and Sunday, Feb. 21 at the Toronto Congress Centre, in Hall A/B, 650 Dixon Road in Etobicoke, Ontario. More details at www.cfa.ca/TheFranchiseShow/
- Picture-Perfect Advice for Sorting and Storing your Photos
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Photographs are a great way to remember special occasions, but its not always easy to keep them sorted. Here are a few tips you can follow when printing or picking up your snapshots that will help you organize and protect your precious moments:
- Conning the Climate
Inside the carbon-trading shell game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The carbon is, in essence, an elaborate shell game, a disappearing act that nicely serves the immediate interests of the world's governments but fails to meet the challenges of our looming environmental crisis.
- IFJ Marks 'End of Deadly Decade' With Report on Journalists and Media Staff Killed in 2009
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on journalists and media workers who died in the exercise of journalism in 2009. The report provides detailed information of media killings.
- IFJ Report Lists China's Secret Bans on Media Reporting
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A new report by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on press freedom in China highlights the battle by local censors to control media commentary on a wide range of topics throughout in 2009.
- Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
We should be able to come up with two or three practical models that can be used to set up sustainable news and information production and delivery systems.
- The IFJ and Article 19 Support The Guardian in Court Battle for Journalists Rights in Iraq
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
ARTICLE 19, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Iraqi Union of Journalists today called on the Iraqi authorities to drop charges of defamation against the British newspaper The Guardian and its journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
- A Memory of Howard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A recollection of the late Howard Zinn.
- Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Khatib's arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bilin to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees - the leadership of the popular struggle - who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
- The Decline of Play and Rise in Children's Mental Disorders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past 50 to 70 years. Today, by at least some estimates, five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or anxiety disorder as was true half a century or more ago. This increased psychopathology is not the result of changed diagnostic criteria; it holds even when the measures and criteria are constant.
- Sources welcomes Media Awareness Network
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Media Awareness Network. Media Awareness Network (MNet) is a Canadian not-for-profit centre of expertise in media and digital literacy.
- Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A mini-paper would be incredibly inexpensive to publish. There would be no requirement for newsprint, a huge printing plant or large delivery system.
- Lack of transparency on Israel's expulsion of US journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns suspicious circumstances surrounding Israel#s expulsion of US journalist, Jared Malsin, editor for the English service of the Palestinian press agency Ma#an.
- The day the Klan messed with the wrong people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
By the mid-1950's the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum and the KKK decided they had to fight back. James W. "Catfish" Cole, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, made a critical mistake that couldn't be avoided by a racist mind - he was completely ignorant of the people he was about to mess with.
- IFJ Condemns Deportation Move against US Journalist in Israel
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists today called on Israeli authorities to revoke the deportation order served on American journalist and chief English editor of Ma'an news agency, Jared Malsin, who has been denied re-entry to the country.
- Editor of Amazonian weekly gets one-year sentence for defamation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns the one-year jail sentence that a court in Bagua, in the northeastern Amazonian province of Utcumbamba in Peru, passed yesterday on Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco, the editor of the regional weekly Nor Oriente.
- Google rebels against China's Internet censors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders hails US Internet giant Google#s announcement yesterday that it will stop censoring the Chinese version of its search engine, Google.cn # a move that could lead to Google.cn#s closure and Google#s withdrawal from China.
- Parecon & Participatory Society
An Interview with Michael Albert
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Participatory Economics, or parecon for short, is a vision for how to conduct economics in a classless manner. It delivers to workers and consumers self managed say over their economic lives, a condition of solidarity with others, equitable incomes for their labors, diverse opportunities and options, and ecological balance.
- Making blasphemy an offence takes Europe back several centuries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns #with the utmost firmness# a new defamation law in Ireland that establishes blasphemy as an offence punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros. The law took effect on 1 January.
- Riga-based daily ransacked by unidentified intruders
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns a break-in by unidentified intruders at the offices of the Riga-based daily Neatkariga Rita Avize (www.nra.lv) and its publishing house SIA Mediju Nams.
- IPS Africa Launches Reporting Gender-Based Violence Handbook
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa has launched a new handbook for reporters to support sustained media coverage of gender-based violence beyond 16 Days of No Violence Against Women and Children.
- Anarchism & Socialism
Reformism or Revolution?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
In these essays grouped around common themes, Wayne Price draws on decades of extensive practical experience in antiwar and student movements, marxist tendency groups and affinity-based anarchist organizations, to make an insightful case for "pro-organizational," class-struggle anarchism.
- The Armageddon Factor: The rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Aroma protest: Toronto: Bloor & Albany. September 2010
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Aroma Espresso Bar is part of an Israeli-owned chain. One of Aroma's branches is in Ma'aleh Adumim, a large Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories. Anti-apartheid activists have called for a boycott of Aroma as part of a larger movement by Palestinian civil society to find non-violent means to end the occupation and apartheid.
- Attending a Meeting - How you can Play a Role in its Success
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
From job interviews to strategy sessions, it's important to make a good impression in any meeting. Making a good impression starts with careful planning and preparation.
- The Benefits of Professional Speaking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
No matter how good you are, you'll still have something to learn or some new set of skills to acquire.
- Beyond the Echo Chamber
Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
According to the authors, a new breed of networked progressive media are informing and engaging millions. By harnessing a participatory media environment, they have succeeded in influencing political campaigns, public debates, and policymaking.
- Beyond the Profits System
Possibilities for a Post-Capitalist Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Shutt offers an analysis of the collapse of the capitalist system by determining factors inhibiting its revival and goes on to offering an alternative to the current system.
- The Billionaires' Tea Party
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Both a journey through a unique moment in American history and a thoroughly researched piece of investigative journalism. Through an examination of astroturfing and disinformation, we see how citizen democracy has been captured by powerful corporate interests that threatens not only the heath of American democracy, but that of its citizens and the planet as a whole.
- Breaking windows is not a revolutionary act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Black Bloc vandalism in the middle of a big protest is not only a diversion from the issues but puts everyone into unneccessary jeopardy without their consent.
- Building on the Emotional Experience of the Brand
Linking Individual Brands With the Brand of a Convention or Event
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
As professional speakers, we each seek to create our own brand. However, in today's marketplace, aligning everything we do with the brand of the convention or event will assist us in fulfilling the expectations of those who hire us.
- Business Card Basics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Your business card is a miniature representation of your business: your style, your focus, your unique selling proposition.
- Business Continuity and Crisis Preparedness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Engler documents the fact that the essence of Canadian policy has always been support for the establishment and continued dominance of an expansionist Zionist state in the territories that now comprise Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank.
- The Canadian War on Queers
National Security as Sexual Regulation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the Canadian state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in a series of so-called national security campaigns. This book traces this history, revealing acts of state repression and forms of social resistance.
- The Candy Machine
How Cocaine Took Over the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Cocaine is big business, and getting bigger. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable war against it, yet it's now the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy get so huge? Who keeps running it behind the scenes? Feiling traces cocaine's progress from legal ‘pick-me-up' to luxury product to global commodity, looks at legalization programmes in countries like Switzerland, and shows how America's anti-drugs crusade is actually increasing demand.
- Celebrate People's History
The Poster Book of Resistrance and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Since 1998, Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over 100 posters by over 80 artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women’s rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creative activism and organizing. Celebrate People’s History presents these essential moments — acts of resistance and great events in an often hidden history of human and civil rights struggles — as a visual tour through decades and across continents.
- Changing Media, Changing China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
This collection of essays studies all aspects of media in China, and looks at the changing landscape of information management and demand for real news in China.
- Chastity Belt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A chastity belt is a locking item of clothing designed to prevent sexual intercourse.
- City of Love and Revolution
Vancouver in the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Informacijas Apmainas Pakalpojumi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Connexions (pilns nosaukums: Connexions Informacijas Apmainas Pakalpojumi - Connexions Information Sharing Services) ir centrala tiešsaistes biblioteka un arhivs, kas apkalpo Kanadas iniciativas par izmainam sabiedriba. Šis bezpelnas projekts uztur ari izsmelošu Kanadas asociaciju un NVS raditaju.
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Dansk
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Connexions Information Sharing Services er det centrale online bibliotek og arkiv for Canada's bevægelser for social forandring.
- Connexions Library Arabic Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Chinese Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Danish Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Farsi Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library French Title Index
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library German Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Greek Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Italian Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Japanese Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Korean Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Persian Title Index
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Polish Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Portuguese Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Spanish Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Turkish Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Vietnamese Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Connexions Search
Resource Type: Database
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Search the Connexions website, including the Connexions Library, the Connexions Directory, Connexipedia, and the comprehensive topic index.
- Consensus decision-making
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
- The Current Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg's Thought
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Luxemburg sought a new type of socialism and even a new way of thinking.
- Des outils puissants pour accroître votre visibilité
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
En tant que membre SOURCES, vous avez une gamme d'outils de relations média à votre disposition. Ces outils sont créés pour être des pièces-clés de vos relations publiques et de votre stratégie média.
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia article - Francais
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Disability and History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Joan Hume became active in disability organisations in the late 1970s and in the burgeoning disability rights movement, edited and wrote for the magazine Quad Wrangle for several years.
- Discover the New Way to... Dress for Success
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
It has been suggested that 41% of Canadians now dress casually for work. With numbers that high you would think casual dressing for the workplace would be easy. Not so. Many people are even more confused than before about workplace attire.
- Downloadable SEO Sources Banners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Downloadable Sources Banners
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Downloadable Sources Banners - Find it at Sources.com
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Downloadable Sources Banners - We Welcome Media Calls
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Dropped Search Engine Rankings Caused by Duplication
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Duplicate content can and will negatively affect search engine rankings.
- Earth into Property
Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A broad exploration of the colonial roots of global capitalism and the worldwide quest of Indigenous people for liberation through decolonization.
Part Two of The Bowl with One Spoon.
- 8
The Mormon Proposition
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A scorching indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California's Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against LGBT human rights.
- The Enigma of Capital And the Crisis of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Even the Rain (También la Lluvia)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Obsessive idealist Sebastián has sworn to direct a film about one of the world’s most iconic figures, Christopher Columbus. While the shoot progresses in and around the city of Cochabamba, civil and political unrest simmer, as the entire water supply of the city is privatized and sold to a British/American multinational.
- Exhausted Noam Chomsky Just Going To Try And Enjoy The Day For Once
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Noam Chomsky takes a day off.
- 'Fill the Jails': Identity, Structure and Method in the Committee of 100, 1960-1968
PhD Thesis,University of Sussex, 2010
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- The First Grader
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A comprehensive chronicle of the resistance by Indigenous peoples in North and South America, which limited and shaped the forms and extent of colonialism.
- Foire Aux Questions au sujet de SOURCES
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Frequently Asked Questions about Workers Solidarity Alliance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Gain Clients (and Earn Money) By Speaking Engagements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
One of the best way to get new clients is by speaking to organizations. There's something about the immediacy of being in front of people that has great spin-off benefits. So whether you do it for the fees or for the contacts or both, you really can't lose.
- Glimpses of the Connexions Archive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Grassroots Naturism
A guide for the TNS Volunteer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A primer for the naturist volunteer.
- The Great Leap Forward in China (1958): Chairman Mao's Catastrophe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
In 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong made a promise that Chinese steel production would soon surpass that of Great Britain and America. It was known as "The Great Leap Forward," and the massive focus on steel had catastrophic consequences as it diverted labour and millions died of starvation.
- Hedy Epstein Speaks at UC Berkeley
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Hedy Epstein, a survivor of the Holocaust at the age of fifteen, describes her experiences during the Holocaust and how they made her committed to fighting injustice for the rest of her life. She describes how the situation on the ground in Palestine today very much resembles the situation in Nazi Germany in 1939, and compares the egregious violations of human rights that are taking place, as a result of the Israeli occupation, in Palestine today to the Holocaust.
- Homeless
The Motel Kids of Orange County
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Follows a group of children as their families struggle to live survive in one of the country's wealthiest areas.
- How to Handle Phone Interviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
For some people, doing a phone interview - whether for a job or with the press - can be more unnerving than face-to-face. Being unable to read someone's expressions, or look them in the eye, can throw a person off track.
- How to Keep Union Records
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- If Your Business is Struggling, Check Your Talent Management Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Today's companies must hit the reset button on their talent management strategy because chances are their policies are already outdated. In case you have been too busy to notice, your industry has changed and so has your workforce.
- Incluez-vous dans SOURCES
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Justice for All: the Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt
A Report by the Solidarity Center
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A report on recent workers' struggles in Egypt, against falling wages, oppressive working conditions, and violations of workers' rights, in the face of an authoritarian and repressive government.
- Left-libertarianism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A doctrine that has a strong commitment to personal liberty and egalitarianism.
- Libertarian Socialism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A socialist political orientation which promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic, stateless society without private property in the means of production. Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization, and promotes free association in place of the coercive social relations of capitalism
- The Low Cost of Marketing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Marketing is not about selling, it's about getting your message out there.
- Making the Most of Your Media Interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Being prepared for an interview will make you less nervous and more confident, and with confidence comes increased credibility.
- Media Names & Numbers 10
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
- Millions Like Us
Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Describes the lives of women in Britain who lived through the war, on the home front and overseas.
- The Miners' Hymns
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison.
- Moffatt, Gary
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Canadian anarchist and activist.
- Mother Russia and the Soviet Fatherland: Canadian Women and the Communist Party of Canada,1929-1939
PhD. Thesis, Queen's University, 2010
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- National Anarchism: Trojan Horse for White Nationalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- New Hogtown Press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
- Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers search the sky and explore the origins of the universe. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones murdered and dumped in the desert by the Pinochet dictatorship. The desert also holds the stories of pre-Columbian indigenous societies, 19th-century miners, and political prisoners. A meditation on astronomy, the past, memory, and persistence.
- Notes on Radicalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Questions frequently asked when introduced as a co-author of Radical Sydney are: "What is radicalism?"; "Is radicalism dead?"; and specifically with regard to Australia, "Where is radicalism today?". Often, it seems, the unstated, implied premise behind some of these questions is that radicalism once was, but is no more, a questioning underpinned by senses of defeat, confusion, with a hint of nostalgia thrown in.
- On Rumours
How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Explores the human propensity for gossip and storytelling, and discusses how our fears and hopes can work against common sense. This book also investigates the way that the internet can entrench our false beliefs even deeper, and how the wish to conform, our natural biases and even our basic emotions can cause us to fall for untrue accounts.
- Once a Jolly Hangman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
When this book was first published in Asia in July 2010, UK journalist Alan Shadrake was arrested and tried, then sentenced to jail—for daring to put the Singapore justice system in the dock. This revised and updated edition covers Shadrake’s arrest, and his ongoing campaign against the death penalty.
- Ontario's Old-Growth Forests
A Guidebook Complete with History, Ecology, and Maps
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Forest ecologists Michael Henry and Peter Quinby tell the story of Ontario's old-growth forests.
- Open Library Authors - Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Oranges and Sunshine
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
This Australian drama is based on the true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker who uncovered the scandal of 'home children', a program which forcibly relocated underprivileged children from the United Kingdom to Australia and Canada.
- A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
- Police in Canada
The Real Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
What's going on with Canada's police? Once an institution that commanded respect and trust, the police are now widely regarded with skepticism and even suspicion.
- The Politics of Impatience: An open letter from anarchists to the anarchist movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Militancy and dramatic tactics require trust, and trust is built by humbly listening to people who have their own ideas and plans for their liberation. It is now more than ever, exactly because of the urgency of the crisis created by capitalism, that we need to be careful that our actions are as respectful, strategic, and collectively discussed and agreed-on as possible.
- The Polluters
The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Provides an account of the American chemical industry and its effect on the environment.
- Proven Methods for Planning more Efficient, Productive Meetings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Meetings can be highly effective for addressing issues or achieving your organization's goals. They also have the potential to consume time and energy better spent elsewhere without careful planning and management.
- A Proverbial Needle in an Electronic Haystack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A combination of the new copyright law, the trend towards subscription-based news media websites has made the media monitoring task feel like a search for a needle in an electronic haystack at times.
- The Punishment of Gaza
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
An account of Israel's criminal treatment of Gaza.
- Rebel Rank and File
Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A collection of essays that concentrate on struggles by American workers at the workplace and the political and economic context in which they took place.
- Revolutions
A worldwide introduction to social and political contention
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Rosa Luxemburg and the Global Violence of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Rose Henderson
A Woman for the People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A study of the life of Canadian feminist, socialist, and peace activist Rose Henderson (1871-1937).
- The Rules of Disengagement
Ending Conversations Gracefully and Tactfully
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Some conversations don't just end naturally they need to be closed or disengaged.
- Schedule a Photo Shoot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Snapshots taken by friends or family are fine for most purposes, but when you need a professional portrait to use on your website, in your promotional materials or for the back cover of your book, you need to hire a professional.
- Secrets from a Top Sales Exec
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Marketing your business, product or yourself is like any other type of sales.
- Smile or Die
How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The positive thinking industry is based on the idea that one has to think a thing or desire it to make it happen, and if one can master one's mind possibilities are infinite. The author traces the history of the cult of positive thinking from its early proponents to the motivational speakers of today.
- Social Classes in the Process of Capitalist Landnahme
On the Relevance of Secondary Exploitation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
So far, growing social insecurity and inequality have not led to a revival of class-conscious labour movements in the centres of capitalism. This article builds upon Rosa Luxemburg’s concept of Landnahme to attempt to explain this phenomenon.
- Socialist Register 2010
Volume 46: Morbid Symptoms
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Sold on Language
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
An inquiry into the language of advertising.
- Sources Banners - Subs & Lists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Sources Calendar Downloadable Banners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2010
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Sources Index des Sujets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Sources índice temático (Edición Española)
Expertos y Portavoces
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Sources - Portal para Periodistas y Escritores
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Sources es un portal de información para periodistas, escritores independientes, editores, autores e investigadores, especialmente si están enfocados en recursos humanos: expertos y portavoces quienes están preparados para responder preguntas de los reporteros, o se disponen a ser entrevistados en los medios de comunicación.
- Sources Search
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Sources Verzeichnis - Fachgebiete Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- Spies of the Balkans
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Greece, 1940. In the port city of Salonika, with its whar4es and brothels, dark alleys and Turkish mansions, a tense political drama is being played out. Ad Adolf Hitler plans to invade the Blakans, spies begin to circle, and Costa Zannis, a senior police official, must deal with them all.
- Staying Power: The history of black people in Britain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Peter Fryer reveals how Africans, Asians and their descendants, previously hidden from history, have profoundly influenced and shaped events in Britain over the course of the last two thousand years.
- Stones Aimed at Us
An Overview of the Discourse and Strategies of the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
This report provides an overview of the discourses around stoning in Iran, and the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign.
- SUPA, Selma, and Stevenson
The Politics of Solidarity in mid-1960s Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Published in Journal of Canadian Studies, 41 (Spring 2010)
- SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
- Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Threats of terrorism, natural disaster, identity theft, job loss, illegal immigration, and even biblical apocalypse — all are perils that trigger alarm in people today. Although there may be a factual basis for many of these fears, they do not simply represent objective conditions. Feelings of insecurity are instilled by politicians and the media, and sustained by urban fortification, technological surveillance, and economic vulnerability.
- Tar Sands
Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
To extract the energy from the Alberta tar sands, the world's ugliest, most expensive hydrocrabon, we are polluting our air, poisoning our water, destroying vast areas of boreal forest, and undermining democracy.
- Too Much To Know
Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A study of Latin reference works compiled in the Middle Ages and Renaissance when digests and compendia containing quotations, excerpts and precis of works of the canon were a popular source of knowledge.
- Toronto Maple Leafs: Diary of a Dynasty 1957-1967
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
- The Trouble With Billionaires
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
- The Truth Will Always Win
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government". The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.
- Visioning a World Without Capitalism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
As leftists we have something infinitely more precious to win from our rich history than sentimentality and sectarianism, as we struggle to renovate the revolutionary tradition in the twenty-first century.
- Waiting for 'Superman'
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The failures of the American public education system is examined by following several students as they strive to be accepted into a charter school.
- The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Wilkerson chronicles the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of the United States.
- The Watchers
The Rise of America's Surveillance State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
An exploration of how and why the American government increasingly spies on its own citizens.
- The West Bank
A Collection of Graphic Novels
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A collection of graphic stories by twelve students from An-Najah University depicting real descriptions of life in Palestine.
- When Miners March
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Complete with previously unpublished family photos and documents, When Miners March is an extraordinary insiders account of the uprising by coal miners that defined the West Virginia Mine Wars of the 1920's.
- When the State Trembled
How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Recovers the story of how the business elite-led Citizens' Committee of 1000 crushed the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
- Who Can Stop the Drums?
Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
In this ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the barrios, from the guerrilla insurgency, movements against displacement, and cultural resistance of the 1960s and 1970s, through the debt crisis of the early 1980s and the neoliberal reforms that followed, to the Chávez period.
- Who Can Stop the Drums?
Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
A vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Venezuela.
- Whole Earth Discipline
An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Brand's solution to tackling global warming is dense cities, nuclear power, GMO crops -- these are pragmatic solutions, using innovation to maximize efficiency. They will require environmentalists to accept risks and compromises.
- Why Buyers Don't Choose You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Positioning is basically how you differentiate yourself in the marketplace. The most powerful positioning addresses your prospects' (often unspoken) needs. It appeals to the emotions first, then the intellect.
- You Are Not a Gadget
A Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The internet has spawned a hive mentality, where the crowd takes precedence over the individual.
- Activists tell Zim - Israeli ships not welcome in Vancouver
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Locally-based activists, called out by the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Coalition (BIAC), are mounting a picket line at the Port of Vancouver's Delta Port facility at Roberts Bank, south of Vancouver, as part of a mounting international campaign to put
- Affirmation To Abundance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Our words are the connection between our imagined thoughts and our actions of reality. They reflect our thoughts, allow us to communicate with our environment and seed the earth to grow our destiny.
- Alternative Gift Wrapping Ideas
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
With Christmas fast approaching it can be challenging to wrap those unusual gifts. This article provides some great tips on making those gifts look extra special.
- Alternative Gift Wrapping Ideas
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Don't let unweildy gifts throw you off your gift-wrapping game. These simple tips will make your life easier.
- Alternatives to Body Scans Do Exist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
If the technology exists to detect even greater hazards and protect privacy concerns, why wouldn't our government want to consider them?
- Amlioration des oprations de paix grce un rle de chef de file de premier plan et des prparatifs pousss
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Le Centre Pearson pour le maintien de la paix (CPMP) continue d’accroître la contribution du Canada à la paix et à la sécurité dans le monde avec le lancement aujourd’hui du Cours sur les missions intégrées des Nations Unies à l’intention des officie
- Anavex Appoints David Tousley as CFO
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (OTCBB: AVXL) has appointed David L. Tousley, CPA, MBA, as Chief Financial Officer of the company, pursuant to a contractor agreement. Mr. Tousley, who has over 25 years of senior-level experience in biotech ...
- Anavex to present at Rodman & Renshaw Healthcare Conference September 13 in New York
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("ANAVEX") (OTCBB: AVXL) is pleased to announce that Dr. Cameron Durrant, the company#s Executive Chairman, will be presenting at the Rodman & Renshaw 12th Annual Healthcare Conference at 4:45 pm ET on Monday, September 13
- Apparel Company Strengthens its Position in the Ultraviolet Market
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Seasons UV Solutions of Milton, Ontario has acquired the Bluzoo Line from the Brazilian based company, Bluzoo Swim. In a deal reached this spring with Bluzoo USA Inc. (the parent company of Bluzoo Swim) sees Seasons UV Solutions takes over Bluzoo
- Appel de candidatures pour le Prix d’excellence dans la fonction de contrôle – secteur public, décerné pour la troisième année
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Le Prix d’excellence dans la fonction de contrôle – secteur public rend hommage chaque année à un fonctionnaire ou à une équipe de fonctionnaires qui se sont démarqués par leur importante contribution à la gestion financière ou à la fonction de contr
- Are We Drawing the Right Lessons from the Gulf Oil Disaster?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
We are already hearing calls from environmentalists for a moratorium on oil drilling and exploration in coastal zones, with a definite "I told you so" attitude. Unfortunately, that would be drawing precisely the wrong lesson from the Gulf of Mexico
- Are You UV Wise?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Though we all need some sun exposure as it#s our primary source of vitamin D, prolonged exposure can puts everyone at risk of developing skin cancer, regardless if your 3 or 30 years old. A cotton T-shirt only provides a UPF factor of 5
- Artybollocks Generator
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Do you hate having to write your own artist statement? Generate your own artist statement for free, and if you don't like it, generate another one. Feel free to use the statements with funding applications, exhibitions, curriculum vitae, websites, ...
- As ACTA talks resume, new leak confirms fears about threat to online free expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders urges ACTA negotiators not to sacrifice Internet free speech and access to online information to the desire to combat piracy and the counterfeiting of copyrighted works
- Author warns coalition of MPs (CPCCA) intent on criminalizing free speech on Israel/Palestine
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The author of a new book on antisemitism kicks off a Western Canada tour Sept. 17 to sound an alarm that a coalition of MPs (CPCCA) is intent on outlawing criticism of Israel as being antisemitic, posing a significant threat to free speech.
- Authorities urged to drop two bills that threaten media freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders urges the South African government to abandon two proposed media laws, one to create a media tribunal and one to protect information involving #national security."
- Back-to-the-Basics with Back-to-School Organization
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
August is the time to get ready for back to school by preparing ourselves with the proper supplies and organizational techniques.
- Being Organized Takes the Sting Out of Tax Time
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Whether we like it or not its time to file your taxes. Even if an expert files them for you, it is still your responsibility to get the information together. Are you feeling the pain involved with this annual necessity?
- Bellwood Launches New Dynamic Addiction Resource Web Site
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Bellwood Health Services is pleased to announce the launching of its new interactive website, designed to help users learn about addiction and find treatment and support resources.
- BP and the Real Value of Prudent Risk Management
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Prudent risk management is about weighing potential risks against potential rewards and benefits.
- Call from Gaza for Global Response to Killings on the Freedom Flotilla
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
We Gaza based Palestinian Civil Society Organizations and International activists call on the international community and civil society to pressure their governments and Israel to cease the abductions and killings in Israel's attacks on the Flotilla
- CAM-X’s Astounding Fundraising Continues
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
This year, with the support of both CAM-X members and CAM-X vendors, the Association raised an astounding $50,000 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
- Can companies do better in preparing their executives for crises?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
BP CEO Tony Hayward's performance in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico leads us to ask if companies can better prepare their executives for crises.
- Can the Lockout and the Labour Conflicts at the Port of Montreal be Resolved? - A Mediator's Perspective
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Do the leaders of the longshoremen and the Maritime Employers Association have the courage to resolve this conflict or will they take the easy way out and keep fighting? From a mediator's perspective they have choices but solid leadership is needed!
- Canada Agriculture Museum Introduces Live Bee Colony
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Members of the media are invited to explore Taking Care of Beesness and meet the project manager, curator, and interp
- Canada Revenue Agency employees named recipients of the Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
CMA Canada and CIPFA congratulate Michel Bernard, Mary-Lee Clarke and Joan Reade (Section 5970 Project Team) from the Canada Revenue Agency, on being chosen as the recipients of the second annual Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public
- Canadian Ethnocultural Council of Canada 30th Anniversary Dinner – October 30, 2010
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
on October 30, The Canadian Ethnocultural Council in collaboration with the ever-growing Italian Canadian Museum (AMICI) will be holding a dinner gala to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Canadian Ethnocultural Council.
- Canadian Jewish Group Calls for Independent Inquiry on Flotilla Tragedy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Independent Jewish Voices - Canada calls for independent inquiry on the Gaza flotilla tragedy.
- Canadian Shippers Expect Modest Growth in 2010
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Shippers expect modest growth in their volumes and in rate increases of their carriers in 2010. That is one of the findings in the 5th annual benchmarking survey undertaken by Supply Chain Surveys Inc. for the Canadian Industrial Transportation Assoc
- CBP Announces the 2010-2011 Board of Directors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
CBP elects three new directors at 91st annual general meeting.
- CCIEO reaches last voting round in Aviva Community Fund competition for Whole-person Cancer Care Regardless of Income
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Cancer has superseded cardiovascular disease as the number one killer in Canada. In the Ottawa region alone, over 5,200 people are diagnosed with cancer annually. A large majority of cancer patients and survivors would like to access high quality com
- CCNM student awarded scholarship for research on osteoporosis
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Melanie DesChatelets, a 2010 CCNM graduate, was awarded a scholarship for her research showing that a whole foods diet can help minimize the risk of osteoporosis and promote healthy bone metabolism.
- Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Non-Violent Resistance in Bil'in in the West Bank
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Come to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the non-violent resistance in Bil'in in the occupied West Bank. February 5th from 5 until 6pm at the Iisraeli Consulate 180 Bloor St. W. Toronto.
- CIBC and CAW honoured for supporting vulnerable children
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Canadian Feed The Children recognizes CIBC and CAW union members on June 6, 2010 at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto from 6:30 to 9 pm for their support of vulnerable children.
- Climate Scientist Dr. James Hansen visits Toronto on Sept. 15-16
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Science for Peace and The Centre for Global Change Science of U of T welcome the world#s foremost climate scientist and author of "Storms of My Grandchildren", Dr. James Hansen, for public talks and meetings, on Sept. 15th and 16th.
- Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of UN SCR 1325 and the Importance of Women in Peace Operations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) is commemorating the 10th anniversary of the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UN SCR) 1325 by organizing a panel discussion in partnership with the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping
- Communication severed with flotilla media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders urges the Israeli authorities to release a list of the journalists who were arrested during yesterday#s raid on the humanitarian flotilla and to say where they are being held.
- Companies Run They Way They Are Led
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
BP's Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and the wave of losses and government scrutiny that have washed over Wall Street in the last year and a half have something in common.
- Concern about article in proposed Bolivian law against racism
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders calls for an amendment to an article in the draft law against racism.
- Countdown to Zero Gets Thumbs Up From Canadians Working for Nuclear Disarmament
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Members of several Canadian groups working towards nuclear disarmament enthusiastically recommend Lucy Walker#s documentary Countdown to Zero, which opens on July 30th. The film outlines the nuclear threat in today#s post-Cold War world.
- Cours UNPOL pour renforcer les capacités dans les missions de paix
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Le Centre Pearson pour le maintien de la paix, en collaboration avec lapolice militaire du district fédéral de Brasilia, tiendra du 17 au 28 mai prochains sa première formation prédéploiement UNPOL en Amérique latine à l#académie de la police à Brasi
- CPJ urges Indonesia to reverse Playboy editor's conviction
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about an Indonesian Supreme Court ruling against Erwin Arnada, editor of the now-dormant Playboy Indonesia.
- CPRS Announces The 2010-2011 Board of Directors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
CPRS Board Elects Pierrette Leonard APR, FCPRS as National President and Welcomes Two New Board Members
- Day Care For Younger Children Put At Risk By Province's JK/SK Plan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Day care owners say centre closures and fee increases are imminent if Ontario government doesn't act quickly to stabilize child care system in the wake of new school-based JK/SK plan.
- Defense is Stronger than Attack
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Clausewitz pointed out almost 200 years ago what every soldier in history has known full well, that the defense is inherently stronger than the offense. As a general rule of thumb, attacking forces have to be at least three times stronger than defend
- Dershowitz and Keefer "face off" in Vancouver debate this week whether Israel's critics are anti-semitic
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Canadian professor Michael Keefer warns that Alan Dershowitz' and coalition of Canadian MPs (CPCCA) pose threat to free speech, using baseless accusations of antisemitism to defend Israel. Keefer speaks Thur. Sept 23 at SFU downtown.
- Eight Tips that Make Filing Business Income Taxes Easy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
There are many great things about having your own businesses. Filing your taxes isnt one of them. So here are eight quick tips that you can use to make filing your taxes easier and less time consuming.
- Election Campaigns: Professionalism and Integrity or Pot-shots and Personal Attacks?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Mayoralty candidates in the Ottawa election campaign will choose how they present their platforms and themselves. Is the strategy of personal attacks and nastiness working? What does it imply for the leader of the next council?
- Elin shocked that her life with Tiger was a lie!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Honest trusting people are often easily fooled by smooth liars and Tiger Wood's now Ex-wife is no exception. In her interview with people Magazine she reveals the picture of the typical woman who falls under the scheming plot of a self serving man.
- Elmer the Safety Elephant Be Prepared! Poster Contest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The Canada Safety Council and its partner Public Safety Canada are pleased to announce Elmer the Safety Elephants Be Prepared! Poster Contest for elementary school students in grades two to five all across Canada.
- Excellence at the National Gallery of Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Terms like #the good# and #excellent# have been used to exclude minorities and perpetuate a dominant monoculture. NGC#s current mandate of #excellence# raises serious questions about its ability to represent a culturally diverse nation.
- Family Day project transforms family stories into permanent keepsakes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
Family Service Toronto is inviting families to make free recordings their stories at a week-long event called Im Listening: Conversations for Keeps in honour of Family Day.
- Fibres du monde au Sommet G20
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Fibres du monde, un remarquable projet d'art textile collectif est en exposition au Metro Toronto Convention Centre au cadre du Sommet G20. Cette riche tapisserie qui prouve que tous on leur
place dans le tissu social représente nos riches héritage
- Final call for nominations for the second annual Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector
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CMA Canada and CIPFA invite federal public servants to nominate colleagues and/or to self-nominate for the Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector. All nominations must be received by Friday, January 22, 2010.
- Finalists announced for second annual Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector
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CMA Canada and CIPFA are pleased to announce the selection of finalists for the second annual Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector.
- Firearm Safety a Must for Hunters
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The days of storing grandpa’s old rifle in the attic or between the floor joists are long gone. Rifles and shotguns used for hunting, and any other firearms, should be kept in a securely locked steel cabinet, safe, or vault when not in use.
- Firearm Safety Starts at Home
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If you have firearms in your home, the best way to prevent them from being involved in a tragedy is to keep them stored safely # unloaded and securely locked up.
- Focus on Canada-Mexico ties in May edition of FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
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This edition draws together diplomats, policy-makers and analysts to look into the current state of the Canada-Mexico relationship. Most argue that both countries would benefit from enhancing their bilateral diplomatic, economic and security ties.
- Foodies To Become 'Do-Goodies' In Innovative Cookbook Contest For Charity
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Snack producer seeks 50 original recipes using riceworks# crisps as an ingredient.
- Former British MP George Galloway speaks in Vancouver Nov. 22
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Former British MP George Galloway speaks in Vancouver Nov. 22 as part of a national tour on Palestine, Afghanistan, and free speech, especially the Harper government's attempts to ban him for purely political reasons.
- Free Crisis Counselling for Haitians Living in Toronto
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Haitians living in Toronto can now access free crisis counselling services from Family Service Toronto and Family Services Employee Assistance Program. This service is being offered in partnership with the Centre Francophone de Toronto.
- Full support for government plans to restructure CSIC
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CAPIC supports changes coming to the Regulator CSIC. Changes may include a restructuring of the Regulator and to give it more teeth. Board of CSIC, led by John Ryan has lost its focus and reportedly has had governance issues.
- Fundraising Walk on August 14 Benefits Homeless Women in Crisis at St. Clare Inn in Toronto
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Linda#s Walk, 5k Fundraising Walk to help homeless women rebuild their lives, Saturday, August 14, 2010, 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m, St. Bonaventure Church, 1300 Leslie Street, Toronto. Walk 5k to support St. Clare Inn; an alternative for homeless women
- Geo Tech Shows that Cola Can Pay!
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Cost of Living Allowance keeps Machinists pay rates healthy at Geo Tech Industries
- Get Ready to Recycle!
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Quick and easy tips on how to streamline your recycling habits.
- Government of Canada invests in organic sector
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The Organic Trade Association (OTA) in Canada is pleased to announce it has received over $118,000 in support from the Government of Canada to develop a long-term international marketing strategy to expand Canada#s organic sector.
- Great Leaders Embrace Competition and Conflict
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One of the most powerful things a leader can do is surround him or herself with competent people. Unfortunately, I often encounter leaders in positions of trust and authority that prefer weak subordinates.
- Halifax Author Helps People Find Divinity in Divorce with New Book
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Divinity for Dr. Dena Churchill, an inspirational speaker, coach to those in crisis and author of the new book, Divinity In Divorce # The Power in Gratitude and Love, goes beyond traditional theological definition. It is about finding love, gratitude
- Hand in Hand - Stitching for Justice & Peace - Exhibition of Quilts from Israel, Palestine and Canada
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The exhibit brings together quilts centred around peace and hope in Palestine and Israel. Opening reception on June 3, 2010 with facilitator speaking. Co-sponsored by: United Jewish People#s Order, Trinity St. Paul#s United Church & Beit Zatoun.
- Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes -- Independent Jewish Voices
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Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes.
- Helping Families Cope with an Eating Disorder
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The debilitating effects of alcohol and drug addictions on the family are generally well-known; however, when it comes to eating disorders, people remain less aware of the disruptive familial effects.
- Holiday Shopping for Those Who Have it All or Are Difficult to Buy For
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Everyone has that one person on their list that is impossible to buy for! We offer some helpful hints and tips to ensure that you find something special for a gift this holiday season.
- Hollywood Goody Bags: Canadian Wine Wins Coveted Spot in Bag Swag for Golden Globe Awards Party
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Canadas Northern Ice Wine Selected for Inclusion in Prize Package for 2010 Golden Globe Winners, Nominees and Party-Goers.
- Hollywood Stars Enjoy Swag Bag Heaven at 2010 Golden Globe Awards
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Gourmet Snack Maker Earns A-List Recognition for Inclusion in Swanky Loot Bags for Movie Stars and Award Show Party-Goers.
- Honda Fall Excursion Contest Has Ontario Outdoors Enthusiasts Facebooking
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Innovative sweepstakes uses modern media to generate buzz over traditional autumn thrills.
- Hospitalized Ventilated Patients Transition from Hospital to Breathing Easier at Home
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Two year old Kayne who requires the help of a breathing machine was able to return home from hospital due to a Respiratory Therapist led project. Kayne's and his mom Stacy and others will be presenting at the September 16 conference in Mississauga.
- How to Organize Video Game Systems and Accessories
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How to Organize Video Game Systems and Accessories
- Human Resources Association Announces Recipients of Provincial Awards
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The BC Human Resources Management Association (BC HRMA) announced this year#s recipients of the Awards of Excellence, Rising Star Award and FCHRPs last evening at a gala held in conjunction with the association#s 48th Annual Conference & Showcase.
- IFIC 2009 Year in Review in Conversatiom with Dennis Yanchus
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Investor sentiment, sales and Canadas international standing will be discussed at this media-only event.
- IFIC Appears Before Senate Standing Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce: Reinforces Value of Advice
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TORONTO # Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) President & CEO, Joanne De Laurentiis, along with IFIC Members Murray Taylor, President and CEO, Investors Group, and Charles Guay, President and CEO, National Bank Securities Inc., today tabled
- IFIC Makes Recommendations Aimed at Improving Retirement Savings
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today published submissions it
made to the Nova Scotia Ministry of Labour and Workforce Development, and the Alberta
Ministry of Finance and Enterprise. These submissions were made further to requests
- IFIC Recommends Balanced Retirement Solutions
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TORONTO – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today published its submission in respect of the Ontario Ministry of Finance’s consultation paper related to reforming Canada’s retirement income system entitled Securing Our Retirement Future
- IFIC Releases Report on the Value of Advice
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released a seminal report # The Value of Advice: Report - which provides a clear, unbiased view of what advice means to the financial well-being of Canadians and how it builds their confidence
- IFIC Stresses Importance of Fourth Pillar in Retirement Savings System Debate
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TORONTO # The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today announced that it published its submission to the Department of Finance related to a request for comments on its consultation paper, Ensuring the Ongoing Strength of Canada#s Retirement
- IFIC Stresses Importance of Maintaining Proper Records
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TORONTO – The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) today released a resource guide, Document Management, Record Retention and Destruction (the Resource Guide) to assist industry participants in developing and maintaining proper business record
- IFIC to hold Annual Conference on October 1, 2010
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TORONTO # The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) will be holding its Annual Conference in Toronto on Friday, October 1, 2010. This full day event will feature senior industry executives and policymakers discussing the major issues impacting
- IFJ Accuses NATO and Calls for Release of Al Jazeera Cameramen in Afghanistan
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls for the release of two Al Jazeera cameramen, Mohammed Nader and Rahmatullah Nekzad, who were recently arrested in Afghanistan by the NATO-led forces on suspicion of working with the Taliban.
- IFJ Calls for Prompt Inquiry into Murder of Senior Journalist in Pakistan
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Pakistani authorities to launch an immediate inquiry in the murder of Mujeebur Rehman Saddiqui, senior correspondent of Daily Pakistan newspaper who was shot dead by gunmen.
- IFJ Calls on United States to Withdraw "Perverse" Bar on Colombian Journalist
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International Federation of Journalists calls on the United States to lift a travel ban on a leading Colombian journalist who has risked his life to expose terrorism, warning of a "grave injustice" that may increase the dangers facing the reporter.
- IFJ Condemns Deadly Attack on Journalists in Mexico
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the shooting attack on two young Mexican journalists in the city of Ciudad Juárez in which photojournalist Luis Carlos Santiago was killed and his colleague Carlos Sanchez wounded.
- IFJ Condemns Gaza Attack and Demands International Inquiry after Reports of Media Casualties
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The International Federation of Journalists today reacted with shock at the news of the brutal attacks on civilians, including journalists, by Israeli forces in the assault on a flotilla that yesterday tried to breach the military blockade of Gaza
- IFJ Demands Freedom of Movement for Moroccan Journalists Held in Algeria
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the measures by Algerian authorities against two Moroccan journalists who have been denied, without good reason, permission to leave their hotel in Tindouf,
- IFJ Slams Iran over Jail Term for Leading Journalist
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The International Federation of Journalists today accused Iranian authorities of a continuing and unrelenting campaign of intimidation against media after a court condemned leading journalist and author Emad Baghi to a six-year suspended jail term.
- Immigration Regulator Taken to Court
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CSIC members are increasingly unsatisfied with their regulator and its decisions. Two applications for a leave to the Federal Court were approved by a Judge and are awaiting a hearing.
- Inaugural Event: A dramatic reading of a personal account of bombing of Gaza
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New Toronto Art and Culture Venue - Beit Zatoun. Inaugural Event: A dramatic reading of SEVEN DAYS FROM A GAZA DIARY, on 1st anniversary of Israeli assault on Gaza. In Toronto; Saturday January 30 at 6 pm. Beit Zatoun House, 612 Markham St.
- Information Session on New Regulation of Immigration Consultants
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Certified immigration consultants get together to air their views and express their opinions on the future of the regulation
- Iranian regime accused of crimes against humanity
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Reporters Without Borders today accused the Iranian regime of #crimes against humanity# and urged the international community to speak out.
- Jewish Group Applauds Pride's Pro-Free Speech Stance
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Independent Jewish Voices # Canada applauds and congratulates Pride Toronto on its historic decision to allow Queers Against Israeli Apartheid to march in next month's Pride parade. IJV condemns attempts by the Canadian Jewish Congress
- Jewish Group Commends UofT Provost for Supporting Freedom of Inquiry
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Jewish group defends University of Toronto's support for academic freedom in the face of attacks on thesis questionning the misuse of the Holocaust for political purposes.
- Jewish group condemns Israeli attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
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Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has expressed shock and outrage in response to the deaths and injuries of participants in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla at the hands of the Israeli navy.
- Jewish group slams Israel for cutting off mail to Gaza
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Jewish group criticizes Israeli cut-off of mail to Gaza
- Judges Do an AboutFace in Online Charity Contest, Giving Away $60,000 Total
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Healthy Snack Maker Announces Winners of #Show Us Your Goodness# Contest
- Keeping Things on Track: Organize for Success
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We all start the year with the intention to be organized and on top of schoolwork, bills, work, and obligations. It doesn#t take long for the best intentions to turn into the worst habits. Let these organizing tips help you start the year off right.
- Kids Help Line Volunteers learn About Workplace Bullies
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Watch Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem M.Ed. address the Kid's Help Line volunteers on issues of bullying.
- Latest FOCALPoint is out! Focus on the Brazilian presidential elections, crime in Jamaica and youth violence in Central America.
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The September edition of FOCALPoint focuses on the Brazilian presidential elections, crime in Jamaica, youth violence in Central America and mining in Peru, among other issues.
- Lessons for Risk and Opportunity from NHL Draft
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The NHL amateur draft has just ended and it offers interesting lessons about assessing risk and opportunity.
- Life at the Border
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Life is the journey along the borders where inspiration is birthed between two destinations of here and there. The inspirational moments occur when the world is quiet for you to hear yourself think, your inner voice.
- Machinist at Three Point Motors have New Deal!
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New agreement signed by Machinists with expanding auto dealership on Vancouver Island
- Machinists Applaud Ottawa’s Refusal to Bow to UAE Pressure!
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Machinists applaud Ottawa's refusal of a request by UAE for greater access to the Canadian air transport market.
- Machinists Build on Past Agreements to Improve Wages!
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Machinists build on past agreements to become the highest paid tradesmen on Vancouver Island
- Machinists Expand at Calgary Airport!
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IAMAW wins CLRB certification bid for ramp workers at Calgary airport.
- Machinists Ratify with City Motors
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IAMAW Members in Corner Brook Newfoundland ratify new 3 year agreement by a margin of 91 per cent.
- Machinists sign new Agreement with Cullen Diesel!
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Machinists sign new agreement with Cullen Diesel service locations throughout BC
- Manitoba and Saskatchewan added to the Premiere Map
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Canada#s largest #extended-stay# provider creates a new franchise for the Prairies, opening suites in Winnipeg, Regina and Saskatoon
- Manitoba and UWinnipeg to Host Arctic Gateway Summit
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Increasing international trade and trade between Nunavut and Manitoba, building sustainable communities, and developing economic opportunities in partnership with northern communities and indigenous peoples will be the focus of an Arctic summit.
- Maple Ridge Chrysler Inks Deal with Machinists!
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Machinists sign new agreement with Maple Ridge Chrysler which includes implementation of IAM-Labour Management Pension Plan
- Media Culpa
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A blog about the media.
- Metro Vancouver Image Consultant Nominated for President-Elect on International Board of Directors
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Metro Vancouver Image Consultant, Kimberly Law was nominated to serve as President-Elect for the Association of Image Consultant International for the 2010-2011 term. The President-Elect#s primary function is preparation for the position of President
- Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
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Mohammed Khatib#s arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bil#in to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest .
- More Love: $30,000 Valentine Gift For Charities, Nonprofits and Fundraisers
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Popular Snack Maker Doubles Funding For Online Contest To Help More Charities and Nonprofits Share $60,000 in Prize Money.
- Mother's Day Weekend - Walk for Breast Cancer Research
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For the 8th consecutive year, cleo will partner with the Breast Cancer Society of Canada (BCSC) for this exciting annual event. The BCSC held their first walk in Point Edward, Ontario in 1991 and with the support and partnership of cleo - the walk
- MS Awareness Month: $6.7 million in new research funding approved
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Kicking off multiple sclerosis awareness month this year, the MS Society of Canada announced $6.7 million in new research funding. Pending acceptance of the awards, it is expected that $4.2 million of the total will go towards 18 operating grants
- Mudroom Madness
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Is your mudroom, hallway, foyer or entry way making you mad? Do you constantly trip over everything on the floor? Is there no space to put anything?
- National Home Fire Safety Week: Are you and your family prepared?
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November 24th to 30th is National Home Fire Safety Week and Canada Safety Council wants all Canadians to protect themselves against fire this holiday season. Being prepared is your best defence against a fire in your home. Make sure you & your family
- Naturopathic Doctor Jonathan Prousky Named Orthomolecular Doctor of the Year
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Jonathan Prousky, naturopathic doctor and chief naturopathic medical officer at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine#s Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic, has received the 2010 Orthomolecular Doctor of the Year award. This is the first time
- Netflix's Rise Leads to Blockbuster's Bust
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Blockbuster's bankruptcy shows that its business was built around a narrow definition of its value.
- Never lose your cellphone again!
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If you've ever lost your cellphone, this article is for you. These seven simple tips will ensure you know where your phone is at all times.
- Never Worry About Losing Your Keys Again
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It seem like the items we spend most of our time searching for are the ones we need and use daily. The best example is our keys. How many of us spend 20 extra minutes every morning before leaving the house searching for our keys, or five minutes
- News Years Resolutions or Fatal Attraction?
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Are you like most people? Have you set and broken many of your New Years Resolutions already? Have you spent time focused on your deficits and shortcomings? The law of attraction says we will draw those things towards us that we spend time thinking
- Nominations open for the third annual Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector
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The Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector will annually honour a federal public servant or team who has made a “significant contribution” to financial management and/or comptrollership within the Government of Canada.
- NUJ and IFJ condemn UK government Visa Decision
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The Nation Union of Journalists of Great Britain and Ireland ( NUJ) and the IFJ condemn the decision by the UK government to refuse a visa to a leading Colombian journalist whose reports on human rights abuses.
- Offense is Essential to Victory
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Nobody ever won a war by hunkering down and staying on the defensive. At most, one can avoid losing, but that is not a very favourable outcome. You need an offensive mindset. Offense is about gaining and keeping the initiative.
- Online Surveys Pay Off For Snack Marketer and Hard-Hit Charities
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Popular Snack Maker Finds Creative Way to Improve Product Development and Fund Charities
- Ontario Public Health Association Supports a Renewed Ontario Government Commitment to Tobacco Control
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Ontario Public Health Association supports new tobacco control recommendations as outlined in, "Building on Our Gains, Taking Action Now: Ontario’s Tobacco Control Strategy for 2011-2016", which was released yesterday by an expert panel.
- Opponents of Israeli occupation greet truckers at port of Vancouver
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Port truck traffic slowed to a crawl along the Deltaport causeway as a group of about 50 protesters approached drivers with leaflets containing information about the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza.
- Organize Anything Announces Top 10 List of Best Organizing Products
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Organize Anything Announces Top 10 List of Best Organizing Products
- Peace Operations Improved Through Strong Leadership and Preparation
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The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) continues to advance Canada’s contribution to global peace and security with the start of today’s United Nations Integrated Mission Staff Officer Course (UNIMSOC) followed by the Senior Management Course (SMC)
- Performance Breath
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Breathing is the essence of life. Athletes and yogis know how to work with their breath, but many adults have forgotten the powerful, natural breathing we all understood at birth. Here are a few insights.
- Pharmetics will Phase Out Fort Erie Plant!
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Pharmetics announces closure of Fort Erie plant less than a year after unionized workers take 45 cent an hour pay cut to save jobs!
- Planning the Perfect Dinner Party
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Hosting a dinner party takes preparation and organization. With everyone#s busy schedules, families and friends don#t often get the chance to sit down and enjoy a special meal together. Here are some suggestions to help make your next gathering easy
- Pleins feux sur le 10e anniversaire de la Rsolution 1325 et limportance des femmes dans les oprations de paix
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Le Centre Pearson pour le maintien de la paix clbre le dixime anniversaire de ladoption de la Rsolution 1325 par le Conseil de scurit de lONU en organisant un groupe de discussion en partenariat avec le Dpartement des oprations de maintien
- PM Prorogues Politics Over National Security
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Ambiguity of Conservative MP's statements around body scanners could violate Canadian privacy law.
- Popular Online Charity Contest Wins More Nomination Time for Nonprofits
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Popular Snack Maker Extends Online Contest by Two Weeks To Give People More Time to Nominate Inspiring Charities For Chance To Win $30,000 in Shared Prize Money.
- Preventing Elder Abuse
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November 6th – 12th is National Senior Safety Week, and Canada Safety Council wants to raise awareness on elder abuse. What it is, what the signs and symptoms are, and how it can be prevented.
- Provincial Nutrition Society agrees new School Food and Beverage Policy is a positive step
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The Ontario Society of Nutrition Professionals in Public Health (OSNPPH) and the Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA) applaud the Ontario Ministry of Education for the release of the School Food and Beverage Policy.
- Provincial Towing Association of Ontario and the Ontario Recovery Group Applauds the Introduction of Bill 147
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This important Act would eliminate competing and often inadequate municipal licensing streams and create a powerful provincial consumer protection mechanism for all citizens.
- Questing Home Reveals How Bullies Pick Their Target
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Family therapist, Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem M.Ed., explains the tactics used in bullying and that suicide is not the answer. Free shipping of Questing Home is now available across Canada.
- Quilt of Belonging at the G20 Summit
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Quilt of Belonging, one of Canadas most powerful and comprehensive art projects, is a feature exhibit at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for the G20 Summit. The richly hued, 120-foot textile
mosaic, portrays the rich cultural legacies
- Red Carpet And Green Swag: Hollywood Goody Bags Go Eco & Natural
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Gourmet Snack Maker Earns Invitation Into Eco-Loot Bags for Hollywood Stars in Event Leading to 2010 Oscar Awards.
- Regulatory Ammendments Necessary To Stabilize Licensed Child Care
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Operators of small non-profit and commercial child care centres attend Provincial consultations, hoping for solutions to help keep cost of licensed care affordable for parents.
- Religious Minorities Should Fight Hatred Together
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A Gallup Poll showing the linkages of hatred between groups should foster more collaboration
- Reporters Without Borders to create centre of operations for Haitian journalists
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Reporters Without Borders intends to set up a centre of operations for Haitian journalists in Port-au-Prince in order to enable them to cover the situation and thereby assist the process of providing assistance to the population.
- Research Shows Employers Need to Focus on Ways to Make the Generations Happy at Work
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Generations at work are showing increased job dissatisfaction, employers need to be focused on keeping the generations happy at work. The biggest threat to companies over the next decade will be the erosion and loss of their talent.
- riceworks Awards Harlem's America Scores $4,000 in Online Contest
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Healthy snack maker announces final winner of its ‘How riceworks Better’ contest
- Richard Martin enseignera la gestion des projets d'aide humanitaire
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Alcera Conseil de gestion inc. est fire dannoncer que Richard Martin enseignera le cours de Gestion des projets daide humanitaire lUniversit du Qubec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Qubec.
- Richard Martin to Teach Humanitarian Assistance Project Management
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Richard Martin will teach a course in the Management of Humanitarian Assistance Projects at Universite du Quebec en Outaouais in Gatineau, Quebec
- Richard Martin Warns That Prudent Risk Management is Always Needed
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BP's Gulf of Mexico oil well disaster highlights once more the fact that proper risk management is always needed, particularly in risky or dangerous undertakings.
- Room to Spare
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Do you have a spare room that's just collecting dust and clutter? Here are nine great tips on how to maximize your home's productivity.
- Science for Peace objects to Free Trade Agreement with Colombia
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Science for Peace is appalled that the Liberals dropped their objections on human rights grounds to the Canada-Colombia FTA. The USA, Norway, and Belgium have delayed approval of trade agreements because of Colombia's egregious human rights record.
- Security and Outer Space: Report provides comprehensive source of data on space activities
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The Space Security Index releases Space Security 2010, the seventh annual comprehensive source of data and analysis on space activities and their cumulative impact on the security of outer space.
- Seven Successful Strategies for Working from Home
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Working from home or ready to join the thousands of Canadians who already do? Home-based businesses offer considerable advantages, but many challenges. Here are seven strategies that will make your home office experience more productive and rewarding
- Seymour Workers Ratify First Agreement!
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Less than six months after their certification, IAMAW members at Seymour Windows & Doors have ratified their first collective agreement.
- Smooth Transition from Summer to School
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Tips and techniques to make the back to school transition easier.
- Solidarity groups denounce Dershowitz appearance in Vancouver
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Groups criticize Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver for inviting Dershowitz as fundraiser
- Sometimes You Need to Micromanage
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Micromanagement is a bugbear in most organizations. Despite the bad reputation of micromanagement, I think it is often missing in organizations.
- Sources welcomes Bayshore Specialty Rx
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Sources welcomes Bayshore Specialty Rx. Bayshore Specialty RX offers a wide range of infusion-related and pharmaceutical support services to clients such as government care programs, pharmaceutical companies and health care organizatiations.
- Sources welcomes Canada Gives
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Sources welcomes a new member: Canada Gives. Canada Gives is an independent charitable foundation designed to build personal or family foundations, helping donors manage their charitable giving.
- Sources welcomes CanMediate International, Ruth Sirman
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Sources welcomes a new member: CanMediate International - Ruth Sirman. Ruth Sirman's success in mediating complex multi-stakeholder conflicts has made her a leader in the Alternative Dispute Resolution and Restorative Justice worlds.
- Sources welcomes Cheryl Cran
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Sources welcomes a new member: Cheryl Cran, CSP - Expert on Generations and Leadership.
- Sources welcomes Crescent School
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Sources welcomes a new member: Crescent School. Established in 1913, Crescent School is a day school for boys.
- Sources welcomes DPA Industries Inc.
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Sources welcomes a new member: DPA Industries Inc. DPA Industries Inc. is the industry leader for omega-3 health products.
- Sources welcomes Dr. Dena Churchill
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Sources welcomes a new member: Dr. Dena Churchill. Dr. Dena Churchill is a speaker, consultant, chiropractor and author of the book, Divinity In Divorce: The Power in Gratitude and Love.
- Sources welcomes Dr. Natasha Turner, ND
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Sources welcomes a new member: Dr. Natasha Turner, ND. Dr. Natasha Turner ND, is a leading naturopathic doctor, founder of Clear Medicine, and author of the bestselling book, The Hormone Diet.
- Sources welcomes Dr. Stan Benda, Ph.D. (Law)
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Sources welcomes a new member, Dr. Stan Benda, Ph.D. (Law).
- Sources welcomes Honest Reporting Canada
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Sources welcomes a new member: Honest Reporting Canada. Honest Reporting Canada is an independent grass-roots organization promoting fairness and accuracy in Canadian Media coverage of Israel and the Middle East.
- Sources welcomes Human Resources Professionals Association
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Sources welcomes a new member: Human Resources Professionals Association. The HRPA shapes organizational excellence by empowering human resources professionals to connect effective people management with business success.
- Sources welcomes Independent Jewish Voices
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Sources welcomes a new member: Independent Jewish Voices. ndependent Jewish Voices represents Jews in Canada from diverse backgrounds, occupations and affiliations who have in common a strong commitment to social justice and universal human rights.
- Sources welcomes Investors-Aid Co-operative of Canada
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Sources welcomes a new member: Investors-Aid Co-operative of Canada. Investors-Aid Co-operative of Canada is the country's only national consumer organization working on behalf of investors and savers.
- Sources welcomes McMillan LLP
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Sources welcomes a new member, McMillan LLP.
- Sources welcomes Norm Quantz
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Sources welcomes a new member: Norm Quantz - Relationship Expert. Norman Quantz, MA in counselling, is an online video counselling therapist, educator, speaker and author.
- Sources welcomes Open Access Limited
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Sources welcomes a new member: Open Access Limited. Open Access provides journalists with unbiased sources for stories about how companies can better help employees save for retirement.
- Sources welcomes Richard Martin
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Sources welcomes a new member: Richard Martin. Richard Martin is President and Founder of Alcera Consulting Inc. He helps individuals and organizations to thrive and leverage opportunities in the face of rapid change, risk and uncertainty.
- Sources welcomes Science for Peace
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Sources welcomes a new member: Science for Peace. Science for Peace is a Canadian organization which brings together those interested in the natural and social sciences in order to address the global crises facing humankind.
- Sources welcomes Seasons UV Solutions
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Sources welcomes a new member: Seasons UV Solutions. Seasons UV Solution a leader in ultraviolet apparel has been producing high quality sun protective products for over 10 years.
- Sources welcomes Security Equipment Corporation
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Sources welcomes a new member: Security Equipment Corporation. Security Equipment Corporation is a family owned and operated business located in Saint Louis, Missouri.
- Sources welcomes Total Debt Freedom Inc.
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Sources welcomes a new member: Total Debt Freedom Inc. Total Debt Freedom is a Canadian Debt Settlement Company founded in 2005.
- Start the New Year right
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First Published: 2010
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Its a new year and a time when people like to start fresh and sample some new approaches to areas in your life you would like to improve. You have seen the development of the organizing and redesign shows take over our television stations.
- Strike Narrowly Avoided at Wexxar Packaging!
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First Published: 2010
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Long and Short Term Disability are seldom strike issues but it took a compromise on both before a strike by the Machinists was avoided at Wexxar Packaging
- Studying Strategies
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First Published: 2010
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Exam time can be a stressful time of year, especially for new college and university students. For most students, it#s not WHAT they have to study that gives them the stress, but HOW to study it. Organize your study time and exam-writing strategies
- Support urgently needed for Haiti after 7.0 quake
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First Published: 2010
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Canadian Feed The Children's community partners in the worst hit areas - urgent support needed
- Surviving Stress At Mid Life
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First Published: 2010
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Mid Life Women Struggle With Stress - increase personal power to lower stress
- Taking off! Six Tips for Travelling
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Tips for Travelling
- Tears of Healing
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
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Accessing the mind-body connection is one of the most powerful ways to encourage healing.
- The 2010 DSEE, Donald Swift Education Endowment Recipient
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First Published: 2010
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The DSEE was designed to assist one dedicated person from a member organization, who may not normally attend, the opportunity to experience the value of a CAM-X Convention.
- The April edition of FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas is out
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This edition draws together analysts, policy-makers and development practitioners to look into current issues in Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti and Mexico ranging from disability to multilateralism, from gang violence to political dissidence.
- The First of Many Firsts for PR Veteran Ruth Hammond APR, FCPRS(H) L.M.
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CPRS Recognizes Hammond as the First Honorary Member of the Board of Directors
- The Law of Subtraction
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First Published: 2010
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We live in a high pressured, busy, success driven, in search of perfection and not excellence type of world. Learn how to prioritize to make room for the things your really want.
- The Law of Subtraction
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2010
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We live in a world where bigger is better and more is all the rage. We live in a high pressured, busy, success driven, in search of perfection and not excellence type of world. So before you contemplate adding anything else in your life, practice
- The Roadmap for a Healthy Business Trip
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First Published: 2010
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A good business trip takes careful planning. So does maintaining a healthy lifestyle and a healthy weight. If you travel frequently in your line of work, or for your business, you know how difficult it can be to keep up good habits and how easy it is
- The Tom Ryan Award Recipient
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First Published: 2010
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Congratulations goes out to John Ratliff of Appletree Answering Service, Inc. for winning the 2010 Tom Ryan Award for Ethics, Integrity and Quality Above All.
- Three Steps to Groom a Goddess
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First Published: 2010
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The Goddess. Who is this lady and what are her qualities? Is she the princess of alluring feminine beauty? Is she the sex symbol of the century? Is she the wisest or wealthiest woman in the world or the Mother of all Nature? How is it that you define
- Timken Machinists Accept Three-year Deal!
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Machinists ratify new agreement with Timken
- Try Something New in 2010
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First Published: 2010
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Its the beginning of another new year and everyone is busy thinking of ways to improve their lives. Take the opportunity of a new calendar year to get off to a fresh start. Here are 7 tips you can follow to help you start the New Year off right.
- UN Police Course to Help Increase Capacity in Peacekeeping Missions
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The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) along with the
Military Police of the District of Brasilia is holding its first UN Police Pre-deployment (UNPOL)
course in Latin America from May 17 to 28 at the Police Academy in Brasilia, Brazil. This is also
- Understanding Addiction is the First Step Towards Recovery
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First Published: 2010
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The goal of National Addiction Awareness Week is to de-stigmatize addiction, promote the fact that addiction is a treatable health issue, and spread the message that recovery from substance abuse and other addictive behaviours is possible.
- United Nations Joint Statement
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Joint Statement of Robert Serry, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency.
- University of WINNIPEG AWARDED MAJOR GLOBAL PROGRAM IN INDIGENOUS DEVELOPMENT
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First Published: 2010
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The University of Winnipeg has been selected to become the international hub for the study of Indigenous peoples and communities joining a prestigious world-class network of universities.
- Upstart Succeeds in Same Marketing Arena as Pepsi, JPMorgan Chase, Amex-NBC
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First Published: 2010
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riceworks Competes with Marketing Heavyweights In Developing Charity Contest Using Crowdsourcing and Social Media Marketing Tactics
- Use what you have the cure for your post-Christmas financial blues
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First Published: 2010
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Its a new year - time for new resolutions and goals. Here's one that will help you get organized while warding off the post-Christmas financial blues use what you have. You'd be surprised at how many items you have lying around that you've never...
- Well On Their Way - 6 Week Childrens Safety Campaign
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Well On Their Way - 6 week Children Safety Campaign with Seasons UV, SavvyMom.ca and 5 other companies.
- Western Law Student Wins International Academic Awards
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Canadian law student relates his experience studying law in Israel after recently presented awards for academic merit there.
- What will Canadians eat During Canada Day Celebrations?
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Two riceworks# contests launch with free snacks in Ottawa on July 1, 2010.
- When a Shoe Thing is No Longer a Good Thing - When to Say Goodbye to Those Extra Pairs
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First Published: 2010
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A shoe thing is more than just having a reasonable amount of shoes to wear, it’s about collecting them and not letting any of them go. Now’s the time to give old boots the boot and kick those broken high heels to the curb once and for all.
- Who has your back on the road this winter? II
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
December 1st to 7th is National Safe Driving Week and the Canada Safety Council encourages all Canadian drivers to take added precautions on the road throughout the winter months. Plan ahead and take more time driving to your destination.
- Why Enbridge's CEO Is Leading from the Front
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First Published: 2010
Published: 2010
The presence of Enbridge CEO Pat Daniel on the front lines of the pipeline spill in Michigan apparently has some people stumped. Why is he spending so much time in Michigan, talking to people and making sure the right information gets out?
- Winnipeg to host international religious event June 21 to June 23, 2010
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Winnipeg to host international religious event June 21 to June 23, 2010
Faith leaders to shadow G8/G20 Summit in Huntsville
- Wisdom of the Ages
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First Published: 2010
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Wisdom as an academic accomplishment or a stage in development? Wisdom as in a sage with special knowledge? Wisdom as a biblical biography or philosophical principle? What is wisdom and where do we find it?
- World renowned hypnotist holds an Open House Gala and Workshop in Toronto
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Debbie Papadakis, BCH, CI, popular hypnosis expert and founder of Toronto’s Hypno Healing Institute http://www.hypno-healing.com invites everyone to join her in celebrating World Hypnotism Day (January 4, 2011) by hosting two special events.
- Police arrest 8 protesters at Israeli consulate
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First Published: 2009
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Toronto police have arrested eight Canadian Jewish women who occupied the Israeli consulate on Bloor Street. The group carried out the occupation to show their opposition to Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip and its two-year economic blockade of the territory, Miriam Garfinkle, a spokesperson, told ctvtoronto.ca on Wednesday.
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Urdu text
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2017
- Connexions Library: History Focus Page
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2012
Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics.
- Connexions Library: Oral History Focus Page
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2012
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on oral history.
- Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2012
- Connexions Library Spotlight
Featured Resources in the Connexions Library
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2012
- Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2012
An article decoding the important differences in terminology, underlying philosophy, and value systems between two similar categories of software.
- The Global Fight for Climate Justice
Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2010
A guide to the debate on climate change, a sourcebook that makes the case for anti-capitalist action as the only effective way to stop global warming.
- Hardball
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2010
Tracking down missing persons is part of V.I. Warshawski's job. But Lamont Gadsden has been missing for more than forty years - last seen heading out into the 1967 blizzard, in the midst of Chicago's racial unrest.
- IFJ Condemns "Flagrant Violation of Press Freedom" After Sentence of Spanish Journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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The International Federation of Journalists has strongly condemned a court verdict against two Spanish journalists. The two men, who were charged with "revealing secrets", have been condemned to suspended jail terms of a year and nine months.
- 2009 Leaves One of Worst Records for Targeted Killings of Journalists, Says IFJ
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for more action from governments and the United Nations to protect media as it announced a grim total of 137 journalists and media personnel killed during 2009.
- Reporting Gender Based Violence
A Handbook for Journalists
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Violence Against Women has presented particular challenges to the media and to society because of the way it has been consigned to the "private" sphere -- dampening public discussion and stifling media debate. Yet, the media has the potential to play a lead role in changing perceptions that, in turn, can help galvanize a movement for change. This toolkit seeks to help reporters and news managers grapple with the challenge of reporting gender based violence is a way that doe snot perpetuate gender stereotypes but informs and encourages public debate.
- Tácticas desesperadas: Acusaciones falsas de "antisemitismo" para silenciar reproches a la conducta de Israel
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- Tactics of Desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-Semitism' - Arabic text
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- Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
- Taktyki Desperacji: Uzywanie falszywych oskarzen antysemityzmu jako broni uciszajacej krytyke zachowania Izraela
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Gaza's civilians, still unable to rebuild one year after Operation Cast Lead, 'betrayed' by international community
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The international community has betrayed the people of Gaza by failing to back their words with effective action to secure the ending of the Israeli blockade which is preventing reconstruction and recovery, say a group of 16 leading organizations.
- IFJ Condemns Murder of Turkish Editor
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The International Federation of Journalists and its European regional group, the European Federation of Journalists, today condemned the killing of Cihan Hayirsevener, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper engaged in exposing corruption in Turkey.
- Düstere Aussichten
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Ist es schon zu spät? Wir wissen, dass bereits vieles verloren ist. Aber wir können nicht wissen, ob bereits alles verloren ist. Man kann im voraus nicht wissen, was eine gemeinsame Aktion alles bewirken kann. Wir befinden uns in der Lage von Eltern, die bereits ein Kind verloren haben, und die sich jetzt überlegen müssen, ob sie für ihre anderen Kinder kämpfen wollen, die in Gefahr aber noch am Leben sind.
- Toronto Company Receives Record $15 Million Fine
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First Published: 2009
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The Competition Bureau announced today that the Ontario Superior Court has imposed a record $15 million fine against DataCom Marketing Inc. for operating a business directory scam targeting Canadian and U.S. businesses.
- Academics Urge Government Climate Action
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First Published: 2009
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More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter points out the time frame of reductions is critical.
- Freedom of expression under attack in every region, say IFEX members on International Human Rights Day
Sources News Release
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To mark International Human Rights Day IFEX members paused to comment on violations of free expression as they commemorated the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- 'Honour' case father jailed for life for Tulay murder
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First Published: 2009
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A father has been jailed for life to serve a minimum tariff of 22 years for murdering his daughter, 15, in a so-called honour killing.
- IFJ Calls for "New Mindset" over Media Accountability and Future of Journalism
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Building public trust in journalism is critical for democracy and development and requires a "new mindset" about media accountability says the International Federation of Journalists.
- Sudan: Women Perpetuate Culture of Submission
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The ability of society to acknowledge the productive capacity of women, especially in the political arena, can by-and-large be brought about only by women breaking into roles not culturally ascribed to them.
- Rights on Condition: Association for Civil Rights in Israel State of Human Rights Report 2009
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
In Israel, the entire spectrum of rights is dependent on what we say or believe, what ethnic group we belong to, how much money we have, and more.
- Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
- Donate Your Video Camera, Laptop or Work Tools to Authentic Journalists
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Donate Your Video Camera, Laptop or Work Tools to Authentic Journalists
- US games company sues British blogger
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
In an internet defamation case that lawyers say could set an "extraordinary precedent", an American games company is suing a British blogger in the Australian courts.
- Axworthy to Serve on International Advisory Board
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) has announced the establishment of a new Advisory Board which includes the appointment of Dr. Lloyd Axworthy, President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Winnipeg and former Minister of
- Bloggers invited to compete for special DEUTSCHE WELLE 'free expression' prize with Reporters Without Borders
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Deutsche Welle, Germany#s international broadcaster, today announced the start of its sixth annual international Best of the Blogs award, The BOBs.
- Climate Change: Aircraft fuel is cheaper than Coke, a direct tax on fossil fuel is what the world needs urgently.
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
What is needed is to actually make annual cuts in international trade. After all, how can the world aim to bring down greenhouse gas emissions when on the other it aims to push for increased international trade.
- Notes from the class struggle: small group workplace organising
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
This pamphlet aims to show what small groups and unions can achieve in workplace disputes. These examples and analyses of successful small-scale actions should prove instructive to workers in a variety of fields from a variety of backgrounds, whether they are in the transport or manufacturing sector, students or illegal immigrants, or are employed in another branch of industry.
- Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they've deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it's not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
- Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alternative" views are not necessarily credible or true. The cliimate change deniers' arguments are no less articles of faith than those of the creationists. In the case of the former, the faith is not in a god but in the free market and capitalism. Almost without exception, those who are in staunch denial are those connected to, involved in or supportive of the traditional capitalist model of economic growth, and by implication opposed to anything that might constrain this model.
- Youth Stage Peaceful Sit-in for Climate Justice inside House of Common's Environment Committee
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First Published: 2009
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Six youth staged a peaceful sit-in inside the Canadian parliament, at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, pledging to stay until the Harper government acts to combat the climate crisis.
- What's at stake in Copenhagen
The crucial debates at Copenhagen
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Tere is no chance of achieving binding greenhouse gas reductions within the current framework for an agreement. Instead the problem is being redefined to fit the business-as-usual assumptions of neoliberal economics.
- Why We Left Our Farms to Come to Copenhagen
Speech of Henry Saragih, general coordinator of Via Campesina at the opening session of Klimaforum
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Climate change is already seriously impacting us. It brings floods, droughts and the outbreak of pests that are all causing harvest failures. I must point out that these harvest failures are something that the farmers did not create. Instead, it is the polluters who caused the emissions who destroy the natural cycles. So, we small scale farmers came here to say that we will not pay for their mistakes. And we are asking the emitters to face up to their responsibilities.
- Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven!
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise - climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round.
- American journalist interrogated at Canadian border
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the detention and interrogation of a U.S. journalist crossing the border into Canada. Host Amy Goodman of the syndicated community-oriented radio and television program Democracy Now! was detained
- CorpWatch Announces Version 2.0 of the CrocTail Corporate Subsidiaries Database and Open API
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
CorpWatch announces the release of a second version of the CrocTail application and open CorpWatch API. CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information about several hundred thousand U.S. publicly traded corporations and their many foreign an
- A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
- Iran: Appeal by European journalists for release of reporter Fariba Pajooh
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
We journalists working for the media in Europe have united to ask for Fariba Pajooh#s immediate and unconditional release.
- An Open Letter To Congress From US Scientists On Climate Change And Recently Stolen Emails
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
As U.S. scientists with substantial expertise on climate change and its impacts on natural ecosystems, our built environment and human well-being, we want to assure policy makers and the public of the integrity of the underlying scientific research.
- PITCHfest, LAUNCHfest Contests to Debut at DOMAINfest Global 2010 Conference
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First Published: 2009
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DomainSponsor#, the domain monetization division of Oversee.net#, announced today that PITCHfest(TM) AND LAUNCHfest(TM) will debut at its fourth annual DOMAINfest Global# (DFG) conference, scheduled for January 26-28, 2010 in Santa Monica, California
- Prominent woman journalist killed in suspicious fall from building
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Calling for a thorough investigation into the death of Olga Kotovskaya, a prominent journalist who apparently fell from the 14th floor of a building in the centre of Kaliningrad 6 days after a court ruled in her favour in an important case.
- Spies for Hire: New Online Database of U.S. Intelligence Contractors
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Starting today, journalists, activists, and corporate researchers will be able to use the Internet site SpiesForHire.org to track the nation#s most important intelligence contractors.
- Vienna Declaration calls on governments to respect media freedom in fight against terrorism
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Effective security and respect for freedom of expression and press freedom are not incompatible but, rather, complementary.
- Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
- Eight Gifts That Don't Clutter: Consumable Gifts!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Tired of gifts being returned or unused? Do gift certificates seem too impersonal? Give these gifts that will be used almost immediately!
- Chiapas Anti-Mining Organizer Murdered
Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Mariano Abarca Roblero, one of Mexico's most prominent anti-mining organizers, was shot to death on the evening of November 27, 2009, in front of his house in Chicomuselo, Chiapas. The incident comes just days after Abarca filed charges against two Blackfire employees, Ciro Roblero Perez and Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro, for threatening to shoot him if he didn't stop organizing against Canadian mining company Blackfire's barium mine in Chicomuselo.
- Baby Boom of Mixed Children Tests South Korea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Across South Korea hundreds of thousands of foreign women have been immigrating in recent years, often in marriages arranged by brokers. They have been making up for a shortage of eligible Korean women, particularly in underdeveloped rural areas. Now, these unions are bearing large numbers of mixed children, confronting this proudly homogeneous nation with the difficult challenge of smoothly absorbing them. South Korea is generally more open to ethnic diversity than other Asian nations with relatively small minority populations, like neighboring Japan. Nevertheless, it is far from welcoming to these children, who are widely known here pejoratively as Kosians, a compound of Korean and Asian.
- Half a man beats none
In Russia and Mongolia, women don't shy away from polygamy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Investigation into the socio-economic motivations behind the movement to legalize polygamy. There are fewer men than women in Russia and Mongolia due to economic migration and alcoholism. Both urban and rural women choose relationships that look like polygamy.
- IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
- Twelve journalists killed on Mindanao island in "dark day for press freedom"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
At least 12 journalists were killed today in Maguindanao province, Philippines, by armed men, including two policemen, linked to the provinces governor. More than 30 other people were murdered.
- Jewish Appeal to Support the Goldstone Report signatories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Connexions Archive seeks a new home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
- Two foreign journalists arrested while covering Greenpeace operation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders deplores yesterday#s arrest of two foreign journalists # Kumkum Dasgupta of India and Raimondo Bultrini of Italy # while covering a Greenpeace protest against uncontrolled deforestation on Sumatra Island.
- The Clicks That Bind: Ways Users "Agree" to Online Terms of Service
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
“I Agree.” We have all, at some point while online, clicked on a button bearing these words. Whether it is registering for a new social media account or just trying to get to our bank statements, one almost cannot visit a website today without eventually being asked to agree a listed set of "Terms and Conditions." But by clicking on such boxes, or even in some cases just by using the website, we as online users may be binding ourselves to legally enforceable contracts with the online service provider.
- John Sewell proud of a lifetime of ruffling feathers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
John Sewell isn't the kind of guy who comes out of a life-threatening experience promising to do things differently. The former mayor still plays the role of watchdog for neighbourhoods, justice and the public interest in Goliath Toronto.
- Ordeal of Australia's child migrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The story of the British child migrants sent to Australia has been described as a history of lies, deceit, cruelty and official disinterest and neglect.
- Defiant Journalists Back Ethical Campaign for Palestinian Media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has concluded the launch of its programme to support ethical journalism in Palestine with a series of proposals to strengthen independent media even in the face of political difficulties.
- Take Action for Climate Justice: Mobilize November 30, 2009
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A broad coalition of organizations working for social, ecological, racial and economic justice has come together under the banner of the Mobilization for Climate Justice. Join us as we organize mass action on climate change on November 30, 2009!
- WiPC issues a call for solidarity for persecuted writers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
To mark the Day of the Imprisoned Writer (DoIW) on 15 November, the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN (WiPC) is highlighting the cases of imprisoned writers and honouring those who have been slain for defending free speech.
- Finding Your Photos Online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
It turns out that there are a couple of ways to keep an eye on your photos.
- Going for Gold: A History of Olympic Controversies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
While the Olympics serve to contribute to mutual understanding and finding commonality in difference, from its inception as a religious festival in ancient Greece to the huge celebrations in the twenty-first century seen on television by billions of people, it has been quite rare for the Games to pass without controversy.
- How the Government Secretly Demanded the IP Address of Every Visitor to Political News Site Indymedia.us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Secrecy surrounds law enforcement's communications surveillance practices like a dense fog. Particularly shrouded in secrecy are government demands issued under 18 U.S.C. § 2703 of the Stored Communications Act or "SCA" that seek subscriber information or other user records from communications service providers.
- Vaccine conspiracy theories spring from a society so skeptical that it's actually gullible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
I wish I could sustain enough faith in humanity to believe in the conspiracy theores that I've heard recently regarding the H1N1 vaccine.
- Appeal for donations for Iranian journalists who have fled abroad
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is launching an appeal for financial support for Iranian journalists and bloggers, who find themselves utterly destitute as they search for a safe refuge.
- Call for more international support for exile radios after station director wins award
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders congratulates Kim Seong-Min, founder and director of the Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio, on winning the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy#s Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award.
- Editor of Tamil weekly held for past 11 days on criminal defamation charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist A.S. Mani#s detention in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu on a criminal defamation charge.
- Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor content
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
- What is Distinctive about the Library of Congress In Both its Collections and its Means of Access to Them
And The Reasons LC Needs to Maintain Classified Shelving of Books Onsite, And A Way to Deal Effectively with the Problem of "Books on the Fl
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Library cannot solve its space problems by adoption of a "digital strategy"
without seriously damaging our larger mission to promote scholarship of unusual scope and
depth. If the Library’s own access to its own general book collection were to be dumbed
down to only the levels of subject access provided by Google, Amazon, or Internet search
mechanisms, we would effectively be endorsing, and institutionalizing, the level of
ignorance exemplified by the Six Blind Men of India.
- Global Climate Change Lobby
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Inside the battle to influence the most important environmental treaty of our time.
- Berlin Twitter Wall website blocked just days after its launch
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that the Chinese authorities blocked the Berlin Twitter Wall website (www.berlintwitterwall.com) just days after its launch.
- Mexican crime reporter abducted and slain in Durango State
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Crime reporter Bladimir Antuna García was found murdered Monday night, according local news reports, after reportedly being abducted from a street in the Mexican city of Durango that morning.
- Palestinians who see nonviolence as their weapon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Mohammed Khatib and his West Bank supporters hope to rally others to a peaceful campaign for statehood.
- New Yemeni press court sentences, bans journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to end the intensifying judicial and media campaign to silence critical journalists and eradicate press freedom.
- Press for Conversion #64
November 2009
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
This 50-page issue on Canadian government and corporate complicity in the lucrative business of war, includes articles, tables and charts.
- Burmese authorities detain freelance journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns and calls for the immediate release of freelance journalist and blogger Pai Soe Oo, who was detained by government authorities on Wednesday for questioning.
- Death threats sent to paper of slain editor in Sri Lanka
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka#s journalists and media organizations.
- EU Fails Human Rights Victims
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The European Union#s decision today to lift the arms embargo against Uzbekistan despite its atrocious human rights record is an unconscionable abdication of responsibility toward Uzbek victims of abuse.
- IFJ Calls on Writers to Demand Their Rights from Google
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on all journalists who have had their books scanned by Google through its Google Book Search to claim their rights to payment.
- Police log 'domestic extremists' and keep database on activists
Forces survey and file details of peaceful protests and political activities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
'Domestic Extremists' are persons involved in political meetings and protests who are photographed and added to a national database by the UK police. This surveillance falls under the purview of "terrorism and allied matters" and these police tactics are now the subject of an internal review. They have been widely criticized for lacking accountability.
- Take action: Help free imprisoned songwriter
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Freemuse, a free expression organisation for musicians and composers, is asking for your support to help dissident singer/songwriter Lapiro de Mbanga. He was imprisoned in 2008 and fined US$640,000 for writing a song critical of Cameroonian President
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Other Languages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to other languages. Connexions (founded 1975) maintains an online library dealing with human rights, civil liberties, social, economic and environmental alternatives, and grassroots activism. Volunteer translators may be located anywhere, since documents can be sent by email; however, volunteers living in Toronto are welcome to work out of the Connexions office along with our other volunteers and interns.
Volunteer translators are wanted for translation into various languages, including:
Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Korean, Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Czech, Esperanto, Estonian, Persian, Georgian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Javanese, Latvian, Lithuania, Macdeonian, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Tagalog/Filipino, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.
- WAZ-IFJ Prize for Courage in Journalism Awarded to Bulgarian Journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Lidiya Pavlova to receive the prize for her courageous report on violence and corruption. Award is presented for the first time.
- CCNM Honours $3-Million Bequest From Lucy Hopkins
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) recognizes Lucy Hopkins, a Toronto resident who left a $3-million remainder trust to the College.
- Debit card fraud: - Don't become a victim
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
November is National Crime Prevention and Community Safety month and the Canada Safety Council advises all Canadians to take steps towards protecting their debit cards and personal identification numbers (PIN), by doing so, this will help reduce your
- 'Dress with Finesse' comes to Nanaimo, BC
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Internationally accredited, certified professional image consultant, Kimberly Law, AICI CIP, launches Dress with Finesse' workshop on Vancouver Island. This workshop answers the question, "What should I wear?".
- Dress with Finesse - workshop comes to Vancouver
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Internationally accredited, certified professional image consultant, Kimberly Law, AICI CIP, presents Dress with Finesse' workshop in Vancouver. This workshop answers the question, "What should I wear?". Just in time for the holiday season...
- India in the World: In conversation with author Pankaj Mishra
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Essayist, journalist and novelist Pankaj Mishra will be in Ottawa on November 2 as part of The India Lectures organized by Canadaâ##s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). This final instalment of The India Lectures will be a special
- Sources Calendar
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2013
Listings of events of interest to journalists, editors, researchers, publishers and others working in the media and in publishing, covering Canadian and international events, press conferences, meetings, festivals and holidays, as well as award deadlines.
- Just Published: Winning Digital Strategies
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Two new reports from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) provide an in-depth examination of digital media opportunities for income and audience growth.
- New Website for International Association of Sports Newspapers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Association of Sports Newspapers (IASN) has launched a new website, www.press-iasn.org, to highlight its work in the promotion of the interests and freedom of the sports press.
- Valuing Folk Crop Varieties for Agroecology and Food Security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Agricultural sustainability consists of long-term productivity, not short-term increase of yield. Ecological agriculture, which seeks to understand and apply ecological principles to farm ecosystems, is the future of modern agriculture.
- We attacked the bankers, but took our eyes off the whole rotten system
Prince Andrew says that bonuses are minute 'in the scheme of things'. He is half-right. We must take the focus off individuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Much focus has been placed on individual bankers who, despite the banking crisis, are collecting exorbitant bonuses, diverting attention from the underlying systems that allow banks to own and trade risky securities -- a more intrinsic contributor to the economic crisis.
- Winners of Courage in Journalism Awards Announced
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Iryna Khalip of Belarus, Agnes Taile of Cameroon and Jila Baniyaghoob of Iran win Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Womenâ##s Media Foundation. Amira Hass of Israel is Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
- Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86th) and Lebanon (61st).
- Sakharov Network welcomes Russian NGO among its ranks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Sakharov Network of former winners of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought hails today's European Parliament decision to award this year's prize to Memorial, an NGO that defends human rights in countries of the former Soviet Union.
- 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
- Prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic
Victims who never existed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The author challenges the underlying assumptions and methods used to assess the incidence of sex trafficking into the United Kingdom.
- CCNM's New Integrated Healthcare Centre Offers Patients a Variety of Health and Wellness Options
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) is celebrating the grand opening of the CCNM Integrated Healthcare Centre (IHC) on Tuesday, October 20 at 6:30 p.m. Meet our practitioners and check out our new state-of-the-art clinic.
- Anti-Zionist legacy of Warsaw Ghetto resistance fighter Marek Edelman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A look at the legacy Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, who despite his heroism was shunned by Israel and Zionist organizations because of his frequent criticism of Israelli policy.
- IFJ Condemns "Injustice" as Journalists are Jailed in Morocco
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the jailing of two journalists and their boss by a court in Morocco accusing the authorities of "gross injustice."
- IFJ Condemns Assault on Union Activist in Tunisia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned attacks and harassment of Tunisian journalists after a series of incidents which suggest deliberate targeting of activists for independent journalism.
- International Report Demands Radical Reform of Belarus Media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Today, international media and press freedom organisations issued " For Free and Fair Media in Belarus", a report calling for far reaching reforms of the media in Belarus.
- Israeli soldiers disguised as photojournalists endanger journalists' lives, says MADA
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expresses concern over the Israeli occupation forces disguising themselves as photojournalists in the middle of Palestinian protesters.
- Zionism Boycotts the Funeral of Marek Edelman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A sad farewell to Marek Edelman - the last surviving Commander of the Bund. The article describes his funeral in Warsaw, where he was buried, although he lived in Poland's second city, Lodz.
- The Dos and Don'ts for Tradeshow Attendees
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
To anyone new to the world of franchising, The Franchise Show, produced by the Canadian Franchise Association (CFA), is full of countless opportunities. With over 100 franchise brands exhibiting this year, The Franchise Show on October 24 & 25 at the
- If you're a new Canadian, 'you go to university'
Variety of social factors cause first-and second-generation Canadians to attend university far in excess of non-immigrant children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An investigation into the factors that contribute to the very high university attendance rate for second generation immigrants and first generation immigrants who came to Canada as children as reported by Statistics Canada. The reporter found that strong family bonds and parental expectations are important factors.
- 30th Right Livelihood Awards: Wake-up calls to secure our common future
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The 2009 Right Livelihood Awards go to four recipients: David Suzuki, RenA# Ngongo, Alyn Ware, and Catherine Hamlin.
- IFJ Condemns Attempts by Embattled Food Company to Censor Free Speech in US
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned as "unforgiveable censorship" attempts by the US fruit company, Dole Food, to prevent the release of a documentary film Bananas which exposes threats to the health of banana plantations
- Two Azeri journalists imprisoned, a third sentenced
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the prison sentences given to journalists at the weekly newspaper Nota on defamation charges.
- Marek Edelman: A True Mensch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
- The Last Bundist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Marek Edelman died last week [2009]. He was 90. He was buried on Friday. Marek Edeleman was the last surviving member of the Warsaw Ghetto. He was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and its last commander - after Mordechai Anelewicz was killed.
- Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday. This mega-shift in ocean productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most reliant on fish for both food and income high and dry.
- Feedlots and E. Coli
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Improving processing plant inspections is a good idea, but it is only part of the solution. The real solution is minimizing the potential contaminant. Secondly, slow down the processing line so the workers can do their jobs. CDC tells people to wash their hands, their cutting boards and to cook meat thoroughly. Good sound suggestions, but why is the burden of safety inordinately placed on the consumer? Why are the processors allowed to hide behind the 'safe handling instructions' and maximize their profits with impunity?
- Breast Cancer Awareness Month::SoftScan molecular breast imaging system - made in Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is in full swing, and here's an opportunity to introduce you to the SoftScanA# breast imaging device.
- Cartoon magazine seized and banned as soon as first issue appears
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The governmentâ##s decision to prosecute the company that published the new cartoon magazine Gedung Kartun for not having a permit is a setback for press freedom in Malaysia. â#oWe urge the interior ministry to reverse its ban on Gedung Kartun,â## Re
- Editor of newspaper's website faces 15 years in prison
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Journalist Aylin Duruoglu has spent nearly six months in Istanbulâ##s BakirkA#y prison on totally unfounded charges of belonging to a terrorist organisation, Reporters Without Borders said.
- EFJ Hails "Momentous Success" in Italian Demonstration for "Right to Know. Duty to Inform"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The European Federation of Journalists, along with other organisations organised one of the biggest recent demonstrations in Rome this weekend under the theme â#oRight to Know. Duty to Informâ##, in cooperation with other unions and civil society.
- IFJ Condemns Campaign against Independent Media in Morocco
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins today its affiliate the Syndicat national de la presse marocaine (SNPM) in condemning the Moroccan government's campaign to muzzle critical journalists.
- Uranium Corporation of India Limited: Wasting Away Tribal Lands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Radiation and health experts across the world charge that toxic materials and radioactivity released by the mining and processing operations are causing widespread infertility, birth defects and cancers.
- Beauty and philanthropy come together in Montreal
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
FREE haircut and treatments in downtown Montreal on October 18 to help raise funds for Canadian Feed The Children's nourishment programs for children in Canada
- "Little Mosque" stars stand up for children at Toronto Elvis fest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Little Mosque stars Sheila McCarthy and Debra McGrath host A Tribute to Elvis in Toronto to raise funds for Canadian Feed The Children
- Advice For a Home Builder Who Wants to Build a Website Or Any Small Business Owner With a Trade Back
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Got a small trades business you wish to promote? In today's busy marketplace there are two broad ways to get your message out. Yes, you'll still probably need traditional offline marketing-word of mouth is probably the best form of advertising you ca
- Diet Rules For Celiac Disease
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Having celiac disease means having to adjust your diet. Here are some important rules to follow.
- Experiential Marketing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Experiential marketing is the next marketing methodology that can bridge the disconnect between the consumers' increasing demand to engage marketers and brands on their own terms. Consumers are more skeptical than ever about marketing and advertising
- Filthy English
The How, Why, When And What of Everyday Swearing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An exploration of swearing with background in psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychoanalysis and linguistics. Mainly focused on British English, however also explores languages such as Quebecois French and Russian.
- 5 Perfectly Promotable Ideas
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
As a small business marketer you are often looking for ideas to promote your business that are often guided by smaller budgets, little time, you want relationship building to occur, you want to make a sale, or you want the customer to become a repeat
- Guernica Written With the Hands and Hearts of Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The keynote speaker at the launch of the exhibition Gaza's childrens' paintings, referred to the paintings as 'a toxic cargo of beautiful but unwelcome images which it is necessary that we see and acknowledge.' Toxic because the blockade and assault on Gaza was, and is, toxic. Toxic because the paintings mirror back to our adult world the poisonous environment we have watched develop for these children. The paintings describe aerial bombardment of apartment blocks, mosques, schools, hospitals, ambulances. They portray phosphorous, helicopter and drone attacks on civilians. Gunboats fire inland from the sea. Bulldozers demolish homes. Everything happens in an enclosed space from which there is no escape.
- Homemade Gluten-Free Snacks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Need gluten free snacks? You can make them at home and avoid the expense and frustration of looking for great snacks. Here are some ideas.
- How to Brand Yourself
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
At the Marketing Chefs we are often asked to help companies find and define their brand statement. Recently it seemed that a number of friends and business associates were looking for help in re-positioning themselves or providing a bio that fit thei
- How to Measure Website Effectiveness Using New Success Metrics
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Traditionally Google PageRank and sheer traffic have been the measure of website success. However, these older metrics are becoming less meaningful in the current web environment. Business people are now demanding more than just traffic and rankings,
- Hungry to Succeed Tip Sheet
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Give email a starring role in your e-business Are you an e-marketer who wants to make more sales and profits without spending a dime more on advertising? Then get customers salivating for your product or service using email as the lead method to driv
- Kid Approved Gluten-Free Desserts
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
If you have children with gluten issues you'll know it's tough finding foods they'll like. Here are some kid approved gluten free recipes.
- Low Calorie Gluten-Free Snacks For the Whole Family
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
You can make great gluten free snacks at home. Here are some ideas that will be fun for the whole family to make and eat!
- "Selling The Invisible - A Field Guide To Modern Marketing" Book Review
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
This week's review is a book "Selling The Invisible - A Field Guide to Modern Marketing" by Harry Beckwith. Now the title sounds a little dour, but I have to say that this is a very quick read and very enjoyable.
- Your Money, Or Your Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Single Payer will save lives, but it also will save money. The exorbitant salaries of Insurance Company CEOs will be eliminated. The profit motive for investors will be eliminated. Administrative costs will be reduced because one single payer will replace a large number of insurance companies - all with different forms, different standards, and different requirements for an endless stream of mind-numbing paper work.
- Guinea Pigs Spell Independence for Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Raising guinea pigs has become an important means for Peruvian women to earn money to support their families, as well as to learn how to defend their rights.
- Guy Expert Answers Mens' Questions In 24 Hours - Canada's Popular Free Daily
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Beginning Tuesday, October 5, 2009, Mens' Expert Dale Curdâ##s distinct awareness and expertise on men will now be read in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton several times every month in a Question & Answer column format in 24 Hours.
- State steals authority from adults
An official power grab is creating a British society that has no control over its children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Adults no longer have the authority to reprimand or comment on the behaviour of children whom they are not the guardians of. Adults who directly speak to children about inappropriate behavious even if such behaviour is directed toward their own children, are increasingly facing legal consequences.
- Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Investigation of oil as major driver in the power dynamics of the world, and of the 'oil curse', which seems to make the countries that export it poorer, not richer.
- The Running Sky
A Birdwatching Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A series of essays in the 'nature watching' theme, about birdwatching and the author's experiences while engaged in that pursuit.
- The Squeeze: Oil Money and Greed in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A review the big business of the oil industry across the globe, and the lengths (depths) to which they will go to maximise profits.
- Canadian Foreign Policy and the Coming Elections in FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Featuring the impact of minority government on Canadian foreign policy, Haitian democracy, U.S.multilateralism in the Americas, Colombia-UNASUR relations, Cuban bloggers, and boosting Canada's relationship with Mexico. FOCALPoint is available online.
- Feminist Perspectives on Trans issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2014
The relationship between feminism and transgender theory and politics is surprisingly fraught. The goal in this entry is to outline some of the key philosophical issues at the intersections, and this can be accomplished only by attending to the history of feminist and trans politics as it has unfolded in the U.S.
- A reputation built on quiet regret
A rare interview with William Trevor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Interview with the short story writer William Trever on the themes of guilt, regret, sadness and faith in his oeuvre.
- 5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco -- but you won't hear it in the corporate media.
- HR Survey: Telecommuting and Flexible Hours Solutions to Impacts of 2010 Winter Games
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The BC Human Resources Management Association (BC HRMA) released its report on HR Approaches to the 2010 Winter Games today. According to the report, which is based on a survey of 282 B.C. organizations, HR practitioners in the province are bracing
- Carbon trading: privatising the world's forests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The World Bank sponsored carbon offset program has faced widespread criticism for, in effect, privatising forests and allowing rich nations to evade responsibility for cutting emissions themselves.
- Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
In 1968 various student movements had risen up in post-war Europe. The movement in Germany, however, had the long shadow of their parents' roles in Nazism and World War Two.
- The Young Lords' Legacy of Puerto Rican Activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A short history of the Young Lords, a group that used confrontational tactics to bring services and attention to the residents of East Harlem, or El Barrio, and beyond.
- Announcing 24 Scholarships in Authentic Journalism for February of 2010
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Narco News will grant 24 scholarships for up-and-coming journalists and communicators to attend a ten-day session of the School of Authentic Journalism on February 3 to 13 of 2010 on Mexicoâ##s YucatA¡n Peninsula.
- Meet the Real Death Panels
44,000 Americans a Year Die From Lack of Health Insurance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Harvard-based researchers found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.
- Jim Campbell, Remembered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
It is two years today since Jim Campbell died of a heart attack, bicycling in rural Ontario with his partner Julie. He was 57, and had been looking forward to retiring in a few years, to finally being able to move out of the city.
- Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An argument towards city living as more ecologically sound than suburban sprawl.
- Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions - and are fighting to export them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Palestine produces some of the finest olive oils in the world, not to mention dates, nuts, tomatoes - even wine. Now, despite the conflict, farmers are finding ways to export their produce - and show the world that their country is still the land of milk and honey.
- Women Recycle for Income and Environment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The women of this town in northern Venezuela no longer say "garbage" but rather "secondary raw material," and instead of referring to recycling, they talk about "separation at point of origin."
- BBC High Court defence against Trafigura libel suit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2010
This document was submitted to the UK's High Court by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in September 2009, as a Defence against a libel claim brought against them by the oil company Trafigura. A May 2009 BBC Newsnight feature suggested that 16 deaths and many other injuries were caused by the dumping in the Ivory Coast of a large quantity of toxic waste originating with Trafigura. A September 2009 UN report into the matter stated that 108,000 people were driven to seek medical attention. This Defence, which has never been previously published online, outlines in detail the evidence which the BBC believed justified its coverage. In December 2009 the BBC settled out of court amid reports that fighting the case could have cost as much as 3 million pounds. The BBC removed its original Newsnight footage and associated articles from its on-line archives. The detailed claims contained in this document were never aired publicly, and never had a chance to be tested in court.
- I Am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now
The Denial of My Parole
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence.
- Desert Winds Stir New Hope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
With oil and gas reserves running dry, Egypt is eyeing wind power as a solution to its looming energy crunch.
- Double Jeopardy: Carbon Offsets and Human Rights Abuses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Whether you're a climate change denier or doomsayer, an avid recycler or rabid consumer of plastic bottles, there is one very good but little-known reason to oppose carbon offsets: their immediate and dire human costs.
- The Corporate Stranglehold on Education
Is Higher Education in Need of a Moral Bailout?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Rather than challenge the economic irresponsibility, ecological damage, and human suffering, and culture of cruelty unleashed by free market fundamentalism, higher education appears to be one of its staunchest defenders, uncritically embracing a view of itself based on a market model of the academy.
- From villages to New Delhi to Geneva: Indian farmers protest against the WTO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The "liberalization" and 'corporatization' of agriculture under the World Trade Organisation would put at risk the livelihoods of more than 2/3 of India's 1 billion people.
- Killing America's Kids
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Why is the Secretary of Defense so angry at having the war photographed? Easy: Spin control. Spin is so very important in war these days. While America is only barely a democracy, still, if the public, the great sleeping, acquiescent, ignorant beast, ever gets really upset, the war ends. The Pentagon is acutely aware of this.
- Olympic torch stokes warm pride and fiery protest among aboriginals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Differing opinions between aboriginal groups towards the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Torch Relay.
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An account of Bertrand Russell as mathematician, in graphic novel form.
- Crisis And Hope: Theirs And Ours
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Overcoming the multiple crises means tearing down an enormous edifice of delusions about markets, free trade, and democracy that has been assiduously constructed over many years and overcoming the marginalization and atomization of the public so that they can become participants, not mere spectators of action.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Arabic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Arabic.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Chinese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Chinese, and from English to other languages.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Danish
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Danish, and from English to other languages.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Dutch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Dutch, and from English to other languages.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Farsi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Farsi, and from English to other languages.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Finnish
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Finnish, and from English to other languages.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to French
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to French, and from English to other languages
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to German
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to German, and from English to other languages.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Italian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Italian, and from English to other languages.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Japanese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Japanese, and from English to other languages.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Korean
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Korean, and from English to other languages.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Norwegian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Norwegian, and from English to other languages.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Polish
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Polish, and from English to other languages.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Portuguese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Portuguese, and from English to other languages.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted English to Spanish
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Spanish, and from English to other languages.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Swedish
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Swedish, and from English to other languages.
- CPJ award goes to jailed Sri Lankan journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists announced today that it will honor imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam with a 2009 International Press Freedom Award.
- No visa for German journalist who wants to base himself in New Delhi
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders urges the Indian government to issue a press visa to Hasnain Kazim, a German journalist of Indian origin, so that he can base himself in India as the German weekly Der Spiegelâ##s correspondent.
- Norwegian Pension Fund Divests from Israeli Military Giant Elbit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has excluded the Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd. from the Government Pension Fund - Global, on the basis of the Council on Ethics' recommendation. The Council on Ethics has found that investment in Elbit constitutes an unacceptable risk of contribution to serious violations of fundamental ethical norms as a result of the company's integral involvement in Israel's construction of a separation barrier on occupied territory.
- Reuters photographer begins second year in US military detention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing American refusal to release Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam, who today begins his second year of detention by the US military in Iraq.
- How Do Men See The World Around Them? - Expert on Men Offers The Male View For 'Best Health' - Canada's New Healthy Lifestyle Magazine For Women
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Expert on Men Offers The Male View For â##Best Healthâ## - Canada's New Healthy Lifestyle Magazine For Women
- Debating how to change the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A review of Wobblies and Zapatistas, by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic.
- Diario de Oaxaca
A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The memoir of Peter Kuper living in Oaxaca, Mexico during a social and political upheaval that ended in more than 20 people dead.
- The limits of anti-racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The contemporary discourse of 'antiracism' is focused much more on taxonomy than politics. It emphasizes the name by which we should call some strains of inequality -- whether they should be broadly recognized as evidence of 'racism' -- over specifying the mechanisms that produce them or even the steps that can be taken to combat them. And, no, neither 'overcoming racism' nor 'rejecting whiteness' qualifies as such a step any more than does waiting for the 'revolution' or urging God's heavenly intervention.
- The Last Refuge
Neve Gordon and the Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Let us admit the truth: The occupier deserves to be boycotted. As long as the Israelis pay no price for the occupation, the occupation will not end, and therefore the only way open to the opponents of the occupation is to take concrete means that will make the Israelis understand that the injustice they are perpetrating comes with a price tag.
- Minding your PDA P's and Q's
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
We have become a nation of archivists - meticulously recording even the smallest of details. Although the accent is on 'social' some would say there's a dark side to all this documentation.
- Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
- Performing Arts Alliance releases Our Fiscal Performance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Buoyed by pre-recession subscription sales and the stabilizing effect of government funding, performing arts organizations are preparing to ride out this economic crisis, according to a recent survey by Canada's Performing Arts Alliance.
- An Amazing Fashion Exhibition in NYC A Disappointing First Lady's Inaugural Ensemble
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Often called â#o the designerâ##s designer,â## Cuban-born Isabel Toledo was little known outside fashionâ##s inner sanctum until First Lady Michelle Obama selected her shift dress and coat for the January Inauguration Ceremony. Last week in NYC, I v
- Season of dread returns as Haiti awaits devastating hurricane season
Decades of deforestation left the Carribbean island defenceless against last year's catastrophic hurricanes. But Haiti hopes attempts to sav
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An examination of the continuing effects of recent hurricanes on the economy and ecology of Haiti.
- Email scam which targets professional speakers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An email scam targetting professional speakers is making the rounds. The NSA, a British speakers' association reports that the scam has been aimed at its members. Speakers listed with SOURCES - www.sources.com - have also reported being targetted.
- Computer viruses slow African expansion
Hampered by pirated software and super-slow download times, computer users in Africa are finding PC viruses hard to eradicate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Expense of anti-virus software means a majority of African computer's are rife with malware that can brutally cripple the users relying on those systems.
- Initiative mexico-canadienne lancee par la Fondation canadienne pour les Ameriques (FOCAL) et Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales (COMEXI)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
COMEXI et FOCAL se sont alliA#es pour crA#er un groupe de travail indA#pendant, pA#piniA#re dâ##idA#es qui viendront dynamiser, A#largir et approfondir les relations entre le Mexique et le Canada.
- Echo Platoon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Echo and other platoons like it are grim yardsticks for measuring the desperation in which a military under immense strain is now operating. Looking up at that military from Echo's airless limbo, from a world of soldiers who have fallen through the cracks of a system under great stress, you can see just how devastating America's two ongoing wars have been for the military itself. The walking wounded, the troubled, and the broken are now being pressured to reenter the fray.
- IFJ and INSI Join Global Call for Release of Journalists in Gambia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the International News Safety Institute (IFJ) call for the urgent release of jailed journalists in Gambia, adding their voices to growing global protest at the press freedom crisis in the country.
- Document Dilemma
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
If memory serves, it wasn't long ago when 'oexperts' were forecasting that offices around the world would phase out paper. Not due to environmental pressure, but because cutting edge technology would see paper as the 21st century equivalent.
- Mexico's Fake RCMP Report Backfires
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Murders committed by police are deemed not to have happened, or to have been justifiable force.
- Voicing the Past: A Presentation to Residential School Survivors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Des agentes de l'UNPOL contribuent A un rapport du Secretaire general
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Le Centre Pearson pour le maintien de la paix (CPMP) a contribuA# A lâ##avancement de la RA#solution 1820 du Conseil de sA#curitA# des Nations Unies, qui vise A prA#venir la violence sexuelle en zone de conflit, en invitant des agentes de la police
- Bil'in: Palestinian Village Under Attack
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Leaders of non-violent protests in Bil'in village against Israeli settlements and occupation arrested by Israeli occupation forces. International supporters are asked to support the non-violent resistance in the face of Israeli attempts to crush it.
- Female UNPOL Officers participate in Secretary General Report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) is advancing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1820 (UN SCR 1820), which addresses the prevention of sexual violence in conflict zones, by bringing United Nations Police (UNPOL) officers to the Security
- IFJ Demands End to Intimidation as Iran Shuts Journalists' Association
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
International Federation of Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to end the campaign of intimidation of journalists in the country following closure of the Association of Journalists in Tehran whose offices were raided and sealed by armed men.
- More Than a Few Good Women
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Company of Women is hosting an evening event for women business owners and hopeful women entrepreneurs. Guest speaker and small busines expert Catherine Swift will be discussing women's role in the Canadian marketplace.
- Three Steps to Creating a Life That Matters
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Company of Women is hosting an evening event where guest speaker Carol Ring, Vice President Strategic Initiatives for Rogers Cable Inc., will discuss how busy career-women can balance personal and professional life in a successful manner.
- Bilin's Mohammad Khatib arrested
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
One month after touring Canada key Palestinian activist kidnapped by Israeli soldiers in another in a series of raids that Israeli occupation forces have carried out in Bil#in since June 2009, raids that commenced in tandem to the commencement of legal proceedings in Canada.
- I Am So Sorry! - A Few Words on Apologies
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
When you're truly sorry for something, apologize profusely and sincerely. It's not sufficient to make a simple apology. Grace, style and promptness are imperative. The offended person needs to feel able and ready to acknowledge your sincerity.
- Leading news website needs new funding
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Support the appeal for help being made by The Nut Graph (http://thenutgraph.com/), an independent Malaysian news website that is strapped for cash because its original investors have decided they cannot continue funding it.
- Sources welcomes Steven Goldhar, President and Founder of Sundance Media Inc.
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member, Steven Goldhar, President and Founder of Sundance Media Inc.
- Gym Etiquette or "Correct Form"
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Gym etiquette advice from Canada's image and etiquette expert, Diane Craig.
- On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Over the next decade, systems which create and store digital records of people's movements through public space will be woven inextricably into the fabric of everyday life. We are already starting to see such systems now, and there will be many more in the near future.
- Food Among the Ruins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Detroit, the country's most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to urban farm.
- Collectors on the edge
The influence of Kew Gardens reaches far. In the heart of Botswana, meet the leaders of the Millenium Seed Bank Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Millenium Seed Bank Project is an international botanical project to collect and study 10% of the world's plant species.
- Focus Shifts to Trafficking of Men in Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The public perception is that human trafficking victims are all vulnerable females forced into prostitution and sexual slavery. But this is not the case. It does not occur to many people that trafficking is much broader on its scale, and that it affects a sizeable amount of men.
- Interim Report on the Automated Targeting System: Documents Released through EFF's FOIA Efforts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Automated Targeting System (ATS) is the program the DHS and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been using to monitor international travelers and assign risk assessment scores to determine potential terrorist threats.
- Lessons of the 1934 Minneapolis Strikes
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A depiction of the Trotskyist union militants' organization of mass strikes in Minneapolis during 1934.
- Golf tournament a driving force for child nutrition
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Proceeds from Whistler's 18th Golf Tournament at Angus Glen North Course in Markham will go to support Canadian Feed The Children's nourishment programs for children affected by poverty. Opportunities still exist to participate.
- Goodwill Stores: A Cool Place to Shop
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Style-makers and trendsetters, even Hollywood celebrities, have long known the benefits of combing Goodwill Stores for hidden gems, but a funny thing happened on our way through the recession. Goodwill stores across North America noticed an increase
- Sources welcomes Canadian Co-operative Association
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: the Canadian Co-operative Association.
- Sources welcomes Chris Chopik, Professional Speaker, Writer, and Founder of www.EvolutionGreen.com
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes Chris Chopik, Professional Speaker, Writer, and Founder of www.EvolutionGreen.com.
- Sources welcomes Eugene Oscapella, Barrister and Solicitor/Oscapella and Associates
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes Eugene Oscapella, Barrister and Solicitor/Oscapella and Associates.
- Forbidden Words - Cursing and Swearing
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Strong language helps people cope with stress. But what are the repercussions?
- IFJ Welcomes Lifting of Ban on Al-Jazeera in West Bank
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the decision of the Palestinian Authority to revoke its order of 15 July to close Al-Jazeera's office in the West Bank.
- Confronting fears of Eurabia
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Growing anti-immigrant and Islamophobic sentiments have been fueled by statistics that claim to show that countries such as Germany and France will have Muslim majority populations by the turn of the century.
- RSVP or Repondez s'il-vous-plait
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
There is tremendous confusion about RSVPs. Not just surrounding weddings but for all kinds of events.
- IFJ Condemns Palestinian Authority Over Ban on Al-Jazeera
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on the Palestinian Authority to rescind its decision to close down the office the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television in the West Bank.
- Journalist harassed and intimidated by police officers in Cairo after article on curruption
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Police officers have led organised attacks against Alaa Al Gamel, a reporter for weekly Sout Al Ouma.
- 6 Ideas For Those Needing Defensive Technology to Protect Free Speech from Authoritarian Regimes
4 Ways the Rest of Us Can Help
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2010
The Internet remains one of the most powerful means ever created to give voice to repressed people around the world. Unfortunately, new technologies have also given authoritarian regimes new means to identify and retaliate against those who speak out despite censorship and surveillance.
- The Association of Canadian Travel Agencies (ACTA) reacts to the potential Visa confrontation between Mexico and Canada
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
David McCaig, President and COO of the Association of Canadian Travel Agencies (ACTA) said, â#oThe sudden imposition of travel Visa requirements for Mexican citizens arriving into Canada will hurt the domestic Canadian Tourism market at a time
- Two foreign reporters arrested in Namibia for filming seal slaughter
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Sound business advice for new recruits
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Just as fitness instructors build specialized exercise programmes, varying from beginner to Olympian, I set the bar high for a wide range of business professionals from new recruits to seasoned executives and CEOs.
- Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
- Bellwood Draws on Founder's Legacy to Provide Canadian Soldiers with Effective Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Addictions
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Trauma or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use problems often co-occur, especially in employees of hazardous occupations. Bellwood Health Services provides support for members of the Canadian Forces and Veterans Affairs Canada.
- From Heroin To Methadone To Abstinence -- New Treatment Program Helps Individuals Seeking A Complete Recovery
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Bellwood Health Services offers a treatment program that provides an alternative for individuals dependent on methadone.
- Renowned Canadian Addiction Treatment Centre Continues Family Legacy
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
In 1984, the late Dr. Gordon Bell and his daughter Linda Bell opened the doors of Bellwood Health Services to their first client. Three generations into the family business, Bellwood is pleased to announce that Dr. Bell's granddaughter, Laura Bhoi
- How the World Depression Hits Orissa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The recession in the West is having a profound impact on the deep rural interior of Orissa.
- Powerful publicity and marketing tools for publishers and authors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Helping authors and publishers to publicize themselves and their books with a package of marketing and media relations tools designed to get publicity in the media and to reach readers and book buyers directly.
- Tax Havens; Undermining Democracy
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Out of Africa but not very different
Despite our expectation that human diversity should be reflected in our genes, a study reveals surprising little variation
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Partial exerpt at: http://www.amren.com/news/2009/06/among_many_peop/
- Five years of illegality: Time to dismantle the Wall and respect the rights of Palestinians
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
In a report, Five years of illegality, Oxfam International presents testimonies of fifteen Palestinian men and women who recount their daily problems, arising from the construction of the Wall and its associated regime of land confiscation.
- Honduras: Press freedom violations continue post-coup
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Press freedom continues to suffer in the aftermath of the coup in Honduras.
- Israeli army raids on Bil'in village
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
- FOCAL Welcomes New Board Chair Kathryn Hewlett-Jobes
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Former Canadian High Commissioner to Jamaica to lead the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL). She succeeds longstanding Board Chair John W. Graham, elected chair in 2001.
- IFJ Accuses Iran over Massive Attack on Media and Journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists warned that a massive attack on independent media in Iran which has seen the jailing of journalists and a continuing crackdown on free expression reveals the desperation of the regime to curb democracy.
- IFJ and the National Federation of Israeli Journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Following a number of press inquiries related to the IFJâ##s decision to expel the National Federation of Israeli Journalist at the last meeting of its Executive Committee (June 6/7, the IFJ is making available two documents clarifying the position
- Journalists and media workers assaulted by occupation forces
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) condemns the attack on Reuters photographer Nayef Alhishlmon and several Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation forces.
- Release of Al Jazeera journalists held by Israelis
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The two Al Jazeera journalists who were arrested on 30 June have been released from Ramleh prison, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
- Umbrella Etiquette Matters
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Back on Bay Street and all these stockbrokers and entrepreneurs and chic, city women reminded me of wild soccer fans: unruly, pushy, out of control.
- WAN, IFRA Merge Into Single World-Wide News Publishing Organisation
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, the leading international associations for print and digital news publishing, have merged into a new organisation, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
- Sources welcomes Strategic Insights Canada
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes Strategic Insights Canada. Strategic Insights Canada provides competitive market research and analysis in Ontario energy, nuclear energy, aerospace and municipal infrastructure.
- Power, illusion and America's last taboo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Since 1945, the United States has overthrown fifty governments, including democracies, and crushed some 30 liberation movements, and supported tyrannies and set up torture chambers from Egypt to Guatemala. Countless men, women and children have been bombed to death. Bombing is apple pie. And yet, here is the 44th President of the United States, having stacked his government with warmongers and corporate fraudsters and polluters from the Bush and Clinton eras, teasing us while promising more of the same.
- Rumble in the jungle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Could Peru's uncontacted Amazonian tribes be wiped out by oil giants? Not if they don't exist.
- Wedding Bell Blues - Destination Weddings
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Destination Weddings in today's environmentally conscious times.
- An Abortion Doctor's Jailhouse Journal
Against The Current vol. 141
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
With Dr. Tiller’s death, we are painfully reminded of how “abortion doctors” are subject to ongoing harassment and even death. The question of what motivates such doctors to continue to provide abortions is once again front and center.
- "Climate Justice" and the Left: The Necessity of a Mass Movement
Against The Current vol. 141
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The climate crisis -- a crisis not of civilization, as some commentators would have it, but of capitalist production -- requires a political response that is long overdue, and is finally stirring. Now that the movement against global warming is brewing, socialists must get involved.
- IFJ and FEPALC Condemn Attacks against Media and Journalists in Honduras
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The IFJ and FEPALC have today strongly condemned attacks on journalists and the closure of media in Honduras.
- We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
- African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalists' rights
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Leaders of the Federation of African Journalists have condemned at their biannual meeting in Djibouti on June 23rd, the unsafe and precarious working conditions of journalists in Africa.
- Diane Craig, Image Expert, Comments on Michael Jackson's Signature Sense of Style
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
In the era before professional stylists routinely created the image of everyone on the red carpet, Michael was self-styled. He created his own signature look, both on and off camera.
- Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
- Media relations for politicians
A Service for Parliamentarians, Legislators, and Municipal Councillors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Public relations tools for elected officials and community leaders.
- Communications seen key to boosting workplace morale.
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Uncertainty and low morale dominates mood in national workplaces, National Employment survey indicates.
- Our business is helping you to promote your business
Business promotion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Established in 1977 as a directory of expert sources for the media, SOURCES has evolved into a major Internet portal featuring leading professionals and businesses in almost every field. Thousands of journalists, media buyers, market researchers, businesses, and consumers use SOURCES to find the people who can answer their questions and solve their problems.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Athletic Therapists Association
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member, Canadian Athletic Therapists Association (CATA).
- The Look of Success by Diane Craig - Image and Etiquette
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Diane Craig is now blogging twice a week, Tuesday and Thursday on a variety of topics and current news related to image and etiquette. www.corporateclassinc.com/blog Read this coming Tuesday about Michael Jackson sense of style and fashion.
- Trend spotting - Coffee is the new lunch
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Trend spotting - Coffee is the new lunch. Times change. "Coffee is the new lunch." Business meeting over coffee. There, you have it. A simple concept, but one charged with implications.
- IFJ Condemns Shocking Attack on Tamil Newspapers in Sri Lanka
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns an attack on three Tamil newspapers in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. According to reports from IFJ sources, news agents for Jaffnaâ##s three main newspapers were attacked.
- Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First-Century City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The shift in Britain's urban planning policy towards privatized 'public' spaces has resulted in homogenization of its landscapes.
- The Two Main Trends in Anarchism
Alternate Tendencies of Anarchism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The broad anarchist tradition of class struggle anarchism overlaps with libertarian interpretations of Marx.
- Robert Menard and staff leave Doha Centre for Media Freedom
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
International press freedom campaigner Robert MA#nard has resigned as director-general of the Doha Centre for Media Freedom along with other members of the staff.
- Sources welcomes Dale Curd
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member, Dale Curd, Counselor, Mens' Issues Expert. Dale Curd is one of Canada's leading authorities on men's emotional health and well-being.
- US and European companies jointly responsible for Internet censorship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders has called for the need for legislation to allow US and European Internet companies operating in repressive countries to escape rules imposed on them by these governments.
- Canadian authorities jeopardize health of native citizens
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Government fails to adequately inform citizens of possible negative health hazards caused by consuming contaminated whale products.
- Sources welcomes Dorothy Ratusny
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member, Dorothy Ratusny, M.A., (C). OACCPP., Psychotherapist & Author of The Purpose of Love.
- Guatemala: Murders of Women Recall Counterinsurgency Techniques
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The worst waves of brutal, unsolved murders of women in Latin America have been seen in Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico's northern border, where close to 400 killings have been reported since 1993, and Guatemala, where 527 women were killed last year alone.
- Historic organic trade agreement will benefit Canadian producers and companies
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Organic Trade Association in Canada (OTA) has responded in support of a historic, world-first "organic equivalency agreement" between Canada and the United States, allowing organic products to be traded between the two countries.
- IFJ Hails Milestone Victory of Journalist on Protection of Sources in Northern Ireland
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The IFJ welcomes a court decision to dismiss the police application to force journalist Susanne Breen to reveal her source for a story on the murder to two British soldiers as a historic victory for the protection of sources.
- New solidarity ship to sail to Gaza on June 25
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
On June 25th, the Free Gaza movement will set sail on its eighth mission to break Israelâ##s horrific siege and collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
- Reporters Without Borders publishes a first Guide for exiled journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders marked World Refugee Day by publishing a guide for journalists driven into exile, to provide them with information about the procedures and potential obstacles in seeking asylum.
- Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Nick Lane expertly reconstructs the history of life by describing the ten greatest inventions of evolution (including DNA, photosynthesis, sex, and sight), based on their historical impact, role in organisms today, and relevance to current controversies.
- What the Left Should be Learning From Iran
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
There are those on the left who mirror neocon thought: They argue that since Washington is in opposition to it, Iran must therefore be considered a 'good' government, worthy of solidarity. Others argue that if the Iranian state offers social programs and even if it only somewhat resists global capitalism then therefore its violent and authoritarian actions can somehow be justified, forgiven or denied.
- Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario Eager to Work On Early Learning Implementation
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Association of Daycare Operators of Ontario (ADCO) applauds the themes covered in the Pascal report, but has concerns that some of the details of its implementation may have unintended consequences for licensed child care programs.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society. The Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society monitors and reports on the population status of Arctic marine mammals.
- Sources welcomes Coalition For No Whales in Captivity
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Coalition For No Whales in Captivity. The Coalition For No Whales In Captivity is the "watchdog" of the Vancouver Aquarium.
- Sources welcomes Leading Communicators Inc.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Leadership communication: Assessments & Solutions
- Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to prevent news coverage of protests.
- Israel sentences two to prison terms for censorship breach
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Israeli court decision to sentence two television journalists on charges of breaching the military censorship law during the offensive in Gaza in December and January.
- Renowned Hypnotherapist Receives Life Fellowship in Hypnotherapy Award
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Debbie Papadakis, founder and director of the Toronto, Canada based Hypno Healing Institute Inc. has earned the prestigious Life Fellow in Hypnotherapy award from the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association.
- Sources welcomes Dave F. Musgrave
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Dave F. Musgrave - Senior Employee Benefits Specialist, Renfrew Insurance.
- Body-in-Motion on the air
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Dianne L. Woodruff, PhD, is a featured speaker on Alternative Talk radio KKNW in Seattle. Her topic is "the fiction of fitness." Woodruff is a specialist in body movement and longevity. The talk-phone-in format airs Wednesdays at 12 noon eastern.
- IFJ Condemns Alarming Levels of Violence against Journalists in Latin America after Murders in Guatemala and Colombia
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Condemns Alarming Levels of Violence against Journalists in Latin America after Murders in Guatemala and Colombia.
- World now at the start of 2009 influenza pandemic: Statement to the press by WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
On the basis of available evidence, and these expert assessments of the evidence, the scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met. The WHO has therefore decided to raise the level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 5 to phase 6.
- How to avoid a Mid-life Crisis
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A unique, self-directed, web-based assessment has the ability to accurately and objectively identify careers for individuals in which they have the greatest opportunity for success.
- New Journal of Natural Medicine Launched This June, Promotes Natural Therapies
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The field of natural medicine attained a new voice this month with the launch of the International Journal of Naturopathic Medicine (IntJNM), a first of its kind, peer-reviewed journal that serves as a benchmark to the international medical community
- Nova Scotia election results online at Sources.com
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The results of the Nova Scotia election, with all members elected to the Nova Scotia legislature, are now available via Parliamentary Names & Numbers. Parliamentary Names & Numbers is the directory of Canadaâ#²s federal and provincial governments.
- Que es Sources?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
SOURCES (Fuentes) es el medio interactivo que conecta a los periodistas, editores, autores e investigadores, con las Fuentes de información que necesitan para hacer efectivamente su trabajo.
- Sentence Against US Journalists in North Korea is Inhumane and Unjust, Says IFJ
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) called for the immediate release of the two United States journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who have been jailed by North Korea.
- Marketing Internships - Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources offers a four- to six-month unpaid marketing internships in Toronto. Tasks may include web-based marketing, social networking, identifying and contacting prospective clients, web page design, phone surveys, helping to produce newsletters.
- Organic Trade Association in Canada opposes introduction of genetically engineered alfalfa
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) in Canada has registered strong opposition to federal permission to allow production of genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa in Canada.â#oAlfalfa is a perfect crop for Canadian organic agriculture..."
- Sources welcomes Association of Canadian Travel Agencies (ACTA)
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes Association of Canadian Travel Agencies (ACTA). ACTA is a national trade association representing the retail travel sector of Canada's travel industry.
- Tom Baker Cancer Centre receives $50,000 gift
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Breast Cancer Society of Canada (BCSC), in support of its goal of improving the lives of those affected by breast cancer across Canada, has generously granted $50,000 to the Tom Baker Cancer Centre.
- Censorship is the Wrong Way to Combat the British National Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The illiberal obsession with silencing Nick Griffin and the British National Party in the run up to elections has won the party undeserved publicity, says Claire Fox
- HR Trends Report 2009 - Tough Times Ahead
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Vancouver, B.C. - The BC Human Resources Management Association (BC HRMA) released its annual report on HR trends. HR functions are set to handle significant change and will face a tough year restructuring their organizations on reduced budgets.
- Sources welcomes CareerDirection.com
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: CareerDirection.com. Career Direction is a unique, self-directed, web-based, career identification tool that is 90% accurate and 100% objective in identifying the careers in which an individual has greatest opportunity.
- Sources welcomes Susan McCord
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member, Susan McCord, "Beavertalk.COM" Internet Talk Show Host, Producer, Writer.
- New Canadian Festival in Waterloo, and Made Viewable Online to the World
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Dr. Neil Turok, Director of Perimeter Institute, and John Matlock, Director of External Relations and Outreach, will announce details on June 12th, 2009, of an innovative, public science festival coming in October, 2009.
- Educational Survey Findings: Canadian parents ensure summer learning
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A recent Ipsos-Reid survey found that Canadian parents are promoting summer learning activities that can be done as a family. Includes the top-five activities parents encourage with tips from educational specialist, Dr. Donna McGhie-Richmond.
- Educational Survey Findings: Reading -- The number one summer educational activity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A recent Ipsos-Reid survey found that reading is the top summer learning activity of families with high achieving children. Includes tips from educational specialist, Dr. Donna McGhie-Richmond, on how to make the most of summer reading activities.
- Educational Survey Findings: Social responsibility linked to good grades
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A recent Ipsos-Reid educational survey has found a link between social responsibility and good grades for children in Canada.
- Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway for the General Meeting (GM) of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
- Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser: Silence Tastes Badâ## Put Free Speech on the Menu.
Artists and supporters speak out for freedom of association at the launch of the Koffler Gallery fundraiser, ARTFUL DISH, Thursday, June 4, 10 AM.
- World Press Freedom Day: Commission launches 2009 Lorenzo Natali Prize for committed journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
On World Press Freedom Day the Commission is officially launching the Lorenzo Natali Prize for 2009. The prize is awarded to journalists who have demonstrated a commitment to human rights, democracy and development.
- Company of Women Presents 3rd Annual Journey to Success Conference
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Company of Women Continues to Inspire Business Women in Third Annual Journey to Success Conference. Company of Women is proud to present the third annual Journey to Success Conference.
- Erin Davis Keynote Speaker at Journey to Success Conference
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Erin David on "Living Out Loud" at third annual Journey to Success Conference.
Successful CHFI radio personality, Erin Davis will show what it means to Live Out Loud, as this year's Luncheon Keynote speaker at the Journey to Success conference.
- Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom, Brussels Declaration
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Brussels Declaraton on Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom.
- Press freedom activist badly beaten in Colombo, hospitalised
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by an assault on Poddala Jayantha, the secretary-general of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), the country's leading journalists organisation.
- Journalists Welcome European Call to Review Anti-Terrorism Laws
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Ministers of the human rights network of the Council of Europe have called on their governments to review anti-terrorism laws in the face of strong criticism from journalists that some laws are in practice limiting free expression and press rights.
- Occupation on Trial - Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for building illegal Israeli settlements
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Bil'in, a Palestinian village that has become an international symbol of Palestinian popular non-violent resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli separation wall, is suing Canadian corporations for building illegal settlements.
- Jews Are Not an Equity-Seeking Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Anti-Semitism, pervasive and deadly only a couple generations ago, is no longer a form of oppression. Jews are not currently oppressed on the basis of Jewish identity alone. Measured in terms of social power, a white Jewish male is just another white male, his Jewishness of no more relevance than if he were Dutch or Irish.
- Oprah Blames Hormonal Imbalance on Preventing Weight Loss: Expert Explains Hormone Health in Best Selling Book
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Dr. Natasha Turner, Naturopathic Doctor And Author Of The Best Seller â#oThe Hormone Dietâ## To Discuss Hormone Health And Weight Loss With Maryon Stewart During Free Telephone Helpline On June 4.
- Talk to United Church Toronto Conference AGM
Supporting the call for boycott, divestment and sanctions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Miriam Garfinkle spoke to the United Church Toronto Conference Annual General Meeting in 2009 when the United Church was considering resolutions supporting boycott, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel to ends it oppression of the Palestinian people.
- Alert: Police raid opposition party headquarters, arrest protesters amid continuing unrest in Perak State
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) strongly protests continuing police arrests of protesters and a related raid at the headquarters of the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) to eliminate critical expression about the political crisis.
- IFJ Blasts Authorities over Failure to Stop Killings of Journalists after Veteran Murder in Mexico
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today blamed the Mexican authorities for failing to tackle the killings of journalists following the murder of veteran journalist, Eliseo BarrA#n Laguna, who worked for La OpiniA#n.
- IFJ Conference: Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
What is women's representation in the news management? How do women journalists make their way in today's media changes? What role can journalists unions play in promoting gender equality? How can media strengthen gender portrayal in the news?
- Morrison Hershfield Senior Vice President Introduced as Leader of Engineering Licensing Body
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Catherine Karakatsanis, P.Eng., installed as president of Professional Engineers Ontario. Ms Carakatsanus is the fourth woman to be elected president of the association.
- Mexican journalist who covered police is abducted and killed
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Authorities found the body of a journalist who covered the police beat in northern Mexico after he was abducted from his house on Monday night, according to Mexican news reports.
- IFJ Launches Emergency Appeal for Pakistani Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is launching an emergency appeal to provide emergency financial support to more than 100 journalists and their families who were forced to flee the intense conflict in northern Pakistan.
- The Real Expenses Scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
One of the consistent features of Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is that the projects are reverse-engineered to meet the demands of corporate investors. This, for example, is how the £30m public scheme to refurbish Coventry's two hospitals became a £410m private scheme to knock them both down and rebuild one of them - containing fewer beds and fewer doctors and nurses.
- Are you paying too much to send out your news releases?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
If you have been using a corporate newswire service to send out your news releases you are likely paying $500 or more to send out a single release -- and that release may not even be reaching the people you want to reach.
- International Multimedia News Lab Launched in Prague
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Representatives of World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and PPF Group have launched the International Multimedia News Lab in Prague. The training and educational centre, combined with the editorial house is called FUTUROOM - newsroom of the future.
- Sources welcomes Wendy Moore-MacQueen
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Wendy Moore-MacQueen, Author, Speaker and President of Mormac Brand Re-engineering.
- Celebrity Fitness Trainer Creates Choi-Bo: New Exercise That Helps Those With Joint Health Issues
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Celebrity Fitness Trainer Anthony Aurelius Creates Choi-Bo, A New Mind And Body Workout Routine Aimed at Improving Fitness In Adults And Young People. Natural Health Expert Maryon Stewart To Interview Aurelius about its application to joint health.
- Canadian Down Syndrome Society is Concerned About Our Most Vulnerable Canadian Citizens
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Canadian Down Syndrome Society is outraged at the recent decision by a Quebec judge to acquit an HIV positive man accused of sexually assaulting a woman with Down syndrome after she was unable to positively identify her attacker.
- Staycation: home vacations popularity growing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
As summer quickly approaches; people are starting to plan how theyâ##re going to spend their much deserved time off. Normally this would be an exciting time but with the economy in todayâ##s state, people are looking for different ideas.
- The Canada Science and Technology Museum recognizes the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, the Canada Science and Technology Museum (CSTM), in collaboration with CNIB, presents an exhibition and a guided tour which will be offered throughout 2009.
- Egypt: Security authorities confiscate book about corruption
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reports that the Egyptian security authorities have confiscated a book entitled "A Flood of Corruption and the Advance of bin Laden in Algeria" by the Algerian writer, Anwar Malek.
- Endemic rape and abuse of Irish children in Catholic care, inquiry finds
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Beatings and humiliation by nuns and priests were common at institutions that held up to 30,000 children, Ryan report states.
- Federal Government Helps Realize State-Of-The-Art Science & Environment Complex
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An historic $18,042,000 million infrastructure grant by the Government of Canada to The University of Winnipeg today means the world-class Science Complex and Richardson College for the Environment will be constructed.
- Former President of Peru to receive Honorary Doctorate of Laws on June 2, 2009
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The former President of Peru, Alejandro Toledo â## a man of Indigenous Andean heritage who began as a shoeshine boy and rose to become a respected economist â## will be in Winnipeg on June 2, 2009 to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Laws.
- Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
- Police in Tunisia's Gafsa mining region harass reporter for banned newspaper
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the way the police in Tunisia have been harassing political activist Ammar Amroussia in recent days. Amroussia writes for El Badil (Alternative), a banned newspaper.
- Moroccan journalists face charges of defaming Qaddafi
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists is dismayed by the start of court proceedings today against five Moroccan journalists charged with publicly harming Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and hurting his dignity.
- Sri Lanka Army holding three doctors who gave information to press
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders urges the Sri Lankan authorities to quickly release three Tamil doctors who have been arrested for providing the news media with information about the humanitarian situation in Vanni.
- The Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation Inc. (CALA) announces new Chief Executive Officer
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of C. Charles Brimley as the new CEO of the Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation Inc. (CALA). This appointment will become effective May 25, 2009.
- Avoiding Gripes About Your Gripe (or Parody) Site
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Here's a story we hear a lot at EFF: You think BadCo, Inc. is a bad actor and you've developed a really cool site to tell the world why. Maybe just by griping about them or maybe through a bit of parody. Fast forward two weeks: you're basking in the pleasure of calling BadCo out when bam! You find out your site's been shut down.
- Mountain Biking: Frequently Asked Questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Why do people mountain bike, and what harms does it do?
- Sources welcomes ARETE safety and protection inc.
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
ARETE safety and protection Inc. ia a leading Canadian firm specializing in the prevention and management of workplace violence and conflict for over 15 years.
- Sources welcomes Solutions in Mind
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Solutions in Mind is a uniquely qualified world-leading authority on communication, utilizing innovative communication tools to coach organizations and individuals to understand how the mind works.
- The Palestinian Struggle and the Anarchist Dilemma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A review of the discussion of the relationship between anarchism and the Palestinian/Israeli struggle by Uri Gordon, an Israeli anarchist, in his book "Anarchy Alive!".
- Authorities step up offensive against journalists and websites
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about freedom of expression in Bahrain. In the past couple of months, two journalists have been charged because of what they wrote and the information ministry has stepped up Internet filtering.
- Dissident journalist facing jail term on 'disrespect' charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of independent journalist Alberto Santiago Du Bouchet, who was arrested after a verbal exchange with a policeman in Artemisa (in Havana province) on 18 April.
- Helping you reach the media
How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
- IFJ Backs Russian and Asian Unions in Campaign to Rebuild Trust in Media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is backing a regional campaign led by journalists' leaders from Russia, Turkey and Central Asia to strengthen quality journalism in the face of political pressure and a media crisis across the region.
- IFJ Condemns New Attack on Journalists' Sources in UK
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European group, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today joined their affiliate, the National Union of Journalists in the UK and Ireland (NUJ), in condemning the secrecy.
- IFJ Condemns Reckless Use of Violence against Media House in Yemen
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the shocking disregard for safety of journalists and media staff who were caught in the crossfire of a battle between security forces and armed guards at a publishing house in Yemen.
- IFJ Condemns Threats and Intimidation against Journalists in Somalia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists has condemned today the threats and intimidations against journalists in Somalia after the head of an Islamic militia group in Somalia warned journalists against reports which are critical of the movement
- Newspaper reporter arrested as she returns to Israel from Gaza Strip
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders condemns Israeli newspaper reporter Amira Hassâ##s arrest at the Erez border crossing yesterday as she returned to Israel after spending four months in the Gaza Strip reporting for the Tel Aviv-based daily Haaretz.
- Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowd
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message.
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their work. Being included in SOURCES positions you as a media source and puts you in line to receive more media calls and more media coverage.
- Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
- Getting your story into the media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Stories are the heart and soul of the media. Journalism is about telling stories, and good stories require sources # human contacts, the people who provide informed comment and expertise, the people who make stories interesting and informative.
For more than 30 years, SOURCES has provided a vital networking service connecting journalists with the sources they need # the experts and spokespersons without whom the media would have no stories to tell.
- Have new social media made 'traditional' media obsolete?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
New media provide additional channels for getting messages out, but they don't make older media obsolete. The task is of public relations is to reach people through the media they use. In an increasingly diverse and fragmented world, that means using as many different channels of communication as possible.
- IFJ Calls for Inquiry Into Lasantha's Murder
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the widow of Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge in calling on Sri Lanka's power-holders to take immediate action to conduct a full, fair and independent investigation into the murder
- Israeli authorities close Palestinian media centre in East Jerusalem
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday morning's decision by the Israeli internal security ministry to shut down the Palestinian media centre that had been set up in the East Jerusalem.
- Roxana Saberi finally freed
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders hails todayâ##s release of Iranian-American journalist.
- The Whatchamacallit
Those Everyday Objects You Just Can't Name (and Things You Think You Know about But Don't)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A compendium of lesser known terms for ordinary things with background and notes.
- Fad Diet or Not: Celiac Expert Dispels Common Myths about Gluten-Free Diet
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
While Celebrity Elisabeth Hasselbeck Sheds Light On Gluten-Free Living, International Celiac Expert Shelley Case Dispels Common Myths about the Gluten-Free Diet
- Going Gluten Free?: The Critical Test Everyone Needs to Have BEFORE They Try the Latest Celebrity Endorsed Diet
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
While Celebrity Elisabeth Hasselbeck Sheds Light On Gluten-Free Living, International Celiac Expert Shelley Case Dispels Common Myths about the Gluten-Free Diet
- Eco-Friendly Entrepreneurs Revolutionizing Business Practices
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Are you a female entrepreneur with an ecologically sound business or just curious about how you can develop a more eco-friendly business? If so, attend the Company of Women dinner event featuring an eco-friendly entrepreneurial panel.
- Sangster's Health Centres Wins Grand Prize in Canadian Franchise Association Award of Excellence in Franchising
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 CFA Award of Excellence in Franchising competition.
- Canadian Franchise Association Announces 2009 Frankie Award Winners
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) congratulates the 2009 Frankie Award winners, representing the top advertising and marketing creative in Canadian franchising.
- Criminalizing Criticism of Israel
The End of Free Speech?
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism of Israel. The Lobby is working to ban as anti-Semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-semitism will soon be a universal hate-crime in the Western world.
- IFJ Condemns Outrageous Attacks on Media in Yemen
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned attacks by Yemeni authorities on independent media which have been seized after the government accused them of publishing material allegedly "harmful to the national unity".
- Reporter who criticized officials is slain in northern Mexico
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A Mexican journalist who was critical of local authorities in the northern state of Durango was fatally shot by unidentified assailants on Sunday.
- U.S. reporter found guilty of obstruction, faces 4 years in jail
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The CPJ is concerned about the prosecution of American reporter Diane Bukowski, who was found guilty of 2 felony counts of resisting, obstructing, opposing, and endangering two Michigan state troopers while covering a crime scene.
- 5 Ways To Cut The High Cost Of Divorce
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
For most people ending a marriage is financially devastating. Often costs are purposefully accelerated. Understand the ways legal fees increase rapidly. Learn how to lower the impact.
- Origins of the Specious
Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A review of popular misconceptions of English grammar and vocabulary.
- BlueRush 3-Time Winner at 2009 US Internet Advertising Competition
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
BlueRush Media Group Corp. (TSX-V: BTV), is pleased to announce three big wins at this yearâ##s US Internet Advertising Competition, for Best Financial Service Interactive Application, Best Telecommunication Rich Media Online Campaign, and Best Gover
- The Canadian Down Syndrome Society Responds to Current Class Action Law Suit Facing Sequenom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
In financial terms, the sum total of the damage to those who invested in Sequenom is easily measured. There is, however, less of a provision to measure the consciousness of a company, who trades in tremendously powerful and important information.
- Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
- IFJ Demands Overhaul of Repressive Media Laws in the Middle East
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Launching its â##Breaking the Chains' annual report into press freedom violations in the Arab World and Iran, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for a radical overhaul of media laws in the Middle East.
- IFJ Welcomes New Vintu Partnership to Assist Stricken Media Families
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
As part of its World Press Freedom Day actions the International Federation of Journalists has announced a new agreement with the Vintu Foundation to provide humanitarian assistance to families of journalists and media personnel killed on duty,
- Jailed Zimbabwe journalist Honored by Black Journalists group
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) announced that Anderson Shadreck Manyere, a freelance photojournalist in Zimbabwe, will receive the organizationâ##s 2009 Percy Qoboza Award.
- Newspaper editor in coma after latest case of violence against journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders voiced deep concern today about newspaper editor Vyacheslav Yaroshenko, who is in a coma after being attacked and beaten outside his home in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don on 29 April.
- Press Freedom Under Fire in South Asia, 2008-09
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The seventh annual report on press freedom in South Asia documents alarming trends in working conditions for journalists.
- Publicity 101 for Colleges
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Q: What's the best way for a college to get continuing media attention?
A: By being found in SOURCES, the Media's Guide to Experts and Spokespersons
- Roxana Saberi's family and lawyers under strong pressure from Iranian authorities
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iranian government's attempts to intimidate Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, her family and her lawyers. Sentenced to 8 years in prison on a spying charge Saberi been on hunger strike since 21 April.
- World Press Freedom Day: Statement from the Media Foundation for West Africa
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The theme for this year's celebration of World Press Freedom Day, Media, Dialogue and Mutual Understanding, could not have been more appropriate in any other year than this one, particularly for countries in West Africa.
- Hair care line nourishes children affected by poverty
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Beginning April 2009, Laboratoire Cosmepro will donate two percent of sales from its Light Blue Shade hair care products to Canadian Feed The Childrenâ##s National Nutrition Program, which provides nutritional support to children living in poverty.
- Human Nature
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Dowie sympathizes with the view that 'wildenress' is a human creation.
- Organic Trade Association welcomes federal credit-guarantee for organic farmers in Canada
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Canadian organic sector welcomes the announcement of new federal government-guaranteed loans for farmers and farmer-coops
- Experience International Astronomy Day
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Experience your own Galileo Moment by participating in daytime activities, lectures, and an evening Star Party on International Astronomy Day, Saturday May 2nd at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
- Finalists announced for inaugural Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
CMA Canada and CIPFA are pleased to announce the selection of finalists for the first
recipient(s) of the Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector.
- IOM Medical Conflict of Interest Report Released
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
New voluntary and regulatory measures can strengthen protections against financial conflicts of interest in medicine without hindering patient care or the advancement of medical knowledge, says a new report by the Institute of Medicine.
- Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
- Canadian Business Leaders to Meet in Toronto at the CFA National Convention
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Some of the biggest names in Canadian business will gather at the Westin Prince Hotel in Toronto, Ontario from May 3 â## 5 for the 18th annual Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) National Convention.
- Ontario Takes Legal Action Against Pharmacies, Generic Drug Companies and Wholesalers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Ontario is taking legal action against a number of pharmacies, generic drug manufacturers and wholesalers after the discovery of their involvement in a scheme where drug products were being sold several times.
- Right To Water - Maude Barlow To Speak At Ontario Water Conference, May 4
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Maude Barlow to address water industry professionals at the Ontario Water Works Annual Conference & Trade Show, Monday May 4, Toronto Congress Centre, Dixon Road.
- Swine influenza: Statement by WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The WHO Director-General has raised the level of influenza pandemic alert from the current phase 3 to phase 4.The change to a higher phase of pandemic alert indicates that the likelihood of a pandemic has increased, but not that it is inevitable.
- American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi on hunger strike for past five days
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Roxana Saberi, the young American-Iranian journalist who was sentenced to eight years in prison on a spying charge in Tehran on 18 April, has been on hunger strike for the past five days.
- ARTICLE 19 launches the Camden Principles on Freedom of Expression and Equality
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
ARTICLE 19 has launched The Camden Principles on Freedom of Expression and Equality, a ground-breaking document that will guide legislators, policy-makers and civil society in balancing the rights to freedom of expression and equality.
- FAJ says African journalists face series of threats ranging from safety and security, repressive laws, oppressive regimes
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Journalists and media workers in Africa face series of threats ranging from safety and security, repressive laws, oppressive regimes, monopolies, bad labour practices and unfair competition.
- Government of Canada is Working Closely with Provinces and Territories and International Partners to Address Swine Flu
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq and Chief Public Health Officer Dr. David Butler-Jones today assured Canadians that the federal government is working closely with the provinces and territories and international partners to protect the health.
- Leonard Cohen urged to cancel Israel concert
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Leonard Cohen urged to cancel Israel concert.
- Swine flu illness in the United States and Mexico - update 2
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
On Saturday, 25 April, upon the advice of the Emergency Committee called under the rules of the International Health Regulations, the Director-General declared this event a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
- World Copyright Day: Stop Unfair Contracts for Journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) condemns the widespread use of unfair contracts by media employers that deprive journalists from their authors' rights.
- All Out For May Day
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Halifax May Day 2009 celebrations coincides with the 90th anniversary of the 1919 May Day 100 per cent strike of the construction trades against exploitation and gouging in the aftermath of the 1917 Halifax Explosion and the labour revolts.
- CCNM student's research examines impact of trigger point therapy for athletic injuries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Musculoskeletal injuries are a devastating setback for athletes, and a quick recovery with minimal pain and interruptions in lifestyle and training is critical. Many sports-related injuries are related to myofascial trigger points (MTrPs).
- IFJ Welcomes Successful Safety Training for Gaza Journalists in Egypt
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today welcomed the successful safety training organised for Gaza Journalists which took place in Cairo from 20 to 22 April.
- Sources welcomes Anne Day -- Company of Women
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Anne Day is the Founder of Company of Women, an organization that supports, connects and promotes women in business through monthly events, online and print directory, an extensive website, annual conference and quarterly magazine, Company.
- Sources welcomes BlueRush
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
BlueRush is a full service digital marketing company focused on developing highly engaging and interactive solutions using Web 2.0 technologies, award-winning rich media animation and video production.
- World press freedom groups call for Saberi's release
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Thirty-five members of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) join CPJ and Reporters Without Borders in a letter to the head of Iran's judiciary calling for the release of imprisoned journalist Roxana Saberi.
- AMARC welcomes bill limiting media concentration
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
AMARC's Latin America and Caribbean office (AMARC-ALC) has welcomed a bill on Audiovisual Communication Services and the government's openness to a participatory process of forums on the suggested text.
- Author concerned Canadians may get caught up in low rate hype
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Robert Abboud, a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and author of the book, No Regrets, A Common Sense Guide to Achieving and Affording Your Life Goals who warned 2 years ago of the upcoming Spendemic is raising the alarm again.
Canadians may not y
- Can-Fit-Pro returns to Saskatoon, SK for an action-packed fitness conference
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Can-Fit-Pro's annual Group Fitness and Personal Training One-Day Conference returns to Saskatoon, SK on May 30, 2009! Media can especially benefit from this event to network with fitness professionals and generate possible stories and interviews.
- Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi launches legal action against three Moroccan newspapers
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has described today the complaints made by the Libyan Embassy in Rabat against three Moroccan newspapers as a threat to freedom of expression and the press in Morocco which must be confronted.
- Ruling recognizes Detroit Free Press reporter's right to protect his sources
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is thrilled with U.S. District Judge Robert Clelandâ##s ruling that Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter does not have to reveal his confidential sources from a 2004 article about a failed terrorism prosecution.
- Seven journalists injured by Israeli soldiers in West Bank since January 2009
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders deplores the repeated use of violence against journalists covering peaceful demonstrations in the West Bank in protest against the construction of the Security Wall. The Israeli armed forces have been directly responsible.
- Ten Years On, IFJ Says NATO "Must Apologise" over Belgrade Media Killings
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists say that, ten years after NATO forces defied the protests of journalists and human rights groups and bombed a television centre in Belgrade killing 16 media staff, the damage from that unprecedented strike.
- Geneva: Withdrawal by States from Durban Review Major Setback for Freedom of Expression
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
ARTICLE 19 and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies are extremely concerned by the recent decision of the USA, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands to withdraw from the UN anti-racism conference, otherwise known as the Durban Rreview.
- Human Resources Professionals Gather in Victoria to Build Business Results
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Nearly 900 human resources professionals will gather at the Victoria Conference Centre May 6 â## 8 to participate in the BC Human Resources Management Associationâ##s 47th Annual Conference: Building Business Results â## Blue Skies and Grassroots.
- Publishers look to China and India to help them weather recession
Potter, Blyton and business guides serve global appetite for English language books
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Book sales slowing in Britain, but booming in overseas markets.
- Professional Women Facing An Uncertain Business World - "What Next?"
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Are you in transition? Perhaps youâ##ve been laid off or are worried that you might be. Whatever the scenario, youâ##re not alone. â#oWhat Next?â## is an opportunity to explore different career options and revisit long-held dreams.
- Canadian Franchise Association Announces 2009 CFA Award of Excellence in Franchising Finalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) announces finalists for the 2009 CFA Award of Excellence in Franchising, which honours excellence in franchise operations and franchisor/franchisee relationships.
- Economic Downturn Furthers Environmental Action
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The global economic downturn has revitalized an old sensibility in Canadian homes, the art of prioritizing â##needs vs. wantsâ##. To help, Earth Day Canada offers ways to save money and decrease your impact on the environment every day.
- Hemisphere's Leaders Adopt Declaration of Commitment of Port of Spain
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Affirming their renewed spirit of cooperation, integration and solidarity the hemisphereâ##s leaders concluded the Fifth Summit of the Americas with a consensus to advance joint solutions to address the most pressing challenges facing the region.
- Iranian-American journalist gets eight years on spying charge
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders â#ofirmly condemnsâ## the eight-year prison sentence which a Tehran revolutionary court passed on Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi on a charge of spying for the United States.
- Appeal to international bodies and NGOs participating in 2nd World Conference against Racism
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders and the Doha Centre for Media Freedom are concerned about the threat to free expression that arises when the media broach religious issues.
- Asesinato de dos periodistas en Guatemala y Honduras. La FEPALC y la FIP expresan su total consternacion
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
La FederaciA#n Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) y la FederaciA#n de Periodistas de AmA#rica Latina y el Caribe (FEPALC) expresan su consternaciA#n absoluta ante el asesinato, en menos de 48 horas de dos periodistas centroamericanos.
- Confronting prejudice in South Korea
Foreign teachers are campaigning against visa rules that they say are discriminatory
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Foreigners teaching English in South Korea who hold work visas are being subjected to compulsory STI and drug testing in response to a media frenzy that the teachers are a corrupting influence.
- Fiji: Foreign Journalists Deported, Media Censored in State of Emergency
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) are demanding that Fiji's military government stop deporting journalists and censoring the media after the government declared a 30-day state of emergency last
- Hypnotherapist Gains Media Attention From OPRAH, MoneySense, CNN, WTN, CTV and Others.
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Debbie Papadakis, a well known Hypnotherapist based in Toronto has been gaining international media attention in publications such as Oprahâ##s O Magazine and Canadian Business Online for years, but her continued success has also garnered attention.
- Brain Tumour Collaborative Unites to Fund New Research
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Today, the eight North American private funding organizations comprising the Brain Tumour Fundersâ## Collaborative announced a new funding initiative aimed at accelerating development of non- or minimally- invasive methods for monitoring if, when, an
- Children with Type 1 Diabetes are at Much Greater Risk Than Adults for Celiac Disease, Which is Now Much Easier to Diagnose
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
First at-home screening test for celiac disease is now available in Canada from 2G Pharma Inc.
- China Imposes Yet More Restrictions on Journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns instructions to media issued by Chinaâs Prison Bureau and Central Propaganda Department that they must only report information distributed through official channels.
- IFJ Puts Ethical Journalism on Middle East Media Agenda
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has launched a programme of work to strengthen ethical and independent journalism in the Middle East with the opening of a regional office in Bahrain.
- Leaders urged to give joint commitment to press freedom
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Reporters Without Borders hopes the two-day Summit of the Americas that begins tomorrow in Trinidad and Tobago will result in a firm commitment to media freedom and human rights by the participating presidents.
- Quit Yo-Yo Dieting - Lose Weight Permanently Now
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Fitness expert Marci Lall, shares a valuable and free resource for women who suffer from yo-yo dieting and weight cycling.
- The Red Flags of Greenwashing
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Buyer beware, many products have far less of a positive impact on the environment than marketing campaigns suggest. To help see through the smoke and mirrors, Earth Day Canada is encouraging consumers to internalize the Red Flags of Greenwashing.
- Canadian Franchise Association Announces 2009 Frankie Award Finalists
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The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) is pleased to announce the 2009 Frankie Award finalists in 15 categories, representing the top advertising and marketing creative in Canadian franchising.
- EFJ Backs Spanish Journalists in Protest
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The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the regional group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) , today backed the Federation of Journalists Associations of Spain (FAPE) after protests over attacks on journalists covering publ
- Moldova: Protest violations of access to information rights and attacks on journalists following elections
Sources News Release
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Twenty-five IFEX members and 10 other organisations protest violations of access to information rights and attacks on journalists following elections.
- Oprah Story Sparks Interest in Helpline on Alexander Technique for Back Pain Relief
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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O Magazine Article Prompts Natural Health Expert Maryon Stewart To Deliver Free Helpline Advice On Using Alexander Technique To Remedy Back Pain. Her April 22 Helpline Includes an Interview with Carolyn Nicholls, a Leading Alexander Instructor
- A second tier in public system
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
I applaud People for Education for continuing to defend public education. The idea of a public school website with a shopping bag is repugnant.
- Sri Lanka: Call for journalists to be let into area where "a major humanitarian crisis" is unfolding with no media presence
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Reporters Without Borders reminds Sri Lanka's government of its international undertakings as the media continue to be prevented from moving about freely in the north especially in the area where tens of thousands of Tamils are surrounded by the army
- Ideale FM radio station closed for refusing to reveal sources
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Reporters Without Borders condemns the 8 April 2009 closure of IdA#ale FM, a privately-owned radio station in Haiti for allegedly "obstructing justice" by refusing to reveal sources.
- Journalists Organisations in Sri Lanka Feel Anti-Media Heat
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) says ongoing interrogation of journalistsâ## leaders in Sri Lanka is a bullying tactic that only serves to highlight an intolerance of freedom of expression and the failure of democratic processes in
- Canadian Jews support the Durban Review
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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As Canadian Jews, we support and will attend the Durban Review of the World Conference Against Racism in Geneva, April 20-24. We do so because we are concerned about all expressions of racism.
- EFJ Protests Over "Intimidating Signal' to Media From Slovak Prime Minister
Sources News Release
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The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), today condemned a warning issued by Robert Fico, the Prime Minister of Slovakia, over media coverage of what he says are trouble-making extremist groups.
- Groups Launch New Effort to Amend Patriot Act
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Organizations representing booksellers, librarians, publishers, and writers today launched the latest phase in their five-year campaign to restore the reader privacy safeguards that were stripped away by the USA Patriot Act.
- In Iran, Roxana Saberi charged with espionage
Sources News Release
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The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by news reports that the Iranian government has charged Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi with espionage.
- Videos Released
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Kathleen Meadows, psychic advisor in Kitchener ON releases media interviews and lectures in video HD format to youtube @ http://www.youtube.com/psychickathleen.
- BC's Human Resources Management Association Announces Finalists for Industry Awards
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The BC Human Resources Management Association (BC HRMA) is proud to announce the finalists for the provincial HR industry awards, including Award of Excellence - HR Professional of the Year.
- Concern about conditions in which journalists and cyber-dissidents are being held in Iran
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the conditions in which journalists and cyber-dissidents are being held in Iran and the arbitrary nature of their detention, and calls for their release.
- UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2009 to be awarded posthumously to Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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The late Sri Lankan journalist and editor of the Sunday Leader Lasantha Wickrematunge, who was assassinated on 8 January this year, has been named laureate of the 2009 UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize.
- Committee to Protect Journalists urges Israel to examine Gaza limits, military strikes
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Committee to Protect Journalists urges Israel to examine Gaza limits, military strikes.
- Independent fact-finding mission of medical experts publishes special report on the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Independent fact-finding mission of medical experts commissioned by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) published today its special report on the Israei offensive in the Gaza Strip 27.12.2008 - 18.01.2
- Inhance Moves Companies to Action
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Inhance Mutual Funds releases annual review of shareholder engagement in eight areas: climate change, environmental performance, community engagement, lifecycle impacts, human rights, sustainability reporting, diversity and health and safety.
- Remedy Me! sure cure for TV blahs
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
View Debbie Papadakis, Toronto based Hypnotherapist, (www.hypno-healing.com ) working with a client in Episode 3 â#oOveractive Bladderâ## airing on W Network, Tuesday April 21, 2009 at 8:00pm ET/PT
- Ricardh J. Goldstone Appointed to Lead Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission on Gaza Conflict
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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The Human Rights Council today announced the appointment of Richard J. Goldstone to lead an independent fact-finding mission to investigate international human rights and humanitarian law violations related to the recent conflict in the Gaza Strip.
- Canada's Top Three Killers, Are They Preventable?
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Statistics Canada recently reported that Cancer, Stroke and Heart Disease are responsible for 58% of all deaths in Canada. Dr. Martin reveals in his book simple tests that can lead to early detection and prevention of Canada's top three killers.
- Mother's Day Walk
Sources News Release
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Motherâ##s Day Weekend: May 9th and 10th, 2009: The Breast Cancer Society of Canada and cleo, will team up again this year for a nationwide Motherâ##s Day Walk throughout malls across Canada
- Sugar Cravings Heighten at Easter: Weight Loss Expert Offers Free Helpline Advice
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Natural Health Expert Maryon Stewart To Deliver Advice On How to Fight Obsessive Food Cravings. Her April 8th Helpline Will Offer Solutions to Overcome the Sugar Craving Syndrome that is Heightened Around Holidays Like Easter.
- Who Controls The Black Bloc Anarchists?
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First Published: 2009
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Whose interests do the violent actions of the black bloc benefit? The interests of the general public in using free speech as a means of political change? Or the interests of the authorities in providing the perfect pretext with which to crush and outlaw that free speech? You can't overthrow the entire system by smashing one bank and starting a bonfire. Real political change takes generations of struggle, decades of building respected educational platforms, and a gargantuan grass-roots movement focused on taking power on the local level and expanding upwards. Throwing a brick through a window isn't going to achieve anything other than making the vast majority of the general public despise you even more, and support the very systems of power that you are supposedly opposing. The black bloc sect exist to provide the media with violent footage with which to demonize legitimate protesters.
- Local newspaper reporter dies two days after beating, human rights activist attacked outside Moscow home
Sources News Release
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Sergey Protazanov, a reporter for Grajdanskoye Soglasye, a local newspaper based in the north Moscow suburb of Khimki, died at his home on 30 March, two days after being attacked and beaten.
- North Korea: Two American journalists face up to 10 years in labour camps
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders urges the North Korean authorities not to go ahead with their announced intention to try two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, on charges of entering the country illegally and carrying out â#ohostile" activities
- South Korean authorities must release journalists' leader
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on authorities in South Korea to immediately release YTN union chairman Jong-Myun Roh, who has been detained for 10 days since being arrested ahead of strike action at the broadcaster.
- Advanced missile poses substantial new threat for U.S. Navy
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
It appears that China has developed an anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) capable of striking aircraft carriers and other military vessels at at range of 2000 km.
- Kingston Field Naturalists Sponsor Celebration of Nature
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Kingston Field Naturalists today announced sponsorship of Celebration of Nature, an art show and sale celebrating its 60th anniversary. The show and sale will be held at Sydenham St. United Church on May 2nd, between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
- 50%-80% of Impaired Drivers Have Substance Abuse Problems - Treatment Can Be a Solution for Safer Roads
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Impaired driving results in the deaths of over 1000 Canadians a year. Impaired drivers are often struggling with drug or alcohol addictions. Effective treatment programs can help make our roads safer while helping individuals recover from their add
- Hellhole
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?
- Inhance Investment Management Inc. releases analysis of its top-rated socially responsible investment fund
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Inhance Investment Management Inc. has released a report of its analysis for the Inhance Monthly Income Fund, which was recently named a top Canadian SRI mutual fund by Corporate Knights.
- Reporter shot and killed in Rawalpindi
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Pakistani authorities must not allow Thursday's shooting death of veteran Pakistani reporter Raja Assad Hameed in Rawalpindi go uninvestigated and unprosecuted, the Committee to Protect Journalists says.
- Toronto SEO & Web Analytics Expert to Address Two Web Analytics Conferences
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Alan K'necht, president of K'nechtology, a Toronto based search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing and web analytics company, will be addressing both SMX Search Analytics and eMetrics in Toronto March 31 - April 1
- George Galloway Hearing at the Federal Court
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Law student Omar Ha-Redeye reports on the Federal Court proceedings regarding Mr. George Galloway.
- Anti-capitalism campaigners distribute spoof edition of Financial Times
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Anti-capitalism campaigners in London have published a spoof edition of the Financial Times today as Britian prepares to host next week's G20 summit in London.
- Fromage Frais wins odd title prize
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-miligram Containers of Fromage Frais, published by Icon Group International, has been crowned the winner of the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year.
- More than 180 Rights Organisations Reject Defamation of Religions Campaign
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
More than 180 rights organisations worldwide have banded together to oppose a "defamation of religions" campaign at the UN mounted by Islamic states that would make criticising religion a crime in UN resolutions, declarations and world conferences.
- Outrage at UN Human Rights Council resolution on defamation of religions
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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In the resolution it adopted yesterday on the defamation of religions, the United Nations Human Rights Council has yet again demonstrated its inability to defend the values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Petition for the unconditional release of two American journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders and the International Womenâ##s Media Foundation have jointly launched a petition for the immediate and unconditional release of reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who have now been held in North Korea for an entire week.
- IFJ Urges Unity and Fresh Start for Journalists in Palestine
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists calls on Palestinian media to stand up and unite for their profession and said it was ready to support fresh efforts for better relations with political leaders to ensure more protection and needed reform.
- Roland Berger Human Dignity Award goes to Reporters Without Borders and Shirin Ebadi
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders and Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel peace laureate, have been chosen as the winners of this yearâ##s Roland Berger Human Dignity Award.
- Business Ownership is Easier than You Think: Exploring Opportunities at the CFA Explore Franchising Show
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) presents the CFA Explore Franchising Show, its newest show designed to help the public Explore Franchising. It will be held on Saturday, April 4 at the Hampton Inn Ottawa & Conference Centre in Ottawa.
- Symmetry Math Sheds New Light on Fundamental Physics
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A team of researchers from Perimeter Institute, Cambridge University, and Texas A&M has for the first time estimated, from mathematical symmetry arguments, the size of a fundamental imbalance pervading the subatomic world.
- Arresting Journalists violates the law, must be stopped
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Palestine Institute for Communication and Development (PICD) issued a press released condemning the targeting and arresting of Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
- Authorities arrest two TV presenters in Kabul
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by yesterdayâ##s arrests in Kabul of two commercial TV presenters, Fahim Kohdamani of Emroz and Ajmal Alamzai of Ariana TV.
- Cross-Canada Media Training
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Register now for a media training workshop in your community. Sessions are scheduled for Coquitlam BC, Red Deer AB, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Guelph ON, Toronto, and Halifax.
- Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
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First Published: 2009
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- Information Loss - From Tornadoes to Black Holes at Perimeter Institute's Public Lecture on Wednesday, April 1
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
If information is â#olostâ## in a black hole, is the information gone forever? There is a good chance that not only does it come back, it comes back in the blink of an eye.
- Malaysia: CIJ and WAMI condemn suspension of opposition newspapers
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Malaysia: Harakah and Suara Keadilan opposition newspapers suspended for three months
- Afghanistan: Press freedom in free-fall in run-up to presidential election
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders has released the report of a fact-finding visit to Afghanistan in January. Entitled â#oWe have free speech, but weâ##re not safe and we donâ##t act responsibly".
- Attorney General applies presumption of openness in Freedom of Information Act guidelines
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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Reporters Without Borders today welcomed US Attorney General Eric Holderâ##s guidelines on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in which he breaks with the Bush Administrationâ##s stance of withholding information and applies a presumption of openne
- Freedom of Expressions Award 2009 Shortlist Announced
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Index on Censorship announces the shortlist for the 2009 Freedom of Expression Awards.
- Getting Away With Murder 2009
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The already murderous conditions for the press in Sri Lanka and Pakistan deteriorated further in the past year, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index
- On the Withholding a Visa to H.H. Dalai Lama
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The South African Friends of Tibet (SAFT) expresses its dismay at the withholding of travel documents to H.H. Dalai Lama by the South African High Commissioner.
- The Military has repeatedly violated Medical Ethic Codes during its Gaza Offensive
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel in a Report on Medical Ethics during the War on Gaza:"The Military has repeatedly violated Medical Ethic Codes during its Gaza Offensive"
- Water Not For Sale: The University of Winnipeg first university in Canada to ban plastic water bottles
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The University of Winnipeg is listening to its student body, which voted to ban the sale of plastic water bottles last week. The ban will be phased in over the coming months, making UWinnipeg the first university in Canada to adopt the policy.
- Galloway: "This idiotic ban shames Canada"
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Respect MP George Galloway today vowed to use â#oall means at my disposalâ## to challenge the decision by Canadaâ##s pro-war, conservative immigration minister, Jason Kenny, to refuse him entry to the country to give a series of speeches.
- Peace with Justice in Sri Lanka: Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils - its causes and solutions
Sources News Release
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Published: 2009
Peace with Justice in Sri Lanka: Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils â## its causes and solutions. A lecture by Dr. Brian Senewiratne, a Sinhalese closely connected with the ruling families of Sri Lanka.
- Statement from George Galloway on being denied entry to Canada
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
For a G7 government to ban a five times elected British parliamentarian from addressing public events or keeping my appointment with some of their flagship television and radio programmes is quite a serious matter.
- The Thinking Hand
Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A discourse on modern architectural theory.
- Blogger jailed for insulting leaders dies in Iran's Evin prison
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
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The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for an immediate investigation into the March 18 death of an Iranian blogger imprisoned in Tehran's notorious Evin prisonâ##.
- France: Call for solidarity for Action day on 19 March
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The participating trade unions (SNJ, SNJ-CGT, USJ-CFDT, SGJ-FO, CFTC and CGC Journalists' Trade Unions) call on all journalists to mobilise for the national day of a general strike and demonstrations planned for March 19.
- IFJ Condemns Jail Term for Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has protested over the disproportionate decision of an Iraqi court which sentenced television journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi to three years in jail for throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush.
- National Charity Puts Fresh Spin on Group Walk Fundraiser
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada (TSFC) announces Canadaâ##s first ever national fundraiser for Tourette Syndrome (TS), the 1st Annual Trek for Tourette, scheduled to hit communities across the country on March 29th, 2009.
- Canadian Jews condemn suppression of criticism of Israel
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Over 150 Jewish Canadians signed a statement expressing their concerns about the campaign to suppress criticism of Israel that is being carried on within Canada.
- Ivey and Western Law Students to Present at United Nations in New York City
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Canadian MBA and law students from UWO present at the United Nations.
- OECS Secretariat holds talks with Canadians on ways of improving the lives of Eastern Caribbean Citizens.
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The OECS Secretariat hosted officials from the Nova Scotia branch of a Canadian education organisation called EDUNOVA, on various issues including ways of improving the lives of Eastern Caribbean citizens.
- Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
- International Metis Aboriginal Governance Conference in Winnipeg
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The first international MA#tis Aboriginal Governance: Charting a Path Forward conference is attracting renowned scholars, authors, political representatives and community participants to The University of Winnipeg from March 24-26, 2009.
- National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada Board of Directors Election 2009
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada has elected its Board of Directors for 2009 - 2011.
- Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
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Published: 2009
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
- CPJ calls for Iranian president's intervention in Saberi case
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
With an American journalist now in an Iranian jail for more than five weeks, the Committee to Protect Journalists called for the charges against her to be made public and for the Iranian government to ensure that she will receive due process.
- Freedom of expression 'systematically violated' in Tibet
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the systematic violation of press freedom and free expression in Tibet.
- International Women's Delegation Granted Entry to Gaza
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
International Womenâ##s Delegation Granted Entry to Gaza. Novelist Alice Walker, parents of Rachel Corrie and 58 others, including six Canadians, spend International Womenâ##s Day in war-torn territory
- The Pearson Peackeeping Centre Marks International Women's Day with Launch of New Video
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
To mark International Womenâ##s Day, the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) is launching a video detailing its efforts towards preventing the sexual violence and abuse of women in Darfur.
- Jailed for a MySpace parody, the student who exposed America's cash for kids scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Judges receive kickbacks for imprisoning youths; slapping a friend or having tantrum leads to prison.
- Getting the Balance Right
Gender Equality in Journalism
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Gender equality in journalism.
- IFJ Launches Booklet to Engage Media Professionals in Fight Against Gender Discrimination
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today called on media professionals and unions activists to join the fight against gender discrimination by releasing a booklet on gender equality.
- IFJ Launches Website to Promote Ethical Journalism Initiative Campaign
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today launched a new website to promote its Ethical Journalism Initiative (EJI) Campaign about making core values of journalism an integral part in today's media worldwide.
- An investigation into the serious abuses of the 'War on Terror' is imperative
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders asks that the new Obama administration lead an investigation into the destruction of interrogation videotapes at secret prisons.
- Journalists Call Israel to Account over "Premeditated and Precise" attacks on Media in Gaza
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The targeting of media by the Israeli military during last month's offensive in the Gaza Strip was "premeditated and precise" and in violation of international law, says the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
- Sources welcomes Canadians for Genocide Education
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
CGE is a multi-cultural coalition of associations committed to equity and inclusivity in education on and commemoration of Genocide. Our focus areas are school curriculum and government funded projects relating to genocide and human rights.
- Sources welcomes Meadowridge School
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Meadowridge School: Independent, coed, university preparatory, International Baccalaureate World School (JK - Grade 12). One of 8 schools in Canada to offer both IB Primary & Middle Years Programs.
- Suffering from the Symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome? Medical Experts Say Get Tested for Celiac Disease, Now Easier to Diagnose
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
First at-home screening test for celiac disease now available in Canada from 2G Pharma Inc.
- Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An Everyman who expressed the defiant spirit of freedom, Charlie Chaplin was first lauded and later reviled in the America that made him Hollywood’s richest man. He was a figure of multiple paradoxes. Simon Louvish's new book looks afresh at the "mask behind the man."
- Seven Reasons Why I Advocate Parecon
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
As economies all around us gasp and constrict, more and more people are willing to seriously recognize what has always been evident - that even at its best and certainly at its worst capitalism is a decrepit monstrosity of a system. As a proposed replacement for capitalism, Parecon rejects: Private ownership, Authoritarian decision-making, Remuneration for property, power, or output, Corporate divisions of labor, and, Markets and central planning.
- Zionism - tried and failed: Interview with Akiva Orr
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
In the end, the Zionist thing is basically, from a Jewish point of view, a failure. It's not safe and it doesn't preserve the Jewish identity.
- A Carbon-Free Future
An Interview with Arjun Makhijani
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A carbon-free future is possible and necessary.
- Dedicated Financial Solutions Team Arranges Round Table for Select Group with Billionaire Michael Lee-Chin
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Mother and daughter financial advisor team Janet Baccarani and Jennifer Black leveraged their relationship with billionaire mentor, Michael Lee-Chin, to challenge and inspire a select group of business executives in a round table discussion regarding
- Knicker protest targets Hindu militants
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The socially conservative Hindu Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army) a group of vigilantes has attacked women in pubs and unwed couples, in an effort to protect what they call "Indian Culture". Indian women fought back by sending 40,000 pairs of pink underwear to their offices.
- alPHa Fuels Campaign to Put Food in the Budget for low-income Ontarians
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
alPHa is partnering with the 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction in an Ontario-wide campaign to urge the Ontario government to add a $100 Healthy Food Supplement to the Basic Needs Allowance for all adult recipients.
- Can-Fit-Pro presents the best health and fitness presenters in Winnipeg, MB
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Can-Fit-Pro's annual Group Fitness and Personal Training One-Day Conference returns to Winnipeg, MB on April 5, 2009! It is a phenomenal event for all fitness professionals, where they have networking opportunities, educational workshops
- Children of the revolution
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
When a 15-year-old schoolboy was shot in Athens in December, it triggered the worst civil unrest in Europe since 1968. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith join the frontline activists to talk anarchic protest, political upheaval and police brutality.
- Fighting Discrimination Still Requires Rules
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The winner of the 2nd Annual Koskie Minsky LLP Diversity Moot speaks about how discrimination in society should be properly fought.
- Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in Gaza
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A mission to Gaza found that media were subject to intimidation and direct military assault and deliberately prevented from working freely. The findings confirm evidence of frequent targeting of media during the operations.
- Empowering Small Business Owners: How to Achieve Preeminence in Brutal Marketplace
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Canada's Preeminent Speaker, Mike Lipkin, Delivers Advice to Create a Superior Personal Brand in Recessionary Times
- Free speech activist prevented from leaving Iran
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iranian governmentâ##s decision to ban Abdolreza Tajik, a freelance journalist and staunch free speech activist, from leaving the country.
- IFJ Condemns Murderous Attacks on Journalists in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists is shocked and horrified at the murder of Musa Khankhel, a reporter for The News International daily and Geo News channel, in the Matta sub-division of the Swat valley in Pakistanâ##s North-West Frontier.
- IFJ Condemns Strip Humiliation of Women Journalists in Sierra Leone
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists strongly condemns the humiliating and degrading treatment suffered by four women journalists who were stripped naked in public in Sierra Leone while covering events against female circumcision.
- IFJ Hits Out over Arrest and Detention of Journalists in Palestine
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today condemned the "unjustified" detention of journalists by the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Services.
- Letter to Jason Kenny on his threat to defund the Canadian Arab Federation
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
As Jews, we affirm that criticizing Israeli policies is NOT anti-Semitic. More and more Jews world-wide, as well as in Israel openly oppose oppressive Israeli policies, and they also denounce this irresponsible use of the label â#oanti-Semitic.â##
- Middle-Aged Fitness Workouts: What's The Minimum Exercise Needed to Keep Fit?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Acclaimed Fitness Trainers Diana Nyad and Bonnie Stoll Deliver Advice to Become Fit With Easy "Impossible To Quit" Workout.
- Pakistan: Press freedom activist attacked in Lahore
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders voices its supports for journalist Imtiaz Alam, the secretary general of the South Asia Free Media Association (SAMFA), a regional press freedom group, who was attacked in Lahore.
- Unexplained Infertility: The Culprit Could be Celiac Disease - Now Much Easier to Diagnose With a New Home Screening Test
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Health studies suggest that celiac disease, a hereditary condition that often goes undiagnosed, can lead to infertility. Experts acknowledge that without treatment, celiac disease can cause repeated miscarriages and early menopause.
- EFJ Supports UK Photographers in Counter Terrorism Act Protest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today condemned amendments to the UK Counter Terrorism Act, which came into force in the UK yesterday.
- Fitness Pros will converge at the first-ever Can-Fit-Pro Group Fitness and Personal Training One-Day Conference in Moncton, NB
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Can-Fit-Pro announces its first-ever Group Fitness and Personal Training One-Day Conference in Moncton, NB which will take place March 29, 2009 at Future Inns Hotel and Conference Centre.
- Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
- The story Israel doesn't want you to know: Israeli Resistance to Israeli Apartheid
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Shachaf Polakow, a member of the Israeli group, Anarchists Against the Wall will be speaking about the work of the group who act jointly with the popular Palestinian struggles against the Wall in the West Bank.
- A climate of fear endangers press freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and emblematic arrest aimed at those who would practice real, independent journalism.
- Egypt: Concerns with Draft Broadcast Law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
ARTICLE 19 and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information have serious concerns with the draft Broadcast Law released by the Egyptian authorities. A detailed analysis of the draft Law conducted by ARTICLE 19 highlights these concerns.
- Human Rights Watch Mourns Loss of Alison Des Forges
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
With enormous sadness Human Rights Watch announces the death of our beloved colleague Dr. Alison Des Forges, who was killed in the crash of Flight 3407 from Newark to Buffalo on February 12, 2009.
- IFJ Defending Journalists in Palestine and Israel
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has reaffirmed its commitment to defend the interests of journalists in Palestine and Israel.
- Organic Trade Association applauds new Canadian organic regulations
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The new organic regulations provide clarity on what products are covered, a new organic logo, and detailed provisions on organic imports and exports, including a possible equivalency agreement with Canadaâ##s major trading partners.
- EFJ and API Blast "Spies" Smear As European Commission Targets Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the International Press Association (API) condemned a recent statement by the European Commissionâ##s security services which hints that journalists and lobbyists can provide cover for potential spies.
- Learn the Secrets to Franchising Success at The Franchise Show
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) is pleased to announce that McDonald Restaurantsâ## Director of Franchising, Ash Vasdani, will share his companyâ##s success story with aspiring franchisees at The Franchise Show, February 21 & 22.
- FOCALPoint: How Will U.S. President Barack Obama Transform the Americas?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Seven writers and thinkers from Canada and the United States try to answer this question in the latest edition of FOCALPoint: Canadaâ##s Spotlight on the Americas, the monthly newsletter of the Canadian Foundation for the Americas.
- Organic industry gets ready for new federal rules governing 'organic'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Canadian Organic Growers, the Organic Trade Association in Canada and the International Organic Inspectors Association have teamed up with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Another reporter threatened with contempt for refusing to reveal sources
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter not to hold the journalist in contempt of court for refusing to identify confidential sources.
- Canadian Health Professionals Call for Ceasefire and Ending the Siege of Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Canadian health professionals unequivocally protest against the Israeli siege and invasion of Gaza and against the Canadian Governmentâ##s support of Israel in its complicity in this massacre.
- Free Harry Nicolaides: Cyber-demonstration to call for the release of jailed Australian writer Harry Nicolaides
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Since the new government took office in Thailand in December, many punitive measures have been ordered in the kingâ##s name in order to silence criticism. Anyone commenting on the royal family is liable to be threatened with a lese majeste prosecuti
- Support Builds for Charter 08: Manifesto for Human Rights and Democratic Reform in China
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
China Right's Network panel discussion on Charter 08, a manifesto for human rights and democratic reform in China.
- Canada Has Blood On Its Hands!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
On February 9th, a day before the Israeli elections, concerned Canadians will demonstrate on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in a peaceful vigil to urge the Canadian government to challenge Israeli impunity in committing war crimes and human rights abuses.
- Warm-Hearted Gesture, Just In Time For Valentine's Day
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Snack Company Donates 15,000 bags of Sweet Chili riceworksA# to Daily Bread Food Bank in Time for Valentines Day.
- Image Power Personal Image Strategies from 20 Top Image Experts for only $20
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
When times are tough, such as in a slow economy personal image can be more important than ever. Says Vancouver certified image consultant Kimberly Law, AICI CIP, and co-author of Image Power.
- Nine Leading Researchers Join Stephen Hawking as Distinguished Research Chairs at Perimeter Institute in Ontario, Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Dr. Neil Turok, Director of Canadaâ##s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), is pleased to announce the appointment of nine more outstanding international scientists to the positions of PI Distinguished Research Chairs.
- Canadian Franchise Association Identifies Hot Sector Trends in Franchising for 2009
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A recent analysis of emerging trends in franchising by the Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) provides a taste of what makes Canadians happy: Beauty, Business, Fitness, Food and Coffee.
- Government Report, 2030 Ontario Plans Half Our Workforce in High Paying Jobs
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Ambitious plans released today that Ontario by 2030 will be the first in the world to have half our workforce in high paying high value jobs. How will this effect people and their career search
and interview skills.
- Impunity and "Callous Indifference" Remain Threats as New Wave of Media Killings Wipes out Optimism
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on the killings of journalists in 2008 with a warning that 2009 could be the deadliest year yet for journalists.
- Modern Physics Summer Camp Opportunity for Senior High School Students
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Canadaâ##s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) is now accepting applications for a free summer science camp for senior high school students, age 16 and 17, who intend to pursue post-secondary physics.
- Somalia: Director of HornAfrik radio murdered in Mogadishu
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The director of Somalia's HornAfrik radio, Said Tahlil, has been shot dead in the capitalâ##s market district of Bakara. His murder comes 16 months after the radioâ##s former director, Ali Imam Sharmake, was killed by a booby trap car bomb.
- Turkmenistan: NGOs urge president to include imprisoned journalists in amnesty
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
NGOs urge Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov to release imprisoned journalists as part of the amnesty that will be announced on 19 February, national flag day in Turkmenistan.
- What if Jihad was Really about Social Justice?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Religious scholars discussed the meaning and context of jihad in vol. 8 no. 1 of the Journal of Scriptural Reasoning. Omar Ha-Redeye provided a historical and textural context demonstrating that the role of jihad was to create peace and justice.
- The Artful Nuance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A reference book for distinguishing between words which, in modern usage, have almost become synonymous.
- Sources welcomes iPower Train
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Founder and "mompreneur" Ivy Lim understands the constraints of finding time for fitness and for yourself. She trains a range of individuals from high performance athletes, busy moms, weight loss struggles, seniors, bootcamp fitness & special needs.
- Sources welcomes Kathleen Meadows - Psychic Advisor
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Kathleen is a Tarot Grandmaster teacher and certified psychic advisor with a M.A. in Religion and Culture. She combines a strong, credible academic background with psychic gifts to inform her wise and down-to-earth spiritual guidance.
- Sources welcomes the Canadian Council on Animal Care
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Canadian Council on Animal Care oversees the ethical care and use of animals in science across Canada through the work of veterinarians, scientists and the public.
- What if Someone Called You a Terrorist?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Members of the Canadian public will be in the Brampton courthouse today to hear some of the problems associated with the anti-terrorism provisions in the Criminal Code.
- The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
There's just one pathway to happiness in which this deep, human need for power is given pride of place: democracy. By this I mean democracy as a living practice that enables us to have a real say in every dimension of our public lives, from school to workplace and beyond.
- Franchising: A Business Model You Can Depend On
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Now, more than ever, people interested in having their own business should be looking at the possibilities offered through franchises and attending The Franchise Show on February 21 and 22 is an essential step towards their success.
- Sources welcome The Career Council
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Career Council creates Key Candidates through confidence building techniques and skills of resume building, role-playing, counselling and advice.
- Sources welcomes Omar Ha-Redeye
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Omar Ha-Redeye. Omar Ha-Redeye is frequently interviewed by the media on subjects relating to health, security, law, politics, social media, disasters, minority rights and multiculturalism.
- Sources welcomes Valerie Jones
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Valerie Jones, M.B.A., Speaker, Social Networking, E-Commerce Expert, GrandandToyEmpower.com.
- Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An analysis on the formation of Charles Darwins' views on slavery and the impact of those views on his theories and publications.
- Food for Thought Symposium Attracts World Renowned Experts
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
alPHa Promoting Child Health by Advocating A Ban on Commercial Advertising of Food and Beverages Targeted to Children. Positive Benefits of Physical Activity Highlighted at Launch of 2009 Great Waterfront Trail Adventure.
- Iroquois Caucus says budget falls short in meeting necessary needs
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The federal budget represents a missed opportunity by the Government of Canada to strengthen its relationship withFirst Nations, according to the Iroquois Caucus which represents seven Iroquois communities.
- Naked hikers face fines in Switzerland
Canton aims to stop spread of 'indecent practice'
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden aims to stop naturist walkers, also referred to as "boot-only hikers".
- Petition launched for release of two Burmese bloggers serving sentences of 20 and 59 years in prison
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders urges the international community not to forget Nay Phone Latt or or Zarganar, one of Burmaâ##s best known comedians.
- Sources welcomes CMA Canada
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
CMA Canada grants a professional designation in strategic management accounting and is responsible for standards-setting, accreditation and the continuing professional development of CMAs.
- Sources welcomes Diane Craig
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Diane Craig is a leading expert in all matters of image and etiquette. She provides carefully designed programs to help individuals progress through their own organizations by improving their interpersonal communication skills and professional image.
- Law Student Publishes Textbook with Oxford University Press
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A law student at the University of Western Ontario has published a chapter in an Australian textbook on public health.
- Physics Student to Physics Researcher - Top Scientists to Share Wisdom with the Researchers of Tomorrow
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Canadaâ##s Perimeter Institute, in partnership with University of Waterloo, has launched Perimeter Scholars International (PSI), a concentrated Masters level course for exceptional students who wish to become researchers in theoretical physics.
- Entrepreneur Launches Business from Lessons Gleaned from Best-Seller Book 'The Secret'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Speaker-Series Co-Founder Gail James Shares Business Success Tips in Podcast Available on GrandandToyEmpower.com Website
- The Grid Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An examination of ten grids that changed the world from the brick wall to moveable type.
- Russia: Investigate Murder of Prominent Rights Lawyer
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Russian authorities should immediately investigate the killing of Stanislav Markelov, a prominent Russian human rights lawyer, and bring his killers to justice, Human Rights Watch says.
- Sources welcomes Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) is a Canadian-based institution dedicated to making international peace operations more effective through research, education and training, and capacity development.
- What Do You Mean We're In A Recession
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Recessions spare few people, including business owners. But there are entrepreneurs who have discovered the main keys on how to profit despite the economy. Here is how to profit as a business owner in a recession.
- Canadian writers protest the detention of Liu Xiaobo
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje and Nino Ricci and more than 40 members of PEN Canada, the writers' association, have signed a petition on behalf of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
- Global media rights groups condemn "culture of impunity and indifference" in Sri Lanka
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Since the beginning of the New Year, both the killing of a senior editor and the attack on the facilities of a popular independent TV channel have led to a total paralysis of the media community in Sri Lanka.
- Kazakhstan: RFE/RL website editor beaten unconscious in Almaty
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Ermek Boltay, a young journalist who edits the website of Radio Free Europe/Radio Libertyâ##s Kazakh-language service, was beaten unconscious outside his home in Almaty on 18 January.
- Policy guru says sustainable development of the Oil Sands will provide half US energy needs for 100 years
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Policy guru says sustainable development of the Oil Sands will provide half US energy needs for 100 years
Toronto, January 22, 2009 - Satya Das, strategic advisor to oil companies, government, and environment groups, says Alberta has 173 billion bar
- Self-censorship, exile or certain death: the choice faced by journalists in Ciudad JuA¡rez
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders and the Centre for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET) are releasing the results of a joint fact-finding visit to the northern city of Ciudad JuA¡rez Chihuahua, that was prompted by the murder of Armando RodrA#guez CarreA#n
- Sources welcomes Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada is a a national charitable organization dedicated to funding research, public and health professional education in complementary and alternative medicine.
- Sources welcomes the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
For the betterment of Canadian theatre, PACT provides leadership, national representation and a variety of programs and practical assistance to member companies, enabling members to do their own creative work.
- "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
- Why Israel Won't Survive
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
If there was ever a moment when the peoples of the region would accept Israel as a Zionist state in their midst, that has passed forever. Israel's "military deterrent" has now been repeatedly discredited as a means to force Palestinians and other Arabs to accept Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
- Addiction and Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in prison to maximize their profits. They also need to spend as little as possible on the inmates and staff. Thus, America has over 2.3 million people incarcerated; more than any other country.
- Dr. Allan Bonner's launch of new book
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Launching Dr. Allan Bonner's new book "Political Conventions, The Art of Getting Elected and Governing', with wine tasting by John Szabo, MS, Canada's only Master Sommelier and try some of Allan's favourite wine courtesy of Malivoire.
- From Sources: More tools for getting your messages out
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources members can benefit from media training, free news release postings and calendar listings, and they can include their books in the Sources Bookshelf. It's all at www.sources.com, where you'll also find breaking news from around the world.
- Letter regarding Israel's attack on Gaza and international law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Israel's attack on Gaza constitutes a war crime in that it is disproportionate to the threat posed and violates international humanitarian law on at least grounds: Collective punishment, Targeting Civilians, Disproportionate military response.
- Time for a New Divestment Campaign
From South Africa to Israel
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
We must see Israel with the same eyes as we saw South Africa in the apartheid years - as a racist nation deserving of international isolation and sanctions.
- For a Workers Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the 'experts' have no idea what they are doing.
- Challenging Times: What's Your Best Bet?
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Innovation is critical for long term success. Look at your business model. Could it use reinventing or critical surgery?
- Qu'avez-vous A perdre?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
18 janvier au 24 est la Semaine nationale sans fumA#e (SNSF) 2009
- The UN in Israel's Crosshairs
Nowhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
History will record Israel's onslaught in Gaza as noteworthy not only for the wide destruction of institutions of state and civil society, but for the deliberate targeting of the United Nations and the refugees it aided and sheltered. And it certainly would not be the first time Israel has done so.
- What have you got to lose?
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
January 18 â## 24 is National Non-Smoking Week (NNSW) 2009
- Croatia: Judicial harassment of war crimes reporter continues
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Zeljko Peratovic is accused of â#odisseminating information likely to upset the populationâ## under article 322/1 KZA of the criminal code.
- Hundreds of engineering students to 'freeze' in Toronto to advance fair trade
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Hundreds of socially-active engineering students from across Canada, including the University of Waterloo, will raise public awareness about the fair trade movement at a special event in downtown
Toronto as part of the Engineers Without Borders Nati
- Israeli military asked to explain how Gaza media building came to be hit by explosion
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Israeli military to investigate and explain exactly how a 16-storey building in Gaza City that houses several news organisations including Reuters came to be hit by an explosion this morning.
- Murder attempt against pro-ChA¡vez journalist in Portuguesa state
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A murder attempt against Rafael Finol, political correspondent on the privately-owned daily El Regional in Acarigua, Portuguesa state, central-western Venezuela.
- Order of Ontario appointments announced
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Former Premier David Peterson, former Chief Justice Patrick LeSage, human rights activist George Brady, former Olympic figure skater Barbara Ann Scott-King, medical researcher Dr. Michael Baker and publisher Ellen Seligman are among the new appointee
- Israeli Human Rights groups: Clear and present danger to the lives and well-being of tens of thousands of civilians
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Since the beginning of the Gaza campaign a heavy suspicion has arisen of grave violations of international humanitarian law by military forces. This kind of fighting is a blatant violation of the laws of warfare and raises suspicion of war crimes.
- More than 100 media sign the Reporters Without Borders petition for international journalists to be allowed into the Gaza Strip
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its appeal for support by the international media and again urges the Israeli authorities to lift the ban on foreign media access to the Gaza Strip that has been in force since November.
- New online censorship campaign extinguishes last flicker of Olympic torch
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
China's campaign against 'Internet porn' is targetting political and human rights websites such as Amnesty International's. Bullog (http://www.bullog.cn), a political blog portal, has been inaccessible since 9 January.
- Sources welcomes Eluta.ca
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Eluta.ca is a search engine for full-time jobs from direct Canadian employers.
- Sources welcomes Marci Lall
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Marci Lall, Weight Loss & Body Sculpting Specialist. Marci specializes in women's fitness and weight loss issues.
- The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza
Seeing Through the Lies
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The record shows that Hamas wanted to continue the ceasefire, but only on condition that Israel eases the blockade. Long before Hamas began the retaliatory rocket attacks on Israel, Palestinians were facing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza because of the blockade.
- The shining beacon of democracy
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Busy though it is slaughtering Palestinians, the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ is still finding time to make its democratic structures even more perfect.
- Written off
How the Indian Media Deals with its Freelance Journalists
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Most freelance journalists in India are perceived to be the stepchildren of the Indian news media. Though some indications are there, we want to come up with concrete numbers.
- Mexico: Molotov cocktails thrown at Oaxaca newspaper editor's home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The home of Carlos Velasco Molina, the editor of the weekly El Correo de Oaxaca, in the southwestern city of Oaxaca in Mexico, is attacked.
- Nepalese journalist and women's rights activist brutally murdered
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Uma Singh, a Nepalese journalist and human rights activist who worked for the Janakpur Today Daily and Radio Today FM was brutually murdered on January 11.
- Nobel Prize Nominee and Israeli Peace Activist visits Canada on 'Gaza' tour
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Jeff Halper, an Israeli human rights activist, anthropology professor, coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominee is on a cross-Canada speaking tour.
- St. Vincent : outcry about press photographer's arrest
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Criticisms are made of the police and Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalvesâ## government for the arrest of Jeff Trotman, a journalist who works for The Vincentian.
- Sources welcomes Nickolette Reid
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes Nickolette Reid, Image Expert.
- Canadian MDs comment on the Gazan war
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
As one would expect about such an emotional issue, Canadian physicians are deeply divided about the current war between Israel and Hamas. Take, for example, the recent experiences of two Canadian MDs, Mark Clarfield and Miriam Garfinkle.
- How Many Divisions?
Israel is losing this war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
In this war, as in any modern war, propaganda plays a major role. The disparity between the forces, between the Israeli army - with its airplanes, gunships, drones, warships, artillery and tanks - and the few thousand lightly armed Hamas fighters, is one to a thousand, perhaps one to a million. In the political arena the gap between them is even wider. But in the propaganda war, the gap is almost infinite.
- Israel's Colonial War against the Gaza Strip
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Israel is becoming a war machine, terrifying yet lacking in all moral grounding.
- Jewish dissenters speak out over Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
On Wednesday, a dozen Jewish women occupied the Israeli consulate in Toronto, demanding an end to the Israeli siege of Gaza. The women expressed "outrage at Ottawa's refusal to condemn the massacres," said spokesperson Miriam Garfinkle. They urged the media to report that "many Jewish-Canadians do not support Israel's violence and apartheid policies."
- The return of religion - and other myths
Talk at a conference on 'Post-secularism', Utrecht, Netherlands, 11 January 2009
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Politics has became less about competing visions of the kinds of society people than a debate about how best to manage the existing political system. As the meaning of politics has become squeezed, so people have begun to view themselves and their social affiliations in a different way. Social solidarity has become increasingly defined not in political terms - as collective action in pursuit of certain political ideals – but in terms of ethnicity or culture. The politics or ideology, in other words, gave way to the politics of identity. It’s not faith, but identity, that has created the faultlines of contemporary conflicts.
- Abettors of war crimes will be held accountable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Taking action to bring perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity to justice.
- Israel in Gaza: A Critical Reframing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The critical reframing we offer, that of Israelis committed to human rights, international law and a just peace as the only way out of this interminable and bloody conflict, argues that security cannot be achieved unilaterally while one side oppresses the other and that Israel's attack on Gaza is merely another attempt to render its Occupation permanent by destroying any source of effective resistance.
- Small countries, big crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
One of the stock phrases Israel’s apologists repeat, parrot-like, is that Israel is "a small country". The idea is to make us feel sympathy for Israel, the plucky little country standing up to dangerous foes. But what does it actually mean to say that Israel is "a small country?"
- Israel: Boycott, divest, sanction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
- The lying silence of those who know
Holocaust Denied
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
In every war, Israel has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native people and the theft or more and more land.
- Olive oil, opposition and Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Rick Salutin writes about increasingly widespread Jewish opposition to Israel's actions.
- Outcry Over Israel's War Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Jonathan Cook describes legal actions underway to hold Israel accountable for war crimes.
- Ouvrez la bande de Gaza A la presse !
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Ouvrez la bande de Gaza A la presse !
Appel des mA#dias du monde entier et de Reporters sans frontiA#res aux autoritA#s israA#liennes.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Tax Foundation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: the Canadian Tax Foundation, a national non-profit tax research organization which provides a forum for discussion on personal, corporate, international taxation and sales taxation.
- Sources welcomes Cecile Peterkin
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Cecile Peterkin, Career Coach, Corporate Mentor, Author and Professional Speaker. Cecile is a charismatic and inspiring expert in career, leadership, corporate mentoring programs and life development.
- Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
If you want to have the first idea what is happening in Israel/Palestine (or most of the rest of the world), the best thing to do would be to turn the Canadian media off completely.
- The War Isn't Over, But Israel Has Lost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Israelis - and their backers in the American political establishment - appear incapable of grasping that which is empirically obvious: Hamas and its ilk grow stronger every time Israel seeks to eliminate them by force.
- Demonstrate against the Israeli Assault on Gaza ! Lift the Siege!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Join us this Saturday at 11:00 to demand that the Canadian government call for an immediate halt to Israel 's attacks and an end to the siege of Gaza! Followed by Free Gaza - A Teach-In, 1:00 - 5:30 st United Steelworkers Hall, Toronto.
- Montrealers lay siege to Israeli Consulate: Second consecutive day of Israeli Consulate blockades in Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Second consecutive day of Israeli Consulate blockades in Canada. Early Thursday, January 8th Montrealers blockaded the Israeli Consulate in Montreal in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
- More websites blocked at government's behest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders condemns the directive issued by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to Internet Service Providers instructing them to block access to 6 web pages on the grounds they are "harmful for the integrity of the country."
- Outrage at fatal shooting of newspaper editor in Colombo
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the murder of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunga, who was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle as he drove to work this morning in Colombo.
- And Then They Came For Me
Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
- Arrests underway in Toronto Israeli Consulate Sit-in
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Police have moved in to arrest a group of Jewish Canadian women who are currently occupying the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor Street West in Toronto. The women took their action in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
- As holder of EU presidency, Czech government urged to intercede on behalf of jailed bloggers and journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-FranA#ois Julliard wrote yesterday to Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek asking him to do everything possible to obtain the release of the 11 journalists and bloggers currently held in Iran.
- Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A group of Jewish-Canadian women occupied the Israeli Consulate in Toronto in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
See a video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0zFRg0kRU
- Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A diverse group of Jewish Canadian women are currently occupying the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor Street West in Toronto. This action is in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
- Media Interviews during the January 7, 2009 Israeli consulate occupation in Toronto
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
On January 7, 2009, a group of Jewish women occupied the Israeli consulate in Toronto to protest against Israel's attack on Gaza. In this audio clip, spokeswomen Miriam Garfinkle and Judy Rebick explain why they are taking this action.
- Mexico: Investigating attack on Monterrey TV studios a "test" for federal justice ministry
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders hopes for quick results from the investigation into yesterdayâ##s armed attack in Monterrey in which gunmen threw a grenade and opened fire on the regional studios of the privately-owned national TV network Televisa.
- Sri Lanka: Government urged to punish violence against independent media outlets after new attack
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A pre-dawn attack by a dozen heavily-armed men that badly damaged the studios of the Maharaja Television/Broadcasting Network (MTV/MBC) in Pannipitiya, near Colombo, after charges that the networkâ##s reporting was not â#opatrioticâ## enough.
- The Outcry of Worldwide Authentic Judaism Condemning the Genocide in Occupied Palestine
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Worldwide Authentic Orthodox Judaism strongly condemns the genocide being carried out by the Zionist occupation army through air attacks on Gaza city.
- Comparison of military strength of Israel and the Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
As the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has once again flared up following Israel's ongoing air and ground assault on the Gaza Strip, the IMEU presents a comparison of Israeli and Palestinian military capabilities. (Jaunary 2009).
- In Support of the Palestinian Human Rights Community Call for International Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
In the past the world knew how to fight criminal policies. The boycott on South Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves: its trade relations are flourishing, academic and cultural cooperation continue and intensify with diplomatic support. This international backing must stop. That is the only way to stop the insatiable Israeli violence.
- An Open Letter From Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Let us not be silent bystanders while humanity suffers. Let us raise our voices, as Jewish youth, and demand a single, democratic state, with equal rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine.
- Kenya: President deals major blow to press freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Kenyan President deals major blow to press freedom. Also known as the â#oICT Billâ##, the new legislation provides for heavy fines and prison sentences for press offences. It also gives the government, above all the information and interior ministrie
- Of Sowing and Harvests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Perhaps our word can manage to join forces with others in Mexico and the world and perhaps first it's heard as a murmur, then out loud, and then a scream that they hear in Gaza. We don't know about you, but we Zapatistas from the EZLN, we know how important it is, in the middle of destruction and death, to hear some words of encouragement.
- Urgent Call for Immediate International Intervention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Palestinian Medical Relief Society and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel call for urgent and immediate intervention by the international community, and especially the Quartet, for the enforcement
of an immediate ceasefire.
- The ABCs of the Economic Crisis
What Working People Need to Know
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Rich, powerful people created the economic crisis of 2008-09, while hundreds of millions of working people suffer the consequences -- lost homes, lost jobs, rising insecurity, and falling living standards. How could this happen?
- Achieving Success as a professional speaker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Attaining success as a professional speaker is no easy matter! Talent and hard work are absolute musts. And, another absolute is EXPOSURE # success as a professional speaker depends on promoting yourself and becoming known to the people who are the gatekeepers to your audience.
- Agenda for a New Economy
From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth - Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Korten offers in-depth advice on how to mount a grassroots campaign to bring about an economy based on locally owned, community oriented “living enterprises” whose success is measured as much by their positive impact on people and the environment as by their positive balance sheet.
- The American Crucible
Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Robin Blackburn, an acclaimed historian of slavery, discusses the emergence of anti-slavery ideas and the important events that paved the way for abolitionist movements.
- Approaches to Poverty in the Toronto School Board, 1970 - 1990
No Shallow Roots
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Published in Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. December, 2009
- Are there too many people?
Population, hunger, and environmental degradation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A number of liberal writers and publications have raised the specter of growing population as an unpleasant yet necessary topic of conversation.
- Banning Weapons of Mass Destruction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
With the threat of weapons of mass destruction viable, global safety is still at risk. Mattis discusses the principles for a treaty banning nuclear and chem-bio weapons worldwide.
- Beautiful Ruination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Iin the last half-century, even as the prophets of prosperity have spurred the U.S. on to ever more growth, ruins have become increasingly common features in the American landscape. Braddock, littered with decrepit hulks, is not alone.
- Between Nation and Empire
The Fair Play for Cuba Committees and the Making of Canada-Cuba Solidarity in the Early 1960s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Published in In Our Place in the Sun: Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era, Robert Wright and Lana Wylie eds. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2009
- The Bolsheviks Come to Power
The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An account of how the Bolshevik revolution triumphed.
- Breaking the Spell
My life as a Rajneeshee, and the long journey back to freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Bright-sided
How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Ehrenreich traces the strange career of Americans' sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude.
- Building Media Relationships
How to Establish, Maintain, and Develop Long-Term Relationships
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sommers wrote this guide to teach how media can be used to raise an organization's public profile and improve its connection with the target audience.
- Burcher, Betty (Elizabeth)
Obituary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Obituary of Betty Burcher (November 21, 1949 - June 5, 2009)
- Can You Make Your Point Relevant?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
When speaking to the media, the point is, "Can you frame your response cleverly, concisely and memorably in language and context that is extremely relevant to the audience that particular media outlet or journalist is intent on impressing?
- The Canadian Student Movement in the Sixties: Three case studies
PhD Thesis, University of Alberta, 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2009
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Connexions Downloadable Banners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Downloadable banners promoting the Connexions website or the Connexions Calendar.
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Chinese text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Connexions Library: Africa Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
- Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
- Connexions Library: Canada Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Canada.
- Connexions Library: Central America and the Caribbean Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Central America and the Caribbean.
- Connexions Library: Central and South Asia Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on central and southern Asia.
- Connexions Library: China Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on China.
- Connexions Library: East and Southeast Asia Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on east and southeast Asia.
- Connexions Library: Europe Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Europe.
- Connexions Library: Food Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on food.
- Connexions Library: Imperialism and Colonialism Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
- Connexions Library: Men Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on men.
- Connexions Library: Middle East Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Middle East.
- Connexions Library: Nature Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on nature.
- Connexions Library: Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Water Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on water, rivers, streams, wetlands, lakes, rivers, oceans, marine life.
- Connexions Library: Pacific Region Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Pacific region.
- Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
- Connexions Library: Religion Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
- Connexions Library: The Right Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Right.
- Connexions Library: Rural Issues Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on rural issues.
- Connexions Library: Russia Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Russia.
- Connexions Library: Science Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on science.
- Connexions Library: Sexuality Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on sexuality.
- Connexions Library: South America Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on South America.
- Connexions Library: Transportation Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on transportation.
- Connexions Library: USA Focus
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the United States of America.
- Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
- Creating a customized Marketing Toolkit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A marketing toolkit contains the essential ingredients you need to successfully reach and persuade your key markets.
- Darwin's Notebook
The Life, Times, and Discoveries of Charles Robert Darwin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A biography and illustrated journal which provides a full and detailed account of Charles Darwin's life.
- Diary of Bergen-Belsen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Hanna Lévy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations, recorded in her own incomparable voice, shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Lévy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to report on her own experience inside the camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity in dealing with the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.
- Economic crisis and the responsibility of socialists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Henryk Grossman is particularly relevant today and not only because of his explanation of economic and financial crises
- The End of the Revolution
China and the Limits of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Wang Hui is a leading member of China's "New Left". He challenges both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm. He calls for alternatives to both China's capitalist transformation and its repressive and authoritarian past.
- Evaluating your exhibit performance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
"How do we know if our exhibit program is doing what it is suppose to do?
- 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression: they are for it - in principle - but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e. who gets to censor who.
- From Fatwa to Jihad
The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Tells the story both of the Rushdie affair and of its transformative impact on cultural and political landscape of the West. The book explores the issues that the Rushide affair raised. in particular the questions of muliculturalism, radical Islam and free speech, and shows how in responding to these issues Western liberals have betrayed the fundamental beliefs of liberalism.
- Frommer's Costa Rica 2009
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Going Beyond Google
The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Looks at ways to teach Invisible Web research.
- The Great Financial Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Foster and Magdoff are able to examine the complex interconnections associated with rising debt, weakening production and investment, stagnant wages, burgeoning unemployment, rapidly growing class inequality, spiraling global economic instability, and spreading militarism and imperialism.
- The Greatest Show on Earth
The Evidence for Evolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Dawkins explains the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdity of creationism.
- The Green Zone
The Environmental Costs of Militarism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Environmentalism - it's the word on everyone's tongue. Reusable shopping bags, hybrid cars, and green home energy solutions allow us to reduce our carbon footprint, but it's only the tip of the quickly melting iceberg. The Green Zone presents a sobering revelation: until we address the attack that the US military is waging on the global environment, the things we do at home won't change a thing.
- Half the Sky
Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Describes the health and situation of women worldwide by investigating issues such as rampant gendercide in the developing world and gender discrimation in the labour force. The authors aim to bring attention to the plight of women in developing countries.
- Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
With additional material from a Thesaurus of Old English
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A historical thesuarus that presents synonyms and their meanings in chronological order, noting their appearance and disappearance, representing a map of the development of words in the English language.
- Hope for Animals and Their World
How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Goodall illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated environmentalists and the truly critical need to protect the habitats of endangered species.
- How to brand yourself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Besides the self-marketing benefits of a biography, an advantage to writing this document is the actual writing of it. The process of thinking through, prioritizing, characterizing and expressing your career profile forces you to review everything you know about yourself -- and make it explicit.
- The Invention of the Jewish People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
In this new book, Shlomo Sand shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the nineteenth century, rather than in biblical times - when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation.
- Invictus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A friend forwarded to me the most original greeting for the New Year: "I wish in 2009 a horrible year for all war criminals and their accomplices." I could not but think of whether some United Nations officials can be counted among such "accomplices."
- Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A readable introduction to the history and practice of apartheid in Israel.
- Let's Not Be Cremated Equal
The combined Universites Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1959 - 1967
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Published in The Sixties in Canada: A Turbulent and Creative Decade, M. Athena Palaeologu ed. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2009
- "Liberté de parole" - aussi longtemps que cela n'offense personne
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Life as Politics
How Ordinary People Change the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Asef Bayat reveals how under the shadow of the authoritarian rule, religious moral authorities, and economic elites, ordinary people can make meaningful change through the practices of everyday life.
- Lincoln's Contested Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Great Emancipator or unreconstructed racist? Defender of civil liberties or subverter of the Constitution? Each generation evokes a different Lincoln. But who was he?
- Looking for Eric
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Making a Killing
The Canada-Israel Military-Industrial Partnership
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Canadian companies supply many essential components to Israel's war machine. This pamphlet provides information on the arms trade that will help to strengthen the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
- Making your marketing brochure a keeper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A good brochure will effectively communicate the most important facts about your organization. The best brochures combine elements of marketing (they sell your organization) and public relations (they educate the reader).
- The Mammoth Book of the World's Best Crime Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
36 short stories from Canada, Cuba, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Trinidad, Turkey, and the USA.
- Marketing/PR - the new face of marketing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Marketing/PR offers a variety of cost-effective tools that can easily be implemented into a long-term strategy and plan. These include information sessions, testimonial brochures, print and e-mail newsletters, Internet sites, on-line media rooms, media-friendly events, speaking engagements, networking events, trade and consumer shows, sponsorship opportunities, and media campaigns.
- Marx, Engels and Darwin
How Darwin's theory of evolution confirmed and extended the most fundamental concepts of Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Mirrors
Stories of Almost Everyone
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Open any history book and you'll learn about revolutionary leaders, decorated generals, genius scientists and passionate artists. What about the leaders’ assistants? The loyal soldiers? The helpful lab assistants and the inspirations for great art? History books are so filled with greatness that the stories of the people are often neglected. Mirrors resolves this issue. Mirrors is a mosaic of humanity.
- Nativism and Americanism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- 9500 Liberty
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Prince William County, Virginia becomes ground zero in America's explosive battle over immigration policy when elected officials adopt a law requiring police officers to question people they have "probable cause" to suspect are undocumented immigrants.
- No Impact Man
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Follow Colin Beavan for one year in New York as he tries to drastically reduce his climate footprint, forgoing even electricity and causing many disputes with his wife.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A exploration of what 'world music' actually means and an introduction to global sounds.
- On Rumours
How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Describes the social and pyschological forces that make the spread of misinformation inevitable. Its argument runs like this: whether or not we choose to believe something, and whether we feel inclined to pass it on, depends largely on what we already believe.
- The Only House Left Standing
The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A journey through the life and thoughts of the late Tom Hurndall, a British photojournalist fatally wounded in Gaza in April 2003.
- The Other
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Other is made up of a series of lectures that Kapuscinski delivered in Austria and in Poland, eloquent speeches in which he considers the history, the present and the future of our relationship with the Other, a term he employs to distinguish Europeans from "non-Europeans, or non-whites -- while fully aware for the latter, the former are just as much 'Others'."
- The Path to Human Development
Capitalism or Socialism?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
If we believe in people, if we believe that the goal of a human society must be that of "ensuring overall human development," our choice is clear: socialism or barbarism.
- The Peculiar Life of Sundays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Stephen Miller's The Peculiar Life of Sundays reads at times like a PhD student's literature search. The book is a history of Sunday observance, with Miller roaming vastly and omnipotently, like the spirit of God, across the face of literature and popular culture, from the Bible, to Billie Holiday singing Glooming Sunday; from the Hungarian physicist Sandor Ferenczi and his paper, Sunday Neruoses, to the Velvet Underground, to Elizabeth Bishop, Louis MacNiece, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman, culminating in an exposition of Wallace Stevens's poem Sunday Morning.
- La Pivellina (Little Girl)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- The politics of display
The redesign of the Ashmolean in Oxford provides a chance to reflect on how we understand the meaning of collections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is the oldest museum in Britain, founded in 1693. The institution has grown, thanks to a new postmodern building by architect Rick Mather. The open concept design of the new galleries is perfect for the curatorial focus on the impact of trade and the legacy of intercultural exchange titled "Crossing Cultures Crossing Time".
- The psycholinguistic phenomenon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
There is no doubt that the literal meaning of the words you use in written or oral communications will have an effect on the people you are trying to reach. But equally, if not more, important are the meanings conveyed by our nonverbal communication.
- Radical Digressions 6
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- The 'Radical trip' of the the Canadian Union of Students, 1963-69
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
MA Thesis, Trent University, 2009
- Raise the bar on customer satisfaction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Let your customers expect the unexpected. Offering good service and friendly booth people at a trade show becomes the baseline for superior customer satisfaction.
- The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History - Volume 1
Projectiles For the People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction (RAF) which, in resistance to imperialism and state repression, was devoted to carrying out armed attacks within the Federal Republic of Germany.
- Refuge from Militarism? The Canadian Movement to Support Vietnam Era War Resisters, and Government Responses,1965 - 1973
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
PhD Thesis, Carleton University, 2009
- The Reification of Desire
Toward a Queer Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A new theoretical approach to the relationship between Marxism and queer studies.
- Revolutionary Suicide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An illustrated memoir by founding Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton.
- The Right Frame of Mind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The quandary at a trade show is finding a happy balance between being aggressive enough to produce the desired results and being the kind of person visitors want to do business with. The answer is all a matter of attitude. The right attitude at a booth is not as a hard-core sales person but rather as a host.
- Rules of Production
A Critical Look at Two Recent Books on the British Media
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A review of two books: Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies, and Newspeak in the 21st Century, by David Edwards and David Cromwell.
- The Secret in Their Eyes
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Self-Liberation
A guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Selling the Invisible: Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Ideas for research, presentations, publicity, advertising and client retention
- 7 Essentials for a Great Website
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
If you want your website to generate action, think about how each component of your website will get your customer through the sales lifecycle # to capture their interest, create desire and generate action.
- Sexuality and Socialism
History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An accessible analysis of many of the most challenging questions for those concerned with full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Essays on the roots of LGBT oppression, the construction of sexual and gender identities, the history of the gay movement, and how to unite the oppressed and exploited to win sexual liberation for all. Sherry Wolf analyzes different theories about oppression — including those of Marxism, postmodernism, identity politics, and queer theory — and challenges myths about genes, gender, and sexuality.
- The six people you are likely to meet at a trade show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Exhibit marketing is all about meeting customers, clients and the public in a face to face environment. Your physical display as well as your booth staff#s skills need to be well honed to capture the attention of people in your target market group. Knowing who these people are is the first step. The next job is to develop a strategy for handling each booth visitor.
- 'Smooth Operator?'
The Propaganda Model and Moments of Crisis
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An article by Des Freedman on Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model for the mass media and moments of crisis (disagreements within the ruling class), focusing particularly on the Daily Mirror and its anti-war coverage in the build up to the Iraq war.
- Socialist Register 2009
Volume 45: Violence Today
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Sources Bookshelf
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Featuring books and DVDs by Sources member authors.
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An archive of past events listed in the Sources Calendar.
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2009
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Sources Directory Main Category Index
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Sources media training
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Media training to ensure that you are ready to handle media interviews. Topics include Message making, Staying newsworthy, Safe spokesperson techniques, Preparation and relaxation techniques, Media ethics and expectations. Simulations of all media venues including talk shows, double enders, stand-up interviews and scrums, print columnists, videographers, and editorial boards.
- Sources News Release Archive 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
News releases from 2009.
- Sources Newsstand
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Sources Online Membership Form
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Use this form to sign up with Sources and get Sources working for you.
- Sources (Portal für Journalisten and Autoren) - Wikipedia Artikel
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources ist ein Informationsportal für Journalisten, Redakteure, Autoren und Forscher mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Personen als Quellen: Fachleute und Repräsentanten, die bereit sind Fragen von Reportern zu beantworten oder sich für Live-Interviews zur Verfügung stellen.
- Sources Select Authors
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Authors available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
- Sources Select Speakers
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Speakers available to take media calls about their area of expertise, and available for speaking engagements.
- Sources Select Universities, Colleges, and Institutes
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Academic experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
- Sources Shop
Online ordering of Sources memberships and products
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Get a Sources membership here. Plus subscriptions to Media Names & Numbers, Parliamentary Names & Numbers, and other quality resources.
- Staatlichkeit & Anarchie in der Spanischen Revolution
Proletarische Revolution statt Staatsverneinung
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
- Stayin' Alive
The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A social and cultural history of the 1970s in the United States.
- Storms of my Grandchildren
The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and our Last Chance to Save Humanity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Hansen's urgent call to act on the climate crisis before it's too late.
- 10 Perfectly Promotable Ideas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
As a small business marketer you are often looking for ideas to promote your business.
- Trafigura
Wikipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Trafigura is a Swiss-based multinational company founded in 1993 trading in base metals and energy, including oil, which has been named or involved in several scandals, especially in Africa.
- Transcending Pessimism: Rekindling Socialist Imagination
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Between Marx's broad historically-inspired vision of revolution/transformation and his detailed critique of political economy, there was an analytical and strategic gap - unbridgeable without addressing the problematic of working class capacities - which later Marxists sometimes addressed, but never overcame. Every progressive social movement must, sooner or later, confront the inescapable fact that capitalism cripples our capacities, stunts our dreams, and incorporates our politics.
- Villa Fairwind: Property for Sale
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Secluded estate located at the east end of Pasadena, Newfoundland and Labrador, on a 13-acre park, nicely treed (evergreen and deciduous) and landscaped, partly fenced. This large executive home has 20 rooms, including 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (one with Jacuzzi), an office, a library, dining room, and a modern kitchen. This property is located 30 minutes west of Deer Lake airport, with direct connecting flights to England and to other parts of Canada. It is 20 minutes east of the Marble Mountain ski resort, close to a cross-country ski club and hiking trails, and 45 minutes from Gros Morne National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Voices of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Voices of the World is a collection of life stories from activists in the global justice movement.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Afrikaans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Afrikaans.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Albanian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Albanian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Armenian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles from English to Armenian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Bengali
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Bengali.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Bulgarian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Bulgarian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Burmese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Burmese.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Czech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Czech.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Esperanto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Esperanto.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Estonian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Estonian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Georgian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Georgian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Hebrew
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Hebrew.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Hindi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Hindi.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Hungarian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Hungarian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Icelandic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Icelandic.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Javanese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Javanese.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Latvian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Lavtian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Lithuanian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Lithunian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Macedonian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Macedonian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Punjabi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Punjabi.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted # English to Romanian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Romanian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Russian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Russian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Serbo-Croatian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Serbo-Croatian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Sinhalese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Sinhalese.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Slovak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Slovak.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Slovenian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Slovenian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Tagalog (Filipino)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Tagalog (Filipino).
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Tamil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Tamil.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Thai
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Thai.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Turkish
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Turkish.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Ukrainian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Ukrainian.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Urdu
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Urdu.
- Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Vietnamese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, from English to Vietnamese.
- Waltz with Bashir
A Lebanon War Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A graphic novel depicting an Israeli soldier's experience during Israel's war in Lebanon. See also the film with the same name.
- What Guerrillas Know About USPs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A USP is a unique selling proposition: your proprietary competitive edge stated in clear, concise terms.
- Why Consensus Decision-making Won't Work for Grassroots Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Wetzel contrasts consensus decision-making with democratic decision-making to explain why the latter is more suited to activist groups.
- Women Soldiers' Testimonies
Breaking the Silence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A collection of testimonies selected from interviews with more than forty Israeli women soldiers breaking their silence, and is an additional example of the ethical and societal cost of the missions with which the Israeli Security Forces have been charged.
- World at Gunpoint
Or, what's wrong with the simplicity movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Global warming (or global climate catastrophe, as some rightly call it), as terrifying as it is, isn't first and foremost a threat. It's a consequence. we'll have a better chance of succeeding if we recognize it as a predictable (at this point) result of burning oil and gas, of deforestation, of dam construction, of industrial agriculture, and so on. The real threat is all of these.
- You Don't Play With Revolution
The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A collection of never-before-published lectures by the Marxist cultural critic C.L.R. James, delivered in Canada in 1967-68, at the height of James's political maturity.
- 62 reporters killed in 2008, Reporters without Borders reports
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Press Freedom Round-up 2008: Better figures despite a hostile climate and more Internet repression.
- I Was Born There, I Was Born Here (Wulidtu hunak, wulidtu huna)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Published: 2001
- Alternative Gift Wrapping Ideas
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sometimes wrapping gifts can be equally as stressful as buying and sometimes equally as expensive. Here are some quick and cost-effective ways to nix the wrapping this year.
- Aon Consulting Survey on Wireless Ban Affecting Employers Highlights Significance of Policy Considerations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Aon Consulting Survey on Wireless Ban Affecting Employers Highlights Significance of Policy Considerations
- Axworthy Leads Group to Make Freight Transportation More Sustainable
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has embarked on a new study to evaluate opportunities for making freight transportation more sustainable in North America.
- Bill 168: Workplace violence and harassment: Ontario government proposes new legislation to Ontario's Health and Saftey Act
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
If the amendments to Ontarios Health and Safety Action, Bill 168, become law, a range of new obligations will be placed on employers, including assessing the level of risk of violence in a workplace, providing written policies to deal with the risk
- CCNM Applauds the Awarding of ND Prescribing Rights in Ontario
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Standing Committee on Social Policy has voted unanimously to amend the Naturopathy Act through Bill 179, awarding Ontarioâ##s naturopathic doctors (NDs) the controlled act of â#oprescribing, dispensing, compounding or selling a drug
- Celebrate National Down Syndrome Awareness Week, November 1-7, 2009
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Canadian Down Syndrome Society is proud to announce National Down Syndrome Awareness Week, November 1-7, 2009. Citizens with Down syndrome are going to school, working, getting married and making important contributions to Canadian communities.
- CJFE welcomes release of Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
CJFE is overjoyed by the news that Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and her Australian colleague Nigel Brennan have been released after 15 months in captivity.
- CMFR statement on the killings in Maguindanao
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The brutality and the sheer senselessness of the attack in Maguindanao represent a new low, even in the country's shameful record of violence. It calls for collective outrage and condemnation and the strongest demand for the immediate apprehension.
- Connect, Communicate, Create: Speaker Series
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Company of Women presents a Rogers sponsored three-tiered speaker series, â##Connect, Communicate, Createâ## where female industry experts will discuss how women can grow their business.
- Cracked Houses in San Miguel Ixtahuacan: The Marlin Mine Influence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Today in Guatemala City, COPAE and UUSC present the results of an investigation, after two years of monitoring by a team of engineers: 'Cracked Houses Around the Marlin Mine: Preliminary Investig
- Des jeunes participent à une occupation pacifique pour la justice climatique à l'intérieur du Comité sur l'Environement de la Chambre des Communes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Six jeunes ont entrepris une occupation pacifique à l'intrieur du Parlement canadien, à
l'occasion d'une rencontre du Comité permanent de l'environnement et du
développement durable dans l'édifice du centre.
- Discover the Opportunities in Franchising At The Franchise Show - October 24 & 25, 2009
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Canadaâ##s Largest Franchise Show Comes To Toronto. Produced by the Canadian Franchise Association, The Franchise Show runs October 24 & 25 at the Toronto Congress Centre, Hall F.
- Discover the Opportunities in Franchising At The Franchise Show on November 21 & 22, 2009
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Franchise Show - Canadas Largest Franchise Show Comes To Vancouver November 21 & 22
- DYNAMIC FUNDS RECEIVES IFICS 2009 INVESTOR EDUCATION AWARD
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Toronto, Ontario Financial advice tied to key life events such as Parenthood, Divorce and Leaving a Job, took centre stage on December 2 when Dynamic Funds was awarded IFICs Investor Education Award at the Canadian Investment Awards and Gala.
- Eliminate Holiday Stress
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Feeling pulled in a million directions this holiday season? Your children need you at school concerts, work has extra holiday hours and commitments and your friend needs help planning a big holiday party? The extra money, time and energy
- Europe no longer so exemplary, Russian tragedy deepens
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
For the first time since 2002, the press freedom indexâ##s top 20 is not quite so European. Only 15 of the 20 leading countries are from the Old Continent, compared with 18 in 2008.
- Experts advise WHO on pandemic vaccine policies and strategies
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, which advises WHO on policies and strategies for vaccines and immunization, devoted a session of its 27#29 October meeting to pandemic influenza vaccines.
- Farmers Reclaim Power
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Farmers from the international peasant's organisation La Via Campesina are joining the #Reclaim Power Action# in Copenhagen. his protest is co-organised by the large coalitions of social movements, NGOs, unions and activists.
- Fire Safety Tips for the Holiday Season - National Home Fire Safety Week: November 24 30, 2009
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
November 24th to 30th is National Home Fire Safety Week and Canada Safety Council encourages all Canadians and their families to take every precaution to ensure the holiday season is one that is safe and happy.
- First Canadian Online Dream Dictionary features artist Erich Rock
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
New Canadian Dream Dictionary at http://www.dreamsdictionary.org
- FOCAL and COMEXI Launch Mexico-Canada Initiative
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales and the Canadian Foundation for the Americas are combining forces to create an independent working group that will bring forward ideas to deepen, broaden and add dynamism to the relationship.
- GE-contaminated flax seed raises concerns for Canadian organic sector
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
GE-contaminated flax seed raises concerns for Canadian organic sector. The Organic Trade Association (OTA) in Canada has called the recent discovery of contaminated flax seed in Europe â#ounacceptable,â## and said biotechnology companies must take
- Gifts to Inspire: Online Contest Gives Charities a Chance to Win $30,000
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Popular Snack Maker Launches Social Media Campaign To "Show Us Your Goodness" And Nominate Inspiring Nonprofit Groups To Win $30,000 in Prize Money.
- Go Casual for the Cause on Dress Down Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and to honour this special time and raise funds for breast cancer research, the Breast Cancer Society of Canada (BCSC) is hosting the 12th Annual Dress Down Day on Friday, October 2.
- Great Expectations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Do you offer the quality of service you gauge others by? Do you demand the same high standards of yourself â## that you expect from other business professionals â## when youâ##re working with clients?
- Hen adoption program offers new hope to rescued birds and at-risk children
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
New ex-battery hen adoption program offers hope to rescued birds and at-risk children. Hens from battery cages are being offered a new free-range life at a farm sanctuary in Ontario.
- Holiday Shopping for Those Who Have it All or Are Difficult to Buy For
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Are you struggling this time of the year, trying to figure out what gifts you will get for everyone on your list? Here are some ideas on what to give that hard-to-buy person this holiday season. They will be pleased with their gift, and you will be
- IFJ Endorses Joint Russian-Georgian Demand to End Media Restrictions
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The IFJ has endorsed a joint declaration by the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) and the Independent Association of Georgian Journalists (IAGJ) that demands an end to all restrictions to reporting of the Georgian/ Russian conflict.
- IFJ Welcomes "Historic Opportunity" as Palestinian Journalists Agree to Hold Congress
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists welcomes the decision by the Palestine Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) yesterday to hold a Congress to elect a new leadership and rebuild the unity and solidarity of journalists across the occupied territories
- IFJ Welcomes Saudi Withdrawal on Decision to Flog Female Journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the decision of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz decision to cancel a Saudi Court sentence ordering a female journalist to receive 60 lashes over a controversial sex broadcast.
- Internet Talk Show www.beavertalk.com continues to grow with Susan McCord's New Advice Column!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Now viewers can get involved with beavertalk's content! Send ALL your Dating/Relationship/Lifestyle questions to Susan McCord's Advice Column at beavertalk@beavertalk.com. You could be in their next video credits!
- Judge dismisses obscenity charges against newspaper editor
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A Lusaka court yesterday acquitted The Post editor Chansa Kabwela of a charge of #distributing obscene material# for sending the vice-president photos of a woman giving birth in a hospital car park.
- Le Centre Pearson pour le maintien de la paix Å#uvrera au renforcement des capacitA#s en AmA#rique latine
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Le Centre Pearson pour le maintien de la paix (CPMP) travaillera en A#troite collaboration avec les centres de formation au maintien de la paix de lâ##AmA#rique latine et leur Association, (ALCOPAZ) afin de renforcer la capacitA# dâ##A#tats dâ##AmA#r
- Leading Canadian Think Tank Closes Its Doors
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) will cease to exist after 15 years of quality independent public policy research.
- Little Mosque stars stand up for children at Toronto Elvis fest
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
'Little Mosque' stars Sheila McCarthy and Debra McGrath host a Tribute to Elvis fundraiser Friday, November 13 for Canadian Feed The Children in Toronto. Tickets are $100 per person and include a full-course meal and wine.
- Loi ontarienne sur la distraction au volant
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
La loi ontarienne sur la distraction au volant entrera en vigueur lundi prochain.
- Lung Association and Canadian Thoracic Society begin building lung health research agenda for Canada
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Recognizing the need to position Canada as a global leader in the fight against lung disease, the Canadian Lung Association together with the Canadian Thoracic Society have launched the development of a national research agenda
- Make it a Green Holiday: Put a piece of Canada under the tree
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
This holiday season, the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has the answer for holiday shoppers struggling to find that perfect gift. Give your friends and family a Gift of Canadian Nature.
- Manchester's Radical History
Exploring Greater Manchester's Grassroots History
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Manchester Radical History Collective is a small group of politically active people living in Manchester. We share an interest in the city’s radical and grassroots history – the local struggles and campaigns that have shaped the city of Manchester and the towns that make up Greater Manchester, and the people that live in them. And we’re inspired by the way that Manchester’s people have maintained a spirit of independence and resistance which has endured down the years.
- National Safe Driving Week: December 1 to 7, 2009 - Who has your back on the road this winter?
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
December 1st to 7th is National Safe Driving Week and Canada Safety Council encourages all Canadian drivers to take precautions on the road throughout the winter months. Being prepared is the best way to ensure for safe winter driving.
- National School Safety Week - Allergy Safe Schools
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
National School Safety Week is focussed on allergies within the school. Parents, guardians, students and the school board all need to work together to share the responsibility of making Canadian schools allergy safe.
- National Senior Safety Week - Healthy Active Living
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
November 6th # 12th is National Senior Safety Week, and Canada Safety Council along with the Active Living Coalition for Older Adults, encourages older Canadians to maintain and enhance their well-being and independence through a lifestyle that
- New Report Examines Space Security Issues
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Space Security 2009 has been jointly released by Project Ploughshares and Secure World Foundation on behalf of the Space Security Index, an international research consortium. This is the sixth annual report on trends and developments in space.
- No Reason for Force Applied to UWO Student by Police
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Members of the legal community at UWO have also raised issue with an incident of forcible arrest on the campus.
- Nominations open for the second annual Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
CMA Canada and CIPFA have issued an open call for nominations from federal public servants to nominate colleagues and/or to self-nominate for the Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector.
- OAS Secretary-General to Address Canada's Engagement in Honduras at FOCAL Roundtable
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
JosA# Miguel Insulza, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS) will discuss what happened in Honduras, the role that Canada has played and implications for democracy in Latin America at the University of Ottawa today at 2:00 pm.
- October 11-17 is Co-op Week!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Members of co-operatives and credit unions across Canada will celebrate Co-op Week from October 11-17, 2009, a time to reflect on the contribution the co-operative sector has made to the lives of Canadians and their communities.
- Ontario Distracted Driving Legislation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Ontario distracted driving legislation comes into effect next Monday. The new law makes it illegal for drivers to talk, text, type, or dial using hand-held cell phones and other hand-held communication and entertainment devices.
- Organizer Boosts Hoarding Expertise
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Colette Robicheau, president of the full-service organizing agency Organize Anything, is the first Canadian to receive the top level of certification from a respected U.S.-based organization that studies chronic disorganization and productivity.
- Organizing on the Air
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Halifax, N.S.-based organizing coach Colette Robicheau is launching a monthly half-hour radio show on Oct. 6 on 105.9 Seaside FM. The show will feature organizing tips and techniques to achieve a calm, clutter-free life.
- Plenty of work to do, but still lots to be thankful for!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
As Thanksgiving approaches and we gather with friends and family for the annual feast, we recognize in our lives that there are a number of things we can and should be thankful for.
- Poppy Campaign Begins 30 October
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Poppy Campaign begins 30 October and lasts until 10 November.
- Popular small business book now available as downloadable e-book
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Muddled, meager and messy-Marketing performance repair manual for small business is a must-have for all small businesses and entrepreneurs. It's friendly, effective style of information delivery helps business get more efficient and grow their sales.
- Quick tips for a Holly Jolly Holiday Season
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Its the holiday season. Time for buying gifts, throwing parties and decorating your home. All that work can leave little time for enjoying what should be the most wonderful time of the year. So here are some quick tips to help make your holiday
- Renowned Board Certified Hypnotist presents at Galaxy of Stars in Romulus, Michigan.
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Toronto, ON, October 15, 2009 - Debbie Papadakis, founder and director of the Toronto, Canada based Hypno Healing Institute Inc is invited to the IACT and IMDHA Galaxy of Stars conference held held in Romulus, Michigan from Oct. 17 - Oct. 18, 2009
- Review of the new book, MUDDLED, MEAGER AND MESSY, Marketing performance repair manual for small business.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Small business marketing book delivers timely, important information for entrepreneurs and leaders in small and medium business. An easy read, the book holds out firmly for the necessarily unique identity and usefulness of small business.
- Richard Falk, UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestinian Territories Speaking in Toronto
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Richard Falk, the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, will be speaking in Toronto next Sunday September 27th at 2pm. at 155 College St. Room 610.
- Royal BC Museum offers admission by donation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
As a gift to thank the community for its continued support, the Royal BC Museum (RBCM) is carrying on its New Years tradition by offering admission by donation. Visitors are asked to
pay-what-they-can from Jan. 2 - 9.
- Ryan Reynolds and a host of other Canadian celebrities have joined forces to protect nature
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Ryan Reynolds, Jason Priestley, William Shatner and Rachel Blanchard, star in A Force for Nature - a 30 minute television journey through some of our most magnificent but threatened landscapes.
- Sakharov Prize 2009 finalists chosen
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The three finalists for the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought have been announced. The winner will be announced October 22, 2009.
- Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Center for Inquiry (CFI), a secularist think tank and NGO has delivered a statement strongly opposing the proposed "Combating the Defamation of Religions" resolution backed by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
- Seven Things Not To Do When Creating a New Years Resolution
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
One in four people will not make it a week with their New Years resolution. Here are seven things not to do when creating a New Years resolution that will help you go the distance.
- Sex Information and Education Council of Canada Launches New Website
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sex Information and Education Council of Canada Launches New Website
- So Many Opportunities at The Franchise Show on October 24 & 25
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Attending The Franchise Show on October 24 and 25, held at the Toronto Congress Centre and produced by the Canadian Franchise Association (CFA), will help everyone explore the many opportunities available in Canadian franchising.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals.
- Sources welcomes Dr. Cory Torgerson - Facial Cosmetic Surgery
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Dr. Cory Torgerson - Facial Cosmetic Surgery.
- Spirit of the season alive at Royal BC Museum
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Royal BC Museum is ready for the holidays, with carolling and displays for all.
- Support for lawsuit brought against Iranian government before Montreal court
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is supporting the lawsuit which Stephan Hashemi has brought against the Islamic Republic of Iran before a Montreal court in an bid to obtain reparation for the detention, torture and death of his mother, photo-journalist Zah
- Swine Flu in the Workplace: Top 4 questions & answers employers and employees need to know about H1N1
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Employment Lawyer Christine Thomlinson, outlines the top four questions her law firm, Rubin Thomlinson has been getting from employers and employees and the answers they have complied relating to the issues of H1N1 in the workplace.
- Symposium Examines the Role of Naturopathic Medicine in a Patient-centred Health Care System
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
CCNM is holding its first-ever symposium, â#oThe Role of Naturopathic Medicine in a Patient-centred Health Care Systemâ##, on Thursday, October 22 from 1 â## 4:30 p.m. Naturopathic medicine will soon be regulated under Ontarioâ##s Regulated Health
- Telling Her Story: Speaker Series
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
On October 14th at the Guelph Delta Hotel, as a part of the Company of Women Rogers sponsored speaker series, â##Telling Her Storyâ## is the second of three â##Connect, Communicate, Createâ## series events featuring Cora Tsouflidou, Founder of Coraï¿
- Telling Your Story: Speaker Series
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
On September 30th at the Waterloo Inn, as a part of the Company of Women Rogers sponsored speaker series, â##Telling Your Storyâ## initiates the first of three â##Connect, Communicate, Createâ## series events featuring expert panellists on getting b
- Ten tips for stress-free Christmas gift shopping
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Finding the right Christmas gift for everyone on your list can be tricky, not to mention stressful. So here are some handy tips that will help make your seasonal shopping simple and stress-free.
- Tenant Inducements for Commercial Property
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Although not widely known, there are certain tax treatments available for landlords and tenants who provide tenant inducements for commercial properties.
- Thanks for (not) shopping!?
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Mixed-messaging during North American holidays puts the responsibility back on consumers.
- The 4 Hour Workweek Escape 9-5 - Live Anywhere And Join The New Rich Book Review
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
So this week I am going to share my review of one of the books that caught my eye and Wall Street Journal as well...The 4 Hour Workweek Escape 9-5, Live anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss. I loved this book and I could not put it down.
- The Canadian Down Syndrome Society Responds to Cases of Abuse Reported
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Canadian Down Syndrome Society once again calls for the closure of all institutions in Canada. Institutions are a breeding ground for abuse.
- The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre to Build Capacity in Latin America
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) will be working with Latin America Training Centres and their association, ALCOPAZ, to enhance their ability to provide civilians, military and police support for United Nations peace operations.
- Time Out - for Time Well Spent
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Summer always seems to slip away. This year in Toronto, summer never really arrived and now it seems to be over. So last Sunday, I decided to celebrate the season with a brief interlude â## to make a clean break from the incessant busyness
- Toronto Peace Activists March in Solidarity to End the Illegal Siege of Gaza
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
On December 31, 2009, more than 1,300 citizens from across the world (including more than 55 Canadians) will join with an estimated 50,000 Palestinians in a peaceful march to the Erez border crossing into Israel.
- Unload and Lock your Firearms - Store Them Safely!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Overall, most firearm deaths and injuries occur in the home environment. Few are related to crime; by and large, they happen simply because a gun is accessible and not securely stored.
- Using Social Media to Grow Your Business: Speaker Series
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
On November 11th at the Cambridge Hotel and Conference Centre, as a part of the Company of Women Rogers sponsored speaker series, â##Using Social Media to Grow Your Businessâ## is the last of three â##Connect, Communicate, Createâ## series events fea
- What Guerrillas Know About USPs
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
A USP is a unique selling proposition, first popularized in 1961 by advertising legend Rosser Reeves in his book, "Reality In Advertising." Your USP is your proprietary competitive edge stated in clear, concise terms. Every business must have one to
- With Proper Time Management Exercise Can Fit into Your Holiday Schedule
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Fitness expert Marci Lall shows you exactly how to fit exercise into your busy and hectic holiday schedule.
- World Debut of Stirring Video Installation on Tourette Syndrome
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
An innovative video installation titled The Space Between You And Me will debut at the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada's Annual Conference.
- World Famous Hypnotist holds Gala Opening and Charity Workshops in Toronto in honour of World Hypnotism Day
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Published: 2009
Debbie Papadakis, BCH, CI, popular hypnosis expert and founder of Torontos Hypno Healing Institute will be celebrating World Hypnotism Day with three very special events being held at the Hypo Healing Institute, 355 Keele St., Toronto.
- Remember what we owe to Arab science
It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
In an era of intolerance, the West needs to appreciate the fertile scholarship that flowered with Islam.
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Korean text
Connexipedia
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2011
- Sources Wikipedia article - Korean
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2011
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Dutch text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2010
Connexions (volledige naam Connexions Information Sharing Services) is de voornaamste online bibliotheek en het archief voor Canadese organisaties voor sociale verandering. Dit project dat geen winstoogmerk heeft, beheert ook een uitgebreide gids van Canadese en niet-Canadese verenigingen en niet-gouvernementele organisaties.
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Artikel - Deutscher text
Connexipedia
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2010
Connexions ist die Zentrale Online Bücherei und Archiv für Kanada's Bewegung für gesellschaftlichen Wandel.
- The necessary revolution
Working together to create a sustainable world
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2010
Originally published in 2008 as: The necessary revolution: how individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world.
- Sources (portal for journalister og skribenter)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2010
Sources er en informationsportal for journalister, freelance skribenter, redaktorer, forfattere og forskere som især fokuserer på menneskelige kilder: eksperter og talsmænd som er parate til at svare på journalisters sporgsmål eller som er disponible til live interviews.
- Sources (portal para jornalistas e escritores)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2010
- The Future of Israel/Palestine
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s address to both houses of the U.S. Congress in May, 2006 was the clearest, most explicit presentation of Israel’s conception of where it is going vis-à-vis the Palestinians. It is perhaps the most skilled use of Newspeak since George Orwell invented the term in his novel 1984.
- Black Immigrants, 'Model' Minority? Plus: Don Imus
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
'Black' is a label which obscures more than it illuminates.
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Arabic text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2009
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Farsi text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2009
- Connexions - Services de partage d'information Connexions - Wikipedia Article - French text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2009
Connexions -- dont le nom complet est Services de partage d'information Connexions [Connexions Information Sharing Services] -- est la bibliothèque et l'archive en ligne centrale pour les mouvements canadiens partisans du changement social. Le projet à but non lucratif entretient également un vaste répertoire d'associations canadiennes et d'organisations non gouvernementales.
- Connexions Servicos de Compartilhamento de Informacoes - Wikipedia Article - Portuguese text
Connexipedia
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2009
Connexions (Connexions Serviços de Compartilhamento de Informaçoes) é a biblioteca central e arquivos eletrônicos do movimentos do Canadá para mudanças sociais. O projeto sem fins lucrativos também mantém uma lista completa de associaçoes e ONG's canadenses.
- Connexions Servis Udostepniania Informacji - Wikipedia Article - Polish text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services (pe?na nazwa Connexions Serwis Udostepniania Informacji) jest to internetowa bibliteka i archiwum dla kanadyjskich organizacji zajmuja;cych sie; przemianami spo?ecznymi. Ten bezprofitowy projekt zajmuje sie; prowadzeniem i uaktualnianiem obszernej ksija;z'ki adresowej kanadyjskich zwija;zków i organizacji pozarzadowych.
- Resistance
One Woman's Defiance in Occupied France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2009
The memoir of a French resistance fighter and museum worker who chronicles the undergroud network of resistance in Paris during the occupation. She then chronicles her imprisonment and the slave labour she endured in Germany. The final section of her memoir recounts her release by the Americans and the time she spent helping them hunt Nazis after the war.
- Take Me to the Source
In Search of Water
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2009
Water is ubiquitous. This book exlores its structure, its forms, its flow, and the policies that govern its use. The architecture and wars that water management has spawned are discussed.
- Wikipedia's article about Sources
Local version on Sources website
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2009
- Predictions for 2009 - do they work?
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Predictions - When they work, when they don't
"In many cases we can predict the future. But frequently our brains, experiences, and approaches conspire to give us false confidence in our predictions," says Randy Park, author of The Prediction Trap
- Azerbaijan: Government ban on foreign radio stations called 'strategic error'
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Reporters Without Borders is very disappointed by Azerbaijan's National Television and Radio Councilâ##s decision today to ban foreign radio stations from broadcasting on local FM and medium wave frequencies from 1 January.
- Can-Fit-Pro met en vedette les meilleurs presentateurs lors de la conference et du salon commercial de Montreal!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Can-Fit-Pro presente des sujets tout chauds lors de la conference et du salon commercial de Montreal!
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
MONTRA#AL; lâ##A#vA#nement annuel de confA#rence et de salon commercial de lâ##entraA#nement personnel, des cours dâ##exercice en groupe et dâ##aquaforme Can-Fit-Pro sâ##en vient A MontrA#al, du 6 au 8 fA#vrier 2009, au Fairmont Le Reine Elizabeth!
- Can-Fit-Pro presents hot fitness topics at Conference and Trade Show in Montreal
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Can-Fit-Pro's annual Group Fitness, Personal Training, and Aquafitness Conference and Trade Show is coming to Montreal February 6-8, 2009 at the Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth. Fitness professionals and enthusiasts can expect a weekend...
- Can-Fit-Pro showcases world-renowned presenters at Conference and Trade Show in Montreal
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
MONTREAL - Can-Fit-Pro's annual Group Fitness, Personal Training, and Aquafitness Conference and Trade Show is coming to Montreal February 6-8, 2009 at the Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth. Fitness professionals and enthusiasts will enjoy sessions in b
- Cease Fire Now
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
On behalf of thousands of Israelis who have demonstrated in the streets of Tel-Aviv within hours after the start of the war, we demand: To stop at once the attack on Gaza!
- Fitness pros and fitness consumers to learn, network, and shop at the Can-Fit-Pro Group Fitness, Personal Training, and Aquafitness Conference and Tra
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
MONTREAL, QCâ##Can-Fit-Pro announces its annual Group Fitness, Personal Training, and Aquafitness Conference and Trade Show to take place February 6-8, 2009 at Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth in Montreal, QC. Fitness professionals and consumers can expe
- Judicial authorities unearth more libel cases against national daily
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the judicial harassment of the French-language daily Al-Watan that has continued since its libel conviction on 23 December.
- Media involved in several incidents since start of Israeli offensive against Gaza Strip
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about several incidents affecting the news media since Israel began its air strikes on the Gaza Strip on 27 December, including the bombing of the headquarters of the Hamas TV station Al-Aqsa TV, as well as Isra
- Les professionnels du conditionnement physique et les consommateurs de mise en forme sont invites A venir approfondir leurs connaissances, Alargir
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Emergency Gaza Update 28.12.2008
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Targeting of civilians and/of medical facilities is a breach of international humanitarian law. The targets chosen by the Israeli military include also clearly civilian installations.
- International Witnesses Speak Out from Gaza
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Human Rights Defenders from Lebanon, the UK, Poland, Canada, Spain, Italy and Australia are present in Gaza and are witnessing and documenting the current Israeli attacks on Gaza.
- Massacre In Gaza Black Saturday
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
UHWC asks you, to issue a strong Last Appeal Statement condemning Israelâ##s human rights violations against the Palestinian people and to demand a cessation of this military offensive.
- A Seasonal Greeting to the World: End the Siege of Gaza
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A Seasonal Greeting to the World: End the Siege of Gaza. This Friday at our weekly vigil, we will mark the season with a Christmas tree decorated with barbed wire to depict the prison-like conditions the people of Gaza are enduring.
- Can-Fit-Pro presents the best health and fitness presenters in Whistler, BC
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Can-Fit-Pro presents an all-star line-up of health and fitness presenters in Whistler BC. Open for all fitness enthusiasts. Media can especially benefit from this event to network with fitness professionals and generate possible stories and interview
- Algeria : prosecutor requests two-month sentence for newspaper editor and reporter
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities to withdraw a criminal libel prosecution against the Algiers-based daily El Watan over a 2004 article accusing a â#oraquiâ## (faith healer and exorcist) of being a charlatan.
- Debbie Papadakis Says Hypnotherapy Offers Everyone the Potential of Health, Wealth & Happiness
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Debbie Papadakis, BCH, CI, popular hypnotherapy expert and founder of Torontoâ##s Hypno Healing Institute http://www.hypno-healing.com invites everyone to join her for World Hypnosis Day on January 4, 2009.
- Gisha to Israeli Ministers: Stop Using Civilians in Gaza as a Weapon to Enforce the Ceasefire
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
New Legal Opinion Published: Not a siege, not a blockade, not an economic sanction â## closure and collective punishment. Punishing civilians in response to rocket fire by militants is illegal.
- UNRWA suspends food distribution in Gaza
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Food distribution for both emergency and regular programs in Gaza will be suspended from 18 December until further notice. All crossings for goods into the Strip are closed and no humanitarian supplies, fuel and other needed commodities are being all
- Concerns grows after more abductions of journalists
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by the abduction of freelance photojournalist Shadreck Manyere and attempted abduction of Obrian Rwafa, a reporter with the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC).
- Government closes TV station owned by political rival
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Madagascar governmentâ##s closure of Viva TV since 13 December, after it broadcast a message by former President Didier Ratsiraka.
- Kenya: Faiths Join Protests Against Curbs on Media Freedom
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Violent scenes reminiscent of the dark days of President Daniel Moiâ##s dictatorship have returned to the Kenyan capital after parliament passed a bill which tightens the stateâ##s grip on the broadcast media.
- Mexico: Special federal prosecutor rules out that community journalists were killed for their work
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Reporters Without Borders today voiced astonishment at a public statement by the special federal prosecutor for dealing with attacks on the media ruling out that two young women community journalists in Oaxaca State were killed because of their work.
- Sole offender?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
When an Iraqi journalist throws his shoe at the commander-in-chief of the forces that invaded and continue to occupy his country, the Globe huffily calls the reporter a disgrace to his profession and says he should be fired.
- Sources welcomes ParticipACTION
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
ParticipACTION, the national voice for physical activity and sport participation in Canada, focuses on inspiring and supporting Canadians to move more.
- Sources welcomes the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the welfare of animals raised for food in Canada through public education, legislative change and consumer choice.
- Taiwan: Public media independence threatened, despite government denials
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Reporters Without Borders urges Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou to keep his promises to us to respect public media independence.
- Iraq - Call for leniency for Muntadar al-Zaidi after shoe throwing protest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Reporters Without Borders today called for the release of Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi, of al-Bagdhadia television arrested after hurling his shoes at George W Bush at a Baghdad
press conference.
- Look at shoe tossing in context: union
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Canada's largest media union is calling for the release of the reporter who threw shoes at U.S. President George Bush.
- Media cuts erode much-needed information flow
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Canadian media is being hammered by job losses at precisely the time when Canadians require more local and national news.
- Perché tante storie per l'omicidio di una ragazza musulmana dalla pelle scura?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Por que fazer um alarido sobre o assassinato de uma garota muçulmana morena?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Por qué protestar por el asesinato de una chica musulmana de piel oscura?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Pourquoi faire toute une histoire a propos du meurtre d'une musulmane a peau mate?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
L'Histoire donne de nombreux exemples de mouvements sociaux qui avec le temps adoptent des positions directement opposées aux principes sur lesquels ils ont été fondés.
- Province of Newfoundland and Labrador Introduces Legislation Regarding Abitibi Bowater
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
We will today introduce a bill to ensure these valuable natural resources are returned to their rightful owners â## the people of Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Sources welcomes the Canadian Centre for Skills Development & Travel College Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Louise Blazik is a Travel & Tourism Expert often interviewed by the media on TV and radio; world traveller; author; consultant and Training and Development Specialist.
- Sources welcomes Wildeboer Dellelce LLP
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Canada's leading boutique Corporate Finance firm, Wildeboer Dellelce strives to be the premiere transactional law firm in Canada for emerging companies and deal makers
- Sun Media Announces Workforce Reductions
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Sun Media Corporation, Canada's largest publisher of newspapers, has announced it will reduce its workforce by approximately 600 full-time equivalent positions as part of a major restructuring of its operations in Western Canada, Ontario and Quebec
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Chinese version
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Korean version
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'feminists' who seek to silence those who speak out about violence against Muslim women.
- Call for Entries - Canadian Dermatology Association Public Education Awards
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The CDA Public Education Award is granted for excellence in furthering the understanding of dermatologic issues and encouraging healthy behaviour in the medical, surgical and cosmetic care of skin, hair and nails.
- Nominations for Canadian Newsperson of the Year
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
J-Source is collecting nominations for Canadian newsperson of the year.
- Sources welcomes Adam Strimaitis, Author of The Millionaire Moron
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Sources welcomes a new member: Adam Strimaitis, Author of The Millionaire Moron. Adam Strimaitis is an author, professional speaker and corporate trainer.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Sources welcomes Life's Next Steps
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Life's Next Steps (LNS) is an innovative new Canadian company formed to help retirement age boomers develop a clear life-plan that puts them on a path to the life they really want.
- Baisse du taux d'inoccupation des logements locatifs au Canada en 2008
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Selon les rA#sultats de lâ##EnquAªte sur les logements locatifs, diffusA#s aujourdâ##hui par la SociA#tA# canadienne dâ##hypothA#ques et de logement (SCHL), le taux dâ##inoccupation moyen des appartements locatifs dans les 34 principaux centres urbai
- National rental vacancy rate decreases in 2008
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The average rental apartment vacancy rate in Canada's 34 major centres decreased to 2.2 per cent in October 2008 from 2.6 per cent in October 2007 according to the Rental Market Survey released today by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).
- Government Fails in Bid to Steal CWB elections: Huge victory for farmers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Farmers celebrate victory in Wheat Board elections. National Farmers Union pleased, relieved, by election results.
- Mountain Equipment Co-op becomes first Canadian retailer to disclose supplier factories
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Vancouver-based outdoor sportswear company Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) has become the first Canadian apparel retailer to disclose the supplier factories of its own-brand products.
- Sources welcomes Commuto Inc.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Commuto is an online social bartering network where members trade in person with other members in their cities, schools, workplaces or any other communities they create.
- Sources welcomes the Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
We are the largest and oldest Tenant organization in Canada. Our mission is to improve the lives of residential tenants through organizing outreach, education and advocacy.
- Statement from the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights on Palestinian territories
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
It would seem mandatory for the International Criminal Court to investigate the situation, and determine whether the Israeli civilian leaders and military commanders responsible for the Gaza siege should be indicted and prosecuted.
- Quebec election results online at Sources.com
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The results of the Quebec election, with all new members elected to the Quebec National Assembly, are now available via Parliamentary Names & Numbers at www.sources.com.
- Quest for the Historical Jesus Begins Anew
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Scholars gathered this past weekend for the inaugural meeting of The Jesus Project in a renewed quest for the historical Jesus. The project is an effort by historians, biblical scholars, and theologians.
- Sources welcomes Trevor Franklin - Canaccord Capital
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Sources welcomes a new member: Trevor Franklin - Canaccord Capital - Alternative Strategies For Creating and Protecting Wealth.
- 2009 Deadlines Set for $75,000 Grantham Prize
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting invites entries for the fourth annual
Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment. Entrants will be competing for the largest journalism cash award in the world.
- Urgent Statement by Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews Worldwide
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
It is time for leaders with a sense of morality and courage to stand up and finally declare ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
- Closure of Parliament Shuts out Workers During Economic Crisis, Say Labour Leaders
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The dissolution of the current Parliament represents an abandonment of leadership by Stephen Harper at a time when Canadians need it most, say the leaders of the country's three largest
industrial unions.
- Ethnocultural Council Marks Passing of Ted Rogers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Ted Rogers' legacy as a leader in media and communication will long remain with us. His visionary leadership helped define our Canadian iidentity in media and telecommunications.
- Four Innu communities unite to defend their land rights
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A press conference of the Innu Chiefs for the signature of a strategic Alliance to defend
their land rights.
- Reporters Without Borders co-launches Photojournalism Competition on Human Rights of the Montreal Human Rights Film Festival
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Reporters Without Borders co-launches the first edition of the Photojournalism Competition on Human Rights of the Montreal Human Rights Film Festival.
- CBS Movie Set To Enlighten Public On Misunderstood Disorder
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
CBS will air the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation Front of the Class on Sunday, December 7th, 2008, at 9:00 pm EST.
- Tips to Recession proof Your Holiday Spending
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Trying to control your spending this holiday season? Here are some Holiday Tips from CFP
and author of No Regrets, A Common Sense Guide to Achieving And Affording Your Life
Goals, Robert Abboud. â#oBy following these recessionary buying guidelines,
- The Deadly Jester
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
On Slavoj Žižek. A review essay on In Defense of Lost Causes.
- Li Ta-Chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- T'is the Seaon! When is an employer required to give employees time off for religious holidays? Paid time off for non-statutory religious holidays?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Employment lawyer Janice Rubin explains what time off means for employees and employers during the holiday season. And how do employers deal with employee requests to take time off for religious observances that are non-statutory holidays.
- Debbie Papadakis, Expert on Habits, Fears, Anxieties in Oprah's New Book Announces New Course
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Debbie Papadakis, Expert on Habits, Fears, Anxieties in Oprah's New Book Announces New Course -- Debbie Papadakis, BCH, CI, popular hypnotherapy expert and founder of Torontoâ##s Hypno Healing Institute.
- Communist Organizing in the Jim Crow South
What's Not in The Great Debaters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Great Debaters is a well-made movie. But in its paeans to dedication and debate, it downplays the real social struggle that was going on in the U.S. in the 1930s, including by black people in the South.
- Fitness pros and fitness consumers to learn, network, and shop at the Can-Fit-Pro Group Fitness, Personal Training, and Aquafitness Conference and Tra
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Can-Fit-Pro announces its annual Group Fitness, Personal Training, and Aquafitness Conference and Trade Show to take place February 6-8, 2009 at Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth in Montreal, QC.
- Jamieson Laboratories announces 360 Pure, promises public safety, purity, and quality control
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Jamieson Laboratories, Canadaâ##s leading manufacturer of natural health products unveiled 360 Pure, a commitment to the public ensuring quality control, safety, and purity.
- Break the Silence Against the Siege of Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Unstable medical supplies and lack of fuel have disrupted medical equipment such as incubators, dialysis equipment and heart monitors in Gaza. There is a shortage of many critical medications and essential medical equipment.
- Support the new Independent Media Centre of Montreal!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Independent Media Centre aims to be a multi-purpose space for activists and independent journalists working for social change.
- Unsafe private highway trucks endanger workers and public
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU/NUPGE) calls for immediate system-wide safety audit of all maintenance vehicles.
- Masthead and MastheadOnline.com closing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
North Island Publishing Ltd. announces that it will cease publication of Masthead magazine after 21 years of operation. The company will also cease publication of MastheadOnline.com
- What Indy Media Heroes Can Teach Us
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Independent journalists should not go silent or soft because of an election result or a change of parties in power.
- 'Special' New York Times Blankets Cities with Message of Hope and Change
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Hundreds of independent writers, artists, and activists are claiming credit for an elaborate project, 6 months in the making, in which 1.2 million copies of a "special edition" of the New York Times were distributed in cities across the U.S.
- State-of-the-Art Science & Environment College Takes Root
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The University of Winnipeg's new state-of-the-art college for the environment and science will bring together researchers, faculty and students to work towards effective global stewardship. Construction is underway.
- Time to Take 'Interest' in Credit Card Debt Epidemic
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Why and How credit card debt is suffocating the average working person and what people can do to fix and avoid the problem.
- Toronto-area Musicians Donate Talent to Canadian Feed The Children
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Professional musicians record Best Gift Ever - a song to help Canadian Feed The Children raise funds to provide programs for children affected by poverty in Canada and around the world.
- California's Prop 2 sets animal precedent for Canada: Standing, strectching and turning around
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
California's decision to provide breeding pigs, egg-laying hens and veal calves with space to stand up, turn around and extend limbs sets a precedent, while Canada's new $1.3 billion agriculture policy doesn't even mention farm animal welfare.
- Barack Obama: The ultimate job search
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Ten career planning and job search tips that we can learn from Barack Obama (and John McCain)
- Fitness pros and consumers to learn and network in St. John's at the annual Can-Fit-Pro Personal Training and Group Fitness Conference
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Can-Fit-Pro announces its annual Personal Training and Group Fitness Conference to take place on November 8-9, 2008 at Nubody's Atlantic Place in St. John's, NL.
- Financial Advisor Releases His Free Report!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
7 Questions Every Financial Advisor Must Be Able To Answer
- Don't socialize the losses - take the whole thing!
Socialize all of finance under democratic control!
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A demand that a few weeks ago would have seemed leftist utopianism is now entirely reasonable and indeed the only practical solution. If ALL the financial institutions- banks, insurance companies, saving and loans, pension funds - become state property, their worthless loans to each other can be wiped off the books as the mere paper that they are.
- Keeping the Media Safe for Big Business
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Press for Conversion #63
November 2008
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
CIDA-funded "NGOs" in Canada rationalized the destabilization and overthrow of Haitian democracy and then covered up the atrocities of the Canadian-backed dictatorship after the coup. This issue examines major themes in the propaganda war against Aristide's popularly-elected Lavalas government.
- Celebrate National Down Syndrome Awareness Week, November 1-7, 2008
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Canadian Down Syndrome Society is proud to announce National Down Syndrome Awareness Week, November 1-7, 2008. Citizens with Down syndrome are going to school, working, getting married and making important contributions to Canadian communities.
- Fitness pros and consumers to shop learn and network at the annual Can-Fit-Pro Vancouver Group Fitness and Mind-Body Fitness Conference and Trade Show
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Can-Fit-Pro announces its annual Group Fitness and Mind-Body Fitness Conference and Trade Show to take place on October 31-November 2 at the Best Western Richmond Hotel and Convention Centre in Vancouver, B.C.
- Axworthy joins Aspen Institute on Climate Change
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Dr. Lloyd Axworthy, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Winnipeg has accepted an invitation to serve as a commissioner on the Aspen Institute's Dialogue and Commission on Arctic Climate Change.
- Is Bayh-Dole Good for Developing Countries? Lessons from the US Experience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Recently, countries from China and Brazil to Malaysia and South Africa have passed laws promoting the patenting of publicly funded research, and a similar proposal is under legislative consideration in India. These initiatives are modeled in part on the United States Bayh-Dole Act of 1980.
- LCBO stores raise funds for Saint Elizabeth Health Care Foundation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Starting November 1, 2008, the public can make donations to Saint Elizabeth Health Care Foundationâ##s Caregiver Support Program at all 600 LCBO stores throughout Ontario.
- The world food crisis: what is behind it and what we can do
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The World Food Program's description of the global food crisis raises the spectre of a natural disaster surging over an unaware populace that is helpless in the face of massive destruction. With billions of people at risk of hunger, the current food crisis is certainly massive and destructive.
- Hip Digital Media and Nectar Launch Exclusive Dido SAFE TRIP HOME Fan Contest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Hip Digital Media, Nectar, and RCA Label Group, today, announce the launch of an exclusive music campaign with international multi-million selling artist, Dido, via the Nectar Music Store.
- Palestinian students In Gaza prevented from pursuing studies
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Friends of Humanity International calls on the Egyptian authorities to resolve the dilemma of the Palestinians students who are studying abroad and all those besieged in the Gaza Strip.
- Listes de surveillance et dinterdiction de vol les voyageurs invites a faire connaitre leur histoire
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Les personnes qui soupconnent avoir ete ciblees injustement ou erronement par la liste dinterdiction de vol (no-fly) ou toute autre liste gouvernementale sont invitees a temoigner de leurs experiences dans le cadre dun projet de recher
- Walls Triumph Over Bridges
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Israel blocks foreign health professionals from attending a conference in Gaza to discuss the health impacts of Israel's ongoing blockade of Gaza.
- Wanted: participants to tell their travel stories about being caught on no-fly lists and border watch lists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) is collecting stories of people who have been detained or prohibited from travelling as part of a national research project on the surveillance of travellers.
- Federal election results online at Parliamentary Names & Numbers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Parliamentary Names & Numbers, the directory of Canada's federal and provincial governments, has now been updated with the results of the October 14 federal election.
- The God That Failed
The 30-Year Lie of the Market Cult
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Perhaps the most striking fact revealed by the global financial crash -- or rather, by the reaction to it -- is the staggering, astonishing, gargantuan amount of money that the governments of the world have at their command. In just a matter of days, we have seen literally trillions of dollars offered to the financial services sector by national treasuries and central banks across the globe.
- Author says Canadians should stop worrying about the markets and start worrying about the real problem: their own toxic debt.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Robert Abboud, a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and author of the book, No Regrets, A Common Sense Guide to Achieving and Affording Your Life Goals wants to get th message out Canadians need to worry a lot more about their own finances.
- Celebrate life, not death, this Thanksgiving
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals is encouraging Canadians to celebrate life, not death, this Thanksgiving by trying Tofurky, a tofu-based product.
- Revolutionary Acne Treatment
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
cosMEDicare is well known for introducing leading edge technologies, such as introducing ACCENT XL to North America for cellulite reduction and face contouring. Other services include LASER treatments, BOTOX and Restylane injections .
- Global College hosts Legal Empowerment of the Poor conference
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Free conference in Winnipeg in November is open to the public, devoted to Legal Empowerment of the Poor.
- If you liked Mike Harris you'll love Stephen Harper with a majority
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Vote for Environment
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Unless those of us who care about the environment work together across party lines, the pro-environment vote will be split as it was in the last election and Harper will be re-elected.
- World of Wheels magazine celebrates 25 years
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
World of Wheels magazine published by Formula Media Group celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, a remarkable feat in the highly competitive world of auto magazines on both sides of the border
- Austerity Britain, 1945-1951
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A review of the period immediately after World War Two in Britain illustrating the measures taken to rebuild the country and its economy.
- The Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation (CALA) celebrates a new name and a new mandate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation Inc. (CALA) celebrates a new name and mandate. 74 Canadian laboratories will be presented with the documents that formally recognise their demonstrated competence between 6 and 10 October 2008.
- Popular training strategies actually decrease job performance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Most attempts to improve employee performance just do nott work, says Dr. Richard Clark, of the University of Southern California. He will reveal how to make training efforts more successful at the CSTD annual conference on October 16.
- A Biological Walk Down Wall Street
Economics, Symbiosis and Parasitoids
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Wall Street today, with the collapse of Freddie Mac, Fanny Mae, AIG, Lehmann Brothers, Washington Mutual and the rest as to come, is highly reminiscent of that scene in "Alien" (Ridley Scott, 1979) where the parasite begins to burst out. The host is the free market. Feeding the parasitoid more, in sense of allowing it to nourish on public funds as new host, will have the same denouement, only this time the host will not just be a particular market, but the whole market, and the society reliant upon it.
- RIAA v The People Five Years Later
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
On September 8, 2003, the recording industry sued 261 American music fans for sharing songs on peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, kicking off an unprecedented legal campaign against the people that should be the recording industry’s best customers: music fans. Five years later, the recording industry has filed, settled, or threatened legal actions against at least 30,000 individuals.
- "Just Say No!" to the Robin Hood-in-Reverse Bailout
And What to Do Instead
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The reverse Robin Hood deal to bail out the rich cannot be allowed to stand. It's time to take to the streets.
- Creatures of habit and adventurous spirits
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Have you heard the one about the negligent official and the obtuse columnist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
When people die as a consequence of your failures, joking about it just isn't on.
- Lung Association calls on party leaders to talk about environment and lung Health
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Lung Association today called on federal political parties to spend this week of the election campaign debating the health effects of dirty air.
- The Manitoba Down Syndrome Society Hosts First Annual Buddy Walk
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Manitoba Down Syndrome Society (MDSS) will host their 1st Annual Buddy Walk, September 28 at the Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) North Campus, 500 Shaftesbury Blvd.
- Help put lung health on the agenda of federal leaders debate
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Lung Association today called on Canadians to help get lung health of the agenda at the 2008 English-language Leaders Debate, slated for Thursday October 2nd..
- This election, vote for action on lung health: Lung Association: Association launches nationwide election effort to put lung health on the priority li
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Lung Association today launched its cross-Canada election effort designed to raise awareness of lung disease during the course of the federal election.
- Conservative Party Announcement on Cigarillos and Tobacco Product Marketing Good News for Canadians: Lung Association
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Lung Association was pleased today by the Conservative Party of Canada announcement that, if elected, they would move to crackdown on cigarillos and tobacco product marketing.
- The OIC does not speak for Muslims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Tarek Fatah says that "To suggest that any criticism of Islamism, the political ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Ayatollahs, is anti-Islamic is a bogus and fraudulent position. I would contend that my religion Islam demands that I stand up to these bullies and take away from their right to put padlocks on poetry and chastity belts on independent thinking."
- Billy Graham and David Mainse Recognized for their Lifetimes of Integrity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
An association of 3,000 Canadian Christian ministries will recognize Billy Graham (represented by grandson Will Graham) and David Mainse for lifetimes of personal and organizational integrity. Coast Plaza Hotel, Calgary AB Sept 24, 8pm.
- Campaign for Freedom of Expression
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
CFI Canada isl inaugurating the Campaign for Free Expression, an ongoing series of events, activities and political initiatives in support of freedom of inquiry, thought and expression.
- Composting Council of Canada 18th Annual National Conference
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Composting Council of Canada is holding its 18th Annual National Conference.
- Death becomes rallying cry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Paul Croutch, a homeless man who was beaten to death by army reservists was remembered by his friends yesterday at the same spot he lost his life three years ago.
- The Lung Cancer Journalism Awards present a unique opportunity for journalists to demonstrate their expertise and knowledge of lung cancer
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Lung Cancer Journalism Awards present a unique opportunity for journalists to demonstrate their expertise and knowledge of lung cancer through accurate and thought-provoking reporting.
- Lung Association working to make lung health federal election priority
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
This week The Lung Association will launch a national campaign to empower Canadians to advocate for action on lung health. Please visit www.lung.ca on Thursday for more details and make your voice heard.
- Submersion Journalism
Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Stories from journalists integrating into the cultures they are reporting on.
- The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end. The dispossession of the Palestinians must be fully acknowledged and Israel must reach out to embrace the full rights of Palestinians to nationhood and viability. Only then will the nightmare end that is the reality of the Palestinian people living in the Occupied Territories and the refugee camps. And only with that can there be any hope for a real peace.
- The Evil of the Lesser Evil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Lesser-evilism as a progressive strategy has succeeded -- succeeded in making American politics progressively more and more right-wing.
- At the Nuclear Precipice
Catastrophe or Transformation?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
This book explores the present nuclear predicament, and how to step away from the precipice. It examines the intersections between international law and national policies; and between nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism and nuclear disarmament.
- Hip Digital Media launches Nectar Digital Music Store
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Hip Digital Media, the leading consumer experience network, and Nectar, the UK's leading loyalty card, today announced the launch of the Nectar Digital Music Store.
- Human quicksand for the U.S. Army, a crash course in cultural studies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
“Culture” has become the latest buzzword in military circles—in the Pentagon’s 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review, “cultural awareness” is placed on a par with “kinetic effects,” i.e., those produced by bullets and bombs, as tools for winning “this long war.” The Human Terrain Teams are the vanguard in amassing this arsenal of awareness. Their mission is to learn something, finally, about the people whom the U.S. military has committed itself to defend or to kill.
- Contaminated Meat, Contaminated Water: From Walkerton to Listeria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The current listeria outbreak has the feel of deja vu all over again. Once again, we are hearing about companies and industry associations lobbying for fewer inspections and less 'interference', and about a compliant right-wing government only too eager to give them what they want.
- Listeria Outbreak Alarms Walkerton Survivors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Governments should have learned from the mistakes that led to the tragedy in Walkerton. Food security and public safety should never be placed on the chopping block in the name of cost cutting.
- Dark Days
The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
An exposé of Canadian national security investigations, Kerry Pither's Dark Days exposes a disturbing record of human-rights abuses, both at home and abroad, and ultimately questions our notion of the "Just Society".
- Canadian organic farmers having trouble keeping up with demand
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Demand for locally grown organic food is on the rise across the country. People are finding out what real food tastes like. After you've sampled an organic tomato or carrot or tasted an organically raised free range chicken direct from a local farm.
- Toronto homeless sell hate propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Canadian Down Syndrome Society Concerned With Targeting Persons With Developmental Disabilities in Tropic Thunder 'Mockumentary'
News Release August 14, 2008
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Illness cost of air pollution underscores need for lung health action plan: The Lung Association
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The National Illness Cost of Air Pollution (ICAP) study, released today by the Canadian Medical Association, is clear evidence that action is required on air pollution and that a national strategy for lung health is needed now more than ever.
- Jewish International Opposition Statement Against Attack on Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
We seek security for all concerned by affirming the right of all to security. While we lend no credibility to the prospect of an inevitable conflict, we nonetheless object to the hysteria promoted by the Iran-bashers who are now desperate in their repeated false starts to create another unnecessary war. The attempt to oblige Iran to comply with Security Council resolutions loses its legal, diplomatic and political force as the United States and Israel consistently ignore UN diplomacy and World Court decisions, relevant to the question of Palestine. We call upon all opposed to a military confrontation with Iran to write their governmental representatives demanding that the State of Israel subject its nuclear facilities to international inspection and sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) as has Iran, rather than issue threats of war.
- Inclusao ou Exclusao?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Enqanto isso acontece, nós vamos preferir acreditar que as "comunidades étnicas" nao tem interesse nenhum em tais assuntos e nenhuma posiçao na luta que está sendo travada em volta deles?
- Inclusión o exclusion?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Inclusion or exclusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
- Inclusion or Exclusion - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Inclusion or Exclusion - Chinese Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Inclusion or Exclusion? - Farsi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
- Inclusion or Exclusion - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Inclusione o Esclusione?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Integracja czy wykluczenie?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Integration oder Ausgrenzung?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Intégration ou Marginalisation?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Postmodernism: Paralysed by postmodernism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A great deal of "theory" in the humanities and social sciences -- and not just postmodern theory -- involves the creating of a kind of conceptual landscape filled with curious kinds of abstract objects -- "language", "power", "justice", "state", "culture", "government", "the polity", "the economy" and a host of others, which are viewed "theoretically" from somewhere way "outside" or "above" them. But it is just this way of looking at things -- from "on high" -- that makes it so difficult to see how people in the landscape are able to create and re-create the world in which they live, and are not simply trapped or formed by it. In fashionable postmodernist treatments of identity or subjectivity, language, as the ultimately hollow and imprisoning object, is put together with the notion that anybody who uses words must be committed to the standard definition of those words, to produce the conclusion that "language" determines the meaning of "identity" words such as man, woman, gay, straight, black, white, natural, normal -- and thus "constructs" (as it is said) human identity or subjectivity itself.
- Free speech for me - you shut up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
- The Lung Association welcomes fines levied against tobacco industry
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The $1.15 billion in fines levied against the tobacco industry by the federal and provincial governments is good news. It underscores the need to hold the tobacco industry to account for the tactics they use against Canadians.
- Kvutza reunion will recall 'much-loved camp'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Camp Kvutza reunion will take place at Bialik Hebrew Day School 2760 Bathurst St., on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008, at 1 p.m. The Kvutza organizing committee chose the school because that's where the original Habonim Labour Zionist offices were housed, and because "every summer the campers gathered in the Viewmount parking lot to board the buses that took us to re-congregate with our friends at our much-loved camp," Fromstein said.
- Exposing Bush's historic abuse of power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Salon has uncovered new evidence of post-9/11 spying on Americans. Obtained documents point to a potential investigation of the White House that could rival Watergate.
- One Wild Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- The race debate: nothing to do with race
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Genetic differences are not the same as racial differences. Race divides human beings into a small set of discrete groups, defined usually by skin colour, appearance, or descent, sees each group as possessing a fixed set of traits and abilities and regards the differences between these groups as the defining feature of humanity. None of these ideas make scientific sense. But if the idea of race doesn't make scientific sense, why have scientists suddenly become so keen to talk about racial categories? They haven't. What they have done is become much more adept at defining genetic differences between populations.
- Mistaken Identity
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Historically, antiracists challenged both the practice of racism and the process of racialisation; that is, both the practice of discriminating against people by virtue of their race and the insistence that an individual can be defined by the group to which he or she belongs. Today's multiculturalists argue that to fight racism one must celebrate group identity. The consequence has been the resurrection of racial ideas and the imprisonment of people within their cultural identities. Racial theorists and multiculturalists, the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut observes, have 'conflicting credos but the same vision of the world'. Both fetishise difference. Both seek to 'confine individuals to their group of origin'. Both undermine 'any possibility of natural or cultural community among peoples'. Challenging such a politics of difference has become as important today as challenging racism.
- Why both sides are wrong in the race debate
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
For all the talk about culture as fluid and changing, multiculturalism, no less than old-fashioned racism, invariably leads people to think of human groups in fixed terms.
- Law and the wives of others
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
How does a modern, plural democratic society deal with the desire of some minority groups to observe cultural norms at odds with the law of the land?
- This Land Is Their Land
Reports from a Divided Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A look at the effects of corporate Americ on the general populace, pointing out the tactic of side-tracking those who would protest onto more superficial issues.
- Master's student earns top marks for dissent
University of Toronto rabble rouser graduates in a gown of protest- but still faces criminal charges from a sit in gone wrong
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Groups Call for Complete Restoration of Court Challenges Program
News Release June 19, 2008
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- International Accreditation Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Critical decisions that rely on accurate laboratory tests are made hundreds of times each day throughout Canada and the world. Accreditation provides the assurance that the analytical test reports are reliable and that they conform to requirements.
- Lady Martha's story - Deutsch
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Lady Martha's story
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Lady Martha's story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Normally, I delete the spam that gets past the filter into my mailbox as quickly as anyone. Tempting though it might be to realize my innermost fantasies of losing weight and getting a degree in any field I choose while having my breasts augmented and my penis enlarged, it never quite seems like the right moment to go for it.
- Lady Martha's story - Deutsch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Lady Martha's story - Japanese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Pakistan Government fails to protect basic human rights of Ahmadis yet again
Sources News Release June 11, 2008
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Proof that leprechauns exist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
One David Berlinski, of whose existence I was blissfully unaware until a few days ago, has written a book attacking atheism and science. It appears he doesn't think it’s very nice that atheists dismiss religious beliefs as illogical and unsupported by evidence.
- Majority of Canadians unfamiliar with the Air Quality Index: Lung Association survey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Clean air is important to everyone's good health, yet only one-third of Canadians are familiar with the Air Quality Index, according to survey results released today by The Lung Association.
- From the people who rescued the victims of Hurricane Katrina...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The United States – so the media report – has accused the Burmese government of “criminal neglect” in its response to the recent cyclone. The accusation is undoubtedly true, and the U.S. government is certainly splendidly qualified when it comes to recognizing criminal neglect. Still, the chutzpah is enough to turn one’s stomach.
- Dr. Mimi Divinsky
Obituary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Mimi’s family chose these words for her tombstone: "Her goodness made the world a better place." There are so many stories of how Mimi's goodness made the world a better place -- if you Google Mimi Divinsky you will discover some of them, though she would never have told you about them herself -- her work for the homeless, the poor and hungry, for those who have been sexually assaulted, and for the Medical Reform Group.
- Facebook Facts
Finding Friends and Foes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Unions and workers are making much use of the latest web fad: social networking sites. But are sites like Facebook really adding anything to our ability to organize? If yes, how, exactly? And where are the pitfalls in using online commercial sites for organizing?
- US: Private Food Safety Labs Hide Negative Tests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Some private U.S. laboratories are under investigation by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for withholding samples of tainted food and allowing importers to continue to bring their contaminated products into the U.S.
- The Lung Association calls for improved support to help smokers butt out for good
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Based on the results of its new report entitled "Making Quit Happen: Canada's Challenges to Smoking Cessation", The Lung Association is calling for universally accessible smoking cessation supports for all smokers living in Canada.
- Two Years Later in Oaxaca
Commentary from Oaxaca
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A sketch of what has changed since the brutal repression of the 2006 social movement’s five month control of the city of Oaxaca.
- Insurrection & Organisation
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
An attempt to analyze the role of insurrection in the class struggle, in relation to the problem of revolutionary organization.
- Speech at Dr. Khan's Talk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Health Care Professionals In Canada Join with PHR-Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Canadian health care professionals are linking with Physicians for Human Rights - Isreal to support their work in struggling and advocating for human rights, in particular the right to health, for people both in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
- Webster in U.S. jail on charges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- The single-state solution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Bringing about a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians have equal rights will not be easy, but ultimately it is the only solution to the conflict. A state based on respect for the human rights of all its citizens is a better safeguard against anti-Semitism and racism than one based on ethnic nationalism and inequality.
- UK press targets middle India
Associated's Mail Today is one of many British titles targeting the growing market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
International publishing groups have recently rushed to publish and market Indian versions of their publications. They are taking advantage of the booming market the growing middle class demographic has created and the recent elimination of restrictions on foreign ownership of national media.
- Comparing evils
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Al-Qaeda is willing to kill large numbers of innocent people, including children, in pursuit of its goals, and the U.S. is willing to kill large numbers of innocent people, including children, in pursuit of its goals. By what standard of morality are they not morally equivalent?
- Jason Kenney uses fake Down's Syndrome suicide bombers story to try to discredit Dallaire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Luxemburg's discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in 'all its hideous nakedness.' This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
- First, Do No Harm: A Doctor's Experience of Life Under Israeli Occupation
News Release May 9, 2008
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Edward Said's shadowy legacy
Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies.
- Indexing for Editors and Authors
A Practical Guide to Understanding Indexes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A guide to indexing and indexing practices. Applicable to all levels, from beginner to seasoned professional.
- 62% of Canadians with asthma suffer when air quality poor: Lung Association survey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A new survey released today by The Lung Association shows that more than half of Canadians with asthma notice that their breathing gets worse on smoggy days, yet few know the range of steps they can take to protect their breathing.
- Spies for Hire
The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2009
According to investigative journalist Tim Shorrock, the CIA and other American intelligence agencies now have more contractors working for them than they do spies of their own. Often former staff hired back at double or triple their former government salaries, these private contractors do everything from fighting in Afghanistan to interrogating prisoners, aiming spy satellites and supervising secret agents. Shorrock gives a comprehensive rundown of the players in the industry.
- Press for Conversion #62
May 2008
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) helped overthrow the democratically-elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2004. In the years prior to this US-led regime change, although Aristide and his Lavalas government were extremely popular among the country's poor citizens, CIDA drastically cut bilateral aid. CIDA then poured millions into extremely partisan Haitian groups that represented the interests of Haiti's corporate elite.
- Authors denounce Tesco over Thai defamation cases
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Nick Hornby and other leading British authors accuse Tesco of mounting a "disproportionate" legal response to criticism over its operations in Thailand.
- A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
- The Lion and the Gazelle
On Jewish History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
If we, the Israelis, want to consolidate our nation, we have to free ourselves from the myths that belong to another form of existence and re-define our national history. We must recognize the difference between myth and history, between religion and nation, between a Diaspora and a state, in order to find our place in the region in which we live and develop a normal relationship with the neighboring peoples.
- "The struggle of memory against forgetting"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
This excellent address by filmmaker and journalist John Pilger reminds us all of an uncomfortable truth - that all the great breakthroughs in history, like the end of apartheid in South Africa, happened because ordinary people fought for it.
- Slumming in Kenya's back streets
A young TV crew is chronicling a life of dirt, violence and hope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Slum TV is a group of young people from Mathare, one of the slums of Kenya, who chronicle life in their community during times of peace and unrest.
- High Wire
The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The author shows how the burden of financial risk has been transferred from government, employers, and insurance companies on to the shoulders on individuals and families.
- A Journey from Satire to Legal Suite to Defense of Democratic Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
An account of CanWest's lawsuit arising out of a parody satirizing the Vancouver Sun's biased reporting on Israel and Palestine.
- Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
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First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
- Loser Take All
Election Fraud and The Subversion of Democracy, 2000 - 2008
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The U.S. election system is a shambles, run by private corporations with a partisan agenda, and largely based on a technology that anyone can rig.
- Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
An analysis of the 2006 Oaxaca rebellion and its contradictions. Its diversity encompassed workers, indigenous groups, Stalinists, anarchists and others. Its weapons and tactics included general assemblies, strikes, barricades, mirrors and fireworks.
- If I Can't Dance ....
Why is the Left So Boring?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Rovics asks, why is so much of the left in the US so attached to being so dreadfully boring? Why do so many people on the left apparently have no appreciation for the power and importance of culture? And when organizers, progressive media and others on the left do acknowledge culture, why is it usually kept on the sidelines?
- Where has all the rage gone?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on.
- Of National Lies and Racial America
Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
To some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that "everything changed." To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life.
- "On the Record" but Off the Track
A Review of the Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on The Future of Bibliographic Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Israeli Deaths Matter More
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The reality is that by devoting disproportionate coverage to Israeli deaths over Palestinian deaths, the BBC's claims to 'impartial' reporting are simply demolished. With great consistency, lives in the 'Third World' are presented as being of far less importance than those who are 'like us'.
- The Polish March: students, workers, and 1968
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The first student uprising in 1968, year of millennial hopes and young insurrections, took place in Warsaw. But the west's media commemorations of 1968 - selective, supercilious about such idealism, and yet faintly nervous in case a new generation feels tempted into imitation - overlook Poland entirely.
- Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Advice and technical tips for the best way to launch a blog and how to get round online censorship. It includes an explanation of how to blog anonymously and contains articles by bloggers, particularly in Egypt and Burma.
- Israeli minister threatens "holocaust" as public demand ceasefire talks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Israel's deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai has threatened Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with a "holocaust." The comments came a day after Israeli occupation forces killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, one a six-month-old baby, in a series of air raids across the Gaza Strip.
- The Water Cure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A look back at the use of the torture method known as the 'water cure', which was employed by the United States on citizens of the Philippines during its occupation at the turn of the century. The article specifically examines the subsequent investigation, trial and testimonies, as well as the moral and political implications during this period.
- Criticism not disloyal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Support for Palestinian rights thus need not come at the expense of concern for Israelis - in fact, advocating changes to Israeli policies that perpetuate war, anger, and resistance is the truest promotion of Israelis' well-being.
- Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Subprime mortgage crisis explained. John Bird and John Fortune (the Long Johns) brilliantly, and accurately, describing the mindset of the investment banking community in this satirical interview.
- The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
- The Stasi could only dream of such data
Britain, the birthplace of liberalism, has become the database state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
As technology increases the flow of stored data about individual actions, assurances of the "right to informational self-determination" must be hard won from governments. Government surveillance of citizens has become an accepted 'counter-terrorism' measure.
- 'Creative Destruction' - The Madness of the Global Economy - Part 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The dominant system of economics is unstable, inimical to social justice and lethally damaging to the environmental support systems on which we all depend. A major failure in professional journalism has been the refusal to analyse this; or even to report that real growth rates in the developed world have been declining since the 1970s.
- Creative Destruction: The Madness of the Global Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The current system of economics, particularly the latest stage of 'turbo-capitalism', known inoffensively as 'neoliberalism', is built upon painful boom-and-bust cycles fuelled by corporate greed and maintained by cynical deception of the public. The costs to the planet - in terms of human suffering and environmental collapse - are staggering.
- Internationally acclaimed quartet to perform at Villa Fairwind; Concerts a tribute to Karl Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The late Karl Diemer is still bringing classical music to western Newfoundland two years after his death. His widow Roberte is welcoming the internationally acclaimed Fitzwilliam String Quartet to the west coast to play for the Humber Valley Chamber Music Society. It will be a tribute to Mr. Diemer, who was the driving force behind the concerts between 1997 and 2005.
- What Happened to the Streetcars?
Killed by General Motors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The history of how car companies bought up and destroyed public transit systems in the first half the the twentieth century to eliminate alternatives to the automobile.
- Capitalism is still in dreamland
Despite the markets' excesses, policymakers think they are in control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Reporting on the World Economic Forum 2008, the author finds the IMF's suggestion to cut taxes and interest to be perpetuating the myth that the crises is one of liquidity rather than solvency.
- Why the US has really gone broke
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
There is an enormous anomaly in the U.S. economy above and beyond the subprime mortgage crisis, the housing bubble and the prospect of recession: 60 years of misallocation of resources, and borrowings, to the establishment and maintenance of a military-industrial complex as the basis of the nation's economic life.
- White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
White Cargo is the story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies.
- 'It's like bombing the Louvre'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Marie Smith Jones was the world's last Eyak speaker - by the time she died last week, she could use her mother tongue only in her dreams. But the loss of a language is not just a personal tragedy, it is a cultural disaster
- Margaret Somerville's yucky logic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
This past week, on the twentieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Morgentaler decision invalidating the existing abortion law, Dr. Somerville has offered up her thoughts on abortion, which she also opposes. Dr. Somerville claims that the 'yuck reaction' some people feel when contemplating abortion is evidence that abortion violates our innate "moral instinct".
- The Moronic Sport: ORVs on Public Lands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
I do not accept the premise that abuse of our lands is something that we must tolerate as inevitable. It is our land. It is our children's land, and their children's land. We have a responsibility to pass these lands on to the next generation in better condition than we found them.
Talking about promoting 'responsible' ORV use is like suggesting we ought to promote "responsible wife abuse" or "responsible child abuse."
- Power to the (Palestinian) People!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
I am not a Palestinian; I am not one of the oppressed. I only hope I can use my privilege in an effective way in order to redeem the gift the people of Gaza have given all of us: the realization that the people do have power and can prevail even in the face of overwhelming power. We may each express our responsibility towards the people of Gaza in whatever way most suits us, but as the privileged we must do something.
- Leader and Vassal
Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
- The Cult of Statistical Significance
How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
An analysis of how modern testing has fixed on statistical significance as the benchmark of significance, often to the detriment of the relevant significance. Basically, statistical significance focuses on whether A has an effect on B, without considering how large the effect is, nor in relation to C or D that also have an effect on B.
- Australia's 'stolen' children get apology but no cash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The stolen generations were Aboriginal children - mainly mixed race - who were removed from their families and sent to institutions or adopted into white families during the last century. Some children were snatched from their mother's arms, others were taken under the guise of court orders.
- CIA whistleblower was a spy who never came in from the cold
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Obituary of Philip Agee a CIA operative for twelve years, during which time he was posted throughout Latin America. He questioned the company's alignement with the military dictatorships of the region and defected, writing a tell all book and exposing CIA operatives.
- Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The History of SDS as You've Never Seen It Before. Captures the idealism and activism that drove a generation of young Americans to try to transform the world.
- Remember the '80s
Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The history of 1980s activism deserves to be remembered and studied by those fighting for change today.It always helps to have a fuller view of the past, to figure out what to keep and what to discard.
- War Crimes Airbrushed from History
Evidence of Israeli "Cowardly Blending" Comes to Light
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A report written by a respected Israeli human rights organisation, one representing the country's Arab minority not its Jewish majority, has unearthed evidence showing that during the 2006 Lenanon war Israel committed war crimes not only against Lebanese civilians -- as was already known -- but also against its own Arab citizens.
- Aboriginalism and the Problems of Indigenous Archealogy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Article in American Antiquity, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Oct., 2008), pp. 579-597 (19 pages).
- Aborigines & Activisim
Race, Aborigines & the Coming of the Sixties to Australia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Access Denied
The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information -- often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion -- that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries.
- The Angel of Grozny
Inside Chechnya
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Defense of Palestinian Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- At a Fork in the Road
A Debriefing on the RCP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Ballast
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Banner Photoshop Tutorial
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A tutorial showing you how to create a banner in Photoshop and then animate it in Image ready.
- Beyond Homelessness
Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Beyond Homelessness looks at the socioeconomic, ecological and spiritual dimensions of homelessness. Going further than seeing housing as being bricks and mortar the authors see it as a search for belonging, identity and security. They argue that if we see the world as holy instead of earth as home and we understand the Gospels, faith will heal the disharmony in which we have mired ourselves.
- Bitterly Divided
The South's Inner Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Historian David Williams lays bare the myth of a united confederacy, revealing that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars — an external one that we know so much about and an internal one about which there is scant literature and virtually no public awareness.
- Black Balloon
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Black Hat SEO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Google makes it clear that it disapproves of certain SEO tactics, such as hiding keywords with invisible text, or showing one page to Google's spider and another to actual human visitors. Methods that conform to what the search engines like are called White Hat SEO, and disapproved methods are called Black Hat SEO.
- The Blackest Streets
The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A documentary, based on the book Blue Gold, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, which examines environmental and political implications of the planet's dwindling water supply, and posits that wars in the future will be fought over water. The film also highlights some success stories of water activists around the world and makes a strong case for community action.
- Bookworms Rejoice
Digital deal paves the way for online access
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Google and the US book industry struck a deal to sell digitized books online and distribute royalties to their authors and publishers through a third party.
- Bottomfeeder
How the Fish on Our Plates is Killing the Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Chasing a Mirage
The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
- Comintern
Revolutionary Internationalism in Lenin's Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Confronting the Climate Change Crisis
An Ecosocialist Perspective
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2008
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - English text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Connexions (full name Connexions Information Sharing Services) is the central online library and archive for Canada's movements for social change. The non-profit project also maintains a comprehensive directory of Canadian associations and NGOs.
- Creating a Sense of Belonging
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Social inclusion isn't rearranging chairs on the Titanic. It's building a new vessel, says Uzma Shakir.
- Cuba in a Time of Transition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- The Cult of Statistical Significance
How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Decolonization and Empire
Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
John Saul scrutinizes the subjects of empire and the new neocolonialist states of Southern Africa funded by the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization and World Bank. The gap between rich and poor continues to grow as the unequal opportunities and material outcomes of the free market entrench themselves. This hierarchy is in part self-creating and self-sustaining but also locked into place by these international institutions.
- Defiant Publics
The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Drache says that the new communications technologies of the contemporary information revolution are permitting new forms of transnational communication that are creating global consciousness and global citizenship.
- The Dismal Science
How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Drop till you shop
I insert my vision of retail subversion one haiku at a time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The author experiments with the culture jamming practice of shopdropping, leaving poems, polaroids, stickers, and other manner of messages for shoppers. This is designed to lead to a moment of incongruity for shoppers to reflect on consumerism.
- Economics for Everyone
A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Edible Action
Food Activism and Alternative Economics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Elaine Farragher's Website
The Art of Elaine Farragher
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- The End of Poverty?
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Today, global poverty has reached new levels because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries exploiting the weaknesses of poor, developing countries.
- An end to Balkan national states
Independence for Kosovo: The Domino Effect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
If the Kosovo region declares indepence from Serbia, how will ethnic communities agitate to have the borders of Balkan countries redrawn to reflect and include their ethnic makeups? Will this only further the Balkan legacy of nationalist revenge and retaliation?
- Fascinating insights on political communications
Book Review of 'Political Columns: Behind the Scenes with Powerful People'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Bonner approaches each subject, some as a scientist, as he does when examining the first televised debate between Nixon and Kennedy, but ultimately as an artist who knows that there is much more to communication than the mechanics. He knows how to deliver a clear message and to make it believable.
- FLOW
For Love of Water
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A critical expose of the privatization of water infrastructure. 'Flow' confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.
- For the Land!
Roots and Revolutionary Dynamics of Indigenous Struggles in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- From Resistance to Power!
Manifestos of the Fight for Indigenous Rights in Central and South America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- The Global Gang Thang
A World of Change: Armed Young Men and Gansta Culture (Globalization and Community)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Guantanamo North
Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
After September 11, 2001, Canadian governments made significant changes to the law so that non-citizens with suspected links to terrorism could be held indefinitely with no due process. The Courts held that these and other changes including "judicial interrogations" and "convictions for terrorism without intent" are consistent with the Charter of Rights. The range of state secrecy extends now to everything related to national security. Diab contends that these measures are unnecessary and contrary to human rights and freedom.
- Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for
themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries
in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of
private corporations.
- A Hard Rain Fell
SDS and Why it failed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- The 'Honor' Killing of Aqsa Parvez
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Feminists and reformist left have for the most part met the spate of 'honour' killings within Canada with disgraceful silence.
- How to Avoid Action on Climate Change
The fine art of greenwash in Canadian politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- How to Transform Your Business Into Gold
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The key to transforming your business into gold is to take massive action with absolute clarity and absolute certainty. As you do, you will witness the transformation of your business before your very eyes!
- HTO
Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A collection of essays on Toronto's water and watershed, ranging from burying streams to storm sewers and rainwater harvesting.
- Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Hungry City details the transformation of the food industry and it's not so benevolent impact on humanity. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the by-products of a system that is characterized by over consumption in one part of the world and starvation in others. Output and the complex international infrastructure that supports are controlled by profit. Steel also documents how production of food is controlled by fewer companies accountable to no one but themselves. Her examples include the following: 90% of milk in the United States comes from one breed of cow; the same proportion of commercial eggs from a single breed of hen; British supermarkets have reduced the 2000 varieties of apples down to two. The food chain becomes vulnerable to disease, contamination or terrorism. As well as a guide to the the history of the food chain from farm to plate to landfill it is also a warning on the waste and destruction of our current food systems.
- Identity is that which is given
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
In this age of globalisation many people fret about Western culture taking over the world. But the greatest Western export is not Disney or McDonalds or Tom Cruise. It is the very idea of culture.
- If I Am Not For Myself
Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
In a journey through family memory and leftwing history, Marqusee introduces us to Jewish heretics and heroes. In proudly reclaiming the Jewish radical tradition, he reminds us that cultures are not the exclusive franchises of nation-states, and that Zionists and anti-semites share the same sinister, racialized concept of group identity.
- Image Power: Top Image Experts Share What to Know to Look Your Best
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Kimberly Law, AICI CIP was selected as one of the top image experts for the book ‘Image Power’. Image Power is the key ingredient to building confidence, making a great impression and getting what you want, every time. More savvy and sophistication are yours with the insider insights of the top image experts. With Image Power, you can be your best everyday!
- Imagining Anne
The Island Scrapbooks of L. M. Montgomery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Gabor Mate looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and outlines what he thinks is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours.
- Interview with Natalie Zemon Davis
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Israel and the Clash of Civilisations
Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Cook examines Israel’s key role in persuading the Bush administration to invade Iraq, as part of a plan to remake the Middle East, and their joint determination to isolate Iran and prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons that might rival Israel’s own.
- An Israeli in Palestine
Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Jeff Halper's book is, in part, the story of the evolution of a "white moderate" peace campaigner from Hibbing, Minnesota, to a radical Israeli campaigner for justice for the Palestinians.
- It makes economic sense to kill people
Britain's approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are the more yours is worth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A study of the economics of climate compares the costs of halting runaway climate changewith the costs of inaction. The "costs" of climate change are calculated in part by calculating the reduction in consumption that would result from death and disease in the third world. Monbiot challenges the ethics of this economic model.
- Killing Hope
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
- Laila's Birthday. (Eid milad Laila)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Lemon Tree
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- The Liberal Defence of Murder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A searching examination of the influence of the "pro-war Left" on US foreign policy.
- La "libertad de expresión", siempre y cuando no ofenda a nadie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Locking Up Our Own
Crime and Punishment in Black America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- The Magna Carta Manifesto
Liberties and Commons for All
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Linebaugh shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny -- and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture -- are being abridged. In providing a sweeping history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215, this book demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly laid aside when the greed of privatization, the lust for power, and the ambition of empire seize a state.
- The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
- Maps and Legends
Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Mining Town Crisis
Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Model scientists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
In contrast to the plethora of day-to-day conversations on how to fit into the
administrators directives, this essay provides a historical context, particularly though its extensive bibliography, to encourage today's biologists to question authority and question nature.
- The Nakba
Why Israel's birth was Palestine's catastrophe and what's the solution?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- The Oaxaca Commune
The Other Indigenous Rebellion in Mexico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- The October Crisis of 1970
Human Rights Abuses Under the War Measures Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Published in Journal of Canadian studies, 42.2 (Spring 2008)
- On Kindness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships — from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory.
- The Orgins of the British New left in 1968 in Europe
A History of Protest and Activisim, 1956 - 1977
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Otherwise
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Mowat's memoirs covering the years 1937 to 1948.
- Our Spirits Don't Speak English
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A documentary film about the Native American boarding schools.
- Paradise Lost at Sea
Rethinking Cruise Vacations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Klein's book looks at the hidden realities of cruise ships. The cruise lines prefers to keep some of the ugly truths from media scrutiny: cruise ship safety, sexual assaults, onboard crime and injury and death from accidents at sea. He also questions their claims of environmental protection and its impact on local communities to protect their marine nature. Further exposed are the health risks and medical care and the dark side of life below deck. He concludes by summarizing the issues and challenges that must be faced by all who use curise ships.
- Photoshop in a Weekend
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Picture This
Posters of social movements in Québec (1966 - 2007)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A collection of posters which offer a veritable journey through Quebec’s social history and political imagination of the past four decades.
- Pierre Berton
A Biography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Plowshares into Swords
From Zionism to Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
An authoritative history of Zionism and Israel.
- Privacy
A Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Sofsky attributes loss of privacy not only to technology and fear but also our indifference.
- Racial divisions
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The debate about race is not about whether genetic differences exist between human populations, but about the significance of such differences.
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Real Utopia
Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
- Reasoning Otherwise
Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada 1890 - 1920
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Examines the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920, and highlights how a new way of looking at the world based on theories of evolution transformed struggles around class, religion, gender, and race, and culminates in a new interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
- Rebranding Fascism: National-Anarchists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
On the organizational and intellectual history of national anarchism.
- Reinterrogating the Classical Marxist Discourses of Revolutionary Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Marik attempts to re-examine the "common sense" claim that Marxism had been an authoritarian political theory and practice.
- Renewing Socialism
Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Research is Ceremony
Indigenous Research Methods
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Wilson describes a research paradigm shared by indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice.
- Responsible Polyamory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- The Returns of Zionism
Myths, Politics and Scholarship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Leading Israeli scholar with a major re-evaluation of Zionist ideology and literature.
- Rhetoric for Radicals
A Handbook for Twenty-first Century Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Activists often suffer from a credibility gap because of their lack of coherent message and strategic delivery. Rhetoric for Radicals addresses and helps solve these problems. It provides the tools to develop the all-important communication skills necessary to be effectively heard.
- Roads to Quoz
An American Mosey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A 16,000-mile mosey in search of "quoz": the strange, incongruous, and peculiar things that connect us with existence.
- Selling Skills for Contemporary Professionals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Traditional sales training and for that matter, all learning and development is reinventing itself.
- Servizi di condivisione dell'informazione Connexions
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Connexions (nome intero Servizi di condivisione dell'informazione Connexion [Connexions Information Sharing Services]) è la biblioteca centrale online e l'archivio dei movimenti per i cambiamenti sociali del Canada.
- 7 Rituals to Improve Life and Business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Rituals give life meaning and help us celebrate milestones in our lives. They offer security, stability and routine and a sense of calmness to an otherwise chaotic existence.
- The Seventh Decade
The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The Seventh Decade reveals many things. Amongst them is the history of global nuclear politics and the Bush government's policies that endanger the security of Americans and the world. Schell asserts that the Bush/ Cheney administration has forsaken traditional diplomacy and treaties that restrain nuclear proliferation preferring a first-strike military option. In so doing they have attacked Iraq using the excuse that they had WMD's, and have threatened North Korea and Iran with no results-North Korea now has the bomb and Iran is on the way. The administration has also encouraged the development of new generations of such weapons. He contends that the policies of the American government has intensified the trafficking of nuclear weapons which pose a renewed threat to humanity.
- The Shamrock and the Maple Leaf
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
An exhibition of Irish-Canadian documentary heritage held by Library and Archives Canada with photographs, letters, books, music and other evidence of Ireland's vital influence on Canadian history and culture.
- The Six Figure Speaker
Formula for a Six-Figure Income as a Professional Speaker
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A guide for professional speakers with strategies for success.
- 6 Keys to Becoming a Six Figure Speaker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Rather than ask what the hot topics are, ask yourself what you want to say and then find the fit you're looking for.
- Socialist Register 2008
Volume 44: Global Flashpoints
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Soldiers' Testimonies from Hebron 2005-2007
Breaking the Silence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A booklet of testimonies from combatants who served in Hebron between 2005-2007, describing how IDF soldiers were required to exert absolute, daily and almost limitless control over the Palestinian residents of the city.
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2008
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Sources News Release Archive 2008
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
News releases from 2008.
- Sources (portal for journalists and writers) - Wikipedia article
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
An information portal for journalists, freelance writers, editors, authors, and researchers, focusing especially on human sources: experts and spokespersons who are prepared to answer reporters' questions or make themselves available for on-air interviews.
- Sources - Wikipedia's article on Sources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Article about Sources in Wikipedia.
- Storming Heaven
1968 Revisted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The eruptions of 1968 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
- Strange Fruit
Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
- Tainted politics of a nuclear umbrella
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A review of the US Pentagon's Missile Defence program since its incepton in 1946.
- Terra Nostra, 1550-1950
The Stories Behind Canada's Maps
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Celebrates the mapping of Canada by telling the stories of individuals who helped to create the maps.
- There's still one injustice in Cuba to which Americans are wilfully blind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
While criticizing Cuba for human rights violations, American politicians ignore the massive abuses taking place in their own prison at Guantanamo Bay.
- The Throes of Democracy
Brazil since 1989
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- A Time to Speak Out
Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A collection of strong Jewish voices, drawing on an established tradition of Jewish dissidence, come together to explore some of the most challenging issues facing diaspora Jews, notably in relation to the ongoing conflict in Israel-Palestine.
- Toolkit for a New Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
- Top Ten Positive Gestures
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Tough Love at the Table
Power, Culture and Diversity in Negotiations, Mediation & Conflict Resolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Stories that illustrate dispute resolution and bargaining concepts.
- The Trouble with Theory
The Educational Costs of Postmodernism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Postmodern theory has engaged the hearts and heads of the brightest students because of its apparent political and social radicalism. Yet Kitching writes: "At the heart of postmodernism is very poor, deeply confused, and misbegotten philosophy. As a result even the very best students who fall under its sway produce radically incoherent ideas about language, meaning, truth, and reality."
- Tug-of-War: The working Class and Political Change in British Colombia, 1948-1972
PhD Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 2008
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Universities at Risk
How Politics, Special Interests and Corporatization Threaten Academic Integrity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
An anthology examining the relationship bewteen institutes of higher learning and powerful external sponsers, it's implications and threat to academic integrity and intellectual freedom.
- The Use of Cultural Studies in Military Operations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
In conflicts where ideas or perceptions are pivotal to establishing lasting resolutions, meaningful cultural understanding is the corner stone to success. Culture is at the crux of this issue, therefore we must develop a method to evaluate various cultural norms and present them in a direct way to the operational forces heading into unique environments.
- Venezuela Eyewitness
Canadian socialists report on Venezuela's achievements and the challenges facing the Bolivarian Revolution today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Violence Today
Actually Existing Barbarism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Looks at violence in many contexts: violence by men against women, violence by the state in inner cities, prisons, politically motivated violence and terror and the superabundance of weapons. Reflection is given to the sources of imperialism and globalized capitalism. The opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism. Other essays analyze the nature and roots of paradigmatic cases and types of violence today around the world. Several essays deal from various different standpoints, with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of today's actually-existing barbarism.
- Waiting for the Barbarians
A Tribute to Edward Said
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Werewolf Cultural Sensitivity - Working With Employees Of Lupine Descent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
The term "werewolf" has been reclaimed with pride by our brethren of Lupine descent. This does not mean that it is an acceptable term for general use. Unless you are on butt-sniffing terms with your colleague, please confine yourself to the correct forms of address, which are "Lupine-descended person", "person of Lupine ethnicity", or "Lupinian."
- What Is America?
A Short History of the New World Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
"All who delve into American history must contend with a language of misnomer and condescension," Wright states in his author's foreword. "Whites are soldiers, Indians are warriors; whites live in towns, Indians in villages; whites have states, Indians have tribes."
- The Wisdom of Whores
Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Pisani's book The Wisdom of Whores is a scathing attack on the bureaucratic international aid communities that deal with HIV/AIDS. Topics include: injection of drugs and the idea of harm reduction by the use of clean needles and methadone to prevent the spread of HIV, the question of economic resources and how and where they are spent, the concept of abstinence and how the U.S. administration views has undermined the use of condoms.
- Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
- Yiddish Language and Song: A Collision with Zionism and the Birth of Israel
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
Interview with Yiddish culture archivist, Frank Krasnowsky.
- Environmentalists Do Not Support Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- The Revolution: A Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
A manifesto of the radical libertarian right.
- Sources Wikipedia Article - Arabic
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- Sources Wikipedia Article - Chinese
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Published: 2008
- The Asturias revolt, 1934
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
An account of the 1934 uprising by Asturian miners in Spain. Beginning as part of a nationwide general strike, the revolt grew into one of the most widespread rebellions of the pre-revolution era.
- Extraction!
Comix Reportage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2016
- Photoshop Tutorial: Creating a 468x60 Advertising Banner
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
It is important to know how to make a simple but eye catching and professional looking banner for your website. Since the majority of web sites rely on advertising to generate traffic, you can imagine how many more hits you can receive if you know how to make such a banner. In this tutorial we will discuss how to make one easily with a few steps.
- Flight from the land and food riots
Excellent article by Wildcat Germany analysing the food crisis and the global agricultural industry under capitalism.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Article discuss about reasons behind the exploding food prices.
- Whither Diversity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
We love race - we love identity - because we don't love class. That is, the upper income groups in society, including many liberals, prefer to believe that a fair and just society can be realized primarily by celebrating and embracing diversity -- but excluding class considerations.
- Beechcombings
The Narratives of Trees
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2011
The author traces the relatioship between English society and its trees through the ages, from the dependence of the middle ages to stewardship, to dominance, to landscape architecture, to a regret for the lost innocence of virginal forests.
- Crisis en Gaza: el sistema de salud y los niños en peligro
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Sources Calendar Simple HTML version
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2007
Published: 2010
Event calendar in non-java-script format.
- Stuffed and Starved
Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2010
This investigation into the global food market postulates that the current state of population health, where one billion people are overweight and one billion people are starving exemplifies the disequilibrium resulting from the liberalization of agriculture in the developing world by the forces of globalization and the policies of the IMF and World Bank.
- Endgame 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2009
Human history of the end of the second world war. Tha author uses the personal accounts of witnesses, soldiers and prisoners to bring to life the chaos that followed VE Day in 1945 across Europe.
- A Persistent Peace
One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2008
Jesuit priest John Dear ministers to the needy at the margins of society. He is a pacifist and anti-war activist who has spoken out against the Pentagon and the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq. His views about Christ's teachings on nonviolence have also made him a rebel in the Catholic Church.
- The Shadow Catcher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2008
A historical novel about the life of Edward S. Curtis, the photographer of Native American culture in the 19th century.
- Sharpen Up: From Experience To Expertise
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2008
Years of experience do not automatically make you an expert. Nor do "know-it-all" confidence, an encyclopedic memory or Jeopardy-speed retrieval always add up to expert status.
- Stupid to the Last Drop
How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2008
As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells.
- We Own the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2008
The whole debate about the Iranian 'interference' in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
- The story of the GI coffeehouses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Examining the rise of the GI coffeehouse movement--during the Vietnam War and again today in protest of the war on Iraq.
- The Professor of Torture
Dershowitz for the Defense -- of Waterboarding
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Whitney exposes the hypocrisy of Alan Dershowitz, who claims to support civil liberties while advocating the use of torture. Dershowitz seems to believe that he should be considered a liberal because he says that prisoners should only be tortured by "nonlethal means, such as sterile needles, being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain wthout endangering life." Whitney characterizes this as "barbarism".
- The Story of Stuff
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The Story of Stuff, originally released in December 2007, is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the Stuff in your life forever.
- Detecting packet injection a guide to observing packet spoofing by ISPs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Certain Internet service providers have begun to interfere with their users' communications by injecting forged or spoofed packets - data that appears to come from the other end but was actually generated by an Internet service provider (ISP) in the middle. This spoofing is one means (although not the only means) of blocking, jamming, or degrading users' ability to use particular applications, services, or protocols.
- Seeds of Destruction
The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Focuses on how a small American elite seeks to establish its control over the very basis of human survival, the provision of our daily bread. The author reveals a world where genetic manipulation and the patenting of life forms are used to gain worldwide control over food production.
- Five Challenges for Ecosocialists in 2008
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Ecosocialism is not separate from the existing left and green movements, and it is not a structured movement on its own. Rather, it is a current of thought within existing socialist and green-left movements, seeking to win ecology activists to socialism and to convince socialists of the vital importance of ecological issues and struggles.
- Nothing personal, just business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
"A street entrepreneur or a life-destroying psychopath?" asks a review of the film American Gangster, which portrays the life of drug kingpin Frank Lucas.
How is that an either-or choice?
- Were Marx's principles only skin deep?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A British dermatologist has managed to get himself worldwide publicity with an article suggesting that Karl Marx’s painful skin condition may have caused him to say all those mean things about capitalism.
- The end of the story
When a prominent journalist was killed for investigating black activists, it shocked America.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
On August 2nd 2007 Chauncey Bailey was murdered, he was the first journalist in thirty years to be murdered in the U.S. in the pursuit of a story.
- Skeptic no more
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
I used to be a hard-boiled cynic when it came to those alleged miraculous apparations of religious or pop culture figures whose images are always being spotted in various and sundry mundane objects. Jesus in a tortilla, the Virgin Mary in a watermelon, Elvis in a peanut butter sandwich – I scoffed. Until this week, when something quite extraordinary happened.
- Revisiting the partition of Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Henry Lowi calls on honest, realistic and pragmatic peace activists the world over to expose partition, protest against it and propose an alternative solution to the question of Palestine.
- Mr. Hardass
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
In a surgical waiting room in a cancer hospital.
- Safe streets
Not pedaling can kill you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Not pedaling can kill you.
- The Power of the Israel Lobby
Two knights and a dragon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
- Evaluating the virtual picket line
Italian union's Second Life information picket tests worth of a potentially valuable tool
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The organizers of the Second Life online action see it as a tool, a tactic as part of a larger campaign -- not necessarily a campaign-wining strategy.
- Who owns knowledge?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.
- Celebrate Jewish Glasnot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Although you wouldn't know it if you followed Jewish life simply through the activities of such major Jewish communal bodies as the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations and the Anti-Defamation League, the extent to which the eight million Jews of the Diaspora identify with Israel is increasingly open to question (much to the horror of the Zionist-oriented Jewish establishment).
- Press for Conversion #61
September 2007
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) helped overthrow the democratically-elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2004. In the years prior to this US-led regime change, although Aristide and his Lavalas government were extremely popular among the country's poor citizens, CIDA drastically cut bilateral aid. CIDA then poured millions into extremely partisan Haitian groups that represented the interests of Haiti's corporate elite.
- The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The story of how C.P. Ellis, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and Ann Atwater, an African American civil rights activist, overcame racial divisions to forge a strong friendship.
- The Immortalists
Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
This book centres on the period of Charles Lindbergh's life when he was working with Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, covering historic events, controversial decisions and disastrous consequences.
- Why Israel?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A routine strategy of Israel's defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of 'humanitarian interventions' that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council -- sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
- The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Engelhardt explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the administration of younger George Bush brought "victory culture" roaring back as part of its Global War on Terror and its rush to invade Saddam Husseins's Iraq. Further, he analyzes how, from its "Mission Accomplished" moment on, its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land.
- Newfoundland War Brides
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Lin Crosbie-Marshall discusses courtship and cultural connections with four Corner Brook women who left Scotland over 60 years ago, and followed their soldier husbands to western Newfoundland.
- The Veil and Violence against Women in Islamist Societies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The ongoing battle between the Islamic authorities and women over the veil clearly reveals why it has become a symbol like no other of the violence women face under Islam and why 'improper' or 'bad' veiling and unveiling have become a symbol of resistance to Islam in power and its violence against women. It is for this very reason that the slogan 'neither veil nor submission' has become a rallying cry ever since the regime imposed compulsory veiling on women after expropriating and crushing the revolution to consolidate its rule.
- The Lessons of the Anti-Asiatic Riot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
In 1907, an anti-immigration rally explodes into violence and vandalism in Vancouver's Chinatown and Japantown.
- A Tale of Tatamagouche
The true story behind the beginning of the Acadian expulsion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Describes the explusion of the Acadians in 1755.
- How Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
John Pilger, applies to current events Orwell's description in '1984' of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinian cameraman by the Israelis as an example of how "we" are trained to look on the rest of the world as quite unlike ourselves: useful or expendable.
- Fare-Free Public Transit Could Be Headed to a City Near You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
It's time to give people a free ride on public transit. And here's proof it works.
- Paying for 'Free' Transit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Olsen discusses the politics surrounding funding options for transit systems outside of passenger fare to support a fare-free system and proposes shifting spending costs towards avenues that favour riders and transit needs rather than corporate needs, in order to improve service.
- 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private.
- Let's Knock Off the Fare Box
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Olsen supports the argument in favour of fare-free transit by investigating the costs surrounding fare collection that are left largely unexamined by officials and unannounced to the public in various North American cities.
- A race for land is destroying the Guatemalan rainforest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Agriculture is quickly decimating Guatemala's primal forests> It has experience the most rapid deforestatation of any nation in the last five years.
- No Hassle Transit? Try Hasselt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A consideration of Belgium's transit infrastructure and fare-free system implementation as a model for BC to draw upon.
- Next Door to BC, the Bus Is Free
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Olsen writes about his experience with fare-free transit on Whidbey Island, debunking myths about the inefficiency, impracticality, and unsustainability of such a system.
- 17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to Ride the Bus
The case for Fare-Free Transit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The time has come to stop making people pay to take public transit. Why do we have any barriers to using buses, trolleys, SkyTrain? The threat of global warming is no longer in doubt. The hue and cry of the traffic jammed driver grows louder every commute.
- 17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to Ride the Bus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Olsen outlines a proposal for how to implement a fare-free transit system using already existing examples from around the world that are supported by their level of success and positive effects on their societies, environment, and customer satisfaction.
- The treasures of Timbuktu
The race is on to preserve papers dating back to a west African golden age
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
West African scholars are quickly discovering the wealth of manuscripts burried in and near Timbuktu dating from the 11th century. Governments and universities are building archives in which to house and digitize these important relics.
- Preston Manning sees an Inquisition in science's name
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Mr. Manning's demagogic suggestion that atheists seek to deny believers freedom of conscience and expression has no basis in reality. On the contrary: no atheist would wish to deny Mr. Manning his right to believe in the Easter Bunny, or Zeus, or Jehovah, or any other supernatural being that appeals to him. We simply ask for the right to express our dissent from those beliefs openly, without being threatened or censured.
- Imposters shock oil conference
Yes Men" propose burning humanity as "vivoleum" fuel in case of climate calamity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Imposters posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC) representatives delivered an outrageous keynote speech to 300 oilmen at GO-EXPO, Canada's largest oil conference, held at Stampede Park in Calgary, Alberta, on June 15, 2007.
- Social Activist Grace Lee Boggs on Shaking Up the Status Quo in America
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Grace Lee Boggs has been a part of almost every major movement in the United States in the last 75 years, including: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice.
- The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
An examination of the overall principles and practices of both reference service and cataloguing operations in the promotion of scholarly research, pointing out important differences not just in content available onsite and offsite, but also among necessary search techniques. It specifies the differences between scholarship and quick information seeking.
- Fooled Again
The Real Case fo Electoral Reform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
For Republicans, the 2004 presidential election was little short of miraculous: Behind in the Electoral College tally in the days leading up to the election, behind even on the very afternoon of the vote, the Bush ticket staged a stunning comeback. The exit polls, usually so reliable, turned out to be wrong by an unprecedented 5 percent in the swing states. Conservatives argued-and the media agreed-that "moral values" had made the difference. Critic and political commentator Mark Crispin Miller argues that it wasn't moral values that swung the election - it was theft.
- Don't Incite Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
- Little Book of Big Ideas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A handbook which gathers insight and information on 50 thinkers and 10 oimportant theories in a concise and accessible format. Readers will come to grips with key concepts that are the backbone of philosophical thought, including metaphysics, psychoanalysis, libertarianism, and feminism. Some of the most influential figures are presented, from Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato to Marx, Piaget and Chomsky.
- A picture and a thousand words
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The approximately 27-metre-tall Humewood elm is among perhaps only 30 big elms in Toronto that remain unscathed by Dutch elm disease, the deadly fungus that has almost wiped out North America's elm trees.Over the roughly seven decades since the disease arrived on the continent, the Humewood elm has, inexplicably, stayed standing.How it escaped the scourge, no one knows. Maybe that's why many in its heritage-conscious St. Clair and Bathurst neighbourhood see it as something of a miracle.
- Bottling peace in a jar
Buying Palestinian olive oil is a tasty way to protest the tree uprootings of the occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Robert Massoud, born in Jerusalem of Christian Palestinian parents and now living just north of Toronto, developed the Zatoun project as "a people-sized initiative for those who want to make a difference" but who "throw up their hands and walk away" in despair from seemingly hopeless cycles of retaliation in the Middle East.
- Military Inc
Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Ayesha Siddiqa probes into the Pakistani military's long and troubling relationship with corporate giants, and its disastrous effects on the development of a healthy democracy and civil society.
- The Makhno Myth
Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Starting in the 1970s, a new consensus emerged among serious scholars of the Russian Revolution. Instead of seeing the rise of Stalinism as the predetermined outcome of Leninism or workers' power, "revisionist" historians looked instead to the devastating effects of civil war and international isolation. They discovered that the early years of the workers' state were far more complicated and rich than the standard right-wing inevitable-march-to-totalitarianism version. In its broad outlines, their work confirmed that material conditions, rather than Bolshevik original sin, transformed a mass, popular revolution into its opposite, Stalinism.
- Nakba One, Two, Three?
Against The Current vol. 128
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
In sheer magnitude, the Palestine partition of 1947 wasn’t even that year’s most disastrous division of a former British colonial possession. The partition of the Indian subcontinent — between India and the new Muslim state Pakistan — produced roughly as many deaths, in horrific communal violence between Muslims and Hindus, as the numbers of Palestinian Arabs expelled from their homeland and robbed of their lands in the 1947-49 Catastrophe — al-Nakba — accompanying the establishment of the state of Israel.
- School of Music announces new award in honour of late Corner Brook businessman Karl Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Memorial University’s School of Music is proud to announce a new student award – the Karl Diemer Memorial Bursary.
- The St. Petersburg Declaration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree.
- What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Noam Chomsky reverses roles and questions how America would respond if a threatening invader took over Canada or Mexico in a "liberation" attempt. Would America stand by quietly?
- The roots of gay oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Marxists, since Marx and Engels themselves, have always believed that only a socialist revolution could open the way to sexual freedom and equality. The history of same-sex relations suggests that the most basic human activities, including sexuality, are collectively constructed in human society.
- How we learned to stop having fun
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
We used to know how to get together and really let our hair down. Then, in the early 1600s, a mass epidemic of depression broke out - and we've been living with it ever since. Something went wrong, but what?
- Free Speech in Fearful Times
After 9/11 in Canada, the U.S, Australia & Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
How post-9/11 anti-terror laws have limited free speech in Canada and abroad.
- Das Leiden der Kinder im Gazastreifen
Katastrophale Lage im Gazastreifen - Unzureichende Gesundheitsversorgung
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Opieka zdrowotna i dzieci Gazy w kryzysie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Gaza: cuidados de saúde e crianças em risco
As crianças de Gaza estão em risco
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
- Salute e bambini in crisi a Gaza
I bambini di Gaza sono in crisi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Speech for Gaza Fundraiser
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- What's all the fuss about the veil?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
It is impossible to address the status of women under Islamic laws and defend women’s rights without addressing and denouncing the veil. And this is why the veil is the first thing that Islamists impose when they have any access to power.
- Women behind the wheel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
An article about the Immigrant Women's Health Centre and the mobile health centre van which travels to different locations around the city to provide health care to women.
- Agreement on terms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
- Strip-Searching Children
Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
- TOGETHER for GAZA
Palestinians and Jews work together
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A group of Palestinians and Jews in Toronto are holding an event to raise funds for primary health providers in Gaza.
- Sanday's Structure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Peggy Reeves Sanday's column could be confused with a parody of extreme political correctness.
- Sanday's Structure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
In a recent article at Inside Higher Ed, Penn anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday announced that she was going to place the “Duke case in perspective.” What “perspective,” precisely? “The eye-witness accounts of campus gang rape I present in Fraternity Gang Rape.”
- Post-traumatic stress and the children of Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The situation in Gaza is devastating. We have to act to protect the children of Gaza.
- The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.
- Press for Conversion #60
March 2007
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
This issue of the magazine exposes ten ways in which Canada's Liberal government was complicit in aiding and abetting the 2004 coup d'état that ousted President Aristide's democratically-elected government and supporting the illegal, coup-installed regime that was responsible for two-year human rights catastrophe that followed.
- Fragments of a Reformist Anarchism
A review of David Graeber (2004), Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A collection of scattered thoughts about anarchism, anthropology, and academic studies. David Graeber argues against the need for a revolutionary confrontation with the state or its eventual overthrow. Instead, he favors a gradualist approach which leaves the state alone.
- Criticizing Israel is Not an Act of Bigotry
Jewish Opposition to Israeli Human Rights Crimes is Growing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A grassroots revolt is underway in Jewish communities throughout the world, a revolt that has panicked the elite organizations that have long functioned as official mouthpieces for the community.
- The workers' government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The biggest far left organisations in Italy to emerge from the great wave of struggle from 1968 to 1975 changed their strategy to one of focussing on the formation of a ‘left’ government within the existing parliamentary set-up.
- How the Left Should Frame Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The art and science of strategic frame analysis -- issue framing -- is relatively new in Canada, though the concept of framing is not. The right has been framing its issues carefully for years while the left has been oddly complacent about re-framing issues from their perspective.
- The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: "Google." Look a little further, and market research shows that people actually use four main search engines for 99.99% of their searches: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com (in that order). But in my travels as a Search Engine Optimizer (SEO), I have discovered that in that .01% lies a vast multitude of the most innovative and creative search engines you have never seen. So many, in fact, that I have had to limit my list of the very best ones to a mere 100.
- How green are your ethics?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The assumption that underlies much of the discussion on carbon neutrality is that any activity that emits CO2 - and that means virtually every human activity - is something to apologise for. All human activities must be judged by their carbon content, and the morality of an action gauged principally by its carbon count. Carbon calculators have become the moral barometers of our age.
- Province must treat health centre staff fairly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The government should deal fairly with health and social service staff who are bargaining for a new contract.
- Carter's Inconvenient Truths
An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The reason that Israel has been able to appropriate Palestine unto itself with American aid and support is that Israel controls the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At least 90% of Americans, if they know anything at all of the issue, know only the Israeli propaganda line. Israel has been able to control the explanation, because the powerful Israel Lobby brands every critic of Israeli policy as an anti-semite who favors a second holocaust of the Jews.
- Abraham Lincoln saw it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Aboriginal Archives Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Addressing the Violence: My Roadmap to Peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
In order for peace to set sail there should be some guiding principles. The most important is equality. This is not to say that the conflict is between two equals. Overwhelming Israeli power and unconditional United States support has no comparison on the Palestinian side, other than the tragic balance of terror that has been reached with Israel through suicide bombing. But neither side should be treated differently from the other.
- Against Capitalism
The European Left on the March
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- All Our Sisters
Stories of Homeless Women in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The author conducted sixty interviews with homeless women from Vancouver to Ottawa. This investigative reporter has organized the interviews in chapters dealing with the impact of housing policies, violence, addictions, and health in the lives of these women.
- Alternatives to the Death Penalty
The Problem with Life Imprisonment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Anarchy and Art
From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Angels and Ages
A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- The Art of the Possible
A Handbook for Political Activism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- A travers tout cela - au fil des ans - il y avait SOURCES
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
SOURCES est plus que de simples spécialistes. C#est un répertoire des sentiers pour l#essentiel de la démocratie, rendant disponible des noms et adresses de tous les personnages influents du Canada et au-delà.
- Between the Lines
Readings on Israel, the Palestinians and the U.S. "War on Terror"
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A collection of essays that addresses the situation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the need for changes. It provides the background of the conflict and an analysis of the resistance and repression that have intensified due to post 9/11.
- The Bohemian Embassy
Memories and Poems
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- The Bolsheviks in Power
The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- The Brain That Changes Itself
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
- Broken Promises, Broken Dreams
Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma & Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Rothschild recounts her experiences in grappling with the reality of life in Israel, the complexity of Jewish Israeli attitudes and the hardhips of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza.
- Buda's Wagon
A Brief History of the Car Bomb
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development. In his analysis, he also exposes the role of state intelligence agencies - particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan - in globalizing urban terrorist techniques
- The Cabot Trail in Black & White
Voices and Photographs from Northern Cape Breton
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Calling All Radicals
How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
- Canada's Young Activists
A Generation Stands Up for Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Twenty five personal accounts of the important work of some of Canada's most prominent young activists championing causes from child labour to environmentalism.
- Changing Venezuela By Taking Power
The History and Policies of the Chavez Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Explores the historical and socioeconomic roots of the Venezuelan initiatives of recent years, the conflicts they have engendered, the achievements and pitfalls, the animating ideals of a genuinely participatory society, and the prospects for realizing them.
- ChestDoc in Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Choosing to be the man of the house
An ancient tradition of the sworn virgin living as a male still survives in Albania
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
In Albania, biological women take an oath of virginity to have the freedom to live as men. They wear men's clothes and their hair is shorn. The tradition has persisted since the 15th century, in a region where ancient laws still limit women's rights.
- The Comox Project 1965
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Concertina: The Life and Loves of a Dominatrix
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Memoirs of a professional dominatrix.
- Dean's Digital World: The reporter's friend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Dinner with Friends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Profile of restauranteur and host of Italian language and culture classes and community figure Roberto Martella, the recipient of the Jane Jacobs prize in 2007.
- Dying For A Home
Homeless Activists Speak Out
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
This is a veteran Toronto street nurse's account of her work with homeless activists from Tent City as well as the stories of Tent City residents.
- The Economics of Happiness
Building Genuine Wealth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Anielski's premise is quite simple: how can we go beyond mere material wealth to achieve veritable wealth-good health, meaningful relationships, spirituality, a clean environment, peace, justice and happiness. He believes that economic systems should orient us to what we really want.
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Israeli historian Ilan Pappe recounts the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
- Everything Must Change
Jesus, Global Crises and a Revolution of Hope
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
McLaren poses the question "How do the life and teachings of Jesus address the most critical global problems in our world today?" McLaren believes that we live in a world based on a wrong assumption of what is important in our lives, what is worth fighting for and what is the purpose of humanity's existence. He believes it is important to look at the teachings of Jesus to move to a positive view of humanity to overcome the dysfuntionality-economic, political and social of the world.
- Fictitious Capital for Beginners
Imperialism, 'Anti-Imperialism', and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Rosa Luxemburg's framework enabled her to see how capitalism could ultimately destroy society - barbarism, in her words, or the 'mutual destruction of the contending classes' as the Communist Manifesto put it in 1847 - by being required to turn more and more to primitive accumulation and non-reproduction, a prophecy we see materializing before our eyes today.
- For Political Equality
All citizens vote on all policies: 20th Century Power Politics and their 21st Century electronic alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
This book aims to motivate people to set up post-parliamentary direct democracy (DD) enabling all citizens to propose-debate-vote on all issues of society. Every citizen - one vote - on every issue of society. This political equality abolishes Power - the role of deciding on behalf of others - the main cause of violence and corruption in society. "To be" is not merely "to exist" but to decide all issues of one's life. Denying citizens' right to decide all issues of society reduces them to mere political pawns. All citizens have the right to decide all policies.
- Garbage Warrior
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Follow architect Michael Reynolds as he pioneers the earthship, a shelter that is made of natural and recycled materials and junk. A documentary centered around experimentalism, creativity, and challenging legal and public norms to make an ecological difference.
- Getting Publicity: The Myth of the Press Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The press release is an important tool. But it's just that: a tool.
- GreenTOpia
Towards A Sustainable Toronto, uTOpia Volume Three
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The third volume of the uTOpia series features a collection of essays that look at innovative and imaginative ways to promote sustainability in Toronto. Also included is a directory of resources, organizations, incentives and programs in and around the GTA.
- Gros Morne, Newfoundland 2007
Photos
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Heeding nature to understand ourselves
A new genre of writing is putting centre stage the interconnectedness between human beings and the wilderness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A new literary tendency in the nature writing genre is to point out the interconnectedness between humans and their environment. Rather than study nature as a thing apart from man, these books challenge their readers to engage with the other species in their immediate surroundings.
- The Hollow Land
Israel's Architecture of Occupation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Groundbreaking exposé of Israel's terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond.
- Honeydripper
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Hope in Troubled Times
A New Vision for Confronting Global Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- How Nonviolence Protects the State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. Peter Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arguing that exclusive nonviolence often acts to reinforce the same structures of oppression that activists seek to overthrow.
- How to Re-Imagine the World
A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A conceptual toolbox for imagining and initiating radical social change.
- The 100-Mile Diet
A Year of Local Eating
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- The Iambics of Newfoundland
Notes from an Unknown Shore
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Impeach the President
The Case Against Bush and Cheney
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- In Defense of Atheism
The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- In Defense of Leninism: Anarchist Organization and Vanguardism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The question of what, if any, type of revolutionary organization is necessary has always been a thorny one for anarchists.
- Indigenous Sovereignty: A Reassessment in Light of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
This Article explores the concept of "indigenous sovereignty" against the backdrop of the resurgence of indigenous peoples as actors in international and domestic law and policy.
- Infidel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali woman who escaped a forced marriage and moved to the Netherlands, where she became a spokeswoman for Muslim women's rights. She tells the story of how her experiences led her to question her faith.
- The Iron Cage
The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Rashid examines the history of the Nakba and the circumstances and context that surrounded it.
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Mearsheimer and Walt describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argue that this support cannot be fully explained in either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. Mearsheimer and Walt contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America's posture throughout the Middle East and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America's national interest nor Israel's long-term interest.
- I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The archaeological discovery in Toronto of the remains of a house belonging to former slaves, Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, key figures in the Underground Railroad.
- The John A. Livingston Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- A Journeyman to Grief
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Less Than 2 Dollars a Day
A Christian View of World Poverty and Free Markets
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Lies The Media Tell us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
- Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto, 1960-1970
PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 2007
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Male Chastity: A Guide for Keyholders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
An introduction to male chastity.
- Married to Another Man
Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Karmi argues that Israel has never been able to solve the original and unresolved Zionist quandary of how to create and maintain a Jewish state in a land inhabited by another people. She maintains that the problem is unsoluble and that the only solution is a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians are equal.
- Media Freedom
You will be harrassed and detained
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
This report analyzes how the Chinese government is failing to fulfill its commitments to respect the reporting freedom of foreign correspondents during the period of the temporary regulations and is instead continuing to subject foreign reporters to detention, harassment, and intimidation. It also examines how the Chinese government maintains a stranglehold on the activities of domestic journalists.
- Mercenaries on the make
Iraq is now awash with unaccountable 'security contractors'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Contracted mercenaries now outnumber American troops in Iraq. These contractors are immune to prosecution for any wrongdoing in Iraq thanks to provisional laws that came into effect after the invasion. Most of these contractors are not American, the war is being outsourced.
- Militant as Hell on the Waterfront
The Political Thought of Stan Weir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
New Beginnings looks at the life of workplace militant and writer, Stan Weir.
- Moby Duck
Or, the synthetic wilderness of childhood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- More Unequal
Aspects of Class in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Yates looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
- Move into the light?
Postscript to a turbulent 2007
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Can the left movement move into the light and become visible?
- Mundo Digital de Dean 59
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he examines the power of music through the individaul experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people.
- No Fares!
Time for a free ride on public transit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
This series of articles in The Tyee takes a hard look at fare hikes and spending priorities by B.C.'s transit planners, as well as rising greenhouse emissions and pollution by the private automobile, and asks: Why are we creating barriers for people who might take public transit?
- One Country
A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
One Country proposes a radical alternative to the impasse in Israel/Palestine: to revive the neglected idea of one state shared by two peoples. Ali Abunimah shows how the two are by now so intertwined -- geographically and economically -- that separation cannot lead to the security Israelis need or the rights Palestinians must have. Taking on the objections and taboos that stand in the way of a binational solution, he demonstrates that sharing the territory will bring benefits for all.
- Out
2 North American Jewish Women on the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Overcoming Zionism
Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a 'state-sponsored racism' fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution. Only a path toward a single-state secular democracy can provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East. Kovel draws on his detailed knowledge of the Middle East to show that Zionism and democracy are essentially incompatible. Ultimately, Kovel argues, a two-state solution is essentially hopeless as it concedes too much to the regressive forces of nationalism, in which lie the roots of continued conflict.
- Peace Parks
Conservation and Conflict Resolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Political Columns
Behind the scenes with powerful people
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A reader of his book will get Bonner's insight on everyone from Winston Churchill to Belinda Stronach. It is a series of columns, many of which were written for the US magazine Winning Campaigns.
- Poverty and Policy in Canada
Implications for Health and Qualityof Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Raphael writes with authority on the problem of inequality and poverty in Canada. Income variability has increased while social assistance and minimum wages have not kept people up.
- The Power of Persuasion
The Politics of the New Right in Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Kozolanka looks at how the Mike Harris's new right conservative government came to power in Ontario Premier Mike Harris by using successful strategies from other countries to gain public accquiescence for its neo-conservative policies. Relying on evidence drawn from literature, interviews and content analysis, she argues that this trajectory was "neither haphazard nor narrowly constructed."
- Rebuilding the Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Beginning with an overview of the Left in Latin America, from the Cuban Revolution to the present, Harnecker goes on to analyze developments now taking place and stresses the necessity of developing an alternative to present forms of globalization.
- The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Roots of Empathy
Changing the World Child by Child
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Roots of Empathy looks at eliminating crime and changing the world by starting with a compassionate environment for children.
- The Secret is Purposeful Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Don't let fear and hesitation, both common causes of procrastination, hold you back from taking purposeful action and getting started on your better life.
- Sewage disaster in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The sewage disaster in Gaza is the result of a deteriorating public health system and growing humanitarian crisis that has been looming there for some time. The world community must step in to help.
- The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
- Sisterhood, Interrupted
From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A study of controversies in the feminist movement from the 1960s to the 2000s. Siegel wants readers to know about the multifaceted and contentious history of what is called feminism's "second wave" so that they can avoid both the trap of rebelling against its supposed stodgy "political correctness" and that of idealizing its supposedly harmonious "sisterhood".
- Socialist Register 2007
Volume 43: Coming to Terms with Nature
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Sources Calendar Expired Entries 2007
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Step by Step: Stories of Change in Winnipeg's Inner City
State of the Inner City Report 2007
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Sub-merge: Living Deep in a Shallow World
Service, Justice and Contemplation Among the World's Poor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Surviving America's Depression Epidemic
How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The rate of depression in the United States has increased more than tenfold in the last fifty years, and American mental health institutions have become part of the problem rather than the solution. The good news is that age-old wisdom and legitimate science -- uncorrupted by the profit-margin pressures of pharmaceutical and insurance companies -- have much to inform us about revitalizing depressed people and a depressing culture.
- Targeted
Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- Targeting Iran
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
- Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism
Manifesto 2007
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
With the beginning of the 1980s, we entered a new era of capitalism, the era of neoliberalism. This project systematically destroys all political, social and ecological restrictions for the activity of capital. Its methods are universally known: transformation of all relations into commodity relations, freedom of action for businesses and investors and expansion of the hunting area for transnational corporations over the whole planet.
- "The Backdrop Against Which Everything Happened"
English-Canadian Student Movements and Off-Campus Movements for Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Examines the relationship between the 1960s' student movements at English-Canadian universities and provincial, national, and international movements for change.
- Thinking Outside the Box
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Ignoring racism on the grounds that all citizens are equal and hence that racial or cultural differences are immaterial is clearly unacceptable. But so is labelling individuals by race, culture or faith and creating conflicts by institutionalising such differences in public policy.
- Uneasy Partners
Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
- The War on Democracy
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
This film by John Pilger explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
- Why do we still believe in race?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Races are difficult to define and there are no objective rules for deciding what constitutes a race or to what race a person belongs. People can belong to many races at the same time.
- Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT 'recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
- Winnipeg's Red Scare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
An account of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
- The Writing on the Wall
China and the West in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
The increasing global fear of the rise of China's economic power is misplaced and reflects the parallel rise of protectionist sentiment in a western world that has lost its moral authority to act as a legitimate international trade advocate.
- Young Thugs
Inside the Dangerous World of Canadian Street Gangs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Canada has been cultivating its own home-grown gang culture for years. And it’s not just in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver but also in Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Halifax and Hobbema, Alberta. It includes not only poor black kids but privileged white youth, First Nations and Southeast Asian teens in large and small communities across Canada.
- Zatoun: a Life story in four parts
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
In four audio documentaries (17–19 minutes each), Zatoun - a life story explores the genesis and evolution of a unique grassroots initiative to bring fair trade organic olive oil from farmer co-operatives in Palestine to North America. Zatoun is the Arabic word for olive.
- Bird Cinema
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
A video website for bird enthusiasts to watch and share original bird videos worldwide.
- Double Fold (Wikipedia article about the book by Nicholson Baker)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Published: 2007
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper is a non-fiction book by Nicholson Baker that was published in April, 2001.
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006
Published: 2017
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006
Published: 2014
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Israel/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
- Rivers in Canadian Music
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2014
- Un journaliste du National Post traumatisé d'avoir à attendre son tour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Jonathan Kay retourne à l'hôpital pour un traitement de suivi, et - horreur - il doit s'asseoir et attendre avant d'être vu. En fait, il nous dit « tous les cas sauf les plus graves » doivent s'asseoir et attendre leur tour. Il n'y a pas - c'est dur à croire mais c'est vrai - de file spéciale pour les nantis et les privilégiés, même s'ils sont journalistes au National Post.
- How Sources magnifies your Internet visibility
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2009
How the high Internet ranking of the Sources Web site helps magnify the public profile of organizations and companies who are listed in Sources.
- Merry Christmas from an Atheist
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
I probably represent one of Archbishop John Sentanu's worst nightmares - I am not just an 'aggressive secularist' but a militant atheist to boot. But I have a Christmas tree in the house, I've sent out my Christmas cards, bought my Christmas presents and I will cook goose on Christmas Day. And I will probably listen to Bach's Christmas Oratorio or to Mahalia Jackson's wonderful gospel singing while I am doing so. Yet I don't have a religious bone in my body.
- Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006
Published: 2008
- Wild: An Elemental Journey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2008
This is an adventurer's investigation of the idea of wilderness conducted in discourse with five indigenous communities she travelled to and lived among acrosss the globe. She studies and demystifies the false binary that is culture vs. wilderness.
- Dancing in the Streets
A History of Collective Joy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2007
An account of the toll that depression has taken on European and North American health since the 18th century.
- The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2007
Argues that a focus on cultural diversity at the expense of economic equality has stunted resistance to neoliberalism.
- Indeed there is Apartheid in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The state of Israel practises its own, quite violent, form of Apartheid with the native Palestinian population.
- National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2012
Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
- Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
- Israel boycott may be the way to peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The non-violent international response to apartheid was a campaign of boycott, divestment and UN-imposed sanctions which enabled the regime to change without bloodshed. We should try to follow the same route to a just peace.
- We must speak out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Supporting a world-wide appeal to teachers, intellectuals and artists to join the cultural boycott of the state of Israel.
- The Academic Boycott Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
An excellent summary and commentary on a debate at Ryerson University about whether Israel should be subjected to an academic boycott because of its human rights violations.
- Now Is The Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The world must be offered the chance to see the good Palestinian, the good Arab and the good Muslim. We must be offered the chance to see the good Jew and the well-intentioned Christians and West. It is all in our grasp, but, we need to take that important leap by acting now with courage and wisdom. A unified vision and strategy on the Palestinian side must lead us toward peace.
- Wildcat or official strike action?
A discussion of the relative merits of official strike action or unsanctioned wildcat action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The best-known form of direct action is the strike, in which workers simply walk off their jobs and refuse to produce profits for the boss until they get what they want. This is the preferred tactic of bureaucratic unions but is one of the least effective ways of confronting the boss.
- Dual power at work
When the workers make changes to their work environment without seeking management approval
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Rather than wait for the boss to give in to our demands and institute long-sought change, workers often have the power to institute those changes on our own, without the boss's say-so.
- Good work strike
Advice and tips on taking good work strikes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Instead of a conventional strike, workers with demands that the bosses are unwilling to meet can collectively decide to have a good work strike. One of the biggest problems for service industry workers is that many forms of direct action, such as go-slows, end up hurting the consumer (mostly fellow workers) more than the boss. One way around this is to provide better or cheaper service - at the boss's expense, of course.
- Sabotage in the workplace
Sabotage is the generic term for a whole host of tricks, deviltry, and assorted nastiness that can remind the boss how much he needs his wor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The term "sabotage" derives from French factory workers throwing their wooden shoes ("sabots") into machinery to jam them and stop production. Sabotage refers to all activities which workers can undertake to reduce production or rate of work. These can be minor activities such as making personal phone calls on work time to major destruction of property or information.
- Whistle-blowing guide
Sometimes simply telling people the truth about what goes on at work can put a lot of pressure on the boss
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Consumer industries like restaurants and packing plants are the most vulnerable. And again, as in the case of the good work strike, you'll be gaining the support of the public, whose patronage can make or break a business. Whistle blowing can be as simple as a face-to-face conversation with a customer, or it can be as dramatic as the P.G.&E. engineer who revealed that the blueprints to the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor had been reversed. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle blew the lid off the scandalous health standards and working conditions of the meatpacking industry when it was published earlier this century.
- Dealing with bullying at work guide
Advice and tips on how to survive bullying and intimidation in the workplace, and ways of dealing with individually, legally, or collectivel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Cuts in staffing and resources, increasing workloads, performance related pay: all have made work more pressurised. The University of Manchester says bullying accounts for up to half of all employment stress. The few studies done show the majority of incidents are by bosses, but it's still important to support people being bullied by work 'mates'. Call it what you will: harassment, aggression, coercive management, intimidation, or things seen as 'just a joke' - all are common labels for what is really bullying. Racial or sexual harassment, or that based on sexuality or disability, may also take the form of bullying.
- Go-slow guide
Instead of striking, workers with demands that the bosses are unwilling to meet can collectively decide to start a go-slow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
By deliberately slowing the rate of work, all together, the bosses' profits are hit, without workers losing wages. If everyone sticks together in solidarity victimisation of individuals can also be prevented.
- Guide to dealing with the corporate media
A guide to using the mainstream corporate or state media to get your message across.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A guide to using the mainstream corporate or state media to get your message across.
- Guide to sick-outs
Rather than call a conventional strike, the sick-in is a good way to strike without striking. Sick-ins involve organising workers to call in
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The idea is to cripple your workplace by having all or most of the workers call in sick on the same day or days. Unlike the formal walkout, it can be used effectively by single departments and work areas, and can often be successfully used even without a formal union organisation. It is the traditional method of direct action for public employee unions in the United States, which are legally prevented from striking.
- Guide to taking strike action
Tips and advice on how to effectively organise and carry out strike action at your workplace.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Our labour is the ultimate weapon that workers possess. Without workers bosses cannot make a profit. Strike action can be very powerful, but at the same time it, at the very least, reduces take home pay. More worryingly it may also lead to dismissal. Hardly, surprising therefore, that strike action is usually last resort taken of workers.
- Making the most of spontaneous rebellions at work
Advice on how to react when a big issue immediately angers a large number of people at your workplace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
It would be nice if we always had tested and trusted structures in place able to respond to unexpected situations at work. Unfortunately this doesn’t describe many workplaces where structures tend to be weak and disorganised or slow and bureaucratic. The situations that upset us the most are likely to be unanticipated. Sudden rebellion is most likely to develop as a response to unexpected decisions or circumstances i.e. unfair sackings, shift changes etc, and our actions need often be rapid and ad hoc.
- Press release guide
Advice and tips on how to make an effective press release or media advisory.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
What is a media advisory? A media advisory is a means of notifying the press of an event or news story that will happen in the future. It is essentially an event reminder that is in a format that makes it easy for journalists to record the event in their calendars or day planners. It is a proactive way for activists to inform news outlets of events and actions that you want publicized in the future.
- Radio interview guide
A guide on how best to get your message across while being interviewed on the radio
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
If you are part of a political or campaign group, talk radio is one of the most effective ways to reach your audience. The opportunities afforded are unparalleled. A telephone is all the equipment you need. With a simple phone, you can be interviewed from anywhere — from home, your office, or even a hotel room. My favorite "studio" is in my office facing my computer. Additionally, I use a telephone headset, which I highly recommend. One benefit of a headset is free hands. With free hands you have the freedom to access reference materials, your computer, and jot down notes while you are talking. Before doing a show, I bring up a "radio" file on my computer. In this file I have all sorts of useful information for the interview (more on this later). I also use the computer to type notes to myself. For instance, during the breaks many ideas come to mind for the next segment. I quickly write down these ideas. Some hosts have a knack for throwing their guests off target, so you want to do everything you can to stay focused. The one other thing I always have on hand is a big glass of water.
- Selective strikes
Rather than an all-out strike, rapid random stoppages can be highly effective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Unpredictability is a great weapon in the hands of the workers. In the US, Pennsylvania teachers used the Selective Strike to great effect in 1991, when they walked a picket line on Monday and Tuesday, reported for work on Wednesday, struck again on Thursday, and reported for work on Friday and Monday.
- Sitdown strike or occupation guide
A guide to taking sit-down strike action or occupations, in which by suddenly refusing to work gains can be won rapidly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A strike doesn't have to be long to be effective. Timed and executed right, a strike can be won in minutes. Such strikes are "sitdowns" or "occupations" when everyone just stops work and sits tight, or "mass grievances" when everybody leaves work to go to the boss's office to discuss some matter of importance. This can have many advantages over a conventional strike.
- Work-to-rule: a guide
Taking industrial action without losing pay by following your work's rules so strictly that nothing gets done
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Instead of striking, workers with demands that the bosses are unwilling to meet can collectively decide to start a "work-to-rule". Almost every job is covered by a maze of rules, regulations, standing orders, and so on, many of them completely unworkable and generally ignored. Workers often violate orders, resort to their own techniques of doing things, and disregard lines of authority simply to meet the goals of the company. There is often a tacit understanding, even by the managers whose job it is to enforce the rules, that these shortcuts must be taken in order to meet targets on time.
- How does your Web site rank? Alexa tells you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Find out your Web site's reach and what other sites are popular with the people who come to your site.
- Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Floods in normally drought-stricken eastern India have killed hundreds and left 1.5 million homeless this summer. Closer to home, a record-setting heat wave this June killed 225 in the United States, breaking thousands of local temperature records and sending the mercury above 104 degrees as far north as North Dakota.
- Free Speech in a Plural Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in which free speech provides the means of engagement and dialogue between different parts of society.
- Organising your workplace - getting started
You're working, or just started work somewhere where there is no active collective workers' organisation. What can you do to get organised?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Nowadays many workplaces have no active workers' organisation. Depending on whereabouts you are in the world and what sector you work in there may or may not be much of a trade union presence. And even if there is it may just be a skeleton organisation which only represents workers with individual problems, and is unable to win demands of management. Or worse, it could be actively in cahoots with management against the workers.
- Organising at work - some basic principles
A list of what successful organisers say are the most important principles to remember
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Organising begins when people question authority. Someone asks, "What are they doing to us? Why are they doing it? Is it right?" Encourage people to ask, "Who is making the decisions, who is being forced to live with the decisions, and why should that be so?" People should not accept a rule or an answer simply because it comes from the authorities, whether that authority be the government, the boss, the union - or you. An effective organiser encourages their fellow workers to think for themselves.
- A Veiled Debate
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
We certainly need to challenge the iniquities of Islam and refuse to bow to Muslim blackmail that certain debates are off-limits. But equally we need to keep the problem of Islam in perspective and not pretend that it is the root cause of every social ill.
- Guide to giving speeches and presentations
Tips and advice of public speaking, making speeches and giving presentations effectively.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Giving speeches and presentations is one of the most basic ways that an activist can communicate their ideas. Every activist should have at least a little experience with public speaking.
- Guide to setting up a local newsletter
A guide with tips and advice on how to set up a newsletter in your local area to cover issues that affect local residents.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Media and publicity guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
How to get the word out about your group or campaign? There are two main approaches, which should both be used: using the mainstream and corporate media, and building your own independent media.
- Flyposting guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Guide with tips and advice on flyposting, or "wheatpasting", for advertising and getting your message out to a wide audience on a low budget.
- Graffiti guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A beginners' guide to doing graffiti, covering paints, spraypaints, stencils, surfaces and general advice.
- Guide to public order situations
A brief survival guide for when a demonstration turns into a riot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Bear in mind that the police are probably much better equipped and trained for close combat than you or I. They have been psyching themselves up for hours, are likely to have plenty of reserves standing by and usually feel confident with the law behind them. Beating the police is about outwitting them, not necessarily hitting them over the head.
- Guide to starting your own zine
Tips and advice on starting a zine-style publication, from format and content to distribution and finance.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Are you ready to do a zine? This is probably the most important question you should ask yourself when you're considering doing a zine -- are you really ready to do one? Doing a zine can take up a lot of your time and become a big responsibility. There's no reason that you should have to do a whole zine -- if you aren't sure you can handle a zine on your own, consider maybe contributing to zines that you like or getting a couple friends to do one with you.
- Pirate radio guide
A technical primer and guide with advice about micropower broadcasting and other aspects of running a pirate radio station.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Many people still assume that an FM broadcast station consists of rooms full of equipment costing tens of thousands of dollars. The Micropower Broadcasting, Free Radio Movement has shown this to be untrue. Micropower broadcasting uses FM transmitters whose power output is in the range of 1/2 to 40 watts. Such transmitters have a physical size that is not greater than that of your average brick. These transmitters combined with other equipment including inexpensive audio mixers, consumer audio gear, a power supply, filter and antenna enable any community to put its own voice on the air at an average cost of $1000-$1500. This is far more affordable than the tens or hundreds of thousands required by the current FCC regulatory structure.
- Revolution in the Air
Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
An interpretation of the 19060s New Left in the United States.
- Section 60 advice guide
Some information and tips on the law, your rights, and how to react when police have enforced a "Section 60" order on a demonstration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
At some recent demonstrations, police have cordoned off the demonstration, corralling large numbers of people into an increasing confined area before taking their names, addresses and photographs, eventually releasing them one by one.
- Setting up a newsletter - technical guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A guide covering technical, design and layout issues with producing your own newsletters and publications.
- Terrorism Act 2000 guide
A quick guide and brief summary of the parts of the British Terrorism Act 2000 of relevance to radical workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
"Terrorism" is defined very widely and could include what people would normally think of as direct action. It gives the Police very wide powers to stop search and arrest, and limits people's rights - including on arrest. The Act has been (mis-)used extensively against workers.
- No comment: the defendant's guide to arrest
A guide on your rights if you are arrested, with advice on what police are likely to do and say, and what you can do to protext yourself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
If you think you might one day run the risk of being arrested, you must find out what to do in that situation. If prison, fines, community service etc. don’t appeal to you by following what’s written in this article you can massively reduce the risk of all three. In the police station, the cops rely on people’s naivety.
- Dealing with accusations of benefit fraud guide
Some tips and advice for any claimants who are facing accusations of benefit fraud
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The Government spends hundreds of thousands of pounds talking about this but actually has little success prosecuting alleged fraudsters. It is important to remember that receiving benefits you are not entitled to does not automatically make you guilty.
- Dealing with street harassment guide
A guide for women with advice on how to effectively deal with sexual harrassment in public.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Harassment is: Any number of acts or comments which make you feel physically or sexually unsafe or uncomfortable. They can be made by people you have known for years or by perfect strangers.
- Stop and search guide to your rights
A page of information about police stop and search powers in the UK and your rights when you are stopped and searched.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
What is a ‘Stop and Search’? Police officers can stop and talk to you at any time. But they should only search you if they suspect you are carrying: Drugs, Weapons, Stolen property, Tools which could be used to commit a crime.
- Beating the bailiffs guide
Overloaded with debt? Bailiffs threatening you? Here some useful advice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Getting overloaded with debt and don't know what to do? This articles contains useful advice, tips and contacts for dealing with debt and bailiffs.
- Book review writing guide
Tips and advice on how to write a review of a book or pamphlet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Book reviews. If you write or publish anything reviews can be a gain or a pain. Even the pain of negative feedback can sometimes help. To readers they can be a warning, a source of information, or the leaping-off point for research and discussion. Just like there never seems to be enough books in the world, there's never enough reviewers, and it's a good way to develop critical writing skills.
- Community organising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Information, guides and tips on organising around issues which affect you and other people living in your local area.
- Dealing with credit card debt guide
A short guide to help you deal with credit card debt, as consumer debt in the UK continues to spiral
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
You don’t need to work for the Financial Times to realise that credit card debt is getting well out of hand. Ten years ago hardly anyone had one. Now there are 91 million credit and debit cards in the UK. Two fifths of our shopping is now put on the plastic. The net result is a large portion of the population with massive credit card debt. Given the extortionate interest rates charged this is seriously bad news for us and the source of gleeful hand rubbing for the high street bankers (what’s that rhyming slang for I wonder?) who are pocketing it.
- Door knocking guide
Tips for effectively carrying out door-knocking visits and talking to people in your local area.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
In community politics, door knocking plays an essential role. From just getting to know your neighbours better, to carrying out a local survey or trying to sign people up to a local campaign or petition talking to people at home is a valuable exercise, due to its face-to-face nature. However, it can be a daunting task, so we put together a set of tips to help you on your way, with pre-planning and then how to act on people’s doorsteps.
- Interview conducting guide
Tips and advice on carrying out interviews with people for articles, publications, books, etc.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Interviews can be a useful tool to aid publishing and media efforts. Think of them as an opportunity to get information you don't already know. It is a particularly useful way of relieving the pressure on people intensely involved in a particular struggle who don't have the time to report on their activities and perspectives.
- Key ideas for community organising
Some very broad basic ideas for getting started at organising in your local area
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Look around your local area and determine what issues it faces. Talk to your neighbours, what issues do they think are important regarding the area. Determine what kinds of projects you can develop or direct action you can take that meet the area's needs or address the community's issues. Find out if others are already working on the problems in their area and if they've been effective and what you can learn from them. Determine what kinds of resources you have available and who in your area might be useful allies in accomplishing your goals.
- News report writing guide
A guide to writing news stories for the independent and alternative media.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The first thing to remember about reporting for a libertarian or anarchist newspaper or magazine is that it is not propaganda.
- Prison survival guide
A guide to surviving prison or preparing yourself to go to prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Prisoner support guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
If you’re active in a group or campaign why not choose one or two prisoners to consistently support. Pass cards round meetings, send useful stuff, knock up a flyposter and get their case some publicity if they could use it, get in touch with the prisoner’s support group if there is one. Of course you can take this on as an individual, too.
- Section 6 legal notice for squats
A legal warning notice on Section 6 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 which protects the rights of occupiers of properties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
If you are squatting it is strongly advised you display this notice to inform people of your rights - and let them know that you are aware of your rights.
- Setting up housing co-operatives guide
Some tips on how to set up a housing co-operativ
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Many housing co-ops are state funded; the Housing Corporation puts up much of the funding, and therefore can, on the whole, call the tune. However; it is possible to set up a housing co-op which is totally independent.
- Squatting guide
This is a brief guide to the completely legal activity of squatting - occupying an empty property and making it your home.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
It helps avoid homelessness, since renting or buying a house can be prohibitively expensive for many people.
- Organising at work - the basics
A basic introduction on why we should organise at work, and a few tips on how to get started.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Almost everyone in this society is underpaid and over-worked. Many temps, contract and casual workers have very few rights, and permanent workers are still always under the threat of redundancy. Many people are massively exploited and ill-treated, and in Britain over 20,000 people are killed at or by their work each year*. Millions more suffer stress, depression, anxiety and are injured.
- Workplace organising
A set of tips and advice guides for organising in your workplace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A set of tips and advice guides for organising in your workplace. From basic principles and getting started, to making demands, taking action such as strikes, and winning them.
- Theories of Patriarchy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The most persistent and widespread theory around the women’s movement today is that of patriarchy. This is justified by pointing to the existence of women’s oppression in societies other than those of western capitalism.
- An Interview with Tanya Reinhart
The Roadmap to Nowhere
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Persistent struggle can have an effect, and can lead governments to act. Such struggle begins with the Palestinian people, who have withstood years of brutal oppression, and who, through their spirit of zumud--sticking to their land - and daily endurance, organizing and resistance, have managed to keep the Palestinian cause alive
- Pretensions to Empire
Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Delves into the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush, and makes the case for impeachment.
- The Theology of Respect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
What the new theology demands is, in fact, not respect but obedience. 'You will only say or do what we think is acceptable' has become the credo of the multiculturalist censor. It is an attitude that turns the notion of respect on its head.
- Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Google, MSN Search, Yahoo!, AOL, and most other search engines collect and store records of your search queries. If these records are revealed to others, they can be embarrassing or even cause great harm.
- Canadian Organic Growers applauds new organic regulation
News Release September 5, 2006
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Canadian Organic Growers (COG), Canada's largest national organic organization, applauds the Government of Canada's new organic products regulation.
- Stupid Opinion #1: All Opinions are Equal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
People say, "Don't be judgmental" - as if we shouldn't evaluate behaviour, from amazingly loving to atrocious. Many intone, "No one has the right to judge opinions" - as if racist opinions, say, had the same validity as anti-racist opinions.
- Press for Conversion #59
September 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A phony democracy – dominated by warlords, drug barons, oil industry representatives and World Bank administrators – has now been successfully imposed upon Afghanistan by the world's major military and economic powers, including Canada.
- Is Your Website Search Engine Friendly?
Your Personal Checklist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
When I sit down with new clients and discuss the status of their new or existing site they are often shocked when I am forced to inform them that their site is not search engine friendly.
- How right wing the left sounds after its moment of racial truth
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
We are not born with a gene that insists we become Muslim or Christian or Rastafarian. We are born, all of us, with a tabula rasa; we are not defined by the nationality or religion or cultural assumptions of our parents.
- The Rank and File Strategy: Building A Socialist Movement in the U.S.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
We are seeing more and more attempts by rank and file union members to make their unions more democratic and more effective in fighting today's highly aggressive employers and in organizing the unorganized.
- Israel/Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"?
Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Amnesty International calls for the immediate establishment of a comprehensive, independent and impartial inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law by both Hizbullah and Israel in the conflict. The inquiry should examine in particular the impact of this conflict on the civilian population. It should propose effective measures to hold accountable those responsible for crimes under international law, and to ensure that the victims receive full reparation.
- On the US-Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The supposed justifications for the invasion are a cynical fraud.
- Israel Must Win
"You Cannot Promise Victory, Produce a Humiliating Defeat and Stay in Power"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
IDF military offensive doctrine is grounded on one basic axiom that was defined by David Ben Gurion in the early fifties: whatever it takes, Israel must always win! This axiom is indeed very powerful, yet, in reality, the Israeli army can’t provide the goods anymore. In the last three decades the Israeli army is constantly being beaten time after time by enemies that are getting smaller and smaller.
- How to fight reactionaries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Fundamentalists of all kinds only thrive when their communities feel besieged. Understanding why is not an indulgence.
- Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The human and genuine solution to the problem of nuclear weapons, to Islamic terrorism and its horrific crimes against the people of the world, and to the militaristic bullying of the US and Western governments lies in the hands of us people.
- Update: Humanitarian Situation in the Occupied Territories, Lebanon and Israel Update: Humanitarian Situation in the Occupied Territories, Lebanon and Israel
News Release August 16, 2006
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First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Israel has invaded Lebanon and continues to hold the Occupied Territories in siege. As Canada plays an active role in supporting Israel, it is incumbent on the public and on members of government to have access to accurate reporting. At the Nuremberg Tribunal after World War II, "I didn't know" was a frequent defense. This is unconscionable. At present, there are many sources of reliable information, of facts generally not reported in the media. We reiterate to the media and to members of government their obligation to fully report, investigate, and understand the circumstances in the Middle East when making decisions that involve such profound threats to life.
- Building blocks for peace in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The minimal demands of both sides are compatible and legitimate; the maximum demands lead to endless war.
- James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
James Tiptree, Jr. burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with a series of hardedged, provocative short stories. After years, the cover was blown on his alter ego: A sixty-one-year old woman named Alice Sheldon. This fascinating biography, ten years in the making, is based on extensive research, exclusive interviews, and full access to Alice Sheldon's papers.
- Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The Palestinian refugee situation is one of the most protracted cases of forced displacement in the world today (UNHCR, 2006). The largest group of Palestinian refugees originate from areas inside the state of Israel and were displaced during the 1948 Israeli-Arab war. A smaller number of Palestinians remain internally displaced from this period and are citizens of Israel.
- Statement of Concern for the Public Health Situation in Gaza
Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A statement by over eighty Canadian health professionals, including a number of prominent medical advocates for human rights and peace, expresses deep concern over the silence of the Canadian Government and the Canadian media about the humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
- The Lies of Alan Dershowitz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Violence is never the answer. Nor is racism. Nor is hate. Alan Dershowitz is a proponent of all three. Israelis and sympathetic Jews must finally realize that Dershowitz and other uncritical apologists of Israel are neither doing them nor the world any favors. Quite the opposite is true.
- Theories of History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Conventional history tends to make ordinary people invisible. The motive forces of history are treated as some combination of "great men" (very occasionally women, almost always hetero and white regardless of gender) and impersonal forces like "economics" (treated in ways that reify them and give them agency outside of the local, everyday human activities that actually produce them).
- Sanctions on Israel: If not now, when?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
How much longer are we prepared to watch Lebanon and Palestine burn, before we act?
- Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy.
- Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
We are supposed to think that the current crisis in the Middle East has no historical roots.
- Shame on you, Mr. Harper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Open letter initiated by members of Shalom-Salaam, a Jewish-Arab Montreal dialogue group.
- Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
- If Israel Has the Right to Use Force in Self Defense, So Do Its Neighbours
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
There is no reason why Israel should be able to enter Arab sovereign soil to occupy, destroy, kidnap and eliminate its perceived foes - repeatedly, with impunity and without restraint - while the Arab side cannot do the same.
- Stop That Shit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- The real aim of Israel's attacks on Lebanon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The real aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
- Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. Local residents believe that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport.
- Israel's appalling bombing of Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Destroying the only power source for a trapped and defenseless civilian population is an unprecedented step toward barbarity. It reeks, ironically, of the Warsaw Ghetto.
- Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
History of the world's great tongues, from the resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the self-regard of Greek and to the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe, these epic achievements and more are explored, as are the fascinating failures of once "universal" languages.
- What is Going on at the Library of Congress?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
What is going on at the Library of Congress? Several recent decisions by the current LC
administration have produced firestorms of protest, both inside and outside the Library, that LC is abdicating its professional responsibilities to the national system of shared cataloging, as well as undermining its core mission to acquire, catalog, make accessible, and preserve its own unparalleled holdings – especially its book collections.
- With A Little Help From Outside
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The world sees a great and ongoing injustice. They want a just Israel. They see an Israel that occupies and is clearly unjust, and they believe they should do something. We should thank them for this from the bottom of our hearts.
- South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
- A Threat from Within: Jewish Opposition to Zionism - Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Review of a book on Jewish Orthodox opposition to Zionism.
- Toronto Jewish Folk Choir 80th Annual Concert
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
- Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group's path to success with director Ben Fine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
- The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
Yes! Magazine Summer 2006
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The Great Turning is a name for the transition from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining society. It identifies the shift from a self-destroying political economy to one in harmony with Earth and enduring for the future. It unites and includes all the actions being taken to honor and preserve life on Earth. It is the essential adventure of our time.
- A Revised History of the Slave Trade
Lessons from a Terrible Global Experience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
It’s almost 200 years since the Anglo-American trade was banned: how do historians now view its practices and effects?
- Govt to take over MTC prison
Private Jail Operation Contract Not Renewed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- The real first casualty of war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.
- New book describes a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Top Ten Misconceptions About the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Top Ten Rules of Crisis Management
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Top Ten Strategies for an Appearance in Front of an Editorial Board
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Top Ten Things to do Before a Presentation or Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Top Ten Ways to Calm Down During Tense Negotiations or Mediations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. Final Report. March 17, 2006
Discovery Tools. Final Report. March 17, 2006.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The Calhoun report draws unjustified conclusions about the digital age, inflates wishful thinking, fails to make critical distinctions, and disregards (as well as mischaracterizes) an alternative “niche” strategy for research libraries, to promote scholarship (rather than increase “market position”).
- Commemorating France's Worst Mining Tragedy: 1099 Workers Perished to Profit the Bosses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A mining catastrophe in northern France on March 10, 1906, is remembered with a number of commemorative ceremonies.
- The Sharia socialists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Black History and the Class Struggle
#19
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Articles include: New Orleans: Racist Atrocity; Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction; The Lyncihing of Emmett Till and the Fight for Black Liberation.
- Press for Conversion #58
March 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
RADARSAT, is probably Canada’s single-most important technological contribution to the militarisation of space and U.S. warfighting.
- Karl Heinz Diemer Obituary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Radio Frequency ID Removes Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Radio Frequency ID violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is part of the stealthy forging of a police state.
- Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
If singling out South Africa for an international economic boycott was defensible, it would seem equally defensible to single out Israel's occupation, which uniquely resembles the apartheid regime.
- Media obsession over young voters' apathy reflect neediness and self-absorption that make teenagers such exhausting company
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Coverage of voter apathy among teens reveals the Canadian media's advertiser driven content and desire to gain circulation in a desirable age bracket rather than a sincere desire to affect change and involve youth in the democratic process.
- Sharia "Socialists"
I.S. Upholds Anti-Woman Religious Courts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
It is mind-boggling that self-styled leftists would champion a campaign by the most reactionary, anti-woman forces in the Muslim community to have their religious law backed by the authority of the capitalist state.
- The Aeneid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- An African Village Two decades of change in an African Village
New Internationalist May 2006 - #389
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A look at the lives of people living in African villages and how things have improved.
- Age Shock
How Finance is Failing Us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Blackburn examines the realities of an aging demographic in the midst of the disintegration, from both a monetary and social obligation perspective, of sound financial conditions for the elderly.
- American Fascists
The Christian Right and the War on America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques. Hedges argues that the movement resembles the young fascist movements in Italiy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. He challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
- The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary
Movements, Histories and Motivations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
This dictionary is an alternative and a counter-balance to the many political dictionaries that ignore or marginalize the history and influence of anti-capitalist movements.
- Books of Interest - Sources 58
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Reviews of books about journalism, media, and research.
- Books of Interest - Sources 57
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Breaking the Spell of Stupid Opinions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
When someone is outside the hold of a stupid opinion, its inanity is so apparent that one wonders how it could ever be held by anyone. But when people are caught believing something that isn't reality-based, most believe it far more rigidly than they believe facts.
- Build It Now
Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
- Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A call for sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights.
- The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A handbook in which 'experts on expertise' review knowledge on expertise and expert performance and how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of their development, training, reasoning, knowledge, social support, and innate talent. Methods are described for the study of experts' knowledge and their performance of representative tasks from their domain of expertise. The development of expertise is also studied by retrospective interviews and the daily lives of experts are studied with diaries. In 15 major domains of expertise, the leading researchers summarize our knowledge on the structure and acquisition of expert skill and knowledge and discuss future prospects. General issues that cut across most domains are reviewed in chapters on various aspects of expertise such as general and practical intelligence, differences in brain activity, self-regulated learning, deliberate practice, aging, knowledge management, and creativity.
- College Street - Little Italy
Toronto's Renaissance Strip
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- The Communist Club
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
History of the Communist Club in 19th century London, in particular detailing the involvement of Karl Marx.
- Counter-Rhetoric
Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
- Dean's Digital World: Shifting alliances in the web wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Dean's Digital World - Sources 58
The Invisible Web
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Article about the "invisible Web" or "Deep Web".
- Death in the Haymarket
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The story of the anarchosyndicalist militants accused of perpetrating the throwing of a bomb that killed police at a workers' rally at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
- A debate on ‘Who speaks for me?’ - Tanuka Loha vs. Kenan Malik
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Kenan Malik says: I reject representation by identity not only because the idea that one should be represented only by one’s own kind is, and always has been, at the heart of the racist agenda, but also because such representation acts as an obstacle to what you call ‘a genuinely participatory democracy’. Why? Because it encourages the pursuit of sectional interests, rather than of common goals. The very system of ethnic representation that encourages people to see their problems in narrow, sectional terms.
- The Dershowitz Treatment
Slime Throwing as Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
An expose of Alan Dershowitz's record, showing that he has repeatedly resorted to lies, slander, fabrications, falsifications and plagiarism in public debate and in his published works.
- Documents from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Effective Media Relations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Media relations is human relations. Journalism is about telling compelling stories about people and their lives.
- Empire's Workshop
Latin America, the United States and the Rise of the New Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Looks at U.S. foreign policy post 9/11 and its antecedents.
- The End of the Line
How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Decades and even centuries of habitat destruction, pollution, and overfishing have transformed and degraded the oceans.
- The Everyday Activist
365 Ways to Change the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
- Expose Yourself!
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A booklet about effective media relations, providing practical advice about getting media coverage and relating to the media.
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A readable account of the development of the science of global warming, alongside shocking vignettes that demonstrate the rapidly altering effects climate change is having on our world.
- Food Fanatics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Ill-informed dogmatism has no place in a healthy lifestyle.
- For Lust of Knowing
The Orientalists and their enemies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A rebuttal of Edward Said which examines who the Orientalists were, how historically they advanced their disciplines, and what their achievements have been. Irwin calls Said's book "a work of malignant charlatanry."
- The Foreign Correspondent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Paris, 1938. A murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel. But this is no romantic tragedy -- it is the work of Mussolini's fascist secret police, and is meant to eliminate the editor of a clandestine emigre newspaper that is part of the Italian resistance. Whe Carol Weisz, a foreign correspondent with Rusters, becomes the new editor, he finds himself a target.
- Fraternity Gang Rape
Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A chilling picture of fraternity society, its debasement of woman and the way it creates a looking-glass world in which gang rape can be considered normal behaviour and the pressure of group-think is powerful.
- Freedom Riders
1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Gatekeepers
Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- The German Revolution, 1917-1923
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- The God Delusion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Dawkins' basic argument is that the collective irrational belief in "The God Hypothesis" is not only wrong ("intellectual high treason"), but pernicious.
- Graffiti from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- The Great Turning
From Empire to Earth Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Heat
How to Stop the Planet From Burning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Concerns about the effects of global warming on the Human species - especially those unfortunate enough to live in poorer countries - require drastic action, far outstripping the recommendations of the Kyoto protocol.
- Tim Hector
A Caribbean Radical's Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
- Heidegger and National Socialism
New Contributions to an Old Debate - Reviewed by Robin Celikates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Hizballah Through the Fog of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
An interview with Middle East specialist Augustus Richard Norton on the nature of the Lebanese-based Hezbollah group, in which he attempts to dispel some of the shibboleths that hamper Western understanding of its aims and design.
- How to Deal with The Lobby: The De-Zionization of the American Mind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Countering the influence of the Zionist lobby.
- Human Resources Guide to Workplace Investigations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A comprehensive "how-to" manual for planning and executing a proper and fair workplace investigation.
- Humanitarian Imperialism
Using Human Rights to Sell War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers, above all, the United States, in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks.
- Identity and Violence
The Illusion of Destiny
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The world may be more riven by murderous violence than ever before; yet Amartya Sen proposes in this sweeping philosophical work that the brutalities are driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Conflict and violence are sustained by the illusion of a unique identity, overlooking the need for reason and choice in deciding on bonds of class, gender, profession, scientific interests, moral beliefs, and even our shared identity as human beings. Sen draws on history, economics, science, literature, and his own memories of difficult as well as easy times on three continents to present an inspiring vision of a world that can be made to move toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward violence and war.
- Identity Theft Toolkit
How to Recover From and Avoid Identity Theft
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Explains how thieves steal your identity, and how you can prvent it from happening to you. If you are a victim of identity theft, this book also guides you through the steps necessary to restore your name and good credit rating.
- Ines of My Soul
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- The Irresistible Revolution
Living as an Ordinary Radical
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Israeli Left Archive
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
An evolving data base of the Israeli Radical Left. The long range vision of this project is to continue to digitalize thousands of items (leaflets, internal documents, newspaper articles and press clippings, movement periodicals, photographs, protocols and other materials). The origins of the current developing data base are in the private archive of Dafna and Reuven Kaminer. In general, the data base is devoted mainly to the radical left and the women's peace movement during the sixties, seventies and the eighties.
- Israel's attack on the UN post in Lebanon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Israel's leaders could care less about world outrage. Israel's superpower patron, the United States, supports everything Israel does and keeps supplying money and arms, while the U.S. and Canadian media provide uncritical support.
- Jane Jacobs, Urban Visionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A biography of Jane Jacobs.
- Keeping Current
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
With a blog, a piece in the Globe or an appearance on a cable show that only two percent of the population watches, you can get a bounce or multiplier effect. Mainstream networks and cable news shows are reading blogs on the air to viewers, thus giving them legs.
- Labour Left Out
Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- The Library at Night
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The Library at Night tells the story of the important role of libraries in human civilization and how books are an essential link between the individual and the world.
- Life, Money & Illusion
Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
- Looking at Israel from the other side
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A review of two books: Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries, by Suad Amiry, and The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide.
- Manitoulin Rocks!
Rocks, Fossils and Landforms of Manitoulin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
An introduction to the geology of Manitoulin Island and nearby areas to the north, for the non-specialist.
- Marxism and Ecological Economics
Towards a Red and Green Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A general assessment of ecological economics from Marxist point of view, demonstrating the potential contributions of Marxist political economy to ecological economical theory.
- Marxism's 'Communicative Crisis'?
Mapping Debates over Leninist Print-Media Practices in the 20th Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Marxism’s ‘communicative crisis’, it was a topic of concern that was addressed, debated and negotiated over by party leaders, intellectuals and activists on a continuous basis throughout the 20th century. These concerns revolved around three areas: first, the primary means of print communication, the party paper; second, the specialization of production, particularly around the role of writers and journalists; and third, the search for a popular rhetoric and writing style, which would appeal to the general public.
- Masters Of Our Domains
Those ugly websites full of ad links are a multibillion dollar industry. Meet its kings.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Buying domain names and filling these with nothing but advertisor links who pay the owner a pay per click fee has become big business. The two largest advertisors on the ugly domain owner sites are Google and Yahoo who have been criticized for this practice.
- Misrepresented? Hugo Chavez and the Western Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
An interview with Julia Buxton about Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, and target of concerted criticism in the western media.
- Nature Girl
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
- Nonviolence
Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Not for Sale
Decommodifying Public Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Not for Sale discusses the alternatives presented by local, national, and international struggles to decommodify and democratize as many spheres of life as possible.
- The Occupier Defines Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Offside
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Oracle Bones
A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A first-hand exploration of contemporary China through the accounts of its living citizens as well as through ancient artifacts uncovered in archeological digs -- a psycho-social examination of who the Chinese are today.
- Outspoken
Free Speech Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Nan Levinson tells the stories of twenty people who refused to let anyone whittle away at their right to speak, think, create, or demur as they pleased.
- Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
- Panoply of the Absurd
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Conspiracy theorists are filling bestsellers with their supposed evidence about September 11.
- Peace Mom
A Mother's Journey Through Heartache to Activism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
An American mother loses her 24-year-old soldier son, killed in action in Iraq, and leads her to become a prominent US anti-war activist.
- The Perils of Faith-Based Multiculturalism
The Case of Shari'a in Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Conservative religious leaders have become more vocal and demanding, and governments are giving in to their demands without much regard for the serious consequences for democracy and citizens’ rights.
- Pictures Bring Us Messages
Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa. Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
An example of museum professionals working with member of an aboriginal community to explore photographs taken of members of that community many decades earlier.
- Post 9/11 Conspiracism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The tendency to explain all major world events as primarily the product of a secret conspiracy is called conspiracism. The antidote to conspiracism is Power Structure Research.
- Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
- Publish and Prosper
Blogging for Your Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Written from the business person/designer's perspectives, this book shows how businesses can leverage current, real-world blogging techniques, tools, and platforms to promote and enhance their ventures.
Available on the Sources Intranet via the MarketingHelp file.
Filename: PublishandProsper-BloggingforYourBusiness-NewRiders-2006.cfm
- PWAC - the 'P' becomes professional after 30 years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Rabble-Rouser for Peace
The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Refugee Sandwich
Stories of Exile and Asylum
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- The Roadmap to Nowhere
Israel/Palestine Since 2003
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
An urgent and searing exposé of the 'peace process' by a prominent Israeli thinker.
- Search Engine Optimization
An Hour a Day
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A primer on search engine optimization.
- Search Engine Optimization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Whether your website depends on broad, general traffic, or high-quality, targeted traffic, this PDF has the tools and information you need to draw more traffic to your site. You'll learn how to effectively use PageRank (and Google itself); how to get listed, get links, and get syndicated; and much more.
Available on the Sources Intranet via MarketingHelp.
Filename: SearchEngineOptimization-O'Reilly-2006-chm
- Search Engine Optimization for Dummies
2nd Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
An introduction to search engine optimization.
- Serko
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- The Shadow of the Great Game
The Untold Story of India's Partition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Singh analyzes Britain's true intentions in the partition of India in 1947: a plan to detach Pakistan from India, create a militarily strategic foothold aimed at the Soviet Union, and maintain control over the oil fields of the Middle East.
- Six Questions for Augustus Richard Norton on Lebanon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Questions concerning the 2006 abduction of Israelis to trade for Lebanese prisoners being held in Israeli prisons.
- Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs
And Other Fascinating Facts about the Language from Canada's Word Lady
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Something Happened
A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Thin
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The story of four women suffering from anorexia and bulimia in South Florida.
- Thinking about the Sixties
1960-1967
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Top Ten Questions to Ask When a Reporter Calls You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
When you're respoding to a reporter's call, take time to think and ask yourself these questions.
- Top Ten Strategies for Appearing on a TV Talk Show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Prepare yourself to appear on a TV talk show.
- Top Ten Things to do Before a Radio Talk Show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Be prepared when you go on a talk show.
- Towers of Deception
The Media Cover-Up of 9/11
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- The Truth About the "9/11 Truth Movement"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A rebuttal of some of the claims made by 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
- Understanding new media
augmented knowledge and culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Unspeakable Love
Gay amd Lesbian Life in the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- The Ursula Franklin Reader
Pacifism as a Map
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A prominent Canadian peace activist discusses peace, technology, justice and women's issues in a collection of essays, speeches and unpublished musings.
- The U.S. Embargo against Venezuela
The State Department's Mock Indignation Gives a Bad Name to U.S. Diplomacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A discussion of the 2006 U.S. arms embargo against Venezuela.
- Le Voyage En Armenie. (Journey to Armenia)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Welcome to Sources - Sources 57
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- What is anarcho-syndicalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Libertarian syndicalism interprets liberty as self-management or control over one's life, and believes that freedom for the working class requires the elimination of working class subordination to capitalist or state bosses.
- What Went Wrong in Ohio
The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Documents fraud in the 2004 U.S. election.
- The Year of Magical Thinking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A memori of grief.
- You Can't Read This
Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Written for children ages ten and up, You Can't Read This explores the development of alphabets, the decoding of ancient languages, and censorship in Ancient Rome and modern America.
- An activist's guide to basic first aid
A short guide to health care and first aid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
A short guide to health care and first aid to be used on demonstrations or during direct action when injuries are possible, such as large pickets, blockades or demonstrations.
- Resolution on the Library of Congress Management's Decision to Cease the Production of Series Authority Records
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
- Canadian Library Association Award for the Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada Winners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 1988
Winners from 1988 on.
- Book of the Year for Children Award
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 1947
Winners from 1947 on.
- Oaxaca protests 2006
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).
- Scholarpedia
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006
Published: 2006
Scholarpedia is a peer-reviewed encyclopedia written by the leading experts in their respective fields. It does not publish "research" or "position" papers, but rather "living reviews" that will be maintained by the future generation of experts via the process of curatorship. The (ambitious) goal of Scholarpedia is that of being an understandable and useful encyclopedic reference for scholars of different levels.
- Our Daily Bread
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005
Published: 2018
While this remarkable documentary will likely engender fascination, awe and even shock amongst viewers, OUR DAILY BREAD simply aims to show the industrial production of food as a reflection of our society's values: plenty of everything, made as quickly and as efficiently as modern technology permits.
by: Icarus Films
- Manufactured Revolutions?
A look at the dynamics of US imperial manipulation, internal opposition and and popular revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2014
When is a revolution not a revolution? That is the question commentators have been asking following a wave of regime changes that has zigzagged its way progressively eastwards over the last five years.
- The Case for Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2010
An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
- Proletarian management: Informal workplace organization - Kämpa Tillsammans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2007
Interesting article about informal workplace organising, management tactics and suggestions for workers to build power on the job.
- The Wall Must Fall
End the Occupation and Violence in Israel-Palestine
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2005
Published: 2007
A resource for interested union and community members featuring voices from the Israeli and Palestinian peace movements often shut out of the mainstream media. By highlighting the progressive peace movement, The Wall Must Fall demonstrates that this issue is not a Jewish vs. Palestinian one, but one of basic human rights.
- Commonwealth of Thieves
The Improbable Birth of Australia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2006
A history of the first four years of the convict settlement in Australia, examining the interplay of soldiers, convicts, and Aborigines.
- Insurgency Online
Web Activism and Global Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2006
Explores the nature of the web and its potential for facilitating participation in political debate.
- Race Against Time
Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2006
This book is a compilation of the 2005 Massey Lectures on the topic of the Millennium Development Goals, with a special focus on AIDS in Africa. Lewis' lectures are personal and passionate in their denunciation of the international community's response to the AIDS pandemic and poverty in Africa.
- The Tree
A Natural History of what trees are, how they live, and why they matter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2006
- A Writer at War
A Sovet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941 - 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2006
War reporting by Vasily Grossman, a correspondent for the Red Army, the Soviet Army's newspaper.
- Telling it like it isn't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Let's call a colony a colony, let's call occupation what it is, let's call a wall a wall.
- Hate speech in a plural society
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
One of the ironies of living in a more inclusive, more diverse society appears to be that the preservation of diversity requires us to leave increasingly to leave less room for a diversity of views. So, it is becoming increasingly common these days for liberals to proclaim that free speech is necessary in principle – but also to argue that in practice we should give up that right.
- Israel and Palestine After Disengagement
Noam Chomsky debates with Alan Dershowitz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Can We Talk?: Censorship, Pedophilia, and Panic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Pederasty and pedophilia have been topics of debate in works about gay and straight history, given long-standing traditions of intergenerational sex between and among men and women. The right uses that fact to condemn all queers, particularly gay men, as predators of children.
- False Freedom
Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
This report examines internet censorship policy and how theIinternet has transformed the accessibility of information mainly in the countries of Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. When examining each country the following is considered: government policies on Internet access, theIinternet's role in affecting freedom of expression, restrictive laws and cases in which individuals have been detained for their online activities.
- Demonizing the Victims of Katrina
Coverage painted hurricane survivors as looters, snipers and rapists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Hurricane Katrina led many media reporters and commentators to reveal themselves and their deep-seated prejudices.
- Problems of Autonomism
Strategies for the Latin American Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Since the mid-1990s, autonomist politics has gained influence in Latin America. Its theorists are attentively listened to and their practical proposals awaken great interest. But this scenario has begun to change with the appearance of new nationalist and center-left governments. The rise of Lula, Kirchner, and Tabaré, the increased strength of Chávez, the resurgence of Fidel, and the shift of López Obrador changes the playing field that favoured the expansion of libertarian theories.
- Punctuation Marks: A Story of Class Struggle
From 1905 to Our Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
An essay on the relevance of the 1905 revolution in Russia.
- Utopia: Towards a New Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Torontonians begin to see their city as a place of possibility and potential. Visions of a truly workable, liveable and world-class city are once again dancing in citizens' heads. "uTOpia" aims to capture and chronicle that spirit, collecting writing by many of the people inspired by and involved in the developing projects.
- Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Orientalism,' was confused and sloppy to be point of being unethical.
- We need to be told
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
When journalists report propaganda instead of the truth, the consequences can be catastrophic - as one largely forgotten instance demonstrates.
- Press for Conversion #57
October 2005
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
This issue contains more, original COAT research on Canadian contributions to the creation, development and deployment of "missile defense" weaponry, with a particular focus on sea-based systems within the Theater Missile Defense (TMD) program.
- Dignity of the Nobodies
La dignidad de los nadies
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The degraded socio-economic condition of Argentina leading to the December 2001 rebellions, and its consequent social chaos analyzed by focusing on real people from Buenos Aires' poorest shantytowns, crumbling hospitals, and women middle class farmers fighting multi-national banks that are shamelessly appropriating their farmlands.
- Wealth, Income, and Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
This document presents details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States, and explains how we can use these two distributions as power indicators.
- Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. For many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. In this essay, the implications of these problems for the conduct and interpretation of research is discussed.
- The settlers' retreat was the theatre of the cynical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The settlers' retreat from Gaza was the theatre of the cynical.
- Changing Modes of Canadian Complicity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
It is important for those of us who see and criticize Canadian hypocrisy to point out that Hillier's comments and other similar things are perfectly consistent with Canada's actual history. But we also do ourselves a disservice if we fail to recognize the ways in which strategic deployment of such rhetoric is part of a project that aims to undo the paltry progressive victories that are still standing.
- The Medicaid Kill-Off
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
President George W. Bush and Congress slashed $10 billion from the Medicaid budget for this coming year [2006]. Medicaid is the primary public health care program for impoverished persons that serves over 53 million people. The cut is clearly an attack on poor people, and it may wind up killing disabled and chronically ill persons before all is done. It is also a strike from those segments in our society who wish to dismantle the entire Medicaid system.
- Will Google's Keyword Searching Eliminate the Need for LC Cataloging and Classification?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Google Print does not "change everything" regarding the need for professional cataloging and classification of books; its limitations make cataloging and classification even more important to researchers. Google’s keyword search mechanism, backed by the display of results in "relevance ranked" order, is expressly designed and optimized for quick information seeking rather than scholarship.
- Black day for the blue pencil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Black Day for the Blue Pencil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Once they were key figures in literary publishing, respected by writers who acknowledged their contribution to shaping books. But, argues Blake Morrison, editors are now an endangered species.The editorial tradition, first of all, is for self-effacement. As human beings, editors may be far from self-effacing, but as workers their contribution goes largely unacknowledged - a nod in the preface or a thank-you from the author at the launch party and that's it. They're the ghosts in the machine, the secret sharers, the anonymous power behind the throne.
- Wasáse
Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
An integration of anarchist thinking with indigenous theory.
- Multiculturalism fans the flames of islamic extremism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Multiculturalism as lived experience enriches our lives. But multiculturalism as a political ideology has helped create a tribal Britain with no political or moral centre.
- Die Oase
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Women of Color & Reproductive Rights
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The authors of Undivided Rights attempt to provide both an overview of how women of color approach organizing around reproductive rights, case studies of those specific organizations and the work they do on the ground. Three framing chapters introduce and summarize, while the other dozen describe specific women’s health organizations within the African American, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander and Latina communities.
- People of Color Talk is Cheap
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A concept like ‘People of Color’, which obscures privilege and hierarchy within the racial system itself, can often make work harder for antiracists.
- War, Globalisation and Reproduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Parecon and the nature of reformism
A review of Robin Hahnel (2005). Economic Justice and Democracy; From Competition to Cooperation. NY
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The concept of participatory economics, as developed by Hahnel and Albert, is worth exploring. They are inspired by the tradition of libertarian, councilist, socialism. They share the values of revolutionary class struggle anarchism. Even in disagreeing with them, there is much to be learned from reading their work, since they are t houghtful people who are dealing with important issues. Yet they demonstrate, in spite of themselves, that it is not enough to attempt to not be reformist. It is necessary to be revolutionary.
- Patent Absurdity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted.
- Political Incorrectness: Female Actors and Trojans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
In an excess of purported equality, some Hollywood actresses want to be called "actors." How sad and self-defeating. Doesn't opting for the male-designated noun, actor, imply superiority of that male form? If not, why not seek equality by extending the female form -- actress -- to actors; e.g., "Actress Tom Cruise". That would assert the prominence of the female-designated noun.
- Press for Conversion #56
June 2005
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Canada's supposed “no” to "missile defense" was a completely meaningless, PR gesture with no real or practical significance. The fact is that Canada's government did not do anything at all to stop the many already existing forms of Canadian complicity in “missile defense.” Neither did if prevent further participation in this U.S.-led weapons development program.
- Letter to Metro Morning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Metro Morning, which is so welcoming and inclusive towards all manner of cultures and creative endeavours, is known for not giving coverage to events or groups which bring Palestinians and Jews together in dialogue and in working for peace.
- Targeting Disability
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
In addition to old-age benefits, it is often forgotten that Social Security provides survivor and disability insurance protections as well. The privatization debate has overlooked the fate of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) as a part of the program's family of benefits.
- Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The stories of the hard-rock miners’ shooting wars, Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the “Rebel Girl”), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the struggle for birth control access, bohemian radicals John Reed and Louise Bryant, field-hand revolts and lumber workers’ strikes, wartime witch hunts, government prosecutions and mob lynching, Mexican-American uprisings in Baja, and Mexican peasant revolts led by Wobblies, hilarious and sentimental songs created and later revived—all are here, and much more.
- The beauty of wind farms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Windmills are beautiful. They harness the power of the wind to supply us with heat and light. They provide local jobs. They help clean our air and reduce climate change.
- A moment on Church Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Right to Life - Ghouls and the Schiavo Case
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Exploiting the Terri Schiavo tragedy.
- Dangerous Terms: A User's Guide to EULAs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
We've all seen them – windows that pop up before you install a new piece of software, full of legalese. To complete the install, you have to scroll through 60 screens of dense text and then click an "I Agree" button.
- Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Anyone who has ever wondered how black people managed to struggle and survive the hideous tortures meted out during slavery and afterward would gain from reading these books. They offer inspiration to a new generation of fighters.
- Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The Orwellian campaign to portray the expression of views in the university that run contrary to those ruling the country as a lack of "academic freedom."
- Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It's Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A call from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for sanctions as the next logical step in the global campaign to end the Occupation.
- Framing: Primer for a Progressive Revolution -- Part I Philosophy and Rational for Framing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The introduction of framing into the progressive community could well prove to be the beginning of a revolution. But such a revolution can evolve and sustain only with a concerted, impassioned effort by progressive opinion leaders -- executed in such a way that will compel the average voter to IDENTIFY with progressive values.
- April Fool
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Arthur Beauchamp, retired criminal lawyer, living in retirement on a B.C. island, is called on to return from retirement to defend former lcient Nick Faloon, who is accused of murder. Meanwhile Arthur's wife Margaret Blake is up a tree in an effort to defend a forest from loggers.
- Arthur & George
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A novel about Aruthur Vonan Doyle.
- Autonomous Media
Activating Resistance & Dissent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
- The Bedside Book of Birds
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- 'Beijing's bitch'
Beijing & Microsoft
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Putting profits ahead of human rights.
- Beyond Chutzpah
On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A meticulously researched expose of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.
- Big business is not to blame
Corporations would act on global warming but are stalled by government in the name of the market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Innovative technologies are available to improve the energy efficiency of residential and commercial properties. Businesses who want to adopt these new technologies would be placing themselves at a disadvantage to do so, unless governments mandate improved efficiency standards -- which they refuse to do.
- Black History and the Class Struggle
#18
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: "A Life in the Black Panther Party — We Want Freedom — A Review of a Book by Mumia Abu-Jamal," "How the Liberals and Reformists Derailed the Struggle for Integration — For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!", "The 'N' Word in Racist America."
- Black Ink and the New Red Power
Native American Newspapers and Tribal Sovereinty Journalism Communication Monographs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Black Ink and the New Red Power: Native American Newspapers and Tribal Sovereignty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Books for Burning
Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970s Italy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Born in Bradford
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Multiculturalism transformed the character of antiracism. By the mid-1980s the focus of antiracist protest in Bradford had shifted from political issues, such as policing and immigration, to religious and cultural issues: a demand for Muslim schools and for separate education for girls, a campaign for halal meat to be served at school, and, most explosively, the confrontation over the publication of The Satanic Verses. Political struggles unite across ethnic or cultural divisions; cultural struggles inevitably fragment.
- Breaking the Silence
Israeli Soldiers talk about Hebron
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- The Broker
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- The Buzz Hargrove election controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
We aren't obligated to vote NDP no matter what the circumstances.
- Canadian Newspaper Ownership in the Era of Convergence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
An academic text aimed at scholars and students.
- The Canadian Writer's Handbook
4th edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A guide to research, writing, and documentation.
- The Case Against Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
- The Case for Palestine
An International Law Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Book review.
- Catastrophe in the Opening
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Illustrative games that contain disasters in the opening phase of a chess game.
- Chatter: Dispatches From the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- China in the Contemporary World Dynamic of Accumulation and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The Chinese ruling elite is riding the whirlwind precisely because its own necessary reforms are quite visibly setting in motion social processes that could completely overwhelm it, namely a working-class and peasant insurrection which would necessarily assume a truly socialist content.
- The cost of software piracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The enormous dollar amounts the software industry throws around in its PR campaigns about software 'piracy' are purely imaginary.
- Crows
Encounters with the Wise Guys
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Dean's Digital World: Searching on the Internet: Hear the latest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Dean's Digital World: The blight or boon of the blogs?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Dictionary of Ologies and Isms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Disaster and Mental Health
The Palestinian Experience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The continuing Israeli military occupation of Gaza is the cause of deep and widespread trauma for Palestinian children and adults.
- Don't be a Time Bandit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Don't waste journalists' time.
- The Edifice Complex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- The Empire of Mind
Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Strangelove believes the Internet is a dire threat to capitalism.
- The Empire of the Mind
Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Employee Management for Small Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Fanboys and Overdogs
The language report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Fast Food Nation
The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
According to Schlosser, fast food has hastened the malling of the American landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad.
- Female Well-Being
Toward a global theory of social change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Flatly Outrageous
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The flat earth society is not the equivalent of the Fraser Institute.
- 1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
- Girlhood
Redefining the Limits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A collection of essays on girls. It examines girl culture, and the multi-faceted nature of girls' lived experiences. It also looks at "girl" power and the highly commercially lucrative and sexualized culture. The authors examine racism, girlhood gangs, sexuality, chatrooms, the politics of girlhood style and identity formation.The essays cover the many changing and complex aspects of girls in the 21st century.
- Good Fiction Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- A Gramscian Historical-Materialist Analysis of the Informal Learning and development of Black Working- Class Organic Intellectuals in Toronto,1969-1975
MA, University of Toronto, 2005
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- The Great War for Civilisation
The Conquest of the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Fisk explores a number of key themes in the history of the modern Middle East: the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf War as well as the 2003 Iraq War as well as other regional conflicts such as the Armenian Genocide and the Algerian Civil War.
- Headless Males Make Great Lovers
& Other Unusual Natural Histories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Essays on curious creatures and their behaviours.
- Heidegger: L'introduction du nazisme dans la philosophie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Faye argues that all of Heidegger's thinking was permeated by National Socialism.
- Helicoptering to the cottage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Using the company helicopter to fly to and from the cottage.
- History of the Book in Canada
Volume Two: 1840 - 1918
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The second of three volumes dealing with the history of publishing in Canada.
- The Impact of Inequality
How to Make Sick Societies Better
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- In Defence of Sex and Science: Review of Kinsey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A review of the film "Kinsey".
- In the Company of Crows and Ravens
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Invaders from Marx
On the Uses of Marxian Theory, and the Difficulties of a Contemporary Reading
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Heinrich stresses the difference between Marxian theory and traditional understandings of Marxism, emphasizing the "new reading of Marx", which has developed through the last decades.
- The Islamophobia Myth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Pretending that Muslims have never had it so bad might bolster community leaders and gain votes for politicians, but it does the rest of us, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, no favours at all. The more that the threat of Islamophobia is exaggerated, the more that ordinary Muslims come to accept that theirs is a community under constant attack. It helps create a siege mentality, stoking up anger and resentment, and making Muslim communities more inward looking and more open to religious extremism.
- An Issue Of Justice
Origins Of The Israel/Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Finkelstein lays out the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict with clarity and passion, arguing that any other similar conflict would be perfectly understood, yet this one exists beneath a blanket of ideological fog. Finkelstein cuts through the fog with indisputable historical facts, optimistic that the struggle is winnable, and that it is simply an issue of justice.
- Just Around the Corner
The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Aronowitz details how U.S. capitalism has achieved higher profits at the expense of the quality and quantity of jobs, and contradicts the ideological justifications that seek to justify deteriorating jobs, showing how they are neither a mark of efficiency nor a merely temporary problem.
- La Vie en Bleu
France and the French Since 1900
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A study of recent French history.
- Living in One's OwnTime: A Memoir from the Left
Introduction by Kirk Niergarth
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Low-Budget Online Marketing for Small Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A biography of John Brown.
- Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Over the last several years, a revolving network of militants in Paris, France, have developed a strategy and tactics for winning strikes by marginal, low-paid, outsourced and immigrant workers against international chains, in situations where the strikers are often ignored by unions to which they nominally belong, or are actually obstructed by them.
- Media and Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A student text for popular culture and media studies programmes.
- Military Cultural Education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Working with diverse cultures in their home element is more a matter of finesse, diplomacy, and communication than the direct application of coercive power. Success demands an understanding of individual, community, and societal normative patterns as they relate to the tasks soldiers perform and the environment in which they are performed. Cultural education is now necessary as part of soldier and leader development programs.
- The Million Dollar Sale
How to get to the top decision makers and close the big sale
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
No matter how polished a sales presentation is, it's almost impossible to close the deal without talking to the right person. The key is forming powerful selling alliances with "Codebreakers" - sales reps from noncompeting firms already doing millions of dollars of business with your target clients.
- A Misbegotten Myth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Mr. Bush's truthfulness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The truthfulness-challenged President.
- Municipal Reform in Canada
Reconfiguration, Re-Emprowerment, and Rebalancing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- The Nature Handbook
A Guide to Observing The Great Outdoors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The Nature Handbook explores and explains the patterns of nature, revealing them to the many different types of nature observers.
- Neocon con game: First deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
Margaret Wente's Chutzpah
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The neocon con game: first deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
- Never had it So Good
A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- The New Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- News, Truth and Crime
The Westray Disaster and its Aftermath
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
McMullan examines the media coverage devoted to the ten year (1992-2002) aftermath of the May 9, 1992 explosion where 26 miners died at the Westray mine.
- Newsroom tips from The Canadian Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Newsroom tips from The Canadian Press.
- The Next Liberation Struggle
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
- 9/11: Debunking The Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Popular Mechanics special report on September 11 conspiracy theories.
- On Bullshit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- On Oil and Quicksand
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
- The Ongoing Moment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- The Other Side of Israel
My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Explores the unequal treatment of Palestinians living in Israel as "citizens", but as second-class citizens in a theocratic state that discriminates against Arabs in many ways.
- Our Daily Bread
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Our Daily Bread (original German title: Unser taglich Brot) is a 2005 documentary film, depicted how modern food production companies employ technology to produce food on large scales. It consists mainly of actual working situations without voice-over narration or interviews as the director tries to let viewers form their own opinion on the subject. The names of the companies where the footage was filmed are purposely not shown. The director's goal is to provide a realistic view on the internal workings of multiple food production companies in our modern society.
- Oxford Companion to the Photograph
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The book, in dictionary arrangement with asterisked cross-references, comprises 800 biographies of photographers and inventors, and 800 entries on history, techniques, movements, styles, and fashion.
- Oxford Satellite Atlas of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Here are 200 plus snapshots from outside the earth's atmosphere, as stunningly clear and colourful images. Countries, seas, mountains, and lakes are covered, as well as urban areas: for all six continents.
- Paper-contestations and Textual Communities in England 1640 - 1675
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- The Party: Volume 1
The Sixties, A Political Memoir: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Barry Sheppard was a member of the US Socialist Workers Party for 28 years, and a central leader for most of that time. This is the first of two volumes recounting his life in the party.
- The Philosophy of Antonio Negri
Resistance in Practice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- The Pleasure's All Mine
The Memoir of a Professional Submissive
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Postwar
A History of Europe Since 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- The Power of Critical Thinking
Effective Reasoning about Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Discusses cognitive research on critical thinking and teaching strategies as well as excercises. Diagramming, verbal reasoning, and drawing are employed in the practice of critical thinking.
- Progressive Frames for Taxes
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
As progressives, we do not believe that taxes are necessarily an affliction. Instead, we think of taxes as investments that give us dividends.
- The Prosecution of War Crimes for the Destruction of Libraries and Archives during Times of Armed Conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers
Conversations with Jewish Critics of Isreal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
This is a collection of interviews, edited, introduced, and annotated by Farber, a member of Jews Against The Occupation. The contributors are among the leading American Jewish critics of Zionism and of Israel's policies towards the Palestinians. The book articualtes the reason behind the dissent and a vocbulary and framework to express it.
- The Rare and Endangered Species of Grey and Bruce Counties
2nd printing with revisions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Rebels, Reds, Radicals
Rethinking Canada's Left History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
McKay looks at the history of the left in Canada as a series of experiments in "living otherwise" -- efforts to work out ways of life and thought strategically opposed to the prevailing liberal-capitalist order.
- The rise of humanism and secularism in Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The backlash and opposition in Iran is at its essence strongly humanist, secularist and modern. You can see it clearly in the rational, popular, and spontaneous acts and the
establishment of hundreds of organisations outside government structures and restrictions that are non-religious and purely for the defence of the human being via reliance on human will.
- Rogue State
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
- Rosa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A murder mystery that Margaret Cannon describes as a staller evocation of the post-First World War era and a brilliant plot.
- Ruling Canada
Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Ruling Canada critically examines Canada's "economic elite" -- a collection of the country's richest and most powerful individuals, many of whom preside over Canada's largest corporations. Brownlee argues that this corporate elite is increasingly unified and class conscious. As a direct result, a broad array of state policies and programs have been cut and/or implemented which serve the interests of this elite minority at the expense of most Canadian citizens.
- Sales Gurus Speak Out
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Salmon Wars
The Battle for the West Coast Salmon Fishery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The history of the west coast salmon fishery and the recent controversies that have surrounded it.
- Sell Your Home in Canada
Understand the pros & cons of selling your home yourself or through an agent.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Sell Your Home in Canada
Understand the pros & cons of selling your home yourself or through an agent.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Sequential Problem Solving
The Project Gutenberg Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Setting the Record Straight
Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
There is a hope a bi-national soluation will be brought about through political discussion and agitation within both left and liberal circles, especially within the United States, a much less timid Israeli peace movement, and a Left within Israel and among US pro-peace Jewish activists, that courageously embraces the possibility of bi-nationalism and, of course, a Palestinian resistance that works to overcome the nationalism within its own ranks and forges a democratic alternative to the Arafat fraud.
- Setting the Table
An Anthology of Community Stories
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Reminiscences about food.
- SIN-A-RAMA
Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- The Singing Life of Birds
The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Sir! No Sir!
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A documentary about the anti-war movement within the ranks of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War.
- Smooth Talking! Explore the Paid Speaking Market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Becoming a professional speaker.
- Socialist Register 2005
Volume 41: The Empire Reloaded
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Soldiers in Revolt
GI Resistance during the Vietnam War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A definitive account of GI resistance in the Vietnam War. With an introduction by Howard Zinn.
- Speaking to the Media
A special report from Sources with articles from The Sources HotLink
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Being seen, heard, and quoted in the media is perhaps the quickest, best, and most lasting way for a speaker to become better known and more sought after. This booklet offers advice on handling media calls and interviews well.
- A Story About Making a Sex Movie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Politicians try to impose censorship by the back door, by imposing record-keeping obligations that are impossible to comply with.
- The Stranger House
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Things move slowly in the village of Illthwaite, but that's about to change with the arrival of two strangers intent on digging up bits of the past the locals would sooner keep buried. Samantha Flood is a young Australian mathematician whose grandmother was displaced from Illthtwaite four decades ago, countresy of the Child Migrant scheme. Miguel Madero, Sam's fellow guest at the Stranger House inn, is a Spanish wannabe-priest-turned-historian in pursuit of an ancestor last seen setting sail with the Armada in 1588.
- The Suppression of Guilt
The Israeli Media and the Reoccupation of the West Bank
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
In the three years that have passed since Operation Defensive Shield – three years marked by denial, deceit, rage and resentment – one fact remains uncontroversial: never, until the operation, had there been such a wide breach between the Israeli collective consciousness and international public opinion. Israeli scholar Daniel Dor measures this gap and concludes that Israeli society has withdrawn into an unprecedented sense of isolation and victimization – largely because of the role played by the Israeli media.
- Surrealism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Takes the reader on a journey through one of the most fascinating and influential are movements of the twentieth century. Exploring works from some the the modern ear's greatest masters including Dai, Ernst, Miro and Magritte, this richly illustrated reference book offers a welath of insight into the complexities of the Surrealist imagination.
- Tell It Slant
Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Ten Thousand Roses
The Making of a Feminist Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
- Tigers in Red Weather
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
- Tsotsi
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Vanishing British Columbia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Views from the Steel Plant
Voices and Photographs from 100 Years of Making Steel in Cape Breton Island
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Waddle to the Sea
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Amelie's Tortodyssey. Inspired by Holling C. Holling's Paddle to the Sea, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie – and Homer's Odyssey.
- Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A documentary film about the largest company on earth, featuring the stories and everyday lives of families and communities struggling to survive in a Wal-Mart world.
- Whose Health Care?
Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Winds of Change: The Daughters of Bilitis and Lesbian Organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A history of Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), the first national lesbian organization in the United States.
- Winston Gereluk interviews Peggy Morton, May 13, 2005
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
Published in Alberta Labour History Institute
- Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- A Writer at War
Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the front lines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soliders and civilians alike. Beevor and Vinogradova have taken Grossman's notebooks and fashioned them into a gripping narrative.
- Yahoo! to the Max
An Extreme Searchers Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
A reader-friendly guide to online research, communications, investments, and e-commerce through the Yahoo portal.
- Examining your first RSS file
From Beginners Guides: RSS Feed Setup and Subscriptios
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
- Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
Resource Type: Database
First Published: 2005
Published: 2005
The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank contributes to the ongoing effort by historians and archivists to preserve the record of these storms by collecting first-hand accounts, on-scene images, blog postings, and podcasts. We hope to foster some positive legacies by allowing the people affected by these storms to tell their stories in their own words, which as part of the historical record will remain accessible to a wide audience for generations to come.
- Hope in the Dark
Untold histories, wild possibilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2016
Solnit reminds us of how changed the world has been by the activism of the past five decades. She argues for hope - hope even in the dark. She offers a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides new grounds for political engagement in the present.
- 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century (and Beyond) in English
A CounterPunch Reading List
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2014
CounterPunch editors' list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the 20th century,originally compiled in 2004.
- Socialist Voice online archive
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
Published: 2011
Socialist Voice: Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century was an online journal published in Canada from 2004 to 2011.
- Geology and Landforms of Grey and Bruce Counties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2006
- Salvador Allende
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2004
Published: 2006
Patricio Guzmán returns to his native country thirty years after the 1973 military coup that overthrew Chile's Popular Unity government to examine the life of its leader, Salvador Allende, both as a politician and a man.
- The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2005
This book is based on the Oxford Chronology of English Literature.
- The Invention of Journalism Ethics
The Path to Objectivity and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2005
- Smoke and Mirrors
Financial myths that will ruin your retirement dreams
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2005
- Smoke and Mirrors
Financial myths that will ruin your retirement dreams
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2005
- A Threat from Within
A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2005
Rabkin brings to light continuing Jewish opposition to Zionism, a religious tradition which presents a fundamental challenge to the idea of Israel as a Jewish state.
- The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A look at the American military industrial complex and its role in empire building.
- The new Islamo-Marxism: Where Trotsky meets bin Laden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Press for Conversion #55
December 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
"Missile defense" is a deceptive term -- it is a linguistic shield to protect the military-industrial complex (and political allies) from public attack. The term disguises their plan to put weapons into space. While politicians pretend that “missile defense” has nothing to do with space weapons, the corporate media perpetuates the myth that this military program is purely defensive.
- Recollections of the late 1950s: How Marxists in the unions reached out to student radicals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Noncommercial Email Lists: Collateral Damage in the Fight Against Spam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
In their zeal to stop spam, many organizations and companies are blocking the delivery of wanted messages, especially those sent through email lists. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that most blocking processes are not transparent to the email sender or recipient, and email users are generally given little or no control over which emails are blocked.
- Action Will Be Taken
Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern -- it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
- Guide to dealing with the press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
An article with advice on all aspects of dealing with the mainstream press, including face-to-face, press releases, interviews, making complaints and more.
- Noam Chomsky and Marxism
On the roots of modern "authoritarianism" - Part One
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Heiko Khoo argues that Noam Chomsky doesn't understand Marxism.
- Palestinian farmers face settler terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Jewish settlers have a long history of terrorising olive farmers, and they are now increasingly resorting to a worrying tactic: poisoning Palestinian water sources.
- Gardening and food-growing guide
Personal advice and tips on growing your own fruit and vegetables to stay healthy and save money.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
We all know the advantages of organically produced food, but why should we have to spend a fortune on organic fruit and veg? It is often from miles away, over packed, expensive, a bit manky by the time we get it and in some areas only available from supermarkets.
- Housing guide
Advice on taking action to house yourself cheaply and know your rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Advice on taking action to house yourself cheaply and know your rights, in a time when buying a property is beyond many people, council housing is being sold off, rents are rising and hundreds of thousands are homeless.
- Independent media guide
A guide with advice and information on developing your own media, from online and printed publications to speeches, flyposting and more.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Personal guides
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
The advice contained in this section won't change the world, but it can help you improve your life by helping you not get messed around by debt collectors, social services or the police.
- Prison organising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
If you're struggling for a better world, there is a chance that someone you know or even you yourself could go to prison. Thousands of people have been jailed for standing up for themselves and their communities - be they strikers, anti-war demonstrators, non-payers of unfair taxes.
- Poisoning the village wells
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Medical Reform - Volume 24 Issue 2
October 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Nudity: A Cultural Anatomy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
We alternately think of nudity as a perversion and a state of innocence. Why is our response so contradictory and why is nudity treated so differently in different contexts? Drawing on popular culture, literature, philosophy, religion, and firsthand interviews in order to answer these questions, Barcan encounters morticians, nudists, strippers, nurses, tattooists, artists and pornographers.
- Can the Sciences Help Us to Make Wise Ethical Judgments?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Scientific knowledge has a vital, if limited, role to play in shaping our moral values and helping us to frame wiser judgments. Ethical values are natural and open to examination in the light of evidence and reason.
- Why We Need "Free Software" Voting Machines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Argues that voting machines can’t be made more trustworthy by making source code to them available. The benefits for sharing and modifying voting machine source code lie elsewhere. Voting machine software should not be proprietary.
- For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part Two
How the Liberals and Reformists Derailed the Struggle for Integration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
There is a lot of talk today about multiculturalism, diversity, whiteness and "racialized subjects" and other liberal jargon that essentially attempts to erase the centrality of anti-black racism and black oppression in racist capitalist America.
- Press for Conversion #54
August 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
The Bush family's links to fascism.
- Gag Rule
On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation. A call to action in defense of one of the most important liberties, the right to raise our voices against the powers that be, and to have those voice heard.
- The Olga Document
For Truth and Reconciliation, For Equality and Partnership
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A document written in a series of meetings in Givat Olga, Israel, and titled after the location, The Olga Document. Advoctes coexistence of the peoples of this country, based on mutual recognition, equal partnership and implementation of historical justice.
- Chinese Workers' Resistance
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Norm Diamond interviews Tim Pringle, who lives in Hong Kong, where he participates as an observer and also as a member of the editorial board of the Chinese-language magazine Globalization Monitor.
- Medical Reform - Volume 24 Issue 1
July 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Pranks, Frauds, and Hoaxes from Around the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
It's pretty easy to hoax people. We all want to be deceived, but only up to a point. Some hoaxes are fun and pleasant, others malicious and unpleasant. We'd like a way to tell the difference.
- Random Shots: Save That Scrap Metal
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
The Defense of Marriage Act has been characterized as the first amendment that diminishes human rights rather than expand them. Actually, that dishonor would go to the Prohibition amendment. We saw how well that worked out.
- Dobbin replies to Green Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Murray Dobbin replies to the Green party.
- Elementary, dear teacher
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Discusses an 1868 murder as means and motive to teaching history as investigation rather than a timeline with concrete established facts, encouraging more critical thinking and acknowledgement that we can't always know the answers.
- Trotskyism and Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A Trotskyist view of political currents in the Spanish Civil War.
- Bridging the Chasm Between Two Cultures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A full-on clash of cultures makes communication extremely difficult between the skeptical community and the metaphysical/new age community.
- Disciplining Dissent
The Curbing of Free Expression in Academia and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A look into the restrictions on free speech in the media and academia in Canada, the US and Europe.
- Inventing Human Rights: A History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A history of human rights, from the initial conceptualization that 'all men are created equal' to current ramifications.
- Emma Goldman: A life of controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
More than six decades after her death, the anarchist Emma Goldman still stirs passionate political debate. Goldman made headlines in January 2003 when University of California, Berkeley, officials refused to allow the university's Emma Goldman Papers Project to send a fundraising appeal that quoted Goldman speaking out against war and for free speech. University officials said the appeal was too "political" to appear during the Bush administration's ramp-up to war in Iraq. Researchers at the Papers Project, which houses Goldman's personal and public papers, refused to concede in the face of university threats and organized protests against the university's suppression of free speech that forced the university to back down.
- Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 4
April 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- The Destabilization of Haiti
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A short summary of the illegal and suppressed details of American intervention in Haiti during the 1990's and early 2000's.
- Inventing Tax Rage (excerpt)
Misinformation in the National Post
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2005
The propaganda campaign to invent "tax rage".
- Words have failed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
- From Internet Scams to Urban Legends, Planet (hoa)X to the Bible Code
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Press for Conversion #53
March 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Few realize that during the early 1930s, there was a homegrown fascist plot to overthrow the U.S. government and install a dictatorship.
- Random Shots: Let It All Hang Out
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
It's very thoughtful to plant a tree when you won't live to see it full grown. It's even more thoughtful to plant it far enough away from the house so that it doesn't choke the gutters.
- A New Trade Framework for Global Healthcare R&D
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
The AIDS crisis has brought to public notice what has always been generally true — that the existing business model for drug development leads to high prices and unequal access. There is now widespread dissatisfaction with drug prices in both the developed and developing world.
- Review: Poster art of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- ABC's of Media Relations
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- An Action a Day
Keeps Global Capitalism Away
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Adultery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- After Left Nationalism
The Future of Canadian Political Economy
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Kellogg argues against the left nationalist position that Canada's subordinate role vis-a-via U.S. imperialism is should be a concern for the left.
- Agent of social change: A history of Canadian University Press
MA Thesis, Ryerson and York University, 2004
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- America, Right or Wrong
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Another world is possible if...
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
- Anti-Vaccination Fever
The Shot Hurt Around the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Sensationalist media, religious fanatics, and alternative medical practitioners fanned the fires created by questionable research to spawn worldwide epidemics of a disease that has almost been forgotten.
- Armageddon
The Battle for Germany 1944-45
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
An account of the prolonged allied battle for Germany between June 1944 and April 1945.
- The Art of Bringing Science to Fiction: A Science Writer's Ramblings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Bad Marxism
Capitalism and Cultural Studies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the so-called 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.
- Barrie Zwicker's 9/11 Resource Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- The Bird Almanac
A Guide to Essential Facts and Figures of the World's Birds
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Wide-ranging comprehensive resource about the world's birds.
- Black Theatre Canada
A Short History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Published in Canadian Theatre Review# (Spring 2004)
- Books of Interest - Sources 54
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Born into Brothels
Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
The chronicling of two documentary filmmakers and their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
- The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry, Aboriginal writings, Francophone writings, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, urban writing, nature writing, travel writing, and short fiction.
- Cassell's Tales of Endurance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
"The gap we may make in society will be hardly noticed at all" (Richard Lander in his River Niger expedition). This travel anthology charts the exploration of native lands by Peary, Livingston, Burton et al. and some of the lesser known explores such as Lander. Where the book succeeds is with the brief glimpes of those native observers who often noticed that these interlopers would probably bring their own downfall.". Fleming tells us that when "they had a chance they wrote clear, perceptive and sometimes beautiful narratives". This book is travel and exploration as dogged endurance.
- Challenged Books List
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
- Choosing and Using a News Alert Service
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Copyright/Copyleft?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- The Corporation
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
The Corporation explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time.
- Dark Age Ahead
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
- Dark Voyage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
The Noordendam, a Dutch freighter, sails for the intelligence division of the Royal Navy.
- Dean's Digital World: Help for news junkies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Dean's Digital World: Keeping current
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Deliberative Democracy and the Plural Polity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Michael Rabinder James integrates questions of justice and stability through a model of deliberative democracy in the plural polity. Drawing on empirical social science and normative political philosophy, James develops a framework for assessing
democratic institutions according to three broad concerns: do they realize deliberative fairness in their decision-making procedures; can they flexibly respond to emerging and shifting collective identities; and are they able to mitigate group conflict?
- Diaspora
Homelands in Exile
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Doing & Saying the Right thing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Professional risk and crisis management.
- Dorothy Day
Champion of the Poor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- A Dune Adrift
The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
The history fo Sable Island.
- The Elephants of Style
A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Opinionated commentary on American English in the computer age.
- Emphasis added
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Endangered languages: There's nothing benign about benign neglect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
in many cases, language death occurred not because of an increase in the available choices, but because of a decrease in choice brought about by the exercise of undemocratic power. Such power is almost always wielded by denying access to resources from which communities make their living. Languages can only exist where there is a community to speak and transmit them. A community of people can exist only where there is a viable environment for them to live in, and a means of making a living. Where communities cannot thrive, their languages are in danger. When languages lose their speakers, they die. The idea that linguistic diversity should be preserved is not a sentimental clinging-on to some idealized past as critics suggest, but part of the promotion of sustainable, appropriate, empowering development.
- Eyewitness Chile: After 30 Years
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
When I returned to Chile for the first time in 32 years to attend a week-long seminar called “Thirty Years -- Allende Lives! Popular Alternatives and the Socialist Perspective in Latin America,” I found myself entering the chilling atmosphere of the world's first laboratory for militarily imposed economic neoliberalsm.
- Five Billion Years of Global Change
A History of the Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
From the Big Bang theory to the Web, Five Billion Years of Global Change takes readers through the formation of the world, its oceans and continents, the evolution of the human species, development of agriculture and the growth of international trade. The book will be enjoyed by people interested in the history of the planet and concern for its future.
- The Follow-Up Telephone Call
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Making follow-up phone calls to the media.
- Freeing the World to Death
Essays on the American Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A collection of essays written by William Blum, some of which were published over the past decade in various magazines and anthologies, some appeared in his regular internet newsletter: The Anti-Empire Report, some which appeared only on his website, and some written explicitly for this book.
- Getting Ink for Your New Product
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Get media coverage of your product.
- Graphic Monthly Estimators' & Buyers' Guide 2004
Ontario Edition: The Printing Industry at Your Fingertips
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Guide to Media Relations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- The HARIKARI Club: German Prisoners of Warand the Mass Escape Scare of 1944-45 atInternment Camp Grande Ligne, Quebec
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Hello, I'm Special
How Individuality Became the New Conformity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Hidden Agendas: How journalists influence the news (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- A History of Modern Palestine
One Land, Two Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A history of the people of Palestine.
- How to Build a Media List
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Often your desired target audiences are diverse so this should be clearly defined before beginning to build your media list.
- How to Make the Most of Every Media Appearance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Hundreds of Proofs of God's Existence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
From the Atheists of Silicon Valley Humor Page.
- Hurricane Hazel
Canada's Storm of the Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Ideas for the Struggle
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2004
Published: 2016
A revision of Harnecker's 2004 collection of essays, examining the movements of the left and the challenges faced in organizing and furthering movements, edited for the US historical context.
- Imperial Crusades
Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the decade after 1992, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.
- In Print: Maximizing Coverage in Community Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
How to get coverage in community newspapers.
- The Insider's Guide to Mental Health Resources Online
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Inventing Tax Rage
Misinformation in the National Post
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
How the National Post created an agenda for the tax cuts that mostly benefits the wealthy.
- Is It Even Worthwhile Doing the Dishes? Canadians and the Nuclear Threat, 1945-1963
PhD Thesis, McGill University, 2004
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- It's the Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
The laws of media relations.
- Journey to the Ice Age
Discovering an Ancient World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Judging Authority
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
We are often required to accept the word of another person, but how can we best judge whether or not that person is a legitimate authority?
- Kicking Out Corporations
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Rural areas revoke corporate "personhood" in order to reclaim self-rule.
- The Last Juror
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
In 1970, Willie Traynor came to Clanton, Mississippi. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old found Himself owner of Ford County's only newspaper.
- Letters to the Editor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
The Letters page is one of the most popular sections of any newspaper, and is therefore an ideal way to keep your name and your core message in front of the public.
- A Long Eclipse
The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920 - 1970
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Look Like a Hero
The art directors' guide to magazine print production
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Looking at Bush in Babylon
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Interview with Tariq Ali.
- Marriage and the Capitalist State
For the Right of Gay Marriage...and Divorce!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Gays and lesbians ought to have the right to marry - but they shouldn't have to.
- Martin Luther
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Media Relations
The Bonner Communications Series
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A primer on attaining media preparedness.
- Media Relations: Rule of Engagement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Rules for dealing with the media.
- Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 3
January 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Meeting the Media Face-to-Face
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
What to do when a reporter calls or when meeting the media face to face.
- The Miami Model in Your Face
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
The major police riot in Miami was an operation undoubtedly as thoroughly planned as it was obscene. This was a deliberate, bare-knuckled threat: Assemble in 2004 against war, “free trade,” the Republican Convention or roundup of immigrants under the police-state monstrosity known as Homeland Security, and this is what you'll get.
- Monogamous Voles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Vole reversal.
- Murdered by Capitalism
A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Much of this book is in the form of a fictional dialogue between two radicals discussing the political events of both of their lifetimes.
- The Nakba - an event that did not occur (although it had to occur)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- A Natural History of Latin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Latin is the most influential language in the world. It supports the European Romance languages, English, the Roman Catholic Church, and most of the vocabulary in science-technology, law and culture.
- A Natural History of Latin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- A New City Agenda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
While Canadians have quickly recognized the importance of healthy cities in their own lives and communities, governments have lagged far behind. In A New City Agenda, journalist and former mayor, John Sewell answers the question: What would a new deal for cities look like? He articulates a new vision for Canada’s largest urban regions and the implementation of required changes in social services, public education, settlement, health, housing, policing, land use and governance.
- New Left, not New Liberal
1960s Movements in English Canada and Quebec
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Published in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 41 (February, 2004)
- New Legal Landscape Affecting PR
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
New laws affecting public relations.
- New Words
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
- On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Delves into the question of how to build a strategy for nonviolent struggle. Covering a variety of topics--such as ways to identify a movement's objectives, preparing a strategic estimate for a nonviolent struggle, and operational planning considerations--this publication contains insights on the similarities between military and nonviolent strategy. It represents a major new contribution to this field of study. Additional topics covered in the book include psychological operations and propaganda, contaminants that may affect the efficiency of a nonviolent movement, and providing consultations and training for members of movements and organizations. \
- The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Here are the basic details of the main events, institutions, places, and people in Canada's past. The topics appear to be politics, economy, education, religion, law, medicine, science, transportation, social and cultural events.
- Parecon
Life after capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
In this book Albert depicts 'Participatory Economics' - 'Parecon' for short - a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity, and people democratically controlling their own lives.
- Paying for It
A Guide by Sex Workers for their Clients
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A book of advice for sex work customers, written by sex workers and former sex workers, about how to treat sex workers so they like you more and give you better service.
- The Politics of Revolution: Learning from Autonomist Marxism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Presentation Mastery: Nine Ways to Win Your Audience
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Prints for Books
Book Illustration in France 1760-1800
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Privatizing Water, The New World War
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Capitalism and corporate science have colluded to bring us the latest, most insidious crisis. According to the United Nations research, 1.3 billion people in the world today lack access to clean water and 2.5 billion do not have adequate sewage and sanitation. The human suffering and environmental damage that those figures represent is unspeakable.
- Random Shots: What Do You Worship?
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A lot of people may be very nervous indeed about what Saddam Hussein might reveal at trial about his long connections with former U.S. (not to mention British, French, German and Russian) governments. And speaking of trials: If Saddam is getting one, there can be no excuse for denying them to his underlings by calling them “illegal enemy combatants.”
- Rats
A Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
An engrossing account of a year spent hanging out in a Manhattan alley.
- A Reading Diary
A Year of Favourite Books
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Rebel Sell
Why the Culture Can't be Jammed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Released in the U.S. under the title Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, the book is a critique of the underlying theory of counterculture Heath and Potter note that the capitalist system thrives not on conformity -- as so many 'culture jammers' believe -- but rather on individualism and a quest for distinction.
- Red Diaper Baby
A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
- The reliable tyrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
The solution to the Iraq debacle is within the Americans' grasp.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Salvador Allende
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Salvador Allende is a 2004 documentary film about Chilean president Salvador Allende, from his election campaign to the coup d'état which ended his life.
- Satellite Atlas of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Schultze Gets the Blues
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll
The Search for Dare Wright
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Serpents in the Garden
Liaisons with Culture and Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Essays on sex, music, art, architecture and culture from the editors and writers of CounterPunch.
- The Seven Deadly Spins
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Micky Z offers a look at 7 deadly spins: Spin #1: The Sleeping Giant: The U.S. minds its own business, but the sleeping giant is eventually provoked. Spin #2: Good Wars: Once forced into war, the U.S. only does so in the name of democracy and justice. Spin #3: U.S. vs. Them: Terrorists, evildoers and more-the U.S. has faced off against the worst humanity has to offer. Spin #4: Support the Troops: No matter what we think, we all unite behind our troops once the fighting starts. Spin #5: The Devil Made U.S. Do It: During war, even the U.S. has to play a little rough. Spin #6: Surgical Strikes: Those billion-dollar weapons can differentiate between the guilty and the innocent. Spin #7: Only Losers Commit War Crimes: enemies of the U.S. must be brought to justice.
- Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Restall explodes myths that were long taken for historical truth and points to a larger and more complex interaction between the indigenous people and the Europeans. He shows how Indian culture adapted and displayed post conquest vitality.
- 7 Ways to Get More Mileage from a Case Study
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Case studies are a valuable addition to your public relations' arsenal. They not only explain the success of your product or service in action, they also tend to have high editorial acceptance and readership rates.
- A Short History of Progress
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
- Singlejack Solidarity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Gathered here for the first time, Weir's writings are equal parts memoir, labour history, and polemic; taken together, they document a crucial chapter in the life story of working-class America.
- Skeleton Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
In 1956, an airplane crash left the remains of 172 passengers scattered among the amjestic cliffs of the Grand Canyon -- including an arm attached to a briefcase containing a fortune in gems. Half a century later, one of the missing diamonds has reappeared... and the wolves are on the scent.
- The Skeptical Business Searcher
The Information Advisor's Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites and Sources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A basic online research guide to evaluating no-cost online information, particularly business data, on the Web.
- Socialism from Below
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Essays by Hal Draper on Marxism, democracy, and revolution.
- Socialist Register 2004
Volume 40: The New Imperial Challenge
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Stealing History
Tomb Raiders,Smugglers,and the Looting of the Ancient World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Stop Cold Calling Forever!
True confessions of a reformed serial cold-caller
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Thieves' Dozen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- 3 Keys to Keeping Your Marketing and PR Writing on Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
How do you ensure that your marketing and PR piece isn't just pretty prose?
- Tips for Making the Call
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Tips for making follow-up calls to the media.
- Toxic Sludge Is Good for You
Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Explains how modern public relations (PR) transforms the favoured policies of the rich and the powerful into uncontroversial 'common sense'.
- The Transformation of Modern Ireland 1900 - 2000
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- 20 Fingers
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
- The Unconquerable World
Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Traces the history of non-violent social change.
- US-UN Crusade Against 'Sex Trafficking'
Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Kidnapping, debt bondage, sexual assault, beatings - for any purpose - are horrible crimes. But there is a qualitative distinction between this kind of coercion and the fundamentally consensual act between a prostitute and her client to exchange money for sex.
- Using History to Write Powerful Leads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Using history in writing marketing and PR communications.
- Vera Drake
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Weapons of Mass Persuasion
Marketing the War Against Iraq
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
- Web Journalism
Practice and Promise of a New Medium
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- The Web Library
Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- What is gentrification?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Both gentrification and disinvestment are processes made up of the activities of certain kinds of social agents or institutions. Landlords, developers, and banks all play key roles. To understand how both decay and gentrification of urban neighborhoods happen, we need to look at the dynamics of capital flows into and out of the built environment.
- When to Contact the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Advice on when to contact the media.
- Why Publicity Sometimes Fails
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
You've done everything you can think of to publicize your new product launch, event, or small business. But nothing seems to work. Barbara Florio Graham explains why.
- Wilde Tiere in der Grossstadt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Word Myths
Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Takes on linguistic urban legeds, not just debunking them but also examining why they are told and what they tell us about ourselves.
- Word Myths
Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Workers Solidarity Issue 2
June - August 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A newsletter pulbished by the Workers Solidairty Alliance (WSA).
- Workers Solidarity - Volume 1, Number 1 - New Series
February - April 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
A newsletter pulbished by the Workers Solidairty Alliance (WSA).
- Zionism, Antisemitism, and the People of Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Intended as a popular summary of the historical and theoretical basis of the current conflict.
- Zionism, Israel, & the Arabs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Essays by Hal Draper on Israel/Palestine, some of them dating to the period before the founding of the state of Israel. Draper argues that only a binational state that recognizes the rights of both peoples can resolve the conflict.
- Three parents & a baby
But the law only leaves room for two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
Article regarding the application of the non-biological parent in a lesbian couple to be recognized as co-parent without displacing the biological father's legal status as parent.
- The Road to Ruin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Published: 2004
- Breakfasts keep friendships in shape
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Profile of a fitness group that has a fifteen year standing breakfast date, and has become a support group and circle of friends.
- Super Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2022
This study of U.S. financial diplomacy explores the faults built into the core of the World Bank and the IMF at their inception. Forensic detail reveals how the world's core economic functions were sculpted to preserve US financial hegemony. Difficult to detect at the time, these problems have since become explicit as the failure of the international economic order has become apparent; the IMF and World Bank were set up to give aid to developing countries, but instead many of the world's poorest countries have been plunged into insurmountable debt crises.
- Gary Webb "It Was Outrageous But It Was True"
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2003
Published: 2014
Part one in a series featuring Gary Webb in his own words. The interview was conducted and filmed by the Guerrilla News Network, scholars, and professors at the 2003 School of Authentic Journalism.
- Gary Webb at the 2003 School of Authentic Journalism
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2003
Published: 2014
Gary Webb (1955-2004), the investigative journalist who reported cocaine trafficking by the CIA in 1996, is portrayed in the motion picture, Kill the Messenger, by Jeremy Renner. He was a founding professor of the School of Authentic Journalism and an editor at Narco News. This video was made by students and professors of the video workgroup at the 2003 School of Authentic Journalism in Isla Mujeres, Mexico, chaired by professor Stephen Marshall of the Guerrilla News Network.
- Trust Me
A Handbook of Tory Contortions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2011
Satirical bites from Ontario’s past — 1995 to 2003. They expose the Common Sense Revolutionary backgrounds of some of Canada’s highest-ranking conservatives currently on the scene.
- Guerrilla P.R. Wired
Waging a Successful Publicity Campaign Online, Offline, and Everywhere in Between
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2007
Hollywood PR guru Michael Levine applies his Guerrilla PR strategies to the Internet.
- Easy Endgame Strategies
Learn How to Mate Your Opponents and Win!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2005
- Journalism: A Very Short Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2005
Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public.
- Why is Religion Natural?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Is religious belief a mere leap into irrationality as many skeptics assume? Psychology suggests that there may be more to belief than the suspension of reason.
- Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2004
Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
- Oxford Canadian Thesaurus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2004
- Blockading: a guide
Tips on some ways you can use your bodies and other materials to barricade, blockade and defend territory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Some campaigns will require a geographical space to be protected. This is a short guide with tips and advice on some ways you can use your bodies and other materials to barricade, blockade and defend territory. This area could be houses set for eviction, a large workplace being picketed, a forest, an endangered eco-system, an area through which and environmentally destructive road is to be built. Also included are tips on protecting trees.
- Scaffold tripods guide
Detail about setting up scaffolds which can be used to effectively block roads or small throughways
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Subvertising billboards
A guide to subvertising - altering commercial outdoor poster and billboard advertisements to get your message across
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
The Art & Science of Billboard Improvement: a comprehensive guide to the alteration of outdoor advertising.
- Crossing Lines for Justice
Against The Current vol. 107
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
The dreaded knock on the door came at mid-day when a colleague brought the news -- Edward Said died last night. For those who knew him, we lived with his illness for a dozen years the way a family lives with a doomed relative. The day would arrive when Edward's inimitable and redoubtable voice would be heard no more. It was a shock all the same.
- Random Shots: Now It Can Be Told
Against The Current vol. 107
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Not only are there no Weapons of Mass Destruction, there is no Saddam Hussein. He died of a stroke in 1993. The Baath Party concealed his death in order to preserve their power. His public appearances were staged, first by surgically altered doubles, then by computer-generated images created by the folks who gave us Yoda and Gollum. The doubles were killed, just before the fall of Baghdad, to maintain the secret. No wonder Dubya can't find him.
- Press for Conversion #52
October 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
This issue is filled with detailed analysis of the many ways in which the Canadian government and corporations are deeply embedded in the U.S. “war machine.”
- Victims No Longer?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
The author begins with the position that suffering is not moral and criticizes Israeli settlers and Zionists for disenfranchising Palestinians. She debunks the notion that they are a nation of victims. She calls into question the assumption that criticizing Israel is anti-semitic.
- Free trade is fine in a world of equals
Developing countries should be wary of liberalisation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A discussion of how the theory behind free trade is not real-world viable and in fact penalizes the developing countries.
- Power outage traced to deregulation and dim bulb in White House
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
An investigative report on the Federal and State deregulation of the energy sector by George Bush Sr. and Jr and by Republican governors in California and New York that weakened industry accountability and resulted in blackouts and price fixing.
- Against School
How public education cripples our kids, and why
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
An essay by a retired teacher on the infantilization of children by the public school system. This intellectual history of US public school curiculum reveals that it was conceived as a democratic means to a reflexively obedient work force.
- The Construction of Communalism in India
Against The Current vol. 106
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Sara Abraham interviews Dipak Malik, Director of the Gandhian Institute of Varanasi, about the anti-communal-violence work in which he has been involved from his base in Varanasi, in the Hindu heartland of the country.
- Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Random Shots: Word Processing by Candlelight
Against The Current vol. 106
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Operation Iraqi Liberation (they almost called it that): Dubya has failed in his attempts to get India to send troops to help occupy Iraq. One can only wonder how Iraqi Moslems would have reacted to the presence of 17,000 Hindus and Sikhs.
- Spoken Here
Travels Among Threatened Languages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Mark Abley takes us on a world tour from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages.
- If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?
Finding Common Ground
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Stories help us live our lives -- and are at the heart of our current conflicts. We love and hate because of them; we make homes for ourselves and drive others out on the basis of ancient tales -- it is now more important than ever to attend to what others are saying in their stories and myths.
- Uganda's lost innocents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Cuba Makes Me Hurt
Against The Current vol. 105
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
The jail sentences and executions in Cuba are very good news for the global superpower, which has been going crazy trying to cough up that bone stuck in its throat. But they are very bad news, sad and painful news, for those of us who think that the courage shown by this tiny country, so capable of greatness, is admirable, but who also think that justice and freedom march hand in hand or not at all.
- Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 1
July 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Random Shots: Iraq and a Hard Place
Against The Current vol. 105
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Donald Rumsfeld says the United States will remain in Iraq until a stable democracy takes power. Or until Hell freezes over, whichever comes first.
- Operation Paperclip
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A history of Operation Paperclip, the US program which recruited and imported German scientists and engineers following the Second World War.
- Jewish Voices for Peace and Justice
Press Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Canadian Jews who oppose the continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza by Israel will gather for a one-day conference on June 8, 2003 in Toronto.
- Text crimes
The very long & contentious career of "Men loving boy loving men"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Rick Bebout on journalism and freedom and the Body Politic newspaper.
- Press for Conversion #51
May 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Why is the U.S. government reviled by so many people in the Middle East and North Africa? This issue looks at the past 50 years of wars and regime changes in the region and unveils a consistent pattern of U.S. involvement.
- Random Shots: That Was the War That Was
Against The Current vol. 104
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
What lesson has Boy George taught the world? “He that hath no nuke, let him sell his cloak and buy a nuke.”
- Does The US Military Want To Kill Journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Are the killings of journalists by the U.S. merely accidents, or are they deliberate?
- Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 4
April 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- La crise Iraquienne en context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Un état solitaire, lourdement armé avec des armes de destruction massives, ouvertement méprisant des lois internationales et des Nations Unies et avec une réputation menaçante d'invader d'autres pays et à plonger le monde dans une crise.
Comment le monde doit il réagir à cette menace? Que peut ont faire à propos des États Unies et leurs ambitions ouvertement impérialistiques?
- La crisis de Irak en contexto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Un estado sin control, pesadamente provisto con armas de destrucción masiva, abiertamente despectivo de la ley internacional y de las Naciones Unidas, y con un record de extensión en aterrorizar e invadir otros países, ha hundido el mundo en crisis.
Como debería el mundo responder a esta amenaza? Que podemos nosotros hacer respecto a los Estados Unidos y sus obvias ambiciones imperialistas?
- Die Irak-Krise im Kontext
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Iraq Crisis in Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
- Iraq Crisis in Context - Greek text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Kryzys w Iraku - podsumowanie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Acupuncture, Magic, and Make-Believe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Traditional Chinese acupuncture is an archaic procedure of inserting needles through the skin over imaginary channels in accord with rules developed from pre-scientific superstition and numerological beliefs. New research has replaced this mystical sham medical procedure with a simple evidence-based no-needle treatment that stimulates motor points and nerve junctures and induces gene-expression of neurochemicals and activates brain areas important for healing. This is a scientifically based alternative to the previous metaphysical theories and magical rituals.
- Random Shots: Just Say No to Dubya
Against The Current vol. 103
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Dubya's waltz toward war reminds me of a TV Western I saw about fifty years ago. This cowboy is eyeballing the young schoolmarm at the barn-dance. His friend asks: “Are you looking for a reason to go over and talk to her?” The cowboy answers: “I've already got a reason, what I need is an excuse.”
- Health care to go
Special van delivers community program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
An article about the Immigrant Women's Health Centre Mobile Health Unit
- What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Which is the more remarkable -- that the United States can openly announce to the world its determination to invade a sovereign nation and overthrow its government in the absence of any attack or threat of attack from the intended target? Or that for an entire year the world has been striving to figure out what the superpower's real intentions are?
- Geschichte eines Irrtums: Das Tuch und das Missverständnis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Das Palästinensertuch is neuerdings auch bei den Rechten in Mode. Manche Linke wollen es deshalb künftig lieber im Schrank lassen.
- We can't afford a dim view
Deputation at City Hall regarding funding for women's health clinics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
These clinics are doing YOUR public health work at a grassroots level. The need and should receive more money, not less.
- Absolute Friends
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Ted Mundy and Sasha, political comrades and spies.
- The Age of Consent
A Manifesto for a New World Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A critique of the existing system of power and a proposal for international democracy.
- Aids Activist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Als Feuer vom Himmel fiel
Der Bombenkrieg gegen die Deutschen
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Also, um acht am Resi
Geschichten und Anekdoten aus dem alten Kassel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The American Empire and the Fourth World
The Bowl With One Spoon, Part One
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Hall presents a sweeping analysis of encounters between indigenous people and the European empires, national governments, and global corporations on the moving frontiers of globalization since Columbus "discovered America."
- The Anatomy of Buzz: How to create word of mouth marketing (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- Autonomy: Creating Spaces for Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Better Together
Restoring the American Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Beyond Sovereignty
Issues for a Global Agenda (2nd Edition)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Discussion of the increasingly transnational structure of power in today's world and proposals forabandoning nation-state sovereignty for more integrated, cooperative rule between different types of governance bodies.
- Big Ideas
For growing your Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Book of the Year
A Brief History of Seasonal Holidays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Traces the origins of modern American holidays.
- Brandstätten
Der Anblick des Bombenkriegs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
'Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror' was screened six months after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and two years after the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. The film dissects the truth and lies behind the 'War on Terror', investigating the discrepancies between American and British justification for 'war' and the facts on the ground in Afghanistan and Washington DC.
- Building & Running a Successful Research Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A guide for entrepreneurs interested in launching, managing and building an independent research firm. Topics include how to get started, manage the business, marketing, and researching. Techniques on how to close the sale, managing clients, promoting services on the web, and tapping into powerful information sources beyond the web are also included.
- Business Information
Finding and Using data in the digital age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Canada's Forests: A History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Canadian Key Business Directory 2003
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Canadian Left and the Test of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
The bloody U.S. war of conquest against Iraq was a litmus test for the left. Millions internationally and hundreds of thousands in Canada rallied against the war. yet is is patently clear that the biggest antiwar demonstrations in history had no effect whsoever on the war-crazed American ruling class.
- The Canadian Wirter's Guide 13th Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Canadian Writer's Guide
13th Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
The handbook of the Canadian Authors Association, featuring how-to articles on many areas of publishing.
- The Canadian Writers' Guide
13th edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Over 130 how-to articles on many aspects of writng for publication.
- Carnival: Resistance Is the Secret of Joy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Reinventing tactics of resistance has become a central preoccupation for the movement of movements. How do we make rebellion enjoyable, effective, and irresistible? Who wants the tedium of traditional demonstrations and protests - the ritual marches from point A to B, the permits and police escorts, the staged acts of civil disobedience, the verbose rallies and dull speeches by leaders?
- Casa de los babys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The charm of abusers
Why queers put up with dangerous partners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Abusive relationships often have a magnetic quality to them. They can be very intense, like a one-of-a-kind partnership, which also makes them very hard to leave.
- Chess Psychology
Approaching the psychological battle both on and off the board
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- A Coalition of the Killing
War, media, propaganda and language
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
War, media, propaganda and language.
- Contesting Media Power
Alternative Media in a Networked World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications
The Politics of Regional Reform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
The issues behind privatization policies and telecommunications policies are looked at through a glass of drifting continentalism
- Contours of Descent
U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Contracts for Couples
Self-Counsel Press Legal Series
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Contracts for Couples
Self-Counsel Press Legal Series
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Corporation
The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Makes the case that corporations function as a psychopathic entity. A companion to Mark Achbar's 2003 documentary of the same name.
- Crossing the River
A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Dean's Digital World: Buzzwords and blogs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Dean's Digital World: Wither CARR?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Democratic Struggle: What Role for Marxism?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Exploring what Marxist approaches to democracy have offered to contemporary discussions.
- Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers
A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Covers almost 3000 words are covered here, mainly American white slang from fads and trends that came out of technology, music, the armed forces, rhymes, and animals.
- Doing research on the Web
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Dominion and The Intellectuals
Noam Chomsky interviewed by an anonymous interviewer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Chomsky says "one of the reasons why I am considered "public enemy number one" among a large sector of intellectuals in the U.S. is that I mention that the U.S. is one of the major terrorist states in the world and this assertion, though plainly true, is unacceptable for many intellectuals."
- Dude, Where's My Country?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Eight Best Books for Publicity Seekers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
For those of you pursuing and perfecting the fine art of getting publicity, here's a list of books you can't live without.
- Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
- Empire of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as the author powerfully demonstates, the economic empire of capital has also created a new and unlimited militarism.
- An Execution in the Family
One Son's Journey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A memoir by the son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
- Facing Reality 45 Years Later
Critical Dialogue with James/Lee/Chaulieu
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
According to Goldner, "In 1958, Facing Reality was an important book, uncannily anticipatory of the historical period which would unfold over the following 15 years. Its main assertions are still being debated.... What I find most interesting in Facing Reality is not so much the answers it offers as the questions it asks. Those questions revolve around the role of the revolutionary Marxist party today.
- Finding Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Fools' Crusade
Yugoslavia, NATO, and Western Delusions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Diana Johnstone's study demonstrates that a crucial moment in establishing in the public mind - and above all, within the political context of liberalism and the left - the legitimacy of such interventions was the "humanitarian" bombing of the former Yugoslavia in 1999.
- Framing the West
Race, Gender and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Examines a wide range of photographic forms and the purposes to which they were put.
- From The Other Side
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
The border between the United States and Mexico is the backdrop for Chantal Akerman's look into tightening immigration policies. Technology has limited illegal immigration into San Diego, diverting it to the Arizona border. Akerman jumps back and forth from the Mexican city of Agua Prieta to Douglas, Ariz., to demonstrate the harrowing journey some hopeful immigrants make. Many of these travelers never arrive, and Akerman speaks with their families as well as with American authorities.
- Genealogy and Indexing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Addresses the relationship between indexing and genealogy. Explores the process of indexing, highlight common mistakes to avoid, and how indexes are used in the field of research especially with genealogical data.
- The Globe and Mail Style Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Gotta Have 'Em: Portraits of Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Great Unravelling
From Boom to Bust in Three Short Years
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Gretzky with a zed: Honouring excellence in editing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Grid of History: Cowboys and Indians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
"American" supremacy and populist imperialism are inseparable from the content of the U.S. origin story and the definition of patriotism in the United States today.
- Hidden Agendas: How Journalists Influence the News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A right-wing critique of the theory that media owners determine the nature of news coverage. Instead, the authors contend that journalists have the most influence over news coverage, and that journalists tend to be on the left.
- Historical Atlas of the Arctic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Documents the international race for the Pole involving expeditions, with detailed historical maps. This atlas also highlights the aspirations, motivations and experiences of the explorers.
- A History of Mistresses
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Holocaust Chronicle
A History in Words and Pictures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A chronological account of the genocide of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
- Homosexuality and Civilisation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- How America Gets Away With Murder
Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Michael Mandel offers a critical account of America's illegal wars and a war crimes system that has granted America's leaders an unjust and dangerous impunity, effectively encouraging their illegal wars and the war crimes that always flow from them.
- How to Make Your B-roll Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Getting a videographer or camera assigned to your story is a challenge to say the least. If you're lucky, you may get one or two cameras out to your news event. That leaves another three or four stations, not including the networks that will not cover your story because they are not there with a camera. PR practitioners can maximize their TV impact by investing in B-roll and hiring a news videography service.
- How to Make Your PR Photos Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
There is a real art and science to the news photo.
- I want a raise
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Imagined Nations
Reflections on Media in Canadian Fiction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A basic look at the effects different forms of media have had on Canadian novels and film adaptations and cyberspace, and how these affect the sense of time and space and national identities.
- In Times of Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
As anyone facing a crowded room of reporters during an emergency will tell you, effective crisis communications is paramount in overcoming the predicament.
- Investigation of a Flame
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Investigation of a Flame is a 2001 documentary by Lynne Sachs about the Catonsville Nine, nine Catholic activists who became known for their May 17, 1968 nonviolent act of civil disobedience in burning draft files to protest the Vietnam War.
- Island Airport Insanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Airports don't belong in the middle of downtown.
- The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Journalism: Truth or Dare?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
- Kill 'em all
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Kitchen Stories
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Lie With Me
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Meaning of Everything
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Media Relations - Behaviours Unbecoming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
What NOT to do when dealing with the media.
- Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 3
January 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Memoirs of a Media Maverick
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
An engaging memoir of a radical socialist who also was a recognized journalist, writer, and filmmaker.
- Michael Levine's Ten commandments for Dealing with the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Rules for dealing with the media.
- The Middle of the World. (O Caminho das Nuvens)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Networks: The Ecology of the Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
This book gives an overview of the origins of HIV, the ways in which it spreads, the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability and the positive action being taken by people and communities to fight back.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- Nowhere Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Old Toronto Houses
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Photographs of old Toronto houses, with accompanying text.
- On the bookshelf: A matter of style (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- On the bookshelf: The idea of public journalism (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Orange Journalism
Voices from Florida Newspapers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Orange Journalism
Voices from Florida Newspapers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Paddling My Own Canoe
The Story of Algonquin Park's First Female Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
An account of a life-long relationship with Algonquin Park.
- Palestinian Refugees: The Right Of Return
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
The thorniest of issues, elucidated, discussed, and contextualized, by an impressive array of scholars and activists, including Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Norman Finkelstein, Jaber Sueiman, Nahla Ghandour, Susan Akram, Salman Abu-Sitta, and Jan Abu Shakrah. The chapters cover the historical roots of the Palestinian refugee question; the obligations of host countries under international law (the case of Lebanon); Israeli perceptions of the refugee question; the role of the United States and the European Union and the Refugee Question; the PLO; meeting the needs of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon; Palestinian refugees and Jewish immigrants from Arab countries; and a program for an Independent Rights Campaign.
- Personal Ad Politics
Race, Sexuality and Power at The Body Politic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Published in Labour/Le Travail 8.2 (2003)
- Perspectives on Canadian Drug Policy Volume 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A symposium of articles on issues of drug addiction and treatment in Canada. Articles include "Substance Abuse and Crime," "Canada's Drug Laws: Prohibition Is Not the Answer," and "Drug Policy in Canada: War if Neccessary But Not Neccessarily War."
- Photographs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Politics Of Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians? This is the question considered in these 18 essays (by nine Jews and nine Gentiles), including Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Norman Finkelstein, Lenni Brenner, and Uri Avnery.
- Power: Building it Without Taking it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The powerlessness of anti-power
Review of Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today, by John Holloway
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
This book has made a stir among the new left in Latin America. Its author, John Holloway, a Scottish professor who teaches at the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Autonomous University of Puebla (Mexico), has been compared to Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, authors of Empire, as having written a book that reflects the sensibilities of broad sections of the newly emerging left in Latin America, if not the concerns of global justice movement activists everywhere.
- Press for Conversion #50
January 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
This issue contains original research revealing that U.S. war planners have repeatedly used elaborate webs of deceit to con the public into rallying behind major wars whose real purposes involved building vast profits for small corporate elites.
- Que se vayan todos!
Krise und Widerstand in Argentinien
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Que se vayan todos! Krise und Widerstand in Argentinien
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A collection of essays studying noncapitalist collectivism.
- Random Shots: We Have Met the Enemy
Against The Current vol. 102
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
As Gulf War II approaches, it's well to remember that “No battle plan ever survives first contact with the enemy. That's why they call them the enemy.”
- Real Estate as a Professional Career
Career Orientation Kit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Responsibility and Judgment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Righteous
The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Roads to Koktebel
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Roaring Nineties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- The Room
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Cult film, considered to be one of the worst films ever made.
- Saddam's Alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
If Saddam Hussein really had weapons of mass destruction, he would certainly use them now with the U.S. poised to invade.
- Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology and Bioterrorism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A critique of "science-based" approaches to food - simply asking "how big is the risk?" leaves out the question of who is imposing that risk and who is taking it.
- Search Engine Visibility
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Designing, writing and creating a web site primarily for your site's visitors, and helping them find what they are searching via the major search engines, directories, and industry related sites.
Available on the Sources Intranet via MarketingHelp.
Filename: SearchEngineVisibility-NewRiders-2003.chm
- Second Opinion
Diseases and decisions in modern medicine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
The author focuses on the ills of modern medical practice, focusing on the participation patients need to have in the decision-making process involved in their treatments. He also critics the pharmaceutical industry about their prices and his involvement in global health.
- Sharon and my Mother-in-Law
Ramallah Diaries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A diary of everyday life under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, depicting the Kafkaesque absurdities and injustices Palestinians are forced to live with.
- Since Otar Left
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A 2003 film by director Julie Bertuccelli, based around three Georgian women living in modern-day Tbilisi. It focuses on the attempts of a mother and daughter, Marina (Nino Khomasuridze) and Ada (Dinara Drukarova), to hide the death of Marina's brother in Paris from her elderly mother, Eka (Esther Gorintin).
- 6 Tips for Writing a Successful VNR
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A video news release(VNR) is essentially a press release on video. The key difference is how it is planned and written.
- The Skeptic's Dictionary
A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerious Delusions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- So Shall We Reap
What's Gone Wrong with the World's Food System -- And How to Fix It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
How everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed; and why, in practice, our immediate descendants are likely to be in serious trouble.
An expose on the fallout of the present drive for maximum food production at rock-bottom cost, as health scares spiral, rural workers are driven off the land, and poor nations are forced to export their goods in an unsympathetic marketplace.
- Socialist Register 2003
Volume 39: Fighting Identities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Sources 52 Resource Bookshelf
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Reviews of reference books.
- The State of the News Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Journalists are older, smarter, generally more educated, and usually more cynical than their predecessors. Cynicism often breeds distrust making the current generation of news reporters more suspicious and more formidable than ever.
- Super Searchers on Competitive Intelligence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Interviews with 17 competitive intelligence researchers and compiles their secrets for monitoring competitive forces, keeping on top of trends, opportunities and threats within their industry. The tips, strategies and models presented will help any business intelligence project.
- Super Searchers on Madison Avenue
New Book Has Top Advertising and Marketing Professionals Sharing Their Online Research Strategies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Provides advertising and marketing tips, techniques and resources from large firms specializing in online searches.
- A Technique for Producing Ideas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Telling Tales
Storytelling in the family
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A guide to the art of storytelling.
- There Are Realistic Alternatives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Developing realistic alternatives to war and other violence.
- There's no such thing as a slow news day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
The news media are always looking for news.
- Through a Blue Lens
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
A National Film Board of Canada documentary that chronicles the interactions between police officers and drug addicts.
- The Trouble with Islam
A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Truth Against Truth
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Challenges the myths, conventional lies, and historical falsehoods on which most of the arguments of both Israeli and Palestinian propaganda rest. The truths of both sides are intertwined into one historical narrative that does justice to both. Without this common basis, peace is impossible.
- User Error
Resisting Computer Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Video News Releases
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Video News Releases (VNRs) are just that: broadcast-quality videos intended for release to television stations. They typically contain a "story" in television format, complete with reporter, just as a news release imitates a news story.
- The Waiting Dog
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Walking: We Ask Questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
An essay from the book We Are Everywhere by the Notes From Nowhere Collective.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- Web of deception: Misinformation on the Internet (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- What is Public Relations?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
PR should be the guardian of an organization's brand, and that concept of brand is not just reserved for a private sector, product-oriented company. The concept of brand, what an organization is, what is it about, what it wants to say, is the organization's being, and PR is often its protector.
- When Food Kills
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Which Ad Pulled Best?
40 Case Histories on How to Write and Design Ads That Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Without a Net
The female experience of growing up working class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Essays on growing up working-class in the USA.
- Word for Word
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
The authors try to explain the differences between word usages. Here are about 3000 examples that are confusing because they look alike, sound alike, or seem alike.
- World War I in Colour
The Definitive Illustrated History with over 200 Remarkable Full Colour Photographs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Writing a Successful Case Study
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Readers love a good story. That's why these chronicles of success will often stand out on the editor's desk while press releases, media kits and other media communications fight a tough battle just to get noticed.
- CIA's dirty little secrets exposed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
Investigative reporting into the interrogation techniques used by the US Military on captured terrorism suspects. The author exposes the CIA secret detention centers abroad where interrogation occurs and US due process does not apply.
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Published: 2003
- Unravelling the DNA Myth
The spurious foundation of genetic engineering
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A survey of the implications of the collapse of molecular biology's "central dogma", that an organisms genome fully accounts for its characteristic assemblage of inherited traits. The author adresses how the biotechnology industry has been able to convince the world that genetic modifications are safe.
- The September 11 Digital Archive
Saving the Histories of September 11, 2001
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath. The Archive contains more than 150,000 digital items, a tally that includes more than 40,000 emails and other electronic communications, more than 40,000 first-hand stories, and more than 15,000 digital images. In September 2003, the Library of Congress accepted the Archive into its collections, an event that both ensured the Archive's long-term preservation and marked the library's first major digital acquisition.
- From the Other Side
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2002
Published: 2012
For years immigrants passed through San Diego, but cutting-edge technologies have helped stem the flow of illegal immigration there. This leaves only the mountains and deserts of Arizona for those desperate enough to try their luck. And it is here that Akerman shifts her focus, between Agua Prieta, Sonora, and Douglas, Arizona, and the desert in between.
by: Icarus Films
- From Dictatorship to Democracy
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2002
Published: 2010
A short, serious introduction to nonviolent struggle, its applications, and strategic thinking. Based on pragmatic arguments, this piece presents nonviolent struggle as a realistic alternative to war and other violence in acute conflicts. It also contains a glossary of important terms and recommendations for further reading.
- Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2010
There are a number of words and phrases that GNU recommends avoiding, or avoiding in certain contexts and usages. Some are ambiguous or misleading; others presuppose a viewpoint that GNU disagrees with, and they hope you disagree with it too.
- In the News
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada - 2nd Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2008
An introduction of media relations in Canada, from both a practical and philosophical approach.
- The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2007
We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
- Sales Team Management in a Week
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2007
- A Proposal to American Labor
'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
- Another World is Possible
Globalization and Anti-capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2006
A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
- New Hart's Rules
The handbook of style for writers and editors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2005
- The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (Expanded Election Edition)
The Truth about Corporate Cons, Globalizaton, and High-Finance Fraudsters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2004
Included here are Palast's exposé on Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris's stealing of the presidential election in Florida, and stories on George W. Bush's payoffs to corporate cronies, the payola behind Hillary Clinton, and the faux energy crisis. Also included in this volume are new and previously unpublished material, television transcripts, photographs, and letters.
- Blue Gold
The battle against corporate theft of the world's water
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2003
International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions.This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to pay.
- An Injury to One
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2002
Published: 2003
AN INJURY TO ONE provides a corrective -- and absolutely compelling -- glimpse of a particularly volatile moment in early 20th century American labour history: the rise and fall of Butte, Montana. Specifically, it chronicles the mysterious death of Wobbly organizer Frank Little, a story whose grisly details have taken on a legendary status in the state.
- The write place to work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A study of the perfect environment for writing, with views from many of Canada's pre-eminent authors.
- The lessons we have learned
Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
- Bush Fights For Another Clean Shot In The War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
The perversity of Bush's agenda.
- America's last taboo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
- Quest for Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Judith Stone, an American Jew, argues that Jews of conscience must support the right of return of the Palestinian people.
- Random Shots: Idle Idylls of Old Idols
Against The Current vol. 101
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
One has to wonder how far the immortal Janis Joplin would have gotten on “American Idol.” Ever notice that the winners of the weekly votes cried more than the losers?
- Dossier on Palestine
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
An illustrated compilation of articles, press reports, analyses of key issues, an in-depth timeline, and 23 detailed maps.
- ¿Desinvertir?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Do I Divest?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.
- Mother Tongues
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Helena Drysdale and her husband Richard rented out their house and embarked on an epic tour across Europe in their customized camper van, the Mob. With them went their two small daughters, Tallulah and Xanthe. They had few plans, but they did have a goal: to probe the secrets of western Europes indigenous tribes. Over seven seasons Helena Drysdale and her family travelled from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, from the Atlantic to the Aegean, exploring the roots of the cultures inhabiting Europe's ambiguous fringes.
- Press for Conversion #49
October 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Obviously the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with either finding "weapons of mass destruction" or fighting terrorism. These were just the phoney pretexts that U.S. and British warplanners used to generate public support for the war.
- Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 2
September 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Passing Stories
Tales from a wander so far without end
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A collection of stories based around experiences and observations from walking Toronto's Queen Street, considering the requirements and rewards of urban citizenship.
- Random Shots: Life Imitates Art
Against The Current vol. 100
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
In the movie version of “The Sum of all Fears,” the terrorist nuke is hidden in a cigarette vending machine. In real life, if placed in an underground parking garage, it would have been ripped off in about twenty minutes.
- For Dissent Against Hindu Extremism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Bajrang Dal, and other Hindu extremist organisations, collectively known as the Sangh Parivar (Hindu fundamentalist family of organisations), are utilising religion to foment communal violence toward organising ultra right, non-secular and undemocratic nationalism in India.
- Readings from the Peasants' Revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at six critical moments across the last 1,000 years.
- Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
For workers around the world, the Spanish Civil War was a beacon of hope against the tide of reaction then sweeping Europe. As the promise of workers' revolution was being dashed by the rise of fascism in Germany and the rise of Stalinism in the Soviet Union, the workers of Spain led a heroic fight against the 1936 uprising of General Francisco Franco. In the process, they led not only a struggle against fascism, but also a workers' rebellion that gave the world an inspiring glimpse of what workers’ power could look like. The Spanish Civil War was also the high point of anarchist influence in the international workers' movement.
- Stephen Jay Gould: Dialectical Biologist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Gould, the world’s leading expert on the evolution of Bahamian land snails, and one of the most influential evolutionary theorists of his generation, shared Engels’ enthusiasm for understanding the natural world dialectically – in other words, seeing it as made up of complex and dynamic interactive processes.
- Toward a Revolutionary Socialist Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Duncan Hallas, a now-retired leading member of the Socialist Workers' Party (Britain), wrote this article at the beginning of the 1970s with an eye toward a layer of radicalizing workers and student activists. Many in this period were attracted to revolutionary alternatives, but were wary of left organizations because of the betrayals of both social-democracy and Stalinism.
- Empire strikes out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's book Empire has attracted commentaries ranging from "a significant contribution to Marxism" to "Now, ai'’t that something?" It enjoyed a run at Wall Street bookstores and created a similar buzz on campuses and left-wing Internet lists. Hardt and Negri stress that Empire is a work of philosophy. As such, the book aims to abstract from the swirl of daily life and singular events a general picture of the social processes that have spawned the contemporary world order: the global market, global circuits of production, and a new structure of political sovereignty. Unfortunately, Empire's map of global space profoundly distorts the world as it is today.
- GE's PCBs: Who Will Tell the Fish
Against The Current vol. 99
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Against prevailing scientific wisdom, an August 2001 General Electric press release declares that "there is no credible evidence that PCB exposure causes disease in people."
- The High Cost of Skepticism
What happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Here’s what happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and the First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry.
- How PR Sold the War in the Persian Gulf
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
This excpert from "Toxic Sludge Is Good For You" (chapter 10), looks at the PR players behind the war in the Persian Gulf and how a foreign-funded campaign manipulated American public opinion.
- Landscapes lost, and found
Garrison Creek; downtown's other streams & ravines: reclaiming the life beneath our feet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A history of the Garrison Creek path in Toronto and how the creek shapes the surrounding landscape and environment, reflecting on the cities relationship with public natural spaces and parks.
- Press for Conversion #48
July 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
This issue contains a wealth of original COAT research about militarised war shows.
- Random Shots: Of Drugs and Diamonds
Against The Current vol. 99
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Marx characterized religion as the opium of the people. For some cults, it seems to act more like viagra.
- Israeli Violations of Human Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Speech by Jeff Halper, Coordinator Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Halper focuses on the fact that "virtually all of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands violates human rights conventions and especially the Fourth Geneva Convention that forbids an occupying power from making its presence a permanent one."
- What is Anti-Semitism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Inflating the meaning of 'antisemitism' to include anything politically damaging to Israel is a double-edged sword. It may be handy for smiting your enemies, but the problem is that definitional inflation, like any inflation, cheapens the currency. The more things get to count as antisemitic, the less awful antisemitism is going to sound.
- Conspiracies or Institutions: 9-11 and Beyond
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Why and how does much (but not all) conspiracy theorizing create a tendency for people to depart from rational analysis?
- Healing Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Cherie Brown discusses some core obstacles to dealing with the Israel/Palestine issue and offers steps for a groundwork to build on.
- Investigative Files: Benny Hinn: Healer or Hypnotist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Benny Hinn tours the world with his "Miracle Crusade," drawing thousands to each service, with many hoping for a healing of body, mind, or spirit.
- Prophetic Witness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Editorial discussing some brief history of Israel since the Occupation up to the current day, focusing on the abuses of the Palestinians and seeking support for increasing awareness of the current situation.
- Random Shots: The Kings of the World
Against The Current vol. 98
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Carrying on a tradition dating back to the Crimean war, they've come out with a set of trading cards for the Dubya Crusade. The cards used to come with cigarettes, then bubble gum. Now all you get is paper.
- The State of the Spirit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
The text of Michael Lerner's "State of the Spirit" address given at the founding conference of The TIKKUN Community.
- State Terrorism in Israel?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A critique of the double standards applied to the different sides of the Israel/Palestine question and of the continued U.S. perception of Israel as victim versus oppressor.
- Roncesvalles
Spanish name, Polish downtown; one avenue, many stories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A history of the immigrant populations in the Roncesvalles area of Toronto, with observations on the communities who have lived there told through monuments and landmarks.
- Digital Domesday Book lasts 15 years not 100
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
It was meant to be a showcase for Britain's electronic prowess but 16 years after it was created, the £2.5 million BBC Domesday Project has achieved an unexpected and unwelcome status: it is now unreadable.
- The Age of Ingenuity
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
September 11, 2001 gave us the best chance yet to reinvent the future -- one idea at a time.
- Not at liberty
Jails (and gaols), Central Prison, the Mercer Reformatory, and the Asylum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A history of prisons, reformatories, asylums and mental health facilities in Toronto and their relationship with the populace, detailing and criticizing the implications of attitudes and approaches to mental health by the cities institutions.
- Press for Conversion #47
March 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
This issue begins with a series of articles examining the historical context of the conflict between India and Pakistan.
- Random Shots: Dubya's Many Axes of Evil
Against The Current vol. 97
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
The concept of an Axis of Evil seems to derive from a 1942 Captain Marvel comic-book series about the Monster Society of Evil. Of course, that's a little before Dubya's time.
- A truly fragile identify
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Israel has equated modern identity not with actual live people, with rights and obligations, but with a vast collectivity with no limits either in the past, the present, or the future.
- The ADL Spying Case Is Over, But The Struggle Continues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
The Anti-Defamation League, an organization that claims to be a defender of civil rights, has engaged in a vast spying operation directed against American citizens opposed to Israel’s policies in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza and to the apartheid policies of the government of South Africa.
- How it all adds up
$4 billion more flows out than comes back in - and that has to change if the city is to stay healthy, critics say
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A discussion of Toronto's position within the Canadian economy, and an argument that given its' status as 'economic powerhouse' for the country, that perhaps some additional re-investment into the city is warranted.
- Personal testimony of an Irraeli refusnik
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Why would a regular guy get up one morning in the middle of life, work, the kids and decide he's not playing the game anymore?
- Urban amenities; erotic anxieties
Baths, lavatories, and the YMCA: The politics of bodies in civic space
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A history of public baths, in particular public baths and similar spaces in Toronto in the last century, and the changing perceptions and uses of such spaces by the public, in particular the treatment of private acts within public spaces.
- The Smile of Policeman Agadi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
An account of the abuse of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system.
- Activism!
Direct action, hacktivism and the future of society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Many schools of thought assert that Western culture has never been more politically apathetic. Tim Jordan's Activism! refutes this claim.Jordan shows how acts of civil disobedience have come to dominate the political landscape.
- Advice on Hiring a Media Trainer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Media training is highly recommended for any media spokesperson, whether a novice or a veteran.
- Against multiculturalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Multiculturalism is an authoritarian, anti-human outlook. True political progress requires not recognition but action, not respect but questioning, not the invocation of the Thought Police but the forging of common bonds and collective struggles.
- All cultures are not equal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A common thread binds contemporary Western radicalism and fundamentalist Islam. On the surface the two seem poles apart: fundamentalists loathe Western decadence, Western radicals fear Islamic presumptions of certainty. But what unites the two is that both are rooted in contemporary nihilistic multiculturalism; both express, at best, ambivalence about, at worst outright rejection of, the ideas of modernity, universality, and progress; and both see no real alternative to Western power.
- The Almanac
The Almanac of Record
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- The Almanac
The Almanac of Record
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Alternative Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Anarchism, Representation, and Culture
Cohn, Jesse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A discussion of the role of anarchism in the formation of modernist avant-garde aesthetics.
- The Art of the Handwritten Note
A Guide to Reclaiming Civilized Communication
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Sales coach Tom Stoyan (www.CanadasSalesCoach.com) recommends #looking for opportunities to send thank yous#, preferably in a hand written letter.
- The Babes in the Wood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Basket Case
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, "plotting to resurrect my career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff." Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba "accident" may be just the stiff jack needs -- if only he can figure out what happened.
- Blood of Victory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
In the autumn of 1940, Russian emigre journalist I.A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by an agent of the British secret services for a clandestine operation to stop German importation of Romanian oil.
- Der Brand
Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940–1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- The Canadian Paper Finder 2002
Canada-wide Fine Paper Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- The Canadian Writer's Market
15th Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Lists markets for freelancers to sell their writing.
- Capitalist Restructuring, Globalization and the Third Way
Lessons from the Swedish Model
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
This book addresses the contemporary debate about the 'third way' in European social democracy. By analysing the exemplar case of social democracy - 'the Swedish model' - this book challenges the recent 'third way' perspective. The author argues strongly against the widely held belief that the nature of contemporary capitalist restructuring and globalisation has rendered traditional social democracy obsolete.
- A Century of Noir
Thirty-Two Classic Crime Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Change the World Without Taking Power
The Meaning of Revolution Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Holloway claims that after a century of failed attempts by revolutionary and reformist movements to bring about radical social change, the concept of revolution itself is in crisis. However, he has no idea what to do about it.
- Conjugating Three Moments in Black Canadian Cinema
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Published in In North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980, edited by William Beard and Jerry White. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002
- Covert Entry
Spies, Lies and Crimes Inside Canada's Secret Service
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A glimpse into the inner workings of Canada's secret service.
- A Crisis by Any Other Name
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
The role of communications in a crisis.
- A crisis manufactured by the Harris government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Moving at breakneck speed to ram through ill-conceived ideologically driven schemes with mindless arrogance.
- Crow Lake
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Cul De Sac: A Suburban War Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
In May 1995, Shawn Nelson, a 35 year-old plumber from Clairemont, California, emerged from an eighteen foot mine shaft he had dug beneath his backyard in search for gold. An ex-soldier and methamphetamine abuser, he stole a tank from a nearby National Guard armory and went on a rampage through the residential streets of his neighborhood, crushing cars and lampposts until the cops took him down. CUL DE SAC goes far beyond this apparently minor news story and provides extensive political, economic and social context that ties Nelson's life to the larger story of a working class community in decline.
- Daily news, eternal stories (book review)
Review of Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Dean's Digital World: Leaning forward, looking back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Dean's Digital World: Pathfinders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Dialogues on Cultural Studies
Interviews with Contemporary Critics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Thirty-three questions were asked (but not necessarily answered) of each participant, dealing with cultural studies, modernity, postmodernism, referentiality, ideology and history, post-colonialism, neo-orientalism, revolution and tragedy, intellectuals and universities, gender, Marxism, new communications technology.
- A Different Location in the World: A Reconnaissance of Socialist Feminism in Canada, 1965-1990
Unpublished paper, 2002
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Do think tanks matter?
Assesing the impact of public policy institutes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Do think tanks matter?
Assesing the impact of public policy institutes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Doors Open Toronto
Illuminating the City's Great Spaces
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Equivocal Feminists: The Social Democratic Federation and the Woman Question, 1884-1911
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A look at the relationship between socialism and feminism before the First World War, through a detailed examination of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF).
- The Essential Desk Reference
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
An American reference book.
- Facing the Facts
A Guide to the GATS debate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Die Flucht
Uber die Vertreibing der Deutschen aus dem Osten
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- The G8, Globalization and Resistance
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Getting the Whole Story
Reporting and Writing the News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Historical Information Science
An Emerging Unidiscipline
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A review and essay discussion on the developments in the field of information technology with emphasis on the access, preservation, methodologies and new media techniques.
- History of the Codroy Valley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- HotLink Resouce Shelf: In the News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Review of a book on media relations in Canada.
- How Media Relations Helps the Marketing Plan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Using media relations to support your marketing strategy.
- In The News
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Carney gives everyone, from student to seasoned practitioner, a thorough understanding of who the media are, how they work and how to approach them with stories.
- An Injury to One
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Documentarian Travis Wilkerson reconstructs the story of his hometown of Butte, Montana. After a brief period as a gold rush town, Butte comes of age during the 1880s, when its vast reserves of copper are discovered by the nascent electricity industry, which is dependent on the mineral. The town's resources are soon monopolized by the Anaconda Mining Company. In 1917, union organizer Frank Little comes to town to organize worker resistance against the business -- which fights back violently.
- The Intangible Benefits of Media Training
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
One of the greatest frustrations of media relations specialists, and news media, is the slow response to interview or information requests. Many times I've noticed that executives don't understand the rapid timelines that the news media operate under - they don't understand how quickly something ceases to be "news" or how quickly the media may lose interest in a proactive media relations venture.
- Invisible Giant
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A far-reaching analysis of a global food company that now has 800 locations in over 60 countries and more than 50 lines of business.
- Kassel Guide
im documenta-Jahr
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- The law-breaking MLA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Alberta MLA plans to break the law.
- Lincoln's Virtues
An Ethical Biography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Miller traces the moral development of Abraham Lincoln.
- Mackenzie
A political biography of William Lyon Mackenzie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
History has often dismissed William Lyon Mackenzie as a comical figure, or as the political hothead who bungled the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Former Toronto mayor John Sewell suggests he may actually be the best model this country has ever had of a responsible politician.
- Making Kyoto Work
A transition strategy for Canadian energy workers
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Managing the Media: A Lesson in Making Publicity Come First
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Case study of media relations strategy.
- The Many-Headed Hydra
The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
With the expansion of trade and colonization around the Atlantic in the seventeenth century, sailors, indentured servants, market women, prostitutes, and slaves came to inhabit European cities, American colonies and trade ships. Linebaugh and Rediker show how this motley crew had their own versions of democracy.
- A Matter of Style
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A guide to the nuances of prose.
- Maximizing Coverage of Charity Activities in Community Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
When it comes to getting coverage in the local newspaper, presentation is paramount. Tto maximize your profile and get your story or event covered, give the newspaper what it wants, when it wants it.
- Media Events - Maximizing Your Attendance & News Pick-up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Maximizing your attendance and news pick-up at media events.
- The Navigator of New York
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Net Crimes and Misdemeanors
Outmaneuvering the Spammers, Swindlers, and Stalkers Who are Targeting You Online
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Deals with themes such as: protecting one's privacy and personal security in the Internet age, stalking, harassment, identity theft, spam, online fraud, trolls, encryption, online shopping and banking, children, viruses and firewalls.
- The New Left in New Zealand
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Published in In On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand, edited by Pat Moloney and Kerry Taylor Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2002.
- The New York Times 2003 Alamanc
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A review of the increasingly prolific global arms trade and its economic, political and social impact on exploited and vulnerable nations.
- Odysseys Home
Mapping African - Canadian Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- On the bookshelf - Sources 50
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- The Online Copywriter's Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Bly concentrates on the Internet and provides everything that's needed to write great copy for online applications.
- The Original Canadian City Dweller's Almanac
Facts, Rants, Anecdotes and Unsupported Assertions for Urban Residents
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- The Other Israel
Voices of Refusal and Dissent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A compilation of essays written by Israelis who oppose Israel's occupation of Palestine.
- Over the Don
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Illustraitons of historic crossings of the Don River in Toronto.
- Platformism & Bolshevism
Pamphlet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency: A polemic against platformist anarchism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- The Politics of Memory
The Journey of a Holocaust Historian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A memoir of a historian's life-long exploration of the Holocaust.
- Public Relations Strategy a Valuable Fundraising Tool
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
A case study of using public relations to enhance a charity's fundraising activities.
- Publicity, Newsletters, and Press Releases
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Random Shots: Pirates, Gladiators and Assassins
Against The Current vol. 96
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Dubya may come to regret his efforts to classify his crusade against terrorism as a war. The legal ramifications of waging war against a non-governmental organization may keep the lawyers busy for generations. One would think that the 18th Century international convention on piracy, which declared pirates to be the general enemies of all mankind rather than any particular state, might be conveniently applied here.
- The Real Value of Diversity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
The real failure of multiculturalism is its failure to understand what is valuable about cultural diversity. There is nothing good in itself about diversity. It is important because it allows us to compare and contrast different values, beliefs and lifestyles, make judgements upon them, and decide which are better and which worse. It is important, in other words, because it allows us to engage in political dialogue and debate that can help create more universal values and beliefs. But it is precisely such dialogue and debate, and the making of such judgements, that multiculturalism attempts to suppress in the name of 'tolerance' and 'respect'.
- Real World Quark XPress 5
Industrial-Strength Page-Layout Techniques
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Real World Quark XPress 5
Industrial-Strength Page-Layout Techniques
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- A Self-management Approach to Housing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Community land trusts (CLTs) have been formed in a number of communities in the USA in response to either disinvestment or gentrification. The CLT acquires land to take it permanently off the market and make it available for the use of the community. As a democratic organization, the CLT is intended to empower the community in determining what is done with land in that area. The CLT may rehab existing buildings, build new houses or apartment buildings, or do other types of development work.
- The September 11 X-Files
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
One problem with conspiracy theorizing is that it can distract from the true and (sometimes mundane) misdeeds and mistakes of government.
- Socialist Register 2002
Volume 38: A World of Contradictions
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- The Spectre Of Hope
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
The Spectre Of Hope is based on the latest work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Salgado spent 6 years traveling to over 40 countries, taking pictures of globalization and its consequences - most notably, the mass migrations of populations around the world. In the film, Salgado presents his remarkable photographs in conversation with John Berger.
- Top Ten List of Media Relations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Top ten recommendations for becoming (and remaining) media friendly:
- Understanding Capitalism
Critical Analysis from Karl Marx to Amartya Sen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Essays by seven leading economists, including Robin Hahnel and John Bellamy Foster, that assess how economic theory has become capitalist ideology.
- Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Designed to inform those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Written in question and answer format
- The University of Toronto
A History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Video & DVD Guide 2003
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- Web of Deception
Misinformation on the Internet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- The Well-Rested Woman
60 Soothing Suggestions for Getting a Good Night's Sleep
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- What Makes a Good Story?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
What makes a story interesting is often a combination of the interests of the audience, the interests and abilities of the reporter, and a long history of journalistic tradition.
- When 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Go Bad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Aren't these conspiracy theories too silly to address? That should be the case. But, sadly, they do attract people.
- When & How to Hold a News Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
So before you decide to call a news conference, make sure that the circumstances meet ALL of the criteria.
- When the Political Became Personal
Health Matters Issue 51
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
One health care professional's experiences with the British National Health Service while going through treatment for breast cancer.
- Where is Here?
Canada's Maps and the Stories They Tell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Morantz tries to show how maps and the art of map-making have shaped us as Canadians and what they reveal of who we are.
- Writing for the Information Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
Here are 100 or so techniques for engaging readers in the information age, to produce writing that allows them to find quickly and easily what might be of interest.
- Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell
A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
- On Roediger's Wages of Whiteness
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2002
Published: 2002
An extended discussion and critique of David Roediger's book Wages of Whiteness. Allen writes: "David Roediger's Wages of Whiteness, because of its almost universal acceptance for use in colleges and universities, has served as the single most effective instrument in the socially necessary consciousness-raising function of objectifying 'whiteness,' and in popularizing the 'race-as-a-social-construct' thesis. As one who has been the beneficiary of kind supportive comments from him for my own efforts in this field of historical investigation, I undertake this critical essay with no other purpose than furthering the our common aim of the disestablishment of white identity, and the overthrow of white supremacism in general."
- The Drone Revolution Comes to England
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
As cities and towns are faced with rising poverty, homelessness and drug addiction, the authorities respond with more social control, using a technology that makes George Orwell’s 1984 seem tame.
- Private-school debate grows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Proposed legislation to aid private schools amounts to a subsidy for rich parents, opponents to Bill 45 say.
- How We Fought the War
Bob Kerrey's Revolting Medal of Honor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2016
On May 16, 2016, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was named chairman of Fulbright University, a US-backed college with ties to the State Department in Ho Chi Minh City. During his recent visit to Vietnam, President Barack Obama heaped praise on Kerrey, a former Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969. What Obama failed to mention is that Kerrey also supervised one of the most atrocious war crimes of that ghastly war. The unit he lead killed women and children during an assassination mission in 1969. Some of the victims had their throats slit. Instead of being charged with war crimes, Kerrey was awarded a Medal of Honor for his role in another operation of that year in Nha Trong Bay.
- Cryptome Protest Photos Series
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2001
Published: 2012
- The Spectre of Hope
with Sebastiao Salgado and John Berger
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2001
Published: 2012
In THE SPECTRE OF HOPE, Sebastião Salgado joins Berger to pore over Salgado's collection "Migrations." Six years and 43 countries in the making (ranging across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America), "Migrations" contains photographs of people pushed from their homes and traditions to cities and their margins -- slums and streets and refugee camps.
Sitting at the kitchen table of Berger's home in Quincy, a village in the Swiss Alps, their intimate conversation, intercut with photographs from "Migrations," combines a discussion of Salgado's work with a critique of globalization, and a wide-ranging investigation of the power of the image.
- Solidarity against sexism on the shop floor
IWW member Angel Gardner goes over some ways of fighting sexism in the workplace through direct action.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
If there is anything that I have learned from working in the restaurant and retail industry for over 14 years, it is that sexual harassment and sexism in the workplace is an issue that has not gone away. Perhaps you have become more tolerant of being sexually objectified. Maybe you are afraid that being uncomfortable with sexual advances or comments means that you are a prude or hopelessly outdated. The reality is that sexual harassment and sexism are all about power. We feel uncomfortable about standing up for ourselves in these situations because to do so questions power relations; not only in the workplace, but in society in general.
- Cul De Sac
A Suburban War Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2001
Published: 2011
On May 1995, Shawn Nelson, a 35 year-old plumber from Clairemont, California, emerged from an eighteen foot mine shaft he had dug beneath his backyard in search for gold. An ex-soldier and methamphetamine abuser, he stole a tank from a nearby National Guard armory and went on a rampage through the residential streets of his neighborhood, crushing cars and lampposts until the cops took him down.
CUL DE SAC goes far beyond this apparently minor news story and provides extensive political, economic and social context that ties Nelson's life to the larger story of a working class community in decline.
by: Icarus Films
- Protect the Freedom to Shock
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to take a stand, to be unpopular, to refuse to see oneself as a victim easily disturbed by provocative beliefs. Respecting others means not ignoring them but engaging with them by putting them on their mettle and challenging their ideas and arguments. Without heated, entrenched debate a plural society becomes but a hollow shell.
- The Holocaust Industry
Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2007
The thrust of Professor Finkelstein's book is that powerful interests (Israel and Jewish organizations in America) have hijacked what has become known as the Holocaust. And while Israel has exploited the Holocaust as a weapon to deflect criticism, regardless how justified, American Jewish organizations have used the plight of survivors to extort staggering sums of money from the rest of the world. This was done not for the benefit of survivors, but for the financial advantage of these organizations.
- Radical Digressions 3
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2001
Published: 2006
- Wanderlust
A history of walking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2006
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act.
- Is Your Web Site Media Friendly?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2005
How to make your Web site media-friendly.
- The Princess and the Press
How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2005
Your relationship with the press might not be a fairy tale, but it definitely doesn't have to be horror story: How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball.
- Red Persimmons
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2001
Published: 2004
The ostensible subject of this remarkably beautiful film is the growing, drying, peeling and packaging of persimmons in the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama.
- The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2003
- Canada: A People's History
Volume Two
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2002
Canadian history from the 1870s to the 1990s.
- It Ain't Necessarily So
How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2002
Looks at the confusion and inaccuracies surrounding media reporting of scientific studies, surveys and statistics.
- MultiMedia from Wagner to virtual reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2002
Writings by the pioneers of multimedia.
- The Pinochet Case
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2001
Published: 2002
With the film's protagonists, among them the prosecutor Carlos Castressana who filed the charges, and Judge Baltasar Garzon, who upheld them and issued the arrest warrant, THE PINOCHET CASE explores how a small group of people in Madrid laid the groundwork for this incredible feat -- catching a dictator 25 years after his rise to power.
by: Icarus Films
- The Rag and Bone Shop
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2002
- Understanding Power
The Indispensable Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2002
In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
- Sons and mothers vs. sacred cows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A growing movement to refuse to serve in the Israeli military and especially in the occupied territories.
- Making mid-life changes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
"I'm so much more myself." So says Miriam Garfinkle, a family physician who recently left her busy private practice to work in a community health centre.
- Master builders meet citizen activists
Trefann Court and beyond: from "urban renewal" to true civic life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Examining former Toronto Mayor John Sewell's role as a community organizer and advocate during the urban renewal of the Trefann Court neighborhood and the importance of community self-determination in urban planning.
- Of time and the river
The Don: salmon to sludge to concrete; in time, to life revived
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A history of the Don River in Toronto and reflections on its relationship with the city and citizenship as a natural space, and its decline and renewal.
- Press for Conversion #46
December 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Published not long after 9/11 and the illegal U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, this issue takes a radical look at the underlying purpose of this war and the military occupation that followed.
- Quilt gives peace a chance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Now more than ever people need to try to understand one another. That is what Miriam Garfinkle believes in the aftermath of Sept. 11 and why she feels it is even more important for people to come out and view the Middle East Peace Quilt when it comes to North York.
- Peace messages are wrapped in quilt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Sima Elizabeth Shefrin wanted to do something to contribute to peace in the Middle East. And she wanted to do something that would draw the world's eyes to a just peace for both Arab and Jew.
- A Plague on Your Houses
How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York in the 1970s and a frightening study of the way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous and unforeseen urban collapse.
- Blight and the Brave New World
Rural estates to urban renewal: Moss Park, Trefann Court and Corktown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A history of, and observations and reflections on the Moss Park, Trefann Court and Corktown areas of Toronto.
- Global Labor: Socialist Register 2001
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
For all intents and purposes, I discovered the Socialist Register during the early '90s. When I say "discovered" I, of course, do not mean that I was the first to come across it. Rather, having heard of it for years, I actually read it.
- Government's house and housing the governed
Parliament Street: Regent Park, Cabbagetown (old and "Old") and St James Town
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A recent history of the neighborhoods around Parliament Street in Toronto, with a focus on the planning challenges and the function of mixed-income communities.
- Magical Thinking in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Homeopathy and other popular therapies demonstrate ancient and universal principles of magical thinking, which some recent research suggests are fundamental to human cognition, even rooted in neurobiology.
- Random Shots: Notes for Life Under Siege
Against The Current vol. 95
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
When one thinks of of communities around the world that have been under siege for decades, one wonders how the U.S. will cope in the absence of a quick fix. Return to normal? This is normal for a lot of people. It's safety that is an aberration and an illusion.
- Being Naked
Attitudes Toward Nudity Through the Ages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Stanton explores attitudes towards nudity and morality.
- Random Shots: Teens and Other Freaks
Against The Current vol. 94
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Many parents are annoyed by the popularity of “freak-dancing” among today's teenagers. Of course, annoying parents is the teenagers' main purpose in life.
- Response to Toronto Sun article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Sun reporter's ill-informed and poor-quality reporting reflects her hostility to organizatons providing services for immigrant women.
- World should intervene to end the Israeli Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Transcript of a speech given in South Africa addressing the circumstances of the Palestinians and the Israeli apartheid.
- When journalists forget that murder is murder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
- Sources of Holocaust Research
An Analysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Hilberg's Destruction of the European Jews (1961) practically invented the field of Holocaust studies. After a half-century of research, Hilberg has now turned his attention to the sources used to reconstruct the Holocaust. It may seem odd to the casual observer that, after five decades, Hilberg experienced an epiphany: the informational sources are not simply "raw material" for fashioning "a description of the destruction process"; they are phenomena worthy of study. And so he set out to examine these sources.
- Anti-racists who queston Zionism are not racists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Anyone who criticizes the actions of the Israeli government runs the risk of being labelled anti-Semitic by those who want to silence all criticism of Israel.
- Is the Corporation Obsolete?
Corporate irresponsibility? Predatory behavior? Blame the charter--and rewrite it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
The more pervasive the corporation becomes, the less we seem to notice. It's just the way things are, the new normal, and rapidly it is becoming the norm for the entire world.
- Press for Conversion #45
July 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
This issue looks at the origins of corporate globalization and contains many informative articles that explore the important links between war, militarism, big business and the increasing power that corporations wield over governments around the world.
- Random Shots: The Prices of Progress
Against The Current vol. 93
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Back in 1965 you could fill your gas tank for $3. Of course, that was two hours pay back then.
- Godfrey High
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Former and current students of Bathurst Heights Secondary School are objecting to the decision to invite Tory backroom operator Paul Godfrey to be the keynote speaker at a ceremony to mark the school's closing, given that Godfrey is a key advisor to the Conservative government whose cutbacks are responsible for the school's being shut down.
- Israel's approved ethnic cleansing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Israel's treatment of the Palestinians has always presented a moral problem to the West, as that treatment has violated every law and moral standard on the books.
- Out Now
A Participant's Account of the Movement in the United States Against the Vietnam War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
An account of the fight for a political course able to organize working people, GIs, and youth and help lead growing world opposition to the Vietnam War.
- Private property; public life
The city indoors: The Eaton Centre and "Toronto's Downtown Walkway"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A history of, and observations on, Toronto's Eaton Centre mall and PATH walkway and preceding indoor private-owned and publically accessible spaces.
- Global Justice, What We Eat, Who We Are
Against The Current vol. 92
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Sara Abraham interviews Harriet Friedmann, who has devoted more than two decades to understanding the international politics of food and agriculture and to building local food systems that can be sustainable, polycultural in all senses, and enhancing of democratic, participatory communities.
- Random Shots: Tender Loving Care
Against The Current vol. 92
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A kinky personal ad?
- "This Changes Everything..."
Against The Current vol. 92
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Remember those ads for the Viper, that hyped-up, super-computerized Dodge yuppiemobile that adjusted itself for road conditions, programmed its own itinerary, virtually drove itself and offered more luxury features than the average first-class airline trip? The slogan for that promotional campaign — "This Changes Everything" — fits perfectly the sudden economic downturn and fear of recession.
- Press for Conversion #44
April 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
This annual research report by COAT juxtaposes evidence from a variety of sources to demonstrate Canada's complicity in international war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- Anarchy!
An Anthology of Emma Goldman's "Mother Earth"
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A collection of articles from 'Mother Earth', as an introduction to different anarchist points of view.
- Random Shots: Daimler and Dubya Chronicles
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Daimler-Chrysler CEO Juergen Schrempp has pledged not to sell off the Chrysler division. Not that anyone was lining up to buy it. All the same to us on the line: If you're not the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
- Costly Energy
Why oil and gas prices are rising and what we can do about it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A collection of progressive analysis and alternatives
- Race and Class in the Work of Oliver Cromwell Cox
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Cox stands out as a scholar whose work consistently and rigorously proceeded from the conviction that making sense of the meaning of race and the character of race relations in American life requires an understanding of the dynamics of capitalism as a social system and its specific history in this country. Caste, Class, and Race was Cox's most elaborate attempt to follow through on that conviction.
- Abandonando o interesse público
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Abandoning the Public Interest - Chinese (Simplified) Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Abandoning the Public Interest - Chinese (Traditional) Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Alien Invasion
How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
- All the news that's fit to print (book review)
Review of Deadlines and Diversity: Journalism Ethics in a Changing World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- All the spaces in between: A new paradigm for public affairs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Barbara Epstein analyzes the influence of anarchism on the history of American social protest, and its role in the anti-globalization resistance movement of the present day.
- Asleep at the switch
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Was at http://rightsforall-usa.org/ni/issue331/asleep.htm
A copy of my New Internationalist article appeared here.
- Billionaires, Crime, and Corruption
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
What does it really mean when somebody claims to own hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars? What is a billionaire like David Rockefeller really telling us? He's saying that land he may never have set foot on, but which thousands of other people spend their lives farming, belongs to him alone. He's saying that buildings and machinery which he probably has never seen and certainly has never worked at, but which whole communities of people spend their lives working at to produce goods like clothing and automobiles, belong to him alone.
- Blaming The Victims
Spurious Scholarship And The Palestinian Question
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Demonstrates with cold precision how the consistent denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. Controversial, forceful, and 'above all' honest, it attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to make a more rational political future in Palestine possible. Searing essays from Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Peretz Kidron, G. W. Bowerstock, Ibrahim and Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mumammad Hallaj, Elia Zureik, and Rashid Khalidi.
- Body of Secrets
Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
The National Security Agency (NSA) is the largest intelligence gathering agency in the world. James Banford in his sequel to "The Puzzle Palace" draws on newly released government documents and interviews with past and present personel to give a detailed picture of the agency. Tracing its origins from the Truman admisnistration and using examples from modern day incidents (Gary Powers, the Pueblo, the Israeli attack on a U.S. surveillance ship and many more) he provides us with an overview of the murky and dangerous world of intelligence operations.
- Bordiga versus Pannekoek
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Over a decade has passed since the fall of the Berlin wall, and the announcement then of the "End of History" seems now to be not just ideological, but beneath contempt.
- But It's Only a Tool!
The Politics of Technology and Education Reform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Canada's Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Canada's Red Scare 1945-1957
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A summary and examination of Canada's Red Scare, the name used to describe the paranoia and ideological insecurity that swept Canada in the years following the Second World War amidst widespread mistrust of the Soviet Union. Volume 61 of The Canadian Historical Association booklets.
- Canadian Books in Print Subject Index 2001
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- The Canadian Oxford Dictionary CD-ROM
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
The text is the complete Canadian Oxford Dictionary, which can now be used in different modes and ways. Access is by holding the cursor over a word in a document or an Internet site.
- Canadian Students' Guide to Language, Literature, and Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Meant for secondary schools, independent use, or small group study
- The challenges of diversity (book review)
Review of The Mass Media and Canadian Diversity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- The Charter of Demands of the Indian National Fishworkers' Forum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- The City of Montreal Style guide
A Handbook for Translators, Writers and Editors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A style guide for writers and editors that addresses the added challenge of translating French into English is going to be especially appealing to anyone working in Canada. Its value is broader than the title would suggest.
- Class Notes
Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Reed argues against the solipsistic approaches of cultural or identity politics, and in favour of class-based political interpretation and action. Class Notes moves on to tackle race relations, ethnic studies, family values, welfare reform, the so-called underclass, and black public intellectuals.
- C.L.R. James and Anti-/Postcolonialism
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
C.L.R. James' proclamation in Beyond A Boundary (1963, a classic study of cricket and colonialism), after almost three decades of radical intellectual work, that “Thackeray, not Marx, bears the heaviest responsibility for me,” is a sententious political statement. It abounds with meanings, standing at once as an alluring paradox and a striking truism.
- The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Creating Web-Accessible Databases
Case Sudies for Libraries, Museums, & other Nonprofits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Creating Web-Accessible Databases
Case Sudies for Libraries, Museums, & other Nonprofits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Daily News, Eternal Stories
The Mythological Role of Journalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Argues that in many ways news articles of today draw from age-old tales have have chastened, entertained, and entranced people since the beginning of time.
- Dean's Digital World: "Converging" and "Repurposing": it's everywhere
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Dean's Digital World: Untangling the web: A guide to journalistic resources on the 'Net
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Death in Holy Orders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Desintresse am Öffentlichen Intresse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
In den Industrienationen haben die Menschen über Jahrzehnte hinweg gelernt, dass man privaten Unternehmen nicht trauen kann, wenn es um Sachen der öffentlichen Sicherheit geht.
- Dialogues of the Dead
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Dictionary of the Internet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
About 3600 entries, mostly jargon from networking and Internet usage, with many abbreviations and technical terms.
- Did Roosevelt know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor yet say nothing?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Examining another popular conspiracy theory.
- The Dirk Gently Omnibus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Double Fold
Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Double Fold examines the preservation of books in United States libraries over the past 50 years. It details the libraries' "war" on books -- the alarming lack of preservation and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of irreplacable bound originals including 19th-century illustrated dailies. He chronicles the attempts to find ways of preserving books from both the ravages of time and the librairies' lack of shelf space. He also explains how librairies use the spectre of disintegrating books as part of their fundraising stategy. Baker offers aternative solutions to these problems. His ultimate and pesuasive plea is for librairies to stop "executing" the originals.
- Eating Fire
Family Life, on the Queer Side
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
An inside look at a rainbow of relationships, sexual and otherwise, that gay, lesbian, and transgendered people create to animate their lives: lovers, partners, parents/kids, quick tricks, torrid affairs, sweethearts, crushes, exes, friends, bottoms and tops, threesomes, butches and fems, bears, cubs and johns. Based on hundreds of intimate conversations across Canada, Eating Fire explores the deepest currents of life: sex, love, loneliness, abuse, power and consent, giving birth, death, being a wo/man, pleasure, fear, joy - risks and rewards of creating family without boundaries.
- E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
Communications in the public interest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, these essays challenge the rush to deregulate and disconnect communications from the public interest.
- The Elements of Typographic Style
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Bringhurst clearly and directly explains the various aspects of type specification and layout and their reasons for being so. He presents typographic rules with an unhesitating voice of authority.
- The Essential Contact -12th Edition
Canada's Music & Entertainment Industry Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting
Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
In this book, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to engage the typical racial discussion that matches people of colour against each other while institutionalizing the primacy of the white majority. Instead he examines more than five centuries of remarkable historical evidence of cultural and political interaction between Blacks and Asians around the world, in which they have exchanged cultural and religious symbols, appropriated personas and lifestyles, and worked together to achieve political change.
- An Examination of the Microcredit Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
An examination of the microcredit movement, its history, how it functions, and future trends.
- Expand your knowledge by getting advice from the experts!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Public opinion plays a key role in government spending decisions, and one of the most effective ways to influence public opinion is through the media. A single appearance on television, for example, gets your message across to tens of thousand of people.
- Failed Crusade
America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Failed Crusade is a deeply informed and passionate call for a fundamentally different American-Russian relationship.
- Fatal Passage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- First Chapter
The Canadian Writers Photography Project
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A "photographic archive" of Canadian writers from across the country.
- Flying High: 5 Sure Ways to Get Your Business Soaring
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Know your audience, know your message, be clear and consistent in that message, then develop a strategy and execute it.
- The Form of News
A History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A history of newspaper design in the USA, the ways of writing, how papers are organized, presentation values of typography, space and pictures, and the impact of changing technology
- Freelancer's Mantra: work smarter, not harder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Front Cover
Great Book Jacket and Cover Design
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Examples of some of the best book covers and jackets of the twentieth century.
- The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
The deepest and most systemic threat to civil and planetary life the world has ever faced is underway. Behind the disasters of regional economies and planetary ecosystems melting down, the threat is driven by an underlying meta-program, in terms of which every decision, every policy, every regulation and implementation is demanded and instituted by servant governments.
- The Game of War
The Life and Death of Guy Debord
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Globalization Unmasked
Imperialism in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
In this book, the authors contend that “globalization” is little more than imperialism in a new form. They argue that the “inevitability” of globalization and the adjustment or submission of peoples all over the world to free market capitalism depends on the capacity of the dominant and ruling classes to bend people to their will and convince people that their interests are the people’s interests.
- Going up the River
Travels in a Prison Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
On the prisons in America, their unprofitable nature, and their ineffectiveness. Hallinan also explores the workings of mostly-white towns that host prisons of predominately black inmates.
- Guerrilla Tactics for Maximizing the Results of Your Media Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Strategy and tactics for successful media campaigns.
- A History of Celibacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
This book, mixing both anthropogy and history traces celibacy during the ages. Citing various cultures (Persian, Chinese, Greek, Roman, Europe in the Middle Ages etc.) she explores the power of celibacy and it's offence (that it is unnatural). The book in essence is a history of civilization from one particular angle. Written with both humour and anger it documents some of the strangeness of the world.
- Hooking and holding readers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- How Embarassing when your messages unravel
The Emperor's New Speak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Analyze your messages to make sure their will hold up to critical scrutiny.
- How the Media Can Be Positive For Your Business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
If both you and the reporter benefit, the chances are you will do business with that reporter again, good business.
- How 2 Take an Exam... & Remake the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Humanism Betrayed
Ideology, and Culture in the Contemporary University
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
This book offers a defence of liberal humanism as a philosophy of higher education, particularly in the humanities, against the illiberal trends, political and intellectual, that are currently dominating the university.
- Humanism Betrayed - Table of Contents and Introduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A defence of liberal humanism as a philosophy of higher education, particularly in the humanities, against the illiberal trends, political and intellectual, that are currently dominating the university.
- I Am Definitely Not Leaving without A Degree
A View from the Crossroads of Informal and Formal Learning - The Transitional Year Program at the University of Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Published in Toronto: OISE Research Report, 2001
- IBM and the Holocaust
The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Nazi Germany employed IBM Hollerith punch-card machines to perform critical tasks in carrying out the Holocaust and the German war effort, cranking out lists of Jews which were then turned over to the SS for deportation and eventual extermination.
- Imagine My Joy
A Family History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
The family story of Yitzhak and Gita Pearl Cramer and Shimon Levi and Dobeh Blinick and their descendants, spanning pre-revolutionary Czarist Russia to mid-20th Century North America.
- Inch'Allah Dimanche
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A 2001 French/Algerian movie by Yamina Benguigui about the life of an Algerian immigrant woman in France.
- The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Now in its second edition, this landmark book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century.
- Intelligent Technologies in Library and Information Service Applications
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A technical study, funded by the Special Libraries Association, surveying the applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to library information service environments.
- An Interracial Movement of the Poor
Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Investigation of a Flame
A Documentary portrait of the Catonvilles Nine
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME is an intimate look at this unlikely, disparate band of resisters - the Catonsville Nine as they came to be known - who broke the law in a poetic act of civil disobedience. The publicity and news coverage from the ensuing trial helped galvanize an increasingly disillusioned American public.
by: Icarus Films
- The Jews in the Twentieth Century
An Illustrated History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Journeys Just Begun
From Debt Relief to Poverty Reduction
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
The two essays in this volume critically examine the adequacy of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiatives and the more general issue of financing for the poorest countries.
- Libraries in the Ancient World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Long Shadows
Truth, Lies, and History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Lure of the Sinister
The Unnatural History of Satanism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Media and Minorities
Representing Diversity in a Multicultral Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.
- Medicine Wars Will Alternative and Mainstream Medicine Ever Be Friends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
In the wake of dozens of new and complementary medicines flooding both the marketplace and some hospitals, which path will medicine take?
- A Mind of its Own
A Cultural Historyt of the Penis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Missing Pieces II
An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- A Multitude of Sins
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Neighbors
The Destruction of the Jewish Community at Jedwabne, Poland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
An account of the humiliation, butchery, torture and burning alive of 1600 Jewish men, women and children in the Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941 by their Polish neighbours.
- New Internationalist
#331 - January-February 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
How the system makes us sick.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
- No to Bush's War
The military face of globalization
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Notes on the practical subjunctive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- 1000 Questions About Canada
Places, People, Things and Ideas. A Question-and-Answer Book on Canadian Facts and Culture.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Only Poetry Can Address Grief
Moving Forward after 911
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A guide for global justice activism in the face of increased repression and potential public opposition.
- Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social
Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
- Patriarchy Gets Funky
The Triumph of Identity Marketing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
How identity politics among young people through the 1980's and 1990's provided a lucrative market for corporations. From Chapter Five of the book "NO LOGO" (Flamingo).
- Peanuts
The Art of Charles M. Schulz
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- The Penguin Dictionary of Epigrams
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Pensions Under Attack
What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Townson discusses the forces behind the drive to privatize public pensions and its impact on the financial security of seniors. In doing so, she traces a history from Pinochet's Chile to Thatcher's Great Britain to critique Canada's move toward privatization.
- Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- The Pinochet Case
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Original Title: Le cas Pinochet. True story of the saga that was hoped to be the long-awaited justice brought to bear upon Augosto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990. In September 1998, Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure trip but experienced back pain and underwent an operation in the London Clinic. Upon waking, he was arrested by Scotland Yard. Could it be that this was to become the first Latin American dictator to answer for crimes while serving as Head of State? After 500 days of house arrest, he nevertheless eventually returned unscathed to Chile, despite the compelling case against him .
- The Popes Against the Jews
The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- The Poster in History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- A Race Struggle, a Class Struggle, A Women's Struggle All at Once
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
In Los Angeles, the Labor/Community Strategy Center is carrying out a difficult Left experiment in the age of the omnipresent Right. The center is an explicitly anti-racist, anti-corporate, and anti-imperialist think-tank focusing on 'theory-driven practice'—the generation of mass campaigns of the working class and oppressed nationalities, in particular the black and Latino workers and communities. These campaigns are historically relevant on their own terms, but also have real relevance to any transition to an uncharted socialist future.
- The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program, and Organizational Structure
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
The complete guide to Radical Women, an activist, multiracial, queer and straight socialist feminist organization.
- Reaching for a dictionary (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Rebels on the Air
An Alternative History of Radio in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Reckless Abandon
Canada, the GATS and the future of Health Care
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Research Practices in Need of Examination and Improvement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Belief in the function of the scientific method as a tool for improving the quality of research implies that the more accurately, carefully and honestly, a hypothesis is generated, the experiments are done and results are more likely to arrive at more reliable hypothesis.
- Resist
A grassroots collection of stories, poetry, photos and analyses from the Quebec City FTAA protetst and beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A dynamic collection of personal accounts, creative works, reflections, images and analyses about the protests against the FTAA summit that took place in April 2001 in Quebec City.
- Respect Bathurst
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A protest against inviting a Harris Tory to speak at the closing of Bathurst Heights Secondary School.
- Rethinking Marxism
Volume 13 Number 1, Spring 2001
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- A Review of NATO's War over Kosovo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
In wake of the end of the Kosovo conflict, Chomsky attempts a dispassionate analysis of the crisis, differentiating between two approaches available to the international community in such situations.
- Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- The Silent Takeover
Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A combination of globalisation and the growing power of major corporations is rendering democratic governments impotent for influencing key decisions that affect the lives of ordinary people.
- Socialist Register 2001
Volume 37: Working Classes, Global Realities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Standards of Practice for Counsellors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- States of Denial
Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Stolen Lives
The 'sisters' who are challenging Australia to admit to its forced separation of Aboriginal families
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
The issue of Austaralia's stolen children.
- Surviving and Thriving in a Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Surviving and thriving in a crisis means joining hands for support and sharing information clearly, effectively and with respect for the human condition. Remember, you're never alone in a crisis - it just feels that way.
- Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A reference book on Canadian film and filmmakers, with reviews, biographical listings, and a detailed chronology of major events in Canadian film and television history.
- Ted Hughes, The Life of a Poet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- They really are out to get you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- This Rough Game
Fascism and Anti-Fascism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Renton describes the rise of European Fascism, the condition of Weimar Germany, British fascism, Battle of Cable Street and Hitler's life.
- Towards a New Perspective on Health Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
A summary of four case studies dissecting the relationship between the health of an individual and that individual's social living circumstances.
- The Tramp in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Trees of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- 205 Arguments and Observations in Support of Naturism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Arguments in favour of naturism backed up by research and writings from various sources.
- Vanguard of Retrogression
"Postmodern" Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Fictitious Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
When one probes the terms of the debate, what is truly amazing is that the ostensibly anti-Eurocentric multiculturalists are, without knowing it, purveying a remarkably Eurocentric version of what the Western tradition really is. The ultimate theoretical sources of today's multiculturalism are two very white and very dead European males, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.
- Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 2001
Our World is Not for Sale. Priority to Peoples' Food Sovereignty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- The View from the Press Room
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
How charities can sell their stories to the media.
- Want to get published? Doing it yourself is easier than ever!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Water: The Drop of Life
Companion to the Public Television Series
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Water: The Drop of Life attempts to show how important the world's fresh water supply is, and how vulnerable it is.
- What Does a Reporter Want?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
What does a reporter what when they interview you?
- When Home Became Away: American Expatriates and New Social Movements in Torornto, 1965-1977
PhD Thesis, University of Chicago, 2001
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- When Markets Fail People
Exploring the widening gap between rich and poor in Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- Why I Am Listed in Sources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Over the years, I have turned to Sources time and time again to track down experts to interview for whatever newspaper or magazine article I happened to be researching at the time. So when the time came for me to position myself as an expert it was immediately obvious to me what I had to do: take out a listing in Sources.
- Words from the wise (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
- The Writer's Block
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
This 3" x 3" x 3" book block serves as a springboard for the writer stuck for an idea to write about.
- Abandonner l'intérêt publique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Les sociétés industrielles ont appris au cour de décennies, que les intérêts privées ne peuvent être fait confiance de sauvegarder l'intérêt publique si il y à conflit avec leurs intérêts. C'étais une dure leçon apprie aux coûts de plusieurs vies, mais le résultat à été graduellement, pièce par pièce, pays par pays, une infrastructure de régulations publiques et d'agences et procédés mis sur pied pour protéger la santé publique et la sécurité. L'infrastructure est maintenant sapée pas seulement de l'extérieur, mais du gouvernement même.
- Red Persimmons
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2001
Published: 2001
Original Japanese Title: Manzan benigaki. The ostensible subject of this remarkably beautiful film is the growing, drying, peeling and packaging of persimmons in the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama. The inhabitants explain that it is the perfect combination of earth, wind and rain that makes their village's persimmons superior to those grown anywhere else, including the village just a few miles away.
- Beyond Voting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2016
By all means vote if you feel like it. But don't stop there. Real social change requires participation, not representation.
- The Professor of Parody
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
It is difficult to come to grips with Judith Butler’s ideas because it is difficult to figure out what they are.
- Wklad Rózy Luksemburg do marksizmu.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- In the Crossfire
Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2010
This book is the story of those other movements and revolts in Vietnam, caught in the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few survivors.
- Alphabetical Index of Canadian media
Canada's media A-Z
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2000
Published: 2009
- Media Names & Numbers
Your Connection to the Media
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
Published: 2009
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
- Compact Oxford English Dictionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2005
- Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2005
These entries tell the story behind words, names and sayings. The range is from short definitions to more detailed accounts.
- The Golden Egg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2003
- The Beaver - February-March 2000 issue
Volume 80, Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Special issue on Contemplating Our Century.
There is a copy of this publication in the Connexions Archive.
- Kingdom of Shadows
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2001
Nicolas Morath, a former Hungarian cavalry officer living in Paris, divides his time between advertising agency he co-owns and engaging in clandestine operations.
- Making Peace with Your Past
The Six Essential Steps to Enjoying a Great Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2001
- Marrying the Mistress
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2001
- Nature of Economies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2001
Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
- Piranha to Scurfy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2001
- Upside Down
A primer for the looking-glass world
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2001
In a series of mock lesson plans and a "program of study" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions.
- Press for Conversion #43
December 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Abandonando el Interés Público
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Las sociedades industriales aprendieron, en el curso de décadas, que los intereses privados no pueden ser usados para salvaguardar el interés público cuando entran en conflicto con sus propios intereses. Fue una lección dura, aprendida con el costo de muchas vidas, pero el resultado fue que gradualmente, pieza por pieza, país a país, una infraestructura pública de regulaciones y agencias y procedimientos fue obtenida para proteger la salud pública y la seguridad. Esa infraestructura está siendo minimizada ahora, no sólo por fuera, sino por dentro de las propias instituciones gubernamentales.
- Abandoning the Public Interest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2001
The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
- Abandoning the Public Interest - Farsi Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Abandoning the Public Interest - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- James Bellamy Foster's Marx's Ecology, Paul Burkett's Marx and Nature - Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Review of the books 'Marx's Ecology' by James Bellamy and 'Marx and Nature' by Paul Burkett and how they explore the ecological concerns of Marx and Engels.
- Changing Perspectives
Annual Report of the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario 1999/2000
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Het publieke belang negeren
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Natural light
Life among Vermont's hippies, hunters, bears, and moose
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
An essay on the author's experience in his second home, in rural Vermont.
- Press for Conversion #42
October 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- US and British officials told us that at least 100,000 were murdered in Kosovo. A year later, fewer than 3,000
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
After more than a year, the silence of those who wrote and broadcast the propaganda for Nato's "humanitarian war" over Kosovo remains unbroken: they who answered the Prime Minister's call to join "a great moral crusade" against a regime that was "set on a Hitler-style genocide equivalent to the extermination of the Jews during World War Two".
- Random Shots: People and Other Animals
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has taken out an ad urging college students to drink beer instead of milk, to avoid exploiting cows. Sounds like a good excuse to me.
- Can We Really Tap Our Problems Away?
Thought Field Therapy is marked as an extraordinarily fast and effective body-tapping treatment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Thought Field Therapy is marketed as an extraordinarily fast and effective body-tapping treatment for a number of psychological problems. However, it lacks even basic empirical support and exhibits many of the trappings of a pseudoscience.
- Press for Conversion #41
July 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Random Shots: Stranger Than Cinema
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Looking at the Elión Gonzalez case, how many people remember “Popi,” a 1969 movie starring Alan Arkin as a poor Puerto Rican janitor who tries to put his kids on Easy Street by passing them off as Cuban flotsam?
- The social significance of Toronto's June 15 homeless "riot"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
What happened on June 15 bears close attention for what it says about the trajectory of politics in Ontario and the country as a whole. The police ran amok, attacking not only anyone participating in the demonstration, but even medical personnel tending the wounded. Moreover, the police were acting at the behest of a Tory provincial government that has done real violence to the poor, by slashing welfare benefits by 21.5 percent, eliminating social housing and abolishing rent controls.
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Kontaminiert: Das giftige Erbe der Kürzungen in Ontario's Umweltpolitik
Ein Artikel über Katastrophe für die Umwelt in Kanada.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Rosa Luxemburg
A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
- Random Shots: These Trading Times
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Between Gore's slavish loyalty to Clinton's trade policies and John Sweeney's slavish loyalty to Gore, the Democrats and the unions just handed a chunk of working class votes to Pat Buchanan.
- One of the Hollywood Ten
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A Spanish and British bio-picture. The drama focuses on screenwriter/director Herbert Biberman and his efforts to make what would become the historic political film, Salt of the Earth in 1954, produced without studio backing after he was blacklisted for belonging to the American Communist Party.
- A Question of Place
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Global capitalism relentlessly displaces people and abandons places because it views local communities, cities, and even nations as inconveniences in the path of progress. Place-consciousness, on the other hand, encourages us to come together around common, local experiences and organize around our hopes for the future of our communities and cities. While global capitalism doesn't give a damn about the people or the natural environment of any particular place because it can always move on to other people and other places, place-based civic activism is concerned about the health and safety of people and places.
- Random Shots: New and Old Millenia
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Kampfer prepared for Y2K by stockpiling ammunition. He figured that would get him anything else he needed.
- Finding Home in the Bain Co-op: Dagmar Baur's Journey from Poland to Toronto
Baur, Dagmar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Dagmar Baur wrote this autobiography for Heritage Toronto.
- Practice and Ideology in the Direct Action Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Movements are never homogenous (practically or theoretically) but rather consist of contradictions and immediate limitations, which could potentially be overcome the more the movement develops. The history of the revolutionary movement against capitalism is full of examples of some tendencies.
- Revolutionary Optimist
An interview with Martin Glaberman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Agnes Macphail
Champion of the Underdog
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- All About Love
New Visions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- All the news that's fit to miss: blind spots in Canadian reporting (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- The Art of Cause Marketing
How to use advertising to change personal behavior and public policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
How to craft a powerful public service campaign
- Att överge allmänintresset
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Beating Back the Corporate Attack
Socialism and the struggle for global justice
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
- The Best of The Nation
Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
An anthology of articles from The Nation.
- Betrayal of Trust
The Collapse of Global Public Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
The story of recent failings of public health systems across the globe.
- Bisexual Resource Guide
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Every kind of bisexual and bi-inclusive organization is included - youth groups and media, bi People of Color coalitions and cross-cultural alliances, political groups and social gatherings, universities, religious centers, bookstores, HIV/AIDS support, places to dance and sing, and more.
- Blowing Your Own Horn!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Launching your own public relations campaign.
- Bowling Alone
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
- Bread and Roses
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Canada: A People's History
Volume One
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A book based on the CBC television series "Canada: A People's History." This volume covers Canadian history from the beginnings to the 1870s.
- Canada's Distorted Electoral System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
- Canada's Distorted Electoral System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Canada's Great Divide
The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
- Canadian History for Dummies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- The Case for Penal Abolition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A collection of essays on various aspects of the penal abolition movement and its arguments.
- Caveat Surfer: Beware When Using Electronic Communication
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Points about electronic communication and online security.
- Chomsky on MisEducation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
- City of Toronto Streetfinder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Clear Answers
The Economics and Politics of For-Profit Medicine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Colour Coded
A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- La Commune
(Paris, 1871)
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A historical drama about the Paris Commune in 1871 set in the style of a documentary. The Paris rebels offer their own thoughts and feelings on social and political reforms while a journalist for Versailles Television provides an official view of events.
- Contaminación: El envenenante legado de los recortes ambientales de Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Contamination: L'Héritage Vénéneux des coupures écologiques de l'Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- La contribution de Rosa Luxembourg envers le Marxisme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Luxembourg était l'interprète principale du Marxisme dans l'esprit de Marx. Une indication de ceci, paradoxal à première vue, fut qu'elle était une des rares Marxiste principale qui ne traita pas les écritures de Marx comme assignation sainte.
- Il contributo al marxismo di Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Vedo Rosa Luxemburg come la marxista che fece il massimo per progredire le teorie rivoluzionarie di Karl Marx nel periodo successivo alla morte di Marx ed Engels.
- O Contributo de Rosa Luxemburg ao Marxismo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Num momento em que o movimento socialista estava evoluindo em direçoes cada vez mais distantes das posiçoes de Marx o reformismo social democrata, por um lado, e o centralismo burocrático Leninista, por outro Luxemburg foi a principal representante do marxismo no espírito de Marx.
- The Corporate Campus
Commercialization and the Dangers to Canada's Colleges and University
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
An in-depth analysis of the commercialization of Canada's universities and colleges and the the threat to quality education this shift posesses.
- The Corporate Consensus
A Guide to the Institutions of Global Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A detailed guide to the institutions and corporations which occupy the commanding heights of corporate power in the world today.
- The Corrosion of Character
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Richard Sennett explores the myth of efficiency in the new business order. This is a book about people who went through being downsized in their work. This is the New Capitalism- All Human Character has been abondoned and in its place an owner and demographer who downsize the workers of companies.
- Creating the Corporate Soul
The Rise of Public Relations and Corporte Imagery in American Big Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Dean's Digital World: Internet history: The good, the bad and the ugly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Dean's Digital World: The New Internet: Mergers and Acquisitions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Degraded Capability
The Media and the Kosovo Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
The media played a highly partisan and propagandistic role in Nato’s Kosovo war, uncritically reproducing official spin in a way incompatible with their proclaimed role as objective purveyors of information.
- The Destruction of the Soviet Union
A Study in Globalization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Dr Seuss Goes to War
The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Duping the public (book reviews)
Reviews of Spin Wars and Easily Led
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Effective Media Relations
Nurturing your relationships with reporters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Our relationships with journalists need to be maintained over time in order to be fruitful.
- Emily Carr
Rebel Artist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Event Planning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A blueprint for planning and executing special events with flair and without any unexpected surprises and expenses.
- Event Planning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Experience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Falling Behind
The State of Working Canada, 2000
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
- Fighting the Flexible Firm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
The shift towards the short term is a result of changes within the operation of capitalism. Let us be clear about this: it is not about technology, it is not about innovation, it is about capitalism and how capitalism operates to achieve profit. Capital is now driven by short-term return. This results in organisations having to quickly change what they are doing and where they are going, and adjust their personnel accordingly.
- Finding Hope After Seattle
Rethinking Radical Activism and Building a Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Direct action, as many anarchists tend to define it, can be deeply exclusionary. While it undeniably empowers some — mainly white and middle-class — it disempowers others. Used as a central tactic of mass mobilizations, direct action can in fact implicitly assume a certain degree of privilege, with dire consequences.
- Flying Without A Net
The "Economic Freedom" of Working Canadians in 2000
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Reports on a project to construct a quantitative index summarizing the multi-dimensional economic status of working people in Canada, based on variations in 14 different component indicators of economic and social well-being.
- The Free State of Jones
Mississippi's Longest Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Newt Knight was a man who defied social rules by deserting from the Confederacy, hiding in the swamp with runaway slaves and other deserters to fight the Rebels and declare Jones County, Mississippi as the Free State of Jones.
- GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Examines closed-door negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which have the goal of commercialize every service sector in every WTO country, including essential services such as health care, education, and drinking water.
- Geschichte der Photographie
1839 bis heute
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Going for Gold
A Complete Marketing Strategy for Speakers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Group Sex
Communal Ethics of Eroticism, Free Love, and the Extended Family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Is free love a relic of the past? Does principled promiscuity still persist at the dawn of the twenty-first century? Where do anti-authoritarian radicals stand in the cultural combat?
- Grüne Architektur
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Headlong
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Martin Clay and his family are in the country. Tony Churt, a landowner, asks Mr. and Mrs. Clay to evaluate a painting. The Painting is a Brueghel and Mr Clay schemes how to get it out of the house; out of Churt's hands.
- The Highland Clearances
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- HotLink Resource Shelf #16
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Reviews of books on writing and presentations.
- The Ice Master
The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Imagine Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
- Improperganda
The Art of the Publicity Stunt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A survey of publicity stunts, scams, hypes, and PR heists
- In a Sunburned Country
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- In London treffen wir uns wieder
Vier Spaziergänge durch eine vergessenes Kapitel deutscher Kulturgeschichte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- In the Corporate Interest
The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Insects and Spiders
An Explore Your World Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Inside Language
A Canadian Language Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- An Intelligent Guide to Intelligent Research
A review of The Oxford Guide to Library Research, by Thomas Mann
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Review of the Oxford Guide to Library Research, a first-rate guide to how to think about research and how to formulate strategies for answering research questions.
- Internet Business Intelligence
How to Build a Big Company System on a Small Company Budget
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Involve Your Audience During TV Interviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
People who are watching the news are usually doing something else as well, like washing clothes, eating dinner or helping the kids with homework. It's up to you to get their attention.
- Islamic Peril
Media And Global Violence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- It's the Media, Stupid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Jay Wiseman's Erotic Bondage Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A compendium of advice on how to tie up your sweetie, or get tied up yourself.
- Journalists at risk from linking bans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Microsoft tries to prevent critical sites from linking to sites carrying what they consider copyright violations.
- Journey to Justice
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
The film examines the history of Canadian discrimination against Black Canadians, and the individuals who refuse to accept inequality by taking racist perpetrators and institutions to court, and the civil rights challenges of it. The film has a runtime of 47 mins.
- Just the facts: Effective medical & health reporting made easy: The do's and don'ts of medical/health reporting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Justice and the poor
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Kandinsky
A Revolution in Painting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Keep it or toss it?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Knowledge Management: The Bibliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Annotated resources dealing with information audits, information technology, intranets, training, ecommerce, and competitive intelligence.
- A közérdek mellozésre kerül
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- The Last Word
Can the world's small languages be saved?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
On the disappearance of languages in the modern globalized world and the efforts of academics to preserve them.
- The Laws of Nature
A Skeptics Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- The Legacy of Luna
The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Life in the fast lane: E-prints speed spread of research results
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- A Life on the Jewish Left
An Immigrant's Experience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Biderman was a leader of the Labour League and the United Jewish Peoples Order, Communist-led organizations whose members were unted by progressive ideals and a love of Yiddish culture.
- The Lying Stones of Marrakech
Penultimate Reflections in Natural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- The Market vs Human Need
A Marxist analysis of the WTO and the FTAA
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Recent 'trade' deals include measures that severely threaten the lives and rights of the workers, small farmers and students who live in the countries covered by these deals.
- Media Think
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
- The MegaCity Saga
Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Melting Point
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A collection of erotic short stories.
- Millennium Intelligence
Understanding and conducting competitve intelligence in the digitall Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Minimum Utopia: Ten Theses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
One person's thoughts on the subject of utopias as we approach a new century and millennium.
- The Missing News
Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
- More Matter
Essays and Criticism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Moth Smoke
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Nature Hikes
Near-Toronto Trails and Adventures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- The Naturist Society: A Brief History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
What is The Naturist Society? How, why, and where did it begin? What does it hope to accomplish?
- Necessary and Unneccessary Utopias
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Reasserts the need for a bold and revolutionary imagination, one aimed at saner ways of living and organizaing society.
- New Media... Endless Possibilities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Using new media to get your message out.
- The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- The next best thing to a clone: subcontracting do's and don'ts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Not by Politics Alone
The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
An informative study on the Christian Right, this book addresses how politics and culture converge. Diamond provides an analysis of how "family values" are infused with evangelical beliefs on a number of societal issues.
- Notebook: School Bells
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A criticism of the American education system as well as politicians "attempts" to improve it.
- Oh, the Mistakes Spokespeople Make: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Blow an Interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Mistakes to avoid when being interviewed by the media.
- Okologischer Stadtführer Köln
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- On Reparations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
The notion that the United States government, or white institutions in general, owe reparations to black Americans for slavery and its legacy has been around for some time. Recently, however, talk of a movement to demand reparations for black Americans has been spreading beyond the nationalist enclaves where it has usually been contained. How has this happened? And what is its significance? To put it more provocatively, how does a project that seems so obviously a nonstarter in American politics come to capture so much of the public imagination?
- One Market Under God
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Other Conundrums
Race, Culture, and Canadian Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A collection of essays on Canadian art.
- The Other Guide to Toronto
Opening the Door to Green Tourism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Outbreaks of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
For most of its history, democracy was seen as a degenerate mode of politics, much feared for its reliance on a populace seen as foolish and volatile. Yet since the adoption of representation in the eighteenth century, and the provision of an institutional place for democracy at the level of the state, we have laid to rest those dangerous images of noisy and volatile mobs, constant mass assemblies and endless inefficient talk. With the people being ruled by proxy, and periodically consenting to elite rule in elections, we have found a way to combine legitimacy with decency and viability.
- The Oxford History of Western Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Pack Of Thieves
How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews and Committed the Greatest Theft in History.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Plowing the Dark
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Practice and Ideology in the Direct Action Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
In the midst of enthusiasm and grandeur, the direct action movement sees a growing anti-capitalist movement everywhere. This illusion stops them from recognizing that, in its present form, the direct action movement is going nowhere.
- Quotes for all occasions (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Reading Pictures
A History of Love and Hate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A meditation on the questions we ask ourselves when standing in front of a piece of art.
- A Report Card on Women and Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Revolutionärer Optimist
Ein Interview mit Martin Glaberman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Right-Wing Populism in America
Too Close for Comfort
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Examines the historical roots and current situation of right-wing populism in the US. Berlet and Lyons highlight the dangers of right-wing populism in affecting the political system and opportunities for social change.
- Rosa Luxemburg. Im Lebensrausch, trotz alledem
Eine Biographie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Rosa Luxemburg's contribucion al Marxismo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Yo veo a Rosa Luxemburg como la marxista quien hizo lo mas que pudo para mostrar la teorua-revolucionaria de Karl Marxs en el periodo despues de la muerte de Marx y Engels.
- Scott's Canadian Sourcebook - 2001
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Search engines (review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Skills Mania
Snake Oil in Our Schools?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
- Socialist Register 2000
Volume 36: Necessary and Unnecessary Utopias
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- A song of Lilith
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Sources 45 - Resource Bookshelf
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Reviews of reference books.
- Stolen Harvest
The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
The author, an eco-feminist and environmentalist, documents the effects of Globalization and Manufactured Foods on small farmers, the environment, and the food we eat.
- A study of the information age (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Style guides: yet another Minefield for writers and editors (review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
- Super Searchers in the News
The Online Secrets of Journalists and News Researchers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Le système électoral faux du Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Toronto's Ravines
Walking the Hidden Country
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Trade-Mark protection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Ubu Saved From Drowning
Class Struggle and Statist Containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-1977
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
The end of the Salazar and Franco regimes on the Iberian peninsula was, in fact, a key moment in the beginning of a period in which literally dozens of dictatorships disappeared, a period in which the soft cop took over from the tough cop, and democracy, world-wide, sold austerity.
- Unsafe Practices
Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Describes the process of healthcare privatization and its negative impact in Ontario.
- Vanishing Voices
The extinction of the world's languages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Approximately half of all known languages have disappeared in the last five hundred years and, according to some, 90% of all languages are in danger of becoming extinct during the next century.
- Walkerton Water Tragedy -- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
The story of how a right-way government which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
- Watching the News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Watching the news to learn what the media are interested in.
- The Weather Factor
How Nature Has Changed History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Weaving Connections, Educating for Peace, Social and Environmental Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
An anthology by Canadian educators.
- What I learned at my grammar's knee
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- What Would They Do With the Surplus?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- When Bad Things Happen to Good Spokespeople: Handling Tough Interviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
How to handle problems that arise in a media interview.
- Where On Earth Are We Going?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Who do we try to rescue today?
Canada under corporate rule
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
- Why Bad Beliefs Don't Die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Because beliefs are designed to enhance our ability to survive, they are biologically designed to be strongly resistant to change. To change beliefs, skeptics must address the brain's "survival" issues of meanings and implications in addition to discussing their data.
- Writing from the Inside Out
Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
Palumbo encourages writers to use their fears, doubts and stress to construct their stories, instead of trying to overcome them.
- You Must Go Home Again
Deported L.A. gangbangers take over El Salvador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
On gang warfare, violence, and culture in El Salvador and how US intervention set the scene for its manifestation in the country's urban landscape.
- Zimbabwe Independence and Beyond
Labour, Capital and Society - Volume 33, Number 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
- Postmodernism Generator
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2000
Published: 2000
A computer program written by Andrew. C. Bulhak using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text. Each time you click on the page, it generates a brand-new postmodernist essay, completely meaningless, but superficially plausible, just like 'real' postmodernist essays.
- No-Fault Journalism at the New York Times
The Case of Wen Ho Lee
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 2014
The New York Times,?without whose agency Wen Ho Lee would never have spent a day in a prison cell,?perhaps not even have lost his job, is now, with consummate effrontery, urging?that an investigation of the bungled prosecution take place.
- Marx and Nature
A Red and Green Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 2014
While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology, and critical political economy.
- Anti-Choice, Anti-Child
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Around the world, there's a general correlation between the availability of abortion and social concern for the well-being of children.
- A Guide to the Ferns of Grey and Bruce Counties, Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 2005
- On the Natural History of Destruction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 2003
- On the Natural History of Destruction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 2003
Sebald's subject matter is memory and its uncertain connection to the past. In this non-fiction work he turns his attention to the German homefront experience of the Second World War. He questions the postwar push to look to the future and ignore the past. He critiques the silence of German writers who were incapable of writing realistically about their own experiences or worse, who refurbished their own pasts. In his book he attempts to "cast some light on the way in which individual, collective and cultural memory deals with experiences exceeding what is tolerable".
- Perceptions of Palestine
Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 2001
Christison shows how America's singular focus on Israel and general ignorance of the Palestinian point of view, has impeded a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Relax a Little!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 2001
Learning how to relax can mean the difference between a serene sense of accomplishment and a pounding headache.
- Seven golden rules for more effective speaking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 2001
Tips to be a more powerful, memorable and successful speaker.
- Telling journalists who you are: Your Descriptive Paragraph
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 2001
- Awakening Your Life Skills
A light-hearted, pragmatic and humorous approach to leading a less stressful life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 2000
- Awakening Your Life Skills
A light-hearted, pragmatic and humorous approach to leading a less streeful life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 2000
- Crisis Communications Checklist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 2000
Nothing impresses like real confidence, and only advance planning can bestow it.
- Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 2000
Over 6,000 entries and over 250 illustrations covering every period of Western architectural history.
- El ABC del socialismo
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1999
Published: 2000
- Press for Conversion #39
December 1999
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
This issue provides an overview of the global threat of nuclear weapons as well as providing dozens of articles highlighting various organisations, campaigns and resources focused on abolishing them.
- How We Ended the Cold War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Peace activists' demand for an end to nuclear madness played a decisive role.
- Random Shots: Go And Do Likewise
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Most of us are glad to see a spouse commit a misdemeanor, e.g. violating a diet or a budget. It gives us license to go and do likewise.
- The Shadow University
The Betryal of Liberty on America's Campuses
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Universities once believed themselves to be sacred enclaves, where students and professors could debate the issues of the day and arrive at a better understanding of the human condition. Today, sadly, this ideal of the university is being quietly betrayed from within. Universities still set themselves apart from American society, but now they do so by enforcing their own politically correct worldview through censorship, double standards and a judicial system without due process. Faculty and students who threaten the prevailing norms may be forced to undergo "thought reform."In a surreptitious about-face, universities have become the enemy of a free society, and the time has come to hold these institutions to account.
- Under the Influence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
For the few of us who reported East Timor long before it was finally declared news, the "disclosures" last weekend that Washington had trained Indonesia's death squads are bizarre. That the American, British and Australian governments have underwritten proportionally the greatest savagery since the Holocaust has been a matter of unambiguous record for a quarter of a century. All it needed was reporting.
- Random Shots: That Was the War That Was
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Notice how quickly the Chinese government reined in those public demonstrations at the U.S. embassy in Beijing. Perhaps they remembered Wellington's attitude towards expressions of opinions by the troops: “If you allow them to cheer, another time they will feel entitled to hiss.”
- Strong Words: Ten Building Blocks of Catholic Social Teaching
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- A labour newspaper: Pipe dream or possibility?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Discusses the possibility of Canada's labour movement having its own newspaper. Support for the project from union leaders; concerns about the expense and resource requirements of an independent labour newspaper.
- Peddling miracles and amnesia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The shifting PR campaign to justify Chile's 'economic miracle' and to forgive its chief architect.
- Random Shots: Balkan Wars, Now and Then
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
At the NATO summit, it was decided that the organization would not tolerate genocide if practiced by non-members who did not possess nuclear weapons and were within artillery range of Europe.
- The Availability of Utopian Thought - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The War of Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America by Michael Lowy (Verso, 1996) 163 pages, $18 paperback. In this comparatively short book, Michael Lowy offers an analysis of the history, theories and struggles of liberation theology in Latin America since the late 1950s.
- Comrade and Friend: Bob Strowiss 1919-1999
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Work and accomplishments of Bob Strowiss
- CPE: Demystifying Economics--Interview with Elissa Braunstein
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- The Fight for Leonard Peltier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
LEONARD PELTIER, A Native American class-war prisoner, has served twenty-three years in federal prisons for a crime he did not commit—and authorities admit they do not know who did it.
- Glaberman and Faber's Working for Wages - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Working for Wages: The Roots of Insurgency by Martin Glaberman and Seymour Faber (Dix Hills, NY: General Hall, Inc., 1998) $26.95 paperback. OVER THE LAST few years I have been privileged to teach a number of basic economics courses to trade unionists-"privileged" because in every case the students' experience, their awareness and critical understanding of what goes on in their lives, has provided a rich fund of knowledge of which I have become in my turn a grateful student.
- The Great Bull Market vs. Looming Crisis: On Brenner's Theory of Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The United States is experiencing the greatest bull market in the stock market.
- Letter and Response on Mumia Abu-Jamal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
STEVE BLOOM SUCCEEDS in making a very persuasive case in the January-February issue of Against the Current that the trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal was an outrage against justice.
- NATO's Road to War and Ruin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
THE CARNAGE IN Kosovo and the United States/NATO air campaign—which, we will argue, is escalating toward either humiliating defeat or a full-scale ground war—pose one of the greatest challenges in a generation to the left's principles, political courage and moral backbone. During most of our lifetimes, it's been unprecedented to confront such a situation of apparent total conflict between competing imperatives: between the need for immediate action to stop the crimes against...
- On Workers in A Lean World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
IN HIS GENERALLY positive review of my Workers in a Lean World (ATC 78, January-February 1999), Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval accuses me of "too many broad generalizations," of dismissing globalization as "nothing more than `globaloney'," and arguing that all labor needs to address internationalized production is "rank-and-file democracy."
- A Profile of East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
JOSE RAMOS-HORTA DENIES he is a bitter man, claiming that he feels only disdain for the invaders of his country. But too much has been inflicted on East Timor, too many of his friends and relatives killed, the diplomatic war he has waged has carried on too long for him not to feel an abiding resentment.
- Race and Politics: Indonesia's Ethnic Conflicts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
IF YOU READ only the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, or watched CNN, your view of the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia with its 210 million people, would be of Muslims (ninety percent of the population) and Christians killing each other, as well as pogroms against ethnic Chinese, Dayaks attacking migrants and the people of the "Spice Islands" engaging in communal violence.
- Random Shots: Weird Sex and Boiled Bacon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
THE ERISIAN LIBERATION Front (it's safer not to know) is running the Antichrist for president in 2000. Their motto: “Why settle for the lesser evil?”
- The Rebel Girl: A Question of Rape
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
ON JUNE June 27, 1996, a United Nations court indicted eight Bosnian Serb military and police officers for the rapes of Muslim women in the Bosnian war. According to a New York Times article on June 28, 1996, investigators of the European Union and Amnesty International “calculated that in 1992, 20,000 Muslim women and girls were raped by Serbs.”
- A Rejoinder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
I ENJOYED READING Kim Moody's reply and hope that other folks get involved in this crucial debate. My own viewpoint is that "globalization" has dramatically undermined the leverage and bargaining position of workers and labor unions in developed and developing nations.
- A Revolutionary Woman in Mind and Spirit: The Passions of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
In these comments on the spirit and mind of this great revolutionary thinker and activist, I think it makes sense to begin with a focus on her gender. It isn't clear that Rosa Luxemburg herself would be inclined to agree. She had, after all, refused to occupy a “safer”and marginalized position as a women's spokesperson in the socialist movement.
- Rigoberta Menchú: A Witness Discredited?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
This January, the charge that the Maya human rights activist and Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú had lied about her past hit the U.S. reading public like a ton of bricks. Anthropologist David Stoll published a book claiming to have unearthed not only Rigoberta's lies, but also the deceptions of the entire Latin American left from Zapata to Che and beyond.
- The Snuff Film
The Making of an Urban Legend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
One of the most enduring, and little-recognized, urban legends about cinema is the "snuff film," in which actresses are supposedly actually killed onscreen. Over the course of nearly a quarter century, the snuff film has transformed from grade-Z slasher film to hoax to anti-pornographers' straw man to urban legend, and shows no sign of slowing down.
- Waiting to Inhale: Culture Wars or Unfinished Gratification?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
With the end of the impeachment proceedings, it is surely time for the left to offer analyses of the crisis which press far beyond those on offer in the mainstream press, and which do considerably more than offer a hold-your-nose defense of the President's "privacy." Here is one such attempt.
- The Quebec National Question and the Case for Socialism
A debate between the International Bolshevik Tendency and the Trotskyist League
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Mandela's Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Nelson Mandela's ideological legacy — in South Africa and globally — is startlingly complex. He has provided inspiration for the struggles of oppressed people throughout the world, and he has made himself a symbol of reconciliation in a world in which their oppression continues. To understand his historical role, and come to terms with his legacy, we need to see how his greatness and his limitations stem from the same source.
- When bomb shelters were all the rage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Accumulation and Control of Labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Bob Brenner has written a book that is clearly important and I respect him for tackling the issues and working on them so assiduously. His work is clear and I have found it very useful in clarifying my ideas but I find it hard to agree with it.
- Claudia Clark's "Radium Girls" - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935. by Claudia Clark. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 289 pp, notes and bibliography. $17.95 paper.
AT THE BEGINNING of this century a group of young women workers who, while licking their brushes to make a fine point, applied radium-laden paint to the faces of watches and instruments, began to sicken, and in many cases to die.
- The Election's Broader Impact
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
THE HOFFA VICTORY in the Teamsters may be a bigger defeat, and in the long run potentially more disorienting, for the reform forces in the rest of the U.S. labor movement than in the Teamsters.
- The Future of Israel and Palestine - Interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The first part of this interview with the Israeli human rights campaigner Professor Israel Shahak appeared in our previous issue ("The `Peace Process' and the CIA," ATC 78).
- Hugo Chávez and the Crisis of the Dependent Countries: Nationalism, Populism & Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
THE SMASHING ELECTORAL triumph of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chávez, previously imprisoned because of his participation in a failed military coup against the government of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez provoked diverse reactions and much confusion.
- Josephine Herbst's "Pity is not Enough" - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Pity is Not Enough by Josephine Herbst, with an introduction by Mary Anne Rasmussen (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998) $16.95 paper.
WHILE JOHN DOS Passos' U.S.A. trilogy has remained in print for the past sixty-some years, Josephine Herbst's nearly contemporary Trexler trilogy has not been so favored. The first volume, Pity is Not Enough, was published in 1933 by Harcourt Brace. Although Warner Books republished the trilogy in 1985, it quickly went out of print again.
- Joyce Maupin, 1914-1998
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
JOYCE MAUPIN, A long-time revolutionary activist and writer and a founder of Union WAGE (Women's Alliance to Gain Equality), died last September 14. Joyce loved to recount the story about “women in line to pee” leading to the formation of Union WAGE, the organization they spent a decade building. Her friend, Jean Maddox (ex-Communist Party) attended a March, 1971 conference on Women's Day at UCB (Berkeley) called by NOW. Standing in line for the bathroom, Jean chatted with Anne...
- The Misogyny of Welfare "Reform" - Interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Randy Albelda teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and is active in several welfare rights organizations. She is co-author of Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty (South End Press, 1997) and author of "What Welfare Reform Has Wrought," Dollars and Sense, January/February 1998. She was interviewed by Stephanie Luce from the ATC editorial board.
- Movement Grows to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
IN OCTOBER, MUMIA Abu-Jamal-Black activist and award-winning journalist who has been on Pennsylvania's death row since 1982-had his appeal for a new trial turned down by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (see ATC 78).
- NYC's Workfare Shell Game: An Interview with Heidi Dorow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
HEIDI DOROW IS director of the Urban Justice Center Organizing Project in New York City. In ATC 73 (March-April 1998) she spoke with Dianne Feeley and David Finkel about New York's “Work Experience Program” (WEP), and her organization's campaign to convince non-profit organizations to refuse to participate in this workfare program. We spoke to her again in February, 1999 to learn about developments in the past year.
- Putting the Fox in Charge: What's Fair About the Fair Labor Association?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
AFTER THE EXPOSÉS in the early 1990s of horrendous conditions in sweatshops producing clothing and shoes for some of the largest U.S. companies, the fight against sweatshops has come a long way. Companies that once refused to acknowledge responsibility for factory conditions by alleging they were “only the buyers” now have codes of conduct, undertake more serious internal monitoring of the factories they buy from, and several companies have begun experimenting with different forms...
- Random Shots: Sic Transit Gloria Bunny
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Comments regarding current issues
- The Rebel Girl: Death of Our Hoop Dreams
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
DECEMBER 22, 1998 will sadly be recorded in the pages of women's sports history. On that day the American Basketball League, one third of the way into its third season, announced it was suspending operations and would immediately file for bankruptcy.
- A Reply to Robert Brenner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
WHAT HAS ALWAYS distinguished serious economic analysis from mere ideological cheerleading is the effort to understand the general economic laws that govern capitalist societies, and how these laws have manifested themselves through capitalism's historical development.
- Review: Memoirs of An Underground Woman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
UNDERGROUND WOMAN. My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor, by Marian Swerdlow. Temple University Press, 1998; $18.95 paper.
- Review: Recovering Surrealist Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, edited with introductions by Penelope Rosemont. With 45 illustrations. Austin: University of Texas Press. $24.95 paper, $50 cloth.
- Why Junior Won-and What Next?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
WHAT DO YOU call a labor lawyer who has worked on management's side of the table and never made a living as a rank-and-file union member? In these sorry days, you call him Teamster General President.
- Women Rising, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
"In the black of the winter of nineteen-nine,
When we froze and bled on the picket line,
We showed the world that women could fight,
And we rose and won with women's might."
- RCMP bombed oil site in 'dirty tricks' campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The Mounties bombed an oil installation as part of a dirty tricks campaign in their investigation into sabotage in the Alberta's oil patch.
- If you can moan this job is yours
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Life as a cyber sex worker.
- Academic Freedom In English Canada
A History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Adventures in Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
- Advertising on the Internet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Zeff and Aronson cover the issues, trends and technologies relating to the biggest revolution in advertising since television.
- After Stalinism: An Exchange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
I FOUND SUSAN Weissman's piece “The Russian Revolution Revisited” (ATC 75, July/August 1998) a refreshingly readable synopsis of a complex historical problem. While I agree with most of her analysis (with one exception noted), I do not think her conclusion follows from this analysis.
- After the interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
What to do after being interviewed by a reporter.
- Agreements for freelancers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War is the first study to present a total, comprehensive view of the anarchists' role in Spain from 1936 to 1939, both during the conflict and in their unique social and economic experiments behind the lines.
- Anarchists in the Spanish civil war Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War is the first study to present a total, comprehensive view of the anarchists' role in Spain from 1936 to 1939, both during the conflict and in their unique social and economic experiments behind the lines.
- Apocalypse Pretty Soon
Travels in End-Time America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Apocalypses
Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919–1934
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Eve Blau looks at how ideological conflict shapedthe buildings of Red Vienna -- in terms of their program, spatialconception, language, and use -- as well as how political meaning itselfis manifested in architecture.
- Are Canada's Archives for Sale?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Arms and the Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Atlas of World History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Backing it Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
If you say something in a media interview, make sure you can back it up.
- The Best Canadian Government Web Sites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Black Liberation, Working-Class Unity, and the Popular Front: A Reply to Mel Rothenberg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
MEL ROTHENBERG HAS written a generous review of my book The Color of Politics, (Against the Current 75, July/ August 1998), in which he praises and succinctly summarizes certain of my key arguments. For this I am, of course, grateful. On one issue, however, Rothenberg draws conclusions with which I wish to disassociate myself, conclusions that I believe do not flow from my writing or analysis. The issue concerns his assertion about the importance and salutary effect of popular front approaches...
- Bombing of Kosovo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Broadcast Licenses for Religious Groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Religious freedom does not imply the right of any group to use the public airwaves to promulgate their own religious views while excluding all conflicting points of view.
- The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The author asks the question: Is reconciliation between the oppressor and oppressed possible? To answer this the notions of simple forgiveness and confession are challenged as strategies for social healing.
- Buy American
The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Capital on CD-Rom, Cat Optional - CD-Rom Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Karl Marx's Multimedia Capital, v.1. Cominsane Press, 1998. Distributed by Monthly Review Press, 1-800-670-9499. $20.
- Capital's Global Turbulence - Study Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
ROBERT BRENNER'S THE Economics of Global Turbulence, a book-length study published as issue 229 of the Journal New Left Review, has attracted unusual attention for at least two reasons. Not only is Brenner's factual and theoretical argument formidable in its own terms, but its publication coincided fortuitously with the stock and financial market upheavals triggered by the Asian collapse.
- The CIA and the "Peace Process" - Interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A controversial feature of the torturously negotiated and implemented "Wye Plantation Agreement" is the direct, overt role assigned to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in monitoring Palestinian Authority (PA) implementation of the "security provisions."
- A Cinema of Duty
The Films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Published in In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, et al. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Tronto Press, 1999
- Cities for People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
How two experiments in participatory democracy have transformed the political culture in Brazil and Uruguay.
- Civil Society in Question
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Civil Society ranks as flavour of the month among community volunteers, academics and policy makers. Many view it as a key concept in the struggle against poverty and for social justice and democracy. Is civil society anything more than a projection of our desires, a chameleon concept that can mean all things to all people? Does it risk being co-opted beyond recognition and usefulness?
- The Cocaine-Contra-CIA Complex - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Dark Alliance. The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998), Hardback $24.95.
- Compass Points
Navigating the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A radical history of the twentieth century by a wide of Canadian authors and essayists grappling with crucial developments in politics, economics, society, and culture in Canada and abroad.
- Conscience and History
A Memoir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Copyright
Guide for Canadian Libraries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Copyright
Guide for Canadian Libraries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Corporate Predators
The Hunt for MegaProfits and the Attack on Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- The Cost of Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Roy takes on two of the great illusions of India's progress: the massive dam projects that have displaced millions, and the development of India's nuclear weapons. Roy peels away the mask of democracy and prosperity to show the true costs hidden beneath.
- Council Communism & The Critique of Bolshevism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Council Communists don't see Stalinism as a sort of 'counter-revolution' that deprived October of its fruits. Rather they see Stalinism just as a fruit of this revolution, one that opened the door for capitalism in Russia. Stalin was the heir of Bolshevism and the Bolshevik Revolution.
- Cree Agenda Becomes Part of Federal Election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The politicians of all parties are acting as if Aboriginal rights are irrelevant to this question of Quebec secession. Not only is it relevant: it is, in fact, central to the whole question. And if the politicians would only admit this frankly, the terms of the whole debate would be changed overnight.
- CTV: The Television Wars
Gittins, Susan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Documents the history of CTV, the creation of Canada's first private TV network.
- Cunt: The History Of The C-Word
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A study of this ancient and powerful word.
- The Cynicism and the Slaughter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
IMPEACHMENT. BOMBING. ELECTION. Impeachment. Bombing. Perhaps by now, the scandal-witchhunt-Cruise missile cycle has become so predictable that it's hard to respond with appropriate outrage to the latest round. We all knew, after all, that it was going to happen. Yet outrage is absolutely necessary, even at a moment when atrocity follows atrocity and world-class crimes against humanity virtually crowd each other out of attention.
- Dealing With Difficult People
Proven Strategies for Handling Stressful Situations and Defusing Tensions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Dean's Digital World: Whatever happened to freedom of information?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Direct Action for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Direct action protests are about people taking power for themselves, instead of leaving politics to professional politicians.
- Directory of Community Services in Toronto Blue Book 99
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Lists more than 1,200 community services agencies located in Toronto.
- Don't neglect your presentation skills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Do not wait until you are about to present. It's not worth the stress, or to risk looking like a fool. Take time to prepare.
- Down To Earth People
Beyond Class Reductionism and Postmodernism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Working class women and men offer their analysis of the world today and its multi-dimensional inequalities.
- 300 Jahre St. Ottilien Dorfgeschichte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Dressing for TV
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Easily Led
A History of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
- 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- El Salvador's New War: Lesbian/Gay Activism Confronts "Social Cleansing"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Queer activism and visibility are on the rise in El Salvador and throughout Latin America, coupled with an alarming increase in repression against queers and queer activists. In May of this year, Karla, a seventeen-year-old transvestite active in El Salvadors gay rights movement, was abducted off the street and assassinated death-squad style.
- Elegy for Iris
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
In this memori, John Bayley rec-reates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch, and describes the mask that has descended over Iris's being with the progression of her Alzheimer's disease.
- The Encyclopedia of Trees
Canada and USA
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- The End of Privacy
How Total Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Whitaker argues that we live in a surveillance society; in order to get rewards and privileges, we have to give up our personal privacy to the government and corporations.
- Equal Shares
Oodi Weavers and the cooperative experience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The story of a community-based co-operative in Botswana.
- Europa 2000
Die Europäische Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Everyday Stalinism
Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- An Experiment in Democracy - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico by Maria Lorena Cook. (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996). Photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 359 pages. Hardback: $55, paperback $19.95.
- The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines
A Handbook for the Serious Searcher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- A Farewell and Tribute: Rose Lesnik, 1924-1998
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
ROSE LESNIK, LIFELONG socialist, activist and humanist, died of pancreatic cancer on August 1, 1998. Rose, born in 1924, grew up in a socialist household.
Her father, Harry Gold, and her brother joined the Trotskyist movement in 1938. Rose followed their example and at the age of 17 joined the Socialist Workers Party. Then in 1953 she became a member of the Socialist Union (publishers of American Socialist).
- Farmageddon
Food and the Culture of Biotechnolgy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Kneen explains how corporations control the distribution of food with little knowledge or care of the health risks of engineered food.
- Father/Land
A personal search for the New Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Film and the Anarchist Imagination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A survey of the depiction anarchism in film - from the stereotypes of bearded bomb throwers, to the early cinema of Griffith and Rene Clair, to the work of Godard, Wertmuller, and Loach.
- First Strike!
The Pentagon's Strategy for Nuclear War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A survey of U.S. and Soviet nuclear forces and strategic doctrines that exposes the U.S. military's bid for "first strike" capability and describes corporate imperatives for perpetuating the arms race and circumventing arms control.
- Five Days in Seattle: A View from the Ground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
About the 1999 protests in Seattle.
- Free-For-All
The Struggle For Dominance On The Digital Frontier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Fraser analyzes the aspects of the television business such as the failure of regulation, the attempt to create a national TV culture, digital revolution and the effect on consumers.
- God's Spies
Stories in Defiance of Oppression
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Short stories on the theme of resistance to oppression.
- The Government Online Gold Rush
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Grass
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Grass, narrated by actor and pot advocate Woody Harrelson, is entertaining activism, showing the serious history of marijuana in the United States, starting from the turn of the century, when anti-marijuana laws were passed to control the Mexicans in Texas. The focus is on the legacy of the first Federal Bureau of Narcotics chief Harry J. Anslinger, who created the war on drugs to build a personal power base.
- The Great Canadian Book of Lists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Halting British Fascism - Book Reviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
In Excited Times: The People Against the Blackshirts by Nigel Todd (Whitley Bay: Bewick Press, 1995), 130 pages.
The Struggle For Hearts and Minds: Essays on the Second World War by Raymond Challinor (Whitley Bay: Bewick Press, 1995), 118 pages.
- History of Medicine
A Scandalously Short Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- A History of Reading in the West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Hitler's Vienna
A Dictator's Apprenticeship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Explores the critical formative years which Hitler spent in Vienna.
- Hostile Takeover
Annual Report on Privatization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- HTML 4 for Dummies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Hurricane Mitch and Disaster Relief: The Politics of Catastrophe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
THE LEVEL OF destruction wrought by Hurricane Mitch is hard to overstate. While there is no way to know exactly how many lives were affected by the category-five hurricane that devastated the region between October 26 and November 1, early reports indicated that across Central America 11,000 people are reported dead, 15,000 are missing and at least 2.4 million made homeless.
- Idea of Public Journalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of public journalism, the movement aimed at getting the press to promote and improve, not merely report, the quality of public life.
- In Honor of Assata Shakur
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
IN 1739, A group of predominantly African-born slaves in South Carolina launched one of North America's largest and costliest revolts. Veterans of the civil wars which proliferated in the wake of the Atlantic Slave trade, fluent in Portuguese and proud Catholics (whose King, as a sovereign voluntary convert, possessed independent relations with Rome), this rebel troop felt powerfully the pull of freedom promised by the Spanish settlement at St. Augustine.
- Information Graphics
A comprehensive ilustrated reference
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Information Graphics
A comprehensive ilustrated reference
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Information Graphics
A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- The Internet Blue Pages
The Guide to Federal Government Web Sites 1999 Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Interpreting Censorship in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
This book situates censorship in a larger context beyond the regular for and against arguments of censorship by providing an understanding of how censorship is practiced in Canada and the structures in our political culture which enable censorship to occur. The book has a total of 23 contributers.
- An Introduction: Capital's Global Turbulence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A JOYLESS IRONY of our time is that just as capitalism seemed all-triumphant and the sirens of neoliberalism had declared history to be at an end, the crisis rolling out of Asia has brought the self-regulating global market to its knees. Add to this that at the same time as Marxism as political doctrine has been declared dead, Marxist economics has never been better argued and empirically defended than today.
- Just What the Doctor Ordered
Health and Grooming In The Classic Age of Advertising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Karl Marx
A Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A biography of Karl Marx that shows the human side as well as the intellectual and political dimensions.
- King Leopold's Ghost
A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The brutal story of Belgian colonialism in the Congo, resulting in the death of between five and eight million Africans.
- Köln am Rhein
Dom- und Stadtführer mit Stadtplan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Krieg im Kosovo
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Labor Organizing in a Lean World: Workers of the World Unite? - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Workers in A Lean World. Unions in the International Economy by Kim Moody (Verso, 1997). Paperback $20.
- The Labor Party in the Big Picture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
THE LABOR PARTY convention was inspiring. At the Detroit chapter's report-back meeting, locked-out newspaper workers talked about how good it felt to be in a convention hall where everyone would support you, "unlike the Democrats and Republicans."
Authorizing the possibility of electoral campaigns means that, in the places where those happen, we have the potential to attract a whole different layer of members.
- The Labor Party's Pittsburgh Convention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
BETWEEN NOVEMBER 13-15 in Pittsburgh, over 1400 delegates from six national unions, over two hundred local unions and thirty-nine chapters of the Labor Party met for its first Constitutional Convention. These delegates, representing trade union bodies whose memberships total over one million (and some thousands of party members), recommitted the LP to the comprehensive program adopted at the founding convention in Cleveland in 1996.
- Limbo
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Look it up, Eh? (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Looking at the impact of investigative journalism (book review)
Review of The Journalism of Outrage: Investigative Reporting and Agenda Building in America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The Journalism of Outrage examines the myths and misconceptions of investigative journalism and presents empirical research to support a model that challenges the classical theory.
- Major League Losers
The Real Cost of Sports and Who's Paying For It
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Managing millions of messages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- The Manifesto of the Network of Alternative Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Contrary to the defensive position in which rebel and alternative groups and movements often find themselves, we believe true resistance must include the creation, here and now, of the ties and pioneering alternative forms of movements, groups and persons who, through an activism for life, overcome capitalism and reaction.
- Marcus Gee's Confusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The United States didn't 'fail to intervene' in East Timor -- it intervened massively, on the side of the Indonesian invaders.
- Marx and the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Francis Wheen's 1999 biography of Marx, from which this is extracted, painted a warts-and-all portrait which shatters all the romantic and orthodox-Marxist idealisations of the founder of modern communism, while leaving intact and perhaps clearer than ever, Marx’s essential humanist and critical insights into the trajectory of modernity.
- Masters of Illusion
The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- MediaSpeak
The bold New Guide to Public Relations and Reputation Management
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
In order to deal with the news media messengers, we need to manage our message -- the strategy, the choice of words and the delivery of those words.
- A Mother's Story
The Fight To Free My Son David
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Mushrooms of Ontario and Eastern Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- The myth of a free market in publishing and high-tech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The high-tech industries, in the U.S. in particular, owe their very existence to massive levels of government subsidies and intervention.
- A National Crime
The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1986
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Milloy chronicles the heart-breaking realities of the Residential School. This institiution separated thousands of Native children from their families in the Canadian Government's pursuit of "aggressive civilization."
- The Nazi Officer's Wife
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- The New Anti-Liberals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- News releases that work -- and those that don't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Media relations know-how: effective media releases.
- The Niagara River
An Important Bird Area
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- No Choice
Canadian Women Tell Their Stories Of Illegal Abortion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Out of Control
Canada in an Unstable Financial World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- The Oxford Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
This work contains 150,000 alternative and opposite words that will help to improve your wordpower and communications skills.
- The Oxford Reverse Dictionary
The New Way to Find Those Elusive Words on The Tip of Your Tongue!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The Reverse Dictionary lists about 31,000 items. Items that share a particular concept or theme are found as entries within the listing devoted to that item.
- PA Supreme Court Rejects New Trial for Mumia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
THE OCTOBER 29 ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, turning down Mumia Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new trial, is one more proof that the U.S. criminal court system has very little interest in justice. Justice demands, at the very least, a new trial in this case. The seven judges of Pennsylvania's highest court, however, have clearly demonstrated that they are simply one more cog in a government machine of death which is determined to take Mumia's life—not because he is guilty of any...
- Patriots & Profiteers
On Economic Warfare, Embargo Busting, State-Sponsored Crime
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The effectiveness - or ineffectiveness - of economic sanctions as an instrument for altering the political behaviour of a state is an extremely nebulous index to measure. Regimes subjected to sanactions, such as Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the Apartheid government of South Africa, and Milosevic-era Yugoslavia,have often found ingenious ways to side-step the punishments meted to them for their outrages.
- The Penguin Dictionary of Languages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- "People and Government Travelling Together"
Community Organization, Urban Planning and the Politics of Post-War Reconstruction in Toronto 1943-1953
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Published in Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, vol 27, No. 2, 1999, p. 44-58
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Permissions and documentation: When Not to Worry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Perspectives on Communities
A Community Economic Development Roundtable
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Essays describing various aspects of community economic development, including technology, human resources, financing and organizational structure.
- Place-Based Imagination: Globalism and the Politics of Place
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Place-consciousness, according to Duke University historian Arif Dirlik, is the "radical other" of global capitalism.
- PNN Welcomes Nunavut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Addresses concerns about the forces that shape the diversity of news and the way news is delivered in Canada.
- The Power of public relations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
An overview of the role of public relations practitioners.
- The power of the remote: Not so powerful after all
Review of Television and the Remote Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- A Primer on Canadian Productivity
(or everything you wanted to know about productivity but were afraid to ask)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Profit over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
- Race and Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
THE MID-TERM NOVEMBER elections brought two surprises according to the pundits: the demise of Newt Gingrich and the likely survival of the Clinton presidency. A major reason for this striking turn of events had much to do with the Black voter turnout. It is a sidebar that was briefly commented on before and right after the elections but since has been buried by the impeachment hearings.
- Race from the 20th to the 21st Century: Multiculturalism or Emancipation?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
WHEN I WAS first invited here for a talk three years ago, I had no idea what Pullman looked like. For me, as well as for many students of American history, Pullman was associated with Pullman, Illinois, where the great railroad strike of 1894 against the Pullman Company began. In that strike of the American Railway Union, organized by the now legendary Eugene Debs, he and other union leaders were ultimately arrested and the strike in Chicago suppressed by 14,000 soldiers and police.
- Radical Rhythms: A Band Whose Time Has Come
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
THE DRUMS ARE first, pushing polyrhythmically forward. Horns and whistles join, building the samba until, finally, the voices respond. The desfile (parade) winds through, the band takes stage. Ya llego Ozomatli. Ozomatli has arrived.
- Random Shots: Notes From Starr's Chamber
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Comments on current issues
- Real Food For A Change
Bringing Nature, Joy and Justice to the Table
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The three authors of this book argue that people need to avoid Industrial food-making. Instead, people in Canada must turn to organic farming to produce their own food. It is good for economy and good for one's health.
- The Rebel Girl: Barbara Kingsolver's Triumph - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
IT IS A distinct pleasure to witness a favorite novelist become an even better storyteller, without losing her politics. Such is the case with Barbara Kingsolver and her new novel The Poisonwood Bible (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), arguably her strongest work yet, the story of the Price family commandeered by the evangelical Reverend Nathan Price.
- Red Gold
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Autumn 1941: In a shabby hotel off the place Clichy, the course of the war is about to change. German tanks are rolling toward Moscow. Stalin has issued a decree: All partisan operatives are to strike behind enemy lines -- from Kive to Britanny. Jean Casson, once a well-to-do film producer, now a target of the Gestapo living on a few francea a day, is drawn into a mission to run guns to combat units of the French Communist Party.
- Regent Park
The Public Experiment in Housing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Photographs, commentary, and interviews.
- A Rejoinder: Strategy or Doctrine?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
MIKE GOLDFIELD HAS presented above a succinct left critique of the popular front line of the Communist Party, both of its principles and of its practice. He echoes the accusations of James P. Cannon that in promoting this line the Communists diverted the working-class movement into the arms of the Democratic Party, thus fundamentally betraying both the class struggle and the Afro-American struggle.
- Remembering Pinochet's Coup: A Taste of Justice for Chile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
AS FORMER CHILEAN dictator Augusto Pinochet languished in British custody facing possible extradition to Spain, I have thought often of the democratically elected president he overthrew twenty-five years ago—Salvador Allende. At the time of the September 11, 1973 coup I was living in Chile and a translator for President Allende.
- A Reporter's mindset
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Remember that reporters have a job to do. If you help the reporter, you are really helping yourself.
- Reshaping Work 2
Labour, The Workplace, and Technological Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Resource bookshelf (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A review of five reference books published in 1998 and 1999.
- Review: Moving Beyond Black and White? - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Beyond Black and White:Transforming African-American Politics by Manning Marable (New York: Verso, 1995). Paperback, $17.
- Say It with Presentations
How to Design and Deliver Successful Business Presentations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A hands-on approach to teaching effective presentation techniques.
- Science writing for daily newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Selected Poetry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Selling Online
How to Become a Successful E-Commerce Merchant in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Semi-Detached
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Seven LEAN Years
America's New High-Tech Underclass
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Singing the Sadness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Sisters in the Wilderness
The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Socialist Register 1999
Volume 35: Global Capitalism vs. Democracy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Solid overview of media studies (book review)
Review of The Media Studies Reader
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Special Places
The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto Region
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Special Places explores the changing ecosystem of the Toronto area over the past century, looking at the environmental conditions that influence the whol region and at the surprising range of plants and animals you can find in many of its natural spaces.
- Spinwars
Politics and New Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
- Spirit of the Web
The Age of Information from Telegraph to Internet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A journey through communication technology and our fascination and tribulations with it.
- Stolen Lives - Killed by Law Enforcement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Stolen Lives documents over 2000 cases of people killed by law enforcement agents throughout the U.S. since 1990. Information includes the victims' names, ages, race/nationality, date killed, location, and a description of the circumstances surrounding their deaths.
- Stop the War
Why bombing brings more horror
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Opposing the US/NATO war against Yugoslavia.
- Stories from the Ice Storm
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Personal stories of the ice storm which hit eastern North America in 1998.
- The Straight Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Street Level Democracy
Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A wide-ranging book that traces the conflicts between global power and local action. People in farming communities, town mosques, city markets, and fishing communities suffer the effects of wrenching change and grapple with the politics of everyday life.
- Street-Level Democracy
Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Studio D's Imagined Community
From Development (1974) to Realignment (1986-1990)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Published in In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, Kay Armitage et al., eds. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1999
- Surrealism Against Racism - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
THE WELL-KNOWN antiracist journal Race Traitor—whose motto is “Treason to whiteness is loyalty to Humanity”—published in the form of a small book a special issue (number 9, Summer 1998, ISBN # 0-88286-235-T) on the topic “Surrealism: Revolution Against Whiteness.” (Order from Race Traitor, P.O. Box 603, Cambridge, MA 02140-0005, $6 postpaid.)
- Ten tips for working faster on the Web: Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Do you feel like you're working slower and less efficiently now than you were before you had a computer and Internet access?
- Top 10 Ways editors can work successfully with freelancers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Toward a Healthy Future
Second Report on the Health of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
- Universities for Sale
Resisting Corporate Control over Canadian Higher Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A look at corporatism and commercialization at Universities, and the dangers of the private sector's increasing influence on institutes of higher learning.
- Unnatural Harvest
How Corporate Science is Secretly Altering Our Food
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Us and Them
Building a just workplace community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Use Internet as public relations tool
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Establish an online presence to complement your other PR tools.
- Waiting For Aphrodite
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Waiting for Aphrodite
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- The War at Home
An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Web Sites worth a visit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Useful Internet resources for public relations practitioners.
- Welcome to Issue 12 of Parliamentary Names And Numbers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Who Elected the Bankers?
Surveillance and Control in the World Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Why Read the Classics?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- William James' Toronto Views
Lantern Slides from 1906 to 1939
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Photos, many of them handtinted, of Toronto in the early years of the 20th century. This book reproduces more than 100 images from the 5,800 lantern slides in the William James collection in the City of Toronto Archives.
- Wish Book
A Catalogue of Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- Woman
An Intimate Geography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
This book is an explanation of the Female anatomy; also other Female species. Angier celebrates the distinctive qualities of the Female body.
- Working/Travailler
Images of Canadian Labour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
The author, a film and TV producer for programs about Canada's labour movement, chronicles the Canadian labour movement using black-and-white photographs.
- The world at your fingertips (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- The World Trade Organization
A Citizen's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Shrybman argues that the WTO not only aggravates envrionmental and social problems, but takes away the tools that governments need to address them.
- World Wide Web Marketing - Second Edition
Integrating the Web Into Your Marketing Strategy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
This book is designed for those whose jobs involve creating and maintaining corporate web sites.
- Writing For the Web
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
Kilian puts communication before flash.
- Yesterday's News (Review)
Review of Yesterday's News: Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A review of Yesterday's News: Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us.
- You Mean A Woman Can Open It?...?
The Woman's Place in The Classic Age of Advertising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
- The Boyd's Cove Beothuk Site
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
The Boyd's Cove site lies in eastern Notre Dame Bay on the island of Newfoundland's northeast coast. It is situated at the bottom of a bay and is protected by a maze of islands that shelter it from waves and winds. The site was found in 1981 during a survey to locate Beothuk sites, a search that was begun because existing historical records could not answer a number of important questions about the Beothuk.
- Onward Humanist Soldiers!
Arming Ourselves with Logic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published: 1999
A humanist take on the religious debate over whether or not "God" should be removed from the Canadian constitution.
- The CIA and the Art of the "Un-Cover-Up"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 2014
Down the decades the CIA has approached perfection in the art of the "un-cover-up". The "uncover-up" is a process whereby, with all due delay, the agency first denies with passion then concedes in profoundly muffled tones charges leveled against it. One familiar feature in the "uncover-up" paradigm is the frequently made statement by CIA-friendly journalists that "no smoking gun" has been detected in whatever probe is under review.
- The Communist Manifesto in Perspective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 2012
Eric Hobsbawm’s opening address to the international conference organised by Espaces Marx on the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto.
- How to get the most out of your Sources Listing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 2009
You get out what you put in! Extra attention to the content of your listing can result in more calls, more media awareness and greater success. The number of calls you'll receive from the media directly relates to the number, newsworthiness and specificity of your headings.
- An Annotated Bibliography of Nonsense
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Academic critics today not only question the impact of science upon society, but they also question the very idea of scientific rationality.
- The History of Costa Rica
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 2007
An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
- Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 2005
The varieties of English around the world, the cultural impact of the language, the nature and origins of words, some pronunciation, vocabulary, usage, and word-formation
- Resources for Radicals - Fourth Edition
An annotated bibliography for those active in movements for social change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 2002
Annotated resources - books, periodicals, films, handbooks, and other materials -- for people working for non-violent social change.
- The Canadian Oxford Dictionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 2001
More than just a dictionary, this is also a reference book with its ample informational entries which include short biographies of Canadians ranging from Elvis Stoiko to Nellie McClung and Canadian locations as diverse as Nunavut and the Red Chamber.
- Getting the most out of your Sources listing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 2001
- Going to the Public -- Ten public speaking tips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 2000
Advice on effective public speaking.
- The Manifesto of the People's Global Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1999
We assert our will to struggle as peoples against all forms of oppression. But we do not only fight the wrongs imposed on us. We are also committed to building a new world.
- Your virtual storefront: Your telephone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1999
Don't let a poorly thought out phone system interfere with your media relations.
- They are the champions
Nine heroes for 99 -- Torontonians who inspire our own good deeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Noam Chomsky turns 70
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Chomsky's immense contributions have helped me feel more optimistic and helped me keep my energies focused on activism.
- Even a 50-something with greying hair and a smallish you-know-what can be a Porn Star
How to make your own smut so it moves you where it counts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Learning how to make a pornographic film.
- Has Fetish Flaked Out?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Now that everyone's doing it, perversion may never be the same.
- Keystone Cops Sex Registry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Washroom sex might show up on Ontario's new offender list, but real pedophiles will probably go free.
- Adelphi Recovers "The Long View"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
IN 1985, PETER Diamandopoulos became Adelphi University's seventh president, ushering in an entire decade of "shock therapy" for the small commuter school on Long Island. Opposition to Diamandopoulos grew when it was disclosed that Diamandopoulos was the second highest paid university president in the United States. Adelphi had purchased a $1.2 million Manhattan condominium for his use at a time when it was shedding employees and course offerings.
- Artistry, Life and Revolution: The Best of What We Are - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The Best of What We Are—Reflections on the Nicaraguan Revolution by John Brentlinger (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995), $18.95 paperback.
- A Century of Meatpacking Unionism - Book Reviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Eileen Gersh, 1913-1998
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
EILEEN SUTTON GERSH, a revolutionary socialist since the 1930s, died in London on March 18, 1998. Like many of her generation, she became radicalized by the political and economic crisis of the 1930s, including the rise of fascism and the Spanish Civil War. Sutton began to read Marx while studying at Somerville College in Oxford and joined the school's Labour Club.
- Ethnic Conflicts in Nicaragua
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
WITH LITTLE INTERNATIONAL notice, the winds of war are picking up on the eastern seaboard of Nicaragua. This time, however, it will not be a clear class-warfare case with a popular revolution struggling against an imperial behemoth. Rather, the Croat-Serb-Muslim model may be a better metaphor. Over the past decade we have watched the situation change from the hopeful vision of a multiethnic autonomous society to today's mixture of ethnic typecasting and cynical manipulations by the neoliberal...
- Ford & the Nazi War Efforts
Henry Ford was no Oskar Schindler
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The Ford Motor Company's commercial-free sponsorship of NBC's airing of Schindler's List, the epic movie about the Holocaust, was a class act. Nevertheless, it would be remiss of us here at CorpWatch, not to point out Ford's contribution to Nazi war efforts.
- How British Labor Declined: Cowley from the Inside - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Inside Cowley: Trade Union Struggle in the 1970s by Alan Thornett (London: Porcupine Press, 1998) 407 pages, $20 paperback.*
- In Memory of A Chinese Revolutionary: Zheng Chaolin, 1901-1998
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
ZHENG CHAOLIN, A veteran of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and of the Chinese Trotskyist movement, died August 1 in Shanghai. He devoted his entire life to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese workers and peasants, and yet his achievement was far from restricted to the revolution.
- An Introduction to E. San Juan: What is Postcolonial Theory?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The spectacular proliferation of Postcolonial Theory during the past decade has produced a stimulating yet vexing controversy in Marxist circles. This fractious school of cultural criticism evolved from earlier left-wing concerns with cultures of peoples of color in the internal and external colonies of the West, usually treated under the rubrics of “Third World Literature,” “Minority Discourse,” and “Resistance Literature.”
- The Limits of Postcolonial Criticism: The Discourse of Edward Said
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
ONE OF THE fundamental discoveries of Marxist historiography is that capitalism as a world system has developed unevenly, with the operations of the “free market” determined by unplanned but (after analysis) “lawful” tendencies of accumulation of surplus value.
With the rise of merchant capitalism, diverse modes of production with varying temporalities and “superstructural” effects have since then reconfigured the planet. In a new cartography, we find...
- Living Wage Campaigns, Part 2: Challenges Facing the Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
IN THE PREVIOUS article (see ATC 76), I discussed the basic concepts, advocates and goals behind living wage campaigns, as well as some of the movement's successes. These include a positive ideological effect on legislators and other organizations' agendas; the creation of strong and lasting coalitions; the development of new worker organizations; and the growth of existing worker organizations.
- The Looming Crisis of World Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
MARXIST ECONOMISTS ARE famous for having accurately predicted seven out of the last one international economic crisis. Perhaps for that reason, many in recent times have been unusually cautious about once again "crying wolf," even as the evidence of international economic dislocation has mounted around them. Today, however, prediction is no longer necessary. The international economy, outside of the United States and Europe—perhaps 50% of the world—is already experiencing...
- Mumia Abu-Jamal: Awaiting the Decision
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
AT PRESS TIME internationally renowned author and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal still waits on Pennsylvania's death row for the state Supreme Court to issue a verdict on his appeal for a new trial. There are at least five ways the court can rule:
- Politics of Terror and Scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
SCENARIO: AGAINST THE background of a depression in Japan, the economic collapse of Russia and stock market crashes on three continents, a United States president facing imminent expulsion from office for concealing illicit sex in the Oval Office orders retaliatory Cruise missile strikes on two already-ravaged Middle Eastern countries and declares "war on international terrorism."
Take that idea and try to sell it to Hollywood. Forget about it: Even in "Wag the Dog," after all, not only...
- Race and Politics: A Color-Blind America?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
THROUGHOUT U.S. HISTORY “race” has been a major factor in all politics—beginning with the English occupation and the Westward drive of settlers to conquer and slaughter the native peoples. The justification: advancement of civilization. Racism is as American as apple pie, yet race itself is a political (economic) concept having little to do with biology or science.
- Random Shots: Great World Leaders on Parade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Comments on world leaders
- The Rebel Girl: The New Sex Police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
IN AN INTERVIEW for the “Hungry Mind Press Newsletter” (Issue Number 3, Summer 1998), Leslie Brody, author of Red Star Sister: Between Madness and Utopia (Hungry Mind Press, l998), a memoir of her stint in the White Panthers (a short-lived anti-racist radical youth group—ed.), responds to Dallas Crow's question “Why a memoir of the sixties now?”
- Recording the Face of Daily Life - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Humble Work and Mad Wanderings, Street Life in the Machine Age by Ken Appollo (Carl Mautz Publishing, Nevada City, CA, 1997) 108 pages, 61 duotone images, $34.95. Order from Carl Mautz Publishing, 228 Commercial Street, Suite 522, Nevada City, CA, 95959. Shipping $3.50 first book, $1.00 each additional, CA residents add sales tax.
- Russia's Crisis: Capitalism in Question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
THE ECONOMIC CRISIS in Russia is a trigger for the world-wide decline in stock markets and currencies rather than its cause. Russia has been in a sharp economic crisis for a decade, since Gorbachev passed the Law on the State Enterprise, which first introduced market disciplines to the USSR. On the other side, the world is in a supply glut with too many products and not enough buyers. The Russian debt default looks like the first of a number to come.
- Saga of the Neptune Jade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1997, a container-ship sailed through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Bay and tied up at the Yusen Terminal in the port of Oakland. This precipitated an international drama that ranges from Liverpool, England, Vancouver, Canada, and on across the Pacific to Japan. The battle involves British, American, Canadian and Japanese longshoremen, college students, labor supporters, and the bosses' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA).
- Worker Resistance in Telecommunications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
LABOR RESISTANCE SEEMS to be spreading, capturing public support, and even winning some gains here and there. Such diverse groups as New York cabbies and construction workers, California nurses and transit workers, UPS and GM workers have gone to the streets against the affects of work intensification and industry reorganization.
Less and less are today's strikes characterized by tiny dispirited picket lines, and more and more by mass actions. Job security, work time, work loads and...
- Does this ad actually encourage rape?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Campus groups pull overly sensational rape crisis centre ads.
- Liberal dogma shipwrecked
From Market Madness to Recession
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The first serious crisis of the post-communist era is at once economic, political, ideological and strategic. All the postulates put forward over the past 10 years as fundamental to modern society are called into question, this time throughout the world.
- Porn stripped of its secrets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Covering the pornography industry.
- Random Shots: Red Flags Over Motor City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
THE GOOD NEWS is that there were about a million people waving red flags in the streets of Detroit. The bad news is that it was on account of some hockey game.
Comments on random current news topics.
- Where Ya at, General Strike ? !
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The trade union hierarchy will claim that the will to fight a class battle is not there, yet they have done their best to make sure that Ontario's workers and anti-harris activists are ocvercome by doubt and demoralization. Nothing less than a general strike will even make harris sit up and take notice, let alone offer serious concessions.
- Why Punish Madame?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
A landmark trial is to determine whether a dominatrix dishes out sex or therapy.
- Random Shots: In Praise of Viagra Mania
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Comments on random current news topics
- A pricey suburban sewer plan that stinks
City pays for new pipe and the results will be flushed into our lake
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Discussion of connecting King township to the Toronto sewer system.
- The Holy Spirit of Resistance
Catholic Social Vision
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Catholics all over the world are now becoming aware of their counter-cultural social vision. They are increasingly recognizing the call of God to active citizenship in building the Reign of God rather than accepting the hopeless parameters of a New World Order of exclusion and passivity so powerfully promoted by massive corporations.
- Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The sacred and profane continue to interface, conflict, and intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map for these developments. From succinct, brief notes to essay-length entries, this encyclopedia covers world religious leaders and scholars — past and present — in the United States and the world. An essential reference for the study of the anthropology, psychology, politics, or sociology of religion.
- We Don't Want Full Employment, We Want Full Lives!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
If a household gets a washing machine, you never hear the family members who used to do the laundry by hand complain that this "puts them out of work." But strangely enough, if a similar development occurs on a broader social scale it is seen as a serious problem - 'unemployment' - which can only be solved by inventing more jobs for people to do.
- Why do Progressive Foundations Give too Little to too Many?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Progressive funders, perhaps driven by the New Left's historic distrust of leadership and hierarchy, are inclined to avoid general-support funding. The natural result is a proliferation of short-term projects attached to flimsy institutions. And inherent in institutional weakness is poor press work, poorly marketed publications, poor management and poorly paid core staff with low morale and high turnover.
- Leslie Reagan's "When Abortion Was A Crime" - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- On Marxism and Method
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Martin Glaberman writes that the essay by Michael Lowy, "For A Critical Marxism," provides a useful beginning for discussion. His subtitle, “The Centrality of Self-Emancipation,”is an important departure from the more vanguardist views that used to prevail on the left, though it remains rather ambiguous and amorphous. Glaberman addresses two weaknesses that he sees in Lowy's article.
- The Age of Insecurity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Chronicles the rise and fall of the Britain's welfare state and attacks British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party for selling out to world capitalism and Europe.
- The American Class System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- The Arms Trade Revealed
A Guide for Investigators and Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
This is a guide for researchers and activists interested in learning more about the US arms export and trade programs; US policy making, campaign strategies and research techniques.
- Ashbridge's Bay
An Anthology of Writings by Those Who Knew and Loved Ashbridge's Bay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The story of a great freshwater marsh destroyed by urbanization.
- At the Cutting Edge
The Fight for Canada's Forests
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Exposes the overexploitation of Canada's forests and suggests measures to create a sustainable industry.
- Atlas of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Die Autonomen
Portrait einer linksextremistischen Subkultur
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Can You Recommend a Good Book on Indexing?
Collected Reviews on the Organization of Information
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
In-depth reviews focusing on key considerations in the organization and retrieval of organization.
- Censorship Goes To School
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Challenging Law's Empire
Rebellion, Incorporation, and Changing Geographies of Power in Ontario's Legal Clinic System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Published in Studies in Political Economy 55 (Spring 1998)
- Citizen Engagment
Lessons in Participation from Local Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Coming Back to Life
Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world.
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary
Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Contemporary French language in a concise and accessible format. Over 175,000 words and phrases and 270,000 translations that cover all areas from technical and business to literary.
- Corporation Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Derber writes that undemocratic corporations, not governments, are controlling society.
- Crime and Punishment in America
Why the Solutions to America's Most Stubborn Social Crisis Have Not Worked... and What Will
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Currie explores why being 'tough on crime' will only serve to exacerbate the problem.
- Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
A feminist book by Inga Muscio that called for a breakdown in the boundaries between women and sexuality.
- Dean's Digital World: Finding news you can use from Canada or around the world on the internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Dean's Digital World: Tudor's top ten tips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
In a public system, television producers acquire money to make programmes. In a commercial system they make programmes to acquire money. However simple, this little epigram articulates the divergence of basic principles, the different philosophical assumptions, on which broadcasting is built.
- Don't play that game: Ending telephone tag
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The multitude of communications technologies have actually made it more difficult to get in touch.
- Educating Dexter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Electoral reform will give us a voice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The democratic case for electoral reform is fundamental, and to attack it
as somehow a 'right wing' issue is a betrayal of the radical democratic tradition.
- Enhance your image in novel ways
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Soft marketing supports and image enhancement strategies require as much consideration as any other portion of your marketing plan.
- Enough
Lifestyle and Financial Planning for Simpler Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Enough
Lifestyle and Financial Planning for Simpler Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Exhibitors can get more bang for their buck
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Trade shows are effective marketing vehicles when used well.
- The fifty-five cent question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Finding Statistics Online
How to Locate the Elusive Numbers You Need
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- The First Eagle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut case -- until his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open.
- 44 Country Trails
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Free The Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
An account of children's rights activist Craig Kielburger's work with and on behalf of exploited child labourers.
- From Corporate Greed to Common Good
Canadian Churches and Community Economic Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Provides suggestions for individuals or groups who wish to sponsor and participate in community economic initiatives such as self-employment training and co-operatively-owned business.
- The Great Grain Drain
An Analysis of Factors Contributing to Food insecurity in the Developing Countries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The right to food is a fundamental human right. How then do we account for the over 800 million food insecure people in the world of which approximately 350 million reside in India? The problem, especially in India, is often not lack of food but lack of access to it.
This book brings together the thoughts of India's foremost thinkers on the issue of food insecurity.
- Guidelines for successful interviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Things to keep in mind when going into a media interview.
- The Harlot by the Side of the Road
Forbidden Tales of the Bible
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Kirsch retells various stories from the Bible in contemporary language. He also gives commentary and opinion in these Biblical retellings.
- Harness the Future
The 9 Keys to Emerging Consumer Behaviour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Health care monopoly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Rather than advocating the destruction of Canada's public health care system, critics should be speaking out against the government's strategy of running the system into the ground by mismanagement and underfunding.
- Hidden Agendas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
- A historical look at a sad decline (book review)
Review of The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- How many spokespersons?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Speaking with one voice means your spokespersons should deliver the same message. It does not mean use only one spokesperson. If the news media representative knows your experts are available and reliable, you are more likely to be called and more importantly, to be believed.
- I Love Sources! It's an Exceptional Resource
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- I Will Bear Witness
A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
These diaries, written in secrecy, provide a vivid account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany. Although he was baptized a Protestant, Klemperer was still considered a Jew by the regime and saw his freedom slowly taken away.
- If it's worth publishing, it's worth paying for
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Indoor Air Quality: No Scents is Good Sense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Establishing a scent-free workplace.
- Industrial Cathedrals of the North
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Information Management for the Intelligent Organization
The Art of Scanning the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Information Management for the Intelligent Organization
The Art of Scanning the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Into The Looking-Glass Wood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
A journey through the possibilities of reading.
- The Iroquois in the War of 1812
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Kassel: Kindheit in den 50er Jahren
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Klan-destine Relationships
A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
A professional musician recounts his courageous, lifelong confrontations and conversations with members of the Ku Klux Klan in an attempt to unearth the roots of bigotry and foster harmony between black and white, often using music to bridge the divide.
- Lament for an Ocean
The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery: A True Crime Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Harris's account of why and how the northern cod was taken to the brink of extinction in little more than thirty years.
- Le Latin ou L'Empire d'un Signe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Learning how to live with editors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Pay attention to editorial fit, readership relevance, and good writing.
- Learning to Love Patriarchy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
A Canadian Catholic school teacher's struggle with the patriarchal values of the Catholic Church and their instruction to teachers to impress upon their female students the "value of motherhood".
- The Lichen Factor
The Quest for Community Development in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Living for Change
An Autobiography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
This fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society.
- The MAI and capitalist crisis - a Marxist analysis
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The MAI is nothing more than a "bill of rights" for corporations.
- Mailing list know-how
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Your mailing list is one of the cornerstones of a good communications strategy.
- Making Schools Matter
Good Teachers at Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
An anthology of articles and interviews relevant to combating racism and sexism in the classroom as well as tips for making history and social studies relevant and including social justice to the curriculum.
- Manifestations And Declarations
Of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
This collection of original documents describes what significance they had for the social change and political movements of the twentieth century.
- Massive Uncritical Publicity for Supposed "Independent UFO Investigation"
Demonstrates Media Gullibility Once Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
On Monday, June 19, 1998, all of the major media outlets were suddenly filled with accounts proclaiming that an independent panel of scientists had taken a fresh look at the UFO question, and had concluded that the matter needed to be taken seriously after all.
- Montreal Up Close
A Pedestrian's Guide to the City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- The Multilateral Agreement and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Explains how international agreements like the MAI are a systematic attack on democratic governments on all levels.
- The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be.
- Myths, Memory & Lies
Quebec's Intelligentsia and the Fascist Temptation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- A Nation on Trial
The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
A critical examination of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's work, "Hitler's Willing Executioners."
- Natural Causes
Essays in Ecological Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
O'Connor provides an ecological Marxist analysis and suggests new political strategies.
- The Nature of North America
A Handbook to The Continent. Rocks, Plants and Animals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
A guide to North American natural history. Fully illustrated with line drawings, maps and tables.
- Net's one place to go when you need to know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Use the Internet to find information - but don't use it as your only source, and don't automatically trust everything you read.
- 1998 Canadian Internet Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- 1998 Directory of Labour Organizations in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- 1999 Canadian Internet Directory and Research Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Really two books in one: an introductory guide to doing online research, and an annotated directory of selected Internet resources.
- 1999 Canadian Internet Directory and Research Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- 1999 Canadian Internet New User's Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- 1968
Marching in the Streets
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
1968: Marching in the Streets is a dynamic time line of the year that revolution swept the planet. With present tense prose, cartoons, and photographs, Tariq Ali and Susan Watkins chronicle a year that saw everything from the assassinations of Che Guevara, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. to KKK death threats against 70-year-old philosopher Herbert Marcuse.
- Nunavut: from Tundra to Territory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- "Objectivity" and democracy are not compatible (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- The Observation Deck
Resource Type: File Cards
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
A deck of cards and accompanying book designed to stimulate authors.
- On Beulah Height
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- OPAC Directory 1998
A Guide to Internet-Accessible Online Public Access Catalogs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Out of Mind
An Investigation into Mental Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- The Overspent American
Why We Want What We Don't Need
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The Overspent American explores why so many of us feel materially dissatisfied, why we work staggeringly long hours and yet walk around with ever-present mental "wish lists" of things to buy or get, and why Americans save less than virtually anyone in the world. Unlike many experts, Harvard economist Juliet B. Schor does not blame consumers' lack of self-discipline. Nor does she blame advertisers. Instead she analyzes the crisis of the American consumer in a culture where spending has become the ultimate social art.
- Oxford Atlas of the World
Sixth Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- The Oxford Dictionary of 20th Century Quotations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- The Oxford Guide to Library Research
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
An overview of little-known but powerful strategies used by librarians and information specialists, with clear explanations of fundamental methods searching.
- The Oxford Guide to Library Research - Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
An excellent guide to doing research, explaining research methods and strategies and their strengths and weaknesses of. See review in Sources Select Resources.
- The Oxford Guide to Writing & Speaking
The Key to Effective Communication
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- The Oxford Reference Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Pacifists in Action
The experience of the Friends Ambulance Unit in the Second World War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The Friends Ambulance Unit was composed of young men and women in Britian with pacifist convictions.
- Pain on Their Faces
Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Manie, 1987-1988
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
An accourt of an epic struggle by workers and their community against a powerful and aggressive corporation -- a strike by 1,250 workers against the International Paper Company in Jay, Maine, in 1987-88. Over 40- testimonies by strikers and their supporters explain in their own words the significance of this struggle for themselves, their families, their community and future generations.
- Pleasure Wars
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Vol. V
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
A study of how the bourgeoisie responded to the new in art, music and literature.
- Polluted Logic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
The business of allowing polluters to buy their way out of complying with the law is an innovation with vast untapped potential.
- Postmodern Disrobed
Review of Intellectual Impostures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
An admirable job of exposing the daffy absurdity of postmodernism intellectuals.
- Privatizing Nature
Political Struggles for the Global Commons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Contributors examine the reasons behind the political resurgence of the commons, and the widespread struggle to transform existing nature-society relations into ones that are non-exploitative, socially just and ecologically healthy.
- The Professor and the Madman
A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Progress and Barbarism
The World in the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Race, pluralism and the meaning of difference
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Far from establishing a critique of racial thinking, the politics of difference appropriates many of its themes and reproduces the very assumptions upon which racism has historically been based. Most critically, the embrace of difference has undermined the capacity to defend equality.
- A Rage to Live
A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Real World Scanning and Halftones
The definitive guide to scanning and halftones from the desktop
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Relationship Marketing
New Strategies, Techniques and Technologies To Win Customers You Want and Keep Them Forever
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Researcher's Guide to the World Wide Web
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Revolution of Conscience
Martin Luther King Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Moses explores key ideas about Martin Luther King Jr. and his philosophy in relation to the American civil rights movement, racial equality and nonviolence.
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosphy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Secrets of a worthwhile presentation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Preparation is the key to a successful presentation.
- Six measures of a good (great) editor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Slumming It At the Rodeo
The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Are the Federal Reform Party's Manning, Ontario's Harris and Alberta's Klein the struttin' cowboy champions of direct democracy? Or just sell- outs to the private sector? Laird tackles these questions.
- So You Think You Need a Lawyer
How to screen, hire, manage or fire a lawyer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- So You Think You Need a Lawyer
How to screen, hire, manage or fire a lawyer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Social Ecology after Bookchin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Addresses Bookchin's theory of social ecology and how its role in linking environmental concerns with the desire for a free and egalitarian society.
- Socialist Register 1998
Volume 34: Communist Manifesto Now
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Being a Successful Consultant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
A practical guide to becoming a successful consultant.
- The Struggle for Ecological Democracy
Environmental Justice Movements in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Explores the ecosocialist perspective on the goals, strategies, and accomplishments of environmental justice. Faber also identifies the emerging principles of ecological democracy in the quest for a solution to America's social and ecological crisis.
- Toronto Rocks
The Geological Legacy of the Toronto Region
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Toronto’s urban geology.
- Toy Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
This book is the history of Hasbro Inc, one of the world's largest toy companies. Miller has been covering the company's twists and turns, specifically the attempted merger with Mattell Inc.
- Uncommon People
Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Essays on the history of working men and women from the late 18th to the late twentieth century discussing British working class traditions, political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers, peasants and politics, revolution, sex and jazz.
- The Undeclared War
Class Conflict in the Age of Cyber Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Unequal Freedoms
The Global Market as an Ethical System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
McMurtry's central argument in this work is the global market can be an ethical thing if a civil commons is put into place. The civil commons is a economic system in which individuals, not a handful of corporations, take part in a equal opporutinity framework of supply and demand.
- Using the divine for corporate power
Review of The Empire God Built
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Vestal Fire
An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Web sites need editors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- What are journalists up to on the Internet?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Internet resources are becoming a primary vehicle for journalists looking to find new sources and experts.
- What Johnny Shouldn't Read
Textbook Censorship in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- What's in a name (review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- When Memory Speaks
Exploring the Art of Autobiography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Where the Buck Stops
The Dollar, Democracy, and the Bank of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Where To Go When the Bank Says No
Financing your small business in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Where To Go When the Bank Says No
Financing your small business in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Who Owns Life?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- The Wiley Book of Business Quotations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Largely drawn from the press and speeches of business leaders, these quotes are clever, topical, alarming and amusing, but not very familiar.
- Windows 98
Expert Guide To.....
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Windows 98
Expert Guide To.....
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
- Writing for broadcast
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Avoid the common pitfalls.
- Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Published: 1998
Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
- Landscaping with Native Trees
Northeast, Midwest, Midsouth, and Southeast Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
This book explains how to cultivate and preserve species of trees that were present in North America before Europeans arrived.
- A Alegria da Revoluçao
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 2007
- La Joie de la Révolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 2007
- The Joy of Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Published: 2007
Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
- El placer de la revolución
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 2007
- Oxford Compact Thesaurus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 2005
- The Oxford History of Modern War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 2005
The book is a military history, principally from the defeat of the Ottoman besiegers of Vienna in 1683.
- The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations
Second Edition with Supplement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 2004
- A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
From 1900 to the Present Day
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 2003
More than 2,500 entries, detailed yet concise, covering countries, individuals, political parties and movements, and events.
- The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 2003
About 4000 quotations, all arranged by subject in one alphabetical sequence blending topics and authors, with a chronological arrangement within each subject.
- Media Control
The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 2002
Chomsky begins by asserting two models of democracy: one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky "propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States.
- Your Guide to Toronto Neighbourhoods
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 2002
- A Little Matter of Genocide
Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 2001
In this provocative collection of essays, Ward Churchill examines the definition of genocide -- in legal as well as cultural terms. Churchill reveals how the international definition of the crime of genocide has been subverted to meet various political ends -- and demonstrates why the historic and contemporary suffering of indigenous peoples should be included in this category.
- The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 2000
- The Activist Cookbook
A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1999
Spicy recipes for fighting economic injustice.
- Five Common World Wide Web Site Failings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1999
- Media Relations: The Ten Commandments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1999
- No Sweat
Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1999
Surveys the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop.
- Successful news releases: 7 must-know tips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1999
Make it short, make it make, make sure it's important.
- Tortured People (Revised Edition)
The Politics of Colonization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1999
This book grew out of the experiences of life and political struggle under colonization in Metis and other Aboriginal communities in Canada. It provides a uniquely Aboriginal socio-political perspective on the effects of colonization on Aboriginal peoples in Canada. It also presents a fresh outlook on decolonization and contemporary Aboriginal life and culture. Tortured People explains the deeply rooted issues behind the dramatic increase in Aboriginal militant action in recent years.
- Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1998
The authors criticize postmodernism in academia for its misuses of scientific and mathematical concepts in postmodern writing. Fashionable Nonsense examines two related topics: (1) The incompetent and pretentious usage of scientific concepts by a small group of influential philosophers and intellectuals; (2) the problems of cognitive relativism, the idea that "modern science is nothing more than a 'myth', a 'narration' or a 'social construction' among many others".
- The God of Small Things
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1998
A novel.
- One World Ready or Not
The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1998
Wiliam Greider exposes the myths and the realities of the global economy in terms of human struggle.
- What Makes Alternative Media Alternative?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Having avidly consumed and helped conceive and produce alternative media for decades, I
am tired of how vague we are on these issues.
- Remembering Michael Manley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Manley, who had entered the decade of the Seventies with so much hope for changing Jamaica, departed bitterly at the end of it.
- Spartacus Educational
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1997
Published: 2018
Free educational resource for history teachers and students. With particular focus on Britain, the USA, Russia, Germany, WWI, WWII, Women's history, Black history, Civil Rights.
- Why Bogus Therapies Seem to Work
At least ten kinds of errors and biases can convince intelligent, honest people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
At least ten kinds of errors and biases can convince intelligent, honest people that cures have been achieved when they have not.
- Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A look at how "identitiy politics" of the 1980's marginalized materialist feminism.
- Bolshevik Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A history of the contributions of women to the Soviet Communist Party before 1921 in Russia.
- The Competition Myth - The Real Meaning of the Last Twenty-five Years
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
The problems which working people have suffered in the last twenty-five years are not problems which the ruling elite are trying to solve but weapons they have devised to attack working people in a class war.
- The Deficit is No Accident
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
The deficit and national debt were created intentionally by politicians of both parties, to destroy social programs which give working people some protection against unrestrained corporate power
- Feminism, multilinearism and revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Grasping the historic uniqueness of each new women's movement is crucial. But the point is not mere multicultural diversity, but opening doors to new kinds of revolutions.
- The Heat Is On
The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change.
- News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
- Reporting the Realities of Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
- School Reform and the Attack on Public Education
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
The education reform movement is part of a wider corporate and government plan to undermine democracy and strengthen corporate domination of our society.
- Boys: Do you know where your mothers are?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Dr. Miriam Garfinkle got tired of being just the mom in the stands. She instigated the uprising from fan to player at her son's house league championship team party.
- Living Naked and Frugal
A Handbook for Parsimonious Nudity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Paul Penhallow's experience of living naked in a non-naked world spanned nearly ten years, and ranged from SunSpace, his 21st-floor high-rise apartment in downtown Syracuse, New York, to the many highways and parks of the Northern Atlantic states. Penhallow's "Four Laws of Naturism" ("Accept Yourself," "Respect Others," "Live Simply," and "Relax Daily") comprise the springboard for this book, which also contains a comprehensive listing of nudist resorts throughout the United States.
- Harter's Precept: Review of The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Hamilton gives three major examples of erroneous theses that gained the status of fact in social science despite the absence of evidentiary support: (1) Max Weber's thesis that the Protestant Ethic spurred the advance of capitalism; (2) the widely accepted thesis that Hitler's main electoral support came from the lower middle classes (the despised petit bourgeoisie of Marxism); and (3) Michel Foucault's thesis that the modern prison evolved not as a more humane alternative to the cruel physical punishments of earlier centuries, but as part of a wide-ranging scheme by sinister forces to enforce a pervasive social conformity.
- A Life of Learning
Charles Homer Haskins Lecture for 1997
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Media Watch: When the Media Tell Half the Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Twenty-eight years after Chariots of the Gods? author Eric von Däniken brought pseudoscience to new lows by suggesting that our ancestors were too stupid to create the pyramids, Stonehenge, and other monuments without the help of space aliens, his ideas are alive and well.
- Culture and monoculture: Old Order Amish face Ontario's dairy bureaucrats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Tucked away in various pockets of Central Ontario is a quiet scattering of Old Order Amish and Mennonite communities. Apart from their sober black dress, the most obvious sign of their presence is the horse-drawn buggies they drive on road shoulders made deliberately wide to accommodate them.
- The Kensington Market Drum
Volume 8, Number 1, April/May 1997
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
News on Kensington Market, Doctor's Hospital closure and the Megacity; column from Olivia Chow.
- Report on Australian Stolen Generations
Bringing Them Home Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. This report is a tribute to the strength and struggles of many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by forcible removal. We acknowledge the hardships they endured and the sacrifices they made. We remember and lament all the children who will never come home.
- Some ideas about organizing from Citizens for Local Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Suggestions about starting a local group which will focus on issues of local democracy.
- Principles governing municipal/provincial financial relationships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
In past decades, provincial governments have generally recognized the separate nature of local government and have not acted unilaterally in the field of financial relationships, but have attempted to reach amicable agreement.
- Letter to Ontario Minister of Education and Training John Snobelen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
The actions of your government have made us all take a good look at what we have taken for granted for many years in Ontario and have forced us to stand up for the things we value most -- a caring society with quality universal public education system.
- Further Dialogue on Pornography
Pornography, Censorship, Sexuality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
The Church and right-wing groups have intensified their war on the three horsemen of immorality: abortion, gays and pornography. In the struggle against this, we have emphasized the need to oppose censorship. We have also-if appropriate or necessary-defended pornography. a freer, richer, sexuality cannot evolve by somebody (experts, feminists, socialists) legislating what liberating sex is, while censoring what falls beyond the practices so defined.
- Best of Times Worst of Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
The moral of the creation story in Genesis is truer than ever before: In human hands increasingly rests responsibility for the whole of creation! The vocation to sisterhood and brotherhood in a single planetary community is more urgent than ever. And the Church's vocation to witness, in solidarity with those on the margins and with the earth, to a different hope in history is more relevant than ever.
- Aboriginal Issues Today
A Legal and Business Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
An overview of current laws and policies.
- The Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Principles of secular humanism.
- Anarchism: How Not to Make a Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Some see anarchims as the most radical of doctrines. Lenin called it "the politics of despair." Who is rights? Paul D'Amato looks at anarchism -- its theory and practice -- and finds that it falls far short of its professed ideals.
- Anarchism: Ideology or Methodology?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A discussion of whether anarchism is an ideology or a methodology. The social vs. lifestylism debate.
- Anarchy After Leftism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Anatomy of Censorship
Why the Censors have it Wrong
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Bringing together diverse disciplines such as literary and legal history, modern psychology and contemporary feminism, Anatomy of Censorship sorts out the many confusing explanations and often misleading justifications for censorship to reveal the underlying conditions and motivations that lead to the suppression of various forms of communication.
- And Peace Never Came
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
The memoir of a Holocaust survivor.
- ARBA Guide to Subject Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Bad Attitude/s On Trial
Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
This work, wrtten by four Canadian feminist university professors, analyzes law and pornography.
- Bank Heist
How Our Financial Giants Are Costing You Money
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Black Indians
A Hidden Heritage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Explores the story of black Indians, defined here as people with dual African and Native American ancestry or African Americans who lived primarily with Native Americans.
- The Bruce Trail Reference
Trail Guides and Maps
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- A Call to Alms
The New Face of Charities
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Canada and the State of the Planet
The Social, Economic and Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Canadian Dictionary of the English Language
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Canadian Oxford World Atlas 4th Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
When providing information on Canada, this Atlas lives up to its title. There are Canada-specific maps pertaining on, for example, Endangered Species and Protected Lands, Water Resources and Electrical Power; Native Peoples, Eastern Exploration, Arctic and Western Exploration, Territorial Evolution and many others.
- The Canadian Style
A Guide to Writing and Editing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
The Canadian Style suggests the first step in communicating clear ideas is to use plain language, without jargon or expressions. Then, consider your audience.
- The Cat Who Couldn't See in the Dark
Veterinary Mysteries and Advice on Feline Care and Behavior
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Co-written by a veterinarian, the book uses case histories to explain in detail how to care for a cat including diet and hygiene.
- The Color of Politics
Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Communicating Effectively Through Your Association Newsletter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
An effective newsletter is one that meets your readers' needs and interests.
- A Complete Waste of Time
Tales and Tips About Getting More Done
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Practical tips on time management illustrated with hilarious modern fairy tales illustrating the issues at hand.
- Computer Tips for Artists, Designers and Desktop Publishers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- The Conquest of Cool
Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Courbet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Crisis Communications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Being prepared for a crisis is second best only to avoiding one altogether.
- Dean's Digital World - Sources 39
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Dean's Digital World - Sources 40
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
- Democratizing Public Institutions: Juries for the selection of public officials
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Descriptive and Visual Dictionary of Objects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Descriptive and Visual Dictionary of Objects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
This dictionary provides knowledge about Canada's special places and a classification of more than 500,000 objects.
- Dictionary of Canadian Place Names
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Includes 6,200 names of Canadian cities, towns, lakes, rivers, national parks, mountains, capes, channels and bays.
- Dictionary of Dictionaries and Eminent Cyclopedias
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Una diferente forma de democracia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Don't Forget to Write
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
- Don't forget to write
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
- Downstream and Upstream Ecologists
The People, Organizatons, and Ideas Behind the Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Mercier discusses the environmental movement and identifies specialized ecologists of different spectrums.
- Dressing for TV
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
What to wear when you're going to be interviewed on TV.
- Dying for Gold
The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Electronic Phone Books are useful tools (review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- The Ellis Archives - 1972 to 1981
An Early View from the Parkdale Trenches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Published in Osgoode Hall Law Journal 35 - 3 (1997)
- The End of Parliamentary Socialism
From New Left to New Labour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Argues against the assertion that there is no alternative to neo-liberalism. This account of the British Labour Party's recent history argues that Tony Blair's modernizing tendency was profoundly mistaken in asserting that the only alternative to traditional social democracy and narrow parliamentarianism was an acceptance of neo-liberalism.
- The Estates of Old Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Estrogen The Natural Way
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- The Ethical Slut
A guide to infinite sexual possibilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A guide for anyone who dreams of having all the sex and love and friendship they want. Explores the skills and issues of a life beyond tradiational lifetime monogamy, from scheduling dates to handling jealousy, finding partners, resolving conflict, and raising children.
- Every Secret Thing
My Family, My Country
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- The Faber Book of Utopias
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Feminist Issues In Prostitution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
The flawed reasoning behind the opposition to prostitution by (radical) feminists.
- Fetish Fashion, Sex, and Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Dr. Steele traces the historic connections between fashion and fetishism.
- The Fight at UPS
The Teamsters' Victory and the Future of the "New Labor Movement"
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Foreign Policy Reference (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Fresh Air
The Private Thoughts of a Public Broadcaster
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Friendly faxing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
When you communicate by fax, keep these tips in mind.
- From Politics to Profit
The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
- From Starting to Marketing: Your Own Consulting Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Get the Internet working for you
Develop an online strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A Web site works best when it is integrated into a co-ordinated communications strategy.
- Get the Internet working for you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A Web site works best when it is integrated into a co-ordinated communications strategy.
- Getting the Most from Interviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Tips from a pro for getting the most from media interviews.
- Guns, Germs and Steel
A Short History of Everybody for the Last 10,000 Years
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Help for online researchers (review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- A History of Young People in the West
Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage Volume 2: Stormy Evolution to Modern Times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Hockey doc
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Toronto - To say Dr. Miriam Garfinkle practises in this city has a double meaning. There’s the family practice located in her downtown neighbourhood. But there’s another kind of practice she undertakes with dozens of other women. That’s hockey practice.
- How our Parliament Works
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- How to Lobby Like a Pro
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
To reach government with your message you need to lobby like the professionals do.
- How To Spot a Fox
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Henry shares tactics that enable weekend naturalists to approach and observe foxes unobtrusively.
- The Illustrated History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Improve Your Publicity Awareness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Tips on networking for success.
- Informatics Glossary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A glossary of key terms and concepts in the the field of informatics and computers.
- Intellectual Property: A Copyright Tutorial
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Intellectual Property: Cancopy and Photocopying
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Intellectual Property: Electronic Rights (and Wrongs)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- International Bibliography of Business History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Internet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Internet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- The Internet Unplugged
Utilities & Techniques for Internet Productivity Online and Off
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Just Another Car Factory?
Lean Production and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Keeping the Dream Alive
The Survival of the Ontario CCF/NDP, 1950-1963
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Leadership from Within
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Skills and techniques for leadership and success based on a holistic approach.
- The Lesson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
An educator in a nursing home's essay on Alzheimer's disease.
- Lexique Analogique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
This index contains over 250 entries and can be used as a French-English glossary.
- Lobbying like the Professionals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Looking for Old Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Lucky You
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
JoLayne Lucks lives in a town infamous for its suspicious miracles, but she's still elated when her lottery numbers finally pay off big. And she has great plans for her fortune: to save a rare piece of Florida paradise from the bulldozers. Only one problem: there's another winning Lotto ticket, and the people whove' got it just never learned how to share.
- Ma Vie En Rose
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- The Macmillian Atlas of Irish History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A full-colour atlas of Irish history.
- The Mammoth and the Mouse
Microhistory and Morphology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Essays exploring the theoretical relationship between the microhistorical method of paying careful attention to revealing details and the morphological method of looking for homologies among cultural artifacts or texts from different places and times.
- Marginal Distribution 1997 Full Catalogue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
There is a copy of this catalogue in the Connexions Archive.
- Mass Media and Canadian Diversity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A collection of Canadian focused articles which examine portrayals of minority populations in the mass media as wel as cultural production emanating from within minority linguistic and cultural groups.
- Measuring Well-Being
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A look at how we measure well-being; problems that arise from only counting economic expansion; ways to augment our measuring system to guide us more directly twoard well-being.
- Media Exposure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Promoting your magazine on a shoestring.
- Media Studies Reader
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A resource for students of media and cultural studies. Posing questions about the nature of culture in modern society, it looks at the historical development of the various media, their relationship with modernity and the critical commentaries that have evolved as a result of their public and private presence.
- The Medium is The Middleman: For a Revolution Against Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Media now controls a new economic order: one that has supplanted governments, churches and productive industry to impose a mediating tyranny over people and our Daily Lives.
- Mike Harris's Ontario
Open for Business, Closed to People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- More HeartSmart Cooking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- The Names of Things
A Passage in the Egyptian Desert
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- National Geographic Atlas of World History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- A Natural History of Sex
The Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Biologist, Forsyth explores the diverse and often bizarre sexual behaviour of plants, animals, and humans.
- The NDP: Can it make a difference?
A marxist analysis
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
How is it possible that the NDP, the only party which is not funded by big business, has been unable to capitalize on the anger amongst ordinary people? This pamphlet examines the roots of the collapse of the NDP and why it has been so slow to recover.
- NetResearch
Finding Information Online
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- News and the Culture of Lying
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
The news media lie, says Weaver, not by slipshod reporting or unethical practices, but in the very "plot structure" of the news, in the masks of impersonality assumed by reporters and editors, and in catering to advertising interests and the appetite for excitement.
- News media stifle ideas and debate (review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- 1997 Directory of Labour Organizations in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A compilation of unions, union memberships, congresses and other labour organizations.
- No olvides escribir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- The Nonprofit Manager's Resource Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- N'oubliez pas d'écrire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Oak Ridges Moraine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Members of the Oak Ridges Moraine (STORM) Coalition - naturalists, botanists, geologists, historians, writers, photographers -- celebrate the special nature of the Moraine in this collection of essays and photographers.
- Operating in the Dark
Accountability in our Health Care System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Peasant, Citizen and Slave
The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Wood argues that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labour. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture.
- Perspectives On Power
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
- Poisoning the Student Mind?
The Student Christian Movement at the University of Toronto, 1920 - 1965
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Published in Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/ Revue de la Societe historique du Canada, 8.1 (1997)
- The Politics of Social Ecology
Libertarian Municipalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
This book presents an introductory overview and sketches the historical and philosophical context in which the ideas of libertarian municipalism are grounded.
- Postmodernism and the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Barabara Epstein provides an overview of the approach and subculture of postmodernism and how they relate to, or conflict with, leftwing ideas.
- PR Awards
News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Profiles in Dissent
The Shaping of Radical Thought in the West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Quebec Agrees to Negotiate, Kidnap Crees First But "Negotiate"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Canadians as a whole seem to be unaware of the depth of the double standards advocated by the separatist leaders. We Crees are only too grimly aware of them, however, since we will be the first and most deeply affected community if the separatists ever get a chance to put their current secessionist policies into practice.
- Radical Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
- Reflections of a Siamese Twin
Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
The tension in Canada between the model of an inclusive more egalitarian community vs. bureaucratic closed structures of government. According to Saul, Canada is a complex original which does not fit the model of uniligual nation-states like Britain, France, and the United States, which, he says, is profoundly upsetting to the simplistic colonial minds of the Canadian establishment.
- Reporting the realities of poverty; Truth about global warming (reviews)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Resisting the Bomb
A History of World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Describes the gradual development of the worldwide movement for nuclear disarmament and research records from peace groups and government agencies.
- Resources For Radicals
An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
An annotated list of resources -- books and periodicals -- for people working for non-violent social change.
- Revolution at Queen's Park
Essays on Governing Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Risking Utopia
On the Edge of a New Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Rush Hour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- The Search for the Spirit
General Idea 1968-1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Secrets of the Super Searchers - Review
The Accumulated Wisdom of 23 of the World's Top Online Searchers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Share the Good News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
- Socialist Register 1997
Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- A Song of Stone
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Sources publisher Barrie Zwicker looks back - and ahead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Spoils of War
The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- The Star's biased reporting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
The Star's Orwellian journalism.
- Successful Event Marketing Strategies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Tips for marketing your events.
- A Tale of Two Utopias
The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Terminology Used by Parks Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
This glossary provides a comprehensive list of terms relating to cultural and natural heritage management and protection.
- Truth About Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Review of The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate, by Ross Gelbspan.
- Twenty Five Years of Dynamic Tension
The Parkdale Community Legal Service Experiance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Published in Osgoode Hall Law Journal 35 - 3 (1997)
- Valuable Clues to Finding What You Need to Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Review of books about online research.
- We're Being Cheated!
Corporate and Welfare Fraud: The Hidden Story
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
We've allowed our corporate dominated media and politicians to sell us a bill of goods that welfare fraud is a big problem. Meanwhile, corporations continue on their robber baron path, virtually untouched by enforcement of our social rights.
- Wetland Plants of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Why People Believe Weird Things
Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Woodswoman III
Book Three of the Woodswoman's Adventures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Working Together Online
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Yours in the Struggle
Reminiscences of Tim Buck
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Tim Buck's reminiscences, taken from a series of interviews taped by John (Mac) Reynolds for the CBC.
- A Different Sort of Democracy - Arabic translation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- A Different Sort of Democracy - Japanese translation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- Eine andere Art von Demokratie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
Wie können wir uns eine neue freie und kooperative Gesellschaft ausmalen, wenn wir doch in einer Welt gefangen sind, die von Gier und Engstirnigkeit geprägt ist?
- Hot Poppies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- A Likeness in Stone
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
- On workplace organisation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Published: 1997
A look at the exchange between Stan Weir and Sam Friedman on workplace organisation.
- The Sources HotLink
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1996
Published: 2009
A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
- Dean's Digital World Articles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 2006
List of Dean's Digital World articles.
- HTML: Publishing on the WWW
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 2003
- Business Writing Basics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 2002
- Tips for Getting the most from E-mail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 2000
The E-mail I receive from journalists seeking assistance with their research and from organizations listed with Sources is often puzzling. Many messages are unaddressed, unsigned and written in haste. Some queries require detective work before I can send a proper response.
- The 20th Century Artbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1999
500 full-page colour plates of twentieth century art works. Each image is accompanied by a brief text commenting on the work and its creater.
- A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1998
The Beothuk, the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland, were hunters, gatherers, and fishers who moved seasonally between the coast and the interior. With the influx of European settlements and fisheries in the 1700s the Beothuk found their territory increasingly reduced and conflict between the two groups escalated. The Beothuk declined steadily in numbers and by the early 1800s they had ceased to exist as a viable cultural group.
- Out Our Way
Gay & Lesbian Life in Rural Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1998
Explores the richly varied life experience of gay and lesbian Canadians living in small towns and rural areas across the country. Travelling 27,000 km and recording more than 300 conversations, the author distills stories of people aged fifteen to eighty-one, including First Nations/Two-Spirited, people living with HIV/AIDS, individuals, couples, communes, and a range of chosen families. Riordon includes his own experience and his partner's in rural eastern Ontario.
- Unfair Shares
Corporations and Taxation in Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Published: 1998
A popular tax directory that documents corporations and taxation in Canada. Includes a list of over 300 companies that paid little or no corporate income tax, as well as tables on corporate deferred taxes, CEO compensation, and corporate tax loopholes.
- Bridging the Class Divide and Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1997
A guide to grassroots organizing with a focus on bridging the gap between middle class organizers and affected members of lower class communities.
- Strikes in South Korea 1996-1997
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1997
In December 1996 and January 1997, South Korea experienced the largest organized strike in its history, when workers in the automotive and shipbuilding industries refused to work in protest against a law which was to make firing employees easier for employers and curtail labor organizing rights.
- The Struggle For Canadian Sport
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1997
Bruce Kidd, a former track star, documents the development and transformation of Canadian sport in the twentieth century.
- South Africa's Radical Tradition: A Documentary History, Volume I
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The Meaning of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Our democratic system: a safe election every four years or so in which voters choose between corporate-dominated parties whose policies are virtually indistinguishable on all fundamental issues.
- No platform or no democracy?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be protected from unsolicited or offensive ideas.
- Building Working-Cass Opposition to Stalin's Dictatorship?
The Trotskyist Opposition, 1927-1940
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
A review of Tony Cliff's book Trotsky, 1927-1940. In Cliff's view, the Trotskyist movement in the USSR was not so much destroyed by Stalin as much as it collapsed under the weight of its own fundamentally faulty assumptions regarding the nature of the enemy--indeed, just who the enemy was.
- Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Note from a Mind-Control Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
The debate over "recovered" and "false" memories continues to be one of the most contentious issues in the field of psychology today. The debate is extremely polarized with very little amicable communication among members of the opposing camps. While such a dispute may eventually be beneficial to science, in that both sides are clearly being spurred on to produce original research at a frenetic pace, at the moment the clearest manifestation of this dichotomy is miscommunication and friction between factions.
- Disabled Activists Seek Freedom
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
"I'd rather go to jail than to die in a nursing home".
- The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Alperovitz demonstrates that the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb to win the war against Japan. Alperovitz criticizes one of the most hotly debated precursory events to the Cold War, an event that was largely responsible for the evolution of post-World War II American politics and culture.
- Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 6
1914-1918: Imperialist War and the Realignment of the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
The conclusion to a six part series, this article deals with how the formation of the Communist International, under the profound impact of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, culminated the realignment of the left which had begun in August 1914.
- Hiroshima in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
A study of the events surrounding the Hiroshima bombing focuses on its affects in America, considering the cover-up efforts by the government and linking the bombing to current insensitivities toward violence.
- Art, Politics, and the Imagination
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
The work of our best artists throws into sharp relief what is painfully missing from most activists' work: a fusion of living experience with political insight.
- Bookwatch: Fighting to Unite Black and White
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
The common view on ‘race relations’ in the US today is that black and white people live in two separate worlds that will continue to diverge.
- Deep Left Dilemmas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Comments on how the radical environmental movement in Canada should define itself.
- English Road Opponents Turn to Direct Action
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
In Alternatives Journal 22:3, July/August 1996
- Pornography and the Sex Censors
A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
- Tips on How to Oppose Corporate Rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Dr. Kelsey has devised what she calls "A Manual for Counter-Technopols" -- suggestions and ideas for actions that challenge corporate rule.
- Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 5
From 1848 to the Bolshevik Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Seymour analyzes the syndicalist movements - which emphasized that the main obstacle to social revolution lay in the organizational weakness of the anarchist movement and the disorganization of the working class in general - that preceded World War I.
- Behind the Wire
Anti-union Repression in the Export Processing Zones
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
One of the most disturbing aspects of the growth of the global market is the increasing number of Export Processing Zones where millions of workers, mainly young women, are employed in grossly repressive conditions. This booklet describes what working in the zones means in reality. It reveals the dark underside of globalisation and calls for action by the international trade union movement, governments, and employers.
- Lesbian and gay liberation in Canada: a selected annotated chronology, 1964-1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
This authoritative reference guide covers the first twelve years of the organized homophile/gay liberation movement in Canada, from 1964 (when the Association for Social Knowledge [ASK], Canada's first large-scale homophile organization, was formed in Vancouver) through 1975 (the year of the founding of the National Gay Rights Coalition [NGRC], the first truly national coalition of Canadian lesbian and gay groups).
- An Acre of Time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Phil Jenkins tells the life story of a single acre on Le Breton Flats, in Ottawa, Canada.
- Active Partners
Education and Local Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Discusses the crucial role of schools as mediators between national and international trends and community initiatives towards sustainable development.
- Allow the Water
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
The author shares his Christian vision of radical social transformation to develop a society based on the gospels of Jesus. Included are the stories of famous others who have also gone through social transformation, such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., J.S. Woodsworth, Jim and Shirley Douglas and members of the White Rose Movement.
- Anatomy of the Gun control debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Angela's Ashes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Answering Machine Tips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Voice mail needs to be managed effectively.
- Anti-Chomsky Fictions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Exposing right-wing lies about Noam Chomsky.
- Articles from The Sources HotLink - Subject Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- At Twilight in the Country
Memoirs of a Canadian Nationalist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Battle rages over electronic publishing rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Beyond Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Addresses the need for a new socialist theory of transition after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its apparent triumph of capitalism. Beyond Capital examines the European-based conceptual framework of socialist theory in an effort to restate Marx's philosophy into a new social metabolic system.
- Beyond Growth
The Economics of Sustainable Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Black History and the Class Struggle
#13
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Articles published in Workers Vanguard in 1995.
- The Canadian Almanac on CD- ROM: A good idea that's badly done (review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Canadian Foreign Policy Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
A wide range of information on diplomatic representation, international trade, bilateral and multilateral treaties, defence policy, historical federal party positions on international issues, and other aspects of Canadian foreign policy.
- The Case Against the Global Economy
And for a turn towards the local
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
- Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Developed primarily for teachers, librarians, booksellers and others who disseminate the printed word, this guide offers basic information about dealing with would-be censors. Researched and written by Sandra Bernstein for the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
- Chomsky for Beginners
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
- Class Warfare
Interviews with David Barsamian
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Close the IMF, Abolish Debt and End Development
A Class Analysis of the International Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
The struggle for repudiation of the debt must be organized internationally and demand not only the collective refusal of debt but cooperation in developing policies to cope with possible reprisals and to create space for the elaboration of creative alternatives to development. I am not talking about an international organization of governments, but rather of the international organization of popular struggle around the debt issue in order to limit state options and force actions in the interests of the working class.
- C.L.R. James
A Political Biography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
A biography of C.L.R. James, an important figure in Marxist theory, revolutionary history, classical and popular culture, political activism and national independence movements.
- The Cultural Front
The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The Cultural Industries in Canada
Problems, Policies and Prospects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Dorland discusses policy problems specific to the Canadian cultural industries that produce cultural commodities, such as books, films and television programs.
- Deadlines & Diversity
Journalism Ethics in a Changing World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
An anthology on journalism ethics.
- Dean's Digital World - Sources 37
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Dean's Digital World - Sources 38
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Defending Mother Earth
Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Deschooling Our Lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Deschooling Our Lives would be of interest to people wishing to learn about alternative methods of education beyond the confines of the conventional school system. The book is a collection of short piece by various homeschooling advocates such as Holt, Tolstoy and Illich. The articles are both theoretical and practical with some concrete descriptions and examples of alternative schooling projects.
- Dictionary of Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The Disappearance of Finbar
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
An off-beat film about the mysterious disappearance of the finbar Flynn, who leaps from a freeway overpass and is never heard from again. Three years later, his family and his friend Danny still grieve. Matters are made worse when a pop song about Danny and the incident becomes a smash hit in Europe. Shortly after, Danny receives a phone call from Finbar. Thus begins Danny's search for Finbar, a search that leads him to a tiny Lapland village located near the Finnish border.
- Doc & Fluff
The Dystopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The Empire God Built
Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
- Essais sur les droits humains et le developpement democratique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Essay 5, The issues at stake of the international decade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Essays on Human Rights and Democratic Development
People or Peoples; Equality, Autonomy and Self-Determination: The Issues at Stake of the Internation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Everybody Loves a Good Drought
Stories from India's Poorest Districts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
P. Sainath devoted 2½ years to visiting and recording the realities - delving into the fundamentals, the why of the realities - in India's 10 poorest districts.
- Exploring Trails in Grey County: Cross-Country Skiing, Hiking and Canoeing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
A guide to nature in Ontario's Grey County.
- Fall from Glory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Sexual harassment in the U.S. Navy (Tailhook scandal, etc.)
- Finding Images Online
Online User's Guide to Image Searching in Cyberscape
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Forest Plants of Central Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Freiburg im Breisgau
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The Friends of Durruti Group: 1937-1939
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
The story of a group of anarchists engaged in the Spain of 1936 to 1939 during one of the most thoroughgoing social and economic revolutions of all time.
- From Protest to Power
Personal Reflections on a Life in Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Fund Raisers
Their Careers, Stories, Concerns, and Accomplishments
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
An overview of the career path for fund-raisers such as educational and career backgrounds, causes and concerns, challenges and rewards of their work.
- Golden Horseshoe StreetFinder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- A Good File Never Forgets
Improve your publicity awareness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Keep track of the calls you receive from the media. Don't rely on memory alone.
- The Graphic Monthly Master Equipment Catalogue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The Great Lakes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Berton gives a thorough history of the Great Lakes combined with stunning photograpy. His narrative style brings this work to life from the great puddles left behind by the great ice mantle to the Voyaguers and Fur-Trappers; from the War of 1812 to ship wrecks.
- The Greening of Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
An examination of the influence of green politics on Marxism.
- Greenwash
The Reality Behind Corporate Environmentalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- A Health-to-Peace Handbook
Ideas and Experiences of How Health Initiatives Can Work for Peace
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The Historical Failure of Anarchism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Day examines anarchism's failure to genuinely critique itself, understand history or theory, and grasp the conditions in the world today. "Anti-capitalism doesn't do the victims of capitalism any good if you don't actually destroy capitalism," Day writes. 'Anti-statism' doesn't do the victims of the state any good if you don't actually smash the state. Anarchism has been very good at putting forth visions of a free society and that is for the good. But it is worthless if we don't develop an actual strategy for realizing those visions.
- A History of Reading
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
An exploration of what it means to be a reader of books.
- History of the Gun Laws
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- HotLink Author Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- HotLink Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- How EC and World Bank Policies Are Destroying Agriculture And The Environment
A European and Third World Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Bond argues that bureaucrats, multinationals and banks lack the compassion and commitement to help farmers, consumers and the enviromment, and emerging nations of the South.
- HTML for the World Wide Web
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Ray shows that Native culture played an important -- and largely unrecognized -- part in Canada's economic development. Rather than being "civilized" by European explorers, the indigenous people were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and hunters.
- I May Be Some Time
Ice and the English Imagination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Spufford explores the British obsession with the world's coldest and bleakest climes, using their literary representation as his guide.
- I Remember Sunnyside
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- If boycotts could change the system they'd be illegal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
A ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says that boycotting by a grassroots group Friends of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation of Daishowa paper products was illegal because it resulted in economic harm to the corporation. This is an example of a growing number of "SLAPP suits" Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation brought by corporations against activists.
- The Illusions of Postmodernism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. His primary concern is less with the more intricate formulations of postmodern philosophy than with the culture or milieu of postmodernism as a whole. Above all, he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought.
- In Search of Ancient North America
An Archaelogical Journey to Forgotten Cultures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Land Mammals of Newfoundland & Labrador
A Self-Driving Guide
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Landscapes of the Interior
Re-explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
- Liberty Against the Law
Some Seventeenth-century Controversies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Life Before Medicare
Canadian Experiences
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Local Places In the Age of the Global City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
- Lone Star
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Lost Memory: Libraries and Archives destroyed in the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
This document lists major disasters that have destroyed or caused irreparable damage during the 20th century to libraries and archives, whether written of audio-visual.
- Marketing Nonprofit Programs and Services
Proven and Practical Strategies to Get More Customers, Members and Donors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Suggests a 15 point marketing strategy, concepts and methods to attract and satisfy customers, communicate an organization's message distinctly and effectively, and solve membership and program enrollment and retention problems for nonprofit organizations.
- McLuhan's Children
The Greenpeace Message and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Looks at Greenpeace's rise to global prominence through its savvy use of mass media. Traces the evolution of Greenpeace's relations with the media.
- Naturism and Civil Disobedience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
May a naturist go so far as to break the law to encourage the liberalization of anti-nudity laws? When is nonviolent civil disobedience justified in advocating the naturist cause?
- Neo-Nazis in Toronto
The Allan Gardens Riot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Published in Canadian Jewish Studies, 4.5 (1996-7)
- The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The Online Deskbook
Online Magazine's Essential Desk Reference for Online and Internet Searchers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Our Ecological Footprint
Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
The authors discuss how to make calculations of the amounts of material required to sustain an individual, a community and a nation.
- Our Stolen Future
Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
The authors reveal in this work that chemicals in the environment have affected human reproductive patterns in a way that may threaten the survival of the species.
- Photographien
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The Photoshop Wow Book
Guide to Getting the Most out of Photoshop
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The Photoshop Wow Book
Guide to Getting the Most out of Photoshop
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Por todos los medios
Comunicacion and genero
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Por todos los medios
Comunicacion and genero
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Prisons in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Gosselin provides a political and historical view of the prison system and its inherent contradictions. He argues that the penal system is used by the State to maintain its authority. He remarks on corporations, the press and the parole board and the difference in their treatment and coverage of prisoners and prisons. He sees the penal system as a morally bankrupt bureaucracy which threatens future incarceration for many people that the economy cannot absorb.
- The Queer Exchange
Fall '96 Spring '97
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Quotations By Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The Reporter's Handbook
An Investigator's Guide to Documents and Techniques
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Rescue as Resistance
How Jewish Organizations Fought the Holocaust in France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Researching on the Internet - REVIEW
The Complete Guide to Finding, Evaluating, and Organizing Information Effectively
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
An intelligent guide to successful online research. The focus is on the goals of the researcher; the tools offered by the Internet are evaluated in that context, not for their technological glitter. See review in Sources Select Resources.
- Rosso on Fund Raising
Lessons from a Master's Lifetime Experience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Essays which explore topics such as leadership, stewardship, the art of asking, building relationships, and more to present fund raising practice and theory.
- Satan, the State and Anti-Sex Hysteria
Unholy Alliance of Feminists and Christian Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
A lengthy review of two books about the anti-sex witchhunts in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Say No to Circumcision!
40 Compelling Reasons
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Secrets of the Super Net Searchers
The Reflections, Revelations and Hard-Won Wisdom of 35 of the World's Top Internet Researchers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Internet experts offer insights, anecdotes, tips, techniques, and case histories.
- 7 Tips for Effective Speeches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
How to make your speeches more effective.
- Smearing Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
The deliberate use of outrageous lies to smear others is a favourite tactic of hate propagandists.
- Smoke and Mirrors
The Canadian Tobacco War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Describes Canada's stance and battle against tobacco. Cunningham explains the health movement and tactics to regulate the tobacco industry.
- Socialist Register 1996
Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Study Smarter, Not Harder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Talking Back to the Right
A guide for community activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
The right's enormous success in framing the American public debate is based not just on isolated issues, but on in overall definition of what the debate is about. The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways that progressive community-based advocacy groups can reframe the right's definition of the debate-ways that can connect with deeply-held Values and understandings of the American people. It is designed to help advocates frame their views for the media, develop educational programs and materials for their constituents, and talk to their fellow citizens in meetings and informal discussions.
- Teacher Activism in the 1990's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
A two part anthology covering teacher activism in the 1990's, including both Canadian and International issues facing educators.
- Television and the Remote Control
Grazing on a Vast Wasteland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- 10 Deficit Myths
The truth about government debts and why they don't justify cutbacks
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Most of what we are told about government debts and defincits by politicains, right-wing academics and the media is untrue.
- Thinking of Self- Publishing? DON'T
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The Third Revolution, Volume 1
Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
This project is a comprehensive account of the great revolutions that swept over Europe and America during the past three centuries.
- The Time Before History
5 Million Years of Human Impact
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Toward a Moral Economy
Responses to Poverty in the North and South
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Largely a compilation of articles from other development organizations. It deals with the impact of LDC's in North America in general and sub-Saharan Africa in particular. Statistical exerpts point out loopholes in Canadian taxation, the financial magnitude of World Bank operations, disparities among military, debt financing and social service spending. In a workbook format this book is ideal for use in a discussion group setting, whether among church groups, students or other NGO committees.
- Towards 21st Century Democracy
Interview with a Proportional Representation Activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Tracking down tax havens (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Tracking the News that Wasn't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
- Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Alan Sokal submitted this parody of postmodernism, poststructuralist theory, deconstruction, and political moralism to the journal Social Text. The editors failed to spot the hoax and published it as a serious article. The hoax caused a fierce debate between the postmodernists and those who consider postmodernism reactionary nonsense.
- Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 1996
The Right to Produce and Access Land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Food is a basic human right. This right can only be realized in a system where food sovereignty is guaranteed.
- Watch the Rope
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The Waterfront Trail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- We Are All Leaders
The alternative unionism of the early 1930s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Contributors to this volume draw on interviews with participants in the events described, first-person narratives, trade union documents, and other primary sources to tell what workers of the 1930s did. The alternative unionism of the 1930s was democratic, deeply rooted in mutual aid among workers in different crafts and work sites, and politically independent.
- What's the Worst That Could Happen?
A Dortmunder Novel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- Windows 95 is Driving Me Crazy!
A Practical Guide to Windows 95 Headaches, Hassles, Bugs, Potholes, and Installation Problems
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
- The World at Night
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Paris, 1940. The civilized, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson is derailed by the German occupation of Paris.
- What is Neoliberalism?
A Brief Definition for Activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Published: 1996
Neo-liberalism is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 25 years or so. Although the word is rarely heard in the United States, you can clearly see the effects of neo-liberalism here as the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer.
- Looking Shell in the eye: Ken Saro-Wiwa's last writings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 2013
Author Ken Saro-Wiwa spear-headed the resistance of the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta against environmental devastation from oil drilling and ruptured oil pipelines. He was executed in 1995. Dr Laurence Cox introduces his last letters.
- Shunpiking
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1995
Published: 2013
Web site of Nova Scotia's "discovery magazine". The magazine is no longer published, but an archive is available online.
Copies of Shunpiking are available in the Connexions Archive.
- Zehn Mythen über das Gesundheitssystem
Hintergründe über die gesetzliche Krankenversicherung in Kanada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 2009
Eine Übersicht über das kanadische Gesundheitssystem im Vergleich mit dem der USA.
- Martin Luther King (Revised Edition)
The Inconvenient Hero
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 2008
In these eloquent essays that reflect upon King's legacy over the past two decades and the meaning of his life today, a portrait emerges of a man constantly evolving and going deeper into the roots of violence and injustice -- a man whose challenge remains as timely and necessary as ever.
- The Times Atlas of the World
Reference Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 2006
- How to Resist Collection
Or Make the Most of Collection When it Occurs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 2005
A practical guide for resistance to tax collection in the United States, as a statement of ethical opposition to the government's advocacy of immoral war.
- Oxford Dictionary of Humourous Quotations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 2005
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 2003
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- Robert Graves
Life on the Edge
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 2003
- Image and Reality of The Israel-Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 2001
Challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new and enlarged edition critically re-examines dominant popular and scholarly images in the light of the current debacle of a "peace" process.
- Little Tenement on the Volga
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 2001
An account by an English woman of living in post-Soviet Russia.
- When Corporations Rule the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 2001
Kortens' book is an examination of the growth of corporate power from its beginnings in the 17th and 18th to its entrenchment in American society in the 19th.
- Make Every Session Count
Getting the Most Out of Your Brief Therapy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 2000
A client guide to brief therapy.
- Alberta and the Northwest Territories Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1999
- Thinking Union
Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1999
Examining activism and education in Canadian labour, it's both a personal memoir and a guide to labour education. Martin explores and explains union culture, mergers and internal splits, the mechanics and dynamics of grassroots campaigns and the changes in Canadian unions over two turbulent decades.
- Winning Proposals
How to write them and get results
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1999
- Oxford Minireference Dictionary & Thesaurus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1997
- Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1997
The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
- Marxism and the National Question
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1995
Published: 1996
- Deception By Design
Pharmaceutical Promotion in the Third World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1996
The authors discuss the workings of the pharmaceutical industry by exposing the unethical marketing practices, double standards and weak marketing codes.
- Our Game
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1996
- The Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1996
- Medical Reform - Volume 15 Issue 3
December 1995
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Ten Health Care Myths
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
- 10 Health Care Myths - Chinese Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Community is my family's support system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
The teacher, the mother, my community - they are reminders of a world that still struggles to maintain decent values and a basic kindness between human beings.
- Beyond Oppression, Beyond Diversity: Class Analysis and Gender Inequality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Massive increases in tuition fees resulting from government cutbacks to education were not addressed at a Status of Women conference -- an indication that much of what shall be referred to in this paper as "left feminism" has increasingly lost its way.
- What are we doing on-line?
A Debate on the Social Consequences of Online Communications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Presents a forum on the social aspects of the Internet. Pervasiveness of communication between networked computers; Impact on average human lives; Health implications.
- Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism an Unbridgeable Chasm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
For some two centuries, anarchism -- a very ecumenical body of anti-authoritarian ideas -- developed in the tension between two basically contradictory tendencies: a personalistic commitment to individual autonomy and a collectivist commitment to social freedom. These tendencies have by no means been reconciled in the history of libertarian thought. Indeed, for much of the last century, they simply coexisted within anarchism as a minimalist credo of opposition tothe State rather than as a maximalist credo that articulated the kind of new society that had to becreated in its place.
- Medical Reform - Volume 15 Issue 1
April 1995
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- US soldier faces court martial for trying to stop Haiti abuses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Exploring Mind, Memory, and the Psychology of Belief
Part II: Perception, Memory and the Courtroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
So-called simple perceptions are anything but simple, and what we see is not always the true nature of reality. Perception is a creative act that involves not only the purely sensory apparatus of the brain but also such things as memory, emotion, and our hopes and fears.
- Justice Proclaimed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
The evolution of justice as the central concern for the Catholic church, and in particular, the Canadian Catholic church is an exciting story with a long history, a history defined by the realization that charity, while always and everywhere important for the Christian, is not the central concern of the gospel.
- Remembering Dangerously
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Like the witch-hunt trials of old, people today are being accused and even imprisoned on 'evidence' provided by memories from dreams and flashbacks -- memories that didn't exist before therapy.
- "Displaced Persons". Ein vergessenes Kapitel der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
At the end of the Second World War, the three western zones of Germany contained approximately 7 million "displaced person".
- Die Kriegsgefangen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Issues relating to the fate of German prisoners of war after World War II.
- Die Vertreibung der Deutschen - ein unbewältigtes Kapital europäisher Zeitgeschichte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
The explusion of Germans after World War II.
- Faith in Action: The Canadian Churches' Ecumenical Coalitions for Social Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Sponsored by the major Canadian churches and working in areas ranging from international development, refugees and human rights issues abroad, to native concerns and poverty in Canada, the ecumenical coalitions working on social justice issues are a remarkable example of faith in action, faith which has made mission real for thousands of Canadians.
- The Abolition of Work and Other Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Aboriginal Law
Cases, Materials and Commentary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Isaac uses excerpts from court cases, land claims agreements, treaties, and legislation to comment on cultural and political issues.
- Adverse Health Effects of Noise- Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Afghanistan 1979-1992
America's Jihad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
An account of CIA and American involvement in Afghanistan since 1979
- Against Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
- All That Was Left
Student Struggles for Mass Student Aid and the Abolition of Tuition Fees in Ontario, 1945-1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 1995
- The Alternate Health Services Directory
The Authoritative Resource Directory of Therapies, Products & Services
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
The Alternative Health Services Directory is a 200 page comprehensive collection of healing services and products.
- The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Angels Don't Play This HAARP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Art is a Way of Knowing
A Guide to Self-Knowledge and Spiritual Fulfillment through Creativity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Making art -- giving form to the images that arise in our mind's eye, our dreams, and our everyday lives -- is a form of spiritual practice through which knowledge of ourselves can ripen into wisdom.
- Beyond Poverty and Affluence
Towards a Canadian Economy of Care
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
By studying societal realities such as poverty, pollution, environmental degradation and losses from quality and quantity of work, Goudzwaad and de Lange believe that a new economic practice is needed for Canadian economic recovery.
- The Black Atlantic
Modernity and Double-Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Paul Gilroy explains that there exists a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality. The book challenges the practices and assumptions of cultural studies and enriches our understanding of modernism.
- Blake
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
A biography of William Blake.
- Blindspots in The News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
- A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
- Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
- Canadian Directory Of Industrial Distributors: 1995-1996
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Canadian Internet Handbook
Revised 1996 Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Information on how to get on the Internet in Canada and how to use it for information and entertainment.
- Canadian Labour Congress Action Plan Calendar 1995
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Chomsky on Post-Modernism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
What I find in the writings of the post-modernists is extremely pretentious, but on examination, a lot of it is simply illiterate, based on extraordinary misreading of texts that I know well (sometimes, that I have written), argument that is appalling in its casual lack of elementary self-criticism, lots of statements that are trivial (though dressed up in complicated verbiage) or false; and a good deal of plain gibberish.
- Communities Directory
A Guide to Cooperative Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
This work lists 540 North American communities and 70 abroad, including contact information and a full self-description.
- Cracker
The Big Crunch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Crossing The Line
Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
This book studies the issue of employee ownership as the divide between management and labour blurs.
- Cuba 1959 to 1980s
The Unforgivable Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
- Dean's Digital World - Sources 36
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Defending Pornography
Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography.
- Diez Mitos del Cuidado de la Salud
Entendiendo el Debate del Servicio Medico en Canadá
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Diggers and Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Dinosaur in a Haystack
Reflections in Natural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- 10 mythes des soins de sante
Comprendre le debat de l'Assistance Medicale Canadienne
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Un guide concis expliquant les 10 mythes regardant les Soins de Sant.
- Doing Public Journalism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
The author argues that journalists should be responsible citizens who with "the power of the press empower others besides the press.
- The Dying of the Trees
The Pandemic in America's Forests
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Ecological Resistance Movements
The Global Emergance of Radical and Popular Environmentalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- The Ecology of Commerce
A Declaration of Sustainability
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Ecuador 1960-1963
A Textbook of Dirty Tricks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
An account of the CIA-backed coups in Ecuador of 1960-1963.
- The Emergence of Agriculture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- En France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Encyclopedias, Atlases & Dictionaries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- The End of Days
A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
In attempting to pinpoint the historical events that turned a culture of tolerance into an autocratic police state, Paris compares what occurred in medieval Spain to the social upheavals of 19th and 20th century France and Germany. She discovers many striking patterns and also eerie similarities with the social and political unrest in modern day North America.
- An Environmental Inventory of the Bruce Trail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Ron Anderson, Lynn Dupuis and Hamish Duthie of the Bruce Trail Environmental Committee provide a great resource for those interested in the natural features of the Trail and its surroundings. Listed are the areas which have been identified as Areas of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSIs) and Environmentally Sensitive (ESAs). The team collected data from previous sites and new sites continue to be identified. There is also a comprehensive set of maps for all the ESAs and ANSIs sites. The maps were digitized at the University of Waterloo and the Bruce Trail Association has a copy on disc so revisions and additions will be added as new sites are found.
- Excel for Windows 95 for Dummies
Quick Reference
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Facilitator's Guide to Participation Decision Making and Communication
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Feminism and Postmodernism: An Uneasy Alliance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
A discussion of feminist theory, particularly the usefulness of postmodernism as a theoretical concept. From the book "Feminist Contentions. A Philosophical Exchange."
- Feminist Resistance in Serbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Describes the conditions and factors influencing women’s lives in Serbia in 1995, and the ways women have organised to resist violence and assist one another.
- Finding Moon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Moon Mathias learns that his brother has died in Southeast Asia, and that he has a baby daughter ner the Vietnam-Cambodiia border.
- Fitness Weight Training
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Get a Life!
How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
- Getting Away with Murder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
Into the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Green Production
Toward an Environmental Rationality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Explores the environment and sustainability development with a Marxist approach and provides an alternative vision for ecotechnology.
- The Guardian Year '95
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
- Harlequin in Hogtown
George Luscombe and Toronto Workshop Productions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Harm de Blij's Geography Book
A Leading Geographer's Fresh Look at Our Changing World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
The world from a geographer's perspective.
- How Deregulation Destroyed Canada's Airlines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Skene links the deregulation of Canada's airline industry with layoffs, service disruptions, higher fares, privatization, and bankruptcies.
- How the Irish became White
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country – a land of opportunity – they found a very different form of social hierarchy, one that was based on the colour of a person’s skin. Noel Ignatiev tells the story of how the oppressed became the oppressors; how the new Irish immigrants achieved acceptance among an initially hostile population only by proving that they could be more brutal in their oppression of African Americans than the nativists.
- HTML Sourcebook
A Complete Guide to HTML
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- The Human Rights Handbook
A Practical Guide To Monitoring Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Imperial Leather
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race, and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.
- In Palliser's Triangle
Living in the Grasslands 1850-1930
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Potyondi asks: Should the Grasslands have been farmed at all? The book describes how westerners changed the grasslands.
- In Service of the Wild
Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Indonesia 1957-1958
War and Pornography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
- The Influence of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Published in Race, Gender and Class, 2.3 (Spring 1995)
- The Invisible Empire
Racism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Cannon asks how can a tolerant nation like Canada be racist? Several incidents are documented in regard to minorities, employment, the justice system, and immigrants from Third World countries.
- Iraq 1990-1991
Desert Holocaust
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
An account of the American invasion of Iraq (Desert Shield) in 1990-91.
- The Jade Peony
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Jewish History, Jewish Religion
The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Just who's selling what here? (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Justice for Injured Workers
The Struggle Continues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Published in Journal of Law and Social Policy 41 (1995)
- Kriegsende in Kassel
Beiträge und Fotos aus der HNA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
In Kassel endete der zweite Weltkrieg am 4. April 1945 mit der Kapitulation der deutschen Truppen. Die Amerikaner besetzen die Stadt und die gesamte Region -- knapp funf Wochen spater endete der Krieg endgultig.
- Kyrgyzstan's dubious success
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
In Kyrgyzstan, everyone is better off - except for the vast majority of the population.
- The Lady is a Tramp
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Looking For Lake Erie
Travels Around A Great Lake
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Looking for Mr. Preston
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Make Your Scanner A Great Design & Production Tool
Tips, Techniques and Neat Ideas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Maple Leaf Against The Axis
Canada's Second World War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- The Market Tells Them So
The World Bank and Economic Fundamentalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Mihevic asserts that World Bank policy can be viewed as a powerful fundamentalist quasi-religion whose effect is to perpetuate and even worsen inequities between developed and developing countries.
- Marketing on the Internet
Multimedia Strategies for the World Wide Web
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Maximum, Minimum, Medium
A Journey Through Canadian Prisons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Serving a nine-year sentence, Melnitzer documented his experience in three different prisons, along with his own introspections.
- The Movement and the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Drawing on interviews, manuscripts, and archives, Anderson reveals how one event built upon another and exploed into the kaleidoscope of activism in the United States by the early 1970s. Civil rights, student power, and the crusade against the Vietnam War composed the first wave of the movement, and during after after the rip tides of 1968, the movement changed and expanded, flowing into new currents of counterculture, minority empowerment, and women's liberation.
- The New Untouchables
Immigration and the New World Worker
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
This book examines migration as a response to changes in the world economy. Harris shows that despite tighter controls, increasing numbers of workers are moving, whether legally or nor, between countries. Unskilled immigrant workers play a vital role in improving standards of living in the developed world. In turn, the countries from which they have come benefit in a major way from the earnings sent back home. Arguing that few of the fears about immigration are justified, and that increased imigration tends to mean that jobs and incomes expand, this work shows why governments will have to ensure the freedom of people to come and go as they choose.
- Ninety-Nine Days
The Ford Strike in Windsor, 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- No More
The Battle Against Human Rights Violations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Matas, a Winnipeg immigration lawyer and participant in the Helsinski Watch movement and Amnesty international, examines the ideological causes of human rights violations.
- No news is bad news on the dial....
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- No Place Like Home
A Discussion Paper about Living and Working in Ontario's Long-Term Care Facilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Now a Canadian view of media ethics (book review)
Review of Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- 150 Years of Photo Journalism
150 Jahre Photojournalismus / 150 Jaar Fotojournalistiek - The Hulton Getty Picture Collection
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Ontario Media Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
This directory is a valuable source of information about elected representatives and appointed officials for anyone who does business with communities in Ontario or who works in a municipal administration.
- The Other Mexico
The North American Triangle Completed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- The Oxford Companion to German Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Paranoia and Dirty Feet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Park Prisoners
The Untold Story of Western Canada's National Parks 1915 - 1946
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Park Prisoners
The Untold of Western Canada's National Park, 1915-1946
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
The story of the labour camps that once existed in Canada's mountain and prairie national parks. Between 1915 and 1946, some ten thousand men were put to work in western Canada's national parks. They were the country's unwanted: unskilled foreign workers, the jobless and the homeless, conscientious objectors, perceived enemies of the state, and prisoners of war.
- Patent Folly
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
The misuse of patents rights and associated dangers.
- Patent Folly: Another Point of View
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- The Penguin Book of Jokes from Cyberspace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- People's Aesthetics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
An essay on self-proclaimed "progressives" and their hypocritical defense of cultural hierarchies and consumption of popular or lower middle class culture for camp value. He opines that the distinction between craft and art is class based.
- A Place to Walk
A Naturalist's Journal of the Lake Ontario Waterfront Trail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Karstad, a naturalist and painter and her husband a herpetologist spent a spring and summer along the lake Ontario shoreline. The resulting product gives us a book filled with drawings, paintings and recordings of the wildlife, flora and fauna. There is also a history of human settlement along the lake and its impact on the natural environment.
- Planet Drum's Bioregional Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- The Polish Officer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler's Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Bucharest.
- Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment
Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
This work looks at the problem of overpoplulation and the environment.
- Progress Without People
In Defense of Luddhism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
This book describes how jobs and skills will be lost through new technologies as they were in the 19th century industrial revolution.
- Protecting Canada's Endangered Spaces
An Owner's Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Conservationist Hummel explains what needs to be done by whom and when to protect wilderness in Canada.
- The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Rationality/Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Chomsky writes: "It strikes me as remarkable that the left today should seek to deprive oppressed people not only of the joys of understanding and insight, but also of tools of emancipation, informing us that the "project of the Enlightenment" is dead, that we must abandon the "illusions" of science and rationality--a message that will gladden the hearts of the powerful, delighted to monopolize these instruments for their own use."
- The Real Child Molesters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
The prime question you must ask yourself when you see "concerned citizens," social workers, child psychologists, police, politicians, educators and jurists, lawyers, newspapers and televison stations pumping up an "issue" such as kiddie porn and child abuse is -- WHO PROFITS?
They do! They are the real child molesters.
- Recovered Memories Cross the Oceans
Psychic Vibrations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
The American practice of "recovering memories" of all manner of unspeakable abuse has leaped the Atlantic, and the Pacific as well.
- Restricted Entry
Censorship on Trial
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Saving the Countryside
Conserving Rural Character in the Countryside of Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
An overview of the issues and politics of preserving the rural nature of the countryside. Byrne outlines the problems facing rural communities: rapid pace of changge, not having access to the information necessary to cope with change and thirdly the failure to believe that individuals can make a difference. Includes has an extenisve list of resources including newsletters, government publications and academic papers to help promote community discussion.
- Seeing Ourselves
Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Selling for Dummies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Shadows of Tender Fury
The Letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Since the 1994 uprisings in the Mexican state of Chiapas, the spokesman of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a masked rebel who calls himself Subcomandante Marcos, has become a symbol of revolt in the post-cold war era. This book contains his letters, stories for children, military communiqués, demands, poems, descriptions of colonial exploitation, travelogues, history lessons, spoofs of magic realism, subtle jokes, and inspiring anecdotes.
- Shooting the Hippo
Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
An examination of how economic policies systematically favour the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
- Sign Wars
The Cluttered Landscape of Advertising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Deconstructs the strategies used to distinguish one brand name from another by the use of commodity signs.
- Sisters in the Resistance
The Women's War to Free France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Weitz documented accounts of 70 women involved in the Resistance.
- Socialist Register 1995
Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Some Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- The Sources Select Online Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
In SOURCES SELECT Online (SSO) we attempt to provide true diversity: access to people in organizations large and small, for-profit and not-for-profit, from low-tech to high-tech, long-established to just-launched.
- Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change
Selected Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Drache collects a selection of Innis' most important essays. This new collection commemorates the hundredth anniversary of Innis' birth in 1894. The subjects range from cultural issues to economic development in Canada.
- The State We're In
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Stormy Weather
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Successful Market Research
The Complete Guide to Getting and Using Essential Information About Your Customers and Competitors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
This book is aimed at small business owners and potential entrepreneurs. It explains how to collect, organize, and implement current data.
- 10 Health Care Myths - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Toronto The Wild
Field Notes of an Urban Naturalist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Toronto as a natural world and and ecosystem.
- The Training Trap
Ideology, Training and the Labour Market
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
A collection of essays examines changes in the Canadian labour market with respect to education, training, and unemployment.
- Trees in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Trolleycars
Streetcars, Trams and Trolleys of North America: A Photographic History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Uruguay 1964-1970
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
- Using Excel Special Edition for Windows 95
The Most Complete Reference
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Using Excel Special Edition for Windows 95
The Most Complete Reference
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Die Vielen Gesichter des Widerstands
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Voyages
Canada's Heritage Rivers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Warpaths
Travels of a Military Historian in North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- What Customers Value Most
How to Improve the Processes that Touch Your Customers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
This book details a four-step process for improving customer relations, especially when companies are being transformed.
- What You Really Need to Know About Cancer
A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Their Families
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Whatever Happened to High School History?
Burying the Political Memory of Youth, Ontario: 1945-1995
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
A look at how high school history was taught between the 1940's and 1990's, and subsequent decline iof the discipline that used to be a core subject in Canadian secondary education.
- Wheel of Fortune
Work and Life in the Age of Falling Expectations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Jamie Swift combines sharp-eyed journalism that brings out the nuances of daily life with a penetrating analysis of jobless recovery. He describes the emerging world of work through the eyes and experiences of people in Kingston and Windsor -- two Ontario cities with roots in the pre-industrial past, places poised for the post-industrial information age.
- Where Do Postmodernists Come From?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
Eagleton argues that left intellectuals have adopted postmodernism out of a sense of having been badly defeated, a belief that the left as a political tendency has little future. Culturalism, he argues, involves an extreme subjectivism combined with a deep pessimism, a sense that it isn't worth the effort to learn about the world, to analyze social systems, for instance, because they can't be changed anyway.
- Who Knows
Safegurding Your Privacy in a Networked World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Whole Life Economics
Revaluing Daily Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
- Why the Industrial Working Class Still Matters
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
It is evident today that the vast majority of the population (perhaps 80% of the workforce) live and reproduce themselves only through wage-labor that produces surplus value, regardless of the nature of the commodity (good or service) they produce. Whatever the changing weight of the industrial sector of this enormous, working majority, it is clear that the working class as a whole is proportionately far larger today than at the time of classical Marxist writers.
- The Women's Survival Handbook
for Metropolitan Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Published: 1995
This directory includes listings for services in: health, legal issues, financial matters, housing, career planning, and special needs.
- The Hike Ontario Guide to Walks Around Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 199
- Brotherhood To Nationhood
George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 2021
George Manuel's work as leader of the National Indian Brotherhood and the later founding of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. First published 1994; revised edition 2021.
- Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Since 1994 under the founding direction of Roy Rosenzweig, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history — to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past. The center itself is a democratic, collaborative space where over fifty scholars, technologists, and researchers work together to advance the state of the art.
CHNM uses digital media and technology to preserve and present history online, transform scholarship across the humanities, and advance historical education and understanding.
- Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 2005
- Selling Illusions
The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 2002
Since he immigrated to Canada, Neil Bissoondath has consistently refused the role of the ethnic, and sought to avoid the burden of hyphenation - a burden that would label him as an East Indian-Trinidadian-Canadian living in Quebec. Bissoondath argues that the policy of multiculturalism, with its emphasis on the former or ancestral homeland and its insistence that There is more important than Here, encourages stereotyping and division.
- You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A personal history of our times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 2002
Zinn tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war.
- Counselling Ethics Casebook 2000
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 2000
- Creative Collage Techniques
A ste-by-step guide including 52 demonstrations and the work of over 60 artists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 2000
- Christmas Truce: The Western Front, December 1914
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1999
A history of the Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Eastern and Western fronts.
- Himalaya aus der Luft
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1999
- The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1998
- Neue Geschichte der Photographie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1998
- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- Gay New York
Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1997
A study of the making the the gay male world in New York from 1890 to 1940.
- Bild Atlas Südschwarzwald
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1996
- The Cypress Hills
The Land and its People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1996
This book relates the history of the plateau, once a gathering place for Aboriginal Peoples, and how it has been changed through settlement.
- Applied Cryptography
Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C (Second Edition)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1995
Data security expert, Schneier, provides information on the protocols and algorithms used to implement a variety of impenetrable encryptions.
- Health News Briefs 1992- 1994
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
A round-up of health care in the news, 1992 - 1994.
- Gedanken über Selbstbestimmung
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Bei der Unterstützung für die Unabhängigkeit handelt es sich bei ein großen Teilen der Linken um nicht mehr als kleinbürgerlichen Nationalismus. Im Gegensatz dazu hielten es Karl Marx und Rosa Luxemburg für wichtig zu analysieren und nur die progressiven Bewegungen zu unterstützen.
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 5
December 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Memoirs from the Women's Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Nawal El Saadawi was imprisoned in 1981 by Anwar Sadat for alleged "crimes against the State." She offers both firsthand witness to women's resistance to state violence and insights into the formation of women's community. Saadawi describes how political prisoners, both secular intellectuals and Islamiists, forged alliances to demand better conditions.
- Matthew Coon Come Speech, September 19, 1994
Speaking Notes for Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come Centre for Strategic and Iinternational Studies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
The status and rights of the James Bay Crees in the context of Quebec secession from Canada.
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 4
September 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Mina's Story
A Doctor's Memoir of the Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
In this compelling personal memoir of courage and endurance, Dr. Mina Deutsch reveals her memories of living in the shadow of the Holocaust. Mina's Story is a memorial to all those who died under Nazi persecution, a record of the many atrocities suffered, and, finally, an example of heroism, perseverance, and the indestructible will to live.
- Medical Reform Group of Ontario Condemns OMA Council's Betrayal of Membership
News Release July 7,1994
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
If Jews in France were required to carry identification cards designating them Jews, could not acquire land or buy or rent homes in most of the country, were not eligible for service in the armed forces, and French law banned any political party or legislation calling for equal rights for Jews, would France be widely praised in the United States as a "symbol of human decency" and paragon of democracy?
- What's Wrong With Front Yard Parking?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
The negative effects of front yard parking are significant, and affect us all. The benefits are small, and go only to a few.
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 2
April 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- From Oswiecim to Auschwitz
Poland Revisited
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Follow Rabbi Moshe Weiss' journey to post-Auschwitz Poland on his pilgrimage, looking for remaining Jews but finding only antisemites. It is a chronicle of the death of the 1,000-year-old civilization of Polish Jews.
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 1
February 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Aboriginal Ontario
Historical Perspectives on the First Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Essays on the history of Ontario's native people.
- Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada
Current Trends and Issues
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Ideas for developing Aboriginal institutions to provide social programs including for indigenous people in cities.
- Above the Law
The Crooks, the Politicians, the Mounties, and Rod Stamler
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Stamler, a former senior RCMP officer, is Palango's source in this account of commercial and political criminal investigations in Canada.
- Access to Government Information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- After the Smoke Cleared
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Jack Kuper's experiences as a Jew in Poland and Canada as he struggled to reconnect with his family after the conclusion of World War II.
- Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- All the Livelong Day
The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work, Revised and Updated Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Alternative Health Services Directory 1994
The Authoritative Resource Directory of Therapists, Products and Services
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Listings of therapists, alternative healers and quacks in Toronto.
- Alternative Resources: An Investment in Human Dignity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Always Change a Losing Game
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Help you to improve your life by showing you how to make positive, personal changes.
- The Art of AIDS
From Stigma to Conscience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Examines AIDS as an increasingly common theme in drama, dance, music, film,television, painting, photography and theatre. Reveals not only the expected themes of death and dying, but also the issues of spirituality and healing, political and social action, sexuality and responsibility, isolation and community, racism and heterosexism.
- The Art of Indexing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Through a series of short lesson chapters, this reference guides readers through the steps of the indexing process.
- Auto-Determinación para Quién?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- L’autodétermination pour qui ?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The BBS Construction Kit
All the Software and Expert Advice You Need to Start Your Own BBS Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Beyond Wordprocessing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Bhopal: The Inside Story
Carbide Workers Speak Out on the World's Worst Industrial Disaster
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
An account of the disaster in Bhopal, India.
- Bloody Victory
Canadians and the D-Day Campaign 1944
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Body
Photographs of the Human Form
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Canadian Film-Makers' Distribution Centre
A Founding Memoir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Published in Canadian Journal of Film Studies 3.2 (1994)
- The Canadian Guide to Managing the Media
Revised Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Every aspect of media relations is covered including crisis management, handling an interview, planting a story and mastering the tools of the trade (media kits, releases, videos, conferences).
- Canadian Internet Handbook 1994 edition (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Canadian Patients Book of Rights
A Consumer's Guide to Canadian Health Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Charging Peter to Pay Paul
Accounting for the Financial Effects of User Charges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The CIA's Greatest Hits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
- CISPES: Radical, Pragmatic, and Successful
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Van Gosse analyzes the reasons for CISPES' success in developing a fresh and tenacious approach to solidarity work. Originally published in Crossroads Special Issue on El Salvador Solidarity, Spring 1994.
- A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Wetlands and Woodlands
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The City Without Women
A Chronicle Of Internment Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Class Warfare
The Assault on Canada's School
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
- Close to Home
Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Compass
Volume 12 Number 1, March/April 1994 - The Twentieth Century, Part 5
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Computer-Assisted Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Computer-mediated communications (review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- Conscience & Courage
Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Fogelman explores the people who risked their lives and those of their families to help Jews escape the Holocaust.
- Continuing Poundmaker and Riel's Quest
Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
This book focuses on the criminal justice system and outlines self-government as the means for Aboriginal Peoples to achieve justice.
- A Continuing Tradition on Prince Edward Island
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Daydreamer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Children's book about boy who daydreams and has imaginarcy adventures. Reviewed in Guardian 20/11/94.
- Dead Silence
The Greatest Mystery in Arctic Discovery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Disappearnce.
- Demobilization, Demilitarization, and Democratization in Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Democracy Enhancement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Chomsky explores the American goal of spreading democracy to other nations through intervention. His assertions are supported in the second part of the essay with a case study of Haiti.
- Democracy Restored
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
In light of the third anniversary of the military coup that overthrew the elected government of Haiti in 1991, Chomsky exposes the grittier side of America's involvement in the restoration of democracy in Haiti.
- Derailed
The Betrayal of the National Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Developing Canada's Information Highway
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Dream Tower
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Follows the history Rochdale College, a famous experiment in co-operative living and self-directed education in 1960's Toronto.
- Dual Attraction
Understanding Bisexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
800 residents of San Francisco participated in interviews about the nature of bisexual attraction, and how sexual preference can change.
- Earth in Mind
On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Elijah
No Ordinary Hero
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Comeau describes Harper as a reluctant hero moving from band chief to the Manitoba Legislature, to the House of Commons.
- The Encyclopedia of the World.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Eyes
Your personal health series
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Fact or Fraud?
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Faith and Credit
The World Bank's Secular Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
George and Sabelli examine the World Bank’s policies, its internal culture, and the interests it serves. They reveal a supranational, non-democratic, and extremely powerful institution that functions much like the medieval church or a monolithic political party, relying on rigid doctrine, hierarchy, and a rejection of dissenting ideas to perpetuate its influence. Its faith in orthodox economics, the idea of perpetual growth, and the capacity of the market to solve development problems is incompatible with its professed goals of helping the poor and protecting the environment. Faced with these contradictions, the Bank is increasingly struggling to reconcile the roles of commercial lender, policymaker, and great humanitarian.
- Feasible Socialism
The National Health Service, past, present and future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- 50 Years of Bretton Woods Institutions
Enough
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
This is an analysis of the IMF and World Bank's policies since its inception 50 years ago, and resistance campaigns towards them.
- Finding Answers - Review
The Essential Guide to Gathering Information in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
The book that helps you find everything from scholarly research to finding out who put that dent in your fender. See review in Sources Select Resources.
- Finding It on the Internet
The Essential Guide to archie, Veronica, Gopher, WAIS, WWW (Including Mosoai), and Other Search and
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- First-ever cajcar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- First Person Plural
A Community Development Approach to Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Smith provides an account of his experiences and addresses the ways of building an effective and democratic orgranization to bring about social transformation. Useful for those interested in adult education, community development and political action.
- Fishing for Answers in Atlantic Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Fitness Running
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Flack Attack
Public relations is shaping public life in ways we're not supposed to notice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Public relations plays an important role in contemporary US politics. This essay follows the coopted grassroots organizing techniques of PR firms hired by industry lobbyists to undertake counteractivism campaigns. PR men mobilize citizens who may be opposed to new legislation, for example farmers may be opposed to clean air legislation that would impose taxes on small trucks, organize them and coach them to appeal to their congressman.
- 40+ Guide to Fitness
A Physician's Exercise and Sports Program
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Exercise programs to increase strength, aerobic fitness and athletic skills.
- Free To Hate
The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Futures by Design
The Practice of Ecological Planning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- A Gentle Death
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Explores the moral and legal implications of euthanasia. Offers advice on working with doctors and other health-care professionals, dealing with unresolved personal conflicts, involving family members and friends in the decision-making process, and coping with legal realities.
- George Grosz
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Global Dreams
Imperial Corporations and the New World Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
It outlines how governments lose control of their countries' economic development as companies seeking profits fail to re-invest in communities.
- Good Reading
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Gotcha!
How the Media Distort the News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Written by a mainstream journalist/commentator, this book reveals information withheld by media and describes biases and a lack of professionalism.
- The Great Power-Line Coverup
How the Utilities and the Government are Trying to Hide the Cancer Hazrd Posed by Electromagnetic Fields
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Green Trees Beyond
A Memoir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
R.D. Lawrence, a self-taught biologist whose first years of life coincided with the Spanish civil war, and who later became a noted as well as self-taught Canadian biologist.
- Griffin's Castle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Children's book, reviewed in Guardian 20/11/94.
- Guides to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States
An Annotated Bibliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
"Lists more than 2,000 inventories, checklists, and registers of archives.
- Harvest of Devastation
The Industrialization of Agriculture and its Human and Environmental Consequences
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Explains how western farming practices being imposed in other countries harm peasant communities, indigenous cultures, and the ecology.
- Her Head a Village
and Other Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
In her second book of short fiction, Silvera speaks of what it means to be Black, a woman and a lesbian.
- Her Tongue on My Theory
Images, Essays and Fantasies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
This book is a compilation of photos, lesbian sexual fantasies and political/analytical writing about queer culture by a collective of three artists.
- Here's more computing power to you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Describes attacks on science, and on concepts of truth and rationality, in areas of the humanities.
- A Hiking Guide to the National Parks and Historic Sites of Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
A guide to more than 50 hiking trails on the island of Newfoundland. Contains information on the length, difficulty, estimated hiking time, conditions and distinctive features of each trail. Also includes maps, a bibliography, and an index.
- Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
12 volumes
- A History of Canadian Architecture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Distinctive characteristics of Canadian architecture are discussed from native dwellings to present-day structures.
- Houses and Homes
Housing for Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Canadians need access to sound housing in decent neighborhoods, writes author Sewell. And in order to achieve this, all ideoligical freight is to be jettisoned and deliver nothing but the straight goods. One solution is to build diverse neighborhoods and abolish the many building and planning codes that suppress the creation of affordable housing.
- I Won't Learn from You
And Other Inquiries Into the Control and Liberation of Learning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
This collection of essays discusses what takes place when a student's intelligence, dignity, or integrity is compromised.
- If Pigs Could Fly
The Hard Truth About the 'Economic Miracle' that Ruined New Zealand
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
It would be a miracle if pigs could fly. It would be a miracle if the New Zealand economic quick-fix worked. But pigs can't fly. And the New Zealand economic quick-fix doesn't work. Never has. Never will. The only miracle is why anyone believes it does.
- In Conflict with the Law
Women and the Canadian Justice System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Critique of women and the Canadian justice system. Written from a feminist perspective, the collection is organized into three thematic sextions: Federal Imprisonment of Women -- Past, Present and Future; Images and Realities -- Profiles of Women Offenders; and Theoretical Considerations about Women in Conflict with the Law."
- In The Rapids
Navigating the Future of First Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
A collection of speeches by Mercredi with contributions by the Dalhousie law professor who assisted him in 1992 constitutional negotiations.
- Independent Indonesian journalists persecuted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Inside Ottawa Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
The Inside Ottawa Directory: Thumbnail sketches, in photo and text, of the legislative and executive branches.
- Insight and Action
How to Discover and Support a Life of Integrity and Commitment to Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Internet Navigator
The Essential Guide to Network Exploration for the Individual Dial-Up User
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Introduction to Trade-marks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Invention of the White Race
Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
One of the great contributions of Allen's study is a complete debunking of the myth that race and skin colour are the same thing.
- Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
The book concludes that world-scale capitalism may be viable for some time, but its costs (cultural, ecological, increased conflict) will be great.
- An Island Lies Bleeding
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Chomsky criticizes the major powers for their role in Indonesia's assault against East Timor and cites John Pilger's work as the key to heightened awareness of the situation.
- Israel: Politics, Myths and Identity Crises
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Essays dealing with the politics and ideology of Zionism, the sociology of Israel, and politics of ethnicity generally.
- Issumatuq: Learning from the traditional healing wisdom of the Canadian Inuit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- It's Not the Money, It's the Principle
Why User Charges for Some Services and Not Others?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Keeping the Rabble in Line
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
- A Kiss is still a Kiss
Küssen in alten Photographien
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Kister's Best Encyclopedias
A Comparative Guide to General and Specialized Encyclopedias
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Labour Gains, Labour Pains
50 Years of PC 1003
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
This book is comprised of 4 parts: Historical Context, Origins and Evolution of the Fordist Accord, Case Studies, International Comparisons.
- The Language Instinct
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Legacy of the New Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Living with the Lake Erie Shore
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Loving Dominant
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Macmillan World Reference Atlas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
A single-volume reference divided into four sections:
- The World Today
- The Nations of the World
- Global Issues
- Index-Gazetteer
- Made in America
An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
A history of American English.
- Mahatma Gandhi
An Apostle of Applied Human Ecology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Making Money With Multimedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Making Monsters
False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
An exposee of the damage and falsity of recovered-memory therapy.
- Managing Your Documentation Projects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
This practical, compact text demonstrates how to start, maintain, and complete documentation projects in a timely, high-quality fashion.
- The Marxists and the Jewish Question
The History of a Debate 1843 - 1943
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Covers the difficult history of European Marxists' efforts to comprehend what "The Jewish Question" was about. The assumption that Jewish life and religion were a historical anachronism, something that would naturally disappear with the end of their specific economic function in the development of capitalism, also implied that the medieval legacy of Jew-hatred would vanish as well.The possibility of a new and even more virulent, racialist revival of Jew-hatred -- anti-Semitism -- was overlooked by thinkers and parties who envisioned an inevitable evolution toward socialism.
- The Masked Avenger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Super Barrio is a living comic strip character, a masked man who wrestles with evil slumlords and corrupt politicians.
- Menopause & Emotions
Making Sense of your feelings when your feelings make no sense
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
"Looks beyond the physicial side of menopause to the emotional, cultural and developmental aspects."
- Moral Panic
Biopolitics Rising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Biopolitics, politics based on the grievances of sex and race, is said to distort facts especially with respect to violence against women.
- Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires
AIDS in the News Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
"The mass media have played a key role in constructing public understandings of the epidemic. In the majority of instances, HIV-related disease has been presented as a condition affecting social and/or demographic minorities -- groups whose exceptional behaviour has put them at special risk. Yet at the same time, HIV and AIDS are said to threaten us all: be we heterosexual, lesbian or gay, be we young or somewhat older; be we of minority or majority ethnic status."
- Morals and the Media
Ethics in Canadian Journalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Russell focuses on the fundamental moral questions and ethical dilemmas faced by journalists and discusses how the media both reflect and influence society.
- Mortgaging the Earth
The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Rich provides a history of the bank particularly between 1968 and 1981 with respect to a lack of accountability and increased pressure to lend.
- Motherless Daughters
The Legacyt of Loss
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Myth of a Repressed Memory
False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
An expose of the damage and falsity of recovered-memory therapy. Good experimental evidence shows that false memories can easily be implanted.
- Naming for power: Creating successful names for the business world (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The National Health Program Book
A Source Guide for Advocates
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Facts, statistics, and myth-debunking about the Canadian health insurance system and about competing proposals for reform of the U.S. health care system. Part I covers the Economic Context of the Health Care Crisis: Rising Costs, Declining Coverage and Incomes; Part II covers the Impact of the Crisis: Care Denied and Delayed; Part III covers the Social Cost of the American System: Poor Health care Leads to Poor Health. Part IV covers Rationing in the Midst of Plenty. Part V focuses on Exploring the Alternative: Canada's National Health Program. Part VI looks at Why Our System Costs More and Delivers Less: Administrative Waste in U.S. Health Care. Part VII deals with a National Health Program for the U.S.. Part VIII covers Paying for a National Health Program. Part IX looks at President Clinton's Plan: Making Insurance Companies the Feudal Lords of American Medicine. Part X is A Force for Change: Public Opinion on Health Care Reform. Part XI is A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal.
- The Nature of Coyotes
Voce of the Wilderness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Net After Dark
The Underground Guide to the Coolest, the Newest, and the Most Bizarre Hangouts on the Internet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The New Protectionism
Protecting the Future Against Free Trade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
This book analyses the powers behind the free trade argument to present an outline of what a viable and more just future could be.
- On the Take
Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- 1000 Nudes
Uwe Scheid Collection
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Ontario's Amazing Museums
A Guide to Ontario's Most INteresting and Unusual Museums, Archives, Education Centres, and Collecti
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Oooo Baby Baby Ethan Kostynuik
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Orcas, Eagles & Kings
The Natural History of Puget Sound and Georgia Strait
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Organizing Unions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
How to form or build a union. Shows how to strength organizing drives by responding to the concerns of all workers, including women, immigrant workers, people of colour, workers with disabilities, lebians and gay men, and part-time and casual workers.
- Our Generation
Volume 24 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The path to healing: report of the national round table on aboriginal health and social issues (review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Pensando en la Auto-determinación
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Un buen lugar para empezar seria preguntarse si el familiar principio de la Izquierda, "el derecho de auto-determinacion" realmente significa algo o si es otro eslogan vacio cuyo principal uso es que la Izquierda lo puede repetir como mantra y asi salvarse de tener que pensar de manera critica.
- The People vs. Global Capital
The G-7, NTCs, SAPs, and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
This book includes testimony presented to the Tribunal, the text of the Tribunal's indictment, and proposals for follow-up to the event.
- The People Who Bring You Sources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Photoshop 2.5 for Windows
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Pictures of Perfection
A Dalziel/Pascoe Mystery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
- Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
Modern Tales for Our Life & Times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Project Censored Canada
Researching The Nation's News Agenda - 1994 Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Researching under-reported news stories.
- Przemyslenia o samostanowieniu i niepodleglosci
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Public Housing Redesign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
The solution to the specific problems of illegal drug dealing and prostitution is decriminalization.
- Rae Days
The Rise and Follies of the NDP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
An account of Bob Rae's New Democratic Party government in Ontario.
- Réflections sur l'autodétermination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Pour Panitch et ses compagnons l'autodétermination n'a qu'un seul sens: celui de la sécession. Ils disent aux Quebécois: "Vous avez le droit de partir. Alors dépêchez-vous!" Il ne leur passe pas par la tête que les Quebécois peuvent choisir une option différente de celle de la sécession.
- The Reform Party
How to expose and oppose the bigots
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
The Reform Party claims to be a new alternaive. But this so-called party of reform is no alternative at all. And its policies are hardly new. The Reform Party agenda puts profit ahead of social need and will lead to a reversal of hard-won gains made by workers, people of colour, immigrants, Natives, francophones, women, lesbians and gays and other oppressed groups.
- The Remarkable Tenacity of User Charges
A Concise History of the Participation, Positions and Rationales of Canadian Interest Groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Review of three books about Heidegger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Rogue Primate
An Exploration of Human Domestication
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
The first domesticated animal, according to Livingston, was neither dog nor goat, but human. Humans cut themselves adrift from the rest of the world by becoming entirely dependent on ideas. Technical ideas gave them the power to manipulate nature as well as a rationalization for their destructiveness. Now humans have drawn other animals, and even the natural world itself, into the service of their belief systems. Even our understanding of nature is informed by an ideological insistence that domination is somehow 'natural'.
- Running an Effective Help Desk
Planning Implementing, Advertising, Automating, Improving, Outsourcing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
This manual presents strategies and tactics enabling Help Desks to add value to their enterprise.
- Rural Routes
Exploring the Back Roads of Saugeen Country
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Secret of Roan Inish
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian.
- Self-Determination for Whom?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Pierre Bourgault could set us an example by speaking out himself in support of the right of self-determination for all the people of Quebec, including those who don't want to be part of an independent Quebec.
- Sex in Schools
Canadian Education & Sexual Regulation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
With an introduction by Susan Prentice, this anthology provides insights into how Canadian schools have sought to regulate and discipline sexuality.
- The Sixties
From Memory to History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Socialist Register 1994
Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Sources Staff They Are Changin', 1994 sees more changes.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Spotlight on Lobbyists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- A starter kit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Die Stille der Steine
Warschau im November 1944
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Stones from the River
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Strong Medicine
How to Save Canada's Health Care System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
The authors make comparisons of health care between the United States and Canada and argue that changes must be made to Canada's health care system so services can be accessible to the public.
- Subject Index Headings: it's the Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Take Care
Warning Signals for Canada's Health System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
"Examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particularly women. The voices of hospital workers, relating their own daily experiences in the wards, add a poignant urgency to the crucial question: What kind of health care system will Canadians inherit in the twenty-first century?"
- They Do Things Differently There
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Children's book about two girls who are bored with the town they live in and make up their own alternative world.
- Thinking About Self-Determination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
- Thinking English Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Thinking Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism and Non-volence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Traditional Peoples Today
Continuity and Change in the Modern World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Volume 5 of The Illustrated History of Humankind. Essays on the peoples and cultures of existing traditional societies.
- Understanding Desktop Color
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Unruly Women
The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Investigates the ways in which women who transgress the social order are disciplined, punished, silenced and confined. Covers material from the witch hunts to contemporary discriminatory treatment of women by the state and its law enforcement agencies.
- User Charges in Health Care
A Bibliography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- User Charges, Snares and Delusions
Another Look at the Literature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Volcano Days
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Brian Johnson's semi-fictional novel based on his experience (nervous breakdown, etc.) at the time he was a labour reporter on the Montreal Gazette and a member of the Revolutionary Marxist Group.
- The War Against the Greens
The "Wise Use" Movement, the New Right, and Anti-environmental Violence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The War Within
America's Battle over Vietnam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Web of Hate
Inside Canada's Far Right Network
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Kinsella asserts that some 40 groups are more dangerous than commonly perceived because of their violence and aggressive recruitment.
- When in Doubt, Do Both
The Times of My Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Macpherson chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1967.
- When Older is Wiser
A Guide to Health Care Decisions for Older Adults and Their Families
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Who Are the Zombie Masters and What Do They Want?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The Whole Internet User's Guide And Catalog (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Word 6 for Windows Visiref
The Visual Quick Reference
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- World Orders Old and New
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
- Years of Glory 1942-1967
The National Hockey League's Official Book of the Six-Team Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- Coalitions for Justice
The Story of Canada's Interchurch Coalitions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Published: 1994
- The "Date Rape" Issue: Feminist Hysteria, Anti-Sex Witchhunt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 2014
The anti-sex frenzy springs from the agenda of the religious right. Espousing an ideology supposed to have something to do with women's rights, the feminists might be expected to oppose this witchhunt. Instead, there is a convergence between feminism and religious reaction in support of moralist repression. This is particularly evident in the "date rape" frenzy on the campuses which has recently grabbed headlines across the nation and the world. Egged on by feminist witchhunters, "politically correct" sex on campus serves the war on privacy by whitewashing the intrusion of the campus administration and the cops into students' personal business as "protecting women" and "stopping rape."
- The London Hanged
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 2006
History and examination of how punishment and crime changed to reflect the changes taking place in society itself.
- Chambers Dictionary of World History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 2005
- Ontario Place Names
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 2004
Updated fourth edition contain 1,540 Ontario place names.
- From the East
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1993
Published: 2003
FROM THE EAST retraces a journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow. It is a voyage Chantal Akerman wanted to make shortly after the collapse of the Soviet bloc "before it was too late," reconstructing her impressions in the manner of a documentary on the border of fiction.
by: Icarus Films
- Marketing Research Made Easy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 2002
- The Oxford Guide to Family History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 2002
Shows how to trace family origins through the basics of research: where to begin, where to find records, how to decipher early styles of handwriting.
- The Explorer's Guide to Algonquin Park
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 2000
- Leading today's volunteers
Motivate and manage your team
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1999
- Leading today's volunteers
Motivate and manage your team
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1999
- Andre Kertesz
Aperture Masters of Photography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1997
- Canadian Christian Sourcebook
The Essential Guide to Canada's Christian Ministries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1997
Christian ministries and resources.
- Tainted Truth
The Manipulation of Fact in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1997
Crossen argues that information is polluted by junk facts disguised as truth. These distortions of truth come from glib pollsters, compliant scientists, self-interested corporations and disingenous activists.
- Different Loving
An exploration of the world of sexual dominance and submission
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1996
Explores and demystifies the worlds of BDSM, sexual power relationships, and fetishism.
- Indigenous Peoples of the World
An Introduction to their Past, Present, and Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1995
Geographer-educator Goehring details indigenous peoples' common experiences around the world. It can be used as a teaching tool.
- Metro Network for Social Justice (MNSJ) newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
Published: 1995
A 1990s non-profit network of organizations committed to promoting social and economic justice in Toronto.
- Blood and Belonging
Journey into the New Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1994
Essays on nationalism in Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Ukraine, Quebec, Kurdistan, and Northern Ireland.
- Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless
All-New Original Cartoons Featuring Dogbert from the Nationally Syndicated Dilbert strip
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1994
- Eight Little Piggies
Reflections in Natural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1994
Essays on natural history.
- The Morning After
Sex, Fear, and Feminism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1994
When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once signaled such strength and courage, now seemed lodged in a foundation of weakness and fear. At Harvard, and later as a graduate student at Princeton, Roiphe saw a thoroughly new phenomenon taking shape on campus: the emergence of a culture captivated by victimization, and of a new bedroom politics in the university, cloaked in outdated assumptions about the way men and women experience sex.
- Shadows on the Wasteland
Crossing Antarctica with Ranulph Fiennes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1994
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 5
November 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Preserving the fruits of yesteryear: rescuing old species of apples
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Most of the varieties our grandparents cherished have already been lost. A dedicated band of growers wants to rescue what remains.
- Skywatching
A passion for clouds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Arjen and Jerrine Verkaik share one of the world's rarer occupations. They chase clouds, by car and aircraft, furiiously photographing and jotting notes, adding to their collection of hundreds of thousands of images of the sky.
- Ecofeminism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
The authors argue that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes constitute a direct threat to everyday life, the maintenance of which has been made the particular responsibility of women. In both industrialized societies and developing countries, the new wars the world is experiencing, violent ethnic chauvinisms and the malfunctioning of the economy also pose urgent questions for ecofeminists. Is there a relationship between patriarchal oppression and the destruction of nature in the name of profit and progress? How can women counter the violence inherent in these processes? Should they look to a link between the women's movement and other social movements?
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 4
October 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 3
July 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Just Say Yes: The Coaltion for Positive Sexuality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Sex education that is unapologetically pro-sex, pro-lesbian and gay, pro-woman, and pro-choice.
- Loud and clear
From emergencies to chit-chat, amateur radio spans the globe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- A modern Noah's Ark
Montreal's Biodome recreates four ecosystems under one roof
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- ADL's Massive Spy Operation
Zionist Fingermen for Apartheid, Salvador Death Squads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 3
June 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party
A Revolutionary Marxist Analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A talk recounting the beginnings and tragic end of the Black Panther Power, a radical black power movement and political organization.
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 2
May 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- What is an organizer?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Discusses the organizer's role in democratic organizations.
- Burnt bridges and a generation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A first person account of the struggle the children of immigrants face in communicating with their grandparents across a language barrier.
- Lives of Short Duration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
The Terris are engaging people, but they are a family in collapse. Alcoholism, drugs, and loveless sex have reduced them to a petty and wasted bunch. Worse, they typify aspects of the larger community besieged by financial woes and by creeping economic and cultural Americanization.
What David Adams Richards accomplishes is no mean feat: his characters are at times vicious, sleazy, and even outright dim, yet he manages to entitle them to the interest and sympathy of the reader.
- Songs of the British Labour: Lyrical Protest and Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Despite their feelings of distress, their portrayals of discontent and their retelling of daily drudgery experienced by the British working class, these songs of labour which cannot elbow into the circle of high works of art, belong to another sphere of literature: that of political propaganda.
- Compass
A Jesuit Journal - March/April 1993 - The Dirty Thirties
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 1
March 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Catering to Cows' Sociability
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Organic dairy farming involves putting cows out to pasture. This provides better quality feed at half the cost of silage, reduced vet bills, and longer productive lifespans.
- The Activist's Almanac
The Concerned Citizen's Guide to the Leading Advocacy Organizations in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Alex in Wonderland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- All Aboard the NIMBI
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
This floating classroom teaches passengers about the Great Lakes environment.
- Alternate Societies
A brief survey on intentional community in European history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A brief outline of the history of attempts in western society to create living arrangements which would complement, and in some cases further, efforts to become economically independent.
- And the Band Played On
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
- Approaching Zero
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Arctic Adaptations
Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Authority
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Social philospher Richard Sennett has written a book that looks at the cycles of rebellion and surrender both in our public and our private lives. He examines the structures of power and the notion of an "authority crisis". He believes the push and pull between management and labour is inevitable and enduring. He feels that for people to become free we need to give up our false notions of autonomy (the worker) and also the equally false notion of benevolence (the manager). By doing so we will make authority visible and make it the first step toward freedom.
- Bakunin
The Philosophy of Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
An attempt to portray Bakunin's political theories in a coherent manner.
- The Baltic Revolution
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A history of Estonian, Latvia and Lithuania, from their "creation" in the 19th century, to their successful runs for independence in 1990.
- The Best Of Granta Reportage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Beyond Beef
The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
By consuming thousands of acres of North American grain, "cattle production and beef consumption now rank among the gravest threats to the future well-being of the Earth".
- Blood Sympathy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Bordering On Aggression
Evidence of U.S. Military Preparations Against Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Boundaries of Home
Mapping for Local Empowerment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Bringing Life to Artificial Ponds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The British New Left
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Business Information Sources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- By Life's Grace
Musing on the Essence of Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Canada Firsts Ralph Nader's Salute to Canada and Canadian Achievement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Canada Remapped
How the Partition of Quebec Will Reshape the Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Explores what might happen in the event of a decision by Quebec to separate from Canada.
- Canadian Dreams
The Making And Marketing Of Independent Films
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Canadian Family Health Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Engel emphasizes preventive medicine and consumers' understanding of medical issues through consultation with the University's Faculty of Medicine.
- The Canadian Global Almanac (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Canadian guide to working and living overseas (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Canadian Socialism
Essays on the CCF and the NDP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Canadian War Posters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
"The poster art that galvanized a young nation to action during two World Wars." 48 full-colour and 93 black and white posters.
- Card Tricks
Bankers, Boomers and the Explosion of Plastic Credit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Catalog of Dictionaries, Word Books, and Philological Texts, 1440-1900
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Censored! The news that didn't make the news-and why (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Chronicles of Dissent
Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Circles of Strength
Community Alternatives to Alienation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Forsey, an activist and writer who works with the Federation of Egalitarian Communites has put together a collection of essays, and interviews with First Nations, religious orders and rural intentional communities giving their views and experiences as communities.
- Clearcut
The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Closed Circle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Thirties conspiracy thriller. Con man discovers capitalist intrigue.
- Collectively Defending Democracy in a World of SovereignStates
The Western Hemisphere Prospect
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Commoners
Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Commoners challenges the view that England had no peasantry or that it had disappeared before industrialization: rather it shows that common right and petty landholding shaped social relations in English villages, and that their loss at enclosure sharpened social antagonisms and imprinted on popular culture a pervasive sense of loss.
- The Complete Canadian Health Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Confronting Environmental Racism
Voices from the Grassroots
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Consider the Nation and other sacred cows of the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Groups of people who share whatever it is that makes a nation don't always live in neat spatial clusters, with a given territory containing all those people who are alike and none who are different. Cultures are rarely if ever stable enough to become pure and coterminous with geographical territories.
- The Consulting Game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Environmental consultants walk a tightrope between the demands of their clients and the public's expectation of scientific integrity. Who evaluates their performance?
- Cracking the Armour
Power, Pain and the lives of Men
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
The founder of the White Ribbon Campaign discusses redefining what it means to be a man while working towards social change.
- Creating Community Anywhere
Finding Support in a Fragmented World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Culture of Complaint
The Fraying of America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
- Data Access (review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Deadly Illusions
The KGB Orlov Dossier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Democracy in Small Groups
Participation, Decision Making and Communication
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Directory Resources: Third World Guide 93/94
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Discussion Paper: Searching for Fairness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
An overview of some of the issues being addressed by the Fair Tax Commission. Looks at some of the implications of the fairness issues that have been raised, and at the issues that arise in translating principles of fairness into policy. Included are sections on property taxes, personal income tax, sales tax, benefits taxes, wealth taxes, corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, resource taxation.
- Don't Blame the Medicine
Use the Drug Expert Pharmacist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Draining Canada Dry
The Continental Thirst for Canada's Water
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
The authors examine Canada's water policies and their socio-economic impact on North America.
- The Dying of the Light
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Dying of the Light
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
This is a whodunit-mystery novel. The detective investigates poisonings at a retirement home run by a monstrous duo.
- The Earth Science Book
Activities for Kids
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Activities that explain basic Earth science facts and important environmental issues. Using simple materials found around the house or in the neighbourhood, these activities are designed to teach children about the planet Earth, its composition and atmosphere, life on Earth, and much more.
- Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Empathic Parenting
Volume 15 Issues 3 & 4 1992; Volume 16 Issues 1,2,3 & 4 1993 - Crime Prevention issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Fair Taxation in a Changing World: Highlights
Report of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- False God
How the Globalization Myth has Impoverished Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Laxer argues that the neoconservative economic agenda is folly, and that the United States is caught in a downward spiral of limited government power and widening social divisions. He demonstrates that continued free trade with the United States will doom Canada economically, socially, and poolitically.
- The Fight for Canada
Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
- Finding Answers
The Essential Guide to Gathering Information in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Outlines the essentials of how to find and use information.
- The Fine Art of Billboard Improvement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Change people's perception of an ad, and they'll never see that product in the same light again.
- Firing The Heather
The Life and Times of Nellie McClung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
This is the story of Nellie McClung, Canada's leading figure in the early women's rights movements. She fought for the right for women not just to be recognized as persons but as also to work outside the home and for equal pay.
- Flooding
Canada Water Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- For he's a jolly good Southam Fellow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- For the Sake of Argument
Essays and Minority Reports
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Fox Pro 2.5
Developing Full-Scale Applications for Windows
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Fox Pro 2.5
Developing Full-Scale Applications for Windows
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- From Land to Mouth: Understanding the Food System
Second helping
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
An analysis of the industrial capitalist food system.
- From The East
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Also known as: D'Est (1993). A look at life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union. FROM THE EAST retraces a journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow. It is a voyage Chantal Akerman wanted to make shortly after the collapse of the Soviet bloc "before it was too late," reconstructing her impressions in the manner of a documentary on the border of fiction.
- The Gaia Atlas of Cities
New Directions for Sustainable Urban Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Gedenkstatte Deutscher Widerstand
Exhbition Resistance to National Socialsim
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A thorough and chronological account of the many forms of resistance to Nazism in Germany.
- George Platt Lynes: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Global Visions
Beyond the News World Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
- Grace
The Life of Grace MacInnis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Green Technologies for Development
Transfer, Trade and Cooperation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Greenhouse Effect
Ethics and Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Guerrilla P.R.
How You Can Wage an Effective Publicity Campaign...Without Going Broke
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Guide to Periodicals and Newspapers
In the Public Libraries of Metropolitan Toronto 1992/1993
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Hiking Ontario's Heartland
Including Southwestern Ontario, Burce-Georgian Bay, Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, the Near North
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Historical Atlas of Canada - Volume II: The Land Transformed 1800-1891
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- A History of Warfare
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Human Rights, Democracy and "Good Governance"
Stretching the World Bank's Policy Frontiers
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- If I Had a Hammer
The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Importance of Freedom of Association for Human Rights NGOs
Defending Human Rights Defenders
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- In the Time of the Angry Queen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A novel about an artist and chess enthusiast.
- Introducing Dean Tudor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
- Justice or `Just Us'?
Rethinking Canda's economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A crucial 1993 film looking at the 1990 standoff in Oka, Quebec. Obomsawin's goal is to explain the perspective of the Mohawk community involved in the conflict.
- Killer Nach Leipzig
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Krug Brothers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Last Codfish
Life and Death of the Newfoundland Way of Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Leading Workshops, Seminars, and Training Sessions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Linda Jane Zwicker, in Memoriam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Literary Images of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Literature as Pulpit
The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Look Before You Leap
Market Research Made Easy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Lore
Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
This work is a collection of case studies of aboriginal and non-aboroginal research about traditonal environmental knowledge, from projects in the South Pacific, the African Sahel, northern Thailand and Canada.
- Madison Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Published in Radical History Review, 57 (1993)
- Magic or Medicine?
An Investigation of Healing & Healers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Making of Europe
Conquest, Colonisation and Cultural Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Part 1: Thought Control in a Democratic Society. Part 2: Activating Dissent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Mini-Listing Small But Mighty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- More Toronto Sketches
The Way We Were
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Myth of Free Trade
A Plan For America's Economic Revival
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Myth of Male Power
Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Farrell's blunt manner breaks through the sterotypical white middle-class conventions of victim-obsessed sentimentality that has paralyzed mainstream feminism. He forces us to see our everyday world from a fresh perspective. Farrell feels the political agenda of the feminist movement has been hijacked by a quarter century of "male bashing". He calls for an end to the blame game and a new stress on on personal responsibility, social maturity and self enlightenment. He is one of the voices urging a critique and reform of current feminism in order to strengthen it for the 21st century.
- The Nazis and Deconstruction: Jean-Pierre Faye's Demolition of Derrida
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A review of Jean-Pierre Faye's book 'La raison narrative', which traces the Nazi origins of deconstructionist and post-modernist concepts and terminology. Faye shows, for example, that the concept of 'deconstruction' was introduced in a Nazi journal edited by M.H. Goering, and he shows how theorists who based themselves on Heidegger's writings, such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Lacoue-Labarthe, whitewashed Heidegger's Nazism, treating it as a mere 'detail'.
- New Planning for Ontario
Final Report Summary and Recommendations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- On the Edge
A Journey into the Heart of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- On The Land
Essays and Images
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A collection of essays and visual images about the changes in land use in Grey County.
- On the Safe Edge
A Manual for SM Play
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A handbook on safe practices in S&M play.
- Ontario's Prairie Heritage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- People of Terra Nullius
Betrayal and Rebirth in Aboriginal Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Perpetrators Victims Bystanders
The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933-1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Hilberg explores the human element involved in the Holocaust.
- Political Ideology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Political Protest & Cultural Revolution
Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
From her perspective as both participant and observer, Barbara Epstein examines the nonviolent direct action movement which, inspired by the civil rights movement, flourished in the United States from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties.
- The Politics of Individualism
Liberalism, Liberal Feminism and Anarchism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
An examination of the similarities and differences between liberalism, anarchism and feminism.
- A Price Below Rubies, Jewish Woman As Rebels and Radicals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A tour of radical thought and movements in Europe from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, refracted though the lives of a series of remarkable, courageous women.
- Profits of War
Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Project Censored Canada established as America's Censored Newsletter dies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Pronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Mystery novel; try one of 30 he has written.
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
- Publisher's Newsletter: Wake up and smell the 21st century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
Better Living with Less Traffic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Cars destroy the environment; people should embrace alternative modes of transportation like bycycling and walking to make urban areas safer and enviromentally sound.
- The Republic of Whores
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Resources of International Permaculture
A Directory of Groups Working for Sustainable Habitation of the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
The Resouces of International Permaculture provides users with one means to directly contact with groups working toward sustainability in many of its aspects.
- Rethinking Camelot
JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
- Rituals Of Failure
What Schools Really Teach
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Contenta writes that there is a hidden curriculum of passiveness in today's schools in Canada; instead of making students critical thinkers, the not-so smart students are made to feel they are just being prepared for the workforce.
- Safety Last
The Failure of the Consumer Health Protection System in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Regush investigates how new medical devices and drugs are tested. He argues that the health protection bureaucracy is doing shoddy work, caving in to pressure from pharmaceutical corporations instead of acting to safeguard the health of Canadians.
- Der Schatten des Anderen
Krimis fur Kenner
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- School's Out
The Catastrophe in Public Education And What We Can Do About It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Science Citation Index (review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Search
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Mystery woman asks Walker to look for her husband. Walker a prisoner of the job he's taken on.
- Secret and Sanctioned
Covert Operations and the American Presidency
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Knott presents a study of U.S. clandestine operations extending back to the American Revolution, and similar to those of the Cold War.
- Secrets of the Super Searchers
The Accumulated Wsidom of 23 of the World's Top Online Searchers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Insights and strategies from top search professionals explaining how they manage their search operations, decide what questions to ask, and know when to stop searching.
- The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell
Volume 1: The Private Years (1884-1914)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
These letters tell the early life of Bertrand Russell. This was the private Russell. It marks the coming of maturity of the young intellectual.
- Sensuous Magic
A Guide for Adventurous Couples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A peek behind the mask of dominant/submissive sexuality: an adventurous adult world of pleasure often obscured by ignorance and fear. Califia demystifies the scene for the novice, explaining the terms and techniques behind many misunderstood sexual practices.
- The Seventh Fire
The Struggle for Aboriginal Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Seventh Fire
The Struggle for Aboriginal Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Describes the struggles of aboriginal people to run their own affairs.
- Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Shape of the City
Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
John Sewell traces in urban planning from pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a revival of interest in the streetscape grid.
- Shoot the Women First
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Silver Scalpel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Sisters and Solidarity
Women and Unions in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Sleeping On A Wire
Connversations with Palestinians in Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Snapshot
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A Carlotta Carlyle novel.
- The Social History of The Machine Gun
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Covers the history of the machine gun's development, the attitudes that effected its acceptance, and its relation to economic, political, and military history.
- Social Science Citation Index (review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Socialist Register 1993
Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Some Lives
A GP's East End
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
The author, a Marxist and a doctor, writes about the patients he treated in Canary Wharf - a community in East London plagued by poverty and crime.
- Sources Select Resources: Introduction (S32)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Spectre of Capitalism
The Future of the World Economy After the Fall of Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Still Black, Still Strong
Survivors of the War Against Black Revolutionaries: Dhoruba Bin Wahad; Mumia Abu-Jamal; Assata Shakur
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Struggle for Social Justice in B.C.
Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
The biography of Helena Guttteridge, who worked for women's rights and worker's rights from the period just before the start of the First World War until the late 1930's.
- A Surplus of Memory
Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
The story of the Jewish resistances uprising against the German Army's attack on the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943-44. As much as any other individual, the organizing force and embodiment of the spirit of defiance of the Jewish Army was Yitzhak Zuckerman, code name "Antek."
- Surviving As Indians
The Challenge Of Self-Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Boldt argues that Canadian Indian nations should pursue the goal of self-government by breaking away from the the courts and constitutional processes, and campaign for human rights.
- Taking Action
Working Together for Positive Change in Your Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Taking Action is a guide for people who do not think of themselves as activists, yet want to make positive changes in their community.
- Talking Fair Taxes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Targeting the Public Sector
Public Services and Government Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility 1992-1993 Annual Report
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Things that Make us Smart
Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of the Machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- This March Forward to a Geniune People's Party?
Rivalry and Deception in the Founding of the Ontario NDP, 1958-61
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Published in Canadian Historical Review, 74.1 (March 1993)
- Ties That Bind
The SM/Leather/Fetish Erotic Style: Issues, Commentaries, and Advice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Tough-Minded Management
A guide for managers who are too nice for their own good
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Tough-Minded Management
A guide for managers who are too nice for their own good
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Toxic Struggles
The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Track Of The Cat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Training For What
Labour Perspectives on Skill Training
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Traitor And The Jew
Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- 20 Things You Can Do To Defeat Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Varnished Truth
Truth Telling and Deceiving in Ordinary Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Victory at Second Marsh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
How a group of "duck lovers" waged a 30-year war for a wetland.
- Walking through the Valley
An Autobiography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Wasting Away
The Undermining of Canada's Health Care System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Reform has led to lower quality, diminishing employee rights, and more unpaid work for women in the home.
- The Way We Word
Musing on the Meaning of Everyday English
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- The Wealthy Banker's Wife
The Assault on Equality in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
- Who Gains From the Deficit?
The Contribution of Unfair Taxation and High Interest Rates to the Debt Problem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Who Will Tell The People
The Betrayal Of American Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
An exploration of the undermining of U.S. democracy, starting with the basic issues of who gets heard, who gets ignored, and why.
- Why does the CBC invariably turn to American experts to explain any issue?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Based on what we hear on the CBC, we can only assume that there is an internal policy manual which mandates that all discussions on issues of more than strictly local importance must include at least one American expert.
- Why Not User Charges?
The Real Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Why Not User Fees?
The Real Issues
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Why You Don't Need Meat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
This is a new edition of Cox's book indicting Britain's meat industry.
- Words Fail Us
Good English and Other Lost Causes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Words that count women in (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Words that Count Women In - Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
Review of Words that Count Women In. A guide to eliminating gender bias in writing and speech.
- Workers in Industrial America
Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Working Harder Isn't Working
A Detailed Plan for Implementing a Four-day Workweek in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
O'Hara details how the overworked can job share with the unemployed for economic, social, and psychological benefits for all.
- Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
- You Can't Give it Away: Donating Land for Conservation Can be a Taxing Experience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
- Cracking The Food Chain
Shut out by supermarkets, farmers fertilize direct links between the field and the kitchen table
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published: 1993
A survey of the challenges faced by farmers seeking to market for their organic produce.
- Bioregional Congress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1992
Published: 2015
Documentary about American Indian activist, Leonard Peltier. His story is told within the context of the American Indian Movement, the US federal government, and the multinational companies interested in mining the land in South Dakota.
- How to Watch TV News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 2008
- Butterbox Babies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 2006
The story of the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester, Nova Scotia, revealing stories of abuse, illegal adoptions, and deaths.
- Dancing With A Ghost
Exploring Aboriginal Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 2006
Ross examines the differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal world views as it relates to culture, justice and values.
- Beyond Capital (Second Edition)
Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 2003
A completely reworked edition of his work, Michael Lebowitz's Beyond Capital explores one of the great debates among Marx scholars, that of the implications of Marx's uncompleted works. Lebowitz focuses on the side of the workers, which, he argues, was not developed in Marx's Das Kapital and which was to be the subject of Marx's intended book on wage-labour. Beyond Capital argues that Marx's political economy of the working class and the way in which human beings produce themselves through their struggles are central for going beyond capital.
- Spunk Library
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1992
Published: 2002
The Spunk Library featured literature with an emphasis on anarchism and related issues. The content has not been updated since 2002, but the materials assembled to that point are still perserved online.
There is an archive/mirror site at http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/SpunkArchive/index.html
- The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1999
Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
- Toward Sustainable Communities
Resources for Citizens and their Governments
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1998
The way our urban communities develop will largely determine our success or failure in overcoming environmental challenges and achieving sustainable development. Toward Sustainable Communities offer practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems.
- Reise durch Italien
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1997
- Bild Atlas Elsass
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1996
- Canadian Representatives Abroad
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1996
Canadian Representatives Abroad lists international cities with Canadian Representation, Canadian Representatives Abroad, International Organizations and Name/Location lists of Officers.
- SM 101
A Realistic Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1996
- In the Tiger's Mouth
An empowerment guide for social action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1994
Information for ordinary people to become activists for social change.
- The People's Chronology
A Year-by-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1994
- Customs in Common
Studies in Traditional Popular Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1993
The companion to E.P. Thompson's landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class, Customs in Common describes the complex culture from which working-class institutions emerged in England — a panoply of traditions and customs that the new working class fought to preserve well into Victorian times. Thompson investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century.
- The Ice House
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1993
- A New and Better Canada
Principles and Policies of a New Canadian Political Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1993
Hurtig calls for a new political party committed to sweeping political reform and plans to put Canadians back to work.
- Quelling The People
The Military Suppression of The Beijing Democracy Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1993
The author examines what happened on June 3, 1989 when students protested in Tiananmen Square.
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 5
December 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Breaking Faith
The Mulroney legacy of deceit, destruction and disunity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Brooke Jeffrey analyzes the record of Brian Mulroney government and finds it severely wanting.
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 4
November 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Zealots for Zion
Inside Israel's West Bank Settlement Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A review of the fundamentalist Zionism that permeates the Israeli settler culture and the that of Americans who abet them.
- Reflections on the Canadian Left Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A letter detailing some of the problems the author thinks the Canadian Left has been suffering from over the last three years.
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 3
September 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960
The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of the American national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents.
- A hell of a place for France's forbidden books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
On the forbidden books department of France's national library.
- The Inner Light
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5 Episode 25
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) is struck with an energy beam from an alien probe. While minutes pass for the rest of the crew, Picard experiences 40 years as Kamin, a humanoid scientist whose planet is threatened by the nova of its sun.
- Our Generation
Volume 23 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 2
May 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Freedom of Expression in the Muslim World
A Comparative Legal Study of Blasphemy and Subversive Speech in International Human Rights Law and the Laws of the Muslim world
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Kick It Over #28
Spring 92
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Articles on Indigenous Peoples' Conference, Male Violence, the Population Myth, Prisons, and Reading the Comics.
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 1
April 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- BC's green accords
The Tin Wis Coalition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Environmentalists, aboriginal people and loggers have made encouraging progress in British Columbia in united to defend the environment.
- Solidarity in a New Key
The reflections of a bespectacled solidarity supporter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
What does liberation mean? By what actions should we pursue it? In what kinds of alliances should activists for liberation join? This article intends to address these questions in a South African context. Changing words reflect changing times, so what does solidarity now mean?
- Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed.
- Borderline Case
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The bizarre trial of Dr. James Tyhurst on charges of sadism and sexual abuse revealed that in the practice of psychiatry little is certain, and in the courts even less.
- Hanging On: Native media are surviving
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Native media are struggling to survice.
- The Junk Food Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Young people entering the workforce face a junk food economy.
- Libel Law is dangerous
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Libel laws threaten freedom of speech.
- Moscow Gangsters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A conversation with Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian social activist.
- Privatization: Fiction Versus Fact
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The corporate sector is the big winner from privatization.
- Social Teaching Incarnate at ICI
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
From economic grassroots organizations, Latin Americans of every creed, race and colour gather under the one ICI roof for three month periods of intensive sharing and learning. Community and society problems are examined and their causes analyzed from a Latin American perspective.
- We're Winning -- Don't Ask Where!
Roll Over George Orwell, And Give Goebbels the News!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- German guards convicted of killing escaper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Two former East German border guards were convicted of killing a person who attempted to escape over the wall. This will open the floodgates for similar trials as two hundred were killed trying to escape under the East German shoot to kill policy.
- The Acadians of Nova Scotia Past and Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A study of Acadian history from the earliest days of French settlement to present-day Acadian communities.
- Aid Cut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Not only is our government incapable of appreciating the Nordic and EC point of view, it evens refuses to be honest about aid program: lying about aid cuts, saying one thing about development and doing something else in the field.
- Aircraft pollution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Akweks Funds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- All-terrain vehicles kill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- An Alternative Federal Budget
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- American Holocaust
Columbus and the Conquest of the New World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
For four hundred years -- from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s -- the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere may have declined by as many as 100 million people.
- Animal Crackers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Animal Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Anti-nuclear campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Antonio Gaudi: Modernismo in Barcelona
30 Postcards
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Asking The Earth
The Spread of Unsustainable Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Periera and Seabrock, using examples from India, argue that Western colonialism destroyed sustainable development in the Third World.
- Attacks on the press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Auto Free Cities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Bailando con la culpa: Los hombres hablando de la violencia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Bedside Guardian 41
A selection from The Guardian 1991-92
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Bertrand Russell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A biography of Bertrand Russell.
- Best Combo of Tech, Folk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Beyond Interdependence
The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Beyond the Limits
Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Big Boys Rules
The Secret Struggle Against the IRA, 1976-87
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The author, a defence specialist, researched the SAS's operations in Northern Ireland from the mid-seventies to the Loughgall shooting in 1987.
- Big game hunters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Big increases for civil service managers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Birder Extraordinaire
The life and legacy of James L. Baillie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A biography of the naturalist Jim Ballie.
- Black Dogs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Book on activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Boundaries of Identity
A Quebec Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Bridges of Madison County
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Building Economic Alternatives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Moffatt outlines many currently practiced methods of creating an alternative economy.
- Bulletin Board Systems for Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Bush's leadership praised
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Business Connections
Canada's Business Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Canada's most comprehensive communications directory.
- The Cabot Trail 1932-1992
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Can we save the cities?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Canada's Social Economy
Co-Operatives, Non-Profits, and Other Community Enterprises
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Canadian Book of Charities
The Guide to Intelligent Giving
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Canadian firms losing out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Canadian Guide To Working and Living Overseas
For Entry Level and Seasoned Professionals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
This work profiles 700 employers in government, the private sector,voluntary and international organizations for people who want to work in the Third World.
- The Canadian Guide to Working and Living Overseas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- A Canoeist's Sketchbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Case for Phasing Out Organohalogens
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- CBC archives decaying
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Changing Men: Sex and Sexuality issue, Summer-Fall 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Feature issue on Sexuality.
- Changing times = new organizations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Changing Workplace
Reshaping Canada's Industrial Relations System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Describes how business, labour and government have organized the production of goods and services in Canada since 1945. Focusing on the industrial relations system and how it works, the authors call for fresh thinking on the economy and offer proposals for the reorganization of production.
- Child Victims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Children and Peacemaking
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A guide for parents and teachers interested in cultivating a peacemaking approach in children. Provides references to resources for children, parents and teachers to help develop a constructive attitude to societal problems.
- "Citizens Coalition" loses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Civil liberties body condemns sign law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Climates of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Coal in Our Blood
200 Years of coal mining in Nova Scotia's Pictou County
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
An account of the coal mining community of Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
- Common Ground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Co-op housing under attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Costly postal strikes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Creating Customers
An Action Plan for Maximizing Sales, Promotion and Publicity for the the Small Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Crisis of Color and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Essays attacking racist sterotypes and cynical arguments which America's national leaders use to obscure both the roots of today's social problems and their solutions.
- Crystal Anniversary, time for spectrum of reflections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- CUPE sues to stop CBC cuts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Cycling Around The Sound
Eighteen Bicycle Tours In and Around Owen Sound
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Dangerous drugs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Defending the Left
An Individual's Guide to Fighting for Social Justice, Individual Rights, and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Door opened to U.S. wheat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Drug testing case
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Drugs Myth
Why the Drug Wars Must Stop
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Coleman presents medical evidence that the most dangerous and life-threatening drugs are legal, while the banned drugs are comparatively harmless.
- Dying for Care
Hospice Care or Euthanasia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Earth
The Making, Shaping, and Workings of a Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Echoes from Labor's War: Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A collection of narrative verse by labour poet and radical Dawn Fraser (1888-1968) which brings to life the years of sharp industrial conflict in Cape Breton in the 1920s.
- Economic Conversion
A Canadian View
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Economic Revolution
Towards a Sustainable Future By Freeing The Economy From Money-Making
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Money making grows at the cost of destroying our social fabirc and resource base and proposes a new economic remedy.
- Education, Cultural Myths and the Ecological Crisis
Toward Deep Changes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Effective Purchasing of Research Services in the Private and Public Sectors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Encyclopedia of Censorship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
- Entrepreneur's Road Map to Business Success
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Environmental Resource Book
1992
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Environmental rights legislation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Erotic Impulse
Honoring the Sensual Self
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Ethical Mutual Funds
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Europe's Green Alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The authors propose a continent of autonomous regions that are economically decentralized, feminist and underpinned by nonviolent social structures.
- Every Living Thing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Ex-POW's sue Japan over atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Facing Our Future
Denial to Environmental Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Farming and Food
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Fisherman sues pulp mills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Vol. 8: 1492-1992
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A collection of poems and essays giving various perspectives on resistance to imperialism and capitalism.
- Flying in the Face of Nature
A Year in the Minsmere Bird Reserve
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The author describes conservation efforts around the world, using the Minsmere bird reserve in Britain as a starting point.
- For Earth's Sake
A Report from the Commission on Developing Countries and Global Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Foreign funding for Canadian political parties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Why are some types of foreign political funding of interest to CSIS, while it ignores the more prevalent types?
- Forests
The Shadow of Civilization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Four Hours in My Lai
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- 1492-1992 -- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Articles critiquing the "Columbus myth, and chronicles the repression of North America's original indigenous inhabitants.
- 1492-1992
Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Relates the European invasion and conquest of the Americas and also tells of the struggles and resistance of the indigenous peoples.
- Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the efforts of both the right and the left to censor speech they don't like. While being sympathetic to those who object to allowing bigots, racists, pornographers, atheists, and others of many stripes the right to lay out ideas that one group or another finds repugnant, he makes both an intellectual and an emotional case for allowing everyone to have their say, no matter how much this may offend some. He points out that suppressing speech doesn't get rid of the underlying thought, but merely drives it underground and gives it the benefit of martyrdom.
- Free Trade Tapes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- French Canadians
An Outsider's Inside Look at Quebec
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- From Policy to Practice
The Future of the Bangladesh National Drug Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
In 1982, Bangladesh became the first country to introduce a National Drug Policy based on such conceptions as primary health care and the need for essential drugs. Ten years later, it had one of the best records in terms of stable drug prices and less dependence on imported products.
- GE boycott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Georgian Bay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Die Geschichte der Kasseler Nordstadt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
- Girls Lean Back Everywhere
The Law Of Obscenity And The Assault On Genius
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
De Grazia, an attorney and defender of First Amendment rights, chronicles the conflict between artistic expression and censorship. Details the struggles of authors, booksellers and publishers.
- Give Peace a Chance
Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement: Essays from the Charles DeBenedetti Memorial Conference
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Global Imperative
Harmonizing Culture and Nature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Global Warming...Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Global Warning...Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- "Granny dumping"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Grasses: An Identification Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Guide to identifying 135 of the most common species of North American grasses, sedges, and rushes, with their economic and ecological importance.
- The Great Reckoning
How the World Will Change in The Depression of the 1990's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Green Car Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Analyses the likely developments emerging to deal with environmental issues, and how vehicle makers and motorists will have to react.
- Green Guide to Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The authors advocate a new form of Tourism in Germany called Sanfter Tourismus which enourages the tourist to respect the environment and use alternative means of transportation which is environmentally sound.
- Green Political Thought
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Greenhouse Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Group wins right to leaflet at airports
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- GST subsidizes U.S. publishers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Gulf Within: Canadian Arabs, Racism & the Gulf War (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Gun Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Gustav Klimt
30 Postcards
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Handling of Oka condemned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Health Care
Conflicting Opinions Tough Decisions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Health News Briefs 1987 - 1991
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A round-up of health care in the news, 1987 - 1991.
- A Healthy Business
World Health and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- High Park
Draft Proposals for Restoration and Managent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- High Society
Legal and Illegal Drugs in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- How
April 1992 - The Bottomline Design Magazine - Special Focus Typography Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Huguenots in America
A Refugee People in New World Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The story of Huguenot exiles and their failure to maintain religious and social distinctiveness in the diaspora.
- Human Ecology
Issues in the North
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Human Rights in Canada
Into the 1990s and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Hundred
Heroes and Villains, Memories and Legends. A Celebration. Toronto Star Centennial Magazine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Hunting in Algonquin Park
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Hydro-Quebec
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Immigrant settlement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Imprinting Our Image
An International Anthology by Women with Disabilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- In Our Backyard
A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide...
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
In Our Backyard focuses on environmental problems that apply directly to Greater Vancouver. With detials on local garbage and recylcing facilities, water and energy consumption, sewage disposal, air quality, and more, it is designed to help ordinary people deal with the onslaught of information and value changes that will continue to surround the environmental movement.
- Inequalities grow in U.S.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Inside Nazi Germany
Conformity, Opposition and Racism in Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The author describes what people's daily lives were like during the Nazi regime.
- International Directory of Archives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- International Historical Statistics: Europe 1750-1988
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- International Sources Abound in new Embassy Row feature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Islands of Hope
Ontario's Parks and Wilderness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
This is a collection of essays, published on the 100th birthday of Algonquin Park and Ontario's provincial park system, arguing for the completion of the provincial parks system.
- Journalists' treatment at Oka criticized
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Keep It Simple
A Defense of the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The author, a novelist, nature photographer, and environmental activist, gives tribute to a simpler life.
- Keepers of the Earth
Native Stories and Environmental Activies for Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Klanwatch
Bringing the Ku Klux Klan to Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Krauts!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Kurdish refugees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Lambert leaves CPA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Landscaping With the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A collection of essays which describe 14 communities using alternative forms of development; to rebuild sustainable communities and environments.
- Last Oasis
Facing Water Scarcity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Postel, of the Worldwatch Institute, explains how water is becoming scarce and resulting conflicts between nations and individuals can be resolved.
- Last Stand
A Riveting Expose of Environmental Pillage and a Lone Journalist's Struggle to Keep Faith
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The author describes his confrontation with big business, examining the clash between nature and consumer society.
- Left Green Notes - August-September 1992
Organizing Bulletin of the Left Green Network
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Lives in the Balance
The Cold War and American Politics, 1945-1991
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Living with the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
- Loon Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Louis Riel
Canadian Historical Association Historical Booklet Number 50
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Love in Black and White
The Triumph of Love Over Prejudice and Taboo
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The story of an interracial marriage.
- Grace MacInnis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Canadian politician and feminist: obituary in the Connexions Digest.
- Madness and Ruin
Politics and Economy in the Neoconservative Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Watkin's book, based on his monthly articles in This Magazine is a scathing attack on the Mulroney government's adoption of neo-conservative economics. With their adoption of Reaganite policies they have cut back on transfer payments to the provinces thus hitting secondary school funding and medicare. They have also linked Canada to the United States with the adoption of the Free Trade Agreement and launched a full scale attack on the welfare state. The NDP is not spared his criticism and is blasted for its "appalling" performance in the free- trade election. It is a poweful jounalistic book that stands up well despite the passage of years.
- Making Trouble
Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Managing by the Numbers
Financial essentials for the growing business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Managing by the Numbers
Financial essentials for the growing business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Manufacturing Consent
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
- Margaret Benston
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
- Maritime Radical
The Life & Times of Roscoe Fillmore
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Anne Mason-Apps
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
- The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on "The Highway of Death"
Excerpted from the book War Crimes: A report on United States war crimes against Iraq
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
I want to give testimony on what are called the "highways of death." These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, who were withdrawing from Kuwait on February 26th and 27th 1991 in compliance with UN resolutions. U.S. planes trapped the long convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic jams for hours. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. pilot. The horror is still there to see.
- Master composters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Mastering the Machine
Poverty, Aid and Technology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Maximum Wage
A Common-Sense Prescription for Revitalizing America---by Taxing the Very Rich
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The author traces the history of attempts to limit incomes and proposes the adoption of a maximum wage to revitalize American economy.
- Men's Work
How to Stop the Violence that Tears Our Lives Apart
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Helps men understand the spectrum of male violence and contains helpful exercises so they can make alternatives to violence.
- Menopause Examined
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Mercury, Silt and Fear
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Michael Lynch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
- Mixed Media Mixed Messages (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Money on the Run
How the World's Dirty Profits are Laundered
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The author describes how money is laundered globally, using interviews with launderers, bag men, middlemen, bankers, and the police.
- The Mysterious Strangers and Other Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Naming Nature
A Seasonal Guide for the Amateur Naturalist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Encouraging people to explore nature, the author describes and names different plants and animals.
- Nation to Nation
Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Native pollution nightmare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The New Bureaucracy
Waste and Folly in the Private Sector
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Hardin shows that the private sector is a huge and wasteful bureaucracy; he looks at major corporations, the stock market, the advertising and marketing industry, consultants, money managers, think tanks, the media, etc.
- New Day in Babylon
The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965 - 1975
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- New Logo Rings in New Era
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- New name for External
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- New tax loophole for the wealthy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- No Place Like Home
Building Sustainable Communities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- No Right-Of-Way
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The author tells the story of a small group of determined agriculturalists and environmentalists who took on industry, government and the courts for the rights of farmers to protect their land and the environment.
- Non-profits get exemption
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Nonviolence for Elfin Spirits
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Ross writes: "The title of this book is meant ot convey two things: all elves should learn to be nonviolent, and some nonviolent people should be elves.
- Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
An explanation of the foundation of recent post-modern theory which also criticises the misogynist and patriarchal work of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard and Jean-Francois Lyotard.
- Now they're going to ruin the economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The geniuses who brought us the constitutional debacle are turning their energies to the economy.
- Nuclear Testing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Obscenity conviction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Occupation of Anicinabe park
The Occupation of Anicinabe Park 1974; Two Interviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
These interviews with Lyle Ironstand and Louis Cameron have been reprinted from Paper Tomahawks: From Red Tape to Red Power by James Burke, published in 1976 by Queenston House Publishing.
- Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
Requiem for a Divided Country
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Old and new sponsors bring PN&N
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- "Ole Boy"
Memoirs of a Canadian Labour leader J.K. Bell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- On Our Own Terms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- One Europe - 100 Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- One Woman Army
The Life of Claire Culhane
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A biography of Claire Culhane, member of the Canadian Communist Party, crusader for prison abolition, and peace activist opposed to the Vietnam war.
- 'Open skies' proceeding
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Opting In?
Improving the 1992 Federal Constitutional Proposals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Organic Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Organizing Dissent
Contemporary Social Movements In Theory and Practice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Our Generation
Volume 23 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Our Generation
Volume 24 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Out In The World
Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Outrageous Campaigners Show Size Isn't Everything
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
OutRage! therefore consciously tries to make its protests informative and amusing. It projects it's political message with wit, style, humour and theatricality. Indeed, a typical OutRage! action could be described as "radical theatre of the streets".
- The Oxford Companion to the English Language
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
An encyclopedia of English everywhere, everytime.
- The Oxford Companion to the English Language
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Ozone depleting quickly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Paradise Won
The Struggle for South Moresby
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Paradox of Plenty
A Social History of Eating in Modern America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Part-time Paradox: Connecting Gender, Work and Family
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Tthe authors discuss whether the over-representation of women in part-time labour is exploitive or liberating. They present interviews and original research to describe the ways in which alternative work forms simultaneously challenge and reinforce traditional gender roles.
- Passion Fish
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Patenting human life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
This reference guide provides definitions of terms, including mathematical and statistical techniques used by the human sciences.
- Perly's 1992
Street Guide Metro Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Phone service
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Politics Of Abortion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Polluter wins tax break
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Porcupine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Postal workers bugged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Postering bylaw
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Power To Us All
Constitution or Social Contract?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Woodcock calls for a true participatory democracy.
- Preston Manning and the Reform Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A profile of Preston Manning and his right-wing agenda.
- Privacy For Sale
How Computerization Has Made Everyone's Private Life an Open Secret
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Prized Possessions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Proclaiming Migrants Rights
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The New International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
- Proposal Preparation
Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
New information includes how to exercise "straight-line control", computer-aided proposal preparation techniques, and a detailed index.
- Protection for Journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Psychotherapist out of touch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Touching and hugging are natural behaviour all over the world among people who like or love each other.
- Putting Power in its Place
Create Community Control!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Essays arguing for the devolution of government and putting forward workdable models, many of them tested in practice, of how we might restructure society to better represent the full diversity of its parts. Watershed stewartship, community forest boards, local currencies, and eco-constitutions are some of the ideas discussed.
- Quebec police shop for tanks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Radio Canada slashed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Raffi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Rape of Canola
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
This book examines the canola seed, the crop and its processing by large transnational corporations.
- Real Life Economics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Reform Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The 'new Canada' that Reform Party leader Preston Manning is proposing is a mean-minded society based on the survival of the fittest. It simply ignores the fact that the majority of Canadians do not play on a level playing field. It is a select few who have the power and the influence.
- Renewable Energy conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The rich get richer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Rising in the West
The True Story of an 'Okie' Family From the Great Depression Through the Reagan Years
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The River of Blood Flows On
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Rivers of Empire
Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A history of the agribusinessmen and engineers who financed and built the system of damns, reservoirs, and canals which transformed the American West from a sparsely inhabited dry region to the site of massive farms and sprawling cities. Worster argues that control of scarce water resources gave rise to a capitalist/bureaucratic elite and to a modern day empire. This elite established and perpetuated itself on the backs of impoverished wage labourers. He criticizes the waste of water for swimming pools, casino fountains, and ill-suited crops like alfalfa, the depletion of aquifers, and the salinization of rivers. Worster points out the vengeance of nature in the form of the sedimentation and collapse of dozens of dams.
- Rubbish
The Architecture Of Garbage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Run of the River
Portraits of Eleven British Columbia Rivers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Mark Hume celebrates eleven B.C. rivers, but also raises questions about the cost of development and the cost of wilderness. Is it possible to have industry -- forestry, smelting, fishing, and even tourism -- and still maintain the rivers and wildlife that support them?
- The Saddled Cow
East Germany's Life and Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
After exclusive interviews with adherents and opponents of the state, the author describes East Germany's recent history.
- The Satanic Verses
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Saving the Oceans
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
This collection of writings from experts from around the world examines how the oceans are necessary to life on Eath, and what is being done by scientists and environmentalists to save them.
- Science spending eroding
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Seeing the Forest Among the Trees
The Case for Wholistic Forest Use
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Selling Earth Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Shades of Right
Nativist and Fascist Politics in Canada, 1920-1940
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Shadows in the Sun
Essays on the Spirit of Place
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Shame, Exposure and Privacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The author defends the individual's need for privacy, presenting healthy shame as a distinguishing mark of humanity.
- Sign Crimes/Road Kill
From Mediascape to Landscape
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
- 600+ New Subject Index Headings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Sleeping Children Awake
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A feature length documentary video outlining the history of the residential school system and its effect on generations of First Nations’ people in Canada.
- Smoke Signals
A Direcotry of American Indian And Alaska Native Business In Indian Country
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Socialism in Crisis?
Canadian Perspectives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Essays addressing questions such as What is the nature of socialism? How do gender and activism determine the socialist agenda? What is the essence of democracy under socialism?
- Socialist Register 1992
Volume 28: New World Order?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Sources boosts Western Mags
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Speak no evil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Still OK to use "Green"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Still Thinking
A Guide to the 1992 Referendum
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Stolen Continents
The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
- Stopping Sexual Harassment
A Handbook for Union and Workplace Activitists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
In this manual ways are discussed to stop sexual harassment in the workplace. It focuses primarily on women in and how they can combat it. Some of the issues discussed include the definition of sexual harassment, common myths about harassment, women of colour and harassment. It discusses what to do about an unhelpful union and urges women to take power in their own locals by organizing, using trade womens' networks and using the law. Other suggestions are writing anti harassment clauses into the collective agreement and having women in union leadership positions.
- Storming Babylon
Preston Manning and The Rise of the Reform Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A portrait of Preson Manning and right-wing Canada's Reform Party.
- The Story of Corn
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Story of English
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Story of Language
The Classic Account by a World-Famous Linguist of Humanity's Most Important Invention
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The author explores the origin and development of language from the first sounds spoken to the many languages used today.
- Struggle For The Land
Indigenous Resistance To Genocide Ecocide And Exproporiation In Contemporary North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Documents the struggle by North America's Indigenous Peoples for values and justice in land claims.
- Taking A Little Ship
A View of the World From A Thrity-Foot Schooner
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Taking Action
A Union Guide To Ending Violence Against Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Talk Talk Talk
An Investigation into the Mystery of Speech
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Ingram explores the many aspects of talking.
- Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility 1991-1992 Annual Report
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Tastes of Paradise
A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A lavishly-illustrated social history of Coffee to Hashish and Opium. It tells the who, what and where of beverage and narcotic consumption.
- Tax reform makes poor poorer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Telefilm Canada frozen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Thatcherism for kids
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Three blind mice (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Throw it in the garbage myself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
I will not have anyone tell me or my children what we can or cannot read.
- Total Juicing
The Complete Guide to Healthful and Delicious Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juices
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The authors explain which juices are suited to different health needs, and include recipes that use the leftover pulp.
- Toward A New Maritimes
A Selection From Ten Years of New Maritimes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A collection of investigative reportage that looks at the historical, economic, cultural, and personal forces at work in the Maritimes.
- Toward Unity Among Environmentalists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Towards Justice in Health
Volume 1, Number 1 - Spring 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Making the links: health and social responsibility.
- Towns for People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.
- Trademark Infringement - NOT!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Trading Freedom
How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work and Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Trails of the Don
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Charles Sauriol recalls Toronto's Don Valley.
- Training for Empowerment
A Kit of Materials for Popular Literacy Workers
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Transfer payments cut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Turn Signals are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Norman looks at design and technology from the point of view of human needs.
- UI premiums up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Un-Canadians
True Stores of the blacklist Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Details the blacklisting which took place in Canada during the Cold War years.
- UNCED '92W
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Unions and Free Trade
Solidarity vs. Competition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
This handbook details the effects of free trade on workers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It argues that solidarity, not competition, is the only long-term strategy for unions. It includes case studies of unions that are creating cross-border ties.
- Unreliable Sources
A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
- Upstairs in the Crazy House
The Life of a Psychiatric Survivor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- U.S. siphons Canadian taxes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A decade of Reaganism has left employers in a position to destroy unions without fear of significant political and public retribution.
- Van Press Club sets sights high
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Vital Signs
The Trends that are Shaping Our Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Worldwatch Institute charts coming trends using a straightforward format. Areas addressed include military expenditures and cigarette consumption.
- Wam! Comix
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Warrior Society criticized
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
An internal investigation by the Iroquois Confederacy says that the Mohawk Warrior Society undercut attempts to reach a peaceful solution at Oka in 1990 and instead deliberately chose to provoke a confrontation with the army.
- Water Management conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- What's the Matter with Liberalism?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
A critique of the principles of contemporary liberal democratic societies. Liberalism is focused on "individual rights" but it is very hollow. Beiner's reflections include liberalism in Europe and North America.
- Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
Living and Writing in the West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Wilson opposes publishing safeguards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Winter Cities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Women and Crime
Volume 3 #2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Women's Movement records
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- World Human Rights Guide, Third Edition
A Comprehensive, Up-to-date Survey of the Human Rights Records of 104 Major Countries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The World of Zines
A Guide to the Independent Magazine Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
Written for both readers and publishers of small press. Includes information on how to publish your own zine.
- World Resources 1992-93
A Guide to the Global Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- The Wretched of the Earth and Me
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Writers On World War II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Yes Means No?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
The anti-sex moralists say one thing but mean another.
- Zebra mussels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
- Re-Framing Dissent As Criminal Subversion
Paradigm Shift and Political Repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Published: 1992
When our national security interests are perceived as threatened, secrecy becomes sacred, and the ends justify the means. Since the end of World War II, the techniques of political repression recur, banal and predictive, like the musical theme that signals stalking in a grade-B thriller. Those organizations and individuals targetted for repression are portrayed as enemies of democracy; those investigating and attacking then assume the mantle of democracy's guardians. Because of the covert nature of campaigns and the enormous difference in resources between government agencies and dissident/reform movements, it is often impossible to document or prove the existence of an organized campaign of political repression in its earlier stages. In case after case, however, later investigation has revealed illegal government surveillance, harassment and public opinon manipulation, as well as media complicity.
- How to Lie with Maps
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 2018
How to Lie with Maps revealed how the choices mapmakers make -- consciously or unconsciously -- mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many possible stories about the places it depicts.
- Dumbing Us Down
The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 2017
After over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U.S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning "disabilities" are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffected.
- Northstar Compass
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 2017
Northstar Compass was a monthly magazine containing the latest news and views of the struggles of the Soviet peoples against the capitalist regime which took power after the fall of the Soviet Union. An archive of back issues from 1991 to 2017 is available online at www.connexions.org/CxArchive/Northstar/archive.html, along with additional articles and resources.
- Ireland: 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- A Troublemaker's Handbook
How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 2005
An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
- The Scramble for Africa
White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 2003
Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
- Multiculturalism or World Culture?
On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 2000
Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored.
- Freedom of Speech Under Siege
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1999
Censorship is the handmaiden of a police state.
- National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1998
A colour field guide to observing and understanding weather. 378 photographs showing cloud types, precipitation, storms, and optical phenomena.
- The Oxford Dictionary of New Words
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1998
If you want to know the hot words of the Eighties and Nineties then this dictionary is a requirement. It covers over 20,000 high-profiled words and phrases.
- Second Nature
A Gardener's Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1993
Pollan's descriptions and meditations on trying to grow a garden on an abandoned Connecticut farm.
- Take Back the Nation
Revised Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1993
A passionate and thoughtful assessment of Canada in crisis. Analyses the dangers posed by NAFTA to Canada's economy and independence. Proposes economic, political and cultural solutions to Canada's problems.
- Boreal Forests in Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1992
Canada's assault on the Boreal forest rivals Brazil's exploitation of the Amazon. In both countries governments and multinational corporations are scheming to clear-cut forests for short-term profit. They treat rivers as sewers, poison the fish and drive aboriginal peoples from their ancestral lands.
- We Can Save Social Programs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1992
We can save social programs by removing unwarranted tax subsidies for corporations and wealthy investors.
- Bully for Brontosaurus
Reflections in Natural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1992
A collection of dicursive essays on natural history.
- Motivating Today's Work Force
When the carrot can't always be cash
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1992
- Motivating Today's Work Force
When the carrot can't always be cash
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1992
- The Citizen
Volume 1, Issue 1 & 2, December 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Reports on various groups of the Left Green Network.
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 5
December 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Principles of Environmental Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A defining document for the grassroots movement for environmental justice.
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 4
October 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Saving the Rouge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Article in the October-November 1991 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- Il danse avec la Culpabilité
Un regard sur les hommes qui regardent la violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Des théories simplistiques qui sont reliées à la violence à un facteur et seulement un facteur, la masculinité qui sert à décourager un examen sérieux sur la cause qui mène certains hommes et aussi certaines femmes a devenir violents.
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 3
August 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Israel will withdraw only under pressure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The overwhelming majority of the Jewish public has been determined since 1967 not to relinquish any territory except if forced to do so.
- Defending the Oldman River
A conversation with Milton-Born-With-A-Tooth
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1991
Published: 1992
An interview with Milton-Born-With-A-Tooth about the struggle to defend the Oldman River in Alberta.
- Magnitogorsk: Steel town a Stalinist legacy of filth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Canada to allow new arms sales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Canada is expanding its exports of arms.
- Circles of mutual hatred trap Serbs and Croats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Kurdistan: Death agonies of a people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- New World Order
A postwar analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Everyone is allowed to play the game, so long as it's according to the U.S. rules.
- Our Generation
Volume 22 Nomber 1 & 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- They're Going to be Stuffing Our Kids
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Will technology in the classroom be a boon to educators in the future, or a disaster waiting to happen?
- Abortion Stays Legal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Bill C-43 was defeated in 1991, keeping abortion legal in Canada.
- Midwives Acquitted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A historic decision by the Supreme Court of Canada clears midwives on charges in a case of a death during a home birth.
- Water Exports: The New Gold Rush?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Water shortages have become an top issue in the U.S., and it appears the nation will look north of the border for help. In Canada, opposition is growing.
- The prison called Albania
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Canada's Water: Resource War #2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Wars are usually fought over ideologies or natural resources. Canada should be concerned given its rich deposits of natural resources.
- Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient Views of Blacks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
In this richly-illustrated account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Frank M. Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their colour. For three thousand years Mediterranean whites intermittently came in contact with African blacks in commerce and war, and left a record of these encounters in art and in written documents. The blacks -- most commonly known as Kushites, Ethiopians, or Nubians -- were redoubtable warriors and commanded the respect of their white adversaries. The overall view of blacks was highly favourable. In science, philosophy, and religion colour was not the basis of theories concerning inferior peoples.
- The Exploitation Explosion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
- Investing in a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The Cerro Gordo community.
- Dammed and diverted
Hyrdo projects in northern Manitoba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Article in the February-March 1991 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- From the Editor: Green Living
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
To satiate North America's addiction to high energy consumption, the popular solution is war.
- Global Militarism and the Environment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The connection between militarism and environmental damage.
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 1
February 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The not-so-pristine Arctic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Article in the February-March 1991 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- What a Way to Treat Your Mother: Women and the State of the Planet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Our planet is in crisis.
- Hanging on by our Fingernails
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The West offers a false sense of security, and we are all at risk.
- Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising
A Comprehensive Guide to Principles, Strategies and Methods
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A guide to the principles, concepts and techniques of fundraising such as assessment of human and societal needs, setting foals, selection of gift markets, and solicitation and renewal of gifts.
- Africa in the 1990's
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- After the Green Revolution
Sustainable Agriculture for Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- After the Ice Age
The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Alternative Economic Indicators
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Anderson outlines out a new conceptual framework for economics which gives attention to enviromentalism and social indicators as well as financial ones.
- ..."And The Last Shall Be First"
Native Policy in an Era of Cutbacks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Anglophobie: Made in Quebec
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Johnson, an Ottawa-based columnist for the Montreal Gazzette, argues in this work that French Quebec's literary and intellectual traditions were characterized by anglophobia, a fear and mistrust of Engish-speaking people, which still lies at the root of the separatist movement.
- Arctic Circle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Atwesasne Notes editor cleared
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Auditor raps waste dumping
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Backyard Astronomer's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Ban on disposable diapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Bedside Guardian 40
A selection from The Guardian 1990-91
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Before Color Prejudice
The Ancient View of Blacks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The book examines the relationship between Mediterranean whites and African blacks in antiquity and the absence of colour prejudice, and why those attitudes have shifted in post antiquity.
- Begegnung mit dem Schuldbewusstsein
Eine Beobachtung von Männern, die sich mit Gewalt auseinandersetzen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Neulich nahm ich an einem Treffen einer zwanzigköpfigen Männergruppe teil, die über das Problem der Gewalt gegen Frauen und was Männer zur Verhinderung von Gewaltsübergriffen beitragen können, diskutierte.
- Benefit to Canada no longer matters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Berlin Noir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Bi Any Other Name
Bisexual People Speak Out
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A collection of essays by 75 authors on bisexual identity.
- Billion $$$ High
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Black Settles on Pensions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Bulls and Bears
Winning in the Stock Market in Good Times and Bad
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Bulls and Bears
Winning in the Stock Market in Good Times and Bad
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- By Heart
The Life of Elizabeth Smart
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A biography of the author of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept.
- The Canada Assistance Plan
No Time for Cuts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Canada Rediscovered
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Robert McGhee descirbes wat we know about early European explorations of what is now Canada - Irish, Norse, English Portuguese, French, Spanish - as well as the early Europeans' interactions with the aboriginal inhabitants.
- Canada-U.S.-Mexico relations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Canada's Social Programs Are In Trouble
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Canadian City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Based on the belief that a healthy city life is possible, this volume collects articles, stories and histories about the city and its people, covering aspects such as human and social relations, art and architecture, urban planning, land development, and the greening of the urban environment.
- Canadian Feminism And The Law
The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund and the Pursuit of Equality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The author gives a fascinating and informative look at the efforts of the Legal Education and Action Fund, a Feminist-Activist organization for the struggle to effect an egalitarian society through Charter litigation.
- Canadian Mystery Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Canadian Women and AIDS
Beyond the Statistics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Canadian Women's Autobiography in English
An Introductory Guide for Researchers and Teachers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- A Capital Scandal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- A Capital Scandal
Politics, Patronage and Payoffs -- Why Parliament Must be Reformed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Chatto Book of Dissent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Children, Families and Public Policy in the 90s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- CIDA programme for ENGOs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Cold War Blues
The Operation Dismantle Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The collective decides...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The obsession with 'process politics' leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance
- Common-Sense Pest Control
Least-toxic solutions for your home, garden, pets and community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Community forestry conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Computer Security Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Consumers Union Congrress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Corporate Giving Directory 1991
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Court rules Ottawa negligent, ignorant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Cuba's Invasion Fears
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
There is nothing irrational about Cuba's fears of being invaded by the United States.
- Danças com Culpa
Um olhar sobre os homens que olham para a violência
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Why are some men violent?
- Danger: sticky yellow notes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Daughters of the Elderly
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Death and Bereavement Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Debating the NDP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Activists seeking radical change need to understand that it is fruitless to base their strategies on the assumption that the NDP can be the vehicle for achieving their goals.
- Debt and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Defending the Earth
A Dialog Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A renowned political theorist faces off against a direct-action activist to discuss: What is the connection between theory and activism? What is the role of sabotage in creating social change? How can human beings fit into a stable ecosystem?
- Deterring Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Dialogue on Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A discourse between a Third World citizen and a Canadian.
- Dignity and Growth
Citizen Participation in Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Makes the case that rural communities cannot function without citizen participation in social change.
- Dinosaurs, Spitfires And Sea Dragons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Directory of Environmental Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Directory of Government Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Discovery in the North Atlantic
From the 6th to 17th Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Diverse Partners
Non-Government Organization in the Human Rights Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Doctor's Sore Foot Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Drawing the Line
Lesbian Sexual Politics on the Wall
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Dwellers in the Land
A Bioregional Vision
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Ecology Watch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Poverty has been identified as a major cause of environmental degradation
- Ecosystem research threatened
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Educating for a Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
- Electric Rivers
The Story of the James Bay Project
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A documentary about author Elizabeth Smart, with Jackie Burroughts playing Elizabeth Smart.
- The Encyclopedia of Erotic Wisdom
Reference Guide to the Symbolism, Techniques, Rituals, Sacred Texts, Psychology, Anatomy and History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Energy Board OKs pipline subsidy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Enviromental Education Resources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Environmental data lacking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Environmental Youth Alliance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Ethical Mutual Funds, Screening the Screens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Ethical Mutual Funds are important to the growth of social programs and services in Canada.
- Execution Day in Zhengzhou
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A first-hand account of an execution day in China.
- Faith and Fear
The Free Trade Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Families Under Stress
Community, Work, and Economic Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Fast Food Eating Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Fate of the Forests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Festival of environmental films
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Fields of Vision
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Fields of Vision
A Journey to Canada's Family Farms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- 50 Ways to Fight Censorship
And Important Facts to Know about Censors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A practical guide to generating support and publicity for freedom of speech and how to combat acts of censorship.
- Finding our Way
Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Food for Wealth or Health
Towards Equality in Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Forest Ecosystem conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Fourth Morningside Papers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Frame by Frame
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Frame by Frame is a direct marketing resource that lists individuals and organizations in the advertising industry.
- Freshwater Fishes
Peterson Field Guides
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Funding Health and Higher Education
Danger Looming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Funding Strategies Resource Package
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Georgia Strait conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Getting There
Steps to a Green Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Glastnost and the Global Village
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Global Synergy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Global Week of Ecology Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Going Home
Building Peace in El Salvador: The Story of Repatriation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
After a decade of disastrous civil war, hope for the rebuilding of El Salvador lies with its courageous refugee population. Tired of waiting to return home alive, the "campesinos" decided to return to homes to wage peace.
- The Gold Book
The Complete Investment Guide to Precious Metals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Gold Book
The Complete Investment Guide to Precious Metals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Goodwin's Award
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Government Relations Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Government Relations Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Great Car Insurance Crash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The Ontario NDP's backpedalling from public auto insurance demonstrates that this government doesn't want to take the drivers seat.
- Great Lakes Spills Pose Toxic Risks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
As the largest source of fresh water in the world, and a primary trading route, pollution and the possiblity of toxic spills in the Great Lakes have the potentional to adversely affect millions.
- Great Lakes United
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Great Lakes water quality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Great Reversal
The Privatization of China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
In these essays Hinton argues that Deng XiaoPing and his privatization reforms destroyed the achievements of the Maoist Revolution of 1949.
- Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
- The Green Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Green Energy
A Non-Nuclear Response to the Greenhouse Effect
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- A Green History of the World
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
- The Green List
A Guide to Canadian Environmental Agencies & Agencies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Green Municipalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
- Groundwater Pollution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- GST discriminates against co-ops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- A Guide to Feeding Winter Birds in Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Gulf Commentary
A Special Issue on the Aftermath of the War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Healthy Change
Towards Equality in Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Inequalities in the length of life lived and the extent of disease as experienced by different social classes speaks to the more general inequalities of Western civilisation. GPs, hospitals and local authorities all need to be reorganized before our societies can hope to reach the WHO's greater goal of "health for all".
- Healthy Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Heidegger And Nazism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Posits Martin Heidegger's as an influential Nazi philosopher, a manipulative thinker of great intelligence whose touchstones were anti-humanism and contempt for democracy.
- High Society
Legal and Illegal Drugs in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- A History of the Arab Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- How to Get More Miles per Gallon in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- How to Get More Miles Per Gallon in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Human Rights in Asia - 1991
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Human Rights Internet Reporter Master List of Human Rights Organizations & Serial Publications
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- In the Absence of the Sacred
The Failure of Technology and the Survival of Indian Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Inc.
301 Managment Ideas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Inc.
301 Managment Ideas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Income and Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Index to Illustrations of Animals and Plants
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Inquiry on Canada's future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Inversions
Writing by Dykes, Queers & Lesbians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Invesment Strategies
How to Create Your Owwn and Make It Work for You
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Investment Strategies
How to Create Your Own and Make It Work for You
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Is Feminist Ethics Possible?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- It Doesn't Have To Be Like This
Green Politics Explained
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Its Here...Somewhere
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Japan suspends some driftnetting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Journalism of Outrage
Investigative Reporting and Agenda Building in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Examines the myths and misconceptions of investigative journalism and presents empirical research to support a model that challenges the classical theory.
- The King of Inventors
A Life of Wilkie Collins
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A biography of British writer Wilkie Collins: a master of the Detective novel who also wrote many essays on social causes.
- Labour in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Labour Songs
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
1950-1985.
- Landscaping With Nature
Using Nature's Design to Plan Your Yard
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Cox says a normal garden can be transformed into a place of spiritual wonder. Includes every aspect of of natural landscaping: from site evaluation to garden design styles; plans for paths,pools, terraces and stone walls.
- Last Stand of the Lubicon Cree
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Leatherfolk
Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Letters from the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Libraries, Erotica & Pornography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Lifting the Burden of Debt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Living in a Dark Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- A Long and Terrible Shadow
White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
- Management of protected areas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Manual for Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Marxist Scholars Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Max Ernst
Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Media and the Politics of Peace (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Misogyny reflected in Grocery Line
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Checking out the popular media at the grocery checkout.
- Mixed Media, Mixed Messages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
This is a collection of columns by Vancouver Sun columnist Persky. Specifically, Persky tries to address moral and philosophical questions raised by media practices.
- Money Making Marketing
Finding the People Who Need What You're Selling and Making Sure They Buy It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Practical advice on marketing.
- The Moon By Whale Light
And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodillians, and Whales
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Multiculturalism Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Native Tongue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Joe Winder is a burned-out ex-muckraking reporter now working for the Amazing Kingdom theme park as their PR man. When the precious blue-tongued voles at the Amazing Kingdom are stolen, Winder wants to find out why.
- Net Worth
Exploding The Myths of Pro Hockey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Networks refuse anti-TV ads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- New Options for America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada - Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Review of News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada, by Robert Hackett.
- News and Dissent
The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Hackett digs deep into several issues that affect how we hear, read, and see what is reported to us, as well as who and what decide exactly what is it that we hear, read and see.
- No Easy Road
Women in Canada 1920's to 1960's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
This collection of essays by Gail Brandt, Margrit Eichler, Ruth Pierson, Alison Prentice and Veronica Strong-Boag provides a background for examining women’s paid and unpaid work as well as aspects of women’s collective activities in the past.
- Occupied Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
An autobiography of Robert Calihoo, a native Canadian activist who struggled to regain the reserve that his father had sold out to the Canadian government.
- Odious Debts
Loose Lending, Corruption and the Thirld World's Environmental Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A history of the Ojibwa in Southern Ontario.
- On Imperialist Barbarism & the Need for World Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Four articles in Ideas & Action #16 (Fall 1991):
1. The Destruction of Iraq: Why?
2. The Rise and Decline of the American Empire
3. Every Nation-State is Imperialist by Nature
4. For National Autonomy within a World-wide Democracy
- 105,000 jobs lost to free trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- 100 Great Detectives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- One Nation Under The Gun
Inside The Mohawk Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
An account of the poltical and land struggles of the Mohawk people in New York and Montreal.
- "Open Skies" Coming?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Organic Gardening
Everything the Beginner Needs to Know
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Organizing for the 90s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
On the sixth Labor Notes Conference.
- Our Canada
The Story of the New Democratic Party Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A rosy view of Canada's New Democratic Party.
- Out of Balance
The Risks of Irreversible Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Park Ranger Guide to Rivers & Lakes
What to see and learn on America's freshwaters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Parkdale in Pictures
Its Development to 1889
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The formative years of a Toronto city neighbourhood.
- A Patent on Life: Ownership of Plant and Animal Research
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Paving Paradise
Is British Columbia Losing Its Heritage?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- People Of The Pines
The Warriors And The Legacy Of Oka
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
An account of the 78-day standoff in the summer of 1990 between Mohawk warriors and Quebec Police and the Canadian Army.
- Persian Gulf crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Poisoned Skies
Who'll Stop Acid Rain?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The authors chronicle the decade-long struggle to get government action against acid rain - a devastating form of pollution.
- Privatization
A global disease
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Pro-Canada group asks contributions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Protest against cruise missile tests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Publications Grants For Writers & Publishers
How to Find Them, Win Them, and Manage Them
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Publisher's Newsletter - Sources 28
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Quick and The Dead
Brian Mulroney, Big Business And The Seduction Of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
McQuaig argues that since 1984, there has been a systematic transfer of power in Canada from the democratically elected government to the private sector.
- Race, Gender, and Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Race Relations Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Race to the screen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Radical Waste Reduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Radioactive Heaven And Earth
The Health and Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing in, on, and above the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
No credible justification exists for "national security" considerations to trump worldwide health when it comes to nuclear weapons.
- Rafferty-Alameda: The American Connection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The Rafferty, along with the Oldman River Dam under construction in Alberta, only make sense as part of a water diversion to the United States. Because 90 per cent of Canadians, according to federal government study, are opposed to the export of Canadian water, this aspect of the project has not been made public and the Devine government is using the front of a purely localized development to "save" precious water for the dry prairies.
- Recycling Symbols Discussion Paper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Refugees at Home and Abroad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
- The Renaissance of Rail Transit in America
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Resources of the Gulf
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Review falsifies history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
It is only because Canada's electoral system is profoundly undemocratic that it was possible for the Mulroney Tories to form a majority government with only 43 per cent of the votes. They then used that majority to force through the free trade deal even though a majority of the electorate had voted against it.
- Rights group criticizes Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Rocks Adrift
The Geology of Gros Morne National Park
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Role Co-operatives in Childcare
Role des cooperatives dans le secteur de la garde d'enfants
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- RRSPs 1992
Everything you need to know to make the right choices
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- RRSPs 1992
Everything you need to know to make the right choices
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Rule change may hide executives' pay
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
An essay about the laws regarding the disclosure of wages made by executives that are paid by publicly traded companies.
- Russian Literature
Ideals and Realities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Samson Option
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Hersh, the investigative journalist who exposed the Mai Lai massacre, documents how Israel acquired nuclear weapons with U.S. connivance.
- Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Saving Graces
Sojourns of a Backyard Biologist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Saving the Strait
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Searching
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Searching for Subjectivity in the World of the Sciences
Feminist Viewpoints
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Secret Ring
Freud's Innter Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
An account of Freud's relationship with the founding circle of the psychoanalytic movement.
- Secrets of Power Presentations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Settlement workers conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Seven Public Sector Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Fact and fiction about the public sector.
- Sex-role portrayals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Shari Belafonte's Eating Tips
Cut the Fat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Shopping Mall
A Visit to North America's Cathedrals of Consumerism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- A Short Guide to Socially Responsible RRSPs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Sisters in Struggle
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The film introduces us to a group of activists across Canada who are struggling to end systemic discrimination against women, particularly the challenges facing women of colour. Runtime: 49 min.
- Skills for Simple Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Small Business Guide to Direct Mail
Build Your Customer Base and Boost Profits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Social Democracy Without Illusions
Renewal of the Canadian Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Socialist Register 1991
Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Socialist Studies Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Spirit of the Wolf
The Environment and Canada's Future: Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Spring peace action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Story of O Comic Book
Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Submarine Dead Ahead!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Sustainability as if we mean it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Sweet Promises
A Reader On Indian-White Relations in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Taniec z Wina: Jak mezczyzni patrza na przemoc
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility 1990-1991 Annual Report
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Team Building
How to Build a Winning team
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Team Building
How to Build a Winning team
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- They forgot the bicycle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Third World Debt: The Comforts of Newspaper Pie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Canadians are unaffected by the Third World, since most of it arrives in the form of newspaper headlines.
- This Is The Just Cause
Breaking the Silence: Testimony of the Panamanian People, Resulting from the USA Invasion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A very different picture of the Bush Administration's invasion of Panama. Personal testimonies and photographs document the horror and anguish suffered by the Panimanian people.
- $300,000 for government video
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- To Change This House
Popular Education Under the Sandinistas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
An account of how popular education transformed all aspects of life in Nicaragua following Somoza's overthrow in 1979. Throu8gh interviews, photographs, and analysis, Barndt explores the collective, participatory, critical way of learning that connects education to experience and seeks out the structural and historical causes of social problems.
- Towns take Post Office to court
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Toxic Chemicals in the Great Lakes and Associated Effects
Synopsis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Toxic Terrorism
Dumping Hazardous Wastes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Uncivil Obedience
The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
How to push for social change without breaking the law.
- Under the Viaduct
Homeless in Beautiful B.C.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The author, through interviews, gives a collection of testimonials of Vancouver's homeless and strategies to combat this social problem.
- Unequal Risks
Accidents and Social Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Unmaking of Canada
The Hidden Theme in Canadian History since 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
This book searches for the roots of the many-sided crisis faced by Canada in the 1990s, and finds them in the post-war history of the country. In the authors' view, the hidden theme in Canadian history in the post-World War II decades has been the "unmaking" of Canada.
- Upstream
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Varity pulls out with taxpayers' money
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Victims of the European revolutions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
European gypsy communities have historically been, and remain, the most marginalized social group.
- Video The Changing World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- War in the Gulf
An Environmental Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- War in the Gulf
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
- We Can Change the World
The Real Meaning Of Everyday Life
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Stratman draws on his experiences as a parent in the Boston school busing battle and later as Washington director of the National PTA, interviews with British coal miners and striking American meatpackers, and wide ranging research and historical analysis, to show that fundamental social change is possible. The key to changing the world he argues, lies in a different view of ordinary people.
- Who Cares?
The Crisis in Canadian Nursing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Wild Hunters
Predators in Peril
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A passionate argument for the preservation of Canadian wildlife. Animals such as bears and wolves are in dire need of protection from the encroachments of civilisation.
- Will Sustainable development save our lakes and rivers?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Winter cities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Women and Social Change
Feminist Activism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
- Women and Economic Structures
A Feminist Perspective on the Canadian Economy
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Women's History Prize
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Women's Movement and Its Currents of Thought
A Typological Essay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- A Word to Say
The Story of the Maritime Fishermen's Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
An account of how inshore fishermen, most of them Acadian, came together to take control of their industry and their livelihood and form the Maritime Fishermen's Union.
- Working Girls: Prostitutes, Their Life and Social Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
An analysis of prostitution laws in Austrailia and a discussion of the need for decriminalisation.
- Workplace Guide
Practical Action for the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The Year of the Turtle
A Natural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
An account of one year of observing turtles in a New England locality.
- You either believe in freedom or you don't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Speak out for human rights by joining the European Community and the majority of the United Nations in calling for a free East Timor.
- Zebra mussels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- The country map hustlers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Article in the December 1990-January 1991 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1981
The story of Timmerman's 30 months as a political prisoner under the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s.
- Columbus and the Age of Discovery
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
- Dark Star
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
Andre Szara, a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD to engage in spying in Paris and Berlin.
- Loving More
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A newsletter published by PEP (Polyfidelitious Educational Productions), a group marriage journal and network. Previous title was PEPTALK; name was changed to Loving More starting with the Spring 1991 issue (Issue #26), and to Loving More Magazine ins 1994. Some copies of this publication are in the Connexions Archive.
See also the Loving More website www.lovemore.com.
- Seeds of Change: A Quincentennial Commemoration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Published: 1991
A collection of essays for the 500th anniversary of Columbus's vogages. It focuses on aspects of the "Columbian Exchange" -- disease, horses, sugar, corn, potatos -- and their human consequences.
- A Sympathetic Critical Study
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 2019
Detailed review of a controversial history of Soviet democracy. Lengthy quotes of the book and arguments from its original publication are included.
- Toronto Men's Clearinghouse Newsletter
May 1990 - Issue 17
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A copy of this newsletter in in the Connexions Archive.
- Failure To Quit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 2016
Zinn argues that pessimism over the so-called 'me generation' apparent apathy was unfounded, and that activist ideals do consistently carry over across generations.
- Fire and Flames
A History of the German Autonomist Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 2012
Released in 1990, Fire and Flames is the first comprehensive study of the German autonomous movement.
- The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 2011
Blending a passionate sensibility and a steely intellect with an unshakeable commitment to revolutionary socialism, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. In this comprehensive collection selection of Luxemburg's letters, her political concerns are revealed alongside the story of a vivid inner life.
- Our transportation future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
The billions of dollars proposed to be spent on roads would be better invested in electrifying the main rail lines in Canada.
- Concise Dictionary of Art & Artists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 2003
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 2003
- Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 2003
Essays looking at American political ideology.
- Media Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 2002
- Media Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 2002
Media law in the United Kingdom.
- Right Woos Left
Populist Party, LaRouchite, and Other Neo-fascist Overtures To Progressives, And Why They Must Be Rejected
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1999
- Pest und Schweffel
Ein Krimi aus dem altern England
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1994
- The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1994
"Nonviolent action . . . is capable of wielding great power even against ruthless rulers and military regimes," writes Sharp, "because it attacks the most vulnerable characteristic of all hierarchical institutions and governments: dependence on the governed." Abstracted from Sharp's classic three-volume work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, this monograph summarizes the core concepts behind the technique of nonviolent struggle.
- Collins Dictionary & Thesaurus
Compliments of Sources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1992
- Microsoft Excel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1992
- Microsoft Excel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1992
- The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1992
- The Arab Choice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1991
The Arabs are many peoples, cultures, religions, and realities. I cannot put an Arab tyrant, whoever he is, in the same category as a martyr for democracy like Mehdi Ben Barka.
- The bureaucracy remains
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1991
The government may change, but the bureaucracy remains, continuing the same short-sighted policies.
- The Conquest of Paradise
Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1991
Dispels the myths surrounding the journey of Christopher Columbus, with new translations of historical documents that reveal the European motivations for exploration. Demonstrates how European practices of environmental exploitation transformed the New World and all but destroyed the native cultures.
- The free trade disaster: round two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1991
Standards are being pulled down to the lowest common denominator, allowing the transnational corporations to play countries and their workforces off against each other. Already, workers in Canada are being warned that if they don't pull their wages and other demands down, workers in Mexico will be only too glad to take their jobs.
- Globalizing the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1991
The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
- No action on human rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1991
The Mulroney Tories are doing nothing at all about human rights.
- Quebec's two solitudes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1991
Quebec's hopes to chart a smooth course to sovereignty may founder on claims to Quebec's territory by its original inhabitants - claims that could involve as much as 80 per cent of its land mass.
- Winter of Discontent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1991
Whole communities are being plunged into a poverty culture that is very difficult to escape.
- Great Lakes clean-up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Article in the December 1990-January 1991 issue of Canadian Geogrpahic.
- Communities of Resistance
Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A series of essays advocating grass roots organisations as the pathway to socialism.
- The Holocaust
The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
An comprehensive history of Hitler's war on the Jews of Europe.
- No Strikes in Canada over health care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1991
The health care systems in Canada and the U.S. are very different, leading to different approaches to disagreements, and significantly different outcomes.
- The Cost of Free Speech
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
In the wake of the Ayatollah's "fatwah" against Salman Rushdie and in the turbulent context of terrorism in Northern Ireland, free speech really can lead to death, according to the author. This book offers a vigorous re-examination of our society's commitment to free speech.
- Making Sex
Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
This is a book about the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology.
- Entrepreneurs Convert Landfill Gas into an Alternative Source of Energy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
New technology is presenting alternatives for the generation of energy from landfill gases.
- Medical Reform - Volume 10 Issue 4
October 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Naming the Moment: Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A review of Naming the Moment: Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups.
- Working together for peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1991
Although English and French-speaking Canadians are sometimes at odds, the call for peace is universal. It is a language that all can agree on.
- The Right to Offend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1991
Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
- Electing for Democracy
Proportional Representation and the Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
An argument for proportional representation in the United Kingdom.
- Medical Reform - Volume 10 Issue 3
September 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Medical Reform Group Press Release Regarding Provincial Elections
News Release August 29, 1990
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Hara-Kiri
The Ritual Death of the Italian Communist Party
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Our Generation
Volume 21 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Medical Reform - Volume 10 Issue 2
July 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Two years ago, a sports announcer in the United States lost his job because
he enlarged indiscreetly -- that is, before a television audience -- upon his
views about 'racial' differences. Asked why there are so few black coaches in
basketball, Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder remarked that black athletes already
hold an advantage as basketball players because they have longer thighs than
white athletes, their ancestors having been deliberately bred that way during
slavery.
- Karl Marx and the War Against Slavery
Black History and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Alexander discusses Marx and Engels's views on the Civil War, the role of the First International in the struggle to overthrow black chattel slavery, and why the Marxist program of international working-class revolution is the key for black freedom and working-class emancipation.
- Killing Roads: A Citizen's Primer on the Effects and Removal of Roads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Encyclopedia of American Comics
From 1897 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A reference work of over a 1000 entries devoted to the phenomenon of the American comic, covering almost a century of comic production from the introduction of the genre in 1897 to the latest (1990) strips and books.
- Medical Reform - Volume 10 Issue 1
April 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Net Losses: The sorry state of our Atlantic fishery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Article in the April-May 1990 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- The Ram's Horn
Number 71, April 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A monthly newsletter of food system analysis.
- What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Environmentalist activism as radical practice.
- Monkeywrenching
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
An appraisal of the effectiveness of monkeywrenching or eoctage.
- City Hall and Mrs. God
A Passionate Journey Through a Changing Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
An examination of the underclass of Toronto.
- Taking Sides
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
To many of us it is pretty obvious that there are some conflicts in which we ought to take sides. But what about the Christian belief in reconciliation, forgiveness and peace? How can you take sides if you love everybody, including your enemies? And how do we account for the widespread belief that in any conflict a Christian should be a peacemaker who avoids taking sides and tries to bring about reconciliation between the opposing forces?
- How Timisoara Started the Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
An account of the start of the revolt that overthrew the Ceausescu regime in Romania in 1989.
- Abortion Without Apology
A Radical History for the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Abortion without Apology
Radical History for the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Abortion without Apology gives a historical perpective and description of the experiences, successes and ideas of the early activisism from the 1959 to the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs Wade decision.
- Akwesasne Notes editor charged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Alternative America
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
12,150 organizations, mainly American, listed geographically by zip code, and again alphabetically. A subject keyword index referring to group numbers only.
- Alternative Library Literature 1988-1989
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Anarchist Papers 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A collection of essays about the history of anarchism.
- The Anatomy of Judgment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Tracing the emergence of science and the social institutions that govern it, The Anatomy of Judgment is an odyssey into what human thinking or judgment mean.
- Antarctic airfield
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Anti-racist education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Arctic Ways
Animal Rights, Endangered Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- ARMX on the march
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Asleep In The Fast Lane
The Impact of Sleep on Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Dotto focuses on sleep problems in industrialized societies, as well as on the nature of sleep itself.
- Bank imposes 'voluntary' drug tests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Banking on the Grass Roots
Cooperatives in global development
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Barefoot Channel
Community Television as a Tool for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
How you or you group can use local community TV station to get your message out.
- Barton awards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- B.C. abortion clinic vandalized
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Beauty Myth
How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Writer and Journalist Naomi Wolf calls the current all pervasive need for women to attain an intangible physical beauty ideal the "beauty myth". It is calculated to disenpower women and is a complex pervasive backlash againts feminism. Women are seduced by the beauty myth because it holds promise of power. Women will remain tied to this myth until they realize that power may be revoked as easily as granted. The beauty myth was created to hold women's progress back not to liberate it.
- The Bedside Guardian 39
A selection from The Guardian 1989-90
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Behind the Silicon Curtain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Berliner Illustrirte
Sonderausgabe 3. Oktober 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Best Censored Stories of 1989
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Beyond Brundtland
Green Development in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Beyond Survival: Healing the incest wound
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Beyond the Blue Box
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Beyond the War on Drugs
Overcoming a Failed Public Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Beyond the War on Drugs argues persuasively for a fundamental reassessment of drug control policy. The thrust of the book is simply that the 'war on drugs' cannot be won by trying to dry up the source, since there will always be demand to create supply.
- Bioregional Congress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Bioregional Congress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Body Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Book Publishing Resource Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
An indispensible resource guide including more than 8 000 key book marketing contacts, from book clubs and chain stores to mail order catalogs and media contacts.
- Book Publishing Resource Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Book seizures challenged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Brazil 1992
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Breaking the Canadian Formula
The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Budget hits veterans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Budget in Grief/Un budget de misere
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Building Bridges
The Emerging Grassroots Coalition of Labor and Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Bürgerbewegungen für Demokratie in den Kommunen
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Campaign for Fair Taxes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Canada and International Peace and Security
A Bibliography 1985-89
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Canada and the Central American Peace Process
Selected Documents
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Canada challenges bylaw
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Canada Post raises prices to North
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Canada's Fighting Seniors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A look at the growth of a senior's movement in Canada in the 1980s.
- Canada's Radiation Scandal
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Canadian airbase protested
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- A Canadian Challenge
Le Defi Quebecois
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Canadian Churches and Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
In the years after 1970, Canadian churches have engaged in international affairs in new ways. This book offers first-hand accounts by people actively involved in developing this new role.
- Canadian Environment Network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Canadian Environmental Network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Canadian links with apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Canadian Peace Alliance
Update
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Canadian People Patterns
What's in the Cards for you?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Canadian Socialism
Essays on the CCF-NDP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A comprehensive study of the NDP and its precursor the CCF, covering party manifestos, national conventions, and biographical profiles of federal leaders T.C. Douglas, David Lewis, and Ed Broadbent.
- The Canadian Women's Movement, Equality Rights and the Charter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Case Against the Auto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
The issue of transportation cannot be separated from how communities are organized. The way in which worksites and residences are laid out on the earth’s surface presupposes a means of getting around.
- The Case for a Nuclear-Free Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- CAW get GST protection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- CBC ad policy criticized
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- CBC advertising may go
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- CBC budget cut again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- CBC losing national unity mandate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Challenge, Choice, Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Changes to marketing boards coming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Charity Begins At Home
Generosity and Self-Interest Among the Philanthropic Elite
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- China admits torture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Columbus seen as a conqueror.
- Chronicle of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Chronicle of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- CIA set up Mandela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Citizenship Training and Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Clean and Green
The Complete Guide to Nontoxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
"485 ways to clean, polish, disinfect, deodorize, launder, remove stains, even wax your car, without harming yourself or the environment.
- Climate Change and World Agriculture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Climates of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Clip Away Direct-Marketing Coupon Designs
300 Creative Copyright-Free Camera-ready professional layouts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- C.L.R. James
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Common Security Leader's Kit
New Light for the Planet
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Communicating Effectively Through Your Newsletter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Some pointers about how to produce a newsletter that communicates effectively with its readers
- Communities and Environment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Community development curriculum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Community of the Ark
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Community Water Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Competition? or Co-operation?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Against capital's slogan of competition, we can respond with that of cooperation -- in production, in overcoming capital's destruction of the environment, in international relations, in learning, in building better human relations.
- Computers for Nicaragua
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Concept of Human Rights in Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Confronting Pornography
A Feminist on the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Cooperative Learning & Social Change
Selected Writings of Celestin Freinet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Corporate Giving Directory 1991
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Council of all beings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Cracking the Canadian Formula
The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Cree Challenge Settement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
The Grand Council of the Cree of Quebec goes to court in 1990 asking that the James Bay and Northern Agreement, the largest land claim settlement in Canadian history, should be declared null and void.
- CRIAW conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Crow flying high
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Cuia Popular de Fotografia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Dam the Rivers, Damn the People
Development and Resistance in Amazonian Brazil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Cummings describes Amazonia as a colony whose resources are exploited by and 'exported' to the country's industrial south. As a result of the encroachment on their rainforest land, the peoples of Amazonia, particularly the Amazonia Indians, have suffered death, displacement, loss of self-sufficiency and exposure to disease.
- Dance Hall of the Dead
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them.
- Day of Mourning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Deadly Releade CFCs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Descent into Discourse
The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Critique of postmodernist and poststructuralist approaches in history.
- Desert Solitaire
A season in the wilderness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Die Diemer Familien im Weltbuch
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Directory of Publishing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
The Directory of Publishing contains details of more than 1100 publishers form 19 countries, as well as over 100 authors' agents from six of them. Over 500 associated organizations are also listed, including packagers, distributors, book clubs and translation services.
- Directory of Publishing 1990
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Don't buy these grapes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Double Standards
Consumer and worker protection in an unequal world (Deux poids, deux mesures: La Protection du travailleur et du consommateur)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Drift Nets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Article in the February-March 1990 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- Drowned Hopes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Earth Book for Kids
Activities to Help Heal the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Earth Education
A New Beginning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- Ecocity Conference 1990
Report of the First International Ecocity Conference, Marh 29 - April 1, 1990 - Berkeley, California
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Ecology and Culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Education for the TurnAround Decade: The Environmentally Friendly School
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Entrevista con Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Entrevue avec Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- EnviroFair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Environment 2000
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Environmental Values Education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Europe Against the Current
Catalogue of Alternative, Independent and Radical Information Carriers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Expose Yourself
Using the Power of Public Relations to Promote Your Business and Yourself
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A hands-on, practical book that gets down to the details of doing promotion.
- Family Service
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Fate of the forests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Father, Son and CIA
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- A Fearful Freedom
Women's Flight from Equality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Federal budget cuts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Fiction in the Archives
Pardon Tales and their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
To receive a royal pardon in sixteenth-century France for certain kinds of homicide -- unpremeditated, unintended, in self-defense, or otherwise excusable -- a supplicant had to tell the king a story. These stories took the form of letters of remission, documents narrated to royal notaries by admitted offenders who, in effect, stated their case for pardon to the king. Thousands of such stories are found in French archives, providing precious evidence of the narrative skills and interpretive schemes of peasants and artisans as well as the well-born.
- Fighting for Hope
Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
- Films About Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The First Canadians
A Profile of Canada's Native People Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The First Century
Emperors, Gods, and Everyman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The First International Ecological City Conference
Conference Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Fish and Loaves Gathering
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Fish Missing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Fish or Cut Bait
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Fishing jobs threatened
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Forget the Mass Media!
(And Its Clever Cousin Electoralism)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
We can't rely on the mass media to bring our message to the people we want to reach.
- Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Free trade harrassment charged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Freedom for Nitassinan Walk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Freinet Pedagogy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Fresh Water Seas
Saving the Great Lakes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Weller takes readers on a tour of the Great Lakes region, tracing its natural history from the time before human habitation. He describes how the region has been affected by uncontrolled development to the point where it now contains one of the planet's most intensive concentrations of industrial and agricultural activity.
- Friedman's Fables
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- From Land to Mouth, Understanding the Food System (Review essay)
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- From Prince to Rebel
Peter Kropotkin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A bigraphy of the anarchist intellectual Peter Kropotkin.
- Furniture industry hurting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Future Wealth
A New Economics for the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Entries on indigenous peoples from around the globe, focusing on three main areas: their way of life, the present crisis, and the future.
- Gay Games and Culural Festival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Gender of Breadwinners
Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns 1880-1950
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
The story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, both primarily one-industry towns. Hanover was a furniture-manufacturing centre; mosts of its workers were men, while in Paris the biggest employer was the textile industry; most of its wage earners were women.
- General Electric boycott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The German Memorial Resistance Center
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Booklet to accompany the display on the German resistance.
- Getting Publicity
A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Small Business and Non-Profit Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Step-by-step instructions illustrate what it takes to attract media attention to any enterprise.
- Getting the Goods
Information in BC How to Find It, How to Use It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A guide to the basic sources of information -- the tools of the trade -- that all reporters, researchers and investigators rely on.
- Ghost Towns of Ontario
A Field Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Global Ecology Handbook:
What You Can Do About the Environmental Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Global Research Agenda
A South-North Perspective
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Global Warming
The Greenpeace Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Global Week of Ecology Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- GM wants U.S. holidays in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Good Planets Are Hard to Find!
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
For children 8 and up. Gives information about the problems facing our fragile ecosystem, and offers a large range of activities geared to solving them.
- The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Goodwn's awards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Governing the Commons
The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Neither the state nor the market have been successful in solving common pool resource problems. This study analyzes communal interests in land, irrigation communities, fisheries, etc. and proposes alternative solutions.
- Great Lakes cleanup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Great Lakes United
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Great Lakes Water Quality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Green Cities
Ecologically Sound Approaches to Urban Space
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Visions from around the world for an ecological urban model. Argues that putting wilderness in cities is good for conservation of wildlife.
- Green Future
How to Make a World of Difference
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Greening the land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Giving land back to nature. Autumn 1990 issue of Seasons.
- Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The GST Handbook
A Practical Guide for Small Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The GST in... The Big Tax Picture
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
When you start talking about the GST, you end up talking about the whole idea of taxation. And when you start talking about who pays more and who pays less, you're really talking about the kind of country you want to live in.
- A Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- A Guide to the Photographic Indentification of Individual Whales
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Guideposts for a Sustainable Future
Tools for Environmental Recovery - videotape
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Gute Argumente: Verkehr
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Informiert anschaulich and sachlich über die Grundlagen des Verkehrssystems, über the Hintergründe der auto-orientierten Gesleeschaft und uber unweltschonende und wirtschaflich vorteilhafte Alternativen.
- Hal Draper
Obituary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
American Marxist 1914-1990.
- Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
Insights from Hal Draper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A comparison of socialism-from-below and socialism-from-above that considers Marx's struggle for socialism through liberal democracy.
- Healing Images
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A month-long art exhibition/symposium to be held in Toronto from November 9 to December 19, 1990.
- Health, Health Care, and Medicare
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Helsinski Citizens Assembly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Here to Stay
A Resource Kit on Environmentally Stable Development
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Heritage Languages
The development and denial of Canada's linguistic resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Heritage Languages
The Development and Denial of Canada's Linguistic Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Home!
A Bioregional Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
- Honduran political murder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- How To Make A Whole Lot More Than $1,000,000 Writing, Commissioning, Publishing and Selling "How To: Information
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Lant makes the point that if you know something or have something to say, them you ought to be doing everything you possibly can to get that out to as many people as possible. This book is full of advice about how to do it.
- How to Make Your Words Work
A practical guide to type layout and design
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Human Rights Directory
Latin America and the Caribbean (:Directorio de Organizaciones de Derechos Humanos)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Human Rights Internet Reporter Winter 1990
Special Bibliographic Issue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Human Rights Programme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Human rights violations in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Icebreaker sunk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- In 1492, What Did Columbus Really Do?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A summary of various resistance movements then being organized to protest celebrating the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first landing in the Carribbean.
- Independent power producers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The International Permaculture Solutions Journal
Volume 1, Number 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Internship program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Interview mit Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
- Interview with Ulli Diemer - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Interview with Ulli Diemer - Japanese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Joe Zuken, Citizen and Socialist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Examines the forces that dominated Winnipeg's social and political life from the 1930s to the 1980s - the impact of European migration, the growth of radicalism, the internment of communists in World War Two, and the political witchunting of the Cold War - through the life of a man who, through good times and bad, remained passionately devoted to social justice.
- The Justice Group
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A prison newsletter from Winnipeg
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.
- Keeping the Peace
Practicing Co-operation and Conflict Resolution with Preschoolers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Lanlord sues tenant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Leadership in housing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Left Green Meeting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Lesbian and Gay Studies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Lesbian Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Lesbians in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Lesbians, gays and psychiatry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Letters to a Quebecois Friend
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Philip Resnick, a political scientist and long-time radical, formerly from Quebec, but now teaching at the University of British Columbia, wrote the "letters" in this volume to an imaginary Quebecois friend in the aftermath of the 1988 Free Trade election, when Quebec's votes gave the Mulroney government a majority of seats in the House of Commons even though a strong majority of Canadians voted against Free Trade and against the Conservatives.
- Lewis Mumford
Obituary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Life and Death of Stalinism
A Resurrection of Marxist Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A leftwing analysis of Stalinism.
- Limits on Liberty
The Experience of Mennonite, Hutterite and Doukhobor Communities in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
In this book, Janzen examines the beliefs and way of life of the Mennonite, Hutterite and Doukhobor Communities in Canada.
- The Logic of Marx's Capital
Replies to Hegelian Criticisms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Tackles some of the myths of about Gandhi, such as the idea that he was a "saint", or the idea that non-violence is the same as passivity, or that non-violence may have worked in India but wouldn't work anywhere else.
- Making A World of Difference
A Directory of Women in Canada specializing in Global Issues
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
The directory provides in-depth profiles of over 250 women from across Canada, representing a cross section of the available expertise in issues related to development, environment, peace and social justice.
- Manifest Destiny? A Native Perspective on 1992
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
1992 will be a year of mourning for North American Indians; a mourning for the fragmentation and loss of our traditional way of life.
- Marketing Your Books
A collection of profit-making ideas for authors and publishers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Masks of Proteus
Canadian Reflections on the State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A multi-faceted study of the modern state.
- Metro World '91
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Metro World '91
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Military bases
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Minority publishers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Mohawk defense fund
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Montreal
A Citizen's Guide to Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
In 1986, The Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) were elected at City Hall defeating the Drapeau Administration. In this collection of articles, every aspect of reform under the MCM Administration is scrutinized: Employment, Housing and Planning, Ecology, Crime, Relations between ethnic groups, Public Transportation and Public Health.
- Montreal
A Citizen's Guide to Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- More VIA cuts predicted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Move-A-Thon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Myles Horton
Insights from organizer Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Obituary.
- The Myth of Lenin's 'Concept of The Party'
What They Did to What Is To Be Done?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Lenin protested more than once that his initial formulations in WITBD were being distorted and misinterpreted by opponents, after which he went on to clarify and modify. If we want to know Lenin's 'concept of the party' we must look at the formulations he came to, after there had been discussions and attacks.
- The Myth of the Market
Promises and Illusions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Advocates expelling the market from all those spaces it has inappropriately invaded.
- Name change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Nathan der Weise
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Native press axed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Natural History of the Senses
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A personal exploration of the senses and sensual pleasures.
- Nelson Mandela
The Struggle Is My Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
This is an updated account of Nelson Mandela's speeches and political writings from both his days as leader of the African Congress Youth League in 1944 to his release from prison in 1990. The excerpts from his trial are riveting and revealing of the governments mind-set on apertheid. Mandela emerges as a man with patience, thoughtfulness and character. The text is enhanced with an index and new photographs.
- New Enclosures
Midnight Notes # 10 - Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- New job for Reisman
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Niagara Escarptment
A Portfolio
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Nightmare at Valdez
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Article in the November-December 1990 issue of Wildlife Conservation.
- The 1990 Prague Appeal: Let Us Found a Helsinki Citizens Assembly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
The peaceful transition of Europe is unthinkable without the full observance of all human and civil rights.
- 1992 The Theology of Self-Discovery Offers Hope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
The Self-Discovery campaign does not confine itself to the struggles of Indigenous People but addresses the concerns of all social and racial groups who have experienced social/cultural destruction under the yoke of colonialism.
- 1992: A White Christian Perspective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
I would hope that we can enter into a very sober 1992 event, so that native Christians might be able to retrieve those symbols that will give them new strength. I would hope that God is acting now as a kind of psychoanalyst, fresh dialogue might continue between the Church and native groups not within its "fold".
- No base in Goose Bay
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- No More Secrets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- No nukes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Nobody's Business
The Paradoxes of Privacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Nonviolent Defence, The Road Not Taken
The Case of India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
One of the most unfortunate missed historical opportunities occured when India, after achieving independence through nonviolent action, took the course of military defence. Let us imagine what might have happened if Gandhi and other nonviolent enthusiasts had spent their time in prison planning the specifics of nonviolent defence in detail.
- The Norton Book of Nature Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Not a Sentimental Journey
What's Behind the VIA Rail Cuts, What YOU Can Do About It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A response to the attack on passenger rail service in Canada.
- Not for Profit, You Say!
An Operations Manual for Non-profit Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Aa reference book on the management and operation of non-profit organizations.
- Notes from an Anarchist Sociologist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Ehrlich's account of how his activism made him realize he could no longer comfortably pursue a professional career.
- Nuclear facts and figures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Nuclear Free-The New Zealand Way
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Nuclear Power Booklet
The Case for a Nuclear-Free Ontario
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
he Nuclear Power Booklet discusses the effects of low level radiation, and the hazards of uranium mining and reactors. It also talks about solutions and alternatives.
- Official Secrets
The Story Behind the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- On Behalf...
Resource Type: Drawing
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- 165,000 factory jobs lost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Ontario Environment Network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Open Learning and Distance Education in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Organic Agriculture Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Organization of the Government of Canada 1990
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Our future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Our global commitment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Oxford Duden German Dictionary
German-English, English-German
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Panama invasion protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Parliamentary Forum on Global Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Peace and Environment Rally
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Peace in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Peace tax denied
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Peaceful Measures
Canada's Way Out of the War on Drugs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Peacemaking in the 1990s
A Guide For Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Penguin destroys books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- People Patterns
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- PEPCON
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Permaculture workship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Petro-Canada to be sold
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Philosophy of Social Ecology
Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Bookchin addresses questions such as 'What is nature?", "What is humanity's place in nature?", "What is the relationship of society to the natural world?"
- Pirate Radio Stations
Tuning In Underground Broadcasts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Planned Parenthood Scholarships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Playing Fair?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
An ingenious mix of entertainment and information, Playing Fair explains world hunger to high-school students with games and an attention-grabbing format and layout. The kit consists of five lessons, each accompanied by a board game.
- The Political Economy of Manitoba
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
An examination of political struggle and its relationship to the process of capital accumulation in Manitoba.
- Pornography
The Other Side
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Post box rates hiked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Preserving our Planet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Privatization and Health Care
The Case of Ontario Nursing Homes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Tarman identifies many problems with privatization, among them, a basic contradiction between the profit motive and quality of care, poor accountability and lack of public input, less government control of services with the balance of power decidedly in favour of the nursing home industry, and the problem of access.
- Protecting the environment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Psycho-corporal therapy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Radical Political Economics
Event Listing 1990
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Rail accidents up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Rattray Marsh
Then and Now
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A complete and living chronicle of the Rattray Marsh Conservation Area, its human settlement and natural history.
- Reading for a Peaceful Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Recolonization or Liberation
The Bonds of Structural Adjustment and Struggles for Emancipation
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, structural adjustment is the goal of the economic and social programs which they impose upon indebted Third World governments. This booklet examines Structural Adjustment Programs from the perspective of those who are made to bear the burden of 'adjustment' in countries around the world. It shows how not only nations of the Third World, but also Canada and Eastern Europe, are being subjected to structural adjustment.
- Recycling council
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Recycling Council
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Recycling week
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Redesigned Forest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
An exploration of how forests are utilized, with particular interest paid to the old-growth coniferous forests of the Pacific north-west.
- Redress for injustices to Chinese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Refund on tires suggested
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Regulating Labour
The State, Neo-Conservatism and Industrial Relations (Volume 6)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A collection of essays on industrial-labour relations in Canada, the United States, Britain, and Sweden.
- A Regulatory Agenda for Solid Waste Reduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Relief Strike: Immigrant Workers and the Great Depression in Crowland, Ontario, 1930-1935
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Carmela Patrias explores the background of a strike by relief workers in the suburban township of Crowland in 1935. The strike pitted relief recipients against stubborn local authorities and soon attracted the attention of the Premier of the Province who sent the Ontario Provincial Police to reinforce municipal government.
- Renewable energy conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Research funding draining awasy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Resignation from IMF
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Restructuring and Resistance
Perspectives from Atlantic Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Seeks to answer two questions: Will the Atlantic region further marginalise to the point of an eventual elimination of the rural economy of small producers and the social system underlying this economy? And can any alternatives be found to the capitalist approach through the resistance and restructuring approach?
- Right on the Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
The shared vision articulated by Ulli Diemer will never attain an organized and effective form unless it can be concretized into a series of political programmes, and eventually made real through one or many political organizations or parties.
- Right to poster upheld
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Rise Up Singing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
There was a time when singing was a part of everyday life. Rise Up Singing was compiled to help bring song back into our lives, and especially to bring singing more strongly into the movement for social change.
- The Rising Seas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening & Landscaping Techniques
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Rouge Valley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Article in Seasons, Spring 1990.
- Rural Mental Health
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Safer Parks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- SAVE tour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Securing the Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- 72,000 jobs said lost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Severe Handscaps Alliance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Sexual Anarchy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Showalter explores the parallels between the ends of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and their representation in literature, art, and film.
- Sexual Anarchy
Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Shopping for a Better World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Silent Revolution
Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Socialist Register 1990
Volume 26: The Retreat of the Intellectuals
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Essays on the retreat away from socialism and Marxism by Left or formerly Left intellectuals.
- Sojourner's Truth & Other Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Solid Waste Management
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Solidarity fund
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Spiritual Warfare
The Politics of the Christion Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Sara Diamond ponders the threat the Christian Right poses to our society, the damage already done, and the extent of this evangelical religion's enduring political clout.
- Spy Wars
Espionage and Canada from Gouzenko to Glasnost
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A survey history of Canad'as "secret" history.
- State Formation and the Politics of Place
The Case of Community Legal Aid Clinics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Published in Political Geography Quarterly 9.1 (January 1990)
- Stop Your Husband from Snoring
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Sunday shopping conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Surviving the Blues
Growing up in Thatchers Decade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Sustainable development conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Sustainable development conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Telling It
Women and Language Across Cutures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Telling Our Stories Our Way
A guide to good Canadian materials for women learning to read
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Testimonies of Exile
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Abena Busia's poetry examines the pain of exile and the power of family, memory and the spiritual and practical will to survive.
- Third Annual Directory to Canadian Pagan Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Tigana
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Time to Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Toronto Island
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Article in the August-September 1990 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- The Tragic Life
Bessie Head and Literature in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Transforming Apathy and Denial
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Assisting others to face militarism and ecocatastrophe and become motivated and capable of working to reverse these threats is a substantial challenge for educators in all setting.
- Transnational Corporations and Labor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Transnational Corporations and Labor
A Directory of Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Transport Policy and the Environment
Six Case Studies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Treaty still valid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Turning the Tide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Trying to perserve natural shorelines. Autumn 1990 issue of Seasons.
- Turtle Talk
Voices for a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A collection of interviews with activists who offer insights into the crisis of the industrial world, and into what might be done to redirect society upon an organic, regenerative, sustainable course.
- Two States--One Nation?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
In this collection of his speeches from 1961-1990, Gunter Grass argues against German reunification.
- Type from the Desktop
Designing with Type and Your Computer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Unemployment rise deliberate, CLC says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Union has right to be in mall
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Union urges fish boycott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Unions plan cross-border links
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Universal Programs:
What we lose
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Upgrade Your IBM Compatible and Save a Bundle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Urine tests protested
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- U.S. claims jurisdictions abroad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- U.S.-Mexico free trade talks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Veterans Against Nuclear Arms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Video Project 1991
Films and Videos for a Safe & Sustainable World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Vigil for disarmament
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Voices from Tiananmen Square
Beijing Spring and the Democracy Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- VOW meeting (and party)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The Waffle and the Women's Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Published in Studies in Political Economy, 33 (Autumn 1990)
- Watershed management
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- What Makes Canada Secure?
Background Document for the Citizens' Inquiry into Peace and Security in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- What Our High Schools Could Be...
A Teacher's Reflection from the 60's to the 90's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
Davis, a teacher, activist, reformer, and critic, considers changes that have occurred in the school system in Canada and the U.S., and asks how these changes hurt or help students and society.
- The Wheatgrass Mechanism
Science and Imagination in the Western Canadian Landscape
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Who's Calling the Shots?
How to Respond Effectively to Children's Fascination with War Play and War Toys
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- The WILD conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Wild Mind
Living the Writer's Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
A guide to being a writer.
- Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Women and Environmentalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Women and Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Women and Well-Being/Les Femmes et le Mieux-Etre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Women and New Technologies
An Organizing Manual
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
March 1990 issue of The Tribune, Newsletter #44, March 1990. Periodical profile published 1990.
- Women and Poverty Revisited
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Women, AIDS & Activism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Women's centres temporarily reprieved
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Women's programs cut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Women's Studies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Working Class History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Writers in Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
An analysis of the work of imprisoned writers.
- Yearning
Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Yugoslav Left Oppositionists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Published: 1990
- Challenged Books and Magazines List 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 2009
This updated document provides a list of 100 books and magazines which have been challenged due to their content between the years of 1989 and 2009.
- Federal budget
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- A Dictionary of Superstitions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 2005
Divinations, spells, cures, charms, signs and omens, rituals, and taboos arranged A - Z by term.
- Going to the Sources
A Guide to Historical Research and Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 2002
- Time Out Film Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 2001
- A Safe Place
Laying the Groundwork of Psychotherapy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1996
Hawkin examines the practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry and asks what allows psychological healing to take place.
- El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Desarrollo, Internacional
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
- The Connexions Annual: An Introduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society’s grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems. We hope that by providing this information we will be making it easier for those already active to find out about and contact each other and to do their work more effectively and co-operatively. We hope that those individuals who are thinking about or looking for ways to become active will be able to use the information to find like-minded people to work with. We hope, too, that this book will help to get out the message that there are viable alternatives to destructive and exploitative institutions and structures, and that there are people organizing to build those alternatives.
- The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems.
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
- Introducción al Directorio de Conexiones
Una Guía de Alternativas Sociales y Ambientales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
- Introduction de l'Annuaire Connexions
Un livre d'origine sur les alternatives sociaux et environnementaux
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
- Introduction to the Connexions Annual - Japanese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
- Amy the Dancing Bear
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1992
- Socialism
Past and Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1992
Harrington discusses the evolving nature of socialism, examining its past, present, and future, and discusses the work of Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and others
- Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1991
An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
- Emmanuelle 1
The Art of Guido Crepax
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1990
- Ethnocultural Directory of Canada 1990
Repertoire Ethnoculturel du Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1990
A listing of 240 Canadian organizations (157 from Quebec) with descriptions, in English and French, of their objectives, services, activities and publications.
- Fear of Falling
The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1990
Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
- Ginsberg
A Biography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1990
A biography of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
- Occupational Health Congress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1990
- Toxic Parents
Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1990
- Wonderful Life
The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1990
- The Natural Role of Humans in the Wilderness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Kinky sex case raises disturbing questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Looking for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
- The Need for Alternative Employment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
- the Ice Age Origins of the Domestic Dog
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Whither Monkeywrenching?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
For monkeywrenchers to adapt to new conditions, they need to be open, creative and smarter.
- Affirmative Action
The New Look
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Affirmative action may be out of favor at the Supreme Court, but it is becoming a stronger force on America's campuses. Until a decade or so ago, questions of ethnicity and equity could be considered as involving mostly blacks and whites. Now Asians and Hispanics among others are making claims as well, and the rules determining which groups will be given preferential treatment have been changing. A discussion and review of the changing state and perception of affirmative action in America.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
It must be remembered that soldiers themselves are often recruited from the ranks of the poor and the jobless, and that a movement for peace and social justice should be attempting to reach them too with its message. A movement for peace must in the end also include the soldiers if it is to prevail.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Arts, Media, Culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
The established wisdom has it that the media are neutral purveyors of news and entertainment, while the arts are about individual creativity and cultural values untainted by the vulgar concerns of politics and economics.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Community, Urban, Housing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual Overview: Development, International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
the principle of `Thinking Globally, Acting Locally' can and must also be extended to acting locally on behalf of and in solidarity with those in other parts of this globe.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Economy, Poverty, Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
To effect desired change, it is necessary to have the power to set a different agenda, and therefore to challenge the current concentration of economic and political power. One of the keys to building an effective movement is mutual acts of solidarity, inspired by the principle that `an injury to one is an injury to all'.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Education, Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
Education is being seen as an essential element of grassroots development both in Canada and abroad. The guiding idea is that education is not merely concerned with imparting knowledge, but with helping people develop the skills and the confidence to analyse and solve problems and thus to act, both individually and collectively.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Environmental, Land Use, Rural
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
As we witness an apparently unending succession of environmental hazards and catastrophes, awareness is spreading that we are in the midst of a profound ecological crisis. There is still hope for reversing the trend toward environmental collapse, but only if we are able to work together worldwide to achieve profound changes.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Health
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual Overview: Human Rights, Civil Liberties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
If we accept that anyone may be denied their rights, their freedom, then we undermine our own rights and freedoms even as we undermine social solidarity.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Lesbians & Gays
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
Gays and lesbians have shown that while on one level -- rights, employment, etc. -- sexual orientation doesn't matter, on another level, sexual politics are profoundly important. They do matter, and no movement for change can ignore them.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Native Peoples
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
Natives have been intensifying their resistance, and more militant forms of protest are becoming increasingly common. Canadians concerned with social justice can also be working in solidarity with the Native peoples in their struggle for justice.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1994
- Medical Reform - Volume 9 Issue 5
October 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Using solar power in northern Ontario village
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Akwesasne
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The history of the Mohawks of Akwesasne and the events and conditions that led up to the violence of 1989.
- Our Generation
Volume 21 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Counting the Real Costs of Public Land Grazing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Medical Reform - Volume 9 Issue 4
August 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Televison's Profound Impact on Nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Lies of Alan Dershowitz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Alan Dershowitz: Lawyer for Zionist Lies and Spies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- In Bergamo: Concerning an Attempted Robbery and a Democratic Frame-up
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Medical Reform - Volume 9 Issue 3
June 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Other Side of Pro-Choice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Howard Huggett in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Interview May 24, 1989
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
An interview with Canadian socialist Howard Huggett. An audio recording of this interview is in the Connexions Library & Archive.
- TV: A Day in the Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A survey and discussion of the experience of watching TV and the debate over whether it is inherently a social good or evil.
- Medical Reform - Volume 9 Issue 2
April 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Our Generation
Volume 20 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- A co teraz?
Kasa Oszczednosciowa nastepstwem Wolnego Handlu
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Maintenant qu'est ce qu'on fait?
Établir un mouvement social suite aux conséquences du libre échange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Nous savons que l'accord du libre échange va éroder l'indépendance Canadienne qui est déjà limitée. Ce qui rendra encore plus difficile de résister la croisade néo conservatrice qui tien à éliminer tout ce qui se tient devant un profit sur le marché.
- Activism Under Attack
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
What does it say about democracy in Canada when people can be singled out, arrested, jailed, and kept out of a public place at the arbitrary whim of political organizers or police?
- Africa
Problems in the Transition to Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The obstacles and strategies in the transition from inherited colonial and capitalist economies toward socialism are the topics of this title. New information and political insights make this the first serious attempt to explore the important questions thrown up by the experiences of those African states that have tried to break with prevailing neo-colonial patterns.
- Africa
Perspectives on Peace and Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The African continent is today riven by a variety of conflicts that threaten not only human rights and social order, but also prospects for development and even the sovereignty of African states, In this volume, leading African scholars to confront the issues that peace studies in an African context raise. Peace is considered in the light of continuing struggles for democracy and social rights.
- Afrocentricity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Molefi Kete Asante is a professor and chairperson of the Department of African American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia. Widely recognized as the leading proponent of the Afrocentric perspective, Asante is the author of more than twenty books and over one hundred scholarly articles. This book is a persuasive Pan-Africanists's handbook which contributes to the understanding and expansion of critical Pan-African thought.
- Aid and Development in Southern Africa
Evaluating a Participatory Learning Process
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Critics have argued that, instead of helping Africans to achieve greater self-reliance, aid has often increased their dependence and vulnerability to forces over which they exercise no control. This book provides concrete evidence that a participatory methodology not only provides donor agencies with a better insight into the workings of projects they aid, but also strengthens grassroots movements and national capacity to use aid more effectively.
- AIDS:
Trading Fears for Facts: A Guide for Teens
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Alternative Dispute Resolution That Works!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Another view of the deficit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Apartheid Media
Disinformation and Dissent in South Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A riveting expose of the media and its anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa as well as the intimate face of a universal war between disinformation and dissent, propaganda and truth, state control and individual rights. Through telling annecdote and cross-cultural analysis, Phelan repeatedly demonstrates that the white South African regime's downward spiral into despotism is a cautionary tale for the United States.
- The Arctic
Choice for Peace and Security
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Arrêtons de se faire des illusions
Le magazine Canadien Dimensions discute du Nouveau Parti Démocratique Canadien
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Si nous devons plus que jamais avancer, nous devons y faire face : Le NPD n'est pas un parti socialiste. Le NPD n'a jamais été un parti socialiste. Le NPD ne sera jamais un parti socialiste.
- The Art of Sexual Ecstasy
The path of sacred sexuality for western lovers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Asia: Militarisation and Regional Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Asia is a region where both superpowers have intervened on land and stationed increasing naval forces. The continent has also witnessed numerous inter-state wars. In this book, scholars from the region describe and try to understand these tensions, and also pose alternative options for peace. They examine the militarisation of south-east Asia, the Pacific Islands and Japan; regional security issues; and specific conflicts such as the Iran-Iraq war.
- Assata
An Autobiography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur, aka Joanne Chesimard, lay in the hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed while local, state and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of an FBI campaign to harass Black nationalist organizations she was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977.
- At the Water's Edge
Nature Study in Lakes, Streams, and Ponds
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A first-rate nature book that guides the reader out into the world of ponds, stream, brooks, rills, and lakes.
- Bangladesh's penny bank gives hope to the rural poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Barefoot Gen
A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Barefoot Gen is the powerful, tragic story of the bombing of Hiroshima seen through the eyes of a young boy - the artist himself - growing up in a peace-loving Japanese family. It is a graphic 'lest we forget' depiction of nuclear devastation and a troubling index of certain kinds of urban ruin even before the bombs fall.
- Barefoot Gen The Day After
A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The acclaimed Barefoot Gen story picks up the day after the bombing of Hiroshima as the Gen family encounters the effects of the bomb, hunger, the hardened hearts of those more fortunate than themselves, and new ethical dilemmas. What is to become of them with their city burned to ashes but their trials just begun?
- Barrie deaths investigated
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Barton awards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Bedside Guardian 38
A selection from The Guardian 1988-89
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Behind Enemy Lines
WWII Allied/Axis Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Berkeley at War: The 1960s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Beware the Secret Sex Police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
From the days of Anthony Comstock and the 1873 Comstock Act to the present, the U.S. Justice Department has been infested with a small band of moral vigilantes who use its power and that of the Postal Service to prosecute and persecute a carefully selected few publishers, small businessmen, and ordinary citizens for 'illegal' or 'obscene' activites of a personal nature in the area of sex.
- Black Africa
The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The author presents a dynamic and convincing argument for the creation of a unified African state. Dr. Diop explains why attempts at economic development and cooperation cannot succeed apart from the political unification of black Africa and why the freedom of South African blacks can be achieved only with the support of all African states.
- Blair, Elgin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Obituary of Connexions collective member Elgin Blair. (Died 1989).
- Blueprint for a Green Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
- BOA
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Books on breast cancer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
- Break-ins against activist groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Several environmental and peace groups have suffered break-ins at their premises this past year. These include the Ontario Environment Network in Toronto, the Canadian Environmental Law Association in Toronto, the Toronto chapter of Science for Peace, the Green Party of British Columbia in Vancouver, and the Ottawa office of NDP MP Jim Fulton.
- Breaking Ranks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The riveting inside account of men who have emerged from fulfilling, respected, and often lucrative and influential jobs in the military-industrial complex to work for peace. Based on extensive interviews, Breaking Ranks attempts to trace the fascinating, often mysterious and convoluted routes these people take from one world to another. Their inspiring journeys push us along our own.
- Britain and Nigeria
Exploitation or Development?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Some of Nigeria's most prominent progressive historians have combined to write a coherent and organized account of the economic relationship foisted on Nigeria by the British colonial occupation. The authors stress, in particular, the wider consequences of the destruction of indigenous institutions, and the relationship of the colonial era with present-day economic distortions and political instability.
- Broadside goes under
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Buddy's
Meditations on Desire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Budget spares banks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Building Bridges to Central America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Burning Desires
Sex in America: A report from the field
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Burning Desires looks at the state of sex in the aftermath of the `sexual counter-revolution' that marked the 1980s.
- Business Online
A Canadian Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Canadian Constitution
From Patriation to Meech Lake
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Canadian Constitution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Canadian Environment Network
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Canadian Fact Book on Poverty 1989
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Canadian Human Rights Commissions Annual Report 1988
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Canadian journalist called FBI informant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Canadian Labour Movement
A Short History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Canadian magazines worried
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Canadian Religious Conference Directory 1989
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Canadian Women at Work
Their Situation, Their Union Status, and the Influence of the Public Sector
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Canadians and Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Cancer of economic growth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Cancer, weed-killers linked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Cash Copy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Cast out of Eden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Cat Lovers Against the Bomb 1989 Wall Calendar
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Courageous cats, cuddly kitties, and far-sighted felines cajole and console their war-resisting humans through another year of peace activism. Cat "faces of the moon" help you track the lunar cycles. Annotations remind you of important dates in the illustrious history of cats -- as well as notable events in human anti-nuclear, feminist, and human rights struggles. And outrageous quotations from "friends of felines" keep you chuckling. Cat Lovers Against the Bomb will help you frisk through your year, with peacemaking on your daily agenda.
- Cayenne folds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Charter of Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Charter, The Challenge
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- A Choice of Futures
Canada'a Commitment to Its Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The CIA: A Forgotten History
U.S. Global Interventions Since World War II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This book tells the remarkable story of the multifarious US/CIA interventions in more than fifty foreign countries. Here are all the details of these exploits, the operations behind the overthrow of governments, suppression of revolutions, perversions of elections, assassination of leaders, manipulation of trade unions and other organizations. Here is the account of each of the most significant American interventions.
- Class exists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A broad-ranging attempt to establish the validity of historical materialist analysis of the ancient world.
- Colonial Legacy in Caribbean Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The author argues that Caribbean literature has been separated from the source of its natural development by a colonialist educational system and the exaltation of European literary traditions and styles. As a result it has been difficult for a truly liberating literature to emerge, although the popular arts (music, song, dance) contain the historical trends of tradition and power.
- Commericial shoot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Communication for and Against Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
- The Community Advocate
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Community Workshops for the Environment
An Organizer's Manual
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A guide to organizing ecology workshops.
- The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Connexions Annual 1989
A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Convention Proceedings
Confederation of Canadian Unions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Crees fine government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Crisis in African Agriculture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Why is Africa no longer able to feed itself? Lamine Gokou poses this question against a background of meticulous evidence charting the dimensions of the Continent's agricultural decline. He shows what has happened to overall food production, grain output, and levels of nutrition. He argues that the solution to Africa's food crisis must be primarily political. Technical measures can only work once African peoples have taken control of their own societies.
- Critical Paths
Organizing on health Issues in the community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Culture Inc.
The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly limited and controlled.
- Cultures of Solidarity
Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
In three vivid case studies Fantasia explores the complicated, multi-faceted dynamics of American working-class consciousness and collective action.
- Daring to Be Bad
Radical Feminism in America, 1967 - 1975
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Databases
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Deaf Canadians march
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Death and Bereavement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Debt Squads
The U.S., The Banks, and Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
With major banks now writing off a part of their outstanding loans, the debt crisis remains in the news. The problems of a continent struggling, under pressure from IMF programmes, to keep up its repayments, are having world-wide repercussions. Now, in contrast to the analyses which have reflected the interests of the banks, this book brings in the crucial Latin American perspective. It reveals the dramatic effect that the pressure to keep up repayments has had on the debtor nations.
- Dejemos de engañarnos a nosotros mismos sobre el NDP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Si alguna vez vamos a seguir adelante, tenemos que enfrentarlo: El NDP no es un partido socialista. El NDP nunca ha sido un partido socialista. Y el NDP nunca será un partido socialista.
- Democracy for Jobs
Policies for Full Employment and Economic Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
- Democracy for Jobs
Policies for Full Employment and Ecomomic Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Directory of Heritage Organizations and Institutions in Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Directory of Information and Referral Services in the United States and Canada 1989-1990
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Directory of Libertarian Periodicals
5th Edition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Directory of Low Cost Vacations with a Difference (Revised edition)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Directory of Women and Global Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Don't be Afraid, Gringo
A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Elvia Alvarado provides a firsthand account of her experiences as a peasant organizer and the efforts of her peasant communities as they struggle to obtain land, food, education, and healthcare.
- Doublespeak award for Wilson, Tory cabinet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Downfall by Degrees
And Other Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Downfall by Degrees takes the reader on a journey that explores the nature of alienation and exile. These are stories of love and identity, longing and becoming, exile and return - stories that probe with masterful precision and exquisite balance and condition of modern people at odds with themselves.
- Earth Day 1990
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Economics as if the Earth Really Mattered
A Catalyst Guide to Socially Conscious Investing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Economics as if the Earth Really Mattered offers hundreds of suggestions of how average people can invest their money and/or their time in building a new economy in harmony with life-affirming values. Subjects covered include boycotts and sharehold action, socially responsible investment funds, social change revolving loan funds, small-scale investing, worker ownership, alternative exchange systems, and seeds for the future.
- El Salvador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- El Salvador
People in Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- End of the Line
Inside Canada's Nursing Homes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
An account of the grim reality of life in nursing homes. Sketches of nursing-home residents, their families, and nursing-home staff, reveal a generation suffering neglect and abuse, stripped of self-respect, confined to dangerous, dirty, depressing and de-personalized institutions.
- End of the Line
Inside Canada's Nursing Homes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Endangered Kingdom
The Struggle to Save America's Wildlife
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Environment network faces problems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Environment video resource centre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Environmental Directory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Environmental Forum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Environmental Infoline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Environmental labels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Equality Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Eritrea
Struggle for Independence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
One of the longest and most bitter nationalist struggles in Africa is being fought in Eritrea. The Horn of Africa has been the scene of tremendous levels of political upheaval, famine and intermittent war. At the centre of these regional problems is the question of the rights of self-determination of various submerged nationalities. The Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict is perhaps the most costly human tragedy to afflict the region in the last quarter century.
- Essential Publications on Women's Questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Ethics of Nudity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Conventional moralists claim that nudity is wicked and shameful, while some naturists claim that is has no moral dimension. What can humanistic ethics tell us about the morality of being naked?
- Ethnocultural Directory of Canada 1990/Repertoire Ethnoculturel du Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Europe
Dimensions of Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
What implication does Star Wars hold for European security? How has the collapse of detente affected European co-operation? These are among the questions raised in this unique dialogue between scholars in Western and Eastern Europe. The contributors present their diverse views on Europe's own security problems as well as the Continent's possible roles in world peace and development.
- Europe Against the Current
A Guide to Alternative Independent and Radical Information Carriers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This catalogue contains nearly one thousand addresses of people, groups and organizations in twenty-five countries belonging to what has traditionally been defined as Europe.
- Europe Against the Current
A Guide to Alternative, Independent and Radical Information Carriers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This catalogue contains nearly one thousand addresses of people, groups and organizations in twenty-five countries belonging to what has traditionally been defined as Europe.
- Everything You Need to Know to Get Started in Direct Mail Fundraising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Excess Packaging
Strategies for Waste Reduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Excess Packaging Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Executives salaries rising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Facts About Germany: The Federal Republic of Germany.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Falling out of the skies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Family Violence Videos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Farmers resist foreclosures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- FBI claims world-wide powers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Federalists, Dismantle merge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Fighting Apartheid
A Cartoon History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
South Africa: where one of the most repressive political systems of modern times exists. A system which deprives the black majority of all basic rights while the white minority enjoys a monopoly of power and privilege. In its developing struggle for liberation the majority daily comes face to face with greater and greater violence from the heavily armed minority.
- Films, videos, AV materials sought
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The First Freedom
Freedom on Conscience and Religion in Canada (Second editon)
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
An updated edition of Conscience Canada's booklet on conscientious objection to taxation for military purposes. Much of the space is devoted to legal considerations (including a copy of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms), but the ethical argument forms the core of the booklet.
- First Stop: The Master Index to Subject Encyclopedias
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- For Our Common Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Most Canadians seem brainwashed by two myths: (1) Work is scarce; not enough work for everyone; and (2) Money is scarce; Canada cannot afford full employment.
- For the Common Good
Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The authors argue that America's growth-oriented, industrial economy has led to environmental problems and propose an alternative economic paradigm.
- "Free Trade:" Look at the Contents, Not Just the Label
Response to comments in Green Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
I do not accept the idea that there should be no restrictions on trade or the market. If a particular economic activity is environmentally or socially harmful, why shouldn't we restrict it? If the so-called "free market" (i.e. an economic system where nothing is allowed to interfere with the freedom to make profits) results in economic activity that destroys the environment, or dumps people on the streets, then why shouldn't society be able to intervene?
- Free trade to mean higher pay for execs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Fresh Water
The Human Imperative
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Fresh Water: The Human Imperative examines global water use in terms of deficiency, development, pollution, delivery and storage, and testing.
- The Friendly Classroom for a Small Planet
A Handbook on Creative Approaches to Living and Problem Solving for Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This is a handy resource book for teachers, parents, and all those who work with children. It contains exercises and plans which help develop a community in which children are capable and desirous of open communication, and have self-confidence in their ability to think creatively about problems and about preventing and solving conflicts.
- The Fuelwood Trap
Policy and Planning in the SADCC
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The vast majority of the 60 million people in SADCC countries rely on woodfuel for domestic use. As supplies diminish, the quality of life is deteriorating while the environment becomes more and more degraded. This book looks at the demands to be made on politicians and planners and describes not simply the costs and effects of the problem but also suggests major ways forward.
- Funding for Native Education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Gay activist's slaying commemorated
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Germany East
Dissent and Opposition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
An overview of oppositional movements in East Germany, ranging from the 1953 insurrection to the oppositional movements of the 1908s.
- Glasnost: The Soviet Union Today
Contemporary Social Issues: A Bibliographic Series No. 13
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Good Medicine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Good Planets Are Hard to Find!
An Environmental Information Guide, Dictionary and Action Book for Kids (and Adults)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Goodwin's Awards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Goodwin's Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Goverment vandalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Government backs down on safety bill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Graphic Design
Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Graphic Design Cookbook
Mix and Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Great Lakes health danger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- A Green City Program
For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Ideas for green, sustainable cities.
- Green Print for Canada:
A Federal Agenda for the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Green Web Bulletins
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Greenprint for Canada
A Federal Agenda for the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- GST another blow to magazines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Hack
Home Truths about Foreign News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This book is about HACKS - journalists, the men and women who fly into famines and wars and in a few days churn out stories telling the world what has been going on. It shows how HACKS work and the pressures that they face through some of the big news stories and hidden wars of the past decade. It's also about "newspeak" and double talk to square what is actually happening to the complacencies of news organisations at home. Finally, it's about how one HACK thinks; how he has picked his way through the political minefield of journalism and survived with only the loss of a few stories chopped and a few others consigned to the waste bin.
- The Hammerhill Guide to Desktop Publishing in Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Hammering Swords into Ploughshares
Essays in Honor of Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This collection of essays, in the spirit of Tutu's ministry, sees the call to peace not simply as a call to lay down arms, but as a call to transform the tools of violence into materials for peaceful and productive life. This book includes personal tributes to Desmond Tutu, theological discussions on the South African struggle, and essays on the complex political and social life.
- Handbooks for Cooperating Associations and Voluntary Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Healing the Wounds
The Promise of Ecofeminism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
An anthology of writings on ecofeminism.
- Health and Safety conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Healthy Places-Healthy People/Healthy People-Healthy Places
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Healthy Pleasures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Playing to the natural strengths of mind and body, Healthy Pleasures explores ways to extend our lives as we enrich them, by understanding the crucial role of pleasure in our health.
- Help or Hindrance?
United States Economic Aid in Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Help or Hindrance? uncovers why the economic crisis in Central America has worsened as U.S. aid has skyrocketed in the 1980s. This report shows how security and military related aid, hidden under the rubric "economic aid," has far surpassed assistance for economic development, and argues that the positions of the fiscal conservatives, seeking to save U.S. taxpayers' money, and humanitarians, seeking to help the poor, are not necessarily in opposition.
- Hidden from History
Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Eessays analyzing the political, philosophical, and social history of homosexuality from the ancient world to the postwar era.
- Highrise Horticulture
A Guide to Gardening in Small Spaces
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Home & Family Guide
Practical Action for the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- How to be organized In spite of yourself
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- How You Can Help Make A Difference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Your actions can make a difference. There are a host of things you can do in and around your home to reduce pressures on the environment.
- Human Rights
A Directory of Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Human Rights and the Protection of Refugees under International Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Human rights books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Human Rights:
Can't Get No Satisfaction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- "I was a stranger and you took me in"
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This kit from the Canadian Baptist Refugee Services (CBRS) describes the refugee situation, explains typical misconceptions, and details how to sponsor a refugee.
- IDRC Reports discontinued
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- If This is Treason, I am Guilty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Allan Boesak has been in the forefront of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and has been increasingly recognized as a political as well as a religious leader. This collection of addresses and sermons from 1979 to 1986 shows all aspects of Boesak's involvement in the anti-apartheid movement. It includes pieces that offer analysis of the church's role in political issues, as well as sermons and articles showing a deep biblical understanding of the issues at stake. Among the selections are several of Boesak's important recent public speeches.
- Images Festival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The IMF and Ghana
The Confidential Record
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This book offers a carefully organized selection of documents of a type which are rarely published for public scrutiny, including IMF and World Bank reports, minutes of debt rescheduling conferences, and a variety of the government's own memoranda and decisions. The author shows why the IMF set out to destroy Ghana's development plans and how the IMF-prescribed austerity programme of 1966 led to a stagnation from which the country has still not recovered.
- Immigrant and Visible Minority Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- In Grave Danger of Falling Food
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
An introduction to of permaculture: an approach to land management and philosophy that adapts to natural ecosystems. Originally produced for Australian TV.
- In Our Own Backyard
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Indian bands join defence alliance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Innu acquittals overturned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- International Trade Union Summit on Privatization Proceedings
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Intifada:
The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Introducción al Directorio de Conexiones: Una Guía de Alternativas Sociales y Ambientales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Este Anuario está dedicado a la idea que el cambio es ambos, posible y necesario. Su propósito principal es práctico: proveer la información sobre grupos en Canadá que están trabajando al ras del césped social para crear soluciones positivas a los problemas sociales, ambientales, económicos e internacionales.
- Inventing the People
The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The author makes the case that the United States has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. Morgan ties the notion of popular sovereignty to the older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings."
- Israel
An Apartheid State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
In this book, Dr. Uri Davis examines those legal and constitutional structures of the Israeli state that define the national status and rights of its population. He focuses especially on the Jewish National Fund and the Israel Lands Administration, illustrating the legal provisions in their charters which institutionalize discrimination in Israel.
- Jahaji Bhai
An Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This anthology contains a representative view of the genres and themes employed by some of the best known Indo-Caribbean writers.
- Jobs said lost under free trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Joy of Service!
Bringing service excellence to the world thriugh your world
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Judgment unto Truth
An Armenian Memory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Jernazian was born in Turkish Armenia in 1890 and lived there until he was forced to flee in 1922. This autobriography tells of a way of life in those years now destroyed forever. His sensitive and engrossing account weaves together his personal experiences with the history of his people at the end of the Ottoman Empire. He bears witness to the treatment of the Armenian people and their desperate defence.
- Justice for Southern Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Keep raising the issue of democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
- Kenya's Freedom Struggle
The Dedan Kimathi Papers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Here, for the first time, as a result of years of village-level research, historian Maina wa Kinyatti has recovered some of the most important papers of the Mau Mau and its leader, Dedan Kimathi. Translated into English, they make clear the movement's own perspectives on their struggle and its difficulties, the advanced nature of their goals as a national liberation movement, and their radical vision of a liberated Kenyan society.
- Layoffs at CRIAW
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Leadership for Change
Toward a Feminist Model
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Leatherman's Handbook II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Legacy
The Natural History of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A comprehensive, extensively illustrated natural history of Ontario, covering bedrock, soils, birds, mammals, insects, wildflowers, forests, prehistoric life, and much more.
- Let's Play Together
Co-operative Games for All Ages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A collection of over 300 games and sports which put co-operation before competition.
- Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
- Liberties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Aside from the subject of civil liberties itself, the book addresses the civil libertarian approach to such issues as censorship and freedom of speech, victimless crimes, and police powers. Specific articles target AIDS testing, legal aid, drug use, and psychological testing by employers.
- Literature and Commitment
Essays on Commonwealth Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Logger's death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Lost, leaking H-Bomb 'no danger'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Makeover Book
101 Design Solutions for Desktop Publishing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Male Daughters, Female Husbands
Gender and Sex in an African Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This study of the politics of gender in Igbo society challenges the received orthodoxies of social anthropology that all women in pre-colonial African societies were in a subordinate position.
- Man fired for AIDS gets damages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- George Manuel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Obituary in the Connexions Digest
- Marcus Garvey
Anti-Colonial Champion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Marcus Garvey articulated ideas about self-reliance, about the relationship between oppressed people throughout the world regardless of colour; he put forward ideas which are central to the process of decolonialization.
- The market vs. the family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Marketing Your Books
A Collection of Profit-Making Ideas for Authors and Publishers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Maximum Gifts by Return Mail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Excellent book on direct mail fundraising.
- M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Meat inspections slashed
Connexions Digest News Brief, 1989
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
1989 article on greatly reduced inspections of meat products.
- Medicine and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Meeting Facilitation: the No Magic Method
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A guide for planning and carrying out consistently productive meetings.
- Men for women's choice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Modern North
People, Politics and the Rejection of Colonialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Modernization and Development
The Search for Alternative Paradigms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Taking as his starting point the peculiarly Western origins of the modernization notion, and the failures of development it has inspired in practice, the author argues that an alternative development paradigm can no longer take the narrow goal of economic growth as its primary objective. Its usefulness as a guide to the new thinking about development taking place in the Third World is further enhanced by the extensive and thematically organized bibliography.
- The Monthly Epic
A History of Canadian Magazines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Morningside World of Stuart McLean
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Radio essays by Stuart McLean.
- Moscow sells photos of Canadian base
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Mother, Sing for Me
People's Theatre in Kenya
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This play, acted by the villagers of Kamiriithu, was banned after a few public rehearsals. The Kenyan authorities subsequently ordered the total destruction of the village cultural centre which had been the play's birthplace. The thousands who saw the rehearsals recognized the play's message that the oppression of colonial times still bore down on them in the 1980s and the key to freedom lay in rejecting the divisive myth of tribalism and uniting as Kenyans.
- Multicultural Health directory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- My Fight Against Apartheid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Imprisoned for 15 years on Robben Island in 1965, Michael Dingake's autobiography clearly reveals how his whole life has been bound up with the struggle for liberation in South Africa. His story, full of humour as well as political insight, takes us from his childhood days in Botswana to his recruitment into the ANC during the mass struggles of the 1950s, from his underground work in the 1960s to his kidnapping and imprisonment in 1965.
- Naming the Moment
Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
- The National Question
Marxist Theory and National Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This major exploration of the Marxist theory of national struggle takes issue with various modern contributors, notably Hobsbawm and Nairn. Professor Blaut draws on his wide experience of the Third World to argue that Marxist theory can be a powerful weapon for liberation struggles against colonialism and neo-colonialism. He suggests ways to strengthen the theory, particularly when trying to understand minorities in Western and Third World societies.
- Native land claims make lawyers rich
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Naturism: Making it Happen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A world view is only as influential and useful as the commitment and number of its adherents. Naturism, in its infancy as a popular movement, could do with more of both. Here are one man's thoughts on the problems and prospects.
- The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Network Notes:
Participatory Research in North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- New Catholic Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The New Founde Land
A Personal Voyage of Discovery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Newsletter Design
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Newspaper boycotted for honesty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- NFB Video Series
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- NIMBI
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- 1989 Directory of Women's Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The 1989 Budget and Social Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The 1989 Canadian Guide to Profitable Ethical Investing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- No Bankers in Heaven
Remembering the CCF
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
An oral history of men and women who devoted themselves to building the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
- Northern Shadows
Canadians and Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Northerners
Profiles of People in the Northwest Territories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Nothing for workers at bankrupt firm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Occupational health centre dumped
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Oil dollars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- One Sky needs help
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Ontario allows 'monster' trucks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Ottawa tightens up information tap
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Our Common Future: A Reader's Guide
The Brundtland Report Explained
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This beautifully illustrated work is a readable account of the world's development issues, as culled from the "Brundtland Report". The message that new sources of money must be found to support the pursuit of sustainable development becomes much more digestable through the beautiful photographs.
- Our Namibia
A Social Studies Textbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The first social studies textbook for Namibian secondary school students to be written largely by Namibians for the new education system that an independent Namibia will require. Topics covered include the country's political geography, its history, and the modern experiences of Namibians living under South African rule. This book provides a valuable basis for project work on Africa generally, and Namibia specifically, in the schools of any country.
- Overseas placements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Ozone Crisis
The 15th Year Evolution of a Sudden Global Emergency
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Peace Magazine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Peasants and Classes
A Study in Differentiation in Bangladesh
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Dr. Rahman shows how in Bangladesh old relations of production and exchange are changing, poor peasants are being dispossessed as the rich enlarge their landholdings, and proletarianization is making headway. Mass rural impoverishment and political unrest are the likely long-term consequences. An introduction by Dr. Terry Byres brings out the wider significance for peasant studies of Rahman's methodology and conclusions.
- A Pension Primer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Perils of Illegality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Some of the perils of conscientiously disobeying the law quickly become apparent to anyone who chooses to do so.
- Pesticides residues and waxes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Planes disabled for servicing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Plant breeder's rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Political Economy of Pensions
Power, Politics and Social Change in Canada, Britain and the U.S.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- A Political Economy of the African Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The economies of almost all African countries are in a state of crisis, and in some cases actual disintegration. This is a crisis not of natural disasters, but of human making, and in dramatic detail, Professor Onimode shows how this is now reflected in African countries' contracting economies, soaring unemployment, mounting external debts, and periodic outbreaks of famine. He examines the role of multinational corporations, the export of capital, and class and economic distortions.
- Popular Struggles for Democracy in Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
In this book, leading African and Caribbean scholars examine the forms of popular alliance being forged, the demands for 'a second independence', and what they may presage for the future of the Continent. Theoretical questions concerning the nature of the state in Africa - the context of local class formations and the global pressures of capitalism - are explored in essays by Harry Goulbourne, Abdelali Doumou, and Samir Amin.
- Post Office workers have some rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Postal cuts threaten magazines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Poverty of Affluence
A Psychological Portrait of the American Way of Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Power and Need in Africa
Basic Human Needs and Development Policies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Ben Wisner makes a case for giving the poor of Africa the means to develop their own future. He shows how a new African renaissance could spring from a radical basic-needs approach. A renaissance which has as its constituent elements environmental sustainability, women's emancipation and social justice, will stand as a refutation of the new, conservative pragmatism popular among development experts.
- A Power We Have Been Taught to Bury
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Published in In Up and Doing: Canadian Women and Peace, Janice Williamson and Deborah Gorham, eds. Toronto: Women's Press, 1989
- Private guards block public street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Privatization Putsch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
According to Hardin, privatization is the expression of the ideology of a right wing, corporate agenda: business wants to gets its hands on public funds and politicians are more than willing to hand over publicly owned enterprises and public services to business friends, nearly always on terms that are immensely favourable to the corporations involved.
- Proceedings of the First International Congress on Uranium Mining
"Stop It At The Source"
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Proceedings of a conference held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan June 16 - 21, 1988.
- Proceedings of the First International Congress on Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Progressive Periodicals Directory
Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
An annotated guide to some 600 progressive publications in the U.S.A.
- Provincial Highways Distance Table
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Public Consultation: A Citizens Handbook
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A publication created to help you consult effectively; decide what you expect and want from any public consultation process; decide when to say no.
- Que hacemos ahora? Construir un Movimiento Social en el Resultado del Libre Tratado
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Cuando creamos un movimiento para cambiar la sociedad, nos cambiamos a nosotros mismos, y al cambiarnos a nosotros mismos, hacemos que los cambios sociales sean posibles.
- Quebec police monitor TV, radio
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Race, Class, Gender
Bonds and Barriers
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Takes a historical and theoretical approach to the themes of race, class and gender. Issues touched on include the role of the state in organizing gender and ethnic group formation; racism in the women's movement; patriarchy; colonial domination of Indian women; racism and sexism in trade unions.
- RCMP unit disbanded
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The real costs of transportation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Reclaiming Toronto's Don River
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Recollecting our Lives
Women's Experiences of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Recovery from sexual assault
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Recruiting, Training and Motivating Volunteers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Refugees and Development in Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This book provides a detailed analysis based on extensive case studies of the problems and prospects for African refugee settlement, integration into host communities, and/or repatriation. The study tackles assumptions about the life and productive rehabilitation of the refugee in host countries, and suggests constructive methods of making refugees active participants in development efforts.
- Remaking Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Resources are Important
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Retreat From Governance
Canada and the Continental-International Challenge
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Africa
Essays in Contemporary Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
In this collection of essays, one of Africa's most eminent political scientists investigates crucial problems confronting the African continent: its chronic instability and sectional conflict, the nature of class rule and the failure of the post-colonial state to deliver on the promises of independence. The relevance of Marxist theory to an understanding of Africa's social reality is explored, and a theory of national liberation, based on the ideas of Amilcar Cabral, developed.
- Rites of Spring
The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Rites of Spring describes the origins, the impact and the aftermath of the Great War of 1914-1918.
- Rootless but Green are the Boulevard Trees
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
A play about growing up Indian - and Canadian - in Winnipeg. A family from Madras copes with a dual identity.
- Rural Network Advocate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Russia House
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Safer Tommorrows Begin Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Save the Carmanah Valley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Saving the CBC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Saving the Tropical Forests
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The book provides a vision of hope for the tropical rainforests of the world. In Latin America, Africa, India and South East Asia, growing numbers of people are developing techniques and projects specifically designed to promote the wise use and preservation of remaining forest lands. The authors believe that action must be based on the development and improvement of existing alternatives to destruction or it will fail.
- Seafaring Labour
The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Sailors in the transition to industrial capitalism.
- Second Opinion
What's Wrong With Canada's Health Care System and How to Fix It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Security service probes Innu
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Selling to Government
A Guide to Government Procurement in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Sight Specific
Lesbians and Representation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Silly Turtle and Other Stories for Children
Selections from the Pancatantra and Jataka Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Socialist Ideology and the Struggle for South Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Socialist Register 1989
Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Speed-up at Boeing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Sri Lanka
The Unfinished Quest for Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
In August 1987, after years of violence, an accord was signed between the Jayawardene government and Tamil separatists. This clear and readable account explains why the accord failed and, in a fresh and penetrating analysis, takes an in-depth look at Sri Lanka's economy and society and uncovers the roots of the problems which have brought such suffering to its people.
- Stage Writers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The State of the World's Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Suffering Strong
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This readable book tells readers much about the underlying causes of hunger in Africa. Through the author's powers of observation, the readers experience the horror of seeing both a starving child and the thrill of accomplishment of irrigated fields in Eritrea. The odyssey details the devastating impact of the West's two hundred year presence on the wars and oppression that today cause hunger and death in Africa.
- Sultans of Sleaze
Public Relations and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Reveals the extent to which we have been deceived by public relations firms on behalf of their unscrupulous clients -- the corporations and governments that control our society.
- Sustainable Community Development
An Introductory Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Talking God
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Tax breaks only for free traders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Tax Facts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Tax housing speculators?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Tell your story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Temagami ruling dangerous precedent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- 10 Best Censored Stories of 1988
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Think Rail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Third World Minerals and Global Pricing
A New Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This study examines the distribution of the enormous wealth inherent in the Third World's mineral resources. Dr. Nwoke criticizes the bargaining model usually used to explain relations between global corporations and Third World governments. Instead, he develops the theory of ground rent to argue that today's mineral crisis lies in the struggle between Western mining companies and the Third World over which side can appropriate the most "rent" from international mining.
- Third World - Second Sex 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This sequal to Miranda Davies' successful book Third World, Second Sex, presents first-hand accounts from the 1980's of the concerns and activities of individual women and women's organizations in the Third World, covering fifteen more countries, plus new issues and experiences not previously featured. The final section highlights the value of international communications and solidarity - so often emphasized by Third World women struggling for change.
- The Third World and the USSR
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
What use is the Soviet Union to the Third World? Why is its authoritarian system so often attractive to Third World regimes? Why have so many regimes apparently adopted Soviet Marxism as their model? The authors show how the Soviet model is often used to suit the purposes of governments whose goals are essentially capitalist.
- 36 Biggest Mistakes Salespeople Make and How to Correct them
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- This vacation do something meaningful
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- This Was Our Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Tides of Change/Marees Montantes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Ties that Bind
African-American Consciousness of Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Magubane argues that objectively and subjectively the struggle of Black Americans to capture their place in the sun is linked to the liberation movements of Africa, especially Southern Africa. Magubane offers an analysis of the African-American consciousness of Africa and its consequences for Black self-knowledge, pride and nationalism for the U.S.
- Time to Listen
The human aspect in development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Together:
A Co-operative Community Newsletter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Toronto Flashback 2
A postcard book of 30 black and white historical photographs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Toxic dumps in Quebec
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Toxic fuel scam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Trade Union Rights are Human Rights
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Training Decision: Training in the Private Sector
Competing in the New Global Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Trishanku
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Trishanku depicts with precision and subtlety the response of individual men and women to what Parameswaran terms 'the miscegenation of cultures.' Writing from where the Assiniboine River meets the Red, Parameswaran skillfully captures the intersection of people from India with the contemporary Canadian reality. The taut narratives of her poems offer the reader a startling and powerful collage of the experience of uprooting and resettling.
- UI benefits to be cut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Ultimate Black Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Under a Soprano Sky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Sanchez's poetry combines her pristine lyricism with her strong voice and black female themes to challenge not only the effete definition of poetry, but also the very intellectual hyprocrisy which underguards that effetism. In her poetry, Sonia Sanchez, keenly attuned to the changing moods of the Black community, attests to the continued depth and breadth of her castigation of the social, political and economic evils that stifle the human spirit.
- The Underground Grammarian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Underground Times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
- The Underlying Threat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Unions Attack Quebec Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- United Farmworkers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Unity brings strength
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The NDP puts too much emphasis on electioneering and not enough on economic action.
- Up and Doing
Canadian Women and Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- U.S. hate groups attacked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Valencia-Mondragon Study Tour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- VIA shutdown meets opposition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- A Voice of Our Own
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Voyages To Utopia
From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
- Waiting for Democracy
A Citizen's Journal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Rick Salutin's account of the pivotal 1988 "free trade" election. Waiting for Democracy makes a strong case that our political system is anything but democratic, though it offers little hope of changing it.
- Waste Management Options Sweap
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Waterloo Mennonites
A Community in paradox
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Fretz discussed about the history and life of the Mennonites as a community. He concludes that Mennonites have contributed much in community leadership, education, health professions, business and political office once they overcome prior distrust of the world.
- We all like to save on our taxes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- What about the Greens?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
- When the Work's All Done This Fall
The Settling of the Land: Vocies of Early Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- When the Work's All Done This Fall
The Settling of the Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Excerpts from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writings that touch on Canadian agriculture.
- Wildlife conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Wir sind nackt und nennen uns Du
Von Lichtfreunden und Sonnenkampfern; eine Geschichte der Freikorperkultur
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Fesselnde Kulturgeschichte der FKK-Bewegung von Kaisers Zeiten bis in die 1970er.
- Wish you were born rich!!?? Now you can be!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Woman fights for pollution information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Woman in Ancient Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Using travellers' reports written between the 12th and 16th centuries, Loth challenges the traditional view of women in ancient Africa as subservient. The text, illustrated with 112 black-and-white and 46 full-colour photographs, reveals women in the time of the great African empires and city founders, religious leaders, traders, and family bread-winners as well as wives and mothers.
- Women and Environments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Women and the Environment in the Third World
Alliance for the Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This book contains well documented case studies and interviews with leading women conservationists from the Third World, and gives a clear account of women's problems in relation to land, water, forests, energy and human settlements. It also looks at the lack of response from international organizations and at ways in which women can organize to meet environmental, social and economic challenges.
- Women Talking About Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Women's activism publications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Women's Humour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Women's Organizations: A National Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Woodstock
The Oral History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- Workers and Revolution in Iran
The Third World Experience of Workers' Control
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Industrial workers in Iran played a major role in the overthrow of the Shah. This account of the shuras, or factory councils, they set up throws new light on the Shah's defeat, and the consequent revolutionary impulses Ayatollah Khomeini subsequently crushed so ruthlessly. This and other Third World examples show how uneven capitalist development can create conditions conducive to struggles for workers' control in advanced as well as in backward economies.
- Workers' Own
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The World Steel Industry
Dynamics of Decline
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This book covers the profound changes undergone by the world steel industry since the mid-1970s oil price rise. Faysal Yachir combines technological explanation, economic argument and awareness of the class implications of the changes in the global steel industry to throw light on what is happening to the world economy. His analysis raises questions about the future of traditional manufacturing sectors, and explores the prospects for Third World countries of developing their own industries.
- The Write Stuff
All you ever wanted to know about letter writing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
The basics to effective letter writing lies in a little research on the writer's part and their ability to point out weakness in their targets.
- The Write Way
A Standard Handbook for Writers and Editors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
- The Write Way
A Standard Handbook for Writers and Editors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
This booklet covers queries, article outlines, deadlines, ethics, copyright, libel, and other issues of concern to editors and writers. A standard writer's contract is included. Some good solid advice and salient anecdotes pepper the text.
- You Can't Win
The Autobiography of Jack Black
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Published: 1989
Memoirs of a "desperado" who rode the rails, etc., around the turn of the century. Reviewed in the New York Review of Books, April 27, 1989.
- AFAZ
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Zeitschrift fur ene HERRschaftsfreies, selbestbestimmtes Leben.
- The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776-1848
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 2011
An evocation of the diverse nature of New World slavery in the Revolutionary Age.
- Hotel Terminus
The Life and Time of Klaus Barbie
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1988
Published: 2010
A brilliant and epic Academy Award-winning examination of the Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon", HOTEL TERMINUS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KLAUS BARBIE weaves together forty years of footage and interviews culled from over 120 hours of discussion with former Nazis, American intelligence officers, South American government officials, victims of Nazi atrocities and witnesses.
by: Icarus Films
- Night Soldiers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 2002
Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and is sent to Spain to serve in its civil war.
- The Brethren
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 2000
- The Fire Last Time (Second Edition)
1968 and After
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1998
The year 1968 was a watershed. Millions of workers in France struck in protest at police violence, the black ghettos in the United States rose in protest at the assassination of Martin Luther King, and it was the year of the Prague Spring when students and workers rose against Stalinism, only to be crushed by Russian tanks. Substantially revised and updated to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the revolt, this work analyses the period and draws lessons from the events of 1968 that will still have relevance today.
- Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
- Alt-Kassel
Ein verlorenes Stadtbild
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1994
- The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1993
- The Genocidal Mentality
Nazi Holocaust and Nuclear Threat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1991
A comparison and contrast between the engineers of the Holocaust and the scientists and strategists of the nuclear threat.
- Perspective Without Pain
Volume 1, Part 1 - The Basics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1991
- Perspective Without Pain
Volume 2, Part 1 - Curves and Inclines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1991
- A Targeted Approach to Worker Co-op Development
Lessons from Mondragon and Northern Italy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1989
Targeted strategies offer advantages: First, expertise which permits the rapid assessment of prospective deals. Second, by concentrating on businesses which have some similarities, it is possible to build links, formal and informal, and in so doing, create the potential for common problem-solving and economies of scale in the purchase of goods and services.
- The Canadian Green Consumer Guide
How You Can Help
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1989
A guide to responsible shopping that won't cost the earth.
- Canadian Guide to Personal Financial Managment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1989
- Canadian Guide to Personal Financial Managment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1989
- How to Invest Your Money with a Clear Conscience
The Canadian Guide to Profitable Ethical Investing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1989
Ellman offers a guide for those who want to ensure that their investment decisions, be they major or modest, are supporting ethical institutions, companies, and governments.
- 101 Ways To Market Your Books For Publishers and Authors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1989
Advice for book publishers and authors about how to market their books.
- One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
'Business' is also about the people who actually work in the offices, factories, and farms, who are so profoundly affected by what happens in the world of capital.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 8 Issue 5
October 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 8 Issue 4
September 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Our Generation
Volume 20 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 8 Issue 3
June 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Only Way Out of the American Empire
Lessons from the Free Trade Agreement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
The Free Trade deal shows that any attempt to develop a strategy for national independence that relies on inducing Canadian capitalists to become nationalists must fail.
- Storming Heaven
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Annadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroyed when the coal company came in. It stole everything it hadn't bothered to buy -- land deeds, private homes, and ultimately, the souls of its men and women.
- The Revolution that Wasn't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
An essay about radical history, revolution and socialism.
- Hans Blumenfeld 1892-1988
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A look at the accomplishments of Hans Blumenfeld, a German-Canadian architect and city planner who was also active throughout his life in promoting peace.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 8 Issue 2
April 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Our Generation
Volume 19 number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- 25 and Still in the Red
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
In this commemorative issue, Canadian Dimension kicks off its 25th anniversary by considering how it has survived since its inception and its achievements.
- Wages for Housework
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
'If women were paid for all they do, there'd be a lot of wages due', sang women campaigners in the 1970s. But demanding money for unpaid domestic work is a sad indictment of the Women's Movement, argues Zoë Fairbairns - because it demonstrates that feminists have lost the battle to force men to do their share of the cleaning.
- Medical Reform Group urges Peterson to establish abortion clinics
News Release February 12, 1988
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 8 Issue 1
February 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Illusion of Consumer Sovereignty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 2010
I tend to see the issue as social, economic, and political. I simply refuse to blame us consumers.
- Across Frontiers
Volume 4, Number 2-3 - Spring-Summer 1988 issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Documenting independent social, political, and cultural initiatives in Eastern Europe, from resistance in Polish factories to environmental actions in Leningrad.
- Advokid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Africa
A Directory of Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Alternative Library Literature 1986-1987
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
An anthology of writings about alternative literature and sources and producers of alternative literature, as well as about libraries themselves, and about what is happening within libraries to make them more relevant and activist in their orientation.
- The Alternative Movement, Press, and Literature of West Germany
An Introduction with Lists of Alternative Serials, Publishers, Distributors, and Selection Tools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- American Extremes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Anecdotes tell dramatic story of British underground press (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Anglicans and Aboriginal Peoples
The EcoJustice Connection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Astrology
True or False?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Bare Facts
My Life as a Stripper
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Bats in Your Hair?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
One of the legends that has made many of us more than a little nervous about bats claims that they are prone to crashing into you and getting caught in your hair. Scientists say that is just a myth, but do we really believe them when they say that? Last week I got a chance to test the theory – and my nerve.
- The Beach in Pictures, 1793 - 1932
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Traces the chronological development of Toronto Beach (Beaches) neighbourhood, and highlights the area's important personalities, institutions, and landmarks. Includes origins of 28 Beach names.
- Behind Iranian Lines
Travels Through Revolutionary Iran and the Persian Past
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Bibliographie de la Critique Quebecoise et Canadienne-Franchise dans les Revues Canadiannes (1974-1978)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- A Birdfinding Guide to the Toronto Region
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Blaming Others
Prejudice, Race and Worldwide AIDS
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Bodian's Publishing Desk Reference
A Comprehensive Dictionary of Practices and Techniques for Book and Journal Marketing and Bookselling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- A Book about Menopause
1st Edition, May 1988
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Book Marketing Opportunities: A Directory
A Directory of Book Wholesalers, Distributors, Chain Stores, Catalogs, Book Clubs, Mailing Lists, Marketing Services, Reviewers, etc.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Book of Fax
An Impartial Guide to Buying and Using Facsimile Machines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Bride Stripped Bare
The Artist and The Nude In The Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- British Historical Statistics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Business Guide To Promotion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A useful guide for any group preparing materials for publication.
- Cabbagetown
The Story Of A Victorian Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Coopersmith traces Cabbagetown's origins in the eighteenth century, growth in the Victorian era, decline in the thirties, and renaissance today. Also included are two walking tours that highlight historic and contemporary buildings and sites.
- Canada: A Natural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Canada: A Natural History surveys the varying ecosystems of the northern part of this continent, explaining their characteristics, vividly illustrated by the photographs of Tim Fitzharris.
- Canada is Not a Free Lunch!
A Community Educators' Guide to Free Trade
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A resource intended to be used as a catalyst for education around free trade.
- The Canadian Bed & Breakfast Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Canadian Books on Labour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Canadian Communism
The Stalin Years and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
- The Canadian Peace Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Canadian Press Stylebook:
A Guide For Writers and Editors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Canadian Public Affairs Handbook
Maximizing Markets, Protecting Bottom Lines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Canadian Sources of Environmental Information 1988/Sources canadiennes d'information sur l'environnement 1988
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Canadian Writers Network
Articles for Sale
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Caps And Spelling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Caring for Our Children
What's Best for Them? A Response to the National Child Care Strategy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- A Case For Non-violent Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Chicago '68
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A vivid history of the political and social movements of that turbulent time, when the power structure felt itself threatened by social movements that rejected much of what it stood for.
- Children of Resistance
On Children, Repression and the Law in Apartheid South Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
During the last decade the apartheid regime has unleashed the full force of its repressing not only against adults but even against children. The veil of censorship which the regime keeps over its actions was pierced for a few days in Harare in September 1987. There, children gave testimony of their own experience of violence and torture, and lawyers, doctors, social workers, religious leaders and parents spoke of what they had themselves seen of the treatment of children.
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Contested Truths
Keywords in American Politics since Independence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Culture and Consumption:
New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Culture of Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Chomsky argues that the United States elites are dedicated to the rule of force, and that their commitment to violence and lawlessness has to be masked by an ideological system which attempts to control and limit the domestic damage done when the mask occasionally slips.
- Curbing Garbage:
Recommendations For Recycling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Debt Study Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- DEC Book Distribution 1988-89 Catalogue
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Deconstruction and the Interests of Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Design of Everyday Things
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A book about the problems of design and how good design can overcome the frustrations of everyday things.
- Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Other Word-Related Books
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Difficult Dialogue
Marxism and Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
For over a century, Marxists and revolutionaries have had to confront the stubborn fact of nationalism. This book is a concise and independent survey of Marxists' attempts to grapple with the enduring power of this manifestation of non-class consciousness. The reader gets a lucid picture of the dynamics of the debate, and the defects that persist in Marxism's troubled relationship with nationalism.
- Directory of Archives and Manuscripts Repositories in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Directory of Free Vacation and Travel Information
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Directory of Information and Referral Services in the United States and Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- A Directory of Literacy and Adult Basic Education Programs in Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Directory of Research Funding Sources For Women
Repertoire Des Sources De Financement De La Recherche A La Portee Des Femmes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Don't Tax Reading
A Statement on the Cultural and Economic Costs of a National Tax on Reading
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Dream Tower
The Life and Legacy of Rochdale College
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Dumba Nengue: Run for Your Life
Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Mozambican writer Lina Magaia tells the stories of her neighbours and friends in rural Gaza province, the human targets of apartheid's proxy terror campaign. This book is a unique resource for communicating the reality of Mozambique's struggle for survival. Magaia's personal account lets us appreciate the harrowing effects caused by the South African backed MNR rebels in Mozambique.
- Eight Men Out
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Eight Years Later
A Comparison of the National Strategy on Child Care with the Report of the Canadian Commission for the International Year of the Child
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Employment Equity
How We Can Use it to Fight Workplace Racism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Written to help people become more aware of and more involved in employment equity as a means to eliminate racism.
- The Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Enough is Enough
Aboriginal Women Speak Out
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Extraordinary Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Myles Horton is the founder of the Highlander Folk School, a centre for leadership training in Tennessee. The Highlander trains organizers for unions, civil rights organizations and local citizens' groups. In this article, Ellen Gould and Murray Dobbin talk to Horton to find out what his experience has taught him about organizing for social change.
- The Facts About Food Irradiation
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
The Facts About Food Irradiation explains what irradiation is, how it affects food, how irradiation is regulated, where it fits into the nuclear system, and crucial economic and social concerns which all consumers should know about.
- The Facts on Free Trade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A thorough examination of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement's impact on Canada looks at a wide spectrum of questions.
- The Failure of Feminism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
The book's premise is that feminism, defined as a form of social activism aimed at improving the lot of women, accomplished a great deal of good, opening up corporate doors, garnering funds for women's college athletics, and so forth until about 1984.
- Feminist Organizing for Change
The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Ferns - a Different Sort of Plant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Ferns are among the more beautiful of plants, which makes them a pleasure to study, and there are really not that many different varieties; only about a hundred in all of Ontario.
- A Field Guide to Eastern Forests
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A "second-generation" field guide to the ecology of the forests and fields of eastern North America.
- Field Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Financial Fesability in Book Publishing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Financial Feasibility in Book Publishing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A useful snapshot of the 'free trade' debate at the time of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.
- Free Trade: The Full Story
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A history and analysis of the Free Trade Agreement of 1988.
- Fundraising For Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Gainers and the Churches
What Happened? What Have We Learned?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Looks at the 1986 Gainers strike in Edmonton from the point of view of an ecumenical group of Christians who supported the workers during that lengthy dispute.
- Gatsha Buthelezi: Chief With a Double Agenda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Operating from within the South African government's bantustan system, Gatsha Buthelezi, chief minister of the KwaZulu 'homeland', presents himself as a leading opponent of apartheid but resoultely opposes the struggle for liberation of the ANC and its allies. Who is this man and what does he stand for? Whose side is he on? Mzala examines these questions in a controversial analysis.
- The Grass is Always Greener...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Grasses are generally considered by those who have never really looked at them, to look very much the same - tall, skinny green leaves, a bit of fuzzy inflorescence at the top, and if the only grass you see is on your lawn, then even less of interest is visible. But grasses, even very common ones, come in a great variety of shapes and sizes, vary greatly in habit, and have many different uses as well.
- Growing Together
Women, Feminism and Popular Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- A Guide to Bird Guides
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
When you only have mere seconds in which to observe a bird and identify it, and you aren't already an expert ornithologist, the field guide you use, and your familiarity with it, become of prime importance. How it's arranged, the clarity of its illustrations and verbal descriptions, are crucial when you are trying to identify a bird from what has really only been a fleeting glimpse of your subject.
- A Guide to Current Analysis of the Canadian Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- A Guide to Establishing a Human Rights Documentation Centre
Report of a UNESCO-UNU International Training Seminar on the Handling of Documentation & Information on Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Haven's Gate
Canada's Immigration Fiasco
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
This is a rather confusing book -- it is hard to tell where Victor Malerek is coming from or going -- on the one hand he believes that immigrants have made substantial contributions to Canada but on the other hand he doubts we need more. As a reporter he documents the failings of Canada's immigration policies: a rudderless department, lying politicians and mindless bureaucrats. But rather than increase the rate of immigration he believes that our present population should produce larger families. He rails against bogus refugees, sleazy travel agents and a government that can't formulate a policy to distinguish between legitimate refugees in need of shelter or fake refugees looking for a job. In the end instead of making you angry about the injustices it leaves you feeling confused as to who or what is to blame.
- Helping You Helps Me
A Guide For Self-Help Groups
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- High Weirdness by Mail
A Directory of The Fringe: Mad Prophets, Crackpots, Kooks & True Visionaries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- A History of News
From the Drum to the Satellite
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Home Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The House Sparrow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Let's take another look at the house sparrow, and consider it for itself.
- In the Sleep Room
The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- An International Fraud
How The Schools Cheat Your Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Investor Beware
Investigating Investments & Scams
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Italian Factory Occupations of 1920
When 600,000 workers seized control of their workplaces
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
During the month of September, 1920, a widespread occupation of Italian factories by their workforces took place, which originated in the auto factories, steel mills and machine tool plants of the metal sector but spread out into many other industries: cotton mills and hosiery firms, lignite mines, tire factories, breweries and distilleries, and steamships and warehouses in the port towns. But this was not a sit-down strike; the workers continued production with their own in-plant organization. And railway workers, in open defiance of the management of the state-owned railways, shunted freight cars between the factories to enable production to continue. At its height about 600,000 workers were involved.
- Land and Community
Crisis in Canada's Countryside
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
- Land Study Kit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Last Chance to Save Windy Bay
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Lawyers and the Nuclear Debate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Life Beyond Pamphlets
Creating Effective Words and Images for Health Promotion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Listen Anarchist!
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Bufe criticizes many of the failings of the anarchist movement in North America, in theory and in practice.
- Living In North York
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- As Long as the River Runs
Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Waldram examines the politics of hydroelectric dam construction in the vast hinterland of the Canadian Northwest, focusing particularly on the negotiations and agreements between the developers and the Native residents.
- Looking Good In Print
A Guide to Basic Design for Desktop Publishing.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Lowly Worm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
For a lowly, inconspicuous creature, seldom seen, never heard and only occasionally smelled, the earthworm has an importance for us humans which belies its unimpressive appearance. It is often one of the first creatures of nature which children notice and investigate.
- Macho Sluts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A book of erotic short stories, including the stories "The Calyx of Isis" and "Jessie" along with six other shorter works, "The Finishing School", "The Hustler", "The Surprise Party", "The Vampire", "The Spoiler", and "A Dash of Vanilla". It includes lesbians, gay men, and those of indeterminate sexuality, with their broad ranges of fantasies.
- Making Common Cause
A Statement and Action Plan By US-Based Development, Environment and Populations NGOS
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Man Died
The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
- Men's Groups
Towards a National Listing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Miemose Raconte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Milagro Beanfield War
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Moonlit Stream
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
For relief from the stresses and strains of life, there is nothing like spending a few hours sitting beside a flowing river. A river, unlike a lake, moves. It is going somewhere. It's like life passing you by, and for a change it’s rather nice to just sit there and let it.
- More Than Medicare
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Nacktheit und Scham
Der Mythos vom Civilizationsprozess
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Name Of The Chamber Was Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The National Directory of Magazines
Second Edition 1989
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- National Film Board of Canada
Film and Video Catalogue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- National Film Board of Canada
Film and Video Catalogue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The National Question in South Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
The national question in South Africa is a complex and controversial one. Who comprises the nation? Are there not, in fact, two nations? Does South Africa constitue a special form of colonialism? What place in a future South Africa ruled by the majority Africans would there be for the other minority groups? A new generation of South African scholars and activists re-open the debate.
- The Natural History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Written for the general reader, and well-illustrated, this book paints Canada's natural world in broad brush strokes but with a wealth of detail.
- The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Gardner debunks pseudoscience and the paranormal.
- A New Endeavour:
Selected Political Essays, Letters, and Addresses
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- NGOs Study Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- 1988 Poverty Lines:
Estimates By The National Council Of Welfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The No-Bull Guide To Getting Published and making it as a writer
Everything you need to know to break into and prosper in this exciting and lucrative field
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A guide to making it as a freelance writer.
- No Way to Live
B.C. Women Speak Out
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Nuclear Power Booklet
The Case for a Nuclear-Free Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- On Guard for Thee
An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- One Hundred Innovations for Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- 1001 Ways to Market Your Books
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Origins: A History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Ottawa-Carleton Tenants Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Our Maligned Snakes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
It is hard to know why in our enlightened age, people continue to be horrified by snakes. the repugnance towards snakes is more of an unreasoned, mindless phobia, passed down through the generations and from parent to child along with the myths and misconceptions that feed it.
- Over China
A celestial view of the Middle Kingdom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- A People in Arms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Poisoners of the Seas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Pornography in a Free Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
An examination of public policy debates about pornography in the United States in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
- Poverty Profile 1988
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Prairie Network News
Number 5, Winter 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A quarterly networking publication focussing on environment, social justice and development, and peace and security issues from a Prairies perspective.
- Preparing for Winter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
For me, autumn is a time of intense excitement, even more so than spring. Like spring of course, it is a season of dramatic change, but unlike spring, which brings with it a sense of relief, of have "made it" through the winter, autumn has an aura of imminent danger, of bracing oneself for the onslaught ahead.
- Pressing for Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A serious attempt to get press coverage can be a campaign in itself. If you really want it, go after it methodically and shamelessly.
- Pressures, Problems and Prevention:
Chidren And The Health Care System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Proceedings of the Third North American Bioregional Congress
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Prospero's Daughter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Publications Legal Services Society Catalogue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Purge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Between 1947 and 1960 it was even harder than usual for left-wingers in the United States to get by. If you were active on the left, or were thought to be, there were more ways then than now that you could be arrested or threatened with arrest, or have civil rights such as the right to travel abroad withdrawn.
- Quebec Society
Tradition, Modernity, and Nationhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Radical Rag
The pioneer labour press in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Reinterpreting 1968: Mythology on the Make
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Revelations
Essays on Striptease and Sexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A sympathetic look at a much-maligned art form.
- Searching:
Research in Small Countries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Secret Museum
Pornography in Modern Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Kendrick looks at the idea of pornography since the word was coined a century and a half ago, concentrating less on the books and pictures that have instigated battles over "pornography" than on what people thought and felt about them.
- The Secretary's Friend:
The Office Management Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
The primary focus of this book is on the mechanics of office management. Among the topics covered are office design, ergonomics, getting the most mileage out of your copier, proper lighting, filing, procedure manuals, meetings and minutes, and handling office mail.
- Secrets of Warmth
Warmth for Comfort or Survival
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Selected Stories of Norman Duncan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Semiotext (e) USA
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Sewage Disposal Methods for the Thousand Islands Region
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- Social Movements/Social Change
The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
- The Socialist Register 1988
Volume 24: Problems of Socialist Renewal: East & West
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
An examination of the prospects for socialism written shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union.
- Soil Erosion
It's Agricultural and Environmental Implications For Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Songlines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Sources of Inspiration for Revolutionary Terrorism: The Bakunun- Nechayev Alliance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The South African Disease
Apartheid Health and Health Services
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
This book shows that disease in South Africa is connected at every turn with the unequal distribution of the country's resources. Case studies reveal how South African society has created disease among its black population, and explain why the country has no national health service. It concludes that effective health care in South Africa can only become a reality through pressure from trade unions, community organizations and women's organizations.
- Spring Woods
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
With the arrival of spring, I am always impressed by the great regularity of nature. Like little automatic springs hidden in the ground, green things start to appear in wonderfully predictable succession, one after another, inching their way up, unfolding in slow but deliberate renewal of life. Actually, most of the time I feel as if it is anything but slow, that if my attention wanders for a day or two to other things, I will suddenly notice that a tree I had been watching is suddenly in full leaf and I have completely missed the process of it coming out. For the spring season is regrettably short.
- Star-Phoenix Special Report on Literacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- State Control
Criminal Justice Politics in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Steps to Strategic Management
A guide for entrepreneurs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Steps to Strategic Management
A guide for entrepreneurs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Structures of Patriarchy
The State, the Community and the Household
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Concerned with the changing structures and class character of the state in Asia and its increasing tendency to be dominated by specific interest groups -- religions, ethnic, and communal -- the contributors, while examining specific situations in China, Malaysia, Iran, Bangladesh, India, Singapore, South Korea, and Sri Lanka, focus on the strengthening of patriarchy arising out of the interaction of state, community and household.
- The Struggle for Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A sweeping illustrated survey of the growth of democracy, its heroes and heroines, its enemies, its failures and successes.
- The Struggle for South Africa: Volume 2
A Reference Guide to Movements, Organizations and Institutions in the 80's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Volume 2 of this valuable reference guide examines the forces making up and supporting the national liberation sturggle and organized opposition to the regime.
- The Struggle From Below Is The Only Road
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Style Sheets for Technical Documents
A Guide to Advanced Designs for Xerox Ventura Publisher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Ten Days for World Development Hunger Package
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Tent Caterpillars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Tent caterpillars have been a particularly noticeable pest this year as well as last year. My former passive curiosity has been replaced with a rather bitter antipathy as I have watched some of my favourite bushes denuded by these hungry and very efficient insects.
- A Thief of Time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Those Halcyon Days
The Moment of the New Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Published in Intellectual Movements and Australian Society, Brian Head and James Walter eds. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988
- A Time to Stand Together...A Time for Social Solidarity
A Declaration on Social and Economic Policy Directions for Canada by Members of Popular Sector Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Trails and Tribulations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Stereotypes to the contrary, most nature lovers are not hardy explorers who strike off into the bush with little more than a compass, a notebook, and the indispensable container of insect repellent. I know that I am definitely a stick-to-the-path nature lover.
- Travel And Vacation Information Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Tree of Life
Cedars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
The Eastern White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis) is indeed a hardy species. Although slow-growing, it is inexorable once it gets under way, for it has few enemies. While other trees are being devoured by voracious insects, or debilitated by disease, the cedar grows merrily on, unbothered. While this water-loving tree may get rather brown if it doesn't get enough moisture, it can still manage to survive, especially if the soil is somewhat alkaline.
- Un vote pour la démocratie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Les groupes démocratiques sont mieux équipés pour traiter les problèmes de procédés. Ceci est parce que la démocratie permet un groupe pour procéder avec ce qu'il veut faire devant les gens qui sont peu coopératif, odieux ou insensible.
- Under World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- The Utne Reader Field Guide To The Alternative Press, Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Village Revolts
Social Protest and Popular Disturbances in England, 1509-1640
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Anti-enclosure riots, tenurial and rent disputes, and game poaching are among the many types of 'village revolts' that occurred between the accession of Henry VIII and the meeting of the Short Parliament. Based on case studies from equity court records, this book offers new insight into the impact of agrarian change, demographic expansion, and technological innovation, adding considerably to our knowledge of developments in the law of public order in 16th- and 17th-century England.
- Voluntary Organizations and their Businesses: Factors Influencing Success
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Walking Together
Resource Type: Painting
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Walking Together is a report on the political, economic, social, and cultural concerns of the people of the western Northwest Territories.
- Wasps: The Scourge of Autumn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
At this time of year everyone experiences the persistent and threatening harassment of these bright yellow and black insects, who, attracted by any available meat or fruit, drive us outdoor diners indoors in droves, wondering why we ever attempted "dining out" in the first place.
- Wasting Our Future
The Effects of Poverty on Child Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- What do the Autonomen want?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Autonomen are not a faction in the spectrum of anti-capitalist struggle. They are also not the radical wing of the protest movement. Autonomen consider rather each movement an opportunity to gratify their need for self-realization in battle.
- What in the World is Going On?
A Guide for Canadians Wishing to Work, Volunteer or Study in Other Countries (2nd Edition)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- What to do when the Mounties drop in for tea - Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- When Freedoms Collide
The Case for Civil Liberties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Civil liberties are proclaimed as important in our society, but in reality they are under constant attack.
- Whither South Africa?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
"The growing disagreements among the rulers, and the mounting resistance of the ruled, creates very favorable objective and subjective conditions for revolution in South Africa," stated Mr. N.M. Sharmuyarira, the then Minister of Information of Zimbabwe. This book contains critical essays examining the socio-political dynamics of the revolutionary situation in South Africa.
- Whose Money Is It Anyway
The Showdown on Pensions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- Women and Environment in the Third World
Alliance for the Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
An account of the problems faced by women in the management of land, water, forests, energy and human settlements. The autors describe ways in which women can organized to meet environmental, social and economic challenges.
- Women Organizing for Change
Confronting the Crisis in Latin America
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
A series of articles which seek to examine the effects of recent profound economic, social and political crises of the part several years, particularly the effects of the crisis on the lives of women in the region.
- Women: The Last Colony
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
In this exploration of women and work, Maria Mies and her co-authors have specialized in researching the condition of women in Third World countries. They use their general investigations and particular case studies in order to advance feminist theory's understanding of women under capitalism . This book throws valuable light on how Marxist political economy often still bypasses women, and so limits understanding of historical processes.
- Workers, Capital, And The State In British Columbia:
Selected Papers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- You Can't Kill the Spirit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
This book tells the inspiring stories of women using nonviolent action in their struggles for social change. These vivid accounts drawn from around the world testify to women's courage and inventiveness in struggles for women's rights, economic self- sufficiency, liberation, human dignity, and self-determination.
- Der außergewöhnliche Myles Horton
Interview geführt von Ellen Gould und Murray Dobin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
Myles Horton ist der Gründer der Highlander Folk School, einem Ausbildungszentrum in Tennessee.
- The Canadian Jewish Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Published: 1988
- There are no ghosts in the Soviet Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 2007
Six short stories.
- There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 2007
Six stories by Reginald Hill.
- Workers Power and the Spanish Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 2006
- Editing Canadian English
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 2000
- The Illustrated History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1997
- The Age of Empire 1875 - 1914
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1996
Covers the rise of bourgeois society, the growth of free market capitalism and the expansion of European colonialism abroad.
- The National Geographic Society
100 Years of Adventure and Discovery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1994
- Women's Resource Guide
BC/Yukon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1992
This guide lists resources and organizations involved with topics including: education, recreation, health, and child care in BC and the Yukon.
- The 1989 Canadian Guide to Profitable Ethical Investing
1989 Guide to......
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1989
- More Advice from The Back Doctor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1988
- The Myths of Reaganomics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1988
How well did Reagan succeed in cutting government spending, surely a critical ingredient in any plan to reduce the role of government in everyone's life? In 1980, the last year of free-spending Jimmy Carter the federal government spent $591 billion. In 1986, the last recorded year of the Reagan administration, the federal government spent $990 billion, an increase of 68%. Whatever this is, it is emphatically not reducing government expenditures.
- The Uses of an Earthquake
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1988
The people of Tepito have proven themselves far more capable than the government both of responding to the dangers and of seizing the opportunities created by the earthquake. The earthquake crisis has brought into view a long existent but rarely recognized alternative: the ability and willingness of the people of Tepito, as well as those in many other barrios, to assert a different set of values: those of autonomy, self-activity, and the subordination of work to social needs. It is also embodied in their ability, as against governmental paralysis, to design and implement their own projects, thus elaborating those values in concrete practice.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 6
October-November 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 7
December 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 5
October 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Peace Movement's Limited Agenda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
In Canada, the peace movement's strength has been reduced by its limited agenda caused, for the most part, by a refusal to recognize the important value conflicts within it. Fundamental divisions occur once the agenda goes beyond the development of new weapons systems. A significant example is the refusal of any peace coalition in English–speaking Canada to direct attention to the bloc system, and the persecution of the independent peace movement in eastern Europe.
- The Children of Aataentsic
A History of the Huron People to 1660
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
The Children of Aataentsic is both a full-scale ethnohistory of the Huron Indian confederacy and a far-reaching study of the causes of its collapse under the impact of the Iroquois attacks of 1649.
- Our Generation
Volume 19 Number 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 4
August 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Community Self-Reliance
A Canadian Vision of Economic Justice
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
GATT-fly believes that "the root cause of poverty and unemployment is the undemocratic nature of our economies", which, in Canada as in the Third World, means control over the economy by transnational corporations and a powerful few at home. There is a copy of this publication in the Connexions Archive.
- Little Brother Watches Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of working in the margins is the effect on the mainstream. What innovation in radio, television, journalism, or, for that matter, any social institution or relationship has not first appeared on the margin, only to be adapted and adopted. Margin and mainstream in dialectic move society forward.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 3
June 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Setting Up a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
How to mobilize a community to declare itself a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 2
April 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Women and the Sandinista Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
The Sandinista National Liberation Front must lead the struggle for thr education and conscientization of the entire society towards the eradication of discrminiation against women, which obstructs their full incorporation into the revoluntary process.
- Our Generation
Volume 18 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 1
February 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- America, God and the Bomb
The Legacy of Ronald Reagan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Arms Canada
The Deadly Business of Military Exports
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Regeher explores the secretive world of Canadian arms manufacture and debunks many of the myths aboutf the benefits of arms sales.
- Arms Maker, Union Buster: Litton Industries - A Corporate Profile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Litton continues to represent what is most reprehensible in corporate capitalism: blatanta disregard for the rights of their own workers and the concerns of others. The skills of Litton workers should be used for socially useful purposes, not for nuclear war preparations.
- Art And Community
Community Arts Group
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Art and Community
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Asia & Pacific: A Directory of Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- At Work In the Fields of the Bomb
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
A collection of photographs, interviews and comments aimed at making the secretive nuclear arms industry visible to the general public.
- Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Focuses on the Great Lakes Region, in both Canada and the United States.
- Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Aurora
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Australians Historical Statistics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Basics and Tools
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Bedside Guardian 36
A selection from The Guardian 1986-87
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Behind Closed Doors
How The Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System... And Ended Up Richer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
A stinging indictment of Canada's tax system and the people who shape it.
- Being Pregnant
Conversations with Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Berlin - Deutschland - Europa
Sonderdruck der Texte zum Kalender 1987 des Gesamtdeutschen Instituts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Best Hiking Trails in Western Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Biased Analogies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Birdwatcher's Book of Lists
Eastern Region
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Biz
Journal, Viewpoints & Supplements
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Black Coal Miners in America
Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labour force in the coal industry. Yet in this, as in other enterprises, their role has heretofore been largely ignored. Roland L. Lewis redresses the balance in this comprehensive history of black coal miners in America.
- Body Invaders
Panic Sex in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Caesars of the Wilderness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Volume 2 of Newman's history of the Hudson's Bay Company.
- Canada and the Global Food System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Canadian Machine-Readable Databases:
A Directory and Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Canadian Peace Educators' Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Canadian Serials Directory/Repertoire des publications seriees canadiennes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Canadian Women's Directory
Annuaire des Femmes du Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Canadian Women's Periodicals:
Title Word Index: Vol.1, No.2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Case Critical
The Dilemma of Social Work in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Catlore
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- CBC program This Hour Has Seven Days changed face of public affairs TV (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Challenging Unions
Feminist Process and Democracy in the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Changing Course
A study guide for Canadian social analysis
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
A study guide for individuals and groups who are trying to make sense of our society, and want to learn how to improve it.
- Checklist of Indexes to Canadian Newspapers/Liste de Controle des Index de Journaux Canadiens
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Children of the Arbat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Recounts the era in the Soviet Union of the build-up to the Congress of the Victors, the early years of the second Five Year Plan and the circumstances of the murder of Sergey Kirov prior to the beginning of the Great Purge.
- China: Whose Revolution?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
The Chinese Revolution was one of the most momentous events of the 20th century. For a quarter of the human race it seemed to open the way to eradicate the roots of poverty and famine, to build a better society. But whose revolution was it? Few socialists today look to China for inspiration. The illusions of “Maoism” have been systematically shattered. Today China is becoming more and more part of the world system it once seemed to want to overthrow.
- Choices
A Family Global Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Choices is aimed particularly at parents who want to instil social awareness in their children, and who are looking for ideas, activities, and ways of initiating discussion.
- The Circumcision of Women
A Strategy for Eradication
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
African women have begun in recent years to research and campaign against the practice of female circumcision. Dr. Koso-Thomas shows that female circumcision is not confined to the Horn of Africa, or the Muslim areas of the Continent. Her study of the practice in Sierra Leone demonstrates its important role in the traditional initiation of females into both womanhood and society in parts of West Africa. She sets out proposals to end the crippling of women by this operation.
- The Citizen's Guide To Lead
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
The authors of A CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO LEAD accuse governments in Canada of dragging their feet in regulating lead, one of the most common, well-known, extensively studied, and dangerous pollutants in our environment.
- Coming to Power
Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- A Common Subject Authority For Community Information Centres In Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Complete Fortune Financial and Tax Planner
Financial records & budget planner
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Complete Fortune Financial and Tax Planner
Financial records & budget planner
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Comrades and Sisters
Feminism, Socialism, and Pacifism in Europe, 1870-1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
A collection of essays on feminism and socialism by Richard J. Evans. The bulk of the book examines women's organizations in the public sphere, particularly in Imperial Germany.
- Conflict Resolution in the Classroom
A Curriculum Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Peer Conflict Resolution Through Creative Negotiation is a curriculum for grades four through six.
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Connexions Directory of Canadian Organizations for Social Justice 1987
Volume 10, Number 2-3 - Winter 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Contemporary Social Issues
A Bibliographic Series No. 6: The Feminization of Poverty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Corpus Almanac & Canadian Sourcebook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Corpus Almanac & Canadian Sourcebook #2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Corpus Occupational Health & Safety Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Creative Volunteer Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Creative Volunteer Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- A Decent Living: Women Workers in the Winnipeg Garment Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
During the 1980s, the world garment industry underwent a massive industrialmodernization. The result was a global workplace in which employers sought increasingly marginal profits by exploiting their employees. This study describes how the garment industry in Winnipeg developed historically and how it responded to the challenges of the past decade. The reader is taken into the garment factories of Winnipeg to hear garment workers testify in their own words about what the process of restructuring to meet global competition has meant for their lives and their jobs.
- Democracy is in the Streets
From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
- Design for Desktop Publishing
A Guide to Layout and Typography on the Personal Computer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Desktop Encyclopedia of Corporate Finance Accounting
Concepts in finance & accounting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Desktop Encyclopedia of Corporate Finance Accounting
Concepts in finance & accounting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Desktop Publishing Skills:
A Primer for Typesetting with Computers and Laser Printers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Desktop Publishing with Style
A complete guide to design techniques and new technology for the IBM PC and Compatibles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Desktop Publishing/Teletypestetting
A Resource Guide to Electronic Publishing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Directory of U.S. Mail Drops
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Divert, test, tease and challenge: Stet! Does all these and more (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Don't Forget!
Easy Exercises for a Better Memory At Any Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Exercises for memory training.
- Double Standard
The Secret History of Canadian Immigration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
A focused examination of the right-wing political bias and dishonesty that has charecterized Canada's post-war immigration and refugee policies. Policies were profoundly influenced by the Cold War. The RCMP served as the chief screening instrument, relying heavily on the American-Counter Intelligence Corps which was cooperating closely with the Gehlen group staffed by ex-Nazis. While belonging to a Communist party was grounds for exclusion being an ex-Nazi as early as 1950 was no longer regarded as such. The acceptance of 60,000 "boat" people was applauded by Canadians because they were fleeing Communist opression but the efforts of a few thousand Central Americans were stymied by two repressive refugee bills because they were fleeing the "oppression of our side". Whitacker grants that Canada is a safe haven of peace and freedom but only to those who are ideologically correct.
- Double Whammy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Earthbook
World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Earthbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
An Encyclopedia of the Earth and a world atlas.
- Economics and the Family Farm
A Study Guide
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
A study guide on farm finance exploring alternatives that are available to maintain the strength of family farm financing.
- Editorial Section: News of women is usually ghettoized about victims, or the success story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
in der deutschen Geschichte und Gegenwart
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Embezzlers Dirty Tricks (And How to Spot Them)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Encyclopedia of Religion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Energy 2000
A Global Strategy for Sustainable Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Exporting Danger
A History of the Canadian Nuclear Energy Export Program
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- A Fatal Attraction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- A Fatal Inversion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Femmes: Images, Modeles/Women: Images, Role-Models
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- First Five Minutes
The Successful Opening Moves in Business, Sales & Interviews
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Food 2000
Global Policies for Sustainable Agriculture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
World food production is characterized by unsaleable surpluses in Europe and North America, alongside mass hunger in the Third World. This report to the WCED argues this pattern is ecologically destructive and morally unacceptable and that the loss of cropland, forests and fertility is not inevitable. It proposes solutions to meet the growing demand for food, and to improve the environment in areas lost to agricultural production.
- Food Banks and the Welfare Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Food and Justice
Volume 4, Number 7 - July 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Foodland and Stewardship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- For Conscience Sake
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Forced Removal
The Division, Segregation, and Control of the People of South Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Forced Removal gives the facts behind the physical uprooting of millions of black people in South Africa. It describes the various forms that removals have taken during the different phases of apartheid and makes clear that forced removals are integral to the apartheid system. It concludes with an account of the current removal strategies of the regime and the increased resistance with which these strategies are being met.
- Free Trade
Issue 33, March 1987
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Free Trade for British Columbia
Is It A Bargain at the Price?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Free Trade or Self-Reliance
Report of the Ecumenical Conference on Free Trade, Self-Reliance and Economic Justice
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Report on a conference held February 26 - March 1, 1987.
- Freedom Song
A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- From The Roots Up: Economic Development As If Community Mattered
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Functional illiteracy problem alarming across age groups, regions, educated
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Gandhi Today
A Report on Mahatma Gandhi's Successors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Activists in India who are attempting to follow Gandhi's path.
- Good Girls, Bad Girls
Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
- Great Lakes
An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Green Alternative
Creating an Ecological Alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Greening of the Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- A Guide to the Charter for Equality-Seeking Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Handbook of the Canadian Environmental Network
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Harder They Fall
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Torontos' Anti-Authoritarian Journal of Arts and Politics.
- Harnessing Desktop Publishing:
How to Let the New Technology Help You Do Your Job Better
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Hastings and Main
Stories from an Inner City Neighborhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Health For All Ontario
Report of the panel on Health Goals for Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The High Price of Health
A Patient's Guide to the Hazards of Medical Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
- Home Words
Stories about the People and Places of Owen Sound
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Horizontal and Vertical - The Dimensions of Occupational Segregation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- How You Can Travel Free as a Group Tour Organizer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Idols of Perversity
Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-siecle Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- In The Feminine: Women And Words/Les Femmes Et Les Mots
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- International Women's Day. Defend the Gains of October
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Beaton calls for the defence of the gains made in the emancipation of women by the October revolution.
- Interrogation
A Complete Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Introducing Liberation Theology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
This work deals with the basic questions that are tackled by liberation theology--oppression, violence, domination and marginalization. It then goes on to show how the Christian faith can be used as an agent in promoting social and individual liberation, and how faith and politics relate.
- Lament For a Patriarchy Lost? Anti-Feminism, Anti-Abortion and R.E.A.L. Women in Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Author Karen Dubinsky, a graduate student of women's studies at Carleton University, focues on the beliefs and rise of the Anti-feminist, anti-abortion new right in Canada.
- Law Books for Journalists (book reviews)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The left and the Porn Wars
A Case Study in Sexual Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Published in Who's on Top?: The Politics of Heterosexuality, edited by H. Buchbinder et al. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1987
- The Lessons of Amish Agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Amish agriculture offers valuable eco-lessons to those interested in organic, earth-friendly farming.
- Libel
A Handbook for Canadian publishers, Editors and Writers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Libraries in an Information Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Logics of Disintegration
Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Essays summarizing and critiquing post-structuralism. According to Dews, for all its posture of radicality, post-structuralist thought is itself bound to certain vulnerable assumptions. Dews argues that the fatal philosophical fault of post-structuralism is its failure to preserve the proper dialectical distinction between the subject and the object.
- Managing Volunteers, Building Consensus, Nurturing Creativity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Techniques for managing volunteers, staff and board members for positive results; how to make everyone more effective; and methods to reduce conflict while building consensus.
- Marketing Mirage
How To Make It A Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Masques of Morality
Females in Fiction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Media Alert
A Directory Of Media Contacts In Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Media ill-advised to ignore problems that this book deals with unevenly (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Media Resource Guide
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Minority Organizations:
A National Directory (Third Edition)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Misguided Missiles:
Canada, The Cruise and Star Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Mission For Peace:
A Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Multicultural Information Resources:
A Guide to Metropolitian Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Multicultural Information Resources: Metro Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Multiculturalism at Work
A Guide to Organizational Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
This book is primarily intended for managers of human services organizations and front-line trainers. It offers a chart of the kind of thinking process which has emerged from the YWCA's experience with the Multicultural Development Project.
- My Father's House:
A Memoir of Incest and Healing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- National Directory of Budget Motels
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- New Age Business: Community Corporations That Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- New Canadian Quotations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Newsmongers
How The Media Distort the Political News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- 1987 Directory of the Arts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- 1987 Poverty Lines
Estimates By The National Council of Welfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Notes on Design for Desktop Publishing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Nuclear War
The Search For Solutions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- On Power and Ideology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Five lectures on U.S. international and security policy.
- One of the better how- to books on magazine research and writing (book reveiw)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- An Operational Strategy for Development Education in the 80's
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Our Common Future
A Reader's Guide
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Explains the concept of sustainable development, presses the necessity of a more equitable international economic system, and lays bare the links between trade, environment, and development.
- An Outbreak of Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
A young people's art display about peace leads to a plan to enlist an entire New England town in declaring an 'outbreak of peace.' It tackles fear of nuclear war, racism, and the vulnerability of teenage friendship with sensitivity and humour.
- The Oxford Companion to the Mind
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
All About Unions in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
- Paying Dearly
The International Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- People, Resources and Power
Critical Perspectives on Underdevelopment and Primary Industries in the Atlantic Region.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
This book is about resources and the reasons why the working people of the Atlantic region have derived so little benefit from the natural wealth which surrounds them.
- Perfect Machine
TV in the nuclear age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Philosophical Perspectives on Peace
An Anthology of Classical and Modern Sources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
A range of philosophical analyses of the problem of war and proposed solutions.
- Playing with our Health
Hazards in the Automated Office
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Political Handbook of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Post- Industrial Utopians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Pro-Family Movement:
Are They For or Against Families?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
In this fourth paper in the Feminist Perspective Series, Margrit Eichler examines the policies of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) concerning wives, homemakers, and mothers.
- Progress Against Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Publishing In A Global Village
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Question of the Commons
The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Radio Documentary Handbook, Creating, producing and selling for broadcast (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Refugee As Neighbour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Rendezvous mit Kassel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Resource/Reading List 1987
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Riot at Christie Pits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Rochdale
The Runaway Collage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbpl of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy. Sharpe tells the story of the college's seven-year rise and fall.
- Rural Women In Latin America
Experiences from Ecuador, Peru, and Chile
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- SADCC
Problems and Prospects for Disengagement and Development in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
These writings represent an African perspective on an organization SADCC (South African Development Co-ordination Conference) seen as a hopeful augury of a more prosperous and genuinely independent Africa. Candid and comprehensive, they present a cautiously optimistic view of the region's prospects ofa successful 'delinking' from South Africa.
- Samora Machel: An African Revolutionary
Selected Speechs and Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
The first selection in English of Samora Machel's speeches since Mozambique's independence in 1975. Among the themes he addresses in this selection are party-state relations since liberation, economic reconstruction, reorganizing health and education services toe serve the people, and the position of women. Dr. Munslow, the Editor, contributes a biography of President Machel, and highlights his relevance for all African societies.
- The Senior Citizens' Survival Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
A book about radical transformation, about how to make your senior years your most powerful, productive and fulfilling years.
- Sex Work
Writings by Women in the Sex Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
- Small Business Reference Guide
Information for the small business owner
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Socialist Register 1987
Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Soft Sell
Quality of Working Life Programs and the Productivity Race
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Quality of Working Life is a grab-bag of programs that promise workplace improvements and greater job satisfaction in exchange for increased productivity on the part of Canadian workers. But, says Don Wells, the promise of a new way to satisfy workers' needs has been proven false. Wells shows that QWL programs can present a direct, though carefully hidden, threat to the union movement.
- Soweto
The Fruit of Fear
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
On June 16,1976, school children in the sprawling townships of Soweto took to the streets in protest. They were met by brute force -- tear gas and bullets. Peter Magubane relates the events surrounding June 16 through his camera lens, giving a poignant eye-witness account in tribute to the fallen, and commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising.
- Starting A Worker Co-operative: An Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- State of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Still Sane
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Street Fighting Years
An Autobiography of the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Tariq Ali takes readers through the fortunes of the British anti-war movement and the other political movements of the Sixties.
- A Summary Of Actions
Access To Health and Social Services For Members of Diverse Cultural And Racial Groups in Metropolitan Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Summer Love
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- A Survey On Development Education In Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Les Taches Liees Au Soin Des Enfants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Taking Control of Our Future
Clerical Workers and the New Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility 1986-1987 Annual Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Summarizes the activities of the taskforce as of August, 1987. Concerns included government policy as well as corporation policies with relation to Third World debt, military exports to countries violating human rights, relations with Southern Africa, loans to Chile, Lyell Island, nuclear waste disposal, acid rain and ethical investment funds.
- Tax Facts, Nos. 1-9
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Taxation and the Arts
A Practical Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Ten Years of Work a Solid Basis for ... Ten More Years' Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Todmorden Mills
A Human and Natural History
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
An urban natural history pamphlet.
- Too Few To Count
Canadian Women in Conflict with the Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Toothpaste and Peanut Butter
A How-To Collection of Household Hints
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Toronto Immigrant Services Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Toronto Islands
Plant Communities and Noteworthy Species
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- A Tough Tale
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
In this extraordinary poem about the protracted and bitter struggle against apartheid oppression, Serote powerfully conveys the indefatigable fighting spirit of the South African people.
- The True North Strong & Free
Proceedings of a Public Inquiry into Canadian Defence Policy and Nuclear Arms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
A discussion of defence dilemmas facing Canada. Introduction by Mel Hurtig.
- Turning the Tide: The U.S. and Latin America (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- TV PR
How To Promote Yourself, Your Product, Your Service or Your Organization on Television
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- The Unemployment Survival Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- U.S. Sponsored Low Intensity Conflict in the Philippines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- An Urchin in the Storm
Essays about Books and Ideas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Views on the Co-operative Movement
Working Papers
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Consists of two articles: Co-operative Participation and Communications, and Contemporary Challnges, Co-operative Answers
- Violence and Nonviolence in South Africa
Jesus' Third Way
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
In this provocative work, Walter Wink suggests that the injunctions of the 'Sermon on the Mount' which seem to counsel passivity in the face on injustice were actually deliberately mistranslated by Biblical scholars. Winks argues that Jesus actually offered a systematic and strategic third way of nonviolent resistance of particular relevance to today's political activist.
- Voices from the City
Women of Bangkok
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Bangkok, Thailand is an Asian city where growth has taken place at breakneck speed. But what has the impact been in human terms of this rapid development on Bangkok's female population, the great majority poor and living in slums? This sensitive investigation produces stark evidence. Thorbek produces a remarkable portrait of the harsh human impact of rapid and unplanned urbanization in a Third World environment.
- Voluntary Organizations and their Businesses: Issues & Opportunities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- We are manipulated by TV, or do we "creatively fit TV into our lives"? (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Welcoming the Bluebird
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Welfare in Canada
The Tangled Safety Net
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- 'What can I Do?'
Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- What Future For Canada? A Resource Kit on the Free Trade Issue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- When Freedom Was Lost
The Unemployed, the Agitator, and the State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
The struggles of unemployed workers against the Canadian state in the 1930s.
- When Women Rebel
The Rise of Popular Feminism in Peru
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Peru is a country in which women, many of them of Incan descent, are leading the struggle to maintain their native earth, language and culture. This book includes a fascinating description of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) movement, which has been waging a guerilla war against the encroachment of modern-day capitalism on the mountain strongholds of the Incan People.
- Why Do Women Do Nothing To End The War?
Canadian Feminist-Pacificsts and The Great War
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Women and Peace Resource Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Women in African Literature Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
This issue of African Literature Today is entirely devoted to African women writers and to the presentation of women in African Literature. Some of the titles included are: The Female Writer and Her commitment; Women Without Men; Mother Africa on a Pedestal; Feminist Issues in the Fiction of Kenya's Women Writers; The Didactic Essence of Efua Sutherland's Plays; Contemporary Society and the Female Imagination; and many others.
- Women, Media and Crisis: Femininity and Disorder (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Women of Pakistan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
This book is the first history of Pakistani women's struggles for their rights in the 20th century. From the Education Reform Movement around 1900 to the current campaigns, the authors make it clear the diverse conditions affecting Pakistani women, and set their struggle in the context of the country's troubled politics and the specific role of Islam. They tell of the courage and skill with which Pakistani women have resisted the regime's systematic steps to deny them their rights.
- Women On the Global Assembly Line
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Describes how First World multinationals exploit Third World countries in the microtech industry.
- Work and Income in the Nineties Working Paper No. 8:
Phase One --Income Security Reform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- Work and New Technologies
Other Perspectives (Volume 3)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
Essays covering health hazards, labour concerns, and issues of deskilling related to new technologies in the workplace.
- Working with Assaulted Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
- World Debt: Who is to Pay?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
The solution of the debt crisis cannot lie in reducing interest rates or juggling exchange rates. As this book shows, merely servicing the swelling mountain of debt means a relentless increase in the physical resources Third World countries must export to the West. This book explores the responsibility of the creditors for this situation, as well as that of the debtors.
- Apartheid's Violence Against Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Published: 1987
This text is the General Working Document of the International Conference on Children, Repression and the Law in Apartheid South Africa, held in Harare, 24-27 September 1987. It shows how apartheid affects the lives of black children in South Africa and the violent means by which the apartheid regime attacks them when they seek to change the conditions under which they live and to join the struggle for liberation.
- The Spartakusbund and the German working class movement, 1914-1919
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Pragmatics of Community Organization
4th Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 2011
Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization.
- Medical Reform Group shocked at physician protest
News Release February 24, 1986
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Guide to the Toronto Field Naturalists' Nature Reserves
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 2001
- The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 2001
- Pirates and Emperors
International Terrorism in the Real World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 2000
- Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale (Second Edition)
Women in the International Division of Labour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1999
This now classic book traces the social origins of the sexual division of labor. It gives a history of the related processes of colonization and "housewifization" and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labour and the role that women have to play as the cheapest producers and consumers. This new edition includes a substantial new introduction in which Mies both applies her theory to the new globalized world and answers her critics.
- Towards a Canadian Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1995
- How to Interview
The Art of the Media Interview
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1990
A guide to good interviewing.
- The Origins of the Union Shop
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1989
Though the typical union contract nowadays contains some sort of union shop provision, union membership was voluntary under almost all CIO contracts prior to 1942. The dues "check off" was virtually unknown in the late '30s and dues were collected on the shop floor by shop stewards and committeemen.
- Photography for the Joy of It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1989
- The Personnel Planning Guide
Successful planning of your most important asset
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1988
- Making Their Voices Heard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1987
An account of international solidarity work in El Salvador.
- The March
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1987
An account of a peace march.
- Citizens Group Scores Success in Anti-lead Battle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1987
Through self-education, out-reach, and activism, the Niagara Neighbourhood Lead Committee has successfully worked to reduce lead risks in their neighbourhood and throughout Canada.
- A New Weave
Popular Education in Canada and Central America
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1987
A resource for educators working for social change in community groups, trade unions, churches, the peace movement, women's groups, international development organizations, Central America and other solidarity networks.
- The Next Left
The History of a Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1987
Harrington speculates and ponders on the potential rise to power of socialist governments in the Western world in the near (1990s) future.
- Our Little Victory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1987
It took an issue like Litton to get us working together, and in our little victory we can take a great deal of pride. We were lied to, threatened, denied information and harassed, all in an unsuccessful effort to discredit us as "ignorant" and "of the enemy." American-inspired militarism has mastered the means by which its opposition in this way becomes popularly misinterpreted. It is worthwhile to look at some aspects of the work of The Island Way which enabled the groups to be a credible opposition.
- Power in Play
Reclaiming Play in the Serious Work of our Lives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1987
For too long, our culture has 'viewed play as appropriate only for children, and in some rare instances for adults (when they are artists, nursery school teachers, or living out their retirement years). When we dare to question the Protestant Work Ethic and affirm both what feels good, and what works for us, it seems to me that play must be reclaimed from childhood memory and made a reality in everyday adult life.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 6
December 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Our Generation
Volume 17 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 5
October 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Eine Stimme für die Demokratie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
In vielen “Konsensgruppen“ findet man ein immer wiederkehrendes Muster: Einige wenige haben das Sagen, während der Rest schweigt. Diejenigen, die einen Job oder Kinder haben oder einfach keine “Meeting-Junkies“ sind, gehen frühzeitig. Die Gruppe fällt auseinander und die Übriggebliebenen zwingen ihr wunderbares Modell der nächsten Gruppe auf.
- One Vote for Democracy
Consensus vs. democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
- One Vote for Democracy - Korean text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Un Voto a favore della Democrazia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Our Generation
Volume 18 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 3
June-July 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Issues & Actions
April 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
A Toronto newspaper linking people for social change. Articles on the life and work of Maria Ociepka, People's Power in the Philippines, a rally against free trade, labour law loopholes that victimize workers, and Is the media your message?
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 2
April 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Medical Reform Group supports legislation
News Release March 4, 1986
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Medical Reform Group Supports Bill 94
News Release March 1986
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 1
February 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- The Accessible Home
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- After Bennet
A New Politics For British Columbia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Anxious Pleasures (excerpt)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Apartheid: The Story of a Dispossessed People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
This is a moving and informative piece of work on South Africa. The authoR rejects the 'empty land' theory when the colonists settled in. He proves irrefutably that the history of Azania does not begin in 1652, as some western historians would like to believe. The author clarifies the polticial confusion about 'apartheid' in South Africa and explains why liberation which is long overdue has been delayed, and shows how the Azanian struggle is socialist in content.
- Arab and Jew
Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Focusing on the diverse cultures that exist side by side in Israel and Israeli-controlled territories, Shipler examines the process of indocrination that begins in schools; he discusses the far-ranging effects of socioeconomic differences, historial conflicts between Islam and Judaism, attitudes about the Holocaust, and much more.
- The Arts and Social Change
Introduction to Spring 1986 issue of the Connexions Digest (Volume 10, Number 1)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
We hope that the groups and resources listed in this issue of CONNEXIONS will be useful to others who are seeking new ways to portray their messages and to dramatize injustice and spark discussion.
- Asia and Pacific
A Directory of Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Balance Sheet Basics
Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Balance Sheet of the Quebec Far Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Published in Socialist History Project
- Basic Magazine Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Covers the A to Z of magazine writing in a readable manner and offers hints for the advanced as well as beginning magazine writer.
- The Bedside Guardian 35
A Selection from The Guardian 1985-86
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Biographical Dictionaries and Related Works
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
"Bibliography of more than 16,000 biographical sources categorized by country and by occupation."
- Bloor/Dufferin in Pictures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
The changes in this west end Toronto neighbourhood are traced from is 19th century beginnings as a gentleman's country retreat to today when it is one of the city's most multicultural areas.
- Bridging The Gap:
Resources For Linking Canada and the USSR
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Canada Post Corporation
It Can Deliver
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Canada's Environment: An Overview
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Canadian book on television useful despite omitting Quebec, sexuality (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Canadian Multinationals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Canadian Women's Movement Archives
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Catalyst
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Citizen's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- A Class Act
An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Gillespie records the men and women who struggled within an economic system they did not control to improve the lives of their families and their class.
- Closed Circuits: Angry Hardin book chronicles CRTC's sellout of Canadian TV (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Co-operative Practices and Principles Reconsidered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Conservation Unravelling: Three Threats to Wildlife
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
The framework that supports our conservation efforts has grown very sick from neglect through ignorance. Should we fail to rally, we may have to fight all over again the bitter battles of 80 years ago, with wildlife taking a terrible beating.
- The Contemporary Women's Movement
From Gender & History, Chapter 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
The first chapter of "Gender & History" titled Contemporary Women's Movement, as weall as a chapter on Karl Marx are reproduced here.
- Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Carroll looks at the accumulation of capital in Canada since the Second World War. Most of the book is devoted to tracing actual patterns of corporate ownership and intercorporate relationships.
- Cries of Victims - Voice Of God
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
An account of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
- Curing Nuclear Madness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Cuts, Canadian Culture and the CBC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Canadian drams gives us a sense of community.
- Daughters of Independence
Gender, Caste and Class in India
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
A wide-ranging exploration of the historical and cultural conditions which have contributed both to the general subordination of Indian women, and to the relative success of individual women who come from less impoverished urban families, in achieving a measure of personal freedom. The authors portrays the lives and experiences of a group of urban women: their consciousness, their strategies of struggle, and the limits to the freedom they achieved.
- DEC Films Catalogue 1986
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Listing over 300 films from more than 50 countries -- features and shorts.
- Defence and Arms Control Scence and Society:
A Directory to Information Sources Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Desktop Publishing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- A Dictionary for Housing Co-operatives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Dignitaries, crises predominate: Religion Journalism fails to reflect religion today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Directory of Ontario Public Libraries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
The Directory of Ontario Public Libraries contains two sections: in the first Public Libraries including branches are listed; in the second Public Libraries are arranged by postal regions.
- 863-AIDS
Working at the AIDS Hotline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
An account of working on an HIV-aids helpline in San Francisco.
- Environmental Ethics
Philosophical and Policy Perspectives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Environmental Resource Book
1986
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- The Facts: Special Peace Issue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Fantasy's Legal, Reality's Not
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
A sex worker's take on prostitution and the sex industry.
- Farm Gate Defence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Describes how farmers have been driven to come together to defend their farms in the face of high interest rates, mounting production costs and low prices.
- The Female Body in Western Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
The female body has occupied a central place in the Western imagination, inspiriing both attraction and fear, seen as both beautiful and unclean, alluring and dangerous, a source of pleasure and evil. In this book, twenty-three scholars and critics explore these representations and their implications for contemporary art and culture.
- Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
This book reconstructs the little-known history of those political struggles women launched in Asia and the Middle East from the late 19th century onwards. The author challenges the view that feminism is a foreign ideology currently being imposed on Third World countries. She also brings back into the mainstream of history those women who played a part in the national liberation and revolutionary movements of their countries.
- Finite and Infinite Games
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Carse suggests that there are two kinds of games: One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play. The rules of a finite game may not change, the rules of an infinite game must change.
- First Choice: Essential Reading On Peace and Disarmamment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
A two-page pamphlet from Library and Information Workers for Peace listing "essential materials on the peace movement."
- First Contract
Women and the Fight to Unionize
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Looks at the "personal side" of the struggle of working women to organize themselves into unions and win first contracts.
- Free Trade and the Public Sector
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- From the Roots Up
Economic Development as if Community Mattered
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- A Garden for Wildlife: creating backyard habitat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- The German Canadians
Immigration, Settlement & Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- The German Canadians 1750-1937:
Immigration, Settlement, and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Getting Your Public Relations Story on TV and Radio
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Giving Heads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Introducing Processed World #18, an issue devoted to the always-popular subject of sex.
- The Great Lakes Primer
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
An introduction to the environmental problems faced by the Great Lakes.
- Green Isle in the Sea; an informal history of the alternative press.
An Informal History of the Alternative Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Grey Matters --- The Peace Arts Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Guide For Senior Citizens
Services & Programs In Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Guide to the Toronto Field Naturalists' Nature Reserve
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Handbook for Business Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Handbook of the Canadian Environmental Network
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- The HealthSharing Book, Resources For Canadian Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- A History of Underground Comics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Examples of the work of the underground cartoonists of the 1960s, with accompanying text that sets the historical context and analyzes the works and their times.
- Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- How To Buy Printing & Related Services
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- How to Make $6000 a month selling books by mail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- How-to-Make Big Profits Publishing City & Regional Books
A Guide for Entrepreneurs, Writers and Publishers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Human Activity and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- 100 Jahre Kaufungen in Bildern
Vergangenheit und Gegenwart
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- The Immigrant Years
From Europe to Canada 1945-1967
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- In The Name of Progress: The Underside Of Foreign Aid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Incisive books by Globe, SN writers show USA media dominance of Canada (book reviews)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Indian Giver
A Legacy of North American Native Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Traces some of the significant contributions made by Native people to the modern world.
- Inside Seven Days
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
The story of This Hour Has Seven Days, a CBC public affairs television program that dominated the Canadian airwaves from October 1964 to May 1966.
- International Women's Day and Working Class History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
In this concise essay Beaton looks at the Socialist roots of International Women's Day.
- Jeden Glos na Demokracje
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
- The Late Great Lakes
An Environmental History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Ashworth presents five common misunderstandings about the Great Lakes and advocates for improvements, remedial action and ecosystem strategies.
- Learning from our History
Community Development by Immigrant Women in Ontario 1958 - 1986
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Learning from our History
Community Development By Immigrant Women in Ontario 1958- 1986
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- The Living Economy
A New Economics in the Making
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
An attempt to summarize the "new economics" for a wider audience. The new economics can be briefly described as that body of work, beginning with E.F. Schumacher, Herman Daly, and Hazel Henderson, which is critical of tradiational economic theory and seeks alternatives to the devastating impact of our current economic system on communities, individuals and the biosphere.
- Lobbying for Your Cause
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- The Long Kill
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Love You Forever
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Children's book by Robert Munsch.
- Marx-Engels Glossary, The
Glossary to the Chronicle & Register, & Index to the Glossary. Vol. 2 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Media For Social Change
A Resource Book For Community Groups
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
An aid for community groups to help them obtain greater access to mainstream media or even to create their own media.
- Media for Social Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Meese Commission Exposed
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
The Meese Commission Exposed deals with censorship in the United States.
- The Membership Mystigue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Micro Futures: Who Pays?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Mosaic in Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Much Depends on Dinner
The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
An excursion through the history and mythology of an ordinary meal.
- Murder on the Run
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- My Interview with Pisstex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Currently the government is trying to whip up national hysteria over drug consumption. Part of this hysteria is the effort to implement mandatory drug testing for all American workers. The administration's war on drug consumption presumes that drug abuse can be stopped by police and military repression.
- Naked is the Best Disguise
My Life as a Stripper
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Neighborhood Action: Recipes For Change
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- New Age Business
Community Corporations That Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- A New Weave
Popular Education in Canada and Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
A resource for educators working for social change in community groups, trade unions, churches, the peace movement, women's groups, international development organizations, Central American and other solidarity networks.
- Ngambika
Studies of women in African Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
The criticism in Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature is concerned with expanding and augmenting the interpretation of the whole body of African literary creativity. It is a concerted attempt to redress the relative inattention to women in African literary scholarship.
- Nicaragua
Then and Now
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Not An Easy Choice: A Feminist Re-Examines Abortion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
McDonnell describes the often conflicting needs and emotions experienced prior to and after abortion.
- 101 Ways to Market Your Books
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- One Vote for Democracy - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- One Vote for Democracy - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Open the Box
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Organize Yourself!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Orwell
The War Broadcasts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Our Land
Native Rights in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Our Land explains how Canada's aboriginal peoples were brought to a state of deprevation, and what they propose to do about it. Author Donald Purich begins by painting a quick portrait of the vibrant pre-contact Indian and Inuit cultures. He relates the effects of European colonisation and of "Indian policy" from Confederation on, including the legacy of treaty-making. The heart of the book concerns current native rights issues: land claims, economic development, self-government and constitutional protection. A separate chapter is devoted to the special case of the Métis.
- Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
Women in the International Division of Labour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Maria Mies argues that feminist analysis must not be misled by the ideological and structural divisions between 'Western' and 'Third World' women created by the global system of capitalist patriarchy. Instead, she posits the contradictory relationships created historically between women as "housewives" in the West and as the cheapest and most exploited workers in the Third World.
- Peacemaking in Your Neighbourhood
Reflections on an Experiment in Community Mediation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Describes ten years of work of the Community Dispute Settlement Program, an innovative program in a suburban area near Philadelphia, founded by the Society of Friends (Quakers). The program set out to try to help solve community disputes using the guidelines of nonviolence, alternatives, and empowerment.
- Phone Power
How to Make the Telephone Your Most Profitable Business Tool
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Picture Perfect
The Basics of Good Photography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- A Poison Stronger Than Love
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Poles 'n holes: Working in the porn biz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Pornography worker Chaz Bufe on work, sexuality and censorship in America.
- Power At What Cost?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Pragmatics of Community Organization
First Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization.
- Professionally Speaking
Getting Ahead in Business and Life Through Effective Communicating
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Guidelines for effective communication, including media interviews and speeches.
- Restraining the Economy
Social Credit Economic Policies for BC in the Eighties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- The Rip-Off Book Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Rosa Luxemburg
A Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
A biography of the Marxist revolutionary.
- Rosa Luxemburg (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
A 1986 West German dramatic film on the life of Rosa Luxemburg.
- Sex-Role Learning and The Woman Teacher
A Feminist Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Sexual Magic
The S/M Photographs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Showtime (A Handbook on Producung Cultural Events for Development Education)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Sister Vision: Black Women and Women of Colour Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Skinwalkers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Three shotgun blasts rip through the side of Officer Jim Chee's trailer as the Navajo Tribal Policeman sleeps. He survives, but the inexplicable attack has raised disturbing questions about a lawman once beyond reproach.
- Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Social Theory: A Bibiliographic Series: No.1 Jurgen Habermas
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Solidarity (US) Founding Statement
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Adopted at the founding national convention of SOLIDARITY in the Spring of 1986.
- South Africa: The Cordoned Heart
Essasy by Twenty South African Photographers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- The State in Global Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
The expansion of the modern state is a central phenomenon of our time. A dominating force, as well as a guardian of society, it elecits contradictory feelings of repulsion and attraction. Fourteen scholars have contributed to this volume of essasy on the political, social, cultural and economic processes of the state.
- Survival Guide For The Unemployed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Take Care! Human Rights In The Eighties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Television Mythologies, Stars, Shows and Signs (book reviews)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Terminal Shock: Video Display Terminals: A Shocking Report (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- A Third Way: Community Economic Development
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Written to assist those individuals and groups interested in furthering community economic development (CED) in Ottawa. Features a directory of CED businesses in Ottawa and 3 case studies of CED businesses.
- This Way Daybreak Comes
Women's Values and the Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Illustrated with more than fifty photographs, this book incudes sections on personal relationships, families and communities, politics, art, work, healing the earth, networking, technologies, international perspectives and "Rewriting the Social Contract."
- Through the Glass Clearly: Canadian Women's Education, Work and Sexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Toronto: No Mean City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Toronto's Backyard
A Guide to Selected Nature Walks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Tourist Season
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- The Triple Oppression Of Immigrant Working Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- UFCW: Strategy of Appeasement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Um Voto Para a Democracia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Un Voto por la Democracia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Unsafe Harbours
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- An Urban Guide To Pesticides
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Wage-Earning Women
Industrial Work & Family Life in the U.S. 1900-1930
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- This Way Day Break Comes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Whatever Happened to the Sexual Revolution?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
What would a future anthropologist make of the bizarre and seemingly contradictory assortment of information on sexuality available today?
- When Hate Groups Come to Town
A Handbook of Model Community Responses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
- Who Gets The Work: A Test Of Racial Discrimination In Employment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Whole Again Resource Guide
1986/1987 Edition. A Periodical and Resource Directory.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
"Practical compendium of tools and resoucres for people-saving, planet-saving alternatives. It is a directory of periodicals, sourcebooks, directories and bibliographies.
- With our own Hands
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Women living under muslim laws - Dossier 1
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Women living under muslim laws - Dossier 2
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Women of El Salvador
The Price of Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
A portrait of the lives of women in the Central American country wracked by war. Drawing upon interviews with the refugees in Mexico and Nicaragua, as well as a visit to El Salvador itself, the authors describe the roles, consciousness and struggles of Salvadorian women in the family and at work, in the Church and the trade unions. They stress, in particular, women's participation in the struggle to free their country of US-supported military domination.
- Women of the Carribean
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
This collection of articles encompasses virtually every aspect of Carribean women's lives. The authors take up wide-ranging issues that bear on Carribean women, telling us the probelms they face and how these might be resolved. History, labour, the family, education, culture and development are the broad themes, within which a great diversity of specific contributions are presented.
- Women of the Mediterranean
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
The Mediterranean as a historical and cultural entity is the starting point of the women who have contributed to this book- not for them a division into European and Arab women. Instead they stress the probelms and experiences that bring them together, which being aware of the diverse experiences of women in different Mediterranean countries. The contributions in this book, with its highly original perspective, provide a bridge between Western and Third World women.
- The Women's Self-Help Educational Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Working Lives
Vancouver 1886-1986
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Writing Down the Bones
Freeing the Writer Within
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Suggestions for how to create good writing.
- Your Knife in my Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
A tale of toil.
- Zeus Weinsteins Abenteuer
50 rätselhafte Kriminalfälle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
- Sea of Slaughter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Published: 1984
Documents the white European's onslaught on the North American continent, and its devastating results for other life. Mowat writes of the slaughter of buffalo and walrus, wolves and whales, of the virtual destruction of the salmon fishery on the east coast.
- Against the Current
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
- Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Published: 1986
The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) at Brown University supports collaborative, accessible research, performance, art and scholarship in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences on a broad range of issues pertaining to race and ethnicity in America. Keenly focused on historically central racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., the Center also encourages and supports research on indigenous people, new immigrant and racial groups as well as transnational issues. The Center enables the generation of rigorous intellectual work that is accessible to the public and enables community activism.
- Dreamtime
Concerning the Boundary Between Wilderness and Civilization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 2985
Dreamtime celebrates the simultaneity of contraries at the crossroads of the logical and the mythic mind. "The 'dream place' is everywhere and nowhere, just like the 'dreamtime' is always and never." It was, after all, predictable from the time when scientific specialization began in earnest early in this century that the most fascinating insights into the human mind and the culture it has left behind would occur wherever people observe two pathways crossing.
- Issues & Actions
May 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
A newspaper linking people for social change. Articles on housing, hunger, 'Homes Before Domes.'
- Issues & Actions
March 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
A newspaper linking people for social change. Articles on the 1985 federal budget, International Women's Day, housing, and unemployment.
- Government assailed on abortion policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
AThe Medical Reform Group of Ontario has accused the provincial government of making legal abortions unnecessarily dangerous for women.
- A revolutionary attitude to Archives
From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 2015
Raya Dunayevskaya takes up the development of the Marxist-Humanist concept of Archives.
- Medical Reform Group Calls for Medically-Insured Free-Standing Abortion Clinics
News Release April 24, 1985
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Start and Run a Consulting Business
Understand why people will pay for your opinion. Convert your Knowledge into income
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 2002
- Start and Run a Consulting Business
Understand why people will pay for your opinion. Convert your Knowledge into income
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 2002
- The Great Toronto Bicycling Guide
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1985
Published: 1992
- Managing Wastes
A Guide to Citizens' Involvement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1992
Second editon of booklet first published in 1984, outling how citizens can involve themselves in decision-making about waste management.
- The Temporary Autonomous Zone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1991
I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only possible in our time but also existent. All my research and speculation has crystallized around the concept of the TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE (hereafter abbreviated TAZ).
- Computer Basics
Understanding Computers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1988
- Computer Basics
Understanding Computers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1988
- Secretary's Update
Information for the Secretary
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1988
- Ecodefense
A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1987
- The Myth of Women's Masochism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1987
- Planning Your Retirement
The Complete Canadian Self-Help Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1987
- Planning Your Retirement
The Complete Canadian Self-Help Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1987
- In the Ruins of the Reich
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1986
- Move Your Shadow
South Africa, Black and White
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1986
- The New Aquarium Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1986
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 7
December 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Ram's Horn
Number 29, December 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Newsletter of the Nutrition Policy Institute.
- Self-Managing Environmentalism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Martin focuses on the overt and active concerns of self-managing environmentalism -- namely, their interaction with political, economic and social struggles -- rather than on intellectual developments or collective changes in attitudes and values.
- All For One
Arguments from the labour trial of the century on the real meaning of unionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
A trial which challenged the right of unions to exist in Canada.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 6
October 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Privatization in the Canadian Health Care System
Assertions, Evidence, Ideology and Options
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 5
September 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Our Generation
Volume 17 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Poverty of Autonomy
The Failure of Wolff's Defence of Anarchism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
An examination of the ethical theory underlying Wolff's work which concludes that his contribution fails as a defense of anarchism.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 4
July 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
"Against Theory," the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge—issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in Critical Inquiry (8:4)—strikes some critics as scandalous, others as provocative and productive.
- Seven News (7 News) - Volume 15 Number 27
May 17, 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7. Seven News was published bi-weekly by the Ward Seven Newspaper Organization from 1970 to 1985. During this time, Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, and St. Jamestown.
- The Greens: Nationalism or Anti-Nationalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
The object of this article is to provide a better understanding of the Greens by attempting to describe them according to their own particular social contex, with the goal of allowing alternative movements in other countries to learn from the experience in West Germany.
- Paul Goodman: The Anarchist as Conservator
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Woodcock sets out to examine how Goodman uses the past, and how in doing so he continues and extends one of the vital currents in anarchist thought -- the current which, to use terms that seem at variance with most commonly held views of anarchism, is both traditional and aristocratic.
- The doctors who care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
An article about the Medical Reform Group of Ontario (MRG), a group of progressive doctors who are challenging the medical establishment and who take the position that their profession has a responsibility to be active in all matters which contribute to ill-health, whether or not it is politically popular. MRG members Michael Rachlis, Fran Scott, Debby Copes and Miriam Garfinkle are quoted.
- Seven News (7 News) - Volume 15 Number 26
April 19, 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7. Seven News was published bi-weekly by the Ward Seven Newspaper Organization from 1970 to 1985. During this time, Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, and St. Jamestown.
- Seven News (7 News) - Volume 15 Number 16
April 5, 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7. Seven News was published bi-weekly by the Ward Seven Newspaper Organization from 1970 to 1985. During this time, Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, and St. Jamestown.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 3
April 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Network
Volume 3, Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
A newsletter of information and opinion of radical social change.
- New Internationalist
April 1985 issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Everything under control: life in a managed society.
- Assessing the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
A letter to Canadian Dimension about how the publication of "The Politics of the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign" in its December issue did not make the journalistic or political contribution that was expected of the journal.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 2
March 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Medical Reform Group - report in The Interim, February 6, 1985
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
On January 8 [1985], four spokesmen for a group called the Medical Reform Group of Ontario stated in a press-conference that Ontario should permit abortion clinics.
- Abortions faster, safer in clinics, MDs' group says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Ontario should permit abortion clinics because they allow women to have abortions earlier in their preganacies when there is far less health risk, the Medical Reform Group of Ontario says.
- The Abandonment of Agricultural Land in Gaspe, Quebec
The Causes and the Impacts on Land Use
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Accumulation, the State, and Community Struggle Impacts on Toronto's built Environment, 1945 to 1972
PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 1985
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Acid Dreams
The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Acid Earth
The Global Threat of Acid Pollution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
This is the new, revised and updated version of McCormic's comprehensive book on the subject of acid rain and its effect on the environment.
- Advertising the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Against All Odds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
- An Anti-Intervention Handbook
Canadians and the Crisis in Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Anti-Intervention Handbook
Canadians and the Crisis in Central America
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The AT Reader
Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
- Atlas of Wordl War II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Beauty's Release
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Burning Forest
Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Cabbagetown-Riverdale News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Cabbagetown-Riverdale News was a sucessor to Seven News, the non-profit community newspaper published in Toronto from 1970 to 1985 in what was then known as Ward 7. The September 17, 1985 issue was the first published under the name Cabbagetown-Riverdale News.
- Calculated Chaos
Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Discusses the role of institutions within society and how their interests have lead to conflict and war over the past century.
- The Canadian Church Press Membership Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Canadian Encyclopedia Vol. I
A-For
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Canadian Encyclopedia Vol. II
For - Pat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Canadian Encyclopedia Vol. III
Pat-Z & Index
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Canadian Human Rights Yearbook 1984-1985
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Canoeing Ontario's Rivers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- CBC Radio News Chief may Alter Traditional Approaches to News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Chagall
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- A Citizen Legislature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Arguing from the premise that the present electoral system is unrepresentative and promotes corruption, the authors propose going back to the Athenian system of choosing representatives: by lottery.
- Common Pests of Trees in Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Company of Adventurers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing
Everything you need to know to write, publish, promote, and sell your own book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Complete Medical Guide to Cats
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Contra Todos los Pronósticos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
La creencia que la sociedad oficial es tan abrumadora que no se puede hacer nada al respecto está muy cerca de la idea que no puede hacer nada. La idea que las cosas se volverán a hacer si la gente se une para hacerlo ellos mismos contiene la semilla de la idea que la gente tiene el poder para hacer todo.
- Critical Perspectives on the Constitution
Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
This collection includes essays on collective rights, resistance to patriation by First Nations chiefs, and Quebec education reform.
- Debt Bondage Or Self-Reliance
A Popular Perspective on the Global Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Describes the effects of international debt on workers, the unemployed, and peasants who neither asked for or benefit from such debt. It describes the growing number of people's movements in Canada and developing nations who are struggling against austerity measures.
- Deutschland nach dem Kriege
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Digging deeper: Issues in the miners' strike
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Directory Publishing
A Practical Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Disarmament Dilemma
A Resource Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Earth Manual
How to Work on Wild Land Without Taming It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Ecodefence: Disrupting Illegal Activities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
What to do when you witness environmental crimes.
- The Faith Healers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
James Randi, magician and debunker of charlatans of all stripes sets his sights on Christian faith healers. He and his associates invented names, life histories, illnesses and tracked down multimillionaire evangelists with their own fleet of wheelchairs to expose the fraud and illogic perpetrated by them. He wants us to fear not the Lord but irrationality. The one misgiving with the book is that Randi fails to see in his heart the underlying emotional void that dogs people who seek the comfort of faith healers.
- Finding Canadian Facts Fast
How to find and use information about almost anybody or anything quickly, cheaply and legally
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
A guide to research skills.
- Finding Canadian Facts Fast - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- First and Foremost in Community Health Centres
The Centre in Sault Ste Marie and the CHC Alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
The story of Canada's first community health centre, an initiative of the United Steelworkers of America, which opened its doors in 1958.
- Fitness After 50: The Fundamentals
Lesson 6
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Fitness After 50: Your Lifelong Program
Lesson 18
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- From Coast to Coast: A Personal History of Radio in Canada (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- From Hitler to MX: Media Softness on Nazi Zundel Part of Historic Softness on Nazism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Funding for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- A Guide To Basic Print Production
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- A Guide to basic print production, Book 1 Planning the project
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- A Guide to basic print production, Book 2 Designing and producing artwork
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- A Guide to basic print production, Book 3 Printing processes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- A Guide to basic print production, Book 4 Managing resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Guide to the Multilanguage Collections in the Library
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Healthsharing Book
Resources for Canadian Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Horizontal and Vertical - The Dimensions of Occupational Segregation by Gender in Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- How to Write Porno Novels for Fun and Profit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- In the Name of Progress
The Underside of Foreign Aid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Integrated Mountain Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Is Democracy Possible?
The Alternative to Electoral Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
In this provocative book, John Burnheim argues that there is an alternative to our current political and economic structure. In a bold discussion of how and why the present system fails and what we might do to bring about genuine democracy, Burnheim offers the outline of a new kind of society, forcing us to reexamine our assumptions about the limits and possibilities of modern political systems.
- Issues & Actions
Summer 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
A Torono newspaper linking people for social change. Articles on Ethics and the Media, Homes Before Domes, Full Employment, plus a Toronto Social Justice Directory.
- Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
This volume presents lectures in 1983 and 1984 on the history of the Canadian working class.
- Life Itself
Its Origins and Mysteries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Life of Death: An Exchange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
The really great form of courage and honesty that could be witnessed under the conditions of the Holocaust was when a Pole opposed the opinion or the silence of other Poles, when a Jew opposed other Jews, and when Germans opposed other Germans or Nazism in general. This is the type of courage which we should learn about and emulate.
- Mammals of the Canadian Wild
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Managing your time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Marx-Engels Chronicle, The
A Day-by-Day Chronology of Marx and Engels' Life and Activity. Vol. 1 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Marx-Engels Register, The
A Complete Bibliography of Marx Engels' Individual Writings. Vol. 3 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
The Marx-Engels Register contains a detailed bibliographical listing of all the individual writings of Marx and Engels. Each entry in the Register gives all the basic data about a given work: English-language title, language of the original text, original-language title (if not English), date and circumstances of writing, date and circumstances of publication, reprints or republications of the original text, etc. The volume alsp provides "Sources and Translations" lists and some appendiices. An inclusive title index provides access to the Register by title alone.
- Masters and Johnson on Sex and Human Loving
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Sex researchers William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson, and Robert C. Kolodny present a comprehensive and readable survey of their findings on the complexities - biological, psychological, and social - that make up human sexuality.
- The Media Monopoly
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Memory of Fire: Genesis
Part One of a Triology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
A meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New, and an an attempt "to rescue the kidnapped memory of all America." A fierce, impassioned, and kaleidoscopic historical experience that takes us from the creation myths of the Makiritare Indians of the Yukatan to Columbus's first joyous moments in the New World to the English capture of New York.
- Michele Landsberg's Guide to Children's Books
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Landsberg provides guidance on the question of how to choose the right books for your child.
- Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- MRG Abortion Press Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
The MRG Steering Committee organized a press conference on January 8, 1985 in Toronto in an effort to lend support to the pro-choice forces in the current abortion controversy.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 1
January 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Na przekór wszystkim przeciwnoscia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Nature Bound
Pocket Field Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The New Encyclopedia of Photography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- A New Service from SOURCES: Parliamentary Names & Numbers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- 975 Jahre Kaufungen
1011 - 1986: Beiträge zur Heimatkunde
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Office Purchasing Guide
How to Save Up To 50% On......
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- On the 1966 Split
Interview with London Conference Participants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
On November 16-17 [1985], Spartacist interviewed four leading members of the Spartacist League/U.S. in the aftermath of the spectacular implosion of the Healy/Banda WRP in England. The subject matter covered in the interview is wide-ranging, but it centered on the expulsion of Spartacist from Healy’s and French leader Pierre Lambert’s April 1966 London Conference of the International Committee (IC).
- Our Future at Stake A Teenager's Guide to Stopping the Nuclear Arms Race
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Peace is Possible
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Peace Petition Caravan Campaign: The View From Sudbury
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- People Power
Applying Nonviolence Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Explores the theory of power on which all successful nonviolent action is based, the blocks which keep people from acting when confronted with injustice, and the roles played in any nonviolent campaign by allies, neutrals, and opponents. Numerous case histories illustrate the dynamics of nonviolent action.
- The People's Report
A Social and Economic Alternative for B.C.
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
The report on a commission which invited people across British Columbia to offer their visions of a just and sustainable economic future.
- A Poison Stronger Than Love
The Destruction of an Ojibwa Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
An account of an Ojibwa reserve afflicted with a poisoned water supply.
- Police
Urban Policing in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Policing is crucial to society. In the public's mind, police stand for law and order, protecting the law-abiding from the law-breaker. But what does the police officer on the beat actually do? Does the public idea of policing fit the reality?
- Politics and Television Re-Viewed, Gladys and Kurt Lang (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Pornography and Prostitution in Canada
Reports of the Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Prairie Lives
The Changing Face of Farming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Radiation Alert
A Consumer's Guide to Radiation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Railway Country
Across Canada by Train
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Resources for Community Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Rikka - Volume 10, Number 2 - Summer 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Recalling the mass internment of Japanese Canadians in World War II.
- Seven News (7 News) - Volume 16 Number 12
June, 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7. Seven News was published bi-weekly by the Ward Seven Newspaper Organization from 1970 to 1985. During this time, Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, and St. Jamestown.
- Sex, Power and Pleasure
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Sexuality of Men
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Essays on aspects of male sexuality.
- Spuren suchen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Starting a Small Business in Ontario
A Sound Business Approach to Setting Up Your Own Company
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Starting a Worker Co-operative
An Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The State in Revolutionary Periods
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
The subject of the present discussion is "state in revolutionary periods." Under this heading we are going to deal with an aspect of the Marxist theory of the state, or, in other words, the methodology of Marxism in dealing with the phenomenon of the state -- an issue often overshadowed by stereotyped statements about the state, and therefore neglected.
- Strategies for Canadian Economic Self-Reliance
Alternative Paths to Jobs, Development, Equality and Peace
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Examines "the reality which lies behind the myth of increased international competitiveness and attempts to spell out the implication of a radically different model of development -- termed the self-reliant model --for different aspects of Canadian economy.
- Televising "Terrorism:" Political Violence in Popular Culture (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- A Theology of Connexions
Short version
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Toronto Since 1918
An Illustrated History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Uncovering the Sixties
Life and Times of the Undergound Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
- Up from the ashes
No 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
A Journal for the Self-Education of Revolutionary Activists
- We Can Do It!
A Kid's Peace Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- We're All Doing Time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- What a Way to Run a Railroad
An Analysis of Radical Failure
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
How can the high failure rate of radical projects, in the media and elsewhere, be understood? This book analyses the reasons why many of the key organisations and projects in this sector, which grew up during the 1970s boom in cultural politics, either collapsed or moved into a state of permanent crisis. In attempting to come to terms with this 'history of failure' the key concepts of this movement -- collectivity, internal democracy, participation -- are critically re-examined, and an argument is presented as to how and why radical projects also need to redefine their priorities and take on board questions of efficiency, financial control and marketing if they are to survive.
- What You Should Know About Your Personal Finances
A Financial Times Guidebook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Women Against Censorship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
Essays which argue that women have nothing to gain by allying themselves with anti-feminist forces and mainstream politicians. The contributors say that censorhip will be used against feminists who seek deep and permanent changes in the status quo.
- Women Against Censorship (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Women and Film
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
1985 catalogue of DEC Films' women's collection.
- Worker Co-operatives
An Introduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Working for Peace
A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
A survey of the attitudes and tools that can be used in working for peace.
- The World of Robert Bateman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Worldwatch Paper 67
Conserving Water: The Untapped Alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Barbarians
Warriors & Wars of the Dark Ages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- Business Letters For Publishers
Creative Correspondence Outlines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Published: 1985
- The Canada Health Act: A Brief by the Medical Reform Group of Ontario
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Medical Reform Group of Ontario Press Release
News Release April 4, 1984
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Die kalte Amnestie
NS-Täter in der Bundesrepublik
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 2007
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
- Memory of Fire: Faces & Masks
Part Two of a Trilogy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1998
A view of the 'New World' in the making, from the 1700s to the end of the nineteenth century.
- Great Country Walks Around Toronto
Within reach by public transit
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1996
- Third World Guide 93/94
The World As Seen By the Third World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1994
- Ballad of the Peace Pushers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1991
Poem by Dorothy Livesay.
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1988
See also CX2933.
- The Struggle for South Africa: Volume 1
A Reference Guide to Movements, Organizations and Institutions in the 80's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1988
This updated new editon of Zed Books' two-volume reference guide on South Africa covers events since 1984 during which the low-intensity armed struggle has grown into a national insurrection. Volume 1 focusses on the capitalist class, its allies, policies and state structures.
- Working Together For Change: Women's Self-Help Education Kit
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1987
- Theses on Libertarian Municipalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1985
These theses advance the view that a libertarian municipalism is possible and a new civic politics is definable as a dual power that can counterpose assembly and confederal forms to the centralized State.
- Art in Public Places
Midcontinental special issue Volume 4, Number 1
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1985
- Canadian Human Rights Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1985
- Global Thoughts, Local Actions
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1985
A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
- Responding to the Cry of the Poor
Nicaragua and The U.S.A.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1985
- UK miners' strike (1984 - 1985)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1985
A major industrial action affecting the British coal industry.
- Working Collectively
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1985
A handbook for people wishing to form collectives, or established collectives seeking solutions to problems such as power imbalances, conflict meditation, and setting priorities.
- The Politics of the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
LaFramboise on how the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign as a national campaign would now appear to be a tactical mistake of gargantuan proportions.
- The Capital Punishment Debate - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Capital Punishment Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 4 Issue 5
September 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 4 Issue 6
November 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Medical Reform Group of Ontario Brief to the Commission of Inquiry on the Pharmaceutical Industry
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Rights and Liberties
Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 4 Issue 3
June 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Need for a New Socialist Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
It has fallen to socialists in the last decades of this century to undertake the daunting task of establishing new socialist directions just as our forerunners had to do in the first decades of this century.
- Yetiskinlere okumayi ogretmek
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Fakat Ontario nun bir gercegi bir milyonu askin fonksiyonel cahil insani olmasidir - Bunlar geri kalmis okuma becerieri oldugundan ciddi problemler yasamaktadirlar, ornegin gazette okuyamayan insanlar.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 4 Issue 2
April 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 4 Issue 1
March 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Beauty's Punishment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Bedside Guardian 33
A Selection from The Guardian 1983-84
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Best of Signal
Hitler's Wartime Picture Magazine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Brain
Mystery of Matter and Mind
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Breaking up Ontario's Hydro Monopoly
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Brother from Another Planet
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Cabbagetown in Pictures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Photos of Toronto's historic Cabbagetown, with accompanying text.
- Cabbagetown, Remembered
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Stories and photographs of the Toronto neighbourhood known as old Cabbagetown.
- Canada's Future: A Global Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Canadian Churches and Social Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Canadian Civil Liberties Bibliography (Indexed)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
An extensive bibliographly, with over 1,000 entries.
- Canadian Politics Through Press Reports (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Capital Punishment Debate - Korean text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Case For Long-Term Supportive Housing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Chemicals in your water: A little is too much
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
There is reason to be concerned about the increasing amounts of chemicals in our water.
- Children of Privilege
Student Revolt in the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Christians in the Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Describes the urgent need for Christians to respond to the socio-economic and political crises of our time.
- Christmas in the Trenches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Lyrics to a song commemorating the Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War I.
- Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Principles of Economic Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Jacobs argues that virtually all economic life, no matter how geographically remote from cities, depends on cities to maintain it or change it.
- Community branch bank closes doors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Community Dreams
Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
- The Company Store: J.B. McLachlan and the Cape Breton Coal Miners 1900-1925
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Concerning the benefits of recycling municipal solid waste
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Confessions of a Media Critic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Barrie Zwicker says that with the planet in crisis it isn't time for 'business as usual', least of all in journalism.
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 3 - Fall 1984 - Housing - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Contre vents et marées
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Cops Draw Guns to Plant Buts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Counterpoint: An Underground Newspaper with a Rural Route
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- A Creative Tension: Key Issues of Socialist-Feminism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Examination of motherhood and feminism, psychoanalysis, the Third World, individual power, and traditional sex roles.
- A Critical Assessment of the Co-operative Principles
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- El Debate de la Pena Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Derechos y Libertades
Introduccion al Volumen 9, Número 2 del Sumario de Connexions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Development Education Survey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Does OHC care?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Some Bleecker Street tenants who have been living in Ontario Housing (OHC) units for 10 or 15 years found themselves faced with the threat of eviction recently.
- Droits et Libertés
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Les libertés civiles et les droits de l'homme font partis clés dans presque chaque autre aspect de la justice et des changements sociaux.
- The Eagle and the Jackal
America's Rape of the Third World
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
A major section of this paper deals with United States domination and exploitation of Third World countries, and the relationship of this to U.S. militarism. The final section of the paper deals with the question of how the peace movement can work for a better society.
- Economic Options for Northern Saskatchewan
Report of the Economic Options for Northern Saskatchewan Conference
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Emergency Shelter in Ottawa-Carleton
An Experimental View
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Energy and Environment
Introduction to Spring 1984 issue of the Connexions Digest,
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Canada is at a critical point in its energy policy development. We do have the power to choose between the corporate and the soft energy paths. A wise choice will include consideration of the ecological, military, economic, human and ethical issues raised in this edition of CONNEXIONS.
- Enseñando a adultos a leer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Environmental Sourcebook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Essays on the Political Economy of Alberta
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
This collection of essays provides an excellent introduction to the political and economic history of Alberta and to some of the most important issues facing contemporary Alberta
- Exploring Your Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
A guide for children to learn more about their neighbourhoods.
- Exporting Apocalypse: Candu Reactors and Nuclear Prolifieration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Faltering Economy
The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
The essays in this volume are part of a radical attempt to grapple with the problems of advanced capitalist development without discarding the real theoretical breakthroughs made by Keynes.
- Field Guide to Alternative Media
A Directory to Reference & Selection Tools Useful in Accessing Small & Alternative Press Publications and Independently Produced Media
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
A listing of tools that list, index or review primarily small and alternative press publications and independently-produced media. The Field Guide is divided into four sections: Subject and Trade Directories, Indices and Subject Bibliographies, Trade and Review Media, and Bookstore and Distributor catalogues.
- Fighting Back on the Job
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- For Friends of Foodland
A Citizen's Guide to Foodland Preservation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- For Health or Profit? The Pharmaceutical Industry in the Third World and Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Fourth Estate in the Third World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Front Pages - An Erratic Guide to History (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Getting into the Mail-order Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
See also CX3147.
- The Ghostway
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- "The Good War"
An Oral History of World War Two
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Government Limited
THe Corporate Takeover of the Public Sector in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Guerrilla Capitalism
How to Practice Free Enterprise In an Unfree Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Guerrilla Capitalism
How to Practice Free Enterprise In an Unfree Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Guide to Family First Aid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Hard Earned Wages
Women Fighting for Better Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Hard Earned Wages features sixteen women telling the stories of their work - and their efforts to improve their working conditions - in their own words.
- Helping You Helps Me
A Guide Book for Self-Help Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Homelessness Housing
Introduction of Fall 1984 issue of the Connexions Digest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
All across Canada, the number of homeless people in urban core areas has been increasing. The press have often featured the unemployed youth, women, and ex-psychiatric patients who are recent additions to the homeless. These groups have joined the men, women and families who have for some time been unable to find affordable and appropriate accommodation. All are being forced to rely on emergency shelters and hostels as the accommodation of last resort.
- Hostels and Homelessness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Importance of the SOURCES Subject Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- In Custody
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Information concerning the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Bill C-9
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Inmate's Rights
A Handbook of prisoners: Rights and Obligations in Newfoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Institutions for Peace Vs. Instruments of War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- International Book of Comics
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
First appearing in 1984, the book takes a nostalgic look at comics from the early and latter day British strips and comic books, right through to Continental European publications, and North American issues, including those in circulation at the time of publication.
- Introduction to Fall 1984 issue of Connexions Digest: Homelessness and Housing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Kara Smierci
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Celowe, prawnie sankcjonowane odbieranie z.ycia ludzkiego, jest silnym emocjonalnym totemem, czynem, przez który symbolicznie uczestniczymy w zakazanym akcie zabijania. Nic dziwnego wie;c, z.e debata na temat kary s'mierci budzi tyle emocji, jest tak kategoryczna, uboga w analize; na temat tego, czy kara s'mierci w?as'ciwie ma jakis' sens.
- Kister's Atlas Buying Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Knights of the New Technology (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Literary Market Place
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
The standard directory of publishing services. "An indispensable tool".
- The Living Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
The story of the Earth's surface and its colonization by animals and plants.
- Loving Each Other
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Making Time Work For You
A Guide Book to Effective and Productive Time Management
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Making Waves
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Making Waves tells the history of Grindstone Island, first as an active summer home, then as a peace education centre run by the Quakers, and finally the present co-operative centre.
- Making Waves: The Grindstone Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Man of the Trees: Richard St. Barbe Baker
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Managing Management Time
Who's Got the Monkey?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Marguerite has come a long way
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Literacy student writes her own story.
- Medical Reform Group of Ontario January 1984 Mailing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Medicare: On the Critical List
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Medicine & State Security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Meeting the Expectations of the Land
Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Addresses the problems facing agriculture today, such as topsol erosion, lowered water tables, reliance on pesticides, dependence on machinery, the overcapitalization of agriculture, the decline of the rural economy, the energy and dollar cost as well as the health problems associated with commercial fertizlers, the shrinking number of family farms, the increasing dependence on fossil fuels.
- Men Changing
A Resource Manual for Men's Consciousness Raising
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Militarization: Obstacle to Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Milton: A Co-operative Neighborhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- More Than an Island
A History of the Toronto Island
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
A thorough history of the natural, social, political, and economic history of the Toronto Island.
- Movements and Messages
Media and Radical Politics on Quebec
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
A study of the attempt by social and political movements in Quebec to shape their own communication strategies in oppostion to the power of the state and the mainstream media.
- My Home, My Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Mr Home, My Prison is the passionate, controversial autobiography ofa Palestinian journalist well known for her outspoken support of her people's rights. Raymonda Tawil's book makes clear in personal terms just what damage the Middle East conflict has wrought and what it means for Arabs to live under Israeli occupation. At the same time, her book is as much about the struggle for women's rights as it is about Palestinian rights.
- Native Women
The Doubly Denied
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Need for a New Socialist Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
It has fallen to socialists in the last decades of this century to undertake the daunting task of establishing new socialist directions just as our forerunners had to do in the first decades of this century.
- The Non-Nuclear Way: Creative Energy Alternatives for Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Nutrition Almanac
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- 150 years of dirty water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Toronto's water has been polluted pretty much since the city was founded - but that doesn't mean we should put up with it.
- Our Bodies, Our Minds
Film, Video and Multi-Media Resources for Health Education from the National Film Board of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Our Generation against Nuclear War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
A collection of articles on the issues of war and peace from Our Generation magazine.
- Parliament vs. the People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- La Peine Capitale
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Malgr# les croyances # base #motionnelle, la peine de mort ne dissuade pas. D'un pays # autre, on a pu trouver que l'existence, l'abolition, ou la re-application de la peine capitale n'avait aucune influence visible sur la fr#quence de meurtres.
- The Perspective of the World
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Polls, Politics and Populism (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Power to Choose
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Examines energy issues from the point of view of the majority of Canadians excluded from participation in the formation of energy policy, but who nevertheless suffer the consequences.
- The President's Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
- The Promised Land
Settling the West 1896-1914
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Rättigheter och Friheter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Real Pushers
A Critical Analysis of the Canadian Drug Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
A comprehensive analysis of the pharmaceutical drug industry in Canada.
- Rechte und Freiheiten
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Keiner ist Frei, wenn wir nicht alle Frei sind. Jegliche Einschränkung der Rechte und Freiheiten ist gleichzeitig eine Stärkung der Macht des Staates darüber zu entscheiden, welche Rechte in Zukunft ausgeübt werden dürfen und welche nicht.
- The Revival of Content
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Rights and Liberties - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Rights and Liberties - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Rip-Off Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Roots of Crisis in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Ann Seidmen's book is a basic primer which analyzes the impact of neocolonialism. The information on the roles of multinationals and their self justification of the greed that perpetuates poverty and violence is especially useful.
- The Royal Family Pop-Up Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- A Rubber Worker's Guide to Occupational Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Second Nature
The Animal-Rights Controversy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Animal-rights advocates argue that humans have no right to kill any animal, whether by hunting or farming or for medical research. Is this a cure for our ecological ills or is it a symptom of the disease? What is irrefutably logical
- Seven News: The Story of a Community Newspaper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
An essay about the Toronto community newspaper Seven News, written in 1984 by Lisa Horrocks, who was part of Seven News as a staff or board member for a number of years.
- Simple Living Investments For Old Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Sixties Papers: Documents of a Rebellious Decade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The 60s without Apology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Socialist Register 1984
Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Soil removal a possibility
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
The soil in the South Riverdale area is so contaminated with lead that it may be necessary to remove it.
- Spectrum
A Guide to the Independent Press and Informative Agencies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Especially right-wing sources
- Stampede City
Power and Politics in the West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Stepping Out of Line
A Workbook on Lesbianism and Feminism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Strategic Marketing for Not-for-Profit organizations
Program and resource development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Teaching adults to read
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Becoming literate is an important way for people to gain more control and power over their lives.
- Third World - Second Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Gripping first-hand accounts of the concerns and activities of individual women and of women's organizations in the Third World. The book also includes a list of addresses of publications and support groups.
- The Thomson Empire (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Threat
Inside The Soviet Military Machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Through the Glass Clearly
Canadian Women's Education, Work, and Sexuality
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Times of Harvey Milk
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
A look at the career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay councilor.
- Toronto 150
Portrait of a Changing City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Toronto: Carved in Stone
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
An illustrated survey of Toronto's buildings featuring decorative stonework.
- Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Raises the issue of freedom of religion being denied to Native prison inmates who are not of Christian origin.
- The Trouble With Looking for Trouble, Version of Tely Demise Disputed (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Untying the Knot
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The Urban Cycling Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Version of Tely Demise Disputed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Water Quantity Resources of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Watermelons Not War!
A Support Book for Parenting in the Nuclear Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- We Want Zero Interest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Westman: the People's Choice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- What is Consensus?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Consensus evolved from the meeting process of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It is a non-violent way for people to relate to each other as and in a group. Successful use of a consensus process depends on people understanding the idea and wanting to use it.
- Who spoke Up? American Protest against the War in Vietnam, 1963 - 1975
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Widerstand und Verweigerung in Deutschland 1933 bis 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Wildflowers of North America
A Guide to Field Identification
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Women and Agriculture: An Annotated Bibliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Women and Media
Analysis, Alternatives and Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Worker Co-operatives
Working Papers Vol. 2 No. 6
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
An introduction to the principles and practical considerations of forming worker co-operatives.
- Worker Cooperatives in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
A historical background of worker cooperatives as well as a contemporary discussion of small and large co-ops.
- Workers' Self-Management in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- The World Turned Upside Down
Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
Hill looks at radical groups such as the Diggers, Levellers, Ranters, and others, whose ideas threatened to overturn the established order in the mid-seventeenth century.
- Worthington provokes election controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
The Committee to Defeat Peter Worthington stirs things up in the Broadview-Greenwood election campaign.
- Writing and Publishing on your micro-computer.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Writings of the Vancouver 5
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- You and the Law
A Practical Family Guide to Canadian Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
- Alternative Access Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Published: 1984
1984 edition lists 1100 organizations in 32 categoriers such as Alternative Media, appropriate technology, educational resources, grants/fundraising handicapped, health care, human rights, networking, peace, personal & spiritual growth, self-publishing
- Marxism and the Oppression of Women
Toward a Unitary Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 2014
Lise Vogel revisits classical Marxian texts, tracking analyses of “the woman question” in socialist theory and drawing on central theoretical categories of Marx's Capital to open up a theorization of gender and the social production and reproduction of material life.
- Medical Reform Group applauds introduction of Canada Health Act
News Release December 13, 1983
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Medical Reform Group of Ontario urges strong Canada Health Act
News Release July 25, 1983
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Consolidating the Gains: Do or Die for Ontario's Health Care System
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
The Medical Reform Group of Ontario (MRG) belives that health care is a universal right, that health is political and social in nature and that the structure of the health care system must be changed and democratized. The MRG believes that the major diretion for the health care system must be the elimination of the current inequalities in the system. The MRG views with particular alarm organized medicine's promotion of privatization of the health care system as a mechanism for funding health care.
- "We don't have films you can eat"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 2005
An interview with the members of DEC Films, a project of the Development Education Centre. Originally published in Jump Cut, No. 28, April 1983, pp. 37-40.
- Freispruch für die Nazi-Justiz
Die Urteile gegen NS-Richter seit 1948. Eine Dokumentation.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1998
- Gage Canadian Dictionary
Revised and Expanded
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1997
- The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1997
- A Short History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1997
- Assertiveness for Managers
Learning effective skills for managing people
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1992
- Assertiveness for Managers
Learning effective skills for managing people
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1992
- Unabashed Self-Promoter's Guide
What Every Man, Woman, Child and Organization in America Needs to Know About Getting Ahead by Exploiting the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1992
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1992
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
- Building Sustainable Communities:
Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1989
Presents the underlying ideas and essential institutions for building sustainable communities. The major sections of the book deal with community land trusts and other forms of community ownership of natural resources, worker-managed enterprises and other techniques of community self-management, and community currency and banking. Also included are a lexicon of social capitalism and a bibliography of key works on self-reliant economic change.
- Lifetime Encyclopedia of Letters
Easy way to write endless variety of business and personal letters.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1988
- Lifetime Encyclopedia of Letters
Easy way to write endless variety of business and personal letters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1988
- War, Peace and the Media
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1985
Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
- Seven News Front Pages - Volume 14 - 1983-1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Published: 1984
- Silkwood
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
A film inspired by the life of Karen Silkwood. Silkwood was a nuclear whistleblower and a labour union activist who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked.
- Collapse of the Far Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Why have so many Canadian Far Left political organizations collapsed in the midst of the worst capitalist depression since the 1930s, and what lessons are to be learned from the experience? This collection of articles, of which the centrality of the critique made by women activists is highlighted, tackles these questions by examining two largely Quebec-based Marxist-Leninist organizations, and by looking at a recent organizing conference in Ontario.
- The Sex Industry and Its Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
An article discussing the various components of the sex industry and the various forms of sexual services that have evolved from prostitution.
- Stripping for a Living
Sure Beats Stenography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The left and popular movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Articles in Volume 17, Number 4 (September 1983) of Canadian Dimension, including an editorial; The uneasy alliance: Women and the left, by Varda Burstyn; The left and Gay liberation, by Tim McCaskell.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 3 Issue 3
September 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Bisexuality and women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
We believe there is a need for a better understanding of bisexuality in the women's movement.
- Independent Peace Groups in East Germany
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Since the fall of 1981, if not earlier, the authorities in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) have been faced with the rise of independent peace circles, based among Protestant youth associations and sectors of the dissident intellectual community.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 3 Issue 2
June 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The East End Community Centre
Working class socialism on a small scale
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
The politics of the East End was manifested in two ways. This particular story focuses on the building of a community club. This story merits telling both because it is indicative of the capacity working class people have to build institutions which enhance life in their neighbourhoods, and because the community club, at least in the form it finally took in the East End and other working class areas in Brandon, has many of the characteristics of a socialist institution.
- Feminism and Lesbian S/M
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
A report on a panel discussion in New York on The Feminist Movement and Lesbian S/M: An Open Discussion of the Political and Social Issues Raised by Lesbian S/M.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 3 Issue 1
February 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Canadian Human Rights Foundation - Background paper for conference January 28, 1983
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1093
- Canadian Human Rights Foundation: Conference on Freedom of Info & Communications 1983
Report on a conference held in Halifax, January 28, 1983
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1093
- Rank and File Networks: A Way to Fight Concessions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Suggests rank and file networks to fight workplace closings and to circumvent the official unions.
- Accounts of Wrath
The Family Farm Under Siege
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labour, professional armies, social discipline, nationalist, ethnic and class fervour.
- Ah-Hah!
A New Approach to Popular Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
AH-HAH seminars are designed to organize groups of comman interests, especially workers, to come to a common understanding.
- Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership and People's War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Amish Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- ... and they were doing cartwheels.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Fredy Perlman tells how encounters with racism in Central Europe, Bolivia and the U.S. heightened his perception and prepared him to denounce "American cheerleaders of Israel." He is astounded that potential victims of Nazi extermination camps can accept, even support, Israeli massacres of Palestinian refugees.
- Atlantic Canada and Confederation
Essays in Canadian Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
In these essays, Alexander maintains that there was an economic basie for the provinces of Atlantic Canada in the resources of the region and the genious of its people. He affirms the integrity and viability of the small society and culture in the economic blocs and political federations of the modern world.
- An Atlas of Rural Protest In Britain 1548-1900
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
This volume surveys, compares, and contrasts a range of rural riots in Britain, including land protests, food riots, turnpike disturbances, militia protests, and protests by agricultural labourers. The volume includes seventy-maps which together demonstrate the shifting geography of protest, illustrating how the distribution of protest changed over time and how certain forms of protest changed as Britain developed from a feudal to a capitalist society.
- Background paper on the Micmac occupation and hunger strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Best of Communities
Number 56
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Beyond the Far Side
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Beyond the Image: A guide to films about women and change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Blacklist
An Anti-Authoritarian Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Blocking Progress
Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
- The Brain Booster
Your Guide to Rapid Learning and Remembering
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Techniques and exercises in organization, visualization and association that can dramatically increase your ability to absorb a large amount of information and remember it clearly.
- Breaking Up Ontario Hydro's Monopoly
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Brief to the Special Committee of the House of Commons on Indian Self-Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Brink of Reality
New Canadian Documentary Film and Video
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
From angles both practical and philosophical, Peter Steven examines the business of making documentaries in Canada and reaching audiences with them.
- Canada, Politics and Direct Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Editorial regarding activities of group calling itself 'Direct Action'.
- Castaway
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Central American Women Speak for Themselves
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
A dossier focusing on the participation of women in the popular movements and revolutionary organizations in Central America. Contains transations from newspapers, pamphlets, documents, interviews and reprints of already-published material.
- Civil Disobedience: A Radical Critique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Gary Moffatt argues that while appearing to be radical in that they represent a more complete commitment of the participants to changing government policy than the work of the mainstream peace movement, sitdowns fail to challenge and in some respects reinforce the legitmacy of the military state.
- The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Co-Creative Healing Relationship
Unit 4 Training Manual
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Combatting Racism in the Workplace
A Course for Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
With the ultimate aim of combatting racism within the labour movement, the Cross Cultural Communication Centre, under the auspices of the Humber Collage for Labour Studies, ran a ten-week, 30 hour pilot course entitled 'Work Racism and Labour.'
- Combatting Racism in the Workplace Readings Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Readings and case studies on fighting racism.
- The Coming of World War III
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Community economic development in rural Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
A guide to developing a self-reliant process of asking the right questions in creating community-based employment in small, non-urban communities across Canada.
- Community Profit
Community Based Economic Development in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Pell and Wismer look at seven community owned and controlled businesses that reinvest their profits back into their local communities. Resource for community groups, co-ops, credit unions, social organizations, and individuals interested in new approaches to economic development.
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Cooperation at Work
The Mondragon Experience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
A guide to work co-operatives, based on the experience of the Mondragon group of co-operatives in Spain.
- Creole Languages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
These widely scattered languages show striking similarities. The development of Creole in Hawaii suggests children learn a language by first constructing an abstract form of a creole.
- Cruise Missile Testing in Canada: A Critique of the Legal, Political & Economic Arguments
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Cryptography
The Science of Secret Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Cult, Ghetto, and State
The Persistence of Jewish Question
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Jewish studies, Maxime Rodinson says in this book, has been a field in which ideological delirium has long had virtually free rein. In this collection of essays, he tries to redress the balance, bringing his expertise to bear on Jewish problems past and present.
- CUPW 1981: Mother's Rights, Union Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Cut and Run
The Assault on Canada's Forests
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Examines the crisis in Canada's forest industry and the reasons for the crisis.
- The day care kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Deadly Connection: Nuclear War and U.S. Intervention
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Despair & Personal Power in the Nuclear Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Discoverers
A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Don't Agonize, Organize
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Ecological Agriculture in Manitoba: A Turning Point?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Electric Empire: The Inside Story of Ontario Hydro
The Inside Story of Ontario Hydro
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Electric Empire is a close-up look at Ontario Hydro, the second-largest public-owned utility in North America, a giant enterprise presiding over 30,000 employees, 80 generating stations, and 32,000 kilometers of transmission lines serving over eight million people.
- Environmental Sourcebook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Erotic Power
An Exploration of Dominance and Submission
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- ESO
How You and Your Lover Can Give Each Other Hours of Extended Sexual Orgasm
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Ethical Reflections on the economic crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
January 1983 statement by the Canadian Roman Catholic Bishops.
- Eugene V. Debs Speaks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Evacuated Ones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Exiled in Paradise
German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America From the 1930's to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- A Familial Perspective on micro-computer communications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Form Aides for Successful Book Publishing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- FormAides for Direct Response Marketing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Foundation Skills
Unit 1 Training Manual
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Friend and Lover
The Life of Louise Bryant
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Game
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
"A thoughtfull and provocative look at a life in hockey"
- Getting There
Producing Photostories With Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Photostories about immigrant women surviving in and adapting to a new culture.
- A heritage of pornography
Article in the Body Politic, January-February 1983
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Tom Waugh reports on his exploration of some of the films in the collection of Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, and considers what they might tell us about gay cultural history.
- A History of Printing Ink, Balls and Rollers
1440-1850
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Housework: An Annotated Bibliography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Housing in St. John's
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- How to Use and Display Your Pictures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- How You Can Get Involved in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Listing of development education groups in Canada, by region and issue. Also resource centres and periodicals. Revised 1983.
- The Hudson's Bay Company and The Fur Trude: 1670-1870
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Inequality at Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Inside The Mushroom Cloud Part1: The "Physics Package"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Inside The Mushroom Cloud Part2: The Human Package
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Inside The Mushroom Cloud: Introduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- International Blacklist 1983
An Anti-Authoritarian Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
An International directory of anti-authoritarian groups and publications. P. 123 has a list of documentation centres on anarchism. P. 139 has publishing houses and disributors.
- International Historical Statistics: The Americas and Australia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Island
A Natural History of Vancouver Island
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Journalism and the Arms Race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Journalism and The Bomb
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Journalism and The Bomb, Words and War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Karl and Rosa
November 1918: A German Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
A novel about the German Revolution of 1918, focusing on Karl Liebknect and Rosa Luxemburg.
- The Liar's Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Life After Oil: A Renewable Energy Policy For Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Listing of Women's groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Little Band
The Clashes Between the Communists and the Political and Legal Establishment in Canada, 1928-1932
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- A Little Wilderness
A Natural History of Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Magic of Instant Photography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Mail Order Magic
Surefire Techniques to Expand Your Business by Direct Mail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Managing the Data-Base Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Marxism, Feminism, the State
Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Includes essays on the sexual division of labour, and socialist organizing in the 80s, referring to Engels, Ryerson, and MacPherson.
- The Media and Civil Defence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Media for Social Change
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Media-MX Deal Denies Protestors' Rights Through News Blackout
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Meeting Collectively
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
The Connexions collective describes its way of holding meetings and recent changes to its meeting process.
- A Model for Nonviolent Communication
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
A description of communication skills to empower us to exchange resources and resolve differences nonviolently.
- Modern India: 1885-1947
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
This book uses recently released data to focus on India's anti-imperialist struggle within the larger context of its economic, socio-cultural and political developments in that era.
- More than You Ever Wanted to Know about Mail Order Advertising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Myth of Symmetry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Native Issues: Introduction to Winter 1983/84 issue of the Connexions Digest (Volume 8, Numbers 3-4)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
We hope that the 41 abstracts in the NATIVE ISSUES section of this edition of CONNEXIONS will leave our readers better informed about the current concerns, struggles and hopes of Native people.
- Native People
One Sky Information Kit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
An educational kit offering an historical introduction to the situation of Native people in Canada.
- Native Women: The Doubly Denied
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Natives in a class society
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Same as CX2835.
- Natives in a class society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Same as CX2826.
- The Needle is Deep Into the Red Zone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Network Resources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Networking Game
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
"For everyone who asks friendly questions about anything."
- The New Consciousness Sourcebook
Spiritual Community Guide #5
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The New Dawn Story
An Experiment In Economically-Based Community Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- New Life Patterns
Unit 3 Training Manual
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- New Maritimes
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
An independent monthly newsmagazine covering political, cultural, and economic issues in the Maritimes from a "no-holds-barred point of view."
- The Next Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Not for nothing
Women,Work & Unemployment in Newfoundland And Labrador.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Nuclear War Manual for Dogs
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Off Their Backs ...and on our own two feet
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- On Being a Jewish Feminist
A Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
This collection explores the myths and images of women that delimit women's growth within Judaism.
- The Ontario Waffle and the Struggle for an Independent and Socialist Canada: Conflict within the NDP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Published in Canadian Historical Review, 83.2 (June 1983)
- The Organized Executive
A program for productivity: New ways to manage time, paper, and people
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Organized Executive
A program for productivity: New ways to manage time, paper, and people
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Our Portrayal of the Soviet Union Dooms Ourselves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Partnering
A Guide to Co-owning Anything from Homes to Home Computers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Philospher's Pupil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Piecing It Together
Feminism and Non-Violence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Pocket Criminal Code and Miscellaneous Statutes
As Amended to January 1, 1983
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Political is Personal: Why women in the Canadian Marxist group in Struggle changed from opposing to supporting the feminist ideology of the autonomous women's
MA Thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1983
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- A Popular Education Handbook
An educational experience taken from Central America and adapted to the Canadian context
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Pornography and Prostitution
Issues Paper, November 1983
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Powers of Desire
The Politics of Sexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Brings together a diverse group of well-known feminist and gay writers, historians, and activists.
- Preoccupation with Demonology, Bone-deep Current of Darkness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Psychology of the Arms Race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Raising Hell
A Citizen's Guide to the Fine Art of Investigation
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Revised edition.
- Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Rethinking Socialism
A theory for a better practice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Return of Martin Guerre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
The book tellls the story of Martin Guerre, a peasant who disappears, leaving his wife behind. Eight years later, Martin Guerre -- or someone claiming to be him -- returns to the village. His wife and other villages and family members, accept him, but some have doubts. Eventually he is charged with being an imposter and has to face a court to prove his identity.
- Reweaving the Web of Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Contributors, including Alice Walker, Grace Paley Joan Baaez, Barbara Deming and Holly Near, stress the connection between patriarchy and war, sex and violence. This book makes it clear that nonviolence can be an assertive, positive force. This is a provociative reading for those interested in the surviving in and changing the nuclear age.
- SandM
Studies in Sadomasochism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Sex, Love, Desire: Feminists Struggle Over the Portray of Sex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
The rift that has developed between "pro-sex" feminists and anti-pornography activists is having far-reaching implicationsfor the feminist movement.
- Sexual Practices: The Story of Human Sexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
An introduction to how to think about sexual behavior as an anthropologist, or any scientist, should.
- A Shared Experience
Bridging Cultures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- A Shared Experience: Bridging Cultures, Resources For Cross-Cultural Training
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
A manual about immigrants and their adjustments to a new environment, addressed primarily to community workers who respond to the needs of immigrants.
- Socialism and Survival
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Socialist Register 1983
Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Socialist Visions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Something's Fishy: Public Policy and Private Corporations in the Newfoundland Fishey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Soviet Threat: Big Lie of the Arms Race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Spadina's Life Blood --- A Picture of its garment industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Still ain't satisfied
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- A Submission to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunication Task Force on Sex-role stereotyping
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Survival Retreat
A Total Plan For Retreat Defense
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Technological Change and Working Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Technozealots, Indians and Information Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Telling it like it is
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- La Theorie du Capitalisme d'Etat
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Toward a New Economy
Introduction to the Summer 1983 issue of the Connexions Digest (Volume 8, Number 2)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
The summaries in this issue reflect two basic responses to the status quo. The first is a critique of the current situation from the standpoint of those whose interests are not served by the dominant economic system. The other response is the creation of alternatives which seek to embody those values of community control, economic participation, and production for human need which are lost in the grab for profit.
- Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Transformation and Wholeness
Unit 2 Training Manual
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Understanding the News Business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Understanding the News Business
A media kit for community groups
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The UnJewish State
The Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Unmanning the trenches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Up from the ashes
Vol 1, No.2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
A Journal for the Self-Education of Revolutionary Activists
- The War Atlas
Armed Conflict, Armed Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Ways and Means
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Connexions attempts to stimulate practical and theoretical sharing through the Ways and Means section.
- The Wheels of Commerce
Civilization and Capitalism Vol II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
In a powerful narrative Braudel sweeps us through 400 years of change -- from simple barter developing into sophisticated merchant economies. He uses everything he thinks necessary to bring this burgeoning capitalist world to light. Geography, sociology, religion and demographics all play a part. He shows how in the world of shops, markets and exhanges, the emergence of banks and in the extended networks of trade, capitalism was the great motivating force in the spread of European civilization.
- Who Pays? Who Profits? Food Production in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Why Work?
Arguments for the Leisure Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Essays on useless work, useful work, and alternatives to work.
- A Wives' Tale
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Woman, Why Do You Weep?
Circumcision and its Consequences
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
This is the first book by a Sudanese woman to deal in scholarly fashion with female circumcision and infibulation in Sudan. Based on a large-scale statistical survey, Dr. El Dareer presents detailed evidence as to the extent of the practice. She particularly focuses on the health problems resulting from the custom, and gives a fascinating account of the very varied attitudes which Sudanese women and men have towards it.
- Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Women and Militarism resource kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Women and the Constitution: The Next Five Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Women and Men
Introduction to the Spring 1983 issue of Connexions (#37)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Spotlighting collective actions for a non-sexist society.
- Women of Africa
Roots of Oppression
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Women of Africa is an overall study of the many factors determining women's position in contemporary Africa. Cutrufelli argues that women's conditions can only be understood in the context of the general underdevelopment of the African continent. She therefore describes first the colonial period, and then turns to the changing situations of women in post-colonial Africa.
- Women's Access Resource Manual
WARM
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- The Women's Workbook.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Worker Buyouts
The Role of Trade Unions and Community Organizations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Workers Industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- You are a threat to the security of Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Die Zerstörung Kassels im Oktober 1943
Eine Dokumentation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
- Zionism in the Age of Dictators
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Brenner searches through the Zionist record, and finds evidence that it sought the patronage and benevolence of avowed anti-Semites and, ultimately, the collaboration of the Fascists and Nazis. This book shows how from the beginning Zionism's leaders were prepared to go to almost any length to achieve the goal of a separate Jewish state.
- Zionism in the Age of the Dictators
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Documenting Zionist collaboration with Nazism.
- Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
Dispute between the Phelps Dodge Corporation and a unionized copper miners.
- The World Crisis
Its Economic and Social Impact on the Underdeveloped
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Published: 1983
A reissue of the original edition published in Havana in 1983 under the title: "The World Economic and Social Crisis."
- The Massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
All other news, all other concerns, fade into insignificance beside the enormous horror of the massacre in Beirut. All humanity is outraged at the wanton slaughter of hundreds of men (mainly elderly), women, and children in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. The days of the massacre -- September 16 to 18 -- shall truly live in infamy.
- None is too Many
Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 2012
None Is Too Many conclusively lays to rest the comfortable notion that Canada has always been an accepting and welcoming society, detailing the country’s refusal to offer aid, let alone sanctuary, to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1948.
- Medical Reform Group of Ontario position on fee dispute
News Release April 13, 1982
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The Lost Revolution
Germany 1918 to 1923
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 2008
Without an understanding of the defeat of the revolution in post-World War I Germany, the great barbarisms that swept Europe in the 1930s cannot be understood. Here, Chris Harman unearths the history of the lost revolution, and reveals its lessons for the future struggles for a better world.
- The Ecology of Freedom
The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 2005
Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
- Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 2003
Here are 1100 proverbs, 40 new coinages, and about 400 updated examples, as well as annotations and current citations from around the English-speaking world.
- The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 2000
- Concise Dictionary of Proverbs
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1998
- The Mediator's Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1997
- Another Way of Telling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1995
Everyone in the world is familiar with photographs. And yet what is a photograph? What do photographs mean? How can they be used?
- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
The Experience of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1988
Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
- Overcoming Male Oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1988
People join a social change movement in order to alleviate an external problem. Too often we are confronted with the same kind of behaviour we find in our everyday lives. We are all too often stifled by heavy handed authority: bosses at work, parents or spouse at home and teachers at school.
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1985
- Inspecting a House
A Guide for Buyers, Owners, and Renovators
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1984
- The Germans
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1983
An exploration of the roots of many contemporary institutions in Germany history, looking as such topics as religion, money, Germans and Jews, women, professors and students, romatics, literature and society, soldiers, Berlin, and the German language.
- Guatemala!
The Horrow and the Hope
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1983
288 pages in four sections on the situation in Guatemala.
- The Last Jews in Berlin
Powerful true story of the men and women who lived and survived in the dark heart of the Nazi Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1983
- Seven News Front Pages - Volume 13 - 1982-1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1983
- What Difference Could a Revolution Make?
Food and Farming in The New Nicarauga
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1983
Reports on the dramatic changes brought by the first three years of the Sandinista revolution.
- Canadian Human Rights Foundation: Conference on Freedom of Info & Communications 1982
Report on a conference held at University of Calgary, November 5, 1982
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Direct Action Communique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
A statement from the "Direct Action" group regarding the October 14, 1982, Litton bombing.
- Paul Mattick, Anti-Bolshevik Communism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
For those who want to replace the present social order with a free and equal society, rather than with State capitalism, the work of the council communists, exemplified by Paul Mattick, provides a crucial starting place.
- The Politics of the Peace Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
What Roussopoulos emphasizes in the new peace movement is the need for a theoretical framework within which tactics and strategy become more effective. Essay available in "Dissidence: Essays Against the Mainstream."
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 2 Issue 3
August 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- PoliticaLetter - Volume 1 Issue 2
August 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- True Facts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Gleanings from the media.
- The Bomb won't go away on its own
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Our task is to break out of this closed self-justifying system by depriving governments of the passive populations they need, by refusing to accept the choices we are offered and instead becoming active participants pressuring them to accept our proposals.
- Lesbian Sex Mafia ("l s/m") speakout
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Report of a workshop on "politically correct, politically incorrect sexuality."
- Progressive doctors condemn opting out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
An interview with Toronto physicians Miriam Garfinkle and Fred Freedman, members of the Medical Reform Group of Ontario.
- Leather Menace, The.
Comments on Politics and S/M
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Attitudes towards S&M in the women's movement.
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 2 Issue 2
April 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- PoliticaLetter - Volume 1 Issue 2
April 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 2 Issue 1
March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Against Post-Modernism
A Marxist Critique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Callinocos argues that the relativism preached by post-modernists leaves us with no objective criteria by which to reject those who would falsify the past.
- Against Sadomasochism
A Radical Feminist Analysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Against the Grain
The Dilemma of Project Food Aid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Jackson and Eade critique food aid programs as ineffective and potentially damaging to developing nations. The authors argue for substantially reduced food aid programs and for their better administration.
- Agricultural Land Use Change in Canada: Process and Consequences
Land Use in Canada Series: Number 21
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Three of the six chapters focus on the Saugeen River Valley.
- Alternative Americas
An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
A history of decentralist and co-operative alternatives in the United States, centering especially on the work of Ralph Borsodi.
- Alternative Materials in Libraries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Handbook with extensive bibliographies. What, where, how and why to buy Alternative and small press publications for libraries - also useful for individuals and bookstore.
- Anatomy of Nakedness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Of all the things we possess the only one we can really claim as our own is our body. Yet nothing else gives rise to such complex attitudes. We hide it, reveal it, flaunt it, are ashamed of it, even scorn it, in an ever-changing array of feelings about it.
- Annual Legislature Presentation To The Government And People Of Manitoba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The Arab World, Turkey, and The Balkans 1878-1914
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The Atlantic Coast Of Nicaragua
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Atoms For War: The Saskatchewan Connection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- A Bibliography on Material Pertinent to the Informal Economy
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- A Bird-Finding Guide to Ontario
Where the birds are and how to get there
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Blue Highways
A Journey Into America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Least Heat Moon travels the backroads, the "blue highways", of the USA.
- Book Reviews - Sources 10
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Breaking the Bonds
The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
An examination of the lives of (American) people involved in socially and/or sexually open relationships.
- Building a Mail Order Business
A Complete Manual for Success
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Canada's Party of Socialism
History of the Communist Party of Canada, 1921 - 1976
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Canadian Facts and Figures
A Graphic Look at What Happens in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Children At Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
This study comes from a project of the International Programme for the Improvement of Working Conditions of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
- Choosing a Therapist
Womens Handbook and Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Church-sponsored News Agency Delves into African Realities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The City and Radical Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
- Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Comments on Unemployment Insurance in the 1980's A Report of the Task Force on Unemployment Prepared For
The Minister Of Employment And Immigration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
In July, 1981, the Report of the Federal Task Force was made public.
- The Community Land Trust Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Information about how to set up and protect community land trusts.
- Community and Organization in the New Left, 1962 - 1968
The Great Refusal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Constructive Citizen Participation
A Resource Book
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Constructive criticism can be a good thing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
It's counterproductive to say that for the sake of 'unity' we shouldn't criticize others in the environmental movement. Principled debate and critcism when it is called for helps us clarify issues and move forward.
- The Consultant's Kit
Establishing and Operating Your Successful Consulting Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Continuous Excursions
Politics and Personal Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Colman looks at the idea that 'the personal is political'. He looks at personal life in pre-capitalist societies, the nature of politics and social relations, patriarchy and sexual relations, intimacy and personal life, indviduality and public life.
- The Costs and Consequences of Reagan's Military Buildup
A Report to The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Creative Still Life Photography
Master Class Photography Series
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Day Care In New Brunswick
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Day Care in New Brunswick is intended as a practical guide to day care policies and services in New Brunswick and is of particular interest to parents.
- DEC Films Catalogue 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Films available from DEC Films, a non-profit film distribution services formed in 1974 by the Development Education Centre. DEC Films' aim is to make accessible to Canadians a variety of films, videos and slide-shows, documenting contemporary struggles throughout the world.
- Deconstruction: Theory and Practice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Defence without Offence
Non-nuclear Defence for Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Peace Studies Paper No. 8, School of Peace Studies, Bradford University, London.
- Desertification
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
A decade ago the Sahel drought killed thousands of people and millions of animals. It focused world attention on the dangers and causes of desertification. This book examines the reasons: overcultivation, overgrazing, deforestation and bad irrigation.
- Devolutionary Notes
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Directory of Canadian Non-Governmental Organizations Engaged in International Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Discussion Leaders Handbook
Attitude of the Discussion Leader etc.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Down to Earth
Environment and Human Needs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Droits Et Libertes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Droits et Liberté est la revue bimensuelle de la Fédération Canadienne des Associations des Droits de l'Homme.
- The Education of Immigrant Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
The question of the education of immigrant children is extremely complex and is related to the larger issue of the role and adaptation of immigrants in general.
- Exterminism and Cold War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
15 articles on the issues of the arms race and the threat of nuclear war, the Cold War and the peace movemennts.
- Feminism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
An attempt to lay down theoretical and methodological principles of feminist scholarship.
- The Final Report of the ecumenical energy working group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Flaunting It!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
- Foggy fireworks don't flop
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
A special evening watching fireworks in the fog.
- Friendship First
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
"The Chinese have an attitude toward sport that can best be described as 'friendship first, competition second.'" This manual is an attempt to show children and the adults that work/play with them that "a game that includes the added dimension of striving toward a common goal can also be exciting.
- The Future of the Atlantic Fisheries
An interim report
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Germans, The
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Guérilla, résistance et front anti-impérialiste
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Guidelines For Setting Up A Parish-Based Social Action Committee
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Guidelines is a four step program designed to enable parish-based groups, interested in social justice, to act on their commitment.
- Handbook of alternative community housing for psychiatric patients in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The History of Marxism
1. Marxism in Marx's Day
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The House of Obedience
Women in Arab Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
The House of Obedience is about women in the Arab world who are still largely subject to a traditional set of beliefs and customs employed to justify a multiplicity of practices against them. The veil, physical mutiliation, forced marriage, incarceration in the home, repudiation and polygamy are manifestations of this commitment to a tradional lifestyle, with the Islamic concept of the family as its keystone.
- How to Create and Sell Photo Products
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- How to do Leaflets, Newsletters and Newspapers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- How to Start a Co-operative
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
An introduction to co-operatives and act as a guide to groups interested in organizing a co-operative.
- The Illustrated Reference Book of The Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The importance of women's paid labour
Women at work in World War II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
An examination of women's paid labour, which was used as a cheaper labour force both prior to and during the Second World War.
- Index/Directory of Women's Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Annual.
Covers every link in the feminist circle of communication, listing periodicals, publishers, news services, video and cable, film, music, art, grapgics, threater groups, writer's associations, media oganizations, bookstores, liberies and individual media
- International Historical Statistics: Africa and Asia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Is Nothing Sacred?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The Lacemakers of Narsapur
Indian Housewives Produce for the World Market
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
This book offers a sensitive portrait of women in India and the conditions under which they work at home to produce luxury goods for the Western market. Maria Mies shows how this "cottage" industry is a permanent and ever more prevalent part of the process of primitive capital accumulation. By defining women as 'non-working housewives' a system has been created which makes possible rates of pay far below the levels necessary for the reproduction of the labour force.
- The land is whose land? The Housing squeeze
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Letter to Canadian Dimension
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
The left of the NDP consists of a scraggly band of public service union bureaucrats, almost as out of touch with their union membership as the right wing, and a declining number of socialist academics ensconsced in their ivory towers. The traditional NDP left, whose link up with the 'new left' in the Waffle almost defeated the party leadership no longer exists.
- Lutte de Classes et Crise du Capital
Pologne 1980-82
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Managing Crisis
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Militarism and Repression in the Philippines
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Native Children And Their Schools: Sources Of Cultural Conflict.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
This paper outlines some of the cultural problems faced by Native children within the Canadian public school system.
- Native Wild Plants of Eastern Canada and the Adjacent Northeastern United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The Newfoundland Government's rejection of the MicMac land claim
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Nice Jewish Girls
A Lesbian Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
A collection of pictures, poems, fiction, and essays on what it means to be Jewish and lesbian.
- No Fixed Address: The Housing crisis in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
What can we do about the present housing crisis? This the slide show suggests that "Those of us who feel we have a right to decent, affordable housing will want to examine alternatives and look at new initiatives."
- No Lasting City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The Non-Nuclear Way: Creative Energy Alternatives For Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
This book on nuclear energy and its alternatives places its focus on Canada.
- Notes From a Formerly Nice Jewish Girl
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- One Sky Information Kit: Native People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
One Sky is a resource centre dedicated to assisting those struggling for social change by providing development education resources on a wide variety of topics.
- An Operational Strategy for Development Education in the '80s
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Ou-Vont Les Chambreurs Expulses du Centre-ville
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Our Moments Of Awareness
After Thirty-Two Years Of Home Educating
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Our Moments of Awareness is not a "how-to" book about teaching children at home, rather, it is a film script that recounts some of the ways the Carota family integrated the learning process with their daily life.
- Paste ups and Mechanicals
A Step-by-Step Guide to Preparing Art for Reproduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Peace Unearth: A Directory Of Canadian Peace Organizations With International Concerns
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The Perfect Crime
and how to commit it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Le Petit Guide du Chambreur
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Policy Formation on Aspects of Canada's Nuclear Waste
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- PoliticaLetter - Volume 2 Issue 1
January 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Pornography
A brief submitted to the Commission D'Etude sur le Cinema et l'Audiovisuel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Priorities For Action
A Report of the National Advisory Committee on Aging
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Established by a federal Order-in-Council May 1, 1980, the eighteen-member National Advisory Council on Aging is charged with assisting and counselling the Minister of Health and Welfare on matters relating to the quality of life of Canada's rapidly growing aging population.
- Publications Related To Native Children's Concerns.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
The National Indian Brotherhood Library has approximately 30 publications focusing on concerns and issues related to Native children in Canada.
- The Real Terror Network
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
- Reflections On The New Brunswick Farmers' Tour Of Bolivia.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The Refugee Experience - Perspectives On Refugee Issues
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
This multi-media kit deals with refugee issues in a manner comprehensible to 9-14 year olds.
- René Magritte: Life and Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Repertoire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Report of the Committee Studying Residential Services in Saskatchewan with Long Term Psychiatric Illnesses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- A Report On Noranda Mines Limited.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Resources for Urban Mission: Alternataive for an Economy in Crisis
Justice Ministries
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Resourcing the Co-operative Enterprise
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Responsible Day Care
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
As in most provinces, the funding and administration of day care in British Columbia is spread among three provincial ministries: Health, Education and Human Resources (Social Services).
- The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union 1832 - 1972
A Case Study of Foreign Domination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Roots of Israel's violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Looking back on my own experience in Palestine I can see how today's horror grew from small beginnings. Zionism, Jewish separateness and the belief in a Jewish homeland, have developed into state violence. My parents were pioneering Zionists, leaving Russia for Palestine in 1902 to join a total Zionist population of a few thousand. I grew up a Zionist, but Zionism didn't have the ugly face we see today. However, there was always a fundamental crack between the Zionists and the Arabs. This same crack split Zionists from ordinary people in their countries of origin.
- Roots Of Militarism.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Safe and Sound: Disarmament and Development in the Eighties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Saskatoon Chemicals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Seminar Resource Kit On Agricultural Chemical Alternatives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Earthcare is a Saskatchewan organization dedicated to developing agricultural alternatives.
- Skin to Skin
Eroticism in Dress
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The Socialist Register 1982
Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Something's Fishy
Public Policy and Private Corporations in the Newfoundland Fishing Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Theatre As A Development Education Tool
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Ties That Bind
Canada and the Third World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Toronto Ravines - Ours to Preserve
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Toronto's ravines are a treasure; it's up to us to preserve them.
- Towards a New Cold War
Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
- Transition House-How to establish A Refuge for battered women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Up from the ashes
Vol.1, No 1
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
A Journal for the Self-Education for the Revolutionary Activists
- Up From The Ashes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
A journal for the Self-Education of Revolutionary Activists.
- Uranium Traffic In Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- U.S. Progressive Periodicals Directory
First Edition - 1982-1983 Edition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
A listing of 380 social justice magazines, newspapers, and newsletters with a national (U.S.) focus.
- Values and Education
A Study of the Spanish-Speaking Latin American Children in the Junior Schools of Metropolitan Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
One of the most significant factors in the life and experiences of children is the family context in which they live.
- Voices
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
A collective of women in Kenora, Ontario, publishes this "Survival Manual for Women". The women producing Voices are lesbian and use the magazine to foster networking and mutual support among lesbian women across North America.
- We're Changing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Feedback from our readers leads to changes in Connexions.
- Whoops Apocalypse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
Whoops Apocalypse sets the scene for The Last Story Ever Told.
- Wildlife in the City
Animals, birds, reptiles, insects and plants in an urban landscape
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
From the city park to the suburban garden, from the murkiest canal to the vacant building plot or bomb site, there is an astonishing variety of wild species, mammal, bird, reptile, insect and plant-life which has either steadfastly maintained a footing alongside humans or colonized their urban areas.
- Winnipeg Walkathon For El Salvador.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Women And The Law: Your Rights In Alberta
Calgary Caucus, National Association of Women and the Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Women and Children First
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- The Work Book (Witness to Injustice)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- World Military and Social Expenditures 1982
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- World View 1983
An Economic and Geopolitical Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
- Youth And The Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1982
"Emergency Librarian" is a journal for librarians and educators working with children and young adults in schools and public libraries.
- The Art of Robert Bateman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Published: 1981
- Situationist International Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 2006
A selection of Situationist writings.
- Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1981
Published: 2000
- Reading Capital Politically
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 2000
Harry Cleaver's seminal work on forming a practical, political interpretation of Marx's Capital.
- Maps and Dreams
Indians and the British Columbia Frontier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1997
Brody's account of his extraordinary eighteen-month journey through the world of a people who have no intention of vanishing into the past.
- The Mismeasure of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1996
A history and critique of the methods and motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and economic differences between human groups- primarily races, classes, and sexes - arise from inherited, inborn distinctions and that society, in this sense, is an accurate reflection of biology." The book critiques the principal theme of biological determinism, the idea that "worth can be assigned to individuals and groups by measuring intelligence as a single quantity."
- Salmon
The Decline of the British Columbia Fishery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1991
- Women's work devalued
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1991
An examination of the global failure to recognize the value of women's work.
- The Penguin Book of Chess Openings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1987
A guide through the morass of analysis and variations which constitute opening theory.
- Why Nothing Works
The Anthropology of Daily Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1987
Harris tries to explain the changes that overtook daily life in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Consulting
The Complete Guide to a Profitable Career
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1986
- Escape From Canada!
The Amazing Untold Story of German POWs in Canada, 1939-1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1986
- Adieux
A Farewell to Sartre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1984
The loving friendship between Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre lasted for over half a century and ended with Sartre's death in 1980. Adieuz, Simone de Beauvoir's final celebration of their life together is an account of the last year's of Sartre's life, and his death.
- The Creation of World Poverty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1983
Hayter challenges the assumption that the West is 'helping' the rest of the world to develop. Far from rescuing the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America from their supposed backwardness, the rich countries have accumulated vast wealth at their expense.
- Having it Both Ways
Report on married women with lovers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1983
Why do married women take lovers?
- Corporate Control, Corporate Power
A Twentieth Century Fund Study
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Deep and detailed research into the workings of corporate enables Professor Herman to throw considerable light on how the board of directors operates, how important outside directors are, how new members are selected, and how multiple directorships interlock the large corporations. Changes in corporate governance haves not changed the basic objectives of the corporation -- the pursuit of growth and profits -- nor have they enhanced social responsibility.
- The Hite Report on Male Sexuality
How men feel about love, sex, and relationships
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1982
Research bases on a study of 7,000 American men.
- Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
- Seven News Front Pages - Volume 12 - 1981-1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Published: 1982
- The Summer Before the Frost
Solidarity in Poland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1982
Looks at the background and events leadings to the founding of the Solidarity trade union in Poland in 1980.
- MRG Magazine - Volume 1 Issue 1
October 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Anti-racist group on petition drive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
RACAR, the Riverdale Action Committee Against Racism, is running a series of petition blitzes in the Riverdale community. The object of the petitioning is to talk to Riverdale residents and inform them of the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and of the existence of the RACAR, to offer support, and to ask them to sign the petition condemning the activities of the Klan.
- Don River Day points out pollution, abuse of river
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Dumping contaminants into the Don River is supposedly no longer allowed, but it continues and the effects are serious.
- Why vote?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Why bother to vote at all? What difference will it make? Aren't politicians all pretty much the same?
- The Acquisitors
The Canadian Establishment Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- The Adequacy of Basic Income Assistance Benefits (Gain) in December 1980
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
In Vancouver, people who live on Guaranteed Available Income for Need (GAIN) are facing a shortfall in income of between $50 and $200 every month, according to the most recent study by interviewing those who came to them for Christmas gifts.
- All That Our Hands Have Done
A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
The story of working people in Hamilton's steel industry.
- Alternative Employment Agencies For Unorganized Workers (Single Displaced People) In Urban Core Areas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Temporary work agencies have traditionally used unorganized and unskilled workers for profit.
- American Dreams: Lost and Found
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Interviews with 100 Americans who relate their dreams, disappointments, aspirations and experiences.
- An Anthology of Erotic Prose
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- At the Lenin Shipyards
Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
A first-hand account of the rise of the Solidarity trade union in Poland.
- Atlantic Provinces' Heritage and Environmental Groups.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This listing contains the titles and addresses of more than 60 heritage and environmental groups throughout the four Atlantic provinces.
- Atlas of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Le Berdache
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
- Brief to the Renewable Resources Committee, the Select Committee of the New Brunswick Legislature.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
The New Brunswick Federation of Wood Producers' Brief to the Renewable Resources Committee is aimed at protecting the future existence of New Brunswick's forests.
- The British Columbia Family Relations Act: The Complete Laywoman's Guide (1980).
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Jillian Ridington and Ruth Busch have put together a laywoman's guide to the new Family Relations Act of British Columbia.
- Building United Judgement
A handbook for consensus decision making
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Describes the techniques and skills which groups can apply to make the principles of consensus work effectively.
- Canadian Union of Postal Workers Negotiations Backgrounders
Four backgrounders published in February, March, April 1981
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Backgrounder #1 is on Health and Safety; #2 is on Reduced Workings Time; #3 is on Parental Rights; #4 is on Night Work. All are in French as well as English.
- Capitalism for Beginners
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
An amusing, soundly researched, and highly accessible illustrated book that tells you everything you want to know about capitalism.
- Circle of Poison: Pesticides and People in a Hungry World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Clean Up Your Garbage Act!
Fredericton Recycling Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
The purpose of this guide is to identify in simple terms and pictures the reasons for recycling and reducing waste.
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Deux Poids, Deux Mesures, Les Francophones Hors Quebec Et Les Anglophones Au Quebec
Un Dossier Comparatif
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Dans l'élaboration de ce dossir comparatif, il a toutefois fallu pousser encore plus loin les recherches ayant abouti aux Héritiers de Lord Durham et réexaminer les services offerts en francais aux communautés francophones.
- Directory of Environmental Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Comprehensive environmental listsings. Mostly Southern California, but also lists national and international environmental conservation and ecological organizations. In addition to the alphabetically organized environmental listings, media and print
- Directory of Homosexual Organizations and Publications
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Gay organization toster. The entries are listed geogrphically by state and province with a subject index at the end of the book. Each listing contains only the name, address, and phone number. The center also publishes bibliographies, reading lists and a
- Do It Yourself
Hungary's Hidden Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Left-wing dissident Janos Kenedi shows how the system realy works in Hungary in a hilarious and bittersweet account of how he built his own house. Shortages are general. The goods you need may welll be there but they can only be obtained in unorthodox ways -- ranging from simple bribery to the much more effective string-ulling and backdoor dealing of the mutual interest network.
- Drawing from Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Dubious Sentinel - Canada and the World Military Order
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Encyclopedia of the Airbrush
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Energy Development on Farmland: Statement on target areas for well sites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This statement on well site locations was presented to Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation board (ERCB) supporting the position to have the target area requirements for future oil and natural gas wells moved to the north-east corner of quarter sections or sections for the entire province.
- European Women on the Left: Socialism, Feminism and the Problems Faced by Political Women, 1880 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
The political struggles of ten radical women active on the European scene from 1880 to the present.
- Face Saving, Criticism and Defensiveness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
A well researched article that integrates scholarly and experiential sources. Discusses the principles and skills for giving criticism in a way that can reduce defensiveness in both the sender and receiver of feedback.
- The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Feminism and Sadomasochism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Califia says that sadomasochism encourages fluidity and questions the naturalness of binary dichotomies in society.
- Flames Across the Border
The Canadian-American Tragedy, 1813- 1814
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Focus on the Waterfront
A Report of the Meeting "Focus on the Waterfront," held in Dartmouth and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This is a report of the event "Focus on the Waterfront" prepared by the Nova Scotia Division of the Community Planning Association of Canada (CPAC-NS).
- Food Without Frontiers
A Big Red Cookbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Fundraising for Non-Profit Groups
How to Get Money from Corporations, Foundations, and Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Growing Up Free
Raising Your Child in the 80s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Heresies Sex Issue
Heresies #12
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- How to Improve Your Photography
A guide to seeing and making better pictures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- How to Make Love to a Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- How to make money selling information & advice
Seminar Guide & Directory of Resource Information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Ideas and Action
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
- Immigrant Housewives In Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This report, sponsored by Toronto's Immigrant Women's Centre, is the result of a three-year study on the conditions of working class immigrant women from rural backgrounds.
- Immigrant Women's Health Handbook
A Book By and For Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- In Struggle
SNCC and the Black Awakenning of the 1960's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Index to Illustrations of Living Things Outside of North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- The Joy of Cataloging
Essays, Letters, Reviews and Other Explosions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Berman is a cataloging librarian who has crusaded to reform subject headings that are out of date or offensive.
- Kassel 1900 bis heute
Eine Dokumentation mit Fotos
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Keating Channel Flood Inquiry Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- The Little Green Book: A Guide to Self-Reliant Living in the 1980's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Des luttes et des rires de femmes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- The Making of E.P. Thompson
Marxism, Humanism, and History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This study is an analysis of E.P. Thompson's humanism and Marxism as they are woven throughout his politics, theory, and historical studies. Arguing against a "purely academic reading" of Thompson, Palmer examines the criticisms of Thompson's work and defends the view of history and human agency that leads to a politics of practice, rather than a politics of theory.
- Le Marxisme, c'est pas Sorcier
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- The Media Book: Making the Media Work for Your Grassroots Group
A Step-by-Step Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This "how-to" manual sets out to outline a model media campaign that can be modified and used by other reproductive rights groups with low budgets and staffs, around the U.S.
- Men in Love
Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love Over Rage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Friday examines men's sexual fantasies.
- More Incredible than Fiction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
The story of the St. Lawrence community recounts the working past of a small Newfoundland coastal town.
- National Security in the Nuclear Age
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- The Need for Community Based Programs for Former Psychiatric Patients
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
St. Johns, like other cities across Canada, has been facing an increase in the number of former psychiatric patients who are largely left to their own resources for survival in the city.
- The New Dawn Story
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
In the area of industrial Cape Breton Island, there exists a form of Community Development Corporation (CDC) known as New Dawn Enterprises Limited.
- New Maritimes
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
New Maritimes is a new regional newspaper which will begin publication in 1982. "An adventure in radical regionalism. A critical left treatment of the politics, culture and history of the Maritimes."
- A New View of a Woman's Body
A Fully Illustrated Guide by the Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- The Newfoundland Fishery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This brochure investigates the fishing industry in Newfoundland. The harvesting and processing of fish products is Newfoundland's greatest economic boon.
- The Next Whole Earth Catalog
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- No Bosses Here!
A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
A perceptive and practical guide to working in a collective.
- No Lasting City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Larry Bantleman has assembled information on the growing housing crisis for low income people in Vancouver in order to determine a way that First United Church can "provide low-income, low-rent housing in the Downtown Eastside."
- The Nova Scotia Worker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
A number of issues related to unorganized workers appear in this issue of the Nova Scotia Worker.
- The Nova Scotia Worker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Three issues stand out in this edition of the newspaper: steel, mine safety and bank organizing.
- Nuclear Power in Perspective - The Economic Myths of Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This brief focuses on the economic implications of nuclear power in the framework of the province of New Brunswick'' energy planning.
- The Nukeson Saga
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Obasan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Oil & Gas Bibliography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
The Extension Service of Memorial University of Newfoundland, has long been involved in community development throughout the province.
- Oil & Gas: Are We Ready?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This booklet contains a summary of the proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Extension Service of Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, October 23-26, 1979.
- The Oil Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
According to the author of this article, there will be increasingly dramatic changes in Newfoundland as the offshore oil "boom" further affects the economy and society.
- Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) Briefs Dealing with Labour Relations in Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Labour legislation in Canada comes largely within the provincial jurisdiction.
- Organizing The Unorganized is the key to building the Union
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This article comments on a policy paper presented for discussion at the 1981 UEW conference in Montreal.
- Parenting for Peace and Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Perpetuating Poverty: The Political Economy of Canadian Foreign Aid
Toronto: Between the Lines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Perspectives on World Hunger
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This curriculum unit is designed to introduce senior high school students in Newfoundland to the problem of widespread malnutrition in the world.
- Photography
A Handbook of History, Materials, and Processes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Le Plan d'Action 1977
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Une réponse de l'association provinciale des Acadiens de l'I.P.E. au dossier Les héritiers de Lord Durham.
- The police vs. the law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
One of the main differences between a democratic society and a police state is that in a democracy, the police are supposed to obey the law. In a police state, they don't.
- Pork Roasts
250 Feminist Cartoons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- A Pressing Issue
Developing a Co-operative Response to Emerging Human Needs
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Problems of Immigrant Women in the Canadian Labour Force
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
The purpose of this paper is to fill in some of the information gaps relating to the immigrant woman's role and experience in the Canadian labour market.
- Promises......Promises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Radical Priorities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Otero presents an analysis and overview of Chomsky's social and political philosophy. For the first time the roots of Chomsky's politics are examined and the relationship to his theory of linguistics demonstrated.
- Reds (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
A 1981 film that was co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty. The picture centres on the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days That Shook the World.
- Remembering the Don
A Rare Record of Earlier Times Within the Don River Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Memories of Toronto's Don River in days gone by.
- The Report of the Newfoundland Medical Association Committee
(formed to review the medical aspects of the Spruce Budworm epidemic and control program.)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
The Newfoundland Medical Association Committee was formed to review the health aspects of the Spruce Budworm Control Program; its report was submitted to the Newfoundland Medical Association in 1979.
- A Report on Noranda Mines Limited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
A Report on Noranda Mines Limited for the Counseil Regional d'Amenagement du Nord de Noveau Brunswick (C.R.A.N.) traces the history of Noranda Mines in Canada and particularly in the province of New Brunswick.
- Report on Sydney Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This report is based on a 30-minute slide-tape program called "The Steel Show" (Steel Research Group) and is available from DEVERIC, Box 3460, Halifax, Nova Scotia ($5 rental, $100 rental) or United Steel Workers of America, 55 Eglinton Avenue E., Toronto, Ontario (Write for details).
- A Report On The Media Coverage Of Our World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
In May, 1981, the Edmonton Learner Centre (ELC) sponsored a two-day conference entitled "The International News Blues, a Conference on Media Coverage of our World."
- Rights and Realities: Discrimination and the Gay Women and Men of British Columbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This brief investigates the prospect of extending legislative protection to include the human rights of gay women and men in British Columbia.
- Rikka - Volume 8, Number 4 - Winter 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Focus on multiculturalism.
- The Road to Gdansk
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Robert's Rules of Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Sailing the Farm
A survival guide to homesteading on the ocean
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Sandino's Daughters
Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 19981
Interviews with women who fought in the Nicaraguan revolution.
- Slave Wages Paid To Working Psychiatric Patients
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This article claims that the mentally ill are working for as little as fifty cents an hour in sheltered workshops, provincial psychiatric hospitals and some private businesses in the Toronto area.
- Small Garden, Bitter Weed
Struggle and Change in Jamaica
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This is a social history of the Jamaican people - from the time of the European invasion to the present day. It is a history of struggle and change. Written in the run-up to the 1981 elections which led to the defeat of the Manley government, this revised and extended version now analyzes the consequences of that defeat for the people of Jamaica.
- The Socialist Register 1981
Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Solidarite enchainee
Pour une interpretation des luttes en Pologne, 1980 - 1981
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Some Native Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
The Development Committee (DAC) of La Ronge, Saskatchewan is concerned with education - in particular, education for Northern Native People.
- South Riverdale Community Health Centre
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
The South Riversake Community Health Centre is primarily a health unit delivering family and community health care to the residents of the Riverdale area of Toronto.
- The Spectacle
A Skeleton Key
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
An anarchistic meditation on the bankruptcy of contemporary life. Specifically the role of "spectacle" in representing reality has led to a complete dearth of presence in everyday human interaction.
- The Spider & The Fly, Agribusiness and the Farmer, The Way it Really is
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This account of potato farming issues in New Brunswick was prepared by the National Farmers' Union for the Farmers' Enquiry in New Brunswick.
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Submission by the National Farmers Union to the Comprehensive Development Plan for Prince Edward Island
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
The National Farmers Union (NFU) evaluates, criticizes and makes recommendations on the Comprehensive Development Plan for P.E.I. in this submission.
- Successful Negotiating Skills For Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Teach Your Own
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- To Establish a Kingdom of Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Following and in response to the 1977 pastoral message of the Canadian Bishops, "A Society to Be Transformed," the Roman Catholic Bishops of the Atlantic provinces have issued this pastoral statement "to promote fundamental changes" in Canada's social structures and economic order.
- Toronto's Finest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Too many cops seem to enjoy intimidating people and smashing things.
- Trefann Short Term Community
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Trefann Short Term Community grew out of the needs of some skid-row men leaving St. Michael's Detoxification Center.
- Underdevelopment and Education: Selected Annotated Resources For Saskatchewan And Canadian Educators.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Underdevelopment and Education, a publication on underdevelopment, is intended for the use of "educators who recognize the needs to teach about oppression, to transform the economy, and to strive for a socially-just society."
- Underdevelopment in Atlantic Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
In this brief three-part study, John Watt examines some of the main issues concerning underdevelopment in the Atlantic provinces.
- Van Nostrand Pocket Atlas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- What Socialists Stand For
An introduction to resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
An introduction to socialism which tries to answer questons such as "Isn't it against human nature? Won't it mean an end to democracy? Doesn't it only apply to poor countries?
- What You Can Do: A Citizen's Guide to Community Organizing for the Prevention of Alcohol, Other Drug, Mental Health and Youth Problems
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
A workbook for people organizing to work cooperatively for social change in a community. Good information on leadership, group process, and especially on defining goals and planning as a group.
- Where Once the Eagle Flew
Life, conditions and activities in Labrador
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Wife Assault: The Silent Crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Women Workers In The Home
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
The Vancouver Status of Women has put together a special "speaking package."
- Women's Petition for Peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
The Women's Petition for Peace originated in Denmark in February, 1980 and is being distributed by Voice of Women Halifax.
- Work and Technical Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
Work and Technological Change examines the process of the introduction of new technologies to the workplace.
- Working Paper on Technology and the Family Farm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
This working paper was prepared for presentation at a workshop entitled "The Human Context for Science and Technology" which was held at Saint Mary's University, Halifax in May, 1980.
- World Guide to Nude Beaches and Recreation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- You, You and You!
The People Out of Step with World War II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
First hand accounts of men, women and children living through World War II.
- Zero Energy Growth For Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Published: 1981
- Recovering our history: 'Eco-Socialism in a Nutshell'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 2013
A pamphlet that introduced the coming together of greens and reds in comic strip form.
- How Buildings Work
The Natural Order of Architecture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 2005
The basic principles of a residential and office "building" are explained: how and why buildings stand up, how they age, why they die, internal designs. All with hundreds of illustrations.
- Fire in the Minds of Men
Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1999
- Behind Canadian Barbed Wire
Alien, Refugee and Prisoner of War Camps in Canada 1914-1920 and 1939-1946
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1998
- The New Our Bodies, Ourselves
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1992
- Development Today
A Fundraising Guide for Nonprofit Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1986
A practical guide for non-profit organizations engaged in fundraising.
- The Far Side Gallery
Cartoons from The Far Side, Beyond the Far Side, and In Search of the Far Side
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1984
- Development Education
How To Do It
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1980
Published: 1983
- Suchbild
Über Meinen Vater
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1983
- Co-operative Future Directions Project
Democratic control of co-operatives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1982
- Dubious Specter
A Skeptical Look at the Soviet Nuclear Threat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1982
- Farewell to the Working Class
An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1982
Gorz argues that changes in science and technology have broken the power of industrial workers, especially skilled workers, and that, as a result, they are no longer central to the socialist project.
- Seven News Front Pages - Volume 11 - 1980-1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Published: 1981
- Something has to give
Emotional issues are potent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
One of the things that the recent civic election made clear is that left-leaning and reform candidates can be very vulnerable if right-wing groups are able to seize on emotional questions and make them issues during the an election campaign.
- Critical Condition
October 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Critical Condition
August 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- By the people, for the people?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
A tiny group of appointed politicians is ignoring the what the people have said they want.
- Co-operative Movement, System and Futures
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The people behind 7 News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Ten Years of Seven News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
The idea that became 7 News was born in the course of the struggles being waged by local groups of residents in Toronto’s Ward 7 in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. At that time, many residents were actively involved in battling developers and City Hall in an attempt to preserve their neighbourhoods from re-development.
- MRG Toronto Chapter
May 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Notes on Exterminism, the last stage of civllization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Crisis in Health Care: A Brief by the Medical Reform Group of Ontario
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Mirror, Mask and Shadow
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Pornography's Challenge to Liberal Ideology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Feminists who are currently concerned about some types of sexually stimulating materials presently available share underlying liberal attitudes with respect to the nature of human sexuality and the need to promote healthier alternatives to the view of human sexuality with which history presents us. We are not in any way opposed to the manufacture, sale, or distribution of materials which stress the positive aspects of human sexuality.
- Not guilty means not guilty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
The gay news magazine, The Body Politic, is organizing a public campaign to make Attorney General Roy McMurtry withdraw an appeal against the magazine's acquittal on obscenity charges.
- About Looking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
A collection of essays covering a wide range of topics from photographs and media, to zoos and forests, grouped around the theme of how people look at things.
- Access to Housing, A Regional Perspective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
This report is the result of two concerns. On the one hand, it is a response to the perceived lack of information of the needs not being met by the current housing market in the lower mainland region of BC. Under current government programs, local voluntary organizations have a great deal of responsibility for developing, at the local level, special needs housing projects. The second main concern of the report is to examine the problems facing these voluntary organizations and the availability of resources at their disposal.
- Action Proposals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Adventures of Mickey, Taggy, Puppo and Cica and How They Discover Vienna
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Alpha '78: Recueil des textes, Seminaire sur l'alphetisation au Quebec.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- L'alphabetisation a repenser
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Architecture for People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
A book of possible solutions for the problems of modern architecture.
- The Autobiography of Rederico Sanchez
And the Communist Underground in Spean
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Les Autochones et nous: Vivre ensemble
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Back in the USSR
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Impressions from a trip to the Soviet Union.
- Basic Education Departments.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- B.C. Gay Resources Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Bear Tribe Catalog 1980
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Bedside Guardian 29
A Selection from The Guardian 1979-80
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Bildering Club & Trilateral Commission. What are They? What Have They Done
Where are They Headed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
E.G. Adam's Report to the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers Of America (UE), Bilderberg Club And Trilateral Commission, is an analysis of these two organizations and their relationship to the present world economy.
- Biography & Genealogy Master Index
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
"Cumulative index to more than 9 million biographical sketches in more than 1,030 current and retrospective biographical dictionaries."
- Breasts
Women Speak About Their Breasts and Their Lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Brief on the Proposed Resolution for a Joint Address to Her Majesty the Queen
respecting the Constitution of Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
The National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO) presented a brief to the Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada on Thursday, December 18, 1980. This brief was presented jointly with the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIACP).
- The Business Page
How To Read It and Understand the Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Canada Metals story: A chronology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
The ongoing struggle against lead pollution in South Riverdale.
- Canadian Co-operatives and the International Community
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Canadian Woman: Her Work, Her Church
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Captive Labour Force on Non-English Speaking Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
An article focusing on the 'invisible work' that non-English speaking immigrant women, in particular, have done and continue to do.
- Centre for Investigative Journalism Annual Convention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Chiclet Gomez
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Churches, The West and the Fight Against Racism
Could Our Assumptions be Racist? Transforming our Fight into a Quest for Values
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- CIJ Convention - Canadian Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- CIJ Convention - Canadian Journalism-Pension Funds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- CIJ Convention - Enviroment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- CIJ Convention - Getting The Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- CIJ Convention - Police Sources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- CIJ Convention - Radio Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- CIJ Convention - The Referendum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- CIJ Convention - Sports
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- CIJ Convention - Tools of the Trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- CIJ Convention - TV Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- CIJ Convention - Food
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Class Bases of Language Policy in Quebec, 1949 - 1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Published in Studies in Political Economy 3 (1980)
- La cliniques des citoyens de St-Jacques
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Les Clochards et le systeme penal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Coastal Labrador: Incorporation, Exploitation and Underdevelopment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
This paper was first presented for the 5th International Seminar on Marginal Regions in Dublin, Eire, July, 1979.
- Communique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Compleat Turkey
A Comprehensive Guide With Over Three Illustrations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Comptine Populaires du Quebec
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Confederation of Canadian Unions' (CCU) Brief to the Hall Commission
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Cordwood Masonry Houses
A Practical Guide for the Owner-Builder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Cross Cultural Social Work In Canada: An Annotated Bibliography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
"The Multicultural Workers Network was established in June, 1978 with the overall objective of improving the delivery of social services to our multicultural community".
- Cynicism From Above: Cynicism From Below
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
The state bureaucracies of Eastern Europe are unable to accept any challenge to their right to decide and control.
- The Deadly Connection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Declarations of a New Canadian Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Democratic Control of Co-operatives
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Contains two articles: When All Else, Fails, Read the Directions; and When the Directions are Missing, Think, Experiment, and Learn.
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Directory National Inter-Church Coalitions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Brief to the NDP Task Force on Older Women in British Columbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
This brief describing the Downtown Eastside Women's Center points to the fact that women who live in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver face a harsh life in this predominantly male environment.
- A Dream That is Not for the Drowsy: A Working Theology for Presence and Future-Building
In the Metro Core Across our Country
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
This book develops some elements of a "working theology" that reflects on the nature of both the social and economic realities as well as local efforts at survival and mission in the metropolitan core context.
- Earthcare: Ecological Agriculture in Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Ecological Agriculture in Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Ecology as Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
- Education and Social Change - A Photographic Study of Peru
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- L'endettemen: un probleme grave pour de nombreuses familles de notres region
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Endicott
Rebel Out of China Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Energy Probe Material
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- L'ENVIRONMENT
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Environmental and Occupational Health: A View from STOP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Fact Sheet 1: The Real Effects of Opting Out/Extra Billing
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Fashion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Even though the fashion industry has made dress oppressive one should not discard it completely, or at least only an appropriate occasions. Do we really all want to walk around looking exactly alike in dull green pajamas and peak caps?
- A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Final Project Report: Greater Vancouver General Worker's Co-op
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Finding employment in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is extremely difficult, but there are casual jobs available in the city and workers willing to work.
- Findings on Uranium Tailings and Nuclear Waste Disposal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Fire in the Streets
America in the 1960s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
A political and cultural history of each year of the 1960's, focusing on one person to exemplify the year. Activist John Lewis is used to emphasize the Civil Rights movements heating up in 1960; Clark Kerr and the Berkeley "free speech movement" characterize 1964.
- A Fire to Suffocate: Canadian Industrial Produciton for the Nuclear Arms Race
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- First All Chiefs Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Friendship First
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Fusion... A Bridge to Nowehere?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Future in the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Galapagos
Islands Lost in Time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Gay Bibliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Books, 213 periodicals, films, bibliography.
- George Orwell: A Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
A biography of George Orwell.
- Get Even
The Complete Book of Dirty Tricks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Getting Organized
Building A Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Comprehensive guide to the process of unionization and certification.
See also: CX2072.
- Getting Organized: Building a Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
See also CX2340.
- Golly this is the stuff
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- La greve de la United Aircraft
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Growing Together
Programme Ideas for Children's Groups to Help Them Grow in a Multi-Racial Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Handbook of Alternative Community Housing for Psychiatric Patients in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Health Care and the Impact of Religious and Cultural Law and Customs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Health For People in the 1980's A Work in Progress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Historique et realisations du Reseau d'Aide de 1974-1980
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Ce document, publié par le Réseau d'Aide aux personnes seules et intinérantes de Montréal Inc., donne les objectifs généraux de la Corporation, les catégories de ses membres et lea réalisations depuis sa fondation.
- H.O.P.E. Brief to the P.E.I. Energy Corporation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- How to Save the World
Strategy for World Conservation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
"How To Save The World" discusses, "Why the world needs saving now and how it can be done". Allen breaks his work down into seven chapters, devoting each to an important aspect of the global predicament. Securing the food supply, saving forests, preserving wildlife and presenting a strategy for conservation are all discussed as methods to improve the relationship between mankind and nature.
- Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Argues that the accepted theories of imperialism are profoundly flawed.
- In Contempt of All Authority
Rural Artisans and Riot in the West of England, 1586-1660
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
An examination of the social status of the people who engaged in the food and anti-enclosure riots in late Tudor and early Stuart England and to determine the social and economic conditions which produced the disorders.
- Infant Formula Controversy Kit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Initiation a la vie economique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Innocent Blood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Introduction to Issue 5
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Invasion of Canada
1812-1813
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- It's Your Move
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Journalists Must Debate Press Freedom Proposal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Justice Today: A Conference Outline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Kent Commission: Draft of Content's Brief to the Kent Royal Commission
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Kent Commission: One can hope, but Kent report likely to go the way of Davey's
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Kent Commission: 'It would have been so easy if the Journal had Played Dead'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Kent Commission: Measure in Years the Wait for a Real Competition Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Land of Milk and Honey
The National Report of the People's Food Commission
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Land of Milk and Honey - The National Report of the People's Food Commission
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The last word (Diemer)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
The movement has no need of self-appointed or any other kind of saviours, not even well-intentioned anarchist ones.
- Letter - Canadas pride
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
One of the nicest things about my brief visit to Canada was finding Red Menace.
- Letter - Flogging away
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
A great many anarchists adopt a critical stance to Bakunin's legacy as well as towards the anarchist movement generally. Our rejection of Marxism is not monolithic.
- Letter - Manchester calling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
The Red Menace: very stimulating reading.
- Letter - The quoting urge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
A reader submits a collection of quotes from Bakunin.
- Letter - Raised consciousness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Debunking jargon.
- Letter - Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
You can't blow up a social relationship.
- Letter - The good and the bad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
What are the contemporary differences between serious anarchists and serious libertarian Marxists? It is the present historical situation that is relevant, since after all we cannot go back and change the past.
- Letter - Useless pastime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Let's get down to the business of really discussing the issues: the role and nature of the State, trade unions, feminism, nationalism, sexuality, etc.
- Letters to Sources - Sources 6
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Letters to the Editor - Sources 7
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Les licenciements: .les eviter eles reglementer .les compenser
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Life After Doomsday
A Survivalist Guide to Nuclear War and Other Major Disasters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Living More With Less
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Long Way From Home
The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
- Making a Living - Ten Days for World Development 1980.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- A Man
A Novel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Mapuches: People of the Land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
An analysis of the media's prediliction for "politics of confrontation" in America in the late 60's. He focuses on how the media distorted the anti-war movement.
- Militarism and the World Military Order - A Study Guide for Churches
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Mind in The Martial Arts
A Key to Winning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Module on Combatting Discrimination: Face to Face: The Self and Others
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Muckraker's Manual
How To Do Your Own Investigative Reporting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
The skills of investigative reporting described for non-journalists.
- Neil Webster
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Never Again!
The hows and whys of stopping Fascism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Fascism is not an elemental, irresistible force, but a movement and a system of ideas - with specific causes and specific weaknesses. This book looks and how and why fascism grows, and how and why its opponents failed in the 1930s, in Spain and Germany, at how and why they succeeded in Britian, and ht how and why we can stop fascism today.
- New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- New Men/New Roles.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The New Parameters of the Quebec Bourgeoisise
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Published in Studies in Political Economy 3 (1980)
- New Roots For Agriculture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- News According to the New Technology Part 3: Printing and Distribution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Nightfrost in Prague
The End of Humane Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Notes sur l'histoire et les conditions de vie des travailleurs immigres au Quebec
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Nukenomics - The Political Economy of the Nuclear Industry.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Of Justice, Revolutions and Human Rights: Notes on a trip to Central America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Old Farm, New Farm
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Ombudsmen feel their success should spur more appointments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Ontario Legislature Investigate Nuclear Safety
Why Pickering Safety Systems Need to be Upgraded
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Oxford-Duden Bildworterbuch Deutsch und Englisch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
German-English pictorial dictionary. Each double page contains a plate illustrating the vocabulary of a whole subject, together with the exact German names and their correct English translations. 384 zum Teil mehrfarbige Bildtaflen erlautern besser als alle Definitionen etwas 28000 Worter aus allen Bereichen unseres Lebens and unserer Umwelt; jedes Wort wird sowohl auf deutsch als auf englisch angefuhrt. Ein alphabetisches Register in jeder der beiden Sprachen ermoglicht den Zugang vom einzelnen Stichwort her.
- The Panda's Thumb
More Reflections in Natural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
A collection of essays centering on evolutionary theory, with an emphasis on Darwin's thoughts and impact.
- A People's History of the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 2006
Howard Zinn attempts to present the history of the United States through the perspectives of common people rather than political and economic elites.
- Pioneer and Gentlewoman of British North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
The first in a three-volume documentary series in Canadian women's history. Documents on childhood, education, work, marriage, family life and old age are followed by materials dealing with women's private and public roles in the pre-Con-federation period. Includes analytical introductions and a bibliography. Fully indexed.
- Poisons in Public
Case Studies of Environmental Pollution in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Politics of Illusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Elections have become a contest to determine who is the best actor.
- Les Politiques Dites "Sociales"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Port Industrial Development Task Force
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Pour des conditions de vie decentes: Action collective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Press Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Prostitution Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Decriminalization takes prostitution from the jurisdiction of the criminal code. It means private sexual acts between consenting adults are placed outside the realm of criminal laws.
- Protest and Survive
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Publishing Short Run books
How to paste up and reproduce books instantly using your quick print shop
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Question of Separation
Quebec and the Struggle Over Sovereignty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Racism in the Canadian Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Rage Against the Dying
Campaign against Chemical and Biological Warfare
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Real Co-operative Challenge
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Recent Nuclear Moratorium Announced in B.C.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- La Recouverture de Centre Meurling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Le but de ce document est de faire connactre au législateur: l'urgence de la réouverture du Centre Meurling (centre d'hébergement pour hommes seuls itinérants, fermé à ceux-ci depuis 1978) aux sans-logis dès le mois d'août 1981: l' urgence de remettre sur pied à Montréal, un centre d'hébergement d'urgence qui serait à la disposition des organismes pulics et qui posséderait les ressources matérielles et humaines nécessaires leur permettant d'accueillir des personnes gravement intoxiquées ou en perte d'autonomie.
- Red Menace #5
Summer 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- Report of the Task Force on High Risk Pregnancy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Report on Services to Homeless Men: Working Paper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
It is estimated that there are between 50 and 300 "homeless" men in the city of Halifax.
- Research Bulletin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Resource Kit - Consultation on Racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Les retraites et pre-retraites parlent au ministre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- La revision du code civil attente aux droits de la femme dt du couple
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Revolution Re-Assessed
Politics of Human Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
- Revue Internationale D'Action Communautaire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Roget's II
The New Thesaurus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Role of the Press in Hong Kong
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Roots of Militarism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Sea, The Sea
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Select Readings in Support of Indian and Inuit Health Consultation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Sex Cases Cited, Court Reporters Face Excessive Publication Bans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Sex in History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Tannahill draws on the findings of anthropology, archaeology, bio-chemistry, genetics, physiology, and psychoanalysis, as well as art, architecture, literature, and theology, in order to place the human sex drive and its social and moral consequences in their widest historical perspective.
- Sex Report Twisted: Rewrites and Bad Heads 'Make the Paper Dishonest'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Shared Intimacies
Women's Sexual Experiences
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Slaves of Slaves
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
This is about women in Latin America and the Carribean. Their subjection and their resistance, their particular problems as well as their common struggle alongside other women come across strikingly in this clear and succint book. The author's frequent use of examples and personal testimony also makes it very readable.
- So be it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Rejoinder from Sam Dolgoff.
- Socialism Democracy and Self-Management
Political Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Essays by a long-time leader of the Trotskyist Fourth International on topics such as direct democracy and self-management.
- The Socialist Register 1980
Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Solidarite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
It is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.
- Statement of Christian Clergy and Religious Concerned for the Extension of the Protection of the Ontario Human
Rights Code to Homosexual Women and Men
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- STOL lands again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
The proposal for a major commerical airport on the Toronto Islands appears to be back on the agenda.
- Study on Housing Needs of Single Women in the Downtown Eastside
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
After a 1979 meeting of the Vancouver Urban Core Community Workers, a group of women workers decided to form a non-profit society - the "Society for Women's Residences".
- The Sunrise of the People
A Sandinista Education Workbook for Reading and Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Sunrise of the People Teacher's Guide
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Taxes for Peace, Not War.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Textile and Clothing INdustries in Canada: A Profile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Their Town The Mafia The Media and The Party Machine (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Thy Neighbor's Wife
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Toronto Planning Atlas
Computer Drawn Maps of Planning Indicators for Metropolitan Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Toronto Planning Atlas
Computer drawn maps of planning indicators for Metropolitan Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Toward Tidal Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Toward Tidal Power….? is the report of an education process developed to discuss the possible impacts of tidal power development in the Bay of Fundy area.
- The 25 Most Censored Stories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Urban Indians, THe Strangers in Canadian Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Native People are migrating from the reserves to urban areas in increasingly large numbers.
- Voice of Women, Canada, to the Standing Committee on External Affairs and National Defence
House of Commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
The Voice of Women is recognized as a significant national voluntary organization in Canada today.
- Volunteers in your Organization
How future trends in society will affect volunteers and organisations who work with them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Pie in the Sky: A History of the Ontario Waffle
Special Waffle Edtion of Canadian Dimension October-November 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
An analysis of the Waffle group, focuing on the Ontario Waffle but including its national context and its relationship to the federal NDP as well as to the Ontario NDP. Hackett stresses two main themes: the heterogeneity of the Waffle coaltion and the ambiguity of its task; and the limitations of the NDP as a potential vehicle for the socialist transformation of Canada, given the ideological traditions, and the political and social interests, which it embodies.
- Wartime Strikes
The struggle against the no-strike pledge in the UAW during World War II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
The history of the struggle against the no-strike pledge in the United Auto Workers of America (UAW) and the organization of the Rand and File Caucus, accompanied by an analysis of the question of working class consciousness in the light of this experience. Glaberman asks: What is the nature of working class consciousness and how does it relate to the question of whether the working class has the capacity to transform modern society?
- Webster's Dictionary Library
Seven Complete Dictionaries in One Volume
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Whole World is Watching
Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Wobblies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Women and Unemployment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Working Paper on Technology and the Family Farm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- Working People
An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- You and Your Rights
A Practical Guide for All Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
- The Role of the Individual and the Group in the Creation of Work Cultures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Published: 1980
Stan Weir compares wildcat strikes in Poland and San Diego and their basis in the 'informal work group'.
- Medical Reform Newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Published: 2014
Newsletters published by the Medical Reform Group of Ontario. The newsletters were published under several different names, including Medical Reform Group News; MRG Newsletter, and Medical Reform. The Connexions Archive has an almost-complete set.
- Forced Native Labor in Sixteenth-Century Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 2009
Presents a comprehensive investigation of the primary issue of the first century of Spanish American colonization: the massive system of Indian forced labour, ranging from outright slavery to the encomienda, upon which Spanish colonial society rested. This book traces the rupturing of Indian traditions and the fate that befell the Indian people.
- How to be more creative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1996
A guide to nourishing creativity and setting aside the inhibitions that prevent it.
- Medical Reform Group News Releases 1979 - 1995
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1995
- The Oxford-Duden Pictorial German and English Dictionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1994
- Self-Publishing Manual
How to write, print & sell your own book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1984
A comprehensive manual on self-publishing your own book which covers all aspects of the process from writing to selling.
- The Psychic Grid
How We Create the World We Know
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1983
- Physical Geology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1982
- Electronic Nightmare
The Home Communications Set and Your Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1981
- You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship
The Anarchist Case Against Terrorism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1979
Published: 1981
An Australian socialist-libertarian response to terrorism in the aftermath of the 1978 Sidney Hilton bombing, and a meditation on the inferior logic of terrorist-based politics.
- Beyond the Fragments
Feminism and the Making of Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1980
A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
- Children of the Holocaust
Stories of Sons and Daughters of Survivors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1980
- Howl Like the Wolves
Growing up in nazi Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1980
- Seven News Front Pages - Volume 10 - 1979-1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Published: 1980
- Memories of the Depression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Daily life experiences during the Great Depression.
- Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The film recounts the bombing of Cambodia by the United States in 1970 during the Vietnam War, the subsequent brutality and genocide that occurred when Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge militia took over, the poverty and suffering of the people, and the limited aid since given by the West.
- Profits: now you see them, now you don't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A private developer seems to be moving quickly into the non-profit housing field.
- Logos
Volume 2 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Counterculture newspaper from Montreal, Canada
- The Canadian Left Debates Its Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A debate on left strategies which collects wide-ranging responses from a variety of sources to Canadian Dimension's special issue on Eurocommunism, compiled in the hope that this exchange will advance the level of discussion and provoke still further debate in the ranks of the Canadian left.
- Divorce a la Mode
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A review of several books about marriage and divorce.
- Deserted wilds in city's centre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
If we are ever going to get a bicycle and pedestrian path, together with other improvements in the area south of Pottery Road we will have to speak up so that our elected representatives can hear us.
- Leave Leslie Spit alone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The Leslie Street Spit offers fresh air, rugged scenery, waves, shoreline and wildlife.
- Legal decisions threaten press freedom
Minus Five
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Stop TTC fare increase
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Governments apply a double standard. They demand that public transit pay for itself and that health care and education be judged by 'cost-benefit' analyses. But they apply no such standard to industrial policy where billions of dollars are shelled out, supposedly to create jobs, even though in fact corporation are axing jobs, not creating them, while their profits continue to climb.
- The Reasons Why
Why is There No Socialism in the United States?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The American working class, it seemed, was immune to the appeals of socialism even under the most auspicious conditions. But why?
- Radical Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
- Science fiction is more than just Buck Rogers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Like most modern literature, science fiction is concerned with the alienated human condition, yet it articulates this concern in a distinct manner, as a form of literature concerned with the implications of the problems engendered by industrial society.
- Gays Beaten Up! Where's the Outcry?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The anti–gay campaign taking place at the moment threatens more than just gays. The same elements and the same authorities that attack gays are the ones who do their best to keep the rest of us "in line" -- the ones who want strikes banned, the ones who welcomed the imposition of wage controls, in short, the ones who cannot do anybody any good.
- An Inside Look at Our Penal System
Review of Go-Boy! Memoirs of a Life Behind Bars, by Roger Caron
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
GO-BOY! can be read as a major social document which cries out for long–overdue prison reforms in Canada. It's a major contribution to prison literature and criminology. But GO-BOY!, like much concentration camp literature, can also be read and appreciated as a forceful witness to survival in hell. Caron has been there and come back to life whole, human and still fighting.
- Abandoned Pits and Quaries in Ontario
Ontario Geological Survey Miscellaneous Paper 79
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- After the Cataclysm
Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
- An Account to Settle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- The Anti-Psychiatry Bibliography and Resource Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Are we headed for another depression?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Summarizing from a Marxian perspective the most important factors determining the structure of the economy, Moseley concludes that both the squeezing of workers' living standards and government economic interventions can, at best, only prevent a sudden collapse of the system.
- The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Repitles and Amphibians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Authority and democracy in the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Paul Mattick shows that corresponding to the absence of a socialist movement in America is the absence of fascistic movements as attempted resolutions of extreme class conflict. The complacency of the American working class, however, depends upon continuing capitalist expansion. Thus, the limits imposed by the developing crisis create the possibility of a break with the belief that politics can be safely left to the bourgeoisie.
- Bakunin and the great schism
Chapter IV for The Anarchists, by James Joll
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
It was Bakunin who gave later anarchists an example of anarchist fervour in action; and it was Bakunin who showed how great was the difference in theory and practice between anarchist doctrine and the communism of Marx, and thus made explicit the split in the international revolutionary movement. Bakunin, too, more than any of his contemporaries, linked the revolutionary movement in Russia with that of the rest of Europe, and derived from it a belief in the virtues of violence for its own sake and a confidence in the technique of terrorism which was to influence many other revolutionaries besides anarchists.
- Bakunin vs Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The debates between Bakunin and Marx transcend petty personal squabbles and embody two diametrically opposed tendencies in the theory and tactics of socialism, the authoritarian and libertarian schools respectively.
- Barred from Prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
An account of what occured inside the B.C. Penitentiary during a prison uprising in September 1976.
- The Barter Book
Consumers Guide to Living Well Without Using Money
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- The Barter Book
Consumers Guide to Living Well Without Using Money
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Behind The Great Wall
A Photographic Essay on China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Bibliography on World Conflict and Peace
Second edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Peace research/educational resources. While the work of the international peace research community is well represented here, the majority of the books listed have been published in North America. Categoriescover scholarly works, journalistic writings, ad
- Bold Refugee Strategy Succeeds
Law Union News, February/March 1979
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Broken Images
Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Essays on modern Chinese culture and politics.
- Building in Your Backyard
The Suburban Guide to Making Birdhouses, Garden Shets, Doghouses, Playhouses, Treehouses, Privies, Greenhouses, and Gazebos
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Building Social Change Communities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Skills for creating and maintaining a collective or cooperative group, especially living communities. Excellent, concise chapters on consensus decision making, facilitation and conflict resolution.
- Canada: The Wonders of Natures
The Illustrated Natural History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- The Canadian Information Sharing Service
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Editorial explaining that the Canadian Information Sharing Service has changed the name of its publication to 'Connexions'.
- Carrefour International Catalogue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Changing The Cogs
Activists and the Politics of Technology
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
- Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Collective Bargaining Course Book
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Communication and Class Struggle, Vol 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Community Economic Workshops
An Evolutionary Preparation for Social Revolution to Economic Democracy Within an Ecological Society
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A short discussion of the use of "community economic workshops" in constructing a democratic, anarchistic society.
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Connexions Index
February to December 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Index of contributors and titles for Connexions 1978 (Volume 3, Numbers 1 - 6).
- The Continuing Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
We should subject both Marxism and anarchism to a critical analysis, and thereby start to provide the basis for a libertarian revolutionary movement that relates adequately to the needs and problems of today.
- The Control of the Canadian Economy and the Human Problem of Unemployment:
A Christian Perspective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This statement is printed as a fold-out on one sheet with an insert.
- Co-ops, Communes and Collectives: Experiments In Social Change in the 1960's and 1970's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Contains case studies of alternative organizations and articles addressing issues relevant to how such organizations function. Particularly good is Jane J. Mansbridge's paper, "The Agony of Inequality." Also recommended: "Conditions for Democracy: Making Participatory Organizations Work" Joyce Rothschild-Whitt.
- La crise et les travailleurs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Critical distance (Bean)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Letter: anarchists must make a choice.
- Cross-Country Skiing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- A Culture in Conflict
Skilled Workers and Industrial Capitalism in Hamilton, Ontario, 1860-1914
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A study of continuity and change in the lives of skilled workers in Hamilton, Ontario, during a period of economic transformation. Palmer shows how the disruptive influence of developing industrial captialism was counterbalanced by the stabilizing effect of the associaitonal life of the workingman, ranging from the fraternal order and the mechanics' institute to the baseball diamond and the rough music of the charivari.
- Cutbacks to Training Allowances & Outreach Programs: Their Impact on Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Darkroom Dynamics
A Guide to Creative Darkroom Techniques
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Declaration of Support for Quebec's Right to Self-Determination
Signatories: Professors at University of Toronto and York University
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This declaration is signed by more than a dozen English-speaking professors in Canadian universities.
- Une déclaration politique du collectif des socialistes libertaires
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- The Destructive Urge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Marxism's greatest discovery is that it cannot prescribe any science of revolution, any fail-safe program. On the contrary what it provides is a new question, a new responsibility to make a choice..
- Development Perspectives: Curriculum Resource Kits for Development Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
These kits were originally prepared in 1976 and then tested during 1977 and 1978 in high schools, community colleges and study-action groups.
- The Dictionary of Canadian Quotations and Phrases
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Discrimination: How Human Rights Laws Protect You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Dossier Gareries: pour un reseau universel et gratuit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Ein Blick zurück aufs alte Kassel
50 ausgewählte Themen aus HNA-Serien
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Employment and the Single Displaced Person
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A project aimed at providing single dispalced persons with work.
- L'endettement, nouvelle forme d'exploitation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Energy Planning in a Conserver Society:
Parts I&II to the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This brief presents for the first time a consistent alternative energy scenario for Ontario to the year 2025.
- Equal Partners for Change - Women and Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Eros in Antiquity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Reviewed in New York Review of Books, November 25, 1979.
- Ethical Considerations - Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Evaluation, Participation and Community Health Care: Critique and Lessons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Family Violence: Report on the Task on Family Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Federated Anti-Poverty Groups of British Columbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The above Federation is made up of citizens' groups and individuals working together for change in the low-income people in British Columbia.
- Final Report on Sub-committee on Race Relations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Flying Together
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Following the Red Path
The Native People's Caravan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
An account of the Native People's Caravan, a cross Canada trek to raise awareness of broken treaties and grievances against the Canadian government.
- Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Review of a book titled Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity by the authors Francis Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins.
- The Forces Which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- The Fred Victor Mission Experience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This paper begins by outlining how in the last ten years Fred Victor Mission's concept of service to poor people in the inner core has evolved toward the development of a social change process with the men on skid row.
- Frederico and Ingrid Luchsinger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Frogs in a Well
Indian Women in Purdah
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Frogs in a Well is a case study of women at one of India's most sacred Muslim shrines- that of the Sufi saint, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya. It is essentially a study of women living in strict purdah. Their situation is so different from that familiar to most non-Muslims today that it is difficult to grasp either the rationale for purdah or the social forces that perpetuate it. This book is an analysis of these forces, within the context of a delicate portrayal of the women's way of life.
- The Future
A Guide to Information Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Futuristics directory. Covers a broad range of information resourcessuch as organizationns, individuals, books, films, research projects, books and reports and periodicals that are available in the field of futuristics. Over 2000 sources. Separate indices.
- Geology and Fossils: Craigleith Area, Ontario.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A series of article regarding the Ten Days for World Development conference focused on food.
- The Green Book
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Report of the Politico-Military Strategy Commission to the African National Congress National Executive Committee, 1979.
- Guide to Convivial Tools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Directories, handbooks, bibliographies. Published as Library Journal Special Report No. 13, this guide was produced as a selection and reference tool by the librarian who founded Centro Intercultural de documentation (CIDOC) in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
- A Guide To Cooperative Alternatives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Edited by "Communities, Journal of Cooperative Living," this book is a resource guide of ideas, resources, references and contacts for people interested in living and working cooperatively. Includes well-annotated section on politics, decision making, education, community organizing and much more.
- The Hazards of Uranium Exploration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This booklet is sponsored by the Kootenay Nuclear Study Group. Its backdrop is the protest barricade by Genelle residents of the drilling and blasting operations of Noman Mines in the China Creek watershed that supplies that community's water.
- The Hazards of Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This leaflet summarizes Britich Columbia opposition to uranium mining.
- Health Dangers of the Nuclear Fuel Chain and Low-Level Ionizing Radiation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
An annotated bibliography of resources on the nuclear fuel chain and its potential impacts on human health.
- The Hidden Welfare System Revisited
A report by the National Council of Welfare on the Growth in Tax Expenditures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This document is an analysis of government spending through tax deductions. Tax deductions are an indirect way of spending money. The government does not declare how much money is spent in this way, as it does in relation to direct spending.
- The History of the Township of Brant (1854 - 1979)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- How to Win an Argument
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Michael Gilbert sets out to show how to identify and defend oneself against tricky and flawed arguments.
- Hurricane Hazel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- I was a psychic for the FBI
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Para-review investigates parapathology
- Immigration Act Repressive in The Canadian Student
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- In The Best Interests of the Child
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Indian Coverage in Canadian Daily Newspaper 1978
A Content Analysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Systematic analysis of newspaper coverage of Indian affairs to identify the image of Indians conveyed to the public by the press and what topics and issues received attention.
- Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in B.C.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Introduction to Root & Branch #7
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
An introduction to all the featured articles the Root & Branch #7
- Introduction to this issue (#4) (Vol. 3, #1)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- The Iron Law of Bureaucracy
Cartoons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Journaux radicaux
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- J.P. Stevens - Boycott Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This kit provides extensive background information on the organized boycott against J.P. Stevens and Company Inc. The boycott, now in its third year, was organized to bring wide attention to the unjust and dangerous working conditions in the 85 textile plants of J.P. Stevens. Over 45,000 women and men are employed by the multi-national corporation that operates mostly in North and South Carolina, U.S.A.
- Land Tenure Problems and the Saskatchewan Land Bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This brief, presented to the People's Food Commission in Langenberg, Sask. examines the food issue from the perspective of the high cost of farm land.
- League on Rights and Freedom Information Sheet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This information sheet, published by the League on Rights and Freedom (formerly the League on Human Rights), reveals that two Québec citizens are prosecuting the RCMP and some security officers for unlawfully subjecting them to illegal investigations following their refusal to "collaborate."
- Legal Process for Battered Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- The Leninist Facade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
In direct oppostion to what Marx advocated, the Bolsheviks tried to institute socialism without democracy. The damage to the socialist movement resulting from this was immense.
- Letter - Coleman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Letter - Flosznick
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Libel, Defamation, Contempt of Court and the Right of People to be Informed.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Life on Earth
A Natural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A sweeping history of nature, from the emergence of one-celled organisms to the present.
- Lost Berlin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Ma Commande Me Fait Mourir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Ce dossier a été préparé par un groupe de mères de Pointe St-Charles.
- The Magazine
Everything You Need to Know to Make It in the Magazine Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- The Magic and Deadly Dust: Asbestos and Your Health
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Mail Order
...Starting up, Making it pay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Mars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Marx and Keynes: The Limits of Mixed Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A look back at Paul Mattick's book Marx and Keynes, ten years after its original publication.
- Medicare in Crises - A Submission on Ontario's Health Care System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Nature Heals
The Psychological Essays of Paul Goodman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Adolescent sexuality, the nature of aggression, ethics, Freud, the psychology of artists, Reich, homosexuality -- large, important, and controversial issues like these fascinated Paul Goodman, and in these essays he writes about them as if he absolutely had to, as if nothing were more important than the subject at hand.
- Nous, les travailleurs immigrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- On The Class Situation In Spain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Ontario Hydro
The Rising Cost of Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This four page booklet explains why electricity prices continue to skyrocket and why they will continue to do so unless we opt for a more energy efficient society based on conservation and renewable energy sources.
- Ontario's Future - Ontario Hydro
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This brochure is produced co-jointly by Energy Probe, Toronto Mobilization for Survival, Greenpeace Toronto and Birchbark Alliance (OPIRG) and deals with Ontario Hydro's expanding construction program.
- An Open Letter to the President of the Ford Motor Company of Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The Ford Motor Company of Canada is the parent company of Ford South Africa. Through Ford South Africa, Ford of Canada sells vehicles to the South African Military and police. The taskforces on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility (TCCR) sees this practice as a reinforcement of the status quo in South Africa, and as a statement in favour of apartheid.
- Opening Doors
Vancouver's East End
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- The Organization of Social Services and its Implications for the Mental Health of Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Paz, Pan y Libertad/Bread, Peace and Liberty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The report of the Canadian delegation to Chile on the occasion of the International Symposium on Human Rights in Santiago, Chile (November 1978) contains the statement of the five-member church delegation and extensive appendices on human rights, economic structures and Canada-Chile relations.
- People First - A Community Self-Help Planning Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- The Perils of Probabilities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A list of issues with report 1149 of the Atomic Energy Control Board regarding safety and liscencing of nuclear energy stations.
- Periódicos Radicales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Personal Politics
The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Movement and the New Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- The Phone Book
Working at the Bell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
An account centered on Kueyks three years working for the phone company.
- Point of order
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Letter on dialectical materialism and on lefty language.
- A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The socialist perspective, as we see it, implies a total critique of human society as it is presently constituted. Socialism means a total transformation of life and social institutions - a project of collective self-transformation.
- Press Release
United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
At the end of June, longshoremen in Sait John, N.B., refused to load a cargo of heavy water destined for use by NANDU nuclear reactor in Argentina. This press release contains the text of a telegram of support sent by the Electrical Workers Union to the longshoremen.
- Prime Time Information Kit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Communications & Cultural Transformation in Early-Modern Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The effect of the advent of printing on Western culture. Two volumes.
- The Private Investigator
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Problems of Immigrant Women in the Canadian Labour Force
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This report begins with the recognition that Canada has promoted immigration in the past for economic reasons.
- Problems with Red Menace method
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
our attempts to develop a positive alternative to DiaMat Marxism and Marxist-Leninist sects suffers from a polemical method which reproduces the very problem you want to get away from.
- The proliferation of neo-primitives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Neo-primitives prefer an imaginary past to the work of creating a different society.
- Les Proprietaires Des Medias
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Public Gives Direction for Clark's Nuclear Inquiry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Suggestions given to the federal governemnt as to how a public inquiry into nuclear energy should be conducted.
- La publicite sexise c'est quoi?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Quand Ferment Les Usines: un dossier d'animation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Préparer à la demande de la CRC-Q (Conférence religieuse canadienne-section Québec) ce dossier d'animation se veut une suite pour aller plus loin, à la prise de position de la CRC-Q à l'occasion de la fermeture de Cadbury.
- Le racisme au Quebec
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Rapport du Comite d'orientation au congres specail de la CSN sur la question nationale
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- RCMP (Recent Coercive Methods of Pacification)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Strike, Vol.2, No.8
- The RCMP vs. the People
Inside Canada's Security Service
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
An examination of the RCMP's Security Service and its abuses of power.
- Read before attacking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Letter: too quick to attack.
- Real Change
A Guide to Social Issue Films
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
An extensive guide to feature films, documentaries, shorts, videotapes, and slideshowa addressing a wide range of social issues. Over 500 are listed, annotated, and illutrated.
- Recognition of the Dene Nation Through Dene Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
In this paper, the Dene Nation outlines the manner in which a Dene Government can be implemented as a means of self-determination of the Dene within Canada.
- Recommended Changes in Canada's Refugee Status Determination Procedure:
A Brief to the Hon. Bud Cullen, Minister of Employment and Immigration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Red Menace #4
Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- Report to the Civic Authorities of Metropolitan Toronto and its Citizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- River Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Marxist Journal, #8
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Self-Working Mental Magic
67 Foolproof Mind-reading Tricks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Sex Research
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Sex research bibliography. Subtitled "Bibliographies from the Institute for Sex Research", this is a collection of the most frequently requested bibliographies. It includes basic works, other bibliogrphies, books, journal articles, conference papers, non
- Sherlock Holmes
The Man and His World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Social and Sexual Revolution
Essays on Marx and Reich
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A collection of essays by Bertell Ollman. Ollman tackles issues such as Karl Marx's concepts of class, class consciousness, and communism; he argues for the absorption of Wilhelm Reich's insights about the social function of sexual repression in maintaining capitalist relations; and he dicusses the various problems involved in trying to teach 'Marxism' in an academic context without destroying its central purpose as an instrument of class struggle.
- Some of my best comrades are friends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The left's sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
- Some Perceptions of the Ethics of Generating Electricity by Nuclear Fuel
National Conference on Nuclear Issues in the Canadian Energy Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The topic was treated by a four-member Panel.
- Some Reflections on the Evolution of Canada's Political Economy
and its Implications on its Families and Communities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This position statement by the Vanier Institute is originally published in the January 1979 issue of their newsletter Transition.
- The Soviet Response To Anarchism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Looks at the Soviet response to the perceived threat of anarchism and offers a critique of the Soviet position from an anarchist viewpoint.
- The Start Chart
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The Start Chart is a 17" by 23" guide to organizing for community action.
- Story of a Women's Centre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- A Submission to the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
In March 1979 a submission from Ontario was made to the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning by the Concerned Farmers of the United Townships (Turnberry, Howick, Wallace, Maryborough, Peel, Woolwich and Pilkington).
- Submission to the SW Need Hearings of the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The Food Land Steering Committee is a large umbrella group organized in 1975 to coordinate agricultural concerns in connection with the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning.
- Summary--Cluff Lake Board of Inquiry Local Hearings in Northern Sask
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A report on some discrepancies in the Bayda Report.
- Teaching as a Conserving Activity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Towards a Decentralist Commonwealth
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Could the basic structural concept of common ownership of society's resources for the benefit of all ever be achieved, institutionally, in ways which fostered and sustained, rather than eroded and destroyed, a cooperative democratic society?
- Turning Points
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A book about the passaes in our lives: how and why do we change?
- Un enunciado político de los Socialistas Libertarios
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Un Pays En Commun, La Solidarite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Underdevelopment and Social Movements in Atlantic Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A collection of essays challenging conventional theories about underdevelopment in Atlantic Canada and presenting an alternative view of the origins and nature of regional disparity. The authors offer a persuasive and well-documented argument that underdevelopment is a consequence of capitalist development itself.
- Une Critique de l'avant-projet de loi des services de garde a l'enfance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Unemployment and Youth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A group that dispells myths about youth and unemployment and promotes government cooperation in creating skilled jobs for youth.
- Union Woman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Organized Working Women (OWW) provides resources and information for women in the labour movement.
- The Unity of Canada and the Rights of Minorities
L'Unite du Canada et les droits des minorities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The Ontario bishops address the question of treatment of the francophone minority in Ontario in the brief.
- URANIUM: Correspondence with the Premier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This book is a collection of letters between Bill Harding, former director of programme policy of the United Nations Development Program (New York), and the Office of Premier Allan Blakeney, Saskatchewan. Its aim is a critique of the N.D.P. Government's decision for uranium mining.
- The Urban Question and Organizing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Urban Struggle and Organizing Strategies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The object of this paper is to examine the potential of urban struggle as a vehicle for promoting fundamental change in capitalist societies. This will be done by contrasting two organizing approaches to urban conflict and by evaluating their impact ideologically and economically on capitalist structures.
- "U.S. Discovers Soft Energy Salvation" in Probe Post
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Jan Marmorek suggests that the proposal of the American and Canadian governments to use renewable energy sources to supply a percentage of energy demands are feasible and would bring positive effects to the economy in this article in Probe Post.
- The Use of Manuscripts in Literary Research
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A handbook explaining problems of access and literary property rights.
- Viellir Chez Soi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Violence in the Home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This study paper with a questionnaire is concerned that people recognize that violence does exist in the home, and that the Church has a role to play in dealing with it. The paper has three sections. The first two deal with violence in the home, and the third looks at the church's response.
- Voice of Women/La Voix Des Femmes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A Calgary group that opposes nuclear energy.
- Voices of Discord Canadian Short Stories from the 1930s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
An anthology of stories reprinted from Canadian periodicals that were an important publishing forum for new authors in the 1930s, it conveys a rich and complex view of Canadian life during the Depression years.
- The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Chomsky and Herman demonstrate, with devasting logic and overwhelming documentation, that the purpose of U.S. global policy is to make the world safe for exploitation by U.S. corporate interests and that this has required and continues to require the installation and support of brutal military/police dictatorships throught the Third World. It also requires an apologetic ideology which portrays all this as being in the highest interests of democracy and human rights.
- We can learn to live free (Clark)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Give the human race a little credit. We can surely learn to live free, neither dominant nor submissive.
- West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
- What Bakunin said (Jewell)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Letter quoting Bakunin.
- What Development Is All About: China, Indonesia, Bangladesh
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- What Is Important?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
It is necessary to demolish the monstrously false idea that the problems that workers see are not important, that there are more important ones which only "theorists" and politicians can speak about.
- Where is the Alaska Highway Pipeline Taking Us?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This flyer on the Pipeline argues that the proposed project would not only harm the environment and threaten aboriginal rights, it would also mean FEWER jobs, less independence and lower incomes for Canadians.
- Which Path for Labour in the Fight for Jobs and an Independent Canadian Economy
...Collaboration or a Militant Class-Struggle Fightback?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This research and position paper is the United Electrical Workers' (U.E.) response to the report of the Second Tier Committee published in mid-July 1978 after meetings between business, corporations heading the industrial sectors and labour representatives from these sectors.
- A Widow's Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Witness to Justice: A Society to be Transformed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Women and Poverty: A Report by the National Council of Welfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Women and Socialism - Accounting for our Experience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Women and the Christian Faith - A Selected Bibliography and Resource Catalogue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Workers Against the Gulag
The New Opposition in the Soviet Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Working in a supermarket
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.
- Working Towards Appropriate Development - Report of the Second Eastern Ontario Workshop on Rual Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
With the impending termination of their funding the Council on Rural Development Canada put together a second workshop for the people of the Eastern Ontario Planning Region in an attempt to consolidate contributions made by a previous workshop a year earlier.
- World Council on Religion for Peace/Canada
A Report and Statement to the Third Assembly of the World Council on Religion for Peace(WCRP) in Princeton, NJ 1979
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The goal of the World Council on Religion for Peace (WCRP) is the promotion of dialogue between the various world faiths with a view to common action for peace.
- World Without Trees
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
Lamb says that "there is one thing of which you can be absolutely certain: if things go one as they are, some day the sun will rise on a world without trees. That day is closer than you think."
- Yes - Questions and Answers on Sovereignty-Association
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- The Political Economy of Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1889
- Cabbagetown Cultural Festival poster
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
A satire.
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
- Iranian Revolution
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
The Iranian Revolution (also known as the Islamic Revolution or the 1979 Revolution) refers to events involving the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was supported by the United States and its eventual replacement with an Islamic republic under the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
- Will the Candidate Please Explain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Published: 1979
This is a set of reflections on the occasion of the current federal election with questions to be addressed to candidates in that election.
- Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1990
- The Supermarket Tour
A Handbook for Education and Action
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1978
Published: 1990
A handbook for action on food issues in Canada which guides people through the store and gives summaries of many of the products on the shelves.
- Anarchism & Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1989
The attitudes to violence within the anarchist tradition are complex and contradictory, and the issue remains contentious among anarchists today. The advocates, or at least the defenders, of violence have predominated. There is, however, also an important strand of anarchist thought which has insisted on the intrinsic importance of non-violence.
- The History of Sexuality
Volume I: Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1980
- A Distant Mirror
The calamatious 14th century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1979
- The Forest Dwellers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1979
- How You Too Can Make At Least $1 Million (But Probably Much More) In The Mail-Order Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1979
- Spooks
The Haunting of America - The Private Use of Secret Agents
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1979
- To Catch a Spy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1979
- Patton campaign tactics come under fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
George Patton’s campaign tactics created a great deal of anger among his opponents in the last few days of the Ward 7 aldermanic race, but they don’t seem to have done him any good: he got clobbered.
- Let Islanders Stay
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The service the Ward and Algonquin residents now render the people of Metro is valuable. There is no way the quality and continuity of this community's concern for the Islands and their users could be obtained solely from Metro employees and marina watchmen and guards.
- Now, if only the law was applied equally
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
There is a double standard for you - postal workers are threatened when they refuse to obey the law, policemen are threatened when they refuse to break it.
- Strike at the Post Office
Opinion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Fed up with the endless hysteria in all the media about the post office and postal workers.
- Ward 7 NDP campaigns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
After having avoided the civic arena since the 1969 municipal election, the Metro Toronto NDP is throwing itself into local politics in the 1978 municipal election.
- Bisexuality: A Choice Not an Echo?
A Very Personal Confession by "Orlando"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
While the sexual case histories of bisexuals vary wildly in almost every other respect, this same quirk-of-fate, right-person-at-the-right-time pattern is common.
- Down with Cabbagetowne
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
People who are now calling themselves "Cabbagetowners" would never have set foot in Cabbagetown, and have nothing in common with the real Cabbagetowners. All they represent is a middle-class and business ripoff of the heritage of the people of this area.
- Drug strike long and nasty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A strike by 400 workers against a Ward 7 company is entering its ninth week with no end in sight.
- A few decide where we live
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
We have to abolish a system whereby a tiny handful with a lot of money can decide how thousands of other people are going to live, how thin their walls are going to be, how much sunshine they'll be able to get, where their children will play.
- More than one way to strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Rather than simply walk away from their vehicles, drivers could keep driving, but refuse to collect fares. This puts pressure on the employer without inconveniencing riders.
- 7 News should take own articles seriously
Letter to the Editor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Ulli Diemer wrote an excellent commentary on poverty. The only trouble is that he doesn't seem to take his own ideas seriously.
- A hot night in Riverdale
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Report on a meeting at Riverdale Collegiate about how cutbacks are damaging the quality of education.
- Major confrontation looms over rent controls removal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Support for an end to rent controls is growing among government officials who say that apartments aren't being built because developers no longer find it profitable enough. Critics of this line of thinking agree that apartment construction isn't keeping up with demand, but argue that rent controls are not the cause. They point to similar apartment shortages in cities without rent controls, and note that the construction slowdown began before the controls were introduced.
- Hitler's Impresario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
On Josef Goebbels, the Nazi Minister for Propaganda and Enlightenment.
- Radio Alice: Radio in Action in Italy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Radio in action in Italy.
- Working in an office -- for a while
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The first thing that strikes one about working in this particular office is how little actual work ever gets done.
- Only Christians need apply
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Despite a clear provision in the Ontario Human Rights Code forbidding religious discrimination in hiring, a local group has been putting up flyers urging people to give jobs to Christians.
- Dow complains
7 News responds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Dow Chemical writes to 7 News complaining that one of its trademarks has been misused. 7 News editor Ulli Diemer responds.
- Reflections and Meditations Thirty Years After
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
I.F. Stone's reflections on Israel thirty years after writing his first-hand account "Underground to Palestine'.
- Political doubletalk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Perhaps the most striking thing about most politicians is that they seem completely incapable of giving a straight answer to anything, of talking in ordinary language, of communicating. Language for them isn’t a way of getting ideas across, but of confusing people so they won’t understand what’s really going on.
- OHC tenants get mad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Fed up with the attitudes and policies of Ontario Housing, some Regent Park tenants have been meeting since late last fall to try to find ways to pressure OHC to recognize tenants’ rights. The group’s most visible action to date came on December 15, when a dozen tenants crowded into the office of Kevin Gaul, the area supervisor for North Regent Park, to protest an eviction notice delivered to a tenant.
- Afrika Korps
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- An Alternate Investment Proposal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The American Police State
The Government Against The People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
How the CIA, FBI, IRS, NSA and other agencies have spied on Americans during seven administrations.
- Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
- L'anarchisme par rapport au marxisme
Quelques notes sur un vieux thème
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Plus de cent ans après que le mouvement socialiste soit divisé en factions marxistes et anarchistes, il y a des signes, au moins sur une petite échelle, que les gens, s’appellant des anarchistes, des marxistes ou « des socialistes libertaires », trouvent des moyens pour travailler fructueusement ensemble.
- Anarquismo vs. Marxismo
Algunas notas sobre un tema antiguo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Un movimiento que desdeña la teoría y adora las acciones sin crítica, el anarquismo sigue siendo un edificio tambaleante consistente de varios pedazos de análisis marxista, reforzando unos preceptos tácticos inflexibles.
- Ariel - The Book of Fantasy
Volume 4
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- As If People Mattered - Resource Issues in Labrador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Bain Avenue controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Rent freeze organizers state their case.
- Bain Avenue controversy - Ulli Diemer replies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
There is no dispute about the importance and validity of economic demands, whether in the workplace or in the community. What is under dispute is Wages for Housework's insistence that money is the only thing around which it is permissible to organize.
- Bain Co-op Newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Newsletter published by the Bain Avenue housing co-operative in Toronto. The issues archived at Connexions are from 1978 through 1981.
- Bakounine contre Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Je vous propose d’analyser quelques unes des critiques anarchistes les plus courantes contre le marxisme.
- Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
El movimiento anarquista que apadrinó ha sido plagado por la misma polaridad, por la tensión entre el liberalismo real en un lado y algunas veces la irresistible atracción del anti-intelectualismo, terrorismo y conspiración en el otro.
- Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
- Battered Women: How to Use the Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
As stated in the introduction, "This pamphlet gives information on what to do when you are being threatened or beat up by your husband or boyfriend."
- Bearing the Burden Sharing the Benefits
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Between Labor and Capital
The Professional/Managerial Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Essays on those between the working class and the capitalist class: technicians, managers, administrators, professionals, service workers, sicentists.
- Beyond the Abdication of Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Presents an argument against the views expressed by Kokopeli and Lakey in Leadership For Change. Raises thought provoking issues it raises and demonstrates situations and assumptions under which consensus is not appropriate.
- The Big Wilderness Canoe Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Book of Terns
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Bookchin on Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Murray Bookchin's arguments for a liberatory technology.
- A Brief Look at Public Alternative Schools in Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Brief Presented to the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- A Brief Presented to the Commission of Inquiry on Redundancies and Lay-Offs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A brief regarding management's power to lay off employees with little warning.
- Brief to Federal Cabinet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Brief to the National Unity Task Force
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Brief to the Select Committee on Renewable Resources, New Brunswick Legislature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Briefs to the People's Commission on Unemployment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This brief discusses the consequences and the questions which arise when a foreign based multinational company decided to close down its operation either because the resource is depleted or the company decided that it is no longer economically profitable to its shareholders to continue its operation.
- Broken Spirit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Campground & Trailer Park Guide.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Can the NDP be Socialist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Simon Rosenblum argues that the left should work to transform the NDP, not ignore it.
- Canada As a Conserver Society: An Agenda for Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Canada and Strategic Nuclear Weapons Systems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Canada's New Immigraion Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
See also: CX905.
- Canada's New Immigration Act: A Guide and Critical Commentary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Canadian Health System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Canadian Policy Towards Southern Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Canadian Textile Trade and Hong Kong
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This article was put together through collecting information from back issues of Asia Monitor. It analyzes the effect abroad of Canada's unanticipated, unilateral decision to fix import quotas in the textile and clothing industry, drastically cutting back the '76-'78 levels to those of 1975.
- Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Ontario Region, Bulletin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Two statements by CUPW President, Jean-Claude Parrot, after raids, injunctions and criminal charges following the Postal Strike in October.
- C'est a Nous De Decider
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
See also CX864.
- C'est a Nous de Decider
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
See also CX1099.
- Chance and Circumstance
The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Cheap Clothing - At Whose Expense?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Christians, Church and People Called the Poor...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Citizen's Guide to City Government in Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Le Citoyen -Journal du Rassemblement du Citoyens de Montreal-St Louis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Class Struggle
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A board game created by Bertell Ollman.
- Co-operative Co-ownership Corporations: Legislative Proposals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This bound set of notes embodies the discussion paper used in a Symposium held on November 16 - 17, 1978 in Edmonton.
- The Coady - Tomkins Experience: The Relevance of the Antigonish Movement Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Coalition Fights the Fighter Planes and Ploughshares Asks for 4 Million Peace Fund
Grindstone Notes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
These two articles appeared in a special issue of Grindstone Notes on the 1978 Summer Conferences held on Grindstone Island. This island is owned and operated as a conference centre for groups in peace, justice and development by the Grindstone Coop. Ltd., a non-profit educational coop.
- Cobequid Shore Opportunities Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Comment: The Rise and the Fall of the Isolated Communities Advisory Board
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Seven Northern Alberta communities formed an organization in the early 1970's to take action to protect their rights to their land, which had not been included in any treaties, and their traditional lifestyle.
- Commentaires concernant la protection de la matermite a l'occasion de la
publication du projet d'ordonnance sur les conges de maternite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- La Commission de l'Emploi et de l'Immigration reclame jusqu'a 6 semaines
de prestations a 6000 chomeurs quebecois et COMUNIQUE
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Committee for the Defense of Democratic Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A Law Union pamphlet regarding the legality of national security measures.
- Communists on Wall Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Eurocommunism in practice.
- Community Development Corporations: An Information Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Community Land Trust
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- A Community Ministry Theological Statement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- A Community Release Centre for Whitehorse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Comprendre l'Assurance chomage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Convicted but not Convinced
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Creating Knowledge: Breaking the Monoply
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Creeping contradictions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
News tidbits.
- Crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Criminal Justiice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Decennial Revision of the Bank Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A request to revise the Bank Act in regards to loans made to repressive government by private banks.
- Decisions By Consensus: A Study Of The Quaker Method
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Condensed from a 1952 thesis describing consensus as practiced by the 57th St. Friends Meeting of Chicago. Describes how consensus operates and what makes it work.
- Democracy loses out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The people can say what they want, they can vote how they want, but the bureaucrats make the decisions.
- Dene Learning For Self-Determination and The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry: (1974-1977), Working Paper #2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Dene Nation: Apartheid?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Detecting Prejudice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This handbook was designed by teachers and students for use at the senior elementary and junior secondary level.
- Development and Canada's Last Frontiers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This publication is in the form of a brief review of the exploitation by whites of the lands occupied by the Indians and Inuit.
- Development Education Centre-1978-79 Catalogue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Dignity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Directory of Adult Basic Education Programs in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Dominion Day in Jail
Poems by Chris Faiers
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- E=MC2 Disaster?/Citizens Bill of Rights and Consumer's Guide to Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Earthcare Newsletter One
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Economic Report: 36th U.E. Convention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Edmonton COmmunity - First Draft
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This is a brief statement of the "position" of a community of 9-13 people, including two married couples and a priest, which emerged out of the animation of a Scarboro priest about two or three years ago.
- Edmonton Cross-Cultural Learner Centre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- L'Eglise dans un Quebec en mutation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Eithics of the Use of Recently Developed Mind/Behaviour Control Mechanisms By and On Convicted Criminals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Electronic Ethics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The End of Dialectical Materialism: An anarchist reply to the libertarian Marxists
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
An anarchist reply to the libertarian Marxists.
- Energy and Employment Alternatives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Estimating Lung Cancers: Or Its Perfectly Safe, But Don't Breathe Too Deeply
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Nuclear Power
(but were afraid to find out)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Everything you wanted to know about sects but were afraid to ask
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
We would rather fight for what we want (even if we don#t get it in our lifetime) than fight for what we don't want ... and get it.
- Explore Co-opertives and Credit Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Facts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This newsletter is designed to inform persons of the involvements and activities of the Canadian Union of public Employees (CUPE)
- Fair Deal For Public Employees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The Canadian Labour Congress has published this booklet in conjunction with nine major unions including the Transit Workers, Railway Workers, Postal Workers and Letter Carriers, C.U.P.E. and the Public Service Alliance.
- The Fifth Modernization
China's Spirit of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Wei Jingsheng, a 28-year-old electrician, posted this on the “Democracy Wall” in Beijing in 1978.
- First All Tribal Council/Groups & Indian Organizations Meeting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A collection of documents relevant to the First All Tribal Councils/Groups & Indian Organizations Meeting in British Columbia (October 27-29, 1978) has been complied in one booklet.
- Fix-It-Yourself Manual
How to repair, clean, and maintain anything and everything in and around your home
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Flaws in the Pattern:
Human Rights in Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- For Generations Yet Unborn
Ontario Resources North of 50
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Getting Started
The easy way to put your life in order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Getting Started
The easy way to put your life in order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Global Village? Global Pillage: Irish Moss from P.E.I. in the World Market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Go to the People...Some THoughts on Surveying Community Needs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Great Spirit and Dene Nation - God's Covenant and Indian Treaties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Great War and Canadian Society
An Oral History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Recollections of Canadian men and women who lived thorugh the First World War and recall life in the trenches and on the homefront.
- The Grim Reaping
Patterns of Racism in the Prairie Region
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The text of an address given originally at the institute for Christian Life in Canada. It discusses the ways in which racism is embedded in the politcal economy of the Canadian praries.
- A Guide to Co-op Alternatives
Diverting Profits from the Banks, Food Middlemen, the Landlords
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This extensive guide to cooperative alternatives in the city of Toronto provides information about cooperative and collective ventures in areas such as education, housing, food, work and finance.
- The Harrowsmith Reader
An Anthology from Canada's National Award Winning Magazine of Country Life and Alternatives to Bigness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Articles on land, country careers, shelter, gardening, husbandry, food, trees, and rural life.
- Harrowsmith Sourcebook Number One
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Hitler's Propaganda Machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- How to Get What's Yours
A Guide to Unemployment Insurance for Housewives and Other Workers
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This pamphlet is produced to help candidates for unemployment insureance to understand their rights, procedures for filing claims and possible hassles to be encountered when trying to claim unemployment insurance.
- The Human Future Revisited
The World Predicament and Possible Solutions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Human Rights and Economic Policy ( Draft II)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Human Rights Education: Resource Booklet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Human Rights in Canada: A Focus on Racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- I Stand Before You as a Proud Man - I Feel No Guilt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour 1800-1945
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Illustrated History of the Third Reich
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- In Struggle! Canadian Marxist-Leninist Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Indian Women and the Law in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This report examines section 12 (1) (b) of the Indian Act.
- Industry and Labour
Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- An Injury to One Is An Injury to All: The History of Trade Unionism in South Africa
The History of Trade Unionism in South Africa
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Institut de Recherche Applicquee sur la Travail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Institute for: Christian Life in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The various essays in the book "The Institue for: Christian Life in Canada" raise many social issues and problems that are found in the four major regions of Canada. The political and economic structures of our nation often create marginalization as the inability to get out of structured oppressive situations, and it is argued that this has been forced on the peoples of the Atlantic region.
- Inter-Church Energy Committee
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- International Human Rights
A Selected Bibiliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Human Rights resources directory. Each category inthis directory contains a brief introductory description and is followed by Bibliographic listing with no critical commentary. Topics include such areas as "Basic Issues", "Genocide Convention," "United N
- Introduction to this issue (#3)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Inuit Hunungar - The People's Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Is Space Research Corporation (Quebec) Inc. Using Barbados to Trans-Ship Arms to Southern Africa?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- It's More Than A Matter of Saving A Buck Isn't It?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Judicial Inquiry Demanded
Into Uranium Mining in B.C.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A breif that calls for an immediate moratorium on uranium exploration and the establishment of a full public judicial inquiry to ensure a fair and thorough examination of all relevant questions. It also asks for public preliminary hearings in which public interest groups would be permitted to participate.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Kaufungen in alten Ansichten
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Labour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Labrador: Land Claims Run Aground
Atlantic Issues, Vol. 3, No. 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The Indians of Labrador have been pressing land claims as have Native people in other parts of Canada.
- Land Study Committee Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Language of Layout
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Law Union News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A report on the activities of the Law Union, a group of socialist and progressive lawyers, law students and legal workers.
- Leadership for Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Traditional, "patriarchal" leadership is compared to "feminist" or shared leadership in groups. Tactics for changing leadership syle are described.
- Letter to the Editor of Canadian Dimension
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
PAYDAY is a group of people struggling to get recognition in our society for work now unrecognized by the capitalist system, They believe housework, looking for a job, and raising children are, in themselves, wage-deserving enterprises.
- Letter to the Joint Clerks of the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The Letter to the Joint Clerks of the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada is an official response of the United Native Nations to Bill C-60, the Act to amend the Canadian Constitution.
- Letters (Issue #3)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Comments on Wages for Housework, libertarian socialism, workplace articles, etc.
- List of Canadian Firms in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Lost Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Luttons pour des comptoirs de luttes de classes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Mailing List of Individuals Interested in Diversion Process
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Main Currents of Marxism
Volume 1: The Founders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Kolakowski gives his interpretation of the origins of Marxism, and analyses the development of Marx's thought and its divergence from other forms of socialism.
- Main Currents of Marxism
Volume 2: The Golden Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Kolakowski examines the theories of the leading Marxists, and the controversies between them, in the era of the Second International.
- Main Currents of Marxism
Volume 3: The Breakdown
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Kolakowski examines the origins and development of Stalinism, as well as the contributions of Trotsky, Gramsci, Lukacs, Marcuse, and others, and traces developments in Marxism it period after the Second World War.
- The Mandate of Heaven
Marx and Mao in Modern China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
China’s transformation from a poor country devastated by war into a major world power is a modern legend. But how did this change come about? What are the real living conditions of the peasants and workers? Why, when apparently united in their beliefs, are Russia and China enemies? And why, if Mao is right, must Marx be wrong? Using publications from the People’s Republic and his own extensive research, Nigel Harris has written a serious critique of the history, aims and actions of the communist Party in China.
- Manual For The Jobless Worker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A manual that describes the rights of unemployed and the unemployment insurance process.
- Marxism and the Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Molyneux examines the views of Marx, Lenin, Luxemburg, Trotsky, and Gramsci on the question of party organisation. He takes as his central theme their concern with the relationship between the party and the working class.
- Military Ethics in Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This paper is part of a kit on "militarism" which is to be published soon by Project Ploughshares. It begins by outlining the traditional role of the military, namely, that of defending society against outside aggression. The paper then refers to a new source of socialism. Accordingly, much of the opposition to those in power is seen to come from subversive elements.
- Mission and Ministry Workbook: Metropolitan Core
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This workbook is being used by the Task Group on The Church in the Metropolitan core as part of a process to develop a policy statement on Urban Mission for the 1980 Council of The United Church in Canada.
- Mounting Repression: Its Meaning and Importance for Quebec and Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Muddling Toward Frugality: A Blueprint For Survival In The 1980's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Multiphasic Bureaucratic Follow the Leader Exam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Des Mythes Sportifs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Namibia Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- National Anti-Poverty Organization
Dcouments produced by NAPO in 1977-1978.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Abstracts of three documents produced by the National-Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO) in 1977-1978.
- The Native Inmate in Ontario -- A Preliminary Survey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The above study was conducted jointly by the Ontario Native Council on Justice, together with the Planning and Research Branch of the Ministry of Correctional Services in Ontario.
- Neeginan: A Report on the Feasability Study
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Negative Criticism...And What you Can Do About It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
We disagree with this book's cleverly-depicted premise that criticism is almost always a bad thing. But it does make a number of good suggestions about how now to misuse criticism and offers good ideas about interpersonal validation.
- Nelson Small Legs Jr. Foundation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A foundation set up to help native ex-offenders to integrate into society.
- New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- New Roots Community Land Trust
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Newsletter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A newsletter about how unemployment insurance overpayments and "cheating" are handled in Nova Scotia.
- News/Notes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
One article examines the rapid moves made by the Saskatchewan government to push forward on the nuclear path. As the public becomes more informed of the dangers created by nuclear energy and the motivation of 'economic benefits' as opposed to abundant, clean, safe power; opposition is rising from many sectors.
- NEXUS, Vol. 2, No.1
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Nine and a Half Weeks
A Memoir of a Love Affair
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The 1978 Seminar on Education Finance: Financial Implications of Declining Enrolment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
In his opening address, Professor Brock Rideout identifies the real problem facing educational finance today as "the crisis in the economic climate and the change in public policy with respect to education," rather than declining enrolment.
- 1978 Annual Report of San Juan River Salmon Enhancement Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- 1978 Directory of International Communities, Cooperatives, Collectives and Communes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- No Rights - No Candu in Argentina
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- No Well - The Canborough (Ontario) Success Story
Or - How to Wage an Environmental Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- North End Diversion and Neighborhod Justice Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Notes of the Atlantic Workshop on Single Displaced Persons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This workshop was held in Halifax on September 6, 7, 8, 1978, and attended by fifteen people from five Atlantic province cities. The goal of the event was to enable the participants to "share their perception of the situation, problems and attempted strategies with respect to single displaced or marginal persons in the various Atlantic cities."
- Notes on the Diagnostic Process Review of November 22,29 and Dec. 6, 1977.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Nova Scotia Labour Research and Support Centre - Newsletter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Now that we've burned our boats....
The Report of the People's Commission on Unemployment
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Now that we've burned our boats...
The Report of the People's Commission on Unemployment, Newdoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This report analyzes unemployment in the context of the political and economic history of the Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Nuclear Dragons Attack
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Nuclear Power And P.E.I.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Nuclear Wastes - What, Me Worry?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Obscenity exposed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
- Official Report on the International NGO Conference on Discrimination
Against Indigenous Populations - 1977 - In The Americas.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Old North End Community Housing Limited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- On Women and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A collection of the writings of the fmeinist and socialist Crystal Eastman (1881-1928).
- Once When I Was Drowning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- An ongoing debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The Red Menace is meant to be a forum of dissenting views withing the broadly defined boundaries of libertarian socialism.
- An Open Letter to Latin Americans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Operation Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A tabloid designed to inform the public about the growing national measures in Canada
- Operation Liberte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Operation Liberte Becomes a Permanent Coalition and Letter
from Provisional Organizing Committee for Operation Liberte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Operation Liberte Builds Support
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Opposing Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
According to Ulli Diemer, it is dangerous to think that liberation - in this case, sexual liberation - can be promoted by repressive legislation and censorship.
- The Origins of Left Culture in the U.S.: 1880-1940
Issue 6-7 of Cultural Correspondence and Issue #6 of Green Mountain Irregulars
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A selection of materials from the early years of radical popular culture in the United States, showing how different peoples, over several generations, sought to create out of their own resources a better, more co-operative society.
- Our Right to Love
A Lesbian Resource Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Includes over 40 articles and personal testimonies. Lists of reference materials on topics such as where to meet lesbians, how to start an organization, etc. Following each essay sectional is an appendix containing a bibliography and a national lesbian r
- Out of School -- Into the Labour Force
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A report on the trends involving newly graduated people seeking jobs in Canada.
- The Outlaw
The Life of Dylan Thomas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Anton Pannekoek and Herman Gorter were leading spokespersons for 'council communism.' They argued for the primacy of workers' own organizations, defending their importance agains the parliamentarists and Bolsheviks who saw in the party the nub of working-class organization, and against the anarchists who saw anathema in all organization. This volume contains represenative texts by Pannekoek and Goter, with an introduction by the editor.
- Past Contributors on Unemployment 1976 - 1978
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A list of organizations abstracted in past issues of Connexions from 1976 through 1978.
- The People's Food Commission, Press Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Petition for the Total Economic Isolation of South Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Planning for Agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This brief was presented to the Ontario Municipal Board to express some concerns of the Christian Farmers Federation (CFF) about the direction of agricultural planning in the Niagara Region of Ontario.
- Policy Recommendations on the Abortion Issue
Response of Metropolitan Toronto YWCA to the Report of the Committee on the Operation of the Abortion Law (Bagley Report)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Politics of Urban Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A broad-ranging study which covers the political economy of the urban question and the importance of the city in the history of social revolution. Schechter's evaluation of libertarian insurgency highlights the importance of movements from below dealing with housing, transportation and other issues of daily life.
- Politics and Pensioners Concerned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A report by the Canadian Pensioners Concerned about the possibility that tax-exempt charitable organizations could lose this status if they become involved in the political process.
- Position Paper of Moratorium Committee on Prison Construction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Position Paper on Rural Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
In the above paper submitted to the Canadian Council on Rural Development, the National Farmers Union (NFU) encourages the CCRD to continue to press for federal policies which develop a publicly planned economy in Canada and which include all sectors in a definite development plan.
- Poverty in Canada - A Christian Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The book is an editorial revision of the final report of the Anglican Church Task Force on the economy presented to the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada in July 1977. Its purpose was to attempt an adequate diagnosis of the causes of poverty in Canada and to provide a comprehensive review of the possibilities available to us for the elimination of poverty and social injustice in Canada.
- Poverty: A Study/Action Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
"Poverty" is a workbook designed for small groups interested in becoming more informed and involved in the struggle of the economically poor to dig their way out. It tries to put a common face on poverty through examples as well as present the Christian case for concern.
- The Powers That Be
Processes of Ruling Class Domination in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Best known for his Who Rules America? (1967), Domhoff here turns his attention from "who" to "how."
- Prairie Woman
Volume 2, Number 6 July/August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A newsletter of Saskatoon Women's Liberation.
- PRESENT AND FUTURE STATUS OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONS IN RURAL CANADA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Presentation by Noel V. Starblanket
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Presentation to a Select Committee of the Ontario Legislature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Presentation to Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Presentation to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities of Ontario
and the Ministry of Community and Social Services of Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The central concern of this brief is the discriminatory nature of the Ontario Student Grants Program (OSGP), against most female students.
- Press Release: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A report on United Electrics concern with the use of SIN numbers on identification tags at the General Electric plant in Peterborough, Ontario.
- A Primer on Social Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The 1977 annual statement of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.
- Prisoners' Rights Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Proceedings of the 1977 Conference of the Institute for Christian Life in Canada (August 21-26, 1977)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- A Program Of Action for the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Programme du Centre de Pastorale en Milieu Ouvrier 1977-78
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Proposition d'Ecole Plate-forme revendicatrive pour une ecole de masse a batir maintenant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Pulling Your Own Strings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Quand le coeur et la tete sont en affaire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Radiation, X Rays and Fallout
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Rapport Annuel 1977-78
avec le rapport sur la colloque Police et Liberte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- RCMP - The Real Subversives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A critique of the motives and actions of the RCMP.
- Reactions a l'ordonnance sur les conges maternite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Red Menace #3
Volume 2, Number 2 - Spring 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- Reflexions sur le role de l'Etat et de la Police Series: On Vous a a l'Oeil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Refundable Child Tax Credit:
What it is...how it works
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This report outlines what may be the federal government's most far reaching restructuring of its programmes of financial support for families with children. The Refundable Child Tax Credit Programme is designed to offer full benefits to the poor - those who are most in need. presently, families with incomes below the poverty line are excluded from the benefits of tax cuts simply because they are too poor to pay income tax.
- Release To Those In Prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Report - Canadian Enquiry into Human Rights in Chile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Report of Canadian Assembly on Disarmament
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Report of Church Persons' Seminar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This report contains the Seminar's recommendations with respect to civil and political rights, refugee and immigrant rights, rights of women, rights of self-determination, rights of workers, unemployment and farmers in Canada.
- Report of Question Period of Annual Shareholder Meeting of Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Report of the Work Group on Civil and Political Rights: Church Persons' Seminar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A church seminar that asks whether or not Canadians are at risk of losing their civil liberties.
- Report on Conference on Equality of Opportunity and Treatment for Women Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Report on Skid Row
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Report on the Potential of Consumer Animation for Energy Conservation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Repression in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Resistance in Vichy France
A Study of Ideas and Motivation in the Southern Zone, 1940-1942
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Resources for Community Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Responses to "People in Action"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Right to Food First
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A look at the structures that support world food trade and prevent even distribution of food worldwide.
- RIKKA
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A magazine dealing with historical, cultural and human rights issues within and beyond the Janpanese-Canadian community.
- River Mosaic
A Study of the Landscape Quality and Visual Character of the Lower Don Valley
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Romance of American Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Using USA Communist Party members' personal experiences, Gornick examines the attraction of the party and its philosophy.
- Rooming House Tenant Project, Toronto Christian Resource Centre
Progress Report: January 1, 1977-January 30, 1978.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Marxist Journal, #7
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Articles on the class situation in Spain, authority and democracy in the United States, Marxism and Anarchism.
- Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
- Rossing Uranium Limited: Fact Sheet on Rio Tinto-Zinc, Rio Algom, Nuclear Power and Namibian Uranium
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Russia in Revolution 1900-1930
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A portrait of thirty years of political and artistic upheaval.
- Saskatchewan Federation of Labour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A paper on government spending, wealth distribution, inflation and a variety of other related topics.
- Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, CLC Brief to the Federal Cabinet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Say "No" to Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This statement, endoresed by thirty-seven anti-nuclear and public interest groups in Saskatchewan, outlines the dangerous effects of the expasion of the uranium industry in Saskatchewan and calls for an immediate halt to the opening of new mines.
- Sears Catalogue
Fall and Winter 1978
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Seven News: Principles & Purposes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Statement of principles of Seven News, a community newspaper.
- The Shining Mountain
Two Men on Changabang's West Wall
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This memoir details how in 1976 Peter Boardman joined forces with Joe Tasker and climbed the west face of Changabang, at its time probably the hardest Himalayan climb in the world.
- Should Uranium Stay in the Ground?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Signal: Years of Triumph 1940-42
Hitler's Wartime Picture Magazine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Single Parent News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Snow Leopard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Social Organization of Family Violence
An Ethnography of Immigrant Experience in Vancouver
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This study examines the social organization of wife battering among immigrant families in Vancouver. The focus is immigrant women's experience of being battered, and how this experience is located within the Canadian social and economic context.
- La Social-Democracie et les militants chretiens; texte-outil no. 6
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This study is prepared for militant christens engaged in the Quebec worker movement. It provides a history of social democracy in Europe through the early part of this century tracing the three stages of its rejection by marxists as a form of revisionism. The study continues with an analysis of the political history of militant Christians in Quebec from 1960 to the present. Here, the authors outline four stages.
- Socialist Feminism: The First Decade, 1966-76
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The forging of the Freedom Socialist Party, which was the first Marxist feminist party in the United States.
- The Socialist Register 1978
Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Socialist Women
European Socialist Feminism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A collection of essays on women, feminism and socialism through the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Some Thoughts on Organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
What type of organization should anarchists, libertarian socialists and libertarian Marxists be working towards?
- Sources (Red Menace #3)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Resources for anti-authoritarians.
- South Africa: A Time to Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This action kit is meant to be a contribution to an understanding of the South African situation. In addition to its five sections, the kit's cover poster contains a map of the ten "Bantu Homelands" and the names of the groups of Africans in those areas.
- The Stash Book
How to Hide Your Valuables
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Statement on Government Defense Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Stop the Sale of Canadian Uranium to the Philipines:
A Statement of Unity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Strategies for Urban Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Strike Volume 2, Number 1
January 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Contents of this issue include On Organization; Thoughts of Stammheim; Cultures/Fragmentes de Musee Conversation; No Butter, No Butter...; Various Ways in Which Charlotte Hildebrand; I Don't Know if You Believe; The Fantasy of a Continuous Erection; Annihilation: To The Limit!; Recordiings by Artists; Intending Bookness.
- Studies in Socialist Pedagogy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Submission by Inuit Tapirisat of Canada to the National Energy Board
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The Submission by the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada to the National Energy Board makes the request that the entire question of gas supply and demand be reviewed.
- Submission of the Farmland Defence League of B.C. Select Standing Committee on Agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Submission to the Government of Canada on the Subject of A Food Strategy for Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This submission proposes some radical changes in the marketing and pricing structure for Canadian agricultural products in response to the federal government's food strategy outlined in the white paper entitled "A Food Strategy for Canada."
- A Submission to the Government of the Province of Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Submission to the Poverty Task Force of the United Church of Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A discussion of what direction the efforts of the United Church should take in the fight against poverty in Canada.
- Submission to the Poverty Task Force of the United Church of Canada
How Social and Economc Justice Can be Improved in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A submission to the United Church clergy on Canada's strategies for developing technology and economy.
- Sugar and Sugarworkers: A Popular Report of the International Sugarworkers Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Sugar World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This publication gives an overview of the concerns relating to those countries, mostly third-world, which are involved in the production of sugar.
- The Supermarket Tour: A handbook for education and action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The Supermarket Tour manual is an attempt to provide the first step in the development of an understanding of the food problem.
- Taking What's Ours - everywoman's guide to welfare and student aid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This booklet is intended to be a guide for sorting out the most common problems encountered by women when trying to obtain welfare, mother's allowance or when returning to school.
- Tenant Handbook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This fifth edition of the Tenants' Handbook is issued by Communitas Incorporated "to outline those rights which tenants have under the existing law, and to explain how to obtain these rights.
- Tenant Research Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The author intends the above publication to be an aid in laying open to view the operations of the owners of rental housing which accommodate 50 per cent of Toronto's citizens.
- Theological Reflections on the P.Q. Victory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- A Time To Disarm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Time to Stop and Think
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Trade unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Pannekoek's text first appeared under his pen name "J Harper" in the American journal International Council Correspondence, (Vol II No 2, Jan 1936). This edited version is taken from the American journal Root & Branch (No 6 1978).
- A Transforming Influence - Native Peoples and Northern Development, Social Justice and the Church
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Tripartism
Special Issue of Labour's Side
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A breif that warns of the potential downfalls of labour debate tripartism.
- Un Dossier Noir su la Police Politique, Operation Liberte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Union Security
UAW Statement to Ontario Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A statement by the United Auto Workers union to the Conservative government.
- Unions and the Collective Bargaining Process
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This book describes the main purpose and activity of Canada's unions -- collective bargaining.
- United Church Requests Rate Increase for all Categories of Social Assistance
Documentation Packet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Unorthodox Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
An attempt to go beyond what the authors describe as "orthodox Marxism."
- Update on the Status of Women in British Columbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Vers Une Nouvelle Pratique: Sante Mentale Au Quebec
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Victimizing Domestic Workers
The Last Post, vol. 6, no. 6
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
This article chronicles the struggle of domestic immigrant women to Montreal.
- Waiting For the Ice-Cream Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- WASWANIPI
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- What Is Happening to Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
An analysis of Canada's economic ills and the Quebec crisis.
- When Men Become Gods
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Who is Polar Gas? - A Basic Data Sheet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Why Are So Many People Out of Work?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Why the Leninists will lose
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The Leninist groups may still have the ability to disrupt the left, but they are long past the point of being able to achieve any kind of success in their own right.
- The Wired Society
A Challenge for Tomorrow
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Wired Society
A Challenge for Tomorrow
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- The Women's Room
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Words, words, words...
Diemer, Ulli
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The misuse of language implies a failure to think clearly, to analyse correctly, to communicate with others.
- Work (Illustrated)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Working Together
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
A report on the effects of unemployment.
- Workplace Democracy
A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiments in the US and Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Worlds Apart: Economic Relations and Human Rights - Canada - Chile
Economic Relations and Human rights - Canada - Chile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Worterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Write to us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
The Red Menace welcomes writers' and artists' contributions.
- Yorkville in Pictures, 1853 - 1883
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Outlines Yorkville's history, buildings, and people, especially during its thirty years as a village prior to its 1883 annexation to Toronto.
- You and Your Mortgage
Understanding a Mortgage Contract
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- You and Your Mortgage
Understanding a Mortgage Contract
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- You Can Do Something
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Yukon Komix
Volume 1, Number 1, 1978
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Zero Yellow Pages - National Area
1978
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Anarchy Comics
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Anarchist comics published in the 19780s and 1980s.
There are several issues in the Connexions Archive.
- Black Friday (1978)
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Black Friday is the name given to 8 September 1978 and the shootings in Jaleh Square in Tehran, Iran. The deaths and the reaction to them has been described as a pivotal event in the Iranian Revolution when any "hope for compromise" between the protest movement and the Shah's regime was extinguished.
- Brick Lane 1978
The Events and Their Significance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
Booklet about the events in Brick Lane, in London's East End, in 1978, where Bengali youths and anti-racists clashed with the National Front, amid a surge in racist violence.
- The Canadian Writer's Market
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
- Cinema Rex fire
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Published: 1978
On 19 August 1978 in the Cinema Rex fire, the Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze, killing at least 470 individuals. The event started when Islamic militants barred the doors and doused the place with gasoline before setting it alight.
- Nexus
A magazine of land, corporate and community affairs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Focusing on the financial, development, and real estate industries in the urban arena, primarily in Toronto. Published in the 1970s. Some copies are available in the Connexions Archive.
- Sources News Releases
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1977
Published: 2017
News releases from organizations and companies on a wide range of topics. Includes an extensive topic index, an archive of releases going back to the 1970s, and links to experts and organizations knowledgeable about the issues covered in the releases. Available via RSS feed as well as on the Sources.com website.
- a sure sign of spring
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Poem.
- The Coral Battleground
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 2014
A fight for the preservation of the Great Barrier Reef, located in the coast of Queensland. In the late 1960s the reef began to be threatened with limestone mining and oil drilling.
- Sources Select Resources
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1977
Published: 2009
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
- Sources.com
Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1977
Published: 2009
Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students -- and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals who want to get media coverage of their expertise and their views on newsworthy topics.
Journalists: Use Sources to find experts, media contacts, spokespersons, scientists, lobbyists, officials, speakers, university professors, researchers, newsmakers, CEOs, executive directors, media relations contacts, spokespeople, talk show guests, PR representatives, Canadian sources, story ideas, research studies, databases, universities, colleges, associations, businesses, government, research institutions, lobby groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), in Canada and internationally.
Newsmakers: Use Sources to raise your profile and get media coverage. Sources is a powerful tool which complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself. See www.sources.com/Profile.htm, fill out the membership form, or call 416-964-7799.
- Sources Directory Name Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1977
Published: 2009
- Sources Subject Index - Comprehensive Topic Index for Experts and Spokespersons in Sources
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1977
Published: 2009
A comprehensive list of subject headings related to organizations listed in the Sources directory for the news media.
- Sources Archived News Releases 1977 - 2008
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 2008
News releases from 2008 and before.
- The Automated Bread Factory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This paper studies the consequences in Tanzania of using aid from the Canadian International Development Agency to build an automated bakery in Dar es Salaam.
- On Becoming a Counselor
A Basic Guide for Nonprofessional Counselors and Other Helpers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 2001
A resource for those who, without extensive psychological training, must deal with troubled individuals.
- The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1998
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1985
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- A Manual on Nonviolence and Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1984
The authors felt that an important way of building a peaceful world would be to develop a program for young children. It would help children and their caregivers develop non-violent attitudes and skills.
- Beyond Pearl Harbor
Essay on Some Historical Consequences of the Crisis in the Pacific in 1941
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1981
- Bisexuality
A Study
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1979
- Drawing the Line
The Political Essays of Paul Goodman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1979
Goodman stresses that massive, uncentered governments and huge, sprawling communities alientate the individual and force people to conform to the status quo rather than to what they are or might become.
- Die Gerettete Zunge
Geschichte einer Jugend
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1979
- How to Select and Use Canon SLR Cameras
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1979
- India: A Wounded Civilization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1979
- The Marxian Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1979
Working within the Marxian legacy, Howard poses is problems across the fields of philosophy, sociology, political science and history.
- Chinese Shadows
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1978
A description of Mao Zedong's China.
- Creative Growth Games
75 Fascinating games to expand your imagination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1978
- I Am Blind and My Dog Is Dead
Cartoons by S. Gross
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1978
- Seven News Front Pages - Volume 8 - 1977-1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1978
- City slides into skid row
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Perhaps some city planners and alderpersons are finally starting to take a serious look at Toronto’s skid row areas and the people struggling to survive in them. And just perhaps, they’ll come up with some solid and humane proposals which will get translated into action.
- Seven News (7 News) - Volume 8 Number 15
December 17, 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7. Seven News was published bi-weekly by the Ward Seven Newspaper Organization from 1970 to 1985. During this time, Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, and St. Jamestown.
- Content Magazine - Number 80
December 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- THE CIA AND THE MEDIA
How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Bernstein's 1977 Rolling Stone story covering the CIA and it's relationship to the press.
- A quiet walk along the Don
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
What you don't see in the lower Don Valley are human beings. Right here the stream is flowing through what must be the densest population area that any river in Canada flows through. There are lots of people up there on the streets and buildings and zipping along the thruways, but almost none of them get down here beside this peaceful stretch of the river.
- Death on Yonge Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This city, which usually seems far too cynical and hurried to care very much about anything any more, has been deeply shocked and violently angered by the murder of the little shoe-shine boy, Emmanuel Jaques, on Yonge Street.
- AA Nachrichten
Die Zeitschrfit der AAO
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Selbstdarstellung, Kunst als Medizin
- Salmon - and canoes - in the Don River?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
In the 1920's, when this writer was growing up in what was then referred to as the east end of the city, the valley of the Don was the favourite haunt of thousands of kids and quite a few adults. In those days you could get down into the valley from a number of areas and go wandering up and down pretty well as you pleased.
- Liberation - Volume 20, Number 5 - July/August 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- A Tale of Two Offices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
- Content Magazine - Number 75
June 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Brief calls for changes at Wellesley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Recommendations contained in a brief submitted to Wellesly Hospital.
- Plans for STOLport called unjustified
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
While residents of the Toronto Island community continue their fight against the bulldozer – which could strike this year – the proposal for a major airport on the Islands is worrying people from across Toronto.
- Report lists complaints about hospital treatment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The brief to the Wellesley Hospital related a number of experiences from different patients who had comments to make about the quality of care at the hospital.
- Wellesley report sharply critical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The Wellesley Hospital has come in for strong criticism in a brief written by a group of local residents, and presented to the hospital May 13 [1977]. The brief documents numerous complaints about the hospital, including Emergency Department staff attitudes, treatment of patients and their relatives and friends, follow-up and aftercare. It charges that although the hospital is a public institution, there is no visible or publicly known means of access to its policy makers, and no accountability to the community it is supposed to serve.
- Taxes a rotten deal for working people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A business is allowed deductions based on the actual situation, whereas for working people allowances are not realistic, but more in the nature of a gesture or a token.
- Workshop airs youth problems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Representatives of various social agencies, as well as some residents of Regent Park, come together to discuss youth and agency problems in Regent Park.
- Spring sprung, grass riz, wonder where birdies is
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Some days, when you go outside, an icy wind sneaks up on you and quickly tears away your warm illusions about winter being over. This, you think, shivering, is supposed to be spring? Still, whether we're ready to believe it or not, spring is upon us, and if we go out and look for it, we'll come across signs that establish that fact much more firmly and decisively than the passing moods of the weather.
- Action on Legal Aid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Brochure that describes several organizations dedicated to the delivery of legal service to individuals and groups.
- The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat
Book 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat
Book 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Agreement in Principle between: The Dene Nation and Her Majesty the Queen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Inlcuded is a discussion on colonization, a section on the history and rights of the Dene, the relationship between the Dene and the non-Dene, and the reasons for an agreement in principle. The Dene Nation is working towards self-reliance and self-determination as a people within Canada.
- Alternatives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A poster, brochure, and information on jail chaplaincies and the corrections system.
- Amnesty International Letter-Writing Guide and Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A handbook on how to write letters for Amnesty International.
- Anarchism and Formal Organizations
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Apartment Farmer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Ariel - The Book of Fantasy
Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Arrow Heads Aimed at Narrow Eds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Atlantic Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This tabloid is published quarterly and circulated throughout the Atlantic provinces. The current issue looks at the dying Maritime textile industry, unemployment in the Maritimes, the prison system, and fishing.
- Background Information to the Development of a Coodinated Program Strategy
Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Bain Co-op hit by rent strike
Rents up 18%
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Minority of residents launch rent strike while majority pursues co-op ownership.
- Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
A political thriller
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
- Bain Co-op OK's evictions
Eviction notices sent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Bain residents refusing to pay their full rent are to be served eviction notices.
- BAKAUI
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Brochure that describes "bakaui", a way of life in which people work, in a community context, to develop an ecologically sound way of supporting human life.
- Bakunin's Concept of Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
If we are to understand the anarchist brand of revolutionary socialism developed by Michael Bakunin we should first recognize his populist predispositions.
- Basic and Surplus Repression in Psychoanalytic Theory
Freud, Reich and Marcuse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Bauxite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A four page paper describing the bauxtie industry in Canada and around the world.
- Berger Report in Brief
A Summary of Volume I of the Report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This summary includes primarily, as its name indicates, a presentation of the main lines of the report. It also includes a brief statement of the main recommendations of the report and an outline of where the Berger Report fits into the overall process which will decide on the pipeline.
- Bias in Newfoundland Textbooks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A review of the bias present in Newfoundland public school textbooks.
- The Big Nickel
Inco at home and abroad
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An account of the economic power of the world's largest producer of nickel, how it operates in Canada and the Third World, and its human consequences. The Big Nickel also looks at the resistance to the corporation, and the union-busting, attacks by company goons, and successful organizing drives.
- Bishop's Statement on Uranium Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The Roman Catholic and Ukranian Catholic Bishops express their concern about uranium mining and nuclear energy in Saskatchewan. The bishops recognize that uranium could be generate a substantial supply of energy. They also recognize the dangers of the energy produced through the use of uranium.
- Black Grassroots Organizing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This pamphlet suggests a number of actions for examining racism in Canadian society and for moving to eliminate that racism
- Bridge Built at C.D.N.P.A. Press Seminar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Brief for Presentation to the Standing Committee on Labour, Manpower, and Immigration on Bill C27
Proposed Amendments to the Unemployment Insurance Act.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This is a brief that brings to the attention of the Standing Committee certain inequities in the current system which have been ignored in the proposed amendments to the Unemployment Insurance Act (Bill C-7).
- A Brief on Energy Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This brief outlines the relationship of urban development to energy, a "development" based on planned obsolescence, waste and over-consumption in Montreal.
- Brief on the Proposed Borrowers and Depositors Protection Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- A Brief presented to the People and Parliament of Canadian Trade and Tariffs Committee
on the Occassion of Multilateral Trade Negotiations under the Auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- A Brief to the Alaska Highway Pipeline Inquiry.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This past summer the Alaska Highway Pipeline Inquiry (The Lysyk Inquiry) was established by the federal government to prepare a preliminary report outlining the terms and conditions to be considered in the event of pipeline development in the Yukon.
- Brief to the Board of Directors, The Wellesley Hospital.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This brief was prepared for the board of directors of Wellesley Hospital by a group of concerned people who are upset at many of the present practices in the emergency ward of this hospital. The group is made up of residents, health professionals, and community workers in the Don District.
- Brief to the National Assembly Committee on Natural Resources at Hearings on Energy Policy.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A breif about the current state of energy conservation, nuclear power, and the like.
- Calary's Eastern Downtown Core:
Social Perspectives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The research for this report was completed during the summer of 1975. Its purpose was to obtain an overview of the social problems in Calgary's Eastern downtown core.
- Canadian Aid
Blessing or Burden?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This article takes the position that political and economic reasons rather than humanitarian, charitable concerns for the poor were and still are the basis and motivation for Canadian government aid to undeveloped countries.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Canadian Left
A Critical Analysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP.
- The Canadian Marxist-Leninist Group IN STUGGLE!
A brief Presentation of its history and political line
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Canadian Peace Ballot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A questionaire desinged to organize a referendum of a variety of issues including, but not restricted to pacifism.
- The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Marxist perspectives on the Canadian state.
- The Canadian Student
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The focus of this tabloid is unemployment.
- Canadian Transport
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- CANDU
An Analysis of the Canadian Nuclear Program
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Written for the layman, CANDU clearly and concisely describes the basics of nuclear power including atomic fission, ionizing radiation and its affects on man and fuel cycles.
- The Canso Strait Fisherman's Strike, 1970-71
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An account of the 1970-71 strike of Nova Scotia fishermen, after two large fisheries refused to recognize their newly formed union.
- The Canterbury Tales
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Cape Breton Steel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This profile tells the story of the Sydney Steel Corporation (SYSCO) in Cape Breton and reveals one of the most important causes of unemployment and industrial shutdowns in Canada today. It traces the foreign ownership and control over Cape Breton Steel beginning with its original Boston investor H.M. Whitney in 1900 until the final takeover by the province of Nova Scotia.
- Capitalism is Icky!
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Castlegreen Co-operative -- An Alternative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A booklet that describes what is meant by the term "co-operative" and gives reasons why they are an appropriate alternative to individual home ownership.
- Caveat Venditor: Let the Seller Beware
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This Consumer's Handbook was produced by the Consumer Action Centre (CAC) which was established as a project of the Waterloo chapter of OPIRG in 1974.
- Christian Farmers Federation Publications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- City for Sale
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Claire Hoy Settlement is Significant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Co-op Du Possible Sherbrooke
An experience in Co-operative Self Reliance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This report, written by Jacques Segin, Clay (May 1977) relates the experiences of the co-operative du Possible, a seven building housing co-operative of 44 adult and child members in Sherbrooke, Quebec, founded in 1970. It contains information on its history, management, and neighbourhood oriented goals.
- Co-ops. are People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This brochure outlines six principles of co-operative organizing. These look at membership, distribution of savings among members, limited interest in investments, and education.
- Consensus Decision Making: An Analysis of the Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Includes a look at historical interest in consensus, an overview of research with critiques, and recommendations for future research. Brings together most of the current empirical findings in research about consensus.
- Consumer and Nuclear Energy: A Luxury We Can No Longer Afford
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An energy analysis with 28 recommendations presented to Pierre Trudeau and his cabinet.
- La Cooperativa Bain se enfrenta al Grupo de Remuneración por el Trabajo Doméstico
Una espeluznante historia sobre política.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- La coopérative de Bain rencontre 'Salaires pour les travaux domestiques'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Co-operative Planning Towarrd a Settlement of the Yukon Indian Claim: Document #1, Janury 21, 1977
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The Planning Council For Yukon Indian Claims is comprised of representatives of the Council for Yukon Indians, the Government of the Yukon Territory, and the Government of Canada.
- Criminal Law: 25 Common Mistakes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An examination of common mistakes and impressions people have about criminal law, lawyers, police powers and procedures.
- The Crisis of Dialectical Materialism and Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Libertarian socialism is defined first and foremost by the negation of political authoritarianism and theoretical determinism.
- Critique of Canada's Family Allowances
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
When in January, 1974, major amendments to the Family Allowances came into effect, the National Anti-Poverty Organization examined the effect these changes had on Canadians.
- Critique of In Struggle's "The Path of the Canadian Revolution"
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Crooked Path to Good Eating
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This nutrition handbook explains that today's large chain supermarkets stock over 10,000 items from which we must choose to get the most for our food dollar, both nutritionally and economically.
- Cutbacks
Wiping out our Gains
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Czym jest wolnosciowy socjalizm?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- A Declaration of Nishnawbe - Aski (The People and the Land)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
In order for them to regain freedom, it is mandatory that the Nishnawbe-Aski have the right to govern their spiritual, cultural, social, and economic affairs.
- Democracy in the Workplace: Readings on the Implementation of Self Management In America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A how-to for groups beginning a participatory business. Covers structural, organizational, legal and financial matters. A brief section on decision making.
- The Dene -- Land and Unity for the Native People of the Mackenzie Valley
A Statement of Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This booklet documents the tragic history of the Dene since the arrival of white settlers with their culture and their determined effort to assert themselves as a proud people.
- Development Education Project
Canadian Complicity in South Africa and Chile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A description of the cooperation of several small groups to educate the Canadian public about corporate involvement in South Africa.
- Dignity Denied
Unemployment in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This pamphlet examines current opinions about the causes and solutions proposed for unemployment which is at its highest recorded level in Canada.
- Disarm and Live
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The People's Assembly on Canadian Foreign Policy is "an umbrella group" comprising a number of organizations who support military disarmament in the interests of peace.
- The Double E
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Goodman invokes the guiding principles of ecology and economy in the design of new communities for a new age.
- Downtown
The People Speak Out!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This report contains summaries of briefs presented in May of 1976 concerning the future of Montreal.
- Downtown Health and Social Development Centre, Inc. And Emergency Shleter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This is a collection of newspaper clippings and reports decribing the efforts of two Thunder Bay Emergency Services.
- Draft Program for the Canadian Proletarian Party
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Eccentric Spaces
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Eligibility, Document#3, March 8, 1977
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This document defines those who are eligible for participation in a land claims settlement and those who are not.
- Emerging Co-operatives in Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Summary of information collected after visiting over 600 co-operative groups in Ontario.
- Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Energy Options for New Brunswick
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This brief has two parts. The first of these looks at the "need" for nuclear power in New Brunswick, while the second considers other ueseful sources of energy which could be tapped. At the end of each section, specific recommendations are made to government.
- Environmental Information Guide for B.C.
Where to get information to help you learn more about the environmental crisis and do something about it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
SPEC is a citizens' evnironmental organization, the oldest and largest in British Columbia. Incorporated as a non-profit society in 1969, SPEC has 2000 members and 17 branches throughout the province. Its primary purpose is to protect the vital life-supporting ecosystems in British Columbia and Canada, and to promote the development of a 'Conserver Society' with stable population and conservation of resources.
- Equal Opportunity at Work
A CUPE Affirmative Action Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
" Equal Opportunity at Work" provides a comprehensive and detailed approach to dealing with the continuing inequalities faced by CUPE women members in their various employment situations.
- Farmers, Feds and Fries - Potato Farming in the St. John Valley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Feminist Resource Materials
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A constantly updated bibliography of materials related to women's issues in Canada.
- Fertilizing The Economy - The Potash Issue.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This newspaper-style tabloid represents a summary and report of a daylong seminar with workshops co-sponsored by: The Saskatchewan People for Control of Resources and the Institute of Saskatchewan Studies
- Financial Constraint and Assisted Housing Budgets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A critical review of both federal and provincial capital investment in assisted housing programs.
- The Five-Legged Sheep; Michelin Tire in Nova Scotia (Round One, No.7)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This study outlines the history of a single-family based multinational whose entry into Nova Scotia as the largest private employer has led to the establishment of the "Pictou County Mafia."
- The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Food Co-ops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A brochure that educates people interested in cutting the supermarket connection.
- Food First
Ten Days for World Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Tabloid that exposes the "food myths" that are obstacles to people feeding themselves, particularly in the Third World.
- Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Food Industry -- Profits
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A talk given by David Robertson on the relationship between corporate interest and the food industry.
- For the Elimination of Poverty and Social Injustice: Report to the Anglican Church of Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- For the United of the Canadian Proletariat
Brief notes on the present conjuncture
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Foreign Reminders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Formation of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This account explores the formation of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) which has established a formal relationship to the United Nations and is seeking to have concepts of aboriginal rights accepted internationally as basic economic and political rights of indigenous peoples.
- Freedom of Information vs Government Secrecy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
OPIRG has established Freedom of Information Documentation Centres at their Waterloo and Peterborough offices. Their purpose is to: push for strong freedom of information legislation, to educate the public about the need for freedom of information, to document cases in which government informaiton has been denied the public, and to publicize the process of freedom of information legislation in both the federal and Ontario governments.
- From Now On: Without Blame And Punishment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A personal approach to the skills of giving feedback and criticism in a way that promotes cooperation rather than conflict. Makes a persuasive statement about applying these techniques in all relationships.
- The Global Village Voice
vol. 1, no. 3
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Group: Ontario North Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An Ontario-wide adult education program which has two goals: to educate urban Ontarians about the culture and lifestyle of native people in Northern Ontario, and to begin a province wide process of public dialogue concerning resource development.
- Have You Got $10,00 to Burn?
The Commidity Futures Link in the International Food Chain, Who Needs It and Why Most of Us Don't.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This research paper traces the central role played by commodity futures exchanges in the international farm-to-table food chain, especially as it affects Canadians.
- The Hazards of Being Male
Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- He who pays the piper...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Community groups have become dependent on government money resulting in an erosion of their community base and their independence.
- A History of the Newfoundland Status of Women Council
1972-75.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This history is a resume of the activities of one group of women who have been involved in the women's movement in St. John's since the spring of 1972.
- The History of the Saugeen Indians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The History We Live With
Indian Land Claims in B.C.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Booklet discussing the history of treaties and land claims in B.C.
- Homosexuality Bibliography: Supplement 1970-1975
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Selective gay bibliography. Selective rather than all-inclusive. Even so, the first volume contains 3188 entries and the supplement includes an additional 3128 entries for the period 1970-1975. Pamphlets, documents, dissertations, articles in newspapers,
- House on Laval Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This article in the February edition of Benedict Labre House's paper gives a brief history of Le Groupe de l'Avenir and the alternate services it has created.
- How Sweet It Is!
GATT-Flyer No.4
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A critical analysis of the financing of a sugar complex for the Government of the Ivory Coast by Canada's Export Development Corporation.
- How Things Don't Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Pananek and Hennessey focus on appliances, tooks, and devices that are at the nub of modern living. They show how some of our most cherished possessions, ranging from simple household fixtures to sophisticated electronics, don't work, and challenge us to rethink the uses of technology to demand and create products that are useful, built to human scale, safe, ecologically sound, and inexpensive.
- How to Deal with a Racist Incident
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Pamphlet prepared to help people act rationally, safely, and sensibly in the face of racist and discriminatory incidents.
- How to Detect Crooked Gambling
Marked Cards and Loaded Dice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Human Rights in Canada
A Focus on Racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A look at the history of discrimination in Canada and suggestion on how to improve the current situation.
- I Was Born Here
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An old Dene of the Mackenzie District, N.W.T., reflects on his land, his People, his values.
- Images
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This is a women's paper using a thematic approach to report on women's activities in the Kootenay area such as the Crafts Conference in February, women's theatre, health, art and politics.
- Immigration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A report on the current state of immigration policy in Canada and the possible ramifications of Bill C-24.
- Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
- In Memoriam: Beloved Chairman Mao
A Long, Long Life to Chairman Mao!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A Long, Long Life to Chairman Mao.
- In Search of Social Justice -- A National Food Policy
One Way Ahead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Working paper defining NAPO as a special interest group concentrating on legislation and policy surrounding issues of the Canadian poor.
- Index to Illustrations of the Natural World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- An Infantile Disorder?
The Crisis and Decline of the New Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Information and Action for Church IMPACT on Canadian Banks and South African Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This kit contains a number of articles which provide background information on the issue of apartheid and which give guidelines for action.
- Information et Formation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Ce feullet d'information hebdomadire est publie pour l'usage des associations et groupes quil constituent CRANO.
- Inner-City Housing, Rehabliltation and Relocation Committee Working Paper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A paper on housing shortage issues in Winnipeg, Canada.
- International Encyclopaedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis & Neurology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- International Encyclopedia of Higher Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Introduction to Nature Heals: The Psychological Essays of Paul Goodman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A introduction to Paul Goodman's psychological essays, which reflect, Stoehr says, Goodman's lifestyle, the choice he had made to live by consulting his deepest impulse and following it wherever it led.
- Is It True What They Say About NIEO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A series of one page articles explaining the New International Economic Order.
- Is The Air Fit to Breathe?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This pamphlet describes some of the more common air-pollution health dangers at the work site and outlines some workers rights guaranteed by law.
- Jobs and Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The National Council of Welfare was established by the Government Organization Act, 1969 as a citizens advisory body to the Minister on matters pertaining to welfare.
- Just Report Balloon Trips Premier Asks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Keywords
A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Williams examines more than 100 familiar words and explores how they are used.
- Land Use and Occupancy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This news release makes reference to an Inuit Tapirisat-commissioned report on Inuit land use and occupancy in the Northwest Territories.
- Land Use or Land Abuse?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This Study Action Kit has been compiled to help the interested Canadians learn the facts about the nature, scope and urgency of the present land use situation in Canada. The materials are intended as a starting point for both study and action.
- Latin America and Caribbean INSIDE REPORT
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Report to raise the conciousness of citizens to the political-economic-social situation in Canada and Latin America.
- Let Us Take Care!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
"Let us Take Care!" is the result of discussions held with representatives of the chartered locals of the Ontario Nurses' Association. This report came about when nurses became concerned with the effects of the government's constraints program on health care in Ontario. The report is a compilation of observations of working places, concerns, and recommendations.
- Letter from Marty Glaberman to Zerowork
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Martin Glaberman explains some of his criticism of the Zerowork journal.
- Letters: (Issue #2)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
There must be a revolt against bureaucracy - the predominant trend of societal organization.
- Listing of Progressive Periodicals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Listing of progressive and alternative periodicals with many that are financially wanting and deserve support.
- The Literary Cat
Words about cats by Writer from Aesop to Tennessee Williams
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Mackenzie Valley: Native Land Claims and Corporate Growth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An overview of the demands on the Dene Nation regarding the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline proposal.
- Make the Don a Museum of Horrors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A museum depicting what prison is really like might motivate us to demand radical changes to the way we deal with offenders.
- Making Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
How to effect community change as an individual or as a member of a support group, a neighborhood organization, a board of directors, or other political group. Organizing skills, conflict diagnosis and resolution, communication skills, and running meetings are a few of the skills described in the context of neighbourhood/community change.
- Manifeste - la Situation economique des retraites au Quebec
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Manual for Amnesty International, Canadian Section Members & Groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The Canadian appendix of the Amnesty International manual.
- A Manual for Group Facilitators
The Center for Conflict Resolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The values, assumptions and techniques of group facilitation. Especially useful to people planning workshops. Includes sections on communication, conflict, problem solving, what can go wrong and what to do about it, and many other relevant topics.
- A Manual for Group Facilitators
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- A Manual for Tenant Organizers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This manual examines the problems of evictions, rent increases, reduction of services and lack of repairs encountered by Montrealers and provides information on possible recourses and action.
- Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The real Jewish question in Marx's time was: For or against the political emancipation of the Jews? For or against equal rights for Jews?
- Marxism and Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Miliband sets out to present an overview of the main themes and problems of the Marxist approach to politics.
- Marx's Vision of Communism
A Reconstruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Ollman tries to reconstruct Marx's vision of communism from his writings of 1844, the year in which he set down the broad lines of his analysis, to the end of his life.
- Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This report is put together by the Task Force on Women in Church and Society of the MCC.
- Les Militants et la Police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Mobile Family Service Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This report describes the operation of an "integrated, comprehensive emergency intervention service." This service fields staff in emergency situations primarily during those days and hours when the rest of the service system is closed.
- Money isn't Everything
A Survival Manual for Non-Profit Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Addresses the problems affecting non-profit groups today, providing examples and practical solutions.
- Montage: John Heartfield
Vom Club Dada zur Arbeiter-Illustrierten Zeitung - Dokumente - Analysen - Berichte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Movement for Christian Feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This pamphlet outlines the goals of the Christian Feminist Movement which is engaged in an ecumenical project designed to enable women concerned about sexism in the Churches to discover their role in strengthening the life of the church.
- Mumming in Outport Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A study of folk culture in Newfoundland's outport villages and its decline in the face of modern industrialism.
- My Mother/Myself
The Daughter's Search for Identity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Nangle Report
Canadian Businesses In South Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- National Pensioners and Senior Citizens' Federation Brief to the Government of Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Resolutions regarding the needs of seniors.
- Native Sons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Need for Third Sector Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A paper that argues that large centralized government and business enterprises are incapable of responding to the critical needs of small communities.
- Neo-Colonialism and The Canadian Political Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This study paper provides information for those seeking to reflect on the dynamics of the Canadian economy in an international context.
- The New Brunswick Forest Industry/Breif to the New Brunswick Ministries of Agriculture & Natural Resource
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A discussion of the history and current situation in regards to the forestry industry and small woodlots in New Brunswick.
- The New Woman Centre
Annual Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This report documents the work of the New Woman Centre for 1976.
- No Last Frontier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This booklet was published by the World Council of Churches as part of a series of RISK issues dealing with the struggles of aboriginal peoples. The present issue, a joint venture between RISK and the WCC Programme to Combat Racism, draws attention to the Dene of the Northwest Territories. The struggle of the Dene to control their destiny involves questions of energy policies for North America, racial justice, development, the role of transnational corporations, land and water rights and human rights.
- Non-Sexist Childraising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Non-Nuclear Future for Ontario: A Sourcebook.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The sourcebook points out that in the near future, Ontario will have to choose between high growth energy policies and policies of conservation and maintenance of a reasonable energy level.
- A Nous De Decider
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Ces pages detaillent l'histoire et principes de l'associaton des forestiers.
- Nova Scotia Micmac Aboriginal Rights Position Paper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This tabloid edition of a position paper presented to the Federal Government in 1977 was signed by twelve chiefs representing the Union of Nova Scotia Indians.
- The Nuclear Dilemma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This paper report on discussions hold at a June 1977 seminar at the Institute for Saskatchewan Studies.
- Nutrition and Underdevelopment
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A booklet that attempts to show that hunger, on a world-wide scale, is not the
result of food scarcity alone but rather a symptom of an unjust world economic
system.
- Omnium Minimum - News Notes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- On Jews and Judaism in Crisis
Selected Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- One Earth -- Two Worlds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Package of materials dealing with food-related themes.
- Outreach Employment Services
1976-1977
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This document is a brief overview of the approach, objectives and strategies of this program to "increase employment opportunities for special needs people."
- Padre padrone
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Patients' Rights Handbook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A document that outlines the list of rights held by patients and how to complain if those rights are being ignored.
- Peace and Conflict Studies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Pencil Sketching
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The People and the Land are One
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Outline of the position taken by the Cree-Ojibway chiefs against granting further cutting rights to Reed Pulp and Paper.
- People or Pipelines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
To achieve its purpose in heightening awareness, the "People or Pipelines" presentation from the above study kit requires a group leader with a good general knowledge of energy and northern development issues.
- Petition for the Immediate Release of all Prisoners of Conscience
1977: Prisoners of Conscience Year
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
During 1977, Amnesty International is attempting to bring the situation of prisoners of conscience into stronger international focus. As part of this effort they are circulating a petition for which they hope to get one million signatures.
- Place de l'Avenir.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Le Groupe de l'Avenir is a recently formed self-help organization of single transient men in downtown Montreal.
- Poland: 1970-71
Capitalism and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Political Resolution of the Third Congress of CPC(M-L)
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Portugal: The Impossible Revolution (review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Book offers a clear analysis of events in Portugal 1974-1975.
- Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
- Position Paper: Committee Against the Deportation of Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This Position Paper was prepared by the Committee Against the Deportation of Immigrant Women (C.A.D.I.W.) in response to the growing discrimination and harassment faced by immigrant women.
- The Potash Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An analysis of the exploitation of potash resources in Saskatchewan.
- Poverty Report and Recommendations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This booklet, addressed to the membership of the United Church, presents the recommendations adopted by the last General council. It also includes a background for the recommendations and integrates them into the history of the United Church Task Force on Poverty.
- Prepared evidence for the case of the Committee for Justice and Liberty
before the National Energy Board's hearings on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Various materials to be presented to the NEB's hearings opposing further pipeline development.
- 'Press Pants' Taunt to B.C. Press Council
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Privacy!
How to get it .... How to enjoy it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Private Award Sponsorships Ok'd by P.C.C.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Program III - Study, Dialogue, Reflection, Action, on Social Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This borchure describes the nature and purpose of Program 3, and lists workshops planned for 1977-78.
- Project Chile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The pamphlet serves as background material for Project Chile, a national campaign to stop Canadian private investment in Chile and all governmental support for such investment until human rights and democratic institutions are restored.
- Project North
The Inter-Church Project on Northern Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Project North's purpose is to help these churches address more effectively the issues of Native land claims and Northern development.
- Project Ploughshares
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A project aimed at educating the Canadian public about Canadian defense policy.
- Project Ploughshares Education/Information Packet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Project Ploughshares is a joint venture of the Canadian Council of Churches, Canadian Friends Service Committee, Mennonite Central Committee, Canadian University Students Overseas, and Conrad Grebel College. One goal of this organization is to provide public education around the issues of Canadian defence policy and the Canadian arms industry. Another goal is mobilizing support for change.
- Promotion
Advertising, Publicity, Personal Selling, Sales Promotion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- A Proposal for a Public Seminar on Fundy Tidal Poswer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The Coalition for Tidal Power Education was organized through the summer of 1977 for the purpose of promoting a wider public discussion of the possibility of tidal power development. It consists of representatives of community and public interest groups in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
- A Proposal for the Development of a Community Socio-Legal Clinic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A report on the success of the addition of a legal clinic to an established community centre.
- A Proposal for the Legislation to Establish a Self Development Corporation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This proposal challenges the Canadian government to take immediate action to stop the critical unemployment situation in Canada by introducing a concrete long term job creation program. NAPO's proposal calls for the establishment of a Self Development Corporation which would have as its goal the rehabilitation of people through the development of self sustaining economic enterprises.
- Quaker Prison Committee
A series of reflections by Ruth Morris, director of Canadian Friends Service Committee
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A look at two case histories vis. the bail system and pre-trial treatment of those charged.
- Que es el Socialismo Libertario?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Quebec & the Canada Crisis
for a Constituent Assembly and a new Canadian Constitution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Qu'est ce que le socialisme libertaire?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
L'idée que le socialisme est avant tout à propos de liberté et donc sur le dépassement de la domination, de la répression, et de l'aliénation qui bloquent la libre circulation de la créativité humaine, de la pensée et de l'action.
- Racial and Cultural Conflict and the Law Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Rally Story
An Account of the Planning, Organization and Enactment of Women Rally for Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This book is a description of how women of British Columbia conceived, planned, and organized the largest mass lobby of Members of the Legislative Assembly in the history of B.C.
- Red Bologna
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Examines the Communist administration of the city of Bologna.
- Red Menace #2
Volume 2, Number 1 - Summer 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- The Red Menace: A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
Publication announcement Summer 1977
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The Red Menace is a libertarian socialist newsletter published by a small collective of people living in Toronto and Hamilton.
- The Red Menace Interviews Prime Minister Trudeau
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An exclusive interview with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, published in The Red Menace and nowhere else.
- Reed International
Profile of a Transnational Corporation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This profile is offered in the interest of assisting native people, church groups, public interest organizations, and individual citizens who have been organizing to resist Reed's private corporate activities.
- Regina Committee for World Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Six one-page articles discuss energy production in the Third World.
- Reminiscences of Tim Buck
Yours in the Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Renewable Energy Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The Renewable Energy Handbook was produced in order to provide more information to people interested in finding alternatives to large energy developments like the McKenzie Pipeline and our growing Nuclear Programme.
- Report of the Panel of Public Enquiry Into Northern Hydro Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Report describing the evidence to the public enquiry concerning the Nelson-Churchill River Diversion of Northern Manitoba.
- Report on the Winnipeg Workshop
May 4th-8th, 1977.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This fourth Canada-wide meeting of the Urban Core Support Network focused on the problems and attempted solutions in the Winnipeg core area. Native issues, alternative economic strategies, booze and skid row, women on the skids, and kids in the core were the topics for the work groups, which met for two of the four days of the workshop.
- Report and Recommendations for Government Action and Statement of Concern
Housing for Low Income Canadians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The report identifies maldistribution of income as the prime factor in the housing problem.
- Research Bulletin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The main article of this issue looks at the energy crisis.
- Researching Canadian Corporations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A resource for people and organizations who find themselves victims of some corporation's malice or indifference, and want to do something about it.
- Resources
On the Dene and The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This resource list is primarily intended for those interested in pursuing the issues of native land claims (particularly the Dene) and development in the Mackenzie Valley. Many of the books, papers, and audio-visuals contain more detailed bibliographies for those who want to do further research.
- Resources Exchange Project: 1973-1977
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Rich Man, Poor Man: Who's the Thief?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation:
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Dixon uses a Marxist analysis to try to explain the decline of the women's liberation movement in the 1970's.
- The Role of Economic Competition in Canadian Society
A Statement to the Committee on Finance, Trade and Economic Affairs, House of Commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Saskatchewan's Stake in the Politics of Separatism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This edition reports on discussions and workshops held in connection with a seminar on the possible separation of Quebec from Canada, and its implications for Saskatchewan.
- School of New Economics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The above brochure outlines the goals and courses of the School of New Economics in Peace River, Alberta. This school challenges the assumptions of the traditional study of economics and argues that "fundamental changes in economic theory and practice are essential for the truly human society.
- Second Birth
St. Andrew's Place
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This is a study that tells the story of St. Andrew's Place, a church property that has been redeveloped into a senior citizens' residence and a place for alternate community services.
- Seizing Our Bodies
The Politics of Women's Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Service Accessibility and the Multiracial Community
in Canadian Welfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Services for Immigrant Women
Report and Evaluation of four Workshops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This report 1) describes how the above workshops were planned and put together; 2) gives an account of the content of each workshop including texts from all presentations; and, finally, 3) gives the results of the evaluation of the workshops. Also included are the newsletters, work sheets, agendas, and resource materials prepared for the workshops.
- Settlement Model, Document#4, July 14, 1977
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This paper discusses the settlement model that is intended to provide a basis from which an agreement in principle (expected early 1978) is developed with respect to Yukon Indian Land Claims.
- The Ship's Cat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Siege of the Villa Lipp
(first published as Send No More Roses)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Six Men
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Sketches of Charles Chaplin, H.L. Mencken, Humphrey Bogart, Adlai Stevenson, Bertrand Russell, and Edward VIII.
- Small Claims Court
Is it Really a People's Court?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A small selection of documents aimed at educating the public about the Ontario small claims court system.
- Social Development
Vol. 6, No. 2.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This pamphlet reports on the various issues which were of current concern to the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD).
- Socialism and the New Life
The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Socialist Register 1977
Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- A Society to Be Transformed, 1977 Pastoral Statement on Social Justice.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Solving Women's Problems (Through Awareness, Action, And Contact)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The lowdown on radical therapy principles and practice, positive personal change that empowers individuals to work effectively for social change. Describes the philosophy, theory and practical application of problem-solving groups.
- Some Facts About BRIC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A pamphlet that gives an overview of the effort undertaken to provide Media, Legal and Leadership Training Services to the Black community in Ontario by the Black Resources Information Centre.
- Sources (Red Menace #2)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Southam Poll Questions Questionable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Spacemaker Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- SPEC
Canadian Scientific and Environmental Control Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A brochure that describes the objectives and activities of SPEC.
- Speech by Aubrey Golden to the N.F.U. Convention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A speech given to the National Farmer's Union regarding the differences between a police force and a security service and the importance of keeping the two seperate.
- The Spider and the Fly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A description of the relationship between family farms and corporate agri-business.
- Stackwall
How to build it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Stalking the Feature Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Statement of Claire Culhane, Provincial Court, New Westminster, B.C.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This is a statement by Claire Culhane in provincial court where she pleaded not guilty to a charge of trespassing on penitentiary land.
- A Statement of Goals Respecting the Yukon Indian Claim: Document#2, March 8, 1977
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The basic goal of the Yukon Indians is that of self-determination or a greater degree of control over their destiny.
- Statement To Shareholders of Noranda Mines Limited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This pamphlet outlines the role of the Canadian churches since the rise of the Chilean junta in 1973 and focuses particularly on the churches' opposition to the investment plans of Noranda Mines Limited in the Chilean copper industry.
- The Story of Profit
The Coalition for Energy Price Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A report of the actions of 17 groups in Quebec fighting unfair energy price increases.
- Strategy for Labrador Straits: Aiming for Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This report outlines a framework for economic development of the Labrador Straits area. Input was requested from community councils, fisheries committees, high school students, private citizens and members of the two sponsoring bodies.
- Strategy of Development for the Canadian Housing Co-operative Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An analysis of trends and outcomes of four strategies employed in developing co-operative housing.
- Stump Ranch Chronicles and other narratives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The story of Arnt Arntzen and Ebe Koeppen, two men who worked in mines, logging and construction camps, on homesteads, farms and stump ranches in British Columbia and other parts of Western Canada from 1912 on.
- Submission to the Government of Canada Proposing Economic Recovery through a Full Employment Program
Proposing Economic Recovery through a Full Employment Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An article discussing the possibility of a "great depression" occuring in the 1970s.
- Submission to the Hon. Dr. Bette Stephenson, Minister of Labour, Concerning Proposed Occupational Safety and Health
Legislation for the Province of Ontario.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A letter regarding workplace safety in Canada. The letter discusses Canada's relative lack of legilsation that promote preventative safety measures in the workplace.
- Submission to the Sub-Committee on the Penitentiary Systems In Canada Hearings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A list of recommendations on how to fix certain issues in the prison system.
- Submissions to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs
Sub-Commitee on the Penitentiary System in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A review of oppresion in the Canadian penitentiary system as a wholem with a closer look at the Millhaven Institution.
- Summary of Presentation to the Mayor and City Council of Edmonton, Alberta
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This call for action presented to the city of Edmonton describes a growing crisis in the Boyle Street area and proposes changes in policy and services to respond to the crisis. During the past year, there has been a growth in the number of men and women in the inner city core of Edmonton. At the same time, the report states, there has been a decrease in housing, increasing violence and an overburdening of the services.
- Support for Farmers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
The Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society was founded in June 1976 by a group of individuals concerned about the future of Canada's agricultural self-sufficiency.
- Survival Family
How one family prepared for and lived one year of experimental disaster
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- TCISAC MATERIALS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
These two papers deal with Canada's relationship to South Africa. They are published by The Toronto Committee for the Liberation of South Africa, a Canadian group supporting the national liberation movements in Africa.
- Television
The First Fifty Years
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Ten Days for World Development 1977/Leader Kit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A kit designed for those who plan activites for the Ten Days for World Development programme.
- Then Again, Maybe I Won't
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- This book explains how things don't work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
There a lots of guides explaining how things work. This one explains how they don't -- and why they don't.
- Toward a New Constitution?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Toward Preventing Alcoholism and Alcohol Misuse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Trigger
Survival Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Trigger is a job-finding centre for youth which is staffed by non-professionals who have all had personal experiences of unemployment.
- Underdevelopment in Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A collection of articles analyzing underdevelopment in Canada in historical and economic terms.
- Unemployment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This broadsheet examines the crucial unemployment situation in Nova Scotia and outlines attempts by the unemployed in union with working people to confront this problem.
- Unemployment Manifesto in Briar Patch
Vol, 6, No. 7, PP.23-27
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An analysis of the unemployment manifesto in Briar Patch.
- The Universe Ends at Sherbourne & Queen
Poems & Prose
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A literary and photographic look at the area known as Cabbagetown. It describes the myths and legends of the area as well as the lives of the people who live there.
- The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
In this popular book, author Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual development, and modern agribusiness takes farming out of its cultural context, away from families and their connection to the land.
- Vision Canada
Unmet Needs of Blind Canadians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A study with four main objectives: 1) to determine the current needs of visually handicapped people, 2) to determine whether needs are being adequately met, 3) to suggest what changes are required to improve existing programs or develop new ones, 4) to collect informaiton on the special unmet needs of multi-handicapped people.
- Wages for Housework Committee Materials
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A series of films on women's rights centred around the family allowance program.
- Waves, Wind and Weather
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- The Weston Group of Companies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A profile of the Canadian bakery and its extended holdings across North America and around the world.
- What is Libertarian Socialism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Revolution is a collective process of self-liberation: people and societies are transformed through their struggles for freedom and for a better world.
- What is The Red Menace?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
About The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist publication.
- What's Canada Doing in Brazil?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
This paper traces the historical relationship of Canadian based corporations in Brazil.
- Where do We Go From Here?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Who Calls The Tune?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
"Who Calls the Tune?" is a new publication by the Canadian Council on Social Development recounting the experiences of small community organizations with the media.
- Who's in Control?
Issue 14
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An examination of the phenomenon of corporate power.
- Why the Leninists Will Win
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Clark argues that the failure of the libertarian left to take organizing seriously makes it likely that capitalism will be overthrown by Leninists who will preside over a social system as undemocratic as the old.
- Why You Should Question Your Bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A pamphlet urging Canadians to question their bank's involvment in loaning money to the racist South African government.
- Women and the Law in Nova Scotia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A booklet about women and the law.
- Women at Work in Nova Scotia
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A pamphlet that examines the struggles and realities of working women in Nova Scotia.
- Word is Out
Stories of Some of Our Lives
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Interviews with 26 people, who speak about their experiences as gay men and lesbians.
- Words and Deeds
Canda, Portugal and Africa.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
These essays culminate three years of research by the Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa (TCLSAC), an organization working in support of the liberation movement of Southern Africa and on issues which link the concerns of Canadians to these struggles.
- Work & Daily Life Intro
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A forum through which people can communicate what they feel about their jobs and the others things that happen to them every day.
- The Working Poor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
"Sixty per cent of Canada's poor derive the greatest part of their income from work."
- World Military and Social Expenditures 1977
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- World Minorities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
An account "of the plight today and the problems of some of the world's oppressed minorities".
- Youth & Unemployment
A Source Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
A document prepared by Kevin Collins, Program Director of Income Security for the Canadian Council for Social Development (CCSD), for a 1976 CCSD consultation on "Youth Development: The Need for Integrated Policies."
- Zerowork 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Liberation - Volume 20, Number 4 - June 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Canada Yearbook - 1976 - 1977
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
- Sources Listings
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1977
Published: 1977
Features thousands of experts, contacts and spokespeople willing to be interviewed by the media, and many articles, news releases, books, and other resources.
- Barr to be Board Chairman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Ward Seven school trustee Doug Barr seems certain to become the next chairman of the Toronto School Board.
- Sewell, Howard returned, Stamm loses decisively
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The difference between the campaigns of John Sewell and Janet Howard, on the one hand, and Garry Stamm, on the other, was apparent as soon as you walked across the street from the one headquarters to the other on election night.
- Norm Browne leaves Seven News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Seven News started a new chapter in its history last week with the departure of Norman Browne, whose name has been intimately tied to that of Seven News almost since the paper’s founding six-and-a-half years ago.
- The Hidden Welfare System
A report on the personal income tax system in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A critical analysis of the Income Tax Act and deductions that benefit the top 5% of filers.
- The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 2005
This book covers aspects of life on and under the sea: terms, oceanography, shipwrecks, shanties, sailors, explorers, maritime inventors, steam, tidal power, marine wildlife, piracy, the East India Company, etc#.To the tune of 2600 entries in dictionary arrangement, with appropriate asterisked cross-references.
- Connexions Digest
A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1992
The Connexions Digest published information about resources, groups, actions, strategies and ideas for social change. The Connexions Digest is no longer published in print, but information from it appears on the Connexions Web site.
- Open Road
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1990
Anarchist paper published in Vancouver from 1976 to 1990.
A digital archive of Open Road is online at http://www.zisman.ca/openroad/index.html.
- To Have or To Be?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1989
Fromm calls for a social and psychological revolution. He argues that two modes of existence are in fierce conflict: the Having Mode, dedicated to material possession and property, agressiveness, personal gain, and war, and the Being Mode, sufused with love, the spirit of caring and a regard for humanity, which means contentment, a pleasant sufficiency of the mean to life (but no more) and a profound kinship with nature.
- The Children of Aataentsic
A History of the Huron People to 1660
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1987
The Children of Aataentsic is both a full-scale ethnohistory of the Huron Indian confederacy and a far-reaching study of the causes of its collapse under the impact of the Iroquois attacks of 1649.
- Sexism
The Male Monopoly on History & Thought
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1982
- Toronto Life's Super Shopper
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1978
- Towards Understanding Rural Social Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1977
A review of Ralph Matthews' "There's No Place Better Than Here: Social Change in Three Newfoundland Communities." Martin argues that, while this study is undoubtedly a useful contribution to the resettlement debate, its value is severely limited by the inadequate theoretical perspective within which it is framed.
- How the Other Half Dies
The Real Reasons for World Hunger
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1977
Why are so many people hungry? Susan George affirms with conviction and with evidence that it is not because there are too many people on the planet, nor because of bad weather or changing climates, but because food is controlled by the rich.
- Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1977
- Seven News Front Pages - Volume 7 - 1976-1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1977
- Women and the Law in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1977
This booklet discusses some of the laws of Newfoundland as they apply to women.
- Sewell and Howard re-elected; Barr and Holmes for education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Results of the December 1976 municipal elections in Toronto's Ward 7.
- Many bridges have spanned the Don River
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A history of early bridges spanning Toronto's Don River.
- More than one way to cover an election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Campaign managers for the election campaign of Alderman John Sewell and Alderman Janet Howard aren’t sure whether to laugh or to cry at the City Dweller’s own unique way of covering the election.
- Seven News news
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Don Vale Centre fights to survive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The Don Vale Community Centre is trying to find a way to survive.
- The Clarion: Toronto's new community paper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Launch of the Toronto Clarion in October 1976.
- Regent Festival to Combat Racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Six church and religious organizations in and around Regent Park have banded together to promote and sponsor a four-day, multicultural, "Festival of Praise" to combat the racial unrest in that area.
- Report cites reasons for racial unrest in Regent Park
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The long awaited Board of Education report on racial unrest in Regent Park was made public last week. It cites a number of reasons for unrest in Regent Park and makes a wide variety of both specific, immediate and long-range recommendations to solve the problems.
- South Riverdale approves NIP program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The South Riverdale Community Centre is scheduled to open in mid-October after an 18-month fight against apparent obstacles posed by Queen’s Park and organized medicine. Unlike most health facilities, it will be run by a board chosen by the people who use it.
- Who Killed Grace Bates...?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Grace Bates, a long-time resident of Cabbagetown, was 63 years of age when she died in the early morning of July 19 [1976] at Nellie’s Hostel on Broadview. She had been taken to Nellie’s Hostel the previous night by a Hostel volunteer after an anonymous phone call stated that she had spent the three previous days and nights alone in wheel chair in Allan Gardens. As a result of the media publicity on her death, an inquest was held.
- Local schools perpetuate social inequality says survey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The more money your parents earn, the better you are likely to do in school. This is the conclusion of a massive study of the Toronto school population just released by the Board of Education.
- Survey shows varying prices at drug store
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
It pays to shop around before you decide with which drug store to do business. This is the conclusion of a survey of Ward 7 drug stores carried out recently by Seven News staff.
- Riverdale resident protests bank addition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
"Health Before Wealth". That’s what one of Morris Silber's picket signs said as he walked back and forth in front of the Bank of Nova Scotia at the corner of Broadview and Gerrard.
- Content Magazine - Number 65
August 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- The American Revolution: Was There "A People"?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Book review of 11 books about the American Revolution.
- Hi ho, Silver!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Review article
- Entire ward invited to Seven News annual meeting and party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
7 News is a community newspaper, owned and controlled by the community, responsible to the community, dependent on community support for its existence. The paper tries to bring the people of Ward 7 together through its pages – now we would also like to bring you together in person.
- People vs expressways battle is on again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The battle against expressways is on again. The plan for a grid of expressways that would rip into the city of Toronto, supposedly buried by the Davis government in 1971, has been resurrected. After being beaten back five years ago, the expressway proponents are crawling out of the woodwork with their old plans, with only the tactics and the terminology changed.
- Content Magazine - Number 63
June 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Content Magazine - Number 62
May 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Content Magazine - Number 61
April 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- The Role of the Soviets in Russia's Bourgeois Revolution: The Point of View of Julius Martov
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
An essay on Russian revolution.
- Regent Park Sets up Youth Employment Service
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
An employment referral service for unemployed teenagers is being set up in the Regent Park area, where the lack of jobs for young people is being felt very severely.
- Content Magazine - Number 60
March 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Content Magazine - Number 59
January/ February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Abridged Version of Judgement by Justice K Macay in the case involving Atlantic, Redpath and St. Lawrence Sugar Ref
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Abridged text of judgement to aid citizens to understand the issues involved.
- Access Community - Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Proposal for funding for a community media resource unit.
- A.G.A.I.N./Direct Services/Employment:
Introduction to Employment Strategies & Note on the Consultation A.G.A.I.N.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Critiques of government employment strategies in the urban core/skid row areas.
- Against Soviet Social-Imperialism and For National Liberation
What Kind of Friendship?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Two articles against Soviet Social-Imperialist Cuban Intervention in Angola by Hardial Bains, the leaders of the CPC-ML.
- All in the Family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A booklet explaining some of the legal consequences which flow from marriage, common law relationships, owning property, and having children.
- An Analysis of the Decreasing Viability of Small and Medium sized Farms in Canada.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Describes the economic, physical, and political conditions that cause a rapid decrease in small and medium sized farms in Canada.
- Die "andere" Arbeiterbewegung und die Entwicklung der kapitalistischen Repression von 1880 bis zur Gegenwart
Ein Beitrag zum Neuverständnis d. Klassengeschichte in Deutschland. Mit ausführl. Dokumentation zu Aufstandsbekämpfung, Werkschutz u.a.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Annotated Bibliography of Homosexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Interdisciplinary gay sources. Comprehensive two volume set is an inter-disciplinary guide to the home-sexual literature from the 16th century to 1975 and contains more than 14,000 citations.
- Approaches To Foreign Rrepresentatives of Governments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Guidelines useful in securing and attending interviews with ambassadors.
- Appropriate Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A pamphlet about inappropriate aid programs and our need to look at alternate forms of energy.
- The Arbritary Enfranchisement of Indian Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A brief arguing for the amendment of certain provisions of the Indian Act providing for the involuntary enfranchisement of Indian women.
- Argentina '76
A dossier on political repression and the violation of human rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A report that outlines the torture of political prisoners, censorship, and religious persecution that occurs in Argentina.
- Attitudes at the Canadian Grassroots
Signs and Portents in the Seventies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A report on people's attitudes across Canada.
- Banking on Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Package states the case against further Canadian bank loans to the government of South Africa. Suggests actions for persons wanting to resist further bank loans.
- B.C. Ecologue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A handbook for study and action on the ecological crisis.
- A Brief on the Effects of Inflation on Welfare Recipients
Presented to P.E.I. Cabinet Ministers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
An exploration of the situation of those of Prince Edward Island most harshly affected by the effects of inflation and legislation governing wage and price controls.
- Brief to NDP Caucus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Critique of the amendments to the Landlord and Tenants Act and recommendations for modifications to present legislation.
- Bring it Home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A pamphlet about the needs of grass roots, people-oriented health programs and awareness.
- A Call For a Moratorium
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A brief submitter to the Berger Inquiry by PROJECT NORTH.
- Canada -- Beware! Look What's Happened to Peru
GATT-Flyer No. 3
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Parallels are drawn between the Canadian and Peruvian Oil Industries.
- Canada, Left-Nationalism, and Younger Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Published in Studies in Political Economy, 33 (Autumn 1990)
- Canada, Namibia and You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Pamphlet to aid letter writing campaign against S. Africa's occupation of Namibia.
- Canada and the Rights of the Chilean People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Brief presented to the Canadian Government by the Coalition on Canadian Policy Toward Chile.
- Canadian Alternatives in 1975: a movement maturing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Overview and analysis of the growing Canadian "Alternatives Movement".
- The Canadian Grain Trade - An Introductory Outline.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Outline of the grain trade in Canada and parallels to the situation underlying the New International Economic Order.
- Canadian Identity and Nationalism Among University Students
Exploratory Analysis of the Applicability of Current Theory on Student Protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- The Canadian News Synthesis Project
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Presenting current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America. The Canadian News Synthesis Project published from 1974 to 1980.
- Canadian Policy Towards Southern Africa:
An Ecunemical Concensus Paper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Paper presented to government officials detailing position on racial oppression in S. Africa.
- CANDU: An Analysis of the Canadian Nuclear Program
Part I - Technical Handbook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Handbook on the issues surrounding the nuclear program
- Cargill and Friends
The Grain Companies' Rollercoaster and Why We Should Get Off
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A brochure that charts the growth of major multinational grain trading companies.
- A Case Study on the Interaction of Immigrant-Canadians in Their Work
and the Influence of this Interaction on the Resocialization of the Immigrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A sociological analysis done from the perspective of participant observation including theological reflections.
- Children of Aataentsic
A History of the Huron People to 1660
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Chile Report
Enterprise and Repression Multinational Goes to Chile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Looks at Noranda Mines' copper mine investment in Chile.
- Church Presentation to the Annual Meetings of Three Canadian Banks
Re: Loans to South Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A statement questioning the morality of loaning money to a racist South African government.
- Citizen Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Bibliography of case studies involving community/social planning and action.
- Citizen Involvement in Housing and Community: An Action Research Design
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A proposal for funding a housing inventory network to deal with the housing crisis in Edmonton.
- Citizens Counter-Conference on Energy and Northern Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Report on the proceedings of the '76 "Citizens Counter-Conference".
- La clase trabajadora y el cambio social
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Clearness
Processes for Supporting Individuals and Groups in Decision-Making
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- CNSP Review 1974-75; Canada in an International Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
An analysis of developments in Canadian society based on newspaper coverage.
- COCOA
Commodity notes available from GATT-fly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Background analysis and current report on this key international commodity.
- Coffee
Gatt-Fly Commodity Profile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A look at coffee as a commodity and the reasons for its fluctuating cost.
- Cointelpro
The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The first in-depth look at the covert and illegal FBI counterintelligence program - code-name COINTELPRO.
- Columbus: His Enterprise
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The traditional view of Christopher Columbus was as a single-minded, courageous visionary whose navigational skills led him to "discover" the Americas. Hans Koning gives us a different history of Columbus' life and voyages.
- Comments from our readers (Issue #1)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Common Life
An Observation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Common Sense for Hard Times
The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
- Community Congress for Economic Change: Credit Union
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A booklet describing the motives and aspirations of the CCEC Credit Union.
- Constructive Criticism: A Handbook
Issues in Radical Therapy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The need for, logic behind, and techniques of constructive criticism in groups. Includes detailed decription of specific skills. Written for Marxist activists, but useful for anyone.
- Consumers' Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Booklet designed to inform consumers about how the law affects people as buyers, borrowers, and householders.
- Converse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The role of church people in the correctional system.
- Co-op Housing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Booklet designed to answer initial questions on co-op housing laws and procedures in Canada.
- Co-op Housing - An Alternative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A brochure describing non-profit co-op housing in Toronto.
- Corporate Concentration and the Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Condensed version of the brief presented to the Bryce Commission on Corporate Concentration.
- Danger: Radiation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Leaflet that asks and answers some basic questions about nuclear energy.
- The Dark Side of "The Light": Brascan in Brazil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Report evaluates the impact of BRASCAN Ltd. in Brazil as well as that of the economic system the company promotes.
- The Demystification of Nonformal Education
A Critique and Suggestions for a New Research Direction
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Development Education Viewpoints
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Educational tools focused on worldwide underdevelopment in a Canadian context.
- The Development of a Guaranteed Annual Income in Canada and the Involvement of Canadian Churches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A paper designed to educate church people about the concept of a guaranteed annual income as an effective "weapon against poverty".
- Diagnosis, Goals and Methods of Social Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Outline of several diagnoses of the state of social systems and institutions.
- Dictionary of American History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Directory of Alcoholism Services
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Comprehensive list of all agencies serving Metropolitan Toronto.
- Directory of Services for Mentally and Physically Handicapped of the Lower Mainland (B.C.)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Alphabetical lists of Services and Agencies.
- Dossier No. 2 on the Homeless Single Men of the Lower Downtown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Report on an organizing effort by two social workers with single homeless men in Montreal.
- Dossier No.2 Sur les Sans-Foyer ou Hommes Seule du pas de la Ville
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Suite a l'interet formule pour le dossier Homme Seul Itinerant.
- The Double Helix
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A volume of poetry.
- Downtown Action
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A monthly magazine that attempts to provide a critical analysis of issues and events affecting the quality of life in Metro Toronto.
- Drugs Won't Cure Common Colds and Flu
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A booklet (French or English) that simply and graphically describes what are, and how one contracts, common colds and influenza.
- The Economics of Alcohol in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A paper written in response to the growing concern about the increasing abuse of alcohol in Canada shows the direct relation between consumption and advertising.
- Ecumenical Consultation on the Problems of Quebec
Abstracted from Oecumenisme/Ecumenism No. 46
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Summary of a bilingual, multi-denominational, and multi-cultural event sponsored by the Montreal Ecumenical Centre.
- Editorial Cartoons 1976
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Eight Men Speak
And Other Plays from the Canadian Workers' Theatre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Eight plays presented by the Canadian Worker's Theatre in the 1930s.
- Environmental Resources of the Toronto Central Waterfront
Inventory - Interpretations - Synthesis and Performance Requirements for Future Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Eros in Greece
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Reviewed in New York Review of Books, January 25, 1979
- Essays in Canadian Working Class History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- EveryBody's Studying Us
The Ironies of Aging in the Pepsi Generation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- The Fantastic Creatures of Edward Julius of Detmold
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Final Report of the Canadian Non-Governmental Participation Group (CNGPG) for Habitat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Review of the history and formation of the CNGPG for Habitat and its performance during the conference. Printed in both English and French.
- Fire and Theft Security Systems
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- First Images of America
The Impact of the New World on the Old
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Reviewed in New York Review of Books, November 25, 1976
Papers presented at a conference on the initial impact of the New World on the Old, on the repercussions which modified lives and thought of Europeans in the centures to come.
- Flak
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Made when the director was 16, Flak is an improvised political drama about a group of young men living next door to a polluting factory, which they want to do something about. Influences include Michelangelo Antonioni's The Red Desert, John Cassavetes's Shadows and Robert Kramer's Ice. The film features four of Mann's older friends in a story about political talk and apathy. The Hot Docs screening is the film's first in 30 years.
- Frame It
A Complete Do-It-Yourself Guide to Picture Framing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
From preparing a work to hanging it; from creating frameless frames to putting together backngs, stretchers, mats, glass, and double mouldings; every aspect of the framing process is covered in this book.
- From Trident to Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Pamphlet outlining PLC's campaign of resistance against the Trident submarine missile system based in Bangor, Wash.
- From Words to Action
1976 Labour Day Message of the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops, Ottawa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Four page pamphlet outlining the bishop's message.
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - 1976 Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Gramsci's Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Carl Boggs introduces Gramsci as one of the first marxist theorists to grapple with the problems of revolutionary change in advanced capitalist society and as the first to identify the importance of the ideological-cultural struggle against bourgeois values.
- Guide to Ecology Information and Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Ecology address book. Written primarily for public librarians and library patrons.
- Guide to the B.C. Women's Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Guest speakers, addresses, transition houses, and more.
- Habitat and Urban Core Issues: Report and Impressions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A brief report on the participation of the UCSN staff in the 1976 United Nations Habitat Forum.
- Habitat Participation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Issues related to land use, indigenous peoples' rights, nuclear power, etc.
- Hallucinogenic Plants
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Hamilton Tenant
A guide to tenants' rights and the Landlord and Tenant Act
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A guide to the rights and obligations of tenants as set out in the current (1967) legislation.
- The Hite Report
A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The results of a survey of 3,000 American women regarding their sexuality.
- Honest Womanhood
Feminism, Feminity and Class Consciousness Among Toronto Working Women 1893-1914
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Roberts' book is a look at paid employment for women at the turn of the century. He looks at the experience of the working women in the labour force, the realities of paid employment and the wages in a time of emerging capitalism. Also included is an analysis of women's role in the labour movement and the reasons for their relative lack of participation in trade unions and labour politics.
- Houdini: His Life and Art
The world's most mystifying magician greatest jailbreaking escape artist debunker of false spiritualists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- How Real is Real?
Confusion, Disinformation, Communications
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- How to Be an Assertive (Not Agressive) Woman in Life, in Love, and on the Job
A Total Guide to Self-Assertiveness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- How to Grow and Can it Book of Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- How To Listen Assertively
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A whole book about listening! (Actually, the concepts here could be presented, less cutely, in one, concise chapter.) Emphasizes the importance of attentive, open-minded listening using plenty of metaphors and examples to drive the principles home. Worth reading.
- How to Make Meetings Work
The New Interaction Method
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- How to Produce Miracles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- How To Survive the Loss af a Love
58 Things to Do When There is Nothing to Be Done
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- I Was Born Here
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
An old Dene Indian reflects on his land, his people and his values.
- An Illustrated Guide to Newspapers in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- The immigrant Woman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Published in Women in the Canadian Mosaic, edited by Gwen Matheson.
- Inflation and Democracy in Canada
Thirty Years of Stop and Go
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Pamphlet discusses wage and price Controls and how they affect Canadians.
- Instead of Education
Ways to Help People Do Things Better
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Holt returns to the old truth that we learn things by doing them. He says this has been forgotten by today's educators, who believe we shouldn't start to do things until after they have been "learned."
- International Communities as a Strategy for Social Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Analysis of the significance of the role of "community" in the struggle toward a more human social order.
- Interval House
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Two articles briefly describe the shelter for women and children.
- Intimate Friendships
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Examines various forms of intimate relationship, from monogamy, to monogamy with adultery, to polygyny, polyandry and group relationships.
- Introduction to Social Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
- Introduction to the Red Menace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
An introduction to, and the mission statement of, the libertarian socialist publication, The Red Menace.
- The Intruders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A novel depicting the gentrification of the Cabbagetown neighbourhood in Toronto.
- Investigative Reporting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Explains the art and science of investigative reporting: how to decide on a subject, how to find and evaluate sources, how to approach and interview the sources and the subject of the investigation, how to write the investigative story, how to insure that it gets published, and how to advance the aims of an investigation even after the publication of the first article. A major portion of the book is devoted to research in public documents.
- Is the James Bay Model Good Enough for the N.W.T.?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
An analysis of the $225 million James Bay Agreement forced upon the Inuit and Cree of Northern Quebec.
- Is World Hunger our Responsibility?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Collection of articles discussing how we cause world hunger and what we must do.
- Justice Demands Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A statement presented to the Prime Minister and Federal Cabinet by Canadian church leaders.
- Justice Not Charity: A New Global Ethic for Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Know Thy Enemy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A poem.
- Die Kunst findet nicht im Saale statt
Politische Plakate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Labour's Day of Protest -- The Issues and the Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
An issue sheet examining the biases of the Canadian Press in its coverage of the Oct 14th national Day of Protest against wage and price control policies.
- Land Use
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Critical examination of social concers in a way designed to strengthen discussion and action.
- Latin American Perspectives
Issue 10, Summer 1976, Volume 3, Number 3 - Puerto Rico: Class Struggle and National Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Letter to the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A letter rasing critical questions about the commission.
- Letters of Insurgents
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A fictional exchange of letters between people grappling with the question of what the struggle for freedom means in the West and in the countries of the Soviet bloc. A gripping discussion of the issues of social change and liberation as they affect real people.
- Lifestyles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Booklet about over-consumption, vegetarianism, co-ops, and Third World model of co-operation.
- List of Groups Involved in Social Action in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
CISS's first list of people networks engaged in Social Action in Canada.
- A Look at Skid Row 1976 - Where is it Going?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A final report to the Non-Medical Use of Drugs Directorate on trends in Skid-Row movement.
- Looking at the Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Ashley Chester comments on the Popular Education Conference.
- Love, Therapy And Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
This ia a collection of articles compiled from the first year of "Issues in Radical Therapy." It includes political perspectives on therapy, group dynamics, male/female sex roles, and other concerns relevant to the practice of radical therapy.
- Macroanalysis Bibliography For Canadian Groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A collection of Canadian materials to accompany a seminar programme to develop social change programs.
- Mail Order Moonlighting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Make the World a Home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A pamphlet with the theme "Live simply that others may simply live".
- Mapoon - Book Three
The Cape York Aluminum Companies (Alcan, Comalco, R.T.Z., Kaiser, C.R.A., Billiton, Pechiney, Tipperary) and the Native Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Chronicle of the policies and actions of the Aluminium Companies with respect to the native peoples and their land claims.
- Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women's movement, which was undoubtedly the most important one of its kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the memory hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find.
- The Memory of Justice
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The Memory of Justice is a 1976 documentary film directed by Marcel Ophüls. It explores the subject of atrocities committed in wartime.
- Mercury Poisoning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Quaker involvement with the issue of mercury poisoning at White Dog and Grassy Narrows Reserves.
- Miners and Steelworkers
Labour in Cape Breton
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Missionary Involvement and Catholics in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Report on survey results on missionary activities at home and abroad.
- The Mistress Condition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A look at some [American] women who live outside of conventional marriage.
- A Model of Theological Reflection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Training document to organise analysis of the conditions that foster the existence of skid row.
- A More Just and Humane Criminal Justice System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Outline of the council's objectives, goals, history, and programme developments.
- Moving Toward A New Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A vision of a new society, with a strategy for achieving it through non-violent revolution, and specific suggestions for what individuals can do now to work for fundamental social change.
- The National Missionary Council Resource File
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
An information package offered to assist in identifying agencies of similar interests.
- The National Question
Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
- The New Games Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A collection of noncompetitive, "play hard" games from the New Games Foundation. Emphasis is on fun and cooperation. Highly recommended.
- New Hogtown Press 1976/77 Catalogue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- 1976 Prisoner of Conscience Week Booklet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A list of 14 prisoners on conscience. Chosen for Prisoner of Conscience Week.
- No Bosses Here: A Manual On Working Collectively
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
An overview of how to organize and operate a working collective. Includes discussions of decision making, meetings, common interpersonal problems as well as practical concerns such as finances and bookkeeping. Written in a personal, friendly style and draws on the experience of many collective members.
- No Condescending Saviors
A Study of the Experience of Revolution in the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A well-documented account of the nuclear industry in Canada illustrated with lively cartoons.
- The Ojibway: A Critical Bibliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- On Your Own in the Wilderness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- One Earth, One Sky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A pamphlet about the links among all people, historically, daily.
- One Gigantic Prison
The Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Chile, Argentina and Uruguay
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Three Canadian MPs report on human rights violations in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.
- Organizing in a Small Town
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
- Our two cents' worth...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Analysis of the Popular Education Conference
- Out From the Shadows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A bigliography of the history of women in Manitoba.
- People of the Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
An account of a spiritually-based educational commune in Ontario.
- People Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Pamphlet about over-consumption, multinationals, and developing countries.
- The People, The Land, Our Hope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Pamphlet outlines the plan of the committee to hold land in trust on which to develop a cooperative community.
- A People's History of Prince Edward Island
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The history of Prince Edward from a people's perspective, looking at how tenant farmers, independent merchants, fishermen, workers, and farmers fought ti improve their conditions and improve their society.
- Photomontage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Plan for Detoxification Center
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Proposal given to the Quebec government to establish a detox center in downtown Montreal.
- Politics of Transportation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Articles on the role of transportation in Saskatchewan society.
- Popular Education Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The level of discussion was brought down to actual examples and practice quite in contrast to the sloganeering and shallow definition of terms that is typical of most formal intra-left gatherings.
- Popular Education Conference - Overview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A report on the Popluar Education Conference.
- Population Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A pamphlet linking the overpopulation problem to over-consumption in rich countries.
- Portugal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The revolutionary process in Portugal is not one that lends itself very easily to a coherent political analysis. Political leadership is quickly thrown up by the creative energy of the workers and peasants and as quickly discarded as its usefulness to them wears thin.
- Poverty in Wealth
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
- The Poverty of Power
Energy and the Economic Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Commoner argues that the environmental, energy, and economic crises are interconnected. The industries that use the most energy have the highest negative impact on the environment; the focus on non-renewable resources as sources of energy means those resources are growing scarce, thus pushing up the price of energy and hurting the economy. These problems can ultimately be addressed only by replacing capitalism with socialism.
- Prison Abolition & Alternatives
Nine Perspectives for Prison Abolitionists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A argument for the abolition of prisons and a discussion of alternatives.
- Quicksilver and Slow Death
A study of mercury pollution in Northwestern Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A comprehensive paper describing the causes and effects of mercury pollution.
- Raids and Reconstructions
Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
- Rape of the Block or every person's guide to neighbourhood defence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Written to enable citizens of Edmonton to "begin to plan their own communities."
- Red Menace #1
Volume 1, Number 1 - February 1976
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
The first issue of The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist newsletter.
- Reeling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Report of the Royal Commission on Violence in the Communications Industry
Volume I: Approaches, Conclusions and Recommendations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Report on the Assemble Generale de U.C.S.N. au Monteal of May 4,5,6, 1976
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Report of a workshop designed to aid individuals involved in urban core issues.
- Resource and Development in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
This pamphlet traces the history and inequities of Newfoundland's development of resources.
- Resource Kit on Northern Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Introduction to issues surrounding Native rights and northern development.
- Resources - "Awareness towards Action"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Booklet to provide parish Youth Corp groups with essential information for dealing with issues of social justice.
- Resources for Multicultural Programs
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- The Revolution is Dead Long Live the Revolution
Readings on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution from an Ultra-Left Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
essasy on China's Great Proletarian cultural Revolution.
- Runaway Industries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Study of transnational corporation investments and its effect on international union solidarity.
- Single Displaced Persons Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Outline of the efforts of individuals from various church related institutions to change the system of services that is seen to perpetuate skid row.
- Social Democracy & Industrial Militancy
The Labour Party, the Trade Unions and Income Policy 1945-74
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Panitch describes the British experience of income policies (the measures aimed at controlling wages) in the post war years and the resulting relationship between trade unions and the Labour government.
- The Socialist Register 1976
Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Some Communities in Toronto.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Listing of selected communities in Toronto, Canada, North America and Europe.
- Stalin, Marxism-Leninism and the Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Technology, the Labor Process, and the Working Class
Monthly Review July-August 1976
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Ten Days for World Development, Study Issue, 1976
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
"Lifestyle" issue points out global realities call for a less consumer-oriented lifestyle.
- Tenant Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Answers to key questions for tenants and those working with tenants in Alberta.
- Theological Reflection Re: Skid Row
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Reflection on the conditions that foster the existence of Skid Rows in Canada.
- This Land Is Not For Sale
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Examination of Native land claims and development in Canada's north.
- Tin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
An Analysis of the economics of tin from mining and production through marketing.
- Toronto Collective Statement
Autonomy and Power Relations Within the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A statement written in June 1976 by some members of the former Struggle Against Work Collective.
- Towards the unity of Canadian Marxist-Leninists
Fight the sectarianism of the C.C.L.(M-L).
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
At the present time, it is largely accepted, among Marxist-Leninists across Canada, that the organizational and political unity of the Marxist-Leninist movement constitutes a necessary step on the road towards the proletarian party, the party of the socialist revolution.
- Tribal News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
News pamphlet written primarily to raise the social and political awareness of native people in B.C.
- Tube Strips
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Underdevelopment in Canada Volume Two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
20 articles discussing underdevelopment in Canada.
- The Uses of Enchantment
The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
On the enormous and irreplaceable value of fairy tales - how they educate, support and liberate the emotions of children.
- The Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements
With introductory comment by Bernard M. Daly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Final text of the declaration, with comments on the parts the Canadian delegation opposed.
- Vancouver Status of Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Brochure that describes the inner workings of the Vancouver Status of Women organization.
- The Varsity 1975-1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Violations of Human Rights in Uruguay 1972-76
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Wage & Price Controls
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Canadian working people have now joined the ranks of workers in other western capitalist countries who have been subjected to a statutory incomes policy.
- We stand on guard for whom?
A study of Corporate Control over Resources in the Northwest Territories and Brazil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A study of corporate control over resources in the NorthWest Territories and Brazil.
- Welfare Practices and Civil Liberties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Report, based on 2-year survey of welfare recipients and administrators, identifies a number of serious problems.
- What Is The Issue?
On Questions Concerning the Strategy and Tactics of the Canadian Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Partial text of the speech delivered by Hardial Bains to the Fourth Consultative Conference of CPC(M-L) hled in Montreal on May 15-16, 1976
- Where's What: Sources of Information for Federal Investigators
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Wilderness Living
A Complete Handbook and Guide To Pioneering in North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Women on "Skid Row"
A Proposal for a Shelter for Alcoholic and Homeless Women in Montreal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A proposal written to funding bodies requesting financial assistance in setting up a women's shelter in Montreal.
- Women Working
Issue #6
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
Examination of many of the issues facing women in the working world.
- Wood Heat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Woodcuts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Workers, Wages, and Controls
The Anti-Inflation Programme and Its Implications for Canadian Workers
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Working in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
This book is a collection of experiences written by workers, or based on interviews with them, about what they do and feel on a day to day basis and what they think needs to be done to change their condition and that of other working people.
- The Writer's Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
- Your Rights as a Tenant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Published: 1976
A booklet providing information and simple explanations of the laws governing landlord and tenant relationships in Ontario.
- Das Kleine Rotbuch
Almanach 1976
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Published: 1975
- Toronto Clarion
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Independent alternative newspaper published in Toronto in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Provincial ministry stocks Don River with Salmon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
In Toronto's past, the Don River was famous for its salmon run. Now [1975] the Ministry of Natural Resources is trying to re-stock the river with salmon.
- Hospital should back local clinic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Plans for community health centre threatened by St. Michael's hospital.
- Hospital Threatens Riverdale Health Clinic
The South Riverdale Community Centre has met another unexpected roadblock - this time from St. Michael's Hospital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Without any advance notice to most community groups or political representatives, St. Michael's has moved its "Broadview Community Health Clinic" from Broadview near Gerrard to the old Loblaws building at Queen E. and Strange.
- U.S. Imperialism Defeated, Capitalist Rule Smashed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 2015
April 30, 2015 was the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, marking the defeat of U.S. imperialism and its South Vietnamese puppet forces. The heroic Vietnamese workers and peasants fought not just for national liberation but also for social revolution.
- Connexions Library Author Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1975
Published: 2012
Documents in the Connexions Library catalogue sorted by author.
- Connexions Library Chronological Index
Resources by Year of Publication
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1975
Published: 2012
Documents in the Connexions Library catalogue in sorted by year and date of first publication.
- Connexions Library Dewey Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1975
Published: 2012
Books in the Connexions Library catalogue indexed by Dewey Decimal number.
- Connexions Library Library of Congress Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1975
Published: 2012
Documents in the Connexions Library catalogue index by Library of Congress classification.
- Connexions Library Subject Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1975
Published: 2012
A comprehensive subject index of documents in the Connexions Library.
- Connexions Library Title Index
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1975
Published: 2012
Documents in the Connexions Library catalogue sorted by title.
- A Time to Die
The Attica Prison Revolt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 2011
A first-hand account of the Attica prison riot of 1971.
- Internships and Volunteer Opportunities with Connexions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services is an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse (founded 1975) which produces electronic and print resources supporting social, economic and environmental alternatives, human rights, civil liberties, and grassroots activism. We are a volunteer-based organization. We have opportunities for writers, reviewers, editors, translators, photographers, people to help maintain the Connexions directory of associations, people to help develop our online archive of social change materials, and people with marketing skills.
- Critique of Syndicalist Methods
Trade-Unionism to Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1998
Bonanno's 1975 meditation on the means to be used in pursuit of the anarchist project. Emphasizes the utility of unions in propagating capitalist control of industry and agriculture.
- Prison of Grass (Revised Edition)
Canada from a Native Point of View
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1989
In Prison of Grass, Adams contrasts the official history found in the federal government's documents with the unpublished history of the Indian and Métis people.
- Cultural Correspondence
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1975
Published: 1985
A critical review of popular culture, born from the collapse of the New Left and hopes for a new beginning of a social movement, intermittently published in Providence from 1975 to 1985.
A digital archive is available at http://dl.lib.brown.edu/cultural_correspondence/
- For Their Triumphs and For Their Tears
Women in Apartheid South Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1985
First published in 1975 at the start of the United Nations International Decade of Women, this substantially re-written and updated edition appeared in 1985. Containing much new material reflecting those ten years, the book details the circumstances of the lives of women in South Africa.
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Human Body
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1984
- Sunset Ideas for Storage
Cabinets, Closets, Bookshelves
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1982
- Labiaflowers
A Coloring Book
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1981
Labiaflowers in a slightly revised and retitled edition of Tee Corinne's Cunt Coloring Book.
- Romantic Revolutionary
A Biography of John Reed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1981
A biography of John Reed (1887-1920), the American radical and journalist who participated in the Mexican and Russian revolutions, and wrote the classic account of the Russian Revolution, Ten Days That Shook the World.
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
- The Battle of Chile
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1975
Published: 1979
On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende's democratically-elected Chilean government was overthrown in a bloody coup by General Augusto Pinochet's army. Patricio Guzman and five colleagues had been filming the political developments in Chile. THE BATTLE OF CHILE, an epic chronicle of that country's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it.
- The Battle of Chile
Chile, Obstinate Memory
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1975
Published: 1979
The Battle of Chile is a documentary film directed by the Chilean Patricio Guzman, in three parts: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (1975), The Coup d'état (1976), Popular Power (1979). It is a chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. It won the Grand Prix in 1975 and 1976 at the Grenoble International Film Festival.
- The Mickey Mouse Club Scrapbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1977
- Wie Alles Anfing
How it All Began - The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerilla
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1977
The original German edition of Wie Alles Anfing was seized by security police when it appeared in 1975. The resulting trial and publicity raised an international outrcy and the book has since been republished in German and translated into six languages.
- A Worker in a Worker's State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1977
- Death in Don Mills
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1976
- Das Kleine Rotbuch
Almanach 1975
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1976
- Publications List of the Canadian Association in Support of the Native Peoples
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1976
Comprehensive list of publications relating to native peoples.
- Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1976
Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
- Seven News Front Pages - Volume 6 - 1975-1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1976
- Content Magazine - Number 58
December 1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Zerowork 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Review of the Press - November 21, 1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
It's probably no surprise to most people that Toronto's three dailies are all anti-union and anti-working-class. But it takes a big strike, like the postal strike or the school strike, to bring out the lengths to which they are willing to go in smearing strikers and in insulting our intelligence.
- Content Magazine - Number 57
November 1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Prepare for Struggle!
Statement of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) released November 1, 1975
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- New Hogtown Press
After Retrenchment, A Few Steps Forward
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A profile of New Hogtown Press, a radical book and pamphlet publisher and distributor.
- The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
German original title: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum. A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
- Content Magazine - Number 56
October 1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Content Magazine - Number 54
August 1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Changing Men
July 1975 - No. 16
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Monthly paper of the men's resource center. A coalition of changing men.
- Content Magazine - Number 53
July 1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Arms and the Woman
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1980
The modern revolutionary movement must destroy this opposition of pleasure-activity, sensitivity-lucidity, conception-execution, habit-innovation.
- Content Magazine - Number 52
June 1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Native group plans Ward 7's first walkathon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Ahbenoojeyug Inc. is a Ward Seven Organization that since 1972 has been providing services for Native children in the City of Toronto.
- Content Magazine - Number 51
May 1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- The Riverdale Zoo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A history of the Riverdale Zoo from its founding it the 1890s to its closing in 1974.
- Content Magazine - Number 50
April 1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Solidaire No. 7
April 1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Issue focuinsg on the beginnings of a socialist movement in Montreal.
- Content Magazine - Number 49
March 1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Content Magazine - Number 48
February 1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Revolutionary Self-Theory: A Beginners' Manual
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1985
A booklet is for people who are dissatisfied with their lives.
- All The President's Men
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Approaches to Skid Row: Rosewater? Rehabilitation? Radical Renewal?
Notes on the Conference of December 3, 4, 5, 1974
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Report of the first National Conference of the Skid Row National Coalition.
- An April Shroud
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Bertolt Brecht's Berlin
A Scrapbook of the Twenties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A testament, in words and pcitures to Berlin in the 1920s: "the age of anxious euphoria that gripped the German capital as it poised uneasily between two eras of unprecedented catastrophe."
- Bethune
his story in pictures / son histore illustree - Bilingula Bilingue
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
This book is based on a picture book entitled Dr. Bethune, published in Chinese in Shanghai by the Shanghai People's Publishing House.
- The Betrayal of Marx
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
The public has too long been fed the view that figures such as Lenin and Stalin are genuine followers of Marx, simply because they have claimed that distinction. Nothing justifies the deeds of a perverse 'Marxism' (e.g. that of Stalin); a proper understanding of Marxist humanism, and its betrayal, in contrast, enables us to raise afresh the question of means and to reevaluate the relevant historical, economic, and political facts.
- The Big Brother Game
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Black Canadians
A Long Line of Fighters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Discusses the roles played by black Canadians in history.
- The Black Tower
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- A Book of Men
Visions of the male experience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- The Canadian Alternate Celebrations Catalogue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A catalogue of ways to seek alternatives in our way of living and celebrating in the context of a comsumer society.
- The Canadian Corporate Elite
An Analysis of Economic Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
An exhaustive study of the concentration and perpetuation of economic power in Canada.
- The Canadian Establishment
Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Chile Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
- China's Economic Strategy
Monthly Review July-August 1975
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- The Communist Party in Canada
A History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A history of the Communist Party in Canada from its beginnings to the 1970s.
- Community Newspapers How You Can Make Your Own Newspaper
Inter-Action Advisory Service - Handbook 6
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Community Radio: The Development of a Voluntary Organization
MA Thesis, McMasters University,1975.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Compulsory Education and the Amish
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Discusses the struggles of the Amish for their own schools.
- Content magazine - Five-Year Index 1970 - 1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Co-workers in a World Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Problems facing agriculture in Manitoba, similar to problems facing Japanese farmers.
- Darkness at the End of the Tunnel
A Radical Analysis of Canadian-American Relations
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Don Vale Community Centre Summer Almanac
July-September 1975
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- The East York Workers' Association
A Response to the Great Depression
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
An account of the activity of relief recipients in the township of East York, an eastern suburb of Toronto, in the 1930s.
- The Economics of Injustice
Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Various aspects of poverty in Canada, the guaranteed income plan & social justice.
- Ecotopia
The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A novel describing an ecological utopia.
- Eggs Beautiful
How to Make Ukrainian Easter Eggs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement 1845-1875
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- The English Peasantry in the Later Middle Ages
The Ford Lectures for 1973 and Related Studies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Investigates the question of whether or not peasants might be considered their own social class.
- The Erotic Arts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Covers the uses of erotic themes in various branches of the arts at all times and in many civilizations.
- For the Fun of It! Selected Cooperative Games for children and Adults
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Activities that groups of adults, kids, or a mixture can use to develop cooperation and to have fun.
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - 1975 Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Games of the World
How To Make Them, How To Play Them, How They Came To Be
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Gay Left
A socialist journal produced by gay men - Number One, Autumn 1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
This is a socialist journal edited by gay men. We have a two-fold aim in producing this magazine. First, we hope to contribute towards a marxist analysis of homosexual oppression. Secondly, we want to encourage in the gay movement an understanding of the links between the struggles against sexual oppression and the struggle for socialism.
A copy of this publication is in the Connexions Archive.
- Group Techniques For Program Planning: A Guide To Nominal And Delphi Processes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Presents two highly adaptable methods for high involvement decision making in large groups. Some of the more "progressive" work coming out of business schools in the 1970's.
- The Handbook of Mental Magic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Helping Troubled Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
An account of the problems that may be encountered by young and school-age children and how they can be given help.
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Historical Survey of Communities in Toronto
New Communities and the Institutional Church
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A review of the phenomenon of community in the city in the sixties and seventies.
- A History of the Sarnia Indian Reserve
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A hisotry of the Sarnia Indian Reserve based on the personal reminescenes of the author.
- Housing Rehabilitation Guides
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A series of four booklets dealing with housing in Edmonton.
- Independent Co-operative Enterprizes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Report on an economic strategy to help marginalised men and women.
- The Indian Act and What it Means
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs is the political organization representing some 52,000 status Indians in the Province.
- Inland Terminals threaten Small Towns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
The threat of American multinationals to Canadian farming system.
- Inside the Company: CIA Diary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Interactions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
These are nots of remarks made at an all-day consultation between New Communities and representatives of the Churches of Toronto.
- Interpersonal Conflict Resolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Examines conflict dynamics, strategies of resolution, and personal styles of responding to conflict. The cooperative model for "Integrative Decision Making" is the basis for the Creative Problem Solving technique presented in Chapter 10 of this book. Recommended for anyone who wants a more in-depth understanding of this approach. Written from a business management perspective.
- Joining Together: Group Theory and Group Skills
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A practical learning guide that includes both theory and activities to improve understanding and skills in subjects such as group dynamics, leadership, conflict, communication and group decision making.
- Just Like You and Me
Images of the downtown eastside, Vancouver
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Photographic and poetic images of the people of the "skid row" area of Vancouver.
- The Liberated Man
Beyond Masculinity: Freeing Men and Their Relationship with Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Farrell explores the problems that men face and suggests new approaches to better male-female relationships.
- The Life of Bertrand Russell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A biography of the political activist, philosopher and mathematician.
- Light and Shade for the Artist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- The Living Waters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Marilyn
A Biography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- The Mariner's Catalog - Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Martin Glaberman: La Classe Ouvrière - Préambule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Medical Technicians take on the Nova Scotia government
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- The Mirror of Production
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- A Modest Proposal for How the Bad Old Days Will End
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A brief explanation of capitalism and an optimistic manifesto for stateless communism.
- Money and Rain: Tom Wayman Live!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Monographs on the Portuguese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
- National Skid Row Coalition Conference, Vancouver May 12-15, 1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Description of conference with reflections on implications for Calgary.
- The Nationalization of the Masses
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- The New Capitalism and the Old Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- New Hogtown Press - Catalogue supplement Winter '75
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- New Hogtown Press - Catalogue 1975/76
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- The Newsletter #6
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
This mailing was not numbered as one of the New Tendency Newsletters, of which five numbered issues were published. This mailing consisted of statements concerning the dissolution of the New Tendency, packaged in a format similar to the preceding five newsletters.
- The Niagara Escarpment from Tobermory to Niagara Falls
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Le Nouvel Ordre Economique International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Une vue d'ensemble du "nouvel ordre economique international."
- On Active Service in War and Peace
Politics and Ideology in the American Historical Profession
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A well-documented attack on the American historical profession for its rabid anti-radicalism and its complicity in American imperialism.
- Ouch ads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Our Generation
Volume 10 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Paul Mattick Interview with J.J. Lebel 1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- People and Systems
Multiple Authorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Packet of materials on how the people of Tanzania, Cuba, China, U.S, and Canada are coping with education, health care, religion, work, and the status of women.
- The People's Almanac
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Plunderbund and Proletariat
A History of the IWW in B.C.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A history of working class struggle from the workers' perspective.
- Practicing Plant Parenthood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Glaberman insists that the working class is not merely a victim of capitalism. Working people are active participants in creating their own consciousness, their methods of struggle and their own history.
- Proletarian Order: Antonio Gramsci, Factory Councils and the origins of communism in Italy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Williams' book is sympathetic to the libertarian contribution to the Italian movement after World War I and I highly recommend it.
- The Promotion of Tourism Prince Edward Island Style
A brief presented to Hon. Gilbert R. Clements, Minister of Tourism, Parks and Conservation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Critique of the impact of tourism and its promotion on the people of P.E.I.
- Racism... Black Liberation and Socialism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Speech delivered by Rosie Douglas in Toronto, February 1975.
- Radical America - Volume 9, Numbers 4-5
American Labor in the 1940s
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A special double issue of Radical America devoted to the history of workers' struggles during the Second World War and the early years of the Cold War.
- Radical America - Volume 9, Number 6 - November-December 1975
Revolution in Portugal
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Articles on the Portuguese revolution of 1975.
- Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A popular education pamphlet on the economic crises of monopoly capitalism.
- Ready-Maid
A Primer On Feminist Ideology and Kathie Kelly's "Radical Sex Manual"
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A critique of a section of the women's liberation movement.
- Reflections on the 7th Special Session of the U.N. General Assemly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Overview and critique of the U.N. conference dealing with the New International Economic Order.
- Report on the Conference; Vancouver 1975
May 12-13, 1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Conference on stategies used on Skid Row, focusing on Vancouver organisations.
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #6
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Rosa Luxemburg: A Reappraisal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- A Seventh Man
A book of images and work about the experience of migrant workers in Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Images, poetry, quotes and short written pieces that portray the experiences of male migrant workers in Europe.
- The Socialist Register 1975
Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Solidarity For Ever! Can These Bones Live?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A newsletter that looks at the agricultural labour movement.
- Southern Populism & Black Labor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Submission to the Ontario Government on the Employment and Housing Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A brief arguing that housing should become a regulated public utility.
- The Swastika and the Maple Leaf
Fascist Movements in Canada in the Thirities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Betcherman deals with Adrien Arcand and other leading Canadian fascists of the 1930s, as well as Swastika Clubs, and fascist movements in the west.
- The Tamarisk Tree
My Quest for Liberty and Love
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
The autobiography of Dora R5ussell.
- Target -- Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Information about the controversial issue of nuclear energy.
- Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
An account of the Highlander Folk School and its founder Myles Horton.
- The Varsity 1974-1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- Voice of the American Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- What A.G.A.I.N.?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Adequate Guaranteed Annual Income and Skid Row.
- What is the New International Economic Order?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
Overview and critique of the New International Economic Order.
- Work Camps and Company Towns in Canada and the U.S.
An Annotated Bibliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
- The Working Class and Social Change
Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Published: 1975
A study of "The Working Class," and the complexities of its definition as economic categories diffused from profound bases of social demarcation during the 1960's.
- Autonomie
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Materialien gegen die Fabrikgesellschaft
- Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
- Critical List
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
A magazine founded in 1975 dealing with issues in health and the illness business. There are some issues in the Connexions Archive.
- Farming Without Machines: A Revolutionary Agricultural Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 2012
Originally published in 1974, How to Grow More Vegetables, Eighth Edition: (And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land than You Can Imagine1 remains a vital resource for farmers, agricultural researchers and planners, sustainability activists and home gardeners.
- El Trotskismo y el Partido de Vanguardia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 2010
- The Illustrated Science and Invention Volume 1
Volume 1: Abacus to Archaelogical Techniques
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1977
- The Illustrated Science and Invention Volume 2
Volume 2: Arches to Bell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1977
- Passages
Predictable Crises of Adult Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1977
Gail Sheehy sketches a a road map of adult life.
- How To Make Bookshelves & Cabinets
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1976
- Vet in Harness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1976
- The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1975
- Seven News Front Pages - Volume 5 - 1974-1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1975
- Stress Without Distress
How to use stress as a positive force
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1975
Stress is the spice of life, according to Selye. Without it you would be a vegetable -- or dead. Then why can stress be descturctive, causing ulcers, heart disease, and other ailments?
- The Working-Class Majority
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1975
Defining the working class and people employed in essentially rote, manual labour, Levison shows that today's woerks are not dwindling in number, are not financially secure, do not enjoy an easy middle-class way of life, and are, for the most part, neither racist nor conservative.
- Kitchener-Waterloo Free Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
An account of an attempt to start a weekly alternative newspaper in Kitchener-Waterloo in 1973-1974.
- The Fatal Woman
Three Tales
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
The figure of the femme fatale - seductive, cruel, irresistible - dominates these three novellas. In The black helmet the fatal woman is disguised as a governess whose disciplinary force and ridged bathing cap entice a passive young dreamer to his awakening and apotheosis. In The Fulfilled Destiny of Electra two fatal women, a mother and daughter bound by passion to the same lover, slowly destroy the body and soul of their man. Lust in Action glances at the future: here, women rule the world, lesbian love is the norm, and imprisoned boys must rebel to prove their manhood only to meet nemesis in the beautiful Marian Hope, female detective extraordinaire.
- Auto worker says automation creates worker alienation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
It is only struggle, says Martin Glaberman, that creates an awareness of collective strength.
- Structuralism as Defense of the Bureaucratic Status Quo
A Dialectical Critique of Althusserian Theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Althusserian theory is deeply conservative and puts obstacles in the way of seeing the truly revolutionary currents that exist in the modern world.
- The Yellow Journal
Issue #4 - July 25, 1974
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Articles on Anatomy of a News Empre; [Toronto] Sun inspires fear; How newspapers make mistakes; Press comments on election coverage; the Davey Report.
- The Yellow Journal
Issue 3 - July 8, 1974
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Articles on Toronto Island homes in the news; a Brazilian trade mission; opinion polls; American control of the media.
- Against Sectarianism
The Challenge of the Labor Party
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Members of the Socialist League argue that Trotskyist-socialists should continue to work within the NDP with the goal of winning the ranks of the NDP to a socialist program.
- Metropolis/Hinterland
The Lost Theme in Canadian Letters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A review article of work on metropolitan domination over hinterland areas in the Canadian context, and a call for a return to that tradition within the social sciences.
- R.D. Laing's Canadian Tour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Jim Harding reviews and critiques a lecture given by Ronald David Laing at the University of Guelph in 1974. Laing's discussion encompassed the themes of ecology, psychiatry, birth, reproduction, and the mind-body split.
- To be Gay in Ward Seven
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
To be gay in Ward Seven is, for most homosexuals, to play a role, to pretend to be straight, to hide their sexual orientation. Why, you might ask, would homosexuals want others to know they are gay? Why? Because we ask to have the same human and civil rights as other citizens. You might also ask how these rights are denied to us.
- Solidaire No. 6
April 1974
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
On women and the class struggel in Quebec, with articles on Perspectives on the Women's Movement, and Women in the Workplace.
- Chomsky's determination to change society before it slides into irreversible barbarism
Review of For Reasons of State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
If the American war against Vietnam had no other positive outcome, it has at least produced a minority of Americans who have the courage to stand against the policies of their government. Outstanding among these is Noam Chomsky, leading scholar in the field of linguistics, who has contributed some brilliant works of politics and social criticism.
- Fall of Eagles: Lenin and Trotsky in London
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Tripping past the cod-pieces of time
Review of The Unfashionable Human Body, by Bernard Rudolfsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A discussion of apparel - in the broadest sense of the word - and how it has reflected and shaped attitudes to the human body (as well as having often been literally used to shape the body itself).
- The Socialized Penis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
On the sexual socialization of men in the United States.
- Expressway would destroy 71 homes in Riverdale
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Proposed expressway would result in pollution, noise, destruction of homes and businesses.
- Alienatin and Workers' Self-Management
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- American Ground Transport
A Proposal for Restructuring the Automobile, Bus and Rail Industries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The Anarchist Collectives
Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
- The Anatomy of Racism
Canadian Dimensions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Militant Native protests, racist responses to third world immigration, relations between French and English are discussed in the context of racial scapegoating in a time of economic recession, and the prevalence of prejudice and discrimination in Canada.
- Anglo-American Cataloging Rules
Chapter 6: Separately Published Monographs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Angola
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
After a decade and a half of armed struggle, the people of Angola are promised their freedom from Portuguese rule in November 1975. but what kind of freedom will it be?
- The Artistic Woodwork Strike 1973
A Lesson for the Canadian Labour Movement
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A Canadian pamphlet with English translations of three articles originating with the Italian autonomist Marxist organization Lotta Continua.
- Bill 274: The Great Debate
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The Book of the Breast
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Bureaucracy and Revolution in East Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
For twenty years the workers in Eastern Europe have fought, fallen back, and fought again -- for food and workers' power. Their victory would shatter the oppressive regimes they live under and ignite revolution in Russia itself.
- Bureaucratic Collectivism
The Stalinist Social System
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
An analysis of the nature of the Stalinist states.
- Canada - Ontario Gazetteer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Canada - Ontario Gazetteer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Citizens Participate - An Action Guide for Public Issues.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- A city for People
Programme of the Montreal Citizens' Movement
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The Corporations and the State
Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Essays discussing modern U.S. capitalism and imperialism. Each chapter tries to delineate the relationship between 'economic' and 'political' processes, or at least recognize the unity between them. The unifying them is the role of the large corporations in U.S. society and the world eonomy, and the relationship between these corporations and the capitalist state.
- The Corpse Eaters
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- CP Style Book
A Guide for Writers and Filing Editors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Critical Theory of Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Cuban Women Now: Afterward 1974
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
I am writing this afterword because I feel that in the past three years fundamental changes have taken place in Cuban society,changes concerning women's role and men's, and women's attitudes towards those roles.
- The Decline and Fall of a Good Idea
CCF-NDP Manifestoes 1932 to 1969
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
The party's manifestos over the decades. With an introduction by Michael W. Cross.
- Developing Your Photographs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The Disinherited
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The Dispossessed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness.
- Dossier Homme Seul Itinerant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Theoretical base for organising and educative effort with single itinerant men in Montreal.
- Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Essasys on capitalism, class struggle, communism, Leninism, and ultra-leftism.
- Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- 1837: Revolution in the Canadas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A selection of the writings of William Lyon Mackenzie and the Patriots of the 1837 Rebellion.
- Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
An account and interpretation of the writing of Friedrich Engels' first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.
- The Enigma of Kapsar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Escape from Childhood
The Needs and Rights of Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A book about young people and their place, or lack of place in society today. It is about the institution of modern childhood, the attitudes, customs and laws that define children and locate children in life and determine to a large degree what their lives are like and how we, their elders, treat them.
- Failure of a Dream?
Essays in the History of American Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
- Feminism vs. Marxism: Origins of the Conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Contrary to an opinion still subscribed to in certain circles, modern feminism did not emerge full-grown from the fertile womb of the New Left, but is in fact an ideological offspring of the utopian egalitarianism of the early nineteenth century.
- 52 Pickup
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Figure Photography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Film as a Subversive Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
- The First Three Internationals
Their history and lessons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A short history, from a Trotskyist perspective, of three attempts to build a revolutionary organization of workers on a world scale -- the first three internationals.
- Food, Shelter and the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
- The Fourth World
An Indian Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Traces struggle of Canadian Indian to survive as nation, culture and reality. Suggests 'new order' so that original natives and Europeans can co-exist without destroying each other.
- Free Bleecker
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A documentary on the "redevelopment" of the South St. Jamestown neighbourhood in Toronto.
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - 1974 Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Gateway to Survival is Storage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Give and Take
The Complete Guide to Negotiating Strategies and Tactics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Good Housekeeping Guide to Fixing Things Around the House
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- A Guide to Working Class History
Second Edition
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A guide to resources about the history of working people in North America. The bulk of it is about the United States; the final section is on Canada.
- Hierarchy of salaries and incomes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1979
The official ideology's justification of hierarchy does not coincide with either logic or reality.
- The History of Painting in Canada
Toward a People's Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A histor of Canadian painting from the art of the native peoples up to the 1970s. It explores how art in Canada was shaped by British and American imperialist influences, and how it has also been part of the fight against domination.
- Hogtown
Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- How I found freedom in an unfree world
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- How It Works and How to Fix It
A Practical Guide to the Workings of Hundreds of Items You Use Everyday
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Idle Passion
Chess and The Dance of Death
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Imaginative Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- India-China: Underdevelopment and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Interview with Ralph Borsodi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The Job of Sex
A Workingman's Guide to Productive Lovemaking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Labor and Monopoly Capital
The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The Lands We Lost
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
The Lands We Lost is a history of the cut-off lands and land losses from Indian reserves in British Columbia.
- Leaving the 20th Century
The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
An anthology of Situationist writings.
- Lewis & Clark
And the Crossing of North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Madness Unmasked
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Magic in Mind.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Male Chauvinism!
How it Works and How to Get Free of it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The March of Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A view of the history of socialism.
- Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
Toward a Permanent Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Brown argues, must encompass the subjective, psychological dimensions of the revolutionary process.
- Marx on Democratic Forms of Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Marx's socialism (communism) as a political programme may be most quickly defined, from the Marxist standpoint, as the complete democratization of society, not merely of political forms. For Marx, the fight for democratic forms of government - democratization in the state - was a leading edge of the socialist effort; not its be-all and end-all but an integral part of it all.
- Marxism and the Mass Media
Toward a Basic Bibliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Modern times Perspective for the Coming Months
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A discussion paper which looks at inflation as a ruling class strategy and asks what an organizing perspective should be for the coming months.
- The Mozambican Woman in the Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
This selection of writings on Mozambican Women deals with a number of important aspects in the struggle for the emancipation of women - Mozambican women, African women and humanity's women.
- Muscle & Blood
The Massive, Hidden Agony of Industrial Slaughter in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The National Dream & The Last Spike
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- NDP: The Dream of Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A history of Canada's New Democratic Party from its origins to 1973.
- New Hogtown Press - Spring-Summer 1974 Catalogue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The Newsletter #4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The Newsletter #5
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- No Right-of-Way
How democracy came to the oil patch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Notes on the American Working Class and Capital in the 1960s
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Ojibway Warriors' Society in occupied Anicinabe Park
Kenora August 1974
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- On the Opposition 1921-27
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Our Generation
Volume 10 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Our Generation
Volume 10 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Our Generation
Volume 10 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Out of the Driver's Seat
Marxism in North America Today
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Outlines the political perspective of the Windsor-based Labour Centre in the wake of divisions in the Centre in 1974. Issues explored include the nature of the working class, women in the working class, gay rights, and students rights.
- Payment Table for Canadian Mortgages
Monthly payments computed on basis of nominal annual interest rates
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Payment Table for Canadian Mortgages
Monthly payments computed on basis of nominal annual interest rates
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Perly's Guide
All Metro Toronto, All One- Way Streets
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- A Political History of Agrarian Organizations in Ontario 1914-1940
with special reference to Grey and Bruce Counties
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Examines the development and evolution of the United Farmers of Ontario.
- The of Lenin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Poverty in Wealth
The Capitalist Labour Market and Income Distribution in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Privilege of Sex
A Century of Canadian Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Production for the Graphic Designer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Public Works
A Handbook for Self-Reliant Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Radical America - Volume 8, No. 5 - September-October 1974
Class Struggle in Britain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The Rejection of Politics and other essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
"The rejection of politics" is a basic tenet of all anarchism. Woodcock however does not discuss anarchism as such but the path that his own political interests have taken: from international anarchist to Canadian patriot. Two recurrent themes in the book are his antipathy to Marxism and his ambivalent attitude toward Canadian nationalism. Woodcock believes that the "Left" is dead and that modern anarchists have to shed outdated concepts of the past.
- Review of the Press: Portugal 1974
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
The subtext of mainstream media coverage of social upheavals in post-fascist Portugal is that a return to dictatorship is necessary and inevitable to preserve the social order.
- Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The Right to be Greedy
Theses On The Practical Necessity Of Demanding Everything
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- 50: Saskatchewan Wheat Pool 1924-1974
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- School Drop-Outs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A list of proposals for reducing the school drop-out rate.
- The Seven Laws of Money
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A book that tells you how to live with money; how to get it, care for it, forget about it.
- The Socialist League and the Struggle for a Socialist Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
The Socialist League is a democratic centralist organization which views its main tasks as gathering cadres for the future mass revolutionary party.
- The Socialist Register 1974
Volume 11: A survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Some Suggestions for the Use of the Media in Non-Formal Education in Botswana
Position Paper No. 1
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Soviet Russia Masters the Comintern
International Communism in the Era of Stalin's Ascendancy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A documentary history.
- Strange Empire
Louis Riel and the Metis People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Students Mean Trouble for Business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Students have negative views of business, and business leaders are worried.
- Subliminal Seduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Sweat and Struggle
Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Ten Lost Years discovery of superb social history
Book Review of Ten Lost Years by Barry Broadfoot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Barry Broadfoot's book consists almost entirely of excerpts from interviews he conducted with people who remember the Depression. The people speak for themselves: Broadfoot has edited them and organised them under various headings, added brief explanatory paragraphs, and included a number of pictures. The approach is a success, without question. Ten Lost Years is a superb work, presenting a vivid and unforgettable picture of that unbelievable decade.
- The Tiny Perfect Mayor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
An analysis of Toronto city politics in the wake of the election of David Crombie as mayor in 1972.
- Total Self-Management
Chapter 3 of Raoul Vaneigem's book From Wildcat Strike to Total Self-Management
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Vaneigem's book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
- Trotskyism and the vanguard party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
One of the most consistent achievements of the Trotskyists over the years has been to drive people away from radical politics. The number of burned-out and alienated ex-Trotskyists greatly exceeds the number of active Trotskyists. Their transparently manipulative tactics in the organizations they infiltrate tend to drive ordinary members away, forever wary of anyone identified as a Trotskyist.
- The Trouble With Co-ops
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
The story of a pioneer co-operative housing project in downtown Toronto: Down Area Co-operative Homes, inc. (DACHI).
- Unite against monopoly
A communist plan of action for working class and democratic unity against monopoly
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- A Veteran Communist Speaks
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Voices of the American Revolution
Celebrating 200 years of Independence 1776 - 1976
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- What is to be Undone
A Modern Revolutionary Discussion of Classifcal Left Ideologies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A massively confused straw-man critique of "marxist" and "anarchist" theories that exist only in the author's head.
- Women at Work
Ontario 1850-1930
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Wmen at Work attempts to explore the realities of Canadian women's experiences, and proposes a framework which begins to answer why the double exploitation of women as mothers and workers has persisted to the present day.
- Women in the Chinese Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Workers Against the Monolith
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
How the so-called Communist parties became forces of order and counter-revolution.
- Working -- and Not-Working -- at the Post Office
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
An essay written by a young postal worker in Toronto, Canada.
- Years of Hard Labour
Trade Unions and the Workingman in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- The Yellow Journal
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
An independent non-profit newspaper for the people of Metropolitan Toronto funded by the Opportunities for Youth Program in 1974.
- The Yellow Journal
Issue 5 - August 1974
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Articles on Stereotypes in the Dailies; Getting to the heart of housing; Kenora Occupiers Supported; Media coverage of a raid on Rochdale College; In Defence of Patronage;
- The Varsity 1973-1974
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Published: 1074
- Atlantic Brief Lives
A Biographical Companion to the Arts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
- Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
A 28-day national coal strike in the United States led by the United Mine Workers of America,
- From Wildcat Strike to Total Self Management
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Published: 1974
Vaneigem’s book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
- Toronto Police Constable shot and killed in Cabbagetown - 1973
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 2017
In January 10 1973. 28 year-old Toronto Police Constable James Lothian spotted a speeding vehicle running a red light and pursued it until the car ran into the rear of another vehicle on Amelia Street near Rawlings Avenue. After leaving his cruiser, Constable Lothian was shot and wounded by one of the occupants of the vehicle, David Brian (Duke) Holmes. Lothian later died in hospital.
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3092
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Ruling Passion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1990
- Philosophy and Revolution
From Hegel to Sartre, and from Marx to Mao
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1989
Dunayevskaya argues in favour of a re-evaluation of the theoretical philosophy of Hegel and its application by Marx and the later Lenin to the history of mankind.
- A Book about Birth Control
6th Edition, Summer 1988
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1988
- A Book about Sexually Transmitted Diseases
5th Edition, Summer 1988
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1988
- Small Claims Court Guide for Ontario
How to win your case
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1983
- Small Claims Court Guide for Ontario
How to win your case
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1983
- Hanging in Canada
A Concise History of a Controversial Topic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1982
- Radical Digressions 1
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1973
Published: 1979
- Recipes for a Small Planet
The Art and Science of High Protein Vegetarian Cookery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1976
- Dog Soldiers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1975
- Feminism in the Radical and Early Socialist Movement
Chapter 8 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1975
There existed a strong minority tradition in radicalism which questioned the whole social and sexual position of women.
- Lip and the Self-Managed Counter-Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1975
Analyses of the struggle in the LIP watch-making factory in France.
- The Wandering of Humanity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1975
Humans are subjugated by Capital. The logic of production removes decision-making from human control. Capital is anthropomorphized. Technology has no borders or limits. Nature is ravaged as humanity wanders.
- Beginner's Guide to Group Sex
Who Does What to Whom and How
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1974
- Cloudburst
A Handbook of Rural Skills & Technology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1974
- Felicien Rops
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1974
- The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1974
A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
- The Newsletter
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1974
Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of independent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published. Copies of the newsletters are available in the Connexions Archive and online on the Connexions website.
- Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1974
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
- Rock Dreams
Under the Boardwalk
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1974
- SDS
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1974
The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left in the 1960s -- its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life.
- Seven News Front Pages - Volume 4 - 1973-1974
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1974
- Bill Davis to Open Regent Health Centre
Official Opening DEC.18 [1973]
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
After 4½ years of organizing, planning and numerous meetings with health professionals and governmental officials, Regent Park tenants have finally succeeded in getting their own community health centre.
- Breathing fire: Review of Annals of the Firebreather
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- How they shot those campus bums
Review of The Truth About Kent State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
- Joey: inimitabilia from the gee-whiz (ex) premier
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Twenty Years of I.F. Stone
Review of The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
I.F. Stone made his choice in 1921, when, as an idealistic fourteen-year-old, he founded his first newspaper. He's been at it ever since; this idealistic 66-year-old has done as much as any other individual in his lifetime to keep the truth "operative" in America.
- September 11, 1973: The Coup in Chile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
How the reasonable men of capitalism orchestrated horror in Chile.
- Sexual Behavior in the 1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
An national survey reveals marked changes in the sex habits of Americans.
- Solidaire No. 5
September 1973
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Parti Quebec, Strike at UQAM, Autonomous Left in Quebec.
- History and Will
Wakeman, Frederic E.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Bookworm's goulash: A taster's choice of the good, bad and indifferent
Book reviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- L'Hebdo
March 28, 1973
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- U.S. academics dominate Canadian ivory towers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Since Canada's economy is controlled by American interests, our universities have become geared to the production of trained technicians and professionals for a branch plant economy, in which capitalist and imperialist interests predominate.
- L'Hebdo
March 16, 1973
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Ecology and Social Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
That there is an important connection between ecology and social action is now self-evident. There seems little reason to doubt that there is some connection between what ecology tells us about the degraded quality of life and the social action needed to improve it.
- L'Hebdo
March 9, 1973
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- L'Hebdo
March 2, 1973
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- L'Hebdo
February 23, 1973
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- L'Hebdo
February 9, 1973
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Grassroots Cells, Devil's Architects Defend Communities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1989
Organizational principles and campaign tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
- L'Hebdo
February 2, 1973
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- L'Hebdo
January 19, 1973
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Notes on Trotsky, Pannekoek, Bordiga - Gilles Dauvé (Jean Barrot) (1972)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
An examination on the standpoints of Trotsky, Pannekoek and Bordiga.
- Canada is 'nice', American author declares
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
American author flails at straw men.
- Canada is 'nice', American author declares
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Canada is a nice country, American author Arnold Beichman told students watching the taping of the TV program Under Attack at Vic Wednesday. The remark, one of the few definite statements Beichman could be moved to make during the course of the evening, brought him a round of applause from the audience.
- L'Hebdo
January 12, 1973
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
Towards a New Practice
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
- All About Vegetables
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Alternatives to Poverty and Welfare in Alberta
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A basic accounting of the extent of poverty and of those on welfare in Canada and Alberta.
- The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
- The Americana Annual 1973
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
Documents of revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A selection of articles, manifestos, speeches, resolutions, letter, diaries, poems, and songs which seek to capture the spirit of the anarchist movement in Rissia.
- Anatomy of the Micro-Sect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Is there an alternative to the sect mode of organization which dominates the whole history of American socialism, past and present?
- Annals of the Firebreather
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Art and Sexual Politics
Why Have There No Great Women Artists?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Examines cultural and ideological biases about female artists
- Art and Society: Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- At the Edge of the Chopping there are no Secrets
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Berlin Blockade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Best of LIFE
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Photos from LIFE magazine, 1936-1972
- Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A history of Black Mountain College (1933-57), an experimental school which pioneered many educational, cultural, and artistic innovations.
- Bookkeeping Handbook
For low income citizen groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Can You Survive?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Canada Investigates Industrialism
The Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital 1889
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Canada Year Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Capitalism, The Family, and Personal Life
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Chile Versus the Corporations
A Call for Canadian Support
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
This booklet sketches corporate (including Canadian) involvement in Chile, the attempts of the Allende government to reverse this domination and the massive repression against Chile instituted by the capitalist countries. Useful both as a brief guide to the Chilean situation, and for the philosophy it adheres to: "The position of Christ was in no way ambiguous: his was an option for the poor and against anyone or any system that stood in the way of man's liberation. The present international economic system is a situation of sin, and as such it must be rejected."
- The CIO: From reform to reaction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
In popular mythology, the CIO was a revolutionary union in the tradition of the IWW. In actuality, the CIO was created by those opposed to the kind of working class self-activity best embodied in the U.S. by the IWW. This article by E. Jones, from Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal (number 6; n.d.; c. 1970s), critiques the CIO's reactionary role in containing class struggle militancy.
- Complaints and Disorders
The Sexual Politics of Sickness
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Consciousness and Action Among the Western Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A comparative analysis of working-class consciousness in Britain, France, Italy and the United States which seeks to answer the question of whether the working class today is a potentially revolutionary force.
- Counter-Revolutionary Violence
Bloodbaths in Fact and Propaganda
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Course Union Organisers' Handbook
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A manual on organzing course unions for university students.
- Decline of the Dollar: A Marxist View of the Monetary Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Useful for a-deeper understanding of what you read about in the business pages.
- Democratic Theory
Essays in Retrieval
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Deutscher Kitsch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Dialectical Adventures Into the Unknown
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A Nihilist/Anarchist repudiation of 1970's-era British society.
- Dichtung und Wahrheit
Erster Teil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Dilemma of Canadian Socialism
The C.C.F. in Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
The history of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Ontario, set in the context of the national movement.
- Documents of the Fourth International
The Formative Years (1933-1940)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Documents from conferences of the Left Opposition and its successors leading up to the founding conference of the Fourth International.
- Dr. Snider's Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Issues facing senior citizens in Alberta.
- The Earth Belongs to the People
Ecology and Power
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Ecology is about everything that makes life possible. It is about the fact that all these things depends on each other, and if one goes, all suffer -- just like a house of cards. Ecology is a mtter of balance: the balance of life. Something is messing up the balance of life, and all of use are suffering.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Fascism in Chile: The First Forty Days
Compiled from reports in the world press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Fight for Freedom for Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
The fight for women's rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, primarily focusing on Britain and the USA.
- The Fiscal Crisis of the State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
O'Connor sets out to find answers to questions such as 'Who will pay for rising government expenditures? Will some kinds of spending rise while others are cut back? Can the government deliver more services for less taxes? Why don't American want to pay for services that presumably benefit the "people"? Can the fiscal system survive in its present form?'
- For Canadian Workers: Lessons From Italy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- For Reasons of State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
- From Lenin to Stalin: Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A fascinating, first-hand account of the Stalinist takeover in Russia.
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 26 - Index Part 1 A to N
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 27 - Index Part 2 O to Z and Bibliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - 1973 Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Gentle Patriot
A Political Biography of Walter Gordon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Goebbels
Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century War Leader Book No. 17
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A short illustrated biography of Josef Goebbels.
- Der Grosse Duden Rechtschreibung der deutschen Sprache und der Fremdworter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Group Marriage
A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A study of more than 100 group marriages in the United States, exploring the psychology and sociology of this form of marital relationship. The study looks at how group marriages are established, who enters into such relationships, how they communicate, how children and adults relate, how conflicts are resolved.
- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Halfbreed; A Proud and Bitter Canadian Legacy
A Proud and Bitter Canadian Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Hammond Headline World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Hazards of Work: How to Fight Them
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Highrise and Superprofits
An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- History of Second World War - Part 17
Civilians in the Front
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- History of the Country of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- History of the County of Ontario 1615-1875
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A well-documented synthesis which begins with the indigenous inhabitants, documents the fraudulent land claims which were used to take over indigenous land for settlement by European and American settlers, and continuing through to the developments of the late nineteenth century.
- History of the Socialist Party of Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- A History of the Steelworkers Union
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The History of Working People in the South
A Draft Study Guide
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- History text has pinpoint accuracy (except for the facts)
Review of Decisive Decades: A History of the Twentieth Century for Canadians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
History as propaganda.
- The Holiversity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Home Safely to Me
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Hostages of War
Saigon's Political Prisoners
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
- I am Watching
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- I Chose Canada
The Memoirs of the Honourable Joseph R. Joey Smallwood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
- Imagination in Power
The Occupation of Factories in France in 1968
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A brief study of the factory occupations which were a crucial component in the May 1968 events in France.
- International communism well documented in new publications
Review of books about the Third International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A review of International Communism in the era of Lenin: A Documentary History; Soviet Russia Masters the Comintern: International Communism in the Era of Stalin's Ascendancy; The First Three Internationals: Their History and Lessons.
- Israel and the Arabs: the good guys don't always wear white hats
Review of Israel: A Colonial-Settler State, by Maxime Rodinson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
The tragedy of two peoples brought into conflict by forces largely outside of their control.
- Jeremy Brecher responds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Jeremy Brecher responds to Murray Bookchin's critical response of Brecher's review of Bookchin's book.
- Karl Marx: His Life and Thought
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A biography of Karl Marx.
- Kaufungen '73
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Left in Form, Right in Essence
A critique of Contemporary Trotskyism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Lessons in Printing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Let Us Achieve National Reunification and World Peace Through Struggle
Speech at the Pyonguang Mass Meeting to Welcome the Party and Government Delegation of the Bulgarian People's Republic, October 28, 1973
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Liberation - Volume 18, Number 4 - December 1973
Do The People Need a Party?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Listen Marxist: a reply
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Murray Bookchin replies to Jeremy Brecher's review of Post-Scarcity Anarchism.
- The Lordstown Struggle and the Real Crisis in Production
Solidarity Pamphlet 45
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
An attempt to document some important tendencies developing in the motor car industry but which are relevant to modern production as a whole.
- Mediations
Issues in Radical Therapy Collective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A step-by-step approach to solving interpersonal conflicts using radical therapy principles and a third-party facilitator. (Also available as a chapter in H. Wyckoff's Love, Therapy And Politics.)
- Modem Capitalism and Other Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A collection of essays on the state of modern capitalism.
- The Movable Airport
The politics of government planning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
An account of the manoeuvring and bureaucratic runaround that went into the planning of the Pickering airport, and of the resistance that it produced.
- Namibia: Some light on the struggle for national liberation
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour
The CIO, The Communist Party, and the Canadian Congress of Labour 1935-1956
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A history of the Canadian Congress of Labour and of the CIO in Canada from the 1930s to the 1950s. The author raises many significant questions concerning the presence of American unions in Canada and the crucial role played by the Communist party in the history of the Canadian labour movement.
- Native Canadians and the United Church in Winnipeg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A study of the status of Ministries, Lodge and Indian workers, and recommendations.
- New Hogtown Press - Fall 1973 Catalogue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The new socialist revolution
An introduction to its theory and strategy
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Chapter 6 - Strategy and Tactics. The first task of the revolutionary movement, its most important task within the next few years, is to destroy bourgeois hegemony and develop a radical consciousness among each of the potential constituencies for revolutionary action.
- The Newsletter #1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Published by the 'New Tendency.' Contributions from Winnipeg, Kitchener-Waterloo, Toronto, and Windsor.
- The Newsletter #2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Newsletter #3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Nomadic Furniture
How To Build & Where To Buy Lightweight Furniture That Folds, Inflates, Knocks Down, Stacks, or is Disposable and Can Be Recycled
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Nonbook Materials
The Organization of Integrated Collections
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Northern Perspectives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
The Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC) has met three of its seven objectives: to report on any research related to Northern development; to compile background material needed to educate the public concerning the environmental effects of development; to publish pertinent information relating to Northern development and the Arctic.
- Not in God's Image
Women in History from the Greeks to the Victorians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Extracts from writings by or about women, from Ancient Greece to the mid-19th century.
- Occupation began peacefully
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Occupation of university building was peaceful, until the cops showed up.
- On the First International
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Organization of Integrated Collections
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Organization of Integrated Collections
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Other dimensions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Paul Mattick's critique of Marcuse reviewed by Peter Rachleff in Root & Branch No. 4.
- Our Generation
Volume 9 number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The People's Comic Book
Red Women's Detachment, Hot on the Trail, and Other Chinese Comics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Permanence and Change
A Rural Ontario Document
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- A Place Called Dimbaza
A Case Study of a Rural Resettlement Township in South Africa
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Political Economy of Dependency
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Politics of Communication
A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Laing questions the concept of 'normality' and explores the psychological wepaons of construction, deprivation, splitting, and projection.
- The Politics of Nonviolent Action
Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence, with a detailed examination of 198 specific methods of the technique — illustrated with actual cases — within the broad classes of nonviolent protest and persuasion, non-cooperation (social, economic and political) and nonviolent intervention.
- A post-affluence critique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin (Ramparts Press, 1971) reviewed by Jeremy Brecher Root & Branch No. 4 (1973), pp. 7-22.
- Postwar America: 1945-1971
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Press and the Cold War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Primary Sources in Canadian Working Class History 1860-1930
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Problems of Everyday Life
And Other Writings On Culture & Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
The focus of this book is the impact of the Russian Revolution of the culture life of the country -- and conversely, the effect of the country's cultural backwardness on the course of the revolution. Among the topics discussed are religion, communications media, language, education, science, industry, cinema, marriage, the position of women, child care, "proletarian" literature, art, philoosphy, primitive rural conditions, the dangers of overspecialization and bureaucracy.
- Productivity
The Employers' attack and How To Fight It
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Public Assistance Food Allowance Increase
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
An analysis of the effect on the Alberta poor of a 9% food allowance increase in 1972-73.
- Radical America - Volume 7, Number 4-5
Volume 7, Numbers 4 & 5 - Women's Labor
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Real Time 2
A catalog of ideas and information
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Real Time is a trip, self-consciously so. It's full of "new technologies", "new perceptions", "media-mixes", "communication", "system, "soft-ware", "interdisciplinary viewpoints", and "consciousness programs". More concretely, it's a book, 256 pages long.
- Revolutionary Strategy in the Advanced Capitalist Countries: A Reply to the Spontaneists
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A Trotskyist perspective.
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Roots of Class Struggle in the South
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Rosa Luexmburg in retrospect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
- Rundgang durch das Uhrenmuseum der Stadt Wien
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Selected & New Poems
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Selected Poems
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Sellout
The Giveaway of Canada's Energy Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Documents the misdevelopment of Canadian energy resources.
- Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
Nineteenth-Century America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
- Small is Beautiful
A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
- The Social Passion
Religion and Social Reform in Canada 1914-28
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
An account of the movement within Canadian protestantism which sought to revive the neglected social dimensions of Christianity and to involve the church in social action.
- The Social Passion: A review
A review of The Social Passion: Religion and Social Reform in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Richard Allen’s contribution to the understanding of the development of Canadian society and Canadian political history is invaluable.
- A Socialist Alternative For Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A discussion on the future of the sociliast left in Canada and its relationship to the New Democratic Party.
- The Socialist Register 1973
Volume 10: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Sophocles 1
Three Tragedies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- South Korean Reality
From Japanese Magazine "Sekai", No. 9, 1973
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
- The Stein & Day Handbook of Magic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Strike!: A Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Jeremy Brecher's Strike!, reviewed by Steven Sapolsky in Root & Branch No. 4.
- Studies in Adult Education - No 12: An evaulation of the 1973 mass health education campaign in Tanzania
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- A study of urban communes and co-ops inToronto
MA Thesis, University of Toronto, 1973
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Synergic Power: Beyond Domination and Permissiveness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Suggests tools for generating creative cooperation in personal relations and on a social scale. Analyzes human nature, human potential and power dynamics, then offers a model for developing a cooperative, "synergic society."
- Techniques in Photography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Ten Lost Years 1929 - 1939
Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
An oral history of the Great Depression in Canada.
- Theory and practice: an introduction to Marxian theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
1979 article by Root and Branch, introducing Marxist theory.
- To Each According to His Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Toronto Survival Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- Tourists of the Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Truth About Kent State
A Challenge to the American Conscience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
An account of the murder of four students at Kent State University by National Guard troops.
- An Unauthorized History of the RCMP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A critical history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- Underhanded History of the USA
Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- The Unfashionable Human Body
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A discussion of apparel, in the broadest sense of the word, and how it has reflected and shaped attitudes to the human body.
- Varsity 1972-1973
Bound volume
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- A very great year?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Eve Smith discusses the aims and effectiveness of Nixon's economic policies on the working class in the America.
- Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
On the 1973 cease-fire called in the Vietnam war.
- Vietnam: Whose Victory?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- VTR - Edmonton Chinatown...A Beginning...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Report on the use of video tape to facilitate Chinese community's role in shaping the direction of their community.
- Wake of the Great Sealers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
The story of the Newfoundland men of the neneteenth and early twentieth centuries who set out in flimsy ships to hunt seals on the treacherous North Atlantic ice fields.
- The Walk and the Kiss
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
A book about a sensational murder trial that shook Toronto in the early 1940s. After two hung juries, a third produced a conviction of airforceman Bill Newell, for the murder of his wife on Toronto Island. Publishing originally as This Man Hanged Himself.
- Waterloo Express
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- White Collar Blues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
An article about working in a Canadian government office (the Unemployment Insurance Commission).
- Who Advocates Spontaneity?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
- The Winter of our Discontent
Experiences Organizing Nursing Homes
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
An account by two nursing home workers describing their jobs and their successful efforts to organize unions at their workplaces.
Published in Issue #2 (1973) on the New Tendency newsletter.
- Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
The cultural and economic liberation of women is inseparable from the creation of a society in which all people no longer have their lives stolen from them, and in which the conditions of their production and reproduction will no longer be distorted or held back by the subordination of sex, race, or class.
- Women and the Family
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
How the 1917 Russian revolution opened the door to new possibilities in the fight for women's liberation.
- Workers' Control
A Reader on Labor and Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Beginning with a push twoard workers' management of the shop and ultimately moving toward control over what is produced, how it is produced and for whom it is produced, workers' control is one of the essential building blocks of a program for social change that would unite the Left and a revitalized labour movement.
- Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
- An Economic History of West Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
An examination of the economy of West Africa from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.
- Marxist Bulletin No. 9
Basic Documents of the Spartacist League
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
Key documents of the Trotskyist Sparacist League.
- Society of the Spectacle (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1973
Published: 1973
"The Society of the Spectacle" is Guy Debord's film adaptation of his own 1967
book of the same name (see http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/CX6572.htm and http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/index.htm)
- L'Hebdo
November 10, 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Capitalism and communism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1997
Gilles Dauvé outlines the development of capitalism, and communism as the real movement in everyday life which tends towards the abolition of wage labour.
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
- Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1995
Author depticts the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.
- From Resistance to Revolution
Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1992
An examination of the step-by-step process through which the extra-legal institutions of the colonial resistance movement assumed authority from the British.
- The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression - Review
A report on Britain's Government Machine
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1989
Organizational tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
- Effective Business Communications
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1980
- Effective Business Comunications
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1980
- Finding Facts Fast
How to Find Out What You Want and Need To Know
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1979
- Regent Park Community News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1978
A newsletter/newspaper published in the Regent Park area of Toronto in the 1970s.
- Trees
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1978
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1977
- The Leatherman's Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1977
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1977
- Women and Child Care in China
A First Hand Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1976
- A New Effective Approach to Preventive Social Service
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1975
- Winnipeg 1919
The strikers' own history of the Winnipeg General Strike
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1975
The Winnipeg General Strike was a landmark in Canadian political and labour history. This book, with the lively and clearly-written strikers' account of the strike and more than 40 photos of major strike events, offers the perspective on the strike of the people who organized it. Second edition.
- The Counter-Revolution in Ireland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1974
- The Veritable Split in the International
Public Circular of the Situationist International
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1974
What are called "situationist ideas" are nothing other than the first ideas of the period of reappearance of the modern revolutionary movement.
- Women, Resistance and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1974
A wide-ranging survey of the roots of inequality and of the long but sporadic struggles to covercome it. Her narrative extends from the seventeenth century to present-day (1970s) Vietnam, showing how certain women have struggled, in both revolutionary and repressive situations, to achieve liberation.
- Working
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1974
People talk a bout what they do all day and how they feel about what they do.
- L'Hebdo
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1973
Cultural and poltical supplement to The Varsity student newspaper at the University of Toronto, 1972-1973.
- Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1973
How media have taken over our lives.
- Seven News Front Pages - Volume 3 - 1972-1973
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1973
- Women's Liberation and Revolution
A Bibliography
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1973
- L'Hebdo
December 6, 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- L'Hebdo
December 1, 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- L'Hebdo
November 24, 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- L'Hebdo
November 17, 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Viet Peace will come with victory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
The burning determination of the Vietnamese to control their own future deserves our full support.
- L'Hebdo
November 3, 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- L'Hebdo
October 27, 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- L'Hebdo
October 20, 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Pour le parti proletarien
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- L'Hebdo
October 13, 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Canada-Sovet series over ... winner in doubt
The 1972 Canada-Soviet hockey summit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
This article was written shortly after the end of the 1972 hockey series between a Soviet team and a Canadian team comprised of players from the National Hockey League. The closely fought series saw the Canadians win four games, the Soviets three, with one game tied.
- L'Hebdo
October 6, 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Our Generation
Volume 8 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- L'Hebdo
September 29, 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- L'Hebdo
September 22, 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- L'Hebdo
September 18, 1972 - Living in Toronto Community Guide
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A guide for University of Toronto students on living in Toronto: What to do. How to do it. Where it's done.
- Day-care issue remains unsolved
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A look at the daycare issue at the University of Toronto in the fall of 1972.
- Local NDP Fights to Keep Waffle Movement in Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
The NDP's St. David provincial riding association is working to find a way of keeping the Waffle movement in the party, challenging Stephen Lewis's move to expel the Waffle.
- A Parable of Pigs
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
There once was a pig farm that was operated by an old farmer, his son, and a hired man. The farmyard was filled with hundreds of pigs of all sizes, and they all ate their swill from a huge trough.
- Transformation
Vol.1 No 4 Summer 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Theory and Practice of Social Change
- In the Belly of the Beast
May 1972 issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Alma, N.B.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A photo essay by Ursula Heller about the town of Alma, New Brunswick.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1972-1973.
- The Americana Annual 1972
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Annual Handbook For Group Facilitatators
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A wealth of how to information coming out each year on how to work with groups. Include structured experiences, lecturettes, resources, research, theory, practice, and more.
- Anti-Sovietism - Cold War Ideology
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A critique of "anti-Sovietism" on the left.
There is a copy of this pamphlet in the Connexions Archive.
- Architect fears Toronto may resemble New York
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Developer and citizen advocate debate the future of the city.
- Are you sleeping Richard?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Notes on Excellence by Margaret Dyment.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1972.
- The Barron Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Becoming Political
The Growth of the Quebec Teachers' Union
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
This article was originally written in This Magazine in French.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1972.
- Begin at Start
Some Thoughts on Personal Liberation and World Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Sue Negrin talks about her experiences in the hip, free school, mysticism, New Left, feminist and gay movements; how she sees them shedding old skins and coming together in a new way.
- The Big Ripoff
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Briemburg visits China and discovers a radically new society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Canadians should be critical in their attitude toward China, but at the same time they should realize that they have much to learn from China's efforts to build a new society, says Mordecai Briemberg.
- B.C. Teachers Turn Political
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Political conflict between the BCTF and the government.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1972.
- Cambao - The Yoke
The Hidden Face of Brazil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
The story of the Peasant League in 1955, organized to fight against the oppression of the peasants.
- Canada is not Kansas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Charles Pachter on Canadian art.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1972.
- Canada Past: Aristocrats, Plutocrats, Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Reviews of three works: The Sense of Power, The History of Canadian Wealth, and The Bunkhouse Man.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1972.
- Canada's Water: For Sale
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Describes the pressures behind U.S. demand for Canadian water and the Canadian response and presents the case against grand engineering schemes, major dams, and large river diversions.
- Canadian Literature: The Necessary Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A discussion on nationalism as an emerging social force in Canada.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1972.
- Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Essays examining a variety of questions about Canada's past, from a Marxist perspective.
- Christians for Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A report on the First Latin American Encounter of Christians for Socialism, held in Santiago, Chile, in April 1972.
- A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
- Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Columbus and the Fat Lady
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- The Common Front and Quebec Teachers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
This article follows up Jules LeBlanc's piece in the last issue - "Becoming Political: The Growth of the Quebec Teachers' Union".
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1972.
- Communes in America
The Place Just Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Traces the history of collective settlements in the United States and compares their organization and purpose with the communes of today.
- Communes USA
A Personal Tour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
An account of a variety of communes in the United States.
- Communicating Through Letters and Reports
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Connexions: Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Ward asks what do we want out of work? A fair wage or satisfaction as well? Do many of the methods employers use to try and make labour less tediou like automation -- actually create more problems?
- Cooking in a Brooklyn Classroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
The experiences of one of the most popular activities at a ghetto school in Brooklyn, cooking.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1972.
- The Critique of Everyday Life, the New Left, and the Unrecognizable Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
In this introduction to his book, The Unknown Dimension, Karl Klare asserts that Marxism must be continuously rediscovered, recreated and reinvigorated by every generation. Any comprehensive and historical theory of our situation today must find its place within Marxism, because the problems that brought Marxism into being have not been resolved.
- The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A review of William Hinton's Hundren Day Way.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1972-1973.
- David Lewis: tax aids won't create jobs
'Welfare bums' attacks continue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
NDP leader David Lewis criticizes policies that favour corporations at the expense of working people.
- Day Care for Everyone
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Editorial Cartoons 1972
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Ernest Mandel's Late Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Exploring Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- The federal election - what next?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Feeding the People To Death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A review by Jennifer Penney based on the following publications: The Poisons in your foods, Food pollution, Let's eat right to keep fit, and Diet for a small planet.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1972.
- Fighting Back
Urban Renewal in Trefann Court
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A detailed report on the conflict between city bureaucrats and residents of Trefann Court, a five-block area just east of downtown Toronto. Bent on tearing down as a step towards urban renewal, the planners and government officials met organized resistance by homeowners, landlords and tenants for over six years.
- Fischer/Spassky
The New York Times Report on The Chess Match of The Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- FKK-Kalendar 1972
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Forum: Canadian Life and Letters - 1920-1970
Selections from the Canadian Forum
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A selection of articles from fifty years of the Canadian Forum magazine.
- Free Ourselves
Forgotten Goals of the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
How do we liberate ourselves?
- The French Communist Party versus the Students
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Why was the French Communist Party hostile to the student rebellion in May-June 1968, when one might have expected a revolutionary party to support a revolutionary movement? Richard Johnson shows that the events of May-June 1968 are proof of the ultimately unbridgeable gap between contemporary communism and revolutionary thought and action.
- From Thy Creator: With Love
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 1 - A to American Indian Languages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 2 - America Indians to Australia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 3 - Australian Ballot to Blizzard
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 4 - Bloch to Californium
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 5 - Caligula to Chllon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 6 - Chimaera to Continental System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 7 - Contraband of war to Dicotyleons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 8 - Dictating Machines to Embryology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 9 - Emerald to Finaly
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 10 - Finnish Literature to Gangrene
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 11 - Gannet to Greek Religion and Mythology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 12 - Greeley to Horthy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 13 - Horticulture to Isotope
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 14 - Israel to Laccadive, Minicoy,and Amincivi Islands
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 15 - Lace to Mao Tse-Tung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 16 - Map to Motion Picture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 17 - Motion Pictures, History of to Norwegian Music
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 18 - Norwich to Peyote
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 19 - Pfitzner to Punic Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 20 - Punishment to Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 21 - Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic to Somaliland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 22 - Somerset to Teleology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 23 - Telepathy to United Service Organizations, Inc.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 24 - United States to Waterworks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Vol 25 - Watford to Zymology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- G.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- The General Strike for Industrial Freedom
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Going Crazy
The Radical Therapy of R.D. Laing and Others
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Great Gay in the Morning
One Group's Approach to Communal Living and Sexual Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- The Great Railway
Illustrated
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Greenpeace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Handbook of Business Form Letters and Forms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- A Handbook of Structured Experiences for Human Relations Training
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A wide variety of exercises for use in groups and training situations. Activities range in diversity from problem-solving situations, to nonverbal communication, to male/female role plays. Most of the exercises are fairly complex or tightly structured. Thorough instructions are given.
- The High Priests of Waste
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- History and Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Two critiques of Paul Cardan's critique of Marxism.
- Hitler Youth: The Duped Generation
Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century Politics in Action No. 6
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- How do you really grade?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
David Tabakow's thoughts on how papers are actually graded.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1972.
- How Things Work
The Universal Encyclopedia of Machines, Volume I
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- How to Avoid Electronic Eavesdropping and Privacy Invasion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Hundred Day War
The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University - Monthly Review July-August 1972
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- The impoverishment of the Canadian left
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Perhaps the most visible phenomenon 9and the most painful) on the scene of social change in Canada today, is the lack of any real left alternative to either bourgeois or liberal radical politics.
- Inside the Body
Teaching Anatomy in a Public School
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A learning experience of teaching anatomy in a public school.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1972.
- Institute for the Study of Cultural Evolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
An attempt to make the university of humanity a conscious coordinated effort towards humanity at peace with itself and its environment.
- International Communism in the Era of Lenin
A Documentary History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- The I.Q. Ideology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
In this essay, Bowles and Gintis questions the undisputed assumption underlying both sides of the recently revived IQ controversy in United States: that IQ is of basic importance to economic success.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1972-1973.
- The Joy of Sex
A Cordon Bleu Guide to Love Making
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A gourmet guide to love-making.
- Judge Reville and Ontario Teachers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A look into the threat of a strike by Metro secondary teachers over the right to negoatiate working conditions, and the publication of the Reville Report on Teacher Negotiations.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1972-1973.
- Karl Marx: Essential Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
- Labour Martyr: Joe Hill
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
The story of the rebel songwriter and union activst Joe Hill, who was murdered by the state of Utah in 1915.
- Learning to Move Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
The changing outlook of Mel Watkins.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1972.
- Leon Trotsky Speaks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A selection of Trotsky's speeches.
- Lewis attacks Waffle, begins to purge faction from NDP
Wafflers only allowed three-minute rebuttals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
In March 1972, Ontarion NDP leader Stephen Lewis delivered a major attack against the party's left-wing Waffle group, laying the ground for forcing the Waffle to either disband or to leave the party.
- Liberalism at Waterloo State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A case history by Ron Lambert.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1972.
- Life Before Man
The Emergence of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Louder Voices: The Corporate Welfare Bums
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
NDP leader Davis Lewis provides facts and analysis to support his charge that "government and big business are holding hands -- in your pocket."
- Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A devious satire aimed at Leninists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and vanguardists of all stripes.
- The Media Game
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Missing Persons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Experiences of a teacher.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1972.
- The Missing Political Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Argues that the political process in obsolete and that new forms of political organization are needed.
- More Poems for People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Mussolini
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
War Leader Book No. 13 in Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century
- My life as a Co-adventurer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A recount of Milton Acorn's adventures as a weekly newsboy.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1972.
- Native Rights in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A report on the legal rights of the natives of Canada.
- A New Direction for Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- A New History of Leviathan
Essays on the Rise of the American Corporate State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- The New Refugees
American Voices in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Stories of 18 "new refugees" who came in Canada to escape the U.S. war against Vietnam.
- The New Woman: Feminism in Greenwich Village, 1910-1920
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
The experiences of feminists who lived in New York's Greenwich Village during the 1910s.
- Northern Realities
The Future of Northern Development in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- A Not So Gay World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A survey of "what it is like to be a homosexual in Canada."
- The Nude in Canadian Painting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Nuremberg Trials
Ballantine's Illustratrd History of the Violent Century Politics in Action No. 8
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- On Creating Revolutionary Literature and Art
Speech to Workers in the Field of Literature and Art, November 7, 1964
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- On Having Wonderful Ideas: Piaget in the Classroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Eleanor Duckworth's thoughts on providing occasions of wonderful ideas for children. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1972-1973.
- On the Victory of Socialist Agricultural Co-Operativisation & the Future Development of Agriculture in our Country
Report to the National Congress of Agricultural Co-operatives, January 5, 1959
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- One Dimensional Man In Class Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Only Connect
On Culture and Communication
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Only One Earth
The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Ontario New Democratic Youth Newsletter
May 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Open Marriage
A New Life Style for Couples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
The authors propose open marriage as a way to help couples realize that there can be both relatedness and freedom in marriage, and that freedom, with the growth and responsibility it entails, can be the basis for intimacy and love.
- The Other Israel
The Radical Case Against Zionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A collective effort by a small group of Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel to penetrate the dense net of illusion and myth that dominates the thinking and feeling of most Israelis and, at the same time, determines the prevailing image of Israel in the Western world. According to the Zionist fairy tale, the state of Israel is an outpost of democracy, social justice, and enlightenment, and a homeland and haven for the persecuted Jews of the world. The reality, as this book demonstrates, is utterly different.
- Our Generation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- The Party of Eros
Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
King looks at radical theorists -- Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, and Norman O. Brown -- who have attempted to deal with the intersections of eros and power.
- The Party of Labor of Albania Battle with Modern Revisionism
Speeches and Articles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Picasso: The Artist of Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Playgrounds are only one aspect of the struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
- Political Economy of Population Control in Latin America
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
An analysis of the use of birth control in Latin America.
- Printing It
A Guide to Graphic Techniques for the Impecunious
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Programs in Search of a Policy
Low Income Housing in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- "Que faire": Klassenkämpfe in Frankreich seit dem Mai 1968
Internationale Marxistische Diskussion 24
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Quebec A Chronicle 1968-1972
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A documentary record of the most crucial events of a four-year period in Quebec, including the first stirrings of rebellion in the industrial towns, the heroism of the Mouvement de Liberation du Taxi and the 'Lapalme guys', the drama of the October Crisis of 1970.
- Radical America - Volume 6, No. 3 - May - June 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Radical America - Volume 6 Number 5
Special Issue: Quebec
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
An analysis of the Quebec general strike of 1972 and its roots in Quebec history.
- Radical Perspectives in the Arts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
- Raphael, a Cuban Worker Musician
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
The life of a Cuban worker musician.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1972.
- Red Emma Speaks
Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
- Reichstag Fire: Ashes of Democracy
Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- The Report of the Commission of Inquiry on the Pharmaceutical Industry.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Revolutionary Organisation and Open Letter to IS
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A 1972 pamphlet incorporating two previously published texts, 'Revolutionary Organisation' (1961) and 'An Open Letter to I.S.' (1968). They are presented as "a contribution to the serious discussing now taking place, within the ranks of revolutionaryies, as to what kind of organisation is necessary."
- The Rise of Bureaucracy in Ontario Schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
An article about the rising bureaucracy in Ontario schools.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1972.
- The Rise of Militancy Among University Workers in Quebec
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A short history by Arnold Bennett.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1972.
- The Road to Happiness: Canadian History in Public Schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Canadian history in public schools.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1972.
- The Road to Socialism in Canada
The Program of the Communist party of Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rules of the Game
A handbook for tenants and homeowners
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
When citizen's groups fight redevelopment, they almost always focus their energies upon City Hall, making deputations to an endless of succession of committees and packing meetings to try to influence politicians to favour their cause. But it is developers who lobby and manipulate politicians into approving developments that will ensure profits. This Handbook argues that developers use City Hall to ensure that they can build where they want and build what they want.
- Schools for the Poor, Drugs and Shrinks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Short notes on three books for downtown teachers: Blaming the Victim, Free Schools, and Mystification and Drug Abuse.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1972.
- Schule und Fabrik
Internationale Marxistische Discussion 30
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Selections from the Quebec Teachers' White Paper on Socio-Political Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
White paper on socio-political action prepared by a commitee of teachers and trade union advisors.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1972.
- Servants of God or Masters of Men?
The Story of Capuchin Mission in Amazonia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Bonilla traces the history of a Columbian Indian tribe facing a Catholic missionary community, but see much larger implications in the subject matter: "the everlasting story of the West against the Indian."
- Silencing the Workers
Censorship in the National Film Board
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Silent University Support Aids Our War Machine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A reprint of an article from Excalibur (York University) by Ian Wiseman.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1972.
- Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Our movement's strategy must grow from an understanding of the dynamics of power, with the realization that those who have power have a vested interest in preserving it and the institutional forms which maintain it. Wresting control of the institutions which now oppress us must be our central effort if women's liberation is to achieve its goals. To reach out to most women we must address their real needs and self-interests.
- The Socialist Register 1972
Volume 9: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Sociology As a Skin Trade
Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
Part II: Class conflict outside the workplace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- The Sociology of Political Sects
Four sects in Toronto in 1968-1969
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 1972
- 'Solidarity' and the Neo-Narodniks
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Some Presidents
From Wilson to Nixon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Some realities to remember
An exchange on Adventure Playgrounds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
The questions which this book raises are ecological; how do ideas interact? Is there some sort of natural selection which determines the survival of some ideas and the extinction or death of others? What sort of economics limits the multiplicity of ideas in a given region of mind.
- Stone Age Economics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Sugar Plantations and Labor Patterns in the Cauca Valley, Colombia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Survival and Struggle in Canadian Literature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A review of Margaret Atwood's Survival.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1972-1973.
- Theses on Mass Worker and Social Capital
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
An attempt to bring together, in the form on a historical outline, some of the political hypotheses and methodological guidelines that circulated within the Italian working-class movement in the period 1967-1972.
- Things to do outdoors...
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 6, Number 1 - Spring 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 6, Number 2 - Summer 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 6, Number 3 - Fall 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 6, Number 4 - Winter 1972-73
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Three Essays on Marxism
Leading Principles of Marxism; Introduction to Capital; Why I Am a Marxist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
In these essays Korsch offers his thoughts on basic Marxist ideas.
- The Time Trap
How to get more done in less time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- The Time Trap
How to get more done in less time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Toronto For Sale: the Destruction of a City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
An account of how the Toronto City Council rezoned land to maximize land densities, favoring the interests of private developers over the public in the 1970s.
- Touching
The Human Significance of the Skin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
An analysis of the skin regarded as a sense organ rather than as a simple bodily covering.
- Toward Class Consciousness Next Time: Marx and the Working Class
Published in Politics & Society, Volume 3, Number 1, Fall 1972
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Ollman asks what stands in the way of working people becoming class conscious.
- Towards a Political Economy of Education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A critique of Ivan Illich's book Deschooling Society.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1972.
- Towards the Discovery of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Transformation Volume 1, Number 4
Summer 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Trotsky
A Documentary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
An illustrated biography of Leon Trotsky.
- The Truth and Other Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Under New Management?
The Fisher-Bendix Occupation
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Solidarity's eyewitness account, with background information, of the ccupation of Fisher-Bendix factory and offices against closure in 1972. The workers also implemented certain new aspects of work policy.
- Under The Banner of The Great Juche Idea of Comrage Kim Il Sung
On The 60th Anniversary of Birth of Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- A Union: The Time is Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
This article, which followed the failure of the Metropolitan Toronto branch of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) to rally their members for a fight on negotiated working conditions, appeared in the December 72 issue of Community Schools. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1972-1973.
- Unions vs. Workers in the Seventies
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
The tightly knit structures of the big industrial unions leave no room for maneuvering. There is no reasonable way in which young workers can use the union constitution to overturn and overhaul the union structure. The constitution is against them; the money and jobs available to union bureaucrats are against them. And if these fail, the forces of law and order of city, state and federal governments are against them. If that were not enough, the young workers in the factories today are expressing the instinctive knowledge that even if they gained control of the unions and reformed them completely, they would still end up with unions - organizations which owe their existence to capitalist relations of productions.
- The Unknown Dimension
European Marxism Since Lenin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
- An Unsuitable Job For A Woman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Up Against City Hall
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
John Sewell describes his early life and explains how he accidentally got involved in politics. He tells of his experiences in Trefann Court, and how this opened his eyes to the realities of civic politics, and gives behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the major battles at City Hall.
- Vanguard, Vanguard, Who's Got the Vanguard?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A critique of Leninist vanguard-party theories and practice, especially as manifested in the new left groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Published in the May 1972 and August 1972 issues of Liberation magazine.
- The Varsity 1971-1972
Bound volume
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Vote!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- The Warsaw rising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Ways of Seeing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Seeing establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it.
- Where Have All the Free Schools Gone?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A conversation with Bob Davis, Satu Repo and George Martell.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1972-1973.
- Who goes to University in Ontario?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
An article about the changing class structure of society due to the increasing number of young people able to enter university.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1972.
- Windsor Working Women
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Winter Soldier
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
A chronicling of the Winter Soldier Investigation - about war crimes during the Vietnam War - that took place in Detroit, Michigan, from January 31 to February 2, 1971.
- Women & Madness
When is a Woman Mad.....and Who Decides Whether She Is?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
Chesler criticizes conventional psychiatric theory and practice, and calls for a new apporach to female psychology.
- Women and the Subversion of the Community
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
- Women Unite
An Anthology of the Canadian Women's Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Published: 1972
An anthology doucmenting the Canadian women's movement of the late 1906s and early 1970s.
- Transformation
Vol.1 No.3 Summer 1971
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Theory and Practice of Social Change
- Nazi Olympics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1987
Describes the Nazification of sports in Germany in the 1930s and its broader context.
- The joyful community
An account of the Bruderhof, a communcal movement now in its third generation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1980
An in-depth study of the Bruderhof community.
- Darwin and the Beagle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1978
The story of Charles Darwin's five-year voage on the HMS Beagle, a voyage which was to change the course of human thought.
- There She Is
The Life and Times of Miss America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1978
- The Underground Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1977
- The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1976
- Publication Design
A Guide to Page Layout, Typography, Format and Style
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1976
- Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1975
An account of the collectives set up in Spain during the struggle against Franco.
- Diet for a Small Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1975
- Farmers Confront Industrialism
Some Historical Perspectives on Ontario Agrarian Movement
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1975
- On Spontaneity and Organisation
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1975
On the relationship of spontaneity and revolution.
- The Origins of the Modern Leftism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1975
- Solidaire
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1975
A magazine published in the 1970s by a group of English-speaking Quebecois to inform Anglophones in Quebec and progressive people in Canada and the U.S. of the growing struggle for independence and socialism in Quebec. A number of issues are in the Connexions Archive.
- Bravo For Life's Little Ironies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1973
- Don't Ever Change, Boopsie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1973
- Nuclear Energy: Promises, Promises
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1973
- Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1973
A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
- The President Is A Lot Smarter Than You Think
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1973
- Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Agrarian Political Movements
The Ontario Origins of Agrarian Criticism of Canadian Industrial Society
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1973
- Notes for an Introduction to the First Principles of Surrealism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1972
- Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
The Russell Lectures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1972
These lectures explore Bertrand Russell's work on empiricism, morality, linguistics and politics.
- Schools for Survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1972
A chapter from Johnathan Kozol's book, Free Schools.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
- Seven News Front Pages - Volume 2 - 1971-1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1972
- Sexual Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1972
- Speaking and Language
Defence of Poetry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1972
Goodman writes, "I do not think there can be a rule for the appropriate use of formal or vernacular language...The best is to try for a vernacular that molds itself to what is going on and to use it critically".
- Study No. 22
Task Force on Labour Relations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1972
- The Three Baby Woodpeckers
A Cuban Fairy-Tale
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1972
A Cuban fairytale originally published in Bohemia in 1971.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1972.
- Transformation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1972
A magazine on the theory and practice of social change. Four issue were published in 1971 and 1972. Copies of all issues are in the Connexions Archive.
- A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
The seminal text of the movement which was later characterized as liberation theology.
- Liberation - Volume 15, Number 5 - October 1971
What is Class Consciousness?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A special issue featuring Wilhelm Reich's "What is Class Consciousness," with an introductory article "Reich, Cultural Revolution, and the New Left" by Bruce and Kathy Brown.
- Liberation - Volume 19, Number 7 - December 1975
The Biggest Fight in Town
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Workers' Control is More than Just That
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
One perspective on workers control is that it will never be won while capitalism prevails and must be fought for precisely for that reason. Gorz shares this view and argues that, when we speak of workers' control, we speak of the capability of the workers' to take control of the process of production and to organize the working process as they think best.
- Yes Virginia, There is a Dossier Z
Media and the Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The Strikebreakers Go on Strike... Police Militancy vs. Labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
The article excerpted here explains the reactionary and anti-labor nature of the 1971 New York City patrolmen's strike and of the police themselves. The article is reprinted from Workers’ Action (No. 8, April-May 1971), precursor of Workers Vanguard.
- Transformation
Vol.1 No.2 March-April 1971
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Transformation Volume 1, Number 2
March - April 1971
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Campus Centre Project
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- U of T silent, while activist groups burn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
On the break-in at the Praxis Institute, and the university's attitude to this and other issues in the community.
- Alienation
Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Ollman reconstructs Marx's theory of alienation from its constituent parts and offers it as a vantage point from which to view the rest of Marxism. The book further contains a detailed examination of Marx's philosophy of internal relations, the much neglected logical foundation of his method, and provides a systematic account of Marx's conception of human nature.
- Alternate Society
Volume 3, Number 7 - October - November 1971
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The Americana Annual 1971
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- America's War in Indochina
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
There is no special reason for America's intervention in Indochina, apart from her general policy of intervening anywhere in the world in order to prevent political and social changes that would be detrimental to the so-called 'free world,' and particularly to the power which dominates it.
- The Anarchists
The men who shocked an era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
The history and ideology of anarchism.
- Antinomy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Antinomy was a free bi-weekly newspaper published by and for high school and university students in Toronto.
- Any Word Marksmen in the House?
The Uncertain Mirror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
On labelling and stereotyping in the media. This article first appeared in the January 1971 issue of Content magazine (Issue #3).
- Bakunin on Anarchy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
An anthology of Bakunin's writings.
- Brother
A forum for men against sexism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
An anthology of personal and political writings. There is one copy (No.11-12) of this periodical in the Connexions Archive.
- Building Freedom: Mozambique's Frelimo
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
This pamphlet presents the philosophy, purposes and programs of FRELIMO, the Mozambique Liberation Front.
- Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
An Indian History of the American West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A well documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian.
- The Business of the Country is Selling Out the Country
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
The sale of Ryerson Press and other things.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1971.
- Cabbagetown: A Working Class District
Hugh Garner's novel revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Cabbagetown Diary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A novel.
- Campus politics - Class politics
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A booklet on campus politics at the University of Toronto published by the University of Toronto Communist Club in 1971.
- Canadian Textbooks and the American Knowledge Industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A look into the industry of textbooks in America and the effect on Canadians.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1971.
- Capital: A Readable Introduction to Volume I
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Card players and Story Tellers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Describes some of the collective folkways of the rural poor who have been excluded from many of the blessings and the curses of advanced capitalism.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1971.
- Children's Play and Official Playgrounds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Childrens Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The Chinese Road to Socialism
Economics of the Cultural Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Class Bias in Toronto Schools
Downtown Kids Aren't Dumb: They Need A Better Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A brief by the Park School community council addressing the streaming of poor and working class children into the bottom levels of the school system. These children, the brief says, have badly developed basic skills, particularly in reading and writing. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
- The Class Nature of Israel
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Israeli society is not merely a society of immigrants; it is one of settlers. The society, including its working class, was shaped through a process of colonization. The permanent conflict between the settlers' society and the indigenous, displaced Palestiniann has never stopped and has shaped the very strcuture of Israeli sociology, politics, and economics.
- The Closing Circle
Man, Technology & the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Commoner argues that economic life must be structured to conform to the principles of ecology, as opposed to the goal of unlimited growth that underpins capitalist economies.
- The Coming of the New International
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Communism Takes China
How the Revolution Went Red
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A short history of Chinese history from 1911 to 1949.
- The Complete American-Jewish Cookbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Conversation with Allende
Socialism in Chile
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Counter-Planning on the Shop Floor
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- "Culture", Science and State-Capitalism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Neither culture nor science can lead lives separate from the economic realities of the societies which nurture them. Science and culture, even as they are procliamed to be the harbingers of revolutionary change, are being used today by the existing social order to preserve itself.
- Culture Shock in a Vancouver Suburb
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Jim Harding's cultural experiences in a Vancouver suburb.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1971.
- The Decline of Working Class Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Defend Yourself With Karate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Diplomacy and its Discontents
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Do Children Have a Culture of Their Own?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
An interview with Richard Lewis. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1971.
- Down the Up Staircase
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
In this pamphlet, Richard Rothstein breaks some new and valuable ground for those developing a detailed critique of our urban school systems. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1971.
- Drug Control in the Classroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
An article about drug control in the classroom by Satu Repo.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
- Early Days on the Great Lakes
The Art of William Armstrong
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Paintings and sketches of the Great Lakes and the poeple who lived there, most of them from the 1850s to 1870s.
- Editorial Cartoons 1971
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Encyclopedia of Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Essays on the Left
Essays in Honour of T.C. Douglas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Essays collected as a tribute to T.C. Douglas on the occasion of his retirement ad leader of the New Democratic Party.
- The Fallacy of "Community Control"
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
The idea of community control which proceeds from a geographic definition of community contains the serious fallacy of assuming that any neighbourhood is or can becomes a community (of equals). This fallacy leads to the consequent, easily documented failure to achieve any fundational -- or even minor, for that matter -- social changes. The community control advocates themselves recognize the failures, but they do not understand the cause: the lack of class analysis upon which an adequate theory can be built to guide one's practice.
- The Female Eunuch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Feminism and "The Female Eunuch"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A review of the book Germaine Greer's book "The Female Eunuch." Originally published in International Socialist Review.
- Format and Communications
Chapter 9 of 'Speaking and Language: Defence of Poetry'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx
1843 to Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Mandel discusses the development of Marx's economic ideas from their beginning to the completion of the Grundrisse. He combines a historical retrospective and a review of curent discussions on each of the subjects and problems central to Marxist economic theory.
- The Fourth International, Stalinism and the Origins of the International Socialists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- FRELIMO: Interview with Marcelino dos Santos
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Gargoyle - Special Quebec issue
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Special issue on Quebec published by Gargoyle, the student newspaper at University College, University of Toronto.
A copy of this publication is in the Connexions Archive.
- Getting the Words Back to the Kids
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A classroom report by a language arts consultant.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
- Good Writing and Speaking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Group Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A study of couples who engage in mate-swapping and group sex.
- Historical Revolutionary Songs
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The History of Quebec
A Patriote's Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A short sketch of Quebec history seem within a framework of opressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, exploiter and epxloited.
- The House of Horrors that Jack Built
A look at early childhood literature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Inside City Hall, The Years of Opposition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Intimate Behaviour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- An Introduction to Capitalism
Four lectures on Marxian Economies
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Italy: Womein in the Fiat Factory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
An article was written by a Turin collective working on the problems of women employed by Fiat, originally published in Lotta Continua, February 1970. Underlying this article is the idea that the significance of a fight in one department within a factory, for instance, or strata within the working class, in this case women, can only be understood in terms of the relationship between this particular point of struggle and others.
- Just a Little Pill to Keep a Kid Quiet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
An article about drug control in the classroom by Roger Rapoport.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
- Keep on truckin'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Mac Brockway analyes the machinations of unions in maintaining order in the workplace, with particular focus on a small dispute in the truck driving industry in New York.
- Ladies and Gentlemen Lenny Bruce!!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A biography of the controversial comedian.
- A letter of resignation
I refuse to brainwash Canadian students
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Liberation - Volume 20, Number 1 - Fall 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Life on the Line
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Working on an assembly line in an auto plant.
- Makers of our Daily Bread
An interview with two bakery workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Manual respecting the Authority and Duties of Peace Officers in Relation to arrest and pre-trial rel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Mass Communications and American Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
An in-depth look at international and domestic media, and the effect of capitalism on mass communications.
- The Maul and the Pear Tree
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The Modern Prince
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- New Democratic Youth Info Bulletin
Convention Issue October 1971
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The New York Times International Cook Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- No Futher Retreat
The Fight to Save Florida
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Now you see, said Mark
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Virginia Kidd examines first-grade readers using the Harper & Row Basic Reading program to show the implications of their rhetoric.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1971.
- The Old Mole News
Texpack and the Fall Offensive
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- On the Transition to Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Essays discussing the economic, social, and political aspects of the attempt to create a new society after the governmental power of the old has been destroyed and replaced. Central to the discussion is the possibility that the policies adopted by the new governments under the stress of economic and political difficulties may result in the creation of a new capitalist in "statist" forms.
- One night in the Life of the Toronto School Board
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A recount of a Toronto School Board meeting by Loren Lind.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
- Organize! My Life as a Union Man
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The Organizer's Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Practical suggestions for small-group and grassroots organizing, political self-e4ducation, mass education and communications, alternate community services, mass actions, legal and medical self-defense. Strategies for organizing high schools, universities, racial groups, women, the military, labor, the professions.
- Organizing "The Poor" - Against The Working Class
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
The newly found "poor" have become a focus for middle class activists. Having learned in the schools and universities that the working class either did not exist or that if it existed, it was co-opted and apathetic and could not possible act as the agent for social change, they found it "refreshing" to locate this new constituency.
- The People's History of Cape Breton
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
The story of the working people of Cape Breton: a history of hte common people, of their day-to-day fight to improve their working conditions and their struggle to build a better way of life.
- The People's History of Cape Breton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A story of the working people of Cape Breton.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
- Photography and the Powerless
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A critique of photographers who come to exploit "the poor."
- Plainsongs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The Politics of Subterfuge
Year's End at the Toronto Board
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Loren Lind's thoughts on the need forradical change in the school system.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1971.
- Post Scarcity Anarchism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Modern radicals, says Bookchin, have ignored the real revolutionary possibilities of modern technology and the counterculture. Unless they start building a movement which looks to the future, they are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.
- The poverty of sociology
A review of James Lorimer's "Working People"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
For Marx and Engels, there was a direct relationship between the revolutionary (literally subversive) nature of their socialism and the principle of emancipation-from-below, the principle that, as Engels wrote, "there is no concern for ... gracious patronage from above."
Marxism, as the theory and practice of the proletarian revolution, therefore also had to be the theory and practice of the self-emancipation of the proletariat. Its essential originality flows from this source.
- The Professionalization of History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
The professionalization of history in the US and Canada.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1971.
- The Rabbit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Adapted from a diary kept by Joan Klyhn.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1971.
- The Radical Therapist
Therapy means change not adjustment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
The contributors to this anthology proceed from the premise that therapy should be a means of liberation rather than a tool of social control.
- Red on White
The Biography of Duke Redbird
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Revolutionary Priest
The Complete Writings & Messages of Camilo Torres
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
The writings and speeches of Camilo Torres, a radical priest turned guerrilla who was killed in 1966.
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Rules for Radicals
A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Alinsky's Rules for Radicals provides perspectives, principles and lessons for realistic radical organizers.
- Rumours of War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The Sensuous Couple
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The Sensuous Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- She Named It Canada
Because that's what it was called
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
An illustrated history of Canada.
- The Socialist Register 1971
Volume 8: A survey of movements and ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
Part I: Class conflict in the workplace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Steal This Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A guide to fighting government and corporations. The book is divided into three sections, "Survive!", "Fight!" and "Liberate!"
- The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A collection of Leon Trotsky's writings on the situation in Germany from 1930 to 1940. From 1930 on Trotsky sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Germany, and warned that the policies of the Communist Party and the Social Democrats were likely to lead to disaster. He urged a common front, mobilizing the German working class regardless of party affiliation, against the Nazis.
- The Struggle for Quebec
Spokesman Pamphlet No. 13
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Essays analyzing class struggles in Quebec in, and leading up to, 1971.
- Student Protest at Darthmouth, Nova Scotia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Student protest at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1971.
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 5, Number 1 - Winter 1971
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 5, Number 2
Spring 1971 issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 5, Number 3 - Summer 1971
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 5, Number 4 - Fall/Winter 1971
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Toward an Authentic Canadian Left
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Recent developments have only further revealed what has been evident for a long time, namely, the impotence and irrelevance of the Canadian left; the fact that it is minute, factionalized and unable to mobilize people around critical issues, or day-to-day problems.
- Transformation
Vol.1 No.1 January-February 1971
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Transformation Volume 1, Number 3
Summer 1971
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Travels in Nihilon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The Trembling of a Leaf
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Two Miners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
An interview with two miners, one in Sudbury, Canada, and one in Sweden.
- Unbecoming Men
A Men's Consciousness-Raising Groups Writes on Oppression and Themselves
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Members of a men's group attempt to trace their experiences back to their roots, discovering how they learned to be male and sexist.
- The Urban Landscape
A Study of Open Space in Urban Metropolitan Areas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- The Varsity 1970-1971
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Weatherman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A history of the Weatherman organization.
- What will you be when you grow up?
Resource Type: Letter
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Letters on education and revolutionary action.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1971.
- White Niggers of America
The Boyhood of Pierre Vallières
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
The boyhood of Pierre Vallières. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1971.
- Woodstock (one more time)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Working Class Communism
A Review of the Literature
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Working People
Life in a Downtown City Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
A description of the Don Vale neighbourhood of downtown Toronto in the 1960s.
- Working Women in Ontario
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Zur Strategie und Organisation von "Lotta Continua"
Internationale Marxistische Diskussion 18
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
- Brother
A forum for men against sexism - No. 11-12
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Published: 1875
An anthology of personal and political writings.
- Canada: How the Communists Took Control
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Explains how the Communists took control of Canada without anyone noticing.
- The Economics of Discrimination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Published: 1971
Mr. Becker's work confronts the economic effects of discrimination in the market place because of race, religion, sex, color, social class, personality, or other non-pecuniary considerations. He demonstrates that discrimination in the market place by any group reduces their own real incomes as well as those of the minority.
- Harbinger
Volume 3, Number 10
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Counter-culture newspaper.
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Conquest of the Incas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 2003
This work of history removes the Incas from the realm of legend and shows the reality of their struggles against the Spanish invasion.
- Content magazine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1992
Content magazine was a Canadian magazine about journalism published in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
- Reservations Are For Indians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1991
Describes the vicious circle of dependence created by government policies which ensnare aboriginal Canadians, combining an account of life in four reserve communities with a history of government policies and programmes.
- French for Travellers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1985
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and Other Clinical Tales.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1985
- Seven News Selected Front Pages 1970 - 1985
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1985
- White Racism
A Psychohistory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1984
Kovel probes the deep psychological and historical embedments of racism in Western civilization.
- Conference Planning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1982
- Guide to Personal Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1980
- Root & Branch
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1979
A libertarian socialist journal.
- A Start in Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1978
- Canon Reflex Guide
A focal camera guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1977
- Old Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1977
- The Communist Movement
From Comintern to Cominform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1975
- The Irrational in Politics
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1975
The Irrational in Politics examines the way in which we have been programmed by social and sexual patterns of the dominant ideology. The result is mass produced individuals incapable of automous thought and perpetually craving authority and leadership. In this light he looks as well at the sexual revolution and the failure of the Russian Revolution. His aim is to allow the ordinary individual to aquire insight into their own phychic structure and in doing so become harmonised with their own deep aspirations and desires.
- The St. Lawrence Valley
The Illustrated Natural History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1975
- Design for the Real World
Human Ecology and Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1973
While two-thirds of the world's population lives in poverty, valuable human and natural resources are used to produce: fur-covered toilet seats, electronic nail polish dryers, diapers for parakeets, and mink-oil fertilizer for "the plant that has everything." Papanek discusses why the things you buy are expensive, badly designed, unsafe, and often don't work. He proposes alternative ways of thinking and alternative designs for safe, inexpensive, and desperately needed products.
- Ghost Stories
The Sixth Fontana Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1973
- Our Bodies Our Selves
A course by and for women
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1973
- A Pocket Guide to Chess Endgames
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1973
- Towards a New Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1973
A collection of papers presented at the Frist International Telos Conference, October 8 - 11, 1970, in Waterloo, Ontario.
- Even Revolutionaries Like Chocolate Chip Cookies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1972
- Just a French Major from the Bronx
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1972
- The Uncertain Mirror
Report of the Special Senate Commitee on Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1972
- The Uncertain Mirror
Report of the Special Senate Commitee on Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1972
- With the Guerillas in Angola
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1972
- Against Dogmatism and Sectarianism in the Working-Class Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1971
- Khrushchev Remembers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1971
- Revolutionary Nonviolence
Essays by Dave Dellinger
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1971
Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
- Seven News Front Pages - Volume 1 - 1970-1971
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1971
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Radical America - Volume 4, No. 6 - September - October 1970
Special Lenin-Hegel Issue
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Harbinger
Volume 3, Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Counter-culture newspaper
- The Adversaries: Politics and the Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Alternate Society
Volume 2, Number 3 - July 1970
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Americana Annual 1970
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Anglo-American Cataloging Rules
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Apple of the Automatic Zebra's Eye
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Application to Everdale
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Bill Goldfinch reflects on his application to work as an English teacher at Everdale School.
- The Arctic Coast
The Illustrated Natural History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- At War With Asia
Essays on Indochina
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Noam Chomsky examines the many effects of America's war in Indochina and tries to answer the questions that underlie this conflict.
- The Atlantic Coast
The Illustrated Natural Historyof Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Avant Garde 11
John Lennon's Erotic Lithographs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Bad Trip
The Untold Story of the Spadina Expressway
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Banned Books
Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Bertrand Russell and Industrial Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Bertrand Russell's Last Message
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
- The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control
The State and Counter-Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A pamphlet exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic Leninist "history" of the relationship between the working class and their party during these years (1917-21) but it also provides a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed in the way it did. From this understanding flows alternative possibilities of revolutionary organization.
- Campus Centre Project Manifesto
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Canada: A Regional Analysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Canada's First Century
1867 - 1967
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- La Causa
The California Grape Strike
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A documentary of the California grape workers' strike.
- Cegeps, Charlebois, Chartrand: The Quebec Revolution Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
An interview with Dimitri Roussopoulos, editor of "Our Generation," a radical new left quarterly published in Montreal. Roussopoulos discusses the state of student protest and campus unrest in Quebec.
- The Children's Crusade
The Story of the Company of Young Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Close the 49th Parallel Etc
The Americanization of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
The increasing Americanization of Canada is now evident to all, and it is also becoming evident that the elites in Canada have been anxious to avoid any confrontation of this fact or any examination of its consequences. This collection of essays attempts to display some of the effects of US corporate imperialism and the permissive policy of its Canadian supporters, to analyse the the ideologies involved, to explain the social, economic and political costs of the process, and to suggest how it might be reversed.
- Communists Should Be the Advanced Elements of the Proletariat
In Commemoration of the 49th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Community Control of the Schools
In New York and Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
George Martell believes that community control of schools is a complicated and difficult thing to achieve. He makes suggestions for organization of different structures using New York City schools as an example.
- Coup d'etat
A Practical Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Creating Decorating on a Budget
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Death of the State in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Surveys the thinking of Marx and Engels on the 'dying-away' of the state in socialist (communist) society.
- The Dialectics of Community Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
The movement for community control will fall short often, unless it becomes a broader struggle for popular, democratic control of all public institutions and the economy.
- Do It
Scenarios of the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Economy of Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Ideas about what makes cities rich or poor, how cities grow, and how city growth affects national economies.
- Ecotactics
The Sierra Club Handbook for Environment Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Empire and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Enemy
Notes on Imperialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Energy Poker Game
The Politics of the Continental Resources Deal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Eye for an Eye
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Four inmates talk about the American penal system over 50 years of rehabilitation and the corruption inherent of the prison system.
- A Field Guide to the Insects of America North of Mexico
Peterson Field Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Detailed descriptions of insect orders, families, and many individuals species. 1300 drawings.
- Five Lectures
Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- For a Socialist Ontario in an Independent Socialist Canada
Resolutions prepared for the Ontario New Democratic Party Convention, October, 1970 by the Ontario Waffle Movement
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
- The Free People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
In an excerpt from the book "The Free People," Peter Marin discusses the idea of freedom in both the context of his own life and in Americam society.
- Freud and Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Good, Bad, or Simply Inevitable?
Report of the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media, Vol. III
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Great Conspiracy Trial
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Great Lakes
The Illustrated Natural History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Group of Seven
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Paintings, commentary, and history of the Group of Seven.
- Harbinger
Volume 2, Number 13
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Counter-culture newspaper.
- Hard Times
An Oral History of The Great Depression
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
In a series of interviews, Studs Terkel captures a mosaic of memories of the Great Depression in the United States.
- The High School Revolutionaries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Two young teachers travel across America gathering the views of young high school radicals.
- The Higher Circles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Hip Culture: 6 Essays on its Revolutionary Potential
Yippie, Third World, Feminist, Marxist, High School Student, Anarchist
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Asks whether hip culture is making demands that cannot be accommodated by the system, or whether it promotes a 'do your own thing' ideology that can easily be co-opted?
- History of the Second World War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- How People Get Power
Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
- Ice
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
An underground revolutionary group wages guerilla warfare against a fictionalized fascist regime.
- Ideology and Insanity
Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
In the prennial conflict that is life, control of the weak by the strong is justified by a rhetoric appropriate to the prevailing ideology. In the 20th century, the credo is Mental Health, and in its name those who deviate from accepted social norms are often victimized and dehumanized. Szasz shows how psychiatry too often servers as a convenient way of avoiding confrontations with moral conflicts and social problems.
- I'm a PhD. Who Needs the PhD?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Important Documents on the Great Proletarion Cultural Revolution in China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Indians and Babies: Some OISE Projects
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
An exploration of how the Ontario Insitute for Studies in Education spends its million dollar Provincial Government grant.
- The Indochina Story
A Fully Documentary Account
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Information War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A thorough study of Valencian irrigation and society.
- Keeping Our Politics Sensual
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Sarah Spinks' experiences of opening a Day Care Centre in Toronto which was also to be a community.
- Knots
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Law, law, law
A Down-to-Earth Citizen's Manual on the Laws You Most Frequently Encounter
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Left at the Post
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Lenin on War and Peace
Three Articles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Let's Cook It Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Letters from Goodman, Dennison and Davis, Martell and Repo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
These writers and teachers enagage in a written dialogue on the current state of free schools.
- The Liberal Rip Off
Trudeauism vs The Politics of Equality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Broadbent analyzes the Liberal government headed by Pierre Trudeau, and counterposes a political direction toward equality.
- Life with me Greenaway
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Tod Greenway reflects on his experience and struggles in raising a mentally challenged son.
- Linguistic and Cultural Affiliations of Canadian Indian Bands
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Indian Affairs Branch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Manifesto - Ecology Action East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Root and Branch puts forward a communist approach to environmental issues.
- The Manufacture of Madness
A Comparitive Study of the Inquisition & the Mental Health Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Szasz believees that the concept of mental illness is misued as part of a struggle for power.
- Marcuse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Marxism and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
- Marx's Theory of Alienation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Meszaros provides a comprehensive treatment of Marx's theory of alienation by surveying Marx's work as a whole. In doing so, he argues against the commonly held distinction between a young philosophically-oriented Marx and a mature economics-oriented Marx.
- Mass Media: The Uncertain Mirror - Vol. I
Report of the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Die Massenstreikdebatte
Arbeiterbewegung Theorie und Geschicthe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Mastering Witchcraft
A Practical Guide For Witches, Warlocks, and Covens
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Masters and Johnson Explained
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Mirage Montage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A project that English professor David Grey gave to his students to produce a scenario or script using provided poems and audio visual materials.
- The Natural Superiority of Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The New Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The New Left in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A book of essays on the 1960s New Left in Canada, by members of the New Left.
- 1919
Red Mirage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
An account of the rebellion and counter-rebellion that spread across Europe in 1919.
- Notes on the postal strike, 1970
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Root and Branch on the wildcat strike of US postal workers in 1970 and its implications.
- The Nuremberg Rallies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Odysseus Ever Returning
Essays on Canadian writers and writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- An Ojibwa Girl in the City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Edna Manitouwabi describes her upbringing in an off-reserve Catholic boarding school and moving to Toronto.
- Old left, new left, what's left?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Paul Mattick Jr. takes a look at the 'New Left' and student movement at the end of the 1960s.
- Old Left, New Left, What's Left?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Paul Mattick Jr. takes a look at the 'New Left' and student movements at the end of the 1960s.
- On Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- On Wielding the Subversive Scalpel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
In subversion, we leave behind the interminable argument between the good bureaucrats & the bad ones. By subversion we do not mean, as in its common usage, "overthrowing the government" & replacing it with ourselves. We mean undermining the very addiction, the sick, junkie-like need, to govern or be governed at all. In the end / in the beginning, there are no leaders, no followers: there are only actors.
- On Workers' Control and the Nationalisation of Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Only Good Indian
Essays by Canadian Indians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
The authors of this book are native people, mostly young, from coast to coast in Canada. They are thoughtful, angry, poetic, full of a generous passion to improve their lives.
- Parent Effectiveness Training
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Describes communication skills that are useful in conflict situations (e.g., "I messages" and "active listening"). Written about conflicts with children, but universally applicable.
- Parents in the Schools
Community Control in Harlem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Interviews with members of community controlled schools in Harlem, New York: Sarah Tinsle is President of the Parent Teacher Association at her childrens' school in Harlem; Hobart Cope is Principal of the school; Audrey Golfinch is a teacher at the school
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Freire maintains that every human being, no matter or "ignorant" or submerged in the "culture of silence," is capable of looking critically at the world in a dialogical encounter with others, and that provided with the proper tools for such an encounter, can gradually perceive his personal and social reality and deal critically with it.
- The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
An anthology of poems, some by socialists, other by poets who do not identify themselves as socialist but who have written poetry reflecting a socialist sensibility.
- Point of view: Solidarity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Root and Branch introduce the British libertarian socialist group Solidarity to their American readers, appending the group's statement of principles, As We See It.
- The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
Hobbes to Locke
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A fundamental reinterpretation of political theory from Hobbes to Locke which emphasizes the role of liberal political theory in justifying the appropriation of property to private ownership.
- The Politics of War
The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1943-1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Politics & Policies of the Truman Administration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Pollution Probe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A collection of interviews, meditations and reflections on the current American prison system from the perspectives of past and current inmates. Berrigan, a political prisoner in Connecticut, shares thoughts about his radical activities, the inadequacy of the legal system, the failure of the prison system to rehabilitate, the meaning of true church reform, and the future of the radical movement in the US.
- Push Comes to Shove
The Escalation of Student Protest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Diary of Kelman's undergraduate years at Harvard during times of SDS-led student protest.
- The Real World of City Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A report about what is going on -- and what is going wrong -- in Canada's cities. Urban reneewal, public housing, downtown schools, citizen participation, highrise development, city politicians.
- Reclaiming the Canadian economy
A Sweddish approach through functional Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Reflections on the Revolution in France: 1968
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
In May 1968 France was on the threshold of something entirely new. In this 'pre-revolutionary situation' nothing went unquestioned. The writers, trade unionists and students who contribute to this volume all believe our future is foreshadowed in the events of May. And they explain why, after this shock to a regime of seemingly impregnable strength, things can never be the same again.
- The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
An attempt to elucidate "classical anarchism," a la Proudhon, Kropotkin, etc., so as to repudiate "neo-anarchism," with its emphasis on "escapist individualism" and "action for the sake of action."
- The Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Review: The American Working Class in Transition by Kim Moody
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Joel Stein reviews Kim Moody's book on the American working class in transition for Root & Branch No. 1, 1970, dealing in particular with Moody's take on the unions.
- The Revolution Game
The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A historical overview of the Company of Young Canadians.
- Revolutionary Politics and the Cuban Working Class
Torchbook Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A study of Cuban workers after consolidation of the Castro regime.
- Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
- Russia, China and the West 1953-1966
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Essays on the history of the Soviet Union and its role in the world from the death of Stalin to Khrushchev's fall and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
- A Sand County Almanac
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Schools, Lanugage and the National Liberation Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Stan Gray discusses the student protests over the issue of French unilingualism, where French would be the official language used in all schools, public institutions and work places.
- Selected Works
Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Shall We Copy the Russians?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A review of Urie Bronfenbrenner's book, "Two Worlds of Childhood U.S. and U.S.S.R."
- She Was Stan's Girl...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Sharon Wolfson has been teaching seventh and eight grade girls an elective course, "The Role of Women in Society". The first assignment is to find a toy, book, advertisement or game that 'teaches you how to be a girl'.
- Silent Surrender
The multinational corporation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Levitt examines the historical background of foreign investment in Canada, its acceleration since the Second World War, and the nature of the intrusion into a sovereign state of the multinational corporation. she argues that recolonization by U.S. international corporations is rapidly transforming Canada into the world's richest under-developed country.
- Sisterhood is Powerful
An Anthology of Writing From the Women's Liberation Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
The first comprehensive collection of writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, including articles, poems, photographs, and manifestos.
- Socialism in Cuba
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Socialist Register 1970
Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Standing Fast
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Struggle for Socialism
Resource Type: Audio CD
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A socialist critique of late-60's/early-70's British society and economics, with emphasis on the distortion of resources' availability and use, as well as capitalism's inate predilection for war. Is concludes that the only recourse is socialist revolution.
- Summerhill: For and Against
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Essays discussing the ideas and pratice of A.S. Neill.
- Teaching and Rebellion at Union Springs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Patricia Michaels asserts that her students are ready to join a movement, but there is no movement for them to join.
- This Book Is About Schools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A collection of articles from This Magazine is About School containing many first person narratives that argue that the current school system is rife with inequality and repression. Repo points out that "free" schools have less freedom than most people expect. One theme that does emerge is that through the emergence of common responsiblities in the 'free" system adult and children alike have started to feel like members of a large intense clan -- they have begun to feel like citizens for the first time.
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 4, Number 2 - Spring 1970
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 4, Number 3 - Summer 1970
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 4, Number 4 - Fall 1970
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Toward a New Beginning - On Another Road
The Alternative to the Micro-Sect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
To Marx, any organization was a sect if it set up any special set of view (including Marx's views) as its organizational boundary; if it made this special set of views the determinant of its organizational form.
Neither Marx nor Engels ever formed or wanted to form a Marxist group of any kind - that is, a membership group based on an exclusively Marxist program. All of their organizational activity was pointed along a different road.
- Trailing the Founders, part 1
On Being a Second-Generation Bruder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
The first of a two part interview of Philip Hazelton recounting his childhood in the Bruderhof Community.
- Trailing the Founders, part 2
On Being a Second-Gernation Bruder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
The second of a two part interview with Philip Hazelton on his childhood in the Burderhof Community.
- Trial
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Trying to Teach Canadian History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Bob Davis describes teaching Canadian history the last school year, discussing the Canadian flag, the Quebec question, and the founding of Canada and unequal union.
- Twentieth Century Pacifism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Two Classes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Miriam Wasserman sometimes comes away from a visit to a school with the feeling of haVing been in an insane asylum where the deraNged are the keepers and the sane are kept.
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a "structureless" group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved.
- The Underside of Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Sociological essays on Toronto.
- Unfriendly skies - The air traffic controllers' sick-out, 1969
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Short article about the 1969 mass calling-in sick strike of air traffic controllers in the US over wages and conditions, and the new union of the workers, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization.
- The University-Military-Police Complex
A Directory and Related Documents
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Uses of Disorder
Personal Identity and City Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
An examination of the ways the modern city has failed, and an exploration of new modes of urban organization through which city life can become richer and more life-affirming.
- Usher in the Great 1970's
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Varsity 1969-1970
Bound volume
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Verdict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Vietnam
History, Documents, Opinions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
John Pilger's first film, The Quiet Mutiny, made in 1970 for the British current affairs series World in Action, broke the sensational story of insurrection by American drafted troops in Vietnam. In his classic history of war and journalism, The First Casualty, Phillip Knightley describes Pilger's revelations as among the most important reporting from Vietnam. The soldiers' revolt – including the killing of unpopular officers – marked the beginning of the end for the United States in Indo-China.
- Voices of Poetry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Women: Caste, Class or Oppressed Sex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
The author traces the sources of women's oppression, and outlines her understanding of the Marxist approach to its origins. Originally published in International Socialist Review.
- The Women of the Telephone Company
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Women's Liberation: Notes from the Second Year
Major Writings of the Radical Feminists
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Words, Music, and Dollars
Report of the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media, Volume II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Youth Communes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
A short survey of American youth communes of the late 1960s.
- Deschooling Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- The Mysterious East
An independent Atlantic magazine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
A magazine published in Atlatnic Canada in the early 1970s. There are 12 copies of this periodical in the Connexions Archive.
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- La tyrannie d'une absence de structure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Published: 1970
- Waffle News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Newsletter of the Waffle movement which was part of the NDP (New Democratic Party) until 1972, and then operated autonomously for a while.
- New Development in Northern Ontario
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- My 60 Memorable Games
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 2008
- The Unjust Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1999
Attacks Canada's governments for their treatment of Native People and calls for just solutions.
- The Penguin History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1988
- The Illustrated Book of Food Plants
A guide to the fruit, vegetables, herbs and spices of the world
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1985
- Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1983
A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
- The Struggle for Mozambique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1983
Eduardo Mondlane, first President of FRELIMO, completed this classic study of his country and the history of his people's struggle against colonial rule only months before his assassination by the Portugese secret police in 1969. Out of print now for many years, Zed Press is reissuing it with two additions: an introduction by Dr. John Saul, and a biographical sketch by Professor Herbert Shore.
- The Chairman's New Clothes
Mao and the Cultural Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1981
Analyzes the Chinese "cultural revolution" as a power struggle through which Mao Zedong sought to regain control of the party.
- The Left Hand of Darkness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1977
A 1969 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. Le Guin's introduction to the 1976 publication of the book identifies Left Hand of Darkness as a "thought experiment" to explore society without men or women, where individuals share the biological and emotional makeup of both sexes.
- An Opposing Man
The Autobiography of a Romantic Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1974
The memoirs on Ernst Fischer, a socialist literary and art critic.
- Peace in the Middle East?
Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1974
An analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict arguing for socialist bi-nationalism as the way out of the morass.
- The Rebel Church In Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1974
- Garden & Patio Building Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1973
- On Unions and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1973
Written during the wave of workers' struggles known as the Italian hot autumn of 1969, when the autonomous struggles of the working class reached an unprecedented level, laying bare the character and function of the unions.
- Revolutionary Organization
Versus Bureaucratic and "Democratic" Centralism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1973
An advocacy for democratic, "uncentred" socialism as an antidote to Stalinist repression, elitism by workers' leadership and blindness to the "understandings of today's reality." Also included is a short article by Anton Pennekoek, on "Party and Class".
- Selected Works
Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1973
- Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1972
An essay from the collection entitled From Rouseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society, First published as Ideologia e Societá by Editori Laterza, Rome, Italy.
- Brazil: The People and The Power
The Pelican Latin American Library
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1972
A study of the economy and recent political developments of Brazil. A lengthy chapter on the Brazilian economy is interesting as an example of the impact of imperialism on a 'Third World' nation.
- On Organization
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1972
The authors argue that political groups, whether large or small, formal or informal, hierarchical or not, can only be a hindrance to revolutionary developments.
- The School Movement in Rome
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1972
From New Left Review March/April 1969.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1972.
- Listen, Marxist!
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1971
Murray Bookchin takes on the 'Marxist-Leninists' who are destroying the New Left.
- New Reformation
Notes of a Neolithic Conservative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1971
Goodman says: "For green grass and clean rivers, children with bright eyes and good color whatever the color, people safe from being pushed around so they can be themselves -- for a few things like these, I find I am pretty ready to think away all other political economic, and technological advantages."
- The Political Economy of Youth
Youth as Class
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1971
The tremdneous power of the youth movement today is that it is not a "generational conflict" but a social conflict. To the old generational consciousness there has been added a true class consciousness among young people.
- Return To The Chateau
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1971
- Summer of the Black Sun
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1971
- A Child's Garden of Grass
The Official Handbook for Marijuana Users
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1970
A humourous examination of the world of marijuana and marijuana users.
- The Cultural Revolution in China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1970
- Erotic Fantasies
A Study of the Sexual Imagination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1970
- The Godfather
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1970
- Going Down Fast
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1970
- Growing up Jewish
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1970
- History of Violence in America
A Report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1970
A study of violence in the United States which seeks to determine how violence became part of America life.
- Inside the Third Reich
Memoirs by Albert Speer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1970
- Key Problems of the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1970
- Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution
Essays on the Development of Underdevelopment and the Immediate Enemy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1970
It is the colonial structure of world capitalism, in Frank's view, which produced and maintains the underdevelopment characteristic of Latin America and the rest of the Third World.
- Norma Jean
The Life of Marilyn Monroe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1970
- The Present Moment in Education
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1970
- Marxist Projections
Some Post-Marxist Projections for the Next Third- to Half-Century (Draft Phantasy)
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Harbinger
Volume 2, Number 12
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Counter-culture newspaper.
- Harbinger
Volume 2, Number 11
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Counter-culture newspaper
- The Inconsistencies of State Capitalism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Our Generation
Volume 6 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Can the Ruling Class Shape History?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Originally entitled "Vietnam: Endless War".
- The Economics of Social Disorder
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Presented at the 1969 College Editors Conference of the US Students Press Association, February 13, 1969, in Washington D.C.
- The Role of Socialist Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
An essay from 1969, of historical interest of the New Left in Australia, discussing the role of socialist intellectuals as agents of radical change. The essay is the text of a talk delivered in early 1969, and it alarmed Australian security interests of the day.
- The ABC of National Liberation Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war - not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
- The Absorption of Surplus
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
This pamphlet is a chapter from Monopoly Capital, by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy.
- The Agony of the American Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
A series of essays analyzing the issues facing socialism in the United States.
- Alternate Society
Volume 2, Number 2 - November 1969
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- American Power and the New Mandarins
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
- The Americana Annual 1969
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Aurally, We're Illiterates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
In school, one of the most important, most unseen things you do is write words. Our society has changed over time from oral to script. Have we lost our aural abilities in the process?
- Birth of a revolutionary movement in Yugoslavia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
1969 pamphlet by Fredy Perlman on the beginnings of the 1968 revolutionary movement in Yugoslavia.
- Build a Base in the Working Class
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Burning Issues of the Mideast Crisis
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Canada: A Year of the Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Canadian Sleep and the Student Left
Thoughts for the CUS Seminar May 1969
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
A paper prepared for the Canadian Union of Students Seminar May 1969
- Carry the Great Revolution on the Journalistic Front Through to the End
Repudiating the Counter-Revolution Revisionist Line of Journalism of China's Khrushchov
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Children of the Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
An 1960s account o communal child-rearing in Israeli kibbutzim.
- China's Renminbi
One of the Few Most Stable Currencies in the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Chocolate Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Reflections on a visit to the Milton Hershey School, a free, private, co-residential school in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
- Christopher's Movie Matinee
A Review by Christina Whyte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Seventeen year old Point Blank School student Christina Whyte reviews the National Film Board production "Christopher's Movie Matinee". Whyte screened the film at Point Blank and Everdale Schools and provides excerpts of the students' reactions.
- Civilisation
A Personal View
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Commando
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Constitution of the Communist Party of China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- CP Caps and Spelling.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Cuba's Revolutionary Medicine
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Day they Turned Off the Falls
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Mai 68 - Debut d'une Luttle Prolongeé
Posters from the Revolution, Paris May 1968
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Delta of Venus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Dichtung und Wahrheit
Zweiter Teil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Documents on the Confederation of British North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Economic Transformation of Cuba
A First-Hand Account
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The English Speak English and the Zucaninos Zulan Zucanino
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
John Carroll describes his experiences of making up a language called Zucanino in the school where he works.
- An Essay on Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Fight for the Further Consolidation of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
In Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Frail Ocean
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Freedom Not Licence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
The staging of a question and answer scenario between puzzled parents and the director of an imagined free school, Mr. Oh Yes Zeal.
- French New Working Class Theories
From Radical America April 1969
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Freudian Left
Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Paul Robinson tries to define a particular tradition in the history of psychoanalysis - the "radical" or "left-wing" tradition - through an analysis of its three most important representatives: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, and Herbert Marcuse.
- Fun and Profit with Screen Printing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Gandhi's Truth
On the origins of militant nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
- General Strike France 1968
A factory-by-factory account
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with reference to case studies of particular factories.
- George Martell Writes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
George Martell responds to Marjaleena Repo's response to his article "What Can I Do Right Now?: Notes from Point Blank School on the Canadian Dilemma".
- Gestapo
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Get fit and keep fit
A Physical Fitness and Training Guide for Young Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Getting On With It
Or - Riel Reports to an Allegorical Meeting of Revolutionary Shades Near Moose Jaw
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Papers, and extracts of papers, compiled by the Canadian Union of Students, presenting a systematic look at Canadian political economy and Canada's socio-cultural environment.
- Going to Chicago
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Jim Allen describes Chicago as a city where millions of people are jammed into ghettos, denied purposeful employment, meaningful education, and protection from oppression.
- Half A Loaf
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Hanna Industrial Complex
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Haunted Fifties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
I.F. Stone reports on the 1950s in the United States, an era of political suppression, public apathy, the cold war, and the arms race.
- The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
- How Old Will You Be In 1984?
Expressions of Student Outrage from the High School Free Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Interpersonal Peacemaking: Confrontations and Third Party Consultation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Provides a model for diagnosing recurring conflict between two parties and shows how a third-party facilitator can help interrupt and resolve the conflict. The theory is demonstrated with three in-depth case studies drawn from standard work situations.
- Introduction to Reference Work: Vol. 1 Basic Information Sources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Introduction to Reference Work: Vol. I Basic Information Sources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Latin America: Undervelopment or Revolution
Essay on the Development of Undervelopment and the Immediate Enemy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Lenin Collected Works 41
1896 - October 1971
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Living the Revolution
The Yippies in Chicago
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
David Lewis Stein portrays the Yippie movement as a middle-class endeavour in which the leaders (Rubin and Hoffman) represent a new version of an old middle-class virtue: ambition. They are media savvy and know how to court the press and televison.
- Long March, Short Spring
The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
An examination of the world student rebellions of the late 1960s.
- The Mackenzie - Papineau Battalion
Canadian Participation in the Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
The story of over twelve hundred Canadians who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
- Macpherson's Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Madness in Society
Chapters in the Historical Sociology of Mental Illness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Mahatma: a Marxist Symposium
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Making of a Counter Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Roszak examines some of the leading influences on the youthful counter culture of the late 1960s - Herbert Marcuse and Norman Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Alan Watts, Timothy Leary and Paul Goodman -- and shows how each has helped call into question the conventional scientific world view and in so doing has set about undermining the foundations of the technocracy.
- Man for Himself
An Inguiry into the Psychology of Ethics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Fromm reaffirms the validity of humanistic ethics, to show that our knowledge of human nature does not lead to ethical relativism but, on the contrary, to the conviction that the sources of norms for ethical conduct are to found found in human nature itself.
- Mandel's Economics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Marx & Keynes
The Limits of the Mixed Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
According to Mattick, "Keynesianism merely reflects the transition of capitalism from its free-market to a state-aided phase and provides an ideology for those who mementarily profit by this transition. It does not touch upon the problems Marx was concerned with. As long as the capitalist mode of production prevails, Marxism will retain its relevance, since it concerns itself neither with one or another technique of capital production, nor with the social changes within the frame of capital production, but only with its final abolition".
- The Menace of Liberal Scholarship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Noam Chomsky builds upon Senator Fullbright's criticism of social science scholars which suggests that they have failed to act as independent critics of government policies and having instead become agents. Chomsky agrees with Fullbright that this phenomena betrays public trust and states that the subversion of scholarship is a threat to society as a whole. He reveals several causes of this subversion, for example the access to power, shared ideology, and professionalization. Through the presentation of the positions of numerous scholars, he explores this malady and points to the potential of the intellectual community to revolutionize this tradition of scholarship though a more humane, objective, and independent movement.
- More From Pacific High
Notes from an xprmentl school
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Jack Spicer explores the current obstacles and future plans for the experimental school Pacific High.
- Mr. Mosey is a Paper Tiger
An interview with Judy Dexter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Judy Dexter shares her experiences as a Grade 13 student at Forest Hill Collegiate in Toronto.
- Names, Graffiti and Culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Herbert Kohl discusses how rather than a furtive expression of the lives of the poor, young and disenfranchised, grafitti is a public monument which presents a challenge and a warning to the makers of stone, glass, and steel monuments.
- The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Necessary Russell
An Introduction to Bertrand Russell and the Russell Archive
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The New Left
A Collection of Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Essays from participants in the American New Left of the 1960s.
- New Left Caucus (Toronto Student Movement)
A Draft Manifesto
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Puts forward an alternative to Leninst factions which emerged in the Toronto Student Movement in 1968-1969. The authors state that "We consider ourselves, therefore, Marxists but not Leninists, though we are prepared to work with various shades of Leninists in struggling against the common enemy, capitalism and imperialism. At the same time, however, we will not be cowed over by those who seek to resurrect Comrade Stalin as a hero, or justify the suppression of the Kronstadt Revolut, or the invasion of Czechoslovakia, etc. Our conceprt of socialism is different, and though we have no worked out program as yet, we will not allow the vanguard formations to close our options for us.
- The New Left Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
An anthology of writings from the 1960s New Left.
- New Programme 1969
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (Documents)
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
The bulk of this publication consists of a 108-page Report to the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China by Party Vice-Chairman Lin Piao, "Chairman Mao's close comrade-in-arms." Four press communiques and the constitution of the party comprise the rest of little red book. Two years after this congress, Lin died in a mysterious plane crash, and it was announced that he had been a counter-revolutionary traitor.
- Open Politics and Community
An Everdale Parent Speaks to a School Meeting: Feb '69
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Staughton Lynd talks about the experience of being a parent of children at Everdale School.
- Our Generation
Volume 6 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Out of Your Mind: The New Anarchy
A Review by Satu Repo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Sat Repo reviews writings expressing the new mood in radical dissent emerging in advanced industrial nations - a mood which combines a revolf against all forms of social repression with an active search for a more humane, sensuous, and playful new lifestyle.
- Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Pelican History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Proposition 31
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Radicalism in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
American rebels and the causes for which they fought from 1620 to the 1960s.
- Reactions to Hall-Dennis
A Collection of Comments from the Point of View of the Secondary School
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Reading the Woods
Seeing More in Nature's Familiar Faces
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Looking benearth surface appearances to understand more about what is happening in the woods.
- A Reply to Martell's "Canadian Dilemma"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Marjaleena Repo argues that the articles published in the last issue of This Magazine is about Schools illustrate a committment to a specific middle class ideology.
- Report to the Ninth Nation Congress of The Communist Pary of China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Reproduction of Daily Life
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
What sustains capitalism? Our acceptance of everyday activities. The text offers a clear introduction to basic Marxist concepts like commodity fetishism and surplus value; it also traces the transformation of human activity into capital.
- Research in Archives
The Use of Unpublished Primary Sources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Rights and Wrong
Some Essays of Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Roots of American Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Kolko outlines the nature of American power and interest in the modern world and provides an assessment of who gains and who loses as a result of the policies Washington pursues.
- Selected Poems
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Sitting On the Bookshelf
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Bob Minden attended an open house for teachers and other interested persons organized by Herbert Kohl, and describes the experience as extraordinary.
- The Socialist Register 1969
Volume 6: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The State in Capitalist Society
The Analysis of the Western System of Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Miliband argues that the pluralist-democratic view of society, of politics and of the state in regards to the countries of advanced capitalism, is in all essential wrong.
- Statement by the Leeds New Left/Manifesto Group
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Statement of the Government of the People's Republic of China
October 7, 1969
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Student Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
An anthology of essays.
- Student Power and the Canadian Campus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
A collection of articles about student activism in Canada in the lates 1960s.
- Studies on Marx and Hegel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Sugar 'N Spice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Sarah Spinks explores how little girls grow up and learn what is expected of them as girls and as women.
- Teaching as a Subversive Activity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Teaching Johnny To Walk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
The description of a pilot study on infant ambulation drawing from two techniques: Richardson's and Chambers' "life milieu deprivation" and Kalstadt's "rehearsal prolongation".
- The Teachings of Don Juan
A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Technology and Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- 10 Ways to Meditate
Standing in the rain, isnt it wonderful
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 3, Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 3, Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 3, Number 3 - Summer 1969
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 3, Number 4 - Autumn 1969
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Towards a New Past
Dissenting Essays in American History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
A critical look at established views of American history.
- Towards an Extra-Parliamentary Opposition in Canada
Published in Our Generation, Volume 6, Number 4
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Twentieth-Century America
Recent Interpretations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Ugly Performance of Self Exposure
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The U.S. Aggression in Vietnam
Protocol
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Varsity 1968-1969
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Vietnam: A Thousand Years of Struggle
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
The founding statement of the Waffle group within the New Democratic Party.
- We Are Not Guilty
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
The facts about the case of the 114 students arrested during the Simon Fraser University occupation November 23, 1968.
- Westward to Vinland
The Discovery of Pre-Columbian Norse House Sites in North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- What Can I do Right Now?
Notes from Point Blank School on the Canadian Dilemma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Martell is a teacher at Point Blank School, a small free school in the Cabbagetown area of downtown Toronto. Martell discusses the societal dilemma in Canada within the context of his work at the school.
- Where's the School?
Everdale Goes to Milwaukee
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Following the indictment of twelve people for burning thousands of Selective Service files, ten students and two staff from Everdale Place School attended the trial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Why Are We in New York?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
In this piece originally printed in New York Times Magazine, Norman Mailer finds that the need for authenticity has become the real desire in education.
- Why Canada should quit NATO
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
- The World of Nigel Hunt
Pieces from the Book 'The World of Nigel Hunt'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
Excerpts from a book about the education of a 'mongoloid' boy with Downs Syndrome, Nigel Hunt.
- You Need Imagination in the Hole
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
An edited transcript of Clay Borris's interview with 18-year-old Charlie Macdougal on his experiences growing up in prison.
- Yugoslavia
Blue Guide The Adriatic Coast
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Selected Works
Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Published: 1069
- Basic Documents of the Spartacist League - Part 2
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
Resolutions adopted by the Second National Conference, 30 August - 1 September 1969.
- The Beginning of an Era
On the May 1968 revolt in France
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Published: 1969
- Maureen Wilton wins Ontario senior mile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Reporting on accomplishments of North York track athletes.
- Diese Briefe schrieb Dutschke an seinen Attentäter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 2010
- Prelude to Revolution
The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1991
About the role of the Bolsheviks in the period between the February and October 1917 revolutions, concentrating on their role in the July uprising in Petrograd.
- Watching my children watching TV
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1986
Television serves to teach the children who watch it about the world, a noticable generational difference in modern educaion for better or worse.
- American Negro Slavery (Third Edition)
A Modern Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1979
Incorporating significant and at times controversial literature on questions about the institution of slavery and the social and cultural response of the slaves to their enslavement, this collection offers thirteen readings, eight of them new to this edition.
- Graphic Arts Encyclopedia
3rd Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1979
The book includes information about type styles, copyfitting, art preparation, photocomposition, film and platemaking, papers, formulas used.
- Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1977
A survey of Dada and Surrealism, describing their birth and development, their philosophies, the works of art they prodcued, and their contribution to the art of the present.
- Phil Ochs: Interview on the Chicago Convention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1976
When Phil Ochs returned to New York from the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention he gave an interview to Izzy Young of the folklore Center in the village to be sent up to Broadside.
- The Short Happy Walks of Max MacPherson
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1976
Harry Bruce walks the streets of Toronto.
- Architektur als Ideologie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1975
- "We Called a Strike and No One Came"
or Confessions of SDSers (An Allegorical Epic with Footnotes)
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1968
Published: 1973
- Critical Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1972
Essays by the founder of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.
- Birth Control Handbook
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1968
Published: 1971
- Everyday Life in the Modern World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1971
Everyday life is non-philosophical in relation to philosophy and represents reality in relation to ideality.
- 50 Years of World Revolution
An International Symposium
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1971
An selection of essays from a Trotksyist perspective.
- History and Class Consciousness
Studies in Marxist Dialectics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1971
- A History of the Comic Strip
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1971
A book prepared in conjunction with the first international exhibition of comic art held at the Louvre in Paris. Illustrated with all the memorable and noteworthy types and trends of comic art, it tells the story of the development of the comic strip, particularly in the United States.
- Mao as a Dialectician
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1968
Published: 1971
- Screen Printing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1971
- The Shield is Gone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1971
Based on a speech given by Eric Mann in 1968 at Orientation at the University of Windsor, Ontario, and revsied in 1970 by the author. Published in This Magazine is About Schools, Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 1971.
- Athanor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1970
- Sexuality and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1970
A study of sexual issues in the emergence of the extra-parliamentary left in West Germany during the 1960s. Reiche develops a theoretical view of the evolution of sexuality in the West.
- The Indian Heritage of America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1969
- Industry and Empire
The Pelican Economic History of Britian: Volume 3: From 1750 to the Present Day
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1969
Hobsbawm documents the rise of the industrial revolution in Britain from its origins around the mid 1700s, its expansion throughout the Victorian decades and finally its effects on British society up to the 1960s.
- Latin America: Reform or Revolution
A Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1969
- Living and Learning
The Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1969
The "Hall-Dennis" Report, proposing new objectives and direction in education in Ontario.
- Obsolete Communism
The Left-Wing Alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1969
An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
- Organizing for Workers' Power
Beyond Trade Unionism & Vanguardism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1968
Published: 1969
A discussion of the problem of "vanguardism," and the role of leadership in revolutionary organization, and its evolution through different stages of class struggle, by Adriano Sofri of the Italian socialist group Lotta Continua, with an introduction by militants in southern Ontario.
- The Politics of the Family
The 1968 Massey Lectures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1969
Laing makes the case that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential, and instead accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family.
- The Population Bomb
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1969
- The Poverty of Liberalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1969
- Regis Debray and the Latin American Revolution
A Collection of Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1969
Essays responding to Debray's book Revolution in the Revolution, which argued that the establishment of guerilla foci were the key to the revolutionary process in Latin America.
- The Rich and the Super-Rich
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1969
- Our Generation
Volume 1 & 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Radical America - Volume 2, Number 4 - July-August 1968
Historical Roots of Black Liberation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Nature of Mass Demonstrations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 2017
John Berger analyses the social dynamics and strengths of mass demonstrations.
- ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards
Second Edition Abridged
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Americana Annual 1968
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- An Appraisal of the Educational Opportunity Bank Proposal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Armies of the Night
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Art of Negotiating
Psychological Strategies for Gaining Advantageous Bargains
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Negotiation cannot be considered a game accord to Nierenberg; everyone must win. If participants were to try to co-operate instead of compete, they would be more likely to reach a lasting, mutually beneficial solution.
- "As the Screw Turns"
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Bathurst Heights Yearbook Phoenix 1968
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Bathurst Heights Yearbook Phoenix 1968.
- Canada Year Book 1968
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Canadian Labour in Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
A historical study of the relationship between the labour movement and the social democratic party in Canada, as that relationship developed since the birth of modern industrial unionism.
- Comments on Tao Chu's Two Books
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Communique of the Enlarged Twelfth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Confederation and Constitution 1781-1789
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Confessed Bewilderment of Martin Luther King and the Idea of Non-Violence as a Political Tactic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Dear Mike...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Excerpts of letters Michael Berger exchanged with his friends during his writing of a sociology paper "The End of Adolescence in American Society".
- The Democratic Republic 1801-1815
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Dichtung und Wahrheit
Dritter und VierterTeil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Documentaries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Encyclopedia of World Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- An Epoch-Making Document
In Commemoration of the Second Anniversay of the Publication of the Circular
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Ernest Mandel Speaks To SDS
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Taken from the Young Socialist Pamphlet 'The Revolutionary Student Movement--Theory and Practice'
- Essay on Commodity Fetishism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Federalism and the French Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
An essay that discusses nationalism and the Quebec seperatist movement.
- A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-central North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- France Spring 1968
Masses in motion Ideas in free flow
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- French Revolution 1968
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Seale and McConville set out to relate what happened during the May 1968 revolt in France, to set the explosion in its context of French politics, and to single out what they take to be the original and creative features of the situation.
- Gandhi: A Biography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Getting to Rochdale
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
A critical look back at Lee's academic path to Rochdale College, an experiment in higher education and urban living.
- A History of Scarborough.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Bonis provides an account of the settlement, founding, and subsequent development of the Township of Scarborough, Ontario. His account begins with the indiginous populations and continues on until 1965.
- In a Time of Torment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
- Lenin Collected Works 40
Notebooks on the Agrarian Question 1900-1916
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Man and His Symbols
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- May 1968 Graffiti
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
"Don't consume Marx, live him."
- Mrs. Timbrell & the social workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Satu Repo discusses the role of social workers in children's welfare using the case study of working class foster mother Mrs. Timbrell.
- The New Underground Theatre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- North Vietnam: A Documentary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The O.C.A. Affair
Getting the stiffs off the property
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Artist Paul Young discusses the use of protest and radical student action in fine arts educational institutions, specifically the Ontario College of Art.
- Off the Record
The CCF in Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
An insider's account of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan.
- On being attentive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Passages from an essay called "Reflections On The Right Use Of School Studies With A View To The Love Of God" written by French scholar, mystic and political activist Simone Weil in the 1940s.
- On the Proletarian Revolutionaries' Struggle to Seize Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Goodman offers his analysis of what is wrong with American society, and what could be done about it.
- Pocket Atlas of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Political Economy of Growth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Politics of Aristotle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Principal's Authority
An interview with Edgar Friedenburg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Friedenburg's answers to questions following the his speech to high school principals at the Ontario College of Education's conference on "The Principal's Authority and the New Adolescent Freedom".
- Report to the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Revolution for the Hell of It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Revolution of Hope
Toward a Humanized Technology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Froom argues for the urgent necessity of shfiting our priorities from things and death to the priorities of life and human beings.
- The Secular City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Seventeen Problems of Man and Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Ralph Borsodi's magnum opus, outlining his philosophy of society and the practical implications that flow from it.
- The Sexual Wilderness
The Contemporary Upheaval in Male-Female Relationships
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Sherbourne Street
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Sins of the fathers: the end of an educational experiment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Traces the progressive social experiment that took place due to headmaster Robert Mackenzie's influence on Braehead Secondary School in in Scotland.
- Smallwood
The Unlikely Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Smug Minority
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
This book is about freedom -- and the lack of it -- in Canada: freedom from useless and often degrading toil, freedom from want and freedom from ignorance. Berton maintains that a smug minority of business and political leaders has conspired to inhibit that freedom.
- The Socialist Register 1968
Volume 5: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Struggle in the ChingKang Mountains
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Student Protest
The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Taking the Bandits' Stronghold
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Teaching Johnny to Walk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
A parody purporting to doucment the results of a pilot study that sought to indroduce a variety of teaching techniques drawn from pre-school learning situations specifically to child ambulation.
- Theses on the Socialist Rural Question in our Country
Adopted at the Eighth Plenary Meeting of the Fourth Central Committiee of the Workers' Party of Korea, February 25, 1964
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 2, Number 2 - Spring 1968
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 2, Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 2, Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 2, Number 5 - Winter 1968
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- This Rock Within the Sea: A Heritage Lost
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Times of Trouble
Labour Unrest and Industrial Conflict in Canada, 1900-66
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Truman Administration
A Documentary History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Two Reviews by Robert Davis
The University Game & Catching Up With Our Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Robert Davis reviews two books, "The University Game" edited by Howard Adelman and Dennis Lee, and Catching Up With Our Children by Dr. John Rich.
- Unequal Union
Confederation and the Roots of Conflict in the Canadas, 1815 - 1873
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Ryerson examines the connection between the social and the national in Canadian history.
- The University Game
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Urban Canada and its Government
A Study of Municipal Organization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Urban Studies
A Canadian Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- U.S. Aggression in Vietnam and International Law
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Varsity 1967-1968
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- Whither China?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
A document written by militants called Sheng-wu-lien in Hunan province in China during the "Cultural Revolution." The Shengwulian activists were crushed by the bureaucracy.
- Will it live in a milk-carton?
City kids discover nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Anticdotes and lessons learned from teaching science at the summer Education Enrichment Program for Boston public school students.
- Wisdom in the universities
Part Two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
Students must make judgements about the essence of their university and its curriculum in order to acheive human excellence.
- The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 4: 1945-1950
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- May 1968 Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Published: 1968
- The Revolution of Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 2001
The classic complement to Debord's Society of the Spectacle. Vaneigem examines the minutia of power as "abstracted mediation and mediated abstraction" that permeates everyday life and the means of seizing control of our lives and truly living.
- Radical America
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1967
Published: 1999
Radical America was a left wing political magazine in the United States established in 1967. The magazine was founded by Paul Buhle and Mari Jo Buhle, activists in Students for a Democratic Society and served during its first few years of existence as an unofficial theoretical journal of that organization. During the 1970s and 1980s, the magazine changed to take on more of an academic Marxist flavor. With contributions from academics dwindling during the decade of the 1990s, the magazine was terminated in 1999. A number of issues of Radical America are in the Connexions Archive.
- The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
A Symposium
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1979
- The Book of Survival
Everyman's Guide to Staying Alive and Handling Emergencies in the City, the Suburbs, & the Wildlands
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1976
How to think, act, and stay alive in any emergency.
- Capitalism and Material Life 1400-1800
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1975
- The Ghost in the Machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1975
An analysis of the relationship between reason and imagination.
- Theses on the Chinese Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1974
- The Codebreakers
The Story of Secret Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1973
- Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1973
Rodinson argues that Zionism fits into the general pattern of Western colonialism, and that Arab opposition to Israel is the opposition of a colonized people towards their colonizers.
- Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1973
Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
- The Failure of American Liberalism
After the Great Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1971
- Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1971
An introduction to China's passage to revolution which takes as its central theme the relationship between China's social crisis and the revolutionary movement.
- The Book of Imaginary Beings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1970
- Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1970
Cooper argues that mainstream psychiatry has developed techniques that are largely irrelevant to the human situation. He proposes a radical social re-evaluation of the whole concept of 'madness' and outlines a new approach to the psychological problems of personal relationships.
- The Book
On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1969
- Canadian Social Structure
A Statistical Profile
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1969
- Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1969
The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
- Containment and Change
Two Dissenting Views of American Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1969
- Containment and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1969
- The Naked Ape
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1969
- Reformation to Industrial Revolution
the Pelican Economic History of Britain Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1969
Hill analyzes the transformation of British society and the complex interaction of economic, cultural and political change in the period 1530-1780.
- The Search for Order
1877-1920
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1969
- The Tower of London
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1969
- The Undergrowth of Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1969
A sympathetic journey through the tangled undergrowth of literature.
- The Unfinished Revolution Russia 1917-1967
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1969
On the signficance of the Russian Revolution.
- The Butterfly Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1968
- Lenin's Last Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1968
An account of the last few months of Lenin's political life, when he was seriously ill but still attempting to guide the course of the Soviet state.
- The New Industrial State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1968
According to Galbraith, the requirements of producing organizations, not the images of ideology, give shape to modern economic society.
- Reform and Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1968
An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
- The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1968
An account of trade union evolution as a whole for the period 1827-1959, as well as an ouline of continuing sphere's of Labour's effort, such as organization of the unorganized, the fight for better conditions, legislative and political action, peace and Canadian independence.
- The World of Cats
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1968
- The Iceberg Strategy
Universities and the Military-Industrial Complex
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Our Generation
Volume 5 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Corporate Imperialism for the Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
Political leaders are stumbling over one another in their haste to promote corporate intervention in the ghetto.
- Our Generation
Volume 5 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Women's marathon won't catch on
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
On the controversy surrounding Maureen Wilton's record-setting marathon run in May 1967.
- Our Generation
Volume 5 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- America, Russia and The Cold War, 1945-1966
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The Americana Annual 1967
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Approaches to Canadian Economic History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Approaches to Canadian History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The Arusha Declaration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
Tanganyika African National Union's policy on Socialism and Self-Reliance.
- Automation and the Abolition of the Market
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
This article deals with the relationship between power and technological development in society. Specifically, Nell looks at the intersection of markets, government, technology, and the social relations of production.
- Bathurst Heights Yearbook Phoenix 1967
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
Bathurst Heights Yearbook Phoenix 1967.
- Behind The Lines - Hanoi
December23 - January 7
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The Black Arts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Canada and the French-Canadian Question
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- China's Great Revolution and the Soviet Union's Great Tragedy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Circular of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
A Great Historic Document
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Confederation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Defy and Endure
Great Sieges of Modern History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Desert War in North Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Doctors' Strike
Medical Care and Conflict in Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Dynamics of Modernization
A Study in Comparative History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Engels: Selected Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
A selection of Engels' writings.
- The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Expo 67 Guide Official
Special Section on the Centennial Events
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Facts about Yugoslavia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Five Documents on Literature and Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Forty-One Red Hearts Are with Chairman Mao for Ever
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Forward Along the High Road of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought
In Celebration of the 17th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- From Yalta To VietNam
American Foreign Policy In The Cold War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- A Grain of Wheat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
The novel weaves together several stories set during the state of emergency in Kenya's struggle for independence (1952–1959), focusing on the quiet Mugo, whose life is ruled by a dark secret. The plot revolves around his home village's preparations for Kenya's independence day celebration, Uhuru day.
- The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against G.M. 1936-37
How Industrial Unionism was Won
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
A history of the Flint strike (1936-1937).
- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China (8)
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution In China (9)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The Great Socialist Cultural Revolution in China (7)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Hey, Peanuts!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Historical Essays on the Atlantic Provinces
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- in white america - sds & radical consciousness
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
Originally appeared in the National Guardian, March 25, 1967.
- International Exhibition of Photography
The Camera as Witness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Marxism: A Re-Examination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
A study of the social and political theory of Karl Marx, by an academic sociologist.
- Maureen proves a point
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
Newspaper report on 13-year-old Maureen Wilton's record-setting marathon run in 1967. See also https://www.sources.com/Bookshelf/SBS54859B.htm
- Mental Illness and Social Processes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The Moral Ambiguity of America
The Massey Lectures for 1966
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- No Power Greater
A Century of Labour in British Columbia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Non-Flowering Plants
Ferns, Mosses, Lichens, Mushrooms and Other Fungi
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Nudism Today Official Calendar 1967
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The Origins of American Marxism
From the Transcendentalists to De Leon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
An account of the birth of American Marxism.
- Our Study and Current Situation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Outlaw of Gor
Volume II in the Strange History of Counter-Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The Peasants of Central Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
An ethnographic description of central aspects of Russian peasant life based upon secondary sources in Russian written by Soviet ethnographers.
- Peer Gynt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Pen Sketches of Historic Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The Polar Passion
The Quest for the North Pole (Volume 2 of the Top of the World triology)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Pond Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Quiet Evolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Rent Strikes in New York
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Representative Poetry
Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.
- The Rise of the Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
Kuczynski describes condtions of life for the urban proletariat at the time of the industrial revolution.
- Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Rousseau and Revolution
The Story of Civilization: Part X
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Russia in Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Russia in Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Selected Readings From the Works of Mao Tse-Tung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Sex and Yoga
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Shachiapang
Model Peking Opera on Contemporary Revolutionary Theme
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The Situationists and the New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
Our task is to link up the theoretical critique of modern society with the critique of it in acts. By detourning the very propositions of the spectacle, we can directly reveal the implications of present and future revolts.
- Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The Socialist Register 1967
Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Society of the Spectacle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 2005
An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed, written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
- Solidarity As We See It
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
Ten Points on Solidarity's Socialist position - the compromised nature of the "Bolsheviks" and trade unions, the need to "build from below," the desire to see themselves as "merely an instrument of working class action."
- State-Capitalism and Marx's Humanism or Philosophy and Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Tally's Corner
A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 1, Number 3 - 1967
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 1, Number 4 - Fall 1967
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- The U.A.W. settles with Ford
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Up From Slavery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- USA - The Labor Revolt
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Victorian People
A Reassessment of Persons and Themes 1851-1867
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- War Crimes in Vietnam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- We Must Learn To Do Economic Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Who Rules America?
Power, Politics, and Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
Domhoff analyzes how power operates in U.S. society. He argues that the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant figures in the U.S. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington and their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.
- Workers' Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- You are Too Much, Charlie Brown
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Your Book of Modelling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Botany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- Russia – How the Revolution was Lost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
Published: 1967
- A Grain of Wheat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1994
Mugo, a farmer and hero in the eyes of the villagers, is asked to deliver a speech during the Uhuru celebrations, to be held in memory of his friend Kihika. He refuses to make a speech and turns out to be a traitor.
- 1983 Nudist Park Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1983
- On Method Acting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1978
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1978
- Woman's Estate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1976
Juliet Mitchell defines the specific areas of women's oppression and describes current attempts to break the pattern of repression imposed on all women.
- A Jest of God
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1974
- A Ripple from the Storm
Book Three of Children Violence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1973
- This Magazine is about Schools
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1966
Published: 1973
A Canadian magazine about schools and education founded in 1966.
- The Winter Years
The Depression on the Prairies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1973
The story of ordinary people in Western Canada in the Great Depression of the 1930s.
- The Hidden Injuries of Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1972
Sennett and Cobb look at human relations between people of different classes and analyze everyday life and ordinary situations to identify class signals that make people feel inadequate.
- St. Urbain's Horseman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1972
- Monopoly Capital
An essay on American economic and social order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1969
An analysis of American capitalism.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- The Sociology of Marx
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1969
Lefebvre discusses and dissects both the theoretical and the practical Marx to illuminate the enduring power of Marx's thought and Marx's incisive wit as a commentator. Through Marx, we can obtain a coherent picture of reality as it was as the inception of the modern age.
- The Age of Imperialism
The Economics of U.S. Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1968
- Hiroshima
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1968
- Z
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1968
- Communism in Europe Vol. II
Continuity, Change and the Sino-Soviet Dispute
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1967
The second volume on the interaction of the developments in European communism and the Sino-Soviet dispute. This volume deals specifically with East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Norway, and Finland.
- The Harrad Experiment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1967
- Mao Tse-Tung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1967
A biography of the leader of the Chinese Revolution, up to 1967.
- The New Student Left
An Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1967
A collection of essays by active participants in the 1960s student movement on American college campuses.
- Our Generation
Volume 4 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Sheila burns up the course -- three times!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Trophies and exhaustion for NY track club
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
Reporting on recent accomplishments of North York runners.
- Algebra 13
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Analysis 13
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- An Analysis of the Canadian Post Secondary Student Population
Part 1: A Report on Canadian Undergraduate Students
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Baran and Sweezy's Monopoly Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Basta!
Enough! The Tale of Our Struggle
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Bathurst Heights Yearbook Phoenix 1966
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
Bathurst Heights Yearbook Phoenix 1966.
- Birds of North America
A Guide to Field Identification
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- The Black Panther Party Ten Point Platform & Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
Statement of the Black Panther Party: What We Want, What We Believe.
- Black Power: SNCC Speaks for Itself
A Collection of Interviews and Statements
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- C. George McCullagh and the Leadership League
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
Published in Canadian Historical Review, 17.3 (September 1966)
- Canadian History in Documents, 1763 - 1966
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- The Cold War
A Book of Documents
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Collegian 1965-66
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Concerning the Great Proletarinan Cultural Revolut
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Deutsche Gedichte
Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Fanshen
Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
William Hinton's work is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complementary and caustic relationship since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power.
- Foreign Ownship of Canadian Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Freedom - Not License!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
A.S. Neill, the founder of Summerhill School, responds to questions about cdhild rearing.
- The Great Socialist Cultural Revolution in China (6)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- H. Zille
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Hegel: A Reinterpretation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- History of the October Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- How to Draw and Sell Cartoons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Index to Illustrations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- The John Birch Society 1966
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Love's Body
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Macpherson
1966 Cartoons: A Canadian cartoonist's review of politics from sputnik to separatism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Metro Toronto Arrow Street Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- The New Field Book of Freshwater Life
The most comprehensive guide to the recognition and study of the aquatic plants and animals of North America north of Mexico
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- The New Radicals
A Report with Documents
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
An analytical portrait of the young radical activists who have repudiated traditional liberalsim and who seek a new vision of American through civil rights, university reform, and anti-war and anti-poverty activities.
- Of Human Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Paddle to the Sea (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
A 1966 National Film Board of Canada short live-action film directed, shot and edited by Bill Mason, based on the 1941 children's book Paddle-to-the-Sea by American author and illustrator Holling C. Holling. The film follows the adventures of a child's hand-carved toy Indian in a canoe as it makes its way from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, through Canada's waterways.
- Parasites of Heaven
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Politische Schriften 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- A Preface to Economic Geography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- The Protestant Reformation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Russia and History's Turning Point
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- A Short Walk on the Campus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
The authors' account, largely humorous, of their debating tour of America in which they represented Oxford University.
- The Socialist Register 1966
Volume 3: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Die Sprache Der Natur
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Teasers and Tests
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Ten Days That Shook the University
On the Poverty of Student Life
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
Published in 1966 at the University of Strasbourg by students of the university and members of the Internationale Situationniste.
- This Magazine is about Schools - Volume 1, Number 1 - Spring 1966
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- This Magazine is about Schools - Volume 1, Number 2 - 1966
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Three Worlds of Development
The Theory and Practice of International Stratification
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer Detective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- The Trial of Steven Truscott
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
LeBourdais makes the case for the innocence of Steven Truscott, a 14-year-fold boy convicted, and sentenced to death, for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in southwestern Ontario.
- A Walk in the Forest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- The Whole Country Should Become a Great School of Mao Tse-Tung's Thoughts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Will the real Gordon Sinclair please stand up
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- Women: The Longest Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
Chapter transcribed from Women's Estate. A discussion of women in socalist theory in the 19th century, and the Women's liberation movement through to the 1960's.
- World Bibliography of Bibliographies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- The World Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- The American Heritage Picture History of World War II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Published: 1966
- 1965 U.S. Invasion of Dominican Republic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
Published: 2015
In 1965 Democratic U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson launched a bloody invasion of the Dominican Republic. Tens of thousands of troops were dispatched to that Caribbean country to suppress a prerevolutionary situation and secure the interests of American sugar companies.
- The todayness of Selma, USA, 1965
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
Published: 2015
The arrest of over 3,500 Negroes in Selma, Ala., in three weeks just because they tried to vote, the sight of a Negro woman pinned to the ground by three fat deputies of Sheriff James Clark while Clark beat her face in with his billy club, the sight of a long line of Negro high school and grade school boys and girls who demonstrated in support of their parents' right to register and then were forced to run three miles with police billy clubs and electric cattle prods jabbed into their backs and ribs -- these things expose the great lie of President Johnson’s Great Society for all the world to see.
- A Technique for Producing Ideas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 2003
For advertising copywriters and other writers.
- Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam
The Use of Atomic Bomb and the American Confrontation With Soviet Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1994
Alperovitz argues that the use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasai were not necessary to bring about Japan's surrender in the Second World War, and that the U.S. leadership was well aware of this fact. The decision to use nuclear weapons was predicated, says Alperovitz, on a desire to test the weapons on actual cities, as well as a wish to use them to intimidate the Soviet Union.
- The Complete Photographer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1978
- The Amateur Magician's Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1972
- History and Revolution
A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1971
- History and Revolution
A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1965
Published: 1971
Paul Cardan's critique of 'Marxism'.
- Anarchism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1970
Guerin sets out to describe the main themes of anarchist thought.
- Classes in Modern Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1970
Bottomore provides an introduction to the concept of class and examines its place in Marxist theory and in critical revisions and rejections of that theory.
- A Critique of Pure Tolerance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1969
- The Great Fear in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1969
Gerassi indicts American policies toward Latin America and American support for corrupt dictatorships.
- More Joy in Heaven
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1969
- A Proper Marriage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1969
- Society and Democracy in Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1969
- The Society of Captives
A Study of A Maximum Security Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1969
Sykes examines the prison as an operating social system.
- Leading Constitutional Decisions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1968
- Speech at the Chinese Communist Party's National Conference on Propaganda Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1968
- The Crisis of Modern Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
Published: 1967
Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
- Get Organized!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1967
- Landlocked
Book Four of Children of Violence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1967
- La Maison de Rendez-vous
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1967
- The Olympia Reader
Selections from the Traveller's Companion Series
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1967
- Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1967
- Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1967
- Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung
Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1967
- The Emerging City
Myth And Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1966
- Socialist Humanism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1966
An international symposium whose contributors explore the humanist essence of socialism. Among the contributors are Herbert Marcuse, Maximilien Rubel, Norman Thomas, T.B. Bottomore, Raya Dunayevskaya, Ernst Bloch, and Bertrand Russell.
- Our Generation
Volume 3 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
Special Issue on Unilateralism
- Art and Mankind: Larousse Encyclopdeia of Modern Art
From 1800 to the Present Day
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- The Berkeley Student Revolt
Facts and Interpretations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
An anthology of writings on the Berkely student revolt of 1964.
- Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
This story of the “free speech” uprising on the Berkeley campus of the University of California was begun in the conviction that an extraordinary event, in an historical sense, had taken place before our startled citizenry; and that it should be described for history as it was.
- Black Humor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- The Comfortable Pew
A Critical Look at Christianity and the Religious Establishment in the New Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Dear Comrades
Letter, October 18, 1965
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
Published in Ross Dowson Resources Website
- Democracy and the University
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Dune
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Feudalism
Medieval history
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- The Future of American Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- The Future of Canadian Federalism
L''Avenir du federalisme canadien
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Great Paintings of All Time
100 Masterpieces from the Early Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Guiding Buying Behavior
The Psychology of Selling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Handbook of Good Speaking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Hegel: Texts and Commentary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Historical Statistics of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- A History of Philosophy
Volume 7: Modern Philosophy, Part 1 Fichte to Hegel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- A History of the United States Since 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Humanism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
The resumption of the struggle for socialism would also be the rebirth of socialist humanism.
- The Importance of Being Earnest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- The Jewish Wife & Other Short Plays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
A collection of six short plays.
- Lament for a Nation
The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Leaves of Grass
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Let's Get Well
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Let's Visit Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Malcolm X
The Man and His Ideas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Malcolm X Speaks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
- Mathematics 12
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- The Native Americans
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- The Nazi Seizure of Power
The Experience of a Single German Town
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
A study of how the Nazi takeover took place in one German town.
- The Odyssey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Physics
Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- The Political Economy of Slavery
Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- The Prophet Unarmed
Trotsky: 1921-1929, Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
The second volume of Deutscher's three-volume of Leon Trotsky, covering the years 1912-1929.
- A Re-examination of Hunting, Trapping and Territoriality among Northeastern Algonkian Indians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- The Real World of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy — the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants — and their impacts on one another.
- The Regional City
Politics and Planning in Metropolitan Areas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- The Rising American Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
An analysis of the origins and emergence of the United States as a national state, and of its subsequent growth pattern. Van Alstyne sees the course of American history as coinciding with the rise of modern nationalism and imperialism.
- Salesman's Role in Marketing
The Psychology of Selling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Selling in Depth
The Psychology of Selling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- The Student Movement of the Thirties
A Political History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
Most of the references one hears to the student movement of the thirties, and most published references too, are quite wrong in one basic respect: they speak as if 'the thirties' represented a single, homogeneous period for the student movement. But the biggest single fact about the history of this movement is that it went through a sweeping change in spirit, methods, and politics, which changed its face completely in mid-course.
- The Theory of Alienation: Marx's Debt to Hegel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
One hundred years before Hiroshima, Marx wrote, "To have one basis for science and other for life is a priori, a lie." We have lived this lie for so long that the fate of civilization, not merely rhetorically, but literally, is within orbit of a nuclear ICBM. Since the very survival of mankind hangs in the balance between the East's and the West's nuclear terror, we must, this time, under the penalty of death, unite theory and practice in the struggle for freedom, thereby abolishing the division between philosophy and reality and giving ear to the urgency of "realizing" philosophy, i.e., of making freedom a reality.
- Total Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Two nations, One country
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- The Vertical Mosiac
An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1965
- Chronology of the Modern World 1763 - 1965
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Published: 1963
- Socialist and Labor Songs
An International Revolutionary Songbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 2014
Seventy-seven songs -- with words and sheet music -- of solidarity, revolt, humor, and revolution.
- Oxford Concise Dictionary of Quotations
Revised Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1997
A compact and entertaining source of literary and historical quotations.
- A Naturalist's Guide to Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1979
- Family Medical Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1977
- Billion Dollar Check Racket
America's First Expose of How Forgers Operate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1976
- Billion Dollar Check Racket
America's First Expose of How Forgers Operate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1976
- The occupation of the factories: Italy 1920 - Paolo Spriano
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1975
The story of the mass wave of strikes and factory occupations which swept Italy 1920-21 told from the documents and accounts of the time. Written in 1964 and translated into English in 1975 by Gwyn A Williams, who also wrote the introduction.
- The Black Madonna
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1974
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1974
- The Gospel According to Peanuts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1973
- Labor's Giant Step
The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936–55
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1972
The story of the explosive labor struggles and political battles in the 1930s that built the industrial unions.
- Sometimes A Great Notion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1972
- Reason and Violence
Decade of Sarte's Philosophy 1950 - 1960
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1971
- Which Way Africa?
The Search for a New Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1971
Davison sets out to analyze the social, economic, political motives, myths, ideas, and beliefs which ounderlie modern African nationalism.
- Sanity, Madness and the Family
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1970
Laing and Esterson throw doubt on the view that schizophrenia is an illness with specific symptoms and its own pathology; they suggest rather than madness may largely be a social creation and its symptoms no more than the tortured ruses of a person struggled to live in an unlivable situation.
- The Act of Creation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1969
- The Economic Background of Dominion-Provincial Relations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1969
- Understanding Your Community
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1964
Published: 1969
- Hungary 56
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1964
Published: 1968
The Hungarian Revolution was far more than a national uprising or than an attempt to change one set of rulers for another. It was a social revolution in the fullest sense of the term.
- The Machine in the Garden
Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1968
- New Traps in the Chess Opening
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1968
- Sex Can Be An Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1968
- Logic and Creativity in Selling
The Psychology of Selling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1967
- Managing for Results
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1967
- Managing Sales Resistance
The Psychology of Selling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1967
- Strategy for Labour
A Radical Proposal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1967
- The Warfare State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1967
- Communication in Selling
The Psychology of Selling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1966
- Eros Denied
Sex in Western Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1966
Spanning 2000 years of Western culture, Eros Denied explores the multitude of forces which through the ages have tended to suppress and pervert the sexual instincts.
- One-Dimensional Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1966
- The Passing of Traditional Society
Modernizing the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1966
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1965
The personal story of the man who become the most dynamic leader of the Black Revolution in the United States, completed shortly before his assassination.
- SNCC
The New Abolitionists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1965
An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- The Socialist Register 1965
Volume 2: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1964
Published: 1965
- Stimme des Widerstandes
Nr. 12 - Dezember 1964
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- Our Generation
Volume 3 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- Stimme des Widerstandes
Nr. 10 - Oktober 1964
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- Our Generation
Volume 3 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- The Age of Permanent Revolution
A Trotsky Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
A collection of writings by Leon Trotsky.
- The Anarchists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
From Diderot to Camus, from Thoreau to Vanzetti, a ringing roll-call of the great non-conformists and dissenters.
- An Anthology of Verse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- Automation and Labor
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- Compulsory Mis-education and The Community of Scholars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
Two books combined in a single volume. A far-ranging critique of the state of American eduation.
- The Dehumanization of Anomie and Alienation: A Problem in the Ideology of Sociology
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- The Democratic and the Authoritarian State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- German Poetry
From Luther to Brecth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- Germany 1921: The March Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
The debacle represented by the ‘March Action’ in Germany in 1921 was a crucial turning point in the development of the Communist International. The defeat led to a crisis in the German Communist Party (KPD), which had repercussions for the entire International.
- Geschichte Ägyptens
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- Grosse Photographen Unseres Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- The Group
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- Harriet The Spy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- A History of Philosophy
Volume 6: Modern Philosophy, Part 1 The French Enlightenment to Kant
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- How Children Fail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
The classroom should be a place of learning. Instead it is the scene of a continual battle in which teacher and child struggle to gain the advantage. The casualties are heavy. Some children fail outright. Others have the seeds of future failure implanted. And practically none come close to realizing their potential.
- Imperialism Old and New
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- The Kashi-no-bo Technique
The Unbeatable Method of Stick Fighting for Self Defence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- Knowlege For What?
The Place of Social Science in American Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- Little Boxes and other handmade songs
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
The best songs I write turn out to be something like folks songs because these traditional pieces say things the way I want to say them and am impelled to say them; they mean to speak surely and quietly, almost as an aside or half-heard observation, with a way of sticking in the memory as though they had something to say that you didn't catch the first time.
- Making Do
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- Managing Sales Resistance
The Psychology of Selling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- The Marxism of Karl Korsch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- The Mind of Clark Kerr
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
The Compleat Bureaucrat does not approve of moral indignation or of political protest and struggle, not because he is cruel and unfeeling, but simply because these phenomena do not file neatly; they cannot be efficiently punched onto IBM cards; they upset routine; they raise non-regulation questions; they cannot be budgeted for in advance; they are refractory to manipulation.
- The Naked Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
An expose of the forces which are increasingly depriving Americans of their right to privacy.
- The New Popular History of the World
The Story of Mankind from Earliest Times to the Present Day - Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- New York
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- The Protestant Establishment
Aristocracy & Caste in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- The Road to Confederation
The Emergence of Canada 1863-1867
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- The Socialist Register 1964
Volume 1: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- Socialist Thought
A Documentary History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
An anthology of important documents in the history of European socialist thought, from pre-revolutionary France to the 1950s.
- South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
"To understand the conditions of the Africans in rural South Africa, how bantustan policy affects them and the underlying reasons for the policy, there are a few books as comprehensive and authoritative as this... this book is a must." - Africa Magazine
- Statement of Principles of the Independent Socialist Club
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
Our view of socialism is both democratic and revolutionary, both humanist and working class; and it is only as a revolutionary-democratic movement of opposition to the Establishments that socialism can present a third choice for the world, a choice for a new world of freedom, peace and security.
- A Study of the Feminine Mystique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
A review of Betty Friedan's book "The Feminine Mystique." The review was originally published in the International Socialist Review in 1964.
- The Torch is Passed...
The Associated Press Story Of The Death of a President
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- The Toronto That Used To Be
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- Understanding Media
The Extensions of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
McLuhan says that the means by which people communicate determine their thoughts and actions.
- Weep Not Child
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
The great Kenyan writer's powerful first novel, about the effects of the Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular.
- A Revolutionary Socialist Manifesto
An open letter to the Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Published: 1964
- The American Revolution
Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 2009
Drawing on his own experience as a factory worker and radical militant, Boggs offers both a keen analysis of U.S. society and a passionate call for revolutionary struggle. He sees the growing trend toward automation, the decline of organized labour, the expansion of imperialism, and the deepening of racial strife as fundamentally rooted in the contradictions of U.S. capitalism. He concludes that the only way forward is a new American revolution.
- Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 44 No. 3 - May/June 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1963
Published: 2006
- The Gashlycrumb Tinies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1997
- Forty Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1991
- Beyond a Boundary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1983
Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founders of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of the game of cricket, this book raises serious questions about race, class, politics, and the realities of colonial oppression.
- Never Cry Wolf
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1979
- Force of Circumstance
Part 2: Hard Times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1977
- The Fall of the House of Habsburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1974
- Redefining Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1963
Published: 1974
Modern society certainly remains profoundly divided. It constantly functions against the immense majority of working people. In everyday life the exploited defend themselves against exploitation by part of every single one of their everyday gestures. The present crisis of humanity, it is true, will only be solved by a socialist revolution. But these ideas risk remaining empty abstractions, pretexts for sermons or for a blind, spasmodic activism if one doesn't try to understand the new ways in which the division of society assumes concrete form today, how modern capitalism functions, the new forms taken today by the working class struggle against the ruling classes and their system, and unless one seriously tries to understand what — under these conditions — a new revolutionary activity integrated to the real struggle of people in society might mean and how it could be linked to a coherent and lucid understanding of the world. To achieve this what is needed is nothing less than a radical theoretical and practical renewal.
- The Feminine Mystique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1971
- V.I. Lenin: Selected Works in Three Volumes, Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1971
- V.I. Lenin: Selected Works in Three Volumes, Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1970
- V.I. Lenin: Selected Works In Three Volumes, Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1970
- One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1970
- The Two Hands of God
The Myths of Polarity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1969
An exploration of the myths of polarity, those crucial symbolic relationships such as light an darkness, good and evil, which illustrate the inner unity of opposites.
- The Making of the English Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1968
Discusses the development of a working class consciousness from the 1790s to the Great Reform Bill
- On Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1968
Arendt examines the American, French, and Russian revolutions and draws conclusions about the meaning of revolution.
- The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1967
- Good Grief, Charlie Brown!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1967
- Love Locked Out
A survey of love, licence and restriction in the Middle Ages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1967
A study of the irrepressible sexuality of the Middle Ages, describing the attempts of the church to impose a morality on libidinous medieval society, and shows how they were frustrated at every turn.
- Report From a Chinese Village
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1967
- Science & Survival
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1967
- The Triumph of Conservatism
A Reinpretation of American History, 1900-1916
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1967
- Selected Military Writings of Mao Tse-Tung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1966
- Community and Privacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1965
- Eichmann in Jerusalem
A report on the banality of evil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1965
Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolph Eichmann.
- Party Politics in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1965
- Profiles of The Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1965
- Stilkunde
Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1965
- Lenin, Trotsky and the Vanguard Party
A Contemporary View
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1963
Published: 1964
- The Other America
Poverty in United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1964
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- The Big Sell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Complete Book of Self-Defence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Digests of Shakespeare's Plays
The Greatest Histories and Tragedies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Divide and Rule: Red, White, and Black in the Southeast
The Journal of Negro History July 1963
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
Examines the relationship between indigenous and black people in the colonial American Southeast.
- Economics: Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Fail-Safe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- The Founding of Canada
Beginnings to 1815
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Geographic Fundamentals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Griechenland
Und Die Inseln der Agais
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- The Illustrated Library of the World and It's Peoples
United Kingdom Ireland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Lenin and the Vanguard Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
To believe that Bolshevism, or to be more precise, Leninism, would under the circumstances advocate or preach the theory of the vanguard party is to continue slander of Leninism, but not to his theory of the party (that is no longer viable) but to his central doctrine - the role of the proletariat in the preservation of society from barbarism. To interpret Leninism as the advocacy of a vanguard party of three million is nearly as bad as the doctrine of Goebbels that Christ was not a Jew. Objective circumstances in Russia forced Lenin into a certain position. He accepted it without apologising for it. He knew what he was doing and he knew also, for he said it many times, what he was not doing. His doubts about it, not only for other countries but for Russia, he made public many, many times.
- Mathematics 10
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Our Generation
Volume 2 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Our Generation
Volume 2 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Our Generation
Volume 2 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Peaceful Coexistence -- Two Diametrically Opposed Policies
Comment on the Open Letter of the Centrral Committee of the CPSU (VI}
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- The Pleasures of Painting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- The Prophet Outcast
Trotsky: 1929-1940, Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
The final volume of Deutscher's three-volume biography of Leon Trotsky.
- Renegade in Power
The Diefenbaker Years
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- The Rise of the West
A History of the Human Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Sex and Ethics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
In America, as it is at present, most behavior -- and this is not only in sexual matters -- has nothing to do with what one is or would normally desire or naturally desire, but what is pected of one or in order to provide something which has got nothing to do with the functioning of it.
- Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
A biography and political history of the Populist American leader Tom E. Watson.
- Unarmed Victory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Whither Latin America?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- Bourinot's Rules of Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Published: 1963
- The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age
A Centrury of Masterpiecesby the world's greatest writers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1974
- Beyond Your Doorstep
A Handbook to the Country
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1971
- Marxist Economic Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1971
Marxist Economic Theory is a major intellectual project which adapts Marx's analysis of capitalism to the world of the late 20th century. Mandel examines post-war upheavals in the development of imperialism, monopoly capitalism and the structure of the state-controlled economies.
- Cities in The Suburbs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1969
- German Catholics and Hitler's Wars
A study in social control
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1969
Why did German Catholics (along with other Christian groups) lend almost complete support to Hitler's wars of conquest? Why is there a record of only a handful of Catholic conscientious objectors to Hitler's aggression?
- Man Alone
Alienation in modern society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1969
An anthology of essays examining aspects of alienation, asking questions such as what are the conditions that lead to alienation, and what as the possibilities of restoring a greater integration of the individual and the group?
- Selected Poetry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1969
- Five Girls
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1968
Photographs of five women.
- Island
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1968
- The Making of Modern Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1968
- Tactics for Conducting the Sales Call
The Psychology of Selling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1967
- Dominion of the North
A History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1966
- Politics: Canada
Problems in Canadian Goverment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1966
- Of Time, Work and Leisure
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1964
- Silent Spring
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
A landmark book documenting the detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, particularly on birds.
- Lonely Are the Brave
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
Western drama. A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
- Against the American Grain
Essays on the Effects of Mass Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
Critical essays on American culture.
- Anarchism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
Woodcock presents anarchism as a political philosophy, a system of social thought which aims at fundamental changes in the structure of society and particularly at the replacement of authoritraian states by co-operation between free individuals.
- The Broken Spears
The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
Translated selections of Nahuatl-language accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
- The Bureaucratic Revolution
The Rise of the Stalinist State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
Shachtman argues that Stalinist Russia and all countries of the same structure represent a new social order which he calls bureaucratic collectivism. He rejects the view that Stalinist society is in any way socialist or compatible with socialism, and rejects as well the view that it is capitalist or moving toward capitalism.
- Civilization and its Discontents
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- El Alamein
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- The Essential Gandhi
His Life, Work and Ideas: An Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
A selection of Gandhi's writing.
- Fallup
Mankind's New Atomic Danger
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- 5BX Plan
2nd edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- From Bolshevism to the Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
Among the innumerable questions raised by the fate of the Russian Revolution, two form the poles around which we may organise all the others. The first question is: What kind of society was produced by the degeneration of the revolution? (What is the nature and the dynamic of this regime? What is the Russian bureaucracy? What is its relation to capitalism and to the proletariat? What is its place in history? What are its present problems?)
- Growing Up Absurd
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
Goodman offers a fundamental critique of the Organized System of semimonopolies, government, advertisers, etc., and the disaffection of the growing generation.
- Il Posto
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- India's Struggle for Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Karl Korsch: His Contribution to Revolutionary Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
For Korsch, all the imperfections of Marx's revolutionary theory which, in retrospect, are explainable by the circumstances out of which it arose, do not alter the fact that Marxism remains superior to all other social theories even today, despite its apparent failure as a social movement. It is this failure which demands not the rejection of Marxism but a Marxian critique of Marxism, that is, the further proletarisation of the concept of social revolution. There was no doubt in Korsch's mind, that the period of counter-revolution is historically limited like everything else -- that the new social productive forces embodied in a socialist revolution would re-assert themselves and find a revolutionary theory adequate to their practical tasks.
- The Life and Times of Confederation, 1864-1867
Politics, Newspapers, and The Union of British North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Marxism and the Intellectuals
A review of Raymond Williams' Culture and Society and The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
Raymond Williams has shown the origins of British socialism in the history of Britain itself. He has concentrated on the manner in which British writers and the British workers have created what exists in Britain today. He has developed the idea of culture from an exclusive possession of the educated and intellectuals and shown that the only meaning the word has for today is a total way of life of the whole people.
- Mathematics 9
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Oberkaufungen im Wandel der Zeiten
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Our Generation
Volume 1 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
Special Supplement on the Berlin & German Question
- Our Generation
Volume 1 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Our Generation
Volume 1 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Our Generation
Volume 2 number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- The Port Huron Statement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
- Rand McNally Illustrated Atlas of Today's World - Volume 1
Northern and Western Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Rand McNally Illustrated Atlas of Today's World - Volume 2
Southern And Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Rand McNally Illustrated Atlas of Today's World - Volume 4
Africa South of the Sahara
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Rand McNally Illustrated Atlas of Today's World - Volume 5
Eastern & Southern Asia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Rand McNally Illustrated Atlas of Today's World - Volume 6
Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Rand McNally Illustrated Atlas of Today's World - Volume 7
United States I - Alabama - Minnesota
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Rand McNally Illustrated Atlas of Today's World - Volume 8
United States II - Mississippi - Wyoming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Rand McNally Illustrated Atlas of Today's World - Volume 9
Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Rand McNally Illustrated Atlas of Today's World - Volume 10
Australia, Oceania, and Polar Regions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Rand McNally Illustrated Atlas of Today's World - Volume 11
Our World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- The River of Life
The Miracles of Creation Revealed in the World Around Us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
People have not finished talking about the Russian Revolution, its problems, its degeneration, and about the regime it ultimately produced. And how could one? Of all the revolts of the working class, the Russian Revolution was the only victorious one. And of all the working class's failures, it was the most thoroughgoing and the most revealing.
- Some Remarks on War Spirit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
How under modern conditions can we wage peace instead of war? We need a vast increase in the opportunities for initiative and making important decisions. This involves considerable decentralization of management, in industry, in government, in urban affairs like housing and schooling. It involves the use of our productivity to insure minimum subsistence, but otherwise the encouragement of individual enterprises. We must forthrightly carry through the sexual revolution, encourage the sexuality of children and adolescents, get rid of the sex laws and other moral laws.
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
And Selected Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Theses on the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- Die Welt der Photographie
von ihren Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Published: 1962
- A History of the Land Law (Second Edition)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1986
An account of the historical development of the common law of landed property. Work published since the first edition (1961) is taken into account, and the treatment of the nineteenth century period has been enlarged.
- The Destruction of the European Jews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961
Published: 1985
The Destruction of the European Jews is a 1961 book by historian Raul Hilberg. Hilberg revised his work in 1985, and it appeared in a new three-volume edition. It is largely held to be the first comprehensive historical study of the Holocaust.
- Watchers at the Pond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1978
- Knaurs Mal- und Zeichenbuch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1976
- Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern Art: From 1800 to the Present Day
Art and Mankind
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1974
- The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1974
- Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1973
- The Phantom Tollbooth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1972
- Their Canada and Mine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961
Published: 1972
A republished article from Commentary in 1961 for Jewish-American readers.
Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1972.
- The Sea
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1971
- Self and Others
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1971
In this study of the patterns of interaction between people R.D. Laing attempts to unravel some of the knots in which we unfailingly tie ourselves. Taking his examples both from literature and case material, he shows that 'every relationship implies definition of self by other and other by self' and that if the self does not receive confirmation by its contacts with others, or if the attributions that others ascribe to it are contradictory, its position becomes untenable and it may break down.
- The Meaning of Socialism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1961
Published: 1969
Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
- The Origins of the Second World War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1969
A narrative and analysis of the events leading to the outbreak of World War II.
- Practical Chess Endings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1969
Chernev presents practical endgame situations that are likely to occur in play.
- Psychotherapy East & West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1969
Watt compares the ways of liberation developed by East and West - liberation from the repression of the body and the emotions, libration from the prison of the ego, liberation from the meaninfless production and consumption that our civilization has imposed.
- Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
Volume 4
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1969
- Socialism or Barbarism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1961
Published: 1969
The combined socialist objectives from members of "Socialisme ou Barbarie" of France, "Unita Proletaria" of Italy, "Socialism Reaffirmed" of Great Britain, and "Pouvoir Ouvrier Belge" of Belgium.
- Andorra
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1968
- The Ivy Tree
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1968
- The Wretched of the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1968
Fanon explores the psychological effect of colonisation on the psyche of a nation as well as its broader implications for building a movement for decolonization. He critiques nationalism and imperialism and discusses the role of intellectuals and of language in revolutionary situations. Fanon argues that revolutionary groups should look to non-proletarian strata, especially peasants, to organize against the colonial power.
- The Contours of American History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1966
An interpretation of the social, moral, constitutional and economic development of the United States.
- Canadian Economic Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1965
- The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1965
- The Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1965
A history of the Spanish Civil War.
- What is History?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1965
- The Making of the President 1960
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1962
- The Anatomy of a Party
The National CCF 1932-1961
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
A history of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation focusing on the relationship between the CCF as a movement and as a political party.
- An Army of Amateurs
The Story of the SOE Resistance Movement in France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
A first-hand account of the resistance in Nazi-occupied France.
- Banning Cars from Manhattan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
By banning private cars and reducing traffic, we can, in most areas, close off nearly nine out of ten cross-town streets and every second north-south avenue. These closed roads plus the space now used for off-street parking will give us a handsome fund of land for neighborhood relocation. At present over 35 percent of the area of Manhattan is occupied by roads.
- Carry the Revolution Through to the End
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
Jacobs' iconoclastic and brilliant observations on why cities work, and why they don't.
- Designing Pacifist Films
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- 11 Steps To Survival
Emergency Measures Organization
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- Gamebirds
A guide to North American species and their habits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- Guerilla Warfare
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- A Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- Introduction to the Anatomy of the Dog
An illustrated guide to The Visible Dog
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- Marx on Economics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
A systematic compilation of extracts drawn from Marx's publications with brief summaries of their arguments.
- Marx's Concept of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
It is one of the peculiar ironies of history that there are no limits to the misunderstanding and distortion of theories, even in an age when there is unlimited access to the sources; there is no more drastic example of this phenomenon than what has happened to the theory of Karl Marx in the last few decades....I shall try to demonstrate that this interpretation of Marx is completely false; that his theory does not assume that the main motive of man is one of material gain; that, furthermore, the very aim of Marx is to liberate man from the pressure of economic needs, so that he can be fully human; that Marx is primarily concerned with the emancipation of man as an individual, the overcoming of alienation, the restoration of his capacity to relate himself fully to man and to nature; that Marx's philosophy constitutes a spiritual existentialism in secular language and because of this spiritual quality is opposed to the materialistic practice and thinly disguised materialistic philosophy of our age.
- The Methods of Science 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- Modern Poetry
Volume 7
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- On Becoming a Person
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
On the human potential for growth and creativity.
- Our Generation
Volume 1, Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
The first issue of the journal Our Generation Against Nuclear War
- Parliamentary Socialism
A Study in the Politics of Labour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
The leadership of the British Labour Party has always been determined that the Labour Party should not stray from the narrow path of parliamentary politics. Miliband sets out the analyse the consequences which this approach to politics has had for the Labour Party and the Labour movement from the time the Labour Party came into existence.
- Perspectives for Conscious Change in Everyday Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
Guy Debord says that to study everyday life would be a completely absurd undertaking, unable even to grasp anything of its object, if this study was not expressly for the purpose of transforming everyday life.
- Pornography and the Sexual Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- Reflections on the Revolution in France and the Rights of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- The Secret World of OG
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- Seven Red Sundays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- The Situation and Our Policy After the Victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- Social Change in Latin America Today
Its Implications for United States Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- Soviet Marxism
A Critical Analysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- The Spice-Box of Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- The Story of Fabian Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
A history of the Fabian Society and the organizations and individuals who were part of the Fabian milieu.
- Talk With the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- Technique in Chess
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- The uses of sidewalks: contact
Chapter 3 of The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- The uses of sidewalks: safety
Chapter 2 of The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961
Published: 1961
- American Communism and Soviet Russia
The Formative Period
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1986
A history of the formative peirod of the American Communist Party.
- Die Standhaften
Über den Widerstand in Kassel und Hessen-Waldeck 1933-1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1978
Lokalhistorische Studie zum Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus.
- Decisive Decades
A History of the Twentieth Century for Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1973
- Workers Battle Automation
A News & Letters Pamphlet
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1960
Published: 1971
In the mine, mill or factory, Automation has not reduced the drudgery of labor. The very opposite is the truth. The factory clock is now geared to the pace of the monster machine. The auto worker, the steel worker, the miner -- all workers who battle against Automation know its life-and-death meaning -- its speedup, its inhuman way of work, its death by overwork, its unemployment, its permanently depressed areas, its ghost towns.
- The Divided Self
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1970
Laing sets out to make madeness and the process of going mad comprehensible.
- The Two Souls of Socialism
Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1960
Published: 1970
It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of socialism and democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence, a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory that sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
- Cuba
Anatomy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1969
- Smiling Through the Apocalypse
Esquire's History of the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1969
Ten years' of journalism from Esquire magazine.
- A Man For All Seasons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1968
- Manifesto of the Chinese People's Liberation Army
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1968
- Let's Face it, Charlie Brown!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1967
- The Orientation of the Youth Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1967
- The Waste Makers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1967
Packard criticizes the development of an economy and a society based on deliberate waste.
- New-Democratic Constitutional Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1966
- The Miracle Worker
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1965
- Peacemaker or Powdermonkey
Canada's Role in a Revolutionary World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1965
- The Child Buyer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1964
- Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1963
"The knowledge of Zen, and a concern with it," writes Erich Fromm, "can have a most fertile and clarifying influence on the theory and technique of psychoanalysis."
- On Some Important Problems of the Party's Present Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1961
- On the Chungking Negotiations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1961
- On the U.S. White Paper
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1961
- Adventures of a Columnist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
A collection of Pierre Berton's columns for the Toronto Daily Star.
- Anton Pannekoek
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
Anton Pannekoek's life span coincided with what was almost the whole history of the modern labour movement; he experienced its rise as a movement of social protest, its transformation into a movement of social reform, and its eclipse as an independent class movement in the contemporary world. But Pannekoek also experienced its revolutionary potentialities in the spontaneous upheavals which, from time to time, interrupted the even flow of social evolution. He entered the labour movement a Marxist and he died a Marxist, still convinced that if there is a future, it will be a socialist future.
- Black Like Me
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Canadian Almanac and Directory 1960
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Doctor Zhivago
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- A Documentary History of Communism, Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Foreword to A.S. Neill: Summerhill - A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
A. S. Neill's system is a radical approach to child rearing. His book Summerhill is of great importance because it represents the true principle of education without fear.
- From an Exile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
Ten distinguished members of my faculty convened and unanimously declared me guilty of "deviousness, artfulness, and indirection hardly to be expected of a University colleague." I had refused, first before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and then before these juries of professors, to answer yes or no to the question, was I a Communist. The juries could assume (with that background and in the year 1954) that their recommendation that I be fired would mean my complete expulsion from the profession.
- Gandhiji: A Study 1960
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Das Geheimnis des Schwarzen Könings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Good Photography's 35mm Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Introduction to Mass Communications
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Introduction to Mass Communications
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Letter to the New Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Newfoundland: "The Fortress Isle"
Premier Smallwood's Statement of Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Ontario Motor League Road Book
1960-1961
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Ordeal by Ice
Volume I of The Top of the World trilogy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
Written as a platform for discussion within the Situationist International, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement.
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
A History of Nazi Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Sceptical Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Summerhill
A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
A.S. Neill describes the ideas and practice of Summerhill school, the alternative school he founded. He expresses his radical opinions on parenthood and child rearing.
- Super Karate Made Easy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- You're A Winner, Charlie Brown!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
- Einstein on Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Published: 1960
A collection of Albert Einstein's writing on war, peace, and the atom bomb.
- Mirage of Health
Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1979
Dubos attempts to show that while it may be comforting to imagine a life free of stresses and strains in a carefree world, this will remain an idle dream. Humans cannot hope to find another Paradise on earth, because paradise is a static concept while human life is a dynamic process.
- Modern Capitalism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1975
For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
- Mutmassungen über Jakob
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1974
- The Canadian Economy in the Great Depression
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1970
- Socialism in One Country 1924-1926
Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1970
Carr details the struggle for power within the Bolshevik party.
- Goodbye, Columbus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1969
- Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1969
A personification of the unity of theory and practice, Rosa Luxemburg's life and work require a description of her activities as well as her thoughts - they are inseparable.
- The Sociological Imagination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1968
- A Dying Colonialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1967
Fanon reveals the various ways in which the people of Algeria, during the revolution, changed their centuries-old patterns of culture, or, conversely, embraced certain ancient forms of culture long derided by their colonialist oppressors as "rpimitive," in order to destroy those oppressors.
- Just Add Water and Stir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1966
Collected columns and articles by Pierre Berton.
- Primitive Rebels
Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1965
A study of 'primitive' or 'archaic' forms of social agitation.
- We're On Your Side, Charlie Brown
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1965
- The Two Cultures and a Second Look
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1963
- Against Revisionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
- Christ Our Savior
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
- The Crazy Kill
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
- Dictionary of Modern Chess
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
- The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
- Five Hundred Years of Printing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
- Life Against Death
Psychoanalytical meaning of history
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
- Marx and Engels
Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
An analysis of human behaviour in social situations and the way that we appear to others.
- A Prophet in Politics
A Biography of J.S. Woodsworth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
A biography of the Canadian socialist who became the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
A comic book history of the RCMP.
- Schönsten Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
- The Social Credit Movement in Alberta
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
Why did the doctinres of Social Credit achieve political acceptance in Alberta?
- The Status Seekers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
- The Story of Newfoundland
A new and fully revised history of Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
- Theater in Kassel
Aus der Geschichte des Staatstheaters Kassel von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
- A Treasury of Great Science Fiction
Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
- The Varsity Chapbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
A 1959 Ryerson Press collection of poems by students and instructors from various Canadian Universities.
- The Twilight Zone (TV series)
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1959
Published: 1959
An American science-fiction/fantasy anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consists of unrelated stories depicting paranormal, futuristic, Kafkaesque, or otherwise disturbing or unusual events.
- Marxism and Freedom
From 1776 to Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 2000
Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society.
- Klondike
The Last Great Gold Rush 1896-1899
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1990
- Marco Polo
The Travels
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1979
- Facing Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1974
Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
- Notebook of an Agitator
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1973
Over 100 articles from the pen of an active participant in the events of thirty years of labor history. Cannon covers the campaigns to save Sacco and Vanzetti, the historic strikes of the 1930s, the Korean War, mcCarthyism, and prize fighting, movies, and the Catholic Church.
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1973
- Nature, Man and Woman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1970
Watts aays that hositility to nature is characteristic of our culture, and is the root of our personal anxiety and loneliness, our fear of feeling, and our reluctance to love. Watts discusses the origians of this alienation from nature in Christianity and Western thought, contrasted with the Chinese philosophy of the Tao and its vision of nature as an organic whole in which humans are fully included and feel at home.
- Politics Past
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1970
A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
- Socialism in One Country 1924-1926
Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1970
- The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1969
- Puritanism and Revolution
Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1968
A series of essays on the massive changes which occurred in seventeenth-century England.
- Everyman's Encyclopedia - Vol. 2 - Bamboo - Cachucha
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1967
- Everyman's Encyclopedia - Vol 3 - Cacique -Condottieri
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1967
- Everyman's Encyclopedia - Vol 4 - Conductance - Electron
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1967
- Everyman's Encyclopedia - Vol 5 - Electoron Micro - Ghadames
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1967
- Everyman's Encyclopedia - Vol 6 - Ghana Inertial Navig
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1967
- Everyman's Encyclopedia - Vol 7 - Infallibillity - Lobachevsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1967
- Everyman's Encyclopedia - Vol 8 - Lobau - Myxomycetes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1967
- Everyman's Encyclopedia - Vol 9 - Naafi - Pilmitz
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1967
- Everyman's Encyclopedia - Vol 10 - Pillory - Santa Barbara
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1967
- Everyman's Encyclopedia - Vol 11 - Santa Catarina - Thomas a Kem
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1967
- Everyman's Encyclopedia - Vol 12 - Thomas Aquinas - Zyryanovsk
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1967
- Sexual Life in England
A comprehansive survey of English morals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1967
- Motivation in Selling
The Psychology of Selling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1966
- The Origins of Totalitarianism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1966
- Personality and Sales Strategy
The Psychology of Selling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1966
- Candy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1964
- The Aeneid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Correct Letter Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Correct Letter Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- The Course of Modern Jewish History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
An acount of the Jews from the French revolution to the present day.
- A Decentralist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
- Harwyn Picture Encyclopedia Volume 1, A-B
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Harwyn Picture Encyclopedia Volume 2, C-D
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Harwyn Picture Encyclopedia Volume 3, E-F
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Harwyn Picture Encyclopedia Volume 4, G-H
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Harwyn Picture Encyclopedia Volume 5, I-J
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Harwyn Picture Encyclopedia Volume 6, K-L
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Harwyn Picture Encyclopedia Volume 7, M
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Harwyn Picture Encyclopedia Volume 8, N-O
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Harwyn Picture Encyclopedia Volume 9, P-Q, R
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Harwyn Picture Encyclopedia Volume 10, S
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Harwyn Picture Encyclopedia Volume 11, T-U, V
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Harwyn Picture Encyclopedia Volume 12, W-X, Y-Z
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Here I Stand
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Judo
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Karlshafen
Hessische Forschungen zur Geschichtlichen Landes- under Volkskunde
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- The Mahatma and the Ism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- A Marxian Oddity
A review of Marxiam and Freedom. From 1776 Unitl Today, by Raya Dunayevskaya
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
Paul Mattick says although Raya Dunayevskaya’s interpretation of Marxian doctrine is occasionally true and eloquent, this book as a whole is a scatterbrained hodge-podge of philosophical, economic and political ideas that defy description and serious criticism.
- Message of the Non-Jewish Jew
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
The Jewish heretic who transcends Jewry belongs to a Jewish tradition.
- Poems of Tennyson
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Princess Sheila
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Zoology
An Introduction to the Animal Kingdom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
Published: 1958
- Der Baron auf den Bäumen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1999
- The Overworked American
The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1993
This book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Juliet Schor presents the astonishing news that over the past twenty years our working hours have increased by the equivalent of one month per year—a dramatic spurt that has hit everybody: men and women, professionals as well as low-paid workers. Why are we—unlike every other industrialized Western nation—repeatedly ”choosing” money over time? And what can we do to get off the treadmill?
- Workers' Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1957
Published: 1974
A translation of an essay, "Sur le Contenu du Socialisme," written by Cornelius Castoriadis under the pseudonym "Peirre Chalieu," and originally published in the journal Socialisme out Barbarie in 1957. Castoriadis writes that "the experience of bureaucratic capitalism allows us clearly to perceive what socialims is not and cannot be. A close look both a past proletarian uprising and at the everyday life and struggles of the working class - both East and West -- enables us to posit what socialism could be and should be."
- Memory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1973
- The Movies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1973
- The Modern Researcher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1970
- The Critique of Capitalist Democracy
An Introduction to the Theory of the State in Marx, Engels, and Lenin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1969
- Economic Theory and Underdeveloped Regions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1969
- Stories for the Dead of Night
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1967
- Use of Appeals in Selling
The Psychology of Selling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1967
- Ironies of History
Essays on Contemporary Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1966
A series of essays by Deutscher examinig the evolution of the so-called Communist world after Stalin.
- On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1966
- Point of View for Salesmen
The Psychology of Selling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1966
- A Dictionary of Politics
Fourth Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1964
- Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Sceptic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1963
A biography of Bertrand Russell.
- Mit der Kamera auf du
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1963
- Das DBG Lexikon
Erster Band A - Gre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1961
- Das DBG Lexikon
Zweiter Band Gri - Ok
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1961
- Das DBG Lexikon
Dritter Band Ol - Z
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1961
- The Pursuit of the Millenium
Revolutionary messianism in medieval & reformation Europe & its bearings on modern totalitarium movements
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1961
- Parkinson's Gesetz
Und andere Untersuchungen über die Verwaltung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1958
- A Camping Trip with the Range Rider
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1957
- The Hidden Persuaders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1957
What makes you buy, believe, even vote, the way you do? This book answers hundreds of eye-opening questions with facts that show how advertising men are using our hidden urges and frustrations to sell every-thing from gasoline to politicians.
- Israel's Arab Minority: The Great Land Robbery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1957
Published: 1957
Something that is disturbing about those Israeli liberals who do tell the truth about the Arab minority is that they tend to pass the guilt off onto the backs of "the Jewish people." They ask how could "the Jewish people" do this to "a helpless minority" when it has itself been the victim of robbery and exploitation and has so often vowed itself to righteousness and justice? One must respect the motives of this breast-beating, but the content is distressing. It was not "the Jewish people" who did this but the Zionist authorities, the Zionist movement, and the Zionist government that bear the responsibility; and the difference is enormous.
- Kassel
Ein Jahrtausend Hessischer Stadtkultur
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1957
- Mass Culture
The Popular Arts in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1957
- The Organization Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1957
- Rocks and Minterals
A Guide to Minerals, Gems, and Rocks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1957
- The Uses of Literacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1957
In this partly autobiographical book Hoggart observes the loss of an authentic popular culture and denounces the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.
- Word Magic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1957
- The Breakdown of Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1957
Kohr maintains that throughout history, people who have lived in small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. He argues that virtually all our political and social problems would be greatly diminished if the world's major countries were to dissolve back into the small states from which they sprang.
- Langenschedit's Universal Dictionary English-German German-English
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1957
- Mao's China
Economic and Political Survey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Published: 1957
- Lincoln Reconsidered
Essays on the Civil War Era: Third Edition, Revised and Updated
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 2001
- Die Jugend des Königs Henri Quatre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1994
- The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1992
Jack Burns has a steadfast refusal to accept the what he perceives as the tyranny of the twentieth century world he lives in. As he gets in trouble with the law, he finds himself running away from the authorities.
- A Field Guide to the Ferns
Peterson Field Guides
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1984
- Being and Nothingness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1973
- Celebration of Awareness
A Call for Institutional Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1970
- The Empire of the St. Lawrence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1970
- The Image
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1967
- On the Question of Agricultural Co-operation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1966
- The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in the National War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1966
- Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1964
- The Art of Loving
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1963
Love, according to Erich Fromm, is the only satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
- Crestwood Heights
A Study of the Culture of Suburban Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1963
- The Sport of Judo
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1963
- How to Stay Alive in the Woods.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1962
- Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1961
A selection of Marx's writings intended to present the evolution of his ideas, the main features of his mothod, and the chief conclusions of his research.
- The Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party in the Period of Resistance to Japan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1960
- A History of Europe Vol I
From the end of the Roman world in the West to the beginnings of the Western States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1958
- Mutter und Kind
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1958
- A User's Guide to Détournement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
Détournement means deflection, diversion, rerouting, distortion, misuse, misappropriation, hijacking, or otherwise turning something aside from its normal course or purpose.
- The Common Sense Book of Puppy and Dog Care
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
- Economic Geography of the U.S.S.R.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
- Every Cook Can Govern
A Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece: Its Meaning for Today
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
Modern parliamentary democracy elects representatives and these representatives constitute the government. Before the democracy came into power, the Greeks had been governed by various forms of government, including government by representatives. The democracy knew representative government and rejected it. It refused to believe that the ordinary citizen was not able to perform practically all the business of government.
- Fishes
A Guide to Familiar American Species
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
- Fromm's sane society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
- Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Adapted for Younger Readers by Felix Sutton
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
- Israel's Arab Minority: The Beginning of a Tragedy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
Excerpt:
Without in the least derogating this moral indignation at the treatment of the Arab minority, which is richly justified, one aspect of the denunciation misses the mark. The moral indignation should not be visited in the first place against the miserable, harassed, driven Jewish DPs from Europe who, in their fear and need, were used as pawns to grab the land and property of the dispossessed Arabs. They were steered and pushed into this position by those who knew what they were doing - Zionist arms like the Jewish Agency, Zionist authorities in the armed forces and government, both by design and by toleration.
Zionism - the ideology of Jewish chauvinism - showed that it was and is one of the deeply reactionary conceptions of the political world. The child of anti-Semitism, it became the father of another form of ethnic oppression; if genocide means the murder of a people as such, then there should be a word for the robbery of a people as such.
What Zionism created in Palestine in 1948 was the first act of a tragedy.
- Kropokin on Mutual Aid - Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
- Mecki bei den Indianern
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
- A Short History of Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
- The Weapon of Theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966.
- When Prophecy Fails
A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
About a UFO cult that believes the end of the world is at hand.
- Cryptoanalysis
A Study of Ciphers and their Solution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Published: 1956
- James P. Cannon on the Legacy of the IWW
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1955
Published: 2015
Formed in direct opposition to the craft unionism of the American Federation of Labor, the IWW drew its membership largely from young workers who took to the road to find work where they could -- as railroad construction workers, lumberjacks, metal miners and seamen. Taught by harsh experience that the bosses could not be overpowered at the ballot box, those who formed the IWW called for "One Big Union" that would serve as the instrument to seize the means of production from the capitalist class.
- The Greek Myths
Volume I
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1996
- The Greek Myths
Volume II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1996
- Fundamental Accounting Principles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1980
- William Morris
From Romantic to Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1977
A biography of the nineteenth-century socialist, designer, artist, and intellectual William Morris.
- The Myth of Sisyphus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1975
Camus asks whether life has meaning, and whether suicide is a legimitate response to the absurdity of life. He says: "Although The Myth of Sisyphus poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert."
- Kant
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1974
- Adventures of the Dialectic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1973
- Urban Development in South-Central Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1972
A study of the growth of metropolitanism in Ontario.
- Weeds of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1970
- Heretics and Renegades
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1969
Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc.
- Illuminations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1969
Litearcy essasy, general reflections, and probings into cultural phenomena.
- Becoming
Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1968
- On Coalition Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1967
- Greek Science in Antiquity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1966
- Historic Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1966
- The Modern Age
1760-1955
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1963
- Eros and Civilization
A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1962
- Oppose Stereotyped Party Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1962
- Thinkers and Treasurers
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1955
Published: 1960
- Leben des Galilei
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1958
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1955
- The Chrysalids
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1955
- The Complete Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1955
- Fifth Book of Chess
How to Win When You're Ahead
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1955
- The Freedom Charter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1955
Published: 1955
Adopted at the Kliptown Congress of the African National Congress.
- Hessische Hefte
Kassel: Eine Stadt wandelt das Gesicht
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1955
- The Ladykillers
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1955
Published: 1955
The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy film made by Ealing Studios. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, it stars Katie Johnson, Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, and Jack Warner.
- Mammals
A Guide to Familiar American Species
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1955
- The Sane Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1955
A critical evaluation of the effects of contemporary Western culture on the mental health and sanity of the people living within it.
- The Shell Guide to Flowers of the Countryside
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1955
- Sixth Book of Chess
How to Fight Back
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1955
- The Wonderful World of Mathematics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
Published: 1955
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1955
Published: 1955
A successful year-long protest against the segregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
- The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955
This book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative new development in the region.
- A Woman in Berlin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 2005
The anonymous author describes the degradation of Berlin women at the hands of Russian troops at the end of the Second World War.
- Animal Tracks
Peterson Field Guides
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1974
- The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1971
- The Interregnum 1923-1924
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1969
Tje fourth volume of E.H. Carr's History of Soviet Russia, covering the months of Lenin's illness and death
- Deustche Recht-schreibung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1968
- The Question of Independence and Initiative Within the United Front
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1968
- Strategy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1968
- Kings of Chess
Chess Champions of The Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1966
- On Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1966
- Policies, Measures and Perspectives for Resisting the Japanese Invasion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1966
- The Prophet Armed
Trotsky: 1879-1921, Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1965
Volume 1 of Deutscher's three-volume biography of Leon Trotsky, covering the period to 1921.
- More Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1964
- A Pocket Book of Modern Verse
English and American Poetry of the Last Hundred Years from Walt Whitman to Dylan Thomas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1958
- The Canada Year Book 1954
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1954
- Deutschland
Ein apartes Reisebuch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1954
- Fables of Aesop
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1954
- How to Lie With Statistics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1954
Illustrates how statistics are misused and misunderstood.
- Last of the Curlews
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1954
- The Myth of Lenin's 'Revolutionary Defeatism'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1954
Published: 1954
Lenin discovered in practice that the defeat-slogan was incompatible with a living Marxist approach to the problem of the defense of the nation, conceived not in the social-patriotic sense of the 'defense of the fatherland' but in the light of a Marxist class understanding of, and a dynamically revolutionary program for, the nation.
- Das Praktische Haushalftsbuch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1954
- Vom frühen Holzschnitt zum Mehrfarbendruck
Die Entwicklung der Graphischen Verfahren von den Künstlerischen Anfängen bis zur Neuzeitlichen Reproduktionstechnik
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1954
- Werkbuch für Mädchen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1954
- Lavon Affair
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1954
Published: 1954
The Lavon Affair refers to a failed Israeli covert operation, code named Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the Summer of 1954. As part of the false flag operation, a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to plant bombs inside Egyptian, American and British-owned civilian targets, cinemas, libraries and American educational centres. The attacks were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Communists, "unspecified malcontents" or "local nationalists" with the aim of creating a climate of violence and instability.
- Unruhige Nacht
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Published: 1954
- Moncada Barracks
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1953
Published: 2012
The Moncada Barracks was a military barracks in Santiago de Cuba. On July 26, 1953, the barracks was the site of an armed attack by a small group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro.
- On Sham, Vulnerability and Other Forms of Self-Deception
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1973
Twelve essays in which Jules Henry explores sham, the self-defensive falsity necessary for the individual's survival within this society, and the sense of vulnterability that proscribes and inhibits individual behaviour and enlightenment.
- Lessons of the Spanish Revolution 1936 - 1939
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1972
- The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923 - Voume Three
Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1971
- I.F. Stone's Weekly
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1953
Published: 1971
Weekly newsletter published by I.F. Stone from 1953 to 1971. All issues between January 17, 1953 and December 1, 1971 are online.
- Lenin's Moscow
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1971
Rosmer traces the furtunes of the Russian Revolution and the Communist International from 1920 to 1924.
- The Second Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1970
simone de Beauvoir explores what is is to be a woman from a multitude of perspectives: sexual, social, biological, historical.
- Inside Mad
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1969
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1969
- Community and Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1968
- The Erasers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1968
- Fahrenheit 451
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1968
- Man's Search for Himself
How we can find a centre of strength within ourselves
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1967
May examines the nueroses affliciting modern men and women in the age of anxiety.
- Be Concerned with the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1966
- On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1966
- A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1966
- On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1965
- Why is it That Red Political Power Can Exist in China?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1965
- Nine Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1964
- Das Balladenbuch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1960
- Second Book of Chess
The Nine Bad Moves (and How to Avoid Them)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1960
- Reptiles and Amphibians
A Guide to Familiar American Species
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1956
- Das Blaue Buch vom Rhein
Die Blauen Bücher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
- Democracy in Alberta
Social Credit and the Party System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
An examination of the development of the party system in Alberta.
- Hier Hielt die Welt den Atem an
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
- Historisches Lexikon
Von der Vorzeit bis zur Gegenwart
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
- Houdini on Magic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
- Kalendergeschichten
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
- Kassel vor dem Feuersturm
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
Bilder von Kassel vor dem Feuersturm Oktober 1943.
- Knaurs Geschichte der Weltliteratur
Eine Gesamtdarstellung von Erwin Laaths
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
- Knaurs Spielbuch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
- Marx Engels Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
- Rübezahl
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
- Die Schöne Heimat
Bilder aus Deutschland (Die Blauen Bücher)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
- Upper Saugeen Valley Conservation Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
A detailed report on the upper Saugeen Valley (with important information on the entire Saugeen watershed). Chapters include the Indian Period, Settlement, Mills, Agriculture, Geology, Physiography, General Considerations, Description of Soils, Present Land Use, Conservation Practices, Land Use Capability, Land Economics, Recommended Land Use, The Forest, Forest Products, Present Woodland Conditions, Conservation Measures in Progress, Forest Conservation Measures Required, Forest Insects and Diseases, Land Acquisition, Snow Fences, Windbreaks, Harvesting, Manufacturing and Marketing of Woodland Product, The River, Floods 1837-1951, Encroachments, Underground Water, General Hydraulic Problems, Hydraulics and Control Measures, Flood Control for the Town of Walkterton, Wildlife, Present Species, Improving the Farm for Wildlife, Fish.
- 1953 Iranian coup d'état
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1953
Published: 1953
The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup, was the overthrow of the Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United Kingdom and the United States.
- Put Work in Its Place
The Complete Gude to the Flexible Work Place
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1988
- The Beginnings of English Society
History of England
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1979
- England in the Late Middle Ages
History of England
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1978
- A Field Guide to the Mammals (Third Edition)
Peterson Field Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1978
- Punching Out
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1952
Published: 1973
- Paris and London in the 18th Century
Studies in Popular Protest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1970
Articles relating to popular protests and revolts breaking out in Paris and London during the eighteenth century.
- Sex Perfection
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1969
- Urgent Tasks Following the Establishment of Kuomintang-Communist Co-operation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1968
- The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923 - Volume Two
A history of Soviet Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1966
- Problems of Stategy in China's Revolutionary War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1965
- Saint Genet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1963
- The Bruce Beckons
Revised and enlarged edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1962
- Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street
A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1962
- The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1962
- Emanuel Lasker
The Life of a Chess Master
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1959
- Fads & Fallacies In The Name of Science
The Curious Theories of Modern Pseudoscientists and the Strange, Amusing and Alarming Cults that Surround Them. A Study in Human Guilibility
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1957
An examination of pseudoscientific theories.
- Trees
A Guide to Familiar American Trees
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1956
- The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1952
A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
- The Book-of-the-Millennium Club
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1952
Published: 1952
For $249.50, which is (for all practical purposes) $250, one could buy, in 1952, a hundred pounds of Great Books: four hundred and forty-three works by seventy-six authors, ranging chronologically and in other ways from Homer to Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, the whole forming a mass amounting to thirty-two thousand pages, mostly double-column, containing twenty-five million words squeezed into fifty-four volumes.
- Brücken
Die Blauen Bücher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1952
- Das Marsprojekt
Studie einer interplanetarischen Expedition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1952
- 50 Great Short Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1952
- 500 Master Games of Chess
Book I - Open Games
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1952
- 500 Master Games of Chess
Books II & III Semi-Open and Closed Games
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1952
- Munchhausen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1952
- Der Runde Bogen
Die Blauen Bücher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1952
- Such, Such Were The Joys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1952
Published: 1952
George Orwell describes his experiences at an English boarding school which he attended from the age of eight to thirteen. According to Orwell, the school experience involved continual bullying, violence and sexual sadism, malnutrition, and hypocritical profession of moral principles which were contradicted by practice.
- Vanguard of Nazism
The Free Corps of Movement in Postwar Germany 1918-1923
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1952
Vanguard of Nazism is the first full history of the German Free Corps and of its contributions to the rise of Nazism.
- Epitaph for a Spy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1952
- Immortal Poems of the English Language
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
Published: 1952
- Complete Secretary's Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1983
- English Society in the Middle Ages 1066 - 1307
History of England
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1979
- A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Eastern North America
Peterson Field Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1979
Detailed description of every butterfly species found east of the Great Plains, from Greenland to Mexico. Each description gives common and scientific names, habits, range, food plants, habitat, subspecies.
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1973
Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
- Life in Lakes and Rivers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1972
- The Murder of Christ
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1969
- Scholarly Reporting in the Humanities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1968
- The Physiography of Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1967
The book begins with a brief account of the bedrock of Southern Ontario, continues with its galcial geology, then treats all its surface features, including river valleys, in some detail. The second half describes the physiography and land use and settlement of each of fifty-two regions. It ends with a brief summary, a glossary, and a bibliography.
- The New Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1966
- Client-Centered Therapy
Its current practice, implications and theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1965
A presentation of nondirective and related points of view in counselling and therapy.
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- The Caine Mutiny
A Novel of World War II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1961
- A Dictionary of Biology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1961
- The Folklore of Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1961
A collection of materials illustrating American attitudes to sex, love and marriage.
- Insects
A Guide to Familiar American Insects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1956
- Stars
A Guide to the Constellations, Sun, Moon, Planets and Other Features of the Heavers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1956
- The Birds of Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1951
- Durchs Wilde Kurdistan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1951
- Gestalt Therapy
Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1951
The authors believe that the Gestalt outlook is the original, undistorted, natural approach to life, to thinking, acting and feeling.
- Kassel Wilhelmshohe Wilmhelmstal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1951
- The Uprooted
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951
Published: 1951
- State Capitalism and World Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1950
Published: 1986
The great organisations of the masses of the people and of workers in the past were not worked out by any theoretical elite or vanguard. They arose from the experience of millions of people and their need to overcome the intolerable pressures which society had imposed upon them for generations.
- Decline of the English Murder
And Other Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1981
A collection of essays by George Orwell.
- The Communication of Ideas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1980
- The Communication of Ideas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1980
- Nietzsche
Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1974
- Empire and Communications
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1972
Innis develops his theory that the history of empires is determined to a large extent by their means of communication.
- The Progressive Party in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1971
A history of the Progressive Party in Western Canada in the early years of the twentieth century.
- The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923 - Volume One
A History of Soviet Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1969
The first volume of E.H. Carr's eight-volume history of Soviet Russia,, containing an analysis of those events and controversies in Bolshevik history between 1898 and 1917 which influenced the nature and course of the Revolution itself.
- Unpopular Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1969
A collection of essays that argues against dogmatic beliefs in politics, philosophy and other related topics.
- Agrarian Socialism
The Cooperative Commonwealth in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1968
A study of the social background of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan, which in 1944 became to first government with avowed socialist goals to be elected to office in Canada. The updated 1968 edition contains a new introduction and additional essays by five other scholars.
- American Negro Slavery
A Modern Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1968
- Cabbagetown
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1968
Depicts life in the Toronto neighbourhood of Cabbagetown during the Depression.
- The Authoritarian Personality
Studies in prejudice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1967
- Notes on Left Propaganda and How to Spread the Word
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1950
Published: 1967
- Psychoanalysis and Religion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1967
Fromm challenges the argument that religion and psychoanalysis are necessarily in conflict. He argues that both should be concerned with the search for higher spiritual goals and their attainmentment within society.
- Studies in Revolution
The Ideological Origins of the European Revolutionary Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1964
- The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1963
- The Lonely Crowd
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1961
- Toronto Jewish Folk Choir 25th Anniversary program
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 4
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 5
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 6
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 7
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 8
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 9
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 10
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 11
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 12
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 13
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 14
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 15
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 16
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 17
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Volume 18 - Memoirs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- Don Quixote
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- Die Ersten Funfzig Jahre des XX. Jahrhunderts I
Eine Schau in Bild und Wort in drei Banden
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
Band I enthalt folgende Kapitel: Die vierzehn "satten Jahre" 1900-1914; Der Traum vom Fliegen wurder Wirklichkeit; USA wurden Weltmacht; Technik nach 50 Jahren; Vom Zarenreich zur UdSSR; Das Unbekannte lockt; Glanz und Elend der k. und k. Monarchie; Die Erforschung des Lebendigen; Britische Cavalcade; Blick auf Frankreich; Die grun-weiss-rote Trikolore.
- Die Ersten Funfzig Jahre des XX. Jahrhunderts II
Eine Schau in Bild und Wort in drei Banden
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
Der zweite Band enthalt folgende Kapitel: Weimarer Republik; Das Dritte Reich; ...die Folgen; Der Mensch in unserer Zeit; Zauberreich des Films; Symphonie des Sports.
- Die Ersten Funfzig Jahre des XX. Jahrhunderts III
Eine Schau in Bild und Wort in drei Banden
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
Der dritte Band enthalt folgende Kapitel: Bildende Kunst; Literarische Halbzeit; Musik in funf Dezennien; Das Auto: Gefahrt des XX. Jahrhunderts; Briefmarken in funf Jahrzehnten; Die "kleinen Kriege" unseres Jahrhunderts; Kampf fur den Friende; Der Vatikan; Erster Weltkrieg 1914-1918; Zweiter Weldkrieg 1939-1945; Kophe der Nachkriegzeit; Personen-Bild-Register.
- Flowers
A Guide to Familiar American Wildflowers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- Die Heilige Schrift
Nach der deutschen Ubersetzung D. Martin Luthers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
A biography.
- Oberkaufungen
Heimatfest und Glockenweihe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- Principles of Nuremberg
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- Romantic Poets
Blake to Poe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
- 1950–51 Baghdad bombings
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1950
Published: 1950
1950–1951 Baghdad bombings refers to the bombing of Jewish targets in Baghdad, Iraq, between April 1950 and June 1951. It is widely believed that the bombings were carried out by Zionist agents seeking to cause terror in among Iraqi Jews in order to impel them to leave Iraq for Israel.
- Mind the Doors, Please!
The story of Toronto and its streetcars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1949
Published: 1983
- Stalin
A Political Biography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1949
Published: 1970
- The Idea of Usury, from Tribal Brotherhood to Universal Otherhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1949
Published: 1969
- Birds
A Guide to the Most Familiar American Birds
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1949
Published: 1956
- Ancestors of the Proletariat
Tercentenary of the English Revolution: 1649-1949
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1949
Published: 1949
After Charles I had been executed, the Levellers aimed directly at the overthrow of the military government of Cromwell in the name of the people. The great political act of the abolition of the monarchy, dramatized in the execution of the King, was in their eyes entirely subordinate to the positive reorganization of society.
- Cromwell and the Levellers
Tercentenary of English Revolution: 1649-1949
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1949
Published: 1949
Levelers were a loose organisation of kindred political thinkers who from stage to stage expressed the rapidly developing political consciousness of a great social and political mass movement.
- Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1949
Published: 1949
Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Adopted on 12 August 1949 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, Held in Geneva from 21 April to 12 August, 1949. Entry into force 21 October 1950.
- Heimat Ostpreussen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1949
Published: 1949
- Male and Female
A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1949
Published: 1949
Mead draws on an account of sex and gender roles among the Pacific peoples to provide insight into the sexual patterns at work in the United States.
- Newfoundland
Our Province
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1949
Published: 1949
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1949
Published: 1949
George Orwell's classic dystopian novel.
- Spontaneity and Organisation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1949
Published: 1949
How revolutionaries have viewed the relationship between organized planned action and spontaneous action.
- Stalin and German Communism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1949
Published: 1949
- Tausend und eine Nacht
Die schönsten Märchen aus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1949
Published: 1949
- Waldi
Ein lustiges Dackelbuch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1949
Published: 1949
- Why Socialism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1949
Published: 1949
- Orwell's list
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1949
In 1949, shortly before he died, the English author George Orwell prepared a list of notable writers and other people he considered to be unsuitable as possible writers for the anti-communist propaganda activities of the Information Research Department, a secret propaganda organisation of the British state under the Foreign Office.
- Guide To Canadian English Usage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1997
- Handbook of Business Letters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1989
- Handbook of Business Letters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1989
- Notes on Dialectics (Hegel, Marx, Lenin)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1980
James believes that an understanding of Hegel's Logic is essential to an understanding of Marxism.
- State Capitalism in Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1974
- The Complete Plain Words
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1973
- Human Knowledge Its Scope and Limits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1962
- The People's Song Book
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1948
Published: 1956
Songs of protest and affirmation. Foreword by Alan Lomax; preface by B.A. Botkin.
- Eltern-Fibel
Die Ewigen Ordnungen in der Erziehung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1950
- The American Political Tradition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1948
- Canada: The Communist Viewpoint
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1948
Tim Buck, the national leader of the Labor-Progressive Party, sets out the Communist position on the big questions of Canada's destiny.
- Codes and Secret Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1948
- Codes and Secret Writing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1948
- The Contradiction of Trotsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1948
Published: 1948
It was worth examining carefully Trotsky's attitude at the dawn of Stalinism, for it enables us to elucidate the (theoretical) policy to which he adhered until his death. I have said that Trotsky represented, between 1923 and 1927, the contradictions of Bolshevism. I should now add that he never emerged from this divided situation. Subsequently he transported into the domain of revolutionary theory the contradiction in which he had become objectively enclosed. Of course, he was forced by events to perceive the counter-revolutionary character of Stalinism, but he was not capable of taking an overall view of the new Stalinist society and of defining it.
- How to Defend Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1948
Published: 1948
Out of the night of national hatred in Palestine, from the ranks of the working class there, there can arise a real Zion, a Middle East in which Jew and Arab build together a workers, a world without exploitation and oppression.
- The Nature of Stalinist Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1948
There is an unbridgeable antagonism between the definition of Russia as a degenerated workers' state and fundamental elements of Marxism, such as, to take one example, the self-mobilisation and self-conscious action of the masses as a necessary element for the socialist revolution.
- New Palestine Party Visit of Menachem Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed
Letter to the New York Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1948
Published: 1948
- Reshevsky's Best Games of Chess
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1948
- The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the USA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1948
Published: 1948
The impetus of the Negro movement toward the revolutionary forces, which we have traced in the past, is stronger today than ever before.
- Woodworking Tools and How to Use Them
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 1948
- Cry, the Beloved Country
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
Published: 950
- Caste, Class, and Race: A Study of Social Dynamics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
A 1948 sociological analysis of the issues of caste, class, and race relations in the United States and the world by Trinidadian-born, US-based scholar Oliver Cromwell Cox.
- Colonists in Bondage
White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Published: 2012
This is the story of the colonists of the kitchens, the stables, the fields, the shops, and those who came to America as indentured servants, men and women who sold themselves to masters for a period of time in order to pay passage from an old world to a new and freer one.
- Kafka's Prayer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Published: 1976
Kafka said that writing is a form of prayer and it is in that light that Paul Goodman confronts the body of Kafka's work and ideas.
- The Unknown Revolution 1917-1921
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Published: 1974
- The Communist Threat to Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1947
Published: 1973
A 1973 reprint of a sensationalist pamphlet published by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in 1947.
- Russia as State-Capitalist Society
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1947
Published: 1973
- The American Worker
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1947
Published: 1972
A description and analysis of the lives of American factory workrers after the Second World War, written by a young autoworker.
- Studies in the Development of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Published: 1968
A Marxist interpretation of economic development in the period of modern capitalism. Starting with the decline of serfdom, the book deals with the beginnings of the bourgeoisie in the rising urban communities of Europe, with the growth of industrial investment, and with monopoloy in its various forms as a crucial instrument in the growth of capitalism.
- American Folksong Woody Guthrie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Published: 1961
- The Growth of Physical Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Published: 1961
- Communitas
Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Published: 1960
Visions of urban life.
- Selected Poems
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Published: 1959
- From the Ground Up
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Published: 1956
- No Exit
And Three Others Plays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Published: 1949
- Anti-Bolshevist Communism in Germany
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1947
Published: 1947
Until the final collapse of the German labor movement, the retreat of the 'ultra-left' appeared to be a return to theoretical work. The organizations existed in the form of weekly and monthly publications, pamphlets and books. The publications secured the organizations, the organizations the publications. While mass-organizations served small capitalistic minorities, the mass of the workers were represented by individuals. The contradiction between the theories of the 'ultra-left' and the prevailing conditions became unbearable. The more one thought in collective terms the more isolated one became.
- Bolshevism and Stalinism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1947
Published: 1947
From any view that goes beyond the capitalist system of exploitation, Stalinism and Trotskyism are both relics of the past.
- Dialectic and History
An Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Published: 1947
A pamphlet extracted from James' essay Dialcetical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity, originally published in 1947.
- Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1947
Published: 1947
There is no philosophy of history without Marxism, and there can be no Marxism without the dialectic.
- The 'Inevitability of Socialism'
The Meaning of a Much Abused Formula
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1947
Published: 1947
It is our conviction that the socialist revolution will triumph. There is no question of 'equal possibility.' But this conviction is based on an examination of evidence - in the first place, upon our Marxist analysis of the social forces at work, the truth of which, like all human truth, is tested and confirmed only in practice (in struggle). It is not the same as saying that the socialist revolution is inevitable.
- The Invading Socialist Society
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1947
Published: 1947
History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
- Kin-tu-ti-tuan
Chinesische Novellen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Published: 1947
- On the Irresponsible Handling of the Palestine Question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1947
Published: 1947
The American and English working class must not support the Zionist drive for a Jewish State (or what, under existing conditions means the same thing, a drive for Jewish immigration and colonisation) which, while befitting imperialism, opposes the most elementary interests equally of the Arab masses as of the Jewish.
- Trotskyism in the United States 1940-47 Balance Sheet
The Workers Party and the Johnson-Forest Tendency
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1947
Published: 1947
The Johnson-Forest tendency presented this balance sheet of Trotskyism in the United States for its co-thinkers at home and abroad who shared the program and principles of the Fourth International.
- Verboten und Verbrannt
Deutsche Literatur - 12 Jahre unterdrükt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Published: 1947
Some of the German writers banned by the Nazis and detailed descriptions of their work.
- Yes to Life
In Spite of Everything
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 2020
Lectures by Viktor Frankl delivered in 1946.
- Epilogue to Underground to Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Published: 1978
The epilogue to I.F. Stone's first-hand account of the movement of European Jews to Palestine in 1946.
- Underground to Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 1978
Underground to Palestine was written in the spring of 1946 when Stone was the first newspaper reporter to accompany survivors of the Holocaust on their epic clendestine journey to Palestine.
- The Timetables of History
A Horizontal Linkage of people and events
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 1975
- The Jewish Question
A Marxist Interpretation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 1970
Abram Leon offers a materialist approach to the study of Jewish history.
- Reveille for Radicals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 1969
Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
- Robert Frost's Poems
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 1967
- Anti-Semite and Jew
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 1965
- Democratic Goverment and Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 1965
- Drawing the Line
A pamphlet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 1962
- History of Western Philosophy
And its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 1961
A history of western philosophy in relation to its social and economic background.
- After Ten Years
On Trotsky's The Revolution Betrayed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
- Briefe aus dem Gefangnis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
- Gedichte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
- Historical Retrogression or Socialist Revolution
A Discussion Article on the Thesis of the IKD
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
Capitalism fetters, i.e., hampers, impedes the development of the productive forces. But it does not bring them to a halt. They move forward by advance, retardation, standstill, but they move forward, bringing the proletariat with them. The theoretical analysis is that the more capitalism increases the productive forces, the more it brings them into conflict with the existing social relations. The more it increases and develops the productive forces the more it socializes labor and the more it degrades it and the more it drives it to revolt.
- Luxemburg's Theory of Accumulation
How it Differed with Marx and Lenin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
Dunayevskaya argues that Luxemburg was on the wrong track in her attempt to revise the conclusions of Marx's Capital.
- Man's Search for Meaning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
Chronicles Victor Frankl's experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding a reason to live. According to Frankl, the book intends to answer the question "How was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner?" Part One constitutes Frankl's analysis of his experiences in the concentration camps, while Part Two introduces his ideas of meaning and his theory of logotherapy.
- Middle East at the Crossroads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
The events of the last few weeks (1945) in the Middle East have drawn the attention of the whole world to what is happening in this region. The terroristic acts of Zionist military organizations, the strikes and demonstrations of the Arab masses in Cairo, Alexandria, Damascus, Beirut and Baghdad against Zionism, and the concentration of British troops in Palestine has aroused numerous questions whose answer will demand an uncovering of the socio-economic roots of the tangle in which this part of the world is involved.
- A New British Provocation in Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
British imperialism, for years on end, has attempted to direct the ire of the Arab masses against the Jewish population of the country. For this purpose the policy of Zionist expansion has been supported, a policy which results in the eviction of Arab tenants from the land, drives Arab workers from jobs, and strengthens the Zionist fortress which is determined to establish a Jewish State in Palestine. Imperialist support for Zionism is calculated to achieve two results: One, to establish a power which directly supports it, which will constitute a faithful ally against the Arabs in every instance of an anti-imperialist uprising of the Arabs of the Middle East; the other, to have Zionism serve as a means of diverting the ire of the oppressed Arab masses away from imperialism onto a side issue - clashes with Jews.
- A Non-Dogmatic Approach to Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
As against that altogether dogmatic approach which had already sterilized the revolutionary Marxist theory in all but a few phases of its century-long development in Europe, and by which the attempted extension of Marxism to the US has been blighted from the very beginning, it is here proposed to revindicate the critical, pragmatic, and activistic element which for all this has never been entirely eliminated from the social theory of Marx and which during the few short phases of its predominance has made that theory a most efficient weapon of the proletarian class struggle.
- Palestine Strike
Arabs and Jews Unite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
The biggest strikes in the history of Palestine far surpassing any other which have taken place, broke out last month (April 1946). 32,000 workers came out, of which 26,000 were Arabs and 6,000 Jews.
- Politics and the English Language
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
- The Program of the Minority
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
Statement of the minority in the (U.S.) Workers Party.
- Serfdom in a Free Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
- Terrorism in Palestine
Are the Terrorists Anti-Imperialist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
Terrorist activity in Palestine has been revived on a larger scale than formerly, calling the attention of the entire press to the organisations of the Hagana, the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Stern Gang and their activities. Socialist internationalists must answer the question: what is the character of these organisations? Are they an anti-imperialist factor in the liberatory struggles of the colonial peoples?
- They Showed the Way to Labor Emancipation
On Karl Marx and the 75th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
Marx drew a great theoretical conclusions from the experience of the Commune. He showed that the capitalist army, the capitalist state, the capitalist bureaucracy, cannot be seized by the revolutionary proletariat and used for its own purposes. It had to be smashed completely and a new state organized, based upon the organization of the working class.
- Woman as a Force in History
A study in Traditions and Realities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
Published: 1946
- The Ghetto Fights
The Warsaw Ghetto: The 45th Anniversary of the Uprising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1945
Published: 1989
On May 10th, 1943, the first period of our bloody history, the history of the Warsaw Jews, came to an end. The site where the buildings of the ghetto had once stood became a ragged heap of rubble reaching three storeys high. Those who were killed in action had done their duty to the end, to the last drop of blood that soaked into the pavements of the Warsaw ghetto. We, who did not perish, leave it up to you to keep the memory of them alive--forever.
- Who Killed Carlo Tresca?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1945
Published: 1983
Carlo Tresca was assassianted on January 11, 1943. This is a reprint of the 1945 Edition Issue by The Carlo Tresca Memorial Committee.
- By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1945
Published: 1980
- The Reprieve
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1945
Published: 1972
- The Age of the Reason
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1945
Published: 1971
- The Freedom of the Press
George Orwell's Proposed Preface to Animal Farm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1945
Published: 1971
This essay was written as a preface to the first edition of Animal Farm but was never included in the published book and only discovered in the author's original typescript in 1971.
- Does Freedom of Speech Include Fascists?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1945
There are two concepts on how to deal with fascism. One is fighting; the other is running away.
- Animal Farm
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1945
Published: 1945
George Orwell's satire on the decline of the Russian Revolution and its transformation into Stalinism.
- Civil Liberties in the Fight Against Fascism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1945
Published: 1945
Fighting against an evil, like anti-Semitism or racial hatred, does not mean calling on the state to suppress the evil.
- The Lesson of Germany
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1945
Published: 1945
Hitler's hundreds of thousands of storm troopers represented an enormous expense. They were thugs hired by the German bourgeoisie to fight its battles against the working class. In the years 1930-33 the German bureaucracy engineered election after election hoping to discredit parliamentary government and open the way for authoritarian rule. Despite his immense influence over the petty bourgeoisie, Hitler, by 1932, was on the wane. The German bourgeoisie deliberately maintained Nazism to have some power in reserve against Bolshevism. True, he dominated them afterward. We do not mean for one moment to deny the energy, the inventiveness, the will, the tenacity of Hitler and the other Nazi leaders. We do not deny their skilful use of social contradictions. He himself was obviously a born leader of men and an orator the like of whom Europe has not often seen. But from the time he began, the German bourgeoisie, the military caste, the bureaucracy, all built him up and without their active conscious support he would have been nothing.
- The Republic of Plato
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1945
Published: 1945
- Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. and Further Experiences of an Irish R. M.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1944
Published: 1983
- The History of American Trotskyism
From Its Origins (1928) to the Founding of the Socialists Workers Party (1938): Report of a Participant
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1944
Published: 1972
Trotskyist leader Cannon recounts the early history of the Trotskyist movement in the United States.
- Dialectic of Enlightenment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1944
Published: 1969
A study of modern culture by two members of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt (The Frankfurt School).
- The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1944
Published: 1968
Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
- Captain from Castile
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1944
Published: 1946
- Capitalism and Slavery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1944
Published: 1944
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide.
- Germany and European Civilization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1944
Published: 1944
From at least the time of the publication of Capital to the present day, all political and social thought, particularly in Europe, have revolved around the ideas of Marxism. And these ideas were nourished, developed, propagated and defended above all by the German proletariat. Not only the revolutionary movement but modern thought owes the German workers a debt which it can never repay. So far has Marxism penetrated into the thought of the time that today the ideas of hundreds of thousands of intellectuals, who consider themselves anti-Marxists, have validity only to the extent that they have borrowed or unconsciously assimilated the very ideas which they oppose.
- Der Verhexte Tisch
Kleine Illusionen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1944
Published: 1944
- Daughter of Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1943
Published: 1973
- Bound for Glory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1943
Published: 1970
The autobiography of folk singer Woody Guthrie.
- Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1943
Published: 1967
Victor Serge, who was bron in 1890 and died in 1947, was an anarchist, a Bolshevik, a Trotskyist, and a revisionist-Marxist. Belgian by birth and upbringing, French by adoption and in literary expression, Russian by parentage and later by citizenship, he eventually became stateless and was put down as a Spanish national for purposes of his funeral documents. He was a journalist, a poet, a pamphleteer, a historian, a political prisoner, an agitator, and a novelist.
- The Spanish Labyrinth
An Account of the Social and Political background of the Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1943
Published: 1962
Brennan charts layrinth of Spanish history between 1874 and 1936, disentangling and identifying the separate forces for disunity, looking at the role of the Chruch, the army, and the various political parties: Anarchists, Anarcho-Syndicalists, Carlists and Socialists. He shows how industrial unrest, unequal privileges, agrarian discontent, and provincial loyalties each had a share in the producing civil war.
- Negroes in the Civil War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1943
Published: 1943
The struggle of the Negro masses derives its peculiar intensity from the simple fact that what they are struggling for is not abstract but is always perfectly visible around them. In their instinctive revolutionary efforts for freedom, the escaping slaves had helped powerfully to begin and now those who remained behind had helped powerfully to conclude, the self-destructive course of the slave power.
- She Came to Stay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1943
Published: 1943
- The Struggle for a Proletarian Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1943
Published: 1943
- What is Democratic Socialism?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1943
Published: 1943
There are almost as many varieties of socialism as there are of Christianity. The following pages attempt to describe the main principles of democratic socialism as these have been understood in the nations of the British Commonwealth.
- Why Strikes Fail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1943
Published: 1943
Essentially a reprint of Tom Brown's 1943 essay, "The Social General Strike: Why 1926 Failed." Centres on workers' response to the British General Strike of 1926, and their repudiation of traditional representation in unions and formen.
- The Little Prince
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1943
Published: 1943
- Tragedy at Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1942
Published: 1990
- The Empire City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1942
Published: 1977
- The Theory of Capitalist Development
Principles of Marxian Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1942
Published: 1968
- Behemoth
The Structure and Practice of National Socialism 1933-1944
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1942
Published: 1966
A study of the structure of German Nazism.
- Pocket History of the British Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1942
Published: 1964
A brief history of the British working class.
- Funk Funck
Familienstammbaum zusammengestellt von Oberpostrat Funk
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1942
Published: 1942
Familienstammbaum zusammengestellt von Oberpostrat August Funk, Leipzig, 1942.
- Jesus and I
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1942
Published: 1942
- Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Published: 2004
- Reason and Revolution
Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Published: 1968
- Escape from Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Published: 1965
- Pied Piper
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Published: 1963
- Masochism in Sex and Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Published: 1962
- Harper's English Grammar
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Published: 1956
- Workers' Councils
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1941
Published: 1947
Now the goal becomes distinct; opposite to the stronger domination by state-directed planned economy of the new capitalism stands what Marx called the association of free and equal producers. So the call for unity must be supplemented by indication of the goal: take the factories and machines; assert your mastery over the productive apparatus; organize production by means of workers' councils.
- Answers to a Questionnaire on the War
Published in Left, No. 62, November 1941.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1941
Published: 1941
- Broad and Alien is the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Published: 1941
- Geschichte der Deutschen Literatur
Von den Anf#ngen bis zur Gegenwart
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Published: 1941
- Kirkenes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Published: 1941
- The Natural Way to Draw
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Published: 1941
- Paddle-to-the-Sea
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Published: 1941
At Lake Nipigon, Canada, a native boy carves a wooden model of an Indian in a canoe and sets it free to travel the Great Lakes to the Atlantic ocean. The story follows the progress of the little wooden Indian on its journey through all five Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, finally arriving at the Atlantic Ocean.
- Pannekoek's "The Party and the Working Class"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1941
Published: 1941
- Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Published: 1941
- The Workers' Fight against Fascism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1941
Published: 1941
We do not propose to discuss the 'task' of the workers. The workers have already too long done other people's tasks, imposed on them under the high-sounding names of humanity, of human progress, of justice, and freedom, and what not. It is one of the redeeming features of a bad situation that some of the illusions, hitherto surviving among the working class from their past participation in the revolutionary fight of the bourgeoisie against feudal society, have finally been exploded. The only 'task' for the workers, as for every other class, is to look out for themselves.
- Stalin – An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Published: 1941
Trotsky's unfinished biography of Stalin.
- Thunder Rock
A Play in Three Acts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1940
Published: 1970
Thunder Rock is a play by Robert Ardrey and was the most notable play of World War II, particularly in London where it became a symbol of British resistance.
- Darkness at Noon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1940
Published: 1968
- Lighting for Photography
Means and Methods
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1940
Published: 1968
- The Wars of the Iroquois
A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1940
Published: 1967
- Reinfeld on the end-game in chess
Practical end-game play)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1940
Published: 1957
A popular-level volume on the endgame, with annotated games. It centres around transitions from middle play to various types of endplay: favourable endings, unfavourable endings caused by complusion, or by incorrect choice of move, or by disregard of exceptional situations; missed opportunities and the defence of difficult positions.
- To The Finland Station
A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1940
Published: 1953
The revolutionary tradition in Europe and the rise of socialism.
- Das Land der Mitternachtssonne
Erinnerungen an Norwegen 1940
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1940
Published: 1940
- Syndicalists in the Russian Revolution
Direct Action Pamphlets No. 11
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1940
Published: 1940
- Royal Moments in Broadcasting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1939
Published: 2007
- The Approaching Storm
One Woman's Story of Germany 1934-1938
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939
Published: 1988
Nora Waln, a Quaker journalist, chronicles her experience living in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. During those four years, she took covert notes, bearing witness to the rise of Hitler.
- Fascism and Big Busness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939
Published: 1973
A history of the rise of fascism in Europe and the role of big business in supporting fascism.
- Waste Heritage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939
Published: 1973
- Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939
Published: 1972
A biography of Rosa Luxemburg written by a German revolutionary who worked with Luxemburg in the Spartacist organization.
- The Grapes of Wrath
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939
Published: 1963
- The Coming of the French Revolution 1789
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939
Published: 1947
- New York Trotskyism in the 1930s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1939
Published: 1939
A look into the 1930s socialist movement in New York, including a historical background of Trotskyism and a list of the Trotskyists goals to improve American politics.
- Democracy in the British Army
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1939
Published: 1939
- Class Politics in Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1939
Published: 1939
Zionism is a factor that weakens the class struggle of the Jewish masses, and strengthens the reaction outside of Palestine as well as the reactionary forces in Palestine. Jewish immigration into Palestine, which is mainly an immigration of workers, strengthens, on the one side, the power and weight of the working class in the country, the power which, regarded historically, is the most extreme anti-imperialist factor and, cm the other hand, in so far as it is Zionist, it strengthens the exclusivist positions and the forces of imperialism in Palestine.
- Council Communism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1939
Published: 1939
There is no dearth of proposals as to how to revive the labour movement; however, the serious investigator cannot help noticing that all such proposals for a 'new beginning' are in reality but the restatement and rediscovery of ideas and forms of activity developed with much greater clarity and consistency during the beginnings of the modern labour movement.
- Review of 'Karl Marx' by Karl Korsch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1939
Published: 1939
In conspicuous distinction to many other interpretations of Marx, this book concentrates upon the essentials of Marxian theory and practice.
- The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1939
Published: 1939
- Slippery Slopes (the Anarchists in Spain)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939
Published: 2014
Written in 1939 by a member of FORU (Regional Workers Federation of Uruguay), this book — a scathing indictment of the leaders of the Spanish CNT and FAI for their “betrayal” of anarchist principles — contains, in addition to official documents and proclamations of the CNT and FAI and articles from the Spanish and international anarchosyndicalist press.
- The Canadian Youth Hymnal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939
Published: 1939
- A History of Pan-African Revolt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 2012
Originally published in England in 1938 and expanded in 1969, this work isa classic account of global Black resistance. This concise, accessible history of revolts by African peoples worldwide explores the wide range of methods used by Africans to resist oppression and the negative effects of imperialism and colonization as viewed in the 20th century.
- The Russian Enigma: Lenin, Also...
Chapter 9 of Book 3 of The Russian Enigma, cut by the publisher of the original 1938 version
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1938
Published: 1979
Chapter 9 of Book 3 of Ante Ciliga's The Russian Enigma originally published as In The Land of The Great Lie. The book details Ciliga's time spent in Soviet Prisons and 'isolaters' following his arrest for belonging to the Trotskyist Opposition, and provides a wealth of important documentary information concerning the miserable conditions in which the working class were reduced to living in, the extent of the 'criminalisation' of large swathes of the population, and the various forms in which resistance appeared.
- Wildhagen English-German German-English Dictionary
Volume I English-German
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1973
- Wildhagen English-German German-English Dictionary
Volume II German-English
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1973
- The Kronstadt Commune
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1971
A history of the Kronstadt Uprising 1921 which highlights one of the most important yet neglected events of the Russian Revolution. The suppression of the most revolutionary section of the Navy by the Bolsheviks was the final blow to any hope of a genuine revolution based on democratic workers' control. Mett dispels many of the contemporary mistruths put forward by Bolshevik propagandists and includes a number of original sources from the commune.
- Red Star Over China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1968
- A History of Transportation in Canada
Volume II: National Economy 1867- 1936
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1967
- The Black Jacobins
Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1963
An account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803.
- The Triple Thinkers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1962
- Lassie Come-Home
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1957
- Emil und die Detektive
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1956
- Punktchen und Anton
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1955
- Lenin as Philosopher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1948
Since the importance of Lenin's philosophy is so strongly emphasised in Leninist organizations, it is necessary to make it the subject of a serious critical study. The doctrine of Party-Communism of the Third International cannot be judged adequately unless their philosophical basis is thoroughly examined.
- Collectives in Spain
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1938
Published: 1945
A contemporary account of the Spanish Anarchist movements during the 1930's by Gaston Leval, a prominent anarcho-syndicalist. Attention focuses on the roles of "agrarian socialism" and education in the revolution.
- Excerpts from the 'Notebooks'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1938
Published: 1944
- British Policy in Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1938
Published: 1938
The three principal factors in the political arena in Palestine 1in 1938 are British imperialism, the Arab nationalist movement under its present leadership and the Zionist movement.
- Duden Francais
Dictionnaire Illustre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1938
- Fascism and Big Business (excerpt)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1938
Published: 1938
Events have demonstrated with tragic clearness that the moment the working class allows the fascist wave to sweep over it, a long period of slavery and impotence begins - a long period during which socialist, even democratic, ideas are not merely erased from the pediments of public monuments and libraries but, what is much more serious, are rooted out of human minds. Events have proved that fascism physically destroys everything opposing its dictatorship, no matter how mildly, and that it creates a vacuum around itself and leaves a vacuum behind it.
- Der Grosse Duden
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1938
- Homage to Catalonia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1938
George Orwell's account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.
- The Jewish-Arab Conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1938
Published: 1938
The conflict between the Arab masses and Zionist aspirations can only be solved to the extent that Jewish masses in Palestine renounce Zionist exclusivism.
- Karl Marx
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1938
It is the purpose of this book to restate the most important principles and contents of Marx's social science in the light of recent historical events and of the new theoretical needs which have arisen under the impact of those events. In so doing we shall deal throughout with the original ideas of Marx himself rather than with their subsequent developments brought about by the various 'orthodox' and 'revisionist, dogmatic and critical, radical and moderate schools of the Marxists on the one hand, and their more or less violent critics and opponents on the other hand.
- Lenin as Philosopher
Some additional remarks to Anton Pannekoek's recent criticism of Lenin's book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1938
Published: 1938
Both in his revolutionary materialist philosophy and m his revolutionary jacobinic politics, Lenin hid from himself the historical truth that his Russian revolution, in spite of a temporary attempt to break through its particular limitations in connection with the simultaneous revolutionary movement of the proletarian class in the West, was bound to remain in fact a belated successor of the great bourgeois revolutions of the past.
- Rundfunk
Dem Hörer vorgestellt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1938
- The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1938
Leon Trotsky's program for the founding of the Fourth International.
- Zeitung
Unser täglicher Hausgast
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1938
- Trotsky Protests Too Much
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Published: 1938
Leon Trotsky is outraged that people should have revived the Kronstadt 'episode' and ask questions about his part. It does not occur to him that those who have come to his defence against his detractor have a right to ask what methods he had employed when he was in power, and how he had dealt with those who did not subscribe to his dictum as gospel truth.
- With the Peasants of Aragon
Libertarian Communism in the Liberated Area of Spain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937
Published: 1984
The story of how Aragón peasants collectivised the land and established libertarian communism beginning in 1936.
- Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937
Published: 1974
- From Lenin to Stalin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937
Published: 1973
A fascinating, first-hand account of the Stalinist takeover in Russia.
- The Revolution Betrayed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937
Published: 1970
- The Trial
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937
Published: 1968
- The Hero' of Kronstadt Writes History
Review of The Revolution Betrayed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1937
Published: 1937
It is only necessary to reflect on the paramount role which Trotsky played in the first thundering years of Bolshevik Russia to understand why he cannot admit that the Bolshevik revolution was only able to change the form of capitalism but was not able to do away with the capitalist form of exploitation. It is the shadow of that period that lies in the way of his understanding.
- Leading Principles of Marxism: A Restatement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1937
Published: 1937
Marx's study of society is based upon a full recognition of the reality of historical change. Marx treats all conditions of existing bourgeois society as changing, ie more exactly, as conditions in the process of being changed by human actions. Bourgeois society is not, according to Marx, a general entity which can be replaced by another stage in a historical movement. It is both the result of an earlier phase and the starting point of a new phase, of the social class war which is leading to a social revolution.
- The Road to Wigan Pier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937
Published: 1937
George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
- World Revolution 1917-1936
The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937
Published: 1937
No major economic or political development in Russia, and few of the minor ones, can be understood, except in relation to the strength of the revolutionary movement in Western Europe, so long dominated by the Third International.
- The Third International After Lenin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1936
Published: 1972
Trotsky subject the theory of socialism in one country to a merciless criticism, labeling it an apologie fro the interests of the newly previleged strata in the Soviet Union.
- Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1936
Published: 1968
Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
- Major Universal Problems of Living
A New Approach to Information
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1936
Published: 1967
- Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1936
Published: 1937
- Notes on Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1936
Published: 1936
- 'Civilising' the 'Blacks'; Why Britain needs to Maintain Her African Possessions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1936
Published: 1936
Africans must win their own freedom. Nobody will win it for them. They need co-operation, but that co-operation must be with the revolutionary movement in Europe and Asia. There is no other way out. Each movement will neglect the other at its peril.
- The Dark Frontier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1936
Published: 1936
- 84 Card Tricks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1936
Published: 1936
- The Inevitability of Communism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1936
Published: 1936
A reaction to Sidney Hook's Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx.
- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1936
Published: 1936
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
- How to Play The Chess Openings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1935
Published: 1971
Znosko-Borovsky explains the importance of rapid development of the pieces, occupation of the centre, the relation of the opening to the general plan of the player, and the significance of control of the centre.
- Representative Poetry
Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1935
Published: 1967
- Black Reconstruction
An essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1935
Published: 1935
On the role of black Americans during reconstruction.
- Conversation with a Hairdresser's Assistant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1935
Published: 1935
An english translation of Reich's article of the same name from 1935, which demonstrates how Marxist principles might be explained without the use of political terms.
- Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1935
Published: 1935
- The Lenin Legend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1935
Published: 1935
For Lenin, socialism was in the last instance merely a kind of state-capitalism.
- Luxemburg versus Lenin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1935
Published: 1935
On many essential points the conceptions of Luxemburg differ from those of Lenin as day from night, or -- the same thing -- as the problems of the bourgeois revolution from those of the proletarian.
- Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1935
Published: 1935
- Why I am a Marxist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1935
Published: 1935
For the Marxist, there is no such thing as 'Marxism' in general any more than there is a 'democracy' in general, a 'dictatorship' in general or a 'state' in general. There is only a bourgeois state, a proletarian dictatorship or a fascist dictatorship, etc. And even these exist only at determinate stages of historical development, with corresponding historical characteristics, mainly economic, but conditioned also in part by geographical, traditional, and other factors. With the deferent levels of historical development, with the different environments of geographical distribution, with the well-known differences of creed and tendency among the various Marxist schools, there exist, both nationally and internationally, very different theoretical systems and practical movements which go by the name of Marxism.
- The Communist Party and socialists during the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1934
Published: 2014
About radicals involvement in the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike.
- Pocket Pal
A Graphic Arts Production Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934
Published: 1995
Sixteenth edition (first published 1934).
- Claudius The God
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934
Published: 1977
- I, Claudius
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934
Published: 1977
- Sex-Pol
Essays 1929-1934
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934
Published: 1972
Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
- What is Class Consciousness?
PUblished as October 1971 issue of Liberation magazine
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1934
Published: 1971
Critical of what he saw as mainstream Marxism's overly materialistic explanations, Reich proposes the perspectives of psychology and psychotherapy could revitalise radical political thought and the socialist movement.
- Legitimacy Versus Industrialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934
Published: 1965
- Technics and Civilization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934
Published: 1963
A history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization.
- The Robber Barons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934
Published: 1962
The story of the American capitalists who seized economic power after the Civil War.
- Becoming a Writer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934
Published: 1961
A book about the writer's magic and how to overcome the major setbacks many writers experience.
- A Field Guide To The Birds
Giving field marks of all species found east of the rockies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934
Published: 1947
- The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934
Published: 1938
A study of the social catastrophe that convulsed China in 1925-27, when the working-class movement was murderously crushed by the Kuomintang.
- Century of Progress
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1934
Published: 1934
WFPL documentary film that criticizes society's direction in the early decades of the 20th century.
- The Great Depression
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1934
Published: 1934
WFPL docudrama with a silent narrative of one man's struggle and despair in search of a job in Depression-era Chicago.
- On Revolutionary Organization: Points for Discussion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1934
Published: 1934
- The Paris Commune told in pictures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1934
Published: 1934
An illustrated history of the Paris Commune of 1871.
- The Secret of Hitler's Victory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934
Published: 1934
In this book, the Petroffs set out to answer the question that has perplexed so many onlookers in other countries: How did it come about that the apparently mighty forces of the German Left fell in one night, and without resistance, before the Nazi attack?
- The World in Review and America Today, 1934
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1934
Published: 1982
WFPL newsreel segments that exposed multiple social current event topics.
- Character Analysis
Third, Enlarged Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1933
Published: 1976
Reich's psychoanalytic investigations of the human character.
- The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1933
Published: 1970
Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed.
- Down and Out in Paris and London
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1933
Published: 1969
Life near the bottom in France and England in the early 1930s.
- Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1933
Published: 1961
- Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1933
Published: 1955
- Lost Horizon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1933
Published: 1943
- Ecstasy (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1933
Published: 1933
A 1933 Czech-Austrian romantic drama film directed by Gustav Machatý and starring Hedy Lamarr (then Hedy Kiesler), Aribert Mog, and Zvonimir Rogoz. Written by František Horký, Gustav Machatý, Jacques A. Koerpel, and Robert Horký, the film is about a young woman who marries a wealthy but much older man. After abandoning her brief passionless marriage, she meets a young virile engineer who becomes her lover. Ecstasy was filmed in three language versions—German, Czech, and French.
- The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1933
Published: 1982
WFPL Documentary of the Second National Hunger March to Washington, D.C. 1932.
- Bonus Army
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1932
Published: 2012
The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.
- Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
Volume One
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932
Published: 1967
A combination of dramatic narrative and searching analysis by one of the key figures in the Russian Revolution. Volume 1 cover the period up to the “July Days” – a semi-insurrection followed by attempted stamping out of Bolshevism in Petrograd.
- Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
Volume Two
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932
Published: 1967
- Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
Volume Three
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932
Published: 1967
- Handbook of Designs and Devices
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932
Published: 1959
- Bonus March, 1932
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1932
Published: 1982
WFPL footage of the 1932 Bonus Army demanding early redemption of their service certificates in Washington D.C. through protest.
- Ford Massacre
Detroit Workers News Special, 1932
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1932
Published: 1982
WFPL newsreel of the March 7th Detroit/Dearborn demonstration and hunger march of unemployed Ford workers.
- In Defence of October
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932
Published: 1932
- In Praise of Idleness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932
Published: 1932
More leisure, not work, will benefit civilization. Modern organization and technology makes a four hour work day possible for leisure to be distributed to everyone.
- Introduction to Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1932
Published: 1932
Marx's book on capital, like Plato's book on the state, like Machiavelli's Prince and Rousseau's Social Contract, owes its tremendous and enduring impact to the fact that it grasps and articulates, at a turning point of history, the full implications of the new force breaking in upon the old forms of life. All the economic, political, and social questions, upon which the analysis in Marx's Capital theoretically devolves, are today world-shaking practical issues, over which the real-life struggle between great social forces, between states and classes, rages in every corner of the earth.
- The Queen's Bush
A Tale of the Early Days of Bruce County
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932
Published: 1932
- Overlanders of '62
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1931
Published: 1981
- The Sexual Struggle of Youth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1931
Published: 1972
- On the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1931
Published: 1969
- The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1931
Published: 1969
A re-issue of two of Trotsky's works, Results and Prospcts, and The Permanent Revolution.
- For a Workers' United Front Against Fascism
What's Wrong With the Current Policy of the German Communist Party?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1931
Published: 1932
Germany is now passing through one of those great historic hours upon which the fate of the German people, the fate of Europe, and in significant measure the fate of all humanity, will depend for decades. If you place a ball on top of a pyramid, the slightest impact can cause it to roll down either to the left or to the right. That is the situation approaching with every hour in Germany today. There are forces which would like the bail to roll down towards the right and break the back of the working class. There are forces which would like the ball to remain at the top. That is a utopia. The ball cannot remain at the top of the pyramid. The Communists want the ball to roll down toward the left and break the back of capitalism. But it is not enough to want; one must know how.
- National Hunger March, 1931
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1931
Published: 1931
WFPL footage of protesters marching to Washington demanding jobs, food, and clothing during the infancy of the Great Depression.
- Dynamite: the story of class violence in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1931
Published: 1931
Louis Adamic's history of class violence in the US. It traces the origins of gangsterism and racketeering in unions in the 1930s to its roots in workers needing to defend themselves from the armed violence of the state and bosses' thugs.
- Halsted Street
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1931
Published: 2000
WFPL Documentary portraying the various ethnic groups along Chicago’s Halsted Street.
- Worker's Newsreel Unemployment Special, 1931
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1931
Published: 1982
WFPL footage of the first mass demonstration against unemployment and hunger in Union Square, New York City on March 6, 1930.
- Men in Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1931
Published: 1931
Victor Serge's novel based on his own experiences as a politcal prisoner.
- Year One of the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1930
Published: 1972
The purpose of Year One of the Russian Revolution is essentially one of reconstructing the chain of events, in the Russia of revolution and counter-revolution, which has led from the 'Commune-State' of 1917 to the party dictatorship of late 1918. The terms of the narrative are fixed by Serge's basic convictions, firstly, that the October Revolution of 1917 was a genuine expression of mass feeling by workers and peasants in their overwhelming majority, and secondly that the revolutionary wave had very quickly exhausted itself, or rather bled itself dry, through the military depredation and economic ruin which wrought havoc in an already enfeebled Russia during the early months following the Bolshevik seizure of power.
- My Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1930
Published: 1970
Trotsky's autobiography, published in 1930.
- The Sexual Revolution
Toward a Self-Governing Character Structure
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1930
Published: 1967
Wilhelm Reich summarizes the criticism of prevailing sexual conditions and conflicts as it resulted from his sex-economic researches. He analyzes the general basic traits of the conflicts in present-day sexual living, dealing particularly with the institution of marriage and the revolution in family life as well as with the problems of infantile and adolescent sexuality. He also presents a study of the sexual revolution that occurred briefly in Soviet Russia in the first few years of their economic revolution.
- The Conquest of Happiness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1930
Published: 1965
- Business Correspondence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1930
Published: 1943
- Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1930
Published: 1930
Bertrand Russell's 1930 critique of religious morality and metaphysics.
- The Present State of the Problem of 'Marxism and Philosophy'
An Anti-Critique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1930
Published: 1930
A fundamental debate on the general state of modern Marxism has now begun, and there are many indications that despite secondary, transient or trivial conflicts, the real division on all major and decisive questions is between the old Marxist orthodoxy of Kautsky allied to the new Russian or 'Leninist' orthodoxy on the one side, and all critical and progressive theoretical tendencies in the proletarian movement today on the other side.
- Steppenwolf
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1929
Published: 1969
- All Quiet on the Western Front
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1929
Published: 1968
- Marriage and Morals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1929
Published: 1968
- Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Long Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1929
Published: 1959
- Kleine Rassenkunde des deutschen Volkes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1929
Published: 1934
- Man with a Movie Camera
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1929
Published: 1929
Silent documentary. Russian original title: Chelovek s kino-apparatom.
Vertov's feature film, produced by the film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in the Soviet cities of Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow and Odessa. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life.
- Dialectical Materialism & Psychoanalysis
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1929
Published: 1929
- Five Hundred Sandwiches
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1929
Published: 1929
- How The Gods Were Made
A Study in Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1929
Published: 1929
- Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1928
Published: 1972
A discussion of concepts at the root of Marxism: the theory of value and commodity fetishism.
- Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Short Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1928
Published: 1961
- Short Circuits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1928
Published: 1928
- Der Weltkrieg in Bild
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1928
Published: 1928
- Canton, December 1927
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1928
Published: 1928
In 1927, as a result of a rapid succession of fatal mistakes, the Chinese proletariat lost the strong positions in Shanghai and Hankou that it had gloriously conquered at the head of the national movement. In April Chiang Kai-shek’s coup, which was prepared in broad daylight and should have been foreseen, robbed the workers of Shanghai. In August the sharp turn to the right by the ‘left’ Guomindang, on which had been based inadmissible hopes, robbed the workers of Hankou. In the meantime, the seizure of Changsha, carried out with the complicity of the Hankow government (in which the Communists participated), decapitated the Hunan peasant movement.
- Abstract Labour and Value in Marx's System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1927
Published: 1978
The lecture develops one of the main themes of Rubin's Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, thus providing a useful introduction to the latter work, while developing beyond it in important respects. The lecture aims to bring out more clearly than had the Essays the distinction between the social commensurability of labour that is characteristic of any society that is based on the division of labour, and the specific form in which this commensuration is achieved in capitalist society, the form of abstract labour.
- Dr. Oetker Schul-Kochbuch
Ausgabe D
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1927
Published: 1939
- Andersen's Märchen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1927
Published: 1927
- The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1926
Published: 1996
Modern English Usage is interesting and informative, and never dry.
- The Castle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1926
Published: 1970
- On Education
Especially in Early Childhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1926
Published: 1960
- Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1926
Published: 1926
In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the Delo Truda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet.
- Polizei und Zensur
Längs- und Querschnitte durch die Geschichte der Buch- und Theaterzensur
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1926
Published: 1926
- What everyone should know about repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1926
Published: 1926
- Hamburg at the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1925
Published: 1977
Articles by the revolutionary journaliist Larissa Reissner, covering the Hamburg uprising of 1923 and the life and times for Germany in the years 1923-1925.
- How Canada Was Found
Book Three
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1925
Published: 1928
- Battleship Potemkin (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1925
Published: 1925
A 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, which presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime.
- Gemittelungen uber das fruhere Benefiktiner-Nonnenlkoster Kaufungen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1925
Published: 1925
- From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1924
Published: 1974
Parliaments are becoming increasingly empty trappings: the parties are collapsing, destroying one another, and losing their political credibility: the trade unions are changing into ruins. The breakdown of this organisational and political system all along the line is inevitable.
- The Accumulation of Capital An Anti-Critique and Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1924
Published: 1972
Rosa Luxemburg's response to the criticisms of her book 'The Accumulation of Capital'. This volume also includes Nikolai Bukharin's reply to Luxemburg, 'Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital'.
- Death in Venice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1924
Published: 1970
- Mein Kampf
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1924
Published: 1943
- Lenin in 1917
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1924
Published: 1925
- Manifesto of Surrealism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1924
Published: 1924
Surrealism is the invisible ray which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents.
- The Marxism of the First International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1924
Published: 1924
On 28 September 1864 it was decided at an international meeting of workers in London to found the International Workingmen's Association. On 25 July 1867, Karl Marx wrote the preface to the first edition of the first volume of Capital. Within one single period of history, in the 1860s, both aspects of Marxism attained their full realization: the new autonomous science of the working class attained its developed theoretical form in literature at the same time as the new autonomous movement of the proletariat achieved its practical form in history.
- Flame on the Snow
(1920/1921)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1924
Published: 1924
- The Lessons of October
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1924
Published: 1924
- History of the Makhnovist Movement 1918 - 1921
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1923
Published: 1974
- Marxism and Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1923
Published: 1970
- The Prophet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1923
Published: 1968
- Die Häschenschule
Koch-Gotha, Fritz; Sixtux, Albert
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1923
Published: 1923
- The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1923
Published: 1923
It is characteristic of the unity of theory and practice in the life work of Rosa Luxemburg that the unity of victory and defeat, individual fate and total process is the main thread running through her theory and her life. As early as her first polemic against Bernstein’s she argued that the necessarily ‘premature’ seizure of power by the proletariat was inevitable. She unmasked the resulting opportunist fear and lack of faith in revolution as “political nonsense which starts from the assumption that society progresses mechanically and which imagines a definite point in time external to and unconnected with the class struggle in which the class struggle will be won”.
- Soll und Haben
Erster Band
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1923
Published: 1923
- Five Years’ Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1923
Published: 1923
- Observations in Germany
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1923
Published: 1923
- 1905
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1922
Published: 1972
For a number of years, when the reaction was triumphant, the year 1905 appeared to us as a completed whole, as the Russian revolution.
- Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1922
Published: 1969
- Tales of Terror and Mystery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1922
Published: 1968
- Ulysses
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1922
Published: 1968
- Svyazhsk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1922
Published: 1943
Larissa Reissner's vivid description of the 1918 battle for Svyazhsk during the Russian Civil War.
- Introduction to the Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1922
Published: 1922
Next to the Communist Manifesto of 1847-8 and the 'General Introduction' to the Critique of Political Economy of 1857, the Critique of the Gotha Programme of 1875 is, of all Karl Marx's shorter works, the most complete, lucid and forceful expression of the bases and consequences of his economic and social theory.
- The Principles of Revoltuionary Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1922
Published: 1922
Adopted at the Berlin Congress of Revolutionary Unionist organizations, 1922.
- The Worst Journey in the World
Antarctica 1910-1913
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1922
Published: 1922
Apsley Cherry-Garrard's memoir of his experiences in Antartica, his 'winter journey' across the Ross Ice Shelf to Cape Crozier, and his two southward trips - first in aid to Robert Scott's South Pole expedition, and second in search of that lost party.
- The Guide to Reading
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1922
Published: 1922
In every home there ought to be books that are friends. In every day, at least in every week, there ought to be some time which can be spent in cultivating their friendship.
- Principles of Party Organization
Thesis on Organization and Structure of the Communist Parties, adopted at 3rd Congress of the Communist International in 1921
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1921
Published: 1975
- We
Novel of the Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1921
Published: 1972
- The Workers Opposition
Solidarity London Pamphlet
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1921
Published: 1968
Published in Soviet Russia in January 1921 and banned in March 1921.
- Chess Fundamentals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1921
Published: 1934
- Our Path: Against Putschism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1921
Published: 1921
If a Communist Party is to be built up again in Germany, then the dead of central Germany, Hamburg, the Rhineland, Baden, Silesia and Berlin, not to mention the many thousands of prisoners who have fallen victim to this Bakuninist lunacy, all demand in the face of the events of the last week: “Never again!”
- International Working Women's Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1921
Published: 1921
First published on March 8, 1921 in a Supplement to Pravda No. 51.
- Caput Nili
Eine Empfindsame Reise zu den Quellen des Nils
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1921
Published: 1921
- The New Political Democracy
Chapter XXIII of History of the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1921
Published: 1921
- The Organisational Structure of the Communist Parties, the Methods and Content of Their Work: Theses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1921
Published: 1921
Adopted at the Third Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1921.
- The Tax in Kind
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1921
Published: 1921
- The Outline of History Volume I
Being a plain history of life and mankind
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1920
Published: 1971
- The Outline of History Volume II
Being a plain history of life and mankind
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1920
Published: 1971
- Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1920
Published: 1962
- Constructive Anatomy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1920
Published: 1960
- Soviets in Italy
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1920
Published: 1973
Articles which Antonio Gramsci wrote for the weekly Turin journal Ordine Nuovo during 1919 and 1920.
- On International Women's Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1920
Published: 1920
Written by Lenin in Pravda, March 4, 1920.
- The ABC of Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1920
Published: 1920
Written as a commentary on the Bolshevik Party program, combining a vision of communist society with a program for practical action.
- International Women's Day. A Militant Celebration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1920
Published: 1920
Written by Alexandra Kollontai and first published in Mezhdunarodnyi den' rabotnitz, Moscow, 1920.
- Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1920
Published: 1920
Adopted in Moscow, August 1920, at the Second World Congress of the Communist International.
- Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1920
Published: 1920
Adopted at the Second Congress of the Communist International, August 1920.
- Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle
Love and New Morality
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1919
Published: 1972
- Ten Days That Shook The World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1919
Published: 1960
John Reed's gripping account of the Russian Revolution of November 1917.
- Prejudices: A Selection
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1919
Published: 1955
Essays by H.L. Mencken.
- House of Cards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1919
Published: 1919
Again and again the revolution will bring to the fore the basic question: the general reckoning between labour and capital. And this reckoning is a world historical conflict between two mortal enemies which can be fought out only in a long power struggle, eye to eye, hand to hand.
- Labrador Days
Tales of the Sea Toilers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1919
Published: 1919
- Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1919
Published: 1919
Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
- Order Prevails in Berlin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1919
Published: 1919
Rosa Luxemburg's last article, written just before she was murdered.
She concludes with the words: "You foolish lackeys! Your 'order' is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:
I was, I am, I shall be!"
- The Platform of the Communist International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1919
Published: 1919
Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International, March 1919.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Her Fight Against the German Betrayers of International Socialism
Introduction to the Second Edition of the Junius Pamphlet, The Crisis of Social Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1919
Published: 1919
It is as though Rosa Luxemburg, in anticipation of her sudden end, had gathered together in the Junius Pamphlet all the forces of her genial nature for a great work - the scientific, penetrating, independently searching and pondering mind of the theoretician, the fearless, burning passion of the convinced, daring revolutionary fighter, the inner richness and the splendid wealth of expression of the ever struggling artist. All the good spirits which nature had lavished upon her stood by her side as she wrote this work.
- Terrorism and Communism
A Contribution to the Natural History of Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1919
Published: 1919
Kautsky's attack on the methods used by the Bolsheviks after their seizure of power in Russia.
- What are the Leaders Doing?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1919
Published: 1919
It is a revolution with all its externally chaotic development, with its alternating ebb and flow, with momentary surges towards the seizure of power and equally momentary recessions of the revolutionary breakers. And the revolution is making its way step by step through all these apparent zig-zag movements and is marching forward.
- The War after the War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
Published: 1973
- The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
Published: 1971
Karl Kautsky's attack on the Bolshevik Revolution.
- Terrorism & Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
Published: 1969
Trotsky defends the tactics of the Bolsheviks against Karl Kautsky's attacks.
- Roads to Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
Published: 1966
The attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato.
- The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
Published: 1965
- The Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
Published: 1961
The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him.
- Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
Published: 1936
A biography of Karl Marx
- Oh! How -- German is this Revolution!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
- The Acheron in Motion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
The healthy class instinct of the proletariat rebels against the schema of parliamentary cretinism. 'The liberation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself,' says the Communist Manifesto. And the'working class' is not a few hundred elected representatives who control society's destiny with speeches and rebuttals.
- The Beginning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
Revolutions do not stand still. Their vital law is to advance rapidly, to outgrow themselves.
- A Call to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
Humanity is facing the alternative: Dissolution and downfall in capitalist anarchy, or regeneration through the social revolution.
- A Duty of Honour
Against Capital Punishment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
The existing penal system, which is permeated through and through with the brutal class spirit and barbarism of capitalism, must be extirpated root and branch.
- The Elections to the National Assembly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
The great confrontation between capital and labour will determine the course of future history and, in its final result, admits of no other decision than the destruction of capitalist rule and the triumph of socialism.
- The First International Conference of Socialist Women - Stuttgart. 1907
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
First Published in International Socialist Conferences of Women Workers in 1918.
- "Left-Wing" Communism
An Infantile Disorder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
Lenin's repsonse to ultraleftists who advocate 'no compromises' and refuse to work in 'reactionary' trade unions and parliamentary elections.
- Letters from Prison to Sophie Liebknecht
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
- Life of Korolenko
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
Rosa Luxemburg wrote this article as a preface to her translation, from Russian into German, of Vladimir Korolenko’s autobiographical novel Istoriia Moego Sovremennika (A History of My Contemporary). She undertook this work during her imprisonment for socialist opposition to the imperialist war from 1915 to 1918. The preface was written July 1918 in Breslau Prison
- The National Assembly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
Today it is not a question of democracy or dictatorship. The question that history has placed on the agenda is: bourgeois democracy or socialist democracy?
- On the Spartacus Programme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
For us the conquest of power will not be effected at one blow. It will be a progressive act, for we shall progressively occupy all the positions. of the capitalist state, defending tooth and nail each one that we seize.
- Our Program and the Political Situation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
- The Russian tragedy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
There is only one solution to the tragedy in which Russia in caught up: an uprising at the rear of German imperialism, the German mass rising, which can signal the international revolution to put an end to this genocide.
- Six Red Months in Russia
An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
Louise Bryant's account of her time in Russia during the revolution 1917-1918.
- The Socialisation of Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
A socialist society needs human beings from whom each one in his place, is full of passion and enthusiasm for the general well-being, full of self-sacrifice and sympathy for his fellow human beings, full of courage and tenacity in order to dare to attempt the most difficult.
- War is the Health of the State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
Once the State has begun to function, and a large class finds its interest and its expression of power in maintaining the State, this ruling class may compel obedience from any uninterested minority. The State thus becomes an instrument by which the power of the whole herd is wielded for the benefit of a class.
- What Does the Spartacus League Want?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
The proletarian revolution requires no terror for its aims; it hates and despises killing. It does not need these weapons because it does not combat individuals but institutions, because it does not enter the arena with naive illusions whose disappointment it would seek to revenge. It is not the desperate attempt of a minority to mold the world forcibly according to its ideal, but the action of the great massive millions of the people, destined to fulfill a historic mission and to transform historical necessity into reality.
- The Elements of Style
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
A seminal guide to the basic rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.
- Die rote Fahne - [Elektronische Ressource]
Online-Archiv
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1918
Published: 1918
- 1917: The View from the Streets #9 - Petrograd Soviet: 'World's workers must join to achieve peace'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1917
Published: 2017
One hundred years ago today, on March 27 (14), 1917, the Petrograd Soviet issued the following appeal "To the Peoples of the World," calling for a restoration of workers' unity in the cause of peace.
- 1917: The View from the Streets #8 - 'The only guarantee of Polish independence is international solidarity'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1917
Published: 2017
One hundred years ago, on March 17 (4) 1917, the following appeal calling on Polish workers to support the Russian Revolution and fight for Polish independence was adopted at a rally of Polish socialist workers in Petrograd.
- 1917: The View from the Streets #7 - ‘Soldiers, take power into your own hands!’
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1917
Published: 2017
An appeal to solidiers from the Social Democratic Interdistrict Committee (Mezhrayonka), supported by the Petersburg Committee of Socialist-Revolutionaries, in 1917.
- Songs of the Workers
To fan the flames of discontent
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1917
Published: 1973
The little red songbook.
- The Town Labourer
The New Civilization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1917
Published: 1968
the Hammonds look at the dislocations caused by the Industrial Revolution in Britian, from the point of view of those who suffered from them. Focuses on the years from 1760 to 1832.
- Political Ideals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1917
Published: 1963
Russell argues that the aim of political institutions is to make the lives of individuals as good as possible through the cultivation of the individual's creative impulses.
- The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution
a.k.a. The April Theses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1917
Published: 1917
This article contains Lenin’s famous April Theses read by him at two meetings of the All-Russia Conference of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, on April 4, 1917.
- Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1917
Published: 1917
- The Old Mole
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1917
Published: 1917
The question of peace is in reality bound up with the unimpeded, radical development of the Russian Revolution. But the latter is in turn bound up with the parallel revolutionary struggles for peace on the part of the French, English, Italian and, especially, the German proletariat.
- Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons
Mahoney, Henry Charles; Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1917
Published: 1917
- The State and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1917
Published: 1917
Lenin on the Marxist view of the state and revolution.
- Through the Iron Bars
Two years of German occupation in Belgium
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1917
Published: 1917
- The Russian Social Democrats and the National Question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1917
Published: 1917
- God and the State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1916
Published: 1970
- What is Economics?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1916
Published: 1968
An outline of economics from a Marxist perspective.
- Either Or
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1916
Published: 1916
It is a question of either-or! Either we nakedly and shamelessly betray the International or we take the International in deadly seriousness and attempt to extend it into a firm stronghold, a bulwark, of the international socialist proletariat and of world peace.
- The Junius Pamphlet
The Crisis of Social Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1916
Published: 1916
The voting of war credits in August 1914 was a shattering moment in the life of individual socialists and of the socialist movement in Europe. Those who had worked for, and wholly believed in the ability of, organized labour to stand against war now saw the major social democratic parties of Germany, France, and England rush to the defense of their fatherlands. Worker solidarity had proved an impotent myth. Rosa Luxemburg had for years warned against the stultifying effects of the overly bureaucratized German Social Democratic Party and the anti-revolutionary tendencies of the trade unions that played such a large role in the party's policy decisions. She spent much of the war in jail, where she wrote and then smuggled this pamphlet. Published under the name "Junius," the pamphlet became the guiding statement for the International Group, which became the Spartacus League.
- Newspapers and the Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1916
Published: 1916
The worker must resolutely reject any solidarity with a bourgeois newspaper. And he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests that are contrary to his.
- The Home of the Blizzard
A True Story of Antarctic Survival
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1915
Published: 1998
- Imperialism and World Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1915
Published: 1929
Bukharin's 1929 anticipation of the growth of the internationalization of capital.
- Force-Feeding a Suffragette
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1915
Published: 1915
A description of the brutal force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes in England.
- Political Parties
A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1915
Published: 1915
Michels deals with the nature of leadership in the social organization, both on the governmental and trade union levels. It attempts to understand the tendency of oligarchy to replace democracy in these areas.
- Rebuilding the International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1915
Published: 1915
The only real safeguard for peace depends on the resolution of the proletariat to remain faithful to its class politics and its international solidarity through all the storm of imperialism.
- Solidarity Forever
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1915
Published: 1915
Union song.
- Theses on the Right of Nations to Self-Determination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1915
Published: 1915
- A History of Canadian Wealth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1914
Published: 1972
Myers lays bare the corruption, swindling, land deals, and bribery that are at the basis of Canadian history. This is Canada's past seen through the eyes of a muckraker.
- Dubliners
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1914
Published: 1966
- Kazan
The Wolf Dog
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1914
Published: 1941
- The Right of Nations to Self-Determination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1914
Published: 1914
- The Right of Nations to Self-Determination - Part 4
4. “Practicality” in the National Question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1914
Published: 1914
Lenin's response to Rosa Luxemburg's position on the national question.
- The Valley of the Humber 1615-1903
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1913
Published: 1974
- The Leacock Roundabout
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1913
Published: 1963
- 'Women's Day' February 1913
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1913
Published: 1917
The article by Alexandra Kollontai was first published in the newspaper Pravda one week before the first-ever celebration in Russia of the Day of International Solidarity among the Female Proletariat on 23 February (8 March), 1913.
- The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1913
Published: 1913
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
- The Idea of May Day on the March
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1913
Published: 1913
The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives.
- The Political Mass Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1913
Published: 1913
If we want to prove ourselves worthy of the great coming events then we must not begin at the wrong end by attempting to make technical preparations for the mass strike. When the situation is ripe, the tactic of the mass strike will present itself. Let us not rack our brains about supporting it at the right time. What is necessary is that you watch the party press to ensure that it is your instrument and expresses your opinion and your mood. You must also see to it that our parliamentarians feel a mass pressing them from behind.
- Social France at the Time of Philip Augustus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1912
Published: 1967
- What Now?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1912
Published: 1912
We must now give battle on all fronts in the Reichstag to the nationalistic clap-trap that dogged our every step in the election campaign and that lurks in militarism, naval policy, colonialism, threats of war and personal rule.
- Women's Suffrage and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1912
Published: 1912
In any society, the degree of female emancipation is the natural measure of the general emancipation.
- Under Western Eyes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1911
Published: 1971
- Selected Short Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1911
Published: 1969
- Concerning Morocco
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1911
Published: 1911
The duty of Social Democracy is not to reassure public opinion, but to do the very reverse, to rouse it and warn it against the dangers lying dormant in it such adventures in international politics today. It is not enough for us to rely on the pacific intentions of some capitalist clique as a factor in achieving peace; we can only count on the resistance of the enlightened masses. By obeying the order to keep our peace, incidentally, we would be seen to be falling in with the wishes of the rulers of the Moroccan policy.
- Mass Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1911
Published: 1911
No party executive in the world can replace the mass of the party's own energy, and an organisation of a million which, at a great time and in the face of great tasks, would want to complain that it did not have the right leaders would prove its own shortcomings, because it would prove it has not understood the historical essence itself of the proletarian class struggle that consists in the proletarian masses not needing "leaders" in a bourgeois sense, that they are themselves leaders.
- Peace Utopias
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1911
Published: 1911
What is our task in the question of peace? It does not consist merely in vigorously demonstrating at all times the love of peace of the Social Democrats; but first and foremost our task is to make clear to the masses of people the nature of militarism and sharply and clearly to bring out the differences in principle between the standpoint of the Social Democrats and that of the bourgeois peace enthusiasts.
- Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1911
Published: 1911
A strike, even of modest size, has social consequences: strengthening of the workers’ self-confidence, growth of the trade union, and not infrequently even an improvement in productive technology. The murder of a factory owner produces effects of a police nature only, or a change of proprietors devoid of any social significance. Whether a terrorist attempt, even a ‘successful’ one throws the ruling class into confusion depends on the concrete political circumstances. In any case the confusion can only be shortlived; the capitalist state does not base itself on government ministers and cannot be eliminated with them. The classes it serves will always find new people; the mechanism remains intact and continues to function.
- Mysticism and Logic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1910
Published: 1963
- Anarchism and Other Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1910
Published: 1910
- Anarchism: What It Really Stands For
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1910
Published: 1910
Anarchsim: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
- Encycloedia Britannica Eleventh Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1910
Published: 1910
A 29-volume reference work, developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time.
- International Short Stories
American
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1910
Published: 1910
- International Short Stories
English
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1910
Published: 1910
- International Short Stories
French
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1910
Published: 1910
- Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Canada - 1910
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1910
Published: 1910
Tthe Socialist Party of Canada is the nucleus of the revolt of the slaves of Canada against capitalism. Its policy is to educate the slaves of Canada to an understanding of their position and organize them for concerted political action, to the end that they may wrest the powers of State from the hands of capital, and use them to strip the master class of its property rights in the means of production and to make these the collective property of the producers.
- The Next Step
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1910
Published: 1910
A decision must be made as to whether German Social Democracy, which is supported by the strongest trade-union organization and the greatest army of voters in the world, can bring about a mass action (which has been done at various times with great success in little Belgium, in Italy, in Austria-Hungary, in Sweden - not to mention Russia), or whether in Germany a trade-union organization numbering two million members and a powerful, well-disciplined party is just as incapable of giving birth to an effective mass action at the crucial moment as were the French trade unions, which had been crippled by anarchist confusion, and the French Socialist party, which had been weakened by internal disputes.
- Theory & Practice
A polemic against Comrade Kautsky's theory of the Mass Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1910
Published: 1910
Rosa Luxemburg confronts Karl Kautsky on the crucial questions of the General Mass Strike and on the relationship of spontaneity to organization, as well as on the unity of theory and practice. This crucial 1910 debate in German Social Democracy led to Luxemburg's revolutionary break with Karl Kautsky and foreshadowed the collapse of the Second International at the outbreak of World War I.
- Zitatenschatz der Weltliteratur
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1910
Published: 1910
- Camp and Trail Methods
Interesting Information for All Lovers of Nature: What to Take and What To Do
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1910
Published: 1910
My object in getting out this work is to enlighten these would-be outers, to give them the information which will start them on the right trail, knowledge which cannot be had from any other sourc.
- Sang und Klang für's Kinderherz
Eine Sammlung der schönsten Kinderlieder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1909
Published: 1909
- Materialism and Empirio-Criticizm
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1908
Published: 1972
- Foundations of Christianity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1908
Published: 1953
I have proceeded to describe the roots of primitive Christianity without intending either to extol or stigmatize it, but merely to understand it.
- Anne of Green Gables
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1908
Published: 1908
- The Problem of Nationality and Autonomy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1908
Published: 1908
Rosa Luxemburg on the national question, federalism, autonomy, and the right of nations to self-determination.
- The Iron Heel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1907
Published: 1971
- Annette Freiin von Droste-Hülshoff Gedichte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1907
Published: 1907
- The Two Methods of Trade-Union Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1907
Published: 1907
To be sure, revolutions and revolutionary struggles cannot be transplanted artificially, by means of ‘good intentions’, into a country. But the examples and lessons of a neighbouring revolutionary country can at least shake the belief that treading softly is the only method of achieving bliss. And well they should.
- The Secret Agent
A Simple Tale
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1907
Published: 1907
A novel, set in London in 1886, dealing largely with the life of a spy and with milieu of anarchist-terrorist groups of the late 1800s.
- Social Democracy and the Nationalities Question
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1907
Published: 1907
- In Russian and French Prisons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1906
Published: 1991
Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.
- The Conquest of Bread
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1906
Published: 1906
A discussion of collectivism and the need to abolish representative government, and monetary systems.
- The Devil's Dictionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1906
Published: 1906
- The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1906
Published: 1906
Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
- Riot and Revolution
Speech by Rosa Luxemburg on Trial for Inciting to Riot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1906
Published: 1906
On the twelfth of November 1906 Rosa Luxemburg was tried at the Criminal Court at Weimar for “inciting to the use of physical force” by the speech she contributed to the discussion on the General Strike at the annual Congress of the German Socialist Party held in 1905 at Jena.
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1905
Published: 1958
- Foreword to the Anthology: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
Published: 1905
Luxemburg argues that "the proletariat the Poland can and must fight for the defense of national identity as a cultural legacy, that has its own right to exist and flourish." But she maintains that "our national identity cannot be defended by national separatism; it can only be secured through the struggle to overthrow despotism" throughout the entire country [i.e. Russia, of which Poland was a part].
- The Revolution in Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
Published: 1905
- Socialism and The Churches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
Published: 1905
Social-Democracy in no way fights against religious beliefs. On the contrary, it demands complete freedom of conscience for every individual and the widest possible toleration for every faith and every opinion. But, from the moment when the priests use the pulpit as a means of political struggle against the working classes, the workers must fight against the enemies of their rights and their liberation. For he who defends the exploiters and who helps to prolong this present regime of misery, he is the mortal enemy of the proletariat, whether he be in a cassock or in the uniform of the police.
- Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1905
Published: 1905
- Cassell's Compact French-English English-French Dictionary
Petit Dictionnaire Cassell Francais-Anglais Anglias-Francais
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1904
Published: 1968
- In the Storm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1904
Published: 1904
The war destroys the appearance which leads us to believe in peaceful social evolution; in the omnipotence and the untouchability of bourgeois legality; in national exclusivism; in the stability of political conditions; in the conscious direction of politics by these statesmen or parties.
- Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1904
Published: 1904
Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to the debate within the Russian Social Democratic movement on party organization and democratic centralism. Luxemburg joins Trotsky in warning of the dangers inherent in centralism and argues against the concentration of power in a Central Committee. From a Socialist Revolutionary perspective Luxemburg puts forward compelling arguments against Lenin's conception of the revolutionary party.
- Social Democracy and Parliamentarism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1904
Published: 1904
Parliamentarism is far from being an absolute product of democratic development, of the progress of the human species, and of such nice things. It is, rather, the historically determined form of the class rule of the bourgeoisie and – what is only the reverse of this rule – of its struggle against feudalism.
- Crime and Punishment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1903
Published: 1903
Let us have done with this savage idea of punishment, which is without wisdom. Let us work for the freedom of man from the oppressions which make criminals, and for the enlightened treatment of all the sick.
- An anti-clerical policy of Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1903
Published: 1903
According to Luxemburg, "the incessant guerrilla warfare waged for the last ten years against the priests is for French middle-class Republicans one of the best ways of turning away the attention of the working-class from social questions, and of weakening the class struggle."
- In Memory of the Proletariat Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1903
Published: 1903
- Marxist Theory and the Proletariat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1903
Published: 1903
A sketch of Marxist theory.
- Stagnation and Progress of Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1903
Published: 1903
Only in proportion as our movement progresses, and demands the solution of new practical problems do we dip once more into the treasury of Marx's thought, in order to extract therefrom and to utilize new fragments of his doctrine. But since our movement, like all the campaigns of practical life, inclines to go on working in old ruts of thought, and to cling to principles after they have ceased to be valid, the theoretical utilization of the Marxist system proceed very slowly.
- Report of the Siberian Delegation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1903
Published: 1903
- The Souls of Black Folk
Essays and Sketches
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1903
A collection of essays on race which constitutes a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature.
- Crime and Criminals
Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1902
Published: 1902
So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
- Martinique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1902
Published: 1902
Written after the volanic eruption in May, 1902 at the port of St. Pierre.
- What is to be Done?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1902
Published: 1902
- Three Plays For Puritans
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1901
Published: 1965
- Caesar and Cleopatra
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1901
Published: 1963
- Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1901
Published: 1901
A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future.
- Historischer Schul-Atlas zur alten, mittleren und neuen Geschichte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1901
Published: 1901
- The Socialist Crisis in France
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1901
Published: 1901
"The Republic is in danger! That is why it was necessary for a socialist to become the bourgeois Minister of Commerce. The Republic is in danger! That is why the socialist had to remain in the cabinet even after the massacre of the striking workers on the Island of Martinique and in Chalon. The Republic is in danger! As a result, inquiries into the massacres had to be blocked, the parliamentary investigations of the horrors perpetrated in the colonies had to be discarded, and the amnesty law accepted."
- Social Reform or Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1900
Published: 1908
Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism.
- The Theory of the Leisure Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1899
Published: 1953
- The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1899
Published: 1899
For in the Dreyfus case four social factors make themselves felt which give it the stamp of a question directly related to the class struggle. They are: militarism, chauvinism-nationalism, anti-Semitism, and clericalism. In our written and spoken agitation we always combat these direct enemies of the socialist proletariat by virtue of our general tendencies. It would thus be totally incomprehensible to not enter into a struggle with these enemies exactly when it is a question of unmasking them, not as abstract clichés, but through the use of living current events.
- Eight-Hour Day at the Party Congress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1899
Published: 1899
The legal eight-hour day is one of the demands on our minimal program. i.e., it is the very least minimum of social reform which we, as representatives of the workers’ interests, must demand and expect from the present state. The fragmentation of even these minimal demands into still smaller morsels goes against all our tactics.
- Evolutionary Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1899
Published: 1899
- The Log of a Sea-Waif
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1899
Published: 1899
- The Militia and Militarism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1899
Published: 1899
In militarism, the power and rule of both the capitalist state and the bourgeois class are crystallized; just as Social Democracy is the only party which opposes them in principle, so too, inversely, is the opposition in principle to militarism part of the nature of Social Democracy. To abandon the struggle against the military system amounts in fact to the same thing as renouncing the struggle against the present social order in general.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Speech to the Hanover Congress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1899
Published: 1899
In its struggle, the working class has no greater enemy than its own illusions -- and those who foster illusions.
- The Industrial Development of Poland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1898
Published: 1898
First published in 1898, under the title Die Industrielle Entwicklung Polens.
- Opportunism and the art of the possible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1898
Published: 1898
Opportunism is a political game which can be lost in two ways: not only basic principles but also practical success may be forfeited.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Speeches to Stuttgart Congress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1898
Published: 1898
Luxenburg criticizes Eduard Bernstein's comment: "The final goal, whatever it may be, is nothing to me: the movement is everything!" with the reply "Anyone who says that does not stand for the necessity of seizing political power. You see that some comrades in the Party do not stand for the final goals of our movement, and that it is necessary to express that fact unambiguously."
- In His Steps
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1897
Published: 2010
What does it really mean to be a Christian? In His Steps was the first to ask "What would Jesus do? and quickly became one of the best-selling books of all times. A classic Christian novel. "I want volunteers from First Church who will pledge themselves, earnestly and honestly, for an entire year; not to do anything without first asking the question, 'What would Jesus do?'" The town Reverend never dreamed that among those who responded would be the most influential members of his congregation. Together they pledged themselves to a new step of faith that would change, not just a handful of people, but an entire town-for good.
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1897
Published: 2007
- Revolution and Counter Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1896
Published: 1971
A collection of articles and letters written by Marx for the New York Tribune in 1851 and 1852.
- The Polish Question at the International Congress in London
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1896
Published: 1896
- Social Democracy and the National Struggles in Turkey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1896
Published: 1896
In foreign policy as in domestic politics, Social Democracy can adopt its own position, which in both spheres must be determined by the same standpoints, namely by the internal social conditions of the phenomenon in question, and by our general principles.
- The Development of the Monist View of History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1895
Published: 1895
- Enoch Arden
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1895
Published: 1895
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 27
Engels 1890 - 1895
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1895
Published: 1895
Includes The Foreign Policy of Russian Tsardom, and A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891, and On the History of Early Christianity, and The Peasant Question in France and Germany
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 50
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1895
Published: 1895
- Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1894
Published: 1971
- Das Kapital III
Der Gesamtprozess der kapitalistischen Produktion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1894
Published: 1971
- How I Became a Socialist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1894
Published: 1894
Morris looks back over his life and describes his political development.
- What Are the Origins of May Day?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1894
Published: 1894
As long as the struggle of the workers against the bourgeoisie and the ruling class continues, as long as all demands are not met, May Day will be the yearly expression of these demands. And, when better days dawn, when the working class of the world has won its deliverance then too humanity will probably celebrate May Day in honour of the bitter struggles and the many sufferings of the past.
- A Sex Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1893
Published: 1985
A dynamic speaker and writer, anarchist, spiritualist, feminist and mentor of Emma Goldman, Lois Waisbrooker was arrested several times for advocating 'women's control over their own bodies.' In her 1893 novel, A Sex Revolution, women demand control of the world for fifiy years to see whether it leads to the abolition of war. This work is strikingly contemporary condemnation of the masculine concept of 'defense by the State' which has brought us all to the bring of annihiliation.
- Das Capital, Volume 2
The Process of Circulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1893
Published: 1956
- Four Major Plays
A Doll's House; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1892
Published: 1966
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 49
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1892
Published: 1892
- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes
37 short stories and a complete novel from The Strand Magazine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1891
Published: 1891
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 48
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1890
Published: 1890
- Statement of Principles of the Hammersmith Socialist Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1890
Published: 1890
Advocates "an essential change in the basis of society: the present basis is privilege for the few and consequent servitude for the many; the further basis will be equality of condition for all, which we firmly believe to be the essence of true society."
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 26
Engels 1882 - 1889
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1889
Published: 1889
Includes Manuscripts on Early German History and The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, and The Role of Force in History
- Socialism and Anarchism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1889
Published: 1889
Morris repudiates the anarchist view that freedom from authority means the individual doing what he pleases under all circumstances. This, he says is "an absolute negation of society".
- A Dream of John Ball
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1888
Published: 1888
Morris' novel describes a dream and time travel leading to an encounter between the medieval and modern worlds. Morris describes a positive image of the Middle Ages, seeing it as a golden, if brief, period when peasants were prosperous and happy and guilds protected workers from exploitation.
It contains the famous passage "... I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name..."
- Looking Backward From 2000 to 1887
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1888
Published: 1888
Tells of a Rip van Winkle who wakes in the year 2000 to discover that a form of top-down socialism has been established.
- 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1888
Published: 1888
- The Policy of Abstention
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1887
Published: 1887
Morris argues that socialism should be fought for using mass action rather than parliamentary action.
- The Role of Force in History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1887
Published: 1887
- Schachaufgaben
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1887
Published: 1887
- A Caricature History of Canadian Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1886
Published: 1974
- Kidnapped
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1886
Published: 1926
- Étude Médico-Légale Psychopathia Sexualis Avec Recherches Spéciales sur L'inversion Sexuelle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1886
Published: 1895
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1886
Published: 1886
- Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1886
Published: 1886
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 47
Engels 1883 - 1886
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1886
Published: 1886
Letters.
- Socialism: The Ends and the Means
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1886
Published: 1886
Shall we waste our wealth or use it? Why do we waste it now? Because we are cowards and therefore unjust. The wealth was made by all and should be used for the benefit of all; but we in our fear have forgotten what is meant by all.
- Das Kapital II
Der Zirkulationsprozess des Kapitals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1885
Published: 1970
- The Manifesto of The Socialist League
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1885
Published: 1885
Advocating the principles of Revolutionary International Socialism; that is, we seek a change in the basis of Society - a change which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities.
- How We Live and How We Might Live
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1884
Published: 1887
Morris sees capitalist society as based on war between nations, between rival capitalists, against colonial peoples and between classes. Only the victory of Socialist revolution can end all these wars.
- Art and Labour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1884
Published: 1884
Says Morris: "By art, I do not mean only pictures and sculpture, nor only these and architecture, that is beautiful building properly ornamented; these are only a portion of art, which comprises, as I understand the word a great deal more; beauty produced by the labour of man both mental and bodily, the expression of the interest man takes in the life of man upon the earth with all its surroundings, in other words the human pleasure of life is what I mean by art."
- Art and Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1884
Published: 1884
Morris sees work as a necessity of human life, not merely as a means of obtaining a livelihood. Morris insists that only socialism can restore work to its proper, central position.
- The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1884
Published: 1884
- Treasure Island
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1883
Published: 1963
- Art Under Plutocracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1883
Published: 1884
Morris asks "What kind of an account shall we be able to give to those who come after us of our dealings with the earth, which our forefathers handed down to us still beautiful, in spite of all the thousands of years of strife and carelessness and selfishness?"
- Art, Wealth, and Riches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1883
Published: 1883
A lecture by William Morris, delivered in Manchester in 1883. Morris poses the question "Is art to be limited to a narrow class who only care for it in a very languid way, or is it to be the solace and pleasure of the whole people?"
- The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Translated from the Sanskrit. In Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1883
Published: 1883
An ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Va-tsya-yana.
- The Right To Be Lazy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1883
Published: 1883
Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.
- Useful Work versus Useless Toil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1883
Published: 1883
Morris proposes that while work is essential for our survival, nevertheless "there is some labour which is so far from being a blessing that it is a curse; that it would be better for the community and for the worker if the latter were to fold his hands and refuse to work."
- The American Boys Handy Book
What To Do and How To Do It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1882
Published: 1966
- The British Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1881
Published: 1940
- The Library
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1881
Published: 1881
- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1880
Published: 1880
- Woman Under Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1879
Published: 1879
An analysis of how socialism would advance the freedom of women and their position in society. First edition written and published in German in 1879.
- Anti-Duhring
Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1878
Published: 1878
- Decimal Classificaction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1876
Published: 1967
- Decimal Classificaction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1876
Published: 1967
- The Communistic Societies of the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1875
Published: 1965
Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
- Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1875
Published: 1875
Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
- Letter to Bracke
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1875
Published: 1875
Karl Marx comments on the unity programme (Gotha programme) of the German Democratic Workers Party and the People's Party.
- The Mysterious Island
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1874
Published: 1965
- The Bakuninists at Work
An account of the Spanish revolt in the summer of 1873
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1873
Published: 1873
This series of articles was written in the wake of the events in Spain during the summer of 1873, which were the culmination of the Spanish bourgeois revolution of 1868-74. Engels focused his attention on the involvement of the Spanish Bakuninists in the abortive cantonal revolts organised in the south and south-east of the country by the Intransigents, an extremist republican grouping that advocated the partition of Spain into independent cantons.
- Erewhon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1872
Published: 1967
Butler satirises the injustices of Victorian England by means of a utopian society in which all the social mores and laws were the exact opposite of what they were in England.
- Bakunin on Marx and Rothschild
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1871
Published: 1979
- The Civil War in France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1871
Published: 1871
Written by Karl Marx as an address to the General Council of the International, with the aim of distributing to workers of all countries a clear understanding of the character and world-wide significance of the heroic struggle of the Paris Communards of 1871 and their historical experience to learn from.
- Manifesto of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1871
Published: 1871
Published in Paris Libre, April 21, 1871.
- The Internationale
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1871
Published: 1871
Is a famous socialist, communist, social-democratic and anarchist anthem and one of the most widely recognized songs in the world.
- The Internationale: Recordings
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1871
Published: 1871
Versions of The Internationale in more than 40 languages.
- Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
Original title: History of American Socialisms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1870
Published: 1966
Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
- Catechism of a Revolutionist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1869
Published: 1869
a program for the "merciless destruction" of society and the state, written by the anarchist Sergey Nechayev.
- The Program of the International Brotherhood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1869
Published: 1869
Bakunin maintains that his revolutionary anarchist vision "excludes any idea of dictatorship and of a controlling and directive power." but then goes on to say "It is, however, necessary for the establishment of this revolutionary alliance and for the triumph of the Revolution over reaction that the unity of ideas and of revolutionary action find an organ in the midst of the popular anarchy which will be the life and the energy of the Revolution. This organ should be the secret and universal association of the International Brothers.... a sort of revolutionary general staff, composed of dedicated, energetic, intelligent individuals, sincere friends of the people above all, men neither vain nor ambitious, but capable of serving as intermediaries between the revolutionary idea and the instincts of the people."
- Das Kapital I
Der Produktionsprozess des Kapitals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1867
Published: 1969
- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1867
Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- National Catechism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1866
Published: 1866
Bakunin sketches out his vision of an anarchist social and political revolution, stating that "in order to prepare for this revolution it will be necessary to conspire and to organize a strong secret association coordinated by an international nucleus."
- Revolutionary Catechism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1866
Published: 1866
Bakunin believed that workers were very far from being able to attain revolutionary consciousness on their own. To imbue the masses with this consciousness and to prevent the deformation of a resulting revolution, Bakunin felt that the only alternative was to organize a secret International Fraternity headed by himself. Bakunin was convinced that this kind of vanguard movement was indispensable to the success of the anarchist Social Revolution.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1865
Published: 1968
- Value, Price and Profit
Speech by Marx to the International Working Men's Association, June 1865
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1865
Published: 1898
- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1864
Published: 1965
- Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1864
Published: 1864
Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International.
- The International Workingmen's Association, General Rules
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1864
Published: 1864
Rules of the First International Workingmen's Association, adopted at its founding congress in 1864.
- Theories of Surplus-Value
Part I
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1863
Published: 1963
- Theories of Surplus-Value
Part II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1863
Published: 1963
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 33
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1863
Published: 1863
Economic Manuscript of 1861-63. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Continuation).
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 31
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1863
Published: 1863
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 32
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1863
Published: 1863
Economic Manuscript of 1861-63 (Continuation). A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 28
Marx 1857 - 1861
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1861
Published: 1861
Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58.
- A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1859
Published: 1859
- Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1859
Published: 1859
Perhaps Marx's most succinct summary of his analysis of political economy.
- Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1858
Published: 1964
Thes notes of 1857-1858 throw light on Marx's views concerning the economic development of human society as a whole, from "primitive communism" to capitalism and socialistm. The notes deal partcularly with the epochs of historic development and their evolutionary stages.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 15
Marx and Engels 1856 - 1858
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1858
Published: 1858
Mainly articles about Europe, colonialism, and India.
- The Grundrisse
Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1857
Published: 1973
Marx wrote this huge manuscript as part of his preparation for what would become A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (published in 1859) and Capital (published 1867). The series of seven notebooks were rough-drafted by Marx, chiefly for purposes of self-clarification, during the winter of 1857-8. The manuscript became lost in circumstances still unknown and was first effectively published, in the German original, in 1953.
- Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1857
Published: 1857
When we speak of production, we always have in mind production at a definite stage of social development.
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
A collection of passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1855
Published: 1980
- Selections from Walden
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1854
Published: 1973
- Revolutionary Spain
Articles by Karl Marx in the New-York Herald Tribune
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1854
Published: 1854
The series of articles Revolutionary Spain was written by Marx for the New-York Daily Tribune between August and November 1854. Marx observed all the symptoms of the revolutionary movement in Europe and paid much attention to the revolutionary events in the summer of 1854 in Spain. He held that the revolutionary struggle there could provide a stimulus for the development of the revolutionary movement in other European countries.
- Roget's Thesaurus of Words and Phrases
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1852
Published: 1947
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1852
Published: 1896
- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1852
Published: 1852
Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon between December 1851 and March 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar -- the day the first Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d'etat. Marx traces how the conflict of different social interests manifest themselves in the complex web of political struggles, and in particular the contradictory relationships between the outer form of a struggle and its real social content.
- Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1852
Published: 1852
Marx exposes the unseemly methods used by the Prussian police state against the communist movement.
- The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1850
Published: 1850
Originally a series of articles written between January and October 1850 specially for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue and published in it under the general title "1848-1849."
- The Peasant War in Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1850
Published: 1850
The Peasant War in Germany was the first history book to assert that the real motivating force behind the Reformation and 16th-century peasant war was socio-economic (class conflict) rather than "merely" religious.
- The Scarlet Letter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1850
Published: 1850
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 8
Marx and Engels 1848 - 1849
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1849
Published: 1849
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung November 8, 1848 - March 5, 1849.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 9
Marx and Engels 1849
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1849
Published: 1849
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung March 6 - May 19, 1849.
- Appeal to the Slavs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1848
Published: 1848
When reaction conspires throughout Europe, when it works without stint, with the help of an organization slowly and carefully prepared, stretching all over the land, the revolution should create for itself a power capable of fighting it.
- The Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1848
Published: 1848
Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 6
Marx and Engels 1845 - 1848
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1848
Published: 1848
Includes the Poverty of Philosophy and The Communist Manifesto.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 7
Marx and Engels 1848
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1848
Published: 1848
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, June 1 - November 7, 1848.
- Neue Rheinische Zeitung - Digitalisierung
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1848
Die Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Organ der Demokratie erschien in 301 Ausgaben vom 1. Juni 1848 bis zum 19. Mai 1849 täglich in der preußischen Stadt Köln unter der Chefredaktion von Karl Marx und Mitarbeit von Friedrich Engels. Sie umfasst somit den Zeitraum der europäischen Revolution von 1848/49. Weitere Redakteure waren Heinrich Bürgers, Ernst Dronke, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Georg Weerth, Ferdinand Wolff und Wilhelm Wolff.
Die Zeitung erreichte eine Auflage von 5000 bis 6000 Exemplaren und verfügte über eigene Korrespondenten insbesondere in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Wien und Paris. Zu den täglichen Ausgaben wurden häufig Beilagen veröffentlicht. Von der vollständig in Rot gedruckten Abschlussnummer vom 19. Mai 1849 wurden fast 20 000 Exemplare gedruckt.
- Wage Labour and Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1847
Published: 1891
From Engels' 1891 introduction: "This pamphlet first appeared in the form of a series of leading articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, beginning on April 4th, 1849. The text is made up of from lectures delivered by Marx before the German Workingmen’s Club of Brussels in 1847. The series was never completed. Marx, in the ’40s, had not yet completed his criticism of political economy. This was not done until toward the end of the fifties. Consequently, such of his writings as were published before the first installment of his Critique of Political Economy was finished, deviate in some points from those written after 1859, and contain expressions and whole sentences which, viewed from the standpoint of his later writings, appear inexact, and even incorrect."
- The Poverty of Philosophy
Answer to the Philosophy of Poverty by M. Proudhon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1847
Published: 1847
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 5
Marx and Engels 1845 - 1847
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1847
Published: 1847
Includes The German Ideology.
- The German Ideology
Critique of Modern German Philosophy According to Its Representatives Feuerbach, B. Bauer and Stirner, and of German Socialism According to
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1846
Published: 1932
Marx and Engels take on the "philosophic charlatanry" and pettiness and "parochial narrowness" of the pseudo-radicals of their time, "in particular the tragicomic contrast between the illusions of these heroes about their achievements and the actual achievements themselves."
- The Condition of the Working Class in England
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1845
Published: 1845
- The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1845
Published: 1845
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1845
Published: 1845
Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.
- Karl Marx: Early Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1844
Published: 1964
- Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1844
Published: 1844
The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses
- Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1844
Published: 1844
A series of notes written between April and August 1844 by Karl Marx. Not published by Marx during his lifetime, they were first released in 1927. The notebooks are an early expression of Marx's analysis of economics, chiefly Adam Smith, and critique of the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics including private property, communism, and money. Because the 1844 manuscripts show Marx's thought at the time of its early genesis, their publication, in English not until 1959,[2] has profoundly affected recent scholarship on Marx and Marxism.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 3
Marx and Engels 1843 - 1844
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1844
Published: 1844
- Letter: Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1843
Published: 1843
Constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.
Therefore I am not in favour of raising any dogmatic banner. On the contrary, we must try to help the dogmatists to clarify their propositions for themselves.
- On Freedom of the Press (3)
On the Assembly of the Estates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1842
Published: 1842
Precisely because freedom of discussion, the speaker concludes, is desirable in our Assembly - and what freedoms would we not find desirable where we are concerned? - precisely for that reason freedom of discussion is not desirable in the province. Because it is desirable that we speak frankly, it is still more desirable to keep the province in thrall to secrecy.
- On Freedom of the Press (6)
Freedom in General
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1842
Published: 1842
Some want a full censorship, others a half censorship; some want three-eighths freedom of the press, others none at all. God save me from my friends!
- On Freedom of the Press (5)
Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1842
Published: 1842
A censorship law is an impossibility because it seeks to punish not offences but opinions, because it cannot be anything but a formula for the censor, because no state has the courage to put in general legal terms what it can carry out in practice through the agency of the censor. For that reason, too, the operation of the censorship is entrusted not to the courts but to the police.
- On Freedom of the Press (4)
As a privilege of particular individuals or a privilege of the human mind?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1842
Published: 1842
From the standpoint of the idea, it is self-evident that freedom of the press has a justification quite different from that of censorship because it is itself an embodiment of the idea, an embodiment of freedom, a positive good, whereas censorship is an embodiment of unfreedom, the polemic of a world outlook of semblance against the world outlook of essence; it has a merely negative nature.
- On Freedom of the Press (2)
Opponents of a Free Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1842
Published: 1842
What an illogical paradox to regard the censorship as a basis for improving our press!
- Comments on The Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1842
Published: 1842
The real, radical cure for the censorship would be its abolition; for the institution itself is a bad one, and institutions are more powerful than people.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 2
Engels 1838 - 1842
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1842
Published: 1842
Works of Frederick Engels, August 1838-December 1842.
- On the Critique of the Prussian Press Laws
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1842
Published: 1842
Two ways are open to the Prussian for the publication of his thoughts. He can either have them printed in his own country, in which case he has to submit to the domestic censorship; or, should he meet with objections here, outside the frontiers of his own state he can still either place himself under the censorship of another state in the Confederation or take advantage of press freedom in foreign countries. In any case the state retains the right to take repressive measures against possible breaches of the law.
- Un Canadien errant
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1842
Published: 1842
A Canadian folk song, lyrics written in 1842, about rebels who were deported, or forced to flee, after the rebellion of 1837-8 in Lower Canada. The song was also adopted by the descendants of Acadians who had been deported from Acadia in 1755-62, changed to 'Un Acadien errant.'
- Democracy in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1840
Published: 1840
A survey, written between 1835 and 1840, of the political institutions, culture, literature, and attitudes of the United States.
- Fiery Brook
Selected Writings of Ludwig Feuerbach
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1839
Published: 1972
- The People's Charter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1839
Published: 1839
The Chartists' Peoples Charter of 1839.
- The People's Petition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1838
Published: 1838
The Chartist Petition of 1838.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 1
Marx 1835 - 1843
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1835
Published: 1835
- On War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1832
Published: 1968
- Charles Darwin's Beagle library
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1831
Published: 2014
The voyage of the Beagle (1831-1836) was one of the most important scientific expeditions in history. On board was the young naturalist Charles Darwin. His investigations would change science and the world forever. As a research vessel HMS Beagle may not have had the internet, but she did have an impressive state-of-the-art library of about 400 volumes. The library was housed in book cases in the poop cabin at the stern of the ship, which was also Darwin's cabin. Thus, Darwin lived and worked in the Beagle library for five years. The collection of books that kept Darwin company has now been made publicly avaiable at the Darwin Online Beagle Library project.
- Frankenstein
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1831
Published: 1965
- Hegel's Logic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1830
Published: 1975
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1830
Published: 1968
- Report of Mr. W. E. Cormack's journey in search of the Red Indians in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1828
Published: 1828
- Queen Mab
A Philosophical Poem (in 9 parts)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1813
Published: 1813
- The Swiss Family Robinson
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1813
Published: 1813
- Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1812
Published: 1812
A collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers
- The Phenomenology of Mind
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1807
Published: 1807
The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
- The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt1725-1798
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1798
Published: 1894
The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, by Arthur Symons.
- The Rights of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1792
Published: 1792
Thomas Paine's defense of the French Revolution -- and the right to revolt.
- Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1791
Published: 1791
Aware that women were being denied the new rights of liberty and property extended to all men by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Gouges composed her own Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen, modeled on the 1789 document.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1789
Published: 1789
Approved by the National Assemby of France August 26, 1789.
- Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1783
Published: 1950
- Die Räuber
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1781
Published: 1991
- Common Sense
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1776
Published: 1776
Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
- Declaration of Independence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1776
Published: 1776
The document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
- The Virigina Declaration of Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1776
Published: 1776
Drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent natural rights of men, including the right to rebel against "inadequate" government. The Declaration was adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776.
- Coppermine Journey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1772
Published: 1772
- The Social Contract and Discourses
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1762
Published: 1968
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1759
Published: 1967
- A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1742
Published: 1978
- Gulliver's Travels
And Other Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1726
Published: 1960
- The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters
Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1703
Published: 1703
Daniel Defoe's satire of the religious establishment, originally published anonymously, which led to him being convicted of seditious libel and sentenced to prison.
- The Second Treatise of Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1690
Published: 1960
- The Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1688
Published: 1965
- The Miser and Other Plays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1668
Published: 1968
- Leviathan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1651
Published: 1968
- Manifestos, Programs, Visions
Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1649
Published: 2016
A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
- An Agreement of the Free People of England
Manifesto of the Levellers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1649
Published: 1649
The Levellers were an informal alliance of agitators and pamphleteers who came together during the English Civil War (1642-1648) to demand constitutional reform and equal rights under the law. Levellers believed all men were born free and equal and possessed natural rights that resided in the individual, not the government. They believed that each man should have freedom limited only by regard for the freedom of others. They believed the law should equally protect the poor and the wealthy.
- Tempest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1611
Published: 1961
- The Politics of Obedience
The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1550
Published: 1997
- On God and Political Duty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1536
Published: 1956
- Utopia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1516
Published: 1516
- The Prince
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1513
Published: 1947
- The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1450
Published: 1450
A manifesto issued by Jack Cade, a Kentish rebel in 1450, before his march on London.
- Joan of Arc
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1412
Published: 2012
A peasant girl born in what is now eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War.
- Tales From the Decameron
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1353
Published: 1930
- The Charter of the Forest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1217
Published: 1225
A complementary document to the Magna Carta of 1215, defining the rights of vassals, freemen, and serfs, reducing penalties, and restoring common land taken by the Crown.
- The Magna Carta
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1215
Published: 1215
The Magna Carta consists of concessions wrung from the unwilling King John by his rebellious barons in 1215. It established for the first time a very significant constitutional principle: that the power of the king could be limited by a written grant.
- L'Hebdo
March 21, 1973
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1073
Published: 1973
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