Well, you know what i think: this is a white stain on the Quebec trade union movement, certainly not the first and certainly not the last. In the present context it is clear that arguing for a “ban on religious symbols” is at best riding the wave of racism for …
Here is an excellent statement on the racist “reasonable accommodation” hearings in Quebec, from Montreal’s Immigrant Workers Centre: Whose Reasonable Accommodation ? The debate raised in Quebec on ‘reasonable accommodation’ is built on a number of false assumptions about the relationship between majority groups (‘we’) and minorities (‘they’) and what …
On Tuesday night i was one of a hundred people who gathered on the ground floor at the Palais des Congres conference center to protest against the racist reasonable accommodation hearings being held there (on the third floor) that night. (i would have posted about this earlier, but have been …
Can anybody help me translate this term? i’ve looked it up in Le Petit Robert, but can’t seem to find it… translations translations…
::::::::::::::::::::NO TO RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND SEXISM!Denounce the racist Bouchard-Taylor CommissionSolidarity across borders, not “reasonable accommodation”::::::::::::::::::::: — PICKETS AND SPEAK-OUTS —TUESDAY, November 27, 6pm&THURSDAY, November 29, 6pm– in front of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission at the Palais de Congrès, corner of Viger and de Bleury– by metro: exit at metro Place d’armes; …
cellphone-video of an RCMP murder:Robert Dziekanski was killed on October 14 inVancouver International Airport Pulling the plug on Taser deathsINCLUDING A CAMERA on the electric-shock weapon would help clear up questions on its use HENRY AUBIN Everyone is appalled by the tragic death of a man in Vancouver after police …
French Jesuit Mission of St. Sauveur in Acadia:corrupting the Wabanaki Nation with christianity someone emailed me asking what the definition of a “settler-colony” was… i gave a lame ass answer, but then figured i should post it here so that people can either agree with it or explain to me …
Pauline Marois: white woman on a mission On October 18 Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois proposed a new piece of legislation, Bill 195, the “Quebec Identity Act.” This piece of legislation would create two classes of citizen within Quebec. You would have Canadian citizens, and then within this group you …
Another issue of Canada’s best radical journal of theory and action, or should we say activism… That’s two this year, for those keeping track… here’s a look inside: Editorial Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Democracy and Anti-Capitalist Renewal in English Canada Interviews The Fight for Feminism (Sunera …
The Road Ahead and the Dialectics of Changeby C. Lundrum The rather long subtitle of this short pamphlet reads: “applying the science of dialectical and historical materialism to the prison construct as it exists within California prison system today.” And that is just what ths is: an attempt by a …