The following good news regarding New Afrikan Prisoner of War Russell Maroon Shoatz: New Afrikan Political Prisoner/POW Russell “Maroon” Shoatz suffered fromchest pains for weeks while prison officials repeatedly ignored his demands for appropriate medical attention. On April 26 outside pressure at last forced SCI Greene to allow him to …
The following from No One Is Illegal Montreal, regarding some graffiti that went up on the campaign officies of French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy in Montreal a few days ago: According to mainstream media reports, this past Monday night (April 30, 2007), unknown individuals (“les inconnus”, in French) re-decorated the …
The following from the Justice For Anas Coalition in Montreal: On December 1st, 2005 — more than one year ago — police officer Bernier from Station 25 shot and killed Mohamed Anas Bennis, a 25-year old Canadian of Moroccan heritage. Anas was killed outside a neighborhood mosque at the corner …
Last week the Montreal police issued a sanguine press release announcing that they had shot a man in NDG. Seeing as it received only brief mention in some of the francophone press, it’s worth mentioning here. According to the police at 4:35pm cops from the drug squad went to arrest …
i missed this article last week, giving details of where the legal suppression of the World Tamil Movement is at. While i do not know enough about the WTM or about the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers) to stake out and defend a position, i think …
Russell Maroon Shoatz is a prisoner of war held by the u.s. government for being a revolutionary and walking his talk. After decades behind bars, he is of ill health and in urgent need of medical care – which the State seems intent on denying him…In the 1960s Russell Maroon …
Quick heads up: last week Amnesty International released a report on sexual violence against Indigenous women in amerika. i have not had a chance to read Maze of Injustice: The failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA, but you all can do so as it’s online.From …
For the past month or more i have been putting off reviewing this book about racial profiling. i’ve spent today hammering out some thoughts, but am not there yet – but it did occur to me that it would be useful to have some sketched out description of what the …
There will be a Mayday action this Tuesday in downtown Montreal, organized by the Comité des Sans-Emploi, a radical working class anti-capitalist group in Montreal, one of the few which i would consider describing as “revolutionary”. For those who don’t know, the Comité was at the forefront of some very …
This is a follow-up on yesterday’s post, about a Mi’kmaq high school student who refused to stand for Canada’s national anthem and was subsequently kicked out of class, and later “roughed up” by other students. Yesterday i didn’t know the student in question was Mi’kmaq, because the media never mentioned …