Racist "Reasonable Accommodation" Anxieties: A Short Summary

The brief version will suffice for right now – what follows is “catch up” for all of you who do not live in Quebec, and so may not know what this deal about Herouxville, “reasonable accommodation” and such is all about. Those of you who do live here will probably …

Spraypaint in Herouxville

Yesterday the Collectif pour l’Integration Respecteuse des Cultures au Quebec (CIRQ) went spraypainting through Herouville, the tiny village which has catapulted itself into the limelight, just as it catapults the level of discourse in Quebec to the right… Photos from l’Écho de MaskinongĂ©. “>

Pamphlet About the Panther Eight

There is a pamphlet that can be used by people organizing around the former Panthers arrested last week, up at http://www.kersplebedeb.com/resistrepression.pdf Spread the word!

Repression USA: 9 Former Panthers Charged

Last week nine Black men were charged with the alleged 1973 Black Liberation Army assassination of police sergeant John V. Young in San Francisco. Charged were former Black Panther Party members and supporters Harold Taylor, 58, of Panama City, Fla.; Francisco Torres, 58, of Queens, New York; Richard Brown, 65, …

Escaping israel

i wanted to write something about this, but as it stands i am really fucking tired and not sure i’m up to it… nevertheless… You see, there’s this CBC article which came out last Friday about how since 2000 three thousand “Israelis” have sought refugee status in Canada. The way …

The Next Battle of the Social War: Nine Black Panthers and state repression

Another article about last week’s bust that seems to be unavailable at the url where it originally appeared – so it’s getting mirrored too: The Next Battle of the Social War: Nine Black Panthers and state repression January 23, 2007 should be a day that lives in infamy within the …

Legacy of Torture: the War Against the Black Liberation Movement

This excellent article by Wanda Sabir gives the background to last week’s arrest of nine former Black Panther Party members and supporters is from the San Francisco Bay View, whose site seems to be down at the moment, so i am mirroring it here. i should point out that i …

Radicals and the State

Upping The Anti #3 features interviews with Aijaz Ahmad and William Robinson, each of whom discusses different questions, looking at different parts of the world, but nevertheless both touch on some common concerns. I’m not sure if this was the intention of the UTA crew or just happy happenstance, but …