The following about an action in Montreal earlier today… MONTREAL, NOV 24 2006. — Over twenty people held a demonstration this morning to disrupt a press conference given by Stephen Harper at the Montreal General Hospital, in front of a hand-picked audience of young Conservatives from McGill University. Despite heavy …
Mexican authorities recently released a report on the government’s use of violent repression to crush its opponents during the 1960s-80s. The full report has now been posted on the Web site of the National Security Archive.
On November 11th political prisoner Robert Seth Hayes had his cell searched, and had several papers seized “for inspection.” While no itemized list of seized documents was supplied to Seth (as the prisoncrats are supposed to do), amongst those items confiscated were the 2006 and 2007 Certain Days Freedom for …
The following is an interesting article about the influence of far right ideology on the Italian working class. I’m reposting it here (i first spotted it on the aut-op-sy list) as the dynamic described by Quadrelli is not limited to the European scene. In North America too, despite some differences …
There’s a vigil being organized for Mohamed Anas Bennis, the young Muslim man who was murdered by Montreal police last December 1st: NO JUSTICE FOR MOHAMED ANAS BENNIS,NO REASON TO TRUST THE POLICE!BERNIER AND ROY, MURDERERS! VIGIL at the corner of KENT and COTE-DES-NEIGES (Cote-Des-Neiges metro)December 1st, 2006, 5 to …
Today i saw Songbirds (about women in prison, singing) and Cottonland (about Oxycontin, or “hillbilly heroine” in Cape Breton Island), two excellent movies at the documentary film festival, the RIDM. i want to write about both these movies, but don’t have time now. So instead, on the off chance that …
The following from Associated Press (byline ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Writer Fri Nov 17, 4:50 PM ET): HAVANA – William Lee Brent, a Black Panther who hijacked a passenger jet to communist Cuba in 1969 and spent 37 years in exile, has died on the island, his sister said. He …
I watched the fairly empty and completely uninformative movie Marie-Antoinette the other day – really a film which is only of interest as a clever commentary on cluelessness.Many of us, after all, know who Marie-Antoinette was, have some idea of how the majority of people living in France suffered great …
Zolo Agona Azania is one of many Black revolutionaries who have spent most of their adult lives in prison, punished for their politics by the racist American “just us” system. I have been in touch with Zolo for some years now, and have been privileged to publish a pamphlet of …
Almost a year ago a young Muslim man was murdered by a Montreal police officer, shot through the chest on his way home from Mosque. There were apparently no witnesses to the shooting (though tapes from a nearby security camera were seized but never made public) so there was nothing …