Shit i’m not very happy! Been out of town for over a week, just got back, and just saw that there was a sale on tickets to the 2006 World Film Festival in Montreal but… the sale ended yesterday!!! Major drag, as this is one of the few Montreal festivals …
The following just arrived in my email box – as you may have noticed i have been out of town for over a week, and thus have not been able to keep up my regular blogging. My apologies for letting the ball drop – the context for the below is …
It has been a while since i have had an update from the Reclamation Site at Six Nations, outside Caledonia, so i was happy to receive this written by Hazel Hill earlier today. As always, i have added paragraph breaks for easier reading: Update from Grand River August 6th, 2006 …
I posted Matt Lyons’ piece on Defending My Enemy’s Enemy to Louis Proyect’s Marxism list, where it received a number of (highly) critical responses. One answer in particular, though, did at least try to deal with the actual issues Lyons was touching on.As i stated in my own comments –  we …
The following essay by Matthew Lyons comes from the Three Way Fight blog. Lyons is co-author (along with Chip Berlet) of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, as well as numerous essays and articles about repression and the far right in America. I’ll add some of my own …
From the Palestinian News Agency Ma’an (direct link to story here): Bethlehem – Ma’an – In an unprecedented incident, an Israeli artillery officer has refused to bomb Lebanese villages.Israeli press sources have stated that Corporal ‘Umri Zaid, from the Israeli city of Safad, who serves as an artillery soldier in …
While a majority of Israelis seem to be backing their government’s murderous aggression against the Lebanese people, there have been some voices of dissent.On July 23rd thousands of people (some reports say as many as 5,000) – from Arab, “left zionist”, peace, feminist and anarchist organizations – came together to …
The following from Mohawk Nation News: Women Title Holders object to NYS lands-into-trust scam This objection is being sent out again with additional information because these corporate pirates continue to rob Indigenous people. They have just hired a sell-out “Indian” Assistant District Attorney [Peter J. Herne] to do their dirty …
Earlier this year, as many readers of this blog surely know, there were several heated crises within a larger standoff between First Nations people, the Canadian government, and settlers in the Ontario town of Caledonia. The Native people had been (and are still!) standing their ground in a “reclamation” of …
From today’s edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, an interesting contradiction to the official colonialist line on the Qana massacre so far: As the Israel Air Force continues to investigate the air strike, questions have been raised over military accounts of the incident. It now appears that the military had …