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September 2013

Dancing With Imperialism: A Red Army Faction Book Launch and Discussion in Montreal

Where: QPIRG Concordia, 1500 de Maisonneuve O., suite 204 When: Thursday, September 12 at 6:30pm ADMISSION IS FREE * WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE The long-awaited Volume 2 of the first-ever English-language study of the Red Army Factionā€”West Germanyā€™s most well known urban guerillasā€”covering the period immediately following the organizationā€™s near-total decimation in …

Quebec’s Charter of White Supremacist Values

This week, Pauline Marois’s provincial Parti Quebecois government is set to reveal its proposed Quebec Charter of Values. This will be a set of rules applying to all public employees, including teachers, hospital employees and daycare educators. Ostensibly, the goal of the charter is simple: to establish who is boss …

Important Stats about New Afrikan Transwomen

A year ago, Ebony magazine published a useful article about CeCe McDonald, theĀ 23-year-old Black transgender woman who was sentenced to 41 months in prison for second-degree manslaughter despite clear evidence that she was simply defending herself from a violent racist and transphobic attack. It was a good article, and included …

Statement Suspending the Third Hunger Strike

Greetings of Solidarity and Respect! The PBSP-SHU, Short Corridor Collective Representatives hereby serve notice upon all concerned parties of interest that after nine weeks we have collectively decided to suspend our third hunger strike action on September 5, 2013. To be clear, our Peaceful Protest of Resistance to our continuous …

The Rock vol. 2 #9, September 2013

Editorial by Ed Mead ā€œIf we give in the terrorists win.ā€ ThatĀ is essentially what Secretary Beard told theĀ mediation team. He said there will be noĀ negotiations with prisoners or their outsideĀ representatives. I write this on August 4th,Ā just four days before the hunger strike hasĀ gone on for a full month. Things may …

California Hunger Strike

We are now approaching the end of the second month of the California prisoners’ hunger strike. So far there has been one death, in a strike that was supported by 30,000 participants at its beginning, and still remains strong with several dozen who have gone eight weeks without food, risking …

ā€œAnd so, I am an instrument who will take vengeanceā€

Stories going around Ciudad Juarez about a woman killing rapist bus drivers, superheroine style, and going by the name Diana, Huntress of Bus Drivers, have gone international, now being reported on in the LA Times, the Guardian, and elsewhere. Ā As BBC reported on Monday: Mexican police investigating the murder of …