Nikki Araguz, transgender wife of a firefighter killed in the line of duty July 4, 2010, gets emotional during a press conference at her attorneys’ office Thursday, July 22, 2010 in Houston. Relatives of Thomas Araguz are suing to keep her from getting benefits as Texas does not recognize same-sex …
BEIJING – The government calls it “sealed management.” China’s capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police or security checking identification papers around the clock, in a throwback to an older style of control. It’s Beijing’s latest effort to reduce rising crime often blamed …
Our strategy as anti-capitalists should be to retain and reinforce our differences from both the social-democratic and the right-wing critics of corporate globalization. This means continuing the work many of us are doing, in day to day struggles alongside the classes and nations which are most oppressed by Canadian capitalism. …
One thing about the global polarization between western imperialism and Islamic anti-imperialism, factions in each camp rely upon and feed into the ongoing subjugation of women, especially women of color. Opposing sides in a unified system of exploitation, the dynamic tension created by their mutual hostility takes form in various …
An interesting review of The Coming Insurrection by Anarcho, over at Anarchist Writers.
More testimony in the inquiry into the police murder of Fredy Villanueva in 2008 – Fredy was yelling “Stop!” as the police beat on his brother, and that’s what was so threatening that they shot him – and two others – in Montreal’s most famous case of white panic. MONTREAL …
Another update from Ottawa Movement Defense, providing information about the Ottawa comrades who were arrested in relation to the bombing of a Royal Bank earlier this year: //////////////////////////////Ottawa Movement DefenseUPDATE & STATEMENT FROM J18 DETAINEESFriday, July 16th, 2010////////////////////////////// Sunday, June 18th marks one month since our friends were arrested and …
The following is an update from Ottawa Movement Defense about the conditions and how to support the three individuals who were arrested on June 17th, on charges related to the bombing of a Royal Bank in Ottawa in April of this year. Please forward widely. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Ottawa Movement DefenseUPDATE & HOW …
“Prisons are a fundamental pillar of state power. Their main function is the suppression of all internal threats to the State.” – Sundiata Acoli Jericho reports the following, from Sundiata Acoli: July 14, 2010Greetings All, Received a letter today from the Board advising that the 3-Member Panel gave me a …