The following from Philly’s Human Rights Coalition/Fed Up! Chapter: Distribute Far and Wide and Please Take Immediate Action HRC/Fed Up! has received correspondence from five prisoners in the Special Management Unit (SMU–the most restrictive hole in Pennsylvania) in the last week to report that prison guards and the Unit Manager …
An excellent response to Prime Minister Harper’s recent “apology” to Indigenous people on behalf of the canadian state: An Historic Non-Apology, Completely and Utterly Not Accepted The Maze of Rhetoric We hope our title is sufficiently unequivocal to convey our reaction to the events of Wednesday June 11, 2008. Maybe …
Kahentinetha Horn in happier times, speaking at a demonstration in solidarity with the people of Six Nations The following by Brenda Norrell – for updates check her blog Censored News: Mohawk Kahentinetha Horn beaten and hospitalized at borderBy Brenda Norrell Kahentinetha Horn, publisher of Mohawk Nation News, was beaten by …
it’s been almost a month since i received copies of the latest issue of Upping the Anti, a great radical journal from Canada, but am only now getting a chance to mention it here. This issue includes interviews with Mutulu Olugbala (M1 from Dead Prez), Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and George Katsiaficas, …
i received this from Theresa Shoatz, Russell Maroon Shoatz’ daughter, telling of her father suffering from chest pains at SCI Greene Prison and not receiving appropriate medical care. Russell Maroon Shoatz is a Black Liberation Army veteran who has been in prison for much of the past thirty some years. …
i’m a third of a way through my most recent copy of my fave magazine, and came across an article by Jessica Wapner (“The Healthy Type”, Scientific American June 2008) about the therapeutic effects of blogging. Alice Flaherty, a neuroscientist at Harvard University, is quoted explaining that “humans have a …
This from the Tyendinaga Support Committee: More Charges Laid: Clampdown Intensifies, Support Tyendinaga Mohawks! (MAY 20, 2008) In the wake of recent road closures, OPP intimidation, and jailing of Mohawk community members, charges have now been laid by the OPP against at least 9 additional Tyendinaga Mohawks. These charges, according …
The Canadian Press and Info690 are reporting a man was caught setting fire to a police car in Montreal’s east end last night. It seems unclear whether or not this is connected to the attack on police cars which took place in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve a couple of months back. Here is …
This just out from the Toronto Star: Anti-terror cops probed Ottawa punk bandMay 21, 2008 04:30 AM OTTAWA–All it takes to get noticed by Canada’s top anti-terrorism team is a shocking band name and a provocative logo. At least, that’s the contention of The Suicide Pilots, a self-described “no-name punk …
It would be nice to always see “the big picture”, to be able to act fully informed, to see every angle. You could then act on a case by case basis, always sure that you were not being misled or manipulated, that you were not wasting your energy or working …