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Blogger Beta

It’s up, it’s working, it has peekaboo expandable posts and soon will get revamped categories… oh yeah, and it’s baby blue. So far, for what it’s worth, this transition from Blogger Classic to Blogger Beta has been anything but seamless. Twenty minutes my ass, there goes half my day. And …

Bear with Me

Please bear with me… In one of those moments of “i have twenty minutes to do stuff, what should i do?” i decides to upgrade to the “New Blogger”… So far i see my “Read more…” links aren’t working properly, and the “Blogger for Word” plug-in is acting up. And …

Brigitte Mohnhaupt Paroled After Twenty Five Years!

Brigitte Mohnhaupt, veteran of the Red Army Faction, has been paroled. This will leave only Christian Klar, Eva Haule and Birgit Hogefeld still behind bars. The Red Army Faction were one of the most organized and advanced of the guerilla groups which operated in the metropoles during the last cycle …

Alternative Libraries

A friend let me know about this: three anglo Montreal student groups (2110 Center, Q-PIRGs McGill and Concordia) have put up an online catalog of books, magazines, videos and DVDs that you can drop by and peruse. Seems like much of this stuff can also be borrowed, though they say …

Trevor Miller Released!

Aboriginal man released from custody Feb, 09 2007 – 12:30 PM CAYUGA (AM 900 CHML) – The aboriginal man charged with assault at the standoff in Caledonia has been released into the custody of the Mohawk traditional council. Trevor Miller has been in jail for six months since his arrest …

Secularism, Women’s Liberation and Intervention: More on the Racist Reasonable Accommodation "Debate"

Regarding yesterdays post about the racist “reasonable accommodation debate”, one comrade sent me a comment in which he suggested that this was a “three way fight” situation, and that radicals should forge our own path by pursuing a strategy of radical secularism. In his words: Seem’s you are leaving a …

Racist "Reasonable Accommodation" Anxieties: A Short Summary

The brief version will suffice for right now – what follows is “catch up” for all of you who do not live in Quebec, and so may not know what this deal about Herouxville, “reasonable accommodation” and such is all about. Those of you who do live here will probably …

Spraypaint in Herouxville

Yesterday the Collectif pour l’Integration Respecteuse des Cultures au Quebec (CIRQ) went spraypainting through Herouville, the tiny village which has catapulted itself into the limelight, just as it catapults the level of discourse in Quebec to the right… Photos from l’Écho de MaskinongĂ©. “>