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Robert Seth Hayes Facing Harassment

On November 11th political prisoner Robert Seth Hayes had his cell searched, and had several papers seized “for inspection.” While no itemized list of seized documents was supplied to Seth (as the prisoncrats are supposed to do), amongst those items confiscated were the 2006 and 2007 Certain Days Freedom for …

[Montreal] Vigil for Mohamed Anas Bennis this December 1st

There’s a vigil being organized for Mohamed Anas Bennis, the young Muslim man who was murdered by Montreal police last December 1st: NO JUSTICE FOR MOHAMED ANAS BENNIS,NO REASON TO TRUST THE POLICE!BERNIER AND ROY, MURDERERS! VIGIL at the corner of KENT and COTE-DES-NEIGES (Cote-Des-Neiges metro)December 1st, 2006, 5 to …

[Montreal] Sunday: Two Movies i STRONGLY Recommend!

Today i saw Songbirds (about women in prison, singing) and Cottonland (about Oxycontin, or “hillbilly heroine” in Cape Breton Island), two excellent movies at the documentary film festival, the RIDM. i want to write about both these movies, but don’t have time now. So instead, on the off chance that …

Another Veteran of the Liberation Wars Dies in Exile

The following from Associated Press (byline ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Writer Fri Nov 17, 4:50 PM ET): HAVANA – William Lee Brent, a Black Panther who hijacked a passenger jet to communist Cuba in 1969 and spent 37 years in exile, has died on the island, his sister said. He …

Let Them Eat Brains – Thoughts on Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette

I watched the fairly empty and completely uninformative movie Marie-Antoinette the other day – really a film which is only of interest as a clever commentary on cluelessness.Many of us, after all, know who Marie-Antoinette was, have some idea of how the majority of people living in France suffered great …

The State Says No Justice for Mohammed Bennis

Almost a year ago a young Muslim man was murdered by a Montreal police officer, shot through the chest on his way home from Mosque. There were apparently no witnesses to the shooting (though tapes from a nearby security camera were seized but never made public) so there was nothing …

[Hazel Hill] Nov. 5 Update from Grand River

Here is the latest update from Hazel Hill at the Reclamation Site just outside of Caledonia. I have been inconsistent in posting these updates as of late because i was away for most of October, but i’m planning on remedying that… Canada finally laid its position on the table at …