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More on the Quebec Nation

Phebus, a comrade from the North East Federation of Anarchist Communists, made a series of good points regarding by post Quebecistan? I wish… a few days ago, in which i commented on NEFAC’s position of Quebec nationalism. I’m going to re-post his comments here, and try to answer some of …

Six Nations women lay claim to windmills

This from today’s Hamilton Spectator: Six Nations women lay claim to windmills by John BurmanThe Hamilton Spectator(Aug 19, 2006) Two Six Nations women title holders have laid claim to a $27-million green power wind farm project near Shelburne.  Kahentinetha Horn, who lives at the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal and another woman …

Radical Anti-Imperialists Carry Out Second Armed Attack in Quebec

For the second time in two years a group calling itself the Initiatives de Resistance Internationaliste (Initiatives of Internationalist Resistance – IRI) has claimed responsibility for an armed attack within the province of Quebec.Very little is known about the IRI. In December 2004, just as President Bush visited Ottawa for …

Quebecistan? I wish…

A Place Amongst Nations: Quebec in the Struggle to Winposter from the Societe St-Jean Baptiste,a conservative nationalist group, and a cornerstone of the Quebec national movement today Last week’s article by Barbara Kay in the right-wing National Post should be clipped and put aside (or saved to hard drive) as …

B’nai B’rith Canada Urges Repression At Home

I can remember when some radical anti-racists were still willing to argue that “human rights groups” like B’nai B’rith Canada should be considered allies. Their staunch Zionism, chummy relationship with the police, and other political misdeeds were of interest only to “sectarians.” Well, those days are long gone, for as …

2006 World Film Festival in Montreal

Shit i’m not very happy! Been out of town for over a week, just got back, and just saw that there was a sale on tickets to the 2006 World Film Festival in Montreal but… the sale ended yesterday!!! Major drag, as this is one of the few Montreal festivals …

Hazel Hill: Update From Grand River August 6th

It has been a while since i have had an update from the Reclamation Site at Six Nations, outside Caledonia, so i was happy to receive this written by Hazel Hill earlier today. As always, i have added paragraph breaks for easier reading: Update from Grand River August 6th, 2006 …

More on Hezbollah

I posted Matt Lyons’ piece on Defending My Enemy’s Enemy to Louis Proyect’s Marxism list, where it received a number of (highly) critical responses. One answer in particular, though, did at least try to deal with the actual issues Lyons was touching on.As i stated in my own comments –  we …