A while back i was at some event or demo or something and got a flyer from the Red Youth Front (Front Rouge des Jeunes), an affiliate of the Revolutionary Communist Party (Organizing Committee), a local Maoist group. (NOTE: the RCP-OC is not the same as the American RCP, for …
Just to let you all know – as well as blogging, there’s some new stuff i’ve been up to in relation to my distro, Kersplebedeb. As many of you will know, we traveled to Baltimore recently for the Mid-Atlantic Radical bookfair held in that city in early July. Predictably, there …
The latest update from Hazel Hill at the Reclamation site: Good Evening from Grand River! I hope everyone is well and in good spirits tonight. Just to qualm the nerves of everyone, the group travelling back from Grassy Narrows have all arrived home safe and sound. there was a bit of trouble …
I don’t think i had ever seen as many Lebanese flags as at yesterday’s rally against Israeli aggression in downtown Montreal. More than 500 – perhaps as many as a thousand, i can’t be sure because of how the crowd was spread – showed up to protest the ongoing carnage. …
My only love affair was to be knowledge that I had blood on my hands and I wanted it to be some confused, afraid cop. Because tonight, we weren’t in the Denver I called home. We weren’t at the permitted feel-good-fest where we’d watch ourselves on the 9-o-clock news. Tonight …
Montreal-based organisations and individuals have come together to coordinate our responses to calls for solidarity from our brothers and sisters in Lebanon and Gaza, currently living under a vicious military offensive by Israel which has killed hundreds and destroyed civilian infrastructure, with devastating consequences.While the Canadian government is, outrageously, supporting …
The following regarding repression at Grassy Narrows from Peace, Earth and Justice News: Ontario Police Raid Earth Justice Gathering and Grassy Narrows Blockade: 17 arrests reported Zoe BluntRainforest Action Network July 16, 2006 The latest reports say more than fifty police officers have blocked the roads leading to and from the …
Last Thursday, July 13th, people from Grassy Narrows First Nation were joined by members of a number of environmental groups in escalating their blockade – targeting the Trans-Canada Highway for one day. (For more information of the Grassy Narrows blockade see my post earlier today.) They were able to keep …
The ongoing Reclamation at Caledonia has given us settlers another of those periodic reminders that this land is not our land, and that this whole colonial enterprise called Canada is not a done deal yet. Far from it.But of course this is not a matter of just one community encroaching …
The following from the excellent Friends of Grassy Narrows website: “All Sell-Outs Get the Hell Out!”: Natives Protest Assembly of First Nationsposted by IROC on Friday, July 14th at 7:53 PM Report on July 11, 2006, Anti-AFN Rally/16th Anniversary of Oka Crisis On Tuesday July 11, 2006, the Indigenous Resistance …