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Police brutality mars Women’s Day Celebration in Montreal

This just in regarding yesterday’s police attack on Montreal’s IWD march: Montreal 9 March 2007 Police brutality mars Women’s Day Celebration in MontrealPolice Assault women at International Women’s Day MarchYesterday, as Montrealers, along with many around the world celebrated International Women’s Day – the event was marred by police brutality …

Criminalization and Violence Against Sex Workers: the Context Behind the Pickton Trial

canada’s disappeared have a gender:pictures of women who have gone missingfrom missingpeople.net On January 26th CKUT’s radio show Off The Hour interviewed Sue Davis of Prostitution Alternatives Counseling and Education Society and Jenn Clamen of the International Union of Sex Workers. Sex trade workers’ struggles against violence and criminalization make …

Killer Cops East and West

A worthwhile article in last Friday’s Globe & Mail, by Sheema Khan, about the cop killings of Mohammed Anas Bennis in Montreal and Ian Bush in Vancouver: A tale of two young men SHEEMA KHANGlobe and Mail Update About a year ago, I visited my father’s grave at a Muslim …

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 …