Over the years i have seen quite a bit of violence against youth, and most specifically against Black youth, dished out by the security guards who patrol the Montreal metro system. It generally starts with someone being boisterous – once, for instance, a young Black guy happily shouted “Jah live!” …
According to an article in last Saturday’s Journal de Montreal, a thirteen year old girl was brought to the hospital after being thrown to the ground by police and then pepper sprayed. Here is my roughshoud translation: Unconscious, wounded and covered in pepper spray, a thirteen year old was brought …
Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of âa Few Bad Applesâby Carol Tator and Frances Henry. Published by University of Toronto Press, 2006 In their book Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of âa Few Bad Applesâ, authors Carol Tator and Frances Henry â and contributors Charles C. …
Regarding yesterdays post about the racist âreasonable accommodation debateâ, one comrade sent me a comment in which he suggested that this was a âthree way fightâ 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 …
The brief version will suffice for right now â what follows is âcatch upâ for all of you who do not live in Quebec, and so may not know what this deal about Herouxville, âreasonable accommodationâ and such is all about. Those of you who do live here will probably …
The following is a February 5th statement from No One Is Illegal-Montreal on the racist debate currently occurring in Quebec about âreasonable accommodationâ… i hope to write more about this tomorrow, providing some context for those of you from other parts of the world who have not been following this, …
A worthwhile article in last Fridayâs 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 …
Zolo Agona Azania is one of many Black revolutionaries who have spent most of their adult lives in prison, punished for their politics by the racist American âjust usâ system. I have been in touch with Zolo for some years now, and have been privileged to publish a pamphlet of …
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 …
Heads up: journalist Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has written about Canadaâs Highway of Tears â the stretch of road in northern âBritish Columbiaâ where so many indigenous women have been disappeared over the past decades. Since 1988 over 500 indigenous women have âgone missingâ across Canada. Victims of racism, victims of …