The Anti-69 Forum, to be held next weekend in Ottawa (March 23-24), will provide a forum for activists, academics, and community members to critically examine the mythologies surrounding the 1969 Criminal Code reform. As explained by the organizers, “We are Anti-69 because the federal government has planned and funded several efforts …
In his unproven statement of claim, Timothy (Mitch) Nome, 44, who is serving an indeterminate sentence for punching a guard in 2005, makes several allegations against correctional officers he says warrant compensation of more than $1.4 million â half in punitive damages. Read the rest of this post on the …
The globalization of production and its shift to low-wage countries is the most significant and dynamic transformation of the neoliberal era. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
Kevin âRashidâ Johnson is a founding member of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter, and the NABPP-PC’s Minister of Defense. He is also a renowned artist, and author of two books published by Kersplebedeb, Defying the Tomb and Panther Vision. He has been in prison for almost thirty years, …
(mirrored from Marx & Philosophy Review of Books) Sakai has always been provocative. His work, when it is not relegated to obscurity, is treated as either sacrosanct or heretical, and so it is very difficult to review his most recent book without capitulating to this binary. Moreover, his work is a …
We are entering a dramatic period in history. Capitalism is in decline. The collapse of the system will be characterized by intense and sometimes chaotic economic and political fluctuations. The next economic crisis might be triggered by Brexit, Italy’s economic crises, or a trade war between the US and China. …
It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago MartĂnez presented himself before the army commander stationed in the frontier Colombian town of QuibdĂł for service in the republican army. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the …
Format: boxed boardgame Publisher: Out of Order Games Year: 2018 Price: $70.00 (USD) Please note that price includes shipping within Canada and the United States. Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game is a semi-cooperative tabletop game inspired by 21st century protest movements, riots and popular uprisings. Each player controls a faction …
Jalil Muntaqim, a former Black Panther who has been in prison for 47 years, has been told he must spend at least another 15 months behind bars having been denied release for the ninth time by a New York state parole board. Read the rest of this article, from The …
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