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By Jay Cables, on May 14, 2013, at 12:55 pm
In the weeks following the Boston bombing, an icon of the black liberation struggle in the U.S., Assata Shakur, has turned up on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. The timing is far from coincidental. It’s the first time a woman has been placed on the bureau’s terrorist list… in this case a black woman… for many a legendary figure in the fight against American racism and injustice.
Assata Shakur’s inclusion on the FBI list in part stems from the shooting death of a state trooper in 1973, for which she was wrongly convicted. It’s been (Read more…)
By Jay Cables, on May 8, 2013, at 11:52 pm
The faces in this powerful video represent the millions around the world who are united against Israeli apartheid. The faces represent all of us… the eyes, the ears, the collective memory. These performers speak for us even as the US and other powers and agencies seek to give greater legitimacy to a state that hasn’t begun to repay what it owes and that continues its policies of brutal oppression. But the people of the world won’t play their game or look away… until reparations are made… until justice is fully served.
Published on Feb 18, 2013
This (Read more…)
By Obert Madondo, on April 19, 2013, at 5:00 pm By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Canada, we’ve a big problem! “Friends, family and supporters of the four boys allegedly involved in the Rehtaeh Parsons case have taken their voice to the streets of Halifax,” the CBC reports. They’re distributing bright, multi-coloured posters urging the community to “speak the truth” and “stay [...]
The post DISGUSTING: Rehtaeh Parsons case: Posters ask community to “support the boys” appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
By The Arbourist, on March 29, 2013, at 8:15 am Wouldn’t it be nice if this is what Obama actually said? Quotes taken from the Counterpunch article by Uri Avnery
“No nation, great or small, can prosper for long without peace. War is the curse of mankind. It coarsens our spirit, consumes our resources, spreads death and destruction. In our time, with the development of ever more deadly means of mass destruction, war threatens our very existence.
Yet there seems to be among you a curious aversion to peace. Peacemakers are denounced as traitors or enemies. Even I have been termed a “Destroyer of Israel” because of my efforts
. . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: The Speech We Didn’t Hear from Obama in Israel.
By Obert Madondo, on March 3, 2013, at 5:28 am By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive | March 3, 2013: Turns out Bradley Manning tried to leak to New York Times and the Washington Post before WikiLeaks. But he couldn’t breach the thick armor of the America’s mainstream media. Manning made the revelation in a 35-page statement he read to the military court on Thursday. Via the Guardian: Bradley Manning has READ MORE
By thescottross.blogspot.com, on March 1, 2013, at 1:30 am To a calm and rational observer, the statement “viewing child pornography is victimless” is true. To an emotional person prone to sensationalism, for writing that first line, I should be reported to the RCMP.
On Wednesday night Tom Flanagan, a former adviser to Stephen Harper, spoke to a small crowd in Lethbridge, Alberta, where he was recorded making controversial statements regarding child pornography. Much of what he said was completely misunderstood, not helped by the CBC which has inaccurately reported the story.
The unedited video of the event begins with a speaker in the audience asking a series of pointed
. . . → Read More: The Scott Ross: The Defence Of Tom Flanagan
By Obert Madondo, on February 27, 2013, at 12:47 pm By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive | Feb. 27, 2013: Has Prime Minister Stephen Harper finally awakened to the reality that Canada’s appointed Senate is indeed a scandal-ridden ”useless, expensive, undemocratic appendage of government”? That a majority of democracy-loving Canadians don’t really find the unfolding Senatorial soap opera engulfing mostly his appointees that funny? Is he finally admitting the truth: he’s the world’s worst talent scout? Earlier this months READ MORE
By Guest Blog, on February 14, 2013, at 1:22 pm By New Democrats (Press Release) | Feb. 14, 2013: The NDP is standing with aboriginal leaders, civil society, and Human Rights Watch to demand a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada. “A national, open inquiry is the only way to get justice for the women who have been murdered as well as READ MORE
By Obert Madondo, on February 3, 2013, at 6:42 am Video available on YouTube The Canadian Progressive recommends: Human Rights Watch: Challenges for Rights After Arab Spring Canada’s Human Rights Reputation is Fast Becoming a Myth Cornel West Is Upset Obama Was Sworn In On Martin Luther King’s Bible U.S. pressuring Bradley Manning to implicate Julian Assange (VIDEO) The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur On Obama’s READ MORE
By Guest Blog, on February 3, 2013, at 6:21 am The willingness of new governments to respect rights will determine whether those uprisings give birth to genuine democracy or simply spawn authoritarianism in new forms.
By Obert Madondo, on January 23, 2013, at 11:13 pm Dr. Cornel West, America’s most provocative public intellectual, progressive and champion for racial justice, explains why he’s upset that President Barack Obama was sworn in on Martin Luther King’s bible. He questions the first black president’s commitment to the values the slain anti-war civil rights leader stood for, including: peace, truth and justice. “You don’t play with READ MORE
By Guest Blog, on January 22, 2013, at 1:21 am by Amnesty International | Jan 20, 2013: Sudanese teacher and activist Jalila Khamis Koko, who was arrested by the National Security Service in March 2012, was released from detention after a court hearing today. Jalila was acquitted of all charges except those related to “spreading false news”, a vague provision of the criminal code often READ MORE
By Greg Fingas, on January 21, 2013, at 8:49 am This past weekend saw another Saskatchewan NDP leadership debate, this time in Weyburn. But oddly enough (particularly given the presence of some of the most active social media presences in the campaign), Saturday’s debate was the first not to be covered live at the time – meaning that the best sources of discussion for the moment are Jason’s post and Jennifer LaCharite’s story. As per usual, I’ll look at the debate in a bit more detail once the video is available.
Meanwhile, the campaigns were otherwise relatively quiet over the past few days. Ryan Meili did unveil his policy planks
. . . → Read More: Accidental Deliberations: #skndpldr Roundup
By Christine, on January 13, 2013, at 6:51 am
By Joe Fantauzzi, on January 10, 2013, at 3:08 pm By Joe Fantauzzi jjfantauzzi@gmail.com | @jjfantauzzi When a minority federal government facing a confidence vote over a rejected economic update suspended Parliament in 2008, a constitutional expert told CBC News the move had set a “dangerous precedent.”[1]
Several years later, when a minority government in Ontario used the same procedure, known as prorogation, to pull (Read more…) . . . → Read More: Illuminated By Street Lamps: On Prorogation: A Solution To Hand The Power Back To The People
By Obert Madondo, on January 10, 2013, at 2:15 am Via RTAmerica: “On Wednesday, Army Private First Class Bradley Manning was in Fort Meade, MD where his pre-trial hearings continued. Manning’s court-martial was originally scheduled to begin in March, but now justice for PFC Manning will have to wait longer. A military judge has pushed back the start date to June 3, at which point READ MORE
By Stephen Elliott-Buckley, on January 1, 2013, at 12:00 pm December 2012′s Politics, Re-Spun panel on Co-op Radio included Julie McArthur, Alnoor Gova, Imtiaz Popat, Anna Davey, Kevin Harding and Stephen Elliott-Buckley discussing:
International Human Rights Day, experiencing “My Voice, My Right, My Voice Counts” Over-consumption, just consumption, Christmas consumption, sexism, quality of life, consumption as a proxy for enhancing our relationships and happiness. And we enjoyed thematically appropriate music by Dan Mangan and Tim Lawson,
Listen to the podcast here: itpc://dgivista.org/pod/Vista_Podcasts.xml
Or you can listen to the mp3 file here: http://www.dgivista.org/pod/2012.12.10.PRS.CoopRadio.mp3
By Obert Madondo, on December 31, 2012, at 10:42 pm Is hunger striker Chief Theresa Spence, who entered Day 20 of her peaceful protest today, your 2012 newsmaker of the year? Is it the Idle No More movement? The Quebec student movement? Beleaguered Toronto Mayor Rob Ford? Is it Kevin Page, Canada’s fearless gallant Parliamentary Budget Officer, who showed uncommon courage recently when he took the Harper government to court seeking accountability and READ MORE
By Obert Madondo, on December 13, 2012, at 11:01 am The Idle No More grassroots movement has taken Canada by storm. On Monday, it held peaceful protests in major cities across Canada, calling for progressive action on aboriginal and land treaty issues. On Twitter, hashtags associated with the movement, such as #idlenomore and #nativewinter, are gaining in popularity. The movement’s new website (www.idlenomore.ca) carries refreshing READ MORE
By Obert Madondo, on December 11, 2012, at 2:09 pm On June 6, I ended my 85-day hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s New Jim Crow-style crime Bill C-10, the deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”. Two of my demands: the immediate repeal the Safe Streets and Communities Act and a national inquiry for the 600+ missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls. I conveyed these demands to the Governor READ MORE
By Larry Hubich, on December 10, 2012, at 3:38 pm
By Joe Fantauzzi, on December 6, 2012, at 5:49 pm Geneviève Bergeron (1968-1989), civil engineering student
Hélène Colgan (1966-1989), mechanical engineering student
Nathalie Croteau (1966-1989), mechanical engineering student
Barbara Daigneault (1967-1989), mechanical engineering student
Anne-Marie Edward (1968-1989), chemical engineering student
Maud Haviernick (1960-1989), materials engineering student
Maryse Laganière (1964-1989), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique’s finance department
Maryse Leclair (1966-1989), materials engineering student
Anne-Marie Lemay (1967-1989), mechanical engineering student
Sonia Pelletier (1961-1989), mechanical engineering student
Michèle Richard (1968-1989), materials engineering student
Annie St-Arneault (1966-1989), mechanical engineering student
Annie Turcotte (1969-1989), materials engineering student
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (1958-1989), nursing student
The subjugation of women is no man’s birthright.If you don’t “get” (Read more…)
. . . → Read More: Illuminated By Street Lamps: Je Me Souviens/I Remember Dec. 6, 1989
By Joe Fantauzzi, on November 26, 2012, at 8:02 pm
That Justice Charles Hackland found Mayor Rob Ford in violation of the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act and ordered him removed from office bodes well for a more progressive Canada.
[ Read the full text of the decision here. Thanks to Torontoist for posting the document. ] For the past 30 years, neoliberal, neoconservative and most recently, (Read more…) . . . → Read More: Illuminated By Street Lamps: Why The Rob Ford Verdict Is Good For Canada
By Norman Farrell, on October 23, 2012, at 5:12 pm Is Shirley Bond the Attorney General or a new arrival to this province? She sounds like the latter in presenting another BC Liberal plan to address backlogs and improve management of court cases.
After almost 12 years of mismanagement, why would BC Liberals now have ability or willingness to solve chronic failures within the legal system? They failed repeatedly and the only changes imposed made the situation worse.
We could argue that focusing the courts in large cities and tolerating, even encouraging constant delays, serves only the large firms of urban dwelling lawyers. By sheer coincidence, or not, these are
. . . → Read More: Northern Insight: More lipstick please
By Stephen Elliott-Buckley, on September 29, 2012, at 1:00 pm The provincial government has finally relented in its dignity-crushing stance of continuing to allow a developer to pursue building condos on top of a Musqueam burial ground. And while this change of provincial policy does not extend to a solution of land ownership, this is a critical first step to see the provincial government is not blatantly racist. I guess that’s a kind of win for them too. Though, a sad one.
News of this change of heart came out around 4pm today. A Friday. And any Aaron Sorkin devotee knows that’s when the government takes out the trash: releases
. . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: Musqueam Burial Ground Win Makes the Developer Look Brutally Ignorant
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