Category: Anti-Racism
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Boycotting Apartheid
Ontario’s 50 Year Long Attack on the Campaign for Palestinian Rights On December 1st, 2016, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario officially condemned the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign to end … Keep reading »
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Palestinian Solidarity Struggles
The state of Israel was just served notice by Black Lives Matter (BLM) in a big way. The human rights movement pummeled Israel for its decades long oppression of the … Watch video »
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Crackdown on BDS: Criminalization of Dissent?
Toronto — 26 April 2016. On February 18, 2016 Canadian parliament passed a motion condemning “any and all attempts by Canadian organizations, groups or individuals to promote the BDS [Boycott … Watch video »
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Movement Intersections Across Palestinian, Indigenous, and Black Struggles Toronto — 8 March 2016. First launched in Toronto in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events … Watch video »
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Launching the Socialist Register 2016: The Politics of the Right
It is becoming increasingly clear that we are at one of those historical moments that compel socialists to undertake a serious calibration of the political forces amassing on the right. … Watch video »
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Palestinian Popular Resistance: Building (BDS)/ Student Movement
Toronto — 12 January 2016. A new generation of Palestinians is marching on the footsteps of previous generations, rising up against Israel’s brutal, decades-old system of occupation, settler colonialism and … Watch video »
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The Militarization of Policing
Defending the Movements, Challenging the Police Lesley J. Wood Interviewed by Greg Albo After the killing of Michael Brown in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri in the late summer of 2014, protests … Keep reading »
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Building Power in Our Communities
The Fight for Racial and Economic Justice Kali Akuno is a founder of Cooperation Jackson and a key member of the late Chokwe Lumumba‘s successful election campaign for the mayoralty of … Watch video »
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Police Carding Regulations Amount to Putting Lipstick on a Pig
The Network for the Elimination of Police Violence (NEPV) rejects the call from the Government of Ontario to retain carding by regulating the practice. Carding is a street harassment practice … Keep reading »
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A New Union Movement and Anti-Racism
Interview with Michael Yates Michael Yates is an economist, labour educator and activist, editor of the magazine Monthly Review, and author of Why Unions Matter among many books. He blogs at … Keep reading »
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EU’s Military Strategy to Deepen Mediterranean Tragedies
More than 800 migrants died on April 19 this year when their overcrowded boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast. The tragedy sent soaring this year’s Mediterranean … Keep reading »
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South Africa’s Xenophobia of a Special Type
Historical and Global Perspectives In the past weeks a few South Africans – possibly inspired by an artificially resuscitated Zulu ‘king’ who mused that it might be a good idea for … Keep reading »