Category: Anti-Racism
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Past and Present: Malcolm X in Ferguson
Protests, riots and police violence in Ferguson (a suburb of St. Louis), Missouri, last August have laid bare “America’s racial rift” says The Guardian Weekly.[1] Mainstream opinion-makers have tended to … Keep reading »
All Out for Gaza
Toronto — 10 August 2014. Stop the assault. End the siege. Boycott Israel. Israel’s criminal war on Gaza has killed over 1,600 people in just three weeks, and shows no … Watch video »
Africa And Globalization
Economists continue to celebrate the free movement of goods, services, and capital. However, faced with slowing economic conditions in core countries, it is now third world growth that is highlighted … Keep reading »
Tenth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week
Building the Global BDS movement: Lessons from South Africa, Palestine and Canada. With special guest Yusuf Saloojee, the former South African ANC representative in Canada. Recorded in Toronto, part of the Tenth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week, 4 March 2014. Watch video »
Organizing Against Multiple Oppression in Our Time
How does class exploitation intersect with racism and hetero-patriarchy to sustain and reproduce capitalist rule? Are forms of oppression predicated upon race or gender necessary to capitalist social relations? How … Watch video »
The Academic Boycott of Israel Demands Freedom for All
Monday March 3rd marked the start of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) 2014 on campuses across Canada. 2014 is an especially important year for IAW in Canada because it is an opportunity … Keep reading »
Global Labour Migration
Toronto — 7 December 2013. A meeting, designed as a dialogue, to build greater solidarity between the labour and migrant justice movements in their shared struggle against workers’ exploitation by … Watch video »
Greek Lessons From Below
Learning from the Refugees and Questions for the Left Axmed, a Somalian refugee, has been stuck in Athens for over six years. This is common for most of his friends, as … Keep reading »
My Response to Three MPs’ Statements on CUPW
Federal Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Mark Adler has said in a statement that a CUPW (Canadian Union of Postal Workers) newsletter was “radical” propaganda. He was supported by two … Keep reading »
Canada and the Palestine Question
Toronto — 7 February 2013. Dan Freeman-Maloy speaking at York University, February 7 2013. The talk situates Canadian policy within the context of Anglo-American imperialism on Palestine, reviews some of … Watch video »
Taking Liberties: Canada’s Growing Torture Infrastructure
The ease with which self-described democratic states embroil themselves in torture continues to be illustrated by the manner in which agencies of the Canadian state, from spies to judges, have … Keep reading »
The Torture of Mumia Abu-Jamal Continues off Death Row
Supporters Demand Transfer to General Population On December 7, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to consider the Philadelphia District Attorney’s final avenue of appeal, current DA Seth Williams announced … Keep reading »