Category: Social Movements
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Talking About Dissent in Turkey? Hush, Hush!
With the successes of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi or AKP) in three consecutive general elections in Turkey (getting 34% of the total votes in 2002, … Keep reading »
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Uniting Struggles: Critical Social Research In Critical Times
Ottawa — 2 December 2011. Presentations by: Randall Germain: Power, the State and Global Politics After the Great Freeze: Towards a New Articulation? Priscillia Lefebvre: The Ottawa and Gatineau Museum … Watch video »
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Toronto Emergency Public Warning
Toronto — 8 December 2011. This is a message from the Emergency Public Warning System. This is not a test. Open class war will break out in Toronto in early … Watch video »
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#OccupyTTC
Toronto — 5 December 2011. View short 3-minute version. A group of people from OccupyToronto paid their fare and rode the subway cars of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). They … Watch video »
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Audacity, More Audacity
The historical circumstances created by the implosion of contemporary capitalism requires the radical left, in the North as well as the South, to be bold in formulating its political alternative … Keep reading »
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Resistance Takes Root in Barcelona
The Catalans have a phrase: em planto. It has a double meaning: ‘I plant,’ or ‘I’ve had enough.’ At end of the huge 15 October demonstration of Indignados (‘outraged’) in … Keep reading »
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Resisting Expropriation of the Occupy Movement
The occupy movement is currently being forcefully dismantled by police across North America and Europe. The pretext for these police interventions are health and safety concerns, but the reality is … Keep reading »
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You Can’t Evict a Revolution
At 1 a.m. the New York Police Department (NYPD) began clearing Liberty Plaza of the hundreds of occupiers who camp there every night. People were told to leave with their … Keep reading »
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Afghanistan: Ten Years of War and Resistance
Toronto — 14 October 2011. Opening meeting of the Canadian Peace Alliance convention. Featuring: Judith Leblanc: Leading U.S. anti-war activist; field director of Peace Action, the largest grassroots anti-war network … Watch video »
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Occupy Actions: From Wall Street to a Campus Near You?
The Occupy Wall Street movement and the mobilizations of the ‘indignant’ in Europe have sparked solidarity actions in many places around the world. October 15, 2011 was a massive day … Keep reading »
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Occupy Wall Street, the Trade Union Movement and the Fight to Stop the Cuts and Concessions
Tens of thousands – if not hundreds of thousands – of people have taken to the streets over the past four weeks across the United States as part of an … Keep reading »
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Occupy Wall Street not Palestine!
We are part of the world’s 99% yearning for freedom, justice and equal rights! If a people one day wills to live fate must answer its call And the night … Keep reading »