Egypt: Recalling 1968
Al-Ahram. by Amina Elbendary. May 2008.
Photo: Cairo streets…
What connections can be drawn between the waves of student and popular protest that swept the world in 1968? Amina Elbendary asks Hossam Issa, an Egyptian student in Paris in May 1968…
May 1968 was an exceptional moment in world history, but like moments of protest before and since [...]
Palestine: Development or Normalisation?
A critique of West Bank development approaches and projects…
Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, May 20th, 2008.
Lebanon: Doha Deal | Sectarianism
Broadcasts from Beirut VI: Nada Bakri reporter with the New York Times.
Photo: Beirut from above.
A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…
An interview with Nada Bakri, a correspondent for the New York Times in Lebanon, who comments on the [...]
Lebanon: Qatar Negotiations | U.S. on Hezbollah
Broadcasts from Beirut IV: An interview with journalist Anthony Shadid.
Photo: Lebanese soldiers patrol Beirut.
A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…
“People’s War” Turns to People’s Vote
Maoist return to the democratic process
Lebanon: Currents of Conflict
An interview with Bilal Elamine in Beirut, Lebanon.
Photo: Al-Akbar, youth protests in Beirut.
Conflict in Lebanon has spread in the past week beyond Beirut, to mountain areas above the capital city, to Tripoli in Northern Lebanon. Throughout Lebanon a tense political stand-off remains between the U.S.-backed government lead-by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and a political opposition [...]
Sixty Years of Nakba: Sixty Years of Resistance!
May Actions Against Israeli Apartheid in Montreal.
Join in Actions & Events taking place in Montreal throughout the month of
May 2008, which marks sixty years of struggle against Israeli apartheid.
Censorship at Montreal-area College
Administration cancels workshop critical of Canadian support for Israel…
Call for Solidarity: Montreal, 21 April 2008
Shifting towards Israel?
Toronto Star, by Oakland Ross. March 17th, 2008.
Photo: Israeli military near the Gaza Strip.
JERUSALEM: A United Nations panel voted overwhelmingly this month to condemn Israel for a recent armed incursion in the Gaza Strip that claimed more than 120 lives, many of them civilian.
Thirty-three member countries of the 47-seat UN Human Rights Council endorsed the [...]
Reporting on the Ghost of Sankara
Interview with Journalist Jooneed Khan
Honk Kong pirate radio station gets OK from High Court
The Hong Kong government's attempt to shut down pirate radio broadcaster Citizen's Radio was scuttled in a recent decision of the Hong Kong High Court. In the decision, the Court stated that it did not see how the station's broadcasting could jeopardize public safety.
Palestine: Down goes the wall
Laila El-Haddad, Live from Palestine, 25 January 2008
Photo: Palestinian children play on top of the bombed metal fence that used to
separate the Gaza Strip and Egypt at Rafah. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
Demonstration: End the Israeli siege on Gaza!
bring banners, signs, placards, noise-makers…
FRIDAY, JANUARY 25th, 2pm
corner of Maisonneuve & Mackay
ends at Square Phillips
(metro Guy-Concordia)
Montreal, Quebec
Echoes of Revolution: Burkina Faso's Thomas Sankara
Part I: Interview with Aziz Fall