By Dave Zirin - March 10, 2010

There are the dispossessions as thousands have been forced from their homes into makeshift shantytowns, to both make way for stadiums and make sure that tourists don't have to see any depressing scenes of poverty. The United Nations even issued a complaint on behalf of the 20,000 people removed from the Joe Slovo settlement in Cape Town, called an "eyesore" by World Cup organizers.

By Carlito Pablo - March 8, 2010

The activist group No One Is Illegal-Vancouver is preparing to confront what it says is a neo-Nazi rally being planned for March 21, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...“It seems like the voices that may have been quieter before are now feeling like...they can come out and really publicly say things that we would consider completely atrocious and despicable...”

By Gideon Levy - 07/03/2010

There have been societies in the past in whose name frightful injustice has been committed, but at least within some of them, genuine, angry and determined left-wing protest took place - of the sort that requires personal risk and courage, and which is not limited to action within the cozy consensus. An occupying society whose town square has been empty for years, with the exception of hollow memorial rallies and poorly attended protests, cannot wash its hands of the situation.

By Peter Kulchyski - March 1st 2010

Colonialism continues to ravage First Nations, Inuit, and Metis lands from real estate, logging, and hydro developments in the west coast, to the tar sands developments in Miskew Cree and Chipweyan territories...But perhaps nothing is as inspiring as seeing and hearing people from...these communities — and more — gathered together to tell their stories and try to find ways of supporting each other.

"Mr Boncore had reasonable grounds to attempt to do what he said to the police he wanted to do," Davison told provincial court Judge Manfred Delong, "and that was to carry out a citizen's arrest of George W Bush," the lawyer said.

While the anti-Olympics convergence and the militant actions in Vancouver have been celebrated as successes by local anarchist organizers and their comrades around the world, two anarchists from Ontario's 'Common Cause' have joined the corporate media, police, and IOC in publicly condemning the black bloc.

By Anna Macchi - 03 March 2010

"South Africa is the historical place where...the word comes from, from the Afrikaans language, but now...'apartheid' is a crime that any state can commit...It has an international definition that we can find in the international convention for the suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid...[W]hen we look at the history of the Zionist movement and the process of establishing and maintaining the Israeli state, it's clear that Israel committed the crime of apartheid."

-- Hazem Jamjoum of the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights discussing the Israeli Apartheid system.

Jamie Scott, 38, is suffering from kidney failure. She has received no indication that a kidney transplant is being considered as an option, though her sister is a willing donor. At the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF) in Pearl, where Jamie and her sister Gladys are incarcerated, medical services are provided by a private contractor called Wexford, which has been the subject of lawsuits and legislative investigations in several states over inadequate treatment of the inmates in its care.

March 5, 2010

The Olympics are over but the struggle continues! Vancouver's political community is still being targeted by the police with substantial surveillance and intimidation, unlawful arrests and detentions, unnecessary violence, police provocateurs, and unjust charges requiring legal defence. Nearly 10 people in your community face legal battles and need your support.

As a U.S. soldier in 1969, Mike Wong refused orders to Viet Nam and deserted to Canada. Mike is featured in the film Sir! No Sir! In today's wars, Eddie Falcon served as a U.S. Airman in Guantanamo Bay and various places in the Middle East including Iraq and Afghanistan. Mike Wong is a member of Veterans for Peace and Eddie Falcon is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

By Alex Hundert - Tuesday, March 02 2010

When the march reached the police line outside of BC Place [during the Feb. 12th "Take Back Our City" march], the cops started pushing and shoving the front line. Indigenous women called for the Black Bloc to move to the front to hold the line. When the elders amongst that leadership group decided that the crush from the police was too much, the Black Bloc made space for them to move to the back of the crowd.

By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN - March 3, 2010

Public outrage at the Gaza invasion did not come out of the blue but rather marked the nadir of a curve plotting a steady decline in support for Israel. As polling data of Americans and Europeans...suggest, the public has become increasingly critical of Israeli policy over the past decade. The horrific images of death and destruction broadcast around the world during and after the invasion accelerated this development.

Infoshop News - Tuesday, March 02 2010

At this very moment, the federal Conservative Party, their various corporate partners, and their provincial proxy-parties are pushing hard for a major expansion of the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC)...[T]his issue is about more than privatization. It’s about an ideology of “Law and Order” driven by fear, racism, and moral panic. It’s about the extent to which the logic of prison is being extended into society generally, through increased surveillance and heavier-handed policing in the name of “public safety.”

By UDI ALONI and OFER NEIMAN - March 2, 2010

The Israeli establishment, which is used to regard[ing] Israelis as obedient soldiers and Palestinians as quelled subjects, understands that there [is] no greater danger to its regime than the emerging bi-nationalist front. If there is no separation between Jews and Arabs, how can they go on controlling us by creating fear and hatred toward the 'other'?

Guests, Ray Boudreaux and Richard Brown, former Panthers and defendants in the case of the San Francisco 8. Three days after the airing of this episode, on July 6, the case was dismissed against Ray, Richard, Harold, and Hank. Charges still remain against Cisco Torres.