Contributed by blackandred on Wed, 2010/07/28 - 8:26pm. By CrimethInc. - Wednesday, July 28 2010
Looking back over the past decade, it appears that North American law enforcement agencies are increasingly utilizing conspiracy charges to target anarchists and others involved in radical communities. We’ve composed this review of recent conspiracy cases in hopes of analyzing this phenomenon. If conspiracy charges are becoming central to the state's strategy against anarchists, it is imperative that we develop a strategy of our own to respond and seize the initiative rather than simply reacting over and over to individual cases.
Greenpeace activists locked themselves to door of Enbridge's head office in Vancouver Wednesday morning in an act of resistance against a pipeline rupture that has released at least three million liters of oil into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.
Contributed by macho on Wed, 2010/07/28 - 4:51pm. It's been interesting to watch the discourse around the Afghan War Diary in the Canadian corporate press, and to see what they're talking about, and what they're not...On Sunday, Wikileaks released 91,731 documents about the war in Afghanistan. This is the biggest leak in US history. It'll take some time for analysts to comb through it all, but some reporting trends are already emerging.
Section of pipeline could carry tar sands bitumen through Trailbreaker Pipeline reversal project
MONTREAL - On Tuesday July 27, 2010, a section of pipeline owned by Calgary based pipeline giant Enbridge, ruptured l
Anti-fascists confront homophobes at London, Ont. Pride parade
London, Ont.
By Joseph Jones - July 27, 2010
On 19 July 2010, three days after 28-year-old Loni Edmonds gave birth to her son Andre, a provincial ministry team came into her hospital room to forcibly separate her from her own newborn child. The "team" included a lot of enforcement: two RCMP officers, two hospital security staff, and one medical doctor. Supportive relatives of the parents pleaded with authorities, but they could not stop the snatch.
By Justin Saunders - July 27, 2010
One of the three G20 arrestees remaining in custody has been released from a courtroom in North Toronto tonight, after more than a month in prison...Amanda Hiscocks, a community organizer in Guelph, is among 17 people facing conspiracy charges stemming from the police crackdown on G20 dissent.
Contributed by blackandred on Tue, 2010/07/27 - 2:32pm. July 27, 2010 - rabble.ca
It may come as a surprise to some, but activist organizers who were arrested during the G20 Summit demonstrations in Toronto are still being held in custody -- for over a month -- while others are finally starting to trickle out of jail...G20 community organizers Leah Henderson and Alex Hundert were released on bail on July 19, 2010. They learned yesterday that the Crown is appealing their release.
Contributed by Anonymous on Mon, 2010/07/26 - 9:25pm.
By Jesse Rosenfeld - July 22, 2010
...[T]hose who joined the independently organized Alternative Media Centre -- a collective of independent, freelance, and critical journalists who committed to sharing resources and working together to capture the story from the front-lines -- were systematically targeted. More than 10 AMC journalists, all with visible and clearly labeled press passes, were picked off the streets, beaten, and jailed while reporting.
Contributed by blackandred on Mon, 2010/07/26 - 5:50pm. By Rick Salutin - July 23, 2010
Since the Second World War, the U.S. economy has been built around what you might call the fear sector: its military-industrial complex, its crime-prison complex and its homeland-terror complex. We're now seeing the first attempt by a Canadian government to follow this model.
Creative responses to G20/Mehserle verdict videos
One minute and eight seconds outside Jules Bistro
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