In a July 7, press conference in Dili, Luta Hamutuk a prominent civil society activist group in Timor Leste condemned the new Australian policy on

By Garson Hunter - July 6, 2010

Unconventionally, I wish to state some of the conclusions of my essay at the beginning: the social democratic left is wrong in their belief that the police allowed the Bloc to vandalize property therefore permitting the state to justify its $1 billion in security expenditures...Rather, my conclusion is that the events are as they appear and there is no need for any conspiracy theories about the actions of the police or the state security apparatus.

<p>On July 3rd at 5pm about 70 People gathered at Lafayette Square Park in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana for a protest....

By Hillary Bain Lindsay - July 5, 2010

As the tear gas clears over Toronto and the corporate media's frenzy over broken windows subsides, little has changed for First Nations people...Canada still has not signed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People; 584 Aboriginal women are still missing and murdered; and many of us still live on unceded First Nations territory—and are exploiting it...On the other hand, Indigenous resistance is growing in Canada; so too are solidarity movements.

Reposted from Counterpunch.org.

This week, my mind is with the sixteen Canadians who will be transported between their maximum security jail cells and the court to determine whether they will be held in prison until trial or released on extremely restrictive bail conditions.