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<p>In events like the G20 protests and clampdown there emerge real opportunities for recognition and understanding that are not always so readily a...
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<p>Black Cat Publishers has just finished publishing a book I wrote called "Yardbird Blues; 25 Years of a Wobbly in the Maritime Industry"...
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By Jeff Shantz - 07/12/2010
One of the interesting revelations of the G20 fallout is the extent to which many in the social movements or “the Left” are ruled by the morals, values and prejudices of the dominant classes. This has been expressed in the numerous calls for repression of the black bloc by would-be figure heads of the comfortable Left in Canada...For some the rule of law should have held against the black bloc. Others turn to the rule of law as a statist security blanket providing the basis for...their “peaceful protests,” which the black bloc supposedly infringed upon.
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<p>Six months ago a devastating earthquake killed more than 230,000 Haitians. About 100,000 homes were completely destroyed, alongside 1,000 school...
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During last week’s G20 summit, police arrested or detained over a thousand people. With guns drawn, they kicked people awake, they threatened, pepper sprayed, TASERed, tear gassed and beat those in the streets. Although the politicians declared the policing at the summit a success, popular anger at the police is at an all time high.
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by Les Blumenthal
WASHINGTON - They may not be the 500-pound
"Frankenfish" that some researchers were talking about 10 years ago, but
a Massachusetts company says it's on the verge of receiving federal
approval to market
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by Randy Boswell
Arctic Ocean sea ice melted faster last month than it has in any previous June since satellite measurements began 30 years ago, continuing a pattern that could see a new record retreat by summer's end, according to North America's main
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Fourteen million dollars will be invested in social housing in Nova Scotia, according to an announcement last month by the federal and provincial governments. Due to deteriorating housing in Halifax, the majority of those funds will go towards repairs, maintenance and upgrades of existing units instead of the creation of new units. Only $3 million will be used to build 18 new units.
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by Lynne O'Donnell
KABUL - This year has been the most violent since the Afghan war began in 2001 and civilian deaths have risen slightly with the increased insecurity, a local rights group said Monday.
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<p>Audio interviews from the <a href="http://www.ussf2010.org/">U.S Social Forum</a> that took place in Detroit from June 22nd to June 26th, 2010.</p>
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by Michael Beckel
Halliburton, the company once headed by former
Republican Vice President Dick Cheney contributed $15,500 to federal
candidates during June, according to a Center for
Responsive Politics revie
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 New technologies, feed-in tariffs, and tax credits are helping propel the small wind industry, especially in the United States.
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 -Project yourself into the future
-From despair to impassioned inspiration
-Getting Theah from Heah on the Great and Glorious Fourth
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by Krissah Thompson
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, the "tea party" movement
must be honored.
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by Lucia Graves
Despite a clear public record to the contrary, BP is continuing its
public relations effort to define the blowout that has been spewing oil
into the Gulf for nearly three months as an isolated departure from a
record of safe and sound practices.
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