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Syndicated from CCPA on Wed, 2010-06-02 New analysis by CCPA Research Associate Sheila Block shows Ontarians from racialized backgrounds are far more likely to live in poverty, face barriers to finding a job, and receive less pay for work. Sexism and racial discrimination pack a double wallop, hampering racialized women’s earning power.
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<p>On June 1, I was sentenced to a 1 month stay in a Federal Prison, starting June 22nd, after being convicted of a 'violation of the terms of my s...
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<p>RIVERSIDE, California - In the latest anti-fascist action to occur in this conservative inland city , a small group of anti-fascists planned to ...
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Hear from Greg Robinson, participant in May Day 2010 brigade to Venezuela, discuss the radical changes taking place in Venezuela. Greg is a member of the Teachers' Federation and the Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network. Illawarra Activist Centre, 17/157 Crown Street Wollongong (above hideaway cafe).
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Protest Israel's murderous attack on the Freedom Flotilla
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By Tom Sandborn - 1 June 2010
"You're good enough to work here for a while, but now go home"...The latest batch of more than 175,000 foreign temporary workers in Canada can expect to hear that message. It's the deal. We get workers we need to make our economy function better. They get pay and a limited taste of life in a nation regularly voted one of the world's best places to live...The Harper government appears to consider it a problem that too many guest workers wish to stay.
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<p>Saturday, May 29th, there was a demo in Lisbon called by the CGPT (the main confederation of trade unions) against the government and the auster...
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On Tuesday, Minnesotans entered Senator Amy Klobuchar's office to demand a political response to both the killings on the flotilla and the inhumane...
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Protesters filmed at Alberta upgrader hearing
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 |
CBC News
(CBC)Private landowners who protested outside a public hearing into an bitumen upgrader northeast of Edmonton Tuesday were filmed by security guards hired by the project proponent, French energy giant Total S.A., CBC News has learned.
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Tampa Bay Action Group Announces Opposition to the 2012 RNC in Tampa Bay Florida, Reclaims Tea Party's Anti-Imperialist Legacy of Property Destruct...
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by Adam Federman
Just outside of the town of Hancock, New York, on a
narrow
dirt road that follows the east branch of the Delaware River, you can
find a
harmless looking wooden stake that demarcates the future site of a
natural gas
well.
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GENEVA — A UN human rights expert on Wednesday urged the United
States to sideline the CIA from targeted killings using drones, warning
that the practice amounted to "a license to kill without
accountability".
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by Jim Lobe
Amid nearly universal condemnation of Monday's pre-dawn Israeli assault in international waters on a flotilla carrying humanitarian and reconstruction aid bound for Gaza, the administration of President Barack Obama has steadfastly avoided assigning blame...[H]owever, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu complained about Washington's passivity in the face of what he called the psychological equivalent of "9/11 for Turkey", adding, "I am not very happy with the statements from the United States yesterday."
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by Felicity Carus
A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from
hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of » Read more | 183 reads « -
The [US] Materials Management Service report claims that the ecological consequences of an oil spill could be ignored because such an event was "unlikely," and besides, "no additional mitigation measures" would be needed in the event of a spill.* We now know that this was a horrendous mistake.
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