By MICHAEL PLATT - July 21, 2008

When you're a white-supremacist group struggling to bolster your foothold in a multicultural city, there's nothing like free cash to pique the interest of those looking to relocate their jackboots...To the disgust of those who don't subscribe to racial purity, Calgary's Aryan Guard is offering to cover the damage deposit of any white supremacist who will move to the city and join their cause.

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS; July 17, 2008 - Counterpunch

What the “watch list” or “no-fly list” is doing is training Americans to submit to warrantless searches, to abandon their constitutional rights, and to submit to humiliation by thugs and bullies. A Gestapo is being trained to have no qualms about searching and intimidating fellow citizens, using any excuse to delay or arrest them. Americans are being taught to use arbitrary power and to submit to arbitrary power.

By KEVIN ALEXANDER GRAY - July 11, 2008

Just as Bill Clinton during his 1992 campaign tried to reassure whites that he wasn't too cozy with blacks by denouncing a rapper, Obama [is] appealing to whites by condemning his own...Obama’s "bash the black man" game...passes on one of the lowest of all the smears and stereotypes: the lie that black men have no morals. It reinforces the white supremacists’ notion of blacks as irresponsible, overly sexual beasts; a notion that far too many black folk as well as white unwittingly buy into.

by John Pilger - 25 June 2008

In [this] latest column...John Pilger describes another Britain: "a vicious, sectarian and mostly unreported war" against Muslims. People snatched from their homes following 9/11 are consigned to a Kafkaesque oblivion, and worse.

By PATRICK COCKBURN - July 5/6, 2008

Iraq will be plunged into a new war if Israel or the US launches an attack on Iran, Iraqi leaders have warned. Iranian retaliation would take place in Iraq...The Iraqi government may be militarily dependent on the 140,000 US troops in the country, but its Shia and Kurdish leaders have long been allied to Iran.

STOP THE HATE! - Anti-Skinhead Rally

Monday, June 30, 2008
9:00am - 8:00pm
Vancouver City Jail
Main & Cordova
Contact Info Phone: 778-836-0442
Email: peterlotion@hotmail.com

By Dave Zirin - June, 28 2008

[Don Imus] is the man run out of CBS radio and MSNBC last year for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy headed hos." This is the man who said that respected African-American journalist Gwen Ifill looked like "the cleaning lady." This is the man whose sidekicks routinely indulge in aggressive anti-Arab racism that elicits chills instead of giggles.

TORONTO -- Canadian security officials kept a close watch on aboriginal rights protests across the country last summer, fearing violence and disruption, according to newly declassified government documents.

Intelligence reports obtained by National Post reveal for the first time how the Canadian government tracked "ongoing and planned protests" by First Nations and their supporters from British Columbia to the Maritimes.

By JORDAN FLAHERTY - June 10, 2008

At the heart of Louisiana’s prison system sits the Louisiana State Prison at Angola, a former slave plantation where little has changed in the last several hundred years...Recent congressional attention has again brought Angola into the media limelight. The focus this time is on the prison’s practice of keeping some inmates in solitary confinement for decades, especially two of Angola’s most well-known residents – Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox. Woodfox and Wallace are the remaining members of the Angola Three, political activists widely seen as having been interned in solitary confinement as punishment for their political activism.

Elise Stolte, Canwest News Service

EDMONTON - Some abuse of foreigners working temporarily in Alberta is unavoidable because of conditions in their home countries, Alberta's minister of Employment and Immigration suggested Wednesday.

Hector Goudreau was reacting to news that as many as 120 Chinese workers were paid a fraction of what they were owed for work building tanks at a northern Alberta oilsands site.

By Macdonald Stainsby

The giant corporations that are determined to exploit the Alberta tar sands face a major problem — a serious shortage of local labour to do the actual work. So the Canadian and Albertan governments have a plan, ideal in their eyes, to solve the crunch.

By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10 - May 28, 2008

Last month's attack by a Jewish mob on Arab youths got ample press, but shouldn't be considered an isolated incident.

The Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace, and Social Movements
announces a two day public forum. It's goals are to improve and build relationships between those who are opposed to the sexual
exploitation of women during and after the Olympics; provide an analysis of
trafficking and sex tourism that considers migration , displacement, labour

- mark your calender and please forward -

2nd Annual Women's Housing March

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Saturday, June 14 @ 2:00 pm
Starts outside Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
(302 Columbia - corner of Cordova, just west of Main)
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By A. Tolbert, III

Did you know that in the 1920s, there were 24,000 Blacks living in Germany? Here’s how it happened, and how many of them were eventually caught unawares by the events of the Holocaust.