By WAJAHAT ALI - January 5, 2009

I tell my friends that any time I’m depressed or lonely, I decide to go to the airport where instantly I’m lavished with meticulous attention and treated like a Hollywood celebrity. Rarely, have I and other ethnic undesirables been afforded such a loving reception. What’s not to love about the multiple (TSA) agents who “randomly” select you for special inspection? Or their curious, unbridled interest in asking you which mosques you frequent? Their desire to express their hospitality and love is so uncontainable that you’re treated to several physical pat-downs covering every inch of your body.

In a not unsurprising move, British Columbia's Criminal Justice (sic) Branch has announced that the four RCMPigs who killed Robert Dziekanski, a distraught and confused Polish immigrant who arrived at Vancouver Airport on October 14, 2007, will not be charged. Tasering Dziekanski five times was considered "reasonable and necessary". Adding insult to injury, the RCMP concluded that Dziekanski didn't die because he was tasered five times in the presence of 4 big cops, but "because he drank too much and had a fear of flying."

By Rafe Mair - The Tyee.ca

There is a big plus for Autocrat Campbell and his toadies. All along the highway [to Whistler] there are new developments built by Liberal supporters. As Kevin Costner's character was told in Field of Dreams, "Build it and they will come"...This is all about "showcasing" (a dreadful word dreamt up by ad men) Vancouver and Whistler...I say, "dream on." Vancouver in February is not all that showcase-able and Whistler is already well enough known to wealthy offshore skiers.

SchNEWS - Friday 12th December 2008 | Issue 659

Police arrested one man after he attempted to board a train at King’s Cross Station. Police have taken to converging on London, [England] station platforms in the hope of catching fare dodgers...This particular traveller...actually had a ticket, however the ticket inspector said it wasn’t valid till after 6pm. A few heated words ensued. As this was happening five plain clothes police pounced on the ne’er do well, thinking he was one of those pesky fare dodgers, and manhandled him.

KITCHENER-WATERLOO — Today has been declared a day to raise awareness about the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), and to take action against the corporations and government ministries responsible for implementation of the continental integration agreement. Protests and demonstrations will be taking place in Toronto, Hamilton, Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo, Stratford and London.

By ALLISON KILKENNY - October 24-26, 2008

Her name is Helen, a Muslim woman in her mid-twenties. She's scared to talk to me even though I've told her that I will change her name for my article so the authorities will have no idea who she is..."I'm an easy target for this kind of thing," she says, gesturing to the hijab secured around her head.

Rail Blockade Disrupts CP Rail’s Olympic Spirit Train

“Six Nations and solidarity activists resist Olympic theft of Indigenous land, ecological destruction, and attacks on the poor”.

About 50 people showed up to protest the "Canada Pacific Spirit Train" event Sunday in the Vancouver suburb of Port Moody. Taking a position in front of the main stage, the group carried signs and placards, and a large banner that read "Resist 2010: No Olympics on Stolen Native Land."

SHOW YOUR OLYMPIC SPIRIT!

DISRUPT THE CANADIAN PACIFIC OLYMPIC SPIRIT TRAIN!!

How is it possible that with so much discussion around climate change we continue to have carbon dioxide spewing celebrations endorsed by our local, provincial and federal governments? The time has come to reconsider having the Snowbirds fly at Canadian airshows and other community celebrations.

Sunday September 14 - Tour de Fun

Le samedi 16 août, un grand Reclaim the streets aura lieu à Anvers dans le cadre de la première édition du KlimaatAxieKamp (camp d'action pour le climat). Par cette action directe et ludique, nous voulons montrer notre mécontentement face aux choix obtus dans le dossier du Lange Wapper, un projet controversé qui prévoit la construction d'un viaduc au-dessus de la ville d'Anvers.

NEW YORK - A New York City police officer has been stripped of his badge and gun after a video posted on YouTube showed him body-checking a[n apparently random] bicyclist who was part of a Times Square demonstration.

By Peter Gelderloos - July 23, 2008

When the bus drivers of Barcelona took to the picket lines under the red and black flag, not seventy years ago but just these past months, it was an occasion for excitement and an opportunity to learn about the relevance of radical syndicalism in a post-industrial world. Catalunya has a culture and history that make it a likely spot for a major anarcho-syndicalist transportation strike, but on the other hand we should not romanticize it so much to imagine it as much different from the rest of the hyper-consumerist, alienated Global North.

By Jerry White

Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Program, said, “America’s new million record watch list is a perfect symbol for what’s wrong with this administration’s approach to security: it’s unfair, out-of-control, a waste of resources, treats the rights of the innocent as an afterthought, and is a very real impediment in the lives of millions of travelers in this country. It must be fixed without delay.