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Headlines for the week of March 15th, 209

Submitted by ckutheadlines on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 14:49

LOCAL:

Montreal – Thousands participate in Annual Anti-Police Brutality March

Montreal – Mont-Royal MP Irwin Cotler makes public allegations against Iran

McGill University – Green Week highlights needs for ecological sustainability

NATIONAL:

Canada – Over 100 people pool money for Abdelrazik's plane ticket, despite facing up to ten years in jail

Alberta – Fails to publicly disclose environmental violations by oilsands contractors

INTERNATIONAL:

Washington, DC – First Nations activists deliver letter to John Kerry protesting US reliance on oil from Alberta tarsands, coinciding with Jim Prentice's visit

Calgary – Bush welcomed by Calgary Chamber of Congress

France – Highest levels of industrial tensions since start of financial crisis
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Justice for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Montreal

Submitted by Courtney.Kirkby on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 15:03

Talk begins at 6min 50sec into the clip.
Discussion of violence against women begins at 29min.

Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (Panel Discussion)

The aim of this event is to stimulate a broader understanding of and
discussion about the reasons behind racialized violence that continues
to occur both locally here in Montreal and in the rest of Canada. The
general lack of information or proper coverage, as well as an absence
of police investigations of missing and murdered First Nations women
over the last three decades alone will also be explored as a brutal
form of violence in itself, and raised as a cause for concern. The
more long-term aim of the initiative will be to pressure the
government to stop ignoring recommendations by the UN and Amnesty
International, including a request by the UN committee on the
elimination of discrimination against women to "urgently carry out
thorough investigations" to trace how and why the justice system has
failed, and why hundred's of women's cases remain unsolved.

Beverley Jacobs, of the Mohawk Nation Bear Clan in Six Nations Grand
River is an Aboriginal rights lawyer and president of the Native
Women's Association of Canada (NWAC). She has worked with Amnesty
International Canada as a lead researcher and consultant on their
report "Stolen Sisters: Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous
Women in Canada," as has done work on NWAC's "Sisters in Spirit"
campaign. Jacobs was one of many attendees at the Walk4Justice rally
on Parliament Hill in September 2008. The rally was the end of a
90-day walk by First Nations women and men aimed at pressuring the
government and sharing personal experiences as a way of raising
awareness.

Since September, four First Nations women have gone missing locally,
including a fourteen-year old Inuit girl who was abducted from a
schoolyard in Montreal. This event will offer an important opportunity

Headlines for the week of March 9th, 2009

Submitted by ckutheadlines on Wed, 03/11/2009 - 15:39

LOCAL

- Montreal - International Women’s Day: thousands rally calling for a new world order

- Montreal - McGill University plans to purchase hotel where workers have been on strike since August

NATIONAL

- Fort Chipewyan - Former primary care physician for Ft Chipewyan First Nation states link between oil sands and cancer rates

- Canada - Mining in northern Canada is in sharp decline, while government tax break for junior mining companies still stands

- York University hosts landmark conference to discuss Canadian mining industry

- Halifax - Court proceedings continue for four activists protesting free Atlantica trade agreement

- Ecuadorian activists sue the Toronto Stock Exchange

INTERNATIONAL

- Peru - Peru Top Court Bans Some Oil Exploration Work including Canadian company Talisman Inc.

- Gaza - Montreal Engineer enters Gaza after three weeks of trying

- Worldwide - Israeli Apartheid Week took place in cities and on campuses around the world last week

- Iran/US - Six major american news organizations call for release of independent journalist

featuring voices of: Dolores Chew, Dr. John O’Connor, Carlos Zorrilla, Ehab Lotayef, Ronnie Kasrils
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Headlines for the week of March 1st, 2009

Submitted by ckutheadlines on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 15:58

Local news:

Montreal - Casa del Popolo venue rennovating in facing two liquor/concert venue licensing court cases

Mile End - Redevelopment plans for St-Viateur street update: public and private investment interested; grassroots group organizes discussions and rally

National news:

Vancouver - lawyer plans to lay crimminal charges on George Bush upon Calgary visit

Canada / Afghanistan - Prime Minister Harper doubts “success” in Afghanistan, after sending 1,600 additional troops

International news:

US - Internal Bush admin documents reveal major legal errors post 9/11

Washington, DC - Thousands of youth travel to DC demanding action on climate change

Lahore, Pakistan - Attack on Sri Lankan cricket team: Five security officers killed, Seven cricket players injured
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in collaboration with our friends at The Dominion

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Jacobsongs

Submitted by Jakespeare on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 18:38

I am trying to write a screenplay about a Canadian Soldier who meets a Russian Translator of Farsi in Afghanistan and they (what else?) fall in love. Their situation and the people they are immersed in gets pulled apart by events. Here are the lyrics and chords to my composition:

(capo is on the fifth fret)
(Am)Nadezhda… these (G)winter nights are long... so long!
And an (F)ocean lies between our souls and (E)freedom
(Am)Nadezhda… my (G)words just tumble down
Freezing in the ground and (F)you’re so far away
Too far to (E)hear them…

Jacobsongs

Submitted by Jakespeare on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 18:16

Jacobsongs

Submitted by Jakespeare on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 18:12

Interview with Jeff Halper

Submitted by vivian on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 20:37

Dr Jeff Halper, co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and nominee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, spoke to a packed auditorium on January 13. His talk was entitled "Global Gaza."

In his interview with David Olson, Halper discusses Israel's occupation of Palestine and the recent attacks on Gaza.

Left Out In The Cold

Submitted by Praxis Media Pr... on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 14:43

Originally appeared in the December edition of Groundwire
(http://groundwire.ncra.ca/index.cfm/2008/12/9/GroundWire-December-2008-E...)

With the winter season now upon us, some are left to sleep in the cold after the province cut funding to a homeless shelter in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Pendleton Place, a harm-reduction shelter operating during the winter months, will not be re-opening. As a result, numerous community organizations are fighting to have the decision reversed.