Media Co-op Volunteer
Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 19:16
Want to help out with the Media Co-op? Here's the place to sign up.
Media Co-op Coming to Halifax
Submitted by admin on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 16:40
The Media Co-op is coming to Halifax!
For the month of February, we'll be holding events in neighbourhoods across the city, soliciting suggestions and input and recruiting members.
The goal: to establish a reader-funded news organization in Halifax that can provide high quality, investigative coverage. What is covered will be driven by the co-op members, through topic-based working groups.
Tyranny of Oil
Submitted by Lia Tarachansky on Mon, 11/10/2008 - 01:00
In The Tyranny of Oil, Antonia Juhasz exposes an industry that thrives on secrecy. She shows how Big Oil manages to hide its business dealings from policy makers, legislators, and most of all, consumers. Juhasz then provides a clear set of meaningful and achievable solutions, including the break-up of Big Oil.
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Life threatening decision to close Halifax shelter gets direct action response
Submitted by Asaf Rashid on Sat, 11/08/2008 - 10:35
On Monday November 3rd, Halifax Coalition Against Poverty (HCAP) members and supporters occupied the Halifax office of Nova Scotia Department of Community Services (DCS) for deciding not to fund Pendleton Place, a “harm reduction†shelter located in the basement of St. Patrick’s Church in Halifax. The closure was a move that one local housing activist, Paul O'Hara, described as a “life and death†decision gone the wrong way, and many more have made clear there will be a high risk of serious injury or death on the streets of Halifax this winter as a consequence.
Palestine: The Architecture of Apartheid
Submitted by david parker on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 16:56
Photo: Active Stills. Palestinian worshippers trying to reach Jerusalem in Ramadan.
by David Parker. October 12, 2008. Interview with Jon Elmer.
Atlantica Resiste
Submitted by Asaf Rashid on Sun, 11/02/2008 - 07:45
The Artist-activists at the Beehive Collective and NSPIRG bring you...Atlantica Resiste! - The struggle of visersity vs. homogenization in the Americas.
Shouting down Margaret Wente in Halifax
Submitted by Asaf Rashid on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 14:56
The name Margaret Wente scarcely needs an introduction to Dominion readers. Please refer to the main Dominion paper site at http://dominionpaper.ca for details of her most recent academically veiled example racism.
Wente was the keynote speaker at the Joseph Howe Symposium organized by the University of King's College School of Journalism and Calgary's Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. This year's event, which took place in Halifax on November 1st, was "The Media's Right to Offend: Exploring Legal and Ethical Limits on Free Speech".
Dominion Mining Issue Launch
Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 18:55
Fiftieth anniversary of the Springhill Mine disaster
Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 18:46
Today is the 50th anniversary of the third Springhill coal mine disaster.
The CBC has some archival TV footage from the days following the disaster. Seventy four men were killed in the disaster, and 100 miners were trapped underground for almost nine days before being freed.
Prior to the deadly events of 1958, there were two large mine disasters at Nova Scotia's Springhill Mine, one in 1956, and another in 1891.
The Art of Walking
Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 18:44
On July 15, 2007, Eryn Foster started her vacation predictably enough: by walking out of her Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, home and locking the door. Her destination of Sackville, New Brunswick, lay a couple of hundred kilometres away, or about a two-hour drive. But rather than throw a suitcase into the back seat of her car, Foster threw a backpack on and started the first day of New Canadian Pilgrimages.
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