About a month ago when all the demands were being made by the media to know the “demands” of the Occupy Movement I wrote these which are really my own demands. I still think they may be quite good apart from one rather glaring omission which I will add now by saying that we should… Continue reading (de)Occupy – many demands
About occupation: “reclaim….Canada”
Monbiot has it right – Jubilee or Debt Strike
I don’t always agree with him, especially on nuclear energy, but a recent article by George Monbiot has confirmed what some of us have been saying for a long time: the current situation in our economy and collective lives is much worse than we want to acknowledge. The only realistic way out of it is… Continue reading Monbiot has it right – Jubilee or Debt Strike
Occupied Canada
This article by Shiri Pasternak is well worth reading as an introduction to the colonial (occupation) process on Turtle Island. It is encouraging to see this and other similar reflections entering and becoming embeded in the discussion and actions of the “occupation movement” today.
Prisons and the Mental Universe of the Harper Regime
For a long time I was genuinely puzzled, though not surprised by the obtuseness of the the Tories who, despite all the evidence of lower crime rates and the inappropriateness of longer and harsher sentences for offenders, are into building more prisons and compelling the courts backward to more retributive and lengthly prison terms . … Continue reading Prisons and the Mental Universe of the Harper Regime