Please sign this petition calling for the reinstatement of Honduran president Manuel Zaleya. The European Union and other Latin American leaders have all called for a reinstatement, but Obama’s statement fell short of such a call.
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Business & Human Rights in Vancouver: Al Jazeera: military coup in Honduras.
From the Al Jazeera, here’s their report of the miltary coup in Honduras: Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras, has called for “peaceful resistance” after the country’s military forced him to leave the country. After arriving in Costa Rica on Sunday, Zelaya said that he had been a “victim of
Continue readingBusiness & Human Rights in Vancouver: HRW: Diamonds in the Rough.
Human Rights Watch reports on human rights abuses in the diamond fields of Zimbabwe. Here’s the summary from the full report: Zimbabwe’s armed forces, under the control of President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), are engaging in forced labor of children and adults and are torturing and
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: The Death of Neda Agha-Soltan: YouTube’s Most Important Moment
Last Saturday, I watched a woman die. It was not something I set out to do, and had I known what I was going to see, I probably would have opted not to watch. But I was checking FaceBook updates as usual, and clicked on a link posted by a
Continue readingredjenny: Solidarity with City Workers
In my inbox today: OCAP STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH TORONTO CITY WORKERS The members of CUPE 416 and 79 who work for the City of Torontoare now on strike. The business media has begun its inevitable campaign ofmisinformation to produce the greatest possible backlash against theseworkers. We are encouraged to
Continue readingBusiness & Human Rights in Vancouver: URGENT: Vancouver-based Canadian mining company Continental Minerals is on the verge of starting mining production in Tibet.
E-mail from Students for a Free Tibet that was forwarded to me: Join Tibetans and supporters in Vancouver, BC June 24th and say NO! to Canadian mining in Tibet. In the past few months, Continental Minerals has received over 1,200 faxes from Canadians and faced protests in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto
Continue readingBusiness & Human Rights in Vancouver: Picket June 27 at MP Mario Silva’s Toronto Office
For those of you in the Toronto area — message I received from the Facebook group Stop the Canada-Colombia Trade Agreement: On Saturday, June 27th, the Colombian Action Solidarity Alliance, CASA, will be picketing outside the Toronto office of Liberal MP Mario Silva and providing information to local residents. CASA
Continue readingredjenny: Entitlement
Puzzle me this: Why is it that the same people who bitch about workers sense of entitlement (you know, workers wanting decent treatment and wages) themselves feel entitled to free plastic bags? (It’s true) I think its a marvelous success so far: Toronto’s new 5 cent plastic bag law has
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: On "Immigrants" Who Protest in Canada
As our headlines have turned to the turmoil in Iran over concerns about election fraud and the resulting protests and violent action to suppress the dissent, I have watched with increasing concern the distress of my neighbour, who is Iranian. Normally very quiet on FaceBook, she was suddenly posting frequently
Continue readingredjenny: First the Recession didn’t exist…
First the recession didn’t even exist (No recession for Canada, er.. well maybe a “technical” one), and now the recession is going away. yep, ok, uh-huh, sure, I believe you StevieAfter all, your finance minister has such a good track record
Continue readingJacked Up: Obama is responsible for the Holocaust Museum Shooting!
That’s according to Glenn Beck and Fox news. Joseph Palermo at Huffington Post had quite a take on this kind of spin. From his article: In Beck’s world President Obama brings “identity politics” and “political correctness” to the White House, and it’s the “Left” that is “racist” because unlike conservatives,
Continue readingJacked Up: Next Minister Mentioned in "The Tape"
It seems that Jim Prentice is next, according to this article at Oil Week Magazine.
Continue readingJacked Up: New Tory Drug Law
According to The Montreal Gazette, A federal bill to impose automatic jail terms for drug crimes, for the first time in Canada, is headed for passage in the House of Commons in a final vote that could happen as early as today. The Liberals are apparently going to vote in
Continue readingJacked Up: Raitt-Gate
So the opposition want Lisa Raitt to resign over the fact that secret documents were left at CTV for almost a week. I can see the rationale, especially since Harper himself said that cabinet ministers would be held “personally accountable for the security of their staff and offices.” And that
Continue readingJacked Up: Interesting Take on EI
I just had to point out Randall Denley’s column from this mornings Citizen (second time in a week, he’s on a roll!). Just a couple of the highlights: The Liberals have taken a position that is clear and easily explainable… They want employment insurance, as we euphemistically call it, to
Continue readingJacked Up: Harper, Baird, Flaherty, EI and the Economy.
I’ll start with two separate paragraphs, from two separate articles (The first from the Ottawa Citizen, the second from the Globe and Mail: Baird falsely portrayed the Liberal scheme for a 360-hour standard as one that would require a massive payroll tax. The Liberals said they would fund the move
Continue readingJacked Up: Tory Authority Slipping
Randall Denley and I don’t always see eye to eye, but his piece today in the Ottawa Citizen was pretty much right on the mark. I say pretty much because at one point, Denley says that . ..Of these various conservative politicians, about all one could say is that they
Continue readingJacked Up: The Positive Politics Challenge
In the wake of another round of Conservative attack ads,I thought it was a great time to remind liberals of the “Positive politics Challenge”. The goal is to engage the grassroots, and show Canadians that there is a bright, policy driven alternative to the senseless attacks of the Conservatives. Check
Continue readingJacked Up: Chalk River
So the Nuclear Reactor in Chalk River, that currently supplies up to 80% of global medical isotopes has been shut down again. The reactor has been plagued with problems ever since it was shut down late in 2007 for safety upgrades by then President Linda Keen. Keen was later fired
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Genocide is not a "Fair Weather" Issue
Since the Tamil protests began, there has been much confusion over whether they deserve support from the rest of the population. I can’t tell you how many times I have read or heard, “I support them, but…”• “They are flying those red flags.”• “Aren’t the Tamil Tigers terrorists?”• “They shouldn’t
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