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Dead Wild Roses: Debasing Education in Ontario – Peel District School Board – A CRT Nightmare
Educators, parents- when you start getting the smell of “anti-racist” activism coming from your local school board be prepared to go on the offensive to keep this bullshit out of your school and away from your children. Just look at the mess this activist agenda has created in the Peel
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Sept. 10, MTL: Festival Defund La Police + MTL vs Racisme
There are two events in Montreal’s NDG neighbourhood—Parc Girouard to be specific!—on Saturday, September 10th, and even if Kersplebedeb weren’t tabling at both of them (which we are!) we’d be encouraging you to go. Noon to 10pm – Festival Defund la Police https://www.facebook.com/events/600897598360188 Defund la Police Festival is an event
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Anti-Asian Hate & Resistance: Jackson Heights Immigration Solidarity Network Newsletter, August 7, 2021
[This post is mirrored from JHImmigrationSolidarity.Org, where it was originally published on August 7, 2021.] Dear friends, Warm greetings in late summer to all our generous readers. We begin with two pieces of good news. On July 29, the City Council finally passed legislation that protects over 300,000 domestic workers
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canada’s vanishing point: Reconciliation and the erasure of Indian personhood
According to Tara Williamson, a singer-songwriter and poet from Manitoba, one of the many problems inherent in Canada’s current effort to reconcile with Indigenous peoples is this: “We must be willing to reconcile, willing to hear apologies, willing to share our trauma with others, willing to heal and willing to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The World Needs More People Like This
Living in Texas, I doubt this man will have endeared himself to many. All the more reason to laud his courage and integrity in displaying this sign outside of the Islamic Center of Irving, Texas. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I’ll Keep Posting These Kind Of Videos
…. whenever I find them. Meanwhile, these letters from Star readers remind us that the threat of racism is never far from home. We must be constantly vigilant and ready to take action against it: Re: Signs in Toronto urge white people to join ‘alt-right’. Marilyn May is correct in
Continue readingMichal Rozworski: Building a Corbyn majority: interview with Richard Seymour
My podcast interview with Richard Seymour on the roots and prospects of Corbynism appeared in Jacobin last week. While the United Kingdom has been reeling from political crisis to political crisis in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, Jeremy Corbyn has never looked stronger. He showed his principles in apologizing for a war he opposed from […]
Continue readingJoe Fantauzzi: A Brief Note On #Elxn42 And Moving Toward A New Left
This much is clear: with the NDP’s federal collapse last night, the neoliberal Third Way experiment can clearly be declared a failure. But now what? Now, to build ─ not rebuild on a broken foundation. But also this: pillory me as a post-structuralist if you must, but I’m not here for
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Adam Faulkner’s, “The Whitest Thing”
I’m so in love with this poem that I want to marry it. You can read a bunch of stuff on Whiteness and even some really simple consumable stuff by […]
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: 2 Tone ska legends The Selecter are touring North America, and…
2 Tone ska legends The Selecter are touring North America, and according to the band’s official website, their only Canadian dates are as follows. Fans outside Ontario will either have to travel to these three cities or head to the United States. September 18, 2013 @ Starlight Room in Waterloo,
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: This post is a bit late, but I figure if the politicians can…
This post is a bit late, but I figure if the politicians can take the whole summer off and still get paid, I can take a bit of a break from ranting about them for free. This music video is “If You Tolerate This, Your Children Could Be Next” by
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: In the Area: Legitime Violence
In the Area: Legitime Violence: The above link is an article about the Quebec-based fascist band Légitime Violence, who are one of the opening acts for the Condemned 84 gig scheduled for Burlington, Ontario on June 22, 2013. Légitime Violence are actually more of a concern to Ontarians than the
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Fascist-friendly concert planned for Toronto June 22, 2013
Fascist-friendly concert planned for Toronto June 22, 2013: This link was sent to me by a reliable source. At the moment, no venue for the concert has been announced. Instead of adding my own commentary, here are some highlights from the article. A concert slated for Toronto, featuring Condemned 84
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Racist humour, Racial humour and Anti-Racist humour: #KondaboluKnows
Racist humour, Racial humour and Anti-Racist humour: #KondaboluKnows I have struggled a long time with stand-up comics and their use of race in jokes. I have had some downright sexist and racist remarks used against me in comedy clubs very much similar to this incident. (Yes, I DO understand the
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Doug Christie: The Unauthorized Obituary (article in The Tyee)
Doug Christie: The Unauthorized Obituary (article in The Tyee): Tom Hawthorn of TheTyee reiterates what I wrote in my post about the recently croaked lawyer Doug Christie. Despite his pompous self-declarations, Christie was not a true advocate for free speech; he was merely an advocate for racism, anti-Semitism and other
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: “Nazi Scum” by the Scottish anti-fascist punk band…
“Nazi Scum” by the Scottish anti-fascist punk band Oi Polloi Standing outsides the primary school gates,with their leaflets stirring up race hate. Creeping round in the dead of night,setting innocent people’s houses alight. They stab and kill in radical attacks. Just how much more before you fight back? Find them
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Doug Christie – racist anti-Semitic lawyer, white nationalist…
Doug Christie – racist anti-Semitic lawyer, white nationalist activist and Western separatist wannabe politician from British Columbia – died on March 11, 2013 at the age of 66 from liver disease. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Historical revisionists – and others who may be well-intended but misguided — are (sieg)
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: http://issuu.com/randalljaykay/docs
http://issuu.com/randalljaykay/docs: The above link is to an archive of various scanned articles and newsletters from the 1980s and 1990s that are related to topics such as anti-fascism, radicalism, socialism, anarchism, prisoners’ rights, anti-imperialism, First Nations rights and anti-racism, They are interesting historical documents, and many of the issues they discuss
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