Not everyone is welcoming refugees these days, particularly in the Americas. That’s why it was encouraging to read about Colombia’s generous treatment of the millions of refugees pouring across the border from Venezuela. It seems the Bolivarian Revolution has turned into the Bolivarian Exodus. According to the United Nations, almost
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Accidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the impression that our votes for change don’t produce the expected results can lead to the public putting up with a destructive alternative just to have an alternative at all. For further reading…– For background on Prince Edward Island’s electoral reform plebiscite, see Susan Bradley’s report on
Continue readingMichal Rozworski: Focus on Latin America: Colombia’s rejected peace and the Pink Tide in trouble
Political Eh-conomy Radio returns with a new logo, new life and a new episode focused on Latin America. First up: Aaron Tauss, assistant professor of International Political Economy at the Universidad National in Medellin, Colombia. I spoke with Aaron to better understand the devastating and unexpected “No” vote in Colombia’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Richard Eskow offers up some ugly facts about corporate wealth accumulation and tax avoidance. – David MacAray writes about the challenge facing labour activists when much of the public has been trained to engage in gratuitous union-bashing even while fully agreeing with
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Would Scott Brison care to comment?
Conservatives fail to take human rights seriously in Canada-Colombia deal For the second year in a row, the Conservative government has failed to live up to its moral obligation to analyze the impact of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCOFTA) on human rights. The reporting obligation, embedded as a side
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On unbalanced trade
When it comes to trying to justify perpetually-increasing restrictions on democratic governance in the guise of “free trade” agreements, advocates present two polar opposite views as to what such agreements are intended to accomplish. The first – and more plausible – view of the actual and intended effect of trade
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: But We’re A Peace-Loving Country
My, my, my, the sins that are committed in our name. Recommend this Post
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frank Graves writes about the decline of Canada’s middle class – and notes a parallel between the type of economy which tends to produce broad social failure, and the Cons’ familiar obsession with extraction: The other key factor is rising inequality and a
Continue readinggay persons of color: Chile’s LAN Airlines launches targeted microsite
What better way to start 2012 off than with some happy news, this time from LAN Airlines, the flag carrier of Chile, whose new LGBT travel microsite, landiversity.com, is a one-stop shop dedicated to gay and lesbian travelers to and within South America. In 2009, LAN became the first Latin
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: LNG Groundhog Day: Cheniere Energy Signs Yet Another Gas Export Deal on Gulf Coast
shutterstock_33324859.jpg Another day, another unconventional gas export deal signed. Nascent North American LNG (liquefied natural gas) export deals are happening so fast and furiously that it is hard to keep track of them all. The latest: On November 21, Cheniere Energy Partners signed a 20-year LNG export deal with Gas Natural Fenosa,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Dan Gardner rightly points out that the Cons’ continued efforts to trash our parliamentary institutions now that they have a majority shouldn’t come as any surprise – even if they still demand plenty of outrage:Got t…
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Paging Martha Hall Findlay
Last year the federal Liberals were pleased to assist the Conservatives in pushing through a free trade agreement between Canada and Colombia. Any number of human rights groups, along with trade unionists and other representatives of Colombian citizens, were insisting that such an agreement would only assist an oppressive regime. They pleaded that an independent assessment of Colombia’s human rights record should precede any such agreement. But the Liberals weren’t interested. Led by Scott Brison, they helped to block such testimony at committee, proposed an amendment that added a cosmetic reporting requirement to the Conservative bill, and pushed it through. So why single out Hall Findlay?…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On targeted development
Shorter Stephen Harper:
To anybody who dares question my free trade agreement with Colombia, I say this: you can’t make a free market omelet without breaking a few skulls. That’s the expression, right?
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Great Burro Tour
Ca…ca…ca…caramba. I see Presidente Crapper has arrived in Colombia. On what the Globe and Con is calling his “victory lap.”But I prefer to call his Great Burro Tour.Critics of free trade with Colombia who talk about human rights are rea…
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INTERNATIONAL LABOUR COLOMBIA: STOP VALE UNION BUSTING IN COLOMBIA:The other year workers in Ontario and Newfoundland were “treated” to an exhibition of just how hard hearted and tight fisted the international mining giant Vale is. But Canada and Brazi…
Continue readinggay persons of color: We Who Feel Differently
People are not provoked by those who are different. What is more provoking is our insecurity: When you say, “I am so sorry but I am different.” That’s much more provoking than saying “I am different,” or “I have something to tell you, I can…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: May 11: "Beyond the Walls": A new publication about political prisoners in Colombia
it’s the Festival of Anarchy in Montreal, a month of radical events around the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair… i’ll be highlighting some of these on this blog, the first of which is actually in just 2 days, as the PASC – a local group doing solidarity w…
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