… are words that you can find on old sailor navigation maps that are meant to say: “Hey fools! Stay away from here! Like, don’t even THINK about it!”. The American people would serve themselves well to heed these warnings. Rach…
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Larry Hubich's Blog: The owner of Best Western 7 Oaks Hotel in Regina assaults peaceful picketers
Support workers at Best Western Seven Oaks
Tell the owner of Best Western Seven Oaks in Regina to stop bullying workers and get back to the bargaining table. Watch the video below and send a message now at www.ufcw.ca/bestwestern (UFCW Canada Local 1400)
Posted by UFCW Canada on Friday, February 26, 2016
Larry Hubich's Blog: The owner of Best Western 7 Oaks Hotel in Regina assaults peaceful picketers
Support workers at Best Western Seven OaksTell the owner of Best Western Seven Oaks in Regina to stop bullying workers and get back to the bargaining table. Watch the video below and send a message now at www.ufcw.ca/bestwestern (UFCW Canada Local 1400)Posted by UFCW Canada on Friday, February 26, 2016
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: The owner of Best Western 7 Oaks Hotel in Regina assaults peaceful picketers
Support workers at Best Western Seven Oaks
Tell the owner of Best Western Seven Oaks in Regina to stop bullying workers and get back to the bargaining table. Watch the video below and send a message now at www.ufcw.ca/bestwestern (UFCW Canada Local 1400)
Posted by UFCW Canada on Friday, February 26, 2016
Dead Wild Roses: The Rape/Revenge Genre’s Gender Revelations
“Rape/revenge is replete in tension and bloody cathartic release; there is terrifying violation, and then there is revenge you can feel good about. The films use women’s trauma to justify stereotypically male pleasures of hyperbolic violence. So Thelma and Louise get to pick up guns and shoot people like they’re in a Western, while Furiosa […]
Continue readingApril Reign: December 6th. Just a date.
Re-posting as unfortunately it is still relevant 6 years on. December 6th. Just a date. Maybe an early Christmas party or a school play. Perhaps a time to start putting out decorations or maybe – a time to purchase candles and roses. A purchase not made in anticipation of a celebration but one made in […]
April Reign – In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Will Ferrell does a mock music video of gangster rap – and it’s a scathingly hilarious critique of the genre
A musical commentary, followed by social and political analysis, followed by hilarious spoof rap videos, and more This is scathingly funny. Will Ferrell does a mock music video of macho gangster rap. Man, how I despise that music. As Rage Against the Machine said, “So-called rap’s a fraud.” Worse, most
Continue readingLeDaro: Chicago Violence Rises With the Heat of the Summer
It looks that the U.S. is the most violent society in the western hemisphere. Why is to so? According to one estimate 12000 people are murdered every year in the U.S. Chicago is one example. Rest of the country has similar incidences of violence. “The figures can be numbing: There
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Steves–BC Doesn’t Need Site C Dam
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It is incredible that our BC Liberal government, prodded along by the foreign owned LNG corporations, are still pushing ahead with building a massive Site C Dam. We do not need Read more…
Continue readingThings Are Good: Violent Video Games can be Good
Violent video games get attacked a lot. Media and news companies are quick to blame the influence video games have on youth to be the reason that youth commit acts of violence. This is not the case though. Every year there is more evidence that it’s not true that violent
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: BDSM, Gender, Entitlement, and Jian Ghomeshi
Whether anybody wanted the conversation right now or not, it’s become time to have a conversation about BDSM, gender and entitlement. Over a week ago, Jian Ghomeshi, the then-popular then- CBC commentator, appeared to be coming out of the closet about engaging in what he referred to as “rough sex
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Sex, violence and TV shows
We just finished watching the third season of Game of Thrones on DVD this past weekend. Before that, we watched The White Queen, another DVD series (one season only, although it deserved more). As we watched both, I found myself wondering why directors and producers felt the need to insert
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Canadian PM Harper’s Government Complicit in Israeli War Crimes
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Canada, once the peacekeeping nation of merit and respect has been downgraded in the eyes of international observers since being led by right wing ideologue, Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister Stephen Harper. His unbalanced view and posture is nowhere more obvious that his absolute support for
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: U.S. Taxpayers Subsidizing The Defense Of Palestinian Teen’s Alleged Killers
Controversial Israeli group Honenu is raising tax-exempt money in the U.S. to support Israelis charged with or convicted of violence against Palestinian tens. The post U.S. Taxpayers Subsidizing The Defense Of Palestinian Teen’s Alleged Killers appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Palestine, Rockets and Reprisals
No one should have to live in fear. Death by airstrike, death by rocket. Same result. I cannot even imagine having to deal with every day life in Gaza, especially if I had children. “I am used to the bombings, but my children are worried. So I have to keep
Continue readingTHE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE: Public Education: School to Prison Pipeline (VIDEO)
To end the violence in Baltimore there must be radical reform of public education and the criminal justice system – a panel moderated by radio talk show host Marc Steiner The post Public Education: School to Prison Pipeline (VIDEO) appeared first on THE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE.
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Bullet-Proof Blankets for kids? Not the solution.
My reaction to bullet proof blankets for children: When I was a kid we had fire and earthquake drills. When I became a teacher I had to verse the children […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Why @Suey_park won’t “enact the labour”: Women of Colour don’t owe you an education- #CancelColbert Part 4
…she seemed to discount Zepp as a “White Male” and told him that she, “won’t enact that labour” of explaining to him why a White male probably couldn’t understand why a Woman of Colour’s point of view. I am here today to enact that labour. We are born into this
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Proving male privilege: @suey_park @BlackGirlDanger @thewayoftheid @cheuya striking back #CancelColbert Part 3
Some of the most prominent women of colour, anti-racist, feminists are coming together to talk about male privilege. Except they aren’t talking about it. They are proving it. @suey_park @BlackGirlDanger @thewayoftheid and @cheuya […]
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Parliament’s Sham Report on Missing, Murdered Aboriginal Women Trashed
by: Obert Madondo Many had hoped the Special Parliamentary Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women would move Canada closer to addressing the perennial issue of more than 600 missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls. The committee’s final report, delivered in parliament last week, turned out to be another government-sponsored sham. Most
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