LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG: ANNUAL WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH: Coming up this February 14 (next Tuesday Valentine’s Day) Winnipeg’s annual March for Murdered and Missing Women. Here’s the invite.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Annual Women’s Memorial March of Manitoba Tuesday, February 14, 2012.5:30pm until 7:30pm.. To stand together united as one strong voice, for those who are
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WINNIPEG EVENTS: JOE NICE ROCKIN‘ AT THE ROCKER FEB 11: Coming up this Saturday at the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre, 3rd Floor, 91 Albert St., Winnipeg MB:…a benefit for cooperative radio CKUW. Here’s the details. ######################Feb 11 – Joe Nice @ The Rocker (Wpg, CAN) CKUW Fundrive 2012 Saturday.10:00pm until
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Winnipeg’s North End – the good, the bad and the unspoken
Winnipeg’s fabled North End, long known for its contributions to the arts, popular culture and radical politics, has always had a reputation for being a tough place to grow up. These days, however, crime, violence, gangs and poverty seem to be its defining characteristics, at least in the minds of
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LOCAL NEWS: THE LAST MAN STANDING: Last Wednesday December 21 the Province of Manitoba finally moved to evict Occupy Winnipeg from Memorial Park at, of course, 7:00 am. According to what I read Occupy Winnipeg was the last Occupy camp to be evicted in Canada. Not bad strategy on the
Continue readingRegan Wolfrom: I’ve Just Solved the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Funding Problem
I sometimes think of my washroom as a think tank, not just due to the sheer amount of genius ideas that come to me during my various bathroom tasks, but because at certain inopportune moments my powder room gives off the same stench you’d find in news releases from the
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Video: Violence is not child’s play
Making war has been a human pursuit for thousands of years. Playing at war, it would seem, is at least as old. This ancient Greek toy, a model of a war chariot, fashioned from clay, has survived the millennia to bear witness to our enduring attachment to violence and domination.
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Winnipeg Teen Facing Possible Hate Crime Charges
Regarding the story that we re-posted here, perhaps one of our readers might be able to give us a heads up on who the accused might be? Winnipeg teen who allegedly burned Jewish girl’s hair may face race hate charge Tristin Hopper Dec 4, 2011 – 9:25 PM ET | Last
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LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG: FORUM ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND BUSINESS:****************************** –WhenThursday, December 8, 2011Time5:00pm until 8:00pmWhereJames W. Burns Executive Education Centre , 177 Lombard Ave (2nd floor), Winnipeg, ManitobaDescriptionhttp://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/index.asp?sec=712&too=200&eve=8&dat=12%2F8%2F2011&epa=52596Reception:Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served.What Does “Occupy” Mean to Business and How Should Businesses Respond?The I.H. Asper School of Business is
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Jewish Teen Atttacked in Winnipeg
Attack on Jewish teen ‘shocking’ Hair burned with lighter by fellow student By: Gabrielle Giroday and Mike McIntyre Posted: 12/3/2011 8:58 AM A POLICE probe is underway into an incident at a Winnipeg high school involving a student with Nazi links who reportedly used a lighter to burn the hair
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: 10 Reasons to Oppose Bill C-10
Occupy Winnipeg took its opposition to Bill C-10, the so-called Safe Streets and Communities Act, to Winnipeg’s West End Library and then proceeded to occupy the constituency office of Manitoba’s Justice Minister, Andrew Swan for 24 hours. Before doing so, an Occupy Winnipeg spokesperson read the November 17, 2011 statement
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Bill C-10: Time Does Not Stop Crime
Nov. 8, 2011: 300 Winnipeggers demonstrated at the Manitoba Legislature and the Winnipeg Remand Centre to urge the Manitoba Government to join Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador in opposing the Harper government’s omnibus crime bill, misleadingly titled the Safe Streets and Communities Act (aka Bill C-10). Their key message, “time does not stop crime” […]
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Kill the Tory Crime Bill
The John Howard Society of Manitoba estimates Canadians will pay $2 billion annually to cover the costs of Stephen Harper’s omnibus crime bill. Bill C-10, which calls for mandatory minimum sentences for a wide range of crimes regardless of individual circumstances, will trigger a huge increase in the number of inmates and a requirement to […]
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Video: Winnipeg Save the Canadian Wheat Board Rally
Against the wished of most western farmers, and in defiance of laws that they are sworn to uphold, Stephen Harper and his Conservatives are poised to destroy the Canadian Wheat Board. In truly Orwellian fashion, the Tories describe this as “democracy,” all the while invoking closure on Parliamentary debate and refusing to hold the farmers’ […]
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Video: Four Directions Walk to End Poverty
Despite its well established habit of electing social democratic governments, Winnipeg has claimed some dubious honors — “Murder Capital of Canada” and “Child Poverty Capital of Canada” to name two of the most disturbing. Even though we have had 11 years of NDP government to undo the damage of Gary Filmon’s Conservatives, both poverty and […]
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Occupy Winnipeg Scrapbook II
Oct. 15, 2011: Scenes from Occupy Winnipeg – and a reminder that what is now called Canada was occupied long before by the aboriginal peoples of this part of the world. It is time the descendants of the Europeans who took the land from the people who were here first do a much better job […]
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Occupy Winnipeg
So, hundreds of people (estimates vary wildly depending on the source) hit the streets of Winnipeg on Saturday to protest against corporate greed and a disparate range of issues including social justice, the environment, government accountability and even the dismantling … Continue reading →
Continue reading350 or bust: The Occupy Movement Goes Global
Yesterday the Occupy Wall Street movement, sparked by a call from the Vancouver-based Ad Busters magazine, started sparking occupations in Canada. From five thousand people in Vancouver, to three hundred in Halifax, and dozens of other “occup…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Viva Manitoba? Much news of latest Orange Wave fails to reach Alberta
Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger in Winnipeg in June. The icon to his left indicates women voters, who were obviously paying attention. Leastways, the people have spoken and he is still premier. Below: Former Manitoba premier Gary Doer with some guy, a F…
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: David McNally on Global Crisis and Global Resistance
David McNally teaches political science at York University in Toronto and is active in many social justice movements in that city. On Sept. 24, 2011, McNally spoke at the Mondragon Bookstore and Coffee Shop as a featured presenter at Winnipeg Radical Bookfair and DYI Fest. His topic: Global Crisis – Global Resistance. Length: 60 minutes […]
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Encouraging Early Political Engagement: CitizenNext.ca
It is not an accident that I am a political junkie. Even as a toddler, I was fed a steady diet of left-of-centre ideology, pro-union sentiments and anti-monarchist dogma. My mother, who was not overtly political, ensured I could recognize political leaders from around the world by sight before I could read, that I understood […]
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