May 2010
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September 2009
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“In an article for the Times Higher Education magazine on lust, part of a feature...”
– Are female students ‘a perk of the job’? | Education | guardian.co.uk
August 2009
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17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to... →
July 2009
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The Real Unemployment Rate Hits a 68-Year High →
Although you have to dig into the statistics to know it, unemployment in the United States is now worse than at any time since the end of the Great Depression.
When Unions Collide →
A long-simmering dispute between the Telecommunications Workers Union and the smaller union that represents TWU researchers and office workers, mainly in B.C., has broken down in early July into an unusual “soft lock out.”
Korean Police Fail to End Worker Occupation of... →
About 800 fired employees were still in a paint shop, confronting more than 3,000 police as of 5:22 p.m. in Seoul, Ssangyong spokesman Cha Ki Woong said by phone at the plant in Pyeongtaek, where the automaker is based.
Excuse me, we will take it from here →
In a solidarity meeting in Cairo, The Tanta Flax and Oil Company workers renewed their call for the nationalization of their factory, threatening to take over the factory and run it independently from the investor and the government if the latter didn’t intervene on behalf of the strikers.
June 2009
3 posts
Striking Toronto city workers: management is... →
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With capitalism mired in its greatest crisis since the Great Depression and governments at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels all facing massive budget deficits, big business is determined to inflict a major defeat on the Toronto city workers so as to lay the groundwork for a fresh assault on public and social services.
Even before the Toronto city workers—members...
US shoppers misled by greenwash, Congress told →
More than 98% of supposedly natural and environmentally friendly products on US supermarket shelves are making potentially false or misleading claims, Congress has been told. And 22% of products making green claims bear an environmental badge that has no inherent meaning, said Scot Case, of the environmental consulting firm TerraChoice.
“Money makes the world go round. Money talks, while more base entities walk. ...”
– Bryan Palmer, Canada’s 1960s
May 2009
21 posts
Unite Union Wins Gains forVulnerable Workers in... →
The Unite union in New Zealand is the country’s newest, and among its most dynamic, trade unions. It is at the forefront of a revitalization of a section of the labour movement in New Zealand that has resulted in thousands of young and marginalized workers gaining union representation for the first time and winning significant wage raises, including to the national minimum wage…
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“This delusionary dialectic of securitized versus demonic urban places, in turn,...”
– Mike Davis, Planet of Slums
“Sometime in the next year or two, a woman will give birth in the Lago slum of...”
– Mike Davis, Planet of Slums
A Brief History of Sri Lankan Violence
When the Portuguese arrived in Sri Lanka in the 16th century, the island was divided into three kingdoms – the Tamil-speaking Jaffna kingdom in the north and east of the island, the Sinhala-speaking kingdom Kotte kingdom along the south-western coast, and the Sinhala-speaking Kandy kingdom in the central highlands. The Portuguese captured Kotte in 1505 and Jaffna in 1615. Both the Portuguese and...
Tamil Protesters Shut Down Two of Toronto's... →
Tamil Canadians — upset over the civil war in their native Sri Lanka — shut down both lanes of a downtown Toronto highway Sunday evening, and threatened to stay there until federal officials meet with them.
Both the eastbound and westbound lanes of the Gardiner Expressway were completely blocked by people who marched up the ramps at Spadina Avenue on to the highway that runs across the south end...
The Smearjob On the Durban World Conference... →
In 2001, the United Nations convened the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa, to deal with a range of issues related to racism and its legacies, including the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the appropriation of the land and resources of the world’s indigenous peoples, and the human rights of the Palestinians.
The government of Israel responded to the anti-Semitic...
Photos from Toronto's May Day →
Protesters shut down Young and Dundas, the heart of Toronto’s commercial/shopping districts.
What you Need to Know about May Day →
Ever since, May Day and Labour Day have represented in North America the two faces of working-class political tradition, one symbolizing its revolutionary potential, the other its long search for reform and respectability. With the support of the state and business, the latter has predominated - but the more radical tradition has never been entirely suppressed.
“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are...”
– Emma Goldman | Anarchism and Other Essays (via retropolitics)
Black belt teen strikes back at bully, and... →
The 15-year-old black belt thought he was doing his tormentor a favour when he elected to fight back with his weaker left hand.
He had heard his white classmate throw an angry racial slur in his direction after an argument during a gym class game of speedball, and now the student was shoving him backward, refusing to retract the smear.
The white student swung first, hitting the 15-year-old with...
April 2009
28 posts
Letters from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher... →
In short, therefore, we can formulate the trend of our journal as being: self-clarification (critical philosophy) to be gained by the present time of its struggles and desires. This is a work for the world and for us. It can be only the work of united forces. It is a matter of a confession, and nothing more. In order to secure remission of its sins, mankind has only to declare them for what they...
Blame the UAW? →
GM sold 4.4 million vehicles in the U.S. in 1992 and employed 265,000 UAW members.
GM sold 4.5 million vehicles in the U.S. in 2007 and employed 73,000 UAW members.
A company can’t make productivity improvements as astounding as that and lose money on labour. Something else is shaking the timbers. Maybe we should question the competitiveness of salary workers? How do they compare with...
1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India →
Over 1,500 farmers in an Indian state committed suicide after being driven to debt by crop failure, it was reported today.
The agricultural state of Chattisgarh was hit by falling water levels
“The water level has gone down below 250 feet here. It used to be at 40 feet a few years ago,” Shatrughan Sahu, a villager in one of the districts, told Down To Earth magazine
“Most of...
“Some ask us: Will you ever stop protesting? Some day we will stop protesting: We...”
– Moonanum James (via sycamore) (via seashelllz) (via clothedinsky) (via curate)
You are being lied to about pirates →
At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia’s seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish stocks by over-exploitation - and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300 million worth of tuna, shrimp, lobster and other sea life is being stolen every year by vast trawlers illegally sailing into Somalia’s unprotected seas.
The local fishermen have...
Recent scenes from Afghanistan →
