Balaclava! VMC Broadsheet Issue 18
Submitted by feed-bot on Thu, 2010-09-02 19:54By Vancouver Media Co-op - August 31, 2010
This issue covers the demo in solidarity with Tamil refugees, follows the boycott by Boycott Israeli Apartheid Committee against the Zim shipping line, looks at the protest against local mining company Pacific Rim, and takes an in-depth look at Short Term Incentives for Rental as used by developers to maximize profit at the cost of the public.
The Tide 2!
Submitted by feed-bot on Thu, 2010-09-02 09:16The Halifax Media Co-op's second publication of the Tide is now available. Check it out for grassroots coverage of news in and around Halifax.
If you'd like a few copies of the Tide to give to friends, bring to your favourite coffeeshop, or distribute around town, email hillary|a|mediacoop.ca.
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Continuity of Government: Coup d'Etat Authority in America
Submitted by feed-bot on Wed, 2010-09-01 19:55America is on a fast track toward despotism.
Legislation for Greater Agribusiness Empowerment
Submitted by feed-bot on Wed, 2010-09-01 11:03House and Senate bills to empower agribusiness, not increase food safety.
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Submitted by feed-bot on Wed, 2010-09-01 10:49By Bruce Levine - September 2010
...[Is] it just a coincidence that disabling mental illness and psychiatric drug use have been rapidly increasing at the same time?...[The] most scientifically identifiable factor for the increase of severe psychiatric problems is the increase in psychiatric drug use...[L]ong-term psychiatric drug use has caused children and adults with minor emotional problems to have severe and chronic disorders that result in mental illness disabilities.
FLOOD CRISIS IN PAKISTAN Street Action
Submitted by feed-bot on Tue, 2010-08-31 23:35'20 Million Effected' People concerned about the devastating flood in Pakistan are taking their words to the street and trying to wake up Toronto with a street action to campaign awareness on Saturday August 28th 2010 at Yonge and Dundas in downtown Toronto (near the LiveGreenToronto street festival event)
Balaclava! VMC Broadsheet, issue 18
Submitted by feed-bot on Tue, 2010-08-31 19:54Solidarity with Tamil refugees, anti-Zionist picket, anti-mining protest and STIRs
The August 15-31 issue covers the demo in solidarity with Tamil refugees, follows the boycott by Boycott Israeli Apartheid Committee against the Zim shipping line, looks at the protest against local mining company Pacific Rim, and takes an in-depth look at Short Term Incentives for Rental as used by developers to maximize profit at the cost of the public. Download Balaclava! issue 18 here.
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Blueprint for a Purely Jewish State
Submitted by feed-bot on Tue, 2010-08-31 18:43By JONATHAN COOK - June 28, 2010
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s far-right foreign minister, [has] set out...what he [calls] a “blueprint for a resolution to the conflict” with the Palestinians that demands most of the country’s large Palestinian minority be stripped of citizenship and relocated outside Israel’s future borders...He accused many of Israel’s 1.3 million Palestinian citizens of acting against Israel while their leaders “actively assist those who want to destroy the Jewish state”.
How Factory Farms Make You Sick
Submitted by feed-bot on Tue, 2010-08-31 18:26By RUSSELL MOKHIBER - August 30, 2010
Move over Animal Farm...Here comes Animal Factory...Making us sick and poisoning the environment...“[W]hen you cram thousands of animals into a single confined space without access to fresh air, outdoor sunlight, pasture, natural animal behaviors – you are asking for problems in the form of diseases that attack people.”
The Gentrification of Grandview Park: An Exercise in Privilege and Exclusion
Submitted by feed-bot on Tue, 2010-08-31 18:15By Roslyn Cassells and Grant Fraser - August 29, 2010
The year-long closure of Vancouver's most visited park has illustrated the push for gentrification in one of Vancouver's poorest neighbourhoods, and the determination of the civic government to serve their political masters in the face of strong grassroots opposition to the plan.
