This week will go down in history as the week in which our Canadian government discovered the solution to climate change: an increase in CO2 […]
Tag: Activism
Alan Rickman’s Solidarity: Beyond Snape and Hans
Thursday we got news of the passing of theatre and film legend Alan Rickman, just days after fellow Brit artist David Bowie lost his battle […]
Montreal Police are Out of Control
It’s not a new thing, really. In fact, it’s something people who participate in protests with less than a hundred thousand marchers have known for […]
If We Can’t Protest, Then the Terrorists Win!
In the days following 9/11, then-US President George W. Bush urged Americans to go out and shop. If not, then the terrorists win. His premise […]
Redefining the Obvious: When the So-Called Neutral Media Call it So-Called Austerity
The first rule of reading news articles on the internet: if you don’t want to get angry, stay away from the comments. I broke that […]
April 2nd Anti-Austerity March in Montreal (PHOTOS)
The protest called by the ASSE started at Victoria Square with people of all background gathering. I mean from firefighters to high school kids. They […]
Anti-austerity protestors tear gas, arrest and rough up people protesting austerity
It’s all in the headline, really. To be completely honest, I was contemplating just posting that sentence with a picture and a series of arrows […]
Our collective struggle: Austerity and Spring 2015
What is austerity? Very simply put, it is when governments decide to ‘tighten the belt’ in order to resolve ‘debt crises.’ A government starts running […]
Solidarity vigil for missing students of Ayotzinapa (PHOTOS)
Last Tuesday on November 11, 2014, more than thirty people gathered in front of the Mexican Consulate in Montreal to hold a solidarity vigil for […]
#OccupyCentral: What’s happening in Hong Kong?
“A few days ago in Hong Kong, students went down the streets and they’re protesting against the Chinese government’s recent decision to undermine Hong Kong’s […]