Yesterday footage of Kossac militia in Sochi beating and actually whipping members of the now-infamous political punk group Pussy Riot while they were performing in […]
Tag: Activism
Venezuela: Student protests or economic war?
In the past few weeks Venezuela has been shook by violent protests, some say violent repression of peaceful protests. The central notion in every narrative […]
Lac-Mégantic residents protest for the right to cross town and visit their loved ones
Yesterday in Quebec there was a protest. It wasn’t about some broad-reaching concept like the Charter, it was about something much more specific and basic: […]
Anonymous targets Marois and the Charter (VIDEO)
The list of really strange bedfellows lining up against the Quebec Secularism Charter (formerly known as the Charter of Quebec Values) keeps growing. The Jewish […]
When Stephen Harper comes to town
Stephen Harper doesn’t usually visit Montreal and you can understand why. He doesn’t have any elected representation on the island or even near it, he […]
SPVM destroy tipi and compare Idle No More activists to occupiers (AUDIO)
Earlier this evening, Montreal police took down and destroyed a tipi that activists had set up as part of the Idle No More Global Day […]
Just who are the pirates? Canadian Greenpeace activists stuck in a Russian jail, Harper does nothing
This past Saturday, Greenpeace Canada held vigils in Toronto and Montreal in order to draw attention to the fact that two Canadians, Alexandre Paul and […]
Topless FEMEN protesters against the crucifix in Quebec’s National Assembly (VIDEO)
A group of protesters shouting “Crucifix, décalisse” (translation: Crucifix get the hell out of here) interrupted Premier Pauline Marois as she started speaking in the […]
Flying dildo interrupts Russian press conference (VIDEO)
Following a weekend where two female Russian athletes kissed on the podium and a Swedish high jumper painted her fingernails the colours of the rainbow flag […]
Instant Democracy via military coup in Egypt
Can a military coup ever be a good thing? Well, until Wednesday, I didn’t think so. Now, I think that there is one and only […]