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Not Happy Talking to the Police? Try Collective Struggle
by Christopher Williams of the Network for the Elimination of Police Violence Poor Frederick Douglass apparently had it all wrong when he famously stated, “power concedes nothing without a demand. It...
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Does CLASS get in the way of EDUCATION?
by Sadia Khan & Noaman G. Ali “fix the class system to fix the school system” Please see full article: Education inequality shocks Thorncliffe Park residents. To get involved or to learn more about...
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Terror in Dixon: Behind the Rob Ford Scandal
‘Project Traveller’ and the struggle to defend our communities Police lead a woman away in Project Traveller raids. MATTHEW SHERWOOD/NATIONAL POST By: Kabir Joshi-Vijayan Rob Ford might be the most...
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KW Spot Collective Relaunches its Peoples Programs
by BASICS Team Kitchener-Waterloo On Jan 3, 2014, the Kitchener-Waterloo Spot Collective announced the relaunching and professionalising of their people’s programs. The people’s programs, which...
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Hundreds rally in Toronto to support a democratic Venezuela… and reactionary...
by Pragash Pio and Hassan Reyes Several hundred people gathered at Toronto’s Dundas Square on February 22 in response to violence in Venezuela which started at the beginning of the month. Two sharply...
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CUPE National squashes unionizing effort at Carleton U.
Workers lose jobs after successful union drive turned away by Paul Moist’s office by Priscillia Lefebvre Ottawa | Female Residence Fellows at Carleton University in Ottawa were met with blatant sexism...
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Education inequality shocks Thorncliffe Park residents
Community seeks to organize against inequality by Noaman G. Ali “It’s shocking! I am shocked!” said a parent attending a community meeting in Thorncliffe Park held last Sunday, December 22. Sadia Khan,...
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Coroner’s report into Villanueva’s death ‘blames citizens’
by M. Cooke Remembering Fredy (Photo-BASICS Community News Service) “I hated that part, blaming the citizens. If the police hadn’t intervened, Fredy would still be alive” said Will Prosper, a community...
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Welcome to Canada: Growing up Latino in Toronto
This is an interview by Camila Uribe-Rosales of BASICS with Oscar and R (who prefers to remain anonymous), two Latin American youth who migrated to Canada from El Salvador and Mexico, and their...
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Not Happy Talking to the Police? Try Collective Struggle
by Christopher Williams of the Network for the Elimination of Police Violence In the 19th century, Frederick Douglass had a firm vision of how social injustice, stemming from unjust exercises of power,...
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Does CLASS get in the way of EDUCATION?
by Sadia Khan & Noaman G. Ali “fix the class system to fix the school system” Please see full article: Education inequality shocks Thorncliffe Park residents. To get involved or to learn more about...
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Terror in Dixon: Behind the Rob Ford Scandal
‘Project Traveller’ and the struggle to defend our communities Police lead a woman away in Project Traveller raids. MATTHEW SHERWOOD/NATIONAL POST By: Kabir Joshi-Vijayan Rob Ford might be the most...
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KW Spot Collective Relaunches its Peoples Programs
by BASICS Team Kitchener-Waterloo On Jan 3, 2014, the Kitchener-Waterloo Spot Collective announced the relaunching and professionalising of their people’s programs. The people’s programs, which...
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Hundreds rally in Toronto to support a democratic Venezuela… and reactionary...
by Pragash Pio and Hassan Reyes Several hundred people gathered at Toronto’s Dundas Square on February 22 in response to violence in Venezuela which started at the beginning of the month. Two sharply...
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CUPE National squashes unionizing effort at Carleton U.
Workers lose jobs after successful union drive turned away by Paul Moist’s office by Priscillia Lefebvre Ottawa | Female Residence Fellows at Carleton University in Ottawa were met with blatant sexism...
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Education inequality shocks Thorncliffe Park residents
Community seeks to organize against inequality by Noaman G. Ali “It’s shocking! I am shocked!” said a parent attending a community meeting in Thorncliffe Park held last Sunday, December 22. Sadia Khan,...
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Coroner’s report into Villanueva’s death ‘blames citizens’
by M. Cooke Remembering Fredy (Photo-BASICS Community News Service) “I hated that part, blaming the citizens. If the police hadn’t intervened, Fredy would still be alive” said Will Prosper, a community...
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Zapatista rebellion in Mexico celebrates 20 year anniversary
by Pablo Vivanco ‘The Originales from San Andrés’ livened up the first evening of New Year with their revolutionary ‘corridos’ (Mexican folk music), tracing the history and struggle of the EZLN and...
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Killer Cop Back to Work
Police Chief Reassigns James Forcillo to Crime Stoppers Unit by Shafiqullah Aziz After a seven month suspension with pay, Constable James Forcillo, who killed Sammy Yatim on July 27, 2013, returned to...
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Street Voices Launch Poem
A Poem by Joel Zola Written for the founding of street voices magazine We live in the modern day world of cellphones, wikipedia, and social media Sexual messages are sexually transmitted like...
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