New Zealand Air safety instructions illustrated by colourful characters.
from YouTube
Nov 022012
Nov 022012
Protestors "Honour our communities", not the Immigration Minister.
from March Against Racism
TORONTO — Hundreds of protesters carrying pictures of immigrants that have died because of Jason Kenney's and other Canadian government policies, Palestinian flags, and red carnations are expected to gather outside Toronto's Royal York Hotel where the Immigration Minister is being awarded an honorary degree by Israel's Haifa University on November 4th, 2012.
Organizers have themed the march "Honouring Our Communities: March Against Racism," calling it a demonstration against the Conservative government's racist policies. These policies include
- an exclusionary immigration system;
- support for Israeli apartheid;
- attacks on the rights of Indigenous people;
- subsidies to oil and mining corporations that are causing climate change and human rights atrocities in the Global South;
- cuts to public services and worker lay-offs;
- de-funding and criminalization of dissenting voices.
A protest letter has also been written by Haifa University faculty and staff that will be released on Sunday.
What:
Rally to instead "Honour Our Communities: March Against Racism" as Jason Kenney is honoured by Haifa University, at an event supported by Stephen Harper, Peter Munk, Ezra Levant and others (www.haifa-univ.ca/events.htm)
Where:
Sunday, November 4, 2012, rally at 4pm, march to start soon after
Where:
Rally at David Pecaut Square (King & John), march to Royal York Hotel
Visuals:
Hundreds of protesters carrying pictures of people who have lost their lives, banners, Palestinian flags and red carnations
Wo:
Organized by Afghans for Peace, Barrio Nuevo, Caregiver's Action Centre, Centre for Social Justice, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Common Cause Toronto, Educators for Peace and Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Health for All, Independent Jewish Voices – Canada, Independent Jewish Voices – Toronto Chapter, Indigenous Sovereignty and Solidarity Network, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) Canada, International Socialists, Justice for Mahjoub Network, Justice for Migrant Workers, Law Union of Ontario, Maggie's: The Toronto Sex Workers Action Project, M1M, Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, Movement Defence Committee, Munk OUT of UofT, New Socialist Group (NSG), No One Is Illegal – Toronto, Not In Our Name (NION): Jews Opposing Zionism, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), OPIRG York, OPIRG UofT, Protest Barrick, The Public Health Social Justice Collective, The Women's Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA), Queers for Social Justice (QFSJ), Social Justice Committee of the United Jewish People’s Order (SJC-UJPO), Socialist Project, Students Against Israeli Apartheid York & UofT, University of Toronto Students Union, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto Immigration Legal Committee, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre, Women in Solidarity with Palestine
Oct 312012
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Oct 262012
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Oct 262012
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Oct 232012
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Oct 222012
Happy Halloween! Don't be scared — like these folks are.
from Youtube
Oct 202012
Virginia official busted for tossing voter forms turns out to work for the national GOP.
A man originally reported to have been working for the Republican Party of Virginia was arrested by the Rockingham County, Va, Sheriff’s Office on Thursday and charged with attempting to destroy voter registration forms by tossing them into a dumpster behind a shopping center in Harrisonburg, Va.
“Prosecutors charged him with four counts of destruction of voter registration applications, eight counts of failing to disclose voter registration applications and one count of obstruction of justice,” according to a report late Thursday afternoon from TPM’s Ryan Reilly. More charges could be forthcoming, according to officials.
But there is more to the story, as evidence emerges to document that it ties into a still-expanding nationwide GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal that the BRAD BLOG first began reporting in late September, after we’d learned that the Republican Party of Florida had turned in more than 100 allegedly fraudulent and otherwise suspect voter registration forms in Palm Beach County. The story has continued to widen ever since, to a dozen Florida counties and several other states, now including Virginia, and even to the upper-echelons of the Republican Party itself….
Oct 182012
Broadcast regulator rules one company would control too much of the TV market.
by Steve Ladurantaye
BCE Inc’s $3.4-billion deal for Astral Media has been killed by the country’s broadcast regulator, which said the merged mega-company would be impossible to police without imposing “extensive and intrusive safeguards” that would affect every broadcaster in the country.
It was up to executives from BCE and its Bell Media division to convince the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications the deal would benefit consumers, and they argued that owning Astral would allow Bell to be a Canadian champion that could help fend off assaults on the country’s broadcast system by foreign competitors such as Netflix.
But after reviewing submissions from more than 9,700 interveners and holding a week-long hearing that gave Bell’s rivals ample opportunity to beat up the Montreal-based company, the commission didn’t see any reason to allow one company to control as much as 42 per cent of the English television market and 33 per cent of the French. …
Oct 182012
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