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21/11/21
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
Photojournalist Amber Bracken documenting the police raid at the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre on Feb. 10, 2020. Bracken and documentary filmmaker Michael Toledano were arrested at another camp kilometres from the healing centre on Friday. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

Nov. 20, 2021

Three members of the news media are among the dozens arrested on Wet’suwet’en territory. Two journalists remain in custody.

As I write this, two colleagues are sitting in a jail cell in Prince George, B.C. They were arrested Friday as journalists doing their jobs.

I met award-winning photojournalist Amber Bracken nearly two years ago at the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre, where we were covering the last police action on Wet’suwet’en territory.

20/11/21
Author: 
Erica Portnoy
Apple bikeys

[Very interesting organization--the Electronic Frontier Foundation. - Gene McGuckin]

Nov. 12, 2021

20/11/21
Author: 
Thom Hartmann
George W. Bush visits New Britain, Connecticut on June 12, 2003 to Pitch a Plan to Strengthen Medicare at New Britain General Hospital. (Photo: James Devaney/WireImage)

Nov. 19, 2021

If they can move more than half of Americans off traditional Medicare and onto these corporate plans, it’ll provide the political cover to kill off Medicare altogether—and they're nearly there now.

In 2003, George W Bush set up the destruction and privatization of Medicare. The end of "real Medicare" is getting closer every day, and Congress and Medicare's administrators are doing nothing.

20/11/21
Author: 
David Suzuki with contributions from Senior Editor and Writer Ian Hanington
Finding better fuels is important, but cutting back on flying — which would mostly affect the affluent — is just as critical. But, of course, that doesn’t fit with the current growth-and-profit economic paradigm.

Nov. 18, 2021

20/11/21
Author: 
Kenny Stancil
Various student unions took to the streets of Kolkata, India on November 19, 2021 to celebrate and congratulate the farmers on the retraction of farm laws against which they have been protesting for a year. (Photo: Debarchan Chatterjee/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
November 19, 2021

"After a year of strikes—and having faced brutal repression that claimed some 700 lives—India's farmers are victorious in their struggle."

Workers' rights activists around the globe rejoiced on Friday after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that his government will repeal three corporate-friendly agricultural laws that the nation's farmers have steadfastly resisted for more than a year.

19/11/21
Author: 
Brendan Montague
Over 100,000 demonstrated in the streets of Glasgow.
November 19, 2021

Even on its own terms, the outcome of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow was catastrophic

The future was supposed to be copitalism: a new global economic paradigm where national governments work together through the United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties (COP) process to limit emissions and prevent runaway climate breakdown – while leaving capitalism otherwise intact.

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