It is one thing for a journalist/blogger to go to an embassy to interview an official for a story… and it’s another thing to be used for a photo-op, and false propaganda about how this embassy sponsors human rights activists and dissidents, while it is in bed with the US in its foreign policy and [...]

The Canadian Labour Congress, which represents 3.2 million workers sent a letter to Hosni Mubarak, denouncing the crackdown on labor activist Kamal Abbas and his Center for Trade Unions and Workers’ Rights. Click on Kamal’s pic below to download it…

[Above: Kamal Abbas, director of the CTUWS, denouncing the security services’ crackdown on labor activists. Photo [...]

Public Service Announcement…
BOYCOTT Israeli Apartheid! PICKET Indigo/Chapters!
Bring your musical instruments & drums
for a cultural picket of singing & music!
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 6th. 1pm - 3pm
Indigo Bookstore
north-west corner of St. Catherine & McGill College
(metro McGill)
Montreal, Canada.
Click on Eric Drooker’s cartoon below for more details…

Public Service Announcement…
Who is the Terrorist? A Critical Conversation on Hezbollah
As part of Culture Shock 2007 at McGill University
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17th, 6:30pm
Leacock Building, Room 232
McGill University
688 Sherbrooke St.
Montreal, Canada
Click on Ben Heine’s cartoon below for more details…

I received this from a Canadian labor activist…
7,000 British Columbia woodworkers, members of the Steelworkers union, have been on strike for 2 months. The major issues in the strike include health and safety - almost 70 workers have been killed at work in the past 2 years.
Wood products made by the struck companies [...]

From Tadamon…
Montreal, September 18th 2007: The Montreal network of the Coalition against Israeli Apartheid welcomed former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney during a launch of his autobiography at Indigo bookstore by unfurling a banner denouncing the apartheid situation under which Palestinians are living.
Marcel Sévigny, a member of the network, wanted to call on Mr. Mulroney [...]

Public Service Announcement…
Picket and Remembrance in Downtown Montreal.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1pm
Indigo Bookstore
Corner of St. Catherine & McGill College
(metro McGill)
Montreal, Canada
Click on the poster below for more details…

[The Lunarium - Armageddon - The End pt.1]

The Egyptian Labor Minister, Aisha Abdel Hadi, Mubarak’s butcher of the working class, is arriving tomorrow Sunday in Canada for an official visit, I was notified by labor organizers back home…
On behalf of Egyptian activists, I’m calling on Canadian trade unionists, labor organizers, human rights and leftist activists to give the minister the appropriate welcome [...]

Click on the poster below…

[A higher resolution version is available here...]

First Quebec Social Forum, from August 23rd to 26th, 2007 in Montreal.
Tadamon! Montreal Workshop, August 25th, 11am.
Why challenge the existence of the Canadian list of “terrorist” organizations? The example of Lebanon.
Click on Ben Heine’s cartoon below for more information…