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A letter to my American cousins
You seem to be afraid that Donald Trump will make America more violent and less tolerant. Yet you presently live in a country where in large parts any basement-dwelling, mad-at -the-world teenager can open-carry a loaded assault rifle into a family restaurant. The only way the management of the restaurant could refuse this individual service is if he were gay and it conflicted with their religious beliefs.
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Violent Police Repression of Media in Montréal, business as usual
“The repression of journalists in Montréal and Québec in general, is a symptom of the massive and systematic repression of freedom of expression province-wide by government and police forces. On May 18 2012, Law 78 was passed, which unconstitutionally forbade free assembly. This law was morphed literally over night into municipal bylaw P-6 which has been used to incredible effect to deny the Québec population some of the most fundamental rights guaranteed by the Canadian constitution and Québec’s own Charte des droits et libertés. This has been enforced by massive police violence, political profiling, and a generalized climate of repression.”
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Turkish coup, A well planned job possibly with ties to US intelligence.
The last few Hours have seen a stunning coup in Turkey. This wasn’t a surprise to everyone this was expertly planned and executed. The chief of staff is under arrest and internet and phones have been cut. President Erdogan is in hiding and martial law has been declared all within a scant few hours. The […]
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Montréal Journalist faces prison for covering a protest
cover photo Agence QMI On the 3rd of May 2016, ironically international press freedom day, Cori Marshall a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists, member of the board of CUTV a university media outlet that has existed for 30 years and his colleague Ion Etxebarria were arrested while covering a story. They have subsequently been […]
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Des paroles qui font mal
Originally posted on verosemedia:
Je suis une ancienne TDS. J’ai décidé d’arrêter il y a quelque mois et de me retrouver un emploi normal, une vie normale et un monde normal. Il y a plusieurs mois que je voulais arrêter, mais la vie ne semblait pas être de mon côté. Je me suis tournée vers… -
CUTV and 99 media live from the annual anti police brutality protest
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cutvlive En direct Both links live at 8:00 Eastern Standard Time Context For those in you in Canada worried about the possibility of bill C-51 bringing on a police state in your country let me introduce you to the reality in the streets of Montréal,in your country. The Canadian Police state isn’t coming, its […]
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RiotDrones – They’ve Got the Future Under Control
Originally posted on Mashriq:
Source: Neon Nettle If any of you have seen Robocop, you’ll know that machines making decisions on issues of national security, assessing threat levels and making surgical like decisions with precision and efficiency are the way forward. Scrap that, why even stop at national security. Why not use them to stop…