Sorry this didn’t work the first time.  I will try it again.Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 11:28 AMSubject: CLASSE – Urgent Appeal to the Rest of Canada From Max Silverman, student at UQAM and former mcgiller – *PLEASE READ AND SPREAD FAR AND WIDE. BRING MOTIONS TO YOUR LOCAL UNION COUNCILS, YOUR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, YOUR…

Here is a letter I received this morning regarding the events concerning the university protests and the imposition of Emergency Measures in Quebec. The recent attack on the right to organize and freedom of assembly is a clear warning sign. This must not be allowed to continue. Please take time to read this, and excuse…

Church challenges refugee bill Canada’s shameful refusal to offer asylum to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the SS St. Louis in 1939 would have been perfectly possible under the provisions of a new refugee bill the Conservative government wants to push through by June 29. The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers explains that under the proposed Bill…

“For ten years we’ve been engaged in wars that have enriched the wealthiest one percent, decimated our economy and left our nation with a generation of traumatized and wounded veterans that will require care for years to come.”  – Joseph Carter, Iraq war veteran. From the Guardian Newspaper. I began this post quite some time…

Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the admin dashboard) to start a fresh post. Here are some suggestions for your first post. You can find new ideas for what to blog about by…

There has been a class warfare going on… It’s just that my class is winning. And we aren’t just winning, I mean we’re killing them. -Warren Buffett, a rich financial capitalist.  In a bizarre turn of events some of Wall Streets biggest names, like Warren Buffett and George Soros have come out in support of…

This is a post my friend Jeff tried to leave in the comments section under my piece on voting. For some reason the comments section on this blog is not working, so I have re-posted this below:  Well, now it has been a few months, and I am curious on how well your experiment has…

You can achieve anything if you try hard enough. Anything.  – Capitalist platitude.  I just came across a wonderful term on Jodi Dean’s blog to describe the place of the individual from the perspective of capitalist realism. Magical voluntarism. Anything can be achieved by the Herculean effort of the individual will. Anything at all. This…

Neoliberalism is a war. A World War. It is, says Subcomandante Marcos of the Ejercito Zapatista Liberacion Nacional, the Fourth World War. The Third was the Cold War, a war fought in a global arena between two superpowers, but not directly by them. It was a war at the peripheries. We know it was a…

I meant to publish something about this around the time of the Canadian federal elections but never got around to it. For some reason I thought of it today, and so without further ado I will mount my defense of apathy. I did not vote. I do not read the news (except sometimes I do.)…