Message from the May 1st Movement on May Day 2013 In 1886, 127 years ago, European immigrant workers marched in Chicago to demand an eight [...]
by Basics Kitchener-Waterloo The increase of fatal overdoses in Kitchener has forced the local health department to declare a heroin epidemic. Despite this, little has been done to deal with this problem. While more people are getting hooked on this dangerous drug, treatment centres and methadone clinics are forced to turn people away due to [...]
by Megan Kinch & Mari I. On May Day last year, the local food security organization, Occupy Gardens, risked arrest to plant a free community food garden in Queen’s Park. The small garden was planted to raise awareness about the unfairness of the current dysfunctional food system which places profits above the needs of people: [...]
by Megan Kinch A union local of 22 people has been on strike for more than three months. They’ve already been replaced with scab labour. They’ve been called greedy and spoiled for demanding an increase in the starting rate of $12 and basic safety equipment for extremely dangerous and difficult work. They were arrested for [...]
by Binnadang Migrante Canada The Cordillera Day event is a uniting activity held in our home country of the Philippines and here overseas. In these yearly celebrations, it would serve us well to look back in time to where we came from, the difficult paths that we had to go through in order to be [...]
Initiative by local chapter of ACTION to start with Good Food Box program, build broad food network for indigenous people by Giibwanisi “As ‘urban indians’, it is a bit harder for us to maintain our culture because we are not on the land. But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try. As an Indian man, [...]
November 2012 in Toronto there was an OIPRD conference on police complaints that put forward the Provincial Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (PAVIS), the new model of policing. In response to this, KW Occupy, The Spot Collective, and Basics Community News Service interviewed 70 people from the East end and downtown of Kitchener to come up with our [...]
Getting beyond the “Canadian jobs” debate by Steve da Silva The moral backlash that Canada’s largest and most profitable bank, RBC, was met with when news broke earlier this month that they were using foreign workers to replace dozens of their IT staff has developed into a wider scandal that is engulfing virtually all of [...]
Building Infrastructure and Grassroots Power in the Mishkeegogamang and Saugeen Communities by Laura Lepper In February 2013, members of the Commission in Support of Indigenous People’s Struggles (of the Canadian chapter of the International League of People’s Struggles) travelled to join fellow members from Mishkeegogamang and Savant Lake on their traditional territories, 1,700 km north [...]
by John Clarke As we approach May Day, it is worth considering the impact of the mounting austerity agenda on the poorest part of the working class and some of the ways the poor are fighting back as part of an emerging common front. Since 1995, people living on social assistance in Ontario have seen [...]
Working people lose as providers gang up to rip you off by Jordy Cummings A few years back, were you as dependent on your cell phone as you are now? I thought not. Now that you’re hooked, big business is gonna jack up the price. Music player, camera, video games, social media, schedule, all in [...]
Community groups come together to defend process of social and political change in Venezuela By Barrio Nuevo On the eve of Presidential elections in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, people from a number of cities came together to form a Canada-wide network to support the Venezuelan process of social transformation, debunk myths and lies perpetuated [...]
$100 does little to build real child care program by Christina Soto Since last September I have received a monthly $100 cheque in the mail, money that sits heavily in our family pocket book. If I didn’t really need it I would rip it up and throw it in the trash. It is a cash [...]
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