For those unawares, Mohawk activist Shawn Brant was arrested last Friday, April 25th on bogus charges, and is currently sitting in a maximum security prison, while thugs who were threatening Aboriginal community members with baseball bats walk free. In the past decade Shawn has become a leading voice for action ...

No folks, misogyny is not a delicious Asian soup. It's the hatred of women, and December 6th each year marks the anniversary of an event known as the Montréal Massacre, which sadly exemplifies this hatred taken to its end game. It would be an interesting coincidence (not irony, as ...

Someone mentioned Zeitgeist in the comments of my last post. I found it worth watching for the perspectives on Christianity and the Federal Reserve alone. Would like to learn more about both. If anyone has seen any rebuttals or further insights concerning these two topics, please post them here! ...

(Reprinted here from Counterpunch) By Natsu Saito In the next few weeks, the Board of Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) will vote on the dismissal of Professor Ward Churchill. This is the final opportunity for public input in this process. Over the past two and a half years, many of you have opposed CU's attempts to fire Ward. Ward and I have engaged in this struggle not for the sake of his job (he will always write, speak and teach), nor because we enjoy battling bureaucracy, but because it has become emblematic of contemporary efforts to silence those who insist on discussing uncomfortable truths. Since February 2005, CU administrators have been under intense political and financial pressure to fire Ward for his statements about the 9/11 attacks. To avoid blatantly violating the First Amendment, they have resorted to a pretextual investigation of his scholarship. After combing through a media barrage of unfounded allegations and his more than 20 books, 100 articles, and over 12,000 footnotes, CU has settled for firing Ward Churchill, a tenured full professor, for six instances of alleged improper footnoting or author attribution (see details below). Predictably, this has provided sufficient excuse for those who wish to distance themselves from this "controversy" and still believe they support academic freedom. For organizations like Lynne Cheney's neoconservative American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), it is a major victory for the corporatization of higher education. However, those who look beyond the headlines and CU's self-serving pronouncements have recognized it as a charade.

Hi there everybody. We had our broadcasting license revoked because of complaints to the Human Rights Commission of Canada by Ed from Etobicoke, so G7 radio is again kaput. On a far more sombre note, Tanya Reinhart, author of books such as The Roadmap to Nowhere died yesterday ...