As of 9:37 a,m, Central Time, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008, 51% of Winnipeg Free Press readers favour a centre-left coalition government. Should the Opposition topple the federal Tory government? No. 43% Yes, and force an election. 4% Yes, and form a governing coalition. 51% Total Votes: 3118
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I don’t know how Farzad Kamangar has survived his imprisonment and torture at the hands of Iranian authorities. However he has managed it, it’s clear to me that he has more than earned the admiration and support of people of conscience everywhere. Will you get involved? Kamangar, 33, is s school teacher and a member [...]
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Then mosey on over to http://www.progressivecoalition.ca/.
Canadians for a Progressive Coalition is conducting an online campaign to encourage Liberals, New Dems and Bloquistes to form a federal coalition government. This campaign is both necessary and timely; necessary, because most Canadians rejected the troglodytic Tory agenda in the October federal election and timely because there is a confidence vote coming up next [...]
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According to Education International Teachers, trade unionists and human rights defenders around the world are mobilising in defence of Farzad Kamangar, an Iranian Kurdish teacher and trade unionist who is at risk of execution. Education International received information from reliable sources that on 26 November Kamangar was taken from his cell 121 in ward 209 [...]
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Education International has been informed that Farzad Kamangar, the Iranian Kurdish teacher and social worker sentenced to death on “absolutely zero evidence” according to his lawyer, could be hanged on Wednesday 26 November 2008. According to several reliable sources, he has been taken from his cell 121 in ward 209 of Tehran’s Evin prison in [...]
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It is tragically ironic on this day, declared by the United Nations to be “for the elimination of violence against women,” to read that the UN has called on Canada to properly investigate the disappearances and murders of over 500 aboriginal women that have occured since 1980. Marchers in Saskatchewan in July 2008, in the [...]
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Are you a girl who doesn’t have enough to eat? Don’t be ashamed. You’re not alone. There are lots like you and there’s a whole bunch who want to help you. Wanna be a kid who cares? “Be part of the solution” by collecting cans for the local food bank. That, in a nutshell, is [...]
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Workers at the DESA leather factory who had been fired for engaging in unionization activities staged a demonstration Saturday on İstiklal Street in the Beyoğlu district of İstanbul, delaying traffic in the area. Photo: Todays Zaman, Nov. 17, 2008 Earlier this year, reports Labourstart, hundreds of workers at the Turkish leather manufacturer DESA — which [...]
Photo: John D. McHugh/AFP/Getty Images. Soldiers from the 1st Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry handcuff and search a suspected Taliban prisoner. Ottawa revealed that it stopped the transfer of Afghan detainees in November. Caption: National Post, Oct. 3, 2008 Like a mangy cat with diarrhea, the federal government is trying, so far unsucessfully, to cover [...]
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