Former Guantanamo prisoner supports Bush arrest
After spending five years as an extra-judicial prisoner of George W. Bush’s ‘war on terror,’ Murat Kurnaz is disappointed that Canada did not arrest the former U.S. president during his visit to Surrey
Tag Archives: Human Rights
Lawyers press for Bush arrest, as #Occupy activists set to converge in Surrey
A 70-page legal indictment — accompanied by a staggering 4,000-page dossier — has been filed in B.C. court to have former George W. Bush arrested during his visit to Surrey tomorrow
Conference confronts police ‘culture of oppression’
Native people are more often killed or abused by police officers than are others in Canada, but police actions are more often than not chalked up to ‘bad apples’ on the force instead of symptoms of systemic problems within police ranks
Copwatch Conference: Seeking alternatives to the police
Despite only occasionally surfacing in the news — with more than 1,000 G20 arrests, tasering deaths, lethal shootings and abuse in holding cells — police misconduct is not only widespread and historic it is also deeply entrenched, said presenters at a major conference on policing last week in Winnipeg
Canada prepared for ‘lethal force’ against Natives, says Indigenous leader
Biting a chunk out of the common adage that a few “bad apples” in the police are responsible for misconduct, Winnipeg Indigenous leader Leslie Spillett pointed to an inherent “culture of oppression” in Canada’s police forces at an international conference on policing
“Everywhere Lands are Being Stolen”: Mining Justice Week unites people of the South and North
Photographs to accompany an article on demonstrations against Goldcorp mining company
Making blood run ‘gold’: Mining justice organizers take on Goldcorp
As shareholders in the Canadian mining company Goldcorp met for their annual general meeting (AGM) in Vancouver last Wednesday, a jubilant and diverse crowd pushed its way into the Pan Pacific Convention Centre
The meaning(s) of Thanksgiving
A delegation of peacemakers spends more than a week at Grassy Narrows First Nation
With everything at stake: A year after Lebanon
The last year-and-a-half since I evacuated from the Middle East has been marked by a deep yearning to have “everything at stake” and to live in a more direct, less mediated way
Liberation is Near: Dispatches from Lebanon Besieged
My experience during the 2006 war in Lebanon gave me a better understanding of our world, and was a profound lesson
David P Ball 