Government pipeline rhetoric reminiscent of Cold War, McCarthyism: prof
Federal accusations that Enbridge opponents are “foreign” influenced “radicals” are frighteningly familiar to a Cold War historian.
Tag Archives: Social Movements
A year that set hearts on fire: From #ArabSpring to #Occupy and beyond
One year ago, a 27-year-old fruit vendor died to spark a global uprising. The Left Coast Post looks back on the struggles that marked 2011.
Occupy the New Year: Reflections on covering a global movement
From tragedy to community, critique to inspiration, reporting on Occupy yielded hopes for the New Year.
Adrian Dix on the way ahead for B.C.’s NDP
In an exclusive interview, the leader of the NDP in British Columbia discusses the BC Liberals, voters, issues of importance — and the strategy taking them to the provincial election in 2013.
Sex workers call for hate crime law, end to violence
Sex workers and supporters lit candles on the steps of a police detachment as part of a global day of action.
‘They had weapons pointed at our heads,’ recalls secret Gaza flotilla activist
Three days on the high seas. Three days in Israeli detention. A Vancouver woman tells her story of a bold attempt to change Israeli government policy.
#COPE: Is there hope for the extra-parliamentary Left?
Nearly a month since Vancouver’s Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) were evicted from City Hall (but for Allan Wong’s single school board seat) in the November 19 elections, many on the Left are grappling with COPE’s loss.
#Attawapiskat housing crisis heats up, from Parliament Hill to Twitter
While B.C. indigenous leaders protest in Ottawa, applauding Attawapiskat chief, Vancouver ‘twittivists’ took the Native housing fight online.
COPE’s Ellen Woodsworth braces for political winter, next steps
Will the former councillor run in 2014? Will she even have a home? We get up close.
Housing activists take over Hastings condo site
Paris Annex condos got some unexpected occupants today.
David P Ball 