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March, 2009

Photo by Martin Duckworth

Editorial

30-03-09
There are no borders Maria Worton

We’re not idiots. But as Canadians, we’re told things, contradictory things, things that don’t add up… about Afghanistan, our mission,  Read more…

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Art

30-03-09
La Clef – works by Lyne Lapointe Lyne Lapointe

  Artist Biography:  Lyne Lapointe’s career dates back to the early eighties, when she rapidly made a name for herself  Read more…

Film Review

30-03-09
Fennario’s War – The Poetry of Fennario Patrick Barnard

Fennario’s War (41 minutes) is a simple film. The Montreal playwright, David Fennario, reads a text in his Verdun apartment  Read more…

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Music

30-03-09
Hanging out with musical revolutionaries Prasun Lala

  I’ve known Jason Breckenridge for many years and over that time the two insights I’ve gained about what makes  Read more…

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Photo Essay

30-03-09
Gaza: chipping into the siege Ehab Lotayef

Introduction: When I left Montreal on February 15th I knew that this would not be a predictable trip.  From all  Read more…

Cartoon by Susan Dubrofsky

Commentary

30-03-09
What’s happening in Sharbot Lake, Ontario? Susan Dubrofsky

 

Poetry

30-03-09
Don’t Join Norman Nawrocki

      Hey kids! Want a career with a dubious future? A job where you get paid to play  Read more…

Commentary

30-03-09
Shifting Discourse on Gaza Sana Khawaja Saeed

A cosmic motherly-sounding voice has always told me that even the darkest of clouds have silver linings. The past two  Read more…

Video

30-03-09
De-construction Maria Worton

  In the following short reconstructed video, De-Construction, I’ve used a home video report from Gaza and extracts from other  Read more…

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Book Review

30-03-09
Urban Iran Mehdi Naïmi

                Urban Iran Mark Batty Publisher www.markbattypublisher.com 130 pages, hard cover, $27.95 US/  Read more…

Prose

30-03-09
Going Home Maya Khankhoje

[Short listed by the CBC-Quebec Writers Federation Literary Competition and first published in In Other Words. New English Writing from  Read more…

Commentary

30-03-09
Podcast: Dimitri Roussopoulos on the Military, Environment and Democracy! Dimitri Roussopoulos

  All militarization has environmental consequences.  All of which have little to do with democracy. The other day, Montreal economist,  Read more…

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Book Review

30-03-09
Unembedded. Two Decades of Maverick War Reporting Maya Khankhoje

Unembedded. Two Decades of Maverick War Reporting. By Scott Taylor.  Douglass & McIntyre, 2009.   Review by Maya Khankhoje Unembedded  Read more…

Music

30-03-09
A Modest Proposal Norman Nawrocki

     ‘A Modest Proposal’ is from Norman Nawrocki’s anti-war, anti-Empire solo CD, ‘Duck Work’ released in 2004 on the Les Pages  Read more…

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Poetry

30-03-09
Black Watch Lesley Pasquin

     Standing on the sidelines of the parade grounds, they are old now, grandmothers, great-grandmothers; women who forfeited their  Read more…

Poetry

30-03-09
Remember to Forget Maria Al-Masani

    May you die, in a coffin buried with tears, Buried with the youth of my years, Buried with  Read more…

Poetry

30-03-09
The Pan Scrub Game Christopher Barnes

  From thickset specky windows   he eye-balls the tough job warp and weft of the launch pad as it  Read more…

Poetry

30-03-09
The Old Airport Ilona Martonfi

  Look through grandmother’s kitchen window: a concrete airstrip, wheat fields, red poppies, cornflowers. Forsythia, osier willows in bomb craters.  Read more…

Commentary

30-03-09
Toward a New Urban Movement Dimitri Roussopoulos

  In the rush of city life, it is exceptional for a large gathering of people to get together to  Read more…

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Art by David Duchow – The New Mexico Desert
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11-03-09
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Stella Pace – Genocide (Photo by Roger Morid)

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11-03-09
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Shoe-ting Action in Montreal – video by Maria Worton

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