Rights are hard to locate. One man’s rigorous beliefs in his “cultural” assertion are another woman’s confinement and destitution. The rights of a nation, of a people, run against the path of development chosen by a state. The rights of […]
The artist would like viewers to profoundly feel her work, to establish a dialogue with what they see, what they know and what they live. Artist bio written by: Rene DetroyeMaterials: concrete, strawSize: Between 3 to 6 feet.
Rights are won through popular struggles. But once enacted into law, they have to be enforced. Governments are usually reluctant to do that. The rights are then just words on a piece of paper. Workers, however, have found that they […]
Text by Maria Worton This is a farewell kiss, you dog! This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq. Here in Montreal, on December 20th, Block the Empire, a local collective working against occupation […]
[Adapted from an article by Warren Allmand in publication “Ideas, Interests & Issues, by George Maclean and Brenda O’Neill 2008 (Pearson-Prentice Hall). Adapted from an article originally published by Rights & Democracy.] Throughout the world, it is widely recognized that […]
Canadian multinational New Gold Inc. is operating a heavily-contested open pit gold and silver mine in Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico. For over 10 years, the residents of Cerro de San Pedro and the surrounding area have been fighting the […]
Persepolis is an Oscar-nominated film that premiered last year and which I regret not having seen on the big screen. Based on a graphic autobiographical novel by Marjane Satrapi, the author and her studio mate Vincent Paronnaud created a highly […]
The Obama victory was jubilantly celebrated in Washington DC (sometimes referred to as Chocolate City). I was there for the Clinton victory over Bush1, but that was a quaint tea party compared to this wild bumping throw-down. I squeezed myself […]
Apocalyptic Phone Call, 2002 On the phone, you told me you’d found Jesus, that you never really lost him, just strayed, made your way back, and I should read my gospels, all of them, Old Testament and New, familiarize myself […]
Gao Xingjian, playwright, novelist, essayist and painter born in eastern China and self-exiled in Paris, was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1992. In 2000 he went on to receive the […]
