Rights are hard to locate. One man’s rigorous beliefs in his “cultural” assertion are another woman’s confinement and destitution. The […]
Rights! Right!
Volume 21 Issue 4
Genocide – Stella Pace
Stella Pace’s concern is humanity: humanity grappling with the difficulties of reality, humanity torn apart by insane suffering. It is […]
Worker Rights
Rights are won through popular struggles. But once enacted into law, they have to be enforced. Governments are usually reluctant […]
Montreal Shoe-Ting Action Photo Essay
Text: Maria Worton This is a farewell kiss, you dog! This is from the widows, the orphans and those who […]
The International Recognition of Indigenous Rights
[Adapted from an article by Warren Allmand in publication “Ideas, Interests & Issues, by George Maclean and Brenda O’Neill 2008 […]
Daily Life in Cerro de San Pedro
In the course of this year, Tamara Herman has documented impacts of and resistance to Canadian mining in the historic […]
Making a Killing
Hired Guns, Big Bucks, No Rules
Persepolis
Persepolis, 2007. Animated drama. Persepolis is an Oscar-nominated film that premiered last year and which I regret not having seen […]
Chef : Hot cuisine, Cold frontier, Sad land with No rights! A book by Jaspreet Singh
Chef by Jaspreet Singh, 2008, Vehicule Press, Montreal. Jaspreet Singh drips tomato juice from his lips and sucks on mangoes, […]
Meta-Cake Eaters – The Films of 2008
Once, Bob Dylan and John Lennon were looked at with the same adoring, hopeful gaze now bestowed upon Warren Buffett […]
Living by the Gun
A Montreal Incident
DC Jumps for Obama
The Obama victory was jubilantly celebrated in Washington DC (sometimes referred to as Chocolate City). I was there for the […]
Apocalyptic Phone Call, 2002 & Dolphins Don’t Blow Each Other Up
Apocalyptic Phone Call, 2002 On the phone, you told me you’d found Jesus, that you never really lost him, just […]
Apocalyptic Phone Call, 2002 & Dolphins Don’t Blow Each Other Up
Apocalyptic Phone Call, 2002 On the phone, you told me you’d found Jesus, that you never really lost him, just […]
The Case for Literature by Gao Xingjian
The Case for Literature. By Gao Xingjian. Yale University Press, 2006. Gao Xingjian, playwright, novelist, essayist and painter born in […]