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Spannos: Vancouver Protests New Israeli Ambassador to Canada
Blog Post, January, 13 2005
Chris Spannos
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Last night, a cold, dark icy night, at the Jewish Community Centre in Vancouver, 25-30 activists joined together to peacefully protest the new Israeli Ambassador to Canada, Alan Baker and Israeli war crimes. Mr. Baker's position against the Na...
Spannos: Aid Through the Eyes of Empire
Blog Post, January, 03 2005
Chris Spannos
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In an earlier posting I suggested that western governments could do more to help those effected by the tsunami disaster. Specifically, through a massive increase in aid, opening our borders to refugees, simultaneous debt cancellation and a restruc...
Spannos: Western Governments can do more to help tsunami victims
Blog Post, December, 30 2004
Chris Spannos
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Like many others I have been shocked and horrified by the current tragedy that has struck hundreds of thousands throughout Asia. I have a hard time comprehending the scale of the disaster, and indeed it grows day by day. I have to say that I could...
Albert: A Sporting Revolution: The Parecon Hockey League
Blog Post, December, 20 2004
Michael Albert
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I reeived this in Email. It is a short essay by Kim Peterson. Relevant here, more so than on the main site, I think. Up to now, there is no National Hockey League (NHL) fare for ice hockey aficionados. The public NHL players and behind-the-scenes...
Spannos: Looking Backward, Looking Forward: One Year of Parecon Organizing
Blog Post, November, 17 2004
Chris Spannos
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By the Vancouver Parecon Collective: Jamie Campbell, Dave Collins, Bryan Berndt, Matt Grinder, Daniel Palmer, Chris Spannos, David Pehota It's been just over one year since the Vancouver Parecon Collective came into existence. It was sometime in...
Albert: Engaging the State – Today and Tomorrow
Blog Post, November, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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I was recently asked to do a short essay on "Engaging the State" for the innovative new Left Turn Magazine. My submission appears below... Engaging the State – Today and Tomorrow By Michael Albert To engage the state one must answer two key q...
Albert: Pareconish Intellectual Agendas
Blog Post, November, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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In another DRAFT chapter in a book I am working on, some of which I have entered here in DRAFT form, I have tried to briefly suggest a range of intellectual concerns and explorations that advocacy of parecon implies. The material follows below, i...
Spannos: Anatomy of a Canadian Behemoth: pt. 2 (Raising the Social Cost)
Blog Post, October, 31 2004
Chris Spannos
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On September 8th I published a piece titled “Canadian Bullets, Dead Iraqis”. The peice outlined SNC TEC's (a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin) involvement in General Dynamics multinational consortium to produce bullets used by US occupation forces in Ir...
Spannos: Six arrests made at CSIS...
Blog Post, October, 25 2004
Chris Spannos
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Six people were arrested five days ago (Oct. 20) as the result of an important action / sit-in at the Toronto CSIS offices, officially titled the “Center for Strategic and International Studies”, but also known as “Canada's national spy agency”. ...
Spannos: Security Scholars for a War on Terror
Blog Post, October, 20 2004
Chris Spannos
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Last week an antiwar news wire sent me "An Open Letter to the American People", by the Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy. After reading it I immediately wondered why this document was being circulated on antiwar lists, because, as i...
Albert: Another Trip Abroad and a Major Talk Transcript: Life After Capitalism – And Now Too
Blog Post, October, 13 2004
Michael Albert
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Friday I take off to Italy and then to Greece. The former trip is for a conference and, very oddly, an award. The latter trip is for introducing the Greek edition of Parecon: Life After Capitalism, giving talks, etc. I will try to write about both...
Spannos: Silence On Israeli Terrorism
Blog Post, October, 12 2004
Chris Spannos
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Below is a letter from Hanna Kawas, Chairperson of Canada Palestine Association, to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin regarding threats from the Canadian Foreign Minister against the UN Relief and Works Agency for employing Hamas members. Hanna ...
Spannos: Anatomy of a Canadian Behemoth: pt. 1
Blog Post, October, 11 2004
Chris Spannos
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SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is a Canadian corporation that is involved in violations of the UN charter, international law, workers rights, consumers rights, privatization and profit making. Here I am going to do a series of blog entries on the SNC-Lava...
Spannos: Vader says, “Keep Star Wars in the movies!”
Blog Post, October, 04 2004
Chris Spannos
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On Friday, October 1st, from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. members of the Vancouver Stop War Coalition converged at the Lion's Gate Bridge and hung a large banner from an over pass which read “MISSILE DEFENSE = WEAPONS IN SPACE: SAY NO!” The purpose of t...
Albert: Anarchism and Parecon
Blog Post, September, 23 2004
Michael Albert
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Another draft chapter from the new book on parecon and society.... Like most social movements anarchism is diverse. Most broadly an anarchist seeks out and identifies structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination throughout life, and tries t...
Albert: Parecon & Marxism - 4
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Michael Albert
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[This concludes the draft chapter on parecon and marxism...] Parecon Insults Marxists? Suppose we were to envision a humongous stadium filled with all the people in all past and current history who called (or who now call) themselves Marxists. (...
Albert: Parecon & Marxism - 3
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Michael Albert
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[This continues the draft chapter on parecon and marxism...] Marxism Is For Coordinators? When I argue that coordinatorism is celebrated as the goal of struggle in every Marxist text that offers a serious economic vision, many Marxists are like...
Albert: Parecon & Marxism - 2
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Michael Albert
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[This is a continuation of the long draft chapter regarding parecon and marxism...] Marxism and Class But the above is not the problem of Marxism that I wish to feature here, partly because it is straightforward to correct and a great many Marxi...
Albert: Parecon and Marxism - 1
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
Michael Albert
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I am working on a book about Parecon and the rest of a good society -- and have placed drafts of some chapters in this blog system. Near the end of the book I am thinking about including two chapters, one on parecon and marxism, the other on parec...
Albert: My Turkey Trip
Blog Post, September, 20 2004
Michael Albert
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From Sept 10th to very early on the 15th, I was in turkey sponsored by Aram Publishing (about which more next post). As in the immediately prior trip to Italy, I spoke in diverse venues in two cities – Istanbul and Dijarbaker. The former is a hug...
