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Podur: Six Nations Does Not Stand Alone
Znet Article, April, 24 2006
Justin Podur
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On Thursday April 20, Hazel Hill, one of the Six Nations Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) leaders on the blockade at the Douglas Creek Estates near Caledonia, told me about her beating at the hands of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) hours before. Early t...
Podur: Stop the Deadly Rumours
Znet Article, February, 21 2006
Justin Podur
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the US political police, mainly in the form of the FBI, infiltrated, spied upon, and violently attacked various social movement organizations. This effort, documented in Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall’s book, â&...
Podur: A Dishonest Case for a Coup
Znet Article, February, 16 2006
Justin Podur
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I was convinced, reluctantly, into replying to Deibert.
Podur: Kofi Annan's Haiti
Znet Article, February, 10 2006
Justin Podur
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In the vast corrugated-iron shanty town of Cité Soleil, home to quarter of a million people, all the schools are shut down and the one hospital closed. White armoured UN personnel carriers patrol the perimeter, half a dozen blue-helmeted heads po...
Podur: Wrong Direction, Canada
Commentary, January, 24 2006
Justin Podur
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On January 23, 2006, CanadaÕs Conservative Party won national power. 2006 is an important year for elections in the Americas. Two have already occurred. In Bolivia, Evo Morales became the first indigenous President in a country that is majority in...
Podur: Aristide the Film
Znet Article, December, 13 2005
Justin Podur
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Review: Aristide and the Endless Revolution. 2005. Baraka Productions. 83 min. Movie site: www.aristidethefilm.com Available from www.firstrunfeatures.com Each fact is disputed. Haiti’s President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown ...
Podur: Detestable Murderers and Scumbags
Znet Article, December, 05 2005
Justin Podur
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ON JULY 11, 2005, WITH great nuance and tact, Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff General Hillier described the forces arrayed against the NATO mission in Afghanistan: “These are detestable murderers and scumbags, I’ll tell...
Podur: Two Faced in Haiti
Znet Article, October, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Last week we talked to Desmond Molloy, an old soldier who heads the 'DDR' program for MINUSTAH, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 'DDR' stands for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration. Molloy's previous experience, among other confl...
Podur: The Elections Game is On
Znet Article, September, 26 2005
Justin Podur
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The Elections Game is On
Podur: The Polls of Bel Air
Znet Article, September, 23 2005
Justin Podur
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The post-coup Haitian presidential election, currently planned for November 20, has a list of 54 candidates. The Canadian Prime Minister's 'special advisor on Haiti', Denis Coderre, suggested yesterday that this sprawling list of candidates was a ...
Podur: From the Embassy to the Prison
Znet Article, September, 21 2005
Justin Podur
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From the Embassy to the Prison
Podur: Refugees and Citizens
Znet Article, September, 05 2005
Justin Podur
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Jesse Jackson and Bruce Gordon are just two of many high-profile Black leaders who have expressed indignation at the description of those displaced by Hurricane Katrina as ‘refugees’. ‘It is just wrong’, Jackson sai...
Podur: Removing the Accidental Protection
Znet Article, August, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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What is behind the Gaza ‘disengagement plan’? It has been spelled out clearly enough by Ariel Sharon’s own advisor, Dov Weisglass, in an often-quoted Ha’aretz interview about ‘freezing’ the pea...
Podur: People of Color Talk is Cheap
Commentary, July, 05 2005
Justin Podur
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Any category or concept is going to leave important things out. ItÕs the nature of abstraction. Using the term ÔBlackÕ to describe a group of people can obscure more than it reveals. As a biological category it is meaningless, as is the concept of...
Podur: Colombian Government's Counteroffensive
Znet Article, May, 20 2005
Justin Podur
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Vicente Otero was once the elected mayor of the small Colombian town of Caldono in the department of Cauca. He was instrumental in the Nasa indigenous movement’s recent referendum against the Free Trade Agreement, in which record numbers p...
Podur: Will people power have a chance in Colombia?
Znet Article, April, 23 2005
Justin Podur
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Yesterday (April 22), as the attacks on their communities continue to intensify, the indigenous communities of Northern Cauca, specifically Toribio and now Jambalo, convoked an assembly in the main city of the region, Santander de Quilichao. Suppo...
Podur: No social problem imperialism can't fix (some info on Born into Brothels)
Blog Post, April, 08 2005
Justin Podur
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Full disclosure: I liked the film at first. I liked the methodology of the teaching. I adored the kids and thought they took extraordinary photos. But there was something gnawing at me as well. I looked around for reviews and came across the follo...
Podur: No social problem imperialism can't fix (some info on Born into Brothels)
Blog Post, April, 08 2005
Justin Podur
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Full disclosure: I liked the film at first. I liked the methodology of the teaching. I adored the kids and thought they took extraordinary photos. But there was something gnawing at me as well. I looked around for reviews and came across the follo...
Podur: War Profiteering and us
Znet Article, January, 23 2005
Justin Podur
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[A talk given in Ottawa on January 21 to an anti-imperialist group at the beginning of a national campaign against SNC-Lavalin, a Canadian engineering firm with a huge number of contracts including a large bullet contract with the US Military]. F...
Podur: New Year's Eve 2004: It ain't over yet
Blog Post, January, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Let's take a look at the past year. I was looking back over my files on Colombia for the past year, trying to put together an article about it. Just write some straight history. Colombia's seen a mixed year. Brutal paramilitary violence, to be su...
