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Johal: Justice at Stake: Chief Theresa Spence passes Day 15 of Hunger Strike
Znet Article, December, 29 2012
Am Johal
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It could become a generational moment that authentically opens up a new political space
Galloway: Interview
Znet Article, April, 29 2010
George Galloway
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Labour Party in the UK...
Johal: Coles Notes On Olympics, World Cups And Human Rights
Znet Article, April, 03 2010
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Just after the 2010 Olympic Games closing ceremonies took place, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Raquel Rolnik, presented a comprehensive report to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2010 on the impacts of mega-events that...
Johal: After the Games: BC Hangover Begins
Znet Article, March, 05 2010
Am Johal
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Budget Day in BC hit like a brick yesterday. After all the empty patriotism and uncritical headlines in Vancouver mainstream media that glossed over 8 years of democratic distortion, which approached neo-authoritarianism at times, the sad reality...
Johal: Red Tent Campaign Ready to Rock Vancouver During Olympics
Znet Article, February, 04 2010
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Some time after the Olympic opening ceremonies take place, there will be a sea of red tents fanning out around the downtown core. They will be housing homeless people and their supporters as a sign of visible protest at the inaction of government...
Johal: The Evangelical Economics of the 2010 Olympics
Znet Article, January, 29 2010
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As cities around the world fall all over themselves to bid to become the host city, civic elites bombard the public with tales of rosy financial projections. As the logic goes, to oppose the Olympics is to stand in the way of economic development...
Johal: Canada Needs to Re-establish a National Housing Program in 2010
Znet Article, January, 03 2010
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On December 29th, 2009, a rolling hunger strike calling for a national housing program in Canada reached the 1 year mark. Each week, for the past year, citizens in Vancouver have taken part in a week long fast to put pressure on the federal gover...
Johal: Waiting for the Circus to Leave: 2010 Vancouver Civics Lesson
Znet Article, December, 31 2009
Am Johal
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Just about everyone I know in Vancouver, can't wait for the 2010 Olympics to be over in Vancouver. There has been such a saturation of the airways and opportunity cost associated with hosting these Games, that many of us can't wait to talk about o...
Hern: Ten reasons to holler profanities at the television in February
Znet Article, December, 16 2009
Matt Hern
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The 2010 Winter Olympics are coming to Vancouver. For some folks that’s reason to celebrate but for most of us out here on Canada’s Left Coast it’s a disaster. The contemporary Olympic movement has strayed catastrophically from its origins a...
Johal: Vancouver 2010 Olympics Social Sustainability Legacy Under Fire
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
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On a quiet Sunday morning in the middle of April, 2008, representatives from three civil society organizations, a UBC student and his professor, held a press conference to launch a UN human rights complaint against the Government of Canada.
Brous: Bustan Interview
Znet Article, January, 12 2008
Devorah Brous
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When I first went to Israel , I went to learn more about my roots and culture, my traditions, to learn about my historical connection with the land of Israel. During the journey , I got very involved with the struggles of the peoples of the land....
Johal: Vancouver 2010 Olympics
Znet Article, December, 09 2007
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Glen Bailey is the Director of the Crossroads Urban Center in Salt Lake City and was a spokesperson with Impact 2002 and Beyond, an Olympic watchdog group in Salt Lake City in the lead up to the 2002 Winter Olympics. He spoke over the phone with ...
Johal: Native Way of Life Vanishing into the Clear-Cut
Znet Article, October, 16 2007
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VANCOUVER, Oct 9 (IPS) - As the Ontario election draws to a close on Wednesday, a long-running land rights battle continues in the east-centra...
Johal: Western Media and Israel's Democratic Facade
Znet Article, February, 22 2007
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Despite Israel’s identity and international reputation as a Western liberal democracy, Israeli academics such as Sammy Smooha have identified Israel as an ‘ethnic democracy.’ This implies serious consequences which not...
Johal: Unmasking Vancouver's Olympic Legacy: Poverty Cleansing the Downtown Eastside by Public Policy
Znet Article, February, 22 2007
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As nice smiling Canadians wave their maple leafs and commodified aboriginal logos in anticipatio...
Johal: The Obscenity of Vancouver's Olympic Games: Here Comes Frankenstein
Znet Article, February, 08 2007
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No, we can't blame it ...
Johal: The Aesthetics of Execution
Znet Article, January, 03 2007
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It is a form of irony, that in his final moments of life, Saddam Hussein, the half-baked ‘Butcher of Baghdad,’ appeared more dignified than his executioners – anonymous hooded police officers, randomly chosen, hastily carry...
Johal: A complicated kindness: Vancouver's heroin prescription trial raises research ethics concerns
Znet Article, December, 22 2006
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Though North America’s first heroin prescription trial is being described as successful in its early stages, it is being plagued with ethics questions regarding its research design and manner in which addicts are leaving the study. The st...
Johal: The Gaza Withdrawal and Newton's Law of Physics
Znet Article, June, 09 2005
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Ariel Sharon should be taking a victory lap - albeit in a tank or a bulldozer. On the week that marks the Israeli pre-emptive strike against Egypt, Syria and Jordan and its occupation of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), Gaza, the Golan ...
Johal: What Will Be the Sharon Legacy?
Znet Article, March, 29 2005
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As Israeli Arabs mark Land Day this week, Ariel Sharon's government announced what everybody already knew since last summer. The Israeli government is going to expand the Maaleh Adumim settlement bloc in the West Bank by 3,500 housing units. With ...
Johal: Hell in Hebron
Znet Article, September, 07 2004
Am Johal
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Going south on Rt. 60 from Jerusalem on one of the 29 settler highways in the West Bank, the summer heat is overwhelming. In the distance, you can see the terraced hillsides stacked in the landscape to catch rainfall as it has for centuries. You c...
Johal: The Bedouin Dilemma
Znet Article, July, 27 2004
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The Bedouin Dilemma
Johal: The State Cannot Legislate on Matters of Love
Znet Article, July, 08 2004
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Recently Israeli President Moshe Katsav publicly stated that human rights are basic rights and cannot be based on obligations set by the state – in other words, these rights are inherent to being human and cannot be taken away or limited b...
