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Walia: 2011 and Reflecting on 11 Social Movement Successes
Znet Article, January, 08 2011
Harsha Walia
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It is hard to characterize 2010 as one of victories amidst unprecedented police arrests, relentless military occupation, daily state and oppressive violence...
Walia: Searching for Jake Sully in India’s Heartland
Znet Article, May, 03 2010
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
Building traditional irrigation systems, practicing forest conservation and cooperative farming, and providing educational and medical facilities in the isolated rural forests of India. This could apply to any NGO or charity, but is actually the w...
Walia: Remembering: the Day After
Znet Article, November, 15 2009
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
This is not about Remembrance Day, this is about the day after, and the day after. A journal of sorts, this is about all the remaining days of the year. An invocation to memorialize all those who have suffered and died due to human and corporate g...
Walia: Really Harper, Canada has no history of colonialism?
Znet Article, September, 28 2009
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
"We also have no history of colonialism..." - Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Walia: Military Aid or Raid: War on Terror Expands to Pakistan
Znet Article, August, 22 2009
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
On the eve of the 62nd anniversary of India's and Pakistan's independence from British rule, Obama justified the war on Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak) by evoking Bush's mantra: “This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 ar...
Walia: Komagata Maru and the Politics of Apologies
Znet Article, August, 24 2008
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
It is a moral obligation, a moral duty, for human beings to change unjust social orders and to not be easily blinded by the false expectations – and in this case false apologies – rendered by governments to placate us; to always be vigilant; to ne...
Walia: The Security And Prosperity Partnership Agreement
Znet Article, April, 26 2008
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
The SPP was founded in March 2005 at a summit of the Heads of State of Canada, the US, and Mexico with the backing of powerful lobby groups including US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), and Mexican C...
Walia: "Second Komagatamaru"
Znet Article, December, 21 2007
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
Laibar Singh is a 48-year old paralyzed Dalit Punjabi refugee claimant who is facing deportation to India. He had taken sanctuary on July 7 in the Abbotsford Sahib Kalgidhar Darbar Gurudwara. While in sanctuary, Mr. Singh’s health deteriorated and...
Walia: Increasing Precarity
Znet Article, July, 09 2007
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
This is an expanded version of the article that appeared in Left Turn #25 According to the United Nations, nearly 400 million people are migrant workers inside their own countries or outside their countries of birth. Whether in search of refuge o...
Walia: Canadian Capital in Asia
Znet Article, October, 08 2006
Harsha Walia
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Canadian Capital in Asia
Walia: Responding to the Toronto Terror Arrests
Znet Article, June, 13 2006
Harsha Walia
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Last weekend, in a pre-dawn raid, four hundred officers arrested seventeen Canadian Muslim youth and young men- mostly under the age of 25- in a grand anti-terrorism bust. Since then, Canadians have been subjected to sensationalist reports of the ...
Walia: Colonialism, Capitalism and the Making of the Apartheid System of Migration in Canada
Znet Article, March, 04 2006
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
Attention to national borders has figured prominently in the post-9-11 world and many have argued that 9/11 has created a new fortified world. The events of 9/11 certainly has reconfigured, but has not created, Canadian border policies, which has ...
Walia: The Row over the Danish Cartoons
Znet Article, February, 06 2006
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
From the burning of its flag to a boycott of its brands of butter and cookies, Denmark is feeling global outrage over newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The Danish paper Jyllands-Posten first published the cartoons on Sept. 30, 2005. The...
Walia: The Tsunami and the Discourse of Compassion
Znet Article, December, 30 2004
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
The exceptional intensity of the emotions- disbelief, compassion, and global concern- displayed at the Asian Tsunami disaster is a prime example of the discourse of compassion and humanitarianism created and fostered by the political climate and m...
Walia: The Greater of Two Evils
Znet Article, November, 05 2004
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
The Indian elections earlier this year brought some good news to our people. Since 1992 with the destruction of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, to the genocide in Gujarat in 2002, and all the time in between and beyond with the imposition of neo-liberal ...
Walia: Resistance Without Reservation!
Znet Article, August, 05 2004
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
As hundreds of thousands gather in New York to protest the Republican National Convention at the end of August, a smaller and less historic but perhaps more profound convergence will be taking place in the interior of British Columbia. More profou...
Walia: Legislated Poverty in Vancouver
Znet Article, June, 04 2004
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
Vancouver MLA Lorne Mayencourt has proposed a private members bill that makes it illegal to panhandle near bank machines and bus stops or to wash car windows on a roadway. Benignly tilted the "Safe Streets Act", the law is a continuation of the vi...
Walia: Resisting Displacement, North and South
Znet Article, August, 12 2003
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
(This piece is based on the process of forging links and building a movement of solidarity between immigrant/ refugee communities and the Kahniankehaka aka Mohawk community in the Occupied Territories of Montreal) In numerous and lengthy phone c...
