Tagged With: international politics
Remembering the Victoria mutiny
On December 21, 2011, I helped commemorate a forgotten mutiny of French-Canadian soldiers that occurred 93 years ago at the corner of Fort and Quadra streets in downtown Victoria, as the 259th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (Siberia) embarked for the port of Vladivostok and service in the Russian Civil War. I first discovered … Continue reading
In solidarity with the 99%
Victoria, like cities across Canada, North America and the globe, has become a site of contestation, where young and old people have drawn a line in the sand against a system they believe is built upon inequality and exploitation. These visionaries offer the brightest beacon in a generation of the possibility for a better world. The … Continue reading
Understanding needed in Middle East
Letter to the Editor published in the Victoria Times Colonist, 20 March 2006 I feel compelled to respond to an inflammatory headline in your newspaper (‘Terrorist Palestinian leader talks of Israeli peace deal’, March 18). Ismail Haniyeh is the democratically elected leader of the Palestinian people. While I may not agree with his theological approach … Continue reading
Remembering Carlo Giulliani
Earlier this summer, a 23-year-old Italian named Carlo Guilliani was shot dead in Genoa. As tens of thousands protested a summit of the G-8 powers, the young man was captured on film raising a fire extinguisher above his head, apparently poised to smash the window of a police jeep. A moment later, Carlo was shot … Continue reading
A peoples’ agenda
Letter to the Editor published in the Victoria Times Colonist, 2 December 1999 I was in Seattle on November 30, along with thousands of others saying ‘no’ to the World Trade Organization and its corporate agenda. The WTO was shut down that day as ordinary citizens filled the streets of Seattle to put forward an … Continue reading
Stop bombing, start talking
Letter to the Editor of the Victoria Times Colonist, 21 April 1999 Prime Minister Jean Chretien announced in the House of Commons on April 21 that Canada will “send some ground troops” into Yugoslavia if our NATO allies do. “We won’t be the one not to be a member of the team.” Canada should not … Continue reading
Rolling over
Letter to the Editor published in the Victoria Times Colonist, 27 August 1996 I was appalled to learn that US President Bill Clinton has signed a bill dismantling the US welfare system. That the so-called mightiest nation in the world, the supposed hallmark of the advantages of technology, industrialization, and unfettered free-enterprise, could abandon the … Continue reading
