Briarpatch articles from July 2003

Briarpatch archives from July 2003

Openers.(Canadian Library Association's award for Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada)(Briarpatch awards)(pesticide bylaws in Toronto, Ontario)(organic meat)
July 1, 2003... AWARD-WINNING FREEDOM FIGHTER Surrey, BC kindergarten teacher James Chamberlain is this year's winner of the prestigious Award for the Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada, presented by the Canadian Library Association. The...

70th anniversary of the CCF.(Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and first leader, J.S. Woodsworth)(Related article: Preamble of the Regina Manifesto)(Reprint)
July 1, 2003... Murray Fines was only 1 year old in 1933 when his father, Clarence Fines, attended the first national convention of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in Regina. Murray doesn't remember it, but he does recall some years later, the...

Regina union centre mural.(Saskatchewan Centennial Workers Celebration Committee commissions mural)
July 1, 2003... I was shocked, absolutely tremendously shocked! It feels amazing that I can create art work for our community, to share with the working class community--especially a monument that is for them and for their hard work and their achievements....

Speeding to death and destruction.(Saskatchewan drivers compromise safety and environment )(speed laws contravene Kyoto agreement)
July 1, 2003... On June 1 of this year the speed limit on all twinned highways in Saskatchewan increased from 100 to 110 km/hour. There seems to have been very little discussion or debate on the matter. This is surprising considering the issues involved. ...

The murky waters of reality. (Artist's Voices).(Gabriel Yhyahkeekoot's first film)(Poem)(Excerpt)
July 1, 2003... As the credits rolled, the crowd went wild! It was the premier showing of Gabriel Yhyahkeekoot's first film. On June // the screening room at the Saskatchewan Filmpool Co-operative was packed with people interested in hearing the voices of...

Focusing on the other human rights.(Excerpt)
July 1, 2003... Amnesty International Canada (English speaking) recently held its annual general meeting in Regina. In her key note address, Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, outlined several of the challenges facing human rights...

When women stand up to tyrants: The consequences are frightening but the victories are sweet. Patricia Elliott meets a group of women who caught Burma's brutal dictatorship off guard.
July 1, 2003... Nay Ley stands in silence, in the shadow of a small hut in a clearing at the foot of the Shan mountains, on the borderlands between Burma and Thailand. Her husband and two children have gone into the jungle to catch birds, leaving her to tend...

Echoes of Clayoquot Sound.
July 1, 2003... The ten year anniversary of the largest civil disobedience in Canadian history is here. During the summer of 1993 over 850 people were arrested and 12,000 people demonstrated in opposition to logging in the ancient forests of Clayoquot Sound....

Learn to be healthy: a look at the role that education plays in our quest for good health and longevity.
July 1, 2003... With the completion of exams, a time when some students put their well-being at risk by all-night cramming, it is time to reflect on the connection between education and health. Rising tuition fees and reduced accessibility to post-secondary...

Who decides? Toronto has trouble containing the SARS outbreaks.
July 1, 2003... The recent outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Toronto shone a harsh light on the inadequacies and outright failures of neoliberal public health policies and practices. It also showed clearly the extent to which...

September 11, 2001: Feminist perspectives. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Edited by Susan Hawthorne and Bronwyn Winter Spinifex Press, N. Melbourne, Australia, 2002. (soon to be reprinted in Canada) When the voices of war and the "war on terrorism" are raised around the world, the voices of women are silenced...

The greater common good. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Arundhati Roy India Book Distributers (Bombay) Ltd., 1999. In her non-fiction work, The Greater Common Good, Arundhati Roy integrates activism, literary technique, and passion into a powerful work of art. In this essay, Roy deals...

The new war on terrorism: fact and fiction. (Reviews).(Sound Recording Review)
July 1, 2003... Noam Chomsky AK Press/ G7 Welcoming Committee Oakland CA/ Winnipeg MB, 2002 Chomsky struck again shortly after September 11 with his bitting discourse on the new campaign on terror perpetrated by the United States and its allies....

In A Pig's Eye: Reflections on the police state, repression and Native America. (Reviews).(Audiovisual Review)
July 1, 2003... Ward Churchill AK Press/G7 Welcoming Committee Oakland CA/Winnipeg MB, 2002 In A Pig's Eye is a lecture that Ward Churchill gave at the New College of California in San Francisco in May 2001. A radical scholar, activist, former...

Say no to capitulation. (My Opinion).(American-Canadian relations)
July 1, 2003... The pressure is on. There is a view that Canada has lost something significant as a result of its show of independence in failing to back the invasion of Iraq. What of importance could we possibly have lost? Paul Martin says that we have...