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Rabble.ca
rabble.ca is an independent, non profit, English-language Canadian online magazine founded in 2001. It features podcasts, videos and a discussion board called ''babble''. History Judy Rebick and Mark Surman founded rabble.ca on April 18, 2001. The launch coincided with the Summit of the Americas in Quebec, and rabble covered the Summit during its first week of operation. Anti-globalization activist Jaggi Singh was an early contributor. Due to his participation in protests at the Summit of the Americas he was jailed for offences including possession of a weapon. Rabble, along with other left-wing organisations and activists, wrote an open letter calling for his release. Upon its launch, the website raised $200,000, which included $120,000 from the Atkinson Foundation. In 2005 rabble launched a first podcast network, developed by journalist Wayne MacPhail. In the same year, Judy Rebick resigned as publisher and was replaced by past Managing Editor, Kim Elliott. On Septe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaggi Singh (activist)
Jaggi Singh is a Canadian anti-globalization, social justice, and anarchist activist. Singh has worked with Montreal based groups such as Solidarity Across Borders and No one is illegal collective. 1997 APEC summit Singh was active in the protests outside the 1997 APEC conference held in Vancouver. According to Canadian Member of Parliament, Svend Robinson, the day before the summit started: "Jaggi Singh, one of the organizers of the APEC alert ... asarrested, wrestled to the ground on the UBC campus by three plainclothes police officers, handcuffed, thrown in the back of an unmarked car with tinted glass, driven off and locked up during the APEC summit." Singh was charged with assault after allegedly yelling into the ear of a campus security guard with a megaphone and spent the duration of the conference in jail. In February 1999, the assault charge was dropped by Crown prosecutors before going to trial. Singh was one of 51 people to file a complaint against the conduct of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Rebick
Judy Rebick (born August 15, 1945) is a Canadian writer, journalist, political activist, and feminist. Early life Born in Reno, Nevada, Rebick and her family moved to Toronto when she was 9. She became a socialist activist in the 1970s, joining the Revolutionary Marxist Group. She was a member of its successor, the Revolutionary Workers League, and wrote articles for the RWL's newspaper, ''Socialist Voice'', until she left the organization in the early 1980s. Career 1980s Rebick first gained prominence in her role as spokesperson for the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics, a pro-choice group, in the 1980s. In 1983, when a man attacked Henry Morgentaler with garden shears outside of his Toronto abortion clinic, Rebick blocked the attack, and Morgentaler escaped unharmed. Augusto Dantas was charged with assault and with possession of a weapon dangerous to the public good. She became active in the mid-1980s with an internal group within the Ontario New Democratic Party c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and Criticism of capitalism, capitalism. In 2021, Klein took up the UBC Professorship in Climate Justice, joining the University of British Columbia's Department of Geography. She has been the co-director of the newly launched Centre for Climate Justice since 2021. Klein first became known internationally for her alter-globalization book ''No Logo'' (1999). ''The Take (2004 film), The Take'' (2004), a documentary film about Buenos Aires, Argentine Workers' self-management, workers' self-managed factories, written by her and directed by her husband Avi Lewis, further increased her profile. ''The Shock Doctrine'' (2007), a critical analysis of the history of Neoliberalism, neoliberal economics, solidified her standing as a prominent activist on the international stage and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Summit Of The Americas
The 3rd Summit of the Americas was a summit held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, on April 20–22, 2001. This international meeting was a round of negotiations regarding a proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. The talks are perhaps better known for the security preparations and demonstrations (known as the Quebec City protest) that surrounded them than for the progress of the negotiations. Overview The " Summits of the Americas" is the name for a continuing series of summits bringing together the leaders of North America and South America. The function of these summits is to foster discussion of a variety of issues affecting the western hemisphere. These high-level summit meetings have been organized by a number of multilateral bodies under the aegis of the Organization of American States. In the early 1990s, what were formerly ''ad hoc'' summits came to be institutionalized into a regular "Summits of the Americas" conference program.Twaddle, Andrew C. (2002) ''Health ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Anderson
Doris Hilda Anderson, (November 10, 1921 – March 2, 2007) was a Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. She is best known as the editor of the women's magazine ''Chatelaine'', mixing traditional content (recipes, décor) with thorny social issues of the day (violence against women, pay equality, abortion, race, poverty), putting the magazine on the front lines of the feminist movement in Canada. Her activism beyond the magazine helped drive social and political change, enshrining women's equality in the Canadian Constitution and making her one of the most well-known names in the women's movement in Canada. Personal life Doris Anderson was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta as Hilda Doris Buck to Rebecca Laycock Buck and Thomas McCubbin. Mrs. Buck, whose first husband had abandoned her and her two young sons, leaving them in debt, met McCubbin when he was a guest at her mother's boarding house in Calgary. She was staying with her sisters in Medicine Hat when Ande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penney Kome
Penney Kome is a Canadian author and journalist, and the former editor of '' Straight Goods'', a Canadian independent online newsmagazine. She posts articles to the journal ''Facts and Opinions'', an employee-owned journalist cooperative, and blog posts to the On The Other Hand (OTOH) blog for ''rabble.ca'', a Canadian not-for-profit online outlet. Overview Kome was born in Chicago in 1948 and raised in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. She later attended Shimer College, a small Great Books college then located in Mount Carroll, Illinois. She immigrated to Canada in 1968. She has published six books: ''Somebody Has To Do It: Whose Work Is Housework?'' shows how unpaid work underpins the paid workforce, like Marilyn Waring's ''If Women Counted'' but with 32 Canadian interviews (McClelland & Stewart, 1982); ''The Taking of Twenty-Eight: Women Challenge the Constitution'' a narrative account of a historic spontaneous national political campaign that introduced a new definitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of North American cities by population, fourth-most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. As of 2024, the census metropolitan area had an estimated population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multiculturalism, multicultural and cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francine Pelletier (journalist)
Francine Pelletier (born c. 1955) is a journalist based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is the founder of a feminist newspaper, ''La Vie en Rose'', and has written for '' La Presse'', ''Le Devoir'', and the ''Montreal Gazette''. After the École Polytechnique massacre on December 6, 1989, in which 14 women were murdered by Marc Lepine, she lobbied for the public release of the gunman's suicide letter. It was leaked to her on November 22, 1990, and was subsequently published in ''La Presse''. The letter included a list of 19 prominent Quebec feminists whom Marc Lepine had apparently wished to target, and her name was one of those listed. She has been a commentator on the PBS program, ''The Editors'', and has worked as a correspondent for CBC Television on '' The National Magazine'' and as a co-host of '' The Fifth Estate''. Since leaving the CBC, Pelletier has become a documentary filmmaker, having produced ''Monsieur'', a film about former Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Settee
Priscilla Settee is a Cree activist for Native rights, women's rights and environmental rights living in Canada. She is the director of the Indigenous People's program at the University of Saskatchewan. Biography Settee is from north Saskatchewan. She attended Trent University and then became a teacher in Saskatchewan. She works with Aboriginal gang members and she is a professor at the University of Saskatchewan. Her specialty in Native studies is researching Aboriginal ways of understanding the world in the fields of sciences and engineering. As a professor, she stresses real-world learning, assigning community service to her students. Settee was on the board of the Oskayak High School, the only Aboriginal high school in Saskatoon. from 1996 to 2013. As an activist, she has worked to set up a shelter for women facing domestic violence in Prince Albert. In 1996, she was the only Canadian woman on the board of the Indigenous Women's Network (IWN). In 2013, she was awarded the Quee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says that it has more than ten million members and supporters around the world. The stated mission of the organization is to campaign for "a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments". The organization has played a notable role on human rights issues due to its frequent citation in media and by world leaders. AI was founded in London in 1961 by the lawyer Peter Benenson. In what he called "The Forgotten Prisoners" and "An Appeal for Amnesty", which appeared on the front page of the British newspaper ''The Observer'', Benenson wrote about two students who toasted to freedom in Portugal and four other people who had been jailed in other nations because of their beliefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Shin
Ann Shin is a filmmaker and writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Early life Shin was born in London, Ontario to parents Sue Shin (née Kim) and Albert Shin. Her mother was born in South Korea, moved to Canada, and worked as a registered nurse. Her father was an agriculturalist specializing in Animal Husbandry in Denmark and at the University of Guelph. Her parents met and got married in Toronto, but soon moved to Langley, British Columbia to start a mushroom farm. Shin spent most of her childhood years on the family farm. In 2019, Shin lost her father to dementia. Shin moved to Toronto, and completing a Bachelor of Arts, Honors, and Master of Arts in English Literature at University of Toronto. During her university years, she wrote three articles for the University of Toronto Student Newspaper, ''The Varsity''. She also hosted the program ''Rights Radio'' on CIUT radio station. Upon graduation, she started working at CBC as a radio producer. Journalism career Shin's jou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rideau Institute
The Rideau Institute is a non-profit independent research and advocacy group based in Ottawa. It focuses on foreign policy and defence policy issues. It was founded in January 2007. It is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Personnel Directors * Peggy Mason, President of the Rideau Institute, former UN Ambassador for Disarmament * Steven Staples, Vice-President of the Rideau Institute, commentator, and author o''Missile Defence: Round One''* Michael Byers, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia and author of Intent for a Nation, What is Canada For?' * Bruce Campbell, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and author of numerous books and studies on Canadian public policy * Kathleen Ruff, former Director of the British Columbia Human Rights Commission and former director of the Court Challenges Program Senior Advisors * Maude Barlow, author and Chairperson of The Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
