"There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power, and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest.
Paul Craig Roberts, Good-Bye: Truth has fallen and taken Liberty with it.
Early in the morning on Friday, September 24, FBI agents in Chicago and Minnesota's Twin Cities kicked in the doors of anti-war activists, brandishing guns, spending hours rifling through their homes. The FBI took away computers, photos, notebooks and other personal property. Residents were issued subpoenas to appear before a grand jury in Chicago. It was just the latest in the ongoing crackdown on dissent in the U.S., targeting peace organizers as supporters of "foreign terrorist organizations."
Reading AK Thompson's book Black Bloc, White Riot kept bringing to mind one particular memory from the Summit of the Americas protests in Quebec City a decade ago.
Join us for a public dialogue about the politics of dissent.
Keynote speakers:
- Peter Rosenthal, G20 lawyer
- Farrah Miranda, No One Is Illegal - Toronto
10 a.m. - 5:30 a.m.
WLU Social Work, 120 Duke St. W
7 p.m.
Evening keynote, Little Bean Cafe
Academic freedom, journalism & democracy, creative resistance, the Radical Choir and more!
Editor's Note: Ms. Communicate will be writing twice a month columns on various and sundry issues related to advice, guidance and suggestions for living as happily as possible as citizens of various identities in the 21st century.
Ms. Communicate's column will be appearing on the second and fourth Thursday of the month. Please send in any topics that you would like her to cover, as well as any letters seeking advice, which she'd love to answer. Her email is mscommunicate(at)rabble.ca.
What can an advice columnist to the lefties possibly offer about the upcoming G8/G20 summit and the many protests taking place in resistance?
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