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Activist Toolkit weekly roundup: Action against Guantanamo, zine making, squatting guide and event organizing

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Steffanie Pinch
| January 12, 2012

Now that the holidays are officially over, people are trudging back to school, work and everyday life. What welcomes us back isn't always something to look forward to: more news of human right violations, workplace exploitation and organizing objectives that can seem overwhelming. Luckily this week's toolkit is all about offering practical guides, breaking down those mammoth objectives into something positive you can do this week.

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Squatting

International squatters symbol

The Peterborough Coalition Against Poverty has created perhaps the best guide for squatters in Canada. The through 100 page guide covers everything you could ever want to know about reclaiming abandoned space as living space. Including:

An intro to squatting

Relevant land acts

Legal information for young people, squatters with children, migrants, youth, people with disabilities and psychiatric survivors

Strategies for dealing with the law

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Brutal police eviction of community squatters at Montreal's Autonomous Social Centre

On May 29th 100  people occupied a defunct manufacturing building.

On May 30th  They were evicted
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the online radio broadcast can be hear by going to this url http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/33637


BRUTAL EVICTION AT THE AUTONOMOUS SOCIAL CENTER? the riot squad pepper sprays the squatters.


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Weekly Audit: Workers will build the recovery, not Wall Street

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The Media Consortium
| March 31, 2009

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium MediaWire Blogger

With new bailout plans for Wall Street being unveiled almost every week, it's easy to forget that nearly all of the work that fuels our economy takes place outside of Manhattan. While reviving the financial sector is an important part of recovery, any lasting economic solution must also empower American workers and protect them from corporate abuses.

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