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Canadian Border Services Agency and immigration enforcement officials barred from Toronto women's shelters

| November 26, 2010

A grassroots campaign scored a major victory last month when the Canadian Border Services Agency issued a directive to enforcement officers telling them to stay away from shelters or other spaces for women who are escaping domestic violence.

In October, the Director of Inland Immigration Enforcement, GTA Region, for the Canadian Border Services Agency told his officers that women who leave an abusive situation to the safety of a shelter or other community service have a right to confidentiality and access to support services.

November 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

In 1999, the UN declared November 25 to be the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. There's not a lot of events going on in Canada, that I can find, but it's something that I wanted to bring to the attention of babblers.

Some history about this day.

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Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Geo-engineering False & Dangerous. The New Feminist Revolution. No Running Water on northern reserves.

November 17, 2010

| Alert! Radio #165 - Interviews with Sarah k Granke, Grand Chief Ron Evans, and Dianna Bronson. Headlines, Around the Left in 7 Days and Music is the Weapon.

Length: 1:00:16

Voice of Women: Working for feminism and peace for 50 years

Judy Rebick

| November 12, 2010

Today the Voice of Women For Peace celebrates its 50th Anniversary with a free conference at Hart House and a gala dinner.

My last book Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution starts in the early 1960's with the emergence of an extraordinary group called Voice of Women for Peace that challenged the anti-communist monoculture of the Cold War with a warm embrace directed towards the women who were supposedly our enemies. The Voice of Women, as pioneer feminist Ursula Franklin points out below was the seedbed for the feminist revolution in Canada and we were lucky it came before preparing the ground in many ways.

"Glee" Girls in racy GQ photo shoot

Well, the white ones anyway...

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So why are so many people upset by the pictorial in the current issue of GQ?

Because of “Glee.” Those half-naked schoolgirls with the come hither eyes aren’t just any models. They’re the girls of “Glee.”

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Multiculturalism at its best

Uzma Shakir

| November 5, 2010

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, claimed recently in a bizarre twist of logic that "multiculturalism" did not work in Germany. Really? When exactly did Germany have a commitment to "multiculturalism"? Does she really believe that their labour market strategy of getting cheap labour from Turkey without offering those workers a status, let alone equality, in Germany is multiculturalism?

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Reel Women

DVD review: Two very different takes on life in the U.S. of A.

November 3, 2010

| Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond talk about Sundance winner A Winter's Bone and Look at American Psycho.

Length: 09:49 minutes (6.78 MB)

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#112 - If you want to make your point, you have to speak out!

October 26, 2010

| In this episode of rabble radio: mapping dirty energy producers everywhere, Eternia speaks on women rappers and a new talking stick online.

Length: 29:00

The F Word

It ain't that type of party: women in hip hop

October 23, 2010

| Where is the female MC? The F Word explores women in hip hop. Featuring an interview with Eternia.

Length: 59:43

G8/G20 Communique: Toronto 30th Annual Take Back the Night

Krystalline Kraus

| October 22, 2010

Note: The image is of Skadi. You can read about my heroine here and why I am the way that I am.

I get really tired of having to explain myself and my history to others who want to challenge my essence as a woman. I know my ancestors would be proud of me.

30 Years of Struggle, Resistance, Liberation?

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