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Last week, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported that the number of migrants and refugees from Venezuela has reached 3 million. We’ve seen a lot about this on the news but there are some different interpretations about what is causing this mass migration that you don’t hear. Last May, rabble.ca was part of a delegation that went…
Last week, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported that the number of migrants and refugees from Venezuela has reached 3 million. We’ve seen a lot about this on the news but there are some different interpretations about what is causing this mass migration that you don’t hear. Last May, rabble.ca was part of a delegation that went…
Author Bruce Campbell weaves a skillful narrative about how policy failure devastated lives in a tragic story of big oil, deregulation and free market ideology.
The sound of a train in the night… it’s a comforting sound that tells us somebody’s out there in the darkness. But to the people of Lac-Mégantic in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, the sound of a train has very different associations. It’s a reminder of that night — July 6, 2013 just after 1 am,…
David Mivasair is a dual citizen campaigning in the U.S. ahead of Tuesday’s midterms. Joe Jencks is a singer-songwriter from the Chicago area. They talk and sing about taking their country back.
Even though we’re in Canada, many of us are watching the U.S. midterms next Tuesday with hope, and also fear and trepidation. Not just because the U.S. and Canada have important economic links, but also because what’s happening in the U.S. also affects our social and political life up here. In particular, we’ve seen that…
Even though we’re in Canada, many of us are watching the U.S. midterms next Tuesday with hope, and also fear and trepidation. Not just because the U.S. and Canada have important economic links, but also because what’s happening in the U.S. also affects our social and political life up here. In particular, we’ve seen that…
Lois Ross was one of many young Canadians who went down to Nicaragua after the election of the Sandinistas in the ’80s. Thirty years later, she says there are some similarities to those times.
A campaign like no other — Phillip Dwight Morgan talks about the surprises, successes and disappointments in the weeks leading up to the Toronto municipal election.
Cesar Jaramillo, executive director of Project Ploughshares talks to David Kattenburg of the Green Planet Monitor about a harsh truth the warrior nations don’t ever address.
Janet Spring lives the small rural community of Elmvale, Ontario. When her son-in-law was imprisoned in Honduras for political activism, her community rallied to help.
When rabble.ca podcast producer Victoria Fenner was driving out in the farmlands outside Barrie, Ontario where she lives, she noticed a billboard that wasn’t the usual ad to buy real estate, furniture or other consumer commodities. On the side of the road, next to a stand of forest, the billboard said ‘Free Political Prisoners in Honduras. Free…
