–Check out this group of ignorant bigots in BC.

–With Irving running most of the province it is not surprising.

–This is becoming the year of Conservative attacks on the lives of same-sex couples and gay and lesbians individual rights and freedoms. There is a move by the rather reactionary lot that make up the Conservative parties in North America to focus all their energy on oppressing this group of people. The Left must stand opposed to this Conservative behaviour and engage in some real tolerance and acceptance building.

–Yes, it is a critique of Tony Blair but it is nothing new at all. The Left has been saying this since he got into the leadership of Labour and brought his NeoLabour cronies with him. There is a new wave in the party under Brown to have more of the same only a little more right-wing. Things have to change in Britain and they are only going to do so if people continue to organise from the grassroots and either start taking back the Party or building a new one.

–History of Cuba and the current situation of the US and Cuba relations (or lack there of). This is a very interesting read and well worth printing out for later.

–The oppression of the poor in Haiti is just unbelievable. The so-called peacekeepers in Haiti are treating the local population like animals. Our voices need to be louder here in Canada if we are going to stop the killing of innocent civilians.

–There should be international condemnation of this barbaric act.

–More immigrants? We always welcome more immigrants, but what is to stop them from going out West with the rest of the people that want jobs? The real solution to the migration of our working people to Alberta is to start investing in real jobs and a living wage here in NB. The current plans for this province are not very inventive and are really just more of the same. If we want people to stay in NB and work we are going to have to change the way we look at our economy and the bank on the real value of our people here in the province.

–The pipeline cannot be too popular in Alaska.

–One wonders how dangerous these suspected “terrorists” actually are if they are releasing them on bail all the time. I would suspect that they are not. We need to really start think about rights of people in Canada and some real ways that this country can deal with a government that seems to be more interested in sowing fear than peace.

At least five people, including a 14 year old boy, were killed when Bangladesh police opened fire on a demonstration of 20,000 some people against a UK-owned coal project on Saturday.

–Unions are under attack again in the US at a very basic level. There are many in the business community that would love to re-classify everyone under the “supervisor” label so that the workers would lose their union membership. It is something that we should keep an eye out for up here as well.

–Here is the speech given by the Fredericton Sexual Assault Crisis Center at the recent Pro-Choice Rally held in Fredericton, NB. The pictures of the rally are also up on the Citizens’ Press. This needs to be made an election issue.

–Almost no one in Iraq wants the US troops there anymore. Have a look at the latest polls coming from the ground in Iraq.

–Crazy. Just crazy. The Evangelist movement in the US and around the world have been so successful in attacking materialism, especially evolution, in the minds of the general public that the Pope is now thinking of backing the lie of Intelligent Design. If ever there was a failure of our governments, scientists, and social systems including education and media it is over this issue. The attacks on materialism must be stopped and the only way this is going to happen is if people start speaking up in defense of those general ideas that are grounded in reality. ID is not anything but an insidious way to get people to rethink materialist explanations of reality and be put in a vulnerable position to be preyed upon by fundamentalist orthodoxy. We have to stop this before we are dragged back into the middle ages by these people who want nothing by power over others through the spreading of ignorance.

–It almost goes without saying the the Tories and the Liberals have had a long history of failing the people of this province (especially those most in need). We are going to have to rebuild this province from the grassroots up and re-engage people in the political process. This would be a lot easier to do if we had a few New Democrats in the Provincial Legislature.

–The political wing of US imperialism, US AID, continues it’s insidious work inside Venezuela to work against democracy. The people of Venezuela deserve to have their democracy without US medling. Hands-off Venezuelan democracy.

–A new unionized Tim Hortons at the University of British Columbia.

–Renegotiate? How about scrap it! The new leader of the Green (Elizabeth May) is touting that her leadership will bring the Green Party more to the left. I would say that any party leader that wins only 60-odd percent of the vote in a party against two openly right-wingers is not a solidly left-wing party. Also, if the leader can make that much difference in the party then it also is not a very democratic party and will not consistently represent any political position. The only party right now that represents the interests of the working people in the legislature of Canada is the NDP. Any suggestion that the Greens are going to do this is a joke as there are too many capital interests in the Greens to take their social positions seriously. It is time that the Greens were exposed as what they really are.

–The Nurses Union is very concerned about this and so should the rest of the people of Newfoundland. Hands off our health care system.

–This too frequently happens when the US and Britain are involved in conflict in other nations. They bring their prejudices with them and do not listen to the peoples’ representatives on the ground. The people of the conflict deserve the final say in their own conflicts, the international community should only be there to make it easier for these desires to be made. We must help stop the killing not get in the way of the peace process.

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We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

This movement was not a movement of “gradualists” it was a movement for revolution.