Shocking Fashion Trends

Leopard Taser

What do you give the friend who has everything? How about a leopard print Taser™ with a holster that is also an MP3 player? The Taser C2 models retail for between $US349.99 and $US379.99 ($435) depending on the chosen design. The Taser C2 holster with MP3 player costs $US72.99 ($83). If one must carry a [...]

Yet another death at the hands of police

Robert Knipstrom, 36, died early Saturday in hospital, four days after two officers used pepper spray, a taser and their batons on the Chilliwack, B.C., resident, who reportedly was acting erratically in a Chilliwack rental store. {the Globe} My family and I along with other activists from Bread and Roses attended the rally to remember [...]

“Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize.”

Robert Dziekanski, like Joe Hill was executed by the state on false pretences. Joe Hill famously intoned; “Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize.” Let us organize on behalf of Robert Dziekanski and attend one of the following rallies, or organize one in your area. Vancouver: Protest against RCMP using excessive force on Robert! Host: [...]

Uniform Murder

Let’s start with a definition. Murder: To kill (another human) unlawfully. To kill brutally or inhumanly. Which we will follow up with a snuff film… er video of an incident. {opens Windows Media Player} Nothing less than the word murder applies to what appears in that video. This was not a life or death action [...]

“Well, you’re not going to solve the problem if you even refuse to say what it is.”

War on Women

The Star carried this article yesterday about The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hursham, and Criminal Domestic Violence in Canadian Homes, by Brian Vallée. Stephen Lewis wrote an impassioned foreword for the book, urging the creation of a fully funded United Nations international agency for women that would provide “a tremendous force for advocacy [...]