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Secretive contract reveals Ontario and Border Services jointly responsible for detention injustice
2015-06-24
No One is Illegal / End Immigration Detention Network
The End Immigration Detention Network is releasing a secretive contract between the Ontario and Federal government which shows joint responsibility for immigration detention violations. Ontario has de...
Toronto passes municipal Access Without Fear policy after marathon debate
2013-02-22
Toronto City Council becomes the first city in Canada to pass an Access Without Fear policy at the municipal level.

Sources Select Resources

Black Immigrants, 'Model' Minority? Plus: Don Imus
Dickerson, Debra
Article
2008
Mother Jones
'Black' is a label which obscures more than it illuminates.
Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus
Website
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
Extremism goes mainstream
Across Europe far-right parties are gaining power by forming coalitions while liberals have failed to find a coherent response
Traynor, Ian
Article
2010
The Guardian
Right wing extremist parties that attempt to stir up racial and ethnic prejudices have been gaining support during the recession in Europe. In Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy liberals already form ...
How Private Prisons Profit From the Criminalization of Immigrants
Lobbying for Lock-Up
Carlsen, Laura
Article
2012
CounterPunch
How a nation uses its power to deny a person’s freedom has always been a critical measure of authoritarian rule. Massive incarceration based on race, ethnic origin or nationality, political beliefs, c...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Article
2016
Connexions
Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appe...
Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw families from their homes
Muñoz, Monica; Tremlett, Giles
Article
2013
The Guardian
In the years of the housing boom, Spain's banks offered 100% mortgages. Now, while receiving millions in public aid, they are throwing people out of their homes. But there's a rebellion under way.
Political Correctness: Handle with Care
Street, Paul
Article
2016
CounterPunch
Racial, gender, and ethnic diversity matters, of course, but political correctness (PC) tied to bourgeois identity politics can be deadly to left thinkers and activists and to the causes of peace and ...
Secretive contract reveals Ontario and Border Services jointly responsible for detention injustice
Sources News Release
Article
2015
No One is Illegal / End Immigration Detention Network
The End Immigration Detention Network is releasing a secretive contract between the Ontario and Federal government which shows joint responsibility for immigration detention violations. Ontario has de...
Shooting to Kill Immigrants on the Mexican Border
A Border Agent Fired First at Immigrant Smugglers?
Lindorff, Dave
Article
2012
CounterPunch
Sometimes it takes a small tragedy to call attention to expose a much bigger one. The small tragedy happened when Nicholas Ivie, a US Border Patrol agent, was shot dead on a dark night in rough terra...
What's Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World
Nair, Yasmin
Article
2012
We need to refuse the narratives of abjection that are routinely forced upon us. They only render us immobile creatures, begging for help. We are all neoliberals now. We're all selling our bodies, our...

Sources Bookshelf

Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Lemon, James T.
Book
1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the ti...
Made in America
An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Bryson, Bill
Book
1994
A history of American English.
Media and Minorities
Representing Diversity in a Multicultral Canada
Fleras, Augie; Kuhz, Jean Lock
Book
2001
An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.


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