Occupy Toronto 24 June 2012 by Michael Holloway UptakeVideo covers Minneapolis Occupy Homes on-going action at the Cruz family home in South Minneapolis. Occupy Homes occupied the house to prevent the families eviction after they fell into foreclosure due to a bank error. Minneapolis Police are now occupying the house – so Occupy members in carefully planned actions, are volunteering to cr... Read More »
with the recent Masquerade March through the downtown it is important to keep drawing attention to issues like Tuition and the Right to Protest. Earlier in the week the Provincial gov’t passed the Budget which had a lot of cuts that will affect residents. There was a surtax on those making over $500,000.00 which would be 23,000 Ontarians of 13,600,000 people OR 0.001691 NOT QUITE the 1% We are the... Read More »
By Chris Maisano of Democratic Socialists of America and the Jacobin editorial board At the height of Occupy Wall Street’s efflorescence, when the enragés who took up residence in Zuccotti Park succeeded in raising the battle standard of the 99% for the entire world to see, I sat down for an interview with Frances Fox Piven to help make sense of what was unfolding before us. Although I thought I k... Read More »
given the World is still reeling from the crisis caused by the Wall Street Elite since 2008. The agreements made in the Toronto G20 look doubtful as the blame will go to Europe see Greece, Spain?! for their purchase of toxic assets from Amerika. The G20 countries include the G8 plus Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey and ... Read More »
Occupy Toronto 15 June 2012 by Michael Holloway Leslieville is an East end Toronto neighbourhood that was formerly a small village on the outskirts of Old Toronto. It is centred by Leslie Grove Park at Jones Avenue and Queen Street East – two blocks West of Leslie Street. Leslie Grove Park is the site of the former tree nurseries of Scottish horticulturalist entrepreneur, and village founde... Read More »
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