Alternatives International Journal

Articles

5 April 2011, by Stefan Christoff
Elections 2011 and criminalization of dissent

As election ads fill the airwaves and campaign buses travel Canada’s thawing highways over the next month, the national media-driven debate has shifted toward the possibility of the Conservatives (...)
15 March 2011, by Michael Ryan Wiseman
Then fall, Caesar

“Beware the ides of March.” And with these words the soothsayers stop soothing. This is not good news— not for a Caesar, a dictator, a self-styled demigod. Hope, ever last into the casket, (...)
15 March 2011, by Horace CAMPBELL
Saluting the revolutionary women of Egypt

Honouring the struggles of women all over the world against patriarchy and oppression in the week of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Horace Campbell focuses on the instrumental (...)
15 March 2011, by Juan Cole
King’s Nixonian Hearings against American Muslims

Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY)’s hearings on the alleged ‘radicalization’ of American Muslims are an affront to the brave Middle Eastern Muslims who have, during the past two months, thrown off (...)
15 March 2011, by Marcus Tan de Bibiana
An Awakened Journey

Manoeuvring through the colourful and busy neighbourhood blocks of Tamale is like stumbling through a marketplace without knowing what exactly you came for; there is something electrifying about (...)
15 March 2011, by Michael Lithgow
ART THREAT !!!

When Banksy offered to pay $133,000 US to get artists Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolayev out of a Russian jail, the local court said “nyet!”. But Russians charged with murder are routinely (...)
15 March 2011, by Salima Punjani
Reversing Stereotypes

December saw the end of the incredibly successful first annual Addis Ababa Foto Festival (AFF), but the creative momentum sparked by the festival is omnipresent. AFF was organized by Ethiopian (...)
15 March 2011, by Joel Balsam
Spinning Classes

Carefully placed on a round table in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel in downtown New Orleans lay a number of special edition Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly (GA) Ha’aretz (...)
15 March 2011, by Barbara Legault
ReBELLEs

In October 2008, under the theme of Toujours RebELLES — Waves of Resistance, 500 young feminists, aged fourteen to thirty-five, from all regions of Canada and Québec gathered in Montreal. What (...)
14 March 2011, by Robert Fisk
Palestinians Understand Gaddafi Better Than We Do

To Beirut. Storms. Heavy rain. Seas sweeping over the little port by my home. A meeting with a close friend of a son of Gaddafi. "He wants a battle, habibi, he wants a battle. He wants to be the (...)
14 March 2011, by Rob Rainer
Charities Should Not Be Politically Muzzled

The freedom of expression of Canada’s 80,000-plus charities is being unfairly restricted. According to the Income Tax Act (ITA) and a Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) policy, if a charity spends more (...)
28 February 2011, by Michel LAMBERT
Alternatives Attacked!

It is with these two words that I began my day yesterday. Alternatives is once again the target of a report in the media, this time via the plume of an obscure professor at the HEC de Montréal. (...)
23 February 2011, by Feroz MEHDI
World Social Forum: 10th Anniversary

Senegal welcomed the world this month, as 75,000 people representing local and international progressive movements and organizations came to Dakar from over 130 countries. Contrary to what some (...)
23 February 2011, by Connie Hackbarth
Israel Bars AIC, Independent Journalists from Jerusalem Press Conference with Chilean Miners

Israeli authorities barred entrance to representatives of the Alternative Information Center (AIC) and independent news sources from a press conference being held in West Jerusalem with the (...)
16 February 2011, by World Assembly of Social Movements
Final Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly

As the Social Movements Assembly of the World Social Forum of Dakar, 2011, we are gathered here to affirm the fundamental contribution of Africa and its peoples in the construction of human (...)