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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. Let’s be clear: I am saying obscure because I wouldn’t know this man from Eve or Adam. Clearly, after reading his text, he also knows little in terms of international cooperation. To be fair, (…)
6 June 2012, by Michel LAMBERT

The Rebel Province

Michel Lambert At the time of writing these lines, the very predictable and unilateral rupture of negotiations by the Charest government has just been announced. The faint glimmer of hope brought on by a few days of discussions has vanished. Student negotiators had accepted the government’s financial frame. In the name of social peace, they had also considered financing university-funding (…)
8 February 2017, by Donald Cuccioletta, Michel LAMBERT

Make Montreal a Sanctuary City!

In the aftermath of the Quebec City tragedy, we need more than solidarity messages Toronto, Vancouver and Hamilton have adopted "Sanctuary City" status. So have 37 cities in the United States. It’s time for Montreal to join the movement ! The horrific crime that has taken six lives in Quebec City last Sunday night is a wake-up call for us all. No longer can we pretend that there is no (…)
5 January 2019, by Michel LAMBERT

In Baghdad, the Social Forum Regains its Relevance

Last November 22nd to the 25th, I had the opportunity to participate in a little known event (at least in the North!) in Baghdad. A meeting bringing together activists of various faiths, from eleven Iraqi cities, organized around eight themes and articulating daily struggles towards social justice. This event, extraordinary by itself, but even more so in a country going through post-war trauma (…)
2 August 2016, by Michel LAMBERT

The Future of the Peoples Social Forum

The next World Social Forum (WSF) will be held in Montreal from August 9 to 14. This WSF will be crucial as it will provide to the WSF International Council an opportunity to advance the necessary discussion about the future of the WSF, a process criticized both from the outside and inside and that appears more at the crossroads. The debates that will be held in Montreal on this issue will be (…)
1 September 2014, by Michel LAMBERT

Peoples’ Social Forum 2014 and Beyond

Much has been said, for the most part very positive, about the incredible Peoples’ Social Forum, which took place from August 21st to 24th in Ottawa. Naomi Klein’s comment during her opening speech that the Forum was the most important meeting of social movements in Canada since the American Summit in April 2001 really resonated with me. The comparison between these two events is striking (…)
1 December 2013, by Michel LAMBERT

In Front of Pipelines, I Will Support the Mohawks

With hundreds of others, I participated on November 16 in an unprecedented mobilization in Kanehsatà:ke (Oka), Mohawk Territory. Twenty-three years after the terrible Oka crisis, Mohawks this time invited non-indigenous people to join the fight against the expansion of tar sands pipelines. This unique invitation also came from several indigenous communities across Canada resulting in more (…)
11 June 2013, by Michel LAMBERT

Why Is Public Money Paying For The Right-Wing Hate And Misinformation Of Eric Duhaime?

Eric Duhaime and his hatred of anything close to the notion of common good is all over the place. On Sun News, Radio X, TVA, and several blogs, we see, hear or read him bashing community groups, women’s associations, labour or students organizations. Wherever the privileges of a wealthy minority are to be defended, Eric Duhaime, with support from one of the most amazing machines of media (…)
6 juillet 2012, par Michel LAMBERT

After Rio : Building a Genuine Quebec, Canada and First Nations Alliance

On June 20, anticipating the failure of the United Nations Conference Rio+20, more than 50,000 people took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil conjointly with dozens of other demonstrations around the world. These mobilizations demanded from the governments and corporations involved in the official conference, that solutions immediately be put into place to counter climate change and the (…)
6 November 2008, by Michel Husson

Toxic capitalism

The eradication of finance The crisis that we are witnessing today is shaking the very foundations of neo-liberal capitalism. It is unfolding at an accelerating speed, and nobody is capable of saying where it will lead. This article does not try to follow its unfolding step by step, because it would be likely to be outdated by the time it was published [1]. It seeks rather to suggest some (…)