York University professor David McNally on the black block, anarchism and police provocation. A must see.

http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/the-black-bloc/16aqkxltm

This is from the Hamilton stop of the Ontario tour organized by Common Cause this past March. The talk gives an overview of the book and discusses some long buried anarchist history.

Enjoy!

Michael Schmidt, author of Black Flame, at McMaster University; part 1 of 4 from Common Cause on Vimeo.

The Hamilton Police Hate Crimes Unit (HCU) is at it again. As they did last year, the HCU has included a number of activist events and groups in their annual hate crimes report.

Included again among the "emerging trends and areas of concerns" that "may have significant impact and repercussions on the Hamilton community in terms of Hate/Bias related incidents" are the G8/G20 counter-summit organizing including "anti-capitalist, anti-globalization, environmentalists, etc." protests (that is one scary "etc.").

The Dali Lama makes it into the report for the second year in a row, as part of a planned religious counter-summit in Winnipeg. I kid you not.

The local rag, the Spectator, ran this report. Still strange to see the mainstream media actually call capitalism by its proper name. Hats off to the SkyDragon for grabbing the media's attention with that wonderful puppet.

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Union workers united
Downtown May Day marchers attack capitalism

May 03, 2010

Jenni Dunning
The Hamilton Spectator

Even Mr. Moneybags made it to the May Day parade.

About 1,500 union workers from around Ontario marched downtown Saturday, starting from the Hamilton Convention Centre.

Parts of Main Street East were blocked off by police cruisers to let protesters pass.

Mr. Moneybags, a giant papier mache puppet, was carried by three people throughout the march -- two holding up his arms with bamboo and one inside him.

The puppet was complete with a suit, cigar and bag with a dollar sign on it.

"I'm a capitalist. I hate workers. I want to own everything," said the man inside Mr. Moneybags.

From ABC Halifax:

Hi Comrades and Friends,

Get caught up on the months long Vale Inco strike with this very good report from Real News. Recently, the local union leader raised the possibility of workers blocking the 401 in order to pressure the Ontario government to bring back anti-scab legislation.

See the report here