Join Common Cause during alternative welcome week for a "Tour of Struggle" in Hamilton. We'll be taking you to some of the hot spots around town that formed and are forming progressive change in Hamilton.

Meet us at 5:30 p.m. at Wentworth house by the big rental van. Don't live up to the joke that Mac students never get east of the 403 and know nothing of Hamilton radical history. Join us!

Please let us know if you have any accessibility issues ahead of time. Our last stop will be the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre for Dance! Dance! (and Revolution).

Spots are limited so please register for this event by contact Chris at commoncausehamilton@gmail.com

Protesters denounce patriarchy in Hamilton courtroom - August 26, 2010

Hamilton, Ont. - On Thursday August 26, The Sexual Assault Centre of Hamilton and Area (SACHA) organized a protest outside the Hamilton Court House after a rape trial was stopped and the accused was set free. A lively crowd of around 40 people, including local unions CUPE 3906 and USW 1005, members of the Immigrant Women’s Centre and of the Hamilton Coalition Against the G20, denounced the actions of Justice Kim Carpenter-Gunn and defense attorney, Peter Boushy and demanded that the legal system stop blaming survivors of sexual assault.

According to the Hamilton Spectator article that broke the story, the trial was stayed after the defense attorney questioned the credibility of the alleged victim because she had made new allegations against another man. According to Boushy, this “raised the spectre of fabrication.”

The Black Flame reading group meets Monday evenings every two weeks. We will be meeting on: June 28, July 12, July 26, August 9, August 23, September 6, September 20, October 4, October 18, November 1, November 15.

We meet at:
7:15pm
Jamesville Community Centre, Room 3
209 MacNab Street North, Hamilton
(free parking, wheelchair accessible)

About the reading group:

The Hamilton branch of the Ontario anarchist-socialist organization Common Cause would like to invite you to join a reading group on Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism. This wide-ranging work on the 150 year global history of anarchist and syndicalist ideas and movements will be of interest to both those looking for an introduction to anarchism and syndicalism/revolutionary unionism as well as to those looking to deepen their knowledge of revolutionary history and practice.

Hamilton's Anarchist Bookfair

Fellow underdogs unite in underdog city for a day of workshops, discussion, networking and of course literature!

Date: June 14, 2008
Time: 10am - 4pm

Place: Westdale Highschool
700 Main Street West,
Hamilton, Ontario
L8S1A5

More info coming soon.

Contact: hamiltonanarchistbookfair@gmail.com

Jamila Ghaddar is a member of
MacMaster Universities Student's for Palestinian Human Rights. She recently talked to Linchpin about the banning of the term Israeli apartheid on campus by the administration and student union.

Linchpin: O.K. Can you start by telling me what Israeli apartheid is?

Jamila Ghaddar: Well Israeli apartheid is a term that was coined by Israeli senior officials then used by Israeli academics and then taken up by the Palestinian movement both in Palestine and the international solidarity movement. It’s based on the international apartheid convention which outlines the kind of apartheid as a system that systematically has separate and distinct types of treatments for different racial or other types of groups under its jurisdiction.

Linchpin: What is happening at McMaster right now? The term Israeli apartheid has been banned?

See flyer!

On February 28, on the second anniversary of the start of the Six Nations land reclamation at Caledonia, McMaster University was the site of the important event, “The Land Reclamation at Caledonia/Kanonhstaton: Two Years Later...” The day-long event brought together many of the major figures of this historic and ongoing struggle. The following is a brief summary of the first part of the event.

On February 13, 2008 the “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land” speaking tour passed through Hamilton. The speakers included Kanahus Pellkey, a Secwepemc and Ktnuxa Warrior and member of the Native Youth Movement. They spoke while taking care of their very young children who occasionally grabbed the attention of the 50+ crowd with their laughter and curiosity. Despite the title of the talk, the 2010 Olympics were only briefly mentioned as the speakers spoke freely on a wide range topics. The following is a summary of some of the key themes that we picked up on.

Info Demo Thurs. March 20th, 11am-2pm, Gore Park (Main and James), Hamilton

Dear friends,

Please join us, Hamilton Solidarity with Six Nations, on Thursday March 20th from 11am-2pm in Gore park (downtown Hamilton at King and James). We will be holding an information demonstration to hand out information to the public regarding the Six Nations land reclamation and negotiations. We are continuing to demand there be a moratorium on all development on lands in Canada under dispute and that all levels of government negotiate in good faith based on respect.

We will be inviting the media to come at 12:30pm when we hope to deliver a 1000-signature petition to a local MP which demands the federal government halt all development on lands in dispute.

Please join us and/or stop by!

Warmest regards,
Hamilton Solidarity with Six Nations
hamilton.6n.solidarity@gmail.com

Own Your Media in Hamilton...Before the Media Owns You
Dominion Tour 2008

Time and Place

Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Syliva Nickerson's Studio
Street: 126 James St. North, 3rd Floor
City: Hamilton, ON

"This is our chance to grow a grassroots support network for the paper. The tour's primary purpose is to promote the newspaper to those who can provide consistent, long-term funds towards a democratic and independent newspaper-- individuals who are tired of a media system that marginalizes, spins, and ignores stories of importance to the public."

For more info