The lecture hall slowly filled up as slides of families of the 200,000 farmers who committed suicide in India between 1997-2005 played on the flat screens on the side of the room. P Sainath, the day's speaker, was the journalist who brought the farmer suicides to wide attention. He opened his talk by updating information on that story: between 2004-2010, an Indian farmer committed suicide every 30 minutes.
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Na'eem Jinnah on the Ontario Legislature's condemnation of Israeli Apartheid Week 2010
Submitted by Justin Podur on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 01:27Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis by Dan Freeman-Maloy
Submitted by Justin Podur on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 04:26Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis (an event in Toronto)
Submitted by Justin Podur on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 02:37I'll be speaking with Dan Freeman-Maloy on Haiti in Toronto on Tuesday Feb 2.
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Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis:
Canada/US policy and the regional response
with Justin Podur and Dan Freeman-Maloy
Tuesday, February 2
Centre for Social Justice
489 College St (W of Bathurst), Suite 303
7 - 9pm
Limited Compassion for Haiti
Submitted by Justin Podur on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 03:57Everyone agrees that the Haiti earthquake is a serious situation. Serious enough for the US to send thousands of Marines, to take over the airport, to suspend Haiti's sovereignty and take over the operation. Serious enough to unify the bitter partisan divide and put Bush, Clinton, and Obama together to raise funds. Serious enough for benefit concerts and the invention of new forms of philanthropy, where people can donate through their cell phones. But the Haiti earthquake is apparently not all that serious:
Haiti Earthquake Context
Submitted by Justin Podur on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 10:07I recorded this video last night (using my new flip HD and PiTiVi editing suite).
Part 1
Part 2
Realclimate on the hacked climate change emails
Submitted by Justin Podur on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 21:14A friend asked me for my take on the hacked climate change emails. Before formulating my thoughts I went to realclimate.org to see if they had anything. They do... and it's indispensable as usual.
Implementing the Bolivarian Revolution: Julio Chavez in Toronto
Submitted by Justin Podur on Fri, 11/20/2009 - 00:27On October 10/09 Venezuelan former mayor, now state legislator Julio Chavez spoke at the University of Toronto sponsored by Hands off Venezuela and the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle. He came in sporting the unassuming Bolivarian fashion: red T-shirt, red baseball cap (with a Canada logo on it), jeans, and sneakers, and fired up a powerpoint presentation.
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