19th annual women's memorial march draws thousands in Vancouver
Sunday, the annual Women’s March for Missing and Murdered Women wound its way through Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, only a block from the route of a Chinese New Year parade earlier that morning. read...
View ArticleObama potentially takes a step backwards in Indonesia
Thursday, March 25, 2010President Barack Obama dedicated the signing of health care legislation to a number of people, including his mother, S. Ann Dunham Soetoro, who, he said, "argued with insurance...
View ArticleNonprofit news organization releases video of killings in Iraq
Wednesday, April 7, 2010A United States military video was released this week showing the indiscriminate targeting and killing of civilians in Baghdad. The nonprofit news organization WikiLeaks...
View ArticleThe horrific Williams murders were about power not personal fetishes
Thursday, October 21, 2010 Wearing women's underwear doesn't lead to raping and murdering women. Predatory behaviour leads to rape and murder. The desire for power and control over women leads to...
View ArticleOutrage over the killing of Trayvon Martin
Thursday, March 22, 2012On the rainy night of Sunday, Feb. 26, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin walked to a convenience store in Sanford, Fla. On his way home, with his Skittles and iced tea, the...
View ArticleTrayvon Martin: Killing of an unarmed teenager sparks a movement for justice
Thursday, March 29, 2012 No arrest has been made in the death of Trayvon Martin, whose shooting has sparked a "million hoodie" movement for justice across the United States and beyond. Trayvon Martin,...
View ArticleRacial injustice in America: The police killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Thursday, April 5, 2012"My name is Kenneth Chamberlain. This is my sworn testimony. White Plains police are going to come in here and kill me."And that's just what they did.In the early hours of...
View ArticleThe difficulties in remembering Rosa
In the early morning hours of November 24th, the body of a possibly trans person was found in Edmonton, Alberta.I say "possibly trans" because it's unclear how this person identified, and to my...
View ArticleProfits lead to mass killings -- The Soma coal mine disaster in Turkey
apc_170514_for_rabble.mp3Labour news from Australia, Cambodia, South Korea, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Palestine. Interview with Kemal Ozkan, Assistant General Secretary of IndustriALL Global...
View Article'My son will not be raised with guns': Death on the banks of the Peticodiac
On June 4, 2014 a deranged young man wandered onto the streets of Moncton New Brunswick with a small arsenal of long guns and cross bows strapped to his back. Neighbours said he had an icy and...
View ArticleMexican police complicit in murder of 43 student teachers
rey-2014-11-12a.mp3At the end of September, students from a rural teachers college were protesting in the southern Mexican State of Guererro. 57 students were arrested by police, 43 of whom were never...
View ArticleIn solidarity with the journalists killed in France.
Yesterday, 12 journalists were killed at the offices of satire magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris France, rabble.ca is using its front page photo space for a cartoon, with hopes for peace.Join the...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo and the meaning of a massacre
Two jihadists, the brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo on January 7, and killed ten of its staff members and two police officers. This much is clear, undebatable,...
View ArticleThe battered woman's defence
rpnwings02-15batteredwoman-29_05-192kbps.mp3Excerpts from mock-trial testimony by psychologist Dr. Lenore Walker, whose research led to a defence strategy that has been successful many times but is...
View ArticleAssassination of Berta Cáceres sparks outrage
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View ArticlePolitical murder in Cambodia an attempt to intimidate opposition
apc_230716_rabble.mp3Like this podcast? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with...
View ArticleDeath squads kills hundreds in working-class communities in the Philippines
apc_060816_rabble.mp3Like this podcast? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with...
View ArticleThe lynching of Colten Boushie
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.I'm going to stretch a point here in my use of the word "lynching," which refers to an extrajudicial...
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