Seeds of Resistance
There was once a time when the nuts of the American Chestnut tree fed the eastern half of this continent.
Each winter, millions of humans and other animals relied on them for survival. As time went on and settlers arrived here, even as they destroyed the forests, they planted the Chestnut in their fields. One such place was the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, now known as St. Joesph’s Centre for Mountain Health Services (CMHS). The gardens, food trees, and forested patches on the hospital grounds provided patients there with activity and refuge and, for a time, almost all of their food.
Hospitality Workers Strike At Mcmaster
VOICES ON ITS CAUSES AND CONCLUSIONS
Joan Jones, a hospitality worker at McMaster University and a union steward with SEIU Local 2, described the success of the recent hospitality workers strike at McMaster to Mayday.
“They really hoped they could push us to settle. They didn’t think we were strong enough to do what we did.”
This is how Izabella Felinczak also works in hospitality at Mac and elaborated on the same idea: “I believe Human Resources were convinced they’d get their way and we’d lose our jobs. I don’t think they expected women, single mothers, and little old ladies were going to stand up to the university. They thought the university would have power over us.” It is estimated that three-quarters of hospitality workers at McMaster are women.
The Stop: A New Approach To Food Security
BY ALLISON EADY
Thousands of people in Hamilton access food banks and meal serving programs to meet their basic food needs every day. Most of these organizations are organized by religious groups, and almost all operate as charities. While these organizations help meet the immediate need for food, they do not usually address the underlying issues of food insecurity.
Beyond Myths Of Organic
BY GWENDOLYN GRAOVAC
The Organic movement has been steadily gaining momentum in the past decade, with every media outlet covering this trend in some form. Although there remain naysayers, refuting evidence of nutritional supremacy or down-playing the harmful effects of pesticides, it has become mostly accepted as fact: organic food is better for you, your kids, and the planet.
I disagree.
The True Story Behind The Rwandan And Congolese Genocides (Part II)
In last month’s issue we reviewed new evidence indicating the official Western narrative regarding the Rwandan genocide of 1994 is not just a lie, but one of the most successful propaganda coups of all time.
To briefly recapitulate. On August 26, 2010 the French newspaper, Le Monde, revealed a leaked UN document (authored by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay) detailing the “most serious human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and of Rwanda over an eleven year period (1993 – 2003)”. The document places responsibility for the vast majority of the killings (upwards of five to six million) during that period on the shoulders of Paul Kagame and his Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF, a Tutsi expatriate force based in Uganda though heavily augmented by foreign mercenaries).
Our Jobs Make Us Sick!
The website ontariojobs.com assures one searching for work that you can “find thousands of great jobs and employment information”. Hamilton specific sites such as employmenthamilton.com offer to “provide skills training and financial support to help workers find jobs in high-demand occupations”.
And our government’s politicians try to appease us by telling us about the decreasing unemployment rates they have brought about. What they aren’t telling us is what kinds of work are “in high demand”.
