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ANALYSIS: With Davis and Foucault at the General Hospital -- Capital’s Health Is Our Illness

State violence and mental health.

“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”

—Angela Davis

 

Building access to justice for trans people in Canada

Talking Radical Radio
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1042384324-scott-neigh-talking-radical-building-access-to-justice-for-trans-people-in-canada.mp3

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Police-Involved Deaths in Canada During April 2021

Police killings in Canada in April 2021

At least six people died through some sort of direct interaction with Canadian police in April 2021. This follows a deadly March, in which at least five people died through interactions with police. There were at least nine police-involved deaths in February and at least seven in January.

The Drug War Execution of Michel Vienneau by Police

Six years after Michel Vienneau was shot and killed by Bathurst Police Force constables Patrick Bulger and Mathieu Boudreau during a phantom drug bust in which there was never any evidence of drugs—only a fake CrimeStoppers tip—the inquiry into his execution has finally begun this week.

Long COVID: Growing advocacy for recognition, research, and rehab

Talking Radical Radio
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1037654380-scott-neigh-talking-radical-long-covid-growing-advocacy-for-recognition-research-and-rehab.mp3

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Imperialism and policing Asian women’s sexuality

Violent, sexualized targeting of Asian women has been happening for over a century, in both the US and Canada. Ending this requires fighting for Asian sex workers' labour rights and status for all.

The devastating shooting by a white man in Atlanta

OPINION | Criticizing cops is democracy, not hate speech

New petition from a former cop and a Liberal MP conflates accountability with hate speech

Retired Winnipeg police officer Stan Tataryn recently filed a petition with the House of Commons that seeks to add “vocation” (job status) as a protected group under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, claiming police receive “hate speech.”

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