One of the things I found out about yesterday was that the Iranian police busted up an IWD protest. But the real story isn't the heavy hand of the Iranian state, it's the courage of the women who protested in front of the Iranian Revolutionary Court earlier in the week in solidarity with five women on trial for organizing a feminist protest last ( Read more... )

Two years ago the Boston Red Sox won the ALCS defeating the New York Yankees in game 7. In the celebrations that followed Boston riot police killed 21-year-old journalism student and Red Sox fan Victoria Snelgrove by shooting her in the eye with a so-called "less lethal" pepper-spray ball fired from a FN 303 riot gunI can't imagine what the ( Read more... )

R.I.P. Jeffrey Michael Rich Reodica - shot in the back by a plainclothes Toronto cop.


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