The Hamilton Spectator: Rally Against Police Brutality

Video report from Canadian Awareness Network

Occupy Hamilton Marches on the Banks 12/11/11

For a clip of this action check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yFlipMnyJY

The local Occupy movement in Hamilton began to bear some teeth this past Saturday with a loud and energetic street protest billed as “March on the Banks”. This was the first departure from the weekly rallies that have been gathering in Gore Park every Saturday, in lieu of an ongoing encampment in the city. The Occupy Hamilton group has thus far served as the organizing body for these rallies, but also an organic movement building process that shares aspirations with the global “Occupy” movement.

Hamilton CopWatch have been patrolling downtown in recent weeks. They report on their efforts and a minor run in with the cops at Occupy Hamilton on their website,

Read about it here

On Saturday January 29th several thousand people took to the streets of Hamilton in support of United Steelworkers 1005 locked out of US Steel Hamilton and against Stephen Harper's attacks on working people across the country. Dubbed “The People VS US Steel” the demonstration organized by the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL)was the largest in Hamilton in a decade and promised to be “the Largest Anti-Harper Protest Ever.”

In the lead up to the 29th Common Cause Hamilton worked with anarchists both in Ontario and Pittsburgh to stand with USW 1005. Anarchists in Pittsburgh staged a solidarity rally outside of US Steel’s head office simultaneously with the events in Hamilton. Hamilton anarchists coordinated an Anti-Capitalist Contingent within the “The People VS US Steel” as a way to show support for 1005.

Thousands Gather in Hamilton for Largest Anti-Harper Protest Ever: “The People vs U.S. Steel” Rally at 1 p.m., Sat., Jan. 29, Hamilton City Hall

(TORONTO) -- On the eve of a federal election, more than 10,000 angry Canadians will gather in Hamilton, Ontario for the largest anti-Harper demonstration to take place. The protest will send a message to Harper as he shops for votes in Canada’s manufacturing heartland.

http://ofl.ca/index.php/news/index_in/thousands_gather_in_hamilton_for_largest_anti_harper_protest_ever_the_peopl/

On January 11, 2011, the alliance of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) and the English Defence League (EDL) was challenged by counter-protests from anti-racist and human rights activists. The JDL and EDL alliance was supposed to be cemented in Toronto at an event held by the JDL in support of Tommy Robinson of the EDL, who addressed the Zionist group about his recent arrest. While the JDL is known for their militant anti-Palestinian or ‘pro-Israel’ activism in Toronto and has a long history as a militant Zionist organization in the United States and elsewhere, their alliance with The English Defence League, a neo-fascist organization based out of Britain that focuses on anti-Islamic street activism, seems surprising considering the history of the relationship between Jews and fascist states and movements.

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http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/groups-protest-unholy-alliance-between...

An interview with Anti-Authoritarian Movement, the largest anarchist organization in Greece, by Philly publication "Defenestrator"

http://defenestrator.org/society_is_an_ocean