Shunpiking Nova Scotia's Discovery Magazine.. Online Edition Volume 5 No 1

January-April, 2008

On the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

MAY DAY 2008

Halifax May Day 2008 - International Workers Day

An Open Letter and Invitation to Participate. Halifax May Day Committee

Longshoremen to close ports on West Coast to protest war

(8 Apr) Declare May Day a 'no peace, no work' holiday. Dockworkers of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have decided to stop work for eight hours in all US West Coast ports on May 1, International Workers' Day, to call for an end to the war. JACK HEYMAN

San Francisco Labor Labor Council backs ILWU May Day action in West Coast ports - resolution

Vermont AFL-CIO calls on workers to support West Coast May Day work stoppage

Cuba gears up for May Day celebration

May Day 2007 - A photo feature

Politics of Ontario Workers. Our demands most modest are: we only want the earth - a video To view video fullscreen, right click on image and select "Save target" or "Save link target." Save file to hard drive; double click to open file, then maximize window. (Requires Quicktime software to play). http://www.cpcml.ca/videos2007/POW.mov

ATLANTIC CANADA TODAY

Nova Scotians demand, 'Justice for Linconville'!

Commemorating Black History Month in Action, over one hundred Nova Scotians marched from the Lincolnville Community Centre several kilometres to the site of a vast waste disposal dump and demanded its immediate closure.

IN DEPTH Pulp and paper
Forestry crisis: New Brunswickans take action

In the last 18 months, the Atlantic Canada forestry sector has lost 5,000 jobs or nearly a quarter of its workforce, most of them in New Brunswick. Meanwhile, the government is handing over their leases on Crown lands to J.D. Irving, not to overlook hundreds of millions in "bailouts."

Miramichi workers' just demand to expropriate Finnish UPM mills

Restigouche County workers and community oppose closures of closure of AbitibiBowater paper mill in Dalhousie

Interview with Sonny Perry, Citizen's Coalition to Save the Mill in Dalhousie

A brief history of the Dalhousie mill; Closure will leave 550 unemployed in the small town of just over 3,600

St. Anne-Nackawic mill workers; Supreme Court legalizes pension theft

Solutions: There is an alternative

Presentation by DAVE COLES, CEP President, to the Standing Committee on Natural Resources, 28 February 2008

An alternative for the forest industry is possible by K.C. ADAMS, December 2002

Time to give communities control over surrounding public forest land, Conservation Council of New Brunswick, 10 March 2008

NB forestry: What's the plan, Premier Graham?

Nova Scotia's proposed anti-strike legislation

Proposed law is provocation by provincial government, symptomatic of national crisis. Disinformation is rampant at all levels. ENA BOUTILIER and TONY SEED

* For your information: Excerpts from statements, press releases and news articles

A Cuban film series in Halifax

The series aimed to bring to Nova Scotians information that is censored or suppressed about the island republic, the challenges it faces, and its undeniable achievements.

WORLD

Vermont voters approve indictment of Bush and Cheney

The wall-to-wall coverage of the US primaries by the CBC and other Canadian media fails to include independent actions by the American people. A development just across the border during the primary in Vermont is illustrative.

SPORTS & RECREATION

Youth Sports - Tragedy in Bathurst

Youth cherish sport. But their aspirations to participate are frustrated by society. Can someone tell us why the youth must constantly beg to raise funds to participate in youth and school sport?

The United States is the instigator of the anti-China campaign

SERENDIPITY

Fishing in colour

" i love it here / you better believe me 'cause it's true / my nose is turnin' blue / down home in blandford nova scotia"

READINGS

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence

Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on 4 April 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City

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