Megan Kinch

Baby in the City

Megan Kinch — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:01:37 +0000

Urban Parenting in Toronto

Ennui Blanche

Megan Kinch — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 07:02:30 +0000

Analysis: The Whitewashing of Dissent in Toronto Public Art

This year’s Nuit Blanche is a particular flavour of offensive that's hard to categorize.

Activist journalists arrested at home in London, ON

DSRichardson — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 04:44:55 +0000

Computers and video equipment confiscated over graffiti charge against Mike Roy & Bailey Lamon

Yesterday afternoon, the London Police raided a house and confiscated thousands of dollars worth of computers and video equipment. Their justification? A single act of graffiti.

Richard St. Pierre Arrested/Arrêté

Gwalgen Dent — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:38:38 +0000

Richard St-Pierre is an organizer with the South Central Neighbourhohood Assembly in Montreal. He was arrested on his way to a new neighbourhood assembly in Laval. He was simply walking down the street.

Occupy Gardens Plants Again!

Megan Kinch — Wed, 01 May 2013 02:44:36 +0000

Porter Loses Injunction, Goes Straight to a Lawsuit

Megan Kinch — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:54:47 +0000

Airline is suing Union for $4 million

Porter Airlines is playing hardball. Rather than negotiate with their striking refueling workers, they are choosing to use any legal means available to avoid dealing with them.

Toronto's Free Schools, It takes a Community

Megan Kinch — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:53:39 +0000

A recent history of Anarchist Free Schools in the Toronto Area

Anarchist experiments in education in the Toronto area reflect a history of brief spaces carved out from commercialism, of flowerings of liberation followed by the seeds of the next project to emerge.

One year later: Lessons from "Occupy" on communal living

Megan Kinch — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:07:15 +0000

Onwards from Occupy

(First published on Offbeat Home<

Jane-Finch org rallies against poverty-Interview with Nomanzland on Community Art

Megan Kinch — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:20:40 +0000

Four years to the day after Jane Finch Action Against Poverty’s (JFAAP) founding on October 17, 2008 – the International Day for the Elimination of Poverty – one of Jane-Finch’s leading people’s organizations took to the streets once again with its allies

Reporting as Resistance

Megan Kinch — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:33:25 +0000

Prisoners Shed Light on Conditions by Blogging from the Inside

Toronto - Across Canada people with mundane, everyday risk factors for police repression - poverty, race, being indigenous, working as a sex worker - face criminalization as part of their daily lives.

No Books in Jail

Megan Kinch — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:56:41 +0000

Prisoners in TO West Denied Reading Material

(Originally published in Basics Community News

The Dark Knight Rises: Class War in the Dystopian Present

Megan Kinch — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:43:45 +0000

More than a Movie Review

This review only contains mild spoilers as it focuses on the political aspects of Dark Knight Rises rather than plot per se.

The Political Prosecution of Alex Hundert ends in 13.5 month Prison Sentence

Megan Kinch — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:10:11 +0000

"Every time that a judge says this isn’t political it puts the justice system into disrepute" Alex tells courtroom.

(Watch this story's associated Video by Zach Ruiter of the TMC with footage of Alex and supports at the Finch courthouse)

Alex Hundert Sentenced to 13.5 Months Imprisonment

Zach Ruiter — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:31:24 +0000

Alex Hundert Sentenced to 13.5 Months Imprisonment

Breaking: In Defense of Political Prisoner Marian Price

Zach Ruiter — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:33:09 +0000

Interview (5mins) with Julian Ichim, Anti-Colonialist Working Group Occupies British Consulate

“We were there simply to take a stand in defense of Marian Price who is an Irish Republican prisoner being held and interned by Britain simply because of her politics” says Julian Ichim of the Anti-Colonialist Working Group.