Back with feeling… or at least more whitespace

So here is my newly designed blog. I hope it will allow me to focus more on my photography, as well as be a little less cluttered-feeling as the old theme. I’m also updating and renewing my linking-the-issues endeavours (which used to happen at socialchangenow.ca) through the page tabs above on Media, Indigenous, and Migrant Justice. More issues to come.

Most of my blog-like activity has been focussed on Facebook these days, with apologies to those who have not succumbed to its addictive temptations. I realize it’s a stupid forum because good content is quickly buried in the pile of detritus, plus it’s a members-only club.

So to kick off Radio Free Peaball’s new look, here are some recent links I’ve posted online – interesting stuff I’ve been reading, videos, etc. I’ll try to summarize my best links and comments every so often to include the unaddicted and keep a record of the content.

Also, if you are interested, check out my article in Shameless magazine‘s fall 2010 issue, on the G20 protests in Toronto and what the front-line of our movement is about. I’m also in the midst of writing a piece for Briarpatch magazine‘s July/August issue on the five-year anniversary of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, in light of today’s Middle East uprisings.

Off to Montreal this Friday for an interview with a member of Tadamon, an organization working in solidarity with the self-determination struggles of Lebanese, Palestinian and Egyptian people. I’m excited for the interview, and to get some shots (which I’ll post here) – interviewing is my favourite part of journalism, and I love straying from the topic and being inspired more generally by my subjects. I’ve kept all the full interviews I’ve done over the last 12 years, and perhaps one day I’ll release a book of portraits and vignettes.

A group of Libyan nationals who have joined the occupation of Saif Gaddafi's £10million London house today told how their relatives are in constant fear of their lives.

Test Their Logik’s new music video, addressing the Canadian state’s conspiracy charges against some of this country’s best political organizers.

These two election videos (watch them in this Youtube compilation) show how Harper is taking a page from the US Tea Party movement

These 2 campaign ads are like alien invasion movie trailers! They are fabulously made but of course entirely fear-based – you live in a scary world but WE’LL keep you safe…

On average, first-degree murderers in our country spend 10 more years in prison than their American counterparts

I actually sort of believed the soft on crime lies (but was ok with it). This week, Canadians lost our right to apply for early parole in murder sentencing as a result of the Conservatives knee-jerk and distorted law-and-order, lock-em-up-forever agenda.