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Victoria Keeps Rallying for Palestine Despite Strong Headwinds

Victoria Keeps Rallying for Palestine Despite Strong Headwinds

The last few weeks have been tough on Palestine supporters' morale, but they keep rallying nonetheless, rain or shine.

5 months ago

Activists Shut Down BC Pension Corporation for Palestine

Today's modest demonstration may have escaped public notice among countless actions in a worldwide call for economic disruption, but it…

6 months ago

Tempers Flare at Latest Palestine Solidarity Rally in Victoria

Tempers at this latest protest mirrored the recent escalation in the Middle East, bringing the worst out of everyone. It's…

6 months ago

Palestinian Community Hosts Iftar at BC Legislature

This weekend's Palestine solidarity rally followed a different recipe. If you don't even know what an iftar is, keep reading!

6 months ago

Victoria Commemorates Land Day

It felt a bit odd today to rally on the anniversary of a massacre in which only six Palestinians were…

6 months ago

Busy Saturday: Four Events, about Disability Benefits, Rights of Foreign Students, Drug Policy, and Palestine

Okay, I've attended no less than four events in town today, and I'm not about to write a whole piece…

6 months ago

DOUBLE FEATURE: Activists Rally at BC Legislature for Migrant Spring, Palestine Counterprotest

Today I'm covering two events about causes that reach out to broad and overlapping audiences: migrant rights and Palestine liberation.

7 months ago

Victoria Rallies for Palestine Ahead of Ceasefire Vote

Today's protest would have been boring routine but for the wave of events it was riding on, including a vote…

7 months ago

Activists Keep Striking at Scotiabank to Make it Divest from Elbit Systems

Scotiabank has been a darling of Palestine supporters in the past few months, and it looks like the coddling is…

7 months ago

What Does One Say After Twenty-two Weeks of Genocide?

The emcee was at a loss for words today, after pleading for so long that which should require no argument…

7 months ago

Are you protesting social injustice?

Whether you're denouncing police brutality or government overreach, clamouring for a safe drug supply or affordable housing, defending homeless encampments or fighting off the colonial invader, advocating for the disabled or racial minorities, pursuing either legal or extralegal means of retaliation, you'll find plenty of interest within these pages by a fellow insurrectionist butting heads with a callous society and a corrupt system. Come misbehave with the rest of us!

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