A report from the front lines of student debt: http://thesmokingsection.blogspot.com/2005/03/skinny-on-student-strike.html. Back to work for me.
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Outstanding
My friend Dave Noon is once again auctioning off Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. It got him permanently banned from ebay last year. Check it out at http://page.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/auction/89532071?aucview=0x70.
More Strike, More Copies
Good to see some responses on the strike stuff. The big news now is that there are two more actions planned. The Student Society of McGill University is going on another 1-day strike on Thursday the 24th and there’s some big province-wide thing on Wednesday the 30th. I was downtown on Saturday and it seemed …
Quebec Student Strike
This is another one for the Bad Subjects website. Go on over and have a look at what I wrote. Yesterday’s protest was indeed wild, since it was my first Canadian protest. Bigger and louder than anything I remember in the U.S. It would be an understatement to say that I was impressed. This weekend …
Torture Chic
No whimsical commentary today. Along with 13 other people, Aaron Shuman, with whom I collaborated at Bad Subjects as a co-editor and co-director, begins a 4-month prison sentence today for protesting against the United States’ sponsorship of torture in other countries. Read my Bad Subjects editorial here.
Almost a week has gone by and there’s no report from the provinces; will we lose the colony?
And I’m still not caught up on other people’s blogs. Guess that’s what happens when you have a party and don’t work on the weekend. It’s been a great but busy week, including three nights out (though last night was spontaneous). Movie nite featured Be Cool which ought to have been entitled Be Lame. The …
Misc.
and I don’t mean McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. –Last night we threw a party for the ages. It was outstanding, massive and eminently positive. I am a little woozy today but in that good way that one is. As I said to Carrie, “I am quite pleased with us.” Our new friends …