tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273302883043906742.post8596637806265701134..comments2023-09-02T10:14:53.094-04:00Comments on Recreating Eden: Good News #4: Some People Aren't Afraid to Speak OutMary Soderstromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09265519935852076762noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273302883043906742.post-29000607509472257732010-12-30T09:40:06.906-05:002010-12-30T09:40:06.906-05:00I'm very heartened by all these good news post...I'm very heartened by all these good news posts - seeing the degree of environmental destruction and breakdown of the social safety net, it is all too easy to fall into the futility of despair (including web addiction). <br /><br />The major media here (not only the scab Journal de Montréal, but the far more "respectable" La Presse, have been doing everything they can to savage Amir Khadir, Québec solidaire, the FFQ and the World March of Women. Lysiane Gagnon's latest column calling Khadir a fanatic and insinuating that he is an anti-semite (of all things) is just the most recent example. Khadir responded, but the RLQ demagogues are jumping on him, often in racist terms, insinuating that he is a covert Islamist (I know his family - they are highly-cultivated and rigorously secular Iranian progressives). <br /><br />It is important for progressive people to speak up, even in the so-called mainstream media.lagatta à montréalhttp://www.lemab.canoreply@blogger.com