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    • 07 December 2012
    • Brian Ferguson: "Plowing the Human Terrain: Toward Global Ethnographic Surveillance"

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    • 07 December 2012
    • Brian Ferguson: "Full Spectrum: The Military Invasion of Anthropology"

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    • 31 July 2012
    • The Kanishka Program and the Securitization of the Social Sciences in Canada

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    • 10 November 2012
    • The Red Poppy: Symbol of the New Militarism

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    • 25 May 2012
    • Statement of Canadian and International Solidarity with the Quebec Student Strike 

       
       
       
       

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  • May 18, 12

    The student strikes in Quebec, which began in February and have lasted for three months, involving roughly 175,000 students in the mostly French-speaking Canadian province, have been subjected to a massive provincial and national media propaganda campaign to demonize and dismiss the students and their struggle. The following is a list of ten points that everyone should know about the student movement in Quebec to help place their struggle in its proper global context.
    The issue is debt, not tuition
    Striking students in Quebec are setting an example for youth across the continent
    The student strike was organized through democratic means and with democratic aims
    This is not an exclusively Quebecois phenomenon
    Government officials and the media have been openly calling for violence and “fascist” tactics to be used against the students
    Excessive state violence has been used against the students
    The government supports organized crime and opposes organized students
    Canada’s elites punish the people and oppose the students
    The student strike is being subjected to a massive and highly successful propaganda campaign to discredit, dismiss, and demonize the students
    The student movement is part of a much larger emerging global movement of resistance against austerity, neoliberalism, and corrupt power

    • Ten Points Everyone Should Know About the Quebec Student Movement 

       
       
       
       
       
       Ten Points Everyone Should Know About the Quebec Student Movement
       
       
       
       By: Andrew Gavin Marshall
       
       
       
       This article was originally published at: http://www.andrewgavinmarshall.com
       
       
       
       Reprinted from the Montreal Media Coop (CMM)
       
       
       
       The student strikes in Quebec, which began in February and have lasted for three months, involving roughly 175,000 students in the mostly French-speaking Canadian province, have been subjected to a massive provincial and national media propaganda campaign to demonize and dismiss the students and their struggle. The following is a list of ten points that everyone should know about the student movement in Quebec to help place their struggle in its proper global context.
      • The issue is debt, not tuition
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      • Striking students in Quebec are setting an example for youth across the continent
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      • The student strike was organized through democratic means and with democratic aims
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      • This is not an exclusively Quebecois phenomenon
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      • Government officials and the media have been openly calling for violence and “fascist” tactics to be used against the students
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      • Excessive state violence has been used against the students
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      • The government supports organized crime and opposes organized students
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      • Canada’s elites punish the people and oppose the students
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      • The student strike is being subjected to a massive and highly successful propaganda campaign to discredit, dismiss, and demonize the students
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      • The student movement is part of a much larger emerging global movement of resistance against austerity, neoliberalism, and corrupt power

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    • 14 February 2012
    • Defend Free Speech in Canada: The Government Campaign against Palestinian Solidarity

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    • 06 February 2012
    • Concordia University: Up for Sale? Academic Autonomy and the Azrieli Institute

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    • 06 February 2012
    • Obama Terror Drones: CIA Tactics in Pakistan Include Targeting Rescuers and Funerals 

       
       
       
       
       
       
       
        
      Missiles being loaded onto a military Reaper drone in Afghanistan.

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    • 05 February 2012
    • Iraq: An Education in Occupation 

       
       
       
       
       
       By Hugh Gusterson
       
       First published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 2, 2012.

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      05 February 2012

    • Indigenous Survival: What is "Development" Good For?

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  • Dec 13, 10

    The U.S. Army's Human Terrain System (HTS), which incorporates social scientists into counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, and which for most of its history actively sought to recruit anthropologists, is now showing signs not just of continuing but of expanding, while attracting the interest of the U.S.' military allies including Canada.

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      13 December 2010

    • A Resurgent Human Terrain System: Concerns for Anthropology, Including Canada

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    • 16 December 2011
    • The article that follows, written by anthropologist Jason Hickel, is a welcome critique of the shadows of Eurocentrism and the desire for middle-class privilege in the West as found in the "Occupy" movement. Hickel links these to the failure of the Occupy "movement" to exist as a phenomenon outside of North America and Europe, where it is predominantly located, and the neglect of critically important realities of the role of imperialism in developing and enforcing the middle-class lifestyles of the West. This is a constructive critique that adds to some of the previous articles reproduced on this site, such as "Decolonize Wall Street," and "Decolonizing the Occupations".

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  • Dec 10, 11

    The reports cover areas that include news that a social scientist in Human Terrain Analysis assisted in interrogations, as may have one belonging to the Human Terrain System, even while the program officially insisted it was not involved with "intelligence" gathering; related to the last point, we also learn about Eric Rotzoll, former CIA, also involved with HTS; we learn about the further development of human terrain mapping technologies; in addition we read about the use of HTS data that is uploaded to databases which are then used to create extensive, detailed simulations of actual Afghan villages; we have more notes on military funding for university research aligned with national security goals, and counterinsurgency; we catch glimpses of retired military professionals joining the private sector, and boasting in part about their "human terrain" expertise; we see more discussion on anthropology as a "useful" and "practical" discipline to the powerful; and, lastly, a few funny and even bizarre videos about the Human Terrain System.

    • 08 December 2011
    • In the News: Militarized Academia, Human Terrain System

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      04 December 2011

    • Decolonizing the Occupations 

       
       
       
       
       
       In line with our previous report on "Decolonize Wall Street," from an American Indian perspective, we present the following commentary, from an African-American perspective:

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    • 24 November 2011
    • AAA 2011: A Review of Some Presentations on Military, Security, and Intelligence Topics

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  • Nov 23, 11

    As the students questioned in announcing their initiative and inviting participation by faculty, "shouldn't we be generating critical thinking on our own institutional dynamics? Is research only an interest or a tool for social change?"

    • 23 November 2011
    • Students Take Anthropology Back Into the Streets: A Report on Off-AAA 

       
       
       
       
       
       
       

       Report and commentary by AJP member Maximilian Forte:

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    • 23 November 2011
    • First Nations Under Surveillance in Canada 

       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       In our continuing coverage of reports of surveillance and domestic forms of counterinsurgency in Canada, we present this material, first aired on the CBC's radio program, The Current, from Thursday, 17 November, 2011.

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      22 November 2011

    • Libya: The Lies of "Humanitarian" War 

       
       
       
       
       From The Humanitarian War, a documentary by Julien Teil:

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    • 22 November 2011
    • Tax Dollars at War

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