WORKERS DON’T NEED PERMISSION TO FORM A UNION. That’s what the workers at Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, Oregon believe and they’re sticking to it.

There was a time in Canada when we used to make things public.Things that were so important to us that we figured we couldn’t be our true selves without them, things like medical care, elementary education and old age pensions.. It’s time to do that again. It’s time to: Make it public again!

BRIAN PALLISTER CAN’T FREEZE WORKERS OUT. Justice Joan McKelvey has ruled his government has no legal right to do that.

CHRISTIAN ZAMARRÓN KNOWS DIRECT ACTION WORKS. He flew to Madrid in late April to share his Chicago experiences with fellow worker activists in the Amazon Workers International (AWI).

BRIAN PALLISTER ISN’T GETTING A CLEAR SHOT. Winnipeg activists have come back to life to see to it.

SOME PEOPLE CAMP OUT ON VACATION. Healthcare professionals in Montreal are camping out to get to have a vacation.

IF DOUG FORD IS “TAKING BULLETS” IT’S NOT OUR FAULT, SAYS SMOKEY THOMAS. The Ontario premier has said otherwise.

A LOT OF US ARE MAD AS HELL. TOO BAD WE DON’T KNOW IT? That’s the message from The Nation magazine writer Mike Davis in a May 27 Start Making Sense podcast.

PAYTON MITCHELL HAS GREAT HOPES FOR THE FUTURE. And they don’t include a return to the status quo, a return to the way life was before COVID-19 hit. What Payton wants instead is: “a COVID-19 response that puts people and the planet first.” It is what Payton, and a growing movement of activists, call a Just Recovery.

The lockdown has been hard on everybody, well almost everybody. While you have been scraping by on your meagre savings or trying to make $2000 a month add up to utilities, groceries and mortgage or rent, some others have been doing quite well, thank you very much.