public order and riot squad

• Gentrification and Playful Disregard

The September 30 article, "House-wrecking punks should be required to build homes for others," written by opinion journalist Jon Ferry in The Province newspaper (p. A4) was the most scathing. Those who attended the 2004 house party are described by Ferry as "youth," "punk-rockers," "perpetrators of pointless destruction," "anti-establishment rabble-rousers," those with "mosh-pit-hardened butts," potential "peaceniks," "house-wrecking punks" and most poignantly, "pollutants of the environment." The article characterizes "house-wrecking punks" as: lazy, for "some people get on with their lives right away, some people don't;" aimless, "...being in your twenties and not having a lot to do;" and useless to the economy (non-productive): "they might start to learn a trade that enables them to ...

... BC, on September 25, 2004, the city's riot squad was called out for a house party turned "pun..., informal spaces such as house parties or public spaces. It is the latter, the free spaces, around ... around one such party and its members in order to argue that youth pleasure practices can be link...

• Resources for Feminist Research
• Vol. 33 Nbr. 1/2, January 2008

• 'Dudley Can Now Rest' -Sam George of Brot, Her

There's a reason for that," he said. "It's a decision that was made outside the chain of command. "That indiscreet, repugnant, racist statement could never be made public or he'd be ruined and he knew it," he said, adding that Harris' subsequent behavior was "the classic example of a cover up." [Mike Harris]' lawyer Peter Downard attacked [Julian Falconer]'s submissions as "sophistry" and "a lawyerly strained attempt to find what is desired to be found."

... he found in a document that stated the OPP riot squad "suited up" in its tactical gear, called har... to deal with Justice David Marshall's order that the rule of law required OPP to move in and r...

• Windspeaker
• Vol. 24 Nbr. 6, September 2006

• Decolonizing Spaces/Espaces Décolonisants

Decolonizing Spaces is a special issue of Resources for Feminist Research that confronts the longstanding Utopian feminist project of seeking possibilities for breaking down barriers and dominant power structures. We conceptualized this issue through the framework of "decolonizing" in hopes of addressing not only our historical context, but also the "divide and conquer" logic of colonization. In a Canadian context, working for social and structural change must begin from an acknowledgment that we are part of a colonial culture that is significantly embedded in the social, political and economic structures of everyday life. Without the work of historicizing or "unmapping" the land ([Sherene Razack], 2002, p. 128) by naming this national space as colonial, past and present, we cannot atte...

... dimension: the segregation of private from public, the pitting of "citizen" against "foreigner," the... in question was violently raided by the riot squad; equally important is that where the party t... her Métis origins and suggests that in order to "speak about decolonization, it is necessary to...

• Resources for Feminist Research
• Vol. 33 Nbr. 1/2, January 2008