Maritime artists address environmental issues
This story first appeared in The Coast on June 11, 2009: Laura Burke, Carla Gunn and Emily Vey Duke discuss their varying approaches to art and the environment.
March protests criminalization of black youth
This story first appeared in The Coast on June 25, 2009: In the wake of police action at the Auburn Drive high School, Black Independence Network Nova Scotia and other groups stage a march through Halifax.
Mi’kmaw Adaptation
This story first appeared in The Coast on June 25, 2009: Psst, hey, climate change deniers: Halifax Harbour is rising, and you don’t need a PhD in carbon core analytics to prove it. A simple observatory pillar in the harbour does the trick—and that’s how city staff measures water levels. And if you don’t trust […]
The detestable solution: Prison reform in Ghana
This story first appeared in Briarpatch Magazine on May 1, 2009: Under colonial rule, Ghana’s multiple traditional systems of justice were replaced by a single, expensive, incarceration-based penal system. Now, 52 years independent and among the poorest 15 per cent of nations, Ghana is at the mercy of foreign countries for financial support in maintaining […]
True Crime
This story first appeared in The Coast on Nov 13, 2008: A Halifax film crew is trailed while shooting a cybercrime doc. It’s no surprise to hacker mafiaboy.
Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine
This story first appeared in The Coast on Sept 24, 2008: Naomi Klein argues that right-wing ideologues create and use moments of crisis to advance a regressive agenda. By Chris Benjamin It starts with a violent coup by dictatorAugusto Pinochet September 11, 1973. The Chicago Boys, a gang of Chilean economists trained by free market […]
Africville art marks the spot
This story first appeared in The Coast on Sept 4, 2008: Dal students and community leaders mark the doomed African Canadian community with signposts and structures.
Lincolnville dumped on again
This story first appeared in The Coast on Aug 7, 2008: As residents next to provincial dump can’t seem to air concerns to any level of government, the stink of environmental racism grows stronger.
Economic Emancipation: Ghana, Africa, the World
This story first appeared in Z Magazine in Jan 2008: Debt “forgiveness” and the financial assault on Third World countries January 2008 By Chris Benjamin In April of this year many Western news junkies were shocked to learn that the southern African nation of Zambia had been ordered by a British High Court judge to […]
The relocation and reinvention of Old Fadama
This story first appeared in The Statesman on Jan 15, 2007: Chris Benjamin, 15/01/2007 Imagine a world where, from the slums and shanties of a developing nation, where despots have ruled more than elected representatives, arose a new kind of community led by hawkers and hairdressers. That is exactly what is happening in Old Fadama, […]
