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I've neglected this blog over the last two months...in the meantime, the Omni workers ended their strike after management yielded to their demands. The disaster of American domestic policy that Hurricane Katrina made visible indisputably showed the world the foundation of injustice on which U.S. society is based. A Muslim infant was listed on Canada's no-fly list, propelling the Muslim-Canadian community into taking legal action against the government. Teachers in British Columbia have gone on strike, and the government and its legislative branch have imposed draconian restrictions on their right to fight for better working conditions. Another "natural" disaster has devastated South Asia, bringing into relief the inhumanity of the unnatural disaster that is global capitalism. No shortage of occasions to struggle...