In this issue, Briarpatch’s intrepid contributors “go Dutch” to make the case for cannabis coffeeshops in Canada, brave the front-line violence of Guatemala’s recent elections, mark the 10th anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty with South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia, assess the fighting words of shock troops Jeremy Scahill and Naomi Klein, and still make it home in time for dinner.
Artwork by Todd Julie. Click image to enlarge.
features
retracing our steps
By Dariusz Dziewanski
South Sudanese refugees prepare to return home while land mine activists mark the 10th anniversary of the Ottawa Treaty.
a dove with two right wings
by Simon Granovsky-Larsen
The story behind the power struggles in the 2007 Guatemalan elections.
da’s toch dope, man!
by Elaine Brière
The Dutch drug decriminalization debate moves to the back door.
liquid assets
by Brent Erickson
Rights vs. needs & the trickle-down economics of water privatization.
remembering Maria Fischer
by Edith Mountjoy
A Briarpatch alumnus reflects on the lasting contribution of the magazine’s founding editor.
departments
letter from the editor
Environmentalists as anti-imperialists (or why the world needs less Canada).
letters to the editor
Readers share their memories of Maria Fischer.
review
Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater & Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine
Reviewed by Jon Elmer
Randall Robinson’s An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from revolution to the kidnapping of a President
Reviewed by Roger Annis
quotes from the underground
from Walt Whitman, Edward Everett Hale, Hawksley Workman, Leonard Cohen, John Pilger, Arcade Fire, Eugene Debbs, Howard Zinn & Dwight D. Eisenhower
parting shots
The CLC stands poised to take a stand against asbestos. Now will the NDP follow suit?
by Bob Sass
luz: girl of the knowing
Claudia Dávila’s peak oil comic.
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