Uncategorized | Stephen Kimber

My talk at the Martin Luther King, Jr., theatre in New York — January 16, 2015

Press Conference at the National Press Club in Washington, June 4, 2014

My interview with CNN

I was interviewed December 17, 2014, following the official announcement the United States and Cuba had agreed to a prisoner swap, freeing the three remaining members of the Cuban Five still in U.S. prisons.

Meet some of the ‘selfless friends’ of the Five

Not all of those who’ve been part of the struggle to free the Cuban Five have been prominent activists, or even members of organized groups. Meet a few of them. Jacqueline Roussie, a French woman who discovered the case of the Five during a vacation to Cuba with her husband in 2003, began corresponding with […]

The Cuban Five free at last. The week that was.

On December 17, 2014, the United States and Cuba reached an historic deal. The United States agreed to return Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino and Antonio Guerrero — the remaining three members of the Cuban Five — to their families and homeland in exchange for a previously unknown Cuban national who has spent much of the […]

Academics open letter re: CCPA audit

Here is the text of the letter: Dear Minister Findlay, Recently, we were informed through reports in a number of newspapers that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has undertaken an audit of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) on the grounds that it allegedly engages in politically partisan, biased and one-sided research activity. While we understand […]

The US State Department responds to my four-year-old FoIA Request… sort of

When I arrived back in Halifax on September 14, 2014 from giving talks in Washington about the case of the Cuban Five, there was an envelope waiting for me. It was from the “U.S. Department of State” and there was a sticker on the manila envelope that warned: “To be opened by addressee ONLY.” The […]

If collective bargaining isn’t the right to time discuss larger issues, what is, Stephen McNeil?

No one seemed to know why. Neither side had made a new offer, each side insisted with equal insistence. Nor had there been any concessions or Saul-like conversions on the path to the picket line anyone knew about. Despite that, the conciliator had called, so they were heeding the call. Negotiators for Capital Health and […]

We need an electricity review. This isn’t it…

So Energy Minister Andrew Younger is launching a year-long review of Nova Scotia’s electricity system. Although energy supply and demand are supposedly both on the table, Younger has already made clear his obsession with cutting power rates, not reducing energy demand. During the last election campaign, Younger offered two concrete proposals the Liberals claimed would […]

Viola Desmond Day? It’s time…

Will this be one more missed opportunity? The new Liberal government last week introduced the February Holiday Act to establish an annual mid-winter break on the third Monday of February, beginning in 2015. “The new holiday will give people time to spend with their families and friends, just as the majority of Canadians already do,” […]