Category Archives: Social and political theory

OCLA on the Freedom Feature

OCLA Executive Director Joseph Hickey was interviewed on the First Freedoms Foundation (FFF)’s “Freedom Feature” program by Dr. Barry W. Bussey. The interview can be viewed on FFF’s website at the link HERE, or embedded below: From FFF’s description of the … Continue reading

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Freedom Convoy Statement of Accomplishments

Organizers of the 2022 Freedom Convoy have posted a written statement on the accomplishments of the movement. The Mar. 3, 2022, statement can be read on Twitter or in PDF format at the link here. From the statement: Despite the government’s … Continue reading

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OCLA Statement on the Government’s Use of the Emergencies Act

The Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) condemns the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act (formerly the War Measures Act) to dispel peaceful protests in Canada. Peaceful protest and civil disobedience are essential in a democratic society – without these … Continue reading

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OCLA is now hosting EH Carr’s seminal book about geopolitics

THE TWENTY YEARS’ CRISIS 1919-1939 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS By Edward Hallet Carr (1939) https://ocla.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/167060273-E-H-Carr-the-Twenty-Years-Crisis-1919-1939-an-Introduction-to-the-Study-of-International-Relations-1946.pdf  

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OCLA Calls on the Government and Media to Exercise Calm, Reason and Objectivity

The Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) calls on the government and media to exercise calm, reason and objectivity in civil rights matters. Civil rights are unjustly abated by reacting governments and opportunist media corporations in times when terrorist events have … Continue reading

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