Yutaka Dirks works as a tenant organizer and affordable housing advocate for a community legal clinic in Toronto. He has been active in anti-capitalist organizing in both Alberta and Ontario.
Articles by Yutaka Dirks
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Not help, but solidarity
Book review
The Silence of Our Friends asks important questions. How are racist attitudes internalized or rejected by children? What does it take to earn the trust of others across boundary lines marked by race privilege? And, how can we make progress in the struggle against oppression?
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Tales of heartbreak, fury and hope
Book review
Toronto-based author Kristyn Dunnion dubs herself a “Lady Punk Warrior.” Reading The Dirt Chronicles, her most recent book, one easily grasps the aptness of the moniker.
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On to Ottawa in marvelous, meandering prose
Book review
In June 1935, hundreds of unemployed men took to the rails in what was dubbed the On to Ottawa Trek. The Time We All Went Marching is the story of one woman on the cusp of change.
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From the jaws of defeat
Four thoughts on social change strategy
Whether we are planning a short-term campaign or the theoretical work of long-term, widespread and systemic social change, the process of strategy development is the same. To begin developing a winning strategy, we must first ask ourselves: what does victory look like?
