July/August 2012

The July/August issue offers a wide array of stories including prison expansion on Indigenous sacred sites, the Quebec student strike, popular education as a tool for decolonization, the remilitarization of Guatemala to clear space for multinational corporations, and more.

Articles in this issue

  • Letter from the editor

    Quebec rising

    by Rebecca Granovsky-Larsen • Jul 1, 2012

  • The spoils of an undeclared war

    How Guatemala’s ‘War on Drugs’ is being used as a front to clear land for oil companies

    by Dawn Paley • Jul 1, 2012

  • Popular education lives

    Harnessing education as a tool for community empowerment

    by Tyler McCreary • Jul 1, 2012

  • Harper’s smudge

    Prison expansion on sacred Aboriginal grounds

    by Vernon Wilson • Jul 1, 2012

  • Incubating ideas

    Fernwood celebrates 20 years of radical publishing

    by Chris Benjamin • Jul 1, 2012

  • Ban the blood services ban

    Activists challenge the prohibition against gay donors

    by Hilary Beaumont • Jul 1, 2012

  • NGOs and empire

    Canadian aid agencies take empire building seriously

    by Nikolas Barry-Shaw, Dru Oja Jay • Jul 1, 2012

  • Boiling point

    The state of (un)safe drinking water in First Nations communities across Canada

    by Tim Groves • Jul 1, 2012

  • The Juliet stories

    Book review

    by Yutaka Dirks • Jul 1, 2012

  • Why strike support isn’t enough

    Lessons in solidarity organizing on the one-year anniversary of the postal strike

    by Dave Bush, Kaley Kennedy • Jul 1, 2012