Jan/Feb 2010: Responsibility to Protest

In the wake of the global convergence in Copenhagen and looking ahead to the anti-Olympic demonstrations in February, Briarpatch sets out in this issue to assess the state of social movements today. Where are the emerging opportunities for collective action and popular empowerment? What have we learned in the ten years since Seattle? How do we translate the convergences in Copenhagen, Vancouver or elsewhere into ongoing political pressure and social transformation? Our “responsibility to protest” issue looks at these and other questions

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features

from invisibility to stability
Transgender organizing for the masses
By Mandy Van Deven

food politics & the tyranny of rights
A profile of Brewster Kneen
By Devlin Kuyek

water fight
First Nations’ water rights in the Thompson Okanagan
By Hannah Askew

selling the Olympics in the schools
Goverment & anti-Olympics groups take their messages to the classroom
By Jenn Hardy

boosters’ millions
Better ways to spend $6.1 billion than on the Olympics
By Dawn Paley & Isaac Oommen

mass protests & the future of convergence activism
Is summit-hopping a dying tactic or the next Olympic sport?
By Jane Kirby

collective power
A retrospective photo essay, illustrating Jane Kirby’s article
By Elaine Brière

when we were feminists
The 20-year reunion of the Radical Obnoxious Fucking Feminists
By Penelope Hutchison

departments

letter from the editor
Collective power and the responsibility to protest

letters to the editor

contributors’ bios

review

Brian D. Palmer’s Canada’s 1960s: The ironies of identity in a rebellious era
Reviewed by Lorne Brown

luz: girl of the knowing

quotes from the underground
Naomi Klein, George Orwell, John Berger, Lester B. Pearson, John Michael Greer, Michael Stone, Cho Se-Hui & Norm MacDonald

parting shots
What the right does right
By Armine Yalnizyan

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