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Briarpatch does gender:
Our gender identities, in all their complicated incarnations, continue to limit the choices and opportunities of many of us. In the face of an ongoing ideological onslaught against equality for women and sexual minorities, Briarpatch throws gender in the blender—and whips up a challenging and thought-provoking blend of ideas and arguments for bending gender hierarchy till it breaks!
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Feeding the Fire:
Food, energy & the spectre of scarcity
Food and energy: considered together, they offer a powerful lens for understanding the nature and magnitude of the environmental challenges we face. This issue of Briarpatch features contributions from some of the leading visionary thinkers in their fields, including Richard Heinberg, Helen Caldicott, Nettie Wiebe and others.
Postal Worker Faces Disciplinary Action
by Gwalgen Geordie Dent
Homophobic pamphlet sparks workplace rights row
Ralph’s Last Laugh
by Ellen Gould
Inter-provincial trade deal cops to business pressure and ties the hands of local and provincial governments
More…
Moral Dilemmas of Travel
by George Monbiot
The tourism industry carries some heavy baggage
What is Fair Travel?
by Martha Robbins, Tracey Mitchell, and Dave Oswald Mitchell
Naming the movement
You know you’re a tourist when…
by Lori Latta
You may already be a tourist! Here are 5 ways to know for sure
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The Labour Issue
Honouring Patsy Gallagher
by Lorne Brown
Trade unionist, social justice activist, friend
No Dice
by Chris Arsenault
Fruitless adventures in service sector organizing
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
by Dave Bleakney
The private death of public postal service
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Demasduit’s Museum
by Barbara Barker & Tyler McCreary
Grade Two students petition to honour the Beothuk in their own language
Hung Out to Dry?
by Angela Regnier
Academic research “partnerships” and the Wiarton water experiment
Introducing the Briarpatch TreatyCard for settlers: You can’t live here without it!
by Tyler McCreary and Dave Oswald Mitchell
Access to the land. No annual fee. Apply now!
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The Myth of the Livable City
by William E. Rees
Why modern cities have become “ravenous parasites on the global hinterland”
Adventures in Urban Beekeeping
by Jennifer Skelton
The Toronto Beekeepers Cooperative gives bees a chance
Rural Roads to Social Change
by Melissa Benner
Home-grown resistance at Heritage Line Herbs
More…
Alternatives in the Apparel Industry
by Daniel Martinez and Claudia Quintanilla
Grassroots initiatives in El Salvador fight for jobs with dignity
The Roots of the Medicare Crisis
by Ken Collier
Medicare’s history shows us prescriptions for improving it
Indigenous Sovereignty and the MacKenzie Gas Project
by Macdonald Stainsby
Resistance to the project is building in the North
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Men, Masculinity, & Feminism
by Jenn Ruddy
To what extent can (or should) men participate in the feminist movement?
From Welfare to Workfare
by Bonnie Morton
Women and the erosion of social policy
Above and Beyond
by Lisa Comeau
Single mothers and the barriers to higher learning
More…
power / hungry
navigating the looming energy crunch
Without Agency: My first food bank experience
by Annonymous
-plus- Dumping and Donating: How food banks contribute to an
unsustainable food system
All Issues
- June/July 2008: Indigenous/settler relations (5)
- May 2008: Money & Debt (8)
- March/April 2008: Life beyond the sexual binary (7)
- Feb 2008: Cannabis coffeeshops (5)
- Dec 2007/Jan 2008: Trail-blazing (6)
- Nov 2007: Precarious work (6)
- Sept/Oct 2007: Mental Health (5)
- Aug 2007: Urban Guerrilla Art (4)
- June/July 2007:The Media Issue (4)
- May 2007: Bolivia's social revolution (5)
- March/April 2007: Feminism 3.1 (5)
- Feb 2007: Food & energy (8)
- Dec 2006/Jan 2007: Ralph's Last Laugh (6)
- Nov 2006: The politics of tourism (11)
- Sept/Oct 2006: Kill Phil (4)
- Aug 2006: Guantanamo North (5)
- June/July 2006: Sustainable solutions (7)
- May 2006:Threads of Resistance (6)
- March/April 2006: Gender mending (9)
- Feb 2006: Power/hungry (6)
- Dec 2005/Jan 2006: Canadian Foreign Policy (9)
- Nov 2005: Sympathy for the soldier (7)
- Sept/Oct 2005: Focus on co-operatives (1)
- Aug 2005: Latin America (3)
- June/July 2005 (2)
- May 2005 (4)
- March/April 2005 (3)
- Feb 2005 (3)
- Dec 2004/Jan 2005 (4)
- Nov 2004 (4)
- Oct 2004 (3)
- July - Sept 2004 (3)
- June 2004 (3)
- May 2004 (1)
- April 2004: Putting faith into action (1)
- March 2004 (1)