Briarpatch Magazine

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This is a prison, no matter what you call it
Activists are determined to halt the construction of a new migrant detention centre in Laval.
by Jon Milton – 11 min read
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Just transition means returning Indigenous land – but that might look different than you think
by Emily Riddle – 3 min read
When the weight of our entire imbalance crashes down on me, I remember that, through treaties, our ancestors planned for us to remain in our homeland through another apocalypse.
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“We can only glimpse our future reflected in our past”
by Aric McBay – 7 min read
Generations from today, a group of young activists sends a letter to a historian of the 21st century, hoping that she will be able to settle an argument about tactics. Her letter gives us a glimpse of what life is like in the 22nd century – after a just transition.
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The #UniteAgainstRacism campaign – what it is and why we launched it
by Migrant Rights Network – 5 min read
Across the globe, right-wing politics are gaining ground by demonizing migrants and Others. These politics become particularly pronounced in election years. With the federal election approaching, we knew Canada was not immune.

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by Saima Desai – 2 min read
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Unbordering

by Syed Hussan – 8 min read
In this world, a world where many worlds coexist, there would be no forced migration, no mass extinction.
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Just transition: a vision and a plan

by Saima Desai, David Gray-Donald, Sharmeen Khan, and Andrew Loewen – 5 min read
Around us, we see fear and uncertainty about the world that is coming into being. This issue of Briarpatch came from a desire to articulate a hopeful vision of the future, and a plan for how to get there by addressing interwoven social and environmental crises.
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What’s in a just transition?

by Heather Milton-Lightening – 11 min read
We convened a roundtable of activists from different movements to talk about what a just transition means to them, and what it looks like on the ground.

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May/June 2019

How do we transition to a low-carbon future, in a way that’s just for Indigenous peoples and workers? This issue is both a vision and a plan. With articles on the history of the just transition movement; what “giving land back” really means; case studies from the Wet’suwet’en nation’s reoccupation of territory to the Imagining 2030 Network in Nova Scotia; unbordering the transition; the degrowth movement in Quebec; and more.

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All the ways that Canadian journalists serve the ruling class

by James Wilt – 6 min read
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How will we pay for a just transition?

by David Gray-Donald – 15 min read
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Degrowth vs. the Green New Deal

by Aaron Vansintjan – 6 min read
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Will Sask NDP support oil industry or Indigenous land rights?

by Nickita Longman and Andrew Loewen – 4 min read