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The case for a prisoners’ union
Organizing prisoner workers is the first step toward abolishing prisons.
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Journalism with movements in the South
When journalists insist the world’s problems, no matter how big or small, are caused by U.S. government interference, grassroots struggles against austerity and authoritarianism fall out of view.
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A reading list on alternative and grassroots media
Alternative media’s promise is that all people have a right to participate in making media, free of commercial and government control. These are a few of the guiding voices on how to build media for people, not profit.
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The dangers of Big Tech funding journalism
Google and Meta are spending millions on programs and awards to help news outlets in crisis. What’s at stake when tech giants are allowed to brand themselves as the saviours of an industry they helped destroy?
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Independent media’s bad labour problem
From union-busting to systemic racism, when bad labour practices have embedded themselves in the very publications trying to write into existence a more just world, what is to be done?
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Doing anti-imperialist journalism while the world marches to war
After Russia invaded Ukraine, anything other than support for sending unlimited weapons to Ukraine was painted as pro-Russian propaganda. What does anti-war journalism look like in a climate of social media harassment and state attacks?
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“Don’t hate the media, be the media”
How New Brunswick’s Media Co-op is standing up to the Irvings’ corporate power
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Métis militancy and Saskatchewan media
In the ’70s and ’80s, Saskatchewan’s left was chronicled by two formidable magazines: New Breed and Briarpatch. This is the story of how they made grassroots media in Saskatchewan.
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The people’s magazine
The funny, strange, and dogged ways that Briarpatch’s readers have helped this magazine reach its 50th anniversary
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50 years of editing Briarpatch
Four editors reflect on decades of editing Briarpatch: what they learned, the stories that challenged them, what’s changed, and what’s stayed the same.
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File rejected
In 2009, Briarpatch’s $33,000 application to the Canada Magazine Fund was rejected, without explanation, by Stephen Harper’s Minister of Canadian Heritage. It would take an access to information request to reveal that, behind the scenes, the fund’s staff were also being stonewalled by the minister’s office.
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Happy 50th birthday, Briarpatch
This issue tells the story of Briarpatch’s survival, and explores how to build better media in Canada.
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Women Winning Office: The limits of electoral strategy
In her new book “Women Winning Office,” Peggy Nash argues that it’s critical for women to hold positions of power. But as Misha Falk writes, representation doesn’t equate to a more just society.
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The case for large-scale workers’ media in Canada
Unions, union members, and people with access to wealth need to think big about shifting the media landscape in Canada.
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A reading list on labour’s role in a just transition
A transition to a sustainable economy is a monumental task that will require transformative change. Whether this transition is just, democratic, and reflective of the scale of the crises we face is still to be determined.
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Class inaction
Survivors are speaking up about the abuse they endured in Canada’s government-run institutions for disabled people. Class-action lawsuits promise them justice – but can they deliver?
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Planting trees in a coal mine
Reclaiming mines is touted as an essential part of a just transition. But in Teck’s B.C. coal mines, two tree planters were left asking: were they part of reclamation, or greenwashing?
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“With our own hands”
Workers and international students in Brampton are fighting back against wage theft, naming and shaming employers to recover over $250,000 in stolen wages. 12 workers share the lessons they’ve learned in the fight.
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Indigenous labour struggles
From leading one of British Columbia’s earliest strikes to fighting against low wages and racist bosses, some pivotal moments in Indigenous labour history.
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How Quebec workers won – and kept – anti-scab laws
If anti-scab legislation is to be extended across Canada, the NDP’s best efforts and the Liberals’ reluctant co-operation might not be enough. The history of the Quebec labour movement can show us how to fight for anti-scab legislation.