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Demanding reproductive justice for trans women
If we could reimagine our world in order to put trans women’s well-being at its centre, maybe we could make the system more equitable and safe for all parents and children.
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On Opium: An intoxicating call to arms against the War on Drugs
In Carlyn Zwarenstein’s new book, “On Opium,” she forces us to reconsider everything we’ve ever thought about pain and opioids. Her call to action is unmistakable: policies that criminalize and dehumanize drug users will continue to drive the opioid crisis.
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Saskatchewan survivors and the non-profit industrial complex
After revelations of rampant sexual violence and abuse in Regina’s non-profits, where can survivors turn for justice?
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Organizing against education’s jailers
Police-free schools means kicking cops out, keeping them out, and much more.
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“We have our footsteps everywhere”
In 2018 the Kaska Dena created their own hunting permit system, to protect their land and the animals that share it. In doing so, they amplified a complex dispute between the Kaska and settler governments about who has authority over the land.
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The C-IRG: the resource extraction industry’s best ally
In British Columbia, a little-known arm of the RCMP is dedicated to enforcing injunctions for resource extraction companies. Interviews with land defenders, a C-IRG commander, and an anonymous source reveal details about their history, training, and practices.
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Ancient remnants
The fight to protect old-growth forests – one of the last few places where it’s possible to witness land before capitalism.
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Police and property
The theme of property – and the vision of a world no longer organized by its logic – is one that is threaded through most of the stories in this issue.
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Resting toward liberated futures
We must use as many tools as possible to fight against oppression, including – or maybe especially – rest.
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Rumour has it
Anti-gossip policies, like other ostensibly good policies, are wielded by management to keep workers from building solidarity and transforming their workplaces.
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Against a culture of paid activism
As the logic of capitalism infiltrates our social movements, we must choose between being paid for our activism and building a strong culture of social struggle.
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A penny a poppy
Millions of Canada’s plastic Remembrance Day poppies have been made by prisoners and people labelled with intellectual/developmental disabilities, who are paid pennies on the hour. It’s part of a long history of prisons and institutions using poverty to control disabled and criminalized workers.
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« C’est un régime de terreur. »
Pour mobiliser les travailleuses et travailleurs migrant∙e∙s en région rurale, il faut d’abord les trouver. La seconde étape est de réussir à desserrer l’emprise de surveillance et de peur qu’exerce leurs patrons.
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“It’s a regime of terror”
The first step in organizing rural migrant workers is finding them. The second step is breaking through their bosses’ iron grip of surveillance and fear.
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“Do not ever get used to it”
Union members and staff say that sexism, anti-Black racism, and other oppressive attitudes are deeply entrenched in many unions. Drawing on a history of women, trans, and racialized workers fighting for their place in the labour movement, trade unionists share ideas to transform unions today.
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A union for sex workers
Canada’s sole sex worker’s union wants to organize the industry coast to coast. But with members spread out in different cities, and working for online services like OnlyFans, how much support can a union provide?
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The labour movement is stronger without police in it
It’s time for unions to expel police from their membership, because a strong labour movement can only be built on a foundation of safety for Black and Indigenous members.
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The HuffPost Canada union is dead. Long live the HuffPost Canada union.
My newsroom unionized. We were shut down two weeks later. Here’s why it was still worth it.
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Tough conversations about Canada’s labour movement
Where can we speak honestly about the weaknesses of the labour movement, offering constructive criticism and debating paths forward, without making the movement vulnerable to bad-faith attacks by neoliberal columnists and far-right ghouls?
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What does freedom feel like?
In unnaturally small prison cells, it’s common for prisoners’ eyesight to degrade due to a lack of stimulation, distance, and depth. It begs the question: which other senses does confinement diminish? To what degree? Do they come back?