A Thousand More Beds
The fight for shelter beds in Canada’s largest city. Writing letters to LGBTQ2S prisoners. The Punch Up Collective on building strong movements. The Wobbly Print Project talks radical art in the labour movement. The Honduran election crisis. The lawsuit facing opponents of the Site C dam. Winners of our Writing in the Margins contest, reviews, and more.
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MagazineCollective Power in Momentous Struggles
The stories in this issue are a reminder of the collective power that can be exerted when communities are invited to join in struggles.
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MagazinePen Pal Solidarity
The Prisoner Correspondence Project connects LGBTQ2S inmates with pen pals on the outside. The relationships of care and empathy developed over years of exchanging letters are a form of radical solidarity that upends the control, surveillance, isolation, and erasure enforced by prisons.
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MagazineGetting It Together
What are collectives, and how can they bring us closer to building sustainable, healthy social movements?
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MagazineA Thousand More Beds
The homeless shelter system in Canada’s largest city is in crisis – but anti-poverty and housing activists are fighting the systemic abandonment of homeless people, and they’re winning important gains.
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MagazineThe Honduran Election Crisis
Canadian capital stands to benefit from the fraudulent election of a far right-wing government that has brought down the full force of the military on Hondurans – particularly on activists like Berta Cáceres.
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MagazineSilencing Opposition of the Site C Dam
Protesters of the Site C dam in the Peace River Valley are facing a civil suit from both BC Hydro and the B.C. government.
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MagazineGeography Lessons
“She points, / here’s Canada, here’s home, caught in a ganglion / of lakes. Our cupped hands cradle continents in turn.” Poetry winner of the 2017 Writing in the Margins contest
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MagazineThe McGill Experiments
“After his release, he cannot listen to loud noises, cannot sleep through the night; for a long while, he believes they will still come for him.” The creative nonfiction winner of our 2017 Writing in the Margins contest.
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MagazineINSURGENCE/RESURGENCE at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
The largest contemporary Indigenous art exhibition in the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s history, INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE is framed as an act of rebellion and a revitalization of Indigenous culture that challenges dominant Western methods of artmaking and presentation.
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MagazineSexual Violence at Canadian Universities: Activism, Institutional Responses, and Strategies for Change
Published before the antiviolence movement’s watershed moment of #MeToo, this collection provides a powerful analysis of so-called “game-changing” moments.
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MagazineWe Won’t Back Down
The Fight for $15 in Ontario reminds us that when employers go on the attack or cry wolf about economic crises, workers need not back down.
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MagazineThe Wobbly Print Project
Artist Dylan Miner has set out to reproduce and digitize the prodigious art of the Industrial Workers of the World.
