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• Remembering the disappeared –With a series of marches, conferences, plays, exhibits, and performances, tens of thousands of Chileans marked last week’s 40th anniversary of the coup that ended the presidency of Salvador Allende and ushered in the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
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• This is what rape culture looks like
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• Letter from the editor –Dignity is, ultimately, why we are on the political left. It is connected to the energy by which we can reckon with domination rather than crumple in its grasp. It is why we have each other.
• The gentry have landed –Capital and community are colliding in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside as developers and politicians dispossess low-income residents of one of their only assets: their neighbourhood.
• Hunger’s empire –What does it mean for Guantanamo Bay prisoners to assert their essential human dignity, and to seek justice, by choosing to starve? From freedom fighters under the British Raj to Chief Theresa Spence and the detainees of Guantanamo, physician Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay explores the insistent threat of the hunger strike.
• More than a hero –She has long been honoured as a revolutionary martyr, but can her theories about capitalism and working-class organization guide us today? In a time of austerity and flaring social unrest, Ingo Schmidt reveals Luxemburg’s key insights for understanding our world – and organizing for a better one.
• Dear sister –Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence from the forthcoming AK Press anthology
• Weeding out Monsanto –Canadian farmers have successfully blocked genetically modified flax, wheat, and pigs. Now the fight is on to keep out Monsanto alfalfa. It’s a fight farmers and their consumer allies can win, writes Cathy Holtslander.
• A legacy of Canadian child care –What was it like to be caught in the Sixties Scoop, when thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in settler households?
• Writing in the Margins: Briarpatch’s 3rd Annual Creative Writing Contest –_Briarpatch_ is now accepting submissions of original, unpublished writing in the categories of short fiction and creative non-fiction for our third annual creative writing contest. Enter the contest for a chance to win a cash prize of $300 and get published in _Briarpatch_!
• “Sheriff John Brown always hated me” –Afrikans living in Toronto and across Canada face targeted police profiling and violence. Organizer Ajamu Nangwaya explains why and what can be done.
• Just pretending –Who am I? At some point or another, we have all asked ourselves this simplest of questions.
• Beyond bullying –The term “bullying” obscures the dynamics of gendered violence in cases like Rehtaeh Parsons’ and Amanda Todd’s. The vague language of anti-bullying campaigns and legislation do little to address systemic misogyny and rape culture.