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• Adventures in coordinated bargaining –There are no prepared documents. There’s no agenda. Your job, along with the other hundred front-line members of the Ontario University Workers Coordinating Committee (OUWCC), is to set priorities for the sector for the next three years, to tackle obstacles to that work, and to look for concrete ways to…
• Too little too late? –Canadian labour leaders and activists will need to be proactive and creative in the coming months and years if they hope to avoid the fate of those Oshawa auto workers.
• Liliany Obando –Liliany Obando was arrested—in front of her two children and elderly mother at their Bogota apartment—on August 8, 2008 by the Anti-Terrorism Unit of the Colombian National Police.
• The butterfly in the classroom –At last fall’s University of Toronto conference on academic freedom, _Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Teach,_ James Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, offered some useful reminders about the intersection of schools with free expression.
• Economics for everyone –Book review of Jim Stanford’s _Economics for everyone: A short guide to the economics of capitalism._
• November 2008 –In this special focus on workplace activism, Briarpatch looks at unions’ increasing use of social networking tools, assesses the prospects for the Canadian labour movement heading into a recession, travels with solidarity activists to Colombia and Haiti, asks why CanWest can’t take a joke, and more.
• Letter from the editor –A celebration of Briarpatch’s jade anniversary.
• Peace begins at home –The U.S. imperial project in Afghanistan has faltered. The government created by the United States lacks credibility and legitimacy. The vast majority of the people remain poor. The drug economy is dominant. Despite an increase in NATO military forces, the armed resistance led by the Taliban is increasing in strength.…
• Mock justice –An examination of the Omar Khadr case and why he should walk free.
• Not wanted after the voyage –It’s a Tuesday evening in Paris, and in the predominantly immigrant neighbourhood of Belleville, people from all corners of the world are crowding into the metro station. Tension is high tonight; for many, this ride home could be their last in France.
• Damned if you do, damned if you don’t –Once Hydro-Québec completes work, now started, to divert most of the kilometre-wide Rupert River into reservoirs along the Eastmain and La Grande River systems further north, the impact on the traditional hunting, fishing and trapping grounds—and on the culture they sustain—will be devastating. Seeking to stop the development, the province’s…
• September/October 2008 –In this, our 35th anniversary issue, Briarpatch tackles stories ranging from an in-depth look at the outrages of the Omar Khadr case to the politics of immigration in France & Canada, from an assessment of the alternatives for Canada in Afghanistan to an exploration of the culture of youth gun…
• Letter from the editor –What happens when large numbers of people give up on the paradigm of “progress”—the idea that each generation will invariably live in greater material comfort and prosperity than the generation before?
• “It’s tremendous fun to fight back” –Derrick Jensen joined a Regina, Saskatchewan, audience via videoconference for a wide-ranging conversation. As usual, he challenged the audience to focus on protecting life rather than lifestyle, and urged them to recognize the breadth of the changes necessary to protect life on earth.
• Going Dutch –Sadiqa Khan explores race, nation and white privilege through her experiences as a Dutch-Kenyan woman.
• Olympic profits –Christopher A. Shaw examines how the Olympic games and profits played into the poverty and homelessness of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
• Fighting fire with fire –The rise of neo-Nazism in Alberta and the Anti-Racist activists organizing against them.
• Manufacturing a crisis –General Motors’ recent decision to close its Oshawa Truck Plant employing 2,600 workers has highlighted the massive loss of manufacturing jobs in Ontario and much of the rest of Canada in recent months. In the wake of this closure decision, a question has to be asked. Is it accurate to…
• The two Buddhas –A philosophical storm has been brewing (in its quiet, Buddhist way) in sanghas, meditation groups, magazine articles and monasteries across the continent. Don Sawyer explores Western Buddhism and Buddhist fundamentalism.
• Stupid to the last drop –A book review of William Marsden’s, _Stupid to the last drop: How Alberta is bringing environmental armageddon to Canada (And doesn’t seem to care)_