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• Tamil, tiger, terrorist? –In August 2010, the MV Sun Sea arrived in Vancouver carrying 492 Tamil refugees fleeing post-war Sri Lanka. All on board were immediately detained upon arrival in Canada. Nearly a year later, 19 are still in jail.
• Sears, Alan –Alan Sears is a writer and activist who teaches sociology at Ryerson. He is an editorial associate of New Socialist webzine and the co-author (with James Cairms) of The Democratic Imagination: Envisioning Popular Power in the Twenty-First Century (University of Toronto Press). His new book is The Next New Left:…
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• Skinner, Michael –Michael Skinner is a musician, composer, and human rights activist. For a decade he was a National Education Facilitator for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. Since 2006, he has been a researcher at the York Centre for International and Security Studies at York University Toronto.
• Cader, Fathima –Fathima Cader is a writer and student at law.
• Ball, David P. –David P. Ball is a photojournalist living in Vancouver B.C., on Coast Salish territory. He lived in Lebanon during the 2006 war.
• Kulchyski, Peter –Peter Kulchyski is a professor of Native studies at the University of Manitoba and an Aboriginal rights activist with the Winnipeg Indigenous People’s Solidarity Movement. He has written and edited numerous books and both scholarly and popular articles.
• In defence of a Muslim takeover –As the last 10 years have made painstakingly evident, imperial interventions in the Middle East and Pakistan have relied heavily on the conflation of the figure of the Muslim, the immigrant/outsider, and the terrorist within mainstream discourse. It is within this context that many have begun raising alarm over the…
• Lebanon rising –Farah Koubaissy lifts a megaphone to the cheers of a crowd in downtown Beirut. The 24-year-old student, blogger and community organizer sports a calm smile, a keffiyeh scarf and a camera.
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• Wood, Bruce
• Williams, Audra
• Bradshaw, Brett
• Wolfwood, Theresa
• Living among us –On June 26, 2010, while the G20 summit was under way amid mass protests on the streets of downtown Toronto, a startling revelation was made that would reverberate through activist communities for months to come. Two undercover police officers had joined protest groups and been living among activists as part…
• July/August 2011 –From anti-migrant hysteria to Indigenous rights, police infiltration, neoliberal austerity, and the so-called liberation of Afghanistan, this issue of Briarpatch covers it all — investigative journalism, essays and articles to inspire and incite.
• Kossick, Don –Don Kossick is the long-time producer of makingthelinksradio.ca and has contributed to Briarpatch many times over the years.
• Ludwig, Justin
• Gould, Ellen