Tag: Activism

What’s the difference between the hard right and the far right, and how do we limit their growth in Canada?

To ask activist groups to take on responsibility for members’ emotional well-being is to saddle them with an impossible burden – something that makes activist burnout more likely.

Trans activists in Montreal have been organizing to make the YMCAs of Québec more inclusive of gender-diverse people

Why are activists burning out, and what can be done to stop it?

Mega-landlord Timbercreek owns half of one of the poorest and most racialized neighbourhoods in Ottawa – and they’re evicting over 400 residents to build a new “resort-style apartment” complex. But tenants are organizing from the grassroots and fighting to save Heron Gate.

If you’re gonna plaster my newsfeed with photos of dead Indigenous youth, you better show up to the vigil.

Autoconvocados – self-organized student protesters – are mobilizing against the repressive Ortega government. But their movement threatens to fall into the hands of nationalists and pro-capitalists.

The history of the harm reduction movement is one of direct action and protest – an “act first, ask second” attitude that was the only reasonable response to an outbreak of preventable disease and a crisis of premature deaths. Nicholas Olson reviews Fighting for Space, by Travis Lupick.

Years with so little social struggle on the Prairies have left us without much of what Alan Sears calls the “infrastructure of dissent.”

Tracking the work of a loosely coordinated right-wing network that spurred on an enormous public reaction

Five Ontario activists on how to change the message and build resistance before and after the 2018 election.

Colten Boushie. Tina Fontaine. Countless others. “Something’s gotta change. Something more than fake promises and words.”

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.

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.

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.

The stories in this issue embody the continuity of struggles past.

James Cairns unpacks the “entitled millennial” trope in his new book.

Even with Brad Wall’s resignation, we’re not out of the woods when it comes to trouncing austerity.

How are organizers building power to resist Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall’s callous austerity agenda?

Sometimes the only way we can address harmful behaviours is by publicly naming them.