Tag: Activism

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.”

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.

A Canada 150 intervention. Letter from the Editor.

When the Indigenous Peoples’ Solidarity Movement of Ottawa was infiltrated by a police officer, organizers were left feeling betrayed and paralyzed. How did they rebuild and strengthen their movement?

War in the Neighborhood, a graphic novel about the struggles of squatters at war with police and developers, is re-read 17 years later with fresh eyes.

What Project SITKA reveals about the basis of pernicious surveillance of Indigenous activists

Lessons from Vancouver’s Women’s March on Washington.

Micah White’s conclusion – that the future of efforts to change society will be a combination of electoral politics and cultural “meme warfare” – misses the mark.

Do we have a problem imagining carbon neutrality?

As editors, publishers, and journalists working in independent media, we condemn the criminalization of Indigenous land protectors and journalist Justin Brake.

Racialized women are at the forefront of labour’s most promising campaign.

The capitalist extractive industrial logic sees water and land as collateral. In social justice logic, water and land are life.