Tag: Activism

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.

At the heart of all social movements is imagination. Can the genre of visionary fiction be a conduit for organizing and radically re-envisioning a just future?

While the intellectual processes of movement building are often associated with charismatic leaders and catchy sloganeering, the knowledge building that changes our social world is driven by the struggles of ordinary people.

If social justice movements are to succeed, they have to be right.

The film Flin Flon Flim Flam documents a bloody and violent trail of HudBay’s resource extraction practices.

Libraries and archives can and should be leveraged by activists to access histories and records of dissent.

Part 2 of 2 of an interview with two Black Lives Matter Toronto organizers.

Part 1 of 2 of a Q&A with two members of the BLMTO Steering Committee.

Lumpen is the raw autobiography of revolutionary George Jackson Brigade member, Ed Mead.

David Gray-Donald speaks to one of the activists who was involved in shutting down Line 9 at the Quebec–Ontario border on December 7, 2015.

In an age of austerity, activists are increasingly turning to crowdfunding to launch and sustain their work. In this instalment of the Briarpatch Toolkit: how to harness crowdfunding to agitate and mobilize.

An activist’s first-hand account of shutting down Line 9.