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Everything Goes Up But Pay
Racialized women are at the forefront of labour’s most promising campaign.
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Extractive Logics
The capitalist extractive industrial logic sees water and land as collateral. In social justice logic, water and land are life.
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Visions of the Future
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?
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The Intellectual Labour of Social Movements
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.
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Why the Left Needs Experts
If social justice movements are to succeed, they have to be right.
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Tracking HudBay
The film Flin Flon Flim Flam documents a bloody and violent trail of HudBay’s resource extraction practices.
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Access to Information
Libraries and archives can and should be leveraged by activists to access histories and records of dissent.
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Debriefing Black Lives Matter Toronto’s 15-day occupation (Part 2)
Part 2 of 2 of an interview with two Black Lives Matter Toronto organizers.
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Debriefing Black Lives Matter Toronto’s 15-day occupation of police headquarters (Part 1)
Part 1 of 2 of a Q&A with two members of the BLMTO Steering Committee.
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Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead
Lumpen is the raw autobiography of revolutionary George Jackson Brigade member, Ed Mead.
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Rejecting the Master’s Tools: An Interview with a Line 9 Activist
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.
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Crowd Power!
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.
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What’s at Stake in the Fight for $15?
As the fight for a $15/hour minimum wage heats up in Canada, what lessons can low-wage workers learn from the successes of the movement in the U.S.?
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Nothing to Lose But Our Fear: Resistance in Dangerous Times
Conversations on the politics of fear.
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Meeting People Where They’re At
An organizer’s role is to connect with new people, not alienate them.
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The Responsibility to Act: An interview with Maude Barlow
Maude Barlow stresses the need for broad mobilization from below in addition to voting to defeat the Harper government this fall.
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