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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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    Line 9 Shut Down

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

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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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    To Be in a Tough Crunch

    Labour never builds alone.

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    Nothing to Lose But Our Fear: Resistance in Dangerous Times

    Conversations on the politics of fear.

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    The Right to Remain Compliant

    On the combined impacts of bills C-51 and C-24.

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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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    Feminism Beyond the Waves

    Considering No Wave feminisms.