Tag: Activism

Quebec’s social movements are working to wed anti-austerity politics with climate justice.

In the battle between beekeepers and agrochemical lobbyists over the use of neonicotinoid insecticides, farmers and non-farmers are joining forces to stand up for the bees.

What a politician is willing to do is never as important as what we can do together when we organize.

Four activists discuss Canada’s federal election.

Radical perspectives on the federal election.

Alberta’s grassroots must carve out critical distance from the NDP.

How can radical organizers and activists overcome barriers to serious strategic organizing?

Self-righteousness is a barrier to effective organizing and it undermines the left.

Bridging Palestine solidarity work with Indigenous struggles in Canada.

Are we educating each other or just scoring points from our swivel chairs?

What can be done about the Conservative attack on universal health care?

Conservatives are serious about developing young leaders. How about progressives?

Everything we care about when we think about social justice relates to our bodies: how they are defined and governed and by whom.

The Great Lakes region is the most important hub for tarsands projects outside of Alberta. Climate activists are working to connect local resistance in front-line communities with the broader movement to halt tarsands expansion.

What if instead of Scrooge, the ghosts of past, present, and future haunted his exploited clerk Bob Cratchit?

Part two of Ryan Meili’s conversation with Gabor Maté.

Organizing ultimately comes down to building relationships.

As anti-pipeline campaigns rise to the forefront of activist activity, do environmentalists need to re-evaluate their engagement with affected communities such as Toronto’s Jane-Finch neighbourhood?

Will you be my comrade? On comradeship and the relationships that sustain, nurture, and inform activism.

What is the historic gathering of activists and organizers meant to achieve?