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Black radical love in Waterloo
For over 200 years, Black people have built community and taken care of one another in so-called Waterloo, Ontario.
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Futurity and systems change reading list
Future worlds and survival in a changing present gripped by the Anthropocene are on everyone’s minds, and now is the time to dream and lean into what’s coming.
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Looking for change after Black Lives Matter
Nearly two years after the summer of 2020, donations and public support for Black police abolitionists on the Prairies have dried up. Meanwhile, police budgets keep growing.
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Black Lives Matter in Rural Canada, Too
When we imagine rural Canada as white, we erase the history, present, and future of rural Black life – from Black Loyalist settlers to justice for modern migrant farm workers.
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Working while Black
Amid COVID-19 and a global uprising against police brutality, the already intense demands and pressures that Black women face at work have become crushing. Hawa Mire convened a roundtable on Black women’s labour during these times
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It’s time to talk about police in our unions
Toward an abolitionist approach to decent work for all
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Sask Dispatch
Emergency rally for Black lives draws hundreds
As uprisings in support of Black Lives Matter continue across North America and the world, hundreds gathered in front of the Saskatchewan Legislature to show solidarity and call for justice.
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Disarming the people without disarming the state
When you factor in the long history of Black people, Indigenous people, and people of colour using guns to defend their communities against police, the military, and white supremacists, gun regulation takes on a different meaning.
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The Canadian state and Black disregard
If “the 1990s were Black,” why is anti-Blackness still cemented into Canadian society today? Phillip Dwight Morgan reviews Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi’s BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom.
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Fatal encounters
Cops may kill fewer people in Canada than in the U.S., but it’s clear that the same racism and lack of accountability underpins police shootings as in the U.S. The only difference is that, in Canada, it’s accompanied by less transparency and a paucity of data.
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Distinct histories, shared solidarity
Black and Indigenous people cannot look to the state for protection or systemic change. Instead, our movements have to recognize the differences between our oppressions, and stand beside each other while building new, shared spaces to exist.
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Toward a World of Many Worlds: The Women’s March in Saskatoon
In the future, we may be able to point to the Women’s March on Washington in Saskatoon as the critical moment when all our scattered struggles came together as we realized how capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, imperialism, and heterosexism are interconnected.
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Davis calls for this generation to fight for full substantive freedoms, so that future generations will not be left addressing the same issues.
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“We Continue to be Magical”
Five young Black folks speak to the challenges and strategies for building and sustaining the Black liberation movement.
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On Notice
If we were to place the stories of the Black Lives Matter Toronto resistance and the Panama Papers leak in a Venn diagram, the overlapping space would highlight that capital depends on white supremacy and the justification of racism.
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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.