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Decolonizing Relations on Treaty 4 territory
Indigenous people, immigrants, and settlers in Regina’s Decolonizing Relations group discuss land, labour, and solidarity.
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A world of many worlds
Is the idea of Indigenous sovereignty really in conflict with the well-being of migrant communities? A review of “Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants.”
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The revolution will be translated
In February, in the midst of solidarity protests against the RCMP’s invasion of Wet’suwet’en territory, I created a Google Doc: “How to explain what’s happening to the Wet’suwet’en people in Chinese.” The long history of grassroots translation work shows that it is one of our strongest tools to build solidarity against white supremacy.
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Will it help us fight?
Briarpatch began 49 years ago as a four-page newsletter produced by and for low-income earners, welfare recipients, and the unemployed. Today, as so many of my friends lose their jobs or have their shifts halved during the COVID-19 pandemic, I can see clearly the thread that connects Briarpatch to its origins half a century ago.
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Transcript of Briarpatch’s “Covid-19, Recession, & the Future” webinar
A full transcript of Briarpatch’s webinar with David McNally, Isaac Murdoch, Nandita Sharma, John Clarke, and David Camfield on the global COVID-19 and economic crises.
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“It’s a crisis of legitimacy for the capitalist system itself”
Briarpatch hosted a discussion between David McNally, Isaac Murdoch, Nandita Sharma, John Clarke, and David Camfield on the global COVID-19 and economic crises. Here are the key take-aways.
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When we built the walls
Through handshakes behind closed doors, with refugees as commodities and borders as bargaining chips, our migration system is crumbling
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Of lovers and land
How can immigrant settlers – weighted by our own racial memory of land and its loss – cultivate ethical relationships with the land here?
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Unbordering
In this world, a world where many worlds coexist, there would be no forced migration, no mass extinction.
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FOR THE DREAMERS
“In the palm of my hand, I delicately finger a pair of unfamiliar ID cards printed on worn pieces of coloured paper, yellow and salmon pink. The faded type reveals they were issued in the spring of 1941 with approval from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.” Creative non-fiction winner of the Writing in the Margins contest.
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Organizing the suburbs
Why Chinese suburbanites in Toronto’s commuter belt voted for Doug Ford – and why the left has been losing its foothold in racialized working-class communities
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Not One More Deportation
We must stop Lucy Francineth Granados’ deportation, and overhaul the sadistic and arbitrary case-by-case regularization system.
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The Cost of Managed Migration
The Temporary Foreign Worker Program has spawned a recruitment industry in Guatemala that promises workers risk-free employment in Canada, but delivers precarity and exploitation.
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Robots, Migration, and the Future of Work
Technology and mobility should free us from drudgery, not throw us into competition for dead-end jobs.
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The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
A shining model of what journalism as a practice of solidarity can look like.
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The politics of precarity
The Urban Worker Strategy proposes a sweeping suite of overdue federal policies that respond to the plight of temps, freelancers, interns, part-timers and other flexworkers who flit from gig to gig, shift to shift, contract to contract, with no guarantee of income or future work, let alone access to benefits or pensions.
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Kwentong bayan: Labour of love
In the Filipino language, Kwentong Bayan is the literal translation of “community stories;” and Labour of Love reflects the artists’ understanding that caregiving work – like community-based art work – is rooted in love, is valuable, and deserves respect.
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From the ground up
During the economic expansion that followed WWII, organized labour won significant gains in exchange for embracing capitalism. Long since the crises of the 1970s, and decades into organized labour’s decline, major labour organizations still talk as if a return to that postwar compromise is possible. What can be done – what is being done – to challenge this orientation?
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A tour of home
Home n casa1 f; (for old people) residencia f de ancianos; (native land) patria