Tag: Movement Building

When journalists insist the world’s problems, no matter how big or small, are caused by U.S. government interference, grassroots struggles against austerity and authoritarianism fall out of view.

Designing and building cohesive, disciplined, and transformative mass movements isn’t easy. This reading list is an offering to anyone committed to that effort.

the revolution will need savvy / party planners, capable / of seeing / how the carnival’s already here.

An interview with Chantelle Spicer and Tashia Kootenayoo on rooting our movements in consent.

An interview with Chris Dixon on doing research with social movements.

How do we build a transformative mass movement against pandemic-era injustice?

At its best, Briarpatch stitches together the fragments of a progressive community across so-called Canada, quilting a powerful movement for collective liberation.

The Democratic Socialists of America Canada Twitter account was fake – but its popularity was not. What’s the power of socialist branding to shape a movement?

“if word of such devices spreads, / and more than word, / it may not be just capital that overcomes / the hardened borders of the future capital’s / intent that most of us won’t see.” Poetry runner-up of the Writing in the Margins contest.

Resource Movement asks – earnestly – how can a group of rich kids help advance social justice movements?

This is some of the history of the just transition movement, traced across Turtle Island through three decades of struggle.

Environmental organizations can sometimes act as gatekeepers of environmental work. In response, the Imagining 2030 Network is creating new connections in Halifax’s climate justice movement.

Do we use our mourning to install cops in our holy places? Or do we use it to galvanize us to rise up against occupation, against land theft, against the corporations that would profit from our destitution and death?

How CUPW is bringing union advocacy into the 21st century

Davis calls for this generation to fight for full substantive freedoms, so that future generations will not be left addressing the same issues.

White supremacy continues to permeate feminist organizing in Canada.