Tag: Organizing

People who say “voting is harm reduction” wrongly assume that in the lead-up to elections, all we can do is vote for the least-bad candidate or party.

What are collectives, and how can they bring us closer to building sustainable, healthy social movements?

The homeless shelter system in Canada’s largest city is in crisis – but anti-poverty and housing activists are fighting the systemic abandonment of homeless people, and they’re winning important gains.

In B.C.’s biggest private-sector organizing drive in nine years, workers took on Canada’s casino giant.

In this Andrea Walker Memorial Fund winning piece, Lindsay Nixon explores what makes the colonial world risky for Indigenous peoples with HIV.

How can social movements draw on established resources and on the wisdom of their members to propel an ethical redistribution of power?

How can we improve our social movement cultures and our relationships with each other while learning from the past and creating for the future?

An organizer’s role is to connect with new people, not alienate them.

Radical perspectives on the federal election.

Electoral politics and grassroots movement building are often at odds; significant change in Alberta will hinge on independent organizing.

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.

A left without militant organized labour is all protest with no real leverage.

Organizing ultimately comes down to building relationships.

If the post office belongs to everyone, then this is a call to action, a collective opportunity in the making.

Militancy and real solidarity are essential if workers are to gain leverage in labour disputes.

Afrikans living in Toronto and across Canada face targeted police profiling and violence. Organizer Ajamu Nangwaya explains why and what can be done.

Some serious socio-economic changes have to be made. We’ve got this unsustainable way of life, particularly in the Western world, particularly in North America. The atomization of the population and the drive towards unwarranted consumerism and indebtedness have created very serious social, economic and cultural problems which have to be overcome.