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Building farm worker power
Across Canada, farm workers are facing hotter summers and extreme weather, while being denied basic labour protections like a minimum wage. The farm workers organizing within the National Farmers Union want to change agriculture’s unsustainable conditions.
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A reading list for building transformative movements in so-called Canada
Designing and building cohesive, disciplined, and transformative mass movements isn’t easy. This reading list is an offering to anyone committed to that effort.
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Talking consent
An interview with Chantelle Spicer and Tashia Kootenayoo on rooting our movements in consent.
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Organizing against education’s jailers
Police-free schools means kicking cops out, keeping them out, and much more.
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Resting toward liberated futures
We must use as many tools as possible to fight against oppression, including – or maybe especially – rest.
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Rumour has it
Anti-gossip policies, like other ostensibly good policies, are wielded by management to keep workers from building solidarity and transforming their workplaces.
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Against a culture of paid activism
As the logic of capitalism infiltrates our social movements, we must choose between being paid for our activism and building a strong culture of social struggle.
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« C’est un régime de terreur. »
Pour mobiliser les travailleuses et travailleurs migrant∙e∙s en région rurale, il faut d’abord les trouver. La seconde étape est de réussir à desserrer l’emprise de surveillance et de peur qu’exerce leurs patrons.
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“It’s a regime of terror”
The first step in organizing rural migrant workers is finding them. The second step is breaking through their bosses’ iron grip of surveillance and fear.
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A union for sex workers
Canada’s sole sex worker’s union wants to organize the industry coast to coast. But with members spread out in different cities, and working for online services like OnlyFans, how much support can a union provide?
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Facing loss honestly
Defeat happens all the time in leftist campaigns, but very few leftists (including leftist media) have developed honest, helpful ways of talking about it.
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Uncontainable
How do we build a transformative mass movement against pandemic-era injustice?
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a simile is more honest than a metaphor thank you no questions at this time
suffering isn’t bravery those two things are different let someone / say it. to absorb an injustice because you need to to survive’s / not courage don’t let them say that.
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Stitching together a movement
At its best, Briarpatch stitches together the fragments of a progressive community across so-called Canada, quilting a powerful movement for collective liberation.
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Exorcise Amazon
Amazon has made a name for itself in pioneering new strategies for worker exploitation. The best way to fight back is to build worker power from below.
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Sask Dispatch
Why you should (and shouldn’t) be invested in Regina’s municipal election
From police brutality to accessibility to climate change – change starts at the local level. That’s why the Sask Dispatch put together a package of articles weighing in on the municipal election. So what’s at stake on November 9?
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Delivering justice
Three months after Foodora couriers won the right to unionize – a historic win for app-based workers – Foodora announced it was leaving Canada. Five worker leaders talk about the highs and lows of the campaign, and what’s next for Foodsters United.
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How Honda’s anti-union monitor works
At a manufacturing plant in Ontario, Honda management maps out vulnerable “hot spots” on the shop floor as part of an effort to stop its workers from unionizing.
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Organizing through loss in the heart of oil country
The story of climate justice organizing in Alberta, at the heart of the tarsands, is the story of a group of young activists learning what it means to lose, and keep on fighting
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Is voting really “harm reduction”?
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.