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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.

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    Getting It Together

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

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    A Thousand More Beds

    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.

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    Casino Workers Beat The House

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

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    States of Emergency

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

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    You Know Something I Don’t Know

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

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    For the Long Haul

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

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    Meeting People Where They’re At

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

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    What to Do About the Federal Election

    Radical perspectives on the federal election.

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    Election Day in Alberta – and Beyond

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

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    Organizing to Win the World

    How can radical organizers and activists overcome barriers to serious strategic organizing?

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    Addressing Self-righteousness on the Activist Left

    Self-righteousness is a barrier to effective organizing and it undermines the left.

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    Inside and Outside of Labour

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

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    Our Infrastructure of Dissent

    Organizing ultimately comes down to building relationships.

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    This post office belongs to everyone

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

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    Escalating a picket line

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

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    “Sheriff John Brown always hated me”

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

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    Kick-starting the environmental movement

    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.