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Alex Vitale on the policing of insurrectionary far-right protests
For professor Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing, “when we embrace the use of repressive political policing, we’re mobilizing the tools that will primarily be used against our own movements.”
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Magazine
The Indian farmers’ protest is a window on a new world
Since September 2020, tens of thousands of farmers and farm labourers and over 40 unions have been waging resistance to three agricultural farm bills in India. The protest’s sustained presence, immense scale, and diverse solidarities have shaken the legitimacy of Prime Minister Modi, and provided us all with a renewed ethical orientation and political vision for a new world.
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A year in revolt
Since September, a wave of protests has swept across the globe. Inequality and its violent maintenance is at the heart of the discontent.
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Sask Dispatch
Saskatoon welcomes premiers with climate justice protest
While Canada’s premiers visit Saskatoon, Treaty 6 territory, activists are camping out for four days in Kiwanis Memorial Park to urge action on climate change.
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Against performative sharing
If you’re gonna plaster my newsfeed with photos of dead Indigenous youth, you better show up to the vigil.
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Who will commemorate the Nakba in Canada?
Trudeau recently celebrated the birthday of Israel while remaining silent on the 700,000 Palestinians that were driven out of their homes. Why is the Canadian government so dead-set on ignoring Israel’s past and present human rights abuses?
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Miners, activists, and struggle in Halkidiki
Messages from a community in northern Greece fighting a Canadian mining giant.
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Traded for Gold
Caving to international pressure at the height of the Greek debt crisis, Syriza approved a Canadian mining operation in the Skouries forest despite the local fight against it.
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The Mighty Fight for Muskrat Falls
The Inuit, Innu, Métis, and settler communities around the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project depend on the watershed for hunting and fishing. The stakes for protecting the water just got higher and the fight is far from over.
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Chasing the National Energy Board out of Montreal
An interview with activist Alyssa Symons-Belanger after her release from arrest.
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Are there “good protesters” and “bad protesters”?
How can we adopt the best practices for protest without creating divisions among activists and those in the struggle?