Tag: Solidarity

Black and Indigenous people cannot look to the state for protection or systemic change. Instead, our movements have to recognize the differences between our oppressions, and stand beside each other while building new, shared spaces to exist.

The Prisoner Correspondence Project connects LGBTQ2S inmates with pen pals on the outside. The relationships of care and empathy developed over years of exchanging letters are a form of radical solidarity that upends the control, surveillance, isolation, and erasure enforced by prisons.

It was the faculty’s first strike since 1989. Predictably, the administration tried to pit the students against the faculty, but the deep relationships between students and faculty flipped the power dynamic.

When the Indigenous Peoples’ Solidarity Movement of Ottawa was infiltrated by a police officer, organizers were left feeling betrayed and paralyzed. How did they rebuild and strengthen their movement?

Three weeks into setting up a solidarity camp at the INAC office, activists in Regina are standing strong for Indigenous youth.

Solidarity with communities devastated by the fire in Fort McMurray.

Part 2 of 2 of an interview with two Black Lives Matter Toronto organizers.

Part 1 of 2 of a Q&A with two members of the BLMTO Steering Committee.

For the labour movement to become a truly liberatory force, it must be grounded in our shared social struggles.

Addressing systemic exploitation among academic instructors requires more than lip service.

Generational justice will be key to any escape from the sinkhole of 3 decades of neoliberalism.

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