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2011: Reflecting on Social Movement Successes in Canada
Working through and across differences—while maintaining the diversity of an inter-generational anti-oppression and radical politics—has strengthened the terrain for inclusive, participatory, and revolutionary struggle in Canada for the upcoming year.
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A call for activists and intellectuals to engage with the Occupy Movement
It is imperative for us who have been critical of society to engage with people in the contested space of the Occupy movement rather than retreat to a moral or intellectual high ground of non-participation supported by the knowledge that once again the masses are wrong.
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A Punishing Regime
The expansion of the criminal justice system has become a central part of political and economic restructuring in Canada and it demands attention. This special issue of Canadian Dimension contributes to the documentation of what this shift looks like and the ways people are resisting it.
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Boycott, Anti-Boycott
It should not be surprising that the growing world-wide boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign, which also has taken root among some Jewish Israelis, would spark anti-boycott campaigns—internationally and within Israel.
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Determined Defiant DePape
Former Senate page Brigette DePape’s bit of parliamentary pluck has garnered near universal praise from the Canadian Left. But while her mute entreaty during the Throne Speech to “Stop Harper” earned loud applause, her appeal in subsequent statements for “a Canadian version of an Arab Spring, a flowering of popular movements” provoked some fiery debate.
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Wanted: Bright ideas for dark times
The far-Right capitalizes on the rage of a declining middle-class by offering “simplistic answers for exceedingly complex problems, and [developing] effective rhetorical strategies to motivate people to vote against their own long-term interests”; it appeals to “people’s sense of betrayal and victimization,” while avoiding “the real social and economic processes that left them vulnerable.”
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Web Exclusive: Revisiting Chomsky
A current context for Chomsky’s 1967 essay ‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals”.
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How the ‘black bloc’ protected the G20
One of the most intriguing things about the chaos of the G20 in Toronto has been the effectiveness with which the black-clad violent individuals (who we’ll indulge by calling the ‘black bloc’) have contributed to the protection of the G20, its message, and what it represents.
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Web exclusive:Witness to the Saturday Protests
I can still remember, as an undergrad, the debate at York University about the War Measures Act in 1972. That will give you some idea of my age and that I am not a black-shirted anarchist.
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From Mothers to Activists
Disability, Mothers, and Organization: Accidental Activists, by Melanie Panitch, looks specifically at the development of the community living movement across Canada, an organization that (broadly speaking) assists people with developmental disabilities in meeting their needs.
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