Blog
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Review: The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance
My review of The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance by Robin Tudge.
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*Talking Radical Radio* Has Launched!
Check out this launch announcement for my new podcasting/broadcasting project, Talking Radical Radio. This weekly, half-hour show brings you grassroots voices from across Canada. It uses in-depth interviews that will concentrate not on current events or the crisis of the moment, but on giving people involved in a broad range of social change work a chance to take a longer view as they talk about what they do, how they do it, and why they do it.
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Stories from the front line of the victorious abortion struggle in Canada
Monday, January 28 is the anniversary of the deepest and most important victory the women’s movement in Canada has ever had. After almost 20 years of struggle, beginning with the Abortion Caravan in 1970, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the abortion law in a landmark decision citing women’s right to privacy — in effect women’s rights to control their own bodies.
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Review: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada
My review of the collection Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, edited by Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage.
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Idle No More: A profound social movement that is already succeeding
Idle No More builds on a proud history of Indigenous struggle for self-determination at a national and international level. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal, Section 35 in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms are all the result of those struggles upon which Idle No More is building.
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Review: Paved With Good Intentions
My review of Paved With Good Intentions: Canada’s Development NGOs From Idealism to Imperialism by Nikolas Barry-Shaw and Dru Oja-Jay.
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2012: A Year of Activism from Maple Spring to Idle No More
I think we will look back at 2012 as the year that everything changed. The year began with what became a powerful strike of Quebec students against an intransigent government and ended with an historic movement of Indigenous peoples across the country declaring they will be Idle No More.
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Review: Feminism For Real
My review of Feminism For Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism edited by Jessica Yee.
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Review: Orienting Canada
My review of Orienting Canada: Race, Empire, and the Transpacific by historian John Price.
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So sad for the people of Gaza
During the last attack in 2009, I was angry, furious at the slaughter of hundreds of people of Gaza trapped in a tiny slip of land without any protection. So I participated in an occupation of Jewish women of the Israeli consulate. As you will see from the video I was furious and ready for action. This time my feeling is more sadness.
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