Blog
-
We have a different understanding
“When they arrived, we had the land and they had the Bible. And they told us to close our eyes to pray. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had the Bible.”
-
Long Quote: History
A quote about history from postcolonial historian Dipesh Chakrabarty.
-
Stephen Harper and the Big Oil Party of Canada
Now that petro interests reign supreme, even other corporate sectors lose their sway.
-
Seeking Resources for Thinking About Co-operatives
This post seeks suggestions for resources related to co-operatives. I’m looking both for practical material that I can use in real efforts at organizational development and member engagement, and also politically critical resources that reflect both on how co-ops relate to transformative visions for social change and also more generally on how to act on our visions for a better tomorrow in an inevitably contradictory and complicated present. Please read and suggest!
-
Video: Taiaiake Alfred - “The Psychic Landscape of Contemporary Colonialism”
A quick post with an embedded video of a recent talk from Mohawk scholar and activist Taiaiake Alfred.
-
Ousting quasi-dictator Harper means putting country ahead of party
As we enter the new year the prospects for defeating the Harper government in 2015 seem uncertain at best. And yet if those who care about the country were musing over a new year’s resolution that would be it: a dedication to this single overarching purpose. Even if Stephen Harper is soundly defeated in the next election if will take a decade to reverse the damage he has already done. If he wins a second majority, it will take a generation or more.
-
Review: Disidentifications
My review of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics.
-
Québec solidaire struggles to define its space in shifting political landscape
About 400 members of Québec solidaire met here December 9-11 in a delegated convention to debate and adopt positions on major social and cultural questions. The convention capped the third phase in a lengthy process of developing what the left-wing sovereigntist party describes as a program of social transformation
-
A diamond is forever
Somewhere, probably about the time we negotiated the treaties, we slipped back into our colonial ways. We not only rammed the Aboriginal canoe, but boarded it, plundered it and, in trying to steer it through their own waters, have all but wrecked it.
-
Ethical Oil is Snake Oil
Talking about ethical oil is like saying guns don’t kill people.
- Page 1 of 96 1 2 3 > Last »
