Blog
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Taking Hope From Right-Wing Ridiculousness
In the course of some research, I encountered a right-wing blog post about “protest” published in the lead-up to last year’s G20 summit. In this post, I engage a little bit with the ridiculous things it says and argue that the very silliness they exemplify can be a reason to be hopeful.
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Occupy Wall Street, Together, and Nonviolence
Everything about the occupy wall street movement is inspiring to those of us on the left who have long-standing and well-founded questions about capitalism.
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Is something happening here?
Occupy Wall Street – and now Bay Street? The 99%? Conservatives losing elections all over the country? A Red Tory elected head of the Alberta Conservatives? American billionaires demanding to be taxed at higher rates? Is something happening here?
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Ottawa tar-sands protest: reports and impressions
I participated in the demonstration against the Alberta tar sands outside the Canadian Parliament here in Ottawa on September 26. As was widely reported, the civil disobedience component of the action resulted in over 200 arrests. I am cross-publishing here two accounts of the day’s events that are much more informative than what appeared in the corporate media. And I follow them with some of my own thoughts about the action.
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Review: Earth Into Property
My review of Anthony Hall’s Earth Into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism.
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Is Capitalism Preparing to Bury Itself?
You may remember Henry — the ruthless industrialist who nonetheless refused to be hobbled by suicidal ideology when it came to doing business. He realized as his workers cranked thousands of new cars off the assembly line that none of those workers would likely ever own one, because he didn’t pay them enough. So he dramatically increased their wages.
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The Harper Government’s Bogus Case for a Border Deal with the United States
The Harper government has been negotiating a comprehensive border deal with the United States. The case that Canadian exports to the U.S. have been harmed since 9/11 as a consequence of the implementation of new American security measures at the border is entirely bogus.
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The North, the Arctic and the Indigenous national question—A Québécois perspective
In the September issue of the pro-sovereignty newspaper, L’aut’journal, editor Pierre Dubuc writes an interesting account of the geopolitics involved in the northern and Arctic development plans of the Canadian and Quebec governments, and spells out some of the implications for the Indigenous peoples who make up the majority of the inhabitants of these regions. Here is my translation of the major part of his article
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Why Write About Gender and Sexuality?
Thinking through how to ground particular kinds of writing in life and in movements.
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Two centuries ago: Tecumseh’s freedom speech to the Muscogee people
On September 20, 1811, Tecumseh rode into Tuckhabatchee, in present day Alabama, the capital of the Muscogee people. Twenty warriors, members the Shawnee, Kickapoo and Winnebago nations, rode with him. The last months of a tense peace between the United States and the native peoples led by Tecumseh were quickly passing. And the U.S. and Britain were well down the path to war.
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