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Wake up and Listen to Occupiers
The amazingly resilient Occupy phenomenon is running up against the same ugly reality that so many social movements have encountered over the past 20 years: There is a world of difference between influence and power.
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Occupied
One by one the Occupy camps are coming down and I, for one, will be sorry to see them go. They were a constant reminder that there are things we need to fix in this world. Without that reminder, chances are they’re going to stay broken.
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Main street versus Wall street, round 2
The power of this movement is not in the material of the tarps and tents – it’s in the people who inhabited them, who breathed and talked and ate and cleaned and continue to dream of a better world – a world not steered by corporations, where the wealthy hoard even more wealth and workers are squeezed until there’s nothing left to squeeze out.
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Quote: Beyond Marriage Equality
A quote from famous feminist and queer theorist Judith Butler.
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Massive protest in Quebec against huge hike in tuition fees
About 200,000 university and college students across Quebec shut down their campuses on November 10 to protest a projected 75% increase in tuition fees in the recent budget of the Liberal government headed by Jean Charest. Up to 30,000 students and supporters marched in Montréal, while other demonstrations were held in some other regions.
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Stephen Harper’s social engineering
Harper’s contempt for democratic governance and the activist state is running up against a capitalist reality that can’t be ignored. Flaherty’s fall economic statement reveals the corner the government is in. It has now pushed forward the date for getting rid of the deficit (read: cutting social spending) by a year.
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Occupy the NDP
There’s nothing quite like a global social movement to knock other stuff off the front pages and the Occupy movement has done just that.
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Sudbury’s 99%: Day 1
A journalistic piece about the first day of a new “Occupy” action, this one in Sudbury, Ontario.
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Quote: Masculinity
A short (though fairly academic) quote about masculinity from a book I’m reading at the moment…
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Occupy: What can it teach the left?
The occupy movement has been a like a powerful cleansing wind blowing over the political landscape – exposing not just the obscenely rich, and criminally irresponsible political elite, but almost every other political player too: cowardly liberals, cautious social democrats, the strangely silenced churches, social movements stuck in the past, and a moribund labour movement. Indeed, that is what is most striking about this movement: it owes nothing to anyone.
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