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Róisín West
Róisín (they/she) is the Senior Editor of the Monitor and Behind the Numbers. They write about disability and accessibility, civic engagement, and media. Find them on Twitter at @RoisinWest.
We need to talk about 1907
One hundred and fifteen years ago this September, downtown Vancouver was beset by thousands of protesters rallying against Asian immigration to Canada. Examining this event offers important lessons for understanding the modern-day Freedom Convoy.
We keep us safe
When the Freedom Convoy came to Ottawa it was community members who organized to keep one another safe.
Grow through what you go through
Addressing and sorting through the Freedom Convoy’s wreckage is a job that belongs to all white people in Canada.
Settler Work: Equity and safety gaps in Canada’s public transit systems
Exploring the structural, organizational and systemic barriers to equitable public transit service, using the Thunder Bay system as a case study.
Commuting by the numbers
How we commute was changing even before the pandemic began. If public transit is going to replace single passenger cars for the daily drive, understanding these shifts is critical.
Settler work: The ongoing history of disproportionate force
Exploring the use of disproportionate force and the rise of militarized police forces in Canada through the history of policing in Canada.
Arrested development
There’s a quiet resignation I feel when I think about how big $92 billion is compared to how small the community I grew up in is… And instead of building up kids in [communities like mine], we pumped $92 billion into a global war on terror in the first 10 years alone.
Choices of rhetoric and choices of action
An interview with Bruce Cockburn about art and activism and a lifetime of kicking at the darkness.
Smog of war
As Brown University’s Neta C. Crawford remarked in her study on the Pentagon’s GHG emissions, “War and preparation for it are fossil fuel intensive activities.”
Settler Work: Understanding the Gustafsen Lake Standoff
Twenty-six years later, Gustafsen Lake remains unexamined and governments unaccountable for the largest show of military force against Indigenous land defenders in Canadian history.
Big ideas to kick at the darkness
Self accountability is the first step in creating a broader language and landscape in which transformative justice can thrive.
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