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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.
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Choices of rhetoric and choices of action
An interview with Bruce Cockburn about art and activism and a lifetime of kicking at the darkness.
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Unfinished Business: Recommendations to the new government for advancing gender equality
Gender equality advocates are under no illusion that there is a fight ahead in communities across the country to realize the tremendous potential of Election 2021.
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From rebels to hipsters: Former FARC guerrillas turn to craft beer
Following the historic ceasefire accord of June 2016, former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia have faced stigma when reintegrating into Colombia’s formal economy. One solution? Microbrewing.
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The Lac-Mégantic oil train catastrophe eight years later: Justice still denied
Forty-seven people died that night—their hopes and dreams obliterated, future wiped out.
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The Bernie Blueprint: The Nuts and Bolts of Distributed Organizing
Not everyone is a gruff-but-beloved Vermont socialist… So how do you build a distributed organizing program without a national presidential campaign?
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What’s below the surface
In praise of unseen networks.
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The farmers’ protests and the looting of India
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Terminating the Hamilton Police Liaison Program in the HWDSB: Four Years in Review
Photo courtesy of HWDSB Kids Need Help On Monday June 22nd, after hosting a sit-in on the street for almost seven hours, we celebrated and…
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To make Black lives matter, make Black jobs matter too
The killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, all by current or former police officers, triggered a second tidal wave of the Black…
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Statement from the CCPA on systemic state violence and anti-Black racism
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is angered and outraged by ongoing police violence and brutality against Black citizens and protestors across the continent. And…
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Blockades aren’t the crisis. It’s the crumbling legitimacy of Canada’s democracy
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