July/August 2015 cover

With features on post-wave feminism, Daniel Ortega and Nicaragua’s interoceanic grand canal, the struggle for abortion access today, the Klabona Keepers’ direct action to protect their Sacred Headwaters from mining firms, protecting the bees from neonicotinoid insecticides in Ontario and beyond, a dispatch on Quebec’s Printemps 2015 movement for economic and environmental justice, why a new on-reserve high school matters for Wet’suwet’en youth, and the need for leftists to create a new common sense. Plus book reviews and more!

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    The gendered labour of social movements

    by Andrew Loewen   Jun 30, 2015   4 min read

    The actual work of social movement building is always disproportionately borne by women and queer people.

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    “To Take the Land Away From the Children”

    by Hannah Campbell   Jun 30, 2015   6 min read

    The Klabona Keepers are a small group of Tahltan families and Elders in northwestern B.C. who have been taking direct action to defend their traditional territories from mining and drilling projects since 2005.

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    Feminism Beyond the Waves

    by Aalya Ahmad   Jun 30, 2015   11 min read

    Considering No Wave feminisms.

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    Daniel Ortega and the Interoceanic Grand Canal

    by Lori Hanson   Jun 30, 2015   11 min read

    A planned megaproject that would dwarf the Panama Canal and split Nicaragua in two reveals much about both the Ortega regime and global capitalism today.

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    The Struggle for Access to Abortion Today

    by Sara Tatelman   Jun 30, 2015   12 min read

    Abortion is a safe, legal, and common medical procedure, but in the Maritimes and in northern and rural communities across Canada, there are major barriers to access.

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    Quebec’s Movement for Economic and Environmental Justice

    by David Gray-Donald   Jun 30, 2015   5 min read

    Quebec’s social movements are working to wed anti-austerity politics with climate justice.

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    A New School for Wet’suwet’en Youth

    by Emily Bulmer   Jun 30, 2015   7 min read

    The iCount High School on the Moricetown reserve in northern B.C. puts education back in the community, allowing youth to stay in the village instead of travelling to the school in Smithers.

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    The Plight of the Pollinators

    by Ann Slater   Jun 30, 2015   7 min read

    In the battle between beekeepers and agrochemical lobbyists over the use of neonicotinoid insecticides, farmers and non-farmers are joining forces to stand up for the bees.

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    Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

    by Matthew Irwin   Jun 30, 2015   4 min read

    A new anthology of politically engaged science fiction calls readers to reshape the world.

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    Drug War Capitalism

    by Dave Oswald Mitchell   Jun 30, 2015   4 min read

    Anyone seeking to understand capitalism’s evolving capacity to consolidate and extend its power must come to terms with the drug war.

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    Toward a New Common Sense

    by Greg Shupak   Jun 30, 2015   3 min read

    To build the political left we must help to reshape the assumptions people have about the world.