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A principle and a place
While the state abandons people it deems disposable, many of the articles in this issue highlight and strategize how to better organize and include people in the margins in our movements.
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“That’s how we protect one another”
Mi’kmaq water protectors and Nova Scotian settlers worked together to stop the Alton Gas project. Their success shows the power of Indigenous-settler solidarity in the fight to defend land and water.
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The Indian farmers’ protest is a window on a new world
Since September 2020, tens of thousands of farmers and farm labourers and over 40 unions have been waging resistance to three agricultural farm bills in India. The protest’s sustained presence, immense scale, and diverse solidarities have shaken the legitimacy of Prime Minister Modi, and provided us all with a renewed ethical orientation and political vision for a new world.
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Land Back beyond borders
What does it mean for Indigenous people to be good guests on each other’s land?
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The revolution will be translated
In February, in the midst of solidarity protests against the RCMP’s invasion of Wet’suwet’en territory, I created a Google Doc: “How to explain what’s happening to the Wet’suwet’en people in Chinese.” The long history of grassroots translation work shows that it is one of our strongest tools to build solidarity against white supremacy.
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Land and labour
Many people believe that there is an unbridgeable rift between left labour activism and Indigenous struggles. But recent events have made clear that “reconciliation” screeches to a halt as soon as it stands in the way of the accumulation of capital.
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Distinct histories, shared solidarity
Black and Indigenous people cannot look to the state for protection or systemic change. Instead, our movements have to recognize the differences between our oppressions, and stand beside each other while building new, shared spaces to exist.
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Pen Pal Solidarity
The Prisoner Correspondence Project connects LGBTQ2S inmates with pen pals on the outside. The relationships of care and empathy developed over years of exchanging letters are a form of radical solidarity that upends the control, surveillance, isolation, and erasure enforced by prisons.
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Showing Up for Faculty
It was the faculty’s first strike since 1989. Predictably, the administration tried to pit the students against the faculty, but the deep relationships between students and faculty flipped the power dynamic.
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Infiltrated!
When the Indigenous Peoples’ Solidarity Movement of Ottawa was infiltrated by a police officer, organizers were left feeling betrayed and paralyzed. How did they rebuild and strengthen their movement?
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Interview with Colonialism No More - Regina Solidarity Camp
Three weeks into setting up a solidarity camp at the INAC office, activists in Regina are standing strong for Indigenous youth.
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Statement of Solidarity with Communities Affected by the Fort McMurray Fire
Solidarity with communities devastated by the fire in Fort McMurray.
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Debriefing Black Lives Matter Toronto’s 15-day occupation (Part 2)
Part 2 of 2 of an interview with two Black Lives Matter Toronto organizers.
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Debriefing Black Lives Matter Toronto’s 15-day occupation of police headquarters (Part 1)
Part 1 of 2 of a Q&A with two members of the BLMTO Steering Committee.
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Visions of a Radical Labour Movement
For the labour movement to become a truly liberatory force, it must be grounded in our shared social struggles.
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In Search of Solidarity for Sessional Instructors
Addressing systemic exploitation among academic instructors requires more than lip service.
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Generation War or Generational Justice?
Generational justice will be key to any escape from the sinkhole of 3 decades of neoliberalism.
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Escalating a picket line
Militancy and real solidarity are essential if workers are to gain leverage in labour disputes.