in their own words

For Pride High Holy Week 2013, I lit a candle each day and contemplated being Queer and Pride. The following are those contemplations.

This is not a traditional protest, but a walk led by First Nations communities to call for an end of the destruction of the oil sands, and to start the healing.

This year's Healing Walk will be number four, which in many native circles is a very significant number: four directions, four nations of the earth.

The three most important factors that reinforce Idle No More in Canada are emerging communications technologies, urbanization and growing connections with international decolonization movements.

Sometimes a truth is revealed in a strange way. Elders have told me that when a song or teaching has been lost it will find a way to be sung or told again when it is needed.

Living in Canada as I do, I encounter proud Canadians all the time, more so around the time of Canada Day celebrations.

Civil disobedience is a strategy, sometimes the only strategy left to Canadians motivated to gain a fair share of their daily bread, and preserve their cultural values and integrity.

The more you house the transnational très riche, the more you un-house Vancouver's poor and working-class residents.

A routine trip to attend a political conference in the United States takes a bizarre turn for a Quebec student activist.

For 55 years, the IFHP paid for basic health care for refugee claimants and refused claimants until they were removed from the country or became eligible for provincial health care.

After I interrupted the President's foreign policy speech yesterday, CODEPINK has been getting tremendous media attention and an outpouring of appreciation.

Building a strong, connected Indigenous Nationhood Movement rests on reclaiming the lands and sacred sites we have been removed from.

The common presumption that President Obama is going to approve the Keystone XL pipeline is wrong, in my opinion.

I ask that you reconsider your misguided stance on Venezuela and to seek council outside of the right-wing Venezuelans in Canada.

The following was letter was written from the Chemung County Jail in Elmira, New York where Steingraber is serving a fifteen day sentence for blockading a gas compression rig last month.

I am the Condom Girl -- the one flagged as a suspected sex worker at the U.S. border. It's been one of the craziest weeks of my life, and certainly the most public.

The story of one determined attempt to pursue a complaint against the VPD. In the end, it was business as usual with police exonerating the police.

A personal account of dealing with puritanical, power-tripping and slut-shaming border authorities.

As most Canadians know Stompin' Tom Connors (1936-2013) recently passed away into the spirit world. Although I was not familiar with his music, I was familiar with his name.

I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans.

My ideas around masculinity during that time were colored by the intense systemic and interpersonal racism I witnessed directed at my parents and in particular, my father.

Within Iraq, an estimated 2.8 million internally displaced people live, according to Refugees International, "in constant fear, with limited access to shelter, food, and basic services."