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Redeye
Redeye

The Tetla: A First Nations alternative currency

May 13, 2013
| Meaghan Champion is S'amuna' of the Cowichan tribes. She's the founder of a new currency that is circulating in the Victoria area.
Length: 10:21 minutes minutes (9.49 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Exploring gender and language

January 30, 2013
| Charlene Sayo and Caprice Pybus discuss gender, language and the changing role of women in contemporary society.
Length: 13:49 minutes minutes (25.3 MB)
Kaitlin McNabb

Babble Book Club: The Wayfinders discussion Sunday August 12 3 p.m. EST

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Kaitlin McNabb
| August 10, 2012

The time is finally near for Babble Book Club's discussion of The Wayfinders by Wade Davis.

This Sunday, August 12 3 p.m. EST/12 p.m. PST, everyone is welcomed to log-on and join the previously established babble thread for this discussion of The Wayfinders. We invite everyone to join us on the thread to comment, question and discuss this book in its entirety or even just stop by to take a look if you haven't finished the selection or just want to check us out!

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Kaitlin McNabb

Babble Book Club: The Wayfinders discussion Sunday, August 12 at 3 p.m. EST

By
Kaitlin McNabb
| July 20, 2012

The Babble Book Club is rabble.ca's online book club and our goal is to provide an inviting space for readers to critically discuss our book selections and engage with fellow rabble.ca folks! We read a variety of genres and authors, but tend to focus on what our great Canadian landscape of writing has to offer.

Our latest selection is Wade Davis' The Wayfinders and our final discussion date has been set and is coming up fast!

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"Endorsers" vs. "Co-Sponors" or "Co-Organizers" on publicity

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activism language
The Dispatch
The Dispatch

Linguicide: Submersion education and the killing of languages in Canada

March 27, 2012
| While it is assumed that linguicide died with the closure of the last residential school in 1996, in truth it continues as a covert policy into the present.
Length: 17:38 minutes

Let's get off the fence and tear down the wall: The BDS movement, fear, and the paralysis of 'neutrality'

By
Sumud Lalawda
| March 9, 2012

We've reached an interesting moment in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

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Help rate NDP leadership candidates' French language skills

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Interrupting oppressive language

Graffiti that says oppression can only survive through silence

This workshop guide is all about recognizing oppressive language and what activists can do to combat it. Practical, easy to understand and well explained retorts to oppressive language are used with a variety of racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, elitist, ageist, ablist comments. Based on role plays, the workshop guide covers:

The components of an effective interruption

Skills to cultivate

The importance of anti-oppression

Various examples

 

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violence resistance language oppression anti-oppression grassroots action injustice

Xtra! refuses to refer to transgendered subjects by their preferred pronoun

 

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