What kind of Canada we will wake up to on May 3rd? Will it be a RelSocCon free-market Canada or will Canadians reclaim the country they love -- one which celebrates what citizens share in common.
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Mixed race women speak out
Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out
(Inanna Publications,
2010;
$24.95)
In the past 20 years Canada has seen a few mixed race anthologies that reflect both the time, place and language that we use to talk about being of mixed heritage and the many complicated social locations this takes us to. The first and the groundbreaking, was Miscegenation Blues: Voices of mixed-race women edited by Carol Camper and published in 1991. Ten years later I was fortunate to be part of the editorial team for the journal Fireweed's issue 75, the Mixed Race issue, published in 2002.
It's official: Blacks are three times more likely to be stopped by Toronto police
The Toronto Star's 2010 investigative series on racial profiling proved the black community right. It is not often that disputes about perspective are conclusively settled with one side clearly right. However, the difference of opinion between the black community and the police force over whether the Toronto police engage in the practice of racial profiling may finally be settled.
LeftWords Festival of Books and Ideas
May 6 2012 - 11:00am
Location
Ryerson Students' Centre
55 Gould. St.
Toronto, ON Canada
43° 39' 28.7352" N, 79° 22' 42.6864" W
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LeftWords is a free public event that celebrates and promotes the work of Canadian and international writers and thinkers whose works appear in books and magazines by Canadian independent publishers. Canadian and international authors will be on hand for readings, panels, and discussions. Confirmed speakers include Michele Landsberg (keynote speaker), Frances Fox Piven, Keith Stewart, Deborah Barndt, Alan Filewod, Leo Panitch, Greg Albo, Larry Savage, Stephanie Ross, Sean Carleton, Emily Pohl-Weary and more.
LeftWords was founded in 1999 and ran as a popular book event until 2004. We are excited to re-launch in partnership with the Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts.
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March 9, 2012 |
Wage inequality only explains a very small part of income inequality. Union density and race are the real explanatory factors.
Seeing the Strings: A Series of Teach-ins on the Oppressions that Hold Capitalism Up
Mar 23 2012 - 7:00pm
Mar 23 2012 - 9:00pm
Location
Vancouver Public Library, Central Library: Alma VanDusen and Peter Kaye Room
350 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 6B1Canada
49° 16' 48.468" N, 123° 6' 52.9632" W
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As Occupy protests have erupted across the world to decry the injustice of our current economic system, the question arises: What are we fighting against? At present, Vancouver lacks any adequate forum for broad-based deliberation about what capitalism is and how it functions. It is for this reason that we are hosting a series of teach-ins to explore how capitalism operates, its inherent violence, and how it intersects with other forms of oppression.
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