Microaggressions are everyday acts of violence and oppression that people encounter. They are specific encounters between people of different identities (race, class, gender, sex, orientation, culture, ability) and are non-physical, typically involving demeaning implications or subtle insults against a minority identity.

Frequently non-verbal, microaggressions are simply the small ways that folks with power intentionally or unintentionally make it clear that opposed identities are unwelcome, not on par or even not respected. Commonly this is "colourblindness" ("I don't see you as black, you're just a person") or denial of bias ("I'm not homophobic, I have a lot of gay friends").

The Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of Toronto presents a public forum on:

The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and "Resistance": The problematic forms of "anticapitalism" today

A moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A on problems of strategies and tactics on the Left today. Panelists: Baolinh Dang (Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee- Revolutionary Students Movement), Cam Hardy (Platypus) and Jim Stanford (Canadian Auto Workers).