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The Activist Toolkit Blog

The Activist Toolkit Blog is the place to catch up on what's new with the Toolkit. With weekly roundups of newly added tools, highlights of featured tools and extra multimedia content, you'll get up to date info on grassroots organizing. Check out the full activist toolkit at [url=http://rabble.ca/toolkit]rabble.ca/toolkit[/url].

Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog January 14
Image: Alisdare Hickson/Flickr
Iran and U.S. are far from 'done'
Maya Bhullar | Ways to build the peace movement and support real change.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog November 29
Earth peace together symbol. Image: cocoparisienne/Pixabay
Activist Toolkit rebuilding guide for 2020
Maya Bhullar | As you plan your charitable giving for the holiday season, let's stand with the rebuilders. Here are some global social movements that need our support.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog November 27
Jason Schilling. Image: David J. Climenhaga
Public education under attack: Interview with Alberta Teachers' Association president Jason Schilling
Maya Bhullar | Jason Schilling assumed the presidency of the Alberta Teachers' Association on July 1, 2019. Read what he had to tell us about the UCP government's effort to undermine public schools.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog November 6
Protest against Israel attack on Gaza in Berlin. Image: Montecruz Foto/Flickr
The NDP must stand for Palestine now
Maya Bhullar | The political winds for the last few years have been unrelentingly cruel to Palestine, but at this moment, there are some opportunities for progressive Canadians to act and perhaps make a difference.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog October 24
Rental signs. Image: Ashley Brown/Flickr
Housing is more than a roof over our heads
Ashley Reyns | Tenants in Ottawa are organizing and demanding landlords are held accountable for dilapidated homes.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog October 8
Image: DrRandomFactor (original), RaviC/Wikimedia Commons
The Activist Toolkit's election 2019 toolkit
Maya Bhullar | A toolkit to help get out the vote and to dig through misinformation in the 2019 federal election.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog October 2
Michael Hurley. Image: CUPE. Used with permission.
Ford government cuts will hurt a health system already in crisis
Maya Bhullar | Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, explains how Ford government cuts threaten Ontario's beleaguered health-care system.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog October 1
Image Credit: from flickr by howtostartablogonline.net https://www.flickr.com/photos/143601516@N03/28153267016
With the right weaponizing social media, what's a leftist to do?
Maya Bhullar | People say online activism makes no difference or that the left can't meme. But the right has weaponized trolling to radicalize users. Can we stop feeding the trolls -- and actually organize online?
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog September 20
Image: Taymaz Valley/Flickr
It is about so much more than makeup
Maya Bhullar | Justin Trudeau's blackface revelations have opened up discussion on race in Canada in a way never seen before. Here are some tools to engage.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog September 17
Harvey Bischof, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation. Image: OSSTF
Canadian teachers unions are fighting to preserve public education
Maya Bhullar | rabble.ca launches its back to school series to amplify the union fightbacks.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog September 6
Workers at the Ritzy Cinema, Brixton striking in 2014. Image: M.o.B 68/Wikimedia Commons
Labour Day 2019: a celebration and a call to fight back
Maya Bhullar | This Labour Day, unions across Canada are facing new attacks as the majority of provinces now have conservative governments which are rolling back social services and workers' rights.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog August 26
Burning rainforest in Brazil. Image: NASA/Wikimedia Commons
Three strategic ways to protect the rainforests
Maya Bhullar | Hope is better than despair, so let's act together.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog August 7
Photo: Born 1945/Flickr
The Activist Toolkit's summer reading list
Maya Bhullar | August is here. It is time to think of the fights that will be coming up when legislatures come back into session. Here are some summer reading suggestions to make effective change.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog July 19
Detention centre fencing in Australia. Photo: David Stanley/Flickr
Activist tools for organizing to support immigrants in Quebec
Maya Bhullar | A roundup of organizations and tools which are helping to fight against immigrant detention in Quebec.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog July 11
Photo: Premier of Ontario Photography/Flickr
Fact checks and firsthand accounts of key Ford government cuts
Maya Bhullar | To help you fight back and organize this summer, the Activist Toolkit has pulled together links to accounts and fact checks for some of the Ford government's cuts.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog July 3
Environmental racism needs to end
Maya Bhullar | Many activists argue that "environmental racism" is a new and pernicious face of colonialism and historic discrimination. Here are environmental justice campaigns that need support.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog June 18
Image Credit: William James Topley/Library and Archives Canada/Wikimedia Commons
Five actions to take on National Indigenous Peoples Day
Maya Bhullar | On June 21, 2019 Canada commemorates National Indigenous Peoples Day. Let's stand with the organizers fighting for Indigenous rights.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog June 10
Image Credit: Wikimedia by SlowKing7, 2019 Women's March on Washington, D.C.1191784.jpg
Some tools to help implement the MMIWG report findings
Maya Bhullar | Concrete things that you can do to make sure that women are safe and the report moves forward.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog May 31
Immigration policy in the U.S. is getting more cruel
Maya Bhullar | American justice is quite expensive. Under the Trump administration, it's become even more expensive for immigrants. Here are six ways to help on the ground
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog April 24
Image from Ashley Reyns for Ottawa ACORN, used with permission
Building tenant power to fight displacement in Ottawa
Herongate ACORN Tenant Leaders | When a corporate landlord served tenants of the Herongate community in Ottawa with eviction notices, the community began organizing to fight displacement and corporate gentrification.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog April 11
Image: Anouck Carsignol
Let's sustain the activist momentum to support Ontario's public education system
Maya Bhullar | The Activist Toolkit followed up with organizers in the crowd and put together this blog to report on the tools activists have developed in their organizing efforts.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog March 21
Photo Credit: Angela N. Riley, Extinction Rebellion Halifax used with permission
Student organizers report back on March 15 climate strike
Maya Bhullar | We were inspired by students coming out on March 15 to demand that local and federal government take real steps to combat climate change. Here's what worked, what didn't and what's next.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog March 14
Image Credit: Rise and Resist/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/785534701807241/
Students in Canada prepare to strike for the climate
Maya Bhullar | In Canada from Inuvik to St. John's, in cities and towns in every province, students are joining the global student strike for the climate on March 15.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog March 8
This image was originally posted to Flickr by mollyktadams at https://flickr.com/photos/51008844@N03/35211936200
A partial list of attacks on women's rights under Doug Ford
Tina Beier | Since June, Doug Ford's government has taken steps to systematically undermine women's rights. Read on for ways to fight back against his anti-women agenda.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog February 27
Photo Credit: Flickr, sylvar https://www.flickr.com/photos/sylvar/3054077849
Tools to dig into the underbelly of Yellow Vests Canada
Maya Bhullar | We know the danger that organizing using hate poses. We need to organize against it. Here are some groups, both new coalitions and old hats, who are currently active in the fight against racism.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog February 8
Image from Pixabay, labeled for reuse https://pixabay.com/en/hand-fight-street-fist-logo-48284/
Canadian provinces are poised for a lot more populism à la Doug Ford
Maya Bhullar | The Activist Toolkit takes a look at changing fortunes of Progressive Conservatives across Canada in the slate of elections coming up.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog January 24
Women's March Toronto. Photo: Silvia Maresca/Wikimedia Commons
Women's marches across Canada share hope
Maya Bhullar | On January 19, women across the world marched. In many Canadian communities, in freezing cold weather, women stomped and jumped about as they stood up for women's rights.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog December 23
Image: Pezibear/Pixabay
Taking on the liars and the right wing
Maya Bhullar | This year, we stood in solidarity with activists organizing against hate. Check out the Activist Toolkit's favourite fights of 2018.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog December 13
Agitate, Educate, Organize by Josh McPhee https://creativecommons.org/2017/03/08/just-seeds/
Five quotes for the surging populist socialist movement
Maya Bhullar | Veteran organizers south of the border share some lessons for working toward social change.
Blog - The Activist Toolkit Blog November 7
Person holds sign reading "We are all immigrants." Photo: takomabibelot/Flickr
How to help organizations supporting migrants in Mexico
Maya Bhullar | Tangible ways to help organizations addressing the needs of migrants in Mexico.

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