May 21, 2020
'Stay at home, stay alive, organize, organize'
These are difficult, dangerous times. The undocumented, the poor and communities of colour face COVID-19 infection on a daily basis, with practically no safety net.
Political Action
May 21, 2020
Canadians of conscience should not be smeared as 'anti-Semites' for boycotting apartheid Israel
David Kattenburg
By conflating boycotts and other pro-Palestinian activities with anti-Semitism, as it does in its 2019 audit of anti-Semitic incidents, B'nai Brith Canada undermines the fight it claims to champion.
May 19, 2020
City of Toronto finally commits to physical distancing standards in key court settlement for city's homeless people
Cathy Crowe
It took a lawsuit at the Superior Court level to push Toronto to commit to enforceable physical distancing in shelters.
May 15, 2020
COVID-19 highlights the inhumanity of Canada's prisons
Jeff Shantz
Prisoners across the country have raised concerns about the conditions they are experiencing and expressed their frustration, anger and fears over the health risks they face.
May 8, 2020
Reclaiming Mother's Day as a day to oppose war and injustice
Brent Patterson
This Mother's Day let us recall the radical origins of the day and the women who proclaimed it to be a day to challenge war and militarism.
Apr 28, 2020
Fifty days into the COVID-19 pandemic, and homeless people are still in a desperate situation
Cathy Crowe
Homeless people across the country remain at risk in the pandemic, necessitating legal action by Toronto advocates.
Pandemic and politics: centring the grassroots
May 5, 2020
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Our next discussion will focus on the issues of the food chain and food security, as well as how the pandemic affects racialized and Indigenous communities in a disproportionate way.
Apr 24, 2020
'Hoarding' and 'price gouging' aren't pandemic-specific activities
Khadijah Kanji
Hoarding and price gouging are foundational to a capitalist system, one governed by the logic that the limitless capacity to accumulate is the impetus for human innovation and productive activity.
Apr 23, 2020
COVID crisis states: The authoritarianism pandemic
Jeff Shantz
Some governments are using the context of COVID-19 to make a range of moves that are explicitly authoritarian, exerting controls over communities that are struggling to get by.
Apr 21, 2020
Politics and writing in the time of COVID-19
Gary Engler
Gary and Yves Engler, father and son authors, discuss being funny, being serious, cancelled book tours, exploding sacred myths, pandemics, their latest books and writing in the time of COVID-19.
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