May 15, 2013
Mad Pride in Toronto
Four organizers with Mad Pride Toronto talk about what it means to celebrate the struggles, arts, culture and heritage of people who have experienced the mental health system.
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May 8, 2013  Building warships in Halifax, and the campaign against itTamara Lorincz on her campaign against the federal expenditure of $25 billion to build warships in Halifax rather than to meet pressing environmental and social justice needs. |
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May 1, 2013  How can we organize like Quebec students? Lessons from Concordia -- Part 2Part 2 of Rushdia Mehreen on how general assemblies successfully mobilized a previously minimally mobilized school during last year's student strike. |
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Apr 24, 2013  How can we organize like Quebec students? Lessons from Concordia -- Part 1Part 1 of Rushdia Mehreen on how general assemblies successfully mobilized a previously minimally mobilized school during last year's student strike. |
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Apr 17, 2013  Decolonizing music: The R3 CollectiveRosina Kazi and Amai Kuda talk about the R3 Collective, a group of Toronto-based musicians and performers dedicated to social justice and to decolonization. |
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Apr 10, 2013  Climate-justice organizing with an anti-colonial focusTeresa Diewart of Rising Tide Vancouver/Coast Salish Territories talks about her group's emphasis on movement-building, direct action, and support of indigenous struggles as it opposes climate change. |
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Apr 3, 2013  Shop-floor organizing in the non-profit sector: Radical lessons from Northern AlbertaWorker/organizer David Stannton reflects on the challenges of building power on the shop-floor in the not-for-profit agency sector, based on some recent successes in his workplace. |
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Mar 27, 2013  Getting Women's Studies into Ontario high schools: A grassroots feminist victorySheetal Rawal and Dilani Mohan talk about their involvement in eight years of struggle by the Miss G Project to bring provincial curriculum in women's and gender studies to Ontario high schools. |
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Mar 20, 2013  Echoes of Africville: The struggle to preserve St. Pat's-Alexandra School in HalifaxRev. Rhonda Britton of Cornwallis Street Baptist Church talks about the struggle by the Black community in north-end Halifax to save the St. Patrick's-Alexandra school building as a community space. |
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Mar 13, 2013  Infrastructure for Change: Gerald Wheatley and Calgary's Arusha CentreThis Calgary organization offers supports and infrastructure to a broad range of social change initiatives in the city, spawns new projects, and holds to a non-hierarchical organizational form. |
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Mar 6, 2013  Grassroots graphic history for movements: An interview with Robin FolvikThe activists of the Graphic History Collective in Vancouver are committed to unearthing fascinating grassroots struggles from decades past and presenting them in engaging graphical ways. |
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Feb 27, 2013  Challenging wage theft with direct action: An interview with Alex DiceanuOrganizers with Steel City Solidarity in Hamilton, Ontario -- including Alex Diceanu -- have been experimenting with direct action tactics and a solidarity network model to challenge wage theft. |