Category: Culture/Media
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Booklaunch: The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain
Launch of The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice From Gold Mountain (Talon Books, 2020), with editor and author David McIlwraith, as well as Judy Fong Bates and other guests. The Diary of Dukesang Wong is the only first-person account from a Chinese worker on the famously treacherous parts of transcontinental railways that spanned the … Watch video »
Artists and the Front Lines of Political Resistance
The artist collective behind the naked Trump statues is releasing its new documentary during election season. Keep reading »
Will Escaping Americans Test Canada’s Capacity for Sympathy?
When Donald Trump was elected in 2016, I started hearing from American friends that they were thinking of migrating to Canada. Sensing that most of them didn’t really mean it, I would joke in response that we would “build a wall and make you pay for it.” And I sometimes reminded them that Canada had … Keep reading »
Not Completely a Company Town
Peter Findlay’s documentary film Company Town provides a welcome opening to initiate discussion and debate about the closure of General Motor’s once massive (it had 23,000 workers at one time) and historically central auto and truck complex and supplier plants. Behind the film’s basic narrative is a countdown from the period between the announcement (November … Keep reading »
Socialist Media Politics, Digital Capitalism and Media Imperialism /w Tanner Mirrlees
On Socialist Media Politics, Digital Capitalism and Media Imperialism Listen to interview: Your browser does not support the audio element. Created and hosted by Peter Bloom, “Another World is Podable” is a podcast that explores the most radical social experiments and ideas today. Episode 23 is a discussion with Tanner Mirrlees about his coming of age … Watch video »
Capitalism is the Parasite; Capitalism is the Virus
With hindsight, a few years from now, it may well appear to us that the year 2020, the beginning of the third decade of the twenty-first century, marked the dawn of a new parasitic age. We can tell this much even by looking at one of the year’s most popular films. Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite … Keep reading »
Socialist Feminist Cabaret 2020
Performances by: The Rise Up Feminist Jazz Band Songs of Chilean Resistance MC’ed by Sue Findlay and Nithya Nagarajan. Recorded in Toronto, 29 February 2020.
The Sword, The Pen and The Law – On Julian Assange
“The more I pursued the question of why Assange has so little public support, the more disturbing the story became.” I follow the blog written by Craig Murray, a former British Ambassador with long experience of the UK’s deep state. When he wrote recently about the deteriorating state of health of Julian Assange, the Australian … Keep reading »
Rough and Plenty: A Memorial
Exploring the parallel processes of dispossession in the Scottish Clearances and Canada’s East coast fishery. Keep reading »
Imagine a Free Palestine
I wrote Siegebreakers because I can’t liberate Gaza or Palestine, but I can dream about it. I wanted it to be a proximate dream, a dream of the next step from now, not a distant dream that depends on too many unpredictable things going right. I wanted to write about how just a few things … Keep reading »
The Digital Revolution and its Discontents
Tanner Mirrlees (Ontario Tech University), gives the opening talk on day two of Aion Network’s Rebuild Genesis conference, April 24, 2019. Watch video »
Sneak peek: HBO’s Chernobyl
Lina Nasr, Brent Toye, and Olena Lyubchenko continue their discussion of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. Listen to audio »