Category: Culture/Media
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Ten Seldom Posed Progressive Demands for the Propertyless
And now for something completely different… The global economic crisis is into its sixth year. Every few months a new report details the continued growth in inequality between the haves … Keep reading »
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The 2012 Toronto Palestine Film Festival: A Preview
The 2012 Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) is finally set to hit theatres this weekend. Launched in 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of al nakba, TPFF aims to showcase … Keep reading »
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Faith Nolan and the CUPE Freedom Singers
Toronto — 30 January 2011. Faith Nolan and the CUPE Freedom Singers performed before the opening session of the GTWA labour forum – Sunday morning, January 30, 2011. Ain’t No … Watch video »
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Competitive Creativity? Arts and Culture in Toronto’s Mayoral Debates
On September 29th at the Toronto mayoral debate on arts and culture at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), variations of business-friendly urban policies were presented to Toronto’s arts community. … Keep reading »
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Do We Pull the Monster Down?
William Carroll, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria (wcarroll@uvic.ca) — September 19, 2010. Lyrics Everybody’s making plans to move to higher ground There’s panic in the marketplace yet no one … Watch video »
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So Said Tony Hayward
A music video featuring imagery dredged from the internet, based on a song I wrote in July 2010. It’s a tango about the BP oil spill and its disastrous impacts on the environment. Watch video »
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Pro-sports, Anti-Olympics: Reclaiming the games, From the Games
One of the first photographs I ever posed for was of my dad and me skating on our frozen backyard in Winnipeg. I wasn’t even a year old but I … Keep reading »
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The Canadian Media Oligopoly Against Media Democracy
To observe that the North American media is dominated by corporate oligopolies serving commercial interests and squeezing out critical voices is to state the obvious. Media concentration in Canada is … Keep reading »
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Artist Takes Up BDS Campaign – Pulls Out of TIFF in Protest
John Greyson withdraws his film Covered from the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to protest the festival’s promotion of Israeli government’s strategy for cultural export. Keep reading »
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The ROM Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit
Re/Mapping Identity, Culture, & Colonial Discourse “He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.” — George Orwell Even before the highly anticipated six-month, … Keep reading »
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Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles – An interview with Robert McChesney
In The German Ideology, Marx said the following about the media: “The class which has the means of material production at its disposal has control at the same time over … Keep reading »
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Poetry and Socialist Politics
Poet and painter Joe Rosenblatt (1933-2019) was a tremendously important icon of the Canadian cultural left in the 60s and 70s. Watch video »