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Agenda for the Global South After COVID-19
| June 23, 2020
In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly passed a New International Economic Order (NIEO), which was driven by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). The resolution laid out a clear plan for … Keep reading »
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The Politics of the Mask
| June 22, 2020
Today we face the paradox of states simultaneously criminalizing masks, and mandating them because of COVID-19. In this interview, social theorist AK Thompson explores the history of masks in protests and why rioting is politically effective. Keep reading »
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COVID-19: A View from the Great Depression of the 1930s
| June 21, 2020
The Great Depression. It rests in our collective consciousness as a time when unemployment was rampant, when soup kitchen and bread lines were long, when misery was widespread, when dust … Keep reading »
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Racist Violence Can’t Be Separated from the Violence of Neoliberal Capitalism
| June 19, 2020
“I don’t see an American Dream; I see an American Nightmare” — Malcolm X. As a renewed Black Lives Matter uprising fills the streets following a spate of high-profile police … Keep reading »
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Public Transit, Fares and Policing in Toronto: Riders Groups Respond
| June 18, 2020
Oppose the Return to Fare Enforcement on the TTC Free Transit Toronto In Toronto, Jane Finch Action Against Poverty (JFAAP) has long made the link between transit fare enforcement and racism. TTCriders … Keep reading »
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Ontario Bill 175 Should Be Scrapped
| June 17, 2020
Ford’s New Home Care Bill Will Compound the Pandemic Disaster Bill 175 is the new home care law of the Conservative Doug Ford government. It proposes to gut existing home and … Keep reading »
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COVID-19 and Patriarchy in the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife
| June 16, 2020
In an effort to shed light on the vital but undervalued labour of predominantly female health professionals, the World Health Organization named 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and … Keep reading »
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Health Workers: From Praise to Protection
| June 15, 2020
Crises sometimes bring out the best in society, and sometimes – or even at the same time – they clarify what is so darkly wrong within. In the particular case … Keep reading »
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The Pandemic and the Need for a New Society
| June 14, 2020
During the on-going pandemic, humanity’s suffering has increased enormously. To date, June 13, 2020, 7.78 million people in the world have contracted the coronavirus, and 429,000 have died. In the … Keep reading »
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Breaking Point in Long-Term Care in Ontario
| June 12, 2020
Violence, the Pandemic, and Healthcare Workers The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged Ontario’s long-term-care homes. The majority of the province’s pandemic deaths have occurred in these institutions, where conditions became so dire … Keep reading »
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‘Open the Economy’? The Pandemic, Costs, Benefits, Capitalism
| June 11, 2020
It is mid-June 2020. Everywhere there is a push to ‘open the economy’. What is meant, of course, is to bring back, as soon as possible, the profit-seeking activities of … Keep reading »
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All Out: Policing, Racism and Our Collective Response
| June 10, 2020
The recent murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis is the latest in a series of criminal acts by police departments against black people in the US, and it echoes the … Keep reading »
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