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A Year for Fare-Free Transit
| June 30, 2020
When I made the case last year for fare-free public transit in Ottawa, it seemed like a longshot. What a difference a year can make. Since then, we’ve seen mass-organized … Keep reading »
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Three Measures Against Racist Policing
| June 29, 2020
As protests against police brutality and racism drive policy shifts around the nation, which changes can actually bring sustained long-term improvements? Keep reading »
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Justice Is Indivisible
| June 28, 2020
The UofT’s Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement and CUPE 3902’s Racialized Caucus are deeply honoured to have hosted legendary freedom fighter Dr. Angela Davis, for the opening keynote of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) 2020. Watch video »
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All of Us Began with Marta Harnecker
| June 26, 2020
During an interview, then-Bolivia Vice-President Álvaro García Linera and Spanish state parliamentarian Pablo Iglesias were exchanging ideas on classic texts and their own initiation into politics when the Spanish activist … Keep reading »
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Meng, Huawei and Canadian Law: Soap, Rinse and Dry-Laundered
| June 25, 2020
Prologue One of the graver risks for big-time criminals is that investigators will be able to identify them and their deeds by ‘following the money’. The criminals have to hide … Keep reading »
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The Coronavirus and the Class Character of German Politics
| June 24, 2020
The Pope, former UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, Madonna and many others are in agreement: we’re all in the same boat with regard to the ‘Corona crisis’. But as the … Keep reading »
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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 … 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 … Keep reading »
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