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A chronicle of the Live Freely Foods bakery workers’ struggle – Whether on a small or large scale, employers employ the same tactics to enact wage theft. Faced with this, Live Freely Foods bakery workers banded together to win back their wages.
#labor #labour #unions #ontario #solidarity #Mississauga #generalstrike #workersrights
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How to prevent political police from undermining grassroots solidarity – When the Indigenous Peoples’ Solidarity Movement of Ottawa was infiltrated by a police officer, organizers were left feeling betrayed and paralyzed. How did they rebuild and strengthen their movement?
on Oct 6
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Activists speak out on police infiltration – On June 26, 2010, while the G20 summit was under way amid mass protests on the streets of downtown Toronto, a startling revelation was made that would reverberate through activist communities for months to come. Two undercover police officers had...
on Oct 6
Gabor Maté: How Capitalism Makes Us Sick
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An interview on health and politics – Two physicians discuss the political economy of human well-being.
on Sep 1
Fighting for fair coverage of Palestine
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As the only Palestinian journalist in Global’s newsroom, I pushed for accurate coverage of Israel and Palestine. But after posting against the genocide of Palestinians, I was fired.
on Apr 22
Diaspora against the nation-state
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Return to the homeland is the dream of many Black and Jewish diasporic peoples, but that dream has a dark side and we need to talk about it.
on Apr 8
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Despite growing much of Canadians’ food, nearly a fifth of Black people are food insecure. But we have been food sovereign on these lands before, and we will be again.
on Mar 8
Anti-hate: the new face of political policing
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Understanding anti-hate laws, policing, and rhetoric as counter-insurgency
on Mar 1
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Behind the newest AI technologies are hundreds of Canadians labouring for a fraction of minimum wage.
on Dec 4, 2023
Migrant workers’ fight to unionize in the Yukon
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Fed up with poor working and living conditions, migrant workers are organizing. The Yukon’s labour movement needs to step up and support them.
on Dec 4, 2023
A message to nurses: it’s time to organize
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Governments are selling off the health-care system to the private sector, compromising patient care and nurses’ working conditions. If nurses organize, we can stop the sell-off.
on Oct 26, 2023
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Artist Dylan Miner has set out to reproduce and digitize the prodigious art of the Industrial Workers of the World.
on Oct 10, 2023
Platforms for people, not profit
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Digital platforms boast that they’ve “democratized” cultural production. But getting to use something and having a meaningful say in its operation are two different things – and only one is really democratic. But what would truly democratic platforms and cultural production look like in Canada?
on Oct 5, 2023
Mistreated, marginalized, migrant
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Charting the wins and losses of migrant agricultural workers in Ontario during seven months of COVID-19. – Following the deaths of three workers to COVID-19, the experience of migrant farmworkers in Canada has received unprecedented media attention. As a result, workers are winning long-overdue...
on Oct 1, 2023
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As thousands of workers push to unionize, their bosses are hiring union-busting companies to cling to power. Here’s how you can out-organize your boss.
on Oct 1, 2023