Chris Dixon, Another Politics, Talking Across Today’s Transformative Social Movements Oakland, University of California Press, 2014 For information on how to order this book go to: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520279025 I write these brief reflections on this
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Community, Movement and Solidarity are Crucial to Making a Better Sudbury
I was asked to write this column for the Sudbury Star in June 2014 for a series on how to improve the “quality of life” in Sudbury. Since they have not published it here it
Read moreFrom My Archives — Don’t Get Me to the Church on Time: Ending Social Discrimination Against Same-Sex and other Relationships
Summary of Brief to the Justice and Human Rights Committee Review on questions relating to Same-sex Marriage, 2002. Dr. Gary Kinsman, Sociology Department, Laurentian University. 1). The long history of systematic legal and social discrimination
Read moreFrom My Archives — The Politics of Listening, Asking Questions, and of Opening Cracks in the Fabric of Capitalism: Preliminary Reflections on the Zapatista “Other Campaign”
By Gary Kinsman The 1994 Zapatista revolt in Chiapas, Mexico against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and neo-liberalism inspired and helped circulate a wave of anti-capitalist global justice activism in the south
Read moreFrom My Archives — Allan Bérubé: Queer Working Class Historian – 1946-2007
By Gary Kinsman Allan Bérubé , an inspiring and broad-ranging queer working class historian, died at the age of 61 on Dec. 11, 2007. He left us with major contributions of exciting historical work but
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