Media Package from the WE DEMAND AN APOLOGY NETWORK Contents: The WE DEMAND AN APOLOGY NETWORK Statement Support Statements from those directly affected by the national security purge campaigns. Brenda Barnes Christine Frank Letourneau Paul-Emile
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Fighting Bill C-51 Requires Rejecting National Security
By Gary Kinsman This posting is not intended to provide detailed analysis of Bill C-51 but instead is my reflections on the organizing against it. Bill C-51 will intensify important aspects of the national security
Read moreFrom the Archives — Different Rainbows, ‘Third World’ ‘Queer’ Liberation
— By Gary Kinsman I recently came across this book review I wrote in 2002 for Against the Current. While there are aspects I would change if I were writing it today it engages with
Read moreAnti-Oppression Politics in Anti-Capitalist Movements
Edited by Sharmeen Khan with in interview with Gary Kinsman from Upping the Anti No. 1, 2005: http://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/01-anti-oppression-politics-in-anti-capitalist-movements/ I include only the Introduction and my responses to questions here. For the rest of this broader
Read moreBuilding Self-Organization and Revolutionary Capacities
I recently came across this. I helped to write this as a member of the Sudbury NSG Branch at the time. I would no longer use the term socialist to describe radical social transformation given
Read moreTroubling Policing and ‘community policing.’
Troubling the Police as a Social Institution and the Problems with ‘Community Policing.’ By Gary Kinsman This is based on my notes for a brief presentation at a critical discussion of policing in Sudbury on
Read moreAnother Politics by Chris Dixon – Some Comments and Suggestions
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
Read moreCommunity, 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
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