0 No Pride in Policing Coalition calls for defunding of Toronto Police and a political protest in place of the Pride parade. The No Pride in Policing Coalition (NPPC) is issuing a call for Toronto
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Gary Kinsman, “Learning From AIDS Activism for Surviving the COVID-19 Pandemic” now out in Sick of the System, Why the COVID-10 Recovery Must be Revolutionary as a pay what you can ebook from Between the Lines.
https://btlbooks.com/book/sick-of-the-system Families left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core. But the cracks already ran
Read moreGary Kinsman speaking as part of “Contagion, Capitalism, and Resistance” During Radical May
Contagion, Capitalism, and Resistance While many have pointed to the similarities between the 1918 flu and the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many examples of past health crises that radicals might reflect on when trying to
Read moreGary Kinsman on Troubling Public Health as part of “We Can’t Police Our Way Out of the Pandemic”
Gary Kinsman on “Troubling Public Health” starts a little over 40 minutes in. Others who present include Harsha Walia, OmiSoore Dryden, and Estelle Davis.
Read moreRADICALS 3 – The Last Pandemic — Remembering AIDS Activism with Gary Kinsman, Darien Taylor, John Kozachenko
RADICALS 3 – The Last Pandemic COMMONS Politics https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/radicals-3-the-last-pandemic/id983702127?i=1000471552244 It began as a mysterious disease from a far off place. It turned into the deadliest plague humanity has faced since the Black Death. AIDS has
Read more“Not a Gift from Above: The Mythology of Homosexual Law Reform and the Making of Neoliberal Queer Histories” by Gary Kinsman now out in No Place for the State.
—In Christopher Dummit and Christabelle Sethna eds, No Place for the State, The Origins and Legacies of the 1969 Omnibus Bill UBC Press, 2020 https://www.ubcpress.ca/no-place-for-the-state Introduction / Christopher Dummitt and Christabelle Sethna Part 1: Regulation,
Read moreNo Pride in Policing calls for a U-turn back to community at Pride Toronto
MEDIA ADVISORY January 26, 2020 No Pride in Policing calls for a U-turn back to community at Pride Toronto The No Pride in Policing Coalition (NPPC) is calling on Pride Toronto to make a sharp
Read moreTom Hooper’s Complaint to the Pride Toronto Board regarding $250,000 from Canadian Heritage for celebrating the 69 reform as the ‘decriminalization’ of homosexuality.
Also see https://anti-69.ca/funding/ for much of the appended material referred to in this letter of complaint. Click here to download a PDF of the complaint. November 28, 2019 Dear members of the Board of Pride
Read moreGary Kinsman and John Wilson in discussion at a Socialist Action forum following a showing of the “Fruit Machine” documentary.
Socialist Action asked me to speak as a discussant after their showing of Sarah Fodey’s documentary — “The Fruit Machine” — in October 2019 as part of their film series. Here is a video of
Read moreApril 2020 — Elise Thorburn and Gary Kinsman “Navigating Contemporary Struggles: Class Composition and Social Reproduction”
April 2020 — Elise Thorburn and Gary Kinsman “Navigating Contemporary Struggles: Class Composition and Social Reproduction” — this chapter addresses Autonomist Marxism, struggles over social reproduction and the centrality of Indigenous and anti-racist struggles in
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