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
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Troubling 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 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
Read moreBlack Lives Matter – Solidarity from Sudbury — Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
Prisoners’ Rights & Grassroots Mobilization: Lessons in AIDS Organizing from Anne Marie DiCenso & Gary Kinsman
http://aidsorganizing.ca/post/102880441454/prisoners-rights-grassroots-mobilization-lessons-in November 17, 2014 On October 17th 2014, a one-day dialogue Where Do We Go From Here? AIDS Organizing, Services, Bureaucracy & the State was convened in Toronto by Alex McClelland and Nicole Greenspan in
Read moreRemembering Sharon Dale Stone: Fragments of Memory and Powerful Writings.
Fragments of memory. This is what I have now of Sharon, along with her very powerful writings. Most special to me of her writings will always be her early edited collection Lesbians in Canada. But
Read moreTaking back take back the night
Saturday, September 27, 2014 I attended the Take Back the Night rally and march in Sudbury last week and I found it to be an illustration of how community policing infiltration of our movements and
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