The Sudbury Raise the Rates Campaign group disrupted the beginning of the Liberal government ‘consultation’ on the pilot project for basic income. This is a time for action and not more ‘consultation’ and study as
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Stop the Crackdown on consensual queer sex: Toronto Police at it again with “Project Marie”
Stop the Crackdown on consensual queer sex: Toronto Police at it again with “Project Marie” By Gary Kinsman, Nov. 14, 2016. The Toronto police are engaging in a very intensive six week (perhaps longer) crack
Read moreWe Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles
We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles By Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L. Pauline Rankin http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299175397 Ubcpress.ca :: University of British Columbia Press About the Book We Still Demand! recovers vibrant
Read moreMy Take on the Toronto Pride Committee Statement in response to the Town Hall meetings around Pride.
By Gary Kinsman At the Pride Day parade last June Black Lives Matter in Toronto (BLM-TO) brought the parade to a halt and issued nine demands (http://blacklivesmatter.ca/demands/) calling for more resources and space for Black
Read moreBlack Lives Matter Toronto recaptures Pride’s activist roots
At: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/black-lives-matter-toronto-pride-kinsman-1.3665829 Black Lives Matter Toronto recaptures Pride’s activist roots – Toronto – CBC News The Black Lives Matter contingent carried with it the spirit of Stonewall and the activist roots of Pride — not
Read moreMy talk at the Human Rights Panel on the Bath Raids: “The City Was Turned On Its Ear”, Remembering Resistance to the Bath Raids
On February 5, 1981, police raided Toronto’s gay baths and arrested 286 men on bawdy house charges. The raids, carried out with calculated brutality and overt homophobia, resulted in extensive property damage. An immediate
Read moreMoss Park: Whose Park? Whose ‘Redevelopment’?
The Context: Social Exclusion and Gentrification The Downtown East has already been the target of major attempts to push homeless and poor people out of our communities, including through a major loss of shelter beds
Read moreHuman Rights Panel: Bathhouse Raids
Hosted by Pride Toronto and The Mark S. Bonham Centre Tuesday, June 7th at 7pm The 519, 519 Church Street, Toronto On February 5, 1981, police raided Toronto’s gay baths and arrested 286 men on
Read moreTwo Upcoming Talks at the Historical Materialism Conference.
I am giving two talks at the upcoming Historical Materialism conference at York, May 13-15th. If you are attending the conference check them out. For more info. on the conference go to: http://hmtoronto.org/ Some
Read moreThe New Tendency — Autonomist Marxism in 1970s ‘Canada’
The Connexions site now has the Newsletters of the New Tendency (NT) and other documents from this group available for view that were not previously available on line. The New Tendency existed in the early
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