An interview Alexis Shotwell did with me on my involvement in the Toronto group AIDS Action Now! in the late 1980s and early 1990s is available on the AIDS Activist History Project site at:
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The AIDS Activist History Project posts ‘first wave’ of interviews on AIDS Activism in Vancouver, Toronto, and Nova Scotia!
June 20, 2015 — For Immediate Release Contacts: Gary Kinsman: gkinsman@laurentian.ca: 647-477-2065 Alexis Shotwell: Alexis.Shotwell@Carleton.ca: 613-882-7727 Less than thirty years ago, ordinary people living with HIV/AIDS, alongside allies, took action to resist stigma, change harmful
Read moreWE DEMAND AN APOLOGY FOR THE PURGE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST LESBIANS AND GAY MEN
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
Read moreFighting 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
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