Winter 2016-17
Features
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PUTTING “ALT-RIGHT’S” RACISM IN CONTEXT
The use of the term alt-right is just another example of people learning to use socially palatable language when talking about supremacist projects.
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SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL ORGANIZING
Talk isn’t cheap when it leads to organizing. Labor Notes gives us tools that can help reverse the apathy, one worker at a time.
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WE ARE WATCHING
Activists Lorraine Kakaza and Boledi Susan Moraba are part of a growing movement that aims to change the way mining companies do business in South Africa.
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38
THE LIVEABLE CITY
Launched less than a year ago, the Urban Worker Project and its successes are impossible to ignore.
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47 SHORT STORY
A GUY IN THE UNION
Denis Stokes could take an insight such as Ohm’s law or the golden rule, and turn a truth over and over like a prism until he’d become one with its light.
Departments
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NOTES
Asbestos Banned * Viola Desmond on the Money * Hell’s History
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9 WEBWORK
CHAOS & CLICKTIVISM
20,000 Walmart workers in China organized against aggressive employer and state opposition using WeChat almost exclusively.
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OUR TIMES TALLY
Percentage of people in Canada who believe they “don’t have enough for basic essentials: 9
Percentage of people in India who believe this: 8 -
13 CLIMATE/JUSTICE
CANADA’S STANDING ROCK(S)
Here at home, there are dozens of similar struggles playing out across the country. One question lies at the heart of each of them.
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15 PASSING THE TORCH
A TRIBUTE TO DINAH GREENBERG (1959—2016)
If the space ran out before the stories did, she would simply say, “Don’t worry about it. We can fix it.”
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45 HAVE YOUR SAY
McCOLLEGE CREDITS, SUPERSIZED!
McDonald’s latest foray into the Canadian education arena is a massive, province-wide partnership with Colleges Ontario.
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50 REVIEW
BURNLEY “ROCKY” JONES: REVOLUTIONARY
Rocky Jones taught through storytelling, through improvisation, through the rhythms of what George Elliott Clarke recognizes as purely Africadian expression.
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52 COMMENTARY
MOBILIZE NOW AGAINST FASCISM
We are now at an inflection point in history, like it or not.
