February-March 2008
Features
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NEXT UP
Every Friday, Tria Donaldson travels six hours by bus from Kamloops, B.C., to Vancouver to take part in “Next Up,” a new leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice.
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COVER STORY: A SONG IN OUR HEARTS
It’s a windy winter day in downtown Toronto and the teachers’ group called the Singing Elementary Teachers of Toronto are recording “One World” with singer Faith Nolan.
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PUPPET POWER
With her talented hands, Vancouver’s Diana Jeffries creates puppet figures that become magically infused with their own personalities. And some of them are talking union.
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TALKING ABOUT ORGANIZING: SEX, RACE AND SACRIFICE
How does gender and race affect the experience of organizing? And what can these experiences tell us about our labour movement and its future?
Departments
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NOTES
Time for Public Child Care * School in Cuba * Union Women’s Survey * Saskatchewan Attacked
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DEAR SISTER SAFETY
I work at a computer all day and suffer from eye strain. Is there anything I can do?
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WEBWORK
The second instalment in our new regular column about online resources for union activists,this time for union women in particular.
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POETRY
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WORKING FOR A LIVING: THE DANCE
A one-way ticket to grad school, which was to be my permanent escape from menial labour: this was definition of exotic dancing.
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REVIEW: WILD FIRE: ART AS ACTIVISM
Wild Fire: Art as Activism engaged my longing for more irreverent activism, my growing thirst for more creative forms of political practice.
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REVIEW: HOUSEHOLD WORK
The film Household Work: More Than It Seems, isn’t just about scouring out the bathtub and killing off dust bunnies.
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COMMENTARY: WHAT’S IN A WORD
You can tell a lot about what’s happening in the world by words and phrases that appear out of the blue, like “warcost” and “monetize.”
