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June-July 2009

Features

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    SOLIDARITY IN HARD TIMES

    By Kristin Schwartz

    The Toronto and York Region Labour Council recently called a union stewards assembly and 1,600 stewards showed up, reflecting just how worried people are.

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    COVER STORY: UNION GROWN

    By Valerie Dugale

    “They know that unionization is their only chance to have respect at work,” says Lucy Luna, union organizer and coordinator of the Agriculture Workers Alliance centre in Abbotsford, B.C. Agricultural workers across Canada continue to fight for representation.

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    TALL TALES & TRUTHS

    By Janet Nicol

    “Folklorists seek out stories and experiences from ordinary people who are not often asked for their stories or opinions,” says Diane Tye of Memorial University in Newfoundland.

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    BLOODY DOMINION DAY

    By Barbara D. Janusz

    I sensed something was missing. Where was the photograph of the RCMP on horseback, obstructing the trekkers’ ambitions to ride the rods to Ottawa?

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    WORKING FOR A LIVING: HEALING PART II

    By Mike Heffernan

    When he called and said there had been an accident, I had no idea he had been burned. “I’m all right,” he said. “I’m going to be airlifted to the hospital.”

Departments

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    LETTERS

    Labour History * Labour in Art

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    NOTES

    Drive to Work Caravan * Forestry Workers’ Day
    Solidarity with Auto Workers * Green Street * Fix EI Now * HSA Magazine Wins

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    WEBWORK: UNION BLOGS

    By Derek Blackadder

    Serious, topical content is why I mention Larry Hubich’s blog, and why it’s used as a source by the mainstream media. That’s what works.

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    OUR TIMES TALLY

    By Sean Cain

    Ratio of wealth of the richest 10% of families in Canada to that of the poorest 10%: 82 to 1

  • 12

    POETRY

    By Flavia Cosma

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    THANK YOU

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    POETRY

    By Louella Lester

  • 43

    REVIEW: PATHS TO A JUST SOCIETY

    Review by John Cartwright

    Judy Rebick has been asking inconvenient questions for as long as I have known her. A review of the book Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political.

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    COMMENTARY: ART AS ACTIVISM

    By Nrinder N. K. Nann

    A friend warned me that becoming a full-time organizer would mean the inevitable death of my artist self.