Letters to the Editors
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"Activism” and the WSF
Dear UTA, In the previous issue of Upping the Anti, both Carmelle Wolfson and Lesley Wood raise important questions about the 2007 World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi, Kenya. Both writers take issue with the Western “activist,” who Wolfson and Wood identify as often being white, middle class, an…
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Responsibility and Direction
Dear UT A, Thanks for having sufficient interest in my book Taking Responsibility Taking Direction: White Anti-Racism in Canadato review it. My whole point in writing the book was to contribute to the process of moving our thinking and work on the topic forward; any thoughtful critique to that end i…
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The Organization Question
The Organization Question Dear UTA, The editorial in the last issue of Upping the Anti (“Becoming the Enemy They Deserve,” May 2007) posed the paradox that was also at the heart of Rebuilding the Left in the fall of 2000: serious cracks have developed in the legitimacy of capitalism, yet the de…
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How Radicals can Relate to the CFS
Dear UTA, I was happy to read Caelie Frampton’s “Strength in Numbers?: Why Radical Students Need a New Organizing Model” (UTA 5). Having worked as an organizer in various capacities with the York Federation of Students (Local 68 of the Canadian Federation of Students) between 2003 and 2007, I…
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Spotlight on the CFS
Dear UTA, I’d like to thank you for your ongoing examination of student activism and student models of organizing. As a student activist and elected representative of the Guelph Central Students’ Association, I’ve spent the past year working with the Ontario executive of the Canadian Federatio…
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A Feminist Call to Radical Hip Hop Heads
Dear UTA, Hip hop wasn’t my thing a year ago. As a young, black, queer woman and budding feminist, I was out of touch with mainstream and underground hip hop and struggled to understand my connection to popular culture, specifically that created by folks of colour. I grew up on rap music but had l…
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Indigenous Struggles in Hawai’i
Dear UTA, Thank you for your ongoing discussions about settler solidarity work and the Six Nations struggles. As a participant in a multi-racial, majority-settler, anti-imperialist formation on the island of Kaua’i, I feel this discussion is relevant to our ongoing work here, albeit with significa…
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Learning from the Green Scare
Dear Editors, Thank you for printing an article on the Green Scare. Monaghan and Walby are absolutely right to call our attention to this “suppression” of radical animal and earth liberation activists, both because of the general need for solidarity against state repression and because of the po…
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The Need for Theory
Dear Editors, I just read the latest issue of UTA cover to cover like I always seem to. Like earlier issues, #6 is moving in part because it reminds me of how badly we need to renew revolutionary theory and reconnect it with militant activism. The editorial, “In Praise of Good Maps,” is a very g…
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Response to Flemming
Dear UTA, Flemming’s response is a welcome supplement to my review of In Defense of Lost Causes (UTA 7). That Flemming undertakes an analysis of the CUPE 3903 strike is notable because he demonstrates what to “do” with Zizek (albeit in a circuitous way): avoid some enforced, tight-fitting box…
