Roundtables
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Seed, Skill, and Soil
Organizing for Food Justice, with Leticia Boahen, Rachelle Sauve, Vanessa Ling Yu, and Gabriel Allahdua
According to the United Nations, food security is achieved “when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.” While this framework allows us to identify cases of food insecurity, it d…
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A Roundtable on Sex Work Politics and Prison Abolition
with Elene Lam, Chanelle Gallant, Robyn Maynard and Monica Forrester
The Bedford decision was announced on December 20, 2013 saw the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously strike down Canada’s three anti-sex work laws including laws prohibiting brothels, living on the avails of prostitution, and communicating in public with clients. Sex worker advocates argued that C…
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From the Kitchen Table to the Barricade: Oral History & Social Change
with Nassim Elbardouh, Sarah Loose, and Dan Kerr
Oral history as both a methodology and as a practice seeks to document the stories, memories, and viewpoints of the people left out of archives and official records. As many marginalized groups and individuals can attest to, it is a rare experience to accurately represented official records are seen…
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Incredible Breakthroughs & Major Challenges
A Roundtable on Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS), with Lisa Taraki, Chandni Desai, Max Ajl, and Lisa Hajjar
Inside the Canadian state and across much of the planet, the BDS movement is growing. Labour and student unions in Canada and the US have passed BDS resolutions in recent years. At the same time, BDS activists living inside the Canadian state face strong opposition from a ruling class with strong…
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Stay Relevant, Stay Real, Stay Radical
A Roundtable on the Solidarity City Movement in Canada
Four years ago, No One Is Illegal Toronto organizers reflected on Building a Sanctuary/Solidarity City in the pages of Upping the Anti issue 11. Since then, there have been victories and new efforts that bring momentum to the movement. On February 21, 2013, Toronto’s Solidarity City Network succes…
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Health Care as Social Justice Practice
As neoliberalism continues to erode access to a publicly-funded health care system in Canada, people’s health organizers are working to improve the health of working class and marginalized communities. This budding movement seeks to defend and expand upon existing health and medical services. At t…
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From Idle No More to Indigenous Nationhood
The Canadian state, founded on colonization and genocide, has always faced diverse forms of resistance from Indigenous peoples. The Idle No More movement, which ignited in November 2012, was a convergence point for mobilization against ongoing colonial assaults by the Canadian state and corporations…
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Coming Out Against Apartheid
A Roundtable about Queer Solidarity with Palestine
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) is a Toronto-based group working in solidarity with Palestinians. The group formed in 2008 in response to Brand Israel, a public relations campaign that (among other things) paints Israel as a safe haven for queers in the Middle East. In 2010, QuAIA had to co…
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“Worst of the Worst”?
Queer Investments in Challenging Sex Offender Registries
Over the past 30 years, Canada and the United States have afforded select gays and lesbians more rights, both symbolic and substantial. Simultaneously, most mainstream gay and lesbian organizations have disengaged from the issues of prisons and policing. Resisting police brutality, pushing back agai…
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Building Sanctuary City: NOII-Toronto on Non-Status Migrant Justice Organizing
In 2006, Solidarity Across Borders, No One is Illegal, and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty organized a march from Montréal to Ottawa calling for the end of all deportations, detentions of immigrants and refugees, and security certificates, as well as the full and accessible regularizati…
