Obama’s “Yes We Can” mantra made many question, yes we can do what exactly? That was its brilliance. He became whatever to whoever. Trudeau’s commitment to a national inquiry on murdered and missing indigenous women has become the same emptiness, … [Read more]
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We Pivot: Modern Labour Activism?
Modern Labour Activism Modern Labour Activism is a collection of 35 labour renewal essays I wrote for Our Times magazine from March 2010 to June 2017. Is Canada’s labour movement in an existential crisis? Is it properly adapting to the … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Will Elon Musk Turn Tesla into a Worker Co-op?
As we pivot to a new world of economic equality, we’re looking at the Universal Basic Income as a means of bringing us towards that very Star Trek place of a post-money world. It feels very utopian. We all get … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: THIS Is What A Better BC Can Look Like!
Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals Stop obsessing with how personally green you live – and start collectively taking on corporate power Source: Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals | Martin Lukacs … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Who’s Laughing at America [And Why]
When T$$$p says people are laughing at America, it’s because he thinks he is America. Here are some ways this is wrong, beyond the obvious. Read some of the King Arthur literature, stories of royalty and shit. The king is … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: 2 Signs of a New Era!
Yesterday I noticed two things: The BC NDP and BC Greens are willing to create a new paradigm of politics in BC. Hopefully this can mean a legislature where people don’t behave like 6-year-olds with the rude and sexist … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Dignity, Ontario and the Minimum Wage
Any second now, the Ontario government will announce what it will do for workers. It’s called the Changing Workplaces Review. And if you haven’t noticed, the value of work has been in decline for a couple generations and the 1% … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Liberating Your Children?
Yes, let’s! You know you want to. And if you find some mental resistance to sliding to the right side of the image, question your assumptions.
Continue readingWe Pivot: Feminism and Intersectionality, LIVE!
Feminism, intersectionality, activism in a world spinning out of rationality? Need to some grounding, inspiration and joy? Want to see the woman who invented the word “intersectionality”? Here’s what should be on your plate tomorrow night at 730pm PST! Tony … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Community First, Deportations Second?
Residents were upset that the president who promised to deport undocumented immigrants was rounding up undocumented immigrants in order to deport them. “I knew he was Mexican, but he’s been here so long, he’s just one of us,” Debra Johnson, … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Why Most Young People Can’t Buy a Home in Vancouver
Did you know that if you sell a house in Vancouver, if it’s your primary residence, you pay no tax on the profit? The lack of any capital gains tax on selling one’s primary residence contributes to the manic increase … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Countdown to Impeachment
As we pivot to a new world where political lies and corruption get the boot, let’s begin the countdown. T$$$p must go, Trudeau’s lies and family foundation apparent conflict of interest must go, Clark’s electoral finance corruption and just plain … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: IWD + 7 Days: Saudi Arabia Edition
Maybe this is a first step at dismantling one of the harshest patriarchies on the planet? Or maybe that as we pivot to a society of gender equality, we can suggest to Saudi Arabia that if they oppose genders mixing, … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Why Is the Impeachment Taking So Long?
T$$$p has already done so much more awful in less than two months, than South Korea’s president. So, yeah. Why is the impeachment taking so long? South Korea’s president is permanently stripped of her powers. Park Geun-hye is the first … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: The Day After IWD, Maybe?
My fourth grade teacher friend found this under one of her students' desks. <3 <3 <3 pic.twitter.com/7NSxIa6ujn — Elly (@SMLXist) March 6, 2017 On International Women’s Day, the prime minister’s wife decided to honour the men who are feminists … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Systemic Misogyny Even in Literature? Of Course.
As we pivot to a world of post-patriarchy, let’s look at literature. Are most published books written by men? Are most characters in children’s books introducing and reinforcing patriarchy? Yes, of course. Awareness is the first step to a solution. … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: T$$$p and His Cabinet Are TRYING to Trigger Us All
Like a 3-year-old trying to bug siblings and parents to receive ANY kind of attention, T$$$p and his cabinet are on a distraction campaign to trigger people to flip out so that we’re distracted from their agenda of deconstructing America … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Let’s Change BC’s Racist Street Names
The World Economic Forum is not the most progressive organization in world history. They’ve been part of pushing a neoliberal privatization agenda on many poor countries for decades. But they’re going through what appears to be at least a salon … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: As your people die…
Moving into middle age accelerates attendance at memorial services. Ponder:
Continue readingWe Pivot: Be Enthused!
Be inspired! Embrace possibility. And Art. And expression. And collaboration. Get it! Dig in! HitRecord.org Watch this video. And remember ZeD on CBC about 15 years ago, with the deeply inspiring Sharon Lewis? Apparently we are not alone… 👽👽👽👽 pic.twitter.com/MR36ogd9Dm … [Read more]
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