Whew, what a week! As we pivot to a new world dismantling entitlements and confronting much more overt fascism, let’s reflect on what we need to call out: Fascist, white supremacists love to ban books, including To Kill A Mockingbird, … [Read more]
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We Pivot: THIS Man Is Ahead By A Century
How about you? Are you ahead by a century, like Gord Downie is? Do you walk among the stars? I can only aspire to. I want to pivot to a new world of connection and rich culture and community. I … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Here Is The Most Important 2 Minutes of Your Day
Roll up your sleeves. Remind yourself of your key principles. Monitor your humility. List again the areas where you want and need to do the work. Share with fellow worker-activists, build each other up. Plan a visit with them. Build … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: New Fiction About Life Under Trumpism?
Surely I’m not the first to write fiction about what life under Trumpism will be like? Look into it: Subi, the Archduke Ferdinand! As we pivot into what is somewhat unknown, engaging in fiction can explore the things still foggy … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Stop Fact-Checking Christy Clark
We’ve learned a few things. But we need to pick up the pace of wisdom. As we pivot to a new world that is suffering from deeper entrenched tendencies of fascism and contempt for truth, we need to stop wasting … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Buy A Liberal Party Toque!
Yes, it’s been the worst week of lies and broken promises for Justin Trudeau. Pipelines. Electoral Reform. He is in tire fire mode. So yesterday the party threw him a seltzer bottle which we can now spray in his face. … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: The Globe and Mail Just Punked the Leap Manifesto
You’ll notice in this graphic that as the Leap Manifesto linked to an anti-pipeline op-ed in the Globe and Mail in Facebook, the subhead brutally misrepresented the article. Either it was an error, sadly, or it was an intentional opposite … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: White- and Male-Dominated History Perpetuates White, Male Supremacy
If, like me, you don’t recognize these women as household names, you are likely a victim of history education that focuses on males and white people. And while you are likely not a racist misogynist, we all have to do … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Self-Care Tips As Trump’s Inauguration Approaches
It’s all about self care. Care for yourself with more sleep, more time walking in nature, less time in elevators and more time on stairs. Eat healthier, simpler foods. Spend more time with your people: less texting and more phone … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: 2wice More Justin Trudeau Goes Anti-Feminist
It’s great that Trudeau wants to give Liberia $12 million to improve the condition of women, but in Canada he’s undermining the economic security of Canadian women and others, including a specific betrayal of a campaign promise. But as we … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: America’s Coming Civil War
Weeks ago, as I was approaching the 14th anniversary of Politics, Re-Spun, I launched WePivot.net. My goal was to move out of what started as a George.W.Caesar anti-imperial website, that morphed into an anti-Harper #SoftFascism website, into a new thing … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: You’re Not a White Supremacist, Right?
Sure, you’re not a racist, but you are likely living in a culture steeped in white supremacy. And male supremacy. A culture with rich, systemic norms and institutions that benefit the entitled people. Even if you do not practice patriarchy … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Trump, Hypocrisy and Fascism
My Canada…my WORLD…involves people with integrity. The new American president spent months attacking people with racist, xenophobic and sexist venom. But when people satirize him, or criticize him, he cowers like a victim. This is hypocritical people living in glass … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: My Canada Does NOT Include Kellie Leitch’s Racism
I am ashamed for Kellie Leitch. Partly because she knows/shows no shame for her racism and xenophobia. Partly because also as a professor at a university I throw up a little bit in my throat imagining how Leitch may have … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: This Week in “Huh?” Ivanka, Justin, Elon
As we pivot to the new, sustainable world defeating this current wave of fascism and climate change deniers, let’s look back at this week to keep abreast of the contempt flung at us and where we can find hope. Remember, … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Stop Giving Trump Chances To Be Civil
He won’t. We already gave him two. His whole campaign: many of us wrote him off as a lark. I imagined only 30-35 million people would vote for such a clown. Until I realized that we can’t underestimate clowns. But … [Read more]
Continue readingWe Pivot: Do Not Conform!
Do not conform. Do not give in. Do not let the soul within you be molded or driven cold by circumstances, geopolitics, megalomania and division, or desperate people flinging their abuse at you because they think you’re a snowflake. Do not let the Soft Fascism on the rise since 9/11
Continue readingWe Pivot: Who Is Canada’s Bernie Sanders?
As we pivot to a new world, of course, we’ll have to contend with the election of Trump as president. But it’s not an absolute road block. Yesterday I wrote about how Trump won because he appealed to various populations of disenfranchised people who have been screwed by the political
Continue readingWe Pivot: What Political Scientists and Pollsters Don’t Know
Clearly a great deal. Polling is broken. Random sampling is gone. People lie. People self-select. People self-deselect. Pollsters try to adjust for demographics, but they fail. Political scientists? Most of us do not have enough of a sense of the breadth of the populace to have been able to expect
Continue readingWe Pivot: Healing America Begins Now; Let’s Join Them!
It’s not Trump. It’s a country that makes Trump possible. It’s not Clinton vs. Sanders. It’s about building the world we want and making our leaders follow us. You know how much they love the polls. It’s about hope, optimism and pivoting: finding our pivot foot in the areas of
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