Matthew Good – There For the First Time
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats on the level.
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – James Bradley writes about the range of responses to an increasingly threatening climate. And Emma Morris offers some suggestions as to how to become part of the solution to the climate crisis. – Adrienne Buller discusses why the popular and necessary prospect of
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Gary Younge writes about the need to respond to a bleak reality with the dedication to imagine and create something better. And Vickie Cammack and Donna Thomson highlight how the response to a climate breakdown includes mobilizing our capacity to care for
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ben Jenkins rightly calls out Australia’s right-wing government and media for caring not a whit for the people seeing their country go up in flames: If you were holding out hope that the cynical and partisan way we currently talk about climate change
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Esthero feat. Miguel – Many Times
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Assorted content to end your week. – Simon Holmes a Court challenges the argument that any country or industry can opt out of being part of the response to our climate crisis. And Emily Holden comments on the oil industry’s control over public discussions about climate change, while Christopher Knaus
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: After More Than 12 Years, Allow Me to Introduce Myself
My name is Kurt Phillips For over 12 years I have been anonymously tracking neo-Nazis and hate groups and sharing that information on this blog. I am proud of my work and stand by its accuracy. When we write about individuals and groups we use their own words and actions
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the new year’s early reminders of the generous treatment of corporations and their CEOs compared to workers. For further reading…– David MacDonald’s look at CEO pay is here (PDF). – And Toby Sanger’s study of corporate tax freedom day is here (PDF). From that, I’ll particularly highlight this
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kate Aronoff offers a reminder that the right’s constant bleating about limiting government spending never applies to the cost of wars of choice. – Laura Glowacki reports on how Doug Ford’s choice to allow rent increases will only make matters worse for Ontario’s
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Martin Lukacs writes that the Trudeau Libs’ attempts to put a glossier face on politics as usual may be running into a less than compliant public: Not just in Canada, but around the world we have seen the emergence of an airbrushed,
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Rick Smith offers some reasons for hope in 2020 even in the face of a grim start to a new year. And Cory Doctorow writes about the need to start dreaming up, and giving effect to, alternatives to a corporate-driven economy and society
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Scott Gilmore writes about the glaring need for Canada’s politicians to show more capacity for shame – through it’s worth noting both a global pattern to the same effect, and the dangers of trying to draw “both-sides” equivalency (as Gilmore does) in
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michael Mann writes about Australia’s deadly lesson in the dangers of a climate breakdown. Ian Gill offers a reminder that we may soon be next – and that we have every reason for rage at the oil barons and politicians responsible. And Duane
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
CHVRCHES – Tether
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Van Hamme vs. Vanderweide and Stuart: Douchageddon OR Cringefest 2020
This may be considered to be a non-canon sequel to, “Cameron vs. Van Hamme: Battle of the Douchebags” as Ronny only makes a single cameo appearance. If there is one think that has become apparent since I first began this blog in 2007 it is that the people we monitor
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Nathan Robinson writes that there’s every reason for younger people – in the U.S. and elsewhere – to support the principle of socialism based on a desire to achieve gains for everybody rather than only a privileged few: A better definition, at
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: How to Do Nothing
[Jenny Odell. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Brooklyn NY: Melville House Publishing, 2019.] A very thoughtful, very well-written book by an artist who lives in California’s Bay Area. A self-proclaimed “field guide to doing nothing as an act of political resistance to the attention economy” (xi) that
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Win Nay, Ryan Dean, Joey Deluca, and Urban Infidels: Edmonton Against Fascism Reports on Alberta
As ARC enters our third decade, welcome to 2020 folks! I have to admit that I’ve been a little lazy with regard to keeping up with what is happening in Alberta these days. I’ve certainly been meaning to look back at some of the groups and individuals this blog has
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