Tag: CD Reviews

Get rid of the car. That’s the message put forth in Stop Signs by Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler, two longtime friends and activists who took a road trip by bus through America to survey the land of the modern human: Homo Automotivis. Organized like a road trip, each chapter

Directed by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, The Forgotten Space, is a probing examination of modern-day transportation systems like container ships that make global trade possible—their impact on workers, the environment, and more subtly the quality of life for city-dwellers living under its influence. When the Communist Manifesto first appeared

From movement organizing to individual relationships, Lynne Davis’s new anthology, Alliances, explores the tensions and possibilities of coalitions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples today. Exploring the links between Indigenous struggles for self-determination and labour, environmental, and social justice movements, Alliances encompasses a variety of writers and approaches. The collection includes

Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies With Local Currencies “We don’t need money. We need the things that money can buy.” Simple words of wisdom from two authors who are able to break down the complexities of economics into non-pretentious discourse, while offering some attainable solutions. It includes succinct critical arguments,

I started working full time on the initial draft of this book, in English, about three years ago. While I was seeking a publisher for the English edition, I was determined to have it appear in Arabic first, and in Palestine, because I sought for it to generate national public

In Manila , Mexico City and Delhi communities of people make their livelihood sifting through massive garbage dumps on city’s edge. In London, lavish shops and middle-class stability stand amid massive unemployment, yet there is bafflement when rioting and looting break out. A global economy — think Greece, Spain, the

In his 1899 work The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen wrote, “The basis on which good repute in any highly organised industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength… are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.” In Crass Struggle, McGill University

In the press notes for “Lula: Son of Brazil,” screenwriter Denise Paraná, upon whose biography (originally a PhD dissertation) the script is based, advises: “This is not a political film but a human story about overcoming great odds.” Just so everybody gets the picture, director Fabio Barreto replies as follows

One Brown girl. Two killers with white privilege. Seven attackers. Twenty onlookers. This is the Reena Virk case. November 14, 1997 was a day that shocked the land now known as Canada. Panic ensued in the country after Reena Virk, a 14 year old South Asian girl, was murdered by