The violence that accompanied recent white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia is merely the opening salvo in a larger conflict between those advocating fascism and those committed to human decency, equality, and democracy. And with white nationalist fascists planning more rallies to come, it’s a foregone conclusion that the violence
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Canadian Dimension: How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
Photo by Mark Dixon As white nationalism and the so-called “alt-Right” have gained prominence in the Trump era, a bipartisan reaction has coalesced to challenge these ideologies. But much of this bipartisan coalition focuses on individual, extreme, and hate-filled mobilizations and rhetoric, rather than the deeper, politer, and apparently more
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Colin Kaepernick: Patriotism and the Owning Class
Photo by Gerry Melendez Colin Kaepernick took a courageous and principled stand last season by kneeling during the national anthem before NFL games. This was done in response to a society that continues to systematically, culturally, and institutionally devalue Black lives. This devaluation is played out in many areas, including
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: A Nation of the Walking Dead
Illustration by Harvard Business Review Opioids and experiences that simulate the deadening effects of narcotics are mechanisms to keep us submissive and depoliticized. Desperate citizens in Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World ingested the pleasure drug soma to check out of reality. Our own versions of soma allow tens
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Muhammad Ali Understood the Racist Roots of War and Militarism
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With all the discussion and debate these days about intersectionality and the need for progressives to link our movements against racism and against war, the name of Muhammad A…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The Grand Illusion
Photo by Menendj In the years since 9/11, American police alone have killed at least twice as many Americans as died in that single large event, the annual toll of police killings being somewhere between 500 and 1,000, the variation owing to many such events going inaccurately reported by police.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: We Kill Our Revolutionaries
The State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Lithograph by P.S: Duval and Co., 1855. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio—Siddique Hasan, his legs shackled to a chair, sat in the fourth-floor visiting room of the Ohio State Penitentiary, a supermax prison. The room, surrounded by thick glass windows, had a guard booth
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