Activism, Accompaniment, and Being in a New City
A perennial question: How should I act next in the world to create the change that I need, that you need, that the world needs? The shape of the question…
Scott Neigh
Lessons of ’93: Social movements, party politics, and the last time the Conservatives got booted
Earlier this year, I was involved in a special issue of a print magazine called The Dominion, which is the flagship publication of The Media Co-op network. The theme of…
Lessons of ’93: Social movements, party politics, and the last time the Conservatives got booted
Earlier this year, I was involved in a special issue of a print magazine called The Dominion, which is the flagship publication of The Media Co-op network. The theme of…
Lessons of ’93: Social movements, party politics, and the last time the Conservatives got booted
Earlier this year, I was involved in a special issue of a print magazine called The Dominion, which is the flagship publication of The Media Co-op network. The theme of…
Review: Methodology of the Oppressed
I'm not sure quite what to make of this book. There's no doubt that it is bold and visionary, and I get why the book from which I learned about…
Review: Methodology of the Oppressed
I’m not sure quite what to make of this book. There’s no doubt that it is bold and visionary, and I get why the book from which I learned about…
Review: Methodology of the Oppressed
I'm not sure quite what to make of this book. There's no doubt that it is bold and visionary, and I get why the book from which I learned about…
Gentrification in Hamilton: Some Initial Thoughts
Without a doubt, one of the key issues facing my new-again home of Hamilton, Ontario, is gentrification. I still have a lot to learn about how that's playing out, and…
Gentrification in Hamilton: Some Initial Thoughts
Without a doubt, one of the key issues facing my new-again home of Hamilton, Ontario, is gentrification. I still have a lot to learn about how that's playing out, and…
Thinking through writing about interviews with activists, part 2
Earlier in the week, I published a piece in which I began the process of figuring out how to write from my Talking Radical Radio interviews in a way that…
Thinking through writing about interviews with activists, part 2
Earlier in the week, I published a piece in which I began the process of figuring out how to write from my Talking Radical Radio interviews in a way that…
Thinking through writing about interviews with activists, part 1
About a month ago, I wrote about my feeling of an odd reluctance to write about social movements, despite my ample experience of and means for doing so. The kinds…
Thinking through writing about interviews with activists, part 1
About a month ago, I wrote about my feeling of an odd reluctance to write about social movements, despite my ample experience of and means for doing so. The kinds…
Review: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
I've noted before that when I go for a long stretch without reading any history -- which happens fairly often, these days -- then there's a real ...
Review: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
I've noted before that when I go for a long stretch without reading any history -- which happens fairly often, these days -- then there's a real ...
Review: Learning Activism
For a long time, a unifying thread in many different-seeming activities that have filled my days has been the comp...
Review: Learning Activism
For a long time, a unifying thread in many different-seeming activities that have filled my days has been the comp...
Let’s take a moment to acknowledge our collective ignorance about West and Central Asia
There's lots to deplore about how (white settler) people in this country have responded to the Paris attacks and their aftermath -- racist assaults, racist politicking, racist vandalism, and a…
Let’s take a moment to acknowledge our collective ignorance about West and Central Asia
There’s lots to deplore about how (white settler) people in this country have responded to the Paris attacks and their aftermath — racist assaults, racist politicking, racist vandalism, and a…
10 things grassroots writing and media can do (even given the power of the filter bubble)
In the aftermath of the recent federal election, I wrote a post (building on a piece by someone else) that, among other points, argued that the community-based left in Canada…