Structural poverty and racism breed gun violence in our neighbourhoods, and the budget process forces us to ask what truly keeps us safe. We can no longer afford to try to police our way out of this crisis.
Sri Lanka’s political and economic crisis is rooted in the decades long state project of neoliberalism and genocide directed at Tamils. The new protest movement in Sri Lanka has created a laboratory for radical self-organization from below that can challenge anti-Tamil chauvinism and the ruling class.
“Whenever we assert our collective rights to the Canadian state, our sovereignty seems to get lost in the public debate. Sovereignty means we were here for thousands of years before colonization, and any legitimate claim to reconciliation must account for that question of our relationship to the Land. ”
Thirteen years ago, I was among tens of thousands in Toronto’s Tamil community who protested the war in Sri Lanka. I remember waking up on…
On May 15, Palestinians mark Nakba Day (“the catastrophe” in Arabic), to remember the mass expulsion of Palestinians that accompanied the creation of the state…
This morning, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) set up 15 tents in front of Toronto City Hall as Mayor John Tory watched directly above…
Prisons have always been a public health crisis for communities made vulnerable by racialized policing. But now they represent a public health crisis for us all. If we are serious about ending the pandemic, we ignore the mass prisoner releases at our own peril.
The Ontario government’s handling of the education system during the pandemic has been roundly critized by parents, educators and students for failing to adequately fund…
Dimaline’s narrative tells a powerful story of Indigenous resistance as community bands together to resist corporate and colonial intrusion, propelling a resurgent narrative by reclaiming ground erased by colonialism.
Over the last 24 months of the pandemic, I have watched my family and friends, Black and racialized people, forced onto the front lines of…
Residential schools entrenched neglect, forced labour, physical assault, and sexual abuse–unleashing cycles of trauma that Indigenous communities still endure today.
The uprising against the police execution of George Floyd radicalized a new generation of people that see the link between systems of settler-colonial violence across borders.
