(Originally published at The Breach) As 2024 draws to a close, there are many good reasons for liberation-minded people to feel concern about the state of the world. But there are also many victories to celebrate—victories that were achieved by ordinary people joining together to fight for a better future. With right-wing forces celebrating their …
Month: December 2024
For the last few years, I’ve written an article each December looking back at social movement victories in so-called Canada over that year. In the last week or two, I’ve been working on the version for 2024. As is true every year, I’m finding it inspiring. Even though this is something I track throughout the …
I like fanfiction. That’s perhaps something that someone who wants to be taken seriously as a reader, as a writer, and as a sayer-of-things about the state of the world shouldn’t admit, but it’s true. I’m not going to say what fandoms I enjoy, but I read a fair bit of it, and I’ve (pseudonymously) …
(Originally published at The Media Co-op.) Emma Jackson is an organizer, trainer, and occasional writer based on Treaty 6 territory in Edmonton, Alberta. She first began organizing over a decade ago in the student fossil fuel divestment movement and has since become involved in climate, migrant justice, Indigenous rights, and Palestine solidarity organizing. Interviewing and …
I’ve been very conscious, in the last couple of weeks, of the distinction between making things and circulating them. The kinds of things that I mean are, of course, the kinds of things that I make myself. So I don’t mean widgets or washing machines or ice cream cones or garden gnomes – I mean …