Creating Through the Crisis #30 In the last month, I’ve been taking some steps to change the technological infrastructure that permeates my everyday life. As I’ve done so, I’ve of course learned some technical things. But I’ve also gained greater appreciation for some very basic but, I think, important social and political realities of online …
Month: March 2026
Creating Through the Crisis #29 Generally speaking, I’m uncomfortable telling other people what to do. I know and respect people who make use of their platforms in that way — at their best, they offer guidance to movements, advice to individual organizers, suggestions about the positions that people should take with respect to the news …
Creating Through the Crisis #28 – The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom by Thulani Davis Despite how much I’ve thought about it over the years, I don’t feel like I have a very good answer to the question of what a piece of writing can do in the world, in a …
Creating Through the Crisis #27 I’ve blogged since blogging was young. And I’ve decided I’m going to do it again in a concerted, ongoing way…though perhaps oriented a bit differently than I have in the past. From 2004 to 2023, I did it at A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land. My posting was always irregular, …
(Originally published at The Media Co-op.) Melanie Andita is an organizer based in the Vancouver area. An immigrant from Indonesia, Andita’s political journey started when she was a student at Simon Fraser University (SFU). She initially got involved in campus-focused actions – things like challenging the inadequate public health measures being taken by the university …