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 …
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, …
I talked in “Creating Through the Crisis #25” about a number of the things that I’m working on, these days. Or, at least, I alluded to them. Among other things, there’s a major strand of work that I hope will become a book project, and there are several smaller strands, some of which intertwine with …
Hi. So. I’m back. I mean, I was never gone. But I haven’t written a Creating Through the Crisis post since May of last year. This month, though, my work life is entering a new phase and I think one element of that will be using this sort of blog-ish writing as a tool — …
This week, I’ve been thinking about how difficult it is for most of us to find out about grassroots things, even those happening in our own communities. So. I’m not as connected to grassroots networks in my own city as I used to be — these days, most of my involvement is focused on non-local …
Like a lot of people in this country, this week I’ve been thinking about the federal election – and in particular, about being honest with ourselves about what’s coming in its wake. So. In the federal election held earlier this week, thanks in part to the threats made by the authoritarian ruler to the south …
(This was supposed to go up a week ago – it was ready, I just got swept up in other things and forgot. Please enjoy it now!) I’ve been thinking, this week, about a book – Deyohaha:ge: Sharing the River of Life edited by Daniel Coleman, Ki’en Debicki, and Bonnie M. Freeman (Wilfred Laurier University …
This week, I’ve been thinking about figuring out how to act in the world when we genuinely don’t understand what’s happening in the world. Last Sunday night, I was reading an article about one particular aspect of the instabilities in the global economy caused by the authoritarian regime in the United States. As I was …