Category Archives: Capitalism & Class
The Far-Right Grift: Ex-Muslim Edition
For Islamophobes, there are few people more useful than Yasmine Mohammed. And it is a somewhat mutually beneficial relationship—at least for now. For ex-Muslims willing to ignore or even defend bigotry, the temptation to accept a lucrative home among a growing community of far-right grifters appears to be almost irresistible. Yasmine’s story is compelling. A […]
Social Trustice, The Struggles of Detangling
Anonymous wants to highlight their positionality as an economically privileged and financially dependent disabled settler of colour with other significant intersections; Anonymous uses all the pronouns, but prefers “he/they”. I’ll stand up to the white men the rich men the Old Boys and the new start a magazine and stop eating so many bloody […]
Community Eats
Community Eats, an offshoot of Sprouts, runs a weekly by-donation bring-your-own-container lunch and produce pick-up service currently taking place on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm land in the Walter Gage Residence, Student Union Boulevard on Fridays from 11:30 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. We ask that you donate what you can and take what seems fair – individuals with significant […]
Unearthing: A Mining Justice Zine
Dear Readers, This zine is the collective effort of the 2018 iteration of the class: “Geography 495: Social Movements in the Americas: The politics of North-South solidarity in theory & practice” taught by Dr. Juanita Sundberg. As we moved through the class we learned about “extractivismo or the (re)turn to resource extraction as development and […]
Build the Student Movement: The Fight For Free Education
Students in Canada are under severe attacks that need to be met with the strongest and the broadest fightback. In the last 20 years, tuition fees have tripled. For the academic year 2017-2018 alone, tuition in Canada rose to $6,571, an increase by 3.1% compared to the previous academic year, and all odds indicate that […]
Residents Of Iconic High Rise Resist Mass Eviction, Demand Government Accountability
VANCOUVER, COAST SALISH TERRITORIES – The tenants of Berkeley Tower (1770 Davie St) are holding a press conference and rally at Morton Park outside their residence to bring attention to their critical situation, and to highlight the loopholes at the provincial and municipal government levels that contribute to the housing crisis in Vancouver. New owner Reliance […]
Susan Rice is a War Criminal and Should Not Lecture at UBC
I recently discovered that the Lind Institute is hosting the former US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Thursday, February 15 at UBC. I posted my utter shock and disagreement on the Facebook event page, but it is likely my post will be deleted. I invite you to read the following piece outlining the war […]
Nazim Hikmet: The Red Giant Looming Over Turkish Poetry
This article originally appeared on Rebel Youth: http://rebelyouth-magazine.blogspot.ca/ “The flame of Hikmet which set hearts on fire can not be extinguished, as long as there are people, militants, who will struggle to improve life and make it more beautiful.” – Dimitri Koutsoumpas, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE at the Scientific Congress […]
Interview with Yves Engler – A Propaganda System: How Canada’s government, corporations, media and academia sell war and exploitation
This interview was recorded on October 9, 2016 at the University of British Columbia on the occupied, ancestral, unceded territory of the Musqueam people. It is important to recognize that institutions across these lands continue to perpetuate acts of colonial violence and dispossession towards the region’s First People and that questioning and dismantling these oppressive […]
The Balmoral Hotel: One of the Many Effects of Decades of Neoliberalism in Vancouver
“Money doesn’t solve everyone’s problems, community does,” proclaims Balmoral resident Amanda Germann.
