The Post-Truth Politics of Jordan Peterson’s Gender Nonbinary Pronoun Debate
Is there some legitimacy in what he brings up about free speech and a culture of polarization that we too are concerned about? Absolutely. But what Peterson is using his “free speech” towards is the suppression of minority rights that he takes ideological issue with. We don’t support such “intellectual” thinking, or argument.
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 […]
Whiteness Game
Dear white people, when your people voted for a terrorist You told me to fight anger with love, I did But the second I did you backstabbed me by killing my people, No I don’t want your love or hope in this game when you mindlessly carnage our souls, bodies for your bloodthirst, It […]
“Love will fix all”
When people tell me that Liberal-ized “LOVE” is the answer… that all we need is sole “love” to lick the well-deep wounds… I have this burning desire to respond: Will Love put my native tongue back into my bruised, post-9/11, numbing-cream™ filled mouth? Will it allow me to share my passions and heartaches with my […]
Corrupt prosecutors behind Brazil’s 2016 right-wing coup selected as finalists for UBC’s $100,000 Allard Prize
“…By contrast, much of Brazilian civil society and grassroots political movements view the Car Wash Task Force as a tool of an oligarchic elite, represented by the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMBD), that sought power by “judicial” means after having lost the 2014 election to Rousseff’s Worker’s Party (PT).8 Protests opposing the Task force number in the hundreds of thousands9, while an attempted rally in its defense only attracted a little more than half a dozen people.10 Brazilians reject the hypocrisy of the Task Force’s ‘crusade against corruption’, which played a key role in undemocratically installing the notoriously corrupt Michel Temer as President.”
Trump-style politics at UBC: Why you should proobbbbabbly vote in the upcoming AMS By-election this week
Aah free speech. Two deliciously click-baity words that roll in and out of your mouth like Warheads candy the morning after Halloween. If only “free speech” as is commonly used nowadays by libertarians, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the “alt-right” actually refers to the legal definition of freedom of expression. Otherwise members of these groups would […]
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.
Okanagan Fruit Leaves Sour Taste: Temporary Foreign Workers in Agriculture Fighting Back
Originally published at Rebel Youth This article exposes the myths surrounding Temporary Foreign Workers, the hyper-exploitation and deplorable conditions migrants face, particularly in the agriculture sector. It includes a focus on RAMA – Radical Action with Migrants in Agriculture, an anti-racist and decolonial organization that advocates for, supports and works to build community for migrant […]
Muslims’ and Malcolm’s rage
This piece was originally written for Malcolm X’s birthday. It’s Malcolm X’s birthday, and social media is soon to be bombarded with his speeches, images, and quotes, with a general theme of romanticized revolution. Although the content shared of Malcolm varies, a specific side of Malcolm is often depicted: the politically strong, passionate Afro-American that […]
