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The show of international solidarity for the people of Oaxaca was the most extensive since the Zapatista uprising in 1994. Fueled by long ignored social contradictions, what began as a teachers' strike demanding more resources for education quickly turned into a massive movement that demanded direct, participatory democracy. Hundreds of thousands of Oaxacans raised their voices against the abuses of the state government. They participated in marches of up to 800,000 people, occupied government buildings, took over radio stations, called for statewide labor and hunger strikes, held sit-ins, reclaimed spaces for public art and created altars for assassinated activists in public spaces. In the now legendary March of Pots and Pans, two thousand women peacefully took over and operated the state television channel for three weeks. Barricades that were built all over the city to prevent the passage of paramilitaries and defend occupied public spaces, quickly became a place where neighbors got to know each other, shared ideas and developed new strategies for organizing. Despite the fierce repression that the movement faced—with hundreds arbitrarily detained, tortured, forced into hiding, or murdered by the state and federal forces and paramilitary death squads—people were determined to make their voices heard. \"Once you learn to speak, you don't want to be quiet anymore,\" an indigenous community radio activist said. Accompanied by photography and political art, \u003cem\u003eTeaching Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e is a compilation of testimonies from longtime organizers, teachers, students, housewives, religious leaders, union members, schoolchildren, indigenous community activists, artists and journalists—and many others who participated in what became the Popular Assembly of the People's of Oaxaca. This is a chance to listen directly to those invested in and affected by what quickly became one of the most important social uprisings of the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eTeaching Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e presents an inspiring tapestry of voices from the recent popular uprisings in Oaxaca. The reader is embraced with the cries of anguish and triumph, indignation and overwhelming joy, from the heart of this living rebellion.\" Peter Gelderloos, author of \u003cem\u003eHow Nonviolence Protects the State\u003c\/em\u003e \"These remarkable people tell us of the historic teachers' struggle for justice in Oaxaca, Mexico, and of the larger, hemispheric battle of all Indigenous people to end five hundred years of racism and repression.\" Jennifer Harbury, author of \u003cem\u003eTruth, Torture and the American Way\u003c\/em\u003e \" During their marches and protests, whenever the Oaxaca rebels sighted a reporter, they would chant: 'Press, if you have any dignity, the people of Oaxaca demand that you tell the truth.' \u003cem\u003eTeaching Rebellion \u003c\/em\u003eanswers that demand, with ample dignity, providing excellent context to understand the 2006 uprising and extensive and eloquent interviews with the participants themselves; an amazing read and an important contribution to the literature of contemporary rebellion.\" John Gibler, author of \u003cem\u003eMexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiana Denham currently coordinates C.A.S.A Chapulín, a center for international solidarity in Oaxaca, Mexico. 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Beautifully written and rigorously argued, Weaponizing Anthropology is a must read for students, educators, and anyone else concerned about the fate of the academy, the corruption of anthropology, the militarization of politics, and the future of democracy.\" —Henry Giroux, McMaster Univeristy, author of University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex \"Just about any undergraduate anthropology course is likely to begin with a ritual denunciation of early anthropology as a colonialist project, implying that anything written before, say, 1970 was hopelessly corrupted by its entanglement in racism, imperialism, and genocide. It's always said in such a way so as imply that obviously, this is no longer the case. This excellent, timely, and beautifully researched work demonstrates just how wrong and self-serving this standard account really is. 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Price is partially motivated by frustration at what he sees as the silences surrounding military involvements, and how a lack of institutional and disciplinary memory has political consequences, most vividly seen in the increasingly open role played by anthropologists in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.” —David Mills, University of Oxford. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute \"David Price is a cartographer of covert power. He maps in topographic detail how deeply the CIA and other intelligence agencies have infiltrated American campuses, recruiting students, administrators and academics to work for the dark side. This meticulously researched book reveals how the discipline of anthropology has been perverted into a virtual \"smart bomb\" to be inflicted on indigenous populations who stand in the path of the imperial machine. 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We would like to start by letting you know that we have made new additions to the editorial staff of our journal. Erin Gray of Toronto has joined our editorial collective, and Dave Mitchell of Regina has joined us in the capacity of reviews editor. We are excited to have our project grow and develop, and in this issue we again provide you with a collection of writings addressing a wide variety of issues and debates concerning activists on the left in Canada. We begin this issue with responses from a number of readers to our first issue. We welcome this kind of feedback and encourage you to join in the discussions and respond to the contributions of others in the pages of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e by email or regular mail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur editorial, the space in which we try to develop a common political perspective for the journal, takes up the question of the politics of “anti-oppression” within the Canadian context, and outlines some of our thoughts on the historical development of this perspective. In our next two issues we will take up and examine the politics of “anti-capitalism” and “anti-imperialism” as part of our project of critiquing and developing our analysis of what we call the “three antis.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this issue we run three different sets of interviews with radical theorists and organizers. We talk about questions of class and power with Himani Bannerji, a Marxist and anti-racist feminist who has made important contributions to understanding and transforming the way we look at problems of oppression and domination. We also conclude our interview with Grace Lee Boggs, a Detroit community activist who talks about her experiences of organizing over the past six decades, her experience of figures such as Jimmy Boggs and CLR James, and her reflections of a lifetime of building political organizations. Our third interview concerns one of the most important education sector struggles to have occurred over the past several years in North America—the two hundred thousand strong strike by college and university students in Québec in the spring of 2005. We speak to Nicolas Phebus, a member of the Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists, who shares his analysis of this important struggle in Québec.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe article section begins with a piece by Tom Keefer in which he looks at the genealogy of “socialism from below,” and questions its usefulness in contributing to the renewal of socialist politics today. Taiaiake Alfred and Lana Lowe provide an outline of the historical and contemporary nature and role of indigenous warrior societies in First Nations communities and struggles in the Canadian context. We continue with a series of roundtables that bring together various activists struggling in a number of important campaigns. Mordecai Briemberg, Paul Burrows, Rafeef Ziadah, Adam Hanieh and Samer Elatrash explore the problems and opportunities confronting Palestinian solidarity activism today; Chris Arsenault, Mike DesRoches, Derrick O’Keefe, Andrea Schmidt, George ‘Mick’ Sweetman, Honor Brabazon \u0026amp; Jessie X. discuss their experiences of the Canadian antiwar movement; and Sarita Ahooja, Sima Zerehi and \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" title=\"Harsha Walia\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e talk about the state of immigrant and refugee solidarity activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe final section of the journal consists of a series of reviews put together by our book reviews editor Dave Mitchell. Adrian Harewood assesses \u003cem\u003eA View for Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks\u003c\/em\u003e, an interview with the late Alfie Roberts, a remarkable activist and organizer in the Montréal area. Kirat Kaur reviews Judy Rebick’s latest book \u003cem\u003eTen Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Rebick’s understanding of the Canadian feminist movement. Karl Kersplebedeb writes on \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e which provides a historical account of the connection between patriarchy, dispossession and the development of capitalism. Finally, Tyler McCreary reviews J. Sakai’s classic \u003cem\u003eSettlers: the Myth of the White Proletariat \u003c\/em\u003eand kicks off what we hope will be an ongoing debate on the relevance of Sakai’s analysis to understanding the relationship of race and class in North America today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, we can’t finish talking about this issue of our journal without thanking our advisory board members and all the other people that made the first issue of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e a success, and who have ensured the continuing viability of this project. To date we have sold over 700 copies of our first issue and recouped our initial publishing and mailing costs. Our many distributors ensured that hard copies of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e were available in every province and in over 30 different Canadian cities as well as reaching countries as far away as Australia, Argentina, Cuba, England, France, Norway, Germany, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, and Venezuela. Copies of the journal were also distributed to several US-based political prisoners and prisoners of war, and we also take this opportunity to extend our greetings of solidarity to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith evidence in hand that a project such as ours can be financially sustainable and politically relevant, we are reprinting 1000 copies of our first issue and publishing this second issue in a perfect bound format with a print run of 2000 copies. As we prepare the third issue of the journal for publication in the spring of 2006 we welcome further assistance in helping to distribute the second issue of the journal even more widely than the first. To this end, we have put up a web page with an up to date list of local distributors from whom you can get hard copies of the journal. If you are interested in joining this list of distributors please e-mail us at uta_distro@yahoo.ca to make arrangements and to receive discounted bulk copies of the journal. We are also open to running exchange advertisements with other radical publications and catalogs. If you have a project that you would like to promote in Upping the Anti, or if you would like to publicize our journal please get in touch with us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCopies of the first issue of the journal remain available for download and distribution, and if you are using the PDF file of our first or second issue for distribution, we would appreciate a note from you letting us know where you are from and how you will be using the journal. 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After all the usual hard work and delays, we’re happy to once again present these pages. As always, our content is devoted to discussing both the successes and shortcomings of contemporary movements for social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe kick off this issue with a series of exchanges in the Letters section, where readers respond to content from \u003cem\u003eUpping The Anti\u003c\/em\u003e 2. We’re pleased that UTA is generating these kinds of engaging debates, and we encourage readers to write us with their thoughts and perspectives on the articles and interviews we print. Stay tuned for our online discussion board accessible from the Autonomy and Solidarity website: http:\/\/auto_sol.tao.ca.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this issue, our editorial tries to assess the difficult space in which the North American anti-war movement presently finds itself. 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The interview with Aijaz Ahmad addresses fundamental questions of revolution and organization, and reflects on the complexities of Islamic and anti-imperialist movements in Asia and the Middle East. William Robinson discusses Latin American resistance to neoliberalism in the changing context of global capitalism and considers how these movements are relating to the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our articles section, AK Thompson critically engages the arguments of Richard Day’s \u003cem\u003eGramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements\u003c\/em\u003e and discusses whether or not the orientation to “affinity” expressed by the newest social movements is adequate to the task of making meaningful social change. Following Thompson’s piece, Isabel MacDonald writes on Canadian complicity in the occupation of Haiti, outlining both the horrific oppression visited upon the Haitian people and the difficulties faced by the solidarity movement in support of Haiti. Subsequently, RJ Maccani investigates the Zapatista experience and outlines the lessons to be drawn north of the Rio Grande amidst Mexico’s changing political terrain. As in the interview section, Maccani’s piece engages the question of the relationship between anti-capitalist movements and the state. Our final article finds Jen Plyler writing about the need for sustainable movements to develop supportive conditions that can help organizers to ‘keep on keeping on.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur roundtable section is devoted entirely to the struggle of the Six Nations people of the Grand River territory – one of the most important indigenous social movements taking place in Canada today. While currently focusing on the reclamation of a suburban housing estate, the struggle highlights larger issues of political sovereignty and settler colonialism. Tom Keefer provides an overview and background to the situation, while in the roundtable, participants focus on the role of non-native solidarity activists in supporting this indigenous movement. We interview Brian Skye, a member of the Cayuga nation who has been very active at the site, on his perspectives on solidarity organizing. We also interview Jan Watson, a non-native Caledonia, Ontario resident who has been centrally involved in organizing against racism directed against the people of Six Nations. The roundtable concludes with reflections by AJ Withers, Josh Zucker and Stefanie Gude, focusing on the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty’s role in supporting the Six Nations struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the reviews section, Scott Neigh reflects on the connections between activism and research explored in \u003cem\u003eSociology for Changing the World: Social Movements\/Social Research,\u003c\/em\u003e edited by Caelie Frampton et al. Yutaka Dirk considers Dan Bergers’s assessment of the \u003cem\u003eWeather Underground: Outlaws of America\u003c\/em\u003e and Sharmeen Khan interrogates the white anti-racism of Inga Muscio’s \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe would like to take this opportunity to encourage our supporters to contribute financially to help us continue this project. Our journal is entirely “independent.” For those of you not keeping up with contemporary euphemisms, “independent” means we have no money. Basically, we’re broke. So, if you like what we do and would like us to keep on doing it, you should consider making a financial donation to the project. That way, you can be independent, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith your help, we hope to publish \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e twice a year. A one year subscription to the journal is $20, a two year subscription is $35, and back issues of Volumes 1 and 2 are available for $10 each. We especially encourage those who are financially endowed (like the professionals who feel sorry for us, the class traitors who envy us, and the organizations dying to keep it real) to consider purchasing a lifetime subscription to the journal for $250. This lifetime subscription (your life or ours – whichever expires first!) entitles you to all back and future issues of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti,\u003c\/em\u003e along with other non journal materials, including pamphlets and DVDs that are currently in the works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe need other kinds of help, too. Although we have successfully distributed Upping the Anti throughout Canada and internationally with the help of distributors in our network, we welcome any further assistance with distribution. If you would like to distribute the journal in your area, please arrange to receive bulk copies of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e at a discounted price by emailing uta_ distro@yahoo.ca. If you are a distributor who owes us money from previous issues, don’t be shy about getting in touch with us to cut a deal and arrange to receive copies of the new issue!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Solidarity and Struggle,\u003cbr\u003e\nAidan C., Erin G., Tom K., and Sharmeen K.\u003cbr\u003e\nToronto, November 6, 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 183 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175086403677,"sku":"UTA 3","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_967_utathree3_0.jpg?v=1654987321"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-7","title":"Upping The Anti #7","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe October 2008 edition of this radical journal of theory and action from Toronto, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTable of Contents of Upping the Anti #7\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eEditorial\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Moment of Danger: Catastrophe and Actualization\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eInterviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClayton Thomas-Müller—Just Environmentalism? 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Lyons—“Bring on the bulldozers and let’s plant trees”: The Story of Labour Zionism Tom Keefer—Declaring the Exception: Direct Action, Six Nations, and the Stuggle in Brantford Kole Kilibarda—Confronting Apartheid: The BDS Movement in Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eRoundtables\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClare O’Connor \u0026amp; Caitlin Hewitt-White—Labour Solidarity For Palestine: Unions and the BDS Movement with Dave Bleakney, Iliam Burbano, Andy Griggs, and Jenny Peto Kimiko Inouye Home and a Hard Place: A Roundtable on Migrant Labour with Evelyn Calugay, Tess Tesalona, Adriana Paz, Alywin Lo, and Chris Ramsaroop\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNeil Balan on Slavoj Zizek's \"In Defense of Lost Causes\" Alejandro de Acosta on Simon Critchley's \"Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Poltics of Resistance\" Jen Angel on Stephen Duncombe's \"Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy\" Bryan Doherty on John Hagedorn's \"A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 207 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175086436445,"sku":"UTA 7","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_971_uta73_0.jpg?v=1654987322"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-8-september-2009","title":"Upping The Anti #8 (September 2009)","description":"\u003ch4\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe eighth issue of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e took shape in the midst of a storm. Of our seven editors, five were on strike for 85 days between November and February with the membership of CUPE Local 3903 at York University in Toronto. Fighting precarious work and the neoliberal university, we weathered an unmovable administration before being legislated back to work by the provincial government. This exhilarating but exhausting midwinter, three-month strike threatened to delay our production aims.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNevertheless, as this issue came together, the editorial process revitalized our spirits, focused our goals and compelled us to publish something useful for future struggles. In our editorial, we engage with the challenges and opportunities that arise from the global economic crisis and the election of Barack Obama. Calling attention to the ways that politicians and economists are drawing on myth to reinvigorate capitalism, we consider the enduring question of hegemony. After evaluating some of the different orientations that today’s radicals adopt when approaching this question, we outline how the left might use myths to help constitute a broader collective and radical “we.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs always, we begin this issue with letters from our readers. Heather Hax and etienne turpin revisit the question of catastrophe in their responses to our last editorial (UTA 7). Reflecting on our interview with sex worker and organizer Kara Gillies, Simone Skye highlights the importance of adopting a labour perspective on sex work. Melissa Elliot responds to Tom Keefer’s article from last issue and offers a perspective on how non-native activists should relate to indigenous struggles. Finally, Greg Flemming responds to Neil Balan’s review of Žižek’s \u003cem\u003eDefense of Lost Causes\u003c\/em\u003e and Balan responds to Flemming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our interviews section, Aidan Conway talks with leading Marxist thinkers David McNally, Leo Panitch, and Sam Gindin about their perspectives on the current economic crisis. Long-time AIDS activist Gary Kinsman interviews Deborah Gould, a former ACT UP activist and author of the recently published \u003cem\u003eMoving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS\u003c\/em\u003e. In our final interview, Chris Dixon interviews Montreal-based organizer Helen Hudson as part of his ongoing project to record the experiences and insights of anti-authoritarian organizers in Canada and the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLong-time Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) organizer John Clarke begins our articles section with an assessment of the challenges of anti-poverty organizing and movement building during the economic crisis. Next, anti-Israeli apartheid activist Shourideh Molavi assesses the terrain for Palestine solidarity organizing in the wake of Israel’s attack on Gaza. Finally, solidarity activist Shiri Pasternak reports on the ongoing struggles of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake (ABL).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur first roundtable discussion finds members of the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM) revisiting their organizing experiences in the 1990s at New York City’s Hunter College. Our second roundtable explores the merits of study groups in radical left organizing and features participants from the LA Crew, Another Politics is Possible, the Activist Study Circles, and the New York Study Group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKaty Rose begins our book reviews section with an investigation of \u003cem\u003eAsian Settler Colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e (U of Hawai’i Press), an edited collection in which authors explore the complicated colonial dynamics between “locals” and the native population of Hawai’i. Ernesto Aguilar reviews \u003cem\u003eLet Freedom Ring\u003c\/em\u003e (PM Press), an edited collection of political prisoner writing, and Frank Edgewick considers the long-awaited reprint of Semiotext(e)’s \u003cem\u003eAutonomia: Post-Political Politics.\u003c\/em\u003e Finally, DT Cochrane reviews Robert McChesney’s \u003cem\u003eThe Political Economy of Media\u003c\/em\u003e (Monthly Review Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue marks four years of \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e. We are pleased to welcome Erika Biddle to the editorial committee. We would like to thank former editor Nicole Cohen for her significant contributions to the journal and are pleased that she remains an active Advisory Board member. Since 2005, we have published two journals each year, hosted public forums, and maintained an ongoing and improving web presence. We have done this with an all-volunteer collective of editors and advisory board members. Nevertheless, producing a journal is expensive and \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e is only made possible through your support. If you have not done so already, please consider subscribing to \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e. After all, nothing beats receiving mail! We are happy to announce that we now have a sustainer’s program whereby you can make monthly donations to the journal to ensure that we are able to continue publishing. Visit us online to get a subscription or to make a donation. All donations go directly to the production of the journal. Visit us often at www.uppingtheanti.org and stay tuned for our website relaunch this summer. We look forward to your feedback on the new site’s design and usability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e number nine is scheduled to come out in October of 2009. If you are interested in contributing, please send a pitch to uppingtheanti@gmail.com. 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Here is the editors' introduction to this issue:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe can hardly believe it, but we’ve done it again. Welcome to the ninth issue of Upping the Anti, our latest contribution to the world of independent radical publishing. As soon as we’re done with one issue, another is in the works, and as usual, the challenges of producing a 200 page book twice a year are substantial. Independent publishing is precarious at the best of times, and because we’ve aimed big – by printing a journal with a circulation of 2,500 and cultivating distribution networks across the continent and beyond – we are no exception to the rule that radical publications need consistent and ongoing support from their readership. We have some new ideas about how to do that, but first let us update you on our changing editorial committee and the new issue. Founding editor Sharmeen Khan has reluctantly turned in her red pen and moved to the UTA advisory board, as has Erika Biddle.We thank both of them for their important contributions to the project. Editor AK Thompson has been on a leave of absence to complete his dissertation, and the work of getting this issue out has been greatly aided by the work of new editors David Hugill, Chandra Kumar, and Danielle O’Hearn. We also welcome Robyn Letson to our advisory board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs always, we begin this issue with interventions from our readers which support, challenge or complete content from past issues. We’re always soliciting feedback and critical dialogue in our pages so drop us a line if you’ve got some thoughts about issue nine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our interviews section, Kelly Fritsch talks with disability, queer and trans activist, Eli Clare. Sharmeen Khan and Natalie Kouri-Towe interview leading scholar Sherene Razack about her book Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics (University of Toronto Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our first article, Palestine solidarity activist Ben Saifer analyses the emergence and assesses the implications of Zionist-initiated “dialogue” efforts on Canadian university campuses. Next, Kate Milley examines the organization of anti-native activism in response to the struggles of the Six Nations people on the Haldimand tract, revealing the broader, deeply entrenched racism and colonial logic of Canadian society. Finally, Chris Hurl and Kevin Walby untangle common assumptions about student movement politics in their historical analysis of The Canadian Union of Students from 1965-1969.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur roundtables section begins with a tenth anniversary reflection on the mass mobilization against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999. Contributors offer retrospective analyses of this pivotal moment of the anti-globalization movement. The second roundtable discussion addresses anti-Olympic organizing. We hear from activists preparing for the upcoming mobilizations against the Vancouver 2010 games, and from those who organized against the games in Salt Lake City, Turin, and Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book reviews section features Sean Benjamin’s review of Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (AK Press), and Jeff Shantz’s review of The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History, Volume 1: Projectiles for the People (PM Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope you find Upping the Anti useful in your organizing work and research. If so, please support us as we face significant financial need. Very few radical publications are able to survive on subscriptions and sales alone and UTA has consciously chosen not to become dependent on government subsidies, grants, or foundation funding. To keep the journal affordable and truly independent, we need the support of our readers. If you have the means to help, we encourage you to join our online sustainers program. The wonders of the internet make it easy to support your most trusted projects; please go to http:\/\/uppingtheanti.org and become a monthly sustainer. We aim to have 100 sustainers by the end of 2009. If we succeed, we’ll have the financial security necessary to allow us to focus less on fundraising and more on bringing you the radical debate that is at the core of our effort. And if you’ve put off subscribing, wait no longer. Finally, we are always interested in connecting with activists who would like to distribute the journal. Bulk discounts are available, and if you feel like you could distribute 10 or more copies of each issue, please get in touch with us at uppingtheantidistro@gmail.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are also happy to announce the launch of our new website thanks to the wonderful help of Christopher Dobbie. Please check us out at uppingtheanti.org. PDF versions of all our articles are now online and available to all subscribers, and the site has been re-organized so as to provide a better and more accessible archive of our content.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are interested in contributing to issue 10 – scheduled to launch in April 2010 – please send a pitch to uppingtheanti@gmail.com describing your proposed contribution. Pitches are due by November 29, 2009. The deadline for first drafts is January 4, 2010. 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He’s the author of half a dozen other books, including \u003cem\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e (Beacon Press), and (co-edited with Franklin Rosemont),\u003cem\u003e Surrealism—Black, Brown and Beige: Writings and Images from Africa and the African Diaspora\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Texas Press).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175107211357,"sku":"9781604860955","price":23.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1119_historyofpanafrikanrevolt3_0.jpg?v=1654987456"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-15-september-2013","title":"Upping the Anti #15 (September 2013)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe September 2013 issue of this journal of action and theory, produced by a non-sectarian group of anticapitalist activists in Toronto, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eEditorial\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eInterviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eReporting From the Inside: Interview with Ali Mustafa Stefan Christoff\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eAnti-Pipeline Organizing Across Turtle Island: Interviews with SaÌ‚kihitowin AwaÌ‚sis, Brian Tokar \u0026amp; Kat Stevens Toban Black\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eArticles\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eCommons Against and Beyond Capitalism George Caffentzis and \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eClimate Struggles, Real and Imagined Emanuele Leonardi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eRoundtables\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eFrom Idle No More to Indigenous Nationhood PJ Lilley and Jeff Shantz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eOrganizing From a Place of Love Chris Crass, Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy. Rebecca Tumposky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eBuilding a Networked Commons Joss Hands, @ is for Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture Greg Shupak\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eMaking Alternative Worlds: Journeys into Third Space Adela C. Licona, Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric Theresa Warburton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780986624421\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 150 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175126413405,"sku":"UTA 15","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1227_uta15_3_0.jpg?v=1654987590"},{"product_id":"struggle-for-the-land-native-north-american-resistance-to-genocide-ecocide-and-colonization","title":"Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis newly revised and expanded edition traces the history of Native American resistance and struggle for decolonization. By focusing upon certain modes of resource exploitation—uranium mining, coal stripping, hydropower generation, and water diversion—Churchill demonstrates clearly that the effects of State\/corporate business in the most native-populated hinterlands of the continent are as ecocidal as they are genocidal. The ecological havoc being wreaked cannot be contained within reservation areas, and therefore poses a threat to all North Americans, presenting a common ground upon which Indians and non-Indians alike can and must struggle to repeal the status quo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Ward Churchill\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780872864146\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 459 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: City Lights Books\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"City Lights","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175153381469,"sku":"9780872864146","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/strugglefortheland.jpg?v=1654987700"},{"product_id":"recovering-the-sacred-the-power-of-naming-and-claiming","title":"Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e When she invites us to “recover the sacred,” Native American organizer Winona LaDuke is requesting far more than the rescue of ancient bones and beaded headbands from museums. For LaDuke, only the power to define what is sacred – and gain access to it – will enable Native American communities to remember who they are and fashion their future. Based on a wealth of research and hundreds of interviews with indigenous scholars and activists, LaDuke’s book examines the connections between sacred sites, sacred objects, and the sacred bodies of her people, focusing on the conditions under which traditional beliefs can best be practiced. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Describing the numerous gaps between mainstream and indigenous thinking, she probes the paradoxes that abound for peoples of the Americas and points a way forward for Native Americans and their allies. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinona LaDuke is a writer, teacher, and activist. She is a graduate of Harvard University and was the Green Party vice-presidential candidate in the 1996 U.S. election. She lives on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Through the voices of ordinary Native Americans, writer and full-time activist Winona LaDuke is able to transform highly complex issues into stories that touch the heart.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz\" title=\"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\"\u003eRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003c\/a\u003e, author of Indigenous People's History of the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A river of tears fell down my cheeks as I read Recovering the Sacred. This is a must read for anyone who wants to know the truth about Federal Indian Policy, past and present.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Charon Asetoyer, editor, Indigenous Women's Health book: Within the Sacred Circle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fierce in her convictions, forceful in her analysis, and engaging in her writing, LaDuke connects the dots between indigenous struggles, the toxic and sacrilegious practices of multinational corporations, and the wellness of all of us who must share our fragile planet.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Robert Warrior, author, The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this powerful book, LaDuke explores issues that go way beyond the desecration of the environment and into the heart of insidious crimes against the very DNA of Native peoples.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Amy Ray, musician\/activist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"LaDuke skillfully demonstrates why the protection of Native spiritual practices is critical to social justice struggles and to the survival of the planet. She weaves together a broad range of issues that all point to the impact of European cultural and spiritual genocide on indigenous people. LaDuke demonstrates again why shi is one of the leading Native thinkers and activists today.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Andrea Smith, author, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Winona LaDuke's \"activist scholarship\" captures the essence of politicized spirituality that [combines] \"ecological integrity\" with our cultural identity for \"spiritual health.\" It is books such as this one that will insure the passing of history and knowledge from one generation to the next.\"\u003cbr\u003e—M.A. Jaimes Guerrero, editor, The State of Native America\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Written in an accessible style, Recovering the Sacred documents the remarkable stories of indigenous communities whose tenacity and resilience has enable them to reclaim the lands, resources, and life ways after enduring centuries of incalculable loss.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Wilma Mankiller, author, Every Day is a Good Day\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating read that puts Native American communities struggle for justice into historical and environmental context. Winona's fierce dedication to the indigenous environmental and women's movement infuse her analysis with a first-person understanding—deep and powerful on many levels. Winona's fierce dedication to the indigenous environmental and women's movement infuses her analysis with a first-person understanding—deep an powerful on many levels.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Bonnie Raitt, musician\/activist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A damning account of current and past injustices committed against the indigenous tribes of North America... [LaDuke] uses a combination of personal testimony and interviews mixed with historical research and government records to make the case that racism and stealing is still occurring, but in new forms such as biopiracy and historical revisionism.\"\u003cbr\u003e–Race and Place\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"No ragtag remnants of lost cultures here. Strong voices of old, old cultures bravely trying to make sense of an Earth in chaos.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Whole Earth\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175155249245,"sku":"‎9781608466276","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_490_recsac3.jpg?v=1654987706"},{"product_id":"settlers-the-mythology-of-the-white-proletariat-from-mayflower-to-modern","title":"Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e is a uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements. First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself as an essential reference point for revolutionary nationalists and dissident currents within the predominantly colonialist Marxist-Leninist and anarchist movements at that time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlways controversial within the establishment Left \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers centuries of collaboration between capitalism and white workers and their organizations, as well as their neocolonial allies, showing how the United States was designed from the ground up as a parasitic and genocidal entity. \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the fact that America’s white citizenry have never supported themselves but have always resorted to exploitation and theft, culminating in acts of genocide to maintain their culture and way of life. As recounted in painful detail by Sakai, the United States has been built on the theft of Indigenous lands and of Afrikan labor, on the robbery of the northern third of Mexico, the colonization of Puerto Rico, and the expropriation of the Asian working class, with each of these crimes being accompanied by violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes “Cash \u0026amp; Genocide: The True Story of Japanese-American Reparations” and an interview with author J. Sakai by Ernesto Aguilar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e is a critical analysis of the colonization of the Americas that overturns the 'official' narrative of poor and dispossessed European settlers to reveal the true nature of genocidal invasion and land theft that has occurred for over five hundred years. If you want to understand the present, you must know the past, and this book is a vital contribution to that effort.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzQ2In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gord-hill\" title=\"Gord Hill\"\u003eGord Hill\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e500 Years of Indigenous Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Great works measure up, inspire higher standards of intellectual and moral honesty, and, when appreciated for what they are, serve as a guide for those among us who intend a transformation of reality. \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e should serve as a reminder (to anyone who needs one) of the genocidal tendencies of the empire, the traitorous interplay between settler-capitalist, settler-nondescript, and colonial flunkies.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTYzIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kuwasi-balagoon\" title=\"Kuwasi Balagoon\"\u003eKuwasi Balagoon\u003c\/a\u003e, Black Liberation Army\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When \u003ce\u003e“When \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e hit the tiers of San Quentin, back in 1986, it totally exploded our ideas about what we as a new class of revolutionaries thought we knew about a so-called ‘united working class’ in amerika. And what's more, it brought the actual contradictions of national oppression and imperialism into sharp focus. It was my first, and as such my truest, study of the actual mechanics behind the expertly fabricated illusion of an amerikan proletariat.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjMyOTY0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sanyika-shakur\" title=\"Sanyika Shakur\"\u003eSanyika Shakur\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMonster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/e\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003eJ. Sakai is a revolutionary intellectual with decades of experience as an activist in the United States. On the subject of his own past, and the writing of \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e, he has said:\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the Fall 1961, i found myself with other militant Sit-In veterans in the reborn Oakland chapter of Congress of Racial Equality, picketing a major store which had refused to hire New Afrikans. Even in the Bay Area that was the custom and law back then. It had started years earlier for me in high school in L.A.'s 1950's San Fernando Valley. Where as the lone uneducated leftist i had tried unsuccessfully to sell copies of the socialist labor party newspaper (the only one i could get) every week to my classmates. At the same time was working as an Asian houseboy for the family of a Jewish used car dealer (stereotypes abound for a reason). Was fired for taking a night off for my own high school graduation. The wife lost it and screamed, \" People like you don't need graduations!\" A month later was living in a different state to find a job and avoid the \"colored\" military draft. And active as the novice food drive coordinator in a long, bitter, ugly hospital workers' strike, whose main public demand was pay raises up to the federal minimum wage (we lost badly).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Have been through a thousand campaigns and movement groups since then, and can't believe i've been so dumb so often. In 1975, while mostly active doing Afrikan liberation movement support with radical exiles from various countries, i started writing a historical investigation into the puzzling class politics of euro-amerikan workers. Which i naively thought would only be a quick movement paper. Eight years later what became re-titled as \u003cem\u003eSettlers\u003c\/em\u003e was finished. Even then i didn't believe there was any audience for it, and planned to only photocopy fifty copies of my typed draft for internal education in the underground black liberation army coordinating committee. Comrades with more sense than myself insisted that we publish it as a book if only for the liberation movement. Over the years, we took it through three editions, but finally it's time to hand it on to new publishers. Remember only, i wrote this with my life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175156166749,"sku":"9781629630373","price":32.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/2_settlers.jpg?v=1654987710"},{"product_id":"a-line-in-the-tar-sands-struggles-for-environmental-justice","title":"A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to quite explicitly marry concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTar sands “development” comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents—fighting a powerful international industry—are likened to terrorists, government environmental scientists are muzzled, and public hearings are concealed and rushed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet, despite the formidable political and economic power behind the tar sands, many opponents are actively building international networks of resistance, challenging pipeline plans while resisting threats to Indigenous sovereignty and democratic participation. Including leading voices involved in the struggle against the tar sands, A Line in the Tar Sands offers a critical analysis of the impact of the tar sands and the challenges opponents face in their efforts to organize effective resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include: Angela Carter, Bill McKibben, Brian Tokar, Christine Leclerc, Clayton Thomas-Muller, Crystal Lameman, Dave Vasey, Emily Coats, Eriel Deranger, Greg Albo, Jeremy Brecher, Jess Worth, Jesse Cardinal, Joshua Kahn Russell, Lilian Yap, Linda Capato, Macdonald Stainsby, Martin Lukacs, Matt Leonard, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Naomi Klein, Rae Breaux, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Rex Weyler, Ryan Katz-Rosene, Sâkihitowin Awâsis, Sonia Grant, Stephen D’Arcy, Toban Black, Tony Weis, Tyler McCreary, Winona LaDuke, and Yves Engler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe editors’ proceeds from this book will be donated to frontline grassroots environmental justice groups and campaigns. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The tar sands has become a key front in the fight against climate change, and the fight for a better future, and it’s hard to overstate the importance of the struggles it has inspired.” Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Avoiding 'game over for climate' requires drawing a line in the tar sands sludge. \u003cem\u003eA Line in the Tar Sands\u003c\/em\u003e makes clear why and how this tar sands quagmire could be the beginning of the end for the mighty fossil fuel industry.” Dr. James Hansen, NASA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“From Indigenous people's sharing of prophecy, to lock-downs and blockades, from marches to hip-hop tours, from horseback rides to hunger strikes, and from mass arrests in front of the White House and Parliament to court battles, \u003cem\u003eA Line in the Tar Sands\u003c\/em\u003e examines the ongoing struggle to protect Sacred Water and Mother Earth through the voices and actions of the people who are living it. Read \u003cem\u003eA Line in the Tar Sands\u003c\/em\u003e and be heartbroken to learn the extent of the destruction of Mother Earth. Be inspired by the people working to stop the destruction.” Debra White Plume, Moccasins on the Ground, Owe Aku International\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The most important stories in the tar sands struggle are hidden by the media. This revelatory book tells of Canadian duplicity, Chinese capital, migrant workers, healing ceremonies, movement reflection and strategy, EU lobbying, the contradictions of NGO politics, Indigenous activism, and much more. The story of Greenhouse Goo is global. But so it its resistance: beautiful, complex, and rich. A Line in the Tar Sands is drawn with hope and righteous anger, celebrating the cosmologies that the tar sands industry—and its politicians—would destroy.” Raj Patel, author of \u003cem\u003eStuffed and Starved\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This collaborative effort not only details the insanity of tar sands development, it also shines a light on the Indigenous-led resistance movement challenging the fundamentally exploitative paradigm underlying extreme energy extraction. It provides a model of genuine solidarity in the fight to replace oppression with a healthy and just world.” Tim Dechristopher, Bidder 70\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoshua Kahn Russell is the U.S. actions coordinator and trainings program manager for 350.org, a trainer with the Ruckus Society, and coauthor of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/organizing-cools-the-planet-tools-and-reflections-to-navigate-the-climate-crisis\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrganizing Cools the Planet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephen D’Arcy is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Philosophy at Huron University College. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eLanguages of the Unheard: The Ethics of Militant Protest\u003c\/em\u003e (Between the Lines). He is also a climate justice and economic democracy activist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTony Weis is an associate professor in Geography at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToban Black is a community organizer and a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, with research focused on environmental justice, the political economy of energy systems, and theories of social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/naomi-klein\"\u003e Naomi Klein\u003c\/a\u003e is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the international bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e. 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This seeming contradiction of what should be so simple being endlessly complicated in society is because how we think about race, how we talk about race … capitalism is constantly trying to police this. They don’t want to neaten it, they actually want to constrict it and keep remaking it in their own distorted images and stamping it on our faces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo in u.s. society ...  capitalism pushes thinking and talking about race into the dominant form of a white\/Black paradigm. Where everything is supposed to be arranged according to the relationship between white men—who are defined as: What’s “normal”, the standard—and New Afrikan people—who are indirectly or covertly depicted as incomplete or deficient models of the first. So that the supposed goal of capitalistic “antiracism” is that eventually at some point everyone will be exactly like white men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWell, we don’t have to comment really on that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInto this paradigm, everyone else—“unimportant minorities”—are essentially crammed and flattened into that two-dimensional story, according to some always shifting order that they have, judging by how important or unimportant they think we are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis raises a question: What is an unimportant minority? Am not going to answer that, but let me point you in a certain direction ...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"backcover_col\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8554\" src=\"http:\/\/kersplebedeb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/backcover_col.jpg\" style=\"height:600px; width:499px\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: J. 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An Act of Genocide unpacks long-buried archival evidence to begin documenting the forced sterilization of Aboriginal women in Canada. Grounding this evidence within the context of colonialism, the oppression of women and the denial of Indigenous sovereignty, Karen Stote argues that this coercive sterilization must be considered in relation to the larger goals of Indian policy — to gain access to Indigenous lands and resources while reducing the numbers of those to whom the federal government has obligations. Stote also contends that, in accordance with the original meaning of the term, this sterilization should be understood as an act of genocide, and she explores the ways Canada has managed to avoid this charge. 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It includes a range of formats, from sharply framed book reviews and equally pointed polemics and op-eds to more formal essays designed to reach both scholarly and popular audiences. The selection also represents the broad range of topics addressed in Churchill’s scholarship, including the fallacies of archeological and anthropological orthodoxy such as the insistence of “cannibalogists” that American Indians were traditionally maneaters, Hollywood’s cinematic degradations of native people, questions of American Indian identity, the historical and ongoing genocide of North America’s native peoples, and the systematic distortion of the political and legal history of U.S.-Indian relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLess typical of Churchill’s oeuvre are the essays commemorating Cherokee anthropologist Robert K. 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Articulating an Indian perspective, he argues forcefully and bluntly on behalf of the positions he represents.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Marjorie K. McIntosh, Distinguished Professor of History, University of Colorado at Boulder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Ward Churchill is important. I mean, Noam Chomsky, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM1MzI3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/emma-goldman\" title=\"Emma Goldman\"\u003eEmma Goldman\u003c\/a\u003e important.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eMaximum Rock ’n’ Roll\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Contributors:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWard Churchill (Keetoowah Cherokee) was, until moving to Atlanta in 2012, a member of the leadership council of Colorado AIM. 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Among his two dozen books are the award-winning Agents of Repression (1988, 2002), Fantasies of the Master Race (1992, 1998), Struggle for the Land (1993, 2002), and On the Justice of Roosting Chickens (2003), as well as The COINTELPRO Papers (1990, 2002), A Little Matter of Genocide (1997), Acts of Rebellion (2003), and Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBarbara Alice Mann (Ohio Bear Clan Seneca) is a PhD scholar and associate professor in the Honors College of the University of Toledo, in Toledo, Ohio. She has authored thirteen books, including the internationally acclaimed Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas (2001), George Washington’s War on Native America (2005), Daughters of Mother Earth (2006, released in paperback as Make a Beautiful Way, 2008), and The Tainted Gift (2009), on the deliberate spread of disease to Natives by settlers as a land-clearing tactic. 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The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz\" title=\"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\"\u003eRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003c\/a\u003e offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. 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Accessibly written and revelatory, “All the Real Indians Died Off” challenges readers to rethink what they have been taught about Native Americans and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Dunbar-Ortiz and Gilio-Whitaker admirably aim to explode popular, damaging, and inherently limiting myths about Native Americans, continuing the work begun in Dunbar-Ortiz’s well-received An \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/an-indigenous-peoples-history-of-the-united-states\" title=\"Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\"\u003eIndigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\u003c\/a\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“‘All the Real Indians Died Off’ And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans offers a much-needed and excellent introduction to American Indian history and contemporary life for a broad audience.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Against the Current\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Dina Gilio-Whitaker\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-0807062654\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 224 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Beacon Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175258075229,"sku":"9780807062654","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/alltherealindians.jpg?v=1654988084"},{"product_id":"the-zapatistas-dignified-rage","title":"The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor over two decades, Mexico’s Zapatista indigenous movement has stood as a beacon of hope for activists around the world working against economic exploitation and government oppression. Subcommander Marcos was their military leader and spokesperson, a poetic advocate who was, for many, almost indistinguishable from the movement he championed. On May 25, 2014, in the town of La Realidad, deep in the Zapatistas’ heartland, Subcommander Marcos delivered a speech before thousands of supporters in which he declared that he would henceforth “cease to exist,” a change that made way for the movement’s indigenous members to assume a more prominent role.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find that speech in \u003cem\u003eThe Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage\u003c\/em\u003e, along with fourteen others he gave between the end of the “Other Campaign” in 2007 and his farewell announcement in 2014. While he made fewer public appearances during this period, he simultaneously increased the depth of his analysis. Collected here in English translation for the first time, these talks include some of his most explicit, detailed, and inspiring criticisms of capitalism, political parties, vanguards, electoral democracy, gender and racial discrimination, disingenuous solidarity, and much more. While others have voiced similar criticisms, Marcos was exceptional for also being a charismatic representative and spokesperson for a globally relevant social movement made up of tens of thousands of people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSubcommander Marcos \u003c\/strong\u003ewas the spokesperson for the Zapatistas from 1994 to 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNick Henck \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor at Keio University (Japan) and has written extensively on Subcommander Marcos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHenry Gales \u003c\/strong\u003eis a freelance translator living in Mexico City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Subcommander Marcos\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Nick Henck\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849352925\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 280 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175271870557,"sku":"9781849352925","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/zapatistasdignifiedrage.jpg?v=1654988148"},{"product_id":"autonomy-is-in-our-hearts-zapatista-autonomous-government-through-the-lens-of-the-tsotsil-language","title":"Autonomy Is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Zapatista uprising on New Year’s Day 1994, the EZLN communities of Chiapas began the slow process of creating a system of autonomous government that would bring their call for freedom, justice, and democracy from word to reality. \u003cem\u003eAutonomy Is in Our Hearts \u003c\/em\u003eanalyzes this long and arduous process on its own terms, using the conceptual language of Tsotsil, a Mayan language indigenous to the highland Zapatista communities of Chiapas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe words “Freedom,” “Justice,” and “Democracy” emblazoned on the Zapatista flags are only approximations of the aspirations articulated in the six indigenous languages spoken by the Zapatista communities. They are rough translations of concepts such as ichbail ta muk’ or “mutual recognition and respect among equal persons or peoples,” a’mtel or “collective work done for the good of a community” and lekil kuxlejal or “the life that is good for everyone.” \u003cem\u003eAutonomy Is in Our Hearts \u003c\/em\u003eprovides a fresh perspective on the Zapatistas and a deep engagement with the daily realities of Zapatista autonomous government. Simultaneously an exposition of Tsotsil philosophy and a detailed account of Zapatista governance structures, this book is an indispensable commentary on the Zapatista movement of today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDylan Eldredge Fitzwater has encountered the Zapatistas as a human rights observer, a participant in several international gatherings, and as a student at the Zapatista language school in Oventik. He currently lives in Portland, OR, and works at Burgerville, a regional Oregon fast-food chain, where he is an organizer for the Burgerville Workers Union, an affiliate of the Industrial Workers of the World.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohn P. Clark is an eco-communitarian anarchist theorist and activist. He lives and works in New Orleans, where his family has been for twelve generations. He is Director of La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology, which is located on Bayou La Terre, in the forest of coastal Mississippi. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, most recently \u003cem\u003eThe Tragedy of Common Sense\u003c\/em\u003e. He writes a column, “Imagined Ecologies,” for the journal \u003cem\u003eCapitalism Nature Socialism\u003c\/em\u003e, and edits the cyberjournal \u003cem\u003ePsychic Swamp: The Surregional Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He was formerly Curtin Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a refreshing book. Written with the humility of the learner, or the absence of the arrogant knower, the Zapatista dictum to ‘command obeying’ becomes to ‘know learning.’” Marisol de la Cadena, author of \u003cem\u003eEarth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAutonomy Is in Our Hearts \u003c\/em\u003eis perhaps the most important book you can read on the Zapatista movement in Chiapas today. It stands out from the rest of the Anglophone literature in that it demonstrates, with great sensitivity, how a dialectic between traditional culture and institutions and emerging revolutionary and regenerative forces can play a crucial role in liberatory social transformation. It shows us what we can learn from the indigenous people of Chiapas about a politics of community, care, and mutual aid, and—to use a word that they themselves use so much—about a politics of heart. A great strength of the work is that the author is a very good listener. He allows the people of Chiapas to tell their own story largely in their own words, and with their own distinctive voice.” John P. Clark, from the Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAutonomy Is in Our Hearts \u003c\/em\u003etakes us step by step through the first two grades of the Zapatistas’ international primary school in politics called the escuelita, and carefully describes the ongoing revolution of everyday life in the autonomous municipalities of Chiapas. Most importantly, this book studies the Zapatistas in their own language. In the syntax and semantics of precolonial languages are encoded the seeds and harvest of a post-capitalist present and future. If, as the Zapatistas say, ‘the word is our weapon,’ then this book is a glimpse into an armory for decolonization.” Quincy Saul, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eMaroon the Implacable \u003c\/em\u003eand member of the East Coast Chiapas Solidarity Committee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-62963-580-4\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 224 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175297200221,"sku":"9781629635804","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/autonomy_is_in_our_hearts.jpg?v=1654988345"},{"product_id":"fighting-for-a-hand-to-hold-confronting-medical-colonialism-against-indigenous-children-in-canada","title":"Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn exploration of anti-Indigenous systemic racism in Canadian health care, medical violence inflicted upon Indigenous children, and the medical establishment’s role in colonial genocide.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nLaunched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government’s practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. By focusing on the structural drivers of the social determinants of health, this book serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec, and demonstrates that inequalities in health care follow the fault lines of societal injustices. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFighting for A Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the Canadian medical establishment’s role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous Peoples — colonial genocide. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with often-disregarded crimes committed against and medical violence inflicted upon Indigenous children across the country for more than a century and a half: fomented smallpox epidemics and avoidable tuberculosis deaths; experiments and abuse in residential schools, Indian Hospitals, reserves, and communities; forced sterilization; child abduction and disappearances.  This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of a pervasive culture of systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system— and in capitalist settler society at large. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShaheen-Hussain’s unique perspective combines his experience as a frontline pediatrician with his long-standing involvement in anti-authoritarian social justice movements. Sparked by the indifference and callousness of those in power, this book draws on the innovative work of Indigenous scholars and activists to conclude that a broader decolonization struggle calling for reparations, restitution (including land reclamation), and self-determination for Indigenous Peoples is critical to achieve reconciliation in Canada. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFighting for A Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e is part of McGill-Queen's University Press's Indigenous and Northern Series. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll author royalties from sales of this book will be redirected to groups and initiatives that support Indigenous self-determination, and that are concerned with the health and wellness of Indigenous children and youth: Eagle Spirit Science Futures camp, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund, Minnie’s Hope Social Pediatric Centre, Mohawk Language Custodian Association, and Native Women's Shelter of Montreal. Proceeds from hand sales at public events will go to Indigenous land-defence initiatives and resurgence movements. Lux Éditeur will publish a French translation of the book in early 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor more infomation about this title see \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/fightingforahandtohold.ca\"\u003efightingforahandtohold.ca\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The memories of the Inuit children I attended as a young interpreter at the Montreal Children's Hospital came flooding back to me, the sad face of a child looking up at me. Nurses informed me that he was not speaking, but I immediately recognized the fear in his face, in his eyes. As soon as I spoke to him in Inuktitut, he looked at me in disbelief, but in the next moment his tears began to roll and I could only sound out the Inuit sound of love, 'mmph', and to tell him it will be alright, and that his mom or a relative would be arriving soon. I felt for that child, and as he began to relax and open up, we had a lovely conversation in Inuktitut. He did not feel so alone in this strange place he had just been deposited on, as if he was cargo. To this day, I still feel for him. Throughout all these years, we all have been made to believe that this is how things should work. It was one of those things we stayed quiet about for decades. But no longer. We Inuit, we are a people. We love our children. \u003cem\u003eFighting For A Hand To Hold -- Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e, helps us understand the issues of colonization in the medical system that has vexed us as Indigenous peoples. Today, we Inuit are working to bring our health back to our communities.  Healthy communities and families mean self-governance to us and the de-colonization process will happen.\" \u003cstrong\u003eLisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk, M.A., vice-president international affairs, Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e, Samir Shaheen-Hussain addresses different aspects of the healthcare system offered to indigenous people, always stressing that this is a field strongly marked by colonial power relations, historically perpetuated by the Canadian state. Starting from a harsh critique of the current health policies dispensed to indigenous children and their families, the book takes us to a profound reflection on how medical colonialism and systemic racism perpetuate themselves, and how movements for sovereignty and decolonial thinking are key pieces in changing diverse paradigms. The book shows that important changes in the health system offered to indigenous peoples have not yet been executed, which prevents an effective transformation of the healthcare system. This mismatch between the discourses and the reality is in tune with the maintenance of the colonial posture in relation to indigenous peoples is still in force in the Canadian State. While grounded firmly in the academic literature, the author uses language that will be easily accessible to a general audience and will incite the reader to engage in a profound examination of Canada's history and its relationship with Indigenous peoples. A moving and necessary book. A must-read for all who are interested in one of the most macabre faces of medical colonialism: its genocidal and eugenicist face.\" \u003cstrong\u003eQuebec Native Women (Femmes Autochtones du Québec)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Heartbroken. This is how I feel after reading \u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e. It hurts to read about children suffering. Shaheen-Hussain's book does not relieve that pain. Yet his words hold the potential to help us create broader healing, if his insights are heeded.\" \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Borrows, Canada Research Chair in indigenous Law, University of \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e School\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A sick child is transported by plane to a hospital 1000 kilometres away \u003cem\u003ealone and without a parent to accompany the child\u003c\/em\u003e, a state practice without pity. No parent can read this and not feel a sharp pain yet so many managed to defend the practice even when the mothers of the children who died alone en route publicly grieved that they were never able to give comfort to their dying children. This is the racial terror that was aimed at Indigenous peoples in the province of Quebec. This book tells the story of the fight to change what so clearly springs from the annihilative impulse at the heart of settler colonialism. What can we learn from this book about the struggle to abolish the practice? This practice was no mere discriminatory residue of an old colonial system long gone. Instead it is a telling sign of an ongoing settler colonialism, one deeply structured to \"disappear Indians\"  and to declare Indigenous lives as worth less than white ones. Samir Shaheen-Hussain's clear-eyed account reminds us that we can change but not until we recognize this ugly truth.\" \u003cstrong\u003eSherene H. Razack, Distinguished Professor and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies, UCLA. Author of \u003cem\u003eDying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eFighting For A Hand To Hold - Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain exposes the social, cultural, and historical structures that allow medical colonialism to hide in plain sight as it harms generations of Indigenous children and their families.  It is an unflinching analysis that should be required reading in every medical school in the country.\" \u003cstrong\u003eMaureen Lux. Professor and Chair, History Department, Brock University; author of \u003cem\u003eSeparate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Samir Shaheen-Hussain's \u003cem\u003eFighting For A Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing indictment of medical colonialism in Canada. This must-read book shatters the myth of universal and equitable healthcare as a pillar of this country's benevolent social democracy and, instead, forcefully exposes the active involvement of the medical system in upholding historic and ongoing settler-colonial power.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" title=\"Harsha Walia\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eUndoing Border Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e denounces with ferocity the utterly inhuman, decades-long practice of separating children from their families during emergency medevacs in northern and remote regions of Quebec. In a precise, compelling, and well-documented narrative, Samir Shaheen-Hussain challenges our collective understanding of systemic racism and social determinants of health applied to Indigenous communities most dependent on medevac airlifts and most impacted by the non-accompaniment rule. An eye-opening, tough, and essential book.\" \u003cstrong\u003eDr Joanne Liu, pediatric emergency physician and former international president of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A necessary and sobering read. Shaheen-Hussain's text masterfully exposes the ways in which the logics of settler colonialism and genocide are structurally embedded into Canada's healthcare system. It illuminates how egregious racial violence takes place -- \u003cem\u003ein plain sight \u003c\/em\u003e-- under the direction of a publicly-funded institution that is broadly understood, to most Canadians, as a social good. The book, meticulously researched, firmly centers Canada's medical system as a crucial site for ongoing anti-colonial struggle.\" \u003cstrong\u003eRobyn Maynard, author of \u003cem\u003ePolicing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from slavery to the present\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"An astonishing book. It begins with the anguished story of Cree and Inuit children from northern Quebec travelling alone by air, sick or injured, panic-stricken, to hospitals in the south, and becomes one of the most moving, ferocious, historically comprehensive narratives of medical colonialism and indigenous cultural genocide that I have ever read. It's a stunning piece of work. When I finally put it down, I was gasping ... an absolute tour-de-force.\" \u003cstrong\u003eStephen Lewis, Co-director \u003cem\u003eAIDS-Free World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Its clever framing, detailed research and frequent critical gems put \u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e in the very good company of a small group of stellar books and articles about Indigenous health issues, all of them manifestos for change. It's a passionate and informed report from the medical frontlines that exposes some of the social determinants and racial subtexts that prevent us from improving and safe-guarding the lives of Indigenous peoples and other minorities in Canada.\" \u003cstrong\u003eGary Geddes, author of \u003cem\u003eMedicine Unbundled: A Journey Through the Minefields  of Indigenous Health Care\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Shaheen-Hussain argues that genuine reconciliation can't occur without reparations and restitution. Besides disclosure and acknowledgement of the harm done, this means a genuine demonstration of sorrow and regret, a promise to never do harm again, and action that ensures the harm will not be repeated. This book should be read by anyone who wants to meaningfully enter into reconciliation with Indigenous people.\" \u003cstrong\u003eMarie Wadden, author of \u003cem\u003eWhere the Pavement Ends: Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author and Contributors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSamir Shaheen-Hussain has been involved in social justice movements – including Indigenous solidarity, anti-police brutality and migrant-justice organizing – for almost two decades. He is a member of the Caring for Social Justice Collective, and has written or co-written several pieces about state violence and health care over the years. 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As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches to environmental justice activism and policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout 2016, the Standing Rock protest put a national spotlight on Indigenous activists, but it also underscored how little Americans know about the longtime historical tensions between Native peoples and the mainstream environmental movement. Ultimately, she argues, modern environmentalists must look to the history of Indigenous resistance for wisdom and inspiration in our common fight for a just and sustainable future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Dina Gilio-Whitaker\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780807028360\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Beacon Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175307030621,"sku":"9780807028360","price":21.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/aslongasthegrassgrows.jpg?v=1654988423"},{"product_id":"the-politics-of-the-blockade","title":"The Politics of the Blockade","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis pamphlet contains two essays on antifascist theory and practice within settler-colonial societies, with a specific focus on Indigenous-settler solidarity praxis (written from an antifascist settler perspective) in what is presently called Canada. Both essays build on the premise that antifascist organizing is engaged in a three-way fight against the two pillars of settler-colonial hegemony: liberalism (bourgeois democracy) and the forces of white supremacy (today realized in insurgent far-right and fascist movements). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first essay, “We Settlers Face a Choice: Decolonization or White Supremacy,” Shaw examines the white supremacist aspects of settler-colonialism embedded in liberalism’s supposed “rule of law.” He concludes that antifascists should support Indigenous self-determination, for fascism in settler states cannot be defeated without overthrowing the conditions that make it possible: capitalism and settler-colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second essay, “The Politics of the Blockade,” considers the politics of the Indigenous-settler solidarity movements in support of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs and land defenders in February 2020. Shaw proposes that there is a split between reformist and militant tendencies within the movement, and on this basis, he argues that the suppression of the blockades through injunctions tends to push militant tendencies back toward reformist-led organizations and actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote that this pamphlet is currently available free of charge when one purchased Devin Zane Shaw's book \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/philosophy-antifascism-punching-nazis-and-fighting-white-supremacy\"\u003eThe Philosophy of Antifascism\u003c\/a\u003e (currently available for pre-order from leftwingbooks.net).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDevin Zane Shaw teaches philosophy at Douglas College, British Columbia. He is author of several books, including \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy of Antifascism: Punching Nazis and Fighting White Supremacy \u003c\/em\u003e(Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Devin Zane Shaw\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Saddle-stitched pamphlet\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-989701-02-7\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 28 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: LeftWingBooks\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175307653213,"sku":"9781989701027","price":4.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/blockades_cover1.jpg?v=1654988426"},{"product_id":"mohawk-interruptus-political-life-across-the-borders-of-settler-states","title":"Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMohawk Interruptus \u003c\/em\u003eis a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism. The Kahnawà:ke Mohawks are part of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy. Like many Iroquois peoples, they insist on the integrity of Haudenosaunee governance and refuse American or Canadian citizenship. Audra Simpson thinks through this politics of refusal, which stands in stark contrast to the politics of cultural recognition. Tracing the implications of refusal, Simpson argues that one sovereign political order can exist nested within a sovereign state, albeit with enormous tension around issues of jurisdiction and legitimacy. Finally, Simpson critiques anthropologists and political scientists, whom, she argues, have too readily accepted the assumption that the colonial project is complete. Belying that notion, Mohawk Interruptus calls for and demonstrates more robust and evenhanded forms of inquiry into indigenous politics in the teeth of settler governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAudra Simpson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is a coeditor, with Andrea Smith, of \u003cem\u003eTheorizing Native Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, also published by Duke University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In her brilliant study of Kahnawà:ke, a Mohawk reserve outside Montréal, anthropologist Simpson rejects this dominant image of indigenous nationhood on the brink and ‘starts with a grounded refusal, not a precipice.’ The author problematizes long-standing assumptions to position the actions of the Kahnawà:ke nation as that of refusal, a valid alternative to political recognition. Through in-depth ethnographic research, Simpson identifies what is important to the community, as evidenced by her discussion of important intellectual Louis Hall, whose analysis of Mohawk nationhood has deeply influenced Haudenosaunee people, yet has been largely ignored by scholars. . . . Such incisive analysis promises that this study will be influential and widely read. . . . Essential. All levels\/libraries.” K. L. Ackley, \u003cem\u003eChoice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Simpson accomplishes what she set out to do in this text, namely to offer a critical evaluation of settler colonialism as experienced by Kahnawà:ke Mohawk. Her book is beautifully written: her prose is elegant, and she interweaves ethnographic research with political history and theory to build her argument. … Simpson enhances our understanding of how a community of people struggle to understand, and why they must continually fight for, their political independence after centuries of settler colonialism.” Ruth Burgett Jolie, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“[A]n essential read for any study of settler colonialism, native\/indigenous\/first-nation studies, or the study of sovereignty, and also stands on its own as an important narrative of North America’s ongoing colonial history.” Ian Kalman, Comparative Studies in Society and History\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mohawk Interruptus deftly interrogates how settler colonialism and anthropological practice in the United States and Canada have circumscribed Iroquoian (Haudenosaunee) identities—and Mohawk identities, in particular—in ways that ignore contested interpretations of indigeneity and serve to erase indigenous nationhood. … A major takeaway from Simpson’s account is that anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and those of us in Native American studies need to theorize and examine how people experience and feel membership, citizenship, and nationhood while not replicating colonial projects of erasure in our scholarly research and writing.\" Lisa K. Neuman, American Ethnologist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“[A] tour de force exploration of contemporary Kahnawa:ke political life. . . . In its examination and sustained critique of the settler colonialism and the politics of nationhood, recognition, and refusal, and its vision of more productive and inclusive understandings of Kahnawa:ke citizenship, Mohawk Interruptus joins some of the most provocative and cutting-edge work taking place in Native\/indigenous studies today. We would be wise to heed its challenge to develop similarly rigorous and critical studies of indigenous self-determination throughout the hemisphere, in whatever forms they might take.” Kirby Brown, American Indian Culture and Research Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mohawk Interruptus, was recently voted 'Best First Book Published in 2014' by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and after reading it I can understand why.... The complexities of Indigenous life in Mohawk Interruptus are given neither the security of romanticization nor the comfort of the scholarly pulpit.\" Brendan Hokowhitu, Native American and Indigenous Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rather than merely a book of and for anthropology, then, Mohawk Interruptus calls upon its reader to rethink action and collectivity through a different modality than the current political registers presume. Refusal, both as a political theoretical concept and as a quotidian shared practice, may allow a continued, powerful, and even potentially joyful relationship to state power.\" Kennan Ferguson, \u003cem\u003eTheory \u0026amp; Event\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Simpson] offers a highly nuanced and theoretically sophisticated ethnographical study illustrating the kinds of critical research questions insider researchers can ask that lead to new understandings and challenge the orthodoxy. Simpson has made a significant contribution as an insider researcher, an Indigenous studies scholar, an anthropologist, that highlights the exciting new era of Indigenous research we have entered.\" Robert Alexander Innes, \u003cem\u003eJournal of Colonialism \u0026amp; Colonial History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I expect Mohawk Interruptus will assert its place in the Haudenosaunee canon, which will compel subsequent scholars to take a closer look at how Indigenous communities in general struggle to maintain their political integrity under the pressure of a variety of colonially created borders and the laws that enforce them over the sovereign rights of others.\" David Martínez, \u003cem\u003eWicazo Sa Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Mohawk Interruptus's] awards are well deserved, as the book provides insights into some aspects of life for indigenous peoples in a settler colony that have thus far received scant analysis.\" Claudia B. Haake, \u003cem\u003eAustralasian Journal of American Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mohawk Interruptus is a timely and fascinating text. Simpson’s analysis will be of great interest to the readers of AWG, to human geographers, and to anyone who wishes to understand how sovereignty is elaborated in the midst of settler colonialism.\" Kevin Gould, \u003cem\u003eArab World Geographer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This marvelous book is a searing exposition of a Kahnawà:ke Mohawk subjectivity hardened in opposition to social 'facts' taken for granted by millions in settler societies. . . . Readers will appreciate Simpson’s passionately argued and provocative thesis, in-depth and intimate ethnographic descriptions, incisive prose, and iconoclastic engagements with anthropological history and political theory.\" Nicholas Copeland, \u003cem\u003eNorth American Dialogue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A searing analysis.” David Stirrup, Wasafiri\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mohawk Interruptus is Audra Simpson`s bold challenge to the academic apprehension of the Iroquois. She has succeeded brilliantly. This book is now the authoritative history of Kahnawà:ke and a powerful statement that recasts our people and redefines how research on Indigenous peoples should be done. This is a long-awaited book by the most intelligent, passionate and incisive of Iroquois intellectuals. It makes me proud to be from Kahnawà:ke and deeply impresses me as a scholar.\" Taiaiake Alfred (Kahnawà:ke Mohawk), Professor of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Few other works on contemporary Native American community politics are as wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated as Mohawk Interruptus. By examining many competing but linked understandings of Mohawk national identity, Audra Simpson exposes a uniquely Indigenous and Iroquoian conception of community that transcends national and ethnographic prescriptions of unitary and fixed social identities.\" Ned Blackhawk, author of \u003cem\u003eViolence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This brilliant ethnographic and political study of how the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke live and enact their sovereign nationhood and refuse incorporation is a masterpiece. It challenges and transforms the way Indigenous politics is studied in Anthropology and Political Science and deserves the widest possible readership.\" James Tully, author of \u003cem\u003ePublic Philosophy in a New Key, Two Volumes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175324823645,"sku":"9780822356554","price":37.31,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/mohawkinterruptus.jpg?v=1654988564"},{"product_id":"distorted-descent-white-claims-to-indigenous-identity","title":"Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDistorted Descent \u003c\/em\u003eexamines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined “Indigenous” identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi-generational efforts to reconnect that occur in response. Rather, it is about white, French-descendant people discovering an Indigenous ancestor born 300 to 375 years ago through genealogy and using that ancestor as the sole basis for an eventual shift into an “Indigenous” identity today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter setting out the most common genealogical practices that facilitate race shifting, Leroux examines two of the most prominent self-identified “Indigenous” organizations currently operating in Quebec. Both organizations have their origins in committed opposition to Indigenous land and territorial negotiations, and both encourage the use of suspect genealogical practices. Distorted Descent brings to light to how these claims to an “Indigenous” identity are then used politically to oppose actual, living Indigenous peoples, exposing along the way the shifting politics of whiteness, white settler colonialism, and white supremacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor more information on the rise of the so-called ‘Eastern Metis’ in the eastern provinces and in New England, including a storymap, court documents, and research materials, visit the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.raceshifting.com\/\"\u003eRaceshifting\u003c\/a\u003e website, created by Unwritten Histories Digital Consulting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eDistorted Descent \u003c\/em\u003eis a brave, original piece of scholarship, offered in the context of a politically sensitive and socially controversial subject of Indigenous identity. His research exposes the extent to which white settler colonialism undermines Indigenous rights through the theft of Indigenous identity. It’s a real wake-up call.” Dr. Pamela Palmater, Chair in Indigenous Governance, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Leroux’s absolutely needed and timely study unpacks the contemporary practice of white settlers self-Indigenizing while also highlighting how this process actively harms Indigenous peoples and uplifts whiteness.”  Jenny Ferguson, \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDarryl Leroux is associate professor in the Department of Social Justice and Community Studies at Saint Mary’s University in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). He has been working on the dynamics of racism and colonialism among fellow French descendants for nearly two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Darryl Leroux\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-0-88755-846-7\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 296 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: University of Manitoba Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Manitoba Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175326494813,"sku":"9780887558467","price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/distorteddescent.jpg?v=1654988579"},{"product_id":"our-history-is-the-future-standing-rock-versus-the-dakota-access-pipeline-and-the-long-tradition-of-indigenous-resistance","title":"Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century. Water Protectors knew this battle for native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anticolonial struggle would continue. In \u003cem\u003eOur History Is the Future\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjEifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/nick-estes\" title=\"Nick Estes\"\u003eNick Estes\u003c\/a\u003e traces traditions of Indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement. \u003cem\u003eOur History Is the Future \u003c\/em\u003eis at once a work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Embedded in the centuries-long struggle for Indigenous liberation resides our best hope for a safe and just future for everyone on this planet. Few events embody that truth as clearly as the resistance at Standing Rock, and the many deep currents that converged there. In this powerful blend of personal and historical narrative, Nick Estes skillfully weaves together transformative stories of resistance from these front lines, never losing sight of their enormous stakes. A major contribution.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTEifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/naomi-klein\" title=\"Naomi Klein\"\u003eNaomi Klein\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThis Changes Everything\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Reading \u003cem\u003eOur History Is the Future \u003c\/em\u003eis like standing in the middle of camp again. During the Standing Rock uprising, we witnessed what our ancestors always prayed for—making their dreams a reality.” Bobbi Jean Three Legs, leader of the Standing Rock Youth Runners\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eOur History Is the Future \u003c\/em\u003ehistorian Nick Estes tells a spellbinding story of the 10 month Indigenous resistance at Standing Rock in 2016, animating the lives and characters of the leaders and organizers, emphasizing the powerful leadership of the women. Alone this would be a brilliant analysis of one of the most significant social movements of this century. But embedded in the story and inseparable from it is the centuries long history of the Oceti Sakowin’ resistance to United States’ genocidal wars and colonial institutions. And woven into these entwined stories of Indigenous resistance is the true history of the United States as a colonialist state and a global history of European colonialism. This book is a jewel—history and analysis that reads like the best poetry—certain to be a classic work as well as a study guide for continued and accelerated resistance.” Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author of \u003cem\u003eAn \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/an-indigenous-peoples-history-of-the-united-states\" title=\"Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\"\u003eIndigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When state violence against peaceful protest at Standing Rock became part of the national consciousness, many noticed Native people for the first time—again. \u003cem\u003eOur History Is the Future\u003c\/em\u003e is necessary reading, documenting how Native resistance is met with settler erasure: an outcome shaped by land, resources, and the juggernaut of capitalism. Estes has written a powerful history of Seven Fires resolve that demonstrates how Standing Rock is the outcome of history and the beginning of the future.” Louise Erdrich, author of the National Book Award winner \u003cem\u003eThe Round House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A touching and necessary manifesto and history featuring firsthand accounts of the recent Indigenous uprising against powerful oil companies … With an urgent voice, Estes reminds us that the greed of private corporations must never be allowed to endanger the health of the majority. An important read about Indigenous protesters fighting to protect their ancestral land and uphold their historic values of clean land and water for all humans.” \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eOur History Is the Future \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a first draft of history that will serve as the last word for years to come. Combining the literary skill of the poet, the rich contextual knowledge of the historian, and the sharp edge of experience, Nick Estes has crafted a powerful account of the Standing Rock resistance, situating it in a struggle lodged deep in time and across the full reach of global solidarities.” Philip J. Deloria, author of \u003cem\u003ePlaying Indian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eOur History Is the Future \u003c\/em\u003ebrings the history of Native American anti-imperialism to the center of the study of racial capitalism while renewing the focus on political economy in Indigenous Studies; it brings the experience of the camp at Standing Rock to the study of history, and deep learning to the ongoing fight for sovereignty; it is a book by a young scholar that draws brilliantly on the wisdom of centuries of struggle. 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A collection of his writings was long overdue.” Robert Graham, editor of \u003cem\u003eAnarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Bas Umali gives us an in-depth explanation of the decentralized struggle for autonomy in the Philippines. He offers not just a reconstruction of the history, but also an example of what anarchists can do for building alternative political structures. ‘Archipelago’ is fertile.” Keisuke Narita, Irregular Rhythm Asylum, Tokyo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The important work of assembling the vocabulary of libertarian socialism, the regional history of failed Maoism, the persistence of indigenous anti-colonial action, and the future potential for a decentralized federation of citizen councils in the Philippines is masterfully done by Bas Umali. This book belongs in every Southeast Asian anti-capitalist toolkit.” Mark Mason, US domestic and foreign policy analyst\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBas Umali is a longtime organizer living in Metro Manila. He has been involved with digital and physical infoshops, mobile education initiatives, climate crises campaigns, natural disaster relief programs, and bringing solar technology to marginalized communities. Bas has worked for an NGO concerned with rainforest rehabilitation and driven Grab and Uber vehicles. Today, he provides technical assistance to marginalized fisherfolk and dreams of settling in the countryside with his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e is an author, translator, and union activist. He has published widely in English and German. 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