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Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in May 2021

May was the deadliest month of 2021 yet, with at least 10 people being killed or dying through police actions
Police killings in May, 2021.

Canadian police have continued their bloody ways through May 2021, with at least 10 people being killed or dying through police actions during the month, the largest number for any month yet this year. So far in 2021, at minimum 37 people have been killed by Canadian police or died through police actions. This includes at least six deaths through police interactions in April and five in March.

Call for Pitches

TMX & Resistance

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Call for Editor -- EXTENDED!

Indigenous editor, short-term contract, TMX pipeline series

Deadline extended to June 21st!

The Media Co-op (www.mediacoop.ca) is looking to hire an experienced Indigenous editor for a short-term project focused on the struggle against the Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline (TMX).

Climate justice organizing within the labour movement

Talking Radical Radio
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1055299030-scott-neigh-talking-radical-climate-justice-organizing-within-the-labour-movement.mp3

Listen to the interview using the audio player below!

Vancouver, Anti-Asian Hate Crime Capital of North America

With some calling the coronavirus “the Chinese virus” and blaming Asians for just about anything and everything, anti-Asian hate crimes in Vancouver spiked to an eightfold increase in 2020 compared to 2019. Many more anti-Asian hate crimes incidents are believed unreported
Vancouver, BC, has a population of about 700,000, with around 42% Asian. Dubbed to be “the most Asian city outside Asia,” Vancouver’s anti-Asian hate crimes are pervasive and are making records.
 
In Natalie Obiko Pearson’s Bloomberg article, This Is the Anti-Asian Hate Crime Capital of North America, Vancouver is called “The kind of place that should be immune to a rise in pandemic-fueled racism.”
 

ANALYSIS: Policing is Racist and Colonial Violence

Criminalizing the Families of Craig McDougall and Colten Boushie
Police racism and colonialism.

Racism and policing have gone hand and hand in the Canadian context—from the historical settler colonial violence of the RCMP through contemporary practices, from carding and surveillance to assaults upon racialized people and communities.

A new wave of anti-ableist and anti-eugenics organizing in Canada

Talking Radical Radio
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1050826993-scott-neigh-talking-radical-a-new-wave-of-anti-ableist-and-anti-eugenics-organizing-in-canada.mp3

Listen to the interview using the audio player below!

Which side is Manitoba Metis Federation President David Chartrand on?

Chartrand has once again backed the settler colonial state rather than listening to his own people, write Emelia Fournier and Cam Cannon

This article was first published by Winnipeg Police Cause Harm and is published here as part of a co-publication collaboration.

Manitoba Metis Federation (MMF) President David Chartrand has once again backed the settler colonial state rather than listening to his own people.

A rare space for social movements to reflect and theorize

Talking Radical Radio
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1046855581-scott-neigh-talking-radical-a-rare-space-for-social-movements-to-reflect-and-theorize.mp3

Listen to the interview using the audio player below!

Kieran Hart, Sharmeen Khan, and Temóc Thania Vega are activists and organizers in Toronto. They are also on the editorial collective of Upping the Anti, a print publication that describes itself as “a journal of theory and action.” Scott Neigh interviews them about the importance of ideas and radical theory to struggles for justice and liberation, about the challenges of grassroots media-making, and about Upping the Anti.

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