This week @ rabble.ca: BeenRapedNeverReported becomes a movement
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07 Nov 2014
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The Jian Ghomeshi allegations of sexual abuse have rocked Canada and beyond. At rabble we have opened up dialogue about sexual abuse and rape culture, addressing topics from sexual assault law in Canada to what you can do to call out sexual harassment. You can find all of our coverage and join in the conversation here.
When Antonia Zerbisias tweeted support for the women accusing Jian Ghomeshi of sexual assault by revealing her own experience with sexual assault, she was not aware it would create a movement. In a rabble exclusive, she brings us the story of #BeenRapedNeverReported.
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Mainstream media may have declared Occupy dead, but rabble.ca begs to differ. In our new series, "Long Live Occupy," we look at how the activism cultivated by the Occupy movement has continued to sprout and grow across Canada and the world. You can read it here.
We're delighted to introduce our newest column, "Digital Freedom Update," a monthly column from OpenMedia looking at digital policy issues, including free expression, access to the Internet, and online privacy. Check out the first article, on free expression in our digitally connected era, published this week!
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This week's top news
Exit interview: Jim Sinclair talks past, present, and future of the labour movement
Outgoing President of the BC Federation of Labour gives some lessons for labour in these lean times.
By Ella Bedard
Long Live Occupy: Challenging white privilege in Occupy
Challenging the 1% takes individuals willing to challenge the privileges that characterize their social experiences. Did Occupy manage that?
By Salmaan Khan
Bill 18 passes: Ontario's minimum wage pegged to cost of living
Liberals make good on their election promise, but more is needed to bring workers out of poverty.
By Ella Bedard
English Canada! It's time to support Quebec's pipeline resistance.
Big Oil wants Quebec. But a grassroots resistance movement is forming against the pipelines. What can you do to help?
By David Gray-Donald
Jian Ghomeshi and the bystander effect
The Jian Ghomeshi allegations of sexual abuse have rocked Canada and beyond and lead to one big question: How did he get away with it for so long? Here's what you can do to call out sexual harassment.
By Julie LaLonde
Antonia Zerbisias: How #BeenRapedNeverReported became a movement
When Antonia Zerbisias tweeted support for the women accusing Jian Ghomeshi of sexual assault by revealing her own experience with sexual assault, she was not aware it would create a movement.
By Antonia Zerbisias
Toronto Election: The left has some work to do
What the heck happened in the Toronto election? Judy Rebick talks about what she saw happening and what the Left needs to do to regain voter confidence.
By Judy Rebick
PEI: An island without safe legal abortion
PEI is the only province in Canada that does not offer access to safe, legal abortion. Recently, it has become quite clear this is a result of political interferences. What can we do?
By Josie Baker
This week's top blogs
Can the Jian Ghomeshi allegations lead to real change?
So many of us benefit from the social hierarchy that supports harassment. How do we create a different environment?
By Meagan Perry
The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall: 25 years after demolition
In 1972 I spent a week in East and West Berlin, lurking in the ominous shadows of the Berlin Wall. Now, 25 years after its collapse, what if anything have we learned from its fall?
By Christopher Majka
Harper's record on climate change remains his biggest scandal
It seems like months ago, but it has only been three days since the IPCC report on climate change called for an end to fossil fuels by mid-century. Canada continues to do very little toward that end.
By Karl Nerenberg
Kinder Morgan standoff: Standing with the Caretakers and residents of Burnaby Mountain
Legal proceedings start Wednesday for five people who have been served an injunction and a $5.6-million lawsuit by Kinder Morgan.
By Brad Hornick
Five ways you can support the Kinder Morgan pipeline blockade
How we react to the Kinder Morgan blockade is critical in setting a precedent for how we react to Harper's dirty energy and pipeline agenda across the country.
By Brigette DePape
Ecological literacy critical to tomorrow's children
Just as literacy was needed when the scientific revolution began to change the shape of reality in the 17th century, our children will need to learn to "read" the world in different ways.
By Lizanne Foster
This week's top columns
Harper Knows Best: The social engineering of income-splitting
In his income-splitting tax benefit, Harper is proposing a regressive form of social engineering, using government tax policy to remake the country along the lines of Father Knows Best.
By Linda McQuaig
Ebola vaccine shows problems with the private drug industry
Canada's outstanding work to invent the world's most promising vaccine against Ebola perfectly epitomizes both the promise of public research, and the perverse incentives of the for-profit industry.
By Jim Stanford
Global movement of Internet users create a crowdsourced agenda for free expression
Internet users around the world have come together to shape a new agenda for how we share and collaborate online.
By Digital Freedom Update, Josh Tabish, Steve Anderson
Burnaby Mountain: Latest wall of opposition against tar sands
In the face of unrelenting corporate development and encroachment onto Indigenous territories, grassroots movements are persistently mobilizing against the various tentacles of the tar sands industry.
By Harsha Walia
Privatization: New ways of profiting at public expense
In the 1980s governments began selling off public assets to private corporations, in a practice called privatization. It should have been called theft, since it amounted to stealing from the public.
By Duncan Cameron
A number is never just a number: Minimum wage mythology
Economists found no statistically significant relationship between a higher minimum wage and a negative labour market outcome between 1983 and 2012 -- dispelling long-standing minimum wage mythology.
By Hennessy's Index
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This week's top podcasts
Maya Jupiter on women, culture, and what it means to be hip-hop
The Chicana MC discusses the hypersexualization of women in hip-hop and what hip-hop means for transnational communities.
By Andrew Sayo, Charlene Sayo, Eirene Cloma
Bringing together Black students, scholars, and communities in Montreal
Rosalind Hampton talks about Community-University Talks, a group at McGill University supporting dialogue and collaboration among Black students, scholars, and communities in Montreal.
By Scott Neigh
Captive Revolution: A book launch with Nahla Abdo
The book launch for Captive Revolution, on Palestinian women's anti-colonial struggle within the Israeli prison system, was on Monday, November 3, 2014 in Toronto.
By Victoria Fenner
Putting a gender lens on municipal issues
City councils need to consider the particularities of women's lives, according to Ellen Woodsworth of Women Transforming Cities. Housing, transit, emergency preparedness all need a gender lens.
By Redeye Collective
Federal Court rejects government's request to delay reinstating refugee health care
On October 31, Judge Wyman Webb rejected the government's request to delay reinstating the Interim Federal Health Program, leaving Ottawa until November 4 to restore access to the benefits.
By John Bonnar
This week's top rabbletv
Watch: Russell Brand on Ottawa shootings: Who wins?
Have you watched Russell Brand's reaction to the Ottawa shootings? You should.
By rabble staff
This week's top books
Whodunit? Counterinsurgency and police violence in Zapatista territory
What happens when a detective novel moves beyond the regular narrative of police and criminal and the law, and looks at the political context? You get 'The Demands of the Dead'.
By Justin Podur
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Upcoming events
WinnipegChildcare2020 conference: From vision to action
ChildCare 2020 is the first national child-care policy conference in a decade and the fourth such conference in Canada's history.
By Childcare2020
HalifaxWaves of Change: Sustainable Food for All National Assembly
Hundreds of food leaders from across Canada will converge in Halifax November 13-16, 2014 for Waves of Change: Sustainable Food for All, Food Secure Canada's eighth National Assembly.
By Food Secure Canada
Toronto Global Citizenship & Equity Education Professional Network Forum
The GCEEPN is being created to mobilize learning communities who engage in global citizenship and equity education to build inclusive learning environments and effect positive social change.
By Centennial College
This week's top in cahoots
Can private sector companies meet public sector standards?
We know that profit is what business is about. And to the Chamber, the public sector is an opportunity for growth and revenue. But at what cost to the people of Ontario?
By Ontario Public Service Employees Union
Changes to 'right to refuse unsafe work' in the federal sector take effect
The new definition of 'danger' and other harmful changes to Canada Labour Code rules on health and safety brought about in Bill C-4 came into effect Oct. 31, 2014.
By Public Service Alliance of Canada
Income-splitting fails Canadian families
There are better ways to help Canadian families! The $2.4 billion, used wisely, could benefit a lot of people.
By Canadians for Tax Fairness
Active babble topics
What does "progressive" really mean?
By MegB
Bank of Canada Gov. says youth should consider working for free
By NS
Liberals investigation: Allegations of harassment of MPs on Parliament Hill
By NorthReport
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Supporting women facing abuse
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Poll
What do you think of Harper's income-splitting plan?
Stephen Harper wants to reward hardworking families! So here's $2 extra a day for child care, and income-splitting.
What do you think of Harper's income-splitting plan?
Choices It's just a "baby step" away from a flat tax! Harper is slowly getting his way. But won't this create fairness for families with one-earner family incomes? It doesn't take into account the nuances of households. It will only benefit already rich households! Just file this away under "Harper's regressive policy planning" yet again. Federal election: get here sooner. None of the above.Forward to a friend
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