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let's be comrades.
http://anything-everything.ghost.io/
pinned post!
Okay hi, I’m Graham. Grumpy Montrealer, imposter historian, lover of music, hater of capitalism. Will mostly be using this to share music recommendations. I send out a newsletter with a mixtape and some writing every month or so, if you’re interested:
anything-everything.ghost.io
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anything / everything
anything / everything
http://anything-everything.ghost.io
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Samir S-H
3 days ago
« Les rythmes agonaux qui hantent notre système de santé public » Voici la 1ère partie de ma dernière chronique Point de Vue dans l'édition papier
@ledevoir.com
de cette fin de semaine 🙏🏽 sources:
@emilienicolas.bsky.social
@iris-recherche.bsky.social
@enap.ca
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www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...
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Les rythmes agonaux
Comme projet de société, notre système de santé public ne doit laisser personne pour compte.
https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/932166/rythmes-agonaux
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NEW FEELING
6 days ago
New Feeling is five years old! To celebrate, we've refreshed our website & we're running a membership discount until the end of the year 🎶
www.newfeeling.ca/new-feeling-...
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Wrote a bit about PRAED Orchestra’s latest, ‘The Dictionary of Lost Meanings,’ for A Closer Listen. It’s a pretty wild fusion of Arabic urban pop and big-band free-jazz, and honestly just a thrilling ride.
acloserlisten.com/2025/11/01/p...
@acloserlisten.bsky.social
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PRAED Orchestra! ~ The Dictionary of Lost Meanings
For nearly two decades, Lebanese experimental musicians and composers Raed Yassin and Paed Conca have been developing a thrilling hybrid of Arabic working-class popular music and psych-adjacent fre…
https://acloserlisten.com/2025/11/01/praed-orchestra-the-dictionary-of-lost-meanings/
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“land Palestinians want for a state” is a hell of a way to put it
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Eman Abdelhadi
about 1 month ago
2 years of genocide. I mourn the dead, and I mourn the living. None of us will ever be the same, none of us should ever be the same.
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BREAKING: Three out of four business owners think we need more cops!
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Every morning things seem a little more horrific, but sometimes you also get to wake up to an absolutely gorgeous surprise collab from two of your favourite artists working right now. Hallelujah.
irisarri.bandcamp.com/track/ausenc...
@blackknoll.bsky.social
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Ausencia (Hiatus rework), by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri
track by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri
https://irisarri.bandcamp.com/track/ausencia-hiatus-rework?utm_source=track_release&utm_medium=email&utm_content=fanpub_fnb_trk&utm_campaign=irisarri%2Btrack%2Bausencia-hiatus-rework
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Every morning things seem a little more horrific, but sometimes you also get to wake up to an absolutely gorgeous surprise collab from two of your favourite artists working right now. Hallelujah.
irisarri.bandcamp.com/track/ausenc...
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Ausencia (Hiatus rework), by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri
track by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri
https://irisarri.bandcamp.com/track/ausencia-hiatus-rework?utm_source=track_release&utm_medium=email&utm_content=fanpub_fnb_trk&utm_campaign=irisarri%2Btrack%2Bausencia-hiatus-rework
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Very grateful for 'Duvet' from Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland, released a few weeks ago by Balmat, just in time for the leaves to turn. Exceedingly gentle, ornately detailed, at once intensely calming and emotionally engaging. Incredible stuff.
balmat.bandcamp.com/album/duvet
@philipsherburne.bsky.social
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Duvet, by Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland
8 track album
https://balmat.bandcamp.com/album/duvet
about 1 month ago
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Very grateful for 'Duvet' from Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland, released a few weeks ago by Balmat, just in time for the leaves to turn. Exceedingly gentle, ornately detailed, at once intensely calming and emotionally engaging. Incredible stuff.
balmat.bandcamp.com/album/duvet
@philipsherburne.bsky.social
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Duvet, by Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland
8 track album
https://balmat.bandcamp.com/album/duvet
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Wrote a bit for A Closer Listen about 'Light Flowing,' Clare O'Connell's gorgeous collection of (mostly) solo cello pieces released earlier this year by NMC Recordings
acloserlisten.com/2025/09/20/c...
@acloserlisten.bsky.social
@nmcrecordings.bsky.social
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Clare O’Connell ~ Light Flowing
In standard verbiage, light tends to glow, to shine, to radiate. In summoning an image of light as something that might flow, London-based cellist and curator Clare O’Connell evokes a subtle tensio…
https://acloserlisten.com/2025/09/20/clare-oconnell-light-flowing/
about 2 months ago
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Wrote a bit for A Closer Listen about 'Light Flowing,' Clare O'Connell's gorgeous collection of (mostly) solo cello pieces released earlier this year by NMC Recordings
acloserlisten.com/2025/09/20/c...
@acloserlisten.bsky.social
@nmcrecordings.bsky.social
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Clare O’Connell ~ Light Flowing
In standard verbiage, light tends to glow, to shine, to radiate. In summoning an image of light as something that might flow, London-based cellist and curator Clare O’Connell evokes a subtle tensio…
https://acloserlisten.com/2025/09/20/clare-oconnell-light-flowing/
about 2 months ago
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Love to see it (so let’s see more!)
nomusicforgenocide.net
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No Music For Genocide
cargo.site
https://nomusicforgenocide.net
about 2 months ago
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Toronto comrades: “Our work…makes up the raw material that arts institutions require to function. It is the collective withdrawal of our work, not only its content, that underlies our leverage in forcing institutions to reckon with our demands.”
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Lessons from the cultural front
No Arms in the Arts organizers look back on over a year of confronting cultural institutions complicit in Palestinian genocide
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/lessons-from-the-cultural-front
about 2 months ago
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Dave Gray-Donald
about 2 months ago
Two police chiefs in Canada are on the boards of a pro-Israel advocacy charity. The president of the Canadian Association of Police is also listed, alongside business and political leaders. Experts and advocates are very concerned. My latest
@readthemaple.bsky.social
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Police Involvement With Pro-Israel Charity Raises Concerns
“We have seen increasing police aggression and baseless arrests and prosecutions against those protesting Israel’s genocide.”
https://www.readthemaple.com/police-involvement-with-pro-israel-charity-raises-concerns/
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
about 2 months ago
this tendency within contemporary liberalism is intimately connected with its aversion to acknowledging past or present colonialism
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Loved this excellent primer on the political economic context of the Zionist settler-colonial project in Palestine from
@versobooks.bsky.social
. It’s succinct but also far-reaching in scope, and could be an amazing resource for groups looking to get on the same page in terms of big-picture analysis.
about 2 months ago
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3 months ago
Why is Palestine a defining fault line of 21st‑century politics? Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler‑colonialism within imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism—not just humanitarian / legal narratives. Officially out & available in paperback & ebook
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3410-resisting-erasure
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I’ve hated Jacobin since before it was cool
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Made a mixtape that's mostly chill ambient/drone, and wrote a bit about how neoliberalism isn't so incompatible with fascism
www.mixcloud.com/grahamericla...
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Michael DeForge
4 months ago
you'd either have to have no soul or no brain to characterize the Giller Prize's *hypothetical* demise as a "casualty" in the context of an ongoing genocide
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"It is absurd to suggest that the state – any state – needs a pretext to maim or kill, to arrest or deport."
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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Anahid Nersessian | ICE’s War on Home
The protests that broke out last weekend in Los Angeles are at once an autonomous phenomenon and a continuation of the...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/june/ice-s-war-on-home?utm_campaign=1550876_20250611Blog&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,X8NW,3EIMU0,2LCI1,1
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Made a new mixtape for June – mostly drone, mostly with a cello way out front – and wrote a bit about how neoliberalism is (not) over:
anything-everything.ghost.io/old-boss-new...
5 months ago
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Melissa Gira Grant
5 months ago
I wrote about Los Angeles and violence.
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Wrote a bit about experimental cellist Theresa Wong’s stunning new LP, ‘Journey to the Cave of Guanyin,’ for A Closer Listen:
acloserlisten.com/2025/05/31/t...
@acloserlisten.bsky.social
@room40.bsky.social
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Theresa Wong ~ Journey to the Cave of Guanyin
Good questions are always more interesting than their answers. “What does the cello sound like?” seeks a factual, closed response, which most of us could easily produce in fairly short order. Throu…
https://acloserlisten.com/2025/05/31/theresa-wong-journey-to-the-cave-of-guanyin/
5 months ago
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NEW FEELING
6 months ago
From our latest issue, CIRCUITRY:
@grahamericlatham.bsky.social
talks with BIG | BRAVE about taking big creative swings with their latest album, OST, and the community and connections that make such choices possible.
newfeeling.ca/2025/04/30/w...
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Wood, Wire, and Willpower: BIG | BRAVE Patch the Circuit
Graham Latham chats with the Montreal drone rock outfit about the "left turn" that brought them even closer to themselves.
https://newfeeling.ca/2025/04/30/wood-wire-and-willpower-big-brave-patch-the-circuit/
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The new Nennen album is finally here!!! 🤩🤩🤩
nennen.bandcamp.com/album/you-re...
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You Reflect the Light, by Nennen
8 track album
https://nennen.bandcamp.com/album/you-reflect-the-light
6 months ago
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Just posted a new mixtape for May, mostly folk-adjacent indie rock this time, including Perfume Genius, Nennen, Jerk With A Bomb, Ethel Cain, Ian William Craig, Tasha and more:
www.mixcloud.com/grahamericla...
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such as it is (may 2025)
smart, but also a bit crazy https://anything-everything.ghost.io/such-as-it-is
https://www.mixcloud.com/grahamericlatham/such-as-it-is-may-2025/
6 months ago
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I wrote a bit about 'frailty' by anthéne for
@acloserlisten.bsky.social
: "Waves of gentle melody lap against a hazy shore, slow motions describing the dewy stillness of the coastal morning depicted by the cover artwork, or the shifting greys of a cloudy spring sky."
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anthène ~ Frailty
To many, the notion of frailty will immediately evoke sorrow, suggesting something diminished, a back bent toward the drawing down of a life. But its richness of meaning can also unfurl as layers o…
https://acloserlisten.com/2025/05/03/anthene-frailty/
6 months ago
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Tom Beedham
7 months ago
🛠️ BIG | BRAVE built their own instrument from salvaged piano parts for their new album, OST.
@grahamericlatham.bsky.social
traces their process and how minimalist, craft approaches create listening-forward soundscapes. 🔧
newfeeling.ca/2025/04/30/w...
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Wood, Wire, and Willpower: BIG | BRAVE Patch the Circuit
Graham Latham chats with the Montreal drone rock outfit about the "left turn" that brought them even closer to themselves.
https://newfeeling.ca/2025/04/30/wood-wire-and-willpower-big-brave-patch-the-circuit/
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The amazing New Feeling coop just put out a new issue, in which they let me interview BIG | BRAVE about their new record ‘OST’ and being broke artists in a town that’s falling apart! Check it out:
newfeeling.ca/2025/04/30/w...
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Wood, Wire, and Willpower: BIG | BRAVE Patch the Circuit
Graham Latham chats with the Montreal drone rock outfit about the "left turn" that brought them even closer to themselves.
https://newfeeling.ca/2025/04/30/wood-wire-and-willpower-big-brave-patch-the-circuit/
7 months ago
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NEW FEELING
7 months ago
🟩🟩🟦🟦🟨🟨 🧵➿🔌 Our 22nd issue, CIRCUITRY, is here!
newfeeling.ca/issue-22-cir...
🎨by
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ISSUE 22: CIRCUITRY
Exploring the relationships between people, music and technology in our 22nd issue.
https://newfeeling.ca/issue-22-circuitry/
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Room40 // Lawrence English
7 months ago
Out today! This gem from Theresa Wong...
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Journey to the Cave of Guanyin, by Theresa Wong
7 track album
https://theresawong.bandcamp.com/album/journey-to-the-cave-of-guanyin
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New mixtape for April (including new stuff from Grails, Vulture Feather, Postcards, Nadah El Shazly, Slikback, Baalti and more), along with a bit of writing about some recently-published books about Palestine
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nowhere left to go
If anything positive can be said to have come out of the horror of the last couple of years, it’s that the West’s inability to reconcile its liberal fantasies about itself with the exigencies of maint...
https://anything-everything.ghost.io/nowhere-left-to-go/
7 months ago
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Steven High
7 months ago
Routledge has just published the International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies, an edited volume with 27 chapters co-edited by five people led by Tim Strangleman and including myself. Most of the contributors come out of
@deindustrialpol.bsky.social
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www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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The Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies |
The Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies is a timely volume that provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003308324/routledge-international-handbook-deindustrialization-studies-tim-strangleman-steven-high-sherry-lee-linkon-stefan-berger-jackie-clarke
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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
7 months ago
Mark Carney's Liberals are dodging questions about a CDN company's contract to supply the Israeli military with up to $78.8 million of artillery propellants, despite Joly's promise to block military exports to Israel last year.
@readthemaple.bsky.social
www.readthemaple.com/the-liberals...
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The Liberals Are Dodging Questions About A New Israeli Arms Contract
It’s unclear whether the Liberal government knew about the deal before it was reported by Project Ploughshares.
https://www.readthemaple.com/the-liberals-are-dodging-questions-about-a-new-israeli-arms-contract/
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Philip Sherburne
7 months ago
So excited to announce Balmat's next release: Stephen Vitiello with Hahn Rowe (Hugo Largo) and Brendan Canty (Rites of Spring, Fugazi (!)) -- first single out now, album available for preorder, due June 6.
balmat.bandcamp.com/album/second
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Second, by Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, Hahn Rowe
9 track album
https://balmat.bandcamp.com/album/second
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
7 months ago
Cory Booker? I hardly know 'er.
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Excited as hell for this new record of graceful heaviness, earthy warmth and fierce wisdom from dearest comrade Nennen (Montrealer Amy MacDonald). Luminous rock music for dark fkn times.
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You Reflect the Light, by Nennen
8 track album
https://nennen.bandcamp.com/album/you-reflect-the-light
7 months ago
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It's okay, says NYT, Trump's people just have "a different view of what is legal." 🤮
8 months ago
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Just posted a new mixtape – feat. Walt McClements, Nicolás Melmann, Whitney Johnson + Lia Kohl, Jules Reidy, Mat Ball and more – and a bit of writing about why I block Jon Stewart content from my socials.
anything-everything.ghost.io/under-constr...
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under construction
"You don't win just because you're right.” - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor I've put a content filter on what's left of my social media feeds, blocking anything related to future Democratic presidential ca...
https://anything-everything.ghost.io/under-construction/
8 months ago
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Erin Reed
9 months ago
The reporting on the trans travel visa ban is criminal. It does NOT only affect transgender athletes. The cables CLEARLY say it affects all trans people. They can reject visas on point 6 of anyone who is requesting a visa that does not match their assigned sex at birth.
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To no one's surprise, the lead single for the new Nadah El Shazly album is a fucking banger (out in June):
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Ghorzetein, by Nadah El Shazly
from the album Laini Tani
https://nadahelshazly.bandcamp.com/track/ghorzetein
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"Obviously, fascism arrives as your friend. How else would it arrive?"
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The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams
The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/17/the-new-world-order-is-exactly-what-it-looks-like-are-we-too-frozen-with-fear-to-name-it
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Ummm… y’all are kidding, right? 😵💫
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Don’t Test Us, Trump. It Won’t End Well for You | The Tyee
A war would be disastrous for both countries. Especially the US.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/02/13/Do-Not-Test-Us-Trump/
9 months ago
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Todd Gordon
9 months ago
Here’s my response to the resurgence of Canadian nationalism — left & otherwise — in the context of the tariff war: a political dead end, we need instead a much more far reaching, & internationalist, response animated by struggles from below.
www.midnightsunmag.ca/we-need-work...
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We Need Workers’ Solidarity, Not “National Unity,” in Response to Trump’s Tariffs
Todd Gordon on why Canadian nationalism is a dead end, and on the need for a strategy centred around mass struggle and workers’ solidarity across borders.
https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/we-need-workers-solidarity-not-national-unity-in-response-to-trumps-tariffs/
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Currently listening to “Cloud Prints” from Walt McClements’s forthcoming ‘On A Painted Ocean,’ all breathtaking swirls of accordion and organ and horns, a bit elegiac without feeling maudlin. Bonus points for stunning cover art by Erik Ruin.
@westernvinyl.bsky.social
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On a Painted Ocean, by Walt McClements
7 track album
https://waltmcclements.bandcamp.com/album/on-a-painted-ocean
9 months ago
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Michael DeForge
9 months ago
Indigo CEO Heather Reisman is currently in the middle of a bizarre campaign to make her lone soldier HESEG Foundation appear as though it's a fund for "orphans." The Globe and Mail retraction Giller Prize ED Elana Rabinovitch refers to here actually had to be embarrassingly amended
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