"Lying is too small a term to capture the grandiose ambition of the regime’s campaign of systematic deceit. It can be better understood as a concerted attack to rapidly shift what is politically possible by challenging reality itself." New article from me in latest @forgeorganizing.bsky.social.

Upcoming radical events in Ottawa and online - Monday, December 29th, 2025, edition. Ft. a fire station tour for disabled folks, the Ana Falastini tour, and a reading group: www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...

Ashanti Alston is one of the elder radicals that has shown me that it is possible to grow older, stick around on the left, keep learning, and make genuine contributions - all with a spirit of joy and care. Check out this deeply reflective interview with him on @thedugoutpod.bsky.social!

With continuing military deployments in U.S. cities and Trump's military escalations abroad, I keep thinking about the lessons and insights in this excellent episode of Against the Grain.

This week's round up of upcoming radical events - organizing for warming centers, fire station tour for disabled folks, Ana Falastini screening and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...

As a longtime regular listener to Against the Grain on @kpfa.org, I have had so much appreciation for co-host C. S. Soong. I'm sad to see him go! But I'm also very glad that co-host Sasha Lilley is keeping this outstanding program going.

A small but mighty list of upcoming radical events for Dec 14, 2025: Science for the People reading group, Psychic Death and Transitions, Fire Station Tour for the Disabled Community www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...

My annual look at social movement victories in so-called Canada is up! This year has been grim, but from tenants, to land defenders, to workers, to students, to all of the little victories related to Palestine, sometimes when we fight, we win. breachmedia.ca/15-movement-... #cdnpoli

Coming up in Ottawa: Palestine solidarity protest & sit-in at CBC, public lecture on human rights, an underground music show, a demonstration to demand warming centres, a reading group on science and social change, and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/

I'm glad I listened to this episode of Snap Judgment podcast. It's about the circumstances of my friend Jen Angel's death in 2023 and the restorative justice process that many of her close people admirably pursued in the aftermath.

Organizers can borrow ideas from the business world — such as an influential concept called the “innovator’s dilemma” — about where to look for innovation, and about how our movement ecology can make space for it.

Coming up in Ottawa! Rally against Carleton's gag order, learn about the crisis in Sudan, hear critical analysis of the Gaza ceasefire deal, make zines at the Ottawa Trans Library, attend a launch event for a new book on slavery & capitalism, and much more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/

Happy #N30! This is the 26th anniversary of the mass direct action that shut down the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Seattle. If you want to learn more about what we did and how we did it, I recommend listening to this excellent two-part series from @margaret.bsky.social.

Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their recent boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza.

"Organizing, at its core, is about transformation. When that personal transformation happens on a collective level, we unleash the power to transform society. This is as much of a spiritual project as it is a political one." READ MORE: forgeorganizing.org/article/two-...

The CWD's Ben Case for @convergencemag.com : Ben’s expertise on protest sets the record straight about widely (and incorrectly) accepted data surrounding the efficacy of mobilizing people in nonviolent protest. Learn more about the "3.5% rule" and its flaws here: convergencemag.com/articles/mag...

So much coming up in radical Ottawa! Science, OPS Budget protest, Contre-culture et mouvement de la jeunesse au coeur de l'antifascisme, anti-war events, focus on Sudan, fighting to win, zine making at the Trans Library, book launches, & much more! Check it: www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/

LOTS of amazing events coming up, Ottawa fam! Let's get together to make a different world, addressing things like death, cold, exploitative rent increases, Palestine, migrant justice, neoliberalism, the relation between enslavement & capitalism, and science. www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/

@sadfrancisco.bsky.social and I wrote about Major for @truthout.org 💜

I highly recommend @benlorber8.bsky.social's "What Antisemitism Is, What It Isn’t, and Why It Matters" series in @convergencemag.com. Lorber offers a really grounded and accessible framework for understanding antisemitism.

spectrejournal.com/israel-is-th... Hey y'all! This week we have Dania Rajendra and @dnbrgr.bsky.social writing about the Palestinian solidarity movement and the international resistance to carceral Zionism.

Upcoming radical events in Ottawa and online - November 10th, 2025 edition, ft.: rallies against nuclear waste, a harmony circle for Palestine, dance parties, the Transgender Day of Remembrance and lots more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...

Do yourself a favor and read this excellent wide-ranging interview with the activist-scholar Cathy Cohen!

In late September, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur died in Cuba a free woman. Orisanmi Burton celebrates her life and her unceasing dedication to the revolutionary struggle for liberation from the racist U.S. empire and all that it entails. proteanmag.com/2025/10/07/a...

I've often argued that radical organizing can happen not only in workplaces and neighborhoods, but also in all of the other sites in which people congregate. This is an inspiring account, from members of @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social, of people organizing through fandom!

Quite an honor to be on the podcast / show that I’ve listened to for more than 15 years. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

Maybe the biggest REO List ever? Twenty-one radical events in Ottawa and online, ft. rallies against poverty and nuclear waste, a dance party, a renters townhall, a film screening, workshops, and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...

There is a lot to share in this week's round-up of radical events! Tenant organizing, book launches, incredible films and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...

Earlier this year, incarcerated firefighters in LA rushed headlong into the flames, fending off catastrophic fires (made worse by climate change). In their new essay, Abby Cunniff reminds us of the long history of their labor abolitionist politics. spectrejournal.com/the-abolitio...

Coming up in Ottawa and online - Challenging Canada’s Perpetuation of Settler-Colonial Violence; Raise the Rates Rally; Street medics workshop; Centretown Tenant Power Official Launch and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...

Coming up in Ottawa! October Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification; CAFES Concert Series: 'Wanting to Start Again'; Rally for Democracy/no to Bill 33; Vigil for Gaza; NO TYRANTS rally; Sexual Bereavement - Queer Death Salon www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/

Even in a government shutdown, the 13th largest army in the world wages war in Chicago. ICE’s militarized raids & abductions are terrorizing communities—while billions are poured into their hands. @sarahlazare.bsky.social & @lindsaykosh.bsky.social report: inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

I loved listening to this interview @marcusrediker.bsky.social did on @kpfa.org about his new book *Freedom Ship*! Rediker tells the inspiring history of enslaved Black people in the U.S. deep South who escaped by ship with the help of free Black communities and abolitionist white sailors.

This week in rad Ottawa: October Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification; Rallies of Allies for Court Support - Solidarity with Kebaowek; Film Screening: Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019); Sexual Bereavement - Queer Death Salon; & more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/

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Alexis Shotwell on anarchism. New episode on podcast platforms & pls smash like & subscribe on YouTube: youtu.be/V3evGc0mF5Y)

Every year on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation I look to @miskoaki.bsky.social's assessment of how the Canadian government is meeting the TRC's calls to action. This year I'm reading their new report "Braiding Accountability: A Ten-Year Review of the TRC’s Healthcare Calls to Action."

Upcoming radical events in Ottawa, for the week of Monday, September 29, 2025 - ft. an art build for the upcoming Gaza solidarity demo, Orange Shirt Day events, a zine making night at the Trans Library, a workshop on how to organize a collective, and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...

A fascinating interview with Laura Hall in @canadiandimension.bsky.social: "If I’m saying horror is the genre of settler colonialism, it’s also a genre that can grapple with the hard truths of settler-colonial violence. Both things are equally true."

What happens when your landlord turns your home into a surveillance zone? From facial recognition cameras to automated fines, tenants are finding their daily lives policed in new ways. Hear Erin McElroy on Against the Grain unpack the rise of “landlord tech.” Full interview → kpfa.org #KPFA #BayArea

Robin D.G. Kelley: "defeating the fascism we face now requires much more than defeating the current administration or winning elections. It requires a deeper shift: the recognition that we need to always stand in solidarity and fight for others as if our lives depended on it."

Upcoming radical events in Ottawa and online: Monday, September 22nd edition: www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...

An excellent interview with @lydiajean.bsky.social! "As a geographer, I’m really interested in thinking through the different scales of the carceral state. We often talk about the state as if it’s a monolith, instead of as a multi-scalar and contradictory assemblage of institutions."

The 1937 Oshawa GM strike showed how radical organizing and international solidarity could transform the labour movement. @tonyleah.bsky.social’s new history reminds us that the victories workers take for granted today were won through militant class struggle.

Can workers be fired just for expressing opinions the political class objects to? Lately, online attackers campaign to pressure employers to fire workers for political speech even on private social media pages. Here's how stewards can intervene: labornotes.org/2025/09/how-...

Some good news: for the last four years, I have been quietly working on a new book titled *For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World*. I have signed a contract with @akpress.org and they will be co-publishing the book with @btlbooks.com. The book will be out next fall!

Another packed week in Ottawa! Vigils for Gazans, a day of action on ODSP/OW, letter-writing to political prisoners, a demonstration against anti-Black racism, book launches, Take Back the Night, the Draw the Line march, and much more! See it all here: www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/

What does gentrification have to do with authoritarianism? I talked with @xandrewleex.bsky.social about how displacement, surveillance, and “quality of life” policing function as tools of social control—and why housing struggles are class struggles.

Hey y'all! This week we have @alvagotby.bsky.social interviewing @reproutopia.bsky.social about Sophie's Enemy Feminisms ( @haymarketbooks.org ), the potential for liberatory feminism, and the necessity of reckoning with reactionary feminisms. spectrejournal.com/feminism-is-...

Last month, workers at Sugared + Bronzed locations in Los Angeles and Santa Monica voted to unionize with Communications Workers Local 9505—forming the first salon chain union in the country. @nataschaelena.bsky.social reports labornotes.org/2025/09/how-...