What’s Left is the Citizens’ Press email newsletter.
Click here to join the free What’s Left email newsletter. “Seriously, an email newsletter?” We know what you’re thinking: Grunge rock, Jean Chrétien, and email newsletters – all popular in the nineties, but not anymore. Who reads email newsletters anymore? Well, we’re betting you will read this one. Important struggles are being fought across Canada, with unions, citizens’ groups and activist collectives on the front-lines. While social media has had a tremendous impact, tabloid-style content has become the status-quo.
In each issue we will round up the most significant developments in these struggles and highlight important things to watch for in the week ahead.
They are archived here for your convenience.
In this issue: Why refugees are welcome here and what Canada must do to make it so. Davos speeches and inequality. Organized opposition to Trump still comes from the same places. Left noise: Making racists afraid again. What we are reading.
Coming up: Women's March on Washington; Book Review - The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics by Jennifer Welsh; Fighting fake news one lie at a time; It's time to have a rational conversation about the oil sands
Fake news about fake news; we have not started the year on a positive note.; Trudeau's Liberals, same as the old; Income inequality grows in Canada; Kentucky goes full speed down the anti-worker and anti-women road; SEIU slashes spending 30% in response to majority Republican elections; Book Review: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin; What we shared this week.
What's Left This Year; Our Year in Review
A crash course in digital security; Freelance Isn't Free Act passes in NYC; Jack London's hope for a better world is worth revisiting 100 years later; Left Noise
Anti-Choice activists, coming to a campus near you; Homelessness is a youth issue; November 20 was Trans Day of Remembrance; Students across the country fight for access to PSE
We have been here before, but it feels different this time; BC teachers' union wins right to negotiate learning environment; Book Review: The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende; LEFT NOISE: Leonard Cohen has died at age 82
Liberals announce terrible social services plan, we make fun of it with satire; Standing Rock Hard; Quebec: Liberal Party corruption, police spying on journalists; Basic Income; LEFT NOISE
Student Day of Action: All Out November 2; Rage boils over in Québec; Nouvelle droite: Québec's right wing rears its head; UK court rules uber drivers are employees
Transparency, privacy, and political opportunism ; Cyber attacks are constant and a reminder of the importance of security and privacy ; Video game voice actors on strike ; Food Security and Unions ; LEFT NOISE
