What's Left 2017-02-05 Volume 88
A cautionary tale about political grandstanding; Book Review: The Wonder by Emma Donoghue; Citizens' Press revisits great works of literature; Left noise; What we shared last week.
Book Review: The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue was born in Ireland and now lives in London, Ontario. Her last book, Room, was a hit and made into a film for which she also wrote the screenplay. It was the story of a woman and her son being held captive in a man's shed: not the most uplifting subject and yet told with lightness and might. Her most recent book, The Wonder, builds on a different theme: an eleven-year-old girl in the Ireland of the 1850's stops eating for religious and spiritual reasons. Here too, Emma Donoghue treats a dark topic with so much grace.
Reuters reporting Trump to remove federal funding to fight violent White Supremacists, targets Muslims
Reports have come through that the US government will be renaming and redirecting its efforts to address violent extremists away from all violent extremism unless they are 'Islamic Extremists'.
Neil Gorsuch, Trump's Supreme Court Pick, Has History of Ruling Against Workers, Women & Regulation | Democracy Now!
Write to your Member of Parliament about Trump's travel ban targeting refugees | Citizens' Press
Are you wondering what you can do to fight Donald's Trump travel ban on members of the Muslim community and refugees? Do you want to do something to combat Islamophobia and racism here in Canada? You can start by writing a letter to your Member of Parliament to urge them to repeal the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement and publicly condemn the travel ban.
What's Left 2017-01-29 Volume 87
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.
Organized opposition to Trump still comes from the same places | What's Left
The 'far-right' is really just the politics of division. The liberal press call it 'populism', but in reality it is the opposite of that. Trump is an expression of power of the elite social minority. In many ways, in the US and other countries where the far-right has won, we are witnessing the replacement of the liberal elite minority with the another elite minority: those who are unconstrained in their use of social aggression and violence. It is for this reason that socialists are the ones who will be leading the battle against the rise of the far-right.
Left Noise: Making racists afraid again
A list of tunes for all your Trump protest needs.
Why refugees are welcome here and what Canada must do to make it so | What's Left
This week's travel ban imposed by Donald Trump caused havoc, resistance, and brought to light the extent to which Canada's refugee policy is tied to that of the US.
La Guerre des Gaules de Jules César
Pour les amateurs des aventures d'Astérix le Gaulois, plonger dans l'univers de César et de l'armée romaine peut s'avérer un voyage empreint de nostalgie. Dans son ambitieux projet pour construire l'Empire romain, Jules César s'était assigné la tâche de documenter le quotidien de la guerre. Il en résulte une lecture étonnamment littéraire de la conquête des Gaules, ces territoires qui, un par un, sont passés sous l'emprise de l'imperator.