Between the Lines

16/12/2024

"Standing on High Ground: Civil Disobedience on Burnaby Mountain honours the courage and creativity of the thousands of their fellow activists who resisted the TMX project."

New Book Features Personal Stories from Canada’s Largest-Ever Fossil Fuel Civil Disobedience Campaign/A Review by Jamie Swift0 commentsIn March of 2018, Amazon software developer Tim Bray was blocking the gates of pipeline colossus Kinder Morgan at its Burnaby, B.C. fossil-fuel trans-shipment comp...

12/12/2024

THIS THURSDAY, 6pm at Kingston Frontenac Public Library’s central branch, Kingston lawyer and political activist PAMELA CROSS launches ‘And Sometimes They Kill You.’ Pamela will introduce and discuss her book, and Novel Idea will be on hand to sell you a copy. Please join us for an urgently informative evening.

“After working for more than three decades with survivors, frontline workers, and the systems they turn to for help, lawyer Pamela Cross provides an in-depth look at intimate partner violence in Canada. ‘And Sometimes They Kill You’ untangles what intimate partner violence is, the barriers to its eradication, and what we could be doing to eliminate those barriers. Told in an engaging and accessible fashion, the book weaves together Cross’ personal experiences and reflections on what she has learned with the heartbreaking stories of victims, survivors, and the alarming but convincing data. Cross offers practical and hopeful ideas for how each of us can engage in the vital work of eradicating intimate partner violence. This [is] a call-to-action for the all-of-society, revolutionary response to gender-based violence needed to build communities that are safe and healthy for everyone.”

Between the Lines. Kingston Frontenac Public Library. Downtown Kingston

12/12/2024

CBC Books has named "When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance" by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel with Sean Carleton one of the top Canadian nonfiction books of 2024!

[FB won't let us share the link, but you can find it on the CBC Books website.]

29/11/2024

International week begins today, November 29, on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

During this week, we encourage people around the world to read fiction and poetry by Palestinian and Palestinian diaspora authors, as well as nonfiction about Palestinians and Palestinian history, politics, arts, culture, and life, and other books about organizing, resistance, and solidarity for a Free Palestine. We read – publicly and in community – as part of the global resistance to genocide.

You can download a pdf of our Organizing for Palestine sample at btlbooks.com

https://publishersforpalestine.org

[Image Description ID: Slide 1) Read Palestine Week poster featuring a broken chain and the text: Read Resist Rise Up, Nov 29–Dec 5, Publishers for Palestine, Slide 2) Text Organizing for Palestine! A Sampler. Slide 3) Cover images for four books excerpted in the sampler: Organize!; Beautiful Rising; Q***r Progress; The University and Social Justice. Slide 4) Text: Read Resist Rise Up. Slide 5)

26/11/2024

Out now, And Sometimes They Kill You: Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence by Pamela Cross.

After working for more than three decades with survivors, frontline workers, and the systems they turn to for help, lawyer Pamela Cross provides an in-depth look at intimate partner violence in Canada. This book untangles what intimate partner violence is, the barriers to its eradication, and what we could be doing to eliminate those barriers.

[Image Description ID: 4 slides share a dark, shadowy background. Slide 1) Image of the book cover featuring shadows cast by closed blinds. Slide 2) Text: “With sharp analysis carved from years of being on the frontlines, Pamela Cross gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the reality of intimate partner violence and femicide in Canada . . . A better world is possible and this book gives us the blueprint.” Julie S. Lalonde, author of Resilience is Futile. Slide 3) Text: “An impeccably subversive roadmap for anyone interested in an end to gender-based violence. Cross orchestrates decades of professional and personal experience into a no-nonsense harmony of truth and knowledge-sharing.” Jennifer Good, MSW, psychotherapist, activist, survivor. Slide 4) “Honest, authentic, informative, and compassionate. Cross leaves us with a strategic and hopeful path forward.” Sue Bookchin, executive director, Be the Peace Institute.]

19/11/2024

Elizabeth May, MP and one of hundreds arrested for opposing the TMX pipeline. In Standing on High Ground she reflects on her experience: “Sometimes the courts are wrong. Often our governments are wrong. The legal system should not be handed to private corporate interests like Kinder Morgan, converting our law enforcement agencies into private cops for the fossil fuel industry… Nonviolent civil disobedience is essential in solidarity with Indigenous land defenders. Nonviolent civil disobedience is essential in solidarity with our children and grandchildren. We stand in solidarity with Mother Earth—even as we weep, still we stand.”

Read her full story and many others in Standing on High Ground, out now!
Adrienne Drobnies Rosemary Cornell Elizabeth May

Photograph by Armelle Troussard
Armelle Troussard Photography

18/11/2024

Join Pamela Cross on Nov 25 at UofT for the launch of her new book And Sometimes They Kill You: Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence.

Pamela will be in conversation with award-winning human rights and gender equity educator, writer, and advocate.

⏰ Event Date & Time: Monday, Nov. 25, 6:00 pm
📍Event Location: Alumni Hall (Victoria College Building)

RSVP at the link in bio

15/11/2024

Annual End-of-Year Sale: This holiday season, treat your comrades to the gift of radical hope, love, and community with books that help us understand and challenge the current moment. Don’t blow your money on complicit corporations: give the gift of solidarity instead!
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14/11/2024

This holiday season, treat your comrades to the gift of radical hope, love, and community with books that help us understand and challenge the current moment. Don’t blow your money on complicit corporations: give the gift of solidarity instead!

Get 20% off all titles in our end-of-year sale, on now until December 15.

More info on our blog:

This holiday season, treat your comrades to the gift of radical hope, love, and community with books that help us understand and challenge the current moment. Don’t blow your money on complicit corporations: give the gift of solidarity instead!

31/10/2024

Join us November 8 in Toronto for an evening with Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel in conversation with Robyn Maynard, Beverly Jacobs, Jennifer Brant, Jeffrey Ansloos, and co-author Sean Carleton.

Register now for a free ticket: https://oise.jotform.com/242604970929869
🎟️ Event starts at 5:30pm, followed by an author signing ✒️

This event will reflect on Gabriel’s enduring work and the lessons of her advocacy, exploring critical implications for engaging with communities, educating for land defense in the face of the escalating climate crisis, strengthening international solidarity, and nourishing the transformative work of Indigenous resurgence. This conversation will be a pivotal opportunity to consider how we can collectively act to ensure a decolonial future for all.

This event is hosted by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education , Critical Health and Social Action Lab , Indigenous Education Network , Indigenous Literatures Lab , and .

29/10/2024

⛰️Standing on High Ground: Civil Disobedience on Burnaby Mountain ✊🏾

In this one of a kind collection editors Rosemary Cornell, Adrienne Drobnies, and Tim Bray bring together the experiences of Indigenous leaders, academics, physicians, faith and political leaders, engineers and scientists, artists and writers, and ordinary folk from diverse backgrounds to reflect on their experience resisting the TMX pipeline project from 2014–2023. Each chapter, grounded by a key participant in the civil disobedience movement, delves into the content of the protests and, in many cases, their experience of arrest and criminalization by the State. Ultimately, this book explores our moral duty to future generations, government’s collusion with corporate power, the violation of Indigenous Law, and unsustainable worldviews. Climate activists in protest movements such as the one against the TMX pipeline are critical in the existential fight for a sustainable future and habitable planet. They show us that we can all take a stand.

Available now at your local bookstore, or online at btlbooks.com

Adrienne Drobnies Rosemary Cornell

[Image Description ID: 3 slides share a mountainous landscape background. Slide 1) Image of the book Standing on High Ground. Slide 2) Text: “This collection of essays by two dozen brave and dedicated citizens recounts one of the most significant environmental battles in the history of the West Coast. These pages speak for tens of thousands of people who participated over the years, many of them risking, and enduring, arrest, among many other hardships. Even if the short-term outcome failed to vindicate them, history most certainly will.” –John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather. Slide 3) Text: “While the TMX project may sadly be complete, the movement to block its construction will be remembered as historic. This book provides an important record of what was a transformative struggle, both for the hundreds bravely arrested and for the thousands more for whom this project lays bare the lengths to which the fossil fuel industry and its political defenders will go to force this deadly infrastructure down our throats.” –Seth Klein, author of A Good War.]

30/09/2024

Listening is the first step toward change, and together we can change the world.

29/09/2024

Over 30 years of Indigenous resistance with Mohawk land defender Ellen Gabriel

“Colonial-rooted poverty will not be solved by more colonial solutions”

Read Michelle Cyca’s interview with Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Grabriel at The Narwhal

27/09/2024

Read an excerpt of When the Pine Needles Fall on The Narwhal

https://thenarwhal.ca/when-the-pine-needles-fall-excerpt/

24/09/2024

Toronto! Join us on November 8 at OISE for a launch of When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance, the new book by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, with Sean Carleton. The authors will be in conversation with Robyn Maynard, Bev Jacobs, Jennifer Brant & Jeffrey Ansloos. More info and register here: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/home/about/events/11-08-24-when-pine-needles-fall-evening-katsitsakwas-ellen-gabriel

Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel was the Kanien’kehá:ka spokesperson during Canada’s violent siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke in the summer of 1990. On Nov. 8, she joins us at OISE with special guests to share her experiences. You don't want to miss this.

🎟️ RSVP today: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/home/about/events/11-08-24-when-pine-needles-fall-evening-katsitsakwas-ellen-gabriel

24/09/2024

The first book from Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, who was the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) spokesperson during Canada’s violent siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke in the summer of 1990. Written in a conversational style with historian Sean Carleton, When the Pine Needles Fall offers an intimate look at Gabriel’s life leading up to the 1990 siege, her experiences as spokesperson for her community, and her work since then as an Indigenous land defender, human rights activist, and feminist leader.

Available now wherever books are sold, or online at btlbooks.com



Slide 2: Photo of Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel by Alan Lissner.
Slide 3: Gabriel speaks at the First Spiritual Gathering one year anniversary of July 11th, 1990, with Kelly White, the late Milton Born with a Tooth, Danny Billy, the late Thelma David. Photo courtesy of Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel.

[Image Description ID: Slide 1) Image of the ‘When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance’ by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel with Sean Carleton surrounded by these endorsements: “A profound treatise and manifesto.” —Leanna Betasamosake Simpson; “A remarkable and revelatory account of the 1990 siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke.” —Ned Blackhawk; “An inspiration for generations to come.” —Bernard Duhaime. Slide 2) Photograph of Gabriel. Text: “Fighting to protect our inherent rights to our Homelands, our identity, our cultures and languages isn’t only for survival, but a way of life. Defending the land is about protecting the preciousness of life for the future.” Slide 3) Photograph of Gabriel speaking at a rally in 1991. Text: “It’s also about learning our history, deepening our understanding of our Onkwehón:we languages, exploring our environment, and listening to Mother Earth and all our relations.” Slide 4) Photograph of people at a rally. Text: “Non-Indigenous people have a role to play, too. Listening to nature’s language and learning lessons from the land is part of how we can all survive the climate crisis.”]

05/09/2024

Coming soon: September 24 ✨ When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance

There have been many things written about Canada’s violent siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke in the summer of 1990, but this is the first book from the perspective of Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, who was the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) spokesperson during the siege. When the Pine Needles Fall, written in a conversational style by Gabriel with historian Sean Carleton, offers an intimate look at Gabriel’s life leading up to the 1990 siege, her experiences as spokesperson for her community, and her work since then as an Indigenous land defender, human rights activist, and feminist leader.

Come out to see Ellen and Sean talk in a city near you, more details to come on the tour.

[Image description ID: Two slides share a grey background with fallen pine needles. Slide 1) Image of the book cover and two photographs of Ellen and Sean with the text “Coming soon: September 24.” Slide 2) Text: Turtle Island Book Tour: Montreal Concordia - September 26, Winnipeg - Book Launch October 2, Film Screenings October 3, Kingston - October 24, Montreal UQAM - October 30, Toronto - November 8, Vancouver - November 15.]