Beryl: The Making of a Disability Activist
Virtual book Launch for Beryl featuring author Dustin Galer in conversation with Judy Rebick, Donna Thomson, Geoffrey Reaume, and Michael Gottheil.
Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada
Disarm, Defund, Dismantle is the first collection in so-called Canada about the #DefundThePolice movement since it was popularized in 2020.
Tune into the free launch event to learn more about the multi-faceted politics of police abolition in Canada. We'll touch on abolition as a response to settler colonialism and as integral to Indigenous sovereignty, as a response to anti-Black racism in the context of Black revolt today, as part of the struggle for sex worker safety, as a movement against migrant detention, as critical to harm reduction, and more.
Hosted by:
- El Jones, co-author of Defunding the Police: Defining the Way Forward for HRM [Halifax Regional Municipality]
- Desmond Cole, author of The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
Featuring brief discussions with:
- Free Lands Free Peoples, author of "Chapter 9. A Brief Introduction to Anti-colonial Abolition"
- Elene Lam & Chanelle Gallant, authors of "Chapter 14. Rights Not Rescue: Defending Migrant Sex Workers from Policing"
- Ted Rutland with the Defund the Police Coalition (Montreal), author of "Chapter 4. Defund to Abolish: A 400-year Struggle against Policing in Montreal"
- Edward Hon-Sing Wong & Craig Fortier, authors (with MJ Rwigema and Nicole Penak) of "Chapter 17. Abolishing Carceral Social Work:
- Rajean Hoilett, Alannah Fricker, and Jessica Evans with the Toronto Prisoners Rights Project, authors of "Chapter 7. We Keep Each Other Safe: Organizing for Prison Abolition During a Pandemic"
- Ellie Ade Kur & Jenny Duffy with Maggie's Toronto, co-authors of "Chapter 12. Sex Worker Justice—by Us for Us: Toronto Sex Workers Resisting Carceral Violence"
- Vicki Chartrand with the Unearthing Justices Project, author of "Chapter 10. Grassroots Justices: Lessons from Communities of Murdered and Disappeared Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit+ People"
- Ryan Hayes, author of "Chapter 6. Let's Talk About Police in Our Unions"
- Jeffrey Monaghan, author of "Chapter 1. 'Uphold the Right': P
It Should Be Easy to Fix
Bonnie Robichaud’s memoir It Should Be Easy to Fix tells a story which begins in the late 1970s, set a landmark legal precedent at the Supreme Court of Canada about workplace sexual harassment, and remains relevant in the Department of National Defence and workplaces all over.
Join us to celebrate the launch of this powerful book with author Bonnie Robichaud, in conversation with special guests Julie S. Lalonde and Julie Macfarlane.
Wonder Drug: The Past & Future of Psychedelics
Wonder Drug: The Past & Future of Psychedelics
'Wonder Drug: LSD in the Land of Living Skies' is the graphic history of a controversial and little-known medical research project carried out in Weyburn, Saskatchewan—one that championed LSD as a way to model schizophrenia and cure ailments from alcoholism to depression. The story spans the decades from the 1950s to present day, lurching from dazzling imagery to fanged delusions. It's studded with a cast of radical personalities such as Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and Kay Parley, as well as now-squares like Bob Rae.
Featuring:
nicole marie burton, illustrator
Hugh D.A. Goldring, author
Dr. Erika Dyck, historian
🌈Order now! 🎉Wonder Drug: LSD in the Land of Living Skies by Hugh D.A. Goldring, illustrated by nicole marie burton, based on the research of Dr. Erika Dyck.
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Could it be that the most remote frontiers of twenty-first-century exploration lie inside the human mind? Illustrated in kaleidoscopic full colour, Wonder Drug is the graphic history of a controversial and little-known medical research project carried out in the Canadian prairies.
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Spanning the decades from the 1950s to present day, this captivating story follows Anglo-Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Humphry Osmond down the rabbit hole of psychedelic research, conducted both in the lab and in his living room. Lurching from dazzling imagery to fanged delusions, and studded with a cast of radical personalities such as Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and Kay Parley, Wonder Drug is a trip like no other.
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Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
Co-editors Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell will be discussing their powerful new book, Testimonio, on the date of its publication, along with several of the book's contributors.
Testimonio draws on over thirty years of community-based research and direct community support work in Guatemala to expose the ruthless state machinery that benefits the Canadian mining industry—a staggeringly profitable juggernaut of exploitation, sanctioned and supported every step of the way by the Canadian government.
Class Action: How Ontario's Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force
Class Action: How Ontario's Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force
Author Andy Hanson, a former Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) local executive, in conversation with:
Shirley Bell, ETFO vice-president and former president of the Kawartha Pine Ridge ETFO local
Bryan Palmer, professor emeritus, Trent University, and author of many history and labour books
Vivian McCaffrey, former ETFO coordinator of communications and political action
F**k white supremacy.
F**k Islamophobia.
F**k settler colonialism.
Transforming Man-Made Cities and Workplaces
Transforming Man-Made Cities and Workplaces
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A conversation between feminist geographer Dr. Leslie Kern and feminist ergonomist Dr. Karen Messing.
