ISBN:
9781604867282
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (337 pages)
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DDC:
303.484;324.6
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Abstract:
Aziz Choudry is an assistant professor in international education at McGill University. He is the coeditor of Learning from the Ground Up. Jill Hanley is an assistant professor of social work at McGill University. She is the cofounder of Montreal's Immigrant Workers Centre. Eric Shragge is a community and public affairs professor at Concordia University. He is the coauthor of Contesting Community. They are the coauthors of Fight Back: Workplace Justice for Immigrants. They all live in Montreal. Aziz Choudry is an assistant professor in international education at McGill University. He is the coeditor of Learning from the Ground Up. Jill Hanley is an assistant professor of social work at McGill University. She is the cofounder of Montreal's Immigrant Workers Centre. Eric Shragge is a community and public affairs professor at Concordia University. He is the coauthor of Contesting Community. They are the coauthors of Fight Back: Workplace Justice for Immigrants. They all live in Montreal. Aziz Choudry is an assistant professor in international education at McGill University. He is the coeditor of Learning from the Ground Up. Jill Hanley is an assistant professor of social work at McGill University. She is the cofounder of Montreal's Immigrant Workers Centre. Eric Shragge is a community and public affairs professor at Concordia University. He is the coauthor of Contesting Community. They are the coauthors of Fight Back: Workplace Justice for Immigrants. They all live in Montreal.
Abstract:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Organize! Looking Back, Thinking Ahead -- Activist Research: Mapping Power Relations, Informing Struggles -- Research Partnerships and Local Community Organizing: Refl ections by Evelyn Calugay -- Fundraising: Politics and Strategies -- Some Comments on Law and Organizing -- Rights, Action, Change: Organize for What? -- Escape, Retreat, Revolt: Queer People of Color Living in Montreal Using Photovoice as a Tool for Community Organizing -- Listen to the Music: Work the Music, Organize the Community -- Art for Palestine: "Renarrating" History and the Present -- Community Organizing: Maori Movement-Building -- Solidarity, Real and Imagined: Lessons from the 1991 Postal Strike -- Immigrant Worker Organizing in a Time of Crisis: Adapting to the New Realities of Class and Resistance -- Prefi gurative Self-Governance and Self-Organization: The Infl uence of Antiauthoritarian (Pro)Feminist, Radical Queer, and Antiracist Networks in Quebec -- Making Our Space, Taking Our Place: Lessons From Migrant Women's Organizing in Montreal -- Mad Activism Enters Its Fifth Decade: Psychiatric Survivor Organizing in Toronto -- Organizing and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Strategy: The Turn to BDS in Palestine Solidarity Politics in Montreal -- Muhammad Ali and the Moon Migrants -- Solidarity Tourism and International Development Internships: Some Critical Reflections -- Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity toward a Practice of Decolonization -- Organizing in Solidarity with "Threats to National Security": The Campaign against Immigration "Security Certifi cates" -- Confessions of a Reluctant Food Activist -- Building Power Beyond the Grassroots: ACORN Matters -- Urban Neoliberalism and the Right to the City Alliance -- Book Contributors.
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