Briarpatch Magazine - March/April 2019
Briarpatch Magazine - March/April 2019
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In this issue
Inside Indian-occupied Kashmir’s deadliest year in a decade. The fight to protect an Algonquin sacred site from a condo development. The resurgence of the Jewish left in Canada. Saving Canada’s supply management system. Indigenous opposition to Enbridge’s Line 3 replacement. Winners of the Writing in the Margins contest, a book review, and more.
For The Dreamers
In the palm of my hand, I delicately finger a pair of unfamiliar ID cards printed on worn pieces of coloured paper, yellow and salmon pink. The faded type reveals they were issued in the spring of 1941 with approval from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
8 mins
If Only They Knew What We Know Now
Excerpts From The Suitcase Project
1 min
Saving Akikodjiwan
Developers are building condos on top of sacred Algonquin Anishinabeg islands. Why are Indigenous sacred sites not given the same legal protections as settler ones?
10+ mins
The Resurgence Of The Jewish Left In Canada
While antisemitic hate crimes increase in North America, there’s been a resurgence of the Jewish left – led by young people, rooted in solidarity with other marginalized communities, focused on ending the Israeli occupation, and held together by new articulations of Jewish community and ritual.
10+ mins
“Azaadi”
Inside Indian-occupied Kashmir’s deadliest year in a decade
10+ mins
Bodies On The Line
Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline replacement slices through the southern half of Saskatchewan, but there’s little Indigenous opposition in the province. To mount our own fight, we’ll have to learn from other Indigenous resistance efforts along the pipeline’s route.
10+ mins
How Can Farmers Fight Back Against The New NAFTA?
NAFTA 2.0 is chipping away at policies that guard Canadian farmers from price volatility and ensure high labour and environmental standards. The National Farmers Union says the fight has to combine grassroots and policy advocacy.
10 mins
On This Patch Of Grass: City Parks On Occupied Land
In June 2018, six people at the Justice For Our Stolen Children Camp were arrested by Regina police.
4 mins
Briarpatch Magazine Description:
Publisher: Briarpatch Inc.
Category: Culture
Language: English
Frequency: Bi-Monthly
Briarpatch is an award-winning magazine of politics and culture. Fiercely independent and proudly polemical, Briarpatch offers original reporting, insight, and analysis from a grassroots perspective. As a reader-supported publication, Briarpatch is not just devoted to reporting on social movements — it’s committed to building them.
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