Briarpatch - March/April 2019

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

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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.