Briarpatch - September/October 2019
Briarpatch - September/October 2019
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In this issue
Corporate media owners are killing local news – and with it, our ability to understand climate change on the ground. Conversations with disabled, trans, and racialized disaster preppers. Lessons from high-school organizers fighting Ford’s education cuts. The fight against new security screening at Winnipeg’s downtown library. Canada’s population is aging – what will it take to offer people the death they deserve> Plus a book review, comic, and more.
Reading Truth To Power
The struggle over whom Winnipeg’s downtown library belongs to serves as an unexpectedly sophisticated example of what’s possible when leftists organize outside of the electoral sphere and commit to winning a single protracted struggle.
10 mins
There's No Journalism On A Dead Planet
Corporate media owners are killing local newspapers – which is making it impossible for everyday people to understand the on-the-ground impacts of the climate crisis
10+ mins
Mutual AID For The End Of The World
Conversations with disabled, trans, and racialized survivalists who are changing what it means to be a disaster prepper
10 mins
A Dignified Death
Winner of the 2019 Andrea Walker Memorial Prize for writing on women’s and non-binary people’s health
10+ mins
Not Just A Pretty Instagram Profile
Lessons from high-school organizers fighting Ford’s education cuts
10+ mins
The Loud Silence Of Queer Poverty
The loud silence of queer poverty In every sense that matters, poverty is an LGBTQ2S issue. So why aren’t mainstream Canadian LGBTQ2S organizations treating it as such? And who’s picking up their slack?
10+ 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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