I write periodically about political issues and in re-doing the indexing of the webpage, I’m gathering all those posts together so people can find them easily. It’s a long list, so I want to break it apart into groups, and to be honest, I have trouble with that. Categorizing things has never been easy for me. Most things could fit into more than one category, but if I put most things in multiple categories then this page will be messy and complicated. So I’m leaving things where they best seem suited. For now.
You can also follow my most recent politically themed posts here:
Making political change:
- The true reason I haven’t been involved in political activism for a while: not time shortage but fear of being wrong.
- Conversations with Leigh Robertson and some reflections about making change in the world.
- Making a Difference
- ya, the revolution really isn’t here. Could we keep working on other things?
- why I’m not supporting boycott2014
- Disappointment in Liberal candidate’s Negative Ad Campaign
- open letter to Terra Turtle on her run for mayor of Sudbury
- Security Crackdown at City Hall
- political legitimacy
- Legislate, or Build a Movement?
- Happy Things
- Defend Our Climate
- a time for being non-partisan
- writing letters to politicians
- Raise the Minimum Wage campaign meeting
- Visiting our MPP’s office: day 2 of the S-CAP 11 trial.
- political protest and the police
- Lego Mini-Figures for Social Justice
- For a Diversity of Tactics
- children at political protests
- scandals and election fraud, what a week in Canadian politics!
- talking politics
- three stories about Canada
- Social Justice Activism and the pursuit of low-hanging fruit
- Is there a way to “fight our own government”
- Creating Political Change: activism and slacktivism
- Day to day life and looking at the larger issues too
- Post-Election Blues
- Where will our occupying take us?
Poverty
- Developing the Political Will to End Poverty
- A handful of ways to reduce poverty
- Responding to the claim that “Tim Horton’s employees don’t deserve $14 an hour.”
- Poverty as a product of social relations
- What is social assistance about anyway?
- Work: both paid and unpaid
- inequality and expectations.
- Inside the mall or outside: thoughts on the allegiance to capitalism.
- Review: Adventures of Unemployed Man
- doctors and poverty
- confidentiality agreements and power imbalances
- safety, efficiency, cost of human lives and work
- Complexities of Affirmative Action
- The Trouble with Inequality
- whose money is it?
- arts, culture and the environment
- Hunger Games, social inequality and hope
Poverty in Ontario:
- Tim Hudak’s “Job Plan”
- Ontario’s Minimum Wage Advisory Panel
- Talking about the Minimum Wage
- Sudbury’s fight against the municipal replacement for CSUMB
- Accountability for Social Assistance.
- thoughts on life, the provincial budget and WWII stories
- an open-letter about social assistance in Ontario
- thoughts after a visit to the social assistance offices
- Tell your councilors that you care about the homeless
Echo chambers, education and authority:
- the importance of “paid journalism” or my response to Sudbury wikileaks.
- Intelligent Design: money and PR instead of science
- Interacting with those we disagree with
- Responding when a long time assumption about aspartame is challenged
- vaccines and the selling of fear, mistrust and a sense of superiority
- Enough with the echo chambers
- Aaron Sorkin’s Commentary on Occupy Wall Street.
- when did everyone get so angry?
- religion and politics
- is there such a thing as a neutral education system?
- responsibility, the ability to accept criticism and pit bulls.
- Bullying is still a challenging topic.
- Thoughts on a City Council Meeting
- Personal Responsibility in the Age of Unlimited Choices
- Lessons from my occupy experience
- A Plan to Strengthen What???!!
- Balances of power, and the Postal Service Lock-Out
- politics, homeschooling and the challenges of communication
Imperialism, colonialism, etc
- Reasons to NOT Support Operation Christmas Child
- Haiti – Thoughts about The Big Truck That Went By by Jonathan Katz
- Remembrance Day
- Progressive Christian response to the book: Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada
- Book Review: Letters from Nuremburg
- Thoughts about the garment factory in Bangladesh
- My response to the news about the bombing in Boston
- Teaching history to my homeschooled kids
- Homeschooling Topic of the Week: Afghanistan
- the complicated problem of sweatshops
- A Response to Anthony Sowan’s Rant Against #IdleNoMore
- my thoughts on Paved With Good Intentions: Canada’s development NGOs from idealism to imperialism
- Refugee Rights Day and Bill C-31
Feminism:
- In Defense of Disney Princesses
- I’m a woman, not a cis-woman.
- “If you Give a Gay Mouse a Cookie” by Art for a Democratic Society
- Thoughts about Heavy Hangs the Head
- Valentine’s Day
- reminders why feminism is still relevant
- Does everyone really hate environmentalists and feminists, and if so, what can we do about it?
- my post on why we still need feminism
- deep green resistance, gender, and transgenderism
- Do not re-post if you are against bullying – link to this instead
Random:
- Reflections on a Town Council Meeting
- Save Canada Post door-to-door delivery
- Benefit Street: If this is entertainment….
- Balancing Act is a False Analogy for the situation Charles Sousa is in.
- Rebutting the Fraser Institute’s Report on Immigration
- Meme-y Monday: Prisoners treated better than the elderly?
- Paying for blogs?
- Book Review: Shannen and the Dream for a School
- Adventures of Baylard Bear and the portrayal of adoption.
- Occupy Sudbury
- social skills, homeschooling and the occupy movement
Climate change & Environmentalism:
- 500 climate scientists deny climate change – yeah, no.
- What would it take to get me to use public transit?
- 5 things to do to protect Monarch Butterflies
- When it comes to climate change, the devil is in the details
- Why those who liked The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard should be supporting First Nations rights, right now.
- Climate Change, Northern Ontario & Chief Theresa Spence
- Tears for Nanertak – a children’s book about climate change