Ok it's past 10 PM on a Saturday night. The snow is gently falling and I'm heading down to record my penultimate episode of Take Back the Fight podcast -- the final one for 2021.
This Thursday, you'll hear about how ineffective it has been to have feminists in positions of power and how this has actually weakened, confused and disoriented the feminist movement.
The one I'm recording tonight ...
Will explore how the only real feminism (that is political feminism that actually seeks to dismantle patriarchy) must be anti-capitalist, anti-racist and decolonial. And I explain the ways in which we are failing in that ...
The final episode will be released in January, after I've had some time to digest everything that came before. Stay tuned!!
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And just to give you an idea, with the number of sign-ups, I'm already equal to what I'm paid for my column, to write 17 pieces. The rate is low (the pub is new and does what it can!) but having a more stable income stream will absolutely rule.
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A listener from unceded Coast Salish territory entered #sn2021xo with this: "My favourite episode of all is Abolish the military? Abolish the military. I've been anti-war for some time and abolishing the military makes sense (it works for Costa Rica).
Almost before defunding the police, we should abolish the military (let's do both at the same time.) All the arguments you raise are absolutely cogent ones; our armed forces do fuck all abroad and at home ...
...they're just kinda sorta ok at logistics when they're not sexually assaulting their female members. We get them to drive trucks and deliver things when we could just get Canadian organizations to do that instead ... it makes more sense...
As mentioned in the episode, it was another rough year for frustrating content but I loved the insights you both provided within the episode.
It really is incredible how much community organizing has happened over the past year or two and I’m so excited for what the future holds with community organizing. Over the past year, I started volunteering with a local reproductive justice organization...
Of course, deaths lag by several weeks so what we're seeing today is the impact of 3-6 weeks ago, but still, it's great to see that finally, in residential care, COVID-19 seems mostly under control.
One thing to note: I have it on solid authority that in Ontario, there are voices at the Ontario Science Table who are worried about hospital capacity in Toronto and Kingston, and as such, have argued against testing asymptomatic healthcare workers.
Like, you can get SO detailed about what words and phrases can mean. Then you throw in the idea of rhetoric, where the relationship between the words and their meanings is skewed and distanced.
So, I just really appreciated the breakdown of exactly what role and influence rhetoric has in social and political discussions. It gave me tools to hear what people say more critically, which was especially effective for scanning election news shortly after this episode aired.
The data suggests that you have 33% protection against illness and 7o% protection against severe illness. So, no, or isn't like you haven't been vaccinated at all.