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In this compelling roadmap to a livable future, Indigenous sovereignty and a solution to the climate crisis go hand in …
In this compelling roadmap to a livable future, Indigenous sovereignty and a solution to the …
The first two chapters cover successive Canadian governments' dismal records regarding Indigenous people and fossil fuel extraction. The book then takes a more optimistic turn and examines what a true just transition could look like and how we could build a caring economy. The last two chapters were, I felt, the strongest through, as the authors covered movement strategy and how we can work together.
In this compelling roadmap to a livable future, Indigenous sovereignty and a solution to the …
Rachel Notley's Alberta NDP were elected in May 2015, and Justin Trudeau's federal Liberals were elected that October. Three days after the federal election, high-ranking insiders from both governments met at a downtown Ottawa restaurant. According to a Vancouver Sun report, there they agreed that, in exchange for Alberta agreeing to put a price on carbon as part of a federal plan, the federal government would approve the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline, then proposed by Kinder Morgan.
— The End of This World by Angele Alook, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, and 3 others (Page 54)
This book explores the history of the paranormal romance genre; from its origins in the …
What such plots amount to is a sort of ritualized absolution of the traditional Gothic villain, as, in one story after another, the violent, terrifying Grand, Dark Man in his Grand, Dark House is shown to be guiltless, or at least more sinned against than sinning. In these stories, just because someone looks like a Gothic villain, behaves like a Gothic villain and lives in the sort of house which one would expect a Gothic villain to inhabit does not mean that they are necessarily evil, or undeserving of love; and they thus steadily prepared the way for later Gothic romances, in which even inhuman monsters such as vampires could be forgiven and redeemed.
— The Twilight Of The Gothic? by Joseph Crawford (Page 94)
This book explores the history of the paranormal romance genre; from its origins in the revisionist horror fiction of the …
In this compelling roadmap to a livable future, Indigenous sovereignty and a solution to the …
In particular, he cites Frank T'Seleie speaking in 1975 as Chief of the Fort Good Hope Dene Band, located along the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories.
"Whether or not your businessmen or your Government believes that a pipeline must go through our great valley, let me tell you, Mr Berger, and let me tell your nation, that this is Dene land and we the Dene people intend to decide what happens on our land... There will be no pipeline because we have our plans for our land. There will be no pipeline because we no longer intend to allow our land and our future to be taken away from us and that we are destroyed to make someone else rich. There will be no pipeline because we, the Dene people, are awakening to see the truth of the system of genocide that has been imposed on us and we will not go back to sleep."
— The End of This World by Angele Alook, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, and 3 others (Page 40 - 41)
In this compelling roadmap to a livable future, Indigenous sovereignty and a solution to the climate crisis go hand in …
Our dependence on cars is damaging our health — and the planet’s. Movement asks radical …
Content warning road deaths
Movement follows the journalist Thalia Verkade as she goes through a complete change in her view of transport and traffic, from wanting cycle highways and showers at work, to questioning how we think about and talk about streets and neighbourhoods. There's a pretty tough chunk in the middle where she comes to grip with the way that we just accept a certain number of deaths per year as 'just the way it is', and blame the victims rather than the system that created the danger. Particularly interesting to cover the Dutch perspective -- I've seen a couple of outsiders' perspectives (e.g., the YT channel "Not Just Bikes") that make the Netherlands sound like a utopia, but it's unfortunately not the case, and many of the pressures and attitudes that exist elsewhere exist there too, only modified very slightly.
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Incredible gift from Alice Wong to the world, and especially to those in the disability and other advocacy communities who look to her example. Phenomenal insight into her life, mind, and incredible example at setting boundaries on the abled gaze
@tastytea@bookwyrm.social I hope you enjoy it. I thought it was amazing.
Our dependence on cars is damaging our health — and the planet’s. Movement asks radical questions about how we approach …
Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte uncovers the place of …
