November 2008: Workplace activism

In this special focus on workplace activism, Briarpatch looks at unions’ increasing use of social networking tools, assesses the prospects for the Canadian labour movement heading into a recession, travels with solidarity activists to Colombia and Haiti, asks why CanWest can’t take a joke, and more.

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features

northern exclusion
By Kate Press
Nunavut booms, who benefits?

canada does colombia
By Dawn Paley
Labour groups oppose the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, but can they mobilize Canadians?

plus: Liliany Obando: Profile of a jailed Colombian dissident
By Roger Langen

haiti & the canadian labour movement
By Roger Annis
Building the Haiti Union Solidarity Fund.

union organizing 2.0
By Carmelle Wolfson
Labour enters the Facebook matrix.

adventures in coordinated bargaining
By Erinn White & Dayn Gray
New organizing models bear fruit for Ontario university-sector workers.

too little, too late?
By John Peters
The state of the Canadian labour movement today.

the butterfly in the classroom
By Roger Langen
Academic freedom & the labour movement.

departments

letters to the editor

review
Jim Stanford’s Economics for Everyone: A short guide to the economics of capitalism
Reviewed by Nick Bonokoski

quotes from the underground
Slavoj Žižek, James Meek, Barack Obama, Raj Patel, Albert Einstein, John Michael Greer & Eric Hoffer

parting shots
A SLAPP in the face for free speech
By Robert Jensen

luz: girl of the knowing
“Fired up about resources” by Claudia Dávila

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