Alongside Dr. Donald Ableson I was interviewed by Heidi Petracek for the “Politics” segment of CTV News Atlantic at Six. I talked about the future of the far right, administration change, and how to build […]
Tag: social change
Safe space for white questions
In February 2020, Dr. Ajay Parasram and I began an experiment we called “Safe Space for White Questions,” recurring drop-in sessions we host aimed at white-identified people to ask difficult questions about racism, white supremacy, […]
How Can social & environmental justice movements build political power?
On December 10, 2020 I was invited to participate in a session of “Ask a Scientist Live” organized by XR Scientists to discuss the question of how social and environmental justice movements build political power. […]
Ecologies of the Radical Imagination
My new article “Ecologies of the Radical Imagination” has just been published online in Information, Communication & Society. See it here, the first 50 copies are free to read!
Do Red and Green Mix?
What’s the relationship between socialism and environmentalism in the struggle for a post-capitalist, ecologically sustainable future? Check out Michael Löwy’s original essay, the roundtable it stimulated, and my response here. Great conversations facilitated by the […]
Race in a Glass Nation: Fragility and Dissent in the University and Beyond
I was honoured to be invited to be a panelist at this event held at the University of King’s College on November 17, 2017. In a moment of rising fascism, aggrieved masculinity, and rabid white […]
Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?
Video in three parts from Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?: Panel Discussion and Launch Event at Mount Saint Vincent University on October 11, 2017 featuring Michael Truscello, Catherine Martin, Jackie Barkley, Lynn Jones, El […]
Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up? Organizing the Twenty-first Century Resistance
TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword: Organising in the 21st Century by Affiong Limene Affiong Introduction: Why Don’t The Poor Rise Up? by Michael Truscello and Ajamu Nangwaya GLOBAL NORTH 1. Idle No More: Grounding the Corrientes […]
Political Cultures and Movements
On April 21 and 22, 2016 the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy hosted the 4th seminar in the Social Movements & Media Technologies series organized by the Centre for Global Media and Democracy (CGMD) […]
Against the Grain Radio: The Radical Imagination, Crisis, and Movements
Full audio of a feature-length interview I did with C.S. Soong of Against the Grain Radio on KPFA. We talked about capitalism, the myth of the middle class, the radical imagination, and building movements against […]
