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A Crop of New Documentaries Refuses to Erase the Past

Alissa Wilkinson Vox
Films from Tantura to Descendant challenge the powerful. But it’s still up to us to witness the truth. The past can’t be changed. But if we won’t tell the truth about it, we can’t learn from it. We can’t even understand ourselves.

‘All The Shelves Would Be Bare’

Carrie Levine Center for Public Integrity
Christine Emeran, an advocate for free expression talks about the push to ban books, especially those about racism, sexuality and gender.

Unions and Worker Co-ops: Why Economic Justice Requires Collaboration

Rebecca Lurie Nonprofit Quarterly
Unions and worker co-ops have different strengths and strategies for achieving worker justice. We need more of each, and more collaboration between the two. A new toolkit gives tips and highlights seven case studies of collaborations.

Confronting the Right-Wing Attacks on Racial Justice Teaching

Rethinking Schools Editors Rethinking Schools
These laws require educators to lie to students through omission, euphemism, and sanitized accounts of the past and present. Wherever possible, educators should challenge them and, if necessary, defy them.

Budgeting Justice

Celina Su Boston Review
Cities must empower historically marginalized communities to shape how public funds are spent.

Pipeline Politics and the Ukraine Crisis

John Foster Canadian Dimension
Security can only be achieved if it is universal. US efforts to contain Russia and maintain leadership over Europe are not working. The world has become multi-polar and Nord Stream 2 is a fulcrum at the centre of the current crisis.