Lady Gaza
23 Apr 2013, Posted in Articles, Current, Featured, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
She may have traded her microphone for a megaphone, but you would be hard-pressed not to recognize that signature hairpiece above the crowd. Lady Gaza has recently emerged as her latest reinvention, this time from international superstar to – if you can believe it – Palestine activist.
Continue Reading...Relationships Across Cornfields And Olive Groves
17 Apr 2013, Posted in Articles, Current, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
In this interconnected world, struggling against settler colonialism anywhere is struggling against it everywhere. Any settler living on Turtle Island owes their ability to do so to ongoing genocide and colonialism here. — Zainab Amadahy
Continue Reading...From Turtle Island To Palestine: Reflections On the Indigenous Youth Delegation To Palestine
04 Apr 2013, Posted in Articles, Current, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
As Native Americans and as Palestinians, we are not necessarily political, nor all of us activists. We are inheritors of history trying to survive ongoing colonization. — Jodi Voice
Continue Reading...Signposts from alQaws: A Decade of Building a Queer Palestinian Discourse
03 Apr 2013, Posted in Articles, Current, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
The Palestinian organization alQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society is a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and queer (LGBTQ) activists who work collaboratively to break down gendered and heteronormative barriers. — Haneen Maikey
Continue Reading...In the Street for Social Strike
02 Feb 2013, Posted in Articles, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
I offer here an account of how a group of Montreal residents, the Mile-End popular assembly, prepared “Dans la rue pour la grève sociale/In the street for social strike” on 10 August 2012. We often forget to document the histories of how we remake the world, even in little ways, and I want to linger a bit on the minutiae of preparation in order to illustrate that fine, magical line between what seems given or natural — that parking spots are for cars, for instance, or that streets are merely conduits
for getting from one place to another — and what is possible. —Cindy Milstein
It’s Only Going to Get Worse
02 Feb 2013, Posted in Articles, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
Living in London is difficult to describe. Londoners are full of contradictions. So many of us are keen to leave but are compelled to stay. The cost of living is high and getting higher. Rent is increasingly taking up far too much of our incomes; for me, it wavers between fifty and eighty per cent of my wages. I work part-time as a waitress, with unreliable bits of income from art projects or childcare, and my situation is echoed throughout the cultural sector. Work for most people is increasingly precarious — too much, not enough, unpaid, not contracted, unprotected &c. —Grace Kyne-Lilley
Continue Reading...Translating the Printemps Érable
02 Feb 2013, Posted in Articles, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
French-language interview with Patricia Boushel and Anna Sheftel of Translating the printemps érable, a volunteer collective whose chief activity is translating working documents and current events coverage relating to social movements in an attempt to bridge the language divide between French and English-speaking Canada. The collective was founded in the spring of 2012 in order to serve the Quebec student movement and has since broadened its mandate to include other current social movements.
Continue Reading...#riotact
29 Sep 2012, Posted in Articles, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
In many ways the criminal justice system maintains the illusion of effectiveness because it absolves us of our responsibilities to our communities. The trial of Pussy Riot highlights some of these dynamics, but at the same time, public support for these three individuals highlights another power dynamic centred around fame and popularity. -Jessica MacCormack and Sarah Mangle
Continue Reading...Some Notes for Reading Chto Delat and Reartikulacija
19 Sep 2012, Posted in Articles, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
Chto Delat (What is to be Done?) is a collaborative art project founded in 2003 that produces a semi-regular newspaper publication. Reartikulacija is a journal and online platform founded in 2007 and based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Both Chto Delat and Reartikulacija represent knowledge production as a strategy for resistance against neoliberal capitalism and necropolitics. -Alison Cooley
Continue Reading...Forcing Our Hearts
12 Jul 2012, Posted in Articles, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
The Indian Act defined Indigenous peoples as “Indians” with criteria that specifically excluded Indigenous women and their children, as well as the female children of Indian men… While the Indian Act is the worst example of federally imposed colonial legislation that will lead to the legislative extinction of Indigenous peoples, it is also the federally controlled access point for the necessities of life for many Indigenous peoples. —Pamela Palmater
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