Daniel Tseghay

It's not just in our heads: What 'Deep Diversity' gets wrong about racism

rabble staff — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 22:55:15 +0000

January 7, 2016

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Are our interactions with people influenced by the inner workings of our mind? Are we biologically predisposed to discrimination? Daniel Tseghay disagrees with the new book Deep Diversity. Big time.

Hands off Africa: Canada's 300 years of intrusions exposed

rabble staff — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:12:40 +0000

October 1, 2015

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The strength of a myth is probably clearest in its capacity to seduce its victims as much as its beneficiaries. While white Canadians have an ego-massaging reason for believing that this country is faultless, a moral beacon, and a peacekeeping global citizen, the fact that some immigrants are equally misled is a testament to the myth's endurance.

Yves Engler's new book "Canada in Africa" exposes the Canadian government's complicity, and exploitation of, Canadian mines in Africa.

May Day: A new kind of unionism for a changing world

rabble staff — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 21:49:31 +0000

Does Canada need a new kind of unionism? Perhaps.

Mayday, mayday! A new kind of unionism for a changing world

rabble staff — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:40:57 +0000

April 30, 2015

In 1982, when service and maintenance workers at a hospital in Warren, Ohio went on strike, they were not alone. Members of the Workers' Solidarity Club from Youngstown, Ohio -- about 200 km away -- joined the picket line. They made leaflets, invited members of other unions to join the hospital workers in rallies every week, and got themselves arrested while chanting "Warren is a union town, we won't let you tear it down."

We need solidarity across unions, industries, and workers. And as 'Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below' argues, unions must look to new forms to do it.

The racist roots of Bill C-51

rabble staff — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 23:55:23 +0000

Security certificates are not new, having existed in multiple forms for almost 40 years. In them, we find precursors to Bill C-51.

Bill C-51, security certificates, and their shared racist roots

National Day of Action Against Bill C-51: Vancouver rally

Daniel Tseghay — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 17:34:44 +0000

At yesterday's rally in Vancouver, I gave a speech based on an article I published on this website. Mauricio Rivera took the photos.

Bill C-51, security certificates, and their shared racist roots

Daniel Tseghay — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 06:59:32 +0000

Mohammad Mahjoub was arrested in the year 2000. In the years that followed, he undertook numerous hunger strikes. One, in 2005, lasted 76 days. He lost 110 pounds and had to be hospitalized. Another the next year lasted 93 days. He was transferred to the Kingston Immigration Holding Centre, known as "Guantanamo North"; released from detention and put under house arrest; sent back to detention, at his request, because of the effect surveillance had on his family during his house arrest; and then returned again to house arrest, this time living alone.

Capitalism vs. The Climate: Who will win?

rabble staff — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:50:49 +0000

December 4, 2014

On Burnaby Mountain, while oil company Kinder Morgan works to lay a pipeline, growing numbers of people have been standing and resisting since September 3.

Indigenous land defenders and settler allies point out that these are still unceded Indigenous lands. Occupying them to establish the Trans Mountain pipeline, transporting crude oil and refined products from Edmonton to Burnaby, would also bring 890,000 barrels of tar sands oil every day. This at a time when nearly every day another report reveals that our climate is more susceptible to carbon dioxide than we realized, and that we should be keeping it all in the ground to stand anywhere near a chance.

Kinder Morgan. Enbridge. Keystone. TransCanada. These companies and Big Business threaten our planet. What will you do about it?

Illustrating the hidden architecture of migrant detention

rabble staff — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:40:34 +0000

September 25, 2014

Immigration detention is Canada's fastest growing form of incarceration. Pending deportation, the Canadian governments puts migrants in immigration hold, separating them from their families, making adequate legal counsel inaccessible and subjecting them to constant lockdowns.

They're deemed flight risks and detained for overstaying their visas or permits, or for having their permanent or refugee status revoked.

Like failing to pay a parking permit or filing taxes on time, these migrants are only accused of an "administrative offense." But unlike those other offenses, these are some of the only ones which lead to detention.

Tings Chak illustrates moments of resistance and struggle within migrant detention centres in Canada. Based on discussions with detainees, these drawings and text reveal these spaces of incarceration.

Book review: Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

The Mainlander — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 23:33:26 +0000

Report released on immigration detention highlights injustice

rabble staff — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 18:16:37 +0000

Yesterday a report entitled "Endless, Arbitrary and Unfair: The Truth about Immigration Detention in Canada" was released by No One is Illegal – Toronto and the End Immigration Detention Network.

Boycotting immigration detention in Canada

The Mainlander — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:52:11 +0000

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Lynval Daley has been in immigration hold for three years while Canada attempts to deport him to Jamaica. As a refugee claimant who came from Nigeria more than nine years ago, Azuka Abagbodi was detained upon attending his monthly visit with immigration enforcement in August 2012. He's since been deported.

Bob Rennie’s $25,000 lunch: Why Vancouver is unaffordable

The Mainlander — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 03:56:58 +0000

For $25,000 you could have attended a private roundtable lunch meeting today with Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson. Organized by real estate marketer Bob Rennie, it’s the most recent, and perhaps most tasteless, case of the real estate industry filling Vision’s coffers.

Bob Rennie is the most prominent condominium marketer in British Columbia. His following of real estate agents, brokers and, more importantly, developers, has earned him the moniker condo king.

Review: Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest -- Temporary foreign workers in Canada

The Mainlander — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:30:25 +0000

Over the past decade, the Canadian economy has become increasingly dependent upon exploited temporary foreign workers, in large part through the Canadian government’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), an arm of the government’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program. A new book, Tomorrow We’re All Going to the Harvest: Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy, explores with scholarly attention and detail many of the problems inherent in this program.

Housing: Where will the NDP lead us in the next four years?

Daniel Tseghay — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:38:52 +0000

Start with an ageing housing stock and deteriorating housing conditions. Add shock evictions, growing waitlists, and negligent landlords. Throw in renovictions and gentrification creeping into almost every corner of the city. On top of that, add run-of-the-mill rent increases for people earning stagnant wages, expiries of operating agreements for non-profit housing providers and co-ops, and a precipitous decline in the number of non-market housing units in British Columbia.