Maya Bhullar

Build the opposition to Trumpism in Canada

The Activist Toolkit — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 20:51:55 +0000

Currently, the United States is headed in directions I couldn't have foretold in my worst nightmares. Perhaps I lacked imagination. Perhaps I should have read George Orwell's 1984 more closely. I have been working to organize within the political system in the U.S. and Canada for decades and, now, all I can do is resist. As I am drawn into new networks of organizers who are building locally and globally to oppose the attacks on everything we believe in, I am inspired by the tools I am finding.

Toronto City Council finally approved enforceable licensing regulations for landlords

The Activist Toolkit — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 13:16:50 +0000

Last week, Toronto’s City Council finally agreed that Toronto’s landlords should be licensed.

ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) Canada has been one of the groups organizing around this issue. What does this win mean for tenants and for us? Activist Toolkit interviewed Kemba Richardson, Chairperson for the Jane Finch, York West Chapter of ACORN

A fierce holiday giving guide to build a better future

The Activist Toolkit — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:41:03 +0000

A few weeks ago I was interviewing Cathy Elliott for an upcoming Activist Toolkit blog about the DAREarts' First Roots Aboriginal Program. At the end of the interview, she offered us the gift of the following words:

"What can I offer activists? For a long time now I have been saying that the time for 'pretty words' is over, it is time for collective action and I mean everybody in Canada has to work together to make this work. It is going to take generations. It took generations to get us here and it is going to take generations to get us out of this mess that we are in.

Teaching kids to resist the racist reality we are in and build the future

The Activist Toolkit — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:04:40 +0000

Last summer, Black Lives Matter Toronto hosted the first Toronto Freedom School, a three-week community self-determined education program. Forty-five families applied and 20 students enrolled. The participants were between four and 10 years old.

The Freedom School also had an associated toddler program for participants who between two and four. The program was launched as a three-week pilot program with limited capacity. In coming years, the organizers hope to expand the number of students and the program.

The Activist Toolkit interviewed LeRoi Newbold as part of its Constructing Change series.

'This is really community building': What sponsoring a Syrian refugee family means to one Toronto parent

The Activist Toolkit — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:11:30 +0000

As of October 23, 33,239 Syrian refugees have been resettled in Canada.

rabble.ca's Activist Toolkit is interviewing people who are on the frontlines of refugee settlement to find out about what they are seeing on the ground and what additional supports they need to address the needs of this surge of refugees.

Toronto Pig Save 'bears witness' to animal suffering and seeks to inspire change

The Activist Toolkit — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:52:01 +0000

Constructing Change speaks to people working in communities to be the change, to build projects, to make a difference. The interviews and profiles are meant to share information about how to get involved to support and amplify the changemakers' work and/or to share how you can organize a similar project in your community. The Constructing Change series is a collaboration between the Lynn Williams Activist Toolkit and Rabble Podcast Network.

Vancouver summer camp empowers Syrian children to tell their own stories, however they want to tell them

The Activist Toolkit — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:08:37 +0000

The Consultation Tracker: For the months of June-July 2016

The Activist Toolkit — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 11:23:05 +0000