Tania Ehret

Tania Ehret is rabble.ca's B.C. outreach coordinator and media sponsorship liaison. Tania joined rabble as contributing editor and served in the voluntary role of Indie Inside coordinator until 2016. She's involved in all sorts of fun organizing around Vancouver and believes deeply in melding the worlds of social justice and multimedia/arts, making activism accessible to as many people as possible. She likes cats.

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Revolutionary program empowers girls with media literacy and activism skills

In this social media age where the youth demographic is expected to be proficient in all media platforms and propel this technological evolution at an unprecedented rate, it truly matters who continues to take up space and whose voices are at the table.

If young people, particularly marginalized and underrepresented voices, "don't have the skills to use online, they don't have a voice in society," said Megan Ryland, program coordinator of #HerDigitalVisions, a project of B.C.-based organization Access to Media Education Society (AMES).

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Take down centuries of bloody money with Decolonize Now!

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What would a truly ecologically sustainable economy look like?

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For anarchism and Indigenous resistance: Checking in with Medicine Groove Trio

Tania Ehret

| June 11, 2015

It's been a while since I visited the importance of claiming space for radical politics in art, and the importance therein, of art as a tool for positive change. In my search for examples of this kind of art in practice, I came across Medicine Groove Trio -- founded by French musician Jean Michel Wizenne -- a band created on the principles of anarchism and Indigenous resistance, and moulded by the founder's experiences within Lakota Sioux family. I corresponded with Wizenne to ask a few questions about their work.

1. What is the mission of Medicine Groove trio?

#FierceVoices launches in Vancouver

Tania Ehret

| March 29, 2015

On Wednesday, March 25, women and allies gathered despite the rain, at Heartwood Community Café, to hear speakers chat about women's representation in media, and create media engagement tools. This was the first in the #fiercevoices women and media series, organized by rabble.ca and Women Transforming Cities (WTC).

The evening was kicked off by founder and editor of gender-focus.com, Jarrah Hodge, as well as popular radio personality and writer, Jen Sookfong Lee. They both spoke of their personal experiences as women involved in media in various capacities. They also provided an overall analysis of female representation.

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Heartwood Community Café provides social change through social space in Vancouver

Radical social change initiatives can form just about anywhere, inspired by a complex set of interlocking barriers and systems, designed to keep us apart. But these initiatives grow in more depth and with so much more light, when they have elements of community gathering to replenish and refill our human need for care.

Enter: social spaces, such as Heartwood Community Café in Vancouver, that act as a satellite for social movements and all forms of organizing to bloom.

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Searching for media democracy amid mainstream corporatocracy

I cannot remember the last time I watched or listened to a mainstream news outlet and actually felt more informed, more engaged and more like an empowered member of a mass citizenry, instead of feeling cheated, disillusioned and enraged at whose voices were repeated over and over again.

Probably because that has never happened.

Last Friday, Nov 7, kicked off Media Democracy Days (MDD). Founded in 2001, this annual event (now expanded into a weekend) celebrates independent and democratic media in Canada.

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Save the Salish Sea: Celebrating the growing culture of resistance

Creating a vibrant community of widespread resistance begins in your own backyard. Or more accurately, on the unceded Indigenous territory that we in Vancouver reside.

Organized by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation Sacred Trust, the Third Annual Save the Salish Sea Summer Gathering at Cates Park/Whey-ah-Wichen, Sunday Aug 10, set out to demonstrate a legacy of activist culture, in preparation for a continued fight ahead against further oil and gas development and the frontline communities most affected by it.

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Smash the system with Granny Power

Tania Ehret

| May 18, 2014

Picture a group of militant anti-war activists occupying the office of your local recruitment centre. They're arrested and taken away. Chances are, the immediate image in your mind is not that of older adults, especially older women. This stereotypical image is precisely what the Raging Grannies, are setting out to challenge.

Evan Greer and Anne Feeney bring radical tunes to B.C.

Tania Ehret

| April 22, 2014

I've done a lot of pontificating on the importance of taking back public space and building community, as a form of radical activism, in and of itself. Varying strategies in engaging communities, of all levels, make for more leverage and accessibility in mass mobilization. Music and art are an incredibly important component of this. Not everyone will have the same motivation to lead a march or organize a protest, but art opens up the door for more people to become activists.

This is where rabble-rousers Evan Greer and Anne Feeney come in.

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Revolutionary program empowers girls with media literacy and activism skills

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