“When you see some of the tactics people are using now to try and monitor these ICE arrests… it’s similar to what we did when we were in SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee).”
While each period is historically unique, veterans and scholars of the civil rights movement say there are some important similarities between the era of Jim Crow and racial segregation and our current moment. One similarity, as author and professor Joshua Clark Davis notes, is the role that local law enforcement plays in enforcing regimes of racial oppression and attacking the movements opposed to them. But, as civil rights Icon Judy Richardson argues, there are also critical similarities when it comes to organizing and executing successful resistance efforts then and now. In this extended episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Richardson and Davis about the hardwon lessons from the civil rights movement that must be applied to the growing anti-authoritarianism movement today.
Here is part two of my interview with NDP leadership candidate, Avi Lewis. We spoke about Jagmeet Singh’s leadership, proportional representation, Israel, Alberta extraction, and so much more.
They tried everything in their arsenal. From accusations of antisemitism to public safety threats to it being a potential site of violence and they even took the City of Toronto to court, but Zionists lost in their attempt to stop the raising of the flag of Palestine in Toronto. This month alone the Canada Revenue Agency revoked the charitable status of three more Zionist organisations in Canada
A veteran of the free speech movement in the ‘60s, historian David Hollinger shares hard-won lessons about defending free speech and academic freedom from extinction in the age of Trump.