Tag: Appropriation of Voice

Unifor Comms Staffer Appropriates My Voice For The Olivia Chow Campaign! (Feat. John Tory)

If you’ve been following this site for long you’re probably familiar with my work examining how unions, NGOs and activists all too often appropriate marginalized people’s voices. My first awareness of this phenomenon came during Occupy Vancouver when activists from No One Is Illegal inserted homeless indigenous men into the camp, labelled them as “elders”, …

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Thursday’s OCAP Protest: Bullies, Victims, Lies, And An Angry Woman With A Shank…

On Thursday the OCAP (Ontario Coalition Against Poverty) held a protest in the City of Toronto owned Metro Hall building. It was pretty much the same crowd who were at their City Hall protest a couple weeks back minus a few. Anarchist Mennonite Street Preacher Doug Hatlem Johnson was conspicuously absent, but John Clarke was …

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