In 2018, then-Alliance Against Displacement organized a discussion class series on abolition, called “Abolition Culture: what does a world without punitive justice look like?” This series drew out a wide [...]

Class 1: Sojourner Truth Organization These three chapters from "Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization 1969-1986" cover STO's history from their beginnings in 1969, at [...]

We are trained how to think from the moment we are born. Then, we carry and exercise this training constantly, against every minute decision and for life altering massive [...]

Class 1: Understanding theories of fascism What is fascism, compared to the regular use of coercive force by a “democratic” capitalist and colonial state? Make a point form definition using [...]

In late 2017, Alliance Against Displacement held a reading series on Maoism. We used three points of reference in building the curriculum: Textbook overviews: Chapters from Elliot Liu’s Maoism [...]

In the 1970s and 80s, a turn began in North American feminism when Black women unsettled the racist tendencies of mainstream white feminists and highlighted an “intersectional” approach to [...]

In June 2016, Alliance Against Displacement held a public forum “Reconcile This!” that addressed the tensions between social movement demands to “redistribute wealth” downwards with the fact that in [...]

Anti-austerity is a pillar of Social Housing Alliance’s work. The economic forces of displacement, we say, are a real estate and resource extraction based economy that storms on Indigenous [...]

Anti-Black Racism & Social Movements: From Ferguson to Vancouver These two proposed classes hope to sustain a conversation about the implications of the “2014-15 Black uprising” in North America (centred [...]