Derrick Jensen’s Self-Defeating Argument on Structural Violence

[Trigger Warning for Violence and Domestic violence, especially in the Video which has a battered woman as the opening shot] This summer Franklin López released a documentary film called End:Civ (The full documentary can be viewed here). The documentary is based on the book End Game by the environmental activist, Derrick Jensen, and each section of [...]

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6 Years of Equal Marriage in Canada

Today marks the six-year anniversary of equal marriage in Canada on July 20, 2005 (although it is important to note that same-sex marriage was already legal in most of the provinces and one territory before that). Since the passage of Bill C-38, which legalized same-sex marriage in Canada, there has been no negative effects on heterosexual marriage or [...]

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Shielding the Privileged to Protect Ignorance

I just watched this news report on a terrible case in which Ikenna Njoku, a man from Auburn WA, tried to cash a cheque at Chase bank and ended up in jail (a full transcript is available here). I thought the news report might offer an interesting example of shielding the white viewing public from [...]

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“Women choose not to contribute in equal amounts to society as men do”

Wow, this is terrible. It really shows how when we are looking at relational and structural problems an individualistic explanation can just lead you so awry. Notice how all of the blame is placed on women themselves. At about minute 1:00 we hear that women have “equal opportunities” and “equal rights wherever they go” yet ”women [...]

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Happy Canada Day!

Happy Canada Day! Here is a quiz about Canada, if you have some spare time this holiday. Celebrating 144 years of ignorance about the language, knowledge and traditions of the First Nations of this country. In an attempt to lessen my own ignorance of First Nations issues in this country I am reading books by First Nations authors all [...]

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