On May 21, 2015, The Radical Imagination Project was pleased to host a community event titled White Ignorance and the Struggle Against Gentrification, Past and Present featuring Concordia University professor Dr. Ted Rutland, Dr. Ingrid Waldron of the Dalhousie School of Nursing, community and labour activist Lynn Jones and Halifax’s poet laureate El Jones. Here…
Original: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25411-lessons-from-social-movements-six-notes-on-the-radical-imagination As the crisis of austerity deepens, forcing workers and the public to swallow the costs of the global financial meltdown, the need for the radical imagination is more urgent than ever. But what is it, actually? How can we understand the radical imagination as more than a hollow slogan? How can it be a…
7:30pm, Thursday April 7 2011 Venue: The Bus Stop Theatre Address: 2203 Gottingen St. Cost: Free Crisis. Bailout. Austerity. The political situation today has led many to ask if the system is fundamentally broken. Do we need to imagine a society beyond capitalism, for Nova Scotia and the World? While many would like to see a…
