Featuring Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Dr. Sean Cadigan, Jaggi Singh, Chris Crass and Steve D'Arcy.

About the participants:

Sean Cadigan is a professor in the Department of History at Memorial University and is a specialist in the social and ecological history of fishers and fishing communities. His most recent book, Death on Two Fronts (Penguins, 2013) examines the impact of the Great War on public support of the Fishermen’s Protective Union after the SS Newfoundland sealing disaster and the lasting impact of these events on Newfoundland’s political culture.

Chris Crass is a social justice activist and writer. A central figure in anti-war and anti-racist movement in the US for over two decades, Mr. Crass is committed to “building powerful working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation” through his activities, and his talks and workshops dedicated to fostering change. He is the author of Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis and Movement Building Strategy (PM Press, 2013).

 

Stephen D’Arcy is an associate professor of philosophy at Ontario’s Huron University College, Western University. His research addresses practical ethics, democratic theory and theories of social and environmental justice. Dr. D’Arcy is the author of Languages of the Unheard (Between the Lines, 2013), a work that explores the moral ambiguities and politics of military resistance.

Jaggi Singh is a Montreal-based community organizer and activist in groups and projects such as the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC), migrant rights organizations No One is Illegal and Solidarity Across Borders, as well as the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair. Mr. Singh has gained renown over the past 10 years through his participation in numerous high-profile anti-capitalist, anti-war, and civil rights protests, where his actions have caught the attentions of the public, the police and the media.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is an award-winning writer, storyteller, educator and activist of Mississauga Anishinaabeg ancestry. A member of the Alderville First Nation (Rice Lake, Ontario), Simpson draws on her extension knowledge of Indigenous peoples to inform her scholarship and as inspiration for her work with Indigenous communities and organizations. Ms. Simpson is the author of over 30 scholarly articles and five books, including her most recent collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love (ARP Books, 2014).