Chris Dixon
@withmovements.bsky.social
Alaskan | activist, writer, educator | author of Another Politics | member of Punch Up Collective | committed resident of Ottawa, Ontario, on unceded Algonquin territory | unrepentantly earnest | he/him | www.writingwithmovements.com
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Chris Dixon
@withmovements.bsky.social
· Sep 16
Some good news: for the last four years, I have been quietly working on a new book titled *For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World*. I have signed a contract with @akpress.org and they will be co-publishing the book with @btlbooks.com. The book will be out next fall!
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Upcoming radical events in Ottawa and online - November 10th, 2025 edition, ft.: rallies against nuclear waste, a harmony circle for Palestine, dance parties, the Transgender Day of Remembrance and lots more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Upcoming radical events in Ottawa and online - November 10th, 2025 edition, ft.: rallies against nuclear waste, a harmony circle for Palestine, dance parties, the Transgender Day of Remembrance and lots more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...
Do yourself a favor and read this excellent wide-ranging interview with the activist-scholar Cathy Cohen!
“We have to be building political homes while also doing the door-knocking and organizing that builds power and changes lives. The duality of that work can be hard to hold.”
An interview with activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen:
An interview with activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen:
Building a Political Home - Boston Review
Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”
www.bostonreview.net
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Do yourself a favor and read this excellent wide-ranging interview with the activist-scholar Cathy Cohen!
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In late September, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur died in Cuba a free woman.
Orisanmi Burton celebrates her life and her unceasing dedication to the revolutionary struggle for liberation from the racist U.S. empire and all that it entails.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/07/a...
Orisanmi Burton celebrates her life and her unceasing dedication to the revolutionary struggle for liberation from the racist U.S. empire and all that it entails.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/07/a...
Assata Is Welcome Here • Protean Magazine
In late September, black revolutionary Assata Shakur died in Cuba a free woman. Orisanmi Burton celebrates her life and her unceasing dedication to the revolutionary struggle for liberation from U.S. ...
proteanmag.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In late September, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur died in Cuba a free woman.
Orisanmi Burton celebrates her life and her unceasing dedication to the revolutionary struggle for liberation from the racist U.S. empire and all that it entails.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/07/a...
Orisanmi Burton celebrates her life and her unceasing dedication to the revolutionary struggle for liberation from the racist U.S. empire and all that it entails.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/07/a...
I've often argued that radical organizing can happen not only in workplaces and neighborhoods, but also in all of the other sites in which people congregate. This is an inspiring account, from members of @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social, of people organizing through fandom!
As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Star Wars” fan community, showing the potential of cultural organizing.
Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building
As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I've often argued that radical organizing can happen not only in workplaces and neighborhoods, but also in all of the other sites in which people congregate. This is an inspiring account, from members of @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social, of people organizing through fandom!
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Quite an honor to be on the podcast / show that I’ve listened to for more than 15 years. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
October 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Quite an honor to be on the podcast / show that I’ve listened to for more than 15 years. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
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Maybe the biggest REO List ever? Twenty-one radical events in Ottawa and online, ft. rallies against poverty and nuclear waste, a dance party, a renters townhall, a film screening, workshops, and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Maybe the biggest REO List ever? Twenty-one radical events in Ottawa and online, ft. rallies against poverty and nuclear waste, a dance party, a renters townhall, a film screening, workshops, and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...
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There is a lot to share in this week's round-up of radical events! Tenant organizing, book launches, incredible films and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...
October 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
There is a lot to share in this week's round-up of radical events! Tenant organizing, book launches, incredible films and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...
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Earlier this year, incarcerated firefighters in LA rushed headlong into the flames, fending off catastrophic fires (made worse by climate change).
In their new essay, Abby Cunniff reminds us of the long history of their labor abolitionist politics.
spectrejournal.com/the-abolitio...
In their new essay, Abby Cunniff reminds us of the long history of their labor abolitionist politics.
spectrejournal.com/the-abolitio...
The Abolitionist Labor Politics of California’s Incarcerated Firefighters – Spectre Journal
Reflecting on the use of incarcerated firefighters today, Abby Cunniff takes a historical look on the radical politics of their counterparts in the 1970s.
spectrejournal.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Earlier this year, incarcerated firefighters in LA rushed headlong into the flames, fending off catastrophic fires (made worse by climate change).
In their new essay, Abby Cunniff reminds us of the long history of their labor abolitionist politics.
spectrejournal.com/the-abolitio...
In their new essay, Abby Cunniff reminds us of the long history of their labor abolitionist politics.
spectrejournal.com/the-abolitio...
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Coming up in Ottawa and online - Challenging Canada’s Perpetuation of Settler-Colonial Violence; Raise the Rates Rally; Street medics workshop; Centretown Tenant Power Official Launch and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...
October 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Coming up in Ottawa and online - Challenging Canada’s Perpetuation of Settler-Colonial Violence; Raise the Rates Rally; Street medics workshop; Centretown Tenant Power Official Launch and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...
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Coming up in Ottawa!
October Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification; CAFES Concert Series: 'Wanting to Start Again'; Rally for Democracy/no to Bill 33; Vigil for Gaza; NO TYRANTS rally; Sexual Bereavement - Queer Death Salon www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
October Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification; CAFES Concert Series: 'Wanting to Start Again'; Rally for Democracy/no to Bill 33; Vigil for Gaza; NO TYRANTS rally; Sexual Bereavement - Queer Death Salon www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
October 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Coming up in Ottawa!
October Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification; CAFES Concert Series: 'Wanting to Start Again'; Rally for Democracy/no to Bill 33; Vigil for Gaza; NO TYRANTS rally; Sexual Bereavement - Queer Death Salon www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
October Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification; CAFES Concert Series: 'Wanting to Start Again'; Rally for Democracy/no to Bill 33; Vigil for Gaza; NO TYRANTS rally; Sexual Bereavement - Queer Death Salon www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
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Even in a government shutdown, the 13th largest army in the world wages war in Chicago. ICE’s militarized raids & abductions are terrorizing communities—while billions are poured into their hands.
@sarahlazare.bsky.social & @lindsaykosh.bsky.social report:
inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
@sarahlazare.bsky.social & @lindsaykosh.bsky.social report:
inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Even in a government shutdown, the 13th largest army in the world wages war in Chicago. ICE’s militarized raids & abductions are terrorizing communities—while billions are poured into their hands.
@sarahlazare.bsky.social & @lindsaykosh.bsky.social report:
inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
@sarahlazare.bsky.social & @lindsaykosh.bsky.social report:
inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
I loved listening to this interview @marcusrediker.bsky.social did on @kpfa.org about his new book *Freedom Ship*! Rediker tells the inspiring history of enslaved Black people in the U.S. deep South who escaped by ship with the help of free Black communities and abolitionist white sailors.
Escaping Over Water | KPFA
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, enslaved people who traveled to freedom on foot did so mainly from Southern states that bordered free states. But those in the deep South didn’t have that o...
kpfa.org
October 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I loved listening to this interview @marcusrediker.bsky.social did on @kpfa.org about his new book *Freedom Ship*! Rediker tells the inspiring history of enslaved Black people in the U.S. deep South who escaped by ship with the help of free Black communities and abolitionist white sailors.
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This week in rad Ottawa:
October Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification;
Rallies of Allies for Court Support - Solidarity with Kebaowek;
Film Screening: Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019);
Sexual Bereavement - Queer Death Salon; & more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
October Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification;
Rallies of Allies for Court Support - Solidarity with Kebaowek;
Film Screening: Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019);
Sexual Bereavement - Queer Death Salon; & more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
October 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This week in rad Ottawa:
October Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification;
Rallies of Allies for Court Support - Solidarity with Kebaowek;
Film Screening: Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019);
Sexual Bereavement - Queer Death Salon; & more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
October Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification;
Rallies of Allies for Court Support - Solidarity with Kebaowek;
Film Screening: Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019);
Sexual Bereavement - Queer Death Salon; & more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
This will be great!
For folks who can't make it to an in-person launch, I will be doing an online event for *Listen! Knowing the World and Fighting to Change It* in conversation with Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay on October 28. Register for the Zoom session via the email address in the image.
October 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This will be great!
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Alexis Shotwell on anarchism. New episode on podcast platforms & pls smash like & subscribe on YouTube: youtu.be/V3evGc0mF5Y)
October 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Alexis Shotwell on anarchism. New episode on podcast platforms & pls smash like & subscribe on YouTube: youtu.be/V3evGc0mF5Y)
Every year on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation I look to @miskoaki.bsky.social's assessment of how the Canadian government is meeting the TRC's calls to action. This year I'm reading their new report "Braiding Accountability: A Ten-Year Review of the TRC’s Healthcare Calls to Action."
Braiding Accountability: A Ten-Year Review of the TRC's Healthcare Calls to Action
Ten years after the release of TRC, Canada’s health systems remain caught in an act of reconciliation theatre – land acknowledgments, cultural safety workshops, and short-term projects that signal pro...
yellowheadinstitute.org
September 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Every year on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation I look to @miskoaki.bsky.social's assessment of how the Canadian government is meeting the TRC's calls to action. This year I'm reading their new report "Braiding Accountability: A Ten-Year Review of the TRC’s Healthcare Calls to Action."
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Upcoming radical events in Ottawa, for the week of Monday, September 29, 2025 - ft. an art build for the upcoming Gaza solidarity demo, Orange Shirt Day events, a zine making night at the Trans Library, a workshop on how to organize a collective, and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...
September 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Upcoming radical events in Ottawa, for the week of Monday, September 29, 2025 - ft. an art build for the upcoming Gaza solidarity demo, Orange Shirt Day events, a zine making night at the Trans Library, a workshop on how to organize a collective, and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...
A fascinating interview with Laura Hall in @canadiandimension.bsky.social: "If I’m saying horror is the genre of settler colonialism, it’s also a genre that can grapple with the hard truths of settler-colonial violence. Both things are equally true."
Churning up the ground: Laura Hall on horror as the ‘primary film genre of settler colonialism’
Countless books have explored the sociopolitical foundations of horror—its entanglements with gender, Blackness, madness, war and capitalism. Yet surprisingly little attention has been paid to the gen...
canadiandimension.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A fascinating interview with Laura Hall in @canadiandimension.bsky.social: "If I’m saying horror is the genre of settler colonialism, it’s also a genre that can grapple with the hard truths of settler-colonial violence. Both things are equally true."
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What happens when your landlord turns your home into a surveillance zone? From facial recognition cameras to automated fines, tenants are finding their daily lives policed in new ways.
Hear Erin McElroy on Against the Grain unpack the rise of “landlord tech.”
Full interview → kpfa.org
#KPFA #BayArea
Hear Erin McElroy on Against the Grain unpack the rise of “landlord tech.”
Full interview → kpfa.org
#KPFA #BayArea
September 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Robin D.G. Kelley: "defeating the fascism we face now requires much more than defeating the current administration or winning elections. It requires a deeper shift: the recognition that we need to always stand in solidarity and fight for others as if our lives depended on it."
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
www.bostonreview.net
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Robin D.G. Kelley: "defeating the fascism we face now requires much more than defeating the current administration or winning elections. It requires a deeper shift: the recognition that we need to always stand in solidarity and fight for others as if our lives depended on it."
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Upcoming radical events in Ottawa and online: Monday, September 22nd edition: www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...
September 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Upcoming radical events in Ottawa and online: Monday, September 22nd edition: www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar...
An excellent interview with @lydiajean.bsky.social! "As a geographer, I’m really interested in thinking through the different scales of the carceral state. We often talk about the state as if it’s a monolith, instead of as a multi-scalar and contradictory assemblage of institutions."
Abolition After Katrina | Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and David Stein
Countless people are left in harm’s way because of the state’s refusal to make evacuation plans. The hurricane ends up coming through weaker than expected—but then the levees break. Within hours, 80 p...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
An excellent interview with @lydiajean.bsky.social! "As a geographer, I’m really interested in thinking through the different scales of the carceral state. We often talk about the state as if it’s a monolith, instead of as a multi-scalar and contradictory assemblage of institutions."
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The 1937 Oshawa GM strike showed how radical organizing and international solidarity could transform the labour movement. @tonyleah.bsky.social’s new history reminds us that the victories workers take for granted today were won through militant class struggle.
Class struggle unionism, auto workers, Reds, and the 1930s
The 1937 Oshawa GM strike shows how militant industrial unionism, radical leadership, and rank-and-file solidarity transformed working conditions and built lasting power for labour. Set against econom...
canadiandimension.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The 1937 Oshawa GM strike showed how radical organizing and international solidarity could transform the labour movement. @tonyleah.bsky.social’s new history reminds us that the victories workers take for granted today were won through militant class struggle.
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Can workers be fired just for expressing opinions the political class objects to? Lately, online attackers campaign to pressure employers to fire workers for political speech even on private social media pages. Here's how stewards can intervene: labornotes.org/2025/09/how-...
How to Defend Members from Politicized Firings
Can a worker be fired simply for expressing an opinion that the boss or a political group finds objectionable? These days online attackers often campaign to pressure employers to fire workers for poli...
labornotes.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Can workers be fired just for expressing opinions the political class objects to? Lately, online attackers campaign to pressure employers to fire workers for political speech even on private social media pages. Here's how stewards can intervene: labornotes.org/2025/09/how-...
Some good news: for the last four years, I have been quietly working on a new book titled *For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World*. I have signed a contract with @akpress.org and they will be co-publishing the book with @btlbooks.com. The book will be out next fall!
September 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Some good news: for the last four years, I have been quietly working on a new book titled *For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World*. I have signed a contract with @akpress.org and they will be co-publishing the book with @btlbooks.com. The book will be out next fall!