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June 3rd is coming fast and furious. Where do the polls stand and can red or orange break through? Can the NDP find the winning message? Then, we’re joined by Sam Kaplun, Independent candidate for MPP in Eglington-Lawrence.

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New season, new format, new schedule. We’re joined by Jess McLean to discuss her new show on the New Left Media Network. The Ontario Liberals propose the NDP’s policy they opposed last year. Th PM made a surprise trip to Ukraine. Conservatives gather for an unofficial debate — the result is, we all lose.

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Roe v. Wade looks dead in a huge setback to reproductive rights in the US. While our struggle is different, equity in access is already a major issue and nothing is guaranteed. What can be done now to prevent regression in Canada?

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The PCs, Libs, and NDP aren’t the only choices on the ballot in Ontario — two right-wing parties are also vying for your heart. The Ontario Party (headed by Canada’s biggest goober) and the New Blue Party are battling out which can be more reactionary and draw the kook crowd. The fight now comes with Trump endorsed star power!

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Doug Ford has unveiled his platform budget and it is filled with surprises! If we didn’t completely forget about political promises/actions 15 minutes after they happen, some might even call him a hypocrite.

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Our systems fail us. They resist change by nature and uphold oppression. This week, a report on Canadian antisemitism and the name change of a Toronto university illustrate the challenges of systemic change.

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There is a lot of political posturing on the plight of the Uyghur people. We’re joined by Darren Byler to cut through it and discuss what life is like for Uyghurs under colonialism in Western China, in the diaspora, and what we can do to support their struggle.

About In the Camps China’s High-Tech Penal Colony

How China built a network of surveillance to detain over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human history.

A cruel and high-tech form of colonization has been unfolding over the past decade in China’s vast northwestern region of Xinjiang, where as many as a million and a half Uyghurs, Kazakhs and Hui have vanished into high-security camps and associated factories. It is the largest internment of a religious minority since World War II.

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About Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City

In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in “reeducation camps” is part of processes of resource extraction in Uyghur lands that have led to what he calls terror capitalism—a configuration of ethnoracialization, surveillance, and mass detention that in this case promotes settler colonialism. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the regional capital Ürümchi, Byler shows how media infrastructures, the state’s enforcement of “Chinese” cultural values, and the influx of Han Chinese settlers contribute to Uyghur dispossession and their expulsion from the city. He particularly attends to the experiences of young Uyghur men—who are the primary target of state violence—and how they develop masculinities and homosocial friendships to protect themselves against gendered, ethnoracial, and economic violence. By tracing the political and economic stakes of Uyghur colonization, Byler demonstrates that state-directed capitalist dispossession is coconstructed with a colonial relation of domination.

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About Darren Byler

Darren Byler is a sociocultural anthropologist whose teaching and research examines the dispossession of stateless populations through forms of contemporary capitalism and colonialism in China, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.

His monograph, Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke University Press, 2021), examines emerging forms of media, infrastructure, economics and politics in the Uyghur homeland in Chinese Central Asia (Ch: Xinjiang). The book, which is based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among Uyghur and Han internal male migrants, argues that Chinese authorities and technologists have made Uyghurs the object of what it names “terror capitalism.” It shows that this emergent form of internal colonialism and capitalist frontier-making utilizes a post-9/11 discourse of terrorism, what he shows produces a novel sequence of racialization, to justify state investment in a wide array of policing and social engineering systems. These techno-political systems have “disappeared” hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in “reeducation”

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The NDP unveils it’s policy platform, the Ontario Liberals jump into the culture war debate, and the NDP loves trees 200 million times more than Stephen Del Duca.

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Ontario E-Day is coming and no matter the result at the ballot box, the ONDP caucus at Queen's Park will look different in the next sitting of provincial parliament. Some MPP have chosen not to run again, some have been barred, and some have lost a contested nomination.

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We’re back from hiatus! Ontario election fever is sweeping the province — we cover what’s shaping up in the race and what is yet to come as we race towards EDay.

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