Non-Alignment Movement: Cold War Relic or Legitimate International Forum?
Given that some members of NAM have outgrown their status as developing countries and others have acquired far more power than their Cold War-selves could have imagined, one is forced to question the extent to which NAM simply is a Cold War…
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Le cinéma en France : retour sur les conséquences de la pandémie
Joshua Poggianti, contributeur au MIR, revient sur le retour en salle pour le cinéma français et les implications pour l'industrie.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Police Brutality, and “The Death of Michael Stewart”
Nearly four decades later, the dominant issues of Basquiat’s generation, including police brutality as depicted in his famous painting “Defacement,” and the lack of opportunities for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) in the art…
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Fanon and Collective Catharsis: The Removal of Racist Monuments Around the Globe
Although the removal of these racist monuments is perhaps not "violence" as Fanon likely envisioned it when he wrote of colonial independence movements, there is a parallel to be drawn between Fanon’s writings about the psychology of…
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Social Work is not a Miracle Cure for Systemic Racism in Canada
The rhetoric of social workers as a one-size-fits-all solution to police brutality overlooks the history and current reality of social work as a perpetrator of systemic racism, and how this field uniquely impacts Indigenous and Black…
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Restoration and Retribution: A Tale of Two Criminal Justice Systems
In light of George Floyd’s death and the resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests across the United States and the globe, attention has turned to the deeper, systemic issues in America which extend far beyond police brutality. One of these…
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All Quiet in the ‘West’ Wing
Kanye’s ability to turn national attention towards himself — and away from COVID-19 and ongoing protests — is exactly the type of presidential behaviour Americans have come to expect under Trump. However, the impulse to claim unwarranted…
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Voting Patterns Are Not Immune to the Effects of Consumer Debt
Oversimplifying the prevalence of debt is a mistake, seeing as it comes in many forms, each with their own individual effect on a voter’s political preferences.
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A Political Fumble: The NFL’s Opportunistic Change of Tune on Colin Kaepernick and Black Lives…
The manner in which Colin Kaepernick has been treated is symbolic of the NFL’s relationship with Black athletes more broadly; for far too long, the league has expected them to remain silent and play the game in spite of persistent racism…
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Canada’s Hypocrisy: A Conflict of Self-image and Systemic Racism
Canada has built institutions that rule the nation through a system controlled by a white majority that selects the liberties to which minority communities have access to, and that is the very definition of systemic racism.
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