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[Caelie Frampton]

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*WHO WE ARE*

UPPING THE ANTI: A JOURNAL OF THEORY AND ACTION is a radical journal
published twice a year by a pan-Canadian collective of activists and
organizers. We are dedicated to publishing radical theory and analysis
about struggles against capitalism, imperialism, and all forms of
oppression.

In our first six issues, we’ve published articles by and interviews with
renowned activists and intellectuals, including Aijaz Ahmad, Himani
Bannerji, Grace Lee Boggs, Ward Churchill, Michael Hardt, John Holloway,
Sunera Thobani, and many more.

We have covered a wide variety of topics including Palestine solidarity
activism, the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary anti-war
movement, trans politics and anti-capitalism, Indigenous solidarity,
contemporary feminist organizing, and activist burnout.

In every issue, activists and organizers reflect on the state of
contemporary organizing in Canada. We publish theoretical and critical
articles, interviews and roundtables. UPPING THE ANTI also includes a book
review section where activists assess new writing on the Left.


*CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS*

We are currently looking for story ideas for ISSUE SEVEN, which will be
released in October of 2008. If you have an idea for a story you would
like to see published in our journal, please send us a one page pitch by
Monday,
April 14, 2007. In addition to the pitch, please submit a short writing
sample (max 1,000 words).

In your pitch, please provide a brief description of the topic of your
investigation, your main questions, an account of how you will address
these questions, as well as a brief biographical note.

Before submitting a pitch, we encourage you to read back issues in order
to familiarize yourself with the kind of writing that we publish. We also
encourage you to have a look at the UPPING THE ANTI writer's guide, which
can be downloaded at http://uppingtheanti.org.

Pitches should be for original stories that have not been submitted or
published elsewhere. We discourage simultaneous submissions. Please do not
send us a pitch that you have simultaneously sent to another publication.

Although we will consider all pitches, we are especially interested in
stories about contemporary labour organizing, feminism and women's
struggles, dis/ability, international solidarity work, mobilization
strategies, marxism and anarchism in the 21st Century, activist
interventions in art and culture, and struggles around questions of sex
and sexuality

We will review your pitch and provide you with feedback. After a pitch has
been approved, writers are expected to submit their story by deadline.
Deadline for first drafts for ISSUE SEVEN is July 1, 2008.


Please submit all pitches and direct all queries to uppingtheanti at gmail.com


For more information about UPPING THE ANTI, visit http://uppingtheanti.org