[Wamvan] Fwd: This month at Briarpatch: Organizing to win, Homeplace as revolutionary front, Writing from the margins

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> From: Briarpatch Magazine <editor at briarpatchmagazine.com>
> Date: 26 October, 2011 12:55:24 PM PDT
> To: Tami <tamistarlight at gmail.com>
> Subject: This month at Briarpatch: Organizing to win, Homeplace as revolutionary front, Writing from the margins
> Reply-To: Briarpatch Magazine <editor at briarpatchmagazine.com>
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> a sneak peek at Nov/Dec content!
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> This month at Briarpatch!
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> A sneak peek at our next issue, "Striking back"
> We'd like to offer you a preview of our November/December issue, currently on its way to mailboxes and doorsteps! Here are a couple of highlights:
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> From the jaws of defeat: Four thoughts on social change strategy
> The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty – a radical anti-poverty organization based in Toronto – organizes under the slogan “Fight to win.” They understand that those in power do not listen to moral argument, but that the poor will have to build a movement capable of forcing politicians to act. We should take this lesson to heart, but when we repeat this slogan, we should not make the mistake – as many have done and continue to do – of putting the emphasis on “fight” rather than on “to win.” How we fight should be determined by how it helps us win. Throwing one’s fists into the air in all directions – hoping that you land a knockout punch – is not how one wins a boxing match. Our actions must be well-planned manifestations of our power, directed with clear purpose against our targets. We must be able to win short-term victories as steps in our strategy and to strengthen our movements so that, eventually, we will have permanently altered the balance of power.
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> Homeplace as revolutionary front: Taking "care" back into our hands
> Homeplace is where we are grown and raised into social beings, where we receive our earliest definitions of humanity, where we first learn to recognize love, violence, justice and pain. Yet it has persisted in our imagination as a private sphere of emotional and material dependence, rather than as a front in revolutionary struggle. The practices that constitute it, like caregiving, child rearing and homekeeping (broadly, mothering), are still regarded as the domain of individual women whose labours are often taken as much for granted by radical communities as by the market economy. The skills, strategies and bodies of mothers/caregivers are rarely present in spaces where political problems are defined and decisions made. Yet the survival of capitalism has fundamentally required the colonization of activities, relationships and physical spaces associated with home. Indeed, home is where human bodies are made into, or resist becoming, obedient subjects of capitalist rule.
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> Briarpatch seeks bold, boundary-pushing writing!
> We are now accepting submissions of original, unpublished writing in the categories of short fiction and creative non-fiction (memoir, personal essay, literary journalism) for our first annual creative writing contest, Writing in the Margins! With award-winning author Lee Maracle as our judge and $600 in cash prizes to give away, this opportunity is not to be missed! Entry deadline is Dec. 1. For full details, please vitis the contest page on our website. 
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