By Lauren Quinn and Nicole Beuglet
Meal Exchange Executives
When you take a bite of your food, do you ever think about how long it took to travel to where you’re living? Do you consider that the greens you eat might have been picked and prepared by farmers working in extremely oppressive conditions? Do you think about how long people have to search to find a healthy, economically reasonable, vegan dish in the local area? With the expansion of free trade and globalization, the environmental, health and ethical costs situated around food have become a growing concern for food activists around the world. Read the rest of Meal Exchange Windsor presents “disComfort Food” Art Exhibit: Challenging Food Systems »
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By Michael DiRisio
A recent talk given by Kristain Clarke, the Executive Director of CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation/le Front des artistes canadiens) Ontario, at the University of Windsor focused on the current political pressure to have Canada develop an Artist Resale Right (ARR). An ARR makes it mandatory to pay the original artist a percentage of the profit gained from the resale of their work, when the resale is between collectors, galleries, or other art institutions. CARFAC argues that this money would greatly assist Canadian artists, many of whom live below the poverty line and struggle to make ends meet. Read the rest of Artist Resale Right: Alternative legislation to decrease poverty in the arts »
From Issue 1 of The Student Movement, March 2010:
“Why now?
“We feel that changes are being made at our university that are not in students, faculty and staffs’ interests. As the Federal government is currently prorogued, the Prime Minister has announced that when Parliament returns, it will be to “balance budgets” at all levels of government. Of course, we are not against or for balancing budgets; however, given the millions of tax dollars that were used for the government’s so-called “Economic Action Plan,” do they now mean that new rounds of cuts to social programs will be carried out in order to pay for it? Read the rest of The Student Movement: Past, Present, and Future »
