Reclaiming Our Ancient Wisdom: Herbal Abortion Procedure and Practice for Midwives and Herbalists

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A guide for trained and practiced herbalists and midwives to better serve their communities. Examines safety issues and benefits of herbal abortion; risk and efficacy considerations; criteria and protocol; herbal abortifacients, implantation inhibitors, emmenogogues, oxytocic herbs and more.

Please note: This is not a DIY manual. If you need to terminate a pregnancy, we advise getting a medical abortion where accessible, which is safer and more reliable. Even in places where abortion is illegal, people can obtain specific types of pharmaceuticals to induce miscarriage. However, we also believe that the history and knowledge of herbal methods should be preserved.

Commodity: experiences living in late capitalism

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Bell reflects on her experience as an artist surviving in a capitalist society. She paints a vision of Toronto in the ’90s and what’s happened to the thriving indie art scene in subsequent years. The neighbourhood she grew up in has been gradually swallowed by gentrification. Small family-run shops have taken turns being over- taken by national corporations, and marginalized groups have been forced to vacate the communities they once formed amidst scarcity.

DIY or don't we? #2

Subtitle: 'A zine about doing things together'

Contents include an essay on For The Birds feminist collective of NYC explains how the collective came to be and the problems that the group has faced, a comic and piece about The Cowley Club, a piece by Sara Kitchener on supporting a Palestinian farmer’s struggle to keep his land, an article about discovering community in a local burlesque troupe, and pieces on fruit-pickin’ and jam-makin’, mental health and self-care, and a list of other zines about community, support and allyship.

Toronto Zine Library Resource Zine: Summer 2009

Includes:
- Interview with filmmaker Lyndall about a documentary film they made about Who's Emma record and book store and punk space in Toronto in the 1990s
- Interview with Matt Cuthbert from the bands Gift Eaters and Red Hot Daggers
- Article in defense of perzines
- News about the Toronto Zine Library
- Zine reviews

Fish Piss: Volume 2, Number 4

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Named after an ingredient in ink, Fish Piss is a magazine with an open door submission policy for writers and artists. There are plenty of real life/personal stories, comics, some research articles and essays, interviews with interesting people (this one has a big feature on the history of the record industry and 25 arguments for the irrefutable superiority of vinyl), and reviews of zines and music.

Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action #9

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We begin this issue with interventions from our readers which support, challenge or complete content from past issues. In our interviews section, Kelly Fritsch talks with disability, queer and trans activist, Eli Clare.
Sharmeen Khan and Natalie Kouri-Towe interview leading scholar Sherene Razack about her book, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics.
In our first article, Palestine solidarity activist Ben Saifer analyses the emergence and assesses the implications of Zionist-initiated "dialogue" efforts on Canadian university campuses. Next, Kate Milley examines the organization of anti-native activism in response to the struggles of the Six Nations people on the Haldimand tract, revealing the broader, deeply entrenched racism and colonial logic of Canadian society. Finally, Chris Hurl and Kevin Walby untangle common assumptions about student movement politics in their historical analysis of The Canadian Union of Students from 1965-1969.
Our roundtables section begins with a tenth anniversary reflection on the mass mobilization against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999. Contributors offer retrospective analyses of this pivotal moment of the anti-globalization movement. The second roundtable discussion addresses anti-Olympic organizing. We hear from activists preparing for the upcoming mobilizations against the Vancouver 2010 games, and from those who organized against the games in Salt Lake City, Turin, and Sydney.
The book reviews section features Sean Benjamin's review of Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism, and Jeff Shantz's review of The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History, Volume 1: Projectiles for the People.

I'm Not Sorry, Go F*ck Yourself: Stories From My Life, Volume I

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Nikitha James interviewed their late uncle, 'Uncle B' (Waabi-gichi-makwa, known by his government name, William John Taylor) and turned these interviews into a series of zines.
William John Taylor was a survivor of residential school, physical and sexual abuse, the hospital system, and the prison system. As an amputee and as someone struggling with addiction and chronic pain, he thought it was important that his stories were shared in the community so that others could learn from his experiences.
These stories are not only about pain and trauma, but also about joy and resilience; humour and love. They show how when we learn from the past, we can collectively shape our present and future existences.