RiVAL: the ReImagining Value Action Lab

04/23/2021

We are live at The vengeance of unpayable debts: Racial capitalism and claiming debts from below

12/14/2020

"Not Impressed by Colonial Justice" is a new zine released on the eve of the verdict in the trial for the murder of Barbara Kentner. It includes an essay by Max Haiven about the racist context of the trial and illustrations and reflections from Cassie Thornton, who observed the trial. It's the first edition of RiVAL's occasional magalog "Maanendagwan (Bad Reputation)." You can read it online here: https://www.notion.so/rival/Not-Impressed-by-Colonial-Justice-d6795a3bbdb5426ab5aaa4702957585f

Stay tuned here for how to get a limited edition print copy, or email us.

12/07/2020

HOW CAN WE TAKE THE MEANS OF CARE BACK INTO OUR HANDS?

We are a cooperative species. To survive and thrive we build systems of care. But the 2020 pandemic has shown us that capitalism's systems of care are in profound crisis, and poor, working and racialized people pay the price.

As Corporations and governments weaponize care to sell products and save capitalism, it's more important than ever that we reclaim our powers of mutual aid and solidarity.

How can we take the means of care back into our hands?

One part manifesto, one part artwork, one part science fiction, Cassie Thornton's *The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future* offers us a different vision.

It presents a practical, light-weight, do-it-yourself system where, in taking care of one another, we build revolutionary power.

Now out from Pluto Press (and ON SALE 'til December 9th)!
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343327/the-hologram/

10/26/2020

Our event has begun!

With Bedour Alagraa, Glen Coulthard, Max Haiven, and S.L. Lim (Out of the Woods Collective), moderated by Malav Kanuga. Capitalism is in a profound state of ...

09/18/2020

RiVAL co-director Max Haiven writes of the profound underlying problems revealed in the horrific case of a young white man who killed an Indigenous woman for sport in Thunder Bay.

Bushby’s trial is already a tragedy, no matter the outcome. But how is this crime connected to a broader system of settler colonial violence that snatches away so many Indigenous lives? And how can we move beyond the half-hearted rhetoric of reconciliation to imagine the real, substantial transfor...

09/10/2020

Video from yesterday's teach-in "Indigenous & Black Responses to Racism & Police Violence in Thunder Bay"

As part of the , Lakehead University's Department of Indigenous Learning, Social Justice Studies Program and RiVAL: The ReImagining Value...