Brian J. Walsh's Blog, page 6

Housing, Justice, and Good Governance

Keesmaat and Walsh challenging the wrong kind of development, using the wrong planning tools in Kawartha Lakes.

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Episode 2: Building for Indigenous Homefulness

What are the most significant factors contributing to a lack of homefulness amongst Indigenous people in Canada?

In this episode, we hear from the Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne, Executive Director of First United Church's Social Housing Society.

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Episode 1: Home is Where the Wild Rice Is

“What happens when the aspirations of home and homemaking for one people is predicated on the destruction of home for another people?”

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Homefulness Podcast

In the face of a systemic homelessness that has economic, social, public health, cultural, spiritual, and ecological manifestations, how might we develop more holistic and integrated policies and practices for deeper homefulness in our communities?

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Genocide and Reconciliation

We all knew it was true, but there was something so onerous,
so disgraceful, so damning, that few wanted to use the word.

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Unearthed Graves and Thrown-Down Stones: The Church, Pedicide, and Recompense.

From the slaughter of the innocents to the destruction of the temple follows the same trajectory as the pedicide of Residential Schools and the burning of churches. Religion wedded to empire is always a story of violence.

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Coming Home to Unacknowledged Grief

Just over a year ago, Marcia, Amanda and I presented “A Sort of Homecoming” to Brian Walsh for the first time.

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Genocide, Domicide and the Unnamed

We know the names of the victims in London.
We can know the names of the victims in Gaza.
But we do not know the names of the 215.

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Tackling the Housing Crisis (Pt 7)

What's next for effective action in housing and homemaking?

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Tackling the Housing Crisis (Pt 6)

What are some success stories of the Church taking action on housing and homelessness?

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