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Dru Oja Jay

How the Green New Deal happened: the view from 2030

It started with the librarians. That’s what they say, anyway.

5 min readMay 2, 2019

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How the Green New Deal happened: the view from 2030

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Dru Oja Jay

2018 World Cup in Status Updates

During the 2018 World Cup, I took to writing occasional commentary. It evolved over the course of the tournament. All of it is here in…

15 min readJul 16, 2018

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2018 World Cup in Status Updates

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Dru Oja Jay

Three Reasons NOT to Nationalize Facebook

(And one reason that can be ruled out)

6 min readApr 11, 2018

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Three Reasons NOT to Nationalize Facebook

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Dru Oja Jay

Jagmeet is the new Jack

The New Democratic Party’s frontrunner’s possibilities and limitations

4 min readSep 14, 2017

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Jagmeet is the new Jack

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Bombardier is corporate greed at its worst; nationalizing it could create the global leader we need

By embracing worker management and open source designs, a publicly-owned Bombardier could lead us toward a equitable post-carbon economy

7 min readApr 26, 2017

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Youth Toss a Wrench in the Liberal Likability Machine

Workers and climate marchers pull back the curtain on the power politics of the Minister of Selfies

4 min readOct 26, 2016

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Youth Toss a Wrench in the Liberal Likability Machine

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Dru Oja Jay

Liberal governments introduce nasty surprises in year two–here’s how we stop them

To further a progressive agenda and prevent nasty surprises in 2017, movements will have to seize the initiative… and take the streets

6 min readAug 8, 2016

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Liberal governments introduce nasty surprises in year two–here’s how we stop them

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Dru Oja Jay

Some thoughts on Progressive Strategy in the Trudeau Era

A quarter of a year ago, the Canadian electorate managed to dump the Conservatives, delivering a dramatic victory to the Liberal party…

11 min readFeb 2, 2016

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Some thoughts on Progressive Strategy in the Trudeau Era

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Balancing the Carbon Budget in Trudeau’s Canada

The Prime Minister is (without realizing it) calling for economic transformation; we must heed the call

5 min readJan 14, 2016

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Balancing the Carbon Budget in Trudeau’s Canada

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Dru Oja Jay

Stopping Pipelines is Trudeau Government’s Official Policy–they just don’t know it yet

Pipeline “saboteurs” aren’t criminals; they are implementing existing government commitments

4 min readJan 5, 2016

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Stopping Pipelines is Trudeau Government’s Official Policy–they just don’t know it yet

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Dru Oja Jay

Dru Oja Jay

Writer, organizer, and Media Co-op co-founder. Montreal. Interested in an economy that is cooperatively managed, democratically run, within ecological limits.

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