Mark Leier was born in Ladner, BC, and worked for several years at a number of jobs, including bridge tender, short order cook, dishwasher, construction labourer, printer, folk singer, and first aid attendant before going to university. He served as a shop steward and a contract negotiator with the Glaziers union, and has been a member of the Carpenters union, CUPE, and the TSSU. He received his PhD from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1992, and signed on with SFU in 1994.
Fri, 06 Oct 2017 6:30 PM
Part of the Department of History's 2017-2018 lecture series The Rise of Extremism
This is a free event and is open to the general public.
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ABSTRACT
At a time when politicians and pundits are quick to draw a moral equivalency between racism, fascism, and their opponents, thinking clearly about 'extremism' is more important than ever. Is "extremism" the same as political violence? Is there a difference between the organized violence of capital and the state and those who resist it? This panel will explore these questions in the context of labour and left struggles in BC and the Pacific Northwest, ranging from the IWW around the time of the First World War to the 1980s.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Aaron Goings is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Social Research at the University of Tampere, and Associate Professor of History at Saint Martin's University. He earned his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University in 2011, where he specialized in 20th century United States history, American social and labor history, and immigration history.
Eryk Martin is a settler born and raised in Nuu-chah-nulth and Coast Salish territories. He received his PhD in history from Simon Fraser University in 2016. At present, he’s working on a history of anarchist activism in Vancouver. This book manuscript, Black Flags Rising: Anarchism, Activism, and the Vancouver Five, 1967-1984,focuses on anarchist political projects in order to explore the transformation of revolutionary politics and culture in the late twentieth century, both in Canada and abroad. He is a faculty member in the Department of History at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and an Associate of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University.
Heather Mayer is a part-time History Instructor and Teaching Learning Center Coordinator at Portland Community College. Her book Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in Oregon and Washington, 1905-1924, is forthcoming from Oregon State University Press in Fall 2018. She is also a contributor to the upcoming Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW, available in Fall 2017.