Harsha Walia
Harsha Walia is a social justice activist and journalist who is best known for co-founding a chapter of No One Is Illegal (Coast Salish Territories).[1] Walia's writings have appeared in over fifty journals, anthologies, and magazines, including Briarpatch, Canadian Dimension, Feministing, FUSE Magazine, Left Turn, People of Color Organize, Rabble, Z Magazine, The Winter We Danced, and others. She has contributed essays to academic journals including Race and Class, as well as chapters in the anthologies Power of Youth: Youth and community-led activism in Canada; Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution; and Organize! Building from the Local for Global Justice[2] She is the author of the book Undoing Border Imperialism, which indigenous rights activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has called, "the first extended work on immigration that refuses to make First Nations sovereignty invisible."[3]
Walia has made a number of presentations to the United Nations on social and economic justice issues and is a commentator and speaker at conferences, campuses, and media outlets across North America. Most recently, Walia has organized protests against the non-consensual filming of undocumented immigrants being arrested on the television show Border Security: Canada's Front Line. Walia asserted that National Geographic, the distributor of the show, was profiting from “the violence of detention and deportation.”[4] Award-winning author Naomi Klein has called Walia “one of Canada’s most brilliant and effective political organizers.”[2]
Accolades
Walia has been named one of the most influential South Asians in British Columbia by The Vancouver Sun[5] and one of the ten most popular left-wing journalists by The Georgia Straight in 2010. She is the winner of the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives "Power of Youth" award.Cite error: Closing </ref>
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References
- ↑ Biography: Harsha Walia/No One Is Illegal
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- ↑ AK Press "Undoing Border Imperialism - Details"
- ↑ Rebecca Funk "Fury after B.C. immigration agents allegedly invite reality TV crew to 'American style' raids" Canadian Press, March 3, 2013
- ↑ Vancouver Sun, "100 South Asians who are making a difference in British Columbia" March 27, 2008
- ↑ Olympic Resistance Network, "Olympic Resistance Network Solidarity and Unity Statement" Vancouver Media Co-op, February 13, 2010