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Rebick, Judy
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Judy Rebick is a Canadian journalist and political and feminist activist. Rebick was the CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University from August 2002 to January 2011. In addition to teaching courses in Politics during her tenure as Chair, Rebick organized numerous political inititiatives, including The Gathering of Mother Earth Protectors protest, The Anti-Racism Taskforce, The Toronto Social Forum, The Gindin Debates, and others. She was the president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women from 1990 to 1993 and co-hosted CBC's Face Off (1994-1998) and Straight from the Hip (until 2000). Rebick is a regular contributor to CBC Television's Sunday Report and CBC Radio. In 2001, Rebick became the founding publisher of rabble.ca, an independent, progressive multimedia news and editorial site. In 2001, Rebick published Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution, which charts feminist movements in Canada from the 1960s to the 1990s. She followed this publication with her 2009 book, Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political and 2012's Occupy This. Rebick has been an active member of the New Democratic Party of Ontario, joining the party as a member of the "Campaign for an Activist Party" in the 1980s.