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- Harsha Walia is a Canadian activist and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has been involved with No one is illegal, the February 14 Women's Memorial March Committee, the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, and several Downtown Eastside housing justice coalitions. Walia has been active in migrant justice, Indigenous solidarity, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist movements for over a decade. In January 2020, Walia was hired as the new executive director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association. In July 2021, Walia controversially tweeted "Burn it all down" following several church arson attacks. She claimed she was not calling for more arson, but said it was "a call to dismantle all structures of violence, including the state, settler-colonialism, empire, the border etc." She resigned on July 16, 2021. Walia is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) and Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2021), co-author of Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration (2015) and Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (2019) and has contributed to over thirty academic journals, anthologies, magazines, and newspapers. She is a frequent guest speaker at campuses and conferences across North America. (en)
- Harsha Walia est une journaliste et militante pour la justice sociale et les droits des femmes, des migrants et des autochtones. Née à Manama (Bahreïn), elle a grandi en Inde et dans d'autres pays d'Asie du Sud, avant de s'établir au Canada, à Montréal puis à Vancouver. Diplômée en droit, cofondatrice de la section de Vancouver du réseau , elle écrit dans de nombreux journaux, magazines et blogues politiquement et socialement engagés: Briarpatch, Canadian Dimension, Feministing, FUSE Magazine, Left Turn, People of Color Organize, Rabble, Z Magazine, etc. Elle est l'auteure de l'essai Undoing Border Imperialism (publiée en français par Lux Éditeur sous le titre Démanteler les frontières). (fr)
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- Harsha Walia is a Canadian activist and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has been involved with No one is illegal, the February 14 Women's Memorial March Committee, the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, and several Downtown Eastside housing justice coalitions. Walia has been active in migrant justice, Indigenous solidarity, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist movements for over a decade. (en)
- Harsha Walia est une journaliste et militante pour la justice sociale et les droits des femmes, des migrants et des autochtones. Née à Manama (Bahreïn), elle a grandi en Inde et dans d'autres pays d'Asie du Sud, avant de s'établir au Canada, à Montréal puis à Vancouver. (fr)
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