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13 preface ible during the strike on social media, were singled out by the university and charged with complaints regarding the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities. The students responded by establishing a Twitter handle (@8Defend), a FaceBook presence, and a website, “Defend Student Activists at York U!,” where statements of support, a petition, a “GoFundMe” campaign, and information about events could be accessed. The five PhD union members were then confronted with a lengthy, punitive tribunal process controlled at every level by the administration, something they took the university to court over. On June 18, 2019, the Ontario Supreme Court ruled in favor of the students and quashed the sanctions that the tribunal had tried to impose on them, finding that York did not have jurisdiction to use the student code to discipline student-employees for actions related to their employment and that their rights to procedural fairness and natural justice had been violated in the process of the tri- bunal. The three goals for this project come from the experience of the 2018 CUPE strike and its aftermath. My first goal is to provide “a guide for navigating the distrust and loneliness of capitalism” (@antalalakam, Aug 21, 2018). One of the Reclamationists un- derscored the need for such a thing in a tweet during the trau- matizing remediation period that followed the end of the strike as the Employer implemented punitive policies to make the lives of the first- and second-year CUPE graduate students, who had held out against them, as difficult and uncertain as possible. Given Boltanski and Chiapello’s assessment over a decade ago of “virtual stagnation when it comes to establishing mechanisms capable of controlling the new forms of capitalism and reducing their devastating effects” (2007, xvi), and the perceived need for what Émile Durkheim called “collective effervescence,” that is, “the energy that people share when they’re bound together by a common focus, especially if it includes some challenge” (Mann 2018), it seems more important than ever for academic work to function as this kind of guide. My second goal comes from my work in Urban Studies and is a response to Matt Hern’s important question in What a City