Robyn Maynard

Italians take to the streets for Gaza flotilla general strike Tens of thousands of Italians took to the streets across the country on Friday, as part of a day-long general strike called by unions in support of an aid flotilla carrying food to Gaza that was intercepted by Israel this week.

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🧵 in Chicago right now . Sending you love @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

Sickening. Sending solidarity to our folks in Chicago. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Hands off Haiti, and no more imperial interventions. The “chaos” cited as the reason for intervention is directly related to the coup d’état organized by Canada, France and the US.

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Thinking of all those big hearted ones who were abducted from the flotilla today. Free Palestine.

Solidarity with the the #SumudFlotilla: end the siege, feed the starving and end the genocide

The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.

“Blouin’s very birth troubled a colonial order erected on a strict racial hierarchy. She would make sure that her life would be far more of a problem for it.”

@sandipto.bsky.social reviews MY COUNTRY, AFRICA, the autobiography of the anticolonial revolutionary published by @versobooks.bsky.social

YouTube video by youvechangedrecords Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - White Kites and Sky Blue

Presenting the new single from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson:
White Kites and Sky Blue previews the upcoming album Live Like The Sky with a powerful new video directed, filmed, and edited by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh

@biidaasamose.bsky.social

On tour this November

Trump’s Proposal to “End the Gaza Conflict” Condemned as “Colonial Abomination” Under the plan, Gaza would be temporarily governed by a “Board of Peace” led by President Trump.

Trump and accused war criminal Netanyahu unveiled a proposal that includes the creation of a “Board of Peace,” which will govern Gaza headed by Trump. Netanyahu threatened to “finish the job” if Hamas rejected the plan, which, at the time, Hamas said it had not even seen.

We live in a society and a world in which structural and state violence are permissible: Harm is penalized only when it is committed by the powerless, and the mass organized looting and brutality committed by private companies, powerful individuals and the state, is protected and sanctioned.

Just a reminder that only 14 of the 94 Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action have been implemented in Canada. The history of settler colonialism in Canada is uninterrupted, violent, ongoing.

Biskaabiyaang History is my first love. Had I studied what I wanted when I took my first run at university it would have been history rather than the psychology program I eventually dropped out of. I had been told ...

This is not a conversation about residential schools. it is a conversation about history, about who gets to tell the authoritative stories and whose stories are extra reading.

Bad Indians Book Club podcast. Read it here, or catch it in your podcast app

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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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This newsletter is a must read- in an an onslaught of news of the rise of fascist authoritarianism our centre needs to always be in the work to fight back, which is always so much larger than the media presents to us.

Must read!

It’s terrifying what we are witnessing in El Fashir. The UAE backed RSF encircling the city to starve and exterminate people, while the so-called intl. community treats the UAE as a peace broker.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

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We should all be anti-fascist

My students were very happy to spend time with assata shakur’s words today and to engage her reflections on prison, slavery, and exile. Her works were already in the curriculum but we spent additional time today to honour her passing.

Toronto book launch Oct 23! with brilliant co-thinkers, David Chariandy, Andrea J. Ritchie and Desmond Cole , grab a ticket here! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-relau...

Cover of Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard. The background features a grainy, black-and-white image of a Black individual facing a wall. The person's posture and the ruler markings adjacent to the figure suggest that the image is a mugshot. The entire cover has a gritty feel and is overlaid with a grainy, stippled texture. The title text is bold and distressed.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Policing Black Lives," by Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social, which documents how a half a century of police reforms in Canada have expanded the scope and scale of policing and perpetuated anti-Black violence. #BlackStudies buff.ly/zsCOj1C

YouTube video by TheBlackestPanther Eyes Of The Rainbow (The Assata Shakur Story)

Watch "Eyes of the Rainbow: The Assata Shakur Story," a brilliant documentary about one of our most ethical freedom fighters. She died free in Cuba, despite being sought by the FBI for decades after being liberated from prison. May she rest in power. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZvk...

so looking forward thinking with the extraordinary @esmat.bsky.social at the launch of his new book, Parting Gifts of Empire, from @ucpress.bsky.social @makdisi.bsky.social at the University of Toronto November 6, 2025

list of tour dates over a figure with a rest fist and "no god mo boss no husband no state" on their back.

i made a new record & in november we're going on a tour to play it. grateful to boyhood & zoon for support & @youvechanged.bsky.social

🧵 Fellow academics in N. America if a Sudanese student has been admitted to your graduate program MA or PhD please please do your best to help them gather the necessary paperwork for their visa. So many are getting into great programs but (1/3)

just trying to watch a documentary that is only available on Youtube and it keeps being interrupted with "ads" that are just pro-Israel propaganda.

COINTELPRO Black Extremist Part 01

If you are wondering whether or not the state plays a role in misrepresenting facts in the service of white supremacy, I recommend you read for yourself the COINTELPRO files that describe in detail how they worked to "neutralize" Black radical movements vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro/...

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

We're looking forward to listening to this podcast based on the second article in our recent series "Abolitionist Lessons from the Prison Belts." Thanks @interdependentstudy.com ! You can read the whole series here: inquest.org/abolitionist...

A promotional graphic for the virtual author at Firestorm Books. The image features the cover of JoNina Abron-Ervin's "Driven by the Movement" alongside headshots for the author and interlocutor Robyn Maynard. The book cover has bold white text over a black and white photo of young Black protesters, chanting with fists raised, at a Free Angela demonstration in Lower Manhattan in 1970. Text alongside the book states that the event will take place on September 24th at 7pm ET.

On Wednesday, journalist and former Black Panther JoNina Abron-Ervin will be joined by @policingblack.bsky.social to discuss the new and revised edition of her portrait of the Black Power era, "Driven By the Movement." Sign up for this free event and grab the book at firestorm.coop/events/3442-...!