Announcing a symposium at Princeton, April 9-10: The Long Arc of Fascism, w/keynotes @naomiaklein.bsky.social + Aaju Peter (GL/Nunavut), plus amazing organizers (Memphis, Minneapolis, Gitskan) and academics (Keeanga YT, Naomi Murukama, etc). Livestreamed.
canadianstudies.princeton.edu/events/
New piece with Tia Dafnos and Emma Bainbridge in @breachmedia.ca: The paramilitary pipeline police strike again. Now so clearly organized as a permanent counter-insurgency formation, here's what the Critical Response Unit (aka C-IRG) has been up to: breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...
Use these cards to write love letters or ransom notes, writes @mollycrabapple.bsky.social. And remember: Every handwritten letter is a rebellion against Silicon Valley dystopia.
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
🚨 New injunction resources for organizers and land defenders from 8th Fire Rising! 🚨
First up, updated research by me and @shirip.bsky.social on injunction success rates for corporations, governments, and First Nations. See the stats and more at: 8thfirerising.ca/injunctions/
On the POD: We talk with Sheryl Nestel, co-author of a new report on a pattern of anti-Palestinian racism and genocide denial at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. @avilewis.ca @sherylnestel.bsky.social @ijvcanada.bsky.social @shirip.bsky.social
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Saturday | 10:05 PT We talk with Sheryl Nestel, co-author of a new report on a pattern of anti-Palestinian racism and genocide denial at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. @avilewis.ca @sherylnestel.bsky.social @ijvcanada.bsky.social @shirip.bsky.social
In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
So many of us feeling exactly the same. The creeping horror.
New piece: Private and public capital are flooding into mining and LNG development in the service of a war economy. Over 44 per cent of the Liberal budget is allocated toward defence spending that will eventually slap a Canadian flag on missiles and submarines.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
If you’re worried about climate change and you’ve never heard of controlled burns by Indigenous nations, read this great piece.
We are in the throws of a battle over who is going to survive the future.
A future marked by scarcity and disaster.
A future these people are accelerating.
That is what is driving the attacks on civil rights and basic equality.
Supremacist beliefs are the tool needed to justify human culling.
Chicago cyclists are buying out tamale carts to keep vendors home and safe from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42KQ57O
Some good news
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
🚨 URGENT SOLIDARITY SUPPORT NEEDED IN MI’KMA’KI 🚨Mi’kmaw land defenders have been leading a resistance on Hunters’ Mountain in Unama’ki/Cape Breton for over a month now to block industrial developments that would destroy sacred grounds and harm the vulnerable moose population
Independent Investigations Office report says duty of care not met for 21-year-old who died in Williams Lake, B.C., RCMP cell
Tŝilhqot'in First Nation member Surrance Myers died after collapsing in an RCMP holding cell and not being checked on for about two hours.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes
This is extremely alarming. Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social won the federal election promising to make us *less* depending on the US. Now we are hearing reports that he is offering up a CLOSER energy and military partnership in exchange for a trade deal... 🧵
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.
If you've ever found your name on a list, or feared landing there, you're not alone. Today, doxxing is imbued with terrifying state powers, but it's an old strategy of deputization that has terrorized people for centuries. The power of lists is division, but we can draw from histories of refusal.
Avi is direct, committed, and building a political base that is grounded in movements for justice. I have never been a member of this party, but I will become one to make sure he becomes leader. Let's seize this moment for real change.
In light of BC approving the Ksi Lisims LNG terminal, we feel the need to reshare one of our most important podcast episodes: The Costs of LNG.
We dig into the climate, health, and financial impacts, and cover (almost) everything you wanted to ask about LNG (but were too afraid).
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Really excellent piece that provides important diagnostic on the legal dangers of how we define antisemitism in this moment.
"We reject any process that tramples our inherent and constitutionally protected title and rights, ignores free, prior and informed consent, and sacrifices the climate for foreign corporate profits. True nation-building requires working with us, not against us.” GCSP www.ubcic.bc.ca/first_nation...
Mark Carney continues to use the phrase “decarbonized oil” to try to greenwash a new oil pipeline for Alberta. It’s so shameless and I would argue it even shows contempt for the public to be so dishonest.