Aliya Pabani

Why I Risked Arrest to Protest the Giller Prize’s Blood Money On November 13th 2023, a little over month into Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, the Giller Prize held its annual televised gala to award Canada’s biggest fiction prize. The broadcast was di…

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I'm continuing to boycott the Giller and I'm grateful to folks like Rachelle Freisen who risked and endured state violence to ensure that we continue to hold the line.

Lessons from the cultural front No Arms in the Arts organizers look back on over a year of confronting cultural institutions complicit in Palestinian genocide

"Israel is the top yearly international recipient of Canadian charitable donations, from charities and foundations whose non-profit status facilitates their ability to send millions of dollars to Israel."
#Canada #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

It's the Magical Military Tour Carney touts expanded militarism and AI-hype as the right way to defend Canadians

Since I covered the announcement today and the subsequent press conference, I used this week's edition of The Catch to sum up the problems with Carney's NATO groveling today. Check it out. #cdnnews #cdnpoli

Inside the campaign that upended CanLit’s ties to Scotiabank and Israeli arms ⋆ The Breach The grassroots campaign that took on the Giller for its ties to the genocide in Gaza forced a broader reckoning in the Canadian literary community

These principled artists have worked hard and put a lot on the line to protest Canadian wealth that funds both the arming of a genocide and feel-good prestige arts awards. Arts philanthropy looks good, bombing people does not. We are lucky to have these people. breachmedia.ca/scotiabank-i...

YouTube video by TheEthanwashere CBC Hot Type Evan Solomon interviews Noam Chomsky on his book 9/11

In honour of Evan Solomon being proclaimed the Liberal candidate for Toronto Centre, here’s 40 minutes of him getting absolutely manhandled by Noam Chomsky.

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YouTube video by Blueprints of Disruption Aliya Pabani on Selecting Economic Targets in Canada #activism

Scotiabank is certainly a valid target for the anti-war movement.

But @aliyapabani.bsky.social suggests that there are other economic targets that could yield more immediate, tangible results.

Check out this clip from our latest Rabble Rants: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBW1...

One down, two to go - the Canlit Responds response to the Giller Prize and Scotiabank severing ties

I can fix him

I sent the Gastro Guru an email asking him to correct his false assertions that I was fired from the CBC and repeatedly sued for defamation.

He said he would “consider holding back” if I stopped calling him a Nazi, “bad-mouthing” him on Reddit and “vandalizing” his Wikipedia page.

i am an Araki diehard and i love this movie to death, so was extremely excited to be able to draw this

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Laissez faire nationalism

Is there a single country out there where the majority are like idk we just live here

A screen showing live donations at the JHR gala. There's a donation for $102 from someone listed as "Please mention dead Palestinian journalists."

At the Journalists for Human Rights gala, $102 well spent.

(though regrettably not by me)

Today I ran into Loblaws' CEO Per Bank in the No Frills parking lot and asked about the $22 million he was paid last year.