Tiana Reid

A bird flies—no, bangs—into the window at the environmental studies building.

Deadly Haiti drone attack kills eight children in capital Port-au-Prince The drone attack in Cite Soleil, one of the capital’s most dangerous neighbourhoods, has been blamed on Haiti’s police.

"The drones were supplied by Canada’s police" www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

GLEN COULTHARD (Yellowknives Dene/Canada), Scholar of Indigenous Studies)

CANISIA LUBRIN (St. Lucia/Canada) Poet

MADELEINE THIEN (Canada) Novelist

IMMANUEL WILKINS (US) Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger

The Alchemy Lecture 2025

Sound—at the Interregnum

Glen Coulthard
Canisia Lubrin
Madeleine Thien
Immanuel Wilkins

Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.)
Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU
Event type: Hybrid – in person and online

NO GOOD OLIGARCHS Offshoot Journal presents NO GOOD OLIGARCHS. Rockefeller isn’t better than Musk, Mellon isn’t better than Bezos because there are N O G O O D O L I G A R C H S: N O N E. Carnegie didn’t build concert ...

"The museums, libraries and foundations that emerged from the robber baron era — none of these were given for 'free': they were paid for and built by breaking unions (which transformed US union culture forever), open-firing on striking workers [...]" offshootjournal.org/no-good-olig...

"The revolution is madness. Without the madness of the revolution and its adventures you will never be liberated."

—Wisam Rafeedie, The Trinity of Fundamentals

Adjudicated, monopolized, and sanctioned by the state, so-called freedom of speech has always been a principle meant to be enjoyed only by a certain few.

fuck the GHF

cream-coloured book cover of Minh Nguyen's new book Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam

Minh is launching her new book Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam, a critique of the art world, luxury, and diaspora: "Nguyen finds relics of proletarian romance and vestiges of totalitarian control amid an evermore corporatized society."

Hi! I'll be in conversation with Minh Nguyen on Saturday, October 4, from 3-5 PM at Art Metropole in Toronto artmetropole.com/events/book-...

The terrifying experience of trying to get aid in Gaza A writer walked to a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site in Rafah only to be shot at and forced to return home empty-handed.

“How hard it is to be hungry.”

electronicintifada.net/content/terr...

“All these schools are fake” - University of Toronto students on my commute to… school. Bonne rentrée a tous!!! 🙃🙃🙃

Support Haneen, a journalist in Gaza, and fight against the erasure of truth My name is Haneen Salem, a journalist and photographer from Gaza. Since the beginning of the war, my life has become a daily journey between rubble and death, carrying my camera to document the storie...

Haneen Salem, a photojournalist in Gaza, is raising funds for new camera equipment
chuffed.org/project/1469...

Some had even hired the RSF as private security to protect their massive projects.

Every once in a while I get angry at the Sudanese millionaire class esp. those who signed that port deal with the UAE in 2022. They have done nothing for Sudan's civilians during this war re: food + evacuations (at least not that I'm aware of) and set the stage 4 for the war early on.

Open letter to Columbia administration on replacing union instructional labor Columbia has eliminated almost all graduate teaching positions in the Core Curriculum, the first-year writing program, language classes, and labs in STEM. Signatories of the open letter pledge not to ...

Join 600+ signatories of the no-scabbing pledge 🌹
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Engineering Reality: Towards a Deeper Understanding of Gaza By Bahaa Shahira Raouf, published on Al-Akhbar on 20 July 2024. Translation by Noha AbuShammala.

"this symbolic framing has come at a cost. It overlooks the right of Gazans to define their own image, to reject imposed roles and archetypes. It also constructs a conceptual framework in which weakness, exhaustion, and fatigue are not permitted." alrifaq.substack.com/p/engineerin...

I love city cyclists. One comrade just did a THUMBS DOWN at a driver cutting off a bike lane hehe

"I am a black man number one, because I am against
what they have done and are still doing to us; and
number two, I have something to say about the new
society to be built [...] " — C. L. R. James via ch. 2 of The Undercommons because it's that time of year

Corey Devon Arthur's latest, for Scalawag's Abolition Week

We Left Gaza. But Our Pain Came With Us. Palestinians who escaped the horrors of Gaza face a new trauma: the dislocation of exile from our homeland.

“survival took on a new shape: We became people without a place, without paperwork, without permanence, like bureaucratic ghosts.” www.thenation.com/article/worl...

1000 faculty hit the picket lines tomorrow, 930 am, lockout by @dalhousieu.bsky.social. A first for CDN research intensive universities. A reckless move by the Board - jeopardizing the fall term, ruining relations with faculty for years to come. Join us on the picket lines to #keepdalstrong!

Have you ever seen a wild hamster?? 😊 #bluesky

Job at U of T: Assistant Professor - African and Caribbean Francophone Literature jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Our Bay Area Local and other members in California are spearheading an effort to bring Lorenzo and JoNina Ervin—movement elders, anarchist thinkers, and former Black Panther Party members—to the West Coast for a speaking tour.

chuffed.org/project/1421...

Latest library returns

Done!

Georges Abdallah arrives in Beirut after 41 years in French prisons Lebanese activist Georges Abdallah returns to Beirut after 41 years in French prisons, greeted by large crowds at Beirut International Airport celebrating his release.

Georges Abdallah, speaking at Beirut International Airport: "The steadfastness of prisoners inside depends on the steadfastness of those abroad" english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...

fuck the GHF

Water for Khan Younis

Water for Khan Younis is a clean drinking water initiative in Al-Mawasi, in southern Gaza. tinyurl.com/khanyouniswa...

Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza

Gaza Soup Kitchen is run by the Almadhoun family in the north of Gaza. Sourcing from what remains of local farms, they cook hot meals, feeding 3000 people a day. tinyurl.com/gazakitchn