Dave Thomas

Begging folks to stop referring to the pandemic in the past tense.

It’s still “during COVID”. The pandemic isn’t over just because you want it to be.

We have no sterilizing vaccine. No treatment or cure for Long Covid. People are still dying & becoming disabled every day because we refuse to adapt

AP: Israeli soldiers burn a hospital in Gaza, December 28, 2024

Dire tie if Jamal Aswan hospital arrested for refusing to leave patients.

It is not complicated.
These two recent headlines encapsulate the binary that is colonization: the oppressor and the oppressed. This is what Israel has always been and what it has always done to Palestinians. This is Zionism. There is no peace until this injustice ends.

The New Brunswick Media Co-op @nbmediacoop.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Give them a follow and support our alternative media outlet here in NB.

Hidden Politics - Hidden Agendas | Face2Face with David Peck Unpacking the Secret Powers of Commodities with Adam Sneyd

David Peck is relaunching his podcast with our conversation on Hidden Politics and the SDGs - have a listen & share for your students and colleagues! shows.acast.com/face2face-wi... @lcotula.bsky.social @davethomas.bsky.social @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social

Thanks John. Stories and news will start getting posted over here soon.

Hi John. Can you please add the New Brunswick Media Coop to the starter pack?

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Thanks for this, Brad. I have a feeling ours are on a low setting as well because they are very quiet.

Photo of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies on a cooling rack fresh out of the oven.

Kids helped me make a batch of these for the striking postal workers today. The workers are in good spirits despite the relentless drizzle this week. Solidarity with CUPW.

Although Netanyahu and Gallant will most likely never be tried, it is a small step toward justice for the ICC to clearly spell out the charges against them and issue the warrants. It is now incumbent upon every member state, including Canada, to enforce the warrants.

Good point. I still have my own CR boxes going in all the rooms as well.

Thank you for your replies. They must be turned down quite low because I can’t hear them at all. And there’s just one in each room. I also have my own portable units in the classrooms I use.

In case anyone needed a reminder that the US is fully backing the genocide, even after a full year of slaughter and destruction.

Sounds great. Thanks Anna.

Photo of wall mounted air purifier in a classroom. Brand is Fellowes, Aeromax 4.

Covid conscious community: I’ve started seeing a few of these air filters in classrooms on campus. Brand is Fellowes, Aeromax 4. Anyone know much about them? From my searching online they seem like a good option but expensive?

Photo of book cover. Title is Crisis and Contagion: Conversations on Capitalism and Covid-19.

This is a great collection of interviews with some key thinkers on the connections between capitalism and the pandemic.

Great to see you over here, Richard.

This is a really thought-provoking piece from a very smart and experienced organizer. Highly recommend.

Capitalism and Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad This edited collection brings together a broad range of case studies to highlight the role of Canadian corporations in producing, deepening, and exacerbating conditions of dispossession both at home a...

My second book was co-edited with @veldoncoburn.bsky.social and is a collection of case studies examining Canadian corporate projects both at home and abroad. Link is here: fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/capital...

Bombardier Abroad: Patterns of Dispossession Centred around a theoretical framework that combines concepts of dispossession, political economy and important interventions from the field of settler colonial studies on the topic of colonial dispos...

Quick introduction to my research work here. I’ve typically worked on Canadian corporations abroad through a critical international political economy approach. My first book looked at Bombardier and a few of its high speed rail projects abroad. Link is here: fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/bombard...

Coming back here after a long absence. The thing I liked about Twitter a long time ago was being part of several communities: academic, New Brunswick/Maritime, old friends, Covid aware, radical politics globally. Also a place to build community. Maybe it can happen again.

Dress warm. Bring a candle. Family friendly. A delegation inside will be presenting to council to urge them to call on Justin Trudeau to take meaningful action towards permanent ceasefire.

Palestinian deaths count for less in Canada’s newspapers. Data proves it ⋆ The Breach An analysis of thousands of sentences in Canada’s top newspapers shows a clear bias that serves to sanitize Palestinians’ deaths

“The largest Canadian newspapers have given disproportionate attention to the deaths of Israelis, portrayed Israelis in more humanized ways, characterized their deaths as more worthy of indignation, and more often identified who was responsible for killing them”

That’s true. Most of them are testing and staying home, which is great. Not many masks though. The ventilation isn’t bad in my classrooms and I added portable filtration units as well.

Another student emailing me today who is out with Covid. I’ve lost track of how many and it’s just October. I don’t think I’ve ever seen attendance this low in all my years of teaching. But sure, let’s just let it rip through everyone over and over with no protections.

When I first heard someone had recorded a new version of Tracy Chapman’s song Fast Car I was horrified and deeply sceptical. But I gotta say, Luke Combs does it justice and it’s a great sound. Others might disagree.

I teach a third year course called Global Capitalism this term. We are doing a unit on food and watching the documentary Food Inc from 2008. Still a classic for documenting the corporate concentration and control over food production and distribution in America. Very similar trends in Canada too.

Blueprints of Disruption - COVID Conscious Under Capitalism We are over three years into the COVID pandemic, is anyone even paying attention anymore? As we see health officials start to wear masks again, it seems a good time to talk about the COVID conscious c...

Check out my new podcast with @blueprints.bsky.social. #COVIDisAirborne

"We're over 3 years into the pandemic, is anyone even paying attention anymore? We see health officials start to wear masks again, a good time to talk about the COVID conscious community."

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