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Gulzar R. Charania

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Writer | Teacher | Associate Professor | Fighting Feelings @UBCPress www.ubcpress.ca/fighting-feelings | dog lover

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S Lamble @slamble1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m excited to share upcoming book events for Unsafe: The carceral roots of the anti-trans backlash. For full details, see: Lamble.net/events
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Join @anneemcguire.bsky.social and I for the Ottawa book launch of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin on Friday, Sept 25, 6-9 pm at Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 290 Lisgar St. We'll be in conversation with @remiyergeau.bsky.social, @morsini.bsky.social & @nataliekt.bsky.social carleton.ca/cdash/event/...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival Book Launch and Discussion - Carleton Disability and Access Studies Hub (C-DASH)
Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic ab...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis." Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
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The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
PLEASE SIGN to support Prof Tiffany Willoughby-Herard! 2 yrs ago Prof W-H stood up to protect students, rightly declaring “we cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy” while being violently arrested. Tell UCI to DROP all disciplinary charges against her! sites.google.com/view/withdra...
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On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Yesterday's pipeline announcement is yet another reminder that Prime Minister Carney cares more about lining the pockets of his corporate friends than upholding the Constitutional rights of Indigenous peoples and protecting the public from the escalating climate emergency. (1/6)
"Sign 350 Canada's Petition to Call for Real Climate Action" "1.  Stop fast-tracking environmentally catastrophic fossil fuel projects" "2. Protect the health and wellbeing of all those impacted by climate change.""3. Invest in a worker, community and Indigenous-led green energy transition that benefits everyone in Canada - Sign today!"
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 25/06/2026
Neutrality policies actually weaken academic freedom, rather than strengthening it @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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"Institutional neutrality" at Canadian universities is a sham | CCPA
Neutrality policies actually weaken academic freedom, rather than strengthening it.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The exhibit titled, “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” at the Canadian human rights museum in Winnipeg opens tonight. The online exhibit is now live for viewing: humanrights.ca/exhibition/p...
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Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present | CMHR
A moving exhibit exploring the ongoing forced displacement of Palestinians through interactive experiences, tactile elements, video, objects and art.
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eva lucía @evalucia.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
so excited for Nada Elia’s Falastiniyyat: A Century of Palestinian Feminisms, out from @versobooks.bsky.social on October 6. writers and reviewers let me know if you’d like an early copy!
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
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Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
International tribunal begins investigation into missing Indigenous children and unmarked burials from Canada's residential schools. "We'll often hear people use terms like assimilation.. The correct language is genocide and crimes against humanity." - Christa Big Canoe
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International tribunal begins investigation into missing Indigenous children and unmarked burials | CBC News
The Permanent People's Tribunal will examine evidence regarding Canada's responsibility for the residential schools system and the human rights violations associated with it.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
US is taking unprecedented measures to secure ownership over Canadian mines on Indigenous lands. Over just two years, Pentagon invested over $78 million USD in companies operating mining projects in Canada in order to suit U.S. military needs. breachmedia.ca/elbows-up-ca...
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Elbows up? Canada is letting Pentagon take ‘unprecedented’ stakes in Canadian mines  ⋆ The Breach
By fast-tracking critical minerals, Canada is not simply building a green economy. It is being further integrated into the U.S. war industry
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Gulzar R. Charania @grcharania.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Sauvons la Garderie Bernadette / Save Bernadette Child Care Centre. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
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Sauvons la Garderie Bernadette / Save Bernadette Child Care Centre
(scroll down for English) L'utilisation du genre masculin a été adoptée dans le seul but de ne pas alourdir le texte. La Garderie Bernadette (GBCCC) a commencé ses activités à l'Université d'Ottawa...
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Yellowhead Institute @miskoaki.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Ashley Kyne & Justin Piché challenge the “Indigenization” of prisons, arguing these efforts reproduce colonial space through carceral policies – ultimately misrepresenting Indigenous life & normalizing confinement. Art: ‘Genocide’ - Nshannacappo Full Brief: yellowheadinstitute.org/2026/the-pri...
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
My latest! I'm keeping a list of the cuts that Mark Carney's government has made, and what impact they'll have on our public services. noraloreto.substack.com/p/counting-t...
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Counting the cuts
Mark Carney's attacks on Canada's public service should concern all Canadians.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Let me just say that having been there, the idea of being a Black woman in labor in America and having to go before a judge is terrorism.
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ocufa.bsky.social @ocufa.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Precariously employed contract faculty teach almost 50% of university courses in Ontario with little job security or institutional support. OCUFA is holding a Social Media Day of Action to call for fair, stable working conditions for contract faculty. tinyurl.com/ybanf5yp
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Weaving our Worlds has compiled resources and diverse left perspectives from and on Iran. Rather than reduce Iran to various intra-left ideological debates, these provide analysis based in the context, specificity and history. www.weavingourworlds.ca/iran-resourc...
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Iran Resources
This resource list was produced in March 2026, less than one week after the US and Zionist entity launched attacks against Iran — manufactured through lies, orientalist propaganda, sanctions, regime-c...
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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
For anyone unsettled by the threads of violence unspooling around the world, looking for steps forward, esp in the Canadian context, please join this: Panel Discussion untangling Canada’s tech-involvement w/ ICE and Beyond. Free, via Zoom, register here: uwindsor-law.libcal.com/event/4000495
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Technical Collaborators: Canada's Tech-Facilitated Complicity with ICE and Beyond
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Location: Zoom (Virtual) - Link to be shared prior to event Registration is required....
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Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The same police unit that arrested Wet'suwet'en land defenders and surveilled Fairy Creek demonstrators was monitoring the Palestine solidarity movement on BC campuses A big investigation for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...
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A notorious RCMP unit shaped B.C. universities’ reaction to Palestine encampments ⋆ The Breach
From Fairy Creek to university campuses, CRU-BC is positioning itself as the go-to police force for repressing dissent
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA
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The Maple @readthemaple.com · 02/03/2026
Why These Iranian-Canadians Strongly Oppose U.S.-Israeli Aggression “This war is a war of power, a war of resource and land grab, and it is nothing about democracy.” www.readthemaple.com/why-these-ir...
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Why These Iranian-Canadians Strongly Oppose U.S.-Israeli Aggression
“This war is a war of power, a war of resource and land grab, and it is nothing about democracy.”
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Peter James Hudson @darkfinance.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Who bombed the school?
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Canadians, bookmark this link and support independant!
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Ontario is lowering OSAP so students only receive 25% of funding through grants. 48% of Canadian students report struggling with the cost of tuition. In Ontario, that number jumps to 59%. Federal grants are also on the chopping block. Student support should be increasing, not decreasing.
Map of Canada with the province of Ontario highlighted. Text that reads "Recent data shows 59% of Ontario students and their families have difficulty paying tuition fees. Canadian average: 48%"
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Palestinian Olympic Committee report 1,007 members of the Gaza athletic community have been murdered by Israel. Athleticide. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
The Palestinian Olympic Committee reports that 1,007 members of the sports community in Gaza have been killed, 265 sports facilities destroyed, and 5 athletes remain missing during the genocide.Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide: The Destruction of Sport in Occupied Palestine

in Sociology of Sport Journal

Derek Silva





  * , Nathan Kalman-Lamb





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, Janelle Joseph





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, Jules Boykoff





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, Jess Nachman

Zeana Hamdonah,7 Thomas Ross Griffin,15 Anima Adjepong,16 and Jeffrey Montez de Oca17

In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and
athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the
destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians
in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature focuses on the philosophical, ethical, and political foundations of
events that are conventionally described as “genocide,” little scholarly attention has been paid to genocide in the disparate fields
that make up sports studies. Even less attention has been paid to the role that sport, sporting cultures, and athletics may, or may
not, play in genocide and genocidal campaigns. To address this gap, we advocate for the development of a sociology of
athleticide as one possible point of departure for advancing sports studies’ understanding of the role that sport can, and often does,
play in times of genocide and the impact of state violence on sport.
There is no neutrality, there can be no neutrality or objectivity
about Palestine : : : . There is no indifference, no objectivity,
no neutrality because there is simply no room for them in a
space that is as crowded and overdetermined as this one. (Said,
1986, pp. 29–30)
In this paper, our scholarly collective …
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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Let Black history month serve to remind us that the living legacy of slavery is the carceral state- policing, prison, immigration detention, and border enforcement. Abolition now.
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Brishti Basu @brishti.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Canada/IRCC has chosen to make it difficult for Palestinian students — 134 from Gaza accepted into Canadian universities for graduate degrees/PhDs — to get here. Article + interactive map of where students were accepted & their programs, by @ericwickham.ca pressprogress.ca/gazans-accep...
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More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.
See a map of the graduate programs they're planning to attend, if the government finally processes their visas
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Parliament must ban Canadian firms from doing business with ICE Morning File by me
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Parliament must ban Canadian firms from doing business with ICE - Halifax Examiner
An unbridled fascist state next door will necessarily lead to the end of Canadian sovereignty.
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Gulzar R. Charania @grcharania.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Loved this episode of Academic Aunties!
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/01/2026
> “This could become a school where ChatGPT writes the papers, ChatGPT grades the papers, rich kids buy an experience, and nobody gets an education,” says Ariel Becherer, a PhD student www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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‘Keep Carleton Human’: Carleton University staff rallies to push for protections from A.I.
At Carleton University, CUPE 4600 -— the union representing Teachers Assistants, Research Assistants, and Contract Instructors — held the ‘Keep Carleton Human’ rally on Thursday, fighting for clear-cu...
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“As I document in my forthcoming book, we can’t get accountability from the ‘regular’ police, whatever that means: after decades, we haven’t been able to achieve something as basic as an honest civilian review board with subpoena powers and the ability to hire and fire officers!” —Robin D. G. Kelley
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Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
As an Indigenous person, watching Trump make plans to invade an Indigenous territory is fucking terrifying. Everyone is making this about Denmark, but it will be Inuit facing this new wave of violent colonization.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
CANADIANS! Please sign and share this Parliamentary Petition backed by MP Heather McPherson re returning IDF soldiers and HESEG. *Don’t forget to check for an email from ourcommons and confirm yr signature. *Correction to previous post. Apologies MP McPherson. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
We, the undersigned, citizens and permanent residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:
1. Initiate investigations under The CAHWCA into Canadian citizens and residents who served in the IDF, and if warranted, lay charges or refer to international courts;
2. Cooperate with international courts by sharing findings and providing financial or law enforcement support, as exemplified by assistance to the ICC's investigation of Russian war crimes in Ukraine;
3. Direct the Canada Border Services Agency to screen Canadian citizens/residents returning from Israel for foreign military service;
4. Investigate the HESEG Foundation for violations of section 11(1) of Canada’s Foreign Enlistment Act;
5. Issue warnings that Canadians serving/volunteering with the IDF may face criminal liability under Canadian law; and
6. Create a government website to collect information from Gaza/West Bank war crime victims/witnesses, as in the case of Ukraine.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 07/01/2026
www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...
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Statement from Birzeit University on the Israeli military invasion of its campus and shooting of students
As part of its ongoing assault on Palestinian life and institutions, the Israeli occupying army carried out a military invasion of Birzeit University during official working hours, at a time when the ...
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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It seems it is once again time for everyone to familiarize themselves with this anti-imperialist classic.
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE. breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
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In the genocide in Sudan, Canada has a hand in the violence ⋆ The Breach
The massacres of civilians in Sudan are being fuelled by Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee restrictions. It’s time for Canada to end its complicity
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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Gulzar R. Charania @grcharania.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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Professor claims University of Ottawa ‘intimidated’ Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility, moved off-campus last minute - The Fulcrum
Reading Time: 5 minutes“They are suppressing the truth, and they are aiding and abetting the continuation of the violations of international law.”
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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Heres Jocelyn Thorpe and I in the @winnipegfreepress.com, talking about everyone’s favourite topics, sewage & environmental racism: www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...
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Opinion: Investing for ourselves, and those downstream
We have invested large sums of money in infrastructure before. You don’t often hear Winnipeggers complaining about the results: soft, clean drinking water thanks to the Shoal Lake aqueduct and flood p...
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Sean Tucker @seantucker.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“Razing Palestine” (Ed. Leila Marshy) comes out this week. Proud to stand in solidarity with every contributor & others who experienced personal & professional consequences for speaking out against Israel’s genocide. These stories represent just the tip of the iceberg of repression in Canada.
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David #ArmsEmbargoNow! Heap @davidheap.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I just wrote a letter: @ndp.ca MPs must OPPOSE the Budget for War, with Austerity for the Rest... Write & send your own letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/budg...
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Budget for War. Austerity for the Rest.
To placate Donald Trump, Prime Minister Mark Carney is driving an unprecedented expansion in military spending while cutting public services. This week’s budgets expected to solidify the government’s ...
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan. www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
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Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan
Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan The headlines are horrifying: Aid Blocked. El Fasher under siege. Ethnic cleansing. Famine. Millions displaced. Beyond slogans like Eyes on Sudan or Free Sudan, how can we a...
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Daniel Rück @danrueck.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Free screening of the documentary "The Encampments" at uOttawa on Nov 5, 7pm! www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-encamp...
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The Encampments | Free Screening - Les campements | Projection gratuite
An urgent look at America’s student movement, sparked at Columbia University, as students protested ties to the genocide in Gaza.
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Photo from a review of the exhibition that opens on the 23rd: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments
The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. static1.squarespace.com/static/68bf2...
Palestine at Canadian Universities: How institutional complicity in colonial genocide is maintained
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Canadian governments have poured $63M in subsidies into mineral exploration on Grassy Narrows territory, helping Kinross Gold push a project that threatens the Wabigoon River. Tax breaks for investors are undermining Indigenous rights and local waters while the province collects little in return.
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Millions in subsidies for mineral exploration undermine Indigenous rights
Millions in government subsidies are fuelling risky mining projects on Grassy Narrows’ ancestral lands, enriching investors while threatening the First Nation’s water and health. Despite Indigenous op...
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