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People for Peace, London, Ontario

@ppl4peacelndont.bsky.social
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Ppl working for peace in our communities & worldwide, living in #LdnOnt on traditional lands of Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabek, Attawandaron, Wendat & Lenape ppls.

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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every "scholar" on this Advisory Board should have to re-take a methods course because they clearly need a refresher.
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
9/9 The CASE Study and subsequent defence pieces in @UA_magazine by Howard Ramos and Co get a failing grade from us. @indjewishvoices.bsky.social @jvplive.bsky.social @unbfac4palestine.bsky.social @soc4pal.bsky.social @nkalamb.bsky.social @privaricate.bsky.social
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
8/9 Funding such a questionable project while anti-Palestinian racism skyrockets across our institutions tells you everything you need to know about the actual priorities at play. Bad science protects no one. We absolutely have to do better.
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
7/9 Antisemitism is real and students absolutely deserve protection – yet weaponizing a fundamentally flawed study doesn’t keep anyone safe. It merely provides administrative cover to censor and surveil legitimate student academic freedom.
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
6/9 This exposes a massive problem around what we call construct validity. The survey instrument collapses Jews, Judaism, Israel, and Zionism into a single monolithic category. It makes separating actual bigotry from political critique of a foreign state analytically impossible.
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
5/9 The report claims 95.7% of respondents experienced or witnessed antisemitism. Predictably, media repeated this ad nauseum. But the authors buried a crucial finding. 92% of students who said Zionism was not important to them reported their campus was safe and inclusive.
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
4/9 Recruitment flowed almost exclusively through established Zionist orgs & progressive and non-Zionist Jewish students were shut out. You simply cannot make national claims about a diverse demographic when you intentionally survey a narrow faction. www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...
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Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences (CASE) - Canada.ca
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
3/9 In that piece, the authors defend making sweeping, generalized quantitative claims based entirely on an unweighted, self-selected convenience sample. Qualitative survey methods cannot, by definition, be generalized. It is a frankly irresponsible error. @indjewishvoices.bsky.social
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David #ArmsEmbargoNow! Heap @davidheap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So, what's up @universityaffairs.bsky.social ? Why platform shoddy methodology from CASE advisory board, but not a quantitative critique by sociologists who actually use rigorous methods? You owe it to the community to cover both sides of the issue, with @derekcrim.bsky.social @nkalamb.bsky.social
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
2/9 We tried to publish this methods rebuttal in @universityaffairs.bsky.social. Curiously, they passed. Yet they gladly published this by CASE advisory board members (including prominent quantitative sociologist, Howard Ramos) doubling down on the bad science. universityaffairs.ca/opinion/rebu...
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Rebuilding Jewish students’ trust in universities  - University Affairs
As students return to campus, discussions of the Middle East conflict deserve a scholarly, responsible and robust treatment that recognizes antisemitism in all its forms.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A federal report on campus antisemitism makes sweeping claims from a self-selected, unweighted sample. It also repeatedly blurs the line between antisemitism and criticism of Israel, write @nkalamb.bsky.social, @derekcrim.bsky.social, @dansailofsky.bsky.social, and @privaricate.bsky.social.
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Campus antisemitism report is based on fundamentally flawed methodology
Students deserve protection from bigotry. Antisemitism exists in Canadian society and must be confronted, and this study documents real examples. However, its methodology is flawed: by merging critiq...
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1/9 We cannot accept the findings of the federal CASE report. The methodology is fundamentally broken. Its data is highly questionable, but the resulting political weaponization is actively harmful. We unpack why for @canadiandimension.bsky.social. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Campus antisemitism report is based on fundamentally flawed methodology
Students deserve protection from bigotry. Antisemitism exists in Canadian society and must be confronted, and this study documents real examples. However, its methodology is flawed: by merging critiq...
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/09/2026
Bless this woman for DESTROYING this Christian debate bro.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ex-WV police chief violently attacked a woman over an expired registration. Though innocent, she spent five days in jail before the charge was dismissed. He resigned and was decertified.
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David #ArmsEmbargoNow! Heap @davidheap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Canada: Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Canada: Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism
Cliquez ici pour une version française de cette campagne. Last week, Public Safety Canada tried to quietly redefine anti-Zionism as antisemitic. This marks the first time the Canadian government has...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Delta Police Department says "four pedestrians have been struck" in what appears to be a "medical incident."
Delta Police Department tweet reads: "Delta Police currently dealing with a collision in South Delta on TFN lands. At this point it appears to be a medical incident. Four pedestrians have been struck and are being dealt with by Emergency Health Services. Delta Police are on scene and investigating. Please avoid the area."
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’re want a drama with Truth & Reconciliation subject matter, an independent movie by Canadian filmmaker Tasha Hubbard in 2025 might fit the bill. I think it’s on Crave in Canada. It’s four siblings ripped apart in the ‘60s Scoop who reconnect for the first time over a weekend:
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Meadowlarks (2025)
The film tells the story of four Cree siblings, Connie, Marianne, Gwen, and Anthony, separated as babies through Canada’s notorious Sixties Scoop, which saw indigenous children taken from their homes ...
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
6-8 killed according to other sources. "Palestinians inspect the damage following an #Israeli airstrike that targeted a minibus & killed 5 people in #Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighborhood on September 30, 2026. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP via Getty Images)" www.threads.com/@omarelqatta... (1/2)
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UWO Faculty Association @uwofa1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September 30 is an opportunity to listen, learn, and reflect. Meaningful reconciliation cannot be contained in a single day. It requires us to consider what we do beyond the words we use today. 🧡 Take time today to learn, reflect, and engage with Indigenous-led events and resources on campus.
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UWO Faculty Association @uwofa1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That means examining the practices we are part of, learning from Indigenous people and communities, and considering our responsibilities within the institution we help shape.
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UWO Faculty Association @uwofa1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Universities are places where knowledge is created, taught, collected, preserved, and passed on. They are also institutions shaped by colonial histories and structures.
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UWO Faculty Association @uwofa1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today, September 30, we recognize the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day to honour the children who never returned home from residential schools and the Survivors, families, and communities who continue to live with their impacts.
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Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We must ensure that the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Calls for Justice of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls are implemented. Together, we must create a future that is just and equitable for all. (4/4)
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Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We also call for urgent action to address the alarming preceding number of Indigenous children in state-run child welfare institutions. (3/4)
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Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We call for urgent action to address systemic and intersectional issues that contribute to the marginalization, victimization, criminalization and massive institutionalization of Indigenous women in federal prisons (2/4)
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Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour all of those impacted by residential schools and continue to advocate for decolonization, decriminalization and decarceration. This day serves as a reminder that the harm caused by residential schools is profound and persists in Canada. (1/4)
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People for Peace, London, Ontario @ppl4peacelndont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Screening of "Earth's Greatest Enemy" Monday September 28, 7 pm. Movie on the environmental costs of the US miliatry. One Screening only at #LdnOn #Hyland cinema. Film-maker Abby Martin will appear by zoom. @westernsogs.bsky.social www.hylandcinema.com/movie/earth'....
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People for Peace, London, Ontario @ppl4peacelndont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Screening of "Earth's Greatest Enemy" Monday September 28, 7 pm. Movie on the environmental costs of the US miliatry. One Screening only at #LdnOn #Hyland cinema. Film-maker Abby Martin will appear by zoom. @westernsogs.bsky.social www.hylandcinema.com/movie/earth'....
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Previously secret military files reveal links between the use of torture by British forces in Oman and Northern Ireland during the 1970s. Available in EN, ES, AR and RU. buff.ly/2yUjULK
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When Britain Used Torture To Control The Strait Of Hormuz
Declassified files reveal that brutal interrogation techniques used by British forces in 1970s Oman were later applied in Northern Ireland, with key officers involved in both operations.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
The Trump administration has deported tens of thousands of immigrants to so-called "third countries" that they have no connections to. "This is extraordinary rendition all over again, in broad daylight," says Tutu Alicante, a human rights lawyer from Equatorial Guinea.
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“Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned
Two men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditi...
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 28/09/2026
Ontario’s funding of for-profit medical imaging (MRI) and surgical services is increasing wait time and threatening public health care. New report by @alonghurst.bsky.social for @policyalternatives.ca #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/not-adding-up-surgical-and-diagnostic-privatization-in-ontario/
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/09/2026
New York City is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement and has long been a refuge for those seeking community, dignity, and a place to call home.
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/09/2026
Thou shalt not use tax dollars to pay for fascist commercials.
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I love this. 💗 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Meet the London family who made libraries their must-see travel destination | CBC News
A London, Ont., family has turned library visits into a travel tradition, visiting 50 libraries across Canada, the U.S. and India, and they aren't stopping there.
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isobel @gynoid74.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
been boycotting them since they opened.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 26/09/2026
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BOYCOTT STARBUCKS
Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 26/09/2026
Starbucks is ending their DEI initiatives nationwide. If you’re a customer, BOYCOTT STARBUCKS. If you’re a Starbucks worker, organize your union to protect you and your coworkers before things get even worse.
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“…it was the endless, unchecked pursuit of wealth and power by western elites, at home and abroad, that brought us here, and that the task is to rebuild what Margaret Thatcher sought to destroy – society – by investing the wealth we collectively produce.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The west is in freefall – and the worst part is that we were warned, but chose not to listen | Owen Jones
Endless pursuit of wealth and power by western leaders led us here. What strikes me most is how many saw what was coming, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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David Rovics @davidrovics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
MARYLAND: I got the plane tickets! I'll be barnstorming around Maryland's 4th Congressional District with Sam Husseini and his campaign from October 8-15. Here's my song for his campaign with the Chet Gardiner band on my latest album. Come join us! davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/sam-is...
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Sam is Running for Congress, by David Rovics
from the album Rise
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Government leader José Guimarães (PT) accuses Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and his allies of secretly blocking the proposed end of Brazil’s 6×1 work schedule. Available in PT-BR, EN, TU and ES. buff.ly/4Pl7nee
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José Guimarães Reveals How Flávio Bolsonaro and His Allies are Trying to Block Victory for Brazilian Workers
Government leader José Guimarães (PT) accuses Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and his allies of secretly blocking the proposed end of Brazil’s 6×1 work schedule.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free men will walk to build a better society." The 28th PI Briefing of 2026 is online now. buff.ly/EgxZ7YR
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PI Briefing | No. 28 | Great Avenues
As Brazil prepares to vote, Washington and its allies are deploying old powers and new technologies across the hemisphere.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Since 2001, the United States has attacked at least 11 weddings in four countries. They have killed at least 580 people. Not one single U.S. official has been held to account for these massacres.
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Davide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 11/09/2026
I dug through Canadian media archives to pull out a sample of the bloodthirsty commentary that dominated pages post-9/11, including from: Christie Blatchford, Rosie DiManno, Margaret Wente, Mark Steyn, Andrew Coyne, Marcus Gee, Rex Murphy and Paul Wells. www.readthemaple.com/remembering-...
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Remembering Canadian Media’s Post-9/11 Bloodlust
The media was responsible for helping create an environment where people begged for war, racist laws and attacks on civil liberties.
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David #ArmsEmbargoNow! Heap @davidheap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There’s no evidence tying the Palestine movement to shootings at Jewish schools and synagogues in Canada. "As such, the speculation from pro-Israel groups and politicians has been highly irresponsible." www.readthemaple.com/theres-no-ev... by @davide.readthemaple.com in @readthemaple.com
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There’s No Evidence Tying Palestine Movement To Shootings
Pro-Israel groups have blamed shootings at schools and synagogues on anti-Zionists
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why $20 million to train police in the West Bank? Whose police? To do what? Give the whole $100 million for humanitarian aid to Palestine. And did you ever send the promised $8 million to Cuba? Time to send more! @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canada pledges $100M for Palestine at United Nations General Assembly | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is pledging $100 million in new aid for Palestine in an effort to preserve "the possibility of a two-state solution."
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David #ArmsEmbargoNow! Heap @davidheap.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New INTERVIEW with @lindamcquaig.bsky.social at @antlerrivermedia.bsky.social, about her new book on the need for a wealth tax in Canada #CancellingBillionaires antlerrivermedia.ca/linda-mcquai... Hear more TONIGHT at @lpl.ca Central Branch, with @londonlabour.ca @westernsogs.bsky.social
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Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks discuss their new book on 'Cancelling Billionaires’ - Antler River Media Co-op
On September 22, Canadian author and journalist Linda McQuaig and tax scholar Neil Brooks will visit London to discuss their recent book Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Need ...
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