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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'The right to strike is under threat like perhaps never before. The labour movement needs to act like it.' #BillC39 www.readthemaple.com/bill-c-39-po...
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Bill C-39 Poses An Existential Risk To Strike Rights
It will effectively allow the labour minister to decide if workers can strike.
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The bedrock of AI discontent is a feeling that collective life is increasingly unrecognizable, dominated by efforts to automate social relations and synthesize creative expression, as many feel their own futures constrained by unaffordability, downward mobility, and the climate crisis.
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After the Data Centers - Dissent Magazine
Data center opponents have assembled a potent political force. But without a more expansive vision, there is a risk that this techlash could be co-opted and fizzle out.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In one of the most important convos I’ve had this year, I talked with Sherry Turkle about how our interactions with AI platforms, simulated companions, and artificial personalities can reshape us, diminish our capacities, and alter our very conceptions of ourselves and what it means to be a person.
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Artificial Intimacy Is Changing Who We Are
“We start to judge our human interactions by what the chatbot can deliver,” says author Sherry Turkle.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The political representatives of capitalism in Canada have arrived at a political consensus and are united around a class war agenda. #StephenHarper #Carney
Harper gives closing address at Carney's summit.
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"These billionaires make decisions behind closed doors in our city to decide our futures. Our future is not for sale.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Over 1,000 protesters demonstrate against Carney's investment summit in Toronto | CBC News
More than 1,000 demonstrators have gathered in downtown Toronto on Monday to protest against an investment summit organized by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 15/09/2026
The @canadianlabour.bsky.social has outlined exactly why this is such a bad idea. We don’t make Canada stronger by selling off our critical infrastructure. Protecting Canadian sovereignty means keeping our airports in public hands. canadianlabour.ca/airport-priv...
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Airport privatization would cost workers and passengers, CLC report warns | Canadian Labour Congress
OTTAWA — Privatizing Canada’s airports would put upward pressure on the cost of flying and put airport workers at risk, according to a new report from the Canadian Labour Congress, released ahead of n...
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Indigenous people are defying Canada's anti-LGBTQ+ laws and offering a safe haven for trans people on their land globalnews.ca/news/1205333...
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Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care safe haven | Globalnews.ca
Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Framing climate arson as "national interest" justifies condemning climate activism as treasonously "anti Canadian." Combined with C9 framing anti-genocide activism as "antisemitism." Triggering C22's warrantless surveillance. Very effectively criminalizing ethical activism in Canada under Carney.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The entirety of centuries of human endeavour in literature, philosophy, religion have been devoted to the attempt to define/understand the self but techbros somehow insist they KNOW ‘AI’ is sentient. maybe I’m going too far but I just don’t think they really comprehend what it means to be human
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 31/08/2026
READ: Israel is now threatening to target children in Gaza for flying kites, labeling handmade paper toys as hostile threats. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/chil...
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Children in Gaza are afraid flying their kites will get them killed
Israel regards any kite flown in Gaza as an “act of war” and has ordered the army to treat them like drones. “I don’t know what we can do that won’t anger Israel,” says Muhammad Owais, 13, who…
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Robert McMillan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @robertmcmillan13.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Mark Carney's dramatic escalation of military spending will change 🇨🇦 — far more than has been acknowledged. No clear assessment of our military needs, Carney has embarked on a massive military spending spree -suddenly plans to spend billions on jets & $100B on subs By @lindamcquaig.bsky.social
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 06/08/2026
we gotta establish some collateral consequence measures for surveillance tech. like, "this camera was used to investigate 3 property crimes and was used by cops to stalk 7 ex-girlfriends"
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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 30/07/2026
3) RCMP set Chilliwack home on fire during 2023 wellness check & standoff A court decision revealed officers chose to ignite the home to kill or capture an armed man in crisis — despite the ammo inside & proximity to 31 houses, a seniors’ community, & Skowkale reserve www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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RCMP officers ‘intentionally’ set home ablaze during tense standoff, court documents reveal
A house fire that erupted during an armed standoff in B.C.’s Lower Mainland three years ago was “intentionally” ignited by RCMP officers on scene, court documents have revealed.
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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In the past 24 hours, Israel has: - killed 18 Palestinians in Gaza - burnt houses across southern Lebanon - stormed & raided Kafr Haris in the occupied West Bank US-backed terror.
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
30 universities colluded with cops & a UCP official to violently suppress constitutionally protected anti-genocide free expression on campuses and as soon as journalists began asking questions they started deleting the evidence. This rights-suppressing genocide support is too deplorable for words.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 30/07/2026
A new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
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Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding in on the rain." Such marvelous writing from Arundhati Roy on the current moment in India.
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Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Our built world is not designed for these changing temperatures and sprawling catastrophes, and there is no plan or budget in place to address this. To make what's ahead more bearable and survivable, we will need transformative change and radical redistribution—not fucking data centers.
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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Migrant workers are doing farm labour in this smoke, working 12+ hours in heat & 'very high risk" air quality conditions. Unhoused folks get no break from this. Working class people largely can't avoid this suffering.
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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I hope everyone relentlessly complaining about the air quality in Toronto can keep that same energy to protect land defenders who are criminalized, targeted, and terrorized for protecting their own homelands. Land back or extinction.
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Please support First Nations North of 48 in so-called “Canada” whose communities & ancestral lands are being destroyed & evacuated on the front lines of these raging fires Some options donations@whitesandfirstnation.com an7gc.ca/donate/ If you are in Ontario there are donation drop offs everywhere
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DONATE - Anishinabek Nation 7th Generation Charity
Individuals who support the goals and vision of AN7GC can make a donation. The ways to donate: call us, mail your donation, use Paypal or CanadaHelps.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I want to put this article alongside this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns
A 2021 state law allows campus police to own military equipment for civilian safety – students fear it may be used to quash dissent
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 07/07/2026
What is even more striking is that data centre demand has matched 93% of the growth in renewable electricity generation (wind + solar + hydro) over the past decade. If we measure since 2020, data centre demand has grown nearly 3-times faster than renewable electricity growth.
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
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These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
college = no longer *working class* - it's absolutely RIDICULOUS. This isn't the 19th century.
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Native Calgarian Podcast 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Treaty Chiefs across Treaty 6, 7 and 8 territories are calling out Alberta & Canada’s fast-tracked pipeline proposal, made without consent before it gets sent to Ottawa. In a time of climate crisis, water, land, Treaty rights & future generations must be protected. www.facebook.com/share/p/1UDg...
CHIEFS STEERING COMMITTEE
July 3, 2026
Premier Smith and Prime Minister Carney need to understand that bypassing nation-to-nation consent will end in our unwavering opposition.
Read the statement >>>CHIEFS STEERING COMMITTEE
Treaty Chiefs Condemn Alberta and Canada as a Fast-Tracked Pipeline Proposal is announced in their Territories
TREATY 6, 7, 8, TERRITORIES - July 2, 2026 - The Chiefs Steering Committee on Technical Services (CSC), representing First Nations across Treaty 6, 7, and 8 territories, rejects the Government of Alberta's announcement detailing a new oil pipeline. In a time of climate crisis and with promises of Indigenous consultation, the Governments of Canada and Alberta have doubled down on the very actions that will risk the lives of every person on these
Treaty Chiefs object to both the Government of Canada and UP Government of Alberta's accelerated infrastructure plans that have, once again, been created without engagement or consent, willfully ignoring sacred Treaty covenants and our Peoples' inherent right to water and land. It is Treaty Peoples who will live with the consequences of Alberta and Canada's actions, and it is our Peoples who will stand up to it.
"UCP Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney continue to pass the pen between themselves to draw lines through our territories without our consent, all while ignoring the health of our ecosystems," says Chief Rupert Meneen, Tallcree Tribal Government and Chair of the CSC. "A pipeline like this can't be fast-tracked in secret and expect First Nations to be willing participants, despite our repeated attempts to work on a water strategy in good faith. What we expect is what the colonial Governments of Canada and Alberta are legally required to demonstrate: Honour of the Crown."
Treaty Chiefs are calling for all citizens across these shared lands to rise with them and stand against this project. There are significant risks to water when moving millions of barrels of bitumen-source waters must be protected and preserved for today and the future. We all need water to live and through projects that continue to extract at all costs, these governments will create a future where …
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The billionaire co-founder of AirBnB wants you to blame the babies of undocumented immigrants for starter homes being unaffordable.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
We call on municipalities, councils, and other public bodies to ensure that public funds do not contract or invest in companies implicated in grave human rights abuses and violations of international law.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
BREAKING: By establishing human rights as a guiding principle in its €3.1 billion annual procurement spending, Amsterdam sets an example for cities and public bodies worldwide.
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vorticalsync.bsky.social @vorticalsync.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“The Cicero Institute is a right-wing think tank…founded by Joe Lonsdale, a billionaire venture capitalist and the co-founder of Palantir…Cicero advocates for forced labor, forced treatment, and detention camps. They advocate against real solutions to homelessness, like housing and support.”
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
REMEMBER THEM Palestine Scholars Murdered in the Gaza Genocide Honoring the lives and legacies of martyrer Palestinian academics. These biographies are a modest attempt to convey a sense of what their families, their communities, Palestine, and all of us have lost. rememberinggazascholars.org
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Palestine Scholars
Fatima Ali Abu Owdah, How Alone You Were (2025) Poetry in cover art excerpted from Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem “Madīḥ al-ẓẓil al-‘ālī” (“In Praise of the High Shadow”): Son of mor...
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 14/03/2026
@jackie-wong.bsky.social: Unlike a burned CD from a friend, there’s no social contract that compels me to sit with something new, and take the time to better understand it. 💿
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Bring Back the Burned CD | The Tyee
They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.
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-dennis @beerandfreedom.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Great work from @nolore.bsky.social here: Critics Slam Carney’s Plan to Jump-Start Canada’s Economy via Military Industry truthout.org/articles/cri...
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Critics Slam Carney’s Plan to Jump-Start Canada’s Economy via Military Industry
Canada’s prime minister faces blowback for his plan to hike Canadian arms companies’ profits by 240 percent in 10 years.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 03/03/2026
War does not operate with surgical precision. It does not remove one figure and install another. It shifts power to those most capable of wielding force. It weakens civil society faster than it builds alternatives. It deepens grievances that last generations.
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The link between #militarism and #austerity become horribly clear in the next period and it will be a major focus for any common front of social resistance.
Bombs cost housing and healthcare.
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Gray Matthews @grayhiker.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Take the time to listen or read the transcript. The living world is still beautiful and worth caring for, and it is good to face and oppose fascist endgames.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 16/05/2025
Can the NDP be saved from its insiders? With a leadership race on the horizon, Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social discuss how the party’s consultant class is trying to maintain their grip—and what the NDP could be doing differently. breachmedia.ca/ndp-party-in...
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Saving the NDP from party insiders ⋆ The Breach
Desmond Cole and Martin Lukacs discuss how the NDP establishment wants a short, rigged leadership race to lock in the status quo—rather than the bold, democratic renewal it needs
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Canada's official version of Make Canada Great Again. What more screams noatalgia for settler-colonial jingoism than flying in the fcking King to deliver the throne speech. Racist nationalism is one hell of a drug. Death to all empires.
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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
But Pollievre poses the largest threat to human and ecological life that Canadians have faced in a generation. (2 of 2)
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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Whoever is elected we will need to fight against imperialism and extraction, and to defend Black, Indigenous, Palestinian, racialized, poor, and unhoused people from border violence brutal policing and prisons and murderous austerity. (1 of 2)
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
depressing to read polls suggesting that even amongst those who disagree with Trump, the one issue there is some support for is his fascistic immigration policy. border imperialism is so normalized amongst liberals - and even some radicals. stop believing migrants are your enemy, blame billionaires!
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 15/04/2025
Canadian Association of University Teachers advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
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CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Land Back: Indigenous Resistance from Coast to Coast hosted Monday April 21st, 7:00 – 9:00pm EST via Zoom Register here: tinyurl.com/surjtolandback #FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows @biidaasamose.bsky.social
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
‼️‼️ One more call for contributions from the Sameer Project. Their South Gaza campaign, where they are distributing food for survival as the price of rice skyrockets, only has funds left for ONE MORE WEEK. Donate here: t.co/1j2S3Rp86s
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https://chuffed.org/project/113222-tent-campaign-the-sameer-project
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 07/04/2025
The Lemkin Institute — named after the man who coined genocide — has issued a statement condemning Israel, the U.S., Canada, and Europe for perpetrating genocide in Gaza.
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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Short version: Environmental regulations are not causing inflation; it's oil and gas profits. And guess what? Citizens will also get stuck with the clean-up costs (unless we start electing governments that put people and planet before fossil fuel industry profits). www.falseprofits.ca
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False Profits | Fossil Fuels Are Making Life More Expensive
False Profits is a new research initiative from the Centre for Future Work to document the economic harms of fossil fuel pricing, profits, and practices.
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
A group of students holding signs saying Jews against ice and free Mahmoud now sitting inside a university gateA close-up of a student whose hands are changed to a gate. Next to a sign that says release Mahmoud Khalil nowStudents holding signs that say “Jews against ICE”
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