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350 Canada @350canada.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 URGENT SOLIDARITY SUPPORT NEEDED IN MI’KMA’KI 🚨Mi’kmaw land defenders have been leading a resistance on Hunters’ Mountain in Unama’ki/Cape Breton for over a month now to block industrial developments that would destroy sacred grounds and harm the vulnerable moose population

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 2d

Independent Investigations Office report says duty of care not met for 21-year-old who died in Williams Lake, B.C., RCMP cell

Tŝilhqot'in First Nation member Surrance Myers died after collapsing in an RCMP holding cell and not being checked on for about two hours.
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21-year-old died in cell after guard failed to check on him after medical emergency, IIO report says | CBC News

Tŝilhqot'in First Nation member Surrance Myers died after collapsing in an RCMP holding cell in Williams Lake, B.C. and not being checked on for about two hours, an Independent Investigations Office r...

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 2d

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 3d

This is extremely alarming. Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social won the federal election promising to make us *less* depending on the US. Now we are hearing reports that he is offering up a CLOSER energy and military partnership in exchange for a trade deal... 🧵

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Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 3d

More antifa. Everyone antifa.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

This is truly horrifying.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach…with Antifa."

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 3d

Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 16d

Another new piece out today at Boston Review. The rate of publication there has picked up considerably at a time when we need this magazine the most. Please read and support them.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-t...

A Theory of the List - Boston Review

From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will.

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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 16d

If you've ever found your name on a list, or feared landing there, you're not alone. Today, doxxing is imbued with terrifying state powers, but it's an old strategy of deputization that has terrorized people for centuries. The power of lists is division, but we can draw from histories of refusal.

Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 16d

From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will.

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A Theory of the List - Boston Review

From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will.

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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 22d

Pledge, donate, get involved here: lewisforleader.ca

Lewis for Leader - Avi Lewis for NDP Leader

It's time for the NDP to return to our roots—fighting a system rigged for the rich that leaves the r

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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 22d

Avi is direct, committed, and building a political base that is grounded in movements for justice. I have never been a member of this party, but I will become one to make sure he becomes leader. Let's seize this moment for real change.

Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 22d

Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy.

I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together.

We need a government that serves the many, not the money.

Join in. lewisforleader.ca/

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Why I’m running for NDP leader

YouTube video by Avi Lewis

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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 24d

In light of BC approving the Ksi Lisims LNG terminal, we feel the need to reshare one of our most important podcast episodes: The Costs of LNG.

We dig into the climate, health, and financial impacts, and cover (almost) everything you wanted to ask about LNG (but were too afraid).

🎧 Listen here 👇

Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · Sep 5

🎙️ In our latest Break In Case of Emergency episode, Kiki Wood (Stand.earth) explains how fracking leaves frontline communities with birth defects & toxic exposures like benzene.

🎧 Listen to the full episode: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast

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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · Sep 12

Really excellent piece that provides important diagnostic on the legal dangers of how we define antisemitism in this moment.

Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · Sep 12

I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...

Defining Away Palestine

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UBCIC @ubcic.bsky.social · Sep 11

"We reject any process that tramples our inherent and constitutionally protected title and rights, ignores free, prior and informed consent, and sacrifices the climate for foreign corporate profits. True nation-building requires working with us, not against us.” GCSP www.ubcic.bc.ca/first_nation...

First Nations Consent Ignored as Canadians Asked to Subsidize LNG Expansion

Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Sep 11

Mark Carney continues to use the phrase “decarbonized oil” to try to greenwash a new oil pipeline for Alberta. It’s so shameless and I would argue it even shows contempt for the public to be so dishonest.

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is an injunction application to watch: the logging company looking to remove protesters in the Walbran is partly owned by the Huu-ay-aht FNs thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

How the Walbran Blockade Echoes Another Famous Stand in the Forest | The Tyee

Thirty-five years ago, BC attempted to saw the Carmanah in half.

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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · Sep 11

So sorry to read about this vile new wave of attack.

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Amanda Follett Hosgood @amandafollett.bsky.social · Sep 11

Reminder that the feds can’t “approve” LNG Canada phase 2 — it’s been approved for years.

Federal support would mean sweetening the deal for the company through things like subsidies.
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Carney recommending 5 'nation-building projects' for approval, including LNG expansion: sources | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to unveil several “nation-building” projects Thursday morning that his government has identified as part of a promise to bolster Canada's economic independence amid a...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Sep 9

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

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Nikki Skuce @nikkiskuce.bsky.social · Sep 3

[W]hen governments are ramming through laws that sideline Indigenous rights and environmental protections, BC is putting a disgraced policing unit in charge of enforcing them—turning struggles for Indigenous sovereignty & climate justice into criminal matters. #bcpoli
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Controversial B.C. RCMP unit to police opposition to fast-tracked resource projects ⋆ The Breach

A widely-criticized police unit is participating in provincial committees coordinating surveillance and policing of protest against major resource projects—including those fast-tracked under new legis...

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨Windsor Law is hiring! 🚨
@windsorlaw.bsky.social is looking for 4 asst/assoc profs who bring social justice & critical perspectives to our core curriculum, esp environmental law, torts, constitutional, family, evidence, int'l trade & Indigenous law. Deadline: Sep 24
www.uwindsor.ca/faculty/recr...

Four (4) Tenure-Track Assistant or Tenured Associate Professor Positions - Faculty of Law

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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · Sep 2

Oh yes I do this for about 20% of the grade but not the whole grade yet. My colleague sent a bunch of resources re AI era teaching today that I’m going to check out

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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · Sep 1

OK I’ll bite. What is contract grading.

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Shiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · Aug 21

New piece with Tia Dafnos in @breachmedia.ca: The emergency RCMP unit called "CIRG" that invaded Wet'suwet'en territory is now a permanent force called CRU. Through access to information records, we learned they have a special role to play in policing resistance to Bills 14 and 15.

The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Aug 21

A notorious RCMP unit will be at the forefront of enforcing new laws in British Columbia that fast-track resource projects.

@shirip.bsky.social and Tia Dafnos reveal B.C. will deploy the unit as it deregulates environmental laws and overrides Indigenous rights. breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-co...

Controversial B.C. RCMP unit to police opposition to fast-tracked resource projects ⋆ The Breach

A widely-criticized police unit is participating in provincial committees coordinating surveillance and policing of protest against major resource projects—including those fast-tracked under new legis...

breachmedia.ca

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Aug 11

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.

"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."

It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City

“We understand these are our last days.”

www.dropsitenews.com

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