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David Webster
@dwebster.bsky.social
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Historian: Canada, Quebec, Asia, Timor-Leste, human rights, development. Latest book Challenge the Strong Wind https://www.ubcpress.ca/challenge-the-strong-wind . On unceded Abenaki land, maintenant connu sous le nom Estrie/Eastern Townships.
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 1h
Don't "dig a hole and bury the past." My review of the excellent RESISTING INDONESIA’S CULTURE OF IMPUNITY: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Edited by Jess Melvin, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, and Annie Pohlman pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews...
RESISTING INDONESIA’S CULTURE OF IMPUNITY: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Edited by Jess Melvin, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, and Annie Pohlman
book review of RESISTING INDONESIA’S CULTURE OF IMPUNITY: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Edited by Jess Melvin, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, and Annie Pohlman
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 1d
The call to tax billionaires more is a moral case more than a fiscal case, I thought?
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 1d
The Monroe doctrine, as put formwork by JQ Adams, simply barred further colonization and stood in solidarity with Latin American revolutionares. The US imperialsiism part came later. today's US forgets it once stood for Venezuelan sovereignty.
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 2d
Memikwaldamnana, we remember. Vigil for the Rogers Raid on the Abenaki village Odanak, October 4, 1759 and the 34 massacred that day.
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 3d
Yes. I am not defending Trump.
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 3d
Part of his political genius there. He claims victory no matter what, and his millions of cronies set out to show what a winner he is. Meanwhile the left wins victories (like governments recognizing Palestine) and insists they are meaningless defeats.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4d
One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.
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404 Media @404media.co · 5d
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 3d
This is objectively true. Biden chose to let genocide happen, when he could have stopped it. US liberals' contortions just show that they can't see, can't resist the fascism taking over their country.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 4d
“Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” — Biden never made this simple demand, despite 15 months of relentless Israeli slaughter of Palestinians during his presidency
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 5d
Not surprisingly, apologists for Israel's genocide have a soft spot for war criminal Prabowo Subianto, president of Indonesia.
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 5d
I just signed KAIROS Canada’s urgent call to the Prime Minister: Stop the famine. End the siege on Gaza. Canada must press for an immediate ceasefire, unrestricted humanitarian aid & total arms embargo on Israel. Add your name: kairoscanada.org/gaza-letter-...
#Gaza #CeasefireNow #StopArmingIsrael
Gaza Letter Campaign |
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 6d
So many buzzwords separated by commas, it burns the eye
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 6d
Thank you! Excellent indeed.
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 7d
Because Americans sure don't know how
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Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social · Aug 24
For decades, American experts have flown around the world teaching local activists how to practice democracy. Now it’s time for activists from authoritarian countries to come to American and show Americans how to fight autocrats.
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 7d
The insidious lessons of Canada's "residential schools" are being applied to assimilationist education in Tibet today, featuring residential preschools where Chinese language is enforced on Tibetan children aged 4 to 6.

Human rights violators learn from each other.

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How China Is Weaponizing Education to Erase Tibetan Identity
For China, Sinicizing Tibet’s next generation through boarding schools is the ultimate strategy for solidifying its control over the region.
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 7d
Looks grea! Any idea where non Toronto Star readers can find it?
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 7d
An invitation to everyone else on the world to attack US civilians. Hegseth hates Americans and invites harm to them.
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 7d
Truth and reconciliation march at @ubishops.bsky.social
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 7d
Why do white people even believe we have white skin anyway? We are pinkish. We know this. Why do we use white crayons, white paint...?
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 7d
The Guardian calls this "a flesh colored ziggurat"

Who has flesh this colour?
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 9d
That's 0.784% of the world or 64,815,850 people, roughly 1.5 Canadas. Worth understanding better, maybe
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WHO @who.int · 9d
#Autism is a diverse group of brain development conditions.

In 2021, about 1 in 127 people worldwide were estimated to be on the autism spectrum.

Signs may appear in early childhood, but many go undiagnosed for years.

Early understanding and support can make all the difference. 👉 bit.ly/4pGvgnP
A graphic with a soft rainbow fan on a white background. Text reads 'Autism, or autism spectrum disorder, appears in early childhood but is often not recognized until much later'
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 9d
Les Cowboys pas malins
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 10d
* do so
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 10d
Nor are we well qualified to do do. Mot of my colleagues can barely handle existing classroom tech, let alone teach a topic that students know better than their profs.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10d
I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
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matt94250.bsky.social @matt94250.bsky.social · 10d
If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 10d
Not seeing any critical voices on that task force....
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 10d
possibly yeah