Fred Burrill
@fburrill.bsky.social
Settler historian (@UNB) of working-class formation and disintegration, focusing on deindustrialization, settler colonialism, and white supremacy in Quebec and the Maritimes.
Organizer involved in tenant and migrant justice struggles.
Huge baseball fan.
Organizer involved in tenant and migrant justice struggles.
Huge baseball fan.
Once a CASA hack, always a CASA hack.
February 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Once a CASA hack, always a CASA hack.
In fucking Florida of all places to boot.
February 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
In fucking Florida of all places to boot.
Put their faith in each other. Organize on the ground. Dream, plan, scheme beyond Canada.
January 29, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Put their faith in each other. Organize on the ground. Dream, plan, scheme beyond Canada.
Rien contre cette initiative (le contraire en fait) mais ça fait longtemps que Garda fournit les screws au centre de détention pour personnes migrantes à Laval. On s'en fout si "le Quebec" paie ou non, n'est-ce pas? Le problème c'est l'existence de Garda/les frontières.
January 27, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Rien contre cette initiative (le contraire en fait) mais ça fait longtemps que Garda fournit les screws au centre de détention pour personnes migrantes à Laval. On s'en fout si "le Quebec" paie ou non, n'est-ce pas? Le problème c'est l'existence de Garda/les frontières.
Reposted by Fred Burrill
Fitting to read Carney in the context of European interwar period, when Césaire wrote "it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it"
January 21, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Fitting to read Carney in the context of European interwar period, when Césaire wrote "it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it"
And not just here in so-called "New Brunswick." Colonialism's army murdered another Indigenous person in the last week, this time a man in distress in Sipekne’katik.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Man who was subject of Hants County police alert killed in RCMP shooting | CBC News
The Serious Incident Response Team confirmed to CBC News that it is investigating the shooting death related to an emergency alert issued Tuesday about a man with a firearm driving along a rural highw...
www.cbc.ca
January 21, 2026 at 6:48 PM
And not just here in so-called "New Brunswick." Colonialism's army murdered another Indigenous person in the last week, this time a man in distress in Sipekne’katik.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
My feeling of world events deepens daily.
January 20, 2026 at 2:54 PM
My feeling of world events deepens daily.