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Remembering Caribbean Students 1969 protest against racism at Sir George Williams #TheFireThatTime https://t.co/80eJtZHR1c…
Montreal, WI
Joined December 2018
With immense gratitude to our insightful contributors who made this book possible @kkaaiiee @afuacooper @gbgandad @BrownGirlEnvy @alexispauline Ronald Cummings, Amanda Perry, Dorothy Williams, Ayanna Bobb, David Austin, Christiana Abraham, Oceane Jasor and the protesters
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The petition demanding Concordia terminate its contract with Perceptage needs your support: https://t.co/FhLquT81IZ
docs.google.com
(French version below) To the Attention of: Darren Dumoulin, Director, Campus Safety and Prevention Services; Katie Broad, Dean of Students; Aisha Topsakal, Director and Senior Advisor, Rights and...
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Concordia has hired Israel-linked security to police student activists:
middleeastmonitor.com
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“In 1968, a coalition of Black, Asian, Chicano, and Native American student groups united as the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) at San Francisco State University… The archive of these printed materials testifies to the historical cowardice of university administration.”
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On air with Stefan Christoff at CKUT's Off The Hour, live from Casa del Popolo, talking about the links between Sir George Williams protest and Palestine Solidarity Movement in Montreal (photos by Yousef) https://t.co/egBLK6Nt9f
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The scholarship provides: the full cost of tuition fees £12,000 in payments given directly to you for accommodation, study and living costs £2,500 towards the cost of your travel to the UK, Visa and NHS surcharge (for healthcare) https://t.co/d6Lp9LJ4h0
leeds.ac.uk
We offer Masters scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
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NO SECURITY IN REPRESSION! Check out zine by Concordia community: https://t.co/gIgZ5v1mzc
justseeds.org
We're happy to share a new free, downloadable zine coming out of Montreal: "This zine is an effor...
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After months of campaigning by staff and students, @SOAS divested £1 million from companies complicit in Israeli arms manufacturing, including Barclays, Albemarle, and FANUC. Let’s keep the pressure on and make sure other universities follow suit!
📢📢 Following months of student and staff campaigning, SOAS, University of London has divested £1 million from campaigns complicit in Israeli arms manufacturing and military activity: SOAS has divested from Barclays, Albemarle, and FANUC 1/4
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Malcolm X's family has filed a federal lawsuit against the New York Police Department, C.I.A. and F.B.I. https://t.co/F0vAQLRFSB
nytimes.com
A suit filed in Manhattan federal court Friday accuses law enforcement of intentionally failing to protect him and stymying efforts to identify his killers.
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"Crucially, Black women detailed workplace conflicts so severe that they led to chronic depression, the use of antidepressant medications, and suicide attempts" https://t.co/1sI9oTDkZn
cbc.ca
An internal report on workplace racism and harassment at the highest levels of the federal public service shows that not even the federal government’s top executives are immune from the problem.
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Frantz Fanon: “Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.”
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Ontario Universities Student Contingent joined the main rally
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Fannie Lou Hamer was born today. She was fired as a sharecropper for registering Black folks to vote. She started coops and political parties. She had a limp & blood clot behind her eye from being beaten by police in a Mississippi jail. Fannie was a freedom fighter.
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The Thammasat University massacre, a tragic chapter in Thailand's history, unfolded on this day in 1976. State forces and far-right royalist criminals silenced student voices with violence, as they protested against the return of a military dictator. #Capitalistmassacre
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You can’t exercise self-defence against a population that you are occupying militarily. https://t.co/FhOF19YE11
theguardian.com
One of Granta’s best young novelists on rage, identity politics and the need for precision as well as poetry
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"We are Africans first and last, and as Africans our best interests can only be served by uniting within an African Community." -Kwame Nkrumah
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Regarding politics in Toronto schools: During the 1980s and 90s, the Toronto Board of Education organized an annual conference on apartheid in South Africa Exiles from the African National Congress, designated as a terrorist org in Canada at the time, were invited to speak
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A great piece on hypocrisy at Concordia University, where Palestinian solidarity statements are suppressed because they are too "political":
chronicle.com
Policies at Concordia University exemplify the new campus repression.
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