“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

"The political economy has evolved in the last century to maximize its exploitation of the surplus populations—pathologizing with one hand while generating capital with the other." From HEALTH COMMUNISM by @realLandsEnd and @avierkant

"nursing homes... are not places of rest and comfort, but a strategy for commodifying the “least productive” so that they can both be “made of use to the economic order” and free up the labor supply of those who love and wish to care for them.”

“The cause of the climate disaster is capital” - @petrogustavo, President of Colombia

As Marta Russell wrote about (and as is discussed at length in our upcoming LPE symposium on her work) disabled poverty is the ultimate underlying system of labor discipline. And we are seeing this hold true with Covid in such a brutal and horrific way

Congratulations to VT Nayani @_9knee and the cast and crew of @ThisPlaceFilm on their premiere @TIFF_NET last night! Loved this quiet, tender, miracle of a movie. ❤️

"When we frame language discordances as a technical problem, we absolve speakers of the dominant language of their responsibility for communication, obscure the role of institutions in constructing language barriers..." 1/2

Reparations for climate damages must be just: the responsibility for this must be shouldered by the elites and corporations that control and profit from fossil capital, and should directly benefit the working classes and communities that suffer the damages.

Once, when I was young and true. An acquaintance left me sad - Said such foolish things online; And that is very bad. Facebook is for unlucky folk, Facebook is but a curse. One day that POS blocked me first; And that, I think, is worse.

This such an important GEMINI project led by @ChristinaReppas @ShailRawalMD - people whose preferred language is not English are much more likely to be physically restrained and receive antipsychotic prescription in hospital when they become delirious.

Medical inpatients with #delirium and a preferred language that was not English were 2.6x more likely to be physically restrained and 1.5x more likely to get antipsychotics @ShailRawalMD @ksheehanmd @AmolAVerma @RochonPaula New in @AGSJournal:

Heart is bursting!!! Congratulations @_9knee 😭

Canada burns more fossil fuels per capita than any G7 or EU country. Approx 75% of world's mining companies are headquartered in Canada. Canada spends 15x more on border enforcement than climate financing. Plus, govt bought $4 billion TMX pipeline violating Indigenous consent.

“RESCIND THE DOCTRINE” As the procession came to an end for the Holy Mass at Sainte Anne de Beaupré, individuals held up a banner in front of the pulpit for all to see.

Re-reading Mike this last year has been such a gratifying and powerful experience!

"On a particularly hot day in May, the high in Delhi hit a hundred and twenty-one, and overheated birds fell from the sky."

Our study of migrant agricultural workers' deaths in Ontario, published yesterday https://t.co/NF0jxxofvh confirms the need for rigorous and enforceable national housing standards, proactive enforcement, language concordant care and anti-reprisal mechanisms to prevent deaths. 1/4

More that 59°C was measured on the soil surface in Spain 🇪🇸 and 48°C in the south on France 🇫🇷. This is not « just summer ». It is « just hell » and will pretty soon become « just the end of human life » if we continue with our climate inaction. #heatwave

@melaniejoly for anyone reading who might be fooled that 'climate security' discourse and a Centre like this will actually tackle climate change, know that it won't. Climate security centers promote militaristic, anti immigration, eco-apartheid, imperialist, false solutions to climate change