I’m in Toronto at a conference so just catching up on the encampment U Calgary. What’s the justification for citing the protestors with “trespass”within the first few hours of peaceful expression?

Good morning University of Alberta! As an alum, I’m getting too old for this.

Listen to your students: disclose, divest and end the university’s complicity in genocide now.

#FreePalestine

We in Canada cannot shrug and say that police violence against protesters is a « US problem ».

I don’t want anyone teargassed or hit with batons on a university campus, and I am so upset to wake up to this.

Friends and colleagues in Canada: We have to speak up against the use of police violence at unis.

These are our students, colleagues, friends, collaborators who are being targeted—as in the US, as globally—for non-violently protesting for diclosure/divestment.

A ⁦CNN⁩ investigation reports that Palestinians captured by the Israeli military were abused and tortured: amputations due to injuries sustained from handcuffing; placed in stress positions, blindfolded, made to wear diapers and fed through straws. cnn.com/2024/05/10/mid…

We’re doing street barricades, we’re doing diplomatic scuffles over sea vessels, we’re doing old school ethnonationalism—the 19th century is so back

It is with a heavy heart that we must call the local Waffen-SS department to assault our students. Our thoughts go out to all of you at this time.

Here's an email exchange I had with Paul Moore, who was recently named CBC's head of Journalism Standards and Practices. In April 2020, when I worked at CBC, I found out premier Jason Kenney directly interfered in the hiring process for a new mental health and seniors advocate. 1

🚨University of Calgary peaceful pro-Palestine protesters brutally attacked by police!

I was there at the encampment, it was peaceful until the police attacked students. The media twisted it as usual.

Women were beaten in the head with batons, rubber bullets & tear gas fired.

Calgary police aggressively removed the students from the encampment at the University of Calgary.
This is a peaceful protest against the genocide that Israel has been committing for over six months.

As a University of Calgary Senator I stand in solitary with the students who are exercising their right of free speech. I am deeply troubled by what I am seeing at this moment on campus, less than 24 hours after the protest has begun.

U Calgary

All of this for unarmed students wanting to end a genocide.

Let that sink in: the university of Calgary called upon the violence of the state to violently stop its own students from challenging the university's complicity in genocide.

Here’s Charlotte Yellow Horn from Piikani Nation explaining before police areived that the University of Calgary students had permission from Blackfoot Confederacy to be camped there.

Glad to see U Calgary trending for all the wrong reasons this morning. There should be some resignations after what happened yesterday.

Reposting w/ correction:
Taken moments after being released by Calgary Police at McMahon Stadium, owned by *UCalgary* and used as staging ground for assault by CPS on UCalgary freedom of expression on behalf of university admin.
Facial injuries: multiple punches to head by CPS.

No one has been allowed in and out of Gaza for the third day.

This is a big deal, and totally unprecedented. Today the UN General Assembly (not the Security Council, so no veto possible) will vote on a resolution that grants Palestine almost the full rights and privileges of a member 'EVEN if the UNSC fails to admit Palestine'.

This is…

Jared Wesley Lorian Hardcastle Ubaka Ogbogu Martin Z. Olszynski 🇺🇦 Mark Ungrin David Keegan ♿️🏳️‍🌈 he/him Jackie Seidel, PhD Nigel Bankes Lisa Young Laurie Adkin Dr. Lindsay ‘so-called expert’ Tedds 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪 U of C students on their own campus = assaulted and gassed

Armed border blockers at Coutts, weekly parades that harassed residents and shut down downtown Calgary for years, and special interest groups causing collisions on the highway = handshakes

Jared Wesley Lorian Hardcastle Ubaka Ogbogu Martin Z. Olszynski 🇺🇦 Mark Ungrin David Keegan ♿️🏳️‍🌈 he/him Jackie Seidel, PhD Nigel Bankes Lisa Young Laurie Adkin Dr. Lindsay ‘so-called expert’ Tedds 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪 The police action at U of C last night was the fastest and most severe crackdown on peaceful pro-Palestine student protest on a Canadian campus so far, thanks to legislation implemented by the UCP to crackdown on protests (that they don’t meet their political aims). #ableg #yyc