ccny campus magazine livestream is genuinely incredible, they’re reading out police badge numbers + names and getting people in the chat to search complaints filed against them, then reading the complaints back out loud to the cops 😭

'Scotiabank, the main sponsor of this festival, is one of the major financiers of TC Energy [the films is re Wet'suwet'en pipeline resistance]. Scotiabank is also the largest foreign shareholder in Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons manufacturer'

all our struggles are connected.

UofT: our university operates in the land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. We honour this relation.

Also UofT: UofT’s lands and buildings are private property, activities have to be authorised and encampments are considered trespassing.

🤔😒

And I don’t care if these peers never “give me a prize” ever again. We live in an unceded and occupied country. Natives know what the US and orgs like PEN are doing in this land and abroad to support genocide. Then real bs is that we can turn to US poets in times of genocide.

ever-orienting myself (as student & as teacher) towards this framework has been v fulfilling, especially these last 6 mo. grateful for every kitchen table study circle, bookshop gathering, basement meal, protest speech & debrief convo on the commute home. lifelong study is a must

Liberate study from the university.

The day the baroness who was a president
called the mayor who was a cop
to save the school that was a hedge fund
from the students

egyptian kamala harris gonna lose her job anyway, and look how she’s carrying on. okay girl lmao

barbara johnson stan account can the tenured speak

Please check out this Spring issue of MERIP on Sudan featuring Khalid Mustafa Medani (whose essay serves as a primer to be used by educators) Nada Mustafa Ali, PhD ندي Eddie Thomas Rabab Elnaiem ☭ Azza Ahmad and Reduan Ali.

It's not possible to exist on land/territory but not have a relation to it. If there are other people & animals & plants there, the relation will be a social relation. The question is what kind of relation?

to love a place you lowkey have to also hate it. like people, places will disappoint you and are imperfect. the place cannot represent anything. it cannot be an escape or an ideal. It can only be what it is and usually there is some ugliness there.