Statement of Solidarity with Student Encampment at University of Toronto

As a global Indigenous politics research collaboratory, Ziibiing Lab supports the courageous students demanding the administration disclose & divest investments in Israeli occupation, apartheid & genocide of Palestinians.

🚨 LIBERATED!! University of Toronto students have SUCCESSFULLY set up their ENCAMPMENT of King's College Circle in SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE, despite attempts by police to disrupt our non-violent protest.

Welcome to the People's Circle for Palestine.

Breaking: Good morning from People's University of Gaza.

Students at UBC and across campuses in the Lower Mainland have launches an encampment in solidarity with people of Palestine.

Filmmaker Lana Wilson asks Hot Docs to pressure Scotiabank to divest from Elbit, expressing that artists don’t want money from a weapons producer and reads Refaat Alareer’s poem, “If I Must Die” at #HotDocs24 after a screening of her film Look Into My Eyes. 🍉✊🏻

At Hot Docs tonight at the Canadian premiere of Union, which is a great film about the first successful unionization of Amazon workers, director Brett Story commented on what's happening in Gaza and called out out festival sponsor Scotiabank for financing Israeli weapons. 1/2

Refaat’s first grandchild, the infant boy he didn’t get the chance to meet, will never look to the sky for a kite again.

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Literary Hub

lithub.com/refaat-alareer…

700 bodies now discovered at Nasser hospital alone (1,500 uncovered at Al Shifa), patients, some with catheters still attached, children, with hands still bound, doctors and nurses, still wearing their scrubs, many shot in the back of the head at point blank range execution-style

For authors still wondering if your voices matter, $75,000 will now be donated to the The PCRF (Palestine Children's Relief Fund) because of the dogged work of Writers Against the War on Gaza and the moral courage of dozens of writers of conscience who spoke out in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

'Why are we giving so much of ourselves to institutions that treat us poorly on top of failing to acknowledge one of the most heinous atrocities of our lifetimes?'

speaking of tortured poets, today seems like as good a day as any to read, really sit with, and (crucially) be inspired to action by the work of palestinian writers, who are being executed, imprisoned, starved, displaced, and *literally* tortured

As a Toronto Public Library writer in residence, I saw first hand what a radical space the library can be. I am asking that Toronto Public Library explain why they would withdraw this act of solidarity with Palestinians and Palestinian writers during an ongoing genocide.

New student circle on the lawn at Columbia. Arrests didn’t stop a thing.

Please donate to the Toronto Community Justice Fund to help myself and others in Toronto fight police suppression of Palestinian solidarity! ➡️ TCJF.ca ⬅️ #CareNotCops #WeKeepUsSafe

'in states like Texas, where incarcerated people aren’t paid for their labor, a $25 prize for honorable mention can be a windfall. And even in states where incarcerated people are compensated for their work, $25 can be more than a month’s worth of pay'

PEN America

Today the Toronto Police have once again attempted to criminalize and silence the Palestinian solidarity movement by arresting three peace activists who drew attention to Canadian venture fund Awz' complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide. 1/3

Within a week, my father, mother, eldest brother, middle brother, my wife, my daughter, and my only son were martyred. Only Sa'faa remained, embracing me, kissing my cheek, saying, 'Daddy, I will compensate for you, but don't be sad.' This morning, Sa'faa was martyred...

Very excited to announce On Solidarity: an Evening of Art and Conversation.

w/ Astra Taylor, Thea Lim, Suvendrini Lena, Dania Majid & Nahlah Ayed

Music by the incomparable Roula Said, Juan Dino Toledo & Nano Valverde
Hosted by Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا

tix: onsolidarity.eventbrite.ca

Please read/sign this petition calling for CUNY to reinstate adjuncts who have been fired for speaking out against genocide and in support of Palestinian liberation. One of them is my friend, the brilliant writer, translator Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda: t.ly/GvlF7 CUNY4Palestine