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
“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.”
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
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
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!
"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
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.”
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.
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
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
A great piece on hypocrisy at Concordia University, where Palestinian solidarity statements are suppressed because they are too "political": https://t.co/DXjPctC333