alexandra samur

Learning designer @TCDCLangara | Recovering journalist | Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh/Musqueam lands | she/her 🍉

[Hakai Magazine @hakaimagazine]

The bad news is out: Hakai Magazine is shutting down at the end of 2024. We’re incredibly sad, but our team is proud of the great work we’ve done these past 10 years. We have 5 more months of beautiful and unique coastal stories to come. More info here: https://t.co/iwp4DXTTEt

[Matthew Behrens @MatthewBehren11]

As some of the first Palestinians from Gaza arrive in Canada (not through any help of the Canadian government) here is a vision of what can and should have happened months ago, as many have been killed while hoping and praying for such a moment.
Canada must do more, so much

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

How Palestinian Christians are celebrating Easter this year

[alexandra samur @asamur]

@ccpa @ScottKatherineJ @CCPAMB I would love to join this but it’s spring break and I don’t have childcare… #ironic

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Breaking: Early this morning, Israeli army warplanes killed journalist Mohammed Yaghi along with his wife and children, bringing the total number of journalists killed by the Israeli army in Gaza to 130 journalists.

[The Langara Voice @LangaraVoice]

Langara Faculty Association calls college administration's termination of Natalie Knight "arbitrary." In a statement with the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC, the LFA said there was no proper investigation or due process.

https://t.co/CYEPgW3EWH

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel has now dropped 65,000 tons of explosives on Gaza’s civilian population in 89 days—over one and a half times more than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombs combined.

Call it what it is: GENOCIDE

[laura Smith @lauraSmITH0ff]

The reason your feed has fewer reports on the ongoing mass slaughter in Gaza is because Israel has killed the reporters.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

For weeks, the media made sure Gaza's astounding suffering – daily bombing of children and families, mass ethnic cleansing, genocide – shared the billing with (or more often got second billing after) the story of the shockwaves for Israel from Hamas' October 7 attack.

As the toll of Palestinian casualties in Gaza started to eclipse the Oct 7 attack by orders of magnitude, the media still made sure to 'balance' its coverage with a prominent Israel story. That often involved running a piece referencing weeks-old events ahead of coverage of the horrors unfolding that day in Gaza.

Now six weeks in, as almost every Palestinian family is ethnically cleansed and their homes destroyed, hospitals don't function and the encaged population lacks food and water, and there are no places to hide from the bombs, the media is treating the story of Gaza as stale. Coverage is perfunctory. Gaza barely makes the front pages any longer.

It's all a far cry from the Ukraine war, which dominated the news agenda for more than a year.

It's almost as if the media thinks Palestinians don't count – just as Palestinians haven't really counted for the West for the past 75 years of their oppression by Israel.

[🎒Shailja #FreePalestine Patel @shailjapatel]

Paris out for Palestine today, in defiance of Macron's ban.

[Debbie, Member of the House of Merciless Savages @ironbow]

If I were Biden and Trudeau right now, I would be rethinking colonialism. 🪶

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israel’s job is made considerably easier by the media, whose coverage of Israeli atrocities can invariably be depended on to strip out relevant context.

As Israel began pummelling Gaza nearly two weeks ago with thousands of high-explosive bombs, its leaders clarified exactly what their intent was.

Referring to the people of Gaza as “human animals”, defence minister Yoav Gallant vowed to “eliminate everything”. An Israeli military official explained that the “emphasis is on damage, not accuracy”. Another said Gaza would be reduced to “a city of tents… There will be no buildings.”

Meanwhile, President Israel Herzog accused the entire people of Gaza of being responsible for the Hamas attack, effectively denying every man, woman and child there civilian status and designating them all terrorists. He added: “We will break their backbone.”

Last weekend Israel demanded that Palestinians leave the northern half of the tiny Gaza strip within 24 hours, requiring them to ethnically cleanse themselves. It indicated that the vacated area would be treated as a free-fire zone.

According to the United Nations, in less than two weeks, a quarter of Gaza’s homes have been turned to rubble, and 600,000 Palestinians left homeless.

To ensure Palestinians do as they are told, Israel has targeted the support structures and major institutions in northern Gaza ordinary people depend on. Mosques, schools, United Nations compounds and hospitals have been hit.

In the days leading up to the attack on the Baptist hospital, 23 other medical centres in northern Gaza received warnings to evacuate immediately. Dozens have been hit, according to the World Health Organisation.

Those threats were ignored because the hospitals are already overflowing with patients too injured from Israel’s bombardments to be moved and because there are no facilities to treat them elsewhere.

Apparently angered by this defiance, Israel hit Al-Ahli Baptist hospital with two shells three days before the larger strike. This is known by the Israeli military as its “knock on the roof” procedure: firing a small weapon at a building as advance warning to evacuate before a much bigger strike.

Israel had told us precisely what it was going to do. But when it actually did it, Israel began its now familiar gaslighting operation.

More here: https://t.co/CqfzCj3DZZ

[alexandra samur @asamur]

Hugging my local paper this week ❤️

[Nick Laba @nick_laba]

my, what a fine-looking front page this week 😍

grateful to be on such a fantastic news team, to publish in print, and for every single day that newspapers continue to exist in the physical world

[alexandra samur @asamur]

A story about my son’s #NorthVan nature school that can’t be in nature anymore… sadly another consequence of the climate crisis. Great piece but it misses out sharing the support these schools provide to differently-abled children.

[Global BC @GlobalBC]

A North Shore outdoor nature school said it doesn't know how many students it can enroll in the next school year as Metro Vancouver may be restricting access to the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve. @PJReporter has the story.

[Michelle Cyca @michellecyca]

In August 2019, my former employer @EmilyCarrU hired Gina Adams, an “Ojibwe-Lakota” artist, as part of a restricted search for Indigenous faculty. Then people started asking questions about her identity— including me. My first feature for @macleans:
https://t.co/vScMHM8Mfj

[@realSarahPolley (she/her) @realsarahpolley]

I am thinking today of all the women who had to fight so hard for things to be better when they were young, only to find themselves having to fight for the same things now that they are old, and how tired they must be, and how grateful I am to them for their energy then and now.

[Michelle Cyca @michellecyca]

i'm writing a story about workplaces & their efforts to "indigenize" and looking to speak with fellow NDNs who have been asked to do unpaid or paid labour (committees, workshops, doing land acknowledgements, etc). DM me for more details or to talk!

[Jackie Wong @_jackiewong]

Sometimes work is challenging, and sometimes I get to write Mariah Carey references into my own display copy. My essay on parenting and the reality series Old Enough in @TheTyee. https://t.co/BMOoLVd0Yo

[alexandra samur @asamur]

Yay! Congrats to all these amazing students 👏👏👏

[MR_JJ0009 @MR_JJ_PICKS]

They did it all. Reporting, editing, filing, social media-ing, shooting, podcasting, photojournalism-ing and interviewing. Looking to hire for your communications or journalism newsroom? They’re ready. #localnews #journalismmatters ⁦@langaracollege⁩ ⁦@LangaraJSchool⁩

[rabble.ca @rabbleca]

Are you passionate about the power of journalism for supporting transformative change? Do you find yourself noting how grassroots stories and worker voices are so often missing in mainstream media? We’re hiring! Are you rabble’s next Labour Beat Reporter? https://t.co/Kqwy5Dm9GI