Pyriscence stands in solidarity with Oliver Baker, who is unjustly facing termination proceedings from @penn_state bc he was protecting students from a violent white supremacist.
Pls read/share this statement and considering signing the linked petition. https://t.co/tQkKGhe045
@ReplayThePod@DesmondCole@fritzlechat Currently listening & really appreciating both your insights, including the article by Oliver Baker: "Guns Don't Kill People, Settlers Do: The Second Amendment and the Myth of Defense"
Linking it here for anyone else who was also unfamiliar with it:
https://t.co/0mgEPZzfLC
@Bassidiki reviews four books on anti colonial networks between India and the Americas, @jdanielelam's World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth, Nico Slate's Lord Cornwallis is Dead, Madhumita Lahiri's Imperfect Solidarities and Manan Desai's The United States of India
Insightful review essay @Bassidiki on the intersections/distinctions of race in the Black atlantic and the subcontinent- good material for caste is/is not race discussion
Looking for summer reading? From @Bassidiki: The four monographs speak to the durable historical, cultural, and discursive links between Black and Indigenous peoples in the Americas and South Asians, in resistance to Anglo-American imperial collaborations. https://t.co/W9NFkyqCY0
Eric Shapiro draws from Nathaniel Rich's Losing Earth (2019) on the 1980s in #ClimatePolicy to examine the dominant #climate narratives of #Alberta in the present, with a specific focus on the #UCP's #CanadianEnergyCentre (or “war room"). #abpoli#ableg https://t.co/1uNnjN5YZn
Sign and Share widely!
Choosing Real Safety: A Historic Declaration to Divest from Policing and Prisons and Build Safer Communities for All.
Defund, Dismantle, Build.
https://t.co/OuxWdRDKoX
Historian Melanie Newton looks at the genocidal legacy of Henry Dundas. If you needed more convincing that we should #RenameDundasStreet Here you are. https://t.co/zEnbvMeyMN
Write your City Councillor and the Executive Committee here: https://t.co/9zt0M37JU0
Credit to @pyriscence for their piece "Remembering Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Colour killed by Canadian police" where they've memorialized all of the people I've listed and more https://t.co/LPEOhCd55u
Canada protests for George Floyd and Regis Korchinski-Paquet: Black Canadians face a racist system, too - The Washington Post by el Jones https://t.co/GBQQrBEYBy