Reuben Roth

Academic organizing, research, teaching. Broad issues include education & work/social class/labour, global/social justice. He/Him.

[Reuben Roth @reubenroth]

My article was published in 'Critical Sociology' this week. Feel free to share the link below.

"The Shock Doctrine Comes to Canada: Laurentian University’s Insolvency Claim and the Neoliberal Tide"

https://t.co/tTyoO7WmlN

[Reuben Roth @reubenroth]

"The group is asking the federal government to cover the full severance payments owed to terminated faculty members, who have yet to be paid out by Laurentian, and will only receive a small percentage of what they’re owed when they are."

https://t.co/qj1iMJNsmR

[SaveOurSudbury @OurSudbury]

Terminated faculty and staff look forward to receiving: (1) their full severance package without delay; (2) a public inquiry into how and why the CCAA was used to decimate the lives of 200 people and their families.../2

[Reuben Roth @reubenroth]

I've just signed a petition to stop Cdn gov't funding of groups that glorify their Nazi-collaborating founders, leaders & WWII heroes.

Dozens of progressives have endorsed this effort.

Please join this important initiative by signing the petition:

https://t.co/hD0iW4RlfT

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. I want to highlight two things about the ongoing authoritarian repression in Georgia. First, many mainstream Democrats in Atlanta have been either silent about or complicit in what is happening. Historically, this has been an essential feature of the rise of fascism.

[Reuben Roth @reubenroth]

@OurSudbury A difference WITH a distinction.

[SaveOurSudbury @OurSudbury]

How to demean an already-devastated group of terminated faculty:
(1) Refer to faculty as "academic staff"

(2) refer to terminations as "lost their jobs"

(3) refer to the contrived CCAA process, described by the Auditor General as "strategized," as simply "insolvency" .../2

[Reuben Roth @reubenroth]

Once upon a time this task used to carried out by faculty, students, and staff.

"Laurentian hires Toronto firm to provide advice as it plans for the future: StrategyCorp to assist the university's strategic planning process"

https://t.co/WQUPARKLTN

[Reuben Roth @reubenroth]

Government of Canada launches consultation to review how to better protect the public interest in cases of public post-secondary educational institutions insolvency

https://t.co/kPpjQosSzn

[Reuben Roth @reubenroth]

The CCAA can still be invoked by ANY Canadian public university. Two years later, no lessons have been learned and no modification to the CCAA has been made, notwithstanding the recent pension amendments.

[Reuben Roth @reubenroth]

The mere possibility of using CCAA should have a moral hazard attached to it. Write an email to the following organizations telling them this:

-Times Higher Education
-US News and World Report
-Center for World University Rankings
-Academic Ranking of World

[Reuben Roth @reubenroth]

Passed final reading.

"Had C-228 been the law, the pensioners of Sears, Nortel, Groupe Capitales Médias, White Birch, and others would not have lost a third or more of their pensions – losses that plunged many seniors into poverty."

https://t.co/MStMmJFr8x

[SaveOurSudbury @OurSudbury]

"Two former Laurentian University professors want Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey to investigate the university's past executives and board members for financial mismanagement."

https://t.co/kCwOhCAWXw

[SaveOurSudbury @OurSudbury]

CBC Radio interview this morning with Eduardo Galliano-Riveros on the letter sent to the Attorney General of Ontario.

https://t.co/FTeG19bDRr

[SaveOurSudbury @OurSudbury]

"... to settle the question of whether or not there was criminal wrongdoing in the last 10 or so years of the conduct of the financial and administrative affairs of Laurentian University, on the part of the board of governors and/or administrators...”

https://t.co/eyXVzXAwZ5

[SaveOurSudbury @OurSudbury]

“We need a public inquiry to find out what happened, and to make certain that it won’t happen again, Galliano-Riveros said. “We’re simply looking for a measure of justice in instances where laws have clearly been broken.”

https://t.co/UPTEB7yWGa