SCHOLAR STRIKE CANADA

Scholar Strike Canada is hosting its second labour action October 24-25, 2023.

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We are pleased to announce our opening panel on Tuesday, October 24th @ 12-2PM EST

Against Social Abandonment: The University and Beyond

ft. Nahla Abdo, @GaryWKinsman, Courtney Skye (@MOHAWKEMOTIONS), @TheAJWithers, Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho), & moderated by @BeverlyBain13

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Tune in here https://t.co/Kyw18Lj2w1 for our upcoming panel: Feminists In Solidarity with Palestinian Women in Gaza
(ASL will be provided)

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Feminist in Solidarity with Palestinian Women in Gaza - Thursday December 7th at 6pm. Watch at https://t.co/jF1qDjgehD

Please share widely and join us online for this panel.

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A quote from one of our participants in our session on "Refusing the Neoliberal Carrot: Academic Precarity and Solidarity"

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"Precarity serves the ruling class. it keeps us in competition with each other. it treats us as disposable. it burns us out. it trusts that in doing so that we will be too exhausted to organize, to protest, to push for change."

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Our sessions on "Confronting the Police and their Clients" and "Militarized Cities: Sites of Resistance and Counter-Knowledges" are now live and streaming on YouTube

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Our session on "Confronting Police and Their Clients" will be starting shortly after we sort out some technical difficulties

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Thank you Vannina Sztainbok, Sheila Batacharya, Zoë Newman, and Stephanie Latella for their discussion on precarity in neoliberal institutions

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Our session "TRACE Presents: Unsettling Borders: Translation's Intimate Labours" is also now streaming

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Our session on "Refusing the Neoliberal Carrot: Academic Precarity and Solidarity" is now streaming

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Join us on our YouTube channel on Tuesday, October 25th, 2023 from 2:15 - 3:45PM EST for...

"Refusing the Neoliberal Carrot: Academic Precarity and Solidarity"

ft. Zoe Newman, Stephanie Latella, Sheila Batacharya, and Vannina Sztainbok🌱

This teach-in draws on stories of the lived experiences of precarious academic workers to explore the structural underpinnings of precarity. We pose questions regarding who precarity serves and what precarity produces.

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Thank you Gary Kinsman for discussing the importance of organizing within and outside the university

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Thank you Rinaldo Walcott @blacklikewho for presenting on colonial institutions and the importance of resistance

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Thank you A.J. Withers @TheAJWithers for presenting today on disability and LGBTQ2+ rights and the importance of solidarity against hateful rhetoric.

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Thank you Courtney Skye @MOHAWKEMOTIONS for presenting on Haudenosaunee autonomy and the Haudenosaunee Academic Network

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Thank you to Nahla Abdo for opening today's discussion on the colonial history of occupied Palestine

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Join us on our YouTube channel on Wednesday October 25th, 10:00 - 11:30AM EST for...

“White Ethnonationalism, Hindu Nationalism and Islamophobia"

ft. Fahad Ahmad (@atlast_atweet), Zeinab Farokhi (@FarokhiZeinab), Azeezah Kanji (@AzeezahKanji), Baljit Negra (@drbaljitnagra) and moderated by Faiza Hirji (@FaizaHirji)🌱

While oftentimes perceived as distinct extremist ideologies, white ethno-nationalism, Hindu nationalism, and Islamophobia constitute a surprisingly intertwined nexus which shares themes of unified identity and violent ideology with far-reaching consequences. White ethno-nationalism, characterized by the aspiration for white, homogenous ethno-states in North America and Europe, fosters xenophobic sentiments and exclusionary ideologies, particularly against non-white citizens and migrants. Meanwhile, Hindu nationalism, prevalent within India but also influential throughout Hindu diasporas, asserts the cultural and political primacy of Hinduism in India, at times encroaching upon the rights of minority groups–notably Muslims. While Islamophobia, a global concern, manifests as insidious prejudice, discrimination, and even violence against individuals or communities perceived as Muslim. Remarkably, these three modes of far-right extremism, while quite diverse on the surface and geographically separate, find common ground in their shared hostility toward Muslim others, patriarchal commitments, and dreams of a golden age of racial purity (among others).

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Join us on SSC’s YouTube Channel on
Wednesday October 25th, 11:40AM - 1:10PM EST for...

“Protecting Decolonizing and Radical forms of Knowledges in the University“

Chandni Desai (@4cdesai ), Evelyn Amponsah (@TOHousing), Qui Alexander (@Qui_Dorian), Megan Scribe (@Megan_Scribe), Natalie Kouri-Towe (Concordia University) 🌱

Panelists will address issues of white Ethnonationalism, anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, anti-Palestinian racism, queer and transphobia, and creative strategies to protect and resist attacks on themselves, their teachings and research.

This panel has ASL.

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Join us on SSC’s YouTube Channel on
Wednesday October 25th, 3:10 - 4:40PM EST for...

"The Extractive University"

Jeffrey Ansloos (@jeffreyansloos), SA Smythe (@essaysmythe), Layla Staats (@laylastaats), and moderated by Kristen Bos (@TRU_UofT) 🌱

This teach-in asks, What are the extractive relationships that sustain the University? What are our roles and responsibilities when we work with educational and cultural institutions who are funded by resource extraction and extractive economic models? How do we disrupt these relations?

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Join us on SSC’s YouTube Channel on
Wednesday October 25th, 3:05 - 4:35PM EST for...

"The Fight Against Prison Expansion"

ft.

Colleen Lynas (@CappKemptville)

Randy Riley (Prison Justice Advocate Freed from a Wrongful Conviction and co-founder of @thebph)

Wendy Bariteau (Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies)

Moderated by Desmond Cole (@DesmondCole).

Proposed developments threaten to expand the harms of incarceration, destroy farmlands, and further entangle jail and prison within local economies. We’ll hear from activists, including those formerly incarcerated, who are challenging prison expansion in their local communities.