WPIRG

The Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG) supports students to research and take action on social and environmental justice issues. Since 1973.

[Joanna Chiu @joannachiu]

NEW from @Nuttallreports. Extreme-right misinformation is flooding Chinese media in Canada — and there’s virtually nothing stopping it. https://t.co/dvKtlgprhw #cdnpoli #elxn40

[Megan Platts @megan_platts]

Waking up to the #elxn43 news of the day and grateful to have @ArshyMann and @JesseBrown at @CANADALAND provide a real analysis and discussion of the issue that so many seem to be easily dismissing. Listen here: https://t.co/2m2o2TPqkG

[Louisette Lanteigne 🌎✌️⚖️♥️ @lulex]

Heads up people. Toxic masculinity showed up at todays event. View twitter thread. @FridaysFutureWR @WREnviroNetwork @WMC_WR @kwpeace @marchscience_kw @ClimateActionWR @Below2C_ @350Canada @350 @HonorTheEarth @IENearth @ChippewasLine9 @holdthelineWR @SustainableWat @WPIRG @LSPIRG

[Steven Salaita @stevesalaita]

The USA once shot down an Iran Air passenger plane, killing 290 civilians.

The USA also once staged a coup in Iran to replace a popular leader with a monarch who would facilitate Western energy interests.

It is comically inaccurate to call Iran the aggressor.

[UWRaise @UWRaise]

Join us at our Vibes Night event, “What NOT to say” in SLC 2141 from 5-7pm!

[Robyn Maynard @policingblack]

I am teaching a course to brilliant young women who are critical thinkers and who read. But the canadian education system continues to erase so much! At 21 or older, they have only first heard about the Oka crisis or the existence of slavery in Canada in the past two weeks.

[Steven Salaita @stevesalaita]

Free advice to Zionists: if you want calm, then decolonize. No national community has ever consented to its own disappearance. Palestinians won't, either.

[Steven Salaita @stevesalaita]

Things that Israel's bombardment of Gaza is not:

--a situation
--an overreaction
--a conflict
--self-defense
--anti-terrorism
--a cycle of violence

What it actually is:

--mass murder as calculated strategy in a broader effort at genocide

[Louisette Lanteigne 🌎✌️⚖️♥️ @lulex]

The richest 87 Canadian families now have total wealth of $259-billion, an average of almost $3-billion per family, the same as the bottom 12 million Canadians combined. https://t.co/Z5ViCdqcko

[Connie Walker @connie_walker]

BREAKING: McGill University in Montreal says its male sports teams will no longer be called "Redmen."
"The Redmen name is not one that our community would choose today, and it is not one that McGill should carry forward into our third century." https://t.co/LJfJM7UXQf

[Robyn Maynard @policingblack]

Read👋🏾this👋🏾book👋🏾 ASAP! @blacklikewho and @idilatweets for the win! https://t.co/uBvSY4I9jc

[Grand River Union @grusupport]

@FCStPauli416 It was humbling to hear such powerful local stories. That are echoed across the pond from the film. No one is illegal. Thank you to Mary, @FCStPauli416, @MCRSrefugee, @WPIRG and @officialahmedu.

[Grand River Union @grusupport]

We are not usually very good at tweeting after an event. This one was special. Thank you to @FCStPauli416 for encouraging us to commemorate with a photo and for offering up the film. Really has us inspired as well!

[Waterloo Region Record @WR_Record]

Housing co-op hopes to shake up Waterloo Region real estate market
https://t.co/AnmO8a0f5e