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Asst. Prof @windsorlaw . JD+PhD. #lawandprotest , movement defence & injunctions. Board member @cjc_to . Jugoslovenka. Settler. Cyclist. Aging punk. she/her
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Just in time for the
@occupyuoft
hearing, I wrote about injunctions, Palestine solidarity encampments, and campuses as common property for the
@ConversationCA
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I joined the Board of the BCCLA last month, but the events of the past 2 weeks have left me full of regret & anger & I resigned yesterday. Pls read the co-written statement below, which I share to take responsibility for my role & to publicly reiterate my support for Harsha Walia
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I can unreservedly say that Canada is not nearly shocked enough
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*Stares in Toronto G20*
The freedom to engage in lawful, peaceful assembly and protest is a fundamental Charter right - but there is no place for hateful, racist symbols and rhetoric on Parliament Hill, or anywhere in Canada. (1/3)
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We are off on day of 2 of the
@occupyuoft
#injunction
hearing. Encampment counsel Jackie Esmonde of
@CavalluzzoLLP
starts off by telling the court that attendees wearing keffiyehs have been subject to harassment abusive language in the courthouse (but not by court staff)
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The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
@OCAPtoronto
says goodbye. This really feels like the end of an era 🖤
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The fact that student activists are using skills learned during active shooter drills to effectively barricade classrooms against cops coming to arrest them is blowing my fucking mind
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Either this is staged or the young radicals of
#Belgrade
have quite the turf war on their hands.
#Arendt
#Luxemburg
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Time to make this Twitter official! I am super stoked to be joining
@WindsorLaw
as an Assistant Professor this July. Huge thanks to everyone who helped me get here; it definitely took a village.
Windsor Law welcomes four new exceptional scholars to our faculty: Irina Ceric, Vincent Wong and Mary Anne Vallianatos join in 2022 while Daniel Del Gobbo joins in 2023!
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I see all your abandoned sourdough starters and knitting projects and raise you a pandemic humble brag: my track record of signing up for and then failing to attend webinars remains unfuckwithable
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Drop the charges against the Toronto ‘Peace 11’ protesters!
@faisalkutty
: the “raids were designed to terrorise, and scare into silence, Canadians who have been taking to the streets in large numbers to call for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza”
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So that’s doctor now. Huge thanks to the greatest examining committee of all time:
@ruthinguelph
@jefferyghewitt
@MargotYoung3
Amanda Glasbeek, Adrian Smith, and Janet Mosher. So much appreciation for these amazing interlocutors and comrades
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how does he know
You haven’t hydrated much today. If you aren’t drinking enough water someone might mix it into your food
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PhDs are trending because of Nate Silver's absurd tweet so this seems like a good moment to announce that I'm defending mine tomorrow and that I'm well aware that I know only marginally more than Jon Snow. Wish me luck, comrades
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Absolute must-read by
@blacklikewho
. I’ve basically underlined half the book and can’t wait to incorporate excerpts into my property law class.
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This interview with
@HarshaWalia
by
@olapalooza
is a sometimes uncomfortable must-read. I'm still processing my short stint on the BCCLA board but I share Harsha's hope that the org will continue building capacity for liberatory legal/political work
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Walked by an anti vax protest while masked and a woman called me a sheep so I baaaaahed at her and then a bunch of teenagers started baaaaahing at her too. The kids are alright 🐑 ✊🏻
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Fuck yeah! Court rejects McGill's injunction request
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Can’t imagine that I’m the only one unsubscribing from
@OntarioNDP
lists today.
@MaritStiles
and all MPPs that backed her need to be held accountable for the party’s racist, cowardly treatment of
@SarahJama_
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TMX is now anticipated to cost $30.9-billion, more than quadrupling the $7.4-billion budgeted in 2017 (the year before the feds bought it). Oh and the world is on fire.
Ottawa guarantees an up to $3-billion fresh loan for Trans Mountain pipeline
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Some initial thoughts on the Quebec Superior Court's decision denying McGill an injunction ordering the dismantling of a Palestine Solidarity encampment...
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Go ahead & hate me but it's really hard to read this as anything but gall. I've been annoyed by the RBG cult of personality for years (not least because she was terrible on Indigenous rights). She could & should have retired under Obama & there's no reason to pretend otherwise
Just days before Ginsburg's death, as her strength waned, she dictated this statement to her granddaughter:
"My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
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This. And less importantly, almost every rally/demonstrate in Toronto is "unsanctioned" -- you do not need permits or permission to protest. As I'm sure Mayor Chow is well aware, assembly and expression are constitutional rights
You're aware that people are supporting Palestinian rights; the rights of Palestinian people who are compared to "human animals" and who are being indiscriminately murdered?
@MayorOliviaChow
you have no understanding of settler colonialism.
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“Are you now or have you ever been a supporter of the Palestinian people?”
Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General screened job applicants who had signed a pro-Palestine letter.
@KunalChaudhary_
reports that experts say the hiring policy is racist and a "flagrant disregard" for constitutional rights.
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Proud to be among the 400+ signatories of this crucial letter
We are members of the legal profession in Canada concerned about the pervasive repression of speech on Palestinian liberation. Read our open letter signed by 350+ lawyers, legal workers and academics.
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Think a pandemic will stop me from talking about injunctions? Wrong. The NSSC just ruled that Alton Gas did not adequately consult with the Sipekne'katik FN, esp re "the core issue of Aboriginal title and treaty rights", and quashed the company's permit
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I and another lawyer,
@noahrossj
were turned away from the RCMP checkpoint on
#Wetsuweten
territory today. The pretext was that we lacked chains and a two-way radio, a “policy” that has been unevenly and arbitrarily applied.
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The cognitive dissonance of bombing hospitals on Remembrance Day is just too much. I am the granddaughter of three anti-fascist partisans. I'm glad they're not here to see how we've squandered everything they fought for.
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This is a gorgeous tribute to Jen Angel, one that really speaks to the unseen/unsung work and care that goes into social movements (it also includes a pic of Fucktooth I took on my living room floor — shoutout to all my fellow radical ephemera packrats)
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Judge interrupts to note that all social progress happens because of protest, because a troublemaker disrupted the existing order (!). So when should a court intervene, where is the line?
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I am neither the first nor the last to beg the NYT to stop using the term "Balkanization" generally but esp in the context of abortion rights. Abortion is legal throughout the Balkans so keep us out of your metaphors
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what was that about canada being three oil companies in a trenchcoat?
Documents obtained by
@ottawacarl
show oil giant Suncor helped write the “first draft” of Canada’s highly-anticipated climate change strategy as part of an advisory group — which has been kept under wraps for two years by the federal government.
#oilandgas
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Our piece on the tidal wave of injunctions granted since the enforcement of CGL's on
#Wetsuweten
territory. Stoked that the Globe let me &
@shiripasternak
keep the headline!
#smashandgrab
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It’s my first official day as an assistant professor at
@WindsorLaw
. There’s a lot of cognitive dissonance about [gestures vaguely at everything] plus academic survivor guilt weighing against marking this occasion but, well, here I am. Gonna go buy myself some ice cream.
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The word "unauthorized" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
@YorkUniversity
is going to have to answer for its hasty invocation of the Trespass to Property Act. Looking forward to the arrestee's Charter application...
News Release - Toronto Police clear unauthorized encampment at York University
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“A giant, well-enforced wall of laws and regulations has kept Indigenous peoples from hunting, fishing, fowling and gathering. Our traditional economies have been criminalized to maintain a non-Indigenous monopoly.”
@Pam_Palmater
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I think I'm going to start my own patronage designation for lawyers. I will start awarding CCs (Comrade Counsel) to people I like who do good work as defined by me. Obvs, I'll award it to myself before opening it up for nominations.
NEW: ‘Her fake honour’: Caroline Mulroney was called to Ontario bar three days before getting ‘King’s Counsel’ title via
@torontostar
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Breaking: Army Corps of Engineers will deny easement for the planned route of the
#DAPL
#StandingRock
#NoDAPL
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Still haven't quite digested this astonishing
@1492LBL
sentencing decision.
@landbackskyler
& two other land defenders granted absolute charges on the basis of the Haudenosaunee -- rather than settler -- public interest.
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For those keeping track at home, this is the *third* time Madame Justice Church has pushed the Crown to prosecute
#Wetsuweten
land defenders and save the poor beleaguered pipeline company from pursuing civil contempt charges under its
#injunction
.
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"If we enforce the injunction, we have to make sure that doing so will not infringe on the Charter Rights of any individual," said Inspector Jayson Lucash, Officer in Charge of the North Vancouver RCMP.
I am SCREAMING.
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Spent some time time at Lamport Stadium today watching police and private security kettle residents and supporters. Hours after a violent raid, my city councillor
@gordperks
has said nothing.
#TOpoli
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You're gonna want to read this piece on South Africa's ICJ case and "paths that have been foreclosed and paths that remain open when it comes to genocide and political economy" by
@ntinatzouvala
for
@LPEblog
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I taught a seminar on Civil Liberties this year. Five students -- a full fifth of the class -- wrote their research papers on the chilling/silencing of pro-Palestinian speech. Several students wavered before choosing their topics, worried about their employment prospects.
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As a person who takes
@VIA_Rail
weekly, I'm gutted & enraged by the fed's decision to revoke mask mandates on planes & trains. We are excluding vulnerable people from public life & wreaking unknown population-level harms to avoid the most minor of inconveniences
#CovidIsntOver
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Last night's raid at U of Calgary is a good reminder that the public/private status of universities and whether the Charter applies are not the real issues. Cops are always state action and rights of assembly and expression will not prevent or redress repression. What will?
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Incredibly power advocacy here. U of T has an opportunity to use its power to help stop a genocide but it has refused, claiming that it needs to maintain 'neutrality'. Students used many tactics over 8 months to push for disclosure, divestment, and suspension.
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So proud of UWindsor students! "We stand here in with solidarity students across the world calling for the same thing: our money and our education cannot and should not fund the death of Palestinians."
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Several years in the making, "'The Legal Billy Club': First Nations,
#Injunctions
, and the Public Interest" by
@shiripasternak
& me is now out in the world. Look for it soon in the inaugural issue of the
@LincAlexLawTMU
Law Review or check it out on SSRN:
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We did it!!
BREAKING: The Windsor Faculty Association (WUFA) just passed a motion on Academic Freedom, Preservation of Palestinian Education & Solidarity with Palestine at its AGM!
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Of course
@GaryWKinsman
gave his
@cijswinnipeg
talk at the University of Winnipeg Palestine solidarity encampment instead of a classroom. Hell of a way to kick off the Perverting Justice conference
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Direct action gets the goods. Always has, always will. Don’t buy into the “illegal strike” bullshit. Few things are more righteous, more legitimate, and more effective than workers withdrawing their labour for a just cause. All my love and solidarity to
@CUPEOntario
✊🏻
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It’s probably the all sugar diet talking, but part of me can’t help but hope that this
@VIA_Rail
debacle is the catalyst for a national reckoning about the state of passenger rail in Canada
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As a new board member of the
@bccla
, I echo this call and am proud to stand in solidarity with the UBCIC and
@HarshaWalia
UBCIC stands in strong solidarity with
@HarshaWalia
in condemning the brutally gruesome genocide of residential "school" system by Canada and Church while crown stole FN land.She is a highly respected and valued ally; we are grateful for her ongoing support and leadership
@bccla
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As
#LSA2022
draws to a close, I’m still reflecting on this powerful panel on Decolonizing Public Law with
@LawladyINM
,
@Sujith_Xavier
,
@TshepoMadlingo1
,
@DrVidyaKumarUK
, Tanzil Chowdhury, & Mazen Masri
#LandBack
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I loved talking to Scott Neigh of
@TalkingRadical
Radio about my dissertation research on movement legal defence, radical lawyering, and popular legal education. Take a listen to the podcast -- Scott is one of the best interviewers in the business!
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I tweet this every summer but jfc the air show is a horrifying anachronism that needs to end. This summer, more than ever, the screaming fighter jets above my head sound like nothing less than a celebration of climate catastrophe and endless war.
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This is an incredible, visionary move by Carleton's ICCJ & judging by the pushback in my own department, it is one that will be need to widely defended & supported
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The
@cbcnewsbc
's coverage of
#WetsuwetenStrong
is infuriating. No fact checking/critique of police claims. The camp at 39km was not on the road but well off it. A truck window was smashed - but by police. And stop saying "protesters" - these are land defenders on THEIR territory
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Fellow U of T alumni, pls sign on to this letter in support of the demands of the People's Circle for Palestine student encampment
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The juxtaposition of these two
@TorontoStar
headlines tells you pretty much everything you need to know about
#TruthAndReconciliation
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I wrote to
@JohnTory
and my city councillor
@gordperks
about the City's shameful injunction application against Khaleel Seivwright. Perks' office replied with a fact sheet on Wooden Structures in Encampments stating that "the City of Toronto is not suing Mr. Khaleel Seivwright."
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Still a bit weird to see myself quoted here alongside
@BBRyder
(who taught me con law) and my colleague
@richard__moon
(who literally wrote the book on freedom of expression)
Alberta university encampment removals likely violated protesters' constitutional rights, legal experts say
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This entire episode is worth it for
@yourewrongabout
Sarah’s Frank Lloyd Wrong joke
Tuesday's episode is a crossover event: THE SCARSDALE DIET MURDER feat.
@Remember_Sarah
!
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Board member of the Stop
#KinderMorgan
Legal Defence Fund here. The Tiny House Warriors are on the frontlines & we need to raise $10K this month to cover on-going legal costs. The fight against the
#TransMountain
pipeline expansion is not over!
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“Injunctions are what trigger police violence” -
@landbackskyler
So enraged by the
@1492LBL
decision -- a *permanent* injunction founded on explicit jurisprudential erasure
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Scholasticide and the destruction of every university in Gaza, along with credible findings of genocide by the ICJ and other international bodies, demonstrate that students in the encampment are not outliers.
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🚨
@WindsorLaw
is hiring! 🚨
We are looking for six asst/assoc profs who can bring social justice and critical perspectives to our mandatory curriculum, plus environmental law, AI, family, international trade, or private law. Deadline: Oct 22
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I am so beyond thrilled that these awesome scholars, teachers, and humans are joining
@WindsorLaw
. It’s gonna be amazing.
Five New Scholars Set to Advance Bold, Justice-Seeking, Community-Engaged and People-Centred Research and Teaching at Windsor Law
We welcome Kristen Thomasen, Ali Hammoudi, Daniel Del-Gobbo, Joshua Sealy-Harrington, & Daniel Rohde!
Read more⤵️
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She argues that U of T is making an Orwellian argument: that they need an injunction shutting down protest to protect free speech
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Two big anniversaries today: 30 years since the start of the Mohawk blockade in Kanehsatake and Kahnawake and 25 years since the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia. Both of these events shaped who I am in ways I'm still uncovering.
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this statement broke me.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society: “Despite the occupation's threats to shell; the decision has been made. We did and will not leave. Our medics will carry on their humanitarian duties. We won’t leave people face death alone.”
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"Protests using posters and paint are part of our lives in free and democratic societies. The disproportionality of the police response to them should frighten us all." Fantastic reporting from
@ShreeParadkar
On Friday of the long weekend, the crown quietly dropped all charges against four of the so-called Indigo 11 because there was no reasonable prospect of conviction. I spoke to one of them and a lawyer for the other who plan to address the public today.
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Look at this absolutely perfect cover art. Can’t wait to start reading this
@corinneblalock
@ntinatzouvala
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Esmonde also notes up front that the language in the injunction order U of T originally proposed would impact *any* protest anywhere on campus or adjoining public property without the university's permission. Inconvenience and discomfort do not outweigh the right to protest.
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The intimidation:
In its latest statement
@mcgillu
advises the encampment has tripled & that many, if not the majority are not from McGill. It also condemns the unequivocally antisemitic language & intimidation occurring. McGill leadership is meeting now on next steps. I hope for swift action.
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10 yrs after the
#Toronto
G20, a mass arrest class action just settled. $16.5 million in financial compensation, expungement of arrest records & "a public police acknowledgement regarding the mass arrests & the conditions in which protesters were detained"
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Just thinking of that Utah Phillip's line, “The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses” for no reason at all
As
#Canada
-literally- burns, the CEO of the country's biggest
#CO2
emitter flips us the bird: “I play to win. We're in the business to make money and as much of it as possible."
#NWTwildfires
#nwtfires
#oilandgas
#greed
@CabinRadio
@s_guilbeault
#canpoli
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It took 25 years, but yesterday a court finally accepted the arguments many of us have been making about the unconstitutionality of the
#SafeStreetsAct
since its introduction.
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I remember watching this live with my (Croatian) grandmother. She was very critical of this bald singer I liked so much until this happened and then became an instant, diehard fan.
28 years ago today, Sinéad O'Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live.
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Esmonde now patiently explaining the point I yelled at my laptop yesterday: feelings of discomfort and disagreement are NOT evidence of irreparable harm to the university!
If you never feel uncomfortable at university, you're probably not getting a very education.
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Don't really have the words yet for
#AzizChoudry
. He was a huge intellectual influence on me & so many others but he was also a goofy, hilarious curmudgeon always armed with a weird YouTube link guaranteed to make my day. I can't believe he's gone. Rest in power comrade.
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honestly this moment would be much easier to handle if i wasn't from the former yugoslavia. things fall apart. much faster and more horribly than you can possibly imagine.
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Ok,what was about to be revealed? There’s no way Ford reversed course just because it’s the right thing to do. Someone was about to spill an ocean’s worth of tea
#Greenbelt
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McGill beaten to the injunction gate by two students. I'm sure enforcing any order will go smoothly and will absolutely not catalyze shows of solidarity and support...
Judge is expected to hear injunction request Tuesday seeking dismantlement of McGill encampment
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It appears that the total number of
#WetsuwetenSolidarity
&
#shutdownCanada
arrests is 127 (details in next tweet). This is not including the 29 arrests on
#Wetsuweten
territory during the enforcement of the CGL injunction. There were 16 arrests at two actions in late January.
Does anyone have a total of arrests across the nation? Must be close to 200?
#WetsuwetenStrong
#wetsuweten
#shutdowncanada
#ftp
#acab
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The university's submission yesterday that the encampment's zero tolerance policy is exclusionary is surprising, given that it is consistent with U of T's own hate speech policy.
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