Calling all Global Sociologists for Palestine - Collective Action Time!! We Need Your Help! [thread - 1/8]

Trent University Faculty Association just divested from Scotia Bank. See Trent F4P post on Instagram: @f4ptrent cc. Faculty for Palestine.

UTFA is the 19th (!!!) Faculty Association in @caut.bsky.social to say: We don't want our retirement savings being used to fund a genocide. The momentum is massive - BDS and F4P are mainstream positions now. More will follow + much work is to be done still. Congrats to the organizers.

Mark Carney questions why struggling young Canadians not setting up offshore tax havens OTTAWA - At a recent campaign stop, Prime Minister Mark Carney admitted to being genuinely puzzled why more cash-strapped young Canadians aren't using elite asset management firms to maximize their of...

Mark Carney questions why struggling young Canadians not setting up offshore tax havens

Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare (Gift Article) It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.”

Trump officials cut billions in Harvard funds after university defies demands Education department says $2.3bn in funds to be frozen after university rejects slew of demands as political ploy The US education department is freezing about $2.3bn in federal funds to Harvard University, the agency said on Monday. The announcement comes as the Ivy League school has decided to fight the White House’s demands that it crack down on antisemitism and alleged civil rights violations, including shutting down diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Continue reading...

Trump officials cut billions in Harvard funds after university defies demands

I really enjoyed some of the chapters

Elon Musk can’t take the heat The numbers say anti-Tesla protests are working. So do Musk's increasingly unhinged actions.

"I want to state this as clearly as I can: Nearly choking up on national TV as you lament your falling stock price is weak shit." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.

That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

Cut Off U.S. Energy and Resources Now: No Electricity, No Critical Minerals, No Oil and Gas  | Canadian Labour Congress WINNIPEG – Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, issued the following statement today:  Donald Trump’s reckless tariffs are an attack on Canadian workers and our economy. With 2.4 mil...

Canada’s biggest labour organization is calling on the federal government turn off the taps, “cutting US access to critical Canadian resources—including electricity, lumber, critical minerals, oil, and gas—until the tariffs are lifted”

75% of Canadians support restricting US access to our resources

Hamilton MPP Sarah Jama to run as Independent after Ontario NDP blocks her from seeking nomination | CBC News The MPP for Hamilton Centre says the Ontario NDP has decided she isn't eligible to seek the local party nomination. Jama was ousted from the party in late 2023.

#SarahJama is being forced to run as an independent but this development isn’t without possibilities.

I am done with @ondp.bsky.social, @maritstilesndp.bsky.social & the rest of the cronies in this neoliberal party. You've learned nothing from the #KitchenerCentre by-election drubbing. Until this party cleans house and gets back to its roots, you've lost my support. This is a total sham.

Why Did the US Block a Canadian Professor From His Own Book Event? Nathan Kalman-Lamb was barred entry into the US. This is a harbinger of the dark political future that Trump is ushering in.

@nkalamb.bsky.social is a prof at UNB and a member of the editorial board of @nbmediacoop.bsky.social . This story is utterly scandalous, and more worryingly, a possible sign of things to come.

Dispositif: A Cartography (@mitpress.bsky.social / @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social ).

A ground-breaking anthology that places dispositifs (“apparatuses”) at the center of contemporary thought.
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