My faculty association's response to the university's recent letter to students:

"The Administration appears to believe that with the stroke of a pen it can transform freedom of expression from a fundamental right, the protection of which is the sine qua non of the University, into a privilege that the Administration may confer or deny at its pleasure. This cannot stand."

https://www.utfa.org/sites/default/files/2024-04-30_utfa_letter_re_demonstrations.pdf

#UofT #HigherEd #cdnpoli #CampusProtests

Create chaos (or use propaganda to make people believe there is chaos) and then put forward a strongman "law and order" leader is an old game. That's what's happening now financed by billionaires.

"Migrants," "rapists," "crime rate," etc being pushed by the right-wing information apparatus is ALL ABOUT getting people to accept billionaire-owned fascism.

#fascism #migrants #crime

RANDOM REMINDER

there is no "left of center" in a country where the elites have coalesced around two parties and now one of said parties has openly embraced fascism.

you are either fascist or antifascist. there are no moderates or centrists in that political equation.

Calling opposition to genocide antisemitic is antisemitic.

#israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #antisemitism

When a Jewish man protests your hijacking his Jewishness & the Holocaust to justify your occupation, & your response is to (loudly, repeatedly & falsely) tell everyone that what he has actually done is renounced his Jewishness, guess what?

You are hijacking his Jewishness to suit your occupation.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/jonathan-glazer-oscar-speech-gaza-israel-judaism/

#Oscars #Gaza #Starvation #Genocide

It's official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device.

It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical.

Any tech journalists or lawyers interested in this?

I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.

Here's the final section of a letter to the FT from Brendan Kelly (Professor of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin) makes a crucial point...

While there is no doubting the problems of mental health, to treat all aspects of these personal travails as illness is to focus too much on the individual and allow our toxic society & workplaces to escape their share of the blame.

Absolutely right!

#mentalhealth #workers #healthcare

@ophiocephalic @GreenRoc @maggiejk @MediaActivist @econads

Anarchism does not presuppose a utopia in which everyone self-sacrificially cares for each other and cooperates by some intrinsic default.

Anarchism proposes a voluntary community of free people who do the hard work of trying to cooperate, to reach consensus, and to deter or defend against people who might seek to do harm.