UWindsor law prof; Social Movements, Immigration, Labour, Law & Resistance || Irreverent cynic, wanderer, many interests
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Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
Canada Is Now Using Israeli Hermes 900 Drones For Surveillance
It purchased the $36 million dollar drone & its coast guard are now conducting flights with them.
The drones are built by Israel’s top weapons firm Elbit Systems & are used in the Gaza Genocide and against Lebanon.
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
Canada's unions passed a resolution calling on workers to refuse to handle weapons and military equipment destined for Israel.
We stand with Palestinian workers in their fight for peace, justice, and respect for international law.
canadianlabour.ca/clc-calls-…
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
🇵🇸💢 “We came to rebuild our country, the country they destroyed. Why are they attacking us here too?”: Israel strikes Gaza university twice, killing three
Israeli strikes hit the campus of the Islamic University in western Gaza City twice on Sunday, less than four hours apart, killing three university security guards and wounding several others, including students.
“Today, we were studying in class, minding our business, while the professor was explaining. Suddenly, an airstrike hit directly beneath us, a massive explosion,” Mohammed Qandil, an engineering student, told Drop Site’s Abdel Qader Sabbah.
Qandil said he was attending a physics lecture when the strike hit directly beneath the classroom. “We came here to learn and get an education. We came to rebuild our country, the country they destroyed and devastated. Why are they attacking us here too?”
“All we're asking for is our right to education, nothing more. We don't want anything else. We just want our right to education.”
🎥 @AbdSabbah91
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
The UN Charter was treated with disdain by Canada in this VERY speech when Anand blamed Iran for the aggressive war waged against it by the U.S./Israel and called Iran, not the U.S. and Israel who are actively violating the Charter as we speak, the principle threat to the region
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
Job posting for 2 permanent positions at IAVGO Community Legal Clinic: 1 full-time lawyer or community legal worker; 1 part-time (21 hours) lawyer or community legal worker.
It would be very much appreciated if you could please share this posting with your contacts
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
The UN has released the latest list of companies supporting and profiting from the Israeli regime’s crimes in occupied Palestine. Among the complicit companies are AirBnB, Booking. Com, Expedia, Motorola, TripAdvisor, and 209 others identified by name. #Boycott #BDS
ohchr.org/sites/default/file…
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
Carney supported the kidnapping of Maduro & his wife. He supports US sanctions on Cuba. He never condemned the Minab school massacre. He regurgitates Zionist talking points. He supports Trump's "annihilation" of Iran.
What more must he say before Canadians hold him accountable??
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
US threatened to annihilate 93 million Iranians - children, moms, dads, grammas, thousands of Canadian Iranians who live in Iran - and Canada is ok with it according to Carney. So let's not pretend we respect intl law or humanity at this point.
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
If Trump says he wants to destroy Canada, apparently @MarkJCarney would be fine with it because it is just "language of war".
#BREAKING: PM Carney prepared for ‘risk’ that Trump might order U.S.-led military invasion of Canada: report ctvnews.ca/world/article/pm-…
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
The biggest threat to the world is the blatant hypocrisy and chauvinism of Western leaders. They support aggression against others & call it self-defense. When the same is threatened against them they scream & cry no fair!
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
Garífuna People Resisting Illegal Land Grabbing,
Racism and Criminalizations in Honuras!
Funds needed to support courageous land, rights & environmental defense work of @ofraneh & Garifuna people
Read more, share in your networks and support if you can:
mailchi.mp/rightsaction/garf…
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
🟢STUDENT VICTORY🟢
Former IOF professor who seemingly encouraged violence against @UofT students has been removed from teaching & the "Israeli economy" course is cancelled.
Respect to all the @occupyuoft organizers and everyone who supports their calls.
More info below.
🔴UPDATE🔴
@TheVarsity reports this Israeli professor who seemingly condoned violence against @UofT students and staff is teaching a year long economics class starting in the coming days.
Notably, they compare his treatment to that of Prof. Ruth Marshall who was immediately removed from campus by the University over a tweet about Charlie Kirk's murder.
When an Israeli professor could be seen to be condoning violence directly against UofT's students/staff, the university is just "aware", but when a professor who has consistently advocated for Palestinian human rights makes a comment about Charlie Kirk, the university takes "immediate action" to put her on leave and shut down the building where she works for "safety".
Ludicrous double standards.
Excellent reporting by Celesta Maniatogianni.
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
On Fanon, language and power
linguistically.substack.com/…
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
Gotta hand it to Mark Carney, he's being globally feted as a brainy anti-Trump patriot while he nukes Canada’s public service and enviro laws, hands airports to Wall Street vultures, and integrates our defence & energy sector even more deeply into the U.S. breachmedia.ca/how-mark-carn…
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
As the Palestine exception returns to the zeitgeist, here's something new from me about it, which I originally offered as testimony for the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility held in Ottawa last November. Now published with @penandmachete.
anti-imperialists.com/magazi…
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
In this @TheGrindTO column, I look at how the police used the threat of terror at FIFA to quietly acquire counter drone tech that may be connected to the IDF's elite intelligence and cyber warfare unit
thegrindmag.ca/fifa-fake-out…
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
Annoucement by Canada, UK, France & others to ban goods from illegal settlements in occupied West Bank is important & comes after organizing!
Note tho - it is connected to joint efforts to revive Oslo. So we won't see an end to trade agreement with Israel or full arms embargo.
Vasanthi Venkatesh retweeted
There is a place on the Labrador coast in Canada where an entire community effectively disappeared in a matter of weeks. Not because of war, famine, or relocation.
It was because a ship arrived that was carrying an alien cargo.
This is the short story of Okak, Labrador.
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