Author Archives: Litsa Chatzivasileiou

Collectively Speaking: A Teach-In On Free Speech

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Title: Collectively Speaking: A Teach-In on Free Speech Date: October 31, 2018 Location: Outside the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts Description: A gathering outside the Chan Centre, where the Free Speech Club hosted American conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro. While our event is not a direct protest against Shapiro, it is a logical civic […]

Homelessness is Not a Choice

Filed under Activism, Campus, Capitalism & Class, Decolonization, Feminism, Race and Racism   ·   March 30th, 2015   ·   5 comments
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I am deeply indebted to the Coast Salish people, the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam nations on whose unceded lands I think, teach, learn, and write. With my heartfelt gratitude. It is springtime again and the Five Days for the Homeless Campaign has recently concluded at UBC. The campaign’s website states that student participants had to […]