Category Archives: Activism
Collectively Speaking: A Teach-In On Free Speech
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 […]
Social Trustice, The Struggles of Detangling
Anonymous wants to highlight their positionality as an economically privileged and financially dependent disabled settler of colour with other significant intersections; Anonymous uses all the pronouns, but prefers “he/they”. I’ll stand up to the white men the rich men the Old Boys and the new start a magazine and stop eating so many bloody […]
Community Eats
Community Eats, an offshoot of Sprouts, runs a weekly by-donation bring-your-own-container lunch and produce pick-up service currently taking place on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm land in the Walter Gage Residence, Student Union Boulevard on Fridays from 11:30 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. We ask that you donate what you can and take what seems fair – individuals with significant […]
Unearthing: A Mining Justice Zine
Dear Readers, This zine is the collective effort of the 2018 iteration of the class: “Geography 495: Social Movements in the Americas: The politics of North-South solidarity in theory & practice” taught by Dr. Juanita Sundberg. As we moved through the class we learned about “extractivismo or the (re)turn to resource extraction as development and […]
Vancouver Municipal Election Voter Information
A note from the Talon’s Editorial Collective: We would like to acknowledge that this municipal election is taking place on the occupied, unceded, traditional, and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations. As uninvited guests studying and working on these lands, we participate in the […]
Build the Student Movement: The Fight For Free Education
Students in Canada are under severe attacks that need to be met with the strongest and the broadest fightback. In the last 20 years, tuition fees have tripled. For the academic year 2017-2018 alone, tuition in Canada rose to $6,571, an increase by 3.1% compared to the previous academic year, and all odds indicate that […]
Residents Of Iconic High Rise Resist Mass Eviction, Demand Government Accountability
VANCOUVER, COAST SALISH TERRITORIES – The tenants of Berkeley Tower (1770 Davie St) are holding a press conference and rally at Morton Park outside their residence to bring attention to their critical situation, and to highlight the loopholes at the provincial and municipal government levels that contribute to the housing crisis in Vancouver. New owner Reliance […]
“Pictures in Protest” by Zoe Hertz at the Hatch Art Gallery
“Pictures in Protest” put on in collaboration with the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights Group by Zoe Hertz, will be showcasing a series of photographs depicting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The exhibition will seek to explore the often-marginalized Palestinian perspective as a result of biased Western media sources and the implications that this has caused. The […]
resisting the university: an alternative orientation booklet (Downloadable Digital Version)
In this alternative orientation package, we aim to provide a map for the engagement of incoming and returning students and community members of UBC, especially since youth and students are commonly written off as apolitical and apathetic. Through this alternative orientation, we provide a platform for student movements and innovative groups to reach out to […]
Storm the Wall: A Symbol of Hope from UBC and Beyond
The Wall in Palestine. The mythologized/as-yet-unrealized wall at the U.S. – Mexico Border.
The Walls and structures that continue to oppress, dominate, and exploit.
#StormTheseWalls
At a time when new borders are created and existing borders are reified to enable violence and dehumanization, it is imperative that we take a stand.
We call on UBC students to stand in solidarity with ‘Storm the Wall’ & with global victims of colonial border walls, unjust militarization, detention, and other violences of border imperialism.
