Category Archives: Campus
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 […]
Letter: PRIDE To the UBC community
To the UBC community, This letter is intended as a set of guidelines towards the creation of a queer- and trans-friendly, and broadly socially-just, learning environment. We begin with the acknowledgement that the authors of this letter are settlers on this land, which is the unceded, ancestral, traditional, occupied, and stolen land of the Musqueam […]
“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 […]
Open Letter to AMS Finance
July, 2018 Tyler Yan ( Fincom@ams.ubc.ca ) Jonathan Tomalty ( avpfinance@ams.ubc.ca ) Kuol Akuechbeny ( vpfinance@ams.ubc.ca ) Alma Mater Society, UBC To AMS Finance, Preface to issues: We would like to begin by making it clear that we do not have any issue with the core reasoning provided by the AMS for the existence […]
Open Letter to the AMS Council
The Student-Run Sexual Assault Support Center (SASC) “The SASC is an independent, student-run centre that provides prevention, outreach and support services for people who have experienced sexual assault and harassment.”1 The SASC has been filling a necessary service for the past 16 years, since 2002. They describe themselves as being “committed to the education, support, […]
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.
Coming From Genocide
Yasmin Ullah’s parents left their village of Sinya Pra, Buthidaung township in Rakhine, in 1995, slightly more than a decade after Myanmar’s generals had stripped the Rohingya ethnicity of their citizenship. That year was 1982. It would be seven years before Aung San Suu Ki would be put under house arrest, thirty four years after […]
