Category Archives: Campus
In-depth with AMS Presidential Candidate Maistoo’a waastaan (Rodney Little Mustache)
This interview took place on the traditional, unceded, occupied, and stolen land of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The Talon believes it is important to interrogate and remain critical of settler colonial educational institutions, such as the University of British Columbia. Rodney Little Mustache is a Two-spirit member of the Piikani Nation of the […]
Protect Student Democracy and Fight for Transparency at UBC – Vote NO on the Fee Restructuring Referendum
As of this Monday, students at UBC are voting on a referendum proposal that would put several UBC funds to a three-year referendum cycle. While the AMS has been claiming that the fee restructuring that they are proposing would increase transparency and democracy in AMS operations; the handling of the entire referendum process, as well […]
Susan Rice is a War Criminal and Should Not Lecture at UBC
I recently discovered that the Lind Institute is hosting the former US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Thursday, February 15 at UBC. I posted my utter shock and disagreement on the Facebook event page, but it is likely my post will be deleted. I invite you to read the following piece outlining the war […]
The Post-Truth Politics of Jordan Peterson’s Gender Nonbinary Pronoun Debate
Is there some legitimacy in what he brings up about free speech and a culture of polarization that we too are concerned about? Absolutely. But what Peterson is using his “free speech” towards is the suppression of minority rights that he takes ideological issue with. We don’t support such “intellectual” thinking, or argument.
Interview with Yves Engler – A Propaganda System: How Canada’s government, corporations, media and academia sell war and exploitation
This interview was recorded on October 9, 2016 at the University of British Columbia on the occupied, ancestral, unceded territory of the Musqueam people. It is important to recognize that institutions across these lands continue to perpetuate acts of colonial violence and dispossession towards the region’s First People and that questioning and dismantling these oppressive […]
Corrupt prosecutors behind Brazil’s 2016 right-wing coup selected as finalists for UBC’s $100,000 Allard Prize
“…By contrast, much of Brazilian civil society and grassroots political movements view the Car Wash Task Force as a tool of an oligarchic elite, represented by the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMBD), that sought power by “judicial” means after having lost the 2014 election to Rousseff’s Worker’s Party (PT).8 Protests opposing the Task force number in the hundreds of thousands9, while an attempted rally in its defense only attracted a little more than half a dozen people.10 Brazilians reject the hypocrisy of the Task Force’s ‘crusade against corruption’, which played a key role in undemocratically installing the notoriously corrupt Michel Temer as President.”
Trump-style politics at UBC: Why you should proobbbbabbly vote in the upcoming AMS By-election this week
Aah free speech. Two deliciously click-baity words that roll in and out of your mouth like Warheads candy the morning after Halloween. If only “free speech” as is commonly used nowadays by libertarians, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the “alt-right” actually refers to the legal definition of freedom of expression. Otherwise members of these groups would […]
BDS court case verdict and the surrounding campus politics
Tetrault reacted positively to the court verdict and stated that “the courts basically rejected the attempt by the pro-Israeli forces on the UBC campus to shut down [the] debate… [The verdict] was a very good decision for free speech, student union independence and I think it will discourage people from going to court to decide political issues.”
A Palestinian’s response to Koby Michaels’ Op-ed
Dear Koby Michaels, I’m writing this open letter to inform you and those who have read your article that your intentions behind writing it was not that of genuine fear, but of an ideological impetus to preserve your privilege. You benefit as a colonizer of unceded Coast Salish territory, and also Palestinian land if you […]
Standing up for Human Decency
In June 1967, during the Six-Day War, Israel began its occupation of the West Bank. Less than six months later, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 242. Resolution 242 invoked the foundational legal principle of the “inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war” and called for “withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in […]
